The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850

Chapter 12

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INDEX.

Abeille Americaine, L', 193

Abercrombie, James, 122, 198

Adams, John, 144

Adams, John Quincy, his commencement oration, 65; 88-9; his epitaph on Joseph Dennie, 110-11

Advocate of Science, The, 212

Æsculapian Register, The, 202

Aitken, Jane, 10

Aitken, Robert, 10, 27, 48

Album, The, 205, 206

Alexander, Charles, 200, 214

Allen, James, 141

Allen, Paul, 117, 141

Allston, W., 178

"American Addison, The" (Joseph Dennie), 90

American Annual Register, The, 75

American Journal of Homoeopathy, The, 215

American Journal of the Medical Sciences, The, 199

American Lancet, The, 202

American Magazine, The (No. 1), 26, 28

American Magazine, The (No. 2), 28, 34, 35, 39, 41, 43, 46, 220, 242

American Magazine, The (No. 3), 46, 47

American Medical Recorder, The, 193

American Monthly Magazine, The, 202

American Monthly Review, The, 75

American Museum, The, 67-73

American Phrenological Journal, The, 224-225

American Philosophical Society, 46, 89, 177, 180, 198

American Quarterly Review, 191

American Register, 166; (Dobson's), 193

American Review (Walsh's), 189

American Sunday School Magazine, The, 202

American University Magazine, The, 76

Analectic Magazine, 123, 145, 178-180, 188

"Anarchiad, The," 70

"Annandius" (pen-name of Joseph Shippen), 33

Annulus, The, 20

Arcadian, The, 202

Aristotle, 10

Arminian Magazine, The, 74

Arthur, T. S., 232

"Arthur Mervyn" (memoirs of the year 1793), 80

Ashburton, Lord, 87

Atkinson's "Casket," 217, 223

"Atlanticus" (pen-name of Thomas Paine), 52

Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge, 209

Audubon, John James, 134, 135

Aurora, The, 94, 127

Bache, Mrs. Anna, 232

Bailey, Francis (publisher), 53, 60

Banner of the Constitution, 206

Banner of the Cross, 207

Baptist Record, 225

Barker, J. N., 183

Baring, Alexander, 87

Barlow, Joel, 10, 62

Bartram, John, (his botanical garden), 89; 131

Barton, Benjamin Smith, 170, 177

Beacon, The, 184

Bedell, Rev. G. T., 202

Bennett, James Gordon, 213

Benjamin, Park, 222

Bethune, Geo. W., 222

"Ben Bolt," 222, 234

Bentham, Jeremy, 191

Bell, Robert, 10; his Third Street shop, 11

Beveridge, John, 44

Belknap, Jeremy, 64, 65

Benezet, Anthony, 70, 199

Biddle, J.B., editor of Medical Examiner, 73

Biddle, N., 117, 142

Binney, Horace, 116, 128

Bingham, William, 87

Bioren, John, 232

Bird, R. M., 227

Blackwood's Magazine, 177, 191, 203

Blake, Geo., 182

Blackstone, publication of his "Commentaries," 10

Boston Magazine, 171

Botanic Sentinel, 214

Boker, Geo. H., 239

Botanic Medical Reformer, 229

Bouvier, John, 232

Bonaparte, Charles L., 135

Bonaparte, Jerome, 183

Bozman, John Leeds, 116, 126-7

Brougham, John, 234

Brown, J. Ross, 235

Bremer, Frederika, 239

Brackenridge, H. H., 14, 53-60, 69

Bradford, Andrew, 23, 26, 28, 69

Bradford, Samuel, 172, 177

Bradford, William, 28

Brissot, "Citizen," 68

Brown, Charles Brockden, 15, 20, 79-80; 108, 114, 116, 117, 121, 150, 152-170, 236

Bryant, William Cullen, 20

Bulwer, his plagiarism of "Last Days of Pompeii," 210, 211

Burton, Wm. E., 217, 223

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, her first story, 226

Burr, C. Chauncey, 236

Buckingham, J. S., 93

Burns, Robert, 131

Burke, Edmund, 143, 172

Byron, Lord, 65, 100, 179

Casket, The, 218, 223

Cary, Phoebe and Alice, 222

Campbell's Foreign Magazine, 238

"Cabotia" (New England), 99

Cadwalader, John, 88

Cadwalader, Thos., 116, 127

Caldwell, Dr. Charles, 93, 117, 142, 143

Carpenter, Stephen C., 172

Carey, Mathew, 62, 63, 67-73; 172

Cave, Edward, founder of the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 23

Cent, The, the first penny paper, 20

Childs, Geo. W., 217, 230

Chandler, Jos. R., 224

Christian Observer, The, 224

Christian, The, 203

Chapman, Dr. N., 116, 126, 199

"Chiomara" (Ingersoll), 123

"Climenole" (pen-name of Jos. Quincey), 126

Chew, Benjamin, 27, 34

Cholera Gazette, The, 209

Cist, Charles, 63

Clarke, T. Cottrell, 200

Cliffton, William, 54, 122, 186

Coffin, R. S., 200

Cooper, Thomas, 117, 143, 192

Cooke, Geo. F., his visit to America, 177

Coxe, Alexander F., 182

Coxe, John R., 188, 192

"Cousin Alice" (pen-name of Alice Haven), 213

Conrad, Robert T., 224, 227

Coates, Reynell, 239

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 143, 176; introduction to Irving, 178

Cobbett, William, 82, 83

Condie, Thomas (History of the Plague in Philadelphia), 77-8; his biography of Mrs. Merry, 78

Copley, John Singleton, 102

"Columbiad, The," 10, 62

Columbian Magazine, The, 61-67, 153

Cope, Francis, 116, 119

"Common Sense," origin of the pamphlet, 50

Coombe, Thos., 44

Cooper, James Fenimore, his publication of "Precaution," 18; 20, 220, 221

Corbeille, La, 202

Cynic, The, 241

"Crisis, The," publication of, 63

Crukshank, Joseph, 84

Critic, The, 185, 187

Dallas, A. J., 64-67

Dallas, G. M., 65

Dallas, Robert C., 65

Davies, Samuel, 45

Davis, John, 9, 52, 95; his "Pursuits of Philadelphia Literature," 119-122

Darley, F. O. C., 235

Darlington, Wm., 180

De Quincey, Thomas, first publication in America of "Confessions of an English Opium Eater," 190

Delaplaine's Repository, 144

Delaplaine, Joseph, 192

Dennie, Joseph, 13, 14, 20, 90-99; the first American edition of Shakespeare, 107-108; his opinion of Wordsworth, 109; his death, 110-112; 122, 125, 132, 141, 151, 183, 186

Dessert to the True American, 84

Dickson, Geo. W., 209

Dickens, Charles, reprints "Charcoal Sketches" in London, 213

Dickins, John, 74, 76, 92

Dickins, Asbury, 92, 121

Dollar Magazine, 230

Dorsey, John Syng, 116, 124-5

Dramatic Mirror, 230

Duché, Jacob, 71, 128

Duane, William, 127

Dwight, Timothy, 68, 71

Eclectic Journal of Medicine, The, 214

Ely, Ezra Styles, 203

Elphinstone, James, 64

"Eldred Grayson" (Robert Hare), 126

Emporium of Arts and Sciences, The, 192

English, Thomas Dunn, 222, 234-235

Episcopal Magazine, The, 198

Episcopal Recorder, 201

Erin, The, 201

Everybodie's Album, 214

Evans, Nathaniel, 43, 130

Erskine, Lord, 88

Evening Fireside, The, 170

Ewing, Provost, 50, 68, 136, 137

Ewing, Samuel, 116, 135-136, 179

Eye, The, 188

"Falkland" (pen-name of Dr. Chapman), 126

Farmer's Cabinet, 225

Farmer's Weekly Museum, 14, 91, 92, 125

Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln, 209

Fennel, James, 241

Fenno, Harriet, 116, 128

Ferguson, Mrs. (Elizabeth Graeme), 43; 116, 128

Fessenden, Thos. Green, 14, 92

First Dramatic Writing in North Carolina, 110

First Religious Weekly in America, 142

"Forester, Frank" (pen-name of W. H. Herbert), 223

Foster, Geo. G., 234

"Foresters, The" (by Jeremy Belknap), 64

Fox, Gilbert, 63

Francis, Tench, 27

Francis, Sir Philip, his Philadelphia associations, 106

Franklin, Benjamin, 12, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 41, 46, 57, 65, 68, 69, 71, 72, 88, 200

French Colony, The, 89-90

Freneau, Philip, 53, 59-61, 70

Franks, Lewis P., 184, 185

Freemason's Magazine, 189

Friends' Review, 236-237

Fuller, Zelotes, 209

Furness, Dr. W. H., 236

"General Magazine," the second in America, 24, 26, 27

_Geistliches Magazien_, 19, 85

Gentleman's Magazine (London), 23

Gentleman's Magazine (Burton's), 217

Gentleman's Vade-Mecum, 212

Gilder, W. H., 229

Girard College, laying of the corner-stone, 230

Gift, The, 177

Gleaner, The, 243

Griswold, Rufus W., 201, 218, 223, 227

Godwin, William, 13, 168-169

Godfrey, Thomas, his invention of the quadrant, 41, 42

Godfrey, Thomas, the younger, 42-44

Graham, Geo. R., 215-225

Graham's Magazine, 12, 26, 215-224

Graydon, Alexander, his account of the "carting" of Isaac Hunt, 105; 116, 126

Graeme, Dr. Thos., 128

Graeme, Miss (Mrs. Ferguson), 129

Goldsmith, Oliver, 138

Godey's Lady's Book, 177, 207-208

Godey, Louis A., 207, 213, 227

Greeley, Horace, 236

Hadley, his right to the invention of the quadrant, 41

Hale, Sarah Josepha, 207-208

Hall, Everard, author of "Nolens Volens," 110

Hall, Harrison, 87, 117, 140

Hall, James, 17, 117, 140

Hall, John E., 113, 117, 124, 139, 140-141, 148

Hall, Sarah, 116, 139

Hall, Mrs. S. C., 232

Halleck, Fitz Greene, 105

Hamilton, Philip, 116

Hamilton, Andrew, 183

Hare, Robert, 116, 125-6

Hart, John S., 239

Hays, Dr. I., 199

Haven, Alice Bradley, 213

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 20, 216, 219, 230

Herald of Truth, 208

Helmbold, Geo., 181, 184, 185

Herbert, W. H., 223

Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 222

Holmes, O. W., 207

Home Weekly and Household Newspaper, 231

Hood, Thomas, first appearance of his poems in America, 238

Hook, Theo., 124

"Horace in Philadelphia," 124

Hopkinson, Francis, his first poem, 34; 35, 50, 68, 70

Hopkinson, Joseph, origin of "Hail Columbia," 63; 98, 115, 116, 127, 128

Humphreys, David, 76

Hunt, Leigh, his Philadelphia origin, 103-5

Huntingdon Literary Museum, 242-3

Irving, Washington, 20, 178-179, 194, 223

Ingersoll, C. J., 98, 116, 123

Ingersoll, Edward, 116, 124

"Ithacus" (pen-name of John Shaw), 119

Independent Balance, 181, 184

Independent Weekly Press, 214

"It Snows," 205

Jay, John, 70, 143

Jefferson, Thomas, 52, 89, 143, 144

Jerrold, Douglas, 236

John Donkey, The, 20, 234-235

Johnson, Samuel, his "Rasselas" printed in Philadelphia, 10; 23, 64, 94, 137-138

Journal of Health, 206

Juvenile Magazine, 20, 152, 192

Juvenile Port Folio, 193

Juvenile Olio, 152

"Junius" (signature of T. Godfrey), 42

Kean, Edmund, 173, 188

Keats, John, 106

Keith, Sir Wm., 128

Kirkland, Caroline M., 238-9

Kincaid, Eugenio, 243

Kinnersley, Ebenezer, 44

Knickerbocker Magazine, 223

Koster, the inventor of printing, 36

Ladies' Album, 201

Ladies' and Gentlemen's Literary Museum, 193

Ladies' Companion, 225

Ladies' Garland, 208

Ladies' Literary Port Folio, 206

Ladies' Museum, The, 152

Lady's Amaranth, 224

Lady's Magazine, The, 74-5

Lafayette, 69

Lantern, 234

Lawson, Alex., 135

Lawson, Mary Lockhart, 135, 222

Lee, Gen. Charles, his quarrel with Brackenridge, 58-9; 86

Legal Intelligencer, 231

Leland, Chas. Godfrey, 224

Leslie, Mrs. Frank, 226

Leslie, Charles Robert, 175-178, 203, 231

Leslie, Eliza, 177, 231

Lines Written on Leaving Philadelphia (T. Moore), 114-115

Linn, John Blair, 15, 116-118, 122

Lippard, George, 167

Literalist, 230

Literary and Evangelical Register, 243

Literary Magazine, 132-153, 171

Literary Museum, 75-6

Literary Register, 230

Lithograph, the first American, 180

Littell, E., 189-191

Littell's Living Age, 191

Livingstone, Governor, 67, 71-2

Lloyd, Elizabeth, her poem on Milton, 237

Logan, James, his library at Stenton, 9; his letters to Halley, 41; his gifts to the Philadelphia Library, 88

Longfellow, H. W., 20, 207; first appearance of noted poems, 221; 239

Lowell, James Russell, 20, 216, 218-219, 227

Lundy, Benj., 224

Lutheran Observer, The, 208

Luncheon, The, 184

Lytton, Lord, 103

Lyndhurst, Baron, 102-103

Madison, James, 143, 144

Magazine, the first monthly, 19, 28; the first religious, 19; the first mathematical, 20; the first juvenile, 20; the first humorous, 20

Magazine of the German Reformed Church, The, 243

Martineau, Harriet, 239

"Mary's Lamb," 208

Matthias, Benjamin, 201

McHenry, James, 202

McMichael, Morton, 201, 213, 227, 232, 234

Medico-Chirurgical Review, The, 225

Medical Examiner, The, 73

Medical Review and Analectic Journal, 202

Merry, Mrs., 78-79

Metcalfe's Miscellany, 235

Methodist Magazine, The, 76, 92

Milton, John, first American edition of, 10; 163

Mirror of Taste and Dramatic Censor, 172, 184

Miss Leslie's Magazine, 177, 231-234

Mitchell, Dr. J. K., 222, 227

Moore, Thomas, 94, 113-116, 139, 150

Morris, Gouverneur, 116, 127

Morris, Robert, 87

Morris, Robert (poet), 222

Moss, Henry, 144

Murray, Virginia, 232

National Gazette, The, 189-191

National Recorder, The, 190

Neal, John, 149-151, 166, 191

Neal, Joseph, 86, 213, 222

Newspaper, the first daily, 19; the first penny, 20

Nicola, Lewis, 46, 47

Noah, Mordecai M., editor of "Trangram," 182

North American Medical and Surgical Journal, The, 203

North American Quarterly Magazine, The, 209-211

Occident and American Jewish Advocate, The, 231

"Ode to a Market Street Gutter," 120-1

"Oldschool, Oliver," see Joseph Dennie.

"Optic, Obadiah," 188

Osgood, Frances, 207, 222

Otis, Bass, 180

Paine, Thomas, 48, 50, 52, 63, 69

"Pamela," first American edition, 10; 27

Parterre, The, 193

Paulding, James Kirke, 150, 179, 186, 194, 222

Payne, John Howard, earliest reference to, 110 (editor of the Thespian Mirror), 171

Peale, Charles Willson, 87, 89, 101

Pemberton, Israel, 87

Penn, John, 27

Penington, John, 64

Pennsylvanian, The, 213

Pennsylvania Evening Herald, The, 69

Pennsylvania Freeman, The, 20, 224

Pennsylvania Magazine, The, 28, 48-53, 55, 75

Peters, Richard, 116, 127, 129

Peterson, Charles J., 201, 218, 225, 226-229

Peterson's Ladies' National Magazine, 225

"Philadelphiad, The," quoted, 11

"Philadelphia--An Elegy," 164

Philadelphia Liberalist, 209

Philadelphia Library, 88

Philadelphia Magazine, The, 73-4, 240

Philadelphisches Magazin, 84

Philadelphia Minerva, 75

Philadelphia Monthly Magazine, 77

Philadelphia Magazine and Review, 84

Philadelphia Medical Museum, 188

Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 170

Philadelphia Nimrod, 240

Philadelphia Repository, The, 229

Philadelphia Repository and Weekly Register, 152

Philadelphia Register, 190

Philadelphia Repertory, 188

Philadelphia Recorder, 202

Philadelphia Visitor, 215

Phillips, Barnet, 235

Physick, Dr., 177

Pike, Albert, 222

Pickering, Timothy, 90, 92

Poe, Edgar Allan, 20, 207, 216-223, 227, 230, 239

Polyanthus, The, 171, 209

Political Censor, The, 83

Pope, A., 109

Porcupine's Gazette, 82-3

Port Folio, The, 12, 13, 14, 18, 21, 43, 64, 87, 92-151, 163, 171, 184, 203

Post-Chaise Companion, The, 187

Potts, Mrs. Washington, 177, 231

Potts, Stacy, Jr., 243

Poulson's Daily Advertiser, 235

Prentice, George D., 222

Presbyterian, The, 208

Priestley, Joseph, 117, 143

"Prince of Parthia," first American Drama, 44

Protestant Episcopalian, The, 207

Quarterly Theological Magazine, The, 198

Quincey, Josiah, 95, 116, 126

Radical Reformer, The, 213-214

Rafinesque, C. S., 209

Raguet, Condy, 116, 124

Rakestraw, Joseph, 170

Randolph, Governor, 67

Read, T. B., 236, 239

Rees, James, 230

Rees' Cyclopædia, 62

Reformer, The, 200, 203

Religious Instructor, The, 243

Religious Remembrancer, The, the first religious weekly, 19; 192

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 101

Richards, George, 189

Rittenhouse, David, 89, 170

Rivington, James, 27, 56-7

Robespierre, 143

Rose, Robert H., 116, 119-123

Ross, John, 27

Royal Spiritual Magazine, 84

Rural Magazine, 179

Rush, Benjamin, 50, 64, 66, 68, 72, 83, 170, 177

Rush, Richard, 116, 127, 138

Salmagundi, 146, 194-195

Sanderson, John, 116, 124, 148

Sartain, John, 236-239

Saturday Chronicle, 215

Saturday Evening Post, 200-201, 225

Saturday Magazine, 190

Sauer, C., 19, 85

Scott, Sir Walter, 17, 61, 170

Sedgwick, Miss, 222

"Sedley" (pen-name of J. E. Hall), 140, 150

Select Reviews and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, The, 179, 184

Sigourney, L. H., 207, 232, 236

Simitiere, Pierre E. Du, 55, 76

Simms, William Gilmore, 222

Shaw, John, 116, 118-119

Shakespeare, first American edition of, 17; 163

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, his American origin, 105, 169

Shewell, Mary, mother of Leigh Hunt, 104

Shippen, Edward, 87

Shippen, Joseph, 33

"Sketches in Verse," 119

Smith, Rev. B. B., 201

Smith, Elihu Hubbard, 113

Smith, G. H., 75, 76-77

Smith, John Jay, 212

Smith, Richard Penn, 206, 222, 227

Smith, Sydney, 13

Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 144

Smith, Dr. Wm., editor of The American Magazine, 31; poem to, 34; his home at the Falls, 35; 42, 44, 46, 50, 220, 242

Smith, William R., 242

Southey, Robert, 143

Spy in Philadelphia and Spirit of the Age, The, 212

Stephens, Mrs. Anne, 218

Stephens, H. L., 235

Sterling, James, 37, 40

Sterne, Lawrence, 129

Stearns, Samuel, 240

Stiles, Ezra, 67

Story, W. W., 222

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 207

Street, Alfred B., 222

Stuart, Gilbert, 138

Sully, Thomas, 101, 166, 177, 237

Swift, Jonathan, 82

"Tamoc Caspipna" (pseudonym of Jacob Duché), 71

Taylor, Bayard, 20, 207, 224, 236

Temple, Sir William, 82

Tennent, Gilbert, 26, 45

Thanksgiving Bay (made a National Holiday through Mrs. Sara Josepha Hale), 208

Theatrical Censor (first dramatic magazine in America), 171

Theatrical Censor and Critical Miscellany, 171

Thespian Mirror, 171

Thespian Monitor and Dramatick Miscellany, 172

Thomson, Charles, 10, 42

Thomas, Moses, 12, 195

Tickler, The, 181

Tilghman, Judge, 87

"Toby Scratch 'Em" (pen-name of George Helmbold), 181

Trangram, The, 181-183

Trenchard, John and Edward, 63

Trumbull, John, 102

Tuesday Club, The, 94

Tyler, Royall, 116, 125

United States Magazine, The, 53-61

United States Magazine and Democratic Review, The, 215

Vaughan, John, 89

Verplanck, G. C., his edition of Shakespeare, 107-8

Vicar of Wakefield, 10

Village Museum, 243-4

"Violetta" (pen-name of Harriet Fenno), 128

Waldie, Adam, 211, 215, 224

Waldie's Select Circulating Library, 211-212

Waldie's Literary Omnibus, 215

Wallace, Henry E., 231

Walsh, Robert, 116, 189-192

Washington, George, 16, 17, 45, 47, 51, 52, 64, 67, 70, 72, 78, 87, 89, 117, 143, 189

Watson, Elkanah, quoted, 50

Watters, James, 79-81

Webbe, Geo., 86

Webbe, John, 19, 24, 25

Webster, Noah, 66, 98-99

Weekly Magazine, The, 79-81

Weekly Messenger, The, 215

West, Benjamin, earliest reference to, 32; 45, 86, 99-103, 176

Wharton, C. H., 198

Wharton, Thomas, 116, 123

Wheatley, Phillis, 51, 52

Whim, The, 241

Whipple, E. P., 221

Whitfield, George, 27

White, Bishop William, 138

Whittier, J. G., 20, 224

"Who has robbed the Ocean Cave?" 118

Willing, Thos., 87

Williams, J. N., 12

Willis, N. P., 222, 232

Wilson, Alexander, 10, 62, 116, 130, 135

Winchester, Elhanan, 74

Wistar Parties, 88, 117

Witherspoon, Dr., 50, 56-57

Wood, Wm. B., 116

Wood, Mrs. Henry, 201

Wordsworth, the first American edition of, 109-10; 163

Workman, Judge, 117, 144

Young People's Book, The, 230

Zieber, G. B., 235, 236