Category: American Literature
This study in the history of the Philadelphia magazines was undertaken at the request of Professor H. B. Adams, and the results were first read at a joint-meeting of the Historical and English Seminaries of the Johns Hopkins University. At a later date they were again read bef...
In connection with Asbury Dickins, a son of John Dickins of the _Methodist Magazine_, he began, January 3, 1801, the publication of the _Port Folio_, by Oliver Oldschool, Esq.,...
8. Chapter 8"The world--by which I mean the few hundred persons who concern themselves about this work--will naturally inquire who it is that thus addresses them. 'This is somewhat more tha...
6. Chapter 6The only pleasant memories of America that Thomas Moore carried back with him to England were of the "nights of mirth and mind" spent "where Schuylkill winds his way through ban...
4. Chapter 4_The American Museum_ was the first magazine in Philadelphia to reflect faithfully the internal state of America. Bradford's magazines, intensely loyal, looked across the ocean...
3. Chapter 3Thomas Paine arrived in Philadelphia in 1775, with letters from Franklin, and was immediately employed by Aitken as editor of the _Pennsylvania Magazine_, with a salary of £25,...
11. Chapter 11After Griswold left the _Magazine_ Mr. Graham assumed more of the literary management, and engaged E. P. Whipple to write the editorial reviews of the more important books, whic...
9. Chapter 9_Blackwood's Magazine_ in 1824 congratulated America on C. R. Leslie's success. He never lost his profound respect and affection for Samuel Bradford, and named his second son af...
7. Chapter 7One of Wilson's most intimate friends was the engraver Alexander Lawson, with whom he became acquainted through William Bartram, and from whom he learned to draw. Lawson was bor...
2. Chapter 2The first William Bradford arrived in Philadelphia in 1685, and brought with him the second printing press that was set up in British North America. Upon it, in the following ye...
1. Chapter 1This study in the history of the Philadelphia magazines was undertaken at the request of Professor H. B. Adams, and the results were first read at a joint-meeting of the Histori...
10. Chapter 10In 1825 Dr. Williams P. Dewees and John D. Godman were associated with Dr. Chapman in the editorship. Dr. Isaac Hays was added to the staff in February, 1827, and in November th...
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