The Big Apple (April 11, 2007). Retrieved May 20, 2008, gathers on one site various (and conflicting) quotations regarding the origin of the chocolate brownie. The recipe here, however, from the same website (and verified independently through the Google newspaper archive search engine) constitutes the earliest documented example
William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party (Oxford, 1987), p. 89; Republican gatherings had taken place in Wisconsin and Michigan earlier in the year, but Washburn's meeting was the first in the U.S. Capital
“The Battle of Penobscot Bay”. 2008年1月27日閲覧。; Louis Arthur Norton, Captains Contentious: The Dysfunctional Sons of the Brine (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2009), pp. 81-82