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1858-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1858/03 —

  • The Upper Mississippi
  • My Illusions Spare!
  • The Three Sons
  • Tropical Journeyings
  • The Bladensburg Dueling Ground
  • Jack Of All Trades — Concluded — by Charles Reade
  • Progress Of Womanhood
  • Westmoreland
  • Captain Becalmed
  • A Paper Of All Sorts
  • Rouge Et Noir
  • Every Wife Her Own Tormentor
  • My Wife And I
  • The Virginians — Chapters 13-16 of a Serial — by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • The Statue In Clay
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Substance And Shadows
  • Fashions For March

    • 1858-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1858/02 —

  • An American At Constantinople
  • Livingstone’s Travels In South Africa -21 pages loaded with illustrations
  • Soyer’s Culinary Campaign
  • A Marriage Tragedy by Willkie Collins
  • What Women Talk About
  • A Summer’s Afternoon
  • How To Enjoy Winter
  • Reminiscences Of A Man Of The World
  • Prunes And Prisms
  • Nancy’s Brook
  • Jack Of All Trades by Charles Reade (Continued)
  • The Virginians – Chapters 9-12 – by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Fanny Flirt And Her Victims
  • Fashions For February

    • 1857-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/11 —

  • Winter In The South — Third Paper
  • Reminiscence Of Rome
  • Nothing To Wear – An Episode Of City Life by William Allen Butler
  • In High Latitudes
  • The Man Who Was Not An Egoist
  • How I Came To Be Married
  • Education Of American Women
  • Lost: The Story Of Four Young Men
  • Our Wives
  • Rachel’s Refusal
  • Joseph Thorne – His Calling
  • Helen Lee
  • Clubs And Club-Men
  • The Grizzly Bear Of California
  • A Stray House
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Charlie’s Side-Walk Acquaintances
  • Fashions For November

    • 1857-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/10 —

  • The Ship Of The Desert about Camels with illustrations
  • Winter In The South – Second Paper
  • The National Assembly by John S.C. Abbott
  • Pride Of Moses Grant
  • Screw Loose
  • Disagreeable People
  • Siege Of Fort Atkinson
  • The Fair Dona Bella – A Tale of Cordova, In Spain
  • Matter Of Fact And Matter Of Fiction
  • Mr. Tompkins’s Experience
  • The Father Of Railways is about George Stephenson – Takes up parts of 8 pages (more like 6+ page article), all text
  • Where Our Daughters Go To School
  • Old Bachelor’s Last Love
  • The Bronze Gaiters or “All’s Well That Ends Well”
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Mr. Jinks’s Patent Inflating Costumes
  • Fashions For October

    • 1857-09 September 1857 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/09 —

  • Winter In The South
  • Coal, And The Coal-Mines Of Pennsylvania by Eli Bowen
  • Temples In Which I Have Worshipped
  • My Inheritance
  • Desmond The Speculator
  • Esther
  • Handel
  • Love After Marriage
  • Code Of Honor
  • Are We A Polite People? — Our Ladies
  • Mr. Seedy
  • Taking Of Belen Gate
  • Summer Cruise In Search Of An Appetite
  • Alice Maude — A Poem
  • Seeing The World
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Fashions For September

    • 1857-08 August 1857 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/08 —

  • North Carolina Illustrated — Part 4: The Gold Region
  • Wheat, And Its Associations by T.B. Thorpe
  • The States-General by John S.C. Abbott
  • A Jaunt In Java
  • Blind Man’s Love
  • Epigrams And Epigrammatists
  • Evening At Epping
  • My Theory, And A Few Facts Against It
  • Alix Thuriot Thorne
  • My Forenoon With The Baby
  • Three Pictures After The Manner Of Ferogio
  • My Brother Tom
  • Passages In The Experience Of Briefless Barrister
  • De L’Amitie
  • Corsican Life Drama
  • Are We A Polite People? — Our Gentlemen
  • The Whirlpool: A Tale Of The Green Mountains
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Elephantine Metamorphoses
  • Fashions For August

    • 1857-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/07 —

  • Scraps From An Artist’s Notebook – The Carib Settlements
  • North Carolina Illustrated – Part3: Guilford
  • The Shakers
  • Lichens
  • Two Kates; Or First And Second Love
  • Causes And Prevention Of Epidemics
  • Mr. Quigley’s Experience
  • Emperor Napoleon The Third
  • Our Cousin From Town – A Family Reminiscence
  • Summer Idyl
  • Holbrook House
  • Story Of A Piano
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 46-52 Concluding a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Family Daguerreotypes Found Everywhere
  • Fashions For July

    • 1857-06 June 1857 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/06 —

  • Charleston, The Palmetto City — 22 pages
  • Adventures Of The Early Settlers In New England
  • Monads
  • Do Mountains Grow?
  • Our Wish
  • The Bird That Sang In May
  • Yellow Fever
  • A Gentleman Of The Jury
  • House Spiders: Their Habits and Astonishing Feats
  • Woman’s Dream
  • Woman’s Tears
  • Duel In Russia
  • Animal Love Of Music
  • Pomps And Vanities
  • Blackburn Farmer
  • Then And Now
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 63-65 — by Charles Dickens
  • All Alike
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Inconveniences Of Living In A Uniform Row Of Houses
  • Fashions For June

    • 1857-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/05 —

  • Pictures In Switzerland
  • North Carolina Illustrated — Part 2: The Piny Woods
  • Little Sticks And Their Kindred
  • The Assassin Of Society
  • By The Passaic
  • Table-Turning In France
  • A Reminiscence
  • John Bunyan by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • The Broken Shilling
  • The Moravians And Their Leader
  • Patrick Henry
  • Little Jim
  • Sold!
  • A Reminiscence Of Samuel Rogers
  • Religion, Love, And Marriage, In Italy
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 59-62 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Only A Rat
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Fashions For May

    • 1857-04 April 1857 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/04 —

  • Holy City
  • A June Jaunt by Brantz Mayer
  • Mosses
  • Story Of Huguenot’s Sword
  • Anecdotes Of Lord Raglan
  • Oliver Goldsmith by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • May And Death
  • Uttoxeter by Nathaniel Hawthorne – About 2 pages of text spread over 3 pages
  • Miser’s Curse
  • Broken-Down Kings
  • Reminiscence Of A Foreign Celebrity’s Reception Morning
  • Barbara’s Courtship
  • The Three Numbers
  • The Leonards
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 60-63 — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • The Inauguration
  • Fashions For April

    • 1856-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/12 —

  • Sunnyside The Home Of Washington Irving
  • Omoa Picturesque And Incidental
  • Scraps From A Artist’s Notebook
  • Gigantic Centipede
  • Passages Of Eastern Travel by An American
  • White Hills In October
  • How It Happened
  • How To Keep Well
  • Old Man’s Story
  • Virginia Editor
  • Shell And Pearl
  • Prince Of Intrigue
  • Crystal Bell
  • Fall Of Islam
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 41-43 of a Serial by Charles Dickens
  • Sowing In Tears
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Fashions For December

    • 1856-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/10 —

  • Cooking of Men
  • Wild Life in Oregon
  • Passages of Eastern Travel by An American
  • Insects and Insect Life – With 32 Illustrations
  • South Beach
  • Daniel Webster’s Social Hours
  • Terrible Night
  • Why We Get Sick
  • Merlinville
  • Double House by The Author of “John Halifax”
  • Visit to Red River
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 33-36 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Miseries of Mistresses
  • Fashions for October

    • 1856-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/09 —

  • Application of Photography to Printing
  • Dismal Swamp
  • Story of James P. Beckwourth
  • Passages of Eastern Travel by An American
  • Fanny and Myself
  • Daniel Webster’s Social Hours
  • How Nelly Lee Was Pawned
  • How We Spend Our Money
  • Fossil Remains of Scottish Society
  • An Alibi
  • Soldiering in Oregon
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 30-32 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • In Memoriam
  • Way to Remember
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Advertisements Illustrated
  • Fashions for September

    • 1856-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/08 —

  • Valley of the Connecticut by T. Addison Richards
  • Virginia Illustrated – Adventures of Porte Crayon and His Cousins
  • Passages of Eastern Travel by An American
  • Wonders of Vegetable Life
  • De L’Amour
  • Daniel Webster’s Social Hours
  • Board for a Lady
  • The Great Epidemics: Asiatic Cholera
  • Twice in Love
  • Rakings from an Old Fogy’s Journal
  • Sheriff’s Wife
  • When We Husked the Corn
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 26-29 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Experiments in Photography
  • Fashions for August

    • 1856-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/07 —

  • Hasty Pudding by Joel Barlow
  • Negroland and the Negroes is about Africa
    Includes the following illustrations: Sierra Leone – Monrovia – Kru Village – Kru Houses – African Belle – Elmina – Cape Coast Castle – Street in Kumasi – Gabun Chief – Fernando Po – Election in Yoruba – Missionary House, Gabun River – The Red-Water Ordeal – Boa Constrictor – Elephant Hunting – Ant Hills
  • Great Seal of the United States
    Includes the following illustrations: Du Simitiere’s Design – Jefferson’s Design – Design submitted in 1779 – Design submitted in 1780 – Barton’s Design – The Great Seal – The President’s Seal
  • My Legacies
  • Passages of Eastern Travel by An American
  • Maria A Lost Queen of England
  • Great Epidemics: Plague in London and Marseilles
  • Queer Case
  • Daniel Webster’s Social Hours
  • Lion-Slayers and Man-Eaters
  • What Mr. Trevanion Saw
  • Value of a Pin
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 23-25 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Hints for Celebrating the Fourth of July
    Two pages of illustrations, 6 to a page, as follows: Perparing for the Fourth – Excursion to the Fishing Banks – A Drive on the Avenue – Young America – There Goes a Rocket – Reading the Declaration – A Rural Celebration – Taking it Quietly – The Largest Liberty – A Pleasant Lesson – The Drunkard’s Fourth – Colored People’s Fourth
  • Fashions for July

    • 1856-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/06 —

  • Sulphur Springs of New York
  • Bear and Basket Maker
  • Astronomical Observatories in the United States by E. Loomis
  • Ballad of Bunker Hill
  • My Mission
  • Ambrosia – A Nose Offering
  • Great Epidemics — The Plague
  • Millicent
  • Wanted – a Healthy Wife
  • Rise of the Dutch Republic
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 19-22 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Mr. Samson Shanghai’s Three Days on a Farm
  • Fashions for June

    • 1856-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/05 —

  • Visit To The Silver Mines Of Central America
  • Commodore Perry’s Expedition To Japan
  • The Gnawers
  • Martha Wyatt’s Life
  • Rise Of The Dutch Republic
  • Two College Friends
  • Story Of Kars
  • The Senses: Sight
  • Recollections Of Samuel Rogers
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 15-18 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • May Day In New York
  • May Day In The Country
  • Fashions For May

    • 1856-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/05 —

  • Visit To The Silver Mines Of Central America
  • Commodore Perry’s Expedition To Japan
  • The Gnawers
  • Martha Wyatt’s Life
  • Rise Of The Dutch Republic
  • Two College Friends
  • The Story Of Kars
  • The Senses: Sight
  • Recollections Of Samuel Rogers
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 15-18 — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • May Day In New York
  • May Day In The Country
  • Fashions For May

    • 1856-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/04 —

  • Israel Putnam
  • Madeira, Port And Sherry
  • Home In The Cinnamon Isle
  • Resurrection Flower
  • Paupertown
  • Story Of Emile Roque
  • The Senses: Hearing
  • Paul Allen’s Wife And How He Found Her
  • Snake Charming by A. M. Henderson M.D.
  • A Nightly Scene In London by Charles Dickens – Short, about a page and a half
  • How I Was Discarded by A Married Man
  • The Doppelganger
  • How The Destruction Of Trees Affects The Rain
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 12-14 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Foolish Folks – All-Fool’s Day Sketches
  • Fashions For April

    • 1856-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/03 —

  • The Juniata by T. Addison Richards
  • Commodore Perry’s Expedition To Japan
  • The Story Of The Whale
    To give an idea of the article it includes the following illustrations: The Signal – Whaling Implements – The Dolphin – The Porpoise – The Narwhal – The Sperm Whale – Pursuit of the Sperm Whale – The Greenland Whale – Whalebone – Jaw of the Whale – The Flipper of the Whale – Strength of the Whale – Scene in Delago Bay – Seals at Play – Fancy Scene in the North Sea – Pursuit of the Greenland Whale – The Whale Breaching – A Case of Nightmare – Homeward Bound – The Whale of Captain Deblois
  • Passages Of Eastern Travel by An American
  • My Neighbor’s Story by the Author of “Lily”
  • The Senses: Smell
  • The Senses
  • Cinderella – Not A Fairy Tale
  • The ‘Gees
  • A Pistol Shot At The Duelists
  • The Terrible Tree
  • The Dragon-Fang Possessed By The Conjuror Piou-Lu
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 9-11 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Windology
  • Fashions For March

    • 1856-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/02 —

  • George Washington by John S. C. Abbott
  • Adventures In The Gold Fields Of Central America
  • Birchknoll – A New Ghost Story Of Old Virginia
  • Fur-Hunting In Oregon
  • Sentiment And Action
  • Passages Of Eastern Travel by An American
  • Charles Dickens – With Portrait from a Recent Photograph
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 5-8 — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Valentines Delivered In Our Street
  • Fashions For February

    • 1856-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/01 —

  • January First A.D. 3000
    Interesting piece includes illustrations such as: A Citizen of the Republic of the United Interests – Paris, A.D. 3000 – The Bomb-Ferry – The Public Highway – Selinghuysen’s Pupils – Would you like a Roman, SIr? – Great Circle of the Peerless – Legal Celebrities – A Naturalist – The Infantine Ward – Vocation decided – The Hot-House Academy – A Man of Fashion in the Thirty-First Century – Painting the Clouds – Mr. and Mrs. Cornosco – Chairwoman of the Committee on Abuses – Liberty, Equality and Fraternity – A Lady of Fashion, A.D. 3000
  • Virginia Illustrated – Adventures of Porte Crayon and His Cousins
  • The Senses: Touch
  • Half A Lifetime Ago
  • Baby Bertie’s Christmas
  • English Wigs And Gowns
  • Passages Of Eastern Travel
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 1-4 — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • The Seat Of War
  • The Seven Ages Of Virtue And Vice
  • Life Insurance – A Dream
  • Illustrations Of Ornithology
  • Fashions For January

    • 1855-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1855/11 —

  • Day at Pompeii
  • Nicaragua – An Exploration from Ocean to Ocean by E. G. Squier
  • Hints for Country House Builders by Calvert Vaux
  • My Wife, and My Theory About Wives
  • Marrying a Countess
  • An Earthquake or Two
  • Jimmy Rose
  • The Pot of Tulips
  • The Old Pastor
  • Bird Gossip
  • Autumn Leaves from the South: A Forest Dream
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Mr. Slim’s Final Piscatorial Experience
  • Fashions for November

    • 1855-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1855/08 —

  • Virginia Illustrated — Adventures of Porte Crayon and His Cousins
  • Scott’s Battles in Mexico
  • Sketches in the East Indies – Pulo Pinang
  • The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Duke Humphrey’s Dinner
  • Mysterious Occurrence at Lambeth by G. P. R. James
  • Sydney Smith
  • The Third Bowl
  • Apparitions and Visions by John W. Draper M.D.
  • Thistle Figs; or Grapes that Grow on Thorns
  • Old Man’s Revenge
  • Drawing-Room Drama
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Mr. Slim’s Aquatic Experience
  • Fashions for August

    • 1855-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1855/07 —

  • John Paul Jones
  • Taylor’s Battles in Mexico
  • Beau Brummel
  • The Beauty
  • What We Eat
  • The Newcomes — Chapters 62-65 — by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • An American Before Sebastopol
  • An Evening at Newport
  • The Bohemian
  • A Dessert Dish for Travelers
  • Worth Five Hundred Millions
  • Weak Points of Great Men
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Mr. Simpkins’s Experiment in Housekeeping
  • Fashions for July