George D. Prentice wrote verses. "Fanny Forester" (Mrs. Judson) sent some brilliant sketches, and Phoebe and Alice Cary, and Grace Greenwood were faithful correspondents. From the South came verses and prose tales by William Gilmore Simms. Other captain jewels in Graham's carcanet were the gifts of Miss Sedgwick, Frances S. Osgood, N. P. Willis ("it was 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. The _Christian Observer_ was a weekly Presbyterian journal commenced in 1838, and was for many years published from No. 134 Chestnut Street.