1868/04 -- Unfortunately for us now, early issues of "The Atlantic" did not employ bylines on its stories and articles, thus most items from the contents listed below are anonymous. When there is an article with a known author I will credit it below. Note: The following titles could be articles, stories or even short poems in some cases.

Contents as follows:

  • A Plea for the Afternoon by Antoinette Blackwell
  • The Wreck of the Pocahontas by Celia Thaxter
  • Spenser by E. P. Whipple
  • Lagos Bar - Part I - by W. Winwood Reade
  • By-Ways of Europe - Part IV - by Bayard Taylor
  • Once More by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Our Roman Catholic Brethren - Part I - by James Parton
  • The Poison of the Rattlesnake
  • A most Extraordinary Case by Henry James
  • Doctor Milke's Friends - Part III - by Dr. I. I. Hayes
  • Free Missouri - Part II - by Albert D. Richardson
  • Art: Matheiu's Busts of the Composers by J. S. Dwight

    • Reviews and Literary Notices:

  • Greene's Life of Major-General Nathanael Greene
  • Gail Hamilton's Woman Wrongs
  • Life and Letters of Wilder Dwight
  • Channing's Early Recollections of Newport
  • Henry J. Morgan's Bibliotheca Canadensis
  • Morgan's American Beaver and his Works