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Title: The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850

Author: Albert Smyth

Release Date: January 15, 2008 [EBook #24303]

Language: English

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THE
Philadelphia Magazines
AND THEIR
CONTRIBUTORS

1741-1850

BY

ALBERT H. SMYTH,

_A. B._, _Johns Hopkins University_,

_Professor of English Literature in the Philadelphia High School;
Member of the American Philosophical Society._

PHILADELPHIA:
ROBERT M. LINDSAY
1892

TO

J. G. ROSENGARTEN

A TOKEN OF THE
GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION OF THE
AUTHOR

PREFACE.

This study in the history of the Philadelphia magazines was undertaken
at the request of Professor H. B. Adams, and the results were first read
at a joint-meeting of the Historical and English Seminaries of the Johns
Hopkins University. At a later date they were again read before the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The subject has been found so rich,
and the materials so interesting, that, in spite of my best efforts to
be brief, the article has grown into a book. It has been with no little
distrust that I have made this wide excursion from my chosen studies,
but the generous aid and encouragement of friends, who are learned in
our local lore, have given me heart to complete and to publish the
results of these researches.

A complete list of the Philadelphia magazines is impossible. Many of
them have disappeared and left not a rack behind. The special student of
Pennsylvania history will detect some omissions in these pages, for all
that has here been done has been done at first hand, and where a
magazine was inaccessible to me, I have not attempted to see it through
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