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
_Blackwood's Magazine_ in 1824 congratulated America on C. R. Leslie's
success. He never lost his profound respect and affection for Samuel
Bradford, and named his second son after him. In the second year (1813)
of Leslie's residence in London, Washington Allston's health became
seriously affected, and he resolved to visit Bristol. Coleridge, who was
affectionately attached to Allston, followed him thither. "The house was
so full," writes Leslie, in his autobiographical recollections, "that
the poet was obliged to share a double-bedded room with me. We were kept
up late in consequence of the critical condition of Allston, and when we
retired Coleridge, seeing a copy of Knickerbocker's History of New York
which I had brought with me, lying on the table, took it up and began
reading. I went to bed, and think he must have sat up the greater part
of the night, for the next day he had nearly got through Knickerbocker.
This was many years before it was published in England, and the work
was, of course, entirely new to him. He was delighted with it" (p. 23).
THE ANALECTIC.--Washington Irving, who had met Allston in Rome in 1804,
and who was for a time almost swerved from his literary purpose by his
desire to become a painter, and with whose first literary triumph
Coleridge thus became familiar, was also a Philadelphia editor. In 1809
E. Bronson and others began to print upon their Lorenzo press _The
Select Reviews and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines_, edited by Samuel
Ewing. The magazine was bought by Moses Thomas, in 1812, who changed its
name to the _Analectic_. Irving was its editor in 1813-14. He
contributed to it some of the essays of the "Sketch Book," "Traits of
Indian Character," and "Philip of Pokanoket." He reviewed Robert Treat
Paine, E. C. Holland, Paulding and Lord Byron, and wrote for it
biographies of Lawrence, Burrows, Perry and Porter.[20]
[20] It is not a little remarkable that the list of Washington Irving's
contributions to the _Analectic Magazine_ should have come to me in an
Athenian newspaper.
+To 1813 ho Erbing anelabe ten syntaxin tou periodikou
"Anakletik', hekdidomenou kata mena en Philadelpheia. En auno egrapse
pollas biographias ton periphanesteron andron, hon hai kyrioterai eisin
hai ton Amerikanon Porter kai Mporros kai ton Anglon poieton Byronos,
Mouar kai Kampellou."--EBLOMAS.+ December 1, 1890.
Paulding and Verplanck wrote for the magazine, signing their articles
"P." and "V."
William Darlington (1782-1863), Pennsylvanian, after whom was named the
Darlingtonica California (a species of pitcher-plant), went to India as
ship's surgeon in 1806, and published in the _Analectic Magazine_ a
sketch of his voyage called "Letters from Calcutta."
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