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1863-01 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

1863/01 — 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:

  • Happiest Days, by Gail Hamilton
  • The Promise of the Dawn by The author of ‘Life in the Iron-Mills’
  • In the Half-Way House, by James Russell Lowell
  • Mr. Buckle as a Thinker, by D. A. Wasson
  • Recollections of a Gifted Woman by Nathaniel Hawthorne – 15 pages
  • Mr. Axtell
  • The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • My Friend the Watch by George W. Curtis
  • The Negro Astronomer Benjamin Banneker by M. D. Conway
  • The Sleeping Sentinel
  • Iron-Clad Ships and Heavy Ordnance by Alexander L. Holley
  • Andrew Rykman’s Prayer by John Greenleaf Whittier The Strathsays by Harriet E. Prescott
  • Lyrics of the Street by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
  • A Reply to the Address of the Women of England by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Overtures from Richmond, by Prof. F. J. Child
  • The Soldiers’ Rally by E. J. Cutler
  • Brooks’s Translation of Richter’s Titan
  • The Works and Memoir of Rufus Choate by Professor S. G. Brown
  • Story of the Guard by Jessie Benton Fremont
  • Seven Little People and their Friends