The New York Dramatic News was one of the numerous theatrical papers that sprang up in New York City during the last few decades of the nineteenth century. Although it never attained the status of the New York Clipper, or the Dramatic Mirror, it is useful for research in popular entertainment. My inquiry into the paper began as a search for the 1895 and 1896 volumes of the Dramatic News, New York Dramatic News, or Leander Richardson's Dramatic News, as it was variously referred to by my sources. During this inquiry, I discovered that the bibliographical information on this newspaper is incorrect.