This is a hard to find, complete issue of New York's
September 1837 Knickerbocker Magazine. Rescued, deftly, by me from an old damaged bound volume last week.
87 pages.
Edited at this date by the industrious Lewis Gaylord Clark.
Highlights of interest I find include:
An unsigned opening essay (9 pages) headed "Scandinavian Literature and Antiquities."
The 33-year-old Nathaniel Hawthorne's new short story (unsigned here) "Edward Fane's Rosebud." Hawthorne would include this story, later in the year, as part of his second book, the famous Twice-Told Tales, under his own name.
A longer letter (2 & 1/2 pages) of some importance from the notable geographer and ethnologist Henry R. Schoolcraft (1793-1864) headed "Mohegan [Indian] Language and Geographical Names."
Part one (of 2) of 17th century (b. 1644) German Friar Abraham a Sancta Clara's "Mark!." Old Abraham was a favorite target of later writers searching out dedicated Anti-Semites to sanction their own work, among them the modern day Nazi philosophical Anti-Semitic sympathizer, Martin Heidegger.
German lyric poet Frederick Matthison's Nature.
The sixth monthly installment of "Wilson Conworth."
A review of Part Second of the now long famous J.G. Lockhart biography of Sir Walter Scott.
Four sonnets by "Quince."
The "Editor's Table" for this month offers a two full-page notice of the sparkling acting debut of Sarah Hildreth on the New York stage. This is an item of some descriptive note as she would later, in 1844, marry future Massachusetts Civil War politician and general Benjamin Butler. They were happily married for more than 30 years.
Much more!