A timeline of 19th-century America

at this site: “Editor’s Address to Her Young Readers” (Juvenile Magazine [1788]; January) • February serials (Juvenile Magazine [1788]; February) • “The Female Adviser” (Juvenile Magazine [1788]; February & March) • “The Schoolboy” (Juvenile Magazine [1788]; April & June)

at this site: “Preface” (Children’s Magazine; January) • some pieces in the February issue of Children’s Magazine (Juvenile Magazine [1788]; February 1788) • “The Schoolboy” (Children’s Magazine; April)

at this site: Recollections of a Lifetime, Samuel Griswold Goodrich (born 1793)

at this site: Love Triumphant; or, Constancy Rewarded, Abner Reed

at this site: The American Spelling Book, Noah Webster

at this site: “Big Bone Lick,” in A Short But Comprehensive System of the Geography of the World, by Nathaniel Dwight

at this site: Love Triumphant; or, Constancy Rewarded, Abner Reed (1797) presented to Anna Mills by her teacher

at this site: “Gertrude of Wyoming,” Thomas Campbell

at this site: “Mammoth,” in Youth’s Companion; or An Historical Dictionary, Ezra Sampson

at this site: René, Françoise-René Chateaubriand (Samuel Griswold Goodrich translation)

at this site: The Present; or, Fragments from Celebrated Modern Poets, with marginalia

at this site: “The Velocipede or Swift Walker” (Connecticut Mirror; 31 May) • The Vagabond, Samuel Griswold Goodrich • The Two Doves and the Owl, Samuel Griswold Goodrich

at this site: “Teeth” • “On Novel Reading” • “Novels and Romances”

at this site: The Two Doves and the Owl, Samuel Griswold Goodrich

at this site: poem about Sarah Bishop, Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Connecticut Mirror; 25 August 1823) • “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” Clement Moore (in the Troy Sentinel; 23 December)

at this site: “The Waverly Novels” (Connecticut Mirror; 23 August) • Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, 3rd ed., John Dunn Hunter • “Birth, Nursing, & Education of Infants; Education & Amusements of Youths,” John Dunn Hunter

at this site: extract from Blair’s Outlines of Chronology

at this site: The Riddle Book

at this site: “Female Resources for Writing,” P. P. (Boston Lyceum; August) • To the readers of Juvenile Gazette (Juvenile Gazette; 24 November) • Marriages & deaths in Juvenile Gazette (Juvenile Gazette; -1828) • Lew Wallace (born 1827) remembers reading Peter Parley

at this site: Ditties for Children, Nancy Sproat • The Riddle Book • “Books for Children” (American Annals of Education) • Eliza Leslie’s recipe for curds and whey • “Remarks on Children’s Play,” by Oliver Kendall, jr (Juvenile Gazette) • “Novels,” by Timothy Flint (The Western Monthly Review; December) • about The Legendary • about The Token

at this site: Peter Parley’s Story of the Trapper, Samuel Griswold Goodrich • Peter Parley’s Method of Telling About Geography to Children, Samuel Griswold Goodrich • Peter Parley’s Tales of the Elephant, Samuel Griswold Goodrich • Peter Parley’s Winter-Evening Tales, Samuel Griswold Goodrich • Review of The Soldier’s Orphan; or, History of Maria West (Youth’s Companion; 2 December) • “ ‘Reviewer’, Reviewed” (Youth’s Companion; 30 December) • “Remarks On Reviews” (Youth’s Companion; 30 December)

at this site: The Token • The Lost Child, Timothy Flint • Peter Parley’s Juvenile Tales, Samuel Griswold Goodrich

at this site: The Token • Truth, 1st ed., William J. Snelling • “Books,” Lydia Maria Child • Beauties of Sentiment • “The Busy Bee” (Youth’s Companion; August 10) • “Case of Conviction,” by Francis Wayland (American Baptist Magazine; October) • “The Choice of Companions” (Youth’s Companion; October 12) • “Heroism” (Youth’s Companion; October 12) • “Lucy Nelson, the Boy-Girl,” by Eliza Leslie (Youth’s Companion; November 30)

at this site: The Token • “A Little Girl Who was Burned to Death” (Youth’s Companion; January 11) • “Little Edward” (Youth’s Companion; February 8) • “Petrified Forests” (JR; May 16) • An editor edits “Ode, Addressed to J. G. Percival, M. D.” (The Bouquet ; September) • Truth, 2nd ed., William J. Snelling • Peale’s mastodon skeleton, in The Child’s First Book of History; in The Child’s Own Book of American Geography; in Peter Parley’s Tales About the State and City of New York

at this site: The Token • “Prospectus” (Parley’s Magazine; March 16) • “To the Public” (Parley’s Magazine; March 16) • “The Terrified Sailors” (Parley’s Magazine; March 16) • “Silent Companion” (Parley’s Magazine; March 30) • “Caspar Hauser” (Parley’s Magazine; March 30) • “The Little Wood-Cutter” (Parley’s Magazine; April 13) • “Narrow Escape from a Bear” (Parley’s Magazine; April 27) • “I’d be a Butterfly” (Parley’s Magazine; May 28) • “Mr. Durant” (Parley’s Magazine; September 14) • “For My Youngest Readers” (Parley’s Magazine; September 14) • Peter Parley’s Story of the Little Gardener, Samuel Griswold Goodrich • The District School As It Was (2nd ed), Warren Burton

at this site: Sarah Tuttle’s scrapbook (1834-1860s) • “Fossil Shells” (Parley’s Magazine; June 7) • “Art of Pen Making” (Parley’s Magazine; September 13)

at this site: The Slave’s Friend #1, 2, 3 • “Devouring Books” (American Annals of Education; January) • “Story of Peter Brown” (Parley’s Magazine; June 20) • “About Edwin Finley” (Parley’s Magazine; June 20) • The Token & Atlantic Souvenir • The Juvenile Polyanthos, by Henry Wightman • Rollo Learning to Read, Jacob Abbott

at this site: “To the Departing Comet” (American Monthly Magazine; January) • “Walks About Boston: The Indians” (Parley’s Magazine; January) • “To Our Young Female Readers” (Parley’s Magazine; February) • joke (Parley’s Magazine; June) • “Confectioners” (Parley’s Magazine; July) • “Juvenile Celebration of Independence” (Parley’s Magazine; August) • Two pieces about fireworks (Parley’s Magazine; September & October) • “The Reading of Young Ladies” (American Magazine of Useful Knowledge; December) • The Token & Atlantic Souvenir • Peter Parley’s Juvenile Tales, Samuel Griswold Goodrich

at this site: “The Aurora Borealis,” by “Francis” (Youth’s Magazine [Cincinnati, Ohio]; April 14) • “Interview of the Blind with the Deaf and Dumb” (Youth’s Magazine [Cincinnati, Ohio]; April 14) • “Reading is Not Thinking” (Youth’s Magazine [Cincinnati, Ohio]; May 26) • “Reading for Young Ladies” (Youth’s Magazine [Cincinnati, Ohio]; July 7) • “Do Your Duty to Your Brothers and Sisters,” by Lydia Sigourney (Youth’s Magazine [Cincinnati, Ohio]; July 7) • “War and Glory,” by Samuel Johnson (Youth’s Magazine [Cincinnati, Ohio]; July 7) • “The Beautiful Slave” (Youth’s Magazine [Cincinnati, Ohio]; September) • “The Noble Negro,” by Hannah More (Youth’s Magazine [Cincinnati, Ohio]; September) • “Exemplary” (Youth’s Magazine [Cincinnati, Ohio]; October) • Selections from The Pearl; or, Affection’s Gift

at this site: New Year’s address (Parley’s Magazine; January) • “Gleanings and Recollections: The New York Fire,” by Eliza Leslie (Parley’s Magazine; January)

at this site: “The Dying Boy,” by Mrs. Larned (Parley’s Magazine; January) • “Confessions of a Novel Reader,” A. (Southern Literary Messenger; March) • “The Fireside” (Parley’s Magazine; March) • “Bones of a Mastodon” (Youth’s Cabinet; July 11) • Robert Merry’s Miscellany • Rollo’s Travels, Jacob Abbott • The Kentucky Housewife, Lettice Bryan • The Ladder of Learning • The Well-Bred Boy (rev 1844) • Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York, by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (born 1839)

at this site: William and Eliza; or, The Visit (abt now) • Peter Parley’s Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky

at this site: The Well-Bred Girl (rev 1850) • “Natural history plates” (Robert Merry’s Museum) • “My Own Life & Adventures,” by “Robert Merry” (Robert Merry’s Museum; -1842) • “Story of Philip Brusque” (Robert Merry’s Museum; -1842) • “Prospectus of Robert Merry’s Museum” (Robert Merry’s Museum; February)
• “Address to the Reader” (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • “My First Whistle,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • “About Labor & Property” (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • “Death of the President” (Robert Merry’s Museum; April) • “The Moon” (Robert Merry’s Museum; June) • “The Horse & the Bells” (Robert Merry’s Museum; June) • “Yankee Energy” (Robert Merry’s Museum; September) • “The Mammoth” (Robert Merry’s Museum; November) • “The Squirrel” (Robert Merry’s Museum; December) • “The Picture Gallery: Organic Remains” (Youth’s Cabinet; December 9) • Peale’s mastodon skeleton, in Peter Parley’s Visit to the City of New-York (1841-1844?)

at this site: “The New Year” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “Wonders of Geology” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “Liberty,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “The War in Florida” (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • “Names of Different Kinds of Type” (Robert Merry’s Museum; March)

at this site: “A New-Year’s Bow” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “Who Filled the Coal Hole?” (Parley’s Magazine; February) • three little poems for little readers (Robert Merry’s Museum) • “Jumping Rabbit’s Story” (Robert Merry’s Museum) • “John Dunn Hunter,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich

at this site: “Precocious Children,” Samuel Griswold Goodrich • “Reminiscences of a Rag” (Robert Merry’s Museum) • “The Lottery Ticket” (Robert Merry’s Museum) • “Dirk Heldriver” (Robert Merry’s Museum) • “Pictures of Various Nations (Robert Merry’s Museum) • “January” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “Three Little Boys in Prison,” by Charles Holden (The Mother’s Assistant; January) • “Novel Writers & Publishers,” M. M. Backus (Christian Parlor Magazine; May) • “The Stolen Child” (Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine; August) • “A Story of the Revolution” (Robert Merry’s Museum; August) • Reaction to Felix Summerly’s attack on Peter Parley (Littell’s Living Age; 21 September) • “Prognostications of the Weather” (Robert Merry’s Museum; November) • Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney • What to Do, and How to Do It, by Samuel Griswold Goodrich

at this site: “What Books Shall I Read?,” Simon Brown • “Dangers of Childhood, and Means of Obviating Them,” George Whippel (The Mother’s Assistant; February) • “Family Education,” Lavinia H. Pillsbury (The Mother’s Assistant; April) • “The Morality of Pictures,” William A. Alcott (The Mother’s Assistant and the Young Lady’s Friend; April) • “Alfred Poole” (Robert Merry’s Museum; May) • “Moral Poisons: The Antidote,” F. C. W. (The Mother’s Magazine; May) • “Confinement of Children in School,” Dr. James Jackson (The Mother’s Assistant; July) • “Treatment of Children at School,” Dr. S. B. Woodward (The Mother’s Assistant; October) • “Vicious Novels: Cause of Their Increase,” F. C. W. (The Mother’s Magazine; December) • Eliza Piatt’s copybook • Wonders of Geology, by Samuel Griswold Goodrich • A Home in the Sea; or, The Adventures of Philip Brusque, Samuel Griswold Goodrich • Margaret, by Sylvester Judd

at this site: “A New Year’s Address” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • poem (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “Another Story for Boys,” by Orpha (Youth’s Companion; January 7) • “Lines, on the Death of W.,” by S. (Youth’s Companion; January 14) • “Repining and Repentance” (Youth’s Companion; February 12) • “The Farmer and Soldier,” by Lydia Sigourney (Youth’s Companion; February 12) • “The Snow Storm” (Youth’s Companion; February 12) • “The Two Houses” (Youth’s Companion; 12 February) • “Petrified Forest on the Nile” (Young People’s Magazine; March) • “Child’s Grief,” by Mary Ann (Youth’s Companion; April 2) • “My Schoolmates: The Contrast,” by Abby (Youth’s Companion; June 5) • “My Schoolmates: The Inquirer,” by Abbie (Youth’s Companion; June 12) • “My Schoolmates: The Victim,” by Abbie (Youth’s Companion; June 19) • “The Boy Who Loved Truth,” by Julia A. Fletcher (Youth’s Companion; June 26) • “My Schoolmates: The Widow,” by Abbie (Youth’s Companion; June 26) • “My Schoolmates: Kate Kennedy,” by Abby (Youth’s Companion; July 2) • “My Schoolmates: The Sensitive Plant,” by Abbie (Youth’s Companion; July 9) • two celebrations of American Independence Day (Youth’s Companion; July 23) • “Jane Graham; or, ‘I Shant Marry That Man’ ” (Youth’s Companion; July 23) • “Hay-Making” (Youth’s Companion; July 23) • “Nursery Rhymes: A Dialogue” (Robert Merry’s Museum; August) • “Pleasant and Profitable” (Youth’s Companion; August 27) • “Authorcraft” (Littell’s Living Age; 6 June) • A Mid-Century Child & Her Books, Caroline M. Hewins (born 1846)

at this site: “Self-Denial, or, The Two Cousins” (Youth’s Companion; January 7) • “The Untidy Girl” (Youth’s Cabinet; February) • “Gossip of the Month” (Democratic Review; May) • “The Stolen Girls” (Youth’s Companion; June 10) • “Vanity Punished” (Youth’s Companion; September 9) • “Little Susan, the Poor-House Girl,” by J. A. (Youth’s Companion; August 12) • “The Indians: Week Day School,” by Sarah (Youth’s Companion; August 12) • “The Water-melon Boats” (Youth’s Companion; August 12) • “Boys of Sixteen” (Youth’s Companion; August 19) • “The Strawberry Woman,” by T. S. Arthur (Youth’s Companion; September 9) • “The Shoes,” by J. A. (Youth’s Companion; September 23) • “Miss Before Teens,” by Giles M’Quiggen (Youth’s Companion; September 23) • “Dress and Address,” by Nathan Sargent (Youth’s Companion; December 30) • “Girl Stealing” (Youth’s Companion; December 30)

at this site: “Family & Social Reading” • “Adventures of Billy Bump” (Robert Merry’s Museum; -1850) • “The Snow-Bird” (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • “Professor Morse” (Youth’s Cabinet; April) • “Wood Engraving” (Youth’s Cabinet; April) • “I Think I Will Not Change” (Youth’s Companion; April 13) • “Kate and Her Kitty” (Youth’s Companion; May 25) • “Tearing Open the Rosebud” (Youth’s Companion; June 8) • “Female Education” (The Mother’s Magazine; July) • “A Correction” (Youth’s Cabinet; September) • “Fifteen Young Men” (Youth’s Companion; September 13) • “Good Night,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Robert Merry’s Museum; October) • “My Fortune’s Made,” by Mary Alexina Smith (Youth’s Companion; November 23) • “Popular Similes” (Youth’s Companion; November 30) • “Bread Upon the Water,” by T.S. Arthur (Youth’s Companion; November 30) • “Wonders of Geology,” by William Buckland (Robert Merry’s Museum; December) • “Letter to the Editor” (Youth’s Companion; December 28) • Dictionary of Americanisms, John Russell Bartlett

at this site: “A New Year’s Salutation” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “The Skater’s Song” (Youth’s Cabinet; January) • “School Learning,” by Helen C. Knight (The Mother’s Assistant and Young Lady’s Friend; January) • “Geology” (Young People’s Mirror; March) • “William, the Negro Boy,” by Jane L. Gray (Youth’s Cabinet; April) • “Hints for Children” (Youth’s Companion; April 12) • Account of the Terrific and Fatal Riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House • “What the Steam Engine Does” (Youth’s Companion; July 19) • “Touching Expression” (Youth’s Companion; 19 July) • “Tomo and the Wild Lakes,” by Rev. John Todd (Youth’s Companion; July 19) • “Life in the Woods” (Youth’s Companion; July 19) • “The School-Mistress,” by M. W. D. (Youth’s Companion; September 13) • “Sabbath Scholar Drowned” (Youth’s Companion; September 13) • “A Step from the Altar to the Tomb,” by J. E. E. (Youth’s Companion; September 13) • “The Old School House,” by J. A. (Youth’s Companion; November 15) • “Hints to Young Men” (Youth’s Companion; November 22) • “A Good Girl at School” (Youth’s Companion; November 22) • “The Wanderer’s Return,” by M. W. D. (Youth’s Companion; November 22) • “Unnatural Children” (Youth’s Companion; November 22) • “Young Men,” by Charlotte Gilman (Youth’s Companion; November 22) • “Unhappy Elopement” (Youth’s Companion; November 22) • “Thy Will Be Done,” by W. (Youth’s Companion; November 22) • “You Will Be Wanted” (Youth’s Companion; November 22) • “Fossil Foot-Prints” (Young People’s Mirror; December) • New and True Stories for Children • Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York, by Catherine Elizabeth Havens

at this site: Stories for Children, Cousin Sarah (abt now) • “The Indian’s Story” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “The King of Ashantee” (Robert Merry’s Museum; March) • “Deer Hunting,” by “Simon Sassafras” (Robert Merry’s Museum; May) • “Adventures with Ghosts,” by Mrs. Hall (Youth’s Cabinet; May) • “Effie Somers,” by W. (Youth’s Companion; May 30) • “Who Will Make a Good Wife” (Youth’s Companion; May 30) • Mary Newell’s letter (August 28) • “Amy’s Holiday” (Youth’s Cabinet; September) • “The Arabian Nights” (Youth’s Cabinet; September) • “Clara Sinclair,” by Caroline Gilman (Youth’s Cabinet; September) • “Caspar Hauser” (Robert Merry’s Museum; October) • “The Change of the Seasons” (Robert Merry’s Museum; November) • “Laughing Bill” (Youth’s Cabinet; November) • “Left-Handed Billy” (Robert Merry’s Museum; December)

at this site: “The Adventures of Gilbert Go-ahead” (Robert Merry’s Museum; -1856) • “January” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “The Spelling Lesson” (Youth’s Cabinet; February) • “Hieroglyphical Letter to the Editor” (Youth’s Cabinet; February) • “Join in the Recreation of Your Children,” Stephen T. Allen (The Mother’s Magazine and Family Journal; July) • “The Busy Knitter,” by William Oland Bourne (Youth’s Cabinet; August) • “A Siberian Winter” (Youth’s Cabinet; August) • Stories by Jack Mason, the Old Sailor, Francis Woodworth

at this site: “A Valentine” (Springfield Republican; February 20) • “Wonders of Geology” (The Schoolmate; March) • “Distant Worlds” (Robert Merry’s Museum; July) • “The Bloomer Dress” (Woodworth’s Youth’s Cabinet; October) • “A Very Odd Grandfather” (Robert Merry’s Museum; November) • “Fossil Tree in the Coal Rocks” (Robert Merry’s Museum; December)

at this site: “Children and Children’s Parties,” S. B. S. (The Mothers’ Journal and Family Visitant) • “Physical Education of Children” (Tilt’s Elements of Health) • “Early Culture of Children,” G. M. J. (The Mothers’ Journal and Family Visitant) • “Clothing for Girls,” G. M. J. (The Mothers’ Journal and Family Visitant) • “Children’s Rights,” “Fanny Fern” • “Henry Sanford’s Teacher,” by Eliza A. Chase (The Student; May) • “Riddle,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Robert Merry’s Museum; June) • “Parental Duties,” J. W. Guernsey (The Mother’s Assistant and Young Lady’s Friend; July) • “Means of Exercise for Girls” (The Student; July) • “Love of Nature” (The Mother’s Assistant and Young Lady’s Friend; August) • Review of Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio (The Student; September) • “Novel Reading” (The Western Gem; October) • “Negro Songs—American Music,” by Ser. Longley (Western Gem; October) • “Conversation. To Young Ladies” (The Mother’s Assistant and Young Lady’s Friend; November) • “Placing a Daughter at School,” Motte Hall (The Student; November) • Two pieces on behavior at school (The Student; November) • “Letters About Geology,” by “Professor Pickaxe” (The Student) • Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio, “Fanny Fern” (Sara Payson Willis) • The Behaviour Book, Eliza Leslie • The Holiday Book, Francis C. Woodworth

at this site: “Daguerreotypes of the Moon” (The Schoolmate; January) • “Mathematics for Girls,” by Mrs. J. H. Hanaford (The Student; January) • advertisement for Tuttle’s Emporium (Youth’s Cabinet; January) • “Early Training of Children” (The Fireside Miscellany; and Young People’s Encyclopedia; February) • Two pieces about books (The Student; February) • “Curious Rhymes” (Robert Merry’s Museum; March) • “Curiosities of Sleep” (Youth’s Cabinet; April) • “True Courage,” by “Aunt Kate” (Youth’s Companion; August 3) • “Snake Fascination” (Youth’s Companion; August 24) • “The Miser and His Dinner” (Youth’s Cabinet; September) • “The Four Wills” (Youth’s Cabinet; September) • “Indian Youth’s Newspaper” (Youth’s Companion; September 7) • “Novels, Their Meaning and Mission” (Putnam’s Monthly; October) • Ruth Hall, “Fanny Fern” (Sara Payson Willis) • Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves, “Eulalie” [Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon]

at this site: “Carrier’s Address” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “Mrs. Warner’s Prejudice,” by Lesina (Youth’s Companion; August 16) • “Give Your Child a Paper” (Youth’s Companion; August 23) • “Singular Adventure of a Lost Child” (Youth’s Companion; August 23) • Harper Story Books: The Harper Establishment; or, How the Story Books are Made, Jacob Abbott • Star Papers, Henry Ward Beecher

at this site: “Carrier’s Address” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “A Happy New Year,” by Francis Forrester (Youth’s Cabinet; January) • adoption ads (New York Daily Tribune; January 14) • “A Literary Man in Distress,” by “Literatus” (New York Daily Tribune; January 14) • “Cross Questions and Crooked Answers,” by Susanna Newbould (Youth’s Cabinet; February) • “Diligent David,” by Francis Forrester (Youth’s Cabinet; February) • “Uncle Frank in Kansas,” by Francis Woodworth (Youth’s Cabinet; June) • “Thanksgiving Memories,” by Francis Woodworth (Youth’s Cabinet; October) • “Who Are the Aggressors?,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (New York Evening Post; October 15) • “The Prairies of Kansas,” by Francis Woodworth (Youth’s Cabinet; November) • “Degeneracy of Stature,” Thrace Talmon (National Era; 18 December) • The Travels, Voyages, and Adventures of Gilbert Go-Ahead, Samuel Griswold Goodrich • Recollections of a Lifetime, Samuel Griswold Goodrich

at this site: The Early Dead, edited by William Chalmers Whitcomb • “Uncle Hiram’s Pilgrimage,” by William C. Cutter (Robert Merry’s Museum; -1860) • “The Sewing-Machine” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “A Crooked Tree (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • “Skating—Woman’s Rights,” by William C. Cutter (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • “The Patient Sufferer,” by S. (Robert Merry’s Museum; March) • “Letter From Henry C. Wright: ‘Merry’s Museum’ the Handmaid of Slavery,” by Henry C. Wright (The Liberator; 20 March) • advertisement for The New York Tribune (Robert Merry’s Museum; October) • Parley’s Adventures of Billy Bump, Samuel Griswold Goodrich

at this site: “The Elves of the Forest Centre,” by Pansy [Fanny Seward] (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “The Song of the Snow-Bird” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “Pukkwana,” by Susanna Newbould (Robert Merry’s Museum; April) • “Of What is the Alphabet Composed?,” by Mattie Bell (Robert Merry’s Museum; July) • “Old Times & New,” by Margaret (Robert Merry’s Museum; August) • “The Atlantic Telegraph” (Robert Merry’s Museum; October) • “The Atlantic Telegraph” (Student & Schoolmate; October) • “The Comet” [Comet Donati] (Robert Merry’s Museum; October) • “Our Neighbors” [comets] (Forrester’s Playmate; October) • “The Telegraph Cable,” by Laura Elmer (Robert Merry’s Museum; November) • “The Comet” [Comet Donati] (Robert Merry’s Museum; November)

at this site: “Dr. Kane’s Boat—the Faith,” by William Hoyt Coleman (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “New Year’s Morning” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “How the Boston Boys Talk,” by Oliver Onley (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • “The Cold Snap of January 10th,” by William Hoyt Coleman (Robert Merry’s Museum; March) • “Signers of the Declaration of Independence,” by Ralph Wilson (Robert Merry’s Museum; March) • Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Handie, Jacob Abbott • Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Rainbow’s Journey, Jacob Abbott

at this site: “Letter to My Daughter Margaretta, with a Set of Merry’s Museum,” by William Ross Wallace (Robert Merry’s Museum; April) • “Death of Samuel Griswold Goodrich” (Littell’s Living Age; 19 June) • “’Peter Parley’—As Known to His Daughter,” Emily Goodrich Smith • Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: The Three Pines, Jacob Abbott • Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Selling Lucky, Jacob Abbott • Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Up the River, Jacob Abbott • recipes from The Virginia Housewife, Mary Randolph

at this site: “The Literary Gazette” • Animals in the Civil War (Youth’s Companion) • “The Union” (Student & Schoolmate; January) • “Rules for Winter” (Youth’s Companion; January 3) • “How to Make Boys Love Home” (Arthur’s Home Magazine; February) • “The Opera Cloak” (Youth’s Companion; June 6) • “Crooked Spines in Girls,” Helen C. Lewis (Arthur’s Home Magazine; July) • “The Stars and Stripes,” by John A. Andrews (Student & Schoolmate; July) • “Baby Education” (Arthur’s Home Magazine; August) • “Hail, Columbia!” (Student & Schoolmate; August) • “How a Man Feels When He is Shot” (Youth’s Companion; October 3) • “Children, from One to Three Years of Age” (Arthur’s Home Magazine; December) • “The Knitters” (Youth’s Companion; December 26)

at this site: “Renny’s Uniform” (Robert Merry’s Museum) • “Why Have the Indians Disappeared?” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “Who Wants $4 a Day?” (Robert Merry’s Museum; March) • “The Grateful Indian,” by Martha G. (Robert Merry’s Museum; August) • “What is a Darling?” (Robert Merry’s Museum; October)

at this site: “Happiest Days,” “Gail Hamilton” • “Our Heroic Dead” (Student & Schoolmate; February) • editorial from “The Teacher’s Desk” (Student & Schoolmate; February) • “To the Boy Who Will Be President of the United States A. D. 1900,” by Samuel Wilson (Robert Merry’s Museum; April) • “Blessings of Work,” by Julia E. McConaughy (Robert Merry’s Museum; May) • “Independence Day” (Robert Merry’s Museum; July) • “Working Girls” (Robert Merry’s Museum; October) • “Gardening for Ladies” (Robert Merry’s Museum; November) • “Dreaming and Doing,” by Mrs. N. McConaughy (Robert Merry’s Museum; December) • Gala Days, “Gail Hamilton” (Abigail Dodge) • The Good Scholar • Horatio Lovejoy’s New Year’s Eve. 1863-1864 (Dec-Jan 1864)

at this site: “A New-Year’s Welcome” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “White and Colored Slaves (Harper’s Weekly; January 30) • “Beadle’s Dime Books” (North American Review; July) • “Clara’s Medal,” by Christie Pearl (Student & Schoolmate; September) • “The Best Girl in School,” by Phoebe H. Phelps (Student & Schoolmate; October) • “Industry & Idleness,” by William L. Williams (Student & Schoolmate; November) • “Katie’s Sacrifice,” by E. N. H. (Student & Schoolmate; November)

at this site: “Elva Seeking Her Fortune,” by Sophie May (Robert Merry’s Museum) • Eye and Ear Notes, by “Uncle James” (James Redpath) (Youth’s Companion) • Science & technology notes (Youth’s Companion) • Animals in the Civil War (Youth’s Companion) • Children & changing times (Youth’s Companion) • assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Youth’s Companion) • premium portrait of Abraham Lincoln (Little Corporal) • “The Volunteer’s Thanksgiving,” by Lucy Larcom (Our Young Folks; January) • “The Color-Bearer,” by John Townsend Trowbridge (Our Young Folks; January) • “The Capture of Savannah” (Youth’s Companion; January 5) • “Our Exchanged Prisoners” (Youth’s Companion; January 5) • advertisements for Our Young Folks & Robert Merry’s Museum (Youth’s Companion; January 12) • “The Veteran’s Farewell,” by “Blue-Eyed Lora” (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • memorial page for Adelbert Older, with poetry by Belle P. R. and Adelbert Older (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • “Adventures of a ‘Merry’ Boy” (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • “Allie’s Christmas Eve,” by “Lillie Linden” (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • “Neglected Children” (Youth’s Companion; February 23) • “The City Girl,” by “Gail Hamilton” (Abigail Dodge) (Our Young Folks; March) • “White Slaves (Youth’s Companion; March 9) • “The Inauguration of President Lincoln” (Youth’s Companion; March 9) • “The Would-be Lady and the True One,” by Mrs. P. P. Bonney (Youth’s Companion; March 16) • “A True Story” (reprinted; Youth’s Companion; March 23) • “Turn About, Fair Play,” by Augusta Moore (Youth’s Companion; April 13) • “The Great National Tragedy” (Youth’s Companion; April 27) • “Booth and Bad Literature” (Youth’s Companion; May 11) • “Sugar-Making by the Indians” (Youth’s Companion; May 18) • “Unella,” by Madge (Robert Merry’s Museum; June) • advertisements for Dr. Brown’s Baby-Tender (Robert Merry’s Museum; June & July) • two poems for July 4, 1865 (Robert Merry’s Museum; July) • “July 4, 1865,” by “Lulie” (Student & Schoolmate; July) • “The Boys’ Fourth-of-July,” by Julia Pratt Ballard (Robert Merry’s Museum; July) • “The American Flag,” by Mrs. P. A. Hanaford (Student & Schoolmate; July) • “The Army of the American Eagle” (Little Corporal; July) • editorial comment on July 4, 1865 (Robert Merry’s Museum; July) • editorial from “The Teacher’s Desk” (Student & Schoolmate; July) • “Willie Lincoln,” by Emily J. Bugbee (Little Corporal; July) • “Victory at Last,” by C. C. (Robert Merry’s Museum; July) • “The Conspirators” (Youth’s Companion; July 6) • “Imagination or Affectation (Youth’s Companion; July 13) • “The Execution” (Youth’s Companion; July 20) • “A Soldier To-night is Our Guest” (Youth’s Companion; August 10) • “Going into Business for Himself,” by Mrs. P. P. Bonney (Youth’s Companion; August 11)

at this site: “Children’s Books of the Year” (North American Review; January) • “Among the Studios, no. 3,” by T. B. Aldrich & Winslow Homer (Our Young Folks; July) • “How Engravings are Made” (Little Corporal; August) • “Patriotic Eagle” (Youth’s Companion; August 9) • “The Veteran Eagle,” by Maria S. Cummins (Our Young Folks; October) • “The Veteran Eagle: A Correction” (Little Corporal; November) • “The Veteran Eagle; and What the Children Did,” by Alfred Sewell (Little Corporal; December) • “How to Go to School,” by H. E. B. (Little Corporal; December) • Woman’s Rights, John Todd

at this site: Wool-Gathering, by “Gail Hamilton” [Abigail Dodge] • Rogers groups in the Little Corporal • “To All Who Are Interested” (Little Corporal; May) • “Swinging on a Birch-Tree,” by Lucy Larcom & Winslow Homer (Our Young Folks; June) • “Bird-Catching,” by R. H. Stoddard & Winslow Homer (Our Young Folks; August) • “Living in an Omnibus,” by Louisa May Alcott (Robert Merry’s Museum; October) • “The Two Burials,” by Julia Pratt Ballard (Robert Merry’s Museum; November)

at this site: “Two Ways of Being Manly,” by F. W. A. P. (Robert Merry’s Museum) • Cousin Tribulation’s story, by Louisa May Alcott (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “Watching the Crows,” by John Townsend Trowbridge & Winslow Homer (Our Young Folks; June) • “Strawberries,” by John Townsend Trowbridge & Winslow Homer (Our Young Folks; July) • “Green Apples,” by John Townsend Trowbridge & Winslow Homer (Our Young Folks; August) • Norwood, by Henry Ward Beecher • Woman’s Wrongs, by “Gail Hamilton”

at this site: “Red Riding-Hood,” by Lucy Larcom (Our Young Folks; February) • “A Frightened Tiger” (Youth’s Companion; July 29) • “Not Complimentary to Utah” (Youth’s Companion; October 28) • Review of John Greenleaf Whittier’s Illustrated Ballads of New England (Our Young Folks; November) • “Sissy’s Ride in the Moon,” by Annette Bishop & Mary Ann Hallock (Our Young Folks; November) • Popular Amusements, by J. T. Crane

at this site: “The Doctor’s Little Girl,” by C. Alice Baker (Robert Merry’s Museum) • “Young Italy in Boston,” by “Stella” (Robert Merry’s Museum; January) • “Hunting Eggs,” by Mary Ann Hallock (Our Young Folks; January) • “The Chinese in California,” by Lucy St. John (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • “At Grandma’s Bedside,” by Edgar Fawcett & Mary Ann Hallock (Our Young Folks; May) • “Spring Whistles,” by Lucy Larcom & Mary Ann Hallock (Our Young Folks; May) • “Reform in Juvenile Literature” (Punchinello; 20 August) • “A Young Savage,” by A. Perry (Robert Merry’s Museum; November) • “Freed Children in Virginia,” by “Elizabeth Kilham” (Our Young Folks; December)

at this site: “The Spendthrift Doll,” by Sarah Orne Jewett (Robert Merry’s Museum; February) • “What a Bore!,” by Helen C. Weeks (Youth’s Companion; February 2) • a planetary alignment (Robert Merry’s Museum; June) • “Declamation—Relief for Chicago,” by Edward Everett Hale (Robert Merry’s Museum; November) • editorial on the Chicago Fire (Robert Merry’s Museum; November) • “Freed Children in Washington,” by “Elizabeth Kilham” (Our Young Folks; November) • “What Ben and the Twins Did for Chicago,” Sara Conant (Robert Merry’s Museum; December) • Thomas Nast honors The Little Corporal (Little Corporal; December) • “Routed But Not Conquered” (Little Corporal; December) • Letters in The Little Corporal about the Chicago Fire • “More About the Fire” (Little Corporal; December) • “The Mammoth” (Children’s Friend [West Chester, Pennsylvania]; Twelfth month)

at this site: “The Voyage of the Salt Mackerel,” by Charles Barnard (Robert Merry’s Museum) • “A Picture Story of the Chicago Fire” (Little Corporal; January) • “What Does Johnny Read?” (Little Corporal; January) • “’Relics of the Fire’” (Little Corporal; March) • “Knitting-Work,” by Genie M. Wilde (Our Young Folks; March) • “The Ancient World,” by “Uncle Jacob” (Children’s Friend [West Chester, Pennsylvania]; Fourth month) • “A Quiet Study (Robert Merry’s Museum; May) • Review of Oliver Optic’s Books for Boys (New Englander and Yale Review; July) • “The Year After the Fire” (Little Corporal; November) • announcement of merger (Robert Merry’s Museum; November) • editorial (Robert Merry’s Museum; November)

at this site: “Children’s Magazines” (Scribner’s Monthly; July)