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