1872/02 -- 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:

  • Septimius Felton; or, The Elixir of Life - Part II - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • There was a Rose by Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt
  • Wagner and the Pianist Bulow by Alice Asbury
  • A Comedy of Errors - Part II - by James De Mille
  • Morrice Lake by William Ellery Channing
  • In A Wherry by T. W. Higginson
  • Diversions of the Echo Club - Part II
  • Petronilla by Miss E. S. Phelps
  • Jefferson a Student of Law by James Parton
  • The Castleworth Tragedy by Alice Dutton
  • A Norse Stev by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
  • The Visible and the Invisible in Protection by Edward Atkinson
  • The Poet at the Breakfast-Table - Part II - by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Recent Literature