NUCMC data from Library of Congress, Manuscript Div. for Kilmer, J. Papers, 1910-1941 (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
English Wikipedia website, viewed May 2, 2012 (Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Nov. 5, 1850--Oct. 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was " Solitude", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death; b. in Johnstown, Wis., east of Janesville; lived in Madison, Wis.; d. Oct. 30, 1919)