The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850Smyth, Albert Henry
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The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850
Smyth, Albert Henry
American periodicals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
EDWARD INGERSOLL, a younger brother of Charles, wrote poems for the
_Port Folio_ on the events of the times, and named them "Horace in
Philadelphia." All his poems, of whatever nature, were signed "Horace."
CONDY RAGUET (1784-1842) published in the _Port Folio_ some interesting
letters on the "Massacre of St. Domingo." He had gone as supercargo to
Hayti, and lived there during the exciting scenes of the Revolution. He
also contributed numerous papers to the _Port Folio_ upon "Free Trade."
JOHN SANDERSON (1783-1844) was professor of Greek and Latin in the
Philadelphia Central High School. He wrote, at the suggestion of
Theodore Hook, a capital volume of Parisian sketches, called the
"American in Paris," which Jules Janin translated into French. Portions
of his "American in London" appeared in the _Knickerbocker Magazine_. He
successfully opposed, in a pamphlet signed "Riberjot," the plan of
excluding the classical languages from Girard College. He was an
intimate friend of John E. Hall, and contributed to the _Port Folio_.
JOHN SYNG DORSEY (1783-1818) succeeded Dr. Wistar as professor of
anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania. He published an edition of
Cooper's "Surgery," and "Elements of Surgery," the latter of which was
adopted as the text-book in Edinburgh.
ROYALL TYLER was born in Boston, near Faneuil Hall, July 18, 1757. He
studied law under John Adams, was made a judge of the Supreme Court in
1794, and, in 1800, became chief justice. He was one of the closest
friends of Joseph Dennie, and when the latter became editor of the
_Farmer's Weekly Museum_ he wrote for him a medley of verse and social
and political skits under the general title "From the Shop of Messrs.
Colon and Spondee."
These papers he continued to write for the _Port Folio_. They "are
divided between Federal politics, attacks on French democracy, the Della
Cruscan literature, and the fashionable frivolities of the day." He also
wrote for the _Port Folio_, in 1801, a series of similarly varied
articles, richly reminiscent, entitled "An Author's Evenings."
ROBERT HARE (1781-1858), father of Judge J. I. C. Hare, who was
professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in William and Mary
College, and, later, professor of chemistry in the University of
Pennsylvania, published a number of moral essays in the _Port Folio_
under the pen-name of "Eldred Grayson."
DR. NATHANIEL CHAPMAN (1783-1850) used the pen-name of "Falkland."
ALEXANDER GRAYDON (1752-1818), a man of elegant manners and author of a
useful and entertaining volume of "Memoirs of a Life chiefly passed in
Pennsylvania within the last Sixty Years," published, in the _Port
Folio_, in 1813-14, a series of chatty paragraphs styled "Notes of a
Desultory Reader." He lived in the "Slate-Roof House," at Second Street
and Norris' Alley, where he had an opportunity of meeting men of rank
and fame.
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