A selection from the articles read at these meetings was published by Mr. Thomas in pamphlet form, under the title, “_The Lowell Offering_, a Repository of Original Articles written by Females employed in the Mills.” Mr. Thomas’s own account of his part in establishing the magazine will be found in chapter seven. The first series, of four numbers, was issued from October, 1840, to March, 1841; and there was such a demand for copies, that a new series began, _The Lowell Offering_ proper, a monthly magazine of thirty-two pages, which was issued regularly by its projector from that time until October, 1842, when it passed into the hands of Miss Harriot F. Curtis and Miss Harriet Farley, both operatives in the Lowell mills. Under their joint editorship it was published, the first year by William Schouler, but after that by these ladies themselves, who were editors, publishers, and proprietors, until December, 1845, when, with the end of Volume V. Miss Curtis retired from the magazine, and _The Lowell Offering_ ceased to exist. But in September, 1847, Miss Farley resumed the publication of the magazine and issued one copy under the title _The New England Offering_; and all those who were or had been factory operatives were invited to contribute to its pages. This magazine was re-issued in 1848, from April to December, continued through 1849, and until March, 1850, when it was discontinued for want of means, and perhaps new contributors. Miss Farley was the editor, publisher, and proprietor of _The New England Offering_. There are about seven volumes of the magazines in all,--five of _The Lowell Offering_, and two of _The New England Offering_, including the first four numbers in 1840, and the odd numbers of 1847 and 1850. The prospectus of _The Lowell Offering_, as issued by its women-editors in 1845, is as follows:-- THE LOWELL OFFERING, WRITTEN, EDITED, AND PUBLISHED BY FEMALE OPERATIVES. Our magazine is the only one which America has produced, of which no other country has produced the like. _The Offering_ is _prima facie_ evidence, not only of the American “factory-girls,” but of the intelligence of the mass of our country. And it is in the intelligence of the mass that the permanency of our republican institutions depends.