"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