merrycoz.org: List of titles at the site

Abbreviations:

Cab = Youth’s Cabinet
CMag = Children’s Magazine (1789)
ChFPA = The Children’s Friend (West Chester, Pennsylvania)
JR = Juvenile Rambler
JGaz1819 = Juvenile Gazette (1819-1820)
JG = Juvenile Gazette; Being an Amusing Repository for Youth (1827-1828)
JuvMag = The Juvenile Magazine (England; 1788)
LC = The Little Corporal
Mirror = Young People’s Mirror
MM = Robert Merry’s Museum
OYF = Our Young Folks
S&S = Student & Schoolmate
SL = The Slave’s Friend
SMate = The Schoolmate
ST = The Student
YC = Youth’s Companion
YMAG = Youth’s Magazine (Cincinnati, Ohio)
YPMag = Young People’s Magazine

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“About Edwin Finley” (PP; 20 June 1835)
“About Labor & Property” (MM; Jan 1841)
“About the Slave Trade” (SL; 1836, #2)
Account of the Terrific and Fatal Riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House (1849)
“Address of a Little Slave Boy to His Master’s Son” (SL #1; April 1835)
“Address to the Reader” (MM; Feb 1841)
adoption ads (1856)
“The Adventurer,” by John Neal, in The Token (1831)
“Adventures of a ‘Merry’ Boy” (MM; Feb 1865)
“Adventures of Billy Bump” (MM; 1848-1850)
“The Adventures of Gilbert Go-ahead” (MM; 1851-1856)
“Adventures with Ghosts,” by Mrs. Hall (Cab; May 1850)
advertisements for Dr. Brown’s Baby-Tender (MM; June & July 1865)
advertisement for The New York Tribune (MM; Oct 1857)
advertisements for Our Young Folks & Robert Merry’s Museum (YC; 12 Jan 1865)
advertisement for Tuttle’s Emporium (Cab; Jan 1854)
“Advice to a Young Lady,” in The Pearl (1837)
“Aesop” (SL; 1836, #8)
“The Afflicted Mother (SL; 1836, #8)
“The African Princess” (SL; 1836, #2)
“Against Anger, and Impatience” (SL; 1839, #38)
“The Age of a Turtle,” in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)
“The Alchymist,” by Sarah Josepha Hale, in The Token (1831)
“Alfred Poole” (MM; May 1845)
“Alice Doane’s Appeal,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1835)
“Allie’s Christmas Eve,” by “Lillie Linden” (MM; Feb 1865)
American Children’s Periodicals, 1789-1872, by Pat Pflieger
“The American Flag,” by Mrs. P. A. Hanaford (S&S; July 1865)
“American Scenery,” in The Token (1831)
The American Spelling Book, by Noah Webster (1800?)
“Among the Studios, no. 3,” by T. B. Aldrich & Winslow Homer (OYF; July 1866)
“Amy’s Holiday” (Cab; Sept 1850)
“The Ancient World,” by “Uncle Jacob” (ChFPA; Fourth month 1872)
“Anna’s Picture,” by “Florence,” in The Token (1836)
announcement of merger (MM; Nov 1872)
“Another Story for Boys,” by Orpha (YC; Jan 7, 1846)
“Anti-Slavery Catechism” (SL #5; 1835)
“The Apple and the Chestnut” (SL; 1836, #2)
“Apprehension,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1832)
“The Arabian Nights” (Cab; Sept 1850)
“The Army of the American Eagle” (LC; July 1865)
“Art of Pen Making” (PP; 13 Sept 1834)
“The Artist,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1833)
“At Grandma’s Bedside,” by Edgar Fawcett & Mary Ann Hallock (OYF; May 1870)
assassination of Abraham Lincoln (YC; 1865)
“The Atlantic Telegraph” (MM; Oct 1858)
“The Atlantic Telegraph” (S&S; Oct 1858)
“The Aurora Borealis,” by “Francis” (YMAG; April 14, 1837)
“Authorcraft” (Littell’s Living Age; 1846)
“Autumn,” by A. A. Locke, in The Token (1832)
“Autumnal Musings,” by John Pierpont, in The Token (1833)

“Baby Education” (1861)
“The Bald Eagle,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in The Token (1833)
“The Bashful Man,” by Thomas Gray, in The Token (1832)
“Bayler Cooley’s Family” (SL #1; April 18351)
“Beadle’s Dime Books” (1864; North American Review)
“The Beautiful Slave” (YMAG; Sept 1837)
Beauties of Sentiment (1831)
“The Beautiful School-Girl,” by Caroline Gilman, in The Pearl (1837)
The Behaviour Book, by Eliza Leslie (1853)
“Belshazzar’s Feast,” by Thomas Gray, jr, in The Token (1833)
“Benevolence” (SL; 1837?, #16)
“The Best Girl in School,” by Phoebe H. Phelps (S&S; Oct 1864)
annotated bibliographies on various subjects, including 19th-century children, their books, and social history; works by Jacob Abbot; and works on and by Samuel Griswold Goodrich
“Big Bone Lick,” in A Short But Comprehensive System of the Geography of the World, by Nathaniel Dwight (1802)
“The Bird of the Bastile,” by B. B. Thatcher, in The Token (1835)
“Bird-Catching,” by R. H. Stoddard & Winslow Homer (OYF; Aug 1867)
“Birth, Nursing, & Education of Infants; Education & Amusements of Youths,” by John Dunn Hunter (1824)
“The Birth of Thunder,” by William Joseph Snelling, in The Token (1831)
extract from Blair’s Outlines of Chronology (1825)
“Blessings of Work,” by Julia E. McConaughy (MM; May 1863)
“The Blind Boy,” by M. E. L., in The Pearl (1837)
“The Blind Girl to her Mother,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1832)
“Blind Grandfather,” by Timothy Flint, in The Token (1833)
“The Blind Mother,” by Nathaniel Parker Willis, in The Token (1831)
“Bloody Brook,” by J. I. M’Lellan, in The Token (1832)
“The Bloomer Dress” (Cab; Oct 1852)
“The Bond Slave” (SL #1; April 1835)
“Bones of a Mastodon” (Cab; July 11, 1839)
“Books,” by Lydia Maria Child (1831)
Books by Jacob Abbott
Books by Samuel Goodrich
“Books for Children” (1828; American Annals of Education)
“Booth and Bad Literature” (YC; 11 May 1865)
“Bourbon’s Last March,” by Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, in The Token (1835)
“Bowie Knife” (SL #26; 1837?)
“The Boy and the Dog,” (SL #3; July 1835)
“The Boy Who Loved Truth,” by Julia A. Fletcher (YC; 26 June 1846)
“The Boys’ Fourth-of-July,” by Julia Pratt Ballard (MM; July 1865)
“Boys of Sixteen” (YC; Aug 19, 1847)
“The Boys We Want” (SL; 1837?, #16)
Boy Scout series by Samuel Scoville, jr.: Boy Scouts in the Wilderness; The Blue Pearl; The Inca Emerald; The Red Diamond (1919-1925)
“Bread Upon the Water,” by T.S. Arthur (YC; Nov 30, 1848)
“The Bridal Ring,” by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, in The Token (1833)
“The Bride,” in The Token (1835)
“The Bride,” by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1836)
“The Bridesmaid,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1833)
“The Broken Merchant,” by Sarah Josepha Hale, in The Token (1835)
“The Brothers,” by Lydia H. Sigourney, in The Pearl (1837)
“The Bubble,” by J. O. Rockwell, in The Token (1830)
Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves, by “Eulalie” [Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon] (1854)
“The Buffalo Hunt,” in The Token (1835)
“The Bugle,” by Grenville Mellen, in The Token (1830)
“The Burial Place,” in Eliza Piatt’s copybook (1845)
“The Burman Slave Girl” (SL #26; 1837?)
The Business of Robert Merry’s Museum
“The Busy Bee” (YC; Aug 10, 1831)
“The Busy Knitter,” by William Oland Bourne (Cab; Aug 1851)
“The Butterfly” (SL #5; 1835)
“Byron, at the age of nineteen,” by John O. Sargent, in The Token (1832)

“Caesar and Jubal” (SL; 1837?, #16)
“The Canterbury Pilgrims,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1833)
“The Captain’s Lady,” by James Hall, in The Token (1830)
“The Captive’s Dream,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1831)
“The Capture,” in The Token (1833)
“The Capture of Savannah” (YC; Jan 5, 1865
“The Carnival at Potosi,” in The Token (1832)
“Carrier’s Address” (MM; Jan 1855)
“Carrier’s Address” (MM; Jan 1856)
“The Cart-Whip” (SL #4; 1835)
“The Cart-Whip” (SL; 1837?, #16)
“Case of Conviction,” by Francis Wayland (1831)
“Caspar Hauser” (PP; 30 Mar 1833)
“Caspar Hauser” (MM; Oct 1850)
“The Change of the Seasons” (MM; Nov 1850)
“Changes On the Deep,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1835)
“Charles Ball’s Mother” (SL; 1837?, #16)
charts for speakers, from The Schoolmate (SC)
editorial on the Chicago Fire (MM; Nov 1871)
“The Child that Loved Her Father” (SL #4; 1835)
“Child’s Creed” (SL; 1836, #2)
“Child’s Grief,” by Mary Ann (YC; April 2, 1846)
“Children—What Are They?,” by John Neal, in The Token (1835)
“Children, from One to Three Years of Age” (1861)
Children & changing times (YC; 1865)
“Children All Abolitionist” (SL #5; 1835)
“Children and Children’s Parties,” by S.B.S. (1853)
“Children’s Books of the Year” (1866; North American Review)
“Children’s Letters” (SL #4; 1835)
“Children’s Magazines” (1873)
“The Children’s Portrait of Abraham Lincoln” (LC; 1865)
“The Children’s Portrait of Mr. Lincoln” (LC; July 1865)
“Children’s Rights,” by “Fanny Fern” (1853)
“The Children’s ‘Robert Merry’ and the Late John N. Stearns, by William Hoyt Coleman (1895)
“The Chinese in California,” by Lucy St. John (MM; Feb 1870)
“Chocorua’s Curse,” by Lydia Maria Child, in The Token (1830)
“The Choice of Companions” (repr Sunday School Journal; YC; October 12, 1831)
“Choosing the Right Path: Didacticism in the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Books,” by Pat Pflieger (1986)
“The Christmas Tree,” by Mrs. G., in The Pearl (1837)
“City and Country,” by A. D. Woodbridge, in The Pearl (1837)
“The City Girl,” by “Gail Hamilton” (Abigail Dodge) (OYF; March 1865)
“Clara Sinclair,” by Caroline Gilman (Cab; Sept 1850)
“Clara’s Medal,” by Christie Pearl (S&S; Sept 1864)
“Clement Clarke Moore and ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas,’ ” by Pat Pflieger (2001)
“Clothing for Girls,” by G. M. J. (1853)
Titus Munson Coane reads Peter Parley (1877)
“The Cobbler of Brusa: A Turkish Tale,” in The Token (1835)
“The Cold Snap of January 10th,” by William Hoyt Coleman (MM; Mar 1859)
“The Collection Box” (SL #1; April 1835)
“The Color-Bearer,” by John Townsend Trowbridge (OYF; Jan 1865)
“The Comet” [Comet Donati] (MM; Oct 1858)
“The Comet” [Comet Donati] (MM; Nov 1858)
“A Common Excuse,” (SL #3; July 1835)
“Confectioners” (PP; July 1836)
“Confessions of a Novel Reader,” by “A.” (1839; Southern Literary Messenger)
“Confinement of Children in School,” by Dr. James Jackson (1845)
“Consolation,” by John O. Sargent as Lawrence Manners, in The Token (1835)
“The Conspirators” (YC; 6 July 1865)
“Conversation. To Young Ladies” (1853)
“A Correction” (Cab; Sept 1848)
“The Cottage Girl,” by John O. Sargent as V. V. Ellis, in The Token (1835)
“The Country Cousin,” by Catherine Maria Sedgwick, in The Token (1830)
Cousin Tribulation’s story, by Louisa May Alcott (MM; January 1868)
“Crooked Spines in Girls,” by Helen C. Lewis (1861; Arthur’s Home Magazine)
“A Crooked Tree (MM; Feb 1857)
“Cross Questions and Crooked Answers,” by Susanna Newbould (Cab; February 1856)
“The Cruel Captain” (SL #4; 1835)
“Cruelty” (SL #5; 1835)
“A Cure for Dyspepsia,” in The Token (1833)
“Curious Rhymes” (MM; March 1854)
“Curiosities of Sleep” (Cab; April 1854)

“Daguerreotypes of the Moon” (SMate; January 1854)
“Dancing Days,” in The Token (1833)
“Dangers of Childhood, and Means of Obviating Them,” by George Whippel (1845; The Mother’s Assistant)
“David Whicher—A North American Story,” by John Neal, in The Token (1832)
“The Days That Are Past,” by Epes Sargent, in The Token (1835)
“The Dead Soldier,” by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1832)
“The Deaf, and Dumb, and Blind” (SL #26; 1837?)
“Dear Friend Robert Merry”: Letters from 19th-century Children
“Death and the Readers of Robert Merry’s Museum,” by Pat Pflieger (1994)
“Death of Samuel Goodrich”
“Death of the President” (MM; April 1841)
“Deaths” (SL; 1837?, #16)
“Declamation—Relief for Chicago,” by Edward Everett Hale (MM; Nov 1871)
“Deer Hunting,” by “Simon Sassafras” (MM; May 1850)
“Degeneracy of Stature,” by Thrace Talmon (1856; The National Era)
“Delhi, a Tale of the East,” by Elizabeth M. Sewell, in The Token (1833)
“The Departed Tribes,” in The Token (1835)
“Departure of the Eagle,” by B. B. Thatcher, in The Token (1830)
“Destiny,” by P. M. Wetmore, in The Token (1830)
“Devouring Books” (1835; American Annals of Education)
Dictionary of Americanisms, by John Russell Bartlett (1848)
Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York, by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (1849-1850; published 1920)
“Diligent David,” by Francis Forrester (Cab; February 1856)
“Dirge of a Young Poetess,” by Henry Pickering, in The Token (1833)
“Dirk Heldriver” (MM; 1844)
“Distant Worlds” (MM; July 1852)
Ditties for Children, by Nancy Sprout (1828-1843?)
“The Doctor’s Little Girl,” by C. Alice Baker (MM; 1870)
“Do Your Duty to Your Brothers and Sisters,” by Lydia Sigourney (YMAG; July 7, 1837)
“La Doncella,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in The Token (1832)
“The Doomed Bride,” by Grenville Mellen, in The Token (1830)
“Double Vision: Recycling Illustrations in 19th-Century American Magazines”
“Dr. Kane’s Boat—the Faith,” by William Hoyt Coleman (MM; Jan 1859)
“A Dream of the Sea,” by W. G. Clark, in The Token (1830)
“The Dream of Youth,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1835)
“Dreaming and Doing,” by Mrs. N. McConaughy (MM; Dec 1863)
“The Dreams of Hope,” by B. B. Thatcher, in The Token (1832)
“Dress and Address,” by Nathan Sargent (YC; Dec 30, 1847)
“Duties of Winter,” by F. W. P. Greenwood, in The Token (1835)
“The Dying Boy,” by Mrs. Larned (PP; Jan 1839)
“The Dying Child,” by Lydia H. Sigourney, in The Pearl (1837)
“The Dying Storm,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1832)

“Early Culture of Children,” by G. M. J. (1853)
“Early Training of Children” (1854; Fireside Miscellany)
An editor edits (Sept 1832; The Bouquet)
“Editor’s Address to Her Young Readers” (JuvMag; Jan 1788)
editorial (MM; Nov 1872)
editorial comment on July 4, 1865 (MM; July 1865)
editorial from “The Teacher’s Desk” (S&S; Feb 1863)
editorial from “The Teacher’s Desk” (S&S; July 1865)
editorial on the Chicago Fire (MM; Nov 1871)
“Effie Somers,” by W. (YC; May 30, 1850)
“Elva Seeking Her Fortune,” by Sophie May (MM; 1865)
“The Elves of the Forest Centre,” by Pansy (MM; Jan 1858)
Emily Dickinson reads Peter Parley (Springfield Republican; February 20)
“Epigram,” by William Cowper (SL; 1836, #8)
“An Escape,” in The Token (1832)
“The Equinoctial Storm,” in The Token (1832)
“An Evening in Autumn,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in The Token (1833)
“The Execution” (20 July 1865)
“Exemplary” (YMAG; Oct 1837)
“Extract,” by John Pierpont, in The Token (1830)
Eye and Ear Notes, by “Uncle James” (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)

“Facts” (SL #4; 1835)
“Faith” (SL #5; 1835)
“ ‘Faithful Nellie,’ ” by F. P. C., in Animals in the Civil War (YC; 1861, 1865)
“Fall of Missolonghi,” by B. B. Thatcher, in The Token (1833)
“The Fall of the Temple,” by Thomas Gray, Jun., in The Token (1832)
“Falls of the Niagara,” by F. W. P. Greenwood, in The Token (1832)
“Family & Social Reading” (1848; The Mother’s Magazine)
“Family Education,” by Lavinia Pillsbury (1845; Mother’s Assistant)
“Farewell,” in The Token (1831)
“The Farmer and Soldier,” by Lydia Sigourney (YC; Feb 12, 1846)
“The Fate of a Princess,” in The Token (1835)
“The Fated Family,” in The Token (1831)
February serials (JuvMag; Feb 1788)
“The Female Adviser” (JuvMag; Feb & March 1788)
“Female Education” (1848)
“Female Resources for Writing,” by “P. P.” (1827; Boston Lyceum)
Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio (series one & two), by “Fanny Fern” (1853)
Review of Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio (ST; Sept 1853)
“The Field of Brandywine,” by William L. Stone, in The Token (1835)
“Fifteen Young Men” (YC; Sept 13, 1848)
“The Fireside” (PP; March 1839)
“The First Frost of Autumn,” by Samuel G. Goodrich, in The Token (1836)
“For My Youngest Readers” (PP; 14 Sept 1833)
“A Former State of This Earth”: Fossils in Early American Works for Children (online exhibit; 2008-present)
“Fort Mystick,” by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1835)
“Fossil Foot-Prints” (Mirror; Dec 1849)
“Fossil Shells” (PP; June 7, 1834)
“Fossil Tree in the Coal Rocks” (MM; Dec 1852)
Review of The Fountain (SL #1; April 1835)
“Fountain of Forgetfulness,” in The Token (1832)
“The Freshet,” by John O. Sargent, as V. V. Ellis, in The Token (1832)
“The Fountain of Love,” in The Token (1833)
The Four Faces of The Student
“The Four Wills” (Cab; Sept 1854)
“Frightened into Seeing,” in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)
“A Frightened Tiger” (YC; 29 July 1869)
“Frost,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1832)
“The Frosted Trees,” by Alonzo Lewis, in The Token (1830)
“The Frozen Dove,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1832)
“The Funeral at Sea” (SL; 1836, #8)
“The Fur Cloak,” in The Token (1833)

Gala Days, by “Gail Hamilton” (1863)
The gale of September 22-23, 1815 (Connecticut Mirror)
The gale of September 3, 1821 (Connecticut Mirror)
A gallery of magazine covers (1833-1872)
“The Garden of Graves,” by John Pierpont, in The Token (1832)
“Gardening for Ladies” (MM; Nov 1863)
Gender & Identity in 19th-century America
“Genevieve,” by Nathaniel Parker Willis, in The Token (1830)
“The Gentle Boy,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1832)
“Geology” (Mirror; March 1849)
“George Thompson” (SL; 1836, #8)
“Gertrude of Wyoming,” by Thomas Campbell (1809)
“Gibraltar,” by J. O. Rockwell, in The Token (1833)
“Girl Stealing” (YC; Dec 30, 1847)
“Give Your Child a Paper” (YC; Aug 23, 1855)
“Gleanings and Recollections: The New York Fire,” by Eliza Leslie (PP; Jan 1838)
“God, All and in All,” in Eliza Piatt’s copybook (1845)
“God’s Children” (SL #26; 1837?)
“God’s Knowledge,” in Eliza Piatt’s copybook (1845)
“God’s Omnipresence,” in Eliza Piatt’s copybook (1845)
“God is Mighty in Power” (SL; 1837?, #16)
“Going into Business for Himself,” by Mrs. P. P. Bonney (YC; 31 Aug 1865)
“The Golden Rule” (SL #4; 1835)
“The Good Boy” (SL #1; April 18351)
“A Good Girl at School” (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
“The Good Little Girl” (SL #1; April 1835)
“Good Men” (SL #1; April 18351)
“Good Night,” in The Token (1835)
“Good Night,” by Samuel Goodrich (MM; Oct 1848)
“The Good Old Man” (SL #1; April 18351)
The Good Scholar (1863)
“Gossip of the Month” (1847; Democratic Review)
“Grandfather’s Hobby,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1830)
“The Grateful Indian,” by Martha G. (MM; Aug 1862)
“The Great Gotham Fire Escape” (Williamsburgh Daily Gazette; 9 February 1850)
“The Great National Tragedy” (YC; 27 April 1865)
“Greek Lovers,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1830)
“Green Apples” (OYF; Aug 1868), by John Townsend Trowbridge & Winslow Homer
“Guardian Angels,” by B. B. Thatcher, in The Token (1833)

“Hail, Columbia!” (S&S; Aug 1861)
“Happiest Days,” by “Gail Hamilton” (1863)
“A Happy New Year,” by Francis Forrester (Cab; Jan 1856)
The Harper Establishment, by Jacob Abbott (1855)
“The Haunted Mind,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1835)
“The Haunted Quack,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne as Joseph Nicholson, in The Token (1831)
“Hay-Making” (YC; July 23, 1846)
“The Height of Impudence,” by James Isaacs, in The Token (1830)
“Henry Scott,” (SL #3; July 1835)
“Heroism” (YC; 12 Oct 1831)
“Hieroglyphical Letter to the Editor” (Cab; Feb 1851)
“Hints for Children” (YC; April 12, 1849)
“Hints to Young Men” (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
History in Your Pocket: ebooks
The Holiday Book, by Francis C. Woodworth (1853)
Horatio Lovejoy’s New Year’s Eve. 1863-1864 (pub 1882)
“The Horse & the Bells” (MM; June 1841)
“A Horse-car Incident,” in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)
“How a Man Feels When He is Shot” (YC; Oct 3, 1861)
“How Children Become Slaves” (SL; 1836, #2)
“How Engravings are Made” (LC; Aug 1866)
“How Lead Pencils are Made,” in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)
“How the Boston Boys Talk,” by Oliver Onley (MM; Feb 1859)
“How to Go to School,” by H. E. B. (LC; Dec 1866)
“How to Get Up a Mob” (SL; 1839, #38)
“How to Make Boys Love Home” (1861; Arthur’s Home Magazine)
“The Huguenot Daughter,” by Hannah Dorset, in The Token (1830)
“Human Hyaenas” (SL; 1839, #38)
“Hunting Eggs,” by Mary Ann Hallock (OYF; Jan 1870)
“Hymn,” by Isaac Watts (SL #16; 1837?)
“Hymn” (SL #26; 1837?)
“Hymn for the Concert for Slaves” (SL #4; 1835)
“The Hypochondriac’s Good Night,” in The Token (1833)

“I Dream of All Things Free” by Felicia Hemans (SL #4; 1835)
“I Love you, Flowers,” by J. H. Mifflin, in The Token (1836)
“I Meet Them in My Dreams,” by Mrs. L. P. Smith, in The Token (1831)
“I Think I Will Not Change” (YC; April 13, 1848)
“I will Forget Thee”—By B. B. Thatcher, in The Token (1836)
“I’d be a Butterfly” (PP; 28 May 1833)
“Illusions of Earth,” in Eliza Piatt’s copybook (1845)
“Imagination or Affectation” (YC; 13 July 1865)
“In Water Without Wet,” in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)
“The Inauguration of President Lincoln” (YC; March 9, 1865)
“Independence” (SL; 1837?, #16)
two celebrations of American Independence Day (YC; July 23, 1846)
“Independence Day” (MM; July 1863)
index to Robert Merry’s Museum
index to Our Young Folks, 1865-1872
“The Indian Fighter,” by Timothy Flint, in The Token (1830)
“The Indian Summer,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in The Token (1832)
“Indian Youth’s Newspaper” (YC; 7 Sept 1854)
“The Indian’s Burial of His Child,” by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1831)
“The Indian’s Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers,” by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1833)
“The Indian’s Story” (MM; Jan 1850)
“The Indian Arrow-Head,” by Mrs. G., in The Pearl (1837)
“The Indians: Week Day School,” by Sarah (YC; Aug 12, 1847)
“Industry & Idleness,” by William L. Williams (S&S; Nov 1864)
“Infidelity,” by Robert C. Sands?, in The Token (1830)
“Innocence,” by Grenville Mellen, in The Token (1830)
“Interesting Anecdote” (SL #1; April 18351)
“Interview of the Blind with the Deaf and Dumb” (YMAG; April 14, 1837)
“Introduction,” by A. D. W., in The Pearl (1837)
“Isabel,” in The Token (1831)
“Italian Peasant’s Song,” by Thomas Gray, jr, in The Token (1833)

“Jane Graham; or, ‘I Shant Marry That Man’ ” (YC; July 23, 1846)
“January” (MM; Jan 1844)
“January” (MM; Jan 1851)
“Joan of Arc,” by Frances E. I. Calderon de la Barca, in The Token (1833)
“Job Fustick; or, the Dyers: A Story of all colors,” in The Token (1835)
“John Dunn Hunter,” by Samuel Goodrich (1843; Curiosities of Human Nature)
“John Woolman” (SL #1; April 1835)
“Join in the Recreation of Your Children,” by Stephen T. Allen (1851; The Mother’s Magazine)
joke (PP; June 1836)
“Joseph” (SL #1; April 1835)
“Jubilee in West Indies” (SL #4; 1835)
“July 4, 1865,” by “Lulie” (S&S; July 1865)
“Jumping Rabbit’s Story” (MM; 1843)
“The Juniata,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1830)
“Just Seventeen,” in The Token (1831)
“Juvenile Anti-Slavery Meeting in Boston” (SL #26; 1837?)
“Juvenile Celebration of Independence” (PP; Aug 1836)

“Kate and Her Kitty” (YC; 25 May 1848)
“Katie’s Sacrifice,” by E. N. H. (S&S; Nov 1864)
“A Keen Retort,” in Children & changing times (YC; 1865)
“The King of Ashantee” (MM; Mar 1850)
“The Knitters” (YC; Dec 26, 1861)
“Knitting-Work,” by Genie M. Wilde (OYF; March 1872)

The Ladder of Learning (1839)
“The Ladies Wreath”
“Lady Lake,” by John O. Sargent, in The Token (1835)
“Lake Superior,” by Samuel G. Goodrich, in The Token (1831)
“The Last Request,” by B. B. Thatcher, in The Token (1831)
“Laughing Bill” (Cab; Nov 1850)
“The Leaf,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1830)
Eli Harrison Lee’s copybook” (1850s?)
“Left-Handed Billy” (MM; Dec 1850)
“Legend of the Lake,” by Grenville Mellen, in The Token (1832)
“A Legend of the Prairies,” by James Hall, in The Token (1835)
“Legend of the Withered Man,” by William L. Stone, in The Token (1830)
The Legendary (1828)
“Lesbia,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1832)
“Letter from an Infant Slave to the Child of Its Mistress” (SL #1; April 18351)
“Letter From Henry C. Wright: ‘Merry’s Museum’ the Handmaid of Slavery,” by Henry C. Wright (The Liberator; 20 March 1857)
“Letter to My Daughter Margaretta, with a Set of Merry’s Museum,” by William Ross Wallace (April 1860)
“Letter to the Editor” (SL #4; 1835)
“Letter to the Editor” (YC; Dec 28, 1848)
“Letters About Geology,” by “Professor Pickaxe” (ST; 1853)
letters in The Little Corporal about the Chicago Fire (LC)
letters from subscribers to Woodworth’s Youth’s Cabinet (1856-1857)
“Liberty” (MM; Dec 1842), by Samuel Goodrich
“The Liberty Bell” (SL; 1836, #2)
“Life,” in The Token (1833)
“Life; its Seasons,” by C. W. Everett, in The Token (1836)
“Life & the Seasons” (Boston Pearl; March 1, 1834)
“Life beyond the Mountains,” in The Token (1836)
“Life in the Woods” (YC; July 19, 1849)
“Lines,” in The Token (1831)
“Lines,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1830)
“Lines,” by Signora, in The Token (1830)
“Lines,” by L. M—t, in The Token (1831)
“Lines, on the Death of W.,” by S. (YC; Jan 14, 1846)
“Lines on seeing a Soldier of the Revolution surrounded by his Family,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1833)
“The Literary Gazette,” Emaline Wicks & J. V. H. Scoville (1861)
“A Literary Man in Distress,” by “Literatus” (1856; New-York Daily Tribune)
“The Little Archer,” by Anna Bache, in The Pearl (1837)
“Little Arithmeticians” (SL #4; 1835)
“Little Bird’s Complaint,” (SL #3; July 1835)
“The Little Blind Boy,” (SL #3; July 1835)
“The Little Colored Boy” (SL; 1836, #8)
“Little Dialogue,” (SL #3; July 1835)
“Little Edward” (YC; Feb 8, 1832)
“A Little Girl Who was Burned to Death” (YC; Jan 11, 1832)
“Little Julia,” (SL #3; July 1835)
“The Little Prisoners” (SL; 1836, #2)
“Little Richard” (SL #1; April 1835)
“The Little Sailor” (SL; 1836, #2)
“Little Slave’s Complaint” (SL #1; April 18351)
“Little Susan, the Poor-House Girl,” by J. A. (YC; Aug 12, 1847)
“The Little Thief” (SL #1; April 1835)
“The Little Wood-Cutter” (PP; April 13, 1833)
“Living in an Omnibus,” by Louisa May Alcott (MM; Oct 1867)
“Lord Vapourcourt,” by Alexander H. Everett, in The Token (1831)
“The Lost Boy,” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, in The Token (1831)
The Lost Child, by Timothy Flint (1830)
“The Lost Children,” by Nathaniel Parker Willis, in The Token (1830)
“Lost Children Found,” (SL #3; July 1835)
“The Lottery Ticket” (MM; 1844)
“Love of Nature (1853; The Mother’s Assistant)
“Love and Care,” in The Token (1832)
Love Triumphant; or, Constancy Rewarded, by Abner Reed (1797)
“Lucy Nelson, the Boy-Girl,” by Eliza Leslie (YC; Nov 30, 1831)
“The Lute,” by B. B. Thatcher, in The Token (1832)

“The Mameluke,” by Grenville Mellen, in The Token (1835)
“Mammoth,” in Youth’s Companion; or An Historical Dictionary, by Ezra Sampson (1813)
“The Mammoth” (MM; Nov 1841)
“The Mammoth” (reprinted; ChFPA; Twelfth month 1871)
“A Man and Three Children” (SL #5; 1835)
“The Maniac,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1830)
Marie frames the engraving of Abraham Lincoln (LC; Nov 1865)
marriages & deaths in Providence, Rhode Island (JG; 1827-1828)
“Mary Dyre,” by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, in The Token (1831)
Mary Newell’s letter (1850)
“The May Pole of Merry Mount,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1836)
“Mazeppa,” by George Gordon Byron, in The Token (1833)
“Meekness” (SL; 1836, #8)
Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, by John Dunn Hunter (3rd. ed, 1824)
memorial page for Adelbert Older (Feb 1865), with poetry by Belle P. R. and Adelbert Older
“The Mermaid: A Reverie,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1835)
“The Meteor,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1832)
Meteors and the Leonids of 1833, by Samuel Goodrich (1843)
“The Mico Schools” (SL; 1839, #38)
“Midnight,” in Eliza Piatt’s copybook (1845)
“The Midnight Mail,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1831)
“The Minister’s Black Veil,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1836)
“The Minstrel,” by John O. Sargent, in The Token (1830)
“The Minstrel,” by Willis G. Clark, in The Token (1832)
“The Miser and His Dinner” (Cab; Sept 1854)
“Miss Before Teens,” by Giles M’Quiggen (YC; Sept 23, 1847)
“Mob in Philadelphia” (SL; 1839, #38)
“Mobs” (SL; 1839, #38)
“Monody,” by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1835)
“Monthly Concert for Slaves” (SL #4; 1835)
“The Moon” (MM; June 1841)
“Moral Poisons: The Antidote” (1845; The Mother’s Magazine), by F. C. W.
“The Morality of Pictures” (1845; The Mother’s Assistant and the Young Lady’s Friend), by William A. Alcott
“More About the Fire” (LC; Dec 1871)
“The Mother and Babe” (SL; 1837?, #16)
“A Mother’s Anger,” by Caroline Gilman, in The Pearl (1837)
“The Mountain Stream,” by B. B. Thatcher, in The Token (1835)
“Mr. Durant” (PP; 14 Sept 1833)
“Mrs. Warner’s Prejudice,” by Lesina (YC; Aug 16, 1855)
“My Cousin Lucy,” by James Hall, in The Token (1832)
“My First Whistle” (MM; Jan 1841), by Samuel Goodrich
“My Fortune’s Made,” by Mary Alexina Smith (YC; Nov 23, 1848)
“My Gentle Girl,” by James Nack, in The Pearl (1837)
“My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1832)
“My Mother,” in Eliza Piatt’s copybook (1845)
“My Native Land,” by John O. Sargent as H. Vane, in The Token (1833)
“My Own Life & Adventures,” by “Robert Merry” (MM; 1841-1842)
“My Schoolmates: The Contrast,” by Abby (YC; June 5, 1846)
“My Schoolmates: The Inquirer,” by Abbie (YC; June 12, 1846)
“My Schoolmates: The Victim,” by Abbie (YC; June 19, 1846)
“My Schoolmates: The Widow,” by Abbie (YC; June 26, 1846)
“My Schoolmates: Kate Kennedy,” by Abby (YC; July 2, 1846)
“My Schoolmates: The Sensitive Plant,” by Abbie (YC; July 9, 1846)
“My Wife’s Novel,” in The Token (1832)
“The Mysteries of Life,” by Orville Dewey, in The Token (1831)

“Names of Different Kinds of Type” (MM; Mar 1842)
“Napoleon,” by Grenville Mellen, in The Token (1830)
“Narrow Escape from a Bear” (PP; 27 April 1833)
“Natural history plates” (MM; 1841)
“Near 307 Stolen Children” (SL; 1837?, #16)
“Neglected Children” (YC; Feb 23, 1865)
“The Negro Boy’s Petition” (SL; 1836, #2)
“Negro Quickness to Learn,” in Children & changing times (YC; 1865)
“Negro Songs—American Music,” by Ser. Longley (Western Gem; Oct 1853)
“New England Climate,” in The Token (1832)
“The New England Village,” in The Token (1831)
“The New Year” (MM; Jan 1842)
New Year’s address (PP; Jan 1838)
“A New Year’s Address” (MM; Jan 1846)
“A New-Year’s Bow” (MM; Jan 1843)
“New Year’s Day,” by Catherine Sedgwick, in The Token (1836)
“New Year’s Morning” (MM; Jan 1859)
“A New Year’s Salutation” (MM; Jan 1849)
“A New-Year’s Welcome” (MM; Jan 1864)
“Gleanings and Recollections: The New York Fire,” by Eliza Leslie (PP; Jan 1838)
A newstand of American children’s periodicals, 1789-1872
“Niagara River,” in Eliza Piatt’s copybook (1845)
“Night,” in Eliza Piatt’s copybook (1845)
“A Night Thought,” by Grenville Mellen, in The Token (1833)
“Nimrod Buckskin, Esq.,” by Timothy Flint, in The Token (1832)
“The Nine Mothers” (SL #1; April 1835)
“The Noble Negro,” by Hannah More (SL #1; April 1835)
“The Noble Negro,” by Hannah More (YMAG; Sept 1837)
Norwood, by Henry Ward Beecher (1868)
“Not Complimentary to Utah” (YC; Oct 28, 1869)
Notices of Robert Merry’s Museum in other periodicals
“Novel Reading” (1853; The Western Gem)
“Novel Writers and Publishers,” by M. M. Backus (1844; Christian Parlor Magazine)
“Novels, Their Meaning and Mission” (1854; Putnam’s Monthly)
“Novels and Novel-Reading,” by Rev. J. T. Crane (1869)
“Novels and Romances” (1820; The Guardian; or Youth’s Religious Instructor)
“Nulla nisi Ardua Virtus,” by John Neilson, jr, in The Token (1830)
“Nursery Rhymes: A Dialogue” (MM; Aug 1846)

“Ode, Addressed to J. G. Percival, M. D.” (The Bouquet; Sept 1832)
“Ode on Music,” by Grenville Mellen, in The Token (1831)
“Ode to the Russian Eagle,” by George Lunt, in The Token (1830)
“Of What is the Alphabet Composed?,” by Mattie Bell (MM; July 1858)
“The Old Elm of Newbury,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1835)
“The Old School House,” by J. A. (YC; Nov 15, 1849)
“Old Times & New,” by Margaret (MM; Aug 1858)
“On a Noisy Politician,” by John O. Sargent as C. Sherry, in The Token (1833)
“On Cyder Making,” by Henry Wynkoop (Portsmouth Oracle; 5 Sept 1818)
“On Going to Bed at Night,” (SL #3; July 1835)
“On Novel Reading” (1820; The Guardian; or Religious Instructor)
“On the Death of a Friend,” by G. [Samuel Griswold Goodrich], in The Token (1830)
“An ‘Online Community’ of the Nineteenth Century,” by Pat Pflieger (2001)
“Opening of the Sixth Seal,” by Thomas Gray, jr, in The Token (1832)
“The Opera Cloak” (YC; 6 June 1861)
“The Picture Gallery: Organic Remains” (Cab; Dec 9, 1841)
“Oriental Mysticism,” by Leonard Woods, in The Token (1831)
Other people’s web sites
“Our Exchanged Prisoners” (YC; Jan 5, 1865)
“ ‘Our Father’ ” (SL #5; 1835)
“Our Heroic Dead” (S&S; Feb 1863)
“Our Neighbors” #3 (ForrPlay; Oct 1858)

“Parental Duties,” by J. W. Guernsey (Mother’s Assistant; July 1853)
“Parisian Milliners and the Fishes,” by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1833)
Parley’s Story of the Little Gardener, by Samuel Goodrich (1833)
“Passage of the Beresina,” by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1833)
“Patriotic Eagle” (YC; 9 Aug 1866)
Peale’s mastodon exhibit; in The Child’s First Book of History (1832); The Child’s First Book of History (1832); The Child’s Own Book of American Geography (1832);
“Peasant Boy,” by B. B. Thatcher, in The Token (1832)

Peter Parley’s Tales About the State and City of New York

Peter Parley’s Visit to the City of New-York

The Pearl; or, Affection’s Gift (1837)
“Peter Parley,” by L.H. Martin (1897; The Congregationalist)
“Peter Parley,” by Donald G. Mitchell (1897)
“‘Peter Parley’—As Known to His Daughter,” by Emily Goodrich Smith
Peter Parley’s Juvenile Tales, by Samuel Goodrich (1836; revised)
Peter Parley’s Method of Telling About Geography to Children, by Samuel Goodrich (1831)
Peter Parley’s Short Stories for Long Nights, by Samuel Goodrich (1834)
Peter Parley’s Story of the Trapper, by Samuel Goodrich (1829)
Peter Parley’s Tales of the Elephant, by Samuel Goodrich (1829)
Peter Parley’s Winter Evening Tales, by Samuel Goodrich (1830 & 1855)
extract from Peter Parley’s Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky (1840)
“Petrified Forest on the Nile” (YPMag; March 1846)
“Petrified Forests” (JR; May 16, 1832)
“Philip of Mount Hope,” by John O. Sargent, in The Token (1833)
“The Philosopher to his Love,” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, in The Token (1833)
“Philosophy,” by John O. Sargent, as Charles Sherry, in The Token (1832)
photos of children
“Physical Education of Children” (1853)
Eliza Piatt’s copybook (1845)
A Picture Book, for Little Children (1811-1814)
“The Picture Gallery: Organic Remains” (Cab; Dec 9, 1841)
“A Picture Story of the Chicago Fire” (Jan 1872)
“Pictures of Various Nations (MM; 1844)
“Placing a Daughter at School,” by Motte Hall (ST; Nov 1853)
a planetary alignment (MM; June 1871)
“Pleasant and Profitable” (YC; Aug 27, 1846)
poem (MM; Jan 1846)
poem about Sarah Bishop, by Samuel G. Goodrich (1823)
two poems for July 4, 1865 (MM; July 1865)
“The Poor Innocents” (SL; 1836, #2)
“The Poor Little Slave” (SL; 1839, #38)
“The Poor Mother,” (SL #3; July 1835)
“The Poor Mother” (SL #1; April 18351)
Popular Amusements, by J. T. Crane (1869)
“Popular Similes” (YC; Nov 30, 1848)
“A Portrait,” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, in The Token (1833)
“The Prairies of Kansas,” by Francis Woodworth (Cab; Nov 1856)
“The Praying Child” (SL #1; April 1835)
“The Praying Child” (SL #5; 1835)
“The Praying Children” (SL; 1837?, #16)
“Precocious Children,” by Samuel Goodrich (1844)
“Preface” (CMag; Jan 1789)
“Prejudice Against Color” (SL #1; April 1835)
“The Premium Picture” (LC; Oct 1865)
“The Pretty Robin” (SL; 1836, #8)
“Pretty Sight” (SL; 1839, #38)
“Professor Morse” (Cab; April 1848)
“Prognostications of the Weather” (MM; Nov 1844)
“‘Property’” (SL; 1839, #38)
“Prospectus” (PP; 16 Mar 1833)
“Prospectus of Robert Merry’s Museum” (MM; Feb 1841)
“The Protegee,” by Eliza Leslie, in The Pearl (1837)
“Public Auction!” (SL; 1836, #8)
“Pukkwana,” by Susanna Newbould (MM; April 1858)
“Puss in the Mass. 27th,” in Animals in the Civil War (YC; 1861, 1865)
Puzzles (1842-1871)

“The Quaker,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1833)

Reaction to Felix Summerly’s attack on Peter Parley (1844)
“Reading for Young Ladies” (YMAG; July 7, 1837)
“Reading is Not Thinking” (YMAG; May 26, 1837)
“The Reading of Young Ladies” (American Magazine of Useful Knowledge ; Dec 1836)
“The Reading Parties: A Sketch,” by Eliza Leslie, in The Token (1835)
Recipe for curds and whey (1828)
Recipes from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan (1839)
Recipes from The Virginia Housewife, by Mary Randolph (1860)
Recollections of a Lifetime, Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1856)
“ ‘Relics of the Fire’ ” (LC; March 1872)
“Declamation—Relief for Chicago,” by Edward Everett Hale (MM; Nov 1871)
“Relief of Orleans,” in The Token (1833)
“Religion of the Sea,” by F. W. P. Greenwood, in The Token (1831)
“Remarks on Children’s Play,” by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)
“Remarks On Reviews” (YC; 30 Dec 1829)
“Remembrance,” by Charles West Thomson, in The Token (1831)
“Reminiscences of a Rag” (MM; 1844)
René, by Françoise-René Chateaubriand; translated by Samuel G. Goodrich (Connecticut Spectator; 1814)
“Renny’s Uniform” (MM; 1862)
“Repining and Repentance” (YC; Feb 12, 1846)
“The Rescue,” in The Token (1833)
“Return to Connecticut,” by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1831)
“Returning a Stolen Ring,” by John O. Sargent, as Charles Sherry, in The Token (1832)
Review of John Greenleaf Whittier’s Illustrated Ballads of New England (YC; Nov 1869)
Contemporary reviews of some of Samuel Goodrich’s books
Review of Oliver Optic’s Books for Boys (1872)
review of The Soldier’s Orphan; or, History of Maria West (YC; 2 Dec 1829)
“ ‘Reviewer’, Reviewed” (YC; 30 Dec 1829)
rewards of merit
“Riddle,” by Samuel Goodrich (MM; June 1853)
The Riddle Book (1826)
The Riddle Book (1828)
“The Rival Bubbles: A Fable,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1835)
Robert Merry’s Miscellany (1839)
“Robert Merry’s Museum and the Lure of the Sensational,” by Pat Pflieger
“Robin Red-Breast” (SL; 1836, #8)
“Roger Malvin’s Burial,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1832)
Rogers groups in the Little Corporal (1867)
Rollo Learning to Read, by Jacob Abbott (1835)
Rollo’s Travels, by Jacob Abbott (1839; rev 1855)
“Ronda,” by Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, in The Token (1831)
“Rose and Miss Belle,” by Catharine Sedgwick (SL #1; April 1835)
“Routed But Not Conquered” (LC; Dec 1871)
“Ruins,” by John O. Sargent, in The Token (1832)
“Rules for Winter” (YC; Jan 3, 1861)
“Rules to Observe When You Take a Gun in Your Hand,” in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)
“Rural Amusement,” in The Token (1833)
“Ruth and Naomi,” in Eliza Piatt’s copybook (1845)
Ruth Hall, by “Fanny Fern” (1854)

“S. G. Goodrich,” by J. C. Derby (1884)
“Sabbath Scholar Drowned” (YC; Sept 13, 1849)
“The Sail-Boat,” by Anna Bache, in The Pearl (1837)
“Samuel Goodrich and the Branding of American Children’s Books,” by Pat Pflieger (2007)
“Samuel Griswold Goodrich” (Southern Literary Messenger; 1841)
“Scenes in a Spanish Pueblo, A Sketch,” by Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, in The Token (1832)
Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)
“The School” (SL #4; 1835)
“School Learning,” by Helen C. Knight (The Mother’s Assistant and Young Lady’s Friend; 1849)
“The Schoolmistress,” by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1830)
“The School-Mistress,” by M. W. D. (YC; Sept 13, 1849)
“The Schoolboy” (JuvMag; April & June 1788)
“The Schoolboy” (CMag; April 1789)
“The Sea,” by F. W. P. Greenwood, in The Token (1830)
“Self-Denial, or, The Two Cousins” (YC; Jan 7, 1847)
“Selling Slaves by the Pound” (SL #1; April 1835)
“The Seven Vagabonds,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1833)
“The Sewing-Machine” (MM; Jan 1857)
“The Shadow,” in The Token (1831)
“Shine Yer Boots?” in Children & changing times (YC; 1865)
“Ship Load of Slaves,” (SL #3; July 1835)
“The Shipwreck,” by B. B. Thatcher, in The Token (1833)
“The Shipwrecked Coaster,” in The Token (1833)
“The Shoes,” by J. A. (YC; Sept 23, 1847)
“A Siberian Winter” (Cab; Aug 1851)
“The Sibyl,” by Nathaniel Parker Willis, in The Token (1830)
“Sights from a Steeple,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1831)
“Signers of the Declaration of Independence,” by Ralph Wilson (Mar 1859)
“Silent Companion” (PP; 30 Mar 1833)
“The Silver Cascade in the White Mountains,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1835)
“Simple Gratitude,” in Children & changing times (YC; 1865)
“Singular Adventure of a Lost Child” (YC; Aug 23, 1855)
“Sir William Pepperell,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1833)
“Sissy’s Ride in the Moon,” by Annette Bishop & Mary Ann Hallock (OYC; Nov 1869)
“The Skater’s Song” (Cab; Jan 1849)
“Skating—Woman’s Rights,” by William C. Cutter (MM; Feb 1857)
“A Sketch of a Blue-Stocking,” by Catherine Maria Sedgwick, in The Token (1832)
“Sketches of Conversation,” in The Token (1833)
“Slave-Holder” (SL #1; April 1835)
“A Slave Ship,” by W. L. G. (SL #1; April 1835)
“The Slave Trader” (SL #1; April 18351)
“Slave Vessels” (SL #1; April 18351)
“A Slave’s Cabin” (SL; 1837?, #16)
“A Slave’s Dream” (SL; 1837?, #16)
“The Sleep Walker,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1830)
“Snake Fascination” (YC; Aug 24, 1854)
“Snow,” by E. W. T., in The Token (1830)
“The Snow-Bird” (MM; Feb 1848)
“The Snow Shoe,” by William Joseph Snelling, in The Token (1831)
“The Snow Storm” (YC; Feb 12 1846)
“A Soldier To-night is Our Guest” (YC; Aug 10, 1865)
“Song,” by Edward Vere, in The Token (1833)
“Song,” by John O. Sargent as George Grey, in The Token (1833)
“Song of the Revolution,” by Thomas Gray, Jun., in The Token (1832)
“The Song of the Snow-Bird” (MM; Jan 1858)
“Songs of the Bees,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1830)
“Sonnet to Lord Edward Fitzgerald,” by A. D. Woodbridge, in The Token (1835)
“Sonnet,” by John O. Sargent, in The Token (1835)
“Sophia’s Prayer” (SL #5; 1835)
“The South Georgian Lark,” by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1832)
“A Spanish Scene,” in The Token (1833)
“The Spelling Lesson” (Cab; Feb 1851)
“The Spendthrift Doll,” by Sarah Orne Jewett (MM; Feb 1871)
“Spring Whistles,” by Lucy Larcom & Mary Ann Hallock (OYF; May 1870)
“The Squirrel” (MM; Dec 1841)
“St. Catharine’s Eve,” by Catherine Maria Sedgwick, in The Token (1835)
“Stanzas,” by Grenville Mellen, in The Token (1832)
“The Starling” (SL #4; 1835)
“The Starling” (SL #26; 1837?)
“The Stars and Stripes,” by John A. Andrews (S&S; July 1861)
“Statistics” (SL #1; April 1835)
“A Step from the Altar to the Tomb,” by J. E. E. (YC; Sept 13, 1849)
“Stephen to Mary,” by Stephen Ricks (SL #1; April 1835)
“Stolen Children,” (SL #3; July 1835)
“The Stolen Girls” (YC; June 10, 1847)
“The Stolen Match,” by Caleb Cushing, in The Token (1833)
Stories by Jack Mason, the Old Sailor, by Francis Woodworth (1851)
Stories for Children, by Cousin Sarah (1850-1853?)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Handie, by Jacob Abbott (1859)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Rainbow’s Journey, by Jacob Abbott (1859)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: The Three Pines, by Jacob Abbott (1860)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Selling Lucky, by Jacob Abbott (1860)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Up the River, by Jacob Abbott (1860)
“The Storm,” by Epes Sargent, in The Token (1833)
“The Stormy Night,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token [Hannah F. Gould] (1833)
“Story of Peter Brown” (PP; 20 June 1835)
“Story of Philip Brusque” (MM; 1841-1842)
“Story of Poor Jack” (SL #5; 1835)
“A Story of the Revolution” (MM; Aug 1844)
“Strawberries,” by John Townsend Trowbridge & Winslow Homer (OYF; July 1868)
“The Strawberry Woman,” by T. S. Arthur (YC; Sept 9, 1847)
“Sugar-Making by the Indians” (YC; May 18, 1865)
“The Sum of the Commandments” (SL #26; 1837?)
“Supporting One’s Self” (SL; 1839, #38)
“The Surf Sprite,” by S. G. Goodrich, in The Token (1832)
“The Sweep and the Tombstones” (SL; 1836, #8)
“Swimming,” in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)
“Swinging on a Birch-Tree,” by Lucy Larcom & Winslow Homer (OYF; June 1867)

“Taking Away a Baby” (SL #4; 1835)
“Te Zahpahtah,” by William Joseph Snelling, in The Token (1831)
“Tearing Open the Rosebud” (YC; June 8, 1848)
“Tears,” by A. A. L., in The Token (1835)
“Teeth” (JGaz1819; Jan 1820)
“The Telegraph Cable,” by Laura Elmer (MM; Nov 1858)
“The Telegraph Foretells the Weather,” in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)
“The Terrified Sailors” (PP; Mar 16, 1833)
“Texts” (SL; 1836, #8)
“Texts on Slavery” (SL #1; April 1835)
“The Thankful Child” (SL #1; April 1835)
“Thanksgiving Memories,” by Francis Woodworth (Cab; Oct 1856)
“The Theology of Nature,” by Orville Dewey, in The Token (1832)
“Thief and Robber” (SL #1; April 1835)
Things We Know that Ain’t Quite So, regarding 19th-century American culture
Thomas Nast pictures the Little Corporal (LC; Dec 1871)
“A Thought,” by G., in The Token (1830)
“A Thought,” by P. M. Wetmore, in The Token (1831)
“Thoughts at Sea,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1830)
A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband, by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron (1917)
“The Three Ages of Life,” by Samuel Gilman, in The Token (1830)
“Three Little Abolitionists” (SL #5; 1835)
“Three Little Boys in Prison,” by Charles Holden (1844)
three little poems for little readers (MM; 1843)
“The Three Sceptres,” by Sarah Josepha Hale, in The Token (1836)
“Thy Will Be Done,” by W. (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
“To —,” by N—s, in The Token (1830)
“To —,” by P., in The Token (1830)
“To —,” in The Token (1831)
“To —,” by O. W. B. Peabody, in The Token (1831)
“To .......,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1832)
“To …,” in The Token (1833)
“To ***,” in The Token (1836)
“To a Bride,” by John W. Stebbins, in The Token (1830)
“To a Butterfly on Giving It Liberty” (SL #4; 1835)
“To a City Pigeon,” by Nathaniel Parker Willis, in The Token (1831)
“To a Lady,” by R., in The Token (1836)
“To a Lady,” in Eliza Piatt’s copybook (1845)
“To a Lady on her Marriage,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1832)
“To a Lady on Her Thirtieth Birthday,” in The Token (1831)
“To a Lady Who Called Me Capricious,” by John O. Sargent, in The Token (1835)
“To a Little Child” (SL #5; 1835)
“To a Little Girl,” in The Pearl (1837)
“To A. S.,” in The Pearl (1837)
“To a Violet,” by Charles Wadsworth, in The Token (1832)
“To a Wave,” by J. O. Rockwell, in The Token (1830)
“To a Wild Deer,” by Charles West Thomson, in The Token (1833)
“To a Fragment of Silk,” by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1833)
“To a Lady,” by John O. Sargent as Lawrence Manners, in The Token (1833)
“To All Who Are Interested” (LC; May 1867)
“To an Aul’ Stane,” by Thomas Fisher, in The Token (1830)
“To E.,” in The Token (1835)
“To F.,” in The Token (1835)
“To Juvenile Anti-Slavery Societies” (SL #26; 1837?)
“To Mrs Hemans,” by G. B. C., in The Token (1830)
“To Our Young Female Readers” (PP; Feb 1836)
“To the Boy Who Will Be President of the United States A. D. 1900” (MM; April 1863), by Samuel Wilson
“To the Departing Comet” (American Monthly Magazine; Jan 1836)
“To the Memory of J. G. C. Brainard,” by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1830)
“To the Moonbeam,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1831)
“To the Public” (PP; 16 March 1833)
To the readers, by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 24 Nov 1827)
“To the Witch Hazel,” in The Token (1831)
“The Toilet,” by Grenville Mellen, in The Token (1832)
Reviews & contents of The Token (1828-1842)
“The Token,” in The Token (1830)
The Token (1830)
The Token (1831)
The Token (1832)
The Token and Atlantic Souvenir (1833)
The Token and Atlantic Souvenir (1835)
The Token and Atlantic Souvenir (1836)
“Tomo and the Wild Lakes,” by Rev. John Todd (YC; July 19, 1849)
“Too Good to Be True: 150 Years of Mary Sue,” by Pat Pflieger
“Touch Thy Harp,” by Louisa P. Smith, in The Token (1832)
“Touching Expression” (YC; 19 July 1849)
“Touchstone and Audrey,” by William Shakespeare, in The Token (1833)
“Treatment of Children at School,” by Dr. S. B. Woodward (1845)
“Trout Fishing,” in The Token (1833)
“True Courage,” by “Aunt Kate” (YC; 3 Aug 1854)
“A True Story” (reprinted; YC; March 23, 1865)
“Trust in God” (SL #1; April 1835)
Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)
“Turn About, Fair Play,” by Augusta Moore (YC; April 13, 1865)
Sarah Tuttle’s scrapbook (1834-1860s)
“The Two Burials,” by Julia Pratt Ballard (MM; Nov 1867)
The Two Doves & the Owl, by Samuel Goodrich (1821)
“The Two Houses” (YC; 12 Feb 1846)
Two pieces about books (ST; Feb 1854)
Two pieces about fireworks (PP; Sept & Oct 1836)
“Two Ways of Being Manly,” by F. W. A. P. (MM; 1868)

“Uncle David,” by Catherine Sedgwick, in The Pearl (1837)
“Uncle Frank in Kansas,” by Francis Woodworth (Cab; June 1856)
“Uncle Hiram’s Pilgrimage,” by William C. Cutter (M; 1857-1860)
“ ‘Uncle’ Peter Parley,” by William Oliver Stevens (1925)
An Uncommon Serpent; or, The Great Sea Serpent Hunt of 1817 & 1818 (online exhibit; 2021-present)
“Unella,” by Madge (MM; June 1865)
“The Unfinished Monument on Bunker Hill,” by C. G., in The Token (1830)
“Unhappy Elopement” (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
“The Union” (S&S; Jan 1861)
“Universal Prayer,” in Eliza Piatt’s copybook (1845)
“Unnatural Children” (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
“The Untidy Girl” (Cab; Feb 1847)
“The Utilitarian,” by John Neal, in The Token (1830)

The Vagabond (1819)
“The Valley of Vision,” in The Token (1832)
“Vanity Punished” (YC; Sept 9, 1847)
“The Velocipede or Swift Walker” (Connecticut Mirror; 31 May 1819)
“The Veritable Peter Parley” (Brother Jonathan; 12 Feb 1842)
“A Very Odd Grandfather” (MM; Nov 1852)
“The Veteran Eagle,” by Maria S. Cummins (OYF; Oct 1866)
“The Veteran Eagle: A Correction” (LC; Nov 1866)
“The Veteran Eagle; and What the Children Did,” by Alfred Sewell (LC; Dec 1866)
“The Veteran’s Farewell,” by “Blue-Eyed Lora” (MM; Feb 1865)
“Vicious Novels: Cause of Their Increase,” by F. C. W. (1845; The Mother’s Magazine)
“Victory at Last,” by C. C. (MM; July 1865)
“The Village Musician,” by James Hall, in The Token (1831)
“A Visit from St. Nicholas,” by Clement Clarke Moore (various)
“Visit of Poor Relations,” by Frances E. I. Calderon de la Barca, in The Token (1833)
“A Visit to ‘Merry’s Museum’; or, Social Values in a 19th-Century American Periodical for Children,” by Pat Pflieger (1987; 2001)
“The Volunteer’s Thanksgiving,” by Lucy Larcom (OYF; Jan 1865)
“The Voyage of the Salt Mackerel,” by Charles Barnard (MM; 1872)

“The Wag-Water, a West Indian Sketch,” by S. Hazard, in The Token (1830)
“Walks About Boston: The Indians” (PP; Jan 1836)
Lew Wallace reads Peter Parley (1906)
Wallpapers at merrycoz.org
“The Waltz,” in The Token (1831)
“The Wanderer’s Return,” by M. W. D. (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
“War and Glory,” by Samuel Johnson (YMAG; July 7, 1837)
“The War in Florida” (MM; Feb 1842)
“Washington” (SL; 1836, #2)
“Washington—A Dialogue” (SL #1; April 1835)
“The Wasp and the Hornet,” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, in The Token (1833)
“Watching the Crows,” by John Townsend Trowbridge & Winslow Homer (OYF; June 1868)
“The Waterfowl,” by J. H. Miflin, in The Token (1832)
“The Water-melon Boats” (YC; Aug 12, 1847)
“The Waverly Novels” (Connecticut Mirror; Aug 23, 1824)
“Wealth and Fashion,” in The Token (1836)
“The Weasel and Chicken” (SL #5; 1835)
“The Wedding Knell,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1836)
“Weep not for the Dead,” by S. G. Goodrich, in The Token (1832)
“What a Bore!,” by Helen C. Weeks (YC; Feb 2, 1871)
“What an Iron Bar Became,” in Children & changing times (YC; 1865)
“What Ben and the Twins Did for Chicago,” by Sara Conant (Dec 1871)
“What Books Shall I Read?” (1845; The Mother’s Assistant and the Young Lady’s Friend), by Simon Brown
“What Can We Do?” (SL #3; July 1835)
“What Cashmere Shawls are Made Of,” in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)
“What Does Johnny Read?” (LC; Jan 1872)
“What is a Darling?” (MM; Oct 1862)
“What is Abolition?” (SL #26; 1837?)
“What is It?,” in The Token (1833)
“What is Life?,” in The Token (1832)
“What is Slavery?” (SL #4; 1835)
“What Shall I Bring Thee, Mother?,” in The Token (1835)
“What the Steam Engine Does” (YC; July 19, 1849)
What to Do, and How to Do It, by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1844)
“White and Colored Slaves (Harper’s Weekly; Jan 30, 1864)
“White Slaves (YC; March 9, 1865)
“Who Are the Aggressors?,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (New York Evening Post; 15 Oct 1856)
“Who Filled the Coal Hole?” (PP; Feb 1843)
“Who Wants $4 a Day?” (MM; Mar 1862)
“Who was Peter Parley?,” by Francis Parsons (1922)
“Who Will Make a Good Wife” (YC; May 30, 1850)
“Why Do They Treat the Slaves So?” (SL #1; April 1835)
“Why Have the Indians Disappeared?” (MM; Jan 1862)
“Will He Bite?,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1832)
“Will You Go?,” in The Token (1835)
William and Eliza; or, The Visit (1841-1844?)
“William, the Negro Boy,” by Jane L. Gray (Cab; April 1849)
“Willie Lincoln,” by Emily J. Bugbee (LC; July 1865)
“The Winter Leaf,” by Charles West Thomson, in The Token (1832)
“Wishes,” by Anna Bache, in The Pearl (1837)
“The Wives of the Dead,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1832)
Woman’s Rights, John Todd (1867)
Woman’s Wrongs, “Gail Hamilton (1868)
“Wonders of Geology” (MM; Jan 1842)
extract from Wonders of Geology, by Samuel Goodrich (1845)
“Wonders of Geology,” by William Buckland (MM; Dec 1848)
“Wonders of Geology” (SMate; March 1852)
“Wood Engraving” (Cab; April 1848)
Wool-Gathering, by “Gail Hamilton” [Abigail Dodge] (1867)
“Working Girls” (MM; Oct 1863)
“The Worm” (SL #5; 1835)
“The Would-be Lady and the True One,” by Mrs. P. P. Bonney (YC; March 16, 1865)
“The Wounded Bird,” by P., in The Token (1830)
“The Wreck,” by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, in The Token (1835)

“Yankee Energy” (MM; Sept 1841)
“The Year After the Fire” (LC; Nov 1872)
“You Will Be Wanted” (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
“The Young Artist,” by Hannah F. Gould, in The Token (1832)
“Young Italy in Boston,” by “Stella” (MM; Jan 1870)
“Young Men,” by Charlotte Gilman (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
“The Young Phrenologist,” by John Neal, in The Token (1836)
“The Young Provincial,” in The Token (1830)
“A Young Savage,” by A. Perry (MM; Nov 1870)
“The Youth of Mary Stuart,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in The Token (1835)

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