A.

• “Confessions of a Novel Reader” (Southern Literary Messenger; March 1839)

J. A.

• “The Old School House” (YC; 15 November 1849)
• “The Shoes” (YC; 23 September 1847)
• “Little Susan, the Poor-House Girl” (YC; 12 August 1847)

Jacob Abbott

• The Harper Establishment (1855)
• Rollo Learning to Read (1835)
• Rollo’s Travels (1839; rev 1855)
• Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Handie; Rainbow’s Journey; Selling Lucky; The Three Pines; Up the River

Abby; Abbie

• “My Schoolmates: The Contrast” (YC; 5 June 1846)
• “My Schoolmates: The Inquirer” (YC; 12 June 1846)
• “My Schoolmates: Kate Kennedy” (YC; 2 July 1846)
• “My Schoolmates: The Sensitive Plant” (YC; 9 July 1846)
• “My Schoolmates: The Victim” (YC; 19 June 1846)
• “My Schoolmates: The Widow” (YC; 26 June 1846)

Louisa May Alcott

• Cousin Tribulation’s story (MM; January 1868)
• “Living in an Omnibus” (MM; October 1867)

William A. Alcott

• “The Morality of Pictures” (The Mother’s Assistant and the Young Lady’s Friend; April 1845)

T. B. Aldrich

• “Among the Studios, no. 3” (OYF; July 1866)

Stephen T. Allen

• “Join in the Recreation of Your Children” (The Mother’s Magazine and Family Journal; July 1851)

John A. Andrews

• “The Stars and Stripes” (S&S; July 1861)

T. S. Arthur

• “The Strawberry Woman” (YC; 9 September 1847)
• “Bread Upon the Water” (YC; 30 November 1848)

Aunt Kate

• “True Courage” (Yc; 3 August 1854)

H. E. B.

• “How to Go to School” (LC; December 1866)

Anna Bache

• “The Little Archer”, in The Pearl (1837)
• “The Sail-Boat”, in The Pearl (1837)
• “Wishes”, in The Pearl (1837)

M. M. Backus

• “Novel Writers and Publishers” (Christian Parlor Magazine; May 1844)

C. Alice Baker

• “The Doctor’s Little Girl” (MM; 1870)

Julia Pratt Ballard

• “The Boys’ Fourth-of-July” (MM; July 1865)
• “The Two Burials” (MM; November 1867)

Frances E. I. Calderon de la Barca; Frances Inglis

• “Joan of Arc,” in The Token (1833)
• “Visit of Poor Relations,” in The Token (1833)

Charles Barnard

• “The Voyage of the Salt Mackerel” (MM; 1872)

John Russell Bartlett

• Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)

Henry Ward Beecher

• Norwood (1868)
• Star Papers (1855)

Mattie Bell

• “Of What is the Alphabet Composed?” (MM; July 1858)

Annette Bishop

• “Sissy’s Ride in the Moon” (OYC; November 1869)

Mrs. P. P. Bonney

• “Going into Business for Himself” (YC; 31 August 1865)
• “The Would-be Lady and the True One” (YC; 16 March 1865)

William Oland Bourne

• “The Busy Knitter” (Cab; August 1851)

J. P. Brace

• “Sketch,” in The Token (1830)

Simon Brown

• “What Books Shall I Read?” (The Mother’s Assistant and the Young Lady’s Friend; February 1845)

Lettice Bryan

• Recipes from The Kentucky Housewife (1839)

William Buckland

• “Wonders of Geology” (MM; December 1848)

Emily J. Bugbee

• “Willie Lincoln” (LC; July 1865)

George Gordon Byron; Lord Byron

• “Mazeppa,” in The Token (1833)

C. C.

• “Euthanasia,” in The Token (1836)
• “Victory at Last” (MM; July 1865)

F. P. C.

• “ ‘Faithful Nellie,’ ” in Animals in the Civil War (YC; 1861, 1865)

G. B. C.

• “To Mrs Hemans,” in The Token (1830)

Thomas Campbell

• “Gertrude of Wyoming” (1809)

Françoise-René Chateaubriand

• René (Connecticut Spectator; 1814)

Lydia Maria Child

• “Books” (1831)
• “Chocorua’s Curse,” in The Token (1830)

W. G. Clark; Willis G. Clark

• “A Dream of the Sea,” in The Token (1830)
• “The Minstrel,” in The Token (1832)

William Hoyt Coleman

• “The Cold Snap of January 10th” (MM; March 1859)
• “Dr. Kane’s Boat—the Faith” (MM; January 1859)
• “The Children’s ‘Robert Merry’ and the Late John N. Stearns (The New York Evangelist; 16 May 1895)

Sara Conant

• “What Ben and the Twins Did for Chicago” (MM; December 1871)

James Fenimore Cooper

• “American Scenery,” in The Token (1831)
• “The Panther Scene,” in The Token (1836)

William Cowper

• “Epigram”(SL; 1836, #8)

J. T. Crane

• “Novels and Novel-Reading” (1869)
• Popular Amusements (1869)

Maria S. Cummins

• “The Veteran Eagle” (OYF; October 1866)

Caleb Cushing

• “The Stolen Match,” in The Token (1833)

William C. Cutter

• “Uncle Hiram’s Pilgrimage” (M; 1857-1860)
• “Skating—Woman’s Rights” (MM; February 1857)

M. W. D.

• “The School-Mistress” (YC; 13 September 1849)
• “The Wanderer’s Return” (YC; 22 November 1849)

J. C. Derby

• “S. G. Goodrich” (1884)

Orville Dewey

• “The Mysteries of Life,” in The Token (1831)
• “The Theology of Nature,” in The Token (1832)

Hannah Dorset

• “The Huguenot Daughter,” in The Token (1830)

Nathaniel Dwight

• “Big Bone Lick,” in A Short But Comprehensive System of the Geography of the World (1802)

J. E. E.

• “A Step from the Altar to the Tomb” (YC; 13 September 1849)

Laura Elmer

• “The Telegraph Cable” (MM; November 1858)

Alexander H. Everett

• “Lord Vapourcourt,” in The Token (1831)

C. W. Everett

• “Life; its Seasons”, in The Token (1836)

Edgar Fawcett

• “At Grandma’s Bedside” (OYF; May 1870)

Thomas Fisher

• “To an Aul’ Stane,” in The Token (1830)

Julia A. Fletcher

• “The Boy Who Loved Truth” (YC; 26 June 1846)

Timothy Flint

• “Novels” (The Western Monthly Review; December 1828)
• The Lost Child (1830)
• “The Indian Fighter,” in The Token (1830)
• “Nimrod Buckskin, Esq.,” in The Token (1832)
• “Blind Grandfather,” in The Token (1833)

Florence

• “Anna’s Picture”, in The Token (1836)

Francis Forrester

• “A Happy New Year” (Cab; January 1856)
• “Diligent David” (Cab; February 1856)

Francis

• “The Aurora Borealis” (YMAG; 14 April 1837)

G.

• “A Thought,” in The Token (1830)

Mrs. G.

• “The Christmas Tree”, in The Pearl (1837)
• “The Indian Arrow-Head”, in The Pearl (1837)

C. G.

• “The Unfinished Monument on Bunker Hill,” in The Token (1830)

Martha G.

• “The Grateful Indian” (MM; August 1862)

W. L. G.

• “A Slave Ship” (SL #1; April 1835)

Caroline Gilman

• “The Beautiful School-Girl”, in The Pearl (1837)
• “Clara Sinclair” (Cab; September 1850)
• “A Mother’s Anger”, in The Pearl (1837)

Charlotte Gilman

• “Young Men” (YC; 22 November 1849)

Samuel Gilman

• “The Three Ages of Life,” in The Token (1830)

Samuel Griswold Goodrich

• “The Artist,” in The Token (1833)
• poem about Sarah Bishop (Connecticut Mirror; 25 August 1823)
• “The Blind Girl to her Mother,” in The Token (1832)
• “The Captive’s Dream,” in The Token (1831)
• “The Dream of Youth,” in The Token (1835)
• “The First Frost of Autumn”, in The Token (1836)
• “Grandfather’s Hobby,” in The Token (1830)
• “Gratitude,” in The Token (1836)
• “Greek Lovers,” in The Token (1830)
• “Hunters of the Prairie,” in The Token (1836)
• “Good Night” (MM; October 1848)
• “The Indian Weed Sprite,” in The Token (1836)
• “John Dunn Hunter” (1843; Curiosities of Human Nature)
• “The Juniata,” in The Token (1830)
• “Lake Superior,” in The Token (1831)
• “The Leaf,” in The Token (1830)
• “Liberty” (MM; December 1842),
• “Lines,” in The Token (1830)
• “Lines on seeing a Soldier of the Revolution surrounded by his Family,” in The Token (1833)
• “The Maniac,” in The Token (1830)
• “Meditation,” in The Token (1830)
• Meteors and the Leonids of 1833 (1843)
• “My First Whistle” (MM; January 1841)
• “On the Death of a Friend,” in The Token (1830)
• Peter Parley’s Juvenile Tales (1836; revised)
• Peter Parley’s Method of Telling About Geography to Children (1831)
• Peter Parley’s Short Stories for Long Nights (1834)
• Parley’s Story of the Little Gardener (1833)
• Peter Parley’s Story of the Trapper (1829)
• Peter Parley’s Tales of the Elephant (1829)
• Peter Parley’s Winter Evening Tales (1830 & 1855)
• “Precocious Children” (1844)
• Recollections of a Lifetime (1856)
• René, by Françoise-René Chateaubriand; translated (Connecticut Spectator; 1814)
• “Riddle” (MM; June 1853)
• “The Rival Bubbles: A Fable,” in The Token (1835)
• Robert Merry’s Miscellany (1839)
• “The Silver Cascade in the White Mountains,” in The Token (1835)
• “The Sleep Walker,” in The Token (1830)
• “The Surf Sprite,” in The Token (1832)
• “Thoughts at Sea,” in The Token (1830)
• “To .......,” in The Token (1832)
• “To a Lady on her Marriage,” in The Token (1832)
• The Two Doves & the Owl (1821)
• “Weep not for the Dead,” in The Token (1832)
• What to Do, and How to Do It (1844)
• “Who Are the Aggressors?” (New York Evening Post; 15 October 1856)
• “Will He Bite?,” in The Token (1832)
• extract from Wonders of Geology (1845)
• “The Wreck,” in The Token (1835)

Hannah F. Gould

• “Apprehension,” in The Token (1832)
• “Blanche and Isabel,” in The Token (1836)
• “The Bridesmaid,” in The Token (1833)
• “Changes On the Deep,” in The Token (1835)
• “The Dying Storm,” in The Token (1832)
• “Frost,” in The Token (1832)
• “The Frozen Dove,” in The Token (1832)
• “Lesbia,” in The Token (1832)
• “The Meteor,” in The Token (1832)
• “The Midnight Mail,” in The Token (1831)
• “The Old Elm of Newbury,” in The Token (1835)
• “The Painter Boy,” in The Token (1836)
• “The Quaker,” in The Token (1833)
• “Songs of the Bees,” in The Token (1830)
• “The Stormy Night,” in The Token (1833)
• “The Wandering Pole,” in The Token (1836)
• “The Wreck at Sea,” in The Token (1836)
• “To the Moonbeam,” in The Token (1831)
• “The Young Artist,” in The Token (1832)

J. L. Gray; Jane L. Gray

• “The Muse and the Album,” in The Token (1836)
• “William, the Negro Boy” (Cab; April 1849)

Thomas Gray, jr

• “The Bashful Man,” in The Token (1832)
• “Belshazzar’s Feast,” in The Token (1833)
• “The Fall of the Temple,” in The Token (1832)
• “Italian Peasant’s Song,” in The Token (1833)
• “Opening of the Sixth Seal,” in The Token (1832)
• “Song of the Revolution,” in The Token (1832)

F. W. P. Greenwood

• “Duties of Winter,” in The Token (1835)
• “Falls of the Niagara,” in The Token (1832)
• “Religion of the Sea,” in The Token (1831)
• “The Sea,” in The Token (1830)

J. W. Guernsey

• “Parental Duties” (Mother’s Assistant; July 1853)

E. N. H.

• “Katie’s Sacrifice” (S&S; November 1864)

Edward Everett Hale

• “Declamation—Relief for Chicago” (MM; November 1871)

Sarah Josepha Hale

• “The Alchymist,” in The Token (1831)
• “The Broken Merchant,” in The Token (1835)
• “The Emigrant’s Adventure,” in The Token (1836)
• “The Three Sceptres”, in The Token (1836)

Mrs. Hall

• “Adventures with Ghosts”(Cab; May 1850)

James Hall

• “The Captain’s Lady,” in The Token (1830)
• “A Legend of the Prairies,” in The Token (1835)
• “My Cousin Lucy,” in The Token (1832)
• “The Village Musician,” in The Token (1831)

Motte Hall

• “Placing a Daughter at School” (ST; November 1853)

Mary Ann Hallock

• “At Grandma’s Bedside” (OYF; May 1870)
• “Hunting Eggs” (OYF; January 1870)
• “Sissy’s Ride in the Moon” (OYC; November 1869)
• “Spring Whistles” (OYF; May 1870)

Gail Hamilton; Abigail Dodge

• “The City Girl” (OYF; March 1865)
• Gala Days (1863)
• “Happiest Days” (1863)
• Woman’s Wrongs (1868)
• Wool-Gathering (1867)

Mrs. J. H. Hanaford

• “Mathematics for Girls” (ST; January 1854)

Mrs. P. A. Hanaford

• “The American Flag” (S&S; July 1865)

Catherine Elizabeth Havens

• Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York (1849-1850; published 1920)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• “Alice Doane’s Appeal,” in The Token (1835)
• “The Canterbury Pilgrims,” in The Token (1833)
• “The Gentle Boy,” in The Token (1832)
• “The Haunted Mind,” in The Token (1835)
• “The Haunted Quack”; as Joseph Nicholson, in The Token (1831)
• “The May Pole of Merry Mount”, in The Token (1836)
• “The Mermaid: A Reverie,” in The Token (1835)
• “The Minister’s Black Veil”, in The Token (1836)
• “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” in The Token (1832)
• “Roger Malvin’s Burial,” in The Token (1832)
• “The Seven Vagabonds,” in The Token (1833)
• “Sights from a Steeple,” in The Token (1831)
• “Sir William Pepperell,” in The Token (1833)
• “The Wedding Knell”, in The Token (1836)
• “The Wives of the Dead,” in The Token (1832)

S. Hazard

• “The Wag-Water, a West Indian Sketch,” in The Token (1830)

Felicia Hemans

• “I Dream of All Things Free” (SL #4; 1835)

Caroline M. Hewins

• A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (1926)

Charles Holden

• “Three Little Boys in Prison” (The Mother’s Assistant; January 1844)

Oliver Wendell Holmes

• “The Lost Boy,” in The Token (1831)
• “The Philosopher to his Love,” in The Token (1833)
• “A Portrait,” in The Token (1833)
• “The Wasp and the Hornet,” in The Token (1833)

Winslow Homer

• “Among the Studios, no. 3” (OYF; July 1866)
• “Bird-Catching” (OYF; August 1867)
• “Swinging on a Birch-Tree” (OYF; June 1867)
• “Watching the Crows” (OYF; June 1868)

John Dunn Hunter

• “Birth, Nursing, & Education of Infants; Education & Amusements of Youths” (1824)
• Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America (3rd. ed, 1824)

James Isaacs

• “The Height of Impudence,” in The Token (1830)

G. M. J.

• “Clothing for Girls” (The Mothers’ Journal and Family Visitant; 1853)
• “Early Culture of Children” (The Mothers’ Journal and Family Visitant; 1853)

James Jackson

• “Confinement of Children in School” (The Mother’s Assistant; July 1845)

Sarah Orne Jewett

• “The Spendthrift Doll” (MM; February 1871)

Samuel Johnson

• “War and Glory” (YMAG; 7 July 1837)

Sylvester Judd

• Margaret (1st ed., 1845)

Oliver Kendall, jr.

• “Remarks on Children’s Play” (JG; 1828)
• To the readers (JG; 24 November 1827)

Elizabeth Kilham

• “Freed Children in Virginia,” (OYF; December 1870)
• “Freed Children in Washington,” (OYF; November 1871)

Helen C. Knight

• “School Learning” (The Mother’s Assistant and Young Lady’s Friend; January 1849)

A. A. L.

• “Tears,” in The Token (1835)

M. E. L.

• “The Blind Boy”, in The Pearl (1837)

Lucy Larcom

• “Red Riding-Hood” (OYF; February 1869)
• “Spring Whistles” (OYF; May 1870)
• “Swinging on a Birch-Tree” (OYF; June 1867)
• “The Volunteer’s Thanksgiving” (OYF; January 1865)

Mrs. Larned

• “The Dying Boy” (PP; January 1839)

Helen Cowles LeCron

• A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband (1917)

Lesina

• “Mrs. Warner’s Prejudice” (YC; 16 August 1855)

Eliza Leslie

• The Behaviour Book (1853)
• “Constance Allerton,” in The Token (1836)
• “Gleanings and Recollections: The New York Fire” (PP; January 1838)
• “Lucy Nelson, the Boy-Girl” (YC; 30 November 1831)
• “The Protegee”, in The Pearl (1837)
• “The Reading Parties: A Sketch,” in The Token (1835)

Alonzo Lewis

• “The Frosted Trees,” in The Token (1830)

Helen C. Lewis

• “Crooked Spines in Girls” (Arthur’s Home Magazine; July 1861)

Lillie Linden

• “Allie’s Christmas Eve” (MM; February 1865)

Literatus

• “A Literary Man in Distress” (1856; New-York Daily Tribune)

A. A. Locke

• “Autumn,” in The Token (1832)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• “The Bald Eagle,” in The Token (1833)
• “La Doncella,” in The Token (1832)
• “An Evening in Autumn,” in The Token (1833)
• “The Indian Summer,” in The Token (1832)
• “The Youth of Mary Stuart,” in The Token (1835)

Ser. Longley

• “Negro Songs—American Music” (Western Gem; October 1853)

Blue-Eyed Lora

• “The Veteran’s Farewell” (MM; February 1865)

Lulie

• “4 July 1865” (S&S; July 1865)

George Lunt

• “Ode to the Russian Eagle,” in The Token (1830)

L. M—t

• “Lines,” in The Token (1831)

Alexander Slidell Mackenzie

• “Ronda,” in The Token (1831)
• “Scenes in a Spanish Pueblo, A Sketch,” in The Token (1833)

Margaret

• “Old Times & New” (MM; August 1858)

L. H. Martin

• “Peter Parley” (The Congregationalist; 14 October 1897)

Mary Ann

• “Child’s Grief” (YC; 2 April 1846)

Sophie May

• “Elva Seeking Her Fortune” (MM; 1865)

Julia E. McConaughy

• “Blessings of Work” (MM; May 1863)

Mrs. N. McConaughy

• “Dreaming and Doing” (MM; December 1863)

Isaac McLellan, jr; J. I. McLellan

• “Bloody Brook,” in The Token (1832)
• “Early Days,” in The Token (1836)
• “The Spirit of Poesy,” in The Token (1836)

Giles M’Quiggen

• “Miss Before Teens” (YC; 23 September 1847)

Grenville Mellen

• “The Bugle,” in The Token (1830)
• “The Doomed Bride,” in The Token (1830)
• “I’ll think of That,” in The Token (1836)
• “Innocence,” in The Token (1830)
• “The Last of the Household,” in The Token (1836)
• “Legend of the Lake,” in The Token (1832)
• “The Mameluke,” in The Token (1835)
• “Napoleon,” in The Token (1830)
• “A Night Thought,” in The Token (1833)
• “Ode on Music,” in The Token (1831)
• “A Pilgrimage to the White Mountains,” in The Token (1836)
• “Stanzas,” in The Token (1832)
• “The Toilet,” in The Token (1832)

J. H. Mifflin

• “I Love you, Flowers”, in The Token (1836)
• “The Waterfowl,” in The Token (1832)

Donald G. Mitchell

• “Peter Parley” (1897)

Augusta Moore

• “Turn About, Fair Play” (YC; 13 April 1865)

Clement Clarke Moore

• “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (various)

Hannah More

• “The Noble Negro” (SL #1; April 1835)
• “The Noble Negro” (YMAG; September 1837)

N—s

• “To —,” in The Token (1830)

James Nack

• “My Gentle Girl”, in The Pearl (1837)

John Neal

• “The Adventurer,” in The Token (1831)
• “Children—What Are They?,” in The Token (1835)
• “David Whicher—A North American Story,” in The Token (1832)
• “The Utilitarian,” in The Token (1830)
• “The Young Phrenologist”, in The Token (1836)

John Neilson, jr

• “Nulla nisi Ardua Virtus,” in The Token (1830)

Susanna Newbould

• “Cross Questions and Crooked Answers” (Cab; February 1856)
• “Pukkwana” (MM; April 1858)

Mary Newell

• Mary Newell’s letter (1850)

Adelbert Older

• memorial page for Adelbert Older (MM; February 1865)

Oliver Onley

• “How the Boston Boys Talk” (MM; February 1859)

Orpha

• “Another Story for Boys” (YC; 7 January 1846)

P.

• “To —,” in The Token (1830)
• “The Wounded Bird,” in The Token (1830)

F. W. A. P.

• “Two Ways of Being Manly” (MM; 1868)

P. P.

• “Female Resources for Writing” (Boston Lyceum; August 1827)

Francis Parsons

• “Who was Peter Parley?” (1922)

J. K. Paulding; James Kirke Paulding

• “The Magic Spinning Wheel,” in The Token (1836)

O. W. B. Peabody

• “To ——,” in The Token (1831)

Christie Pearl

• “Clara’s Medal” (S&S; September 1864)

J. G. Percival

• “A Vision,” in The Token (1836)
• “Spring,” in The Token (1836)
• “Youth Recalled,” in The Token (1836)

A. Perry

• “A Young Savage” (MM; November 1870)

Pat Pflieger

• American Children’s Periodicals, 1789-1872
• “Choosing the Right Path: Didacticism in the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Books” (1986)
• “Clement Clarke Moore and ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’ ” (2001)
• “Death and the Readers of Robert Merry’s Museum” (1994)
• “A Former State of This Earth”: Fossils in Early American Works for Children
• “An ‘Online Community’ of the Nineteenth Century” (2001)
• Gender & Identity in 19th-century America (2022-2024)
• “Robert Merry’s Museum and the Lure of the Sensational” (1988)
• “Samuel Goodrich and the Branding of American Children’s Books” (2007)
• “Too Good to Be True: 150 Years of Mary Sue”
• An Uncommon Serpent; or, The Great Sea Serpent Hunt of 1817 & 1818
• “A Visit to ‘Merry’s Museum’; or, Social Values in a 19th-Century American Periodical for Children” (1987; 2001)

Phoebe H. Phelps

• “The Best Girl in School” (S&S; October 1864)

Professor Pickaxe

• “Letters About Geology” (ST; 1853)

Henry Pickering

• “Dirge of a Young Poetess,” in The Token (1833)

John Pierpont

• “Autumnal Musings,” in The Token (1833)
• “Extract,” in The Token (1830)
• “The Garden of Graves,” in The Token (1832)

Lavinia Pillsbury

• “Family Education” (The Mother’s Assistant; April 1845)

R.

• “To a Lady”, in The Token (1836)

Belle P. R.

• memorial page for Adelbert Older (MM; February 1865)

Mary Randolph

• Recipes from The Virginia Housewife (1860)

James Redpath; Uncle James

• Eye and Ear Notes (YC; 1865)

Abner Reed

• Love Triumphant; or, Constancy Rewarded (1797)

Stephens Ricks

• “Stephen to Mary” (SL #1; April 1835)

J. O. Rockwell

• “The Bubble,” in The Token (1830)
• “Gibraltar,” in The Token (1833)
• “To a Wave,” in The Token (1830)

S.

• “Lines, on the Death of W.” (YC; 14 January 1846)
• “The Patient Sufferer” (MM; March 1857)

S. B. S.

• “Children and Children’s Parties” (The Mothers’ Journal and Family Visitant; 1853)

Ezra Sampson

• “Mammoth,” in Youth’s Companion; or An Historical Dictionary (1813)

Robert C. Sands?

• “Infidelity,” in The Token (1830)

Sarah

• “The Indians: Week Day School” (YC; 12 August 1847)

Cousin Sarah

• Stories for Children (1850-1853?)

Epes Sargent

• “The Days That Are Past,” in The Token (1835)
• “The Storm,” in The Token (1833)

John O. Sargent

• “Byron, at the Age of Nineteen,” in The Token (1832)
• “Lady Lake,” in The Token (1835)
• “The Minstrel,” in The Token (1830)
• “Philip of Mount Hope,” in The Token (1833)
• “Ruins,” in The Token (1832)
• “Sonnet,” in The Token (1835)
• “To a Lady Who Called Me Capricious,” in The Token (1835)

as V. V. Ellis

• “The Cottage Girl,” in The Token (1835)
• “The Freshet,” in The Token (1832)

as George Grey

• “Song,” in The Token (1833)

as Lawrence Manners

• “Consolation,” in The Token (1835)
• “To a Lady,” in The Token (1833)

as Charles Sherry

• “On a Noisy Politician,” in The Token (1833)
• “Philosophy,” in The Token (1832)
• “Returning a Stolen Ring,” in The Token (1832)

as H. Vane

• “My Native Land,” The Token (1833)

Nathan Sargent

• “Dress and Address” (YC; 30 December 1847)

Simon Sassafras

• “Deer Hunting” (MM; May 1850)

Samuel Scoville, jr.

• Boy Scout series: Boy Scouts in the Wilderness; The Blue Pearl; The Inca Emerald; The Red Diamond (1919-1925)

Catherine Sedgwick; Catherine Maria Sedgwick

• “The Bridal Ring,” in The Token (1833)
• “The Country Cousin,” in The Token (1830)
• “Mary Dyre,” in The Token (1831)
• “New Year’s Day”, in The Token (1836)
• “Rose and Miss Belle” (SL #1; April 1835)
• “A Sketch of a Blue-Stocking,” in The Token (1832)
• “St. Catharine’s Eve,” by in The Token (1835)
• “Uncle David”, in The Pearl (1837)

Frances Adeline Seward; Fanny Seward; Pansy

• “The Elves of the Forest Centre” (MM; January 1858)

Alfred Sewell

• “The Veteran Eagle; and What the Children Did” (LC; December 1866)

Elizabeth M. Sewell

• “Dante’s Beatrice,” in The Token (1836)
• “Delhi, a Tale of the East,” in The Token (1833)

William Shakespeare

• “Touchstone and Audrey,” in The Token (1833)

Mary Eulalie Shannon

• Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves (1854)

Signora

• “Lines,” in The Token (1830)

Lydia H. Sigourney

• “The Bride”, in The Token (1836)
• “The Brothers”, in The Pearl (1837)
• “The Conquerors of Spain,” in The Token (1836)
• “The Dead Soldier,” in The Token (1832)
• “Do Your Duty to Your Brothers and Sisters” (YMAG; 7 July 1837)
• “The Dying Child”, in The Pearl (1837)
• “The Farmer and Soldier” (YC; 12 February 1846)
• “Fort Mystick,” in The Token (1835)
• “The Indian’s Burial of His Child,” in The Token (1831)
• “The Indian’s Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers,” in The Token (1833)
• “Monody,” in The Token (1835)
• “Parisian Milliners and the Fishes,” in The Token (1833)
• “Passage of the Beresina,” in The Token (1833)
• “Return to Connecticut,” in The Token (1831)
• Scenes in My Native Land (1844)
• “The Schoolmistress,” in The Token (1830)
• “The South Georgian Lark,” in The Token (1832)
• “To a Fragment of Silk,” in The Token (1833)
• “To the Memory of J. G. C. Brainard,” in The Token (1830)
• “The Young Mother,” in The Token (1836)

Emily Goodrich Smith

• “‘Peter Parley’—As Known to His Daughter” (Connecticut Quarterly; July, August, September 1898)

Mrs. L. P. Smith; Louisa P. Smith

• “I Meet Them in My Dreams,” in The Token (1831)
• “Touch Thy Harp,” by in The Token (1832)

Mary Alexina Smith

• “My Fortune’s Made” (YC; 23 November 1848)

William J. Snelling

• “The Birth of Thunder,” in The Token (1831)
• “The Snow Shoe,” in The Token (1831)
• “Te Zahpahtah,” in The Token (1831)
• Truth (1831 & 1832)

Nancy Sprout

• Ditties for Children (1828-1843?)

Lucy St. John

• “The Chinese in California” (MM; February 1870)

John W. Stebbins

• “To a Bride,” in The Token (1830)

Stella

• “Young Italy in Boston” (MM; January 1870)

William Oliver Stevens

• “ ‘Uncle’ Peter Parley” (St. Nicholas; November 1925)

R. H. Stoddard

• “Bird-Catching” (OYF; August 1867)

William L. Stone

• “The Fair Pilgrim,” in The Token (1836)
• “The Field of Brandywine,” in The Token (1835)
• “Legend of the Withered Man,” in The Token (1830)

E. W. T.

• “Snow,” in The Token (1830)

Thrace Talmon

• “Degeneracy of Stature” (The National Era; 18 December 1856)

B. B. Thatcher

• “The Bird of the Bastile,” in The Token (1835)
• “Departure of the Eagle,” in The Token (1830)
• “The Dreams of Hope,” in The Token (1832)
• “Fall of Missolonghi,” in The Token (1833)
• “The Fountain Eyes,” in The Token (1836)
• “Guardian Angels,” in The Token (1833)
• “I Will Forget Thee”, in The Token (1836)
• “The Last Request,” in The Token (1831)
• “The Lute,” in The Token (1832)
• “The Mountain Stream,” in The Token (1835)
• “Peasant Boy,” in The Token (1832)
• “The Shipwreck,” in The Token (1833)

Charles West Thomson

• “Remembrance,” in The Token (1831)
• “To A Wild Deer,” in The Token (1833)
• “The Winter Leaf,” in The Token (1832)

John Todd

• “Tomo and the Wild Lakes” (YC; 19 July 1849)
• Woman’s Rights (1867)

John Townsend Trowbridge

• “The Color-Bearer” (OYF; January 1865)
• “Green Apples”, & Winslow Homer (OYF; August 1868)
• “Strawberries” & Winslow Homer (OYF; July 1868)
• “Watching the Crows” & Winslow Homer (OYF; June 1868)

Uncle Jacob

• “The Ancient World” (ChFriendPA; Fourth month 1872)

Edward Vere

• “Song,” in The Token (1833)

G. C. Verplanck; Gulian Crommelin Verplanck

• “Bourbon’s Last March,” in The Token (1835)

W.

• “Effie Somers” (YC; 30 May 1850)
• “Thy Will Be Done” (YC; 22 November 1849)

A. D. W.

• “Introduction”, in The Pearl (1837)

Charles Wadsworth

• “To a Violet,” in The Token (1832)

Lew Wallace

• Lew Wallace reads Peter Parley (1906)

William Ross Wallace

• “Letter to My Daughter Margaretta, with a Set of Merry’s Museum” (MM; April 1860)

Isaac Watts

• “Hymn” (SL #16; 1837?)

Francis Wayland

• “Case of Conviction” (American Baptist Magazine; October 1831)

Louise Bennett Weaver

• A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband (1917)

Noah Webster

• The American Spelling Book (1800?)

Helen C. Weeks

• “What a Bore!” (YC; 2 February 1871)

P. M. Wetmore

• “Destiny,” in The Token (1830)
• “A Thought,” in The Token (1831)

George Whippel

• “Dangers of Childhood, and Means of Obviating Them” (The Mother’s Assistant; February 1845)

Henry Wightman

• The Juvenile Polyanthos (1835)

Genie M. Wilde

• “Knitting-Work” (OYF; March 1872)

William L. Williams

• “Industry & Idleness” (S&S; November 1864)

Nathaniel Parker Willis; N. P. Willis

• “The Blind Mother,” in The Token (1831)
• “Genevieve,” in The Token (1830)
• “The Lost Children,” in The Token (1830)
• “The Sibyl,” in The Token (1830)
• “To a City Pigeon,” in The Token (1831)

Sara Payson Willis; Fanny Fern

• “Children’s Rights” (1853)
• Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio (series one & two) (1853)
• Ruth Hall (1854)

Ralph Wilson

• “Signers of the Declaration of Independence” (MM; March 1859)

Samuel Wilson

• “To the Boy Who Will Be President of the United States A. D. 1900” (MM; April 1863),

A. D. Woodbridge

• “City and Country,” in The Pearl (1837)
• “Perils on the Deep,” in The Token (1836)
• “Sonnet to Lord Edward Fitzgerald,” in The Token (1835)

Leonard Woods

• “Oriental Mysticism,” in The Token (1831)

S. B. Woodward

• “Treatment of Children at School” (The Mother’s Assistant; October 1845)

Francis C. Woodworth

• The Holiday Book (1853)
• “Moral Poisons: The Antidote” (The Mother’s Magazine; May 1845)
• “The Prairies of Kansas” (Cab; November 1856)
• Stories by Jack Mason, the Old Sailor (1851)
• “Thanksgiving Memories” (Cab; October 1856)
• “Uncle Frank in Kansas” (Cab; June 1856)
• “Vicious Novels: Cause of Their Increase” (The Mother’s Magazine; December 1845)

Henry C. Wright

• “Letter From Henry C. Wright: ‘Merry’s Museum’ the Handmaid of Slavery” (The Liberator; 20 March 1857)