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Madison Cawein (1865 -1914) was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His wrote thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. Cawein's poetry showed his love of nature and early English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusions. Myth and Romance is an 1899 book of poetry. This collection includes Myth and Romance, Genius Loci, The Rain-Crow, The Harvest Moon, The Old Water-Mill, Anthem of Dawn, Dithyrambics, Hymn to Desire, Music, Jotunheim, Dionysia, The Last Song, Romaunt of the Oak, Morgan le Fay, The Dream of Roderick, Zyps of Zirl, The Glowworm. Ghosts, The Purple Valleys, The Land of Illusion, Spirit of Dreams, To a Wind-Flower, Microcosm, Fortune, Death, The Soul, Conscience, Youth, Life's Seasons, Old Homes, Field and Forest Call, Meeting in Summer, Swinging, Rosemary, Ghost Stories, Dolce far Niente, Words, Reasons, Evasion, In May, Will you Forget?, Clouds of the Autumn Night, The Glory and the Dream, Snow and Fire, Restraint, Why Should I Pine?, When Lydia Smiles, The Rose, A Ballad of Sweethearts, Her Portrait, A Song for Yule, The Puritans' Christmas, Spring, Lines, When Ships put out to Sea, The "Kentucky", Quatrains, and Processional.

Robert Louis Stevenson was a 19th century Scottish essayist, poet, novelist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Kidnapped, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Treasure Island. Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin (1833 -1885) was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He is known as the inventor of telpherage. Jenkin was an electrician and cable engineer, a lecturer, linguist, critic, actor, dramatist and artist. In the spring of 1855, he was fitting out the S.S. Elba for his first telegraph cruise. In 1855, Henry Brett had attempted to lay cable across the Mediterranean Sea. Jenkin was part of the crew hired to retrieve the sunken cable.