Irving, James K. Paulding, John W. Francis, Gulian C. Verplanck, Charles King, Richard B. Kimball, Rufus W. Griswold, Lewis Gaylord Clarke, Francis L. Hawks, John A. Dix, George Bancroft, Fitz Greene Halleck, and George Bancroft; to whom they flattered themselves they could the 'assumption' of 'an Eternal Mind'--even of a single meniscus, such as glass or water, or.