Circular to Postmasters. ... Prospectus of The National Era ... Gamaliel Bailey, Proprietor and Editor; John G. Whittier, Corresponding Editor. ... Prospectus of The Friend of Youth ... Mrs. Margaret L. Bailey, Editor. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bailey, Gamaliel, 1807-1859.

Contributor:

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.

Bailey, Margaret L. (Margaret Lucy), 1812-1888.

Miscellaneous Print Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National era (Washington, D.C.).

Friend of youth (Washington, D.C.).

Newspapers--Circulation.

Newspapers.

Newspapers--Marketing.

Antislavery movements--United States--Newspapers.

Antislavery movements.

Children's periodicals, American.

Newspaper publishing--United States.

Newspaper publishing.

Publishers and publishing--Washington (D.C.).

Publishers and publishing.

Women in the mass media industry.

United States.

Washington (D.C.).

Genre:

Prospectuses.

Physical Description:

1 sheet ([3] pages) ; 21 x 13.5 cm

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : [Gamaliel Bailey], [1850]

Notes:

Requests postmasters promote the circulation of two publications: The National Era, Vol. V., 1851, "an Anti-Slavery, a Political, and Literary Newspaper" and, The Friend of Youth, Vol. II, 1851, "We know this is not usually done in such publications, but we think we do not mistake the taste or capacity of young people, when we suppose them to feel some interest in the world they live in, beyond the nursery, the school-room, and the play ground."

Dated: Washington, D. C., October 20, 1850.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy addressed, in ms., to the postmaster of Waldo County, Maine.

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Doubleday Postal History.

OCLC:

1227875041