as very comfortable that there should have been a Willis"),
James K. Paulding, Park Benjamin, W. W. Story, Geo. W. Bethune, Mary
Lockhart Lawson, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Alfred B. Street and Albert
Pike.

Among the Philadelphians who rendered frequent aid to the editor were
Joseph C. Neal, Richard Penn Smith, Dr. J. K. Mitchell, Robert Morris
and Thomas Dunn English, the author of "Ben Bolt," who would seem to
have tasted the fountain of eternal youth, and has gone to Congress in
1890 a jolly, thriving candidate.

William Henry Herbert (Frank Forester) furnished a number of sporting
sketches and other articles.

The circulation of _Graham's Magazine_ when at the top of popularity was
thirty-five or thirty-seven thousand. Mr. Graham sold out in 1848, but
bought back the property in 1849. He finally parted with it in 1854.

Washington Irving alone, among the far-shining men of letters in the
country, had no connection with _Graham's_. The _Knickerbocker Magazine_
of New York found place for all that the facility of his pen could
create, and guarded jealously the productions of their "crack writer."

_Graham's Magazine_ began with volume eighteen, being the addition of
the ten volumes of Atkinson's _Casket_, and the seven volumes of
Burton's _Gentleman's Magazine_. This first volume, 1841, contained
Poe's "Descent into a Maelstrom" and his "Murders in the Rue Morgue."

The twenty-first volume, 1842, presents the name of Rufus W. Griswold
upon the cover. The thirtieth volume was edited by Graham alone; the
thirty-second by Graham and Robert T. Conrad; the thirty-fifth by
Graham, Joseph R. Chandler and Bayard Taylor; the fiftieth by Charles
Godfrey Leland. On the first of January, 1859, _Graham's Magazine_
became the _American Monthly_.

On March 15, 1838, John Greenleaf Whittier became editor of the
_Pennsylvania Freeman_, published at 31 North Fifth Street. He was
successor to Benjamin Lundy.

Graham's particular patent of nobility is the fact that he was the first
of American publishers to pay fair prices to American authors.

The _Lady's Amaranth_ was another venture of 1838, and was issued from
No. 274 Market Street.

Adam Waldie was the publisher of the _American Phrenological Journal and
Miscellany_, begun in November, 1838.

The _Philadelphia Reporter_ was called into being in 1838, at No. 45
North Sixth Street, but no physic could prolong its sickly days, and it
was discontinued in a few months' time.