News from the Spirit World:

A Checklist ofAmerican Spiritualist

Periodicals^
ANNBRAUDE

PIRITUALISM, the popular movement to make contact with

S the spirits ofthe dead, preoccupied a wide array of nineteenth-

century Americans and inspired a number of them to enter
the field of journalism.' Beginning with the famous 'Rochester
Rappings' in 1848, the new religious movement quickly spread
across the country. Emphasizing freedom of conscience and direct
inspiration over religious authority, it became a magnet for social
radicals, especially advocates of women's rights and abolition.
Many Spiritualists viewed the Bible, the clergy, and the churches
who ordained them as so many roadblocks between the individual
and spiritual truth. Instead, they sought knowledge of the world
beyond through untrained spirit mediums, usually female, who
served as vehicles for communication with deceased loved ones
and family members. Not surprisingly, mainstream religious
bodies met the heterodox innovation with unhesitating condem-

1. This checklist began as an outgrowth of research supported by the Frances Hian

Fellowship, which culminated in the publication of Ráá/cíi/Sp/nu; Spiritualism and Women's
Rights iv Nineteenth-Century America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989). A preliminary version
ofthe introduction was presented at the American Antiquarian Society's Conference on
Works in Progress in the History ofthe Book in American Culture, June 27, 1989. The
author would like to thankjohn Hench, Joyce Ann Tracy, Sheila McAvey, Eric Lundgren,
and Nikki Lamberty for their help with the project. She is also grateful to the countless
librarians throughout the country who generously responded to her queries.

ANN BRAUDE is assistant professor of religion at Carleton College.

Copyright© 1990 by American Antiquarian Society

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nation. The churches viewed the new movement as a threat as

grave as that posed by the abohtionists, women's rights advocates,
and the general nonconformists who made up its followers.
Spiritualism can be as problematic for the modern scholar as it
was to nineteenth-century churchmen. While it is ubiquitous in
the documents of nineteenth-century culture, its adherents' ab-
horrence of organization makes their movement difficult to chart
in retrospect. Spiritualists were united only by their attempt to
make contact with the spirits of the dead. Many pursued this
common goal in isolation from other believers, through distinctive
means accompanied by distinctive ideologies. Some espoused
Christianity, some condemned it. Some placed faith in messages
delivered through mediums that their co-religionists dismissed as
frauds. The movement had no identifiable membership because it
had no formal associations for believers to join. It had no official
leaders because it had no offices for them to hold and no hierar-
chies to sanction them. It had no creed, no authoritative text.
Spiritualist luminaries set forth visions of ultimate reality so
unique that many had to invent new words to describe the universe
as they saw it. How should the scholar approach such an amor-
phous movement with so many self-proclaimed prophets? In my
own study of Spiritualism, the periodical press provided the most
helpful sources.
Spiritualist periodicals provide information about the activities
of their readers that carmot be gleaned from other sources. In
addition to fiction and philosophy, the periodicals printed ac-
counts of the progress of Spiritualism in specific communities,
described the movements of speakers, provided lists of mediums,
printed advertisements from mediums offering a variety of ser-
vices, described séances, and printed messages received from
spirits through specific mediums. Periodicals reported on local,
regional, and national meetings and conventions, frequentiy print-
ing the program, a list of elected officers, and a full account of
the proceedings, including resolutions passed and the texts of sup-
porting statements. These reports offer an opportunity to see
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Spiritualists in action, to hear practicing Spiritualists describe
their activities, to hear them talk about the reform issues about
which they cared most passionately. Lists of convention delegates
often include names familiar to students of nineteenth-century
social reform. Perhaps most importantly, periodicals allow us to
follow individuals over time, to witness their investigation of
Spiritualism, to learn about changes in opinion resulting from new
or different experiences. Most Spiritualist writing published in
books is limited to philosophical accounts or to spirit messages;
periodicals, in contrast, abound with information about Spiritual-
ist practices and practitioners.
I came to the American Antiquarian Society in 1985 as a Frances
Hiatt Eellow to read the Banner of Light, the best known and most
widely read Spiritualist periodical, published in Boston from [ 857
to 1907. The Banner's columns frequently mentioned other
Spiritualist periodicals, either in advertisements, exchanges, re-
views, or correspondence. The Society's extraordinary newspaper
and periodical collection usually allowed me to see the new titles
I found in the Banner, and these, in turn, referred me to other
periodicals. Based on what I had read in secondary sources, I
guessed that about two dozen Spiritualist periodicals were printed
during the nineteenth century; by the end of that first summer, I
had a hst of seventy-five. The sheer number of titles seemed to be
a useful piece of information about the scope of a movement that
is very difficult to chart. I then began keeping a systematic list of
titles. As the list expanded to include the holdings of other libraries
and to cover the entire nineteenth century, it eventually reached
214 titles. I feel sure that the list is incomplete, and I hope others
will add to it, but the number of titles it currently contains is so
much greater than the number previously believed to exist, that it
seems worthwhile to publish the list at this point.
When I arrived at AAS I regarded myself as someone interested
solely in the content of printed materials. I began this list merely
as a finding aid for myself. I hope it will now make the primary
sources on Spiritualism more accessible to other scholars as well.
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I continue to view the list's usefulness as a finding aid as its most
important function. However, with some gentle prodding from
the Society's library staff, I eventually realized that analysis ofthe
list could yield evidence not only about the scope ofthe movement
I was studying but also about its nature. Prehminary analysis of
the list confirmed what I already knew about Spiritualism. For
example, the names of forty-one women appear as editors and
publishers. Although this represents a small percentage ofthe total
number of editors and publisbers, it is quite a large group of
women to find in the newspaper business during this period.
Clearly, the movement encouraged female leadership and an ex-
panded public role for women. Likewise, the finding that only
twelve of the titles came from Southern states emphasizes what
other sources suggest: that Spiritualism was predominantly but
not exclusively a Northern movement. The existence of even these
twelve publications is significant evidence that Spiritualism did
have Southern adherents, even though its association with aboli-
tion made it unpopular and sometimes illegal in the region.
Periodicals from the earlier period tend to emanate from the
Northeast while those later in the century come disproportion-
ately from California and the West, paralleling the migration of
Spiritualist leaders from religiously conservative areas to the more
pennissive religious and social climate of the West Coast.
The most striking and most suggestive finding resulting from
my analysis ofthe list is that the vast majority of these publications
can only be described as unsuccessful. Most ofthe periodicals in
this list never found a secure footing and folded within a few
months or years. Only thirty-one, or about 15 percent, survived
for evenfiveyears. Of these, twelve lasted for ten years or longer,
and only five out of the 206 saw their twentieth anniversary. In
other words. Spiritualists persisted in starting new pubHcations by
the dozens decade after decade, when it should have been perfectly
evident that these efforts could not succeed. What needs explana-
tion is not why the papers failed but rather why publishers and
editors began new ones as fast as their predecessors passed from
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TABLE 1

LIFESPAN OF SOME SPIRITUALIST PERIODICALS

Years in • \
Publication Title
50 Banner of Light 1ÍÍ57-1907
40-49 Religio-PhilosophicalJournal 1865-1907
World's Advance Thought 18 76- [918
20-39 Practical Christian 1840-1860
Star 1884-1921
10-19 i.«fï^ 1883-1896
New Thought (Chicago) T892-1906
Olive Branch 1876-1889
Pjvgressive Thinker 1893—1908
Sunflower 1890- [ 909
Voice of Angels 1875-1885
Watchman 1880-1891
5 -9 Beuer Way \ 886-1892
Buchanan'sJouTTial of Man 1849-1856
Carrier Dove 1884-1893
Cassadagan 1892-1897
Cm/j-1852-1857
Golden Gate 1885-1890
HeraldofLight 1857-186 (
HuWs Crucible 1871 -1877

Lichtstrahlen 1899-1907
Light for Thinkers 188 i -1886
Lyceu7n Banner \ 867-1872
Miller's Psychometric Circular 1880-1887
M/WrtBi/Mrftter 1878-1883
New Thought (Chicago) 1892 -1906
Rising Tide 1860-1865
Spiritual Offering{Oxxumv/z, Iowa) 1880-1887

the scene. Table i hsts, by number of years of publication, all titles

that survived forfiveyears or longer.^
2.1 have been unable to determine whether the short life-expectancy of Spiritualist
publicadons was unusual among nineteenth-century periodicals. I suspect diat it was not.
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Lest there be any doubt, let me state unequivocally that editing

a Spiritualist paper did not pay. An occasional publication had a
wealthy backer; rubber magnate Horace Day supported the Chis-
tian Spiritualist and match manufacturer Charles Partridge spon-
sored the Spiritual Telegraph in partnership with Samuel Byron
Brittan. But even these gentlemen tired of pouring resources into
ventures that never became self-sustaining and allowed their pet
projects to perish after three and five years, respectively. Most
papers were financed by hard-working editors, frequently sub-
sidized by the fees the editor received as a Spiritualist lecturer.
The short life of newspapers usually resulted from the exhaustion
ofthe editor's resources, both financial and personal.
How can we explain the Spiritualist passion for periodical pub-
lication? Two concepts developed by the historian of journahsm
David Nord suggest possible explanations. The first is the role of
periodicals in the formation of 'reader communities,' groups of
geographically separated but Uke-minded individuals who learn of
each other's existence and maintain contact through the columns
of newspapers. The second is the ideal of democratic journalism
that Nord has identified in the thinking of aboHtionist publisher
William Lloyd Garrison. This ideal paralleled Spiritualist religi-
ous practice in many important aspects and may have provided an
incentive to pubhsh when more concrete considerations were less
encouraging. 3
Let us first explore the community-building function of Spiritu-
alist periodicals. To do so, we must understand a few of the basic
precepts of Spiritualism. Spiritualism rested on the assertion that
contact with the spirits of the dead provided empirical proof of
the immortality of the soul and that such contact could occur
through human mediums. The faith was antithetical to institu-
]f this suspicion is correct, it is possible that some features of this discussion may be
generalized to apply to the special-interest journalism of other groups.
J. These concepts are developed in two essays by David Paul Nord: 'The Children of
Isaiah Thomas; Notes on the Historiography of Journalism and of the Book in America,'
Occasional Papers in the History of the Book in .American Culture, American Antiquarian
Society, 1987; 'TocquevUle, Garrisoo, and the PtiíecúonoiiovmAVism^ Journalism History
13 (1986): 56-63.
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tional religion because it asserted that truth came directly to the

individual without mediation by minister, Bible, or church. The
ability of spirits to reveal the fate of the human soul directly to
human beings at the time and place of the spirit's choosing ob-
viated the need for scripture, sacrament, or sanctuary, or even for
worship. Unlike church attendance, which reinforced the wor-
shiper's identity as a member of a congregation, attending a séance
was an intensely individual action. Spiritualism asserted that each
individual could have direct knowledge of truth through spirit
communication and through the observation of nature, without
recourse to church, minister, or Bible. Spiritualists believed that
creeds, churches, and hierarchies enslaved the human spirit to
false structures and therefore impeded the progress of truth. The
Spiritualist abhorrence for structure made it an inchoate move-
ment. What sources of unity were available to a movement that
shunned the forms of religious organization through which other
American faiths fostered cohesion and spread information among
co-religionists?
Newspapers and magazines helped fill the gap lefr by the lack
of formal organization. Spiritualist periodicals linked isolated be-
lievers across America, providing a vehicle for communication and
solidarity for those who shared a belief that, although widespread,
could be extremely unpopular, and which had only a few adherents
in a given locality. Because the leading mediums and advocates of
the movement were itinerant and their movements were unpre-
dictable, they could only be followed through the centralized in-
formation provided by newspapers. For example, speakers' lists
included the engagements ofthe popular Vermont trance medium,
Achsa W. Sprague, who toured throughout the Northeast and
Midwest during the \ 850s and 1860s. Her sister, Celia Steen, who
lived on a farm in Ohio, knew when her sister might visit only by
reading the Banner of Light and the Herald of Progress. She com-
plained that sisters should have more direct knowledge of each
other's movements than through the public press, but Sprague's
unpredictable itinerary (determined by spirit guidance) and hun-
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dreds of correspondents forced her to rely on the press to keep her
friends and even her family informed of her whereabouts. The
phrase *I see by the papers that you . . . ' recurs frequently in her
personal correspondence. An Indiana Spiritualist began a corre-
spondence with Sprague—including a proposal of marriage—be-
cause he admired her articles and what he read about her in several
periodicals.-* The most widely read Spiritualist paper, the Banner
ofLight, had a truly national circulation, reporting on speakers and
events and printing correspondence from every region of the
country. Even the ambitiously titled World's Paper, published
in the tiny village of Sandusky in the mountains of Vermont,
had contributors from as far away as Philadelphia and Indiana.
The Spiritualist press forged bonds between members of a non-
geographic community of believers.
The second insight from the history of journalism that might
help to explain the large number of short-lived periodicals con-
cerns parallels between an ideal of democratic journalism and
Spirituahst religious practice. The Spiritualist press continued the
tradition of democratic journalism exemplified by William Lloyd
Garrison's Liberator.^ The belief that free inquiry would lead to
truth formed the basis both of democratic perfectionist journalism
and of Spiritualist religious practice. Spiritualists asked their co-
rehgionists to believe nothing, they asked only that they come to
the séance table and observe demonstrations of spirit presence. If
they remained unconvinced, they were urged to continue investi-
gation. William Lloyd Garrison himself followed his journalistic
convictions to the séance table. Of course, once he received con-
vincing evidence of spirit presence, he published an account in the
Liberator.^ Spiritualism's radical individualism attracted social rad-

4. Elmer B. Louden to Achsa W. Sprague, Feb. 4, 185H, Apr. 25, [TH'i8?],May 27, 185H,
Oct. 6, i 858, Achsa W. Sprague Papers, Vermont Historical Society, Montpelier, Vermont.
5. Nord, Tocqueville, Garrison, and the Perfection of Journalism.'
6. Liberator, Mar. 3, 1854. Garrison's Liberator account of the séance was reprinted as a
pamphlet. Modem Phenomena (Boston; Liberal Tract Society, 1H54). On Garrison's
Spiritualism, see John L. Thomas, The Liberator. William Lloyd Garrison (Boston: Little
Brown, 1963), p. 37^, Liberator, Sept. 12, 1851, p. i48;Jan. 13, 1852, p. i6;July 16, 1851,
p. I io;Mar. 3, 1853.
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icals throughout the century. It provided a positive religious ex-
pression for people who felt compelled by their faith to 'come out*
of the estabhshed churches. Many subscribers took tbe Liberator
as well as various Spiritualist periodicals. Spiritualist journals
shared with the Liberator a common mission to advance truth by
promoting free inquiry.
After the Civil War, many American reform movements drifted
from their pre-war individualist origins. Spiritualism was tied to
individualism by its religious practice, so it became a haven for
aging abolitionists as well as radicals after the war. Just as Spiritu-
alists insisted on the extreme individualism of radical abolition
after the Civil War, so they maintained a perfectionist ideal of
participatory journalism long after the Liberator had folded and
after commercialism had become the dominant force in American
newspapers. Spiritualism could be commercially salable: the com-
mercial press took advantage of Spiritualism's sensational appeal
to boost circulation. For example, the New York Daily Graphic
printed illustrated reports of materialization séances twice a week
during the summer and fall of 1874 and claimed that these articles
trebled its circulation. Even today, tabloids continue to exploit the
commercial potential of communication with the dead. However,
the Spiritualist press refused to take a commercial approach.
Rather, Spiritualist editors saw their publications as proponents
of trutb and distinguished their goals from those of commercial
papers. The editor and poet Thomas Lake Harris gave poetic
expression to this sentiment in his opening salutation to readers
ofthe Herald of Light:

Periodicals are like children. Some are still bom; others barely gasp,
and die; a few attain to manhood. Some are bom ofthe lawful marriage
of good and true affections; others the furtive product of umiatural
lusts. Some are fretful from their birth; and others smile, as if, from
the supreme repose of infancy, they saw through the open gates of
Paradise, and beheld the blessed faces of their Guardian Angels there.
Some grow up, foul and ugly, to scoff at virtue, and to sport with vice.
They truckle to the strong that they may oppress the weak, but are as
true to carnal self-interest as the weather-vane to the wind. Others are
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heroic and gentle and beautiful, and grow continually in wisdom as in
stature, and in favor with God and all good men. They are journals
fragrant with love of all things holy, heavenly, and humane, and full of
the treasures of affection as a young bride's heart. Would that all were
such; then indeed the press would preach the everiasdng gospel of
heroism, purity and self-sacrifice, the Gospel of the soul's regenera-
tion, in every language and to every race.'
Spiritualist editors harbored high hopes for the potential of their
publications to spread the truth and to advance the cause of hu-
manity.
The zeal of Spiritualist editors blazes from their mastheads.
The Social Revolutionist, the Vanguard, and the Rising Tide flaunted
their radicalism in their titles. The phrase 'Thine for agitation'
preceded the signature of correspondents in the Agitator. Spiri-
tualists' advocacy of unpopular causes as well as their individualism
made them staunch advocates of a free press. They perpetuated
the Garrisonian tradition of viewing the columns of newspapers
as an open forum for discussion and free inquiry. The movement
was determined to provide 'a Free Platform . . . for all those who
desire to give utterance to the burning thoughts that well up in
their inmost souls as the highest conception of the truth.'" This
zeal to allow all human thoughts to be aired, no matter how uncon-
ventional, encouraged editors to accommodate a broad range of
political positions. In addition to abohtion and woman's rights,
various Spiritualist periodicals espoused free love, socialism, mar-
riage reform, children's rights, health reform, dress reform, and
vegetarianism. The advocacy of so many 'isms' made editors feel
a certain urgency about the need for their publications, and getting
out a paper in itself assumed the status of a reform activity. S. S.
Jones, the editor of the Religio-Philosophical Journal, viewed the
press as a powerful instrument of reform. He told Spiritualists that
'the most potent means in their power to accomplish... the eleva-

7. Thomas Lake Harris, 'Salutor> —To the Reader,' Herald ofLight, 1 (1857), p. r.
S. Banner of Light, ]u\y 26, 1862.
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tion of human character and the alleviation ofthe downfallen and

the oppressed everywhere . . . is found in the printing press.'^
Mrs. M. M. Daniel, who published the Rising Tide in Indepen-
dence, Iowa, from 1860 to ( 865 hoped that her paper would live up
to Jones's expectations. She proclaimed in her prospectus: 'As the
"Rising Tide" of Old Ocean sweeps away everything within its
reach which has not a substantial foundation; so we intend the
energies of our Paper shall be brought to bear in sweeping away
all false Creeds, Theories, Dogmas, and whatever is not based
upon the immutable principles of Eternal Truth."" Sentiments
like Mrs. Daniel's suggest that Spiritualist editors viewed their
work more as a ministry than as a secular occupation. Elmer B.
Louden had barely extricated himself from editing the Truth
Seeker when he took on the editorship of the Chief He wrote to
Achsa Sprague, 'When I disposed of the Truth Seeker I felt like a
prisoner released. But the friends oï spiritualism and reform here
think I did not.fe/TJe out my time, which they are determined I shall
do yet.'"
The editor's role as publisher of truth could be especially impor-
tant for male Spiritualists whose presumed rationality, worldliness,
and 'organized' mental capacities were believed to make them
poor vehicles for spirit communication. Mediumship was closely
associated with femininity, and Spiritualism defined no compara-
ble public role for men. While many men became Spiritualist
leaders, each had to find his own role, whether as manager for a
female medium, conference organizer, or editor. While hundreds
of women gained respect, admiration—and sometimes a living—
as spirit mediums, publishing a newspaper was the closest thing to
ministry that the new faith offered to male advocates. Serving as
an editor could be an important element in establishing the repu-
tation of a male leader in an anti-authoritarian religion.
Once bringing out a paper is seen as a religious vocation, a
9. Banner of Light, Mar. i, 1865, p. 3.
10. Rwng7/i/i,July 25, [860, p. 4.
11. Elmer B. Louden to Achsa W. Sprague, Feb. 4, 1858, Achsa W. Sprague Papers.
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reform activity, a vehicle for truth, and a source of cohesion in a

nongeographic community, it is clear that it did not matter
whether it paid or not. In many ways the most commercially suc-
cessful Spiritualist periodical, the Banner of Light, is the least in-
teresting, precisely because it did wbat was necessary to succeed:
it shunned controversy, printed more romantic fiction than radical
ideology, and could be read with interest by Americans of a wide
array of opinions who wanted to talk to the dead. In contrast, some
of the shortest-lived papers printed the most interesting opinions,
eloquentiy articulating positions on the American political spec-
trum that can be found in few other sources. Surely the Banner^s
large and loyal readership indicates that its content was palatable
to more Americans than that ofthe less successfiil papers, but 200
short-lived titles suggest that many were not satisfied with its
moderate views, and constantly sought more opinionated alterna-
tives. The spirits inspired both editors and readers to remain, like
the Baltimore New Life, 'Free in thought—fearless in expression,'
throughout the century.

NOTE ON THE CHECKLIST AND INDEXES

The following list provides as much information as was available
for each title, including the place, frequency, and dates of publica-
tion. Subtitles have been transcribed as they appeared on the orig-
inal masthead or prospectus. Publication information is followed
by the names ofthe pubhsher and editor. Frequently, the publisher
was also the editor, and these titles were used intercbangeably.
Where successive editors published the same periodical, all avail-
able names are listed. The line below that of the names of pub-
Ushers and editors provides alternate tides and periodicals that
succeeded or preceded the title in the entry. In some cases, this
line is followed by a note providing an excerpt from the prospectus
or other information about the nature or content of the publica-
tion. The last line provides Library of Congress location symbols
for libraries that hold examples ofthe title. Not all locations hold
full runs of the title in question. In many cases, the last date of
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publication must be regarded as uncertain, signiiying only that no
extant copy is known of an edition after that date. The abbrevia-
tions ULS and OGLG in brackets indicate that the title of an entry
is Usted in the Union List ofSerials or the OGLG Online Gomputer
Library Genter database. Where indicated, these two sources in-
clude additional locations for an entry. If no location symbol ap-
pears, this indicates that no extant copy is known. Where this is
the case, the hest source of infonnation about the periodical is
provided.
The largest single collection of Spiritualist periodicals is found
at the American Antiquarian Society, which holds forty-nine titles,
although its collection extends only to 1876. Three indexes in-
cluded here are designed to provide access to the information
contained in the checklist from several different points of entrance:
a geographical index arranged by state of publication, and by city
within each state; an index of editors and publishers, arranged
alphabetically by name; and an index by decade of publication.

A CHECKLIST OF
AMERICAN SPIRITUALIST PERIODICALS, 1 8 4 7 - 1900

Age of Freedom. Berlin Heights, Ohio. Weekly. 1857.

Ed. Cordelia Barry, Francis Barry, C. M. Overton, John Patterson
Succeeded the Social Revolutionist.
Note: Vanguard {\ [1H57], p. 359) notes that it has received the first issue.
OClWHi

Age of Process. The development of spiritual truth is the achievement of

human reform. Buffalo, N. Y. Weekly. 1854-1H58.
Ed. Stephen Albro, under the patronage of the Buffalo Harmonial As-
sociation
Note: Described in Emma Hardlnge, Modem American Spiritualist (New York:
EmmaHardinge, 1870), p. 155, which reprints excerpts on pp. 286-89,314-20.
NNHi {ULS\
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Age of Reason and Spirit Annunciator. Forming a complete record ofthe
Practical facts exemplifying, and the Literature illustrating, the truth of
Spiritualism. New York. Monthly. 1858.
Pub. John Scott
Note: Prospectus published in the Banner of Light (Mar. 27,1858, p. 8), promising
a first issue on March 15, describes the journal as providing accounts of cures
performed by healing mediums. In the same column publisher Dr. John Scott
also advertised the availability of his services at Scott College of Health for
'patients desirous to be treated by SPIRITUAL EsJFLUENCE.'

Agitator. Devoted to Reform. Cleveland, Ohio. Semimonthly. July 1,

i85H-Apr. I, i860.
Ed. Mrs. H. F. M. Brown
MWA NNHi 0 0 OHi OClWHi [ULS] [OCLC]

Alcyone. A joumal devoted to the spread ofthe phenomena and philoso-

phy of Spiritualism, without theological controversey. Springfield, Mass.
1888-1892.
Star Publishing Co., ed. H. A. Budington
Note: Advertised in Banner of Light from 1889-1892.

American Joumal of Spiritual Sciences. New York. 1870

Note: Advertised in the Religio-PhilosophicalJournal (June 25, 1870, p. 5).

American Spiritual Magazine. Devoted to Spiritualism, its History, Phe-

nomena, Philosophy and Teachings from a Christian Standpoint. Mem-
phis, Tetm. Monthly. Jan. 1875-Dec. 1877.
Pub. Southern Baptist Publication Society, ed. Samuel Watson
Published in 1875 as Spiritual Magazine. Succeeded by Voice of Truth.
DLC MWA MH NNHi [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

American Spiritualist. Organ ofthe Ohio and Wisconsin State Spiritual-

ist Associations. Cleveland, Ohio, New York, Boston. Weekly. ¡868-
1872.
Ed. Hudson Tuttle, H. O. Hammond, George A. Bacon, Joseph Baker,
J.O. Barrett, J.M. Peebles
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Published as Ohio Spiritualist in 1868, until consolidation with the

Spiritualist (Janesville, Wis.).
Note: Statement explaining consolidation appears in vol. i,no. 22, Jan. 30, 1869,
the second issue following the consolidation.
MWA WHi [other locadons in ULS]

Anthropologist. Milwaukee, Wis. Feb.-June 1851.

Ed. John Fox and Ambrose Pratt

Banner of Life. Newburgh, N.Y. 1860.

Ed. J. B. Moores
Note: Mentioned in Radical Spiritualist, i (1858), p. 94.

Banner of Light. A journal of Romance, Literature, and general intelli-

gence. Boston. Weekly. Apr. 11, [857-1907.
Pub. Isaac Rich, Luther Colby, ed. Luther Colby, John W. Day, Epes
Sargent
DLC MWA WHi [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

e.r.r. San Francisco. Weekly. Jan. 12, 1867-1868.

Pub. and ed. Benjamin Todd
CU DLC MWA [ULS]

Beacon Light. New York. Weekly. 1885-1887.

Pub. and ed. Mrs. M. E. Williams
Note: Advertised in the Watchman (Mar. 18H7) as 'giving messages from our loved
ones in spirit life and containing matter of general interest connected with
spiritual science.'
MR

Better Way. Devoted to Spiritualism and other Topics. Cincinnati, Ohio.

Weekly 1886-1892?
OC OHi OClWHi

Bizarre, for Fireside and Wayside. See Church's Bizarre.

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Brittan 's Journal of Spiritual Science, Literature^ Art and Inspiration. New
York. Quarterly. Jan. 1873-Oct. 1874. 1
Ed. Samuel Byron Brittan
DLC MWA NNHi [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

Bwhanan's Journal of Man. Cincinnati, Ohio. Monthly. Jan. [849-Aug.

1856; Boston, 1887-1890.
Ed.J.R. Buchanan, M.D.
Note: Devoted to phrenology and psychometry; the editor adopts Spiritualism
in 1850.
MWA NNHi [ULS, other locations in OCLC]

Carrier Dove. An Illustrated journal devoted to Spiritualism and Reform.

Oakland, Calif. Monthly, Sept. [884-July 1887; weekly, July 30, 1887-?;
monthly, [892-June 1893. Sept. 1884-June 1893.
Pub. Julia Schlesinger and Dr. Louis Schlesinger. Ed. Elizabeth Lowe
Watson, Julia Schlesinger
CU DLC [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

Cassadagan. Lily Dale, N.Y. 1892-1897.

Ed. Mr. Bemis succeeded by Mr. Washbum
Note: Mentioned in Merle W. Hersey, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary ofthe Lily Dale
Assembly, i8jç-i$$4 (Lily Dale, N.Y., 1954), p. 24.

Champion. Chicago. Monthly. 1867.

Pub. H. H. Marsh and J. O. Barrett
Note: Banner of Light {Oct. 20,1866, p. 4) reports receiving a circular announcing
the publisher's intention of issuing this journal the following January to 'fight for
the unity of science, poHticas and religion' and to 'open up a free investigation
of whatever underlies the natural relation of man and man, man and woman, man
and God, and of all to angels, and to the spiritual worlds.'

Champion ofHtimanity. An exponent of spiritual unity, equal rights for

man and woman, self-sovereignty and the principles of human life. New
York. Weekly. E874.
Ed. Lessie Goodell Steinmetz and John Brown Smith
Note: Advertised in Banner of Light (May 16, 1874, p. 7).
 American Spiritualist Periodicals 4r5
Chicagoan. See universe.

Chief. 1858.
Ed. Elmer R. Louden
Note: Mentioned in Elmer B. Louden to Achsa W. Sprague, Feb. 4,1858, Achsa
W. Sprague Papers, Vermont Historical Society.

Christian Rationalist and Theological Reformer. N o party but the world—no

cause but human happiness. Boston. Weekly. Sept. 2-Nov. 18, 1848.
Ed. Woodbury Melcher Femald
Note: Described in the prospectus as 'a free and unsectarian paper, devoted to
all subjects connected with nature, rehgion, Christianity, spiritual and intellec-
tual philosophy, mental freedom, and the reformation of society.'
MWA [OCLC]

Christian Banker. Chicago. Weekly. 5 Jan.-23 Feb. 1853.

Ed. Seth Payne
ICHi

Christian Spiritualist. 'Every Plant Which My Heavenly Father Hath Not

Planted Shall be Rooted Out.' New York. Weekly. May 13, 1854-May
2, 1857.
Published by the Society for the Diffusion of Spiritual Knowledge, ed.
J. H. Toohey, Horace Day
Note: Described in Emma Hardinge, Modem American Spiritualism, pp. 140-41.
MWA DLC [other locations in ULS]

Christian Spiritualist. Macon, Ga. Semimonthly. 1859-1860.

Ed. Mr. L. F. W. Andrews
Note: Described in the Hera/i/o/P/Tjgrciï (Apr. 7,1860) as a paper published with
'considerable ability,' whose editor reponed in the Mar. 1 o, 1860, issue that 'the
most we can now anticipate is to publish semi-occasionally, perhaps once a
month, and ofrener if possihle.' Extracts appear in Emma Hardinge, Modem
Amei-ican Spiritualist, p. 205, and a description appeared on p. 430.

f. Philadelphia. Apr. 17, 1852-1855.

Ed. Joseph M. Church
416 American Antiquarian Society
Note: Described by Erank Luther Mott, in his History ofAmerican Magazines, 2
vols. (Cambridge, Mass.,: Harvard University Press, n)6j, vol. 2, p. 210), as 'a
dollar monthly in octavo' that 'satirized spiritualism while under Church's editor-
ship, but later gave much space to "Spiritual Manifestations." '
[locations in OCLC]

Clairvoyant Journal. Springfield, Mo. 1897.

Note: Described in World's Advance Thought (Dec 1897, p. 117} as 'teaching
healing, psychometry and clairvoyance.'

Common Sense. Ajournai of Live Ideas. San Francisco. Weekly. May 16,
1874-June 5, 1875.
Pub. Woman's Publishing Company, ed. W. N. Slocum and Amanda M.
Slocum
Note: Includes reports ofthe state woman's suffrage society and articles by Prof.
W. N. Chaney.
CSmH CU NN [OCLC, other locations in ULS]

Convention Day Journal. St. Louis, Mo. Monthly. 1868.

Pub. Children's Progressive Lyceum
Note: Mentioned in Banner of Light (Dec. 26, 1868).

Crisis. A semimonthly periodical devoted to the inner life of the New

Church. La Porte, Ind. Semimonthly. Apr. 15, 1852-1857.
Ed. John S. and Henry Weiler
Note: Devoted to New Church Spiritualism (Swedenborgian).
inUMWA [OCLC, other locations listed in ULS]

Disclosures from the Interior and Superior Care for Mortals. Auburn, N.Y.,
1851.
Ed. James D. Scott and Thomas Lake Harris
Note: Described in Frank Podmore, Modern Spiritualism: A History anda Criticism
(London: Methuen & Co., 1902, pp. 204, 295), as 'filled with messages signed
"John the Divine," "Daniel the Prophet," etc., and with poetry inspired by the
spirits of Shelley, Coleridge, and others.'
 American Spiritualist Periodicals 417
Eastern Star. Glenbum, Maine. Fortnightly. 1886-1888.
Pub. and ed. C. M. Brown :
Note: Advertised in the Watchman (Mar. 1887) as 'a live, wide-a-wake jounal
devoted to the exposition and dissemination of the spiritual philosophy.'

Evolutionist. Devoted to the science, philosophy, phenomena and religion

of the spiritualism of the twentieth century. Brooklyn, N.Y. Semi-
monthly. 1H97.
Ed. W. Wines Sargent
Note: Advertised in World's Advance Thought (Dec. 1897, p. 120).

Facts. Devoted to the Statements of Mental and Spiritual Phenomena.

Boston. Quarterly, [882-1883; monthly, 1884-1887. 1882-1887.
Ed. L.L. Whitlock
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Faith and Hope Messenger. Practical, Philanthropic, Progressive. 1899-

[900.

Pub. anded. W.J. Colville

Note: Advertised in Banner of Light (Jan. 28, 1899, p. 7).

Foundation Principles. The rock upon which motherhood must rest.

Search for them. Clinton, Iowa; Topeka, Kans. Monthly. 1885-June 20,
1H94.
Ed. and pub. Lois Waisbrooker
Succeeded by Lucifer.
KHi[í/Í.S,OCLC]

í. New York. Monthly. Nov. 1864-Aug. 1865.

Pub. C. M. Plumb
Succeeded Herald of Process.
Note: Concerned with andslavery and Spiritualism.
DLC NNHi [other locations in ULS and OCLC]
418 American Antiquarian Society
Gallery of Spirit Art. An Illustrated Magazine devoted to and Illustrative
of Spirit Photography, Spirit Paindng, the Photographing of Materi-
alized Forms and Every Form of Spirit Art. Brooklyn, N.Y. Aug. 1882-
Nov. 1883
Pub. Charles R. Miller
CtYDLCNNHi[UL5]

Gnostic. Devoted to Theosophy, Spiritualism, Occult Phenomena and

the Cultivation of the Higher Life. San Francisco. 1885-1888.
Ed. George Chainey and Anna Kimball.
Note: Identified on the masthead as the 'Organ of the Delsane Conservatory of
Esthetic Gymnastics and Gnostic School of Psychic and Physical Culture.'
CU

Golden Gate. Sacramento, Calif Weekly. 1864.

Ed. Mrs. Francis H. McDougal
Note: Banner of Light (July 30, 1864, p. 4) notes that the first two copies have
been received and that it is ''a free paper, devoted to the investigation of spiritual
science and the development of a progressive humanity.'

Golden Gate. A journal of practical reform . . . devoted to the elevation of

humanity in this life and a search for the evidences of life beyond. San
Francisco. Weekly. July 18, 1885-1890.
Ed. J. J. Owen, Matde P. Owen.
Note: Contributors include Georgiamia Bruce Kirby.
DLCMBAtCU[i;LS]

Golden Way. San Francisco. 1891.

Pubs. Mrs. Matde P. Owen, Mrs. Rose L. Bushnell
CU
1

Good Time Coming. Berlin Heights, Ohio. Weekly. 1859.

OClWHi
I

Green Mountain Sybil. 'He is a freeman whom the truth makes free.'
Sandusky (Granville), Vt. Weekly. 1859.
 American Spiritualist Periodicals 419
Pub. A. C. Estabrook and W. Scott Abbott
Vermont State Library

Harbinger of Dawn. A review of occult, psychical, spiritual, and metaphys-

ical reviews. San Francisco. Monthly. 1899-1900.
Published as the Psychical Science Review in 1900.
Ed. Ernest S. Green
Note: Mentioned in World's Advartce Thought (Aug. 1899, p. 160).

Harmonia. A magazine devoted to Spiritualism. Waco, Tex. 1882.

Pub. and ed. P. A. Richards
TxU [ULS]

Haslet Park Camp Meeting Bulletin. Haslet Park, Mich. 1887-?

Clarke Historical Library, Central Alichigan University

Heat and Light. Boston. Sept. 1851-?.

Pub O. Clapp
MB

í. A journal of the Lord's New Church. New York. Month-

ly. May 1857-Aug. 1, 1861.
Ed. Thomas Lake Harris
Note: Described by Frank Luther Mott m History of American Magazines (vol. 2,
p. 210) as having'printed a good deal of verse, inciuding, in the number for July
1857, the spirit poems of Edgar Poe.'
MH MWA [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

Herald of Progress. Devoted to the Discovery and Application of Truth.

New York. Weekly. Eeb. 4, 1860-June 23, 1864.
Pub. and ed. Andrew Jackson Davis
Succeeds Spiritual Telegraph.
DLC MWA NN NNHi [other locations in ULS and OCLC]
420 American Antiquarian Society
Home Gem. A Progressive Juvenile Monthly. Cleveland, Ohio. 1858.
Ed. Anne Dentón Cridge
Note: Prospectus printed in Vanguard (Dec. 18, 1858, p. 4).

HuWs Crucible. 'And the fire shall try every man*s work of what sort it is.'
Boston. Weekly. 1871-1877.
Pub. and ed. Moses Hull and D. W. Hull
Note: Devoted to Spiritualism and free love. Described in the prospectus as 'a
wide awake journal devoted to the most radical reforms. Confined to no sect or
party, and owing fidelity to nothing but truth and honor, Hull's Crucible will
ignore no thought on account of its unpopularity, its object being to enlighten
and not toflatterthe world.'
CtY MBAt MWA [other locations in ULS]

HuWs New Monthly Clarion. Devoted to the cause of Reforms, Science,

and Literature. Monthly. Decatur, Mich. 1866-1867.
Ed. Moses Hull
Note: Banner of Light (Aug. 25,1866, p. 5) reports receiving the Aug. 1866 issue.

llluminati. Detroit, Mich. 1857?

Pub. Antoine V. Valentine
Note: A copy of a printed prospectus is in the Amy and Isaac Post Family Papers,
NRU.

Impending Epoch. Augusta, Ga. Monthly. July 1866-1867?

Ed. Henry J. Osbome
Note: Banner of Light (Apr. 6, 1867, p. 8) reports receiving the Mar. 8 issue and
praises the spirit messages from medium Miss Lydia H. Baker.

IndependentPîilpit. hectuTCshyGeorgeChainey. Boston.Jan. 10, 1885-?

Pub. George Chainey
WHi

Index. Devoted to Spiritual Philosophy and Practical Reform. Philadel-

phia. Monthly. Jan. 1855-?
Pub. Thomas Price
MWA
 American Spiritualist Periodicals 421
Journal of Progress. A Paper for the People. New York. Weekly. Apr. 30,
"1853-?
Pub. the Harmonial Association, ed. by a committee including R. P.
Ambler, W. S. Courtney, Frances H. Green, William Fishbough, and
Armette Bishop
Note: Described in the prospectus as designed 'to advocate the rights of human-
ity, to present the true principles of reform, and to chronicle whatever may be
useful and attractive in the developments ofthe present age.'
NNHi

Kijigdom of Heaven. Boston. Monthly. 1874.

Ed. Thomas Cook and Sarah Cook
Note: Prospectus, printed in Banner of Light (Apr. 4, 1S74, p. 5), states that it is
'devoted to the scientific or naturalistic explanation of Spirit or the Cíod-power;
first known as Christianity, and latterly as Spiritualism.'

Kingdom of Heaven or the Little Philosopher. See Optimist and Kingdom of

Heaven.

Liberator. The tmtb shall make you free. San Francisco. Semimonthly.
Sept. I, i8y8-Dec. ¡5, i8y8.
Pub. Bishop S. Garrison, ed. Julia Schlesinger
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Lichtstrahlen. (Rays of Light). West Point, Nebr. 1899-1907.

Ed. Max. Gentzke
Published in German.
Note: Advertised in Banner of Light (May 20, 1899, p. 7) as 'die einzige deutsche
Zeitschrift fuer Spiritualismus und Occultism in den Ver. Staaten.'

Life and Health. Ayer, Mass. Monthly. 1895-1 **9''-

Ed. Dr. C. E. Watkins
Note: Advertised in die Banner of Light (Jan. 5, 1895, p. 7) as 'the only Spiritual
Health Paper published.'

Light. Devoted to rational Spiritual Science and its practical application.

New York. Monthly. i88y.
MH-AH
422 American Antiquarian Society
Light for All. Devoted to the Growth, Attainment, and Perfection ofthe
Philosophy of Modem Spiritualiam. San Francisco. Monthly. May 15,
1H80-1883.
Pub. Mr. and. Mrs. A. S. Winchester
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Light for Thinkers. The pioneer spiritual joumal ofthe South. Atlanta,
Ga. Weekly. 1881-(886.
Pub. A. C. Ladd, ed. G. W. Kates
Note: Mentioned by Emma Hardinge Britten in Nineteenth-Century Miracles
(New York: William Britten, 1884), p. 451 ; advertised in Banner of Light (June
13, 1885, p. 7).

Light from the Spirit World. St. Louis, Mo. Weekly. 1B52-1853.
Puh. W. H. Manz., ed. Peter Bland
Note: Prospectus published in Neiv Era (Feb. 2, 1853, p. 55) describes it as
'devoted to the dissemination and elucidation of the facts as they transpire in
Circles of Spiritual investigation.' The prospectus also notes that the paper was
published by a committee of six gendemen selected by the Spiritualists of St.
Louis and Alton. |

Light in the West. St. Louis., Mo. Semimonthiy, .¿^r.-June 1886; weekly,
July-Sept. 1886. Jan. i, 1886-1887.
Pub. St. Louis Spiritual Association
Succeeds the Coming Age.
MoHi

Light of Truth. Cincinnati, Columbus, Ohio. 1887-1893.

Ed. C. C. Stowell
Note: Advertised in Carrier Dove (June 1893) as a '48 column joumal... one of
the most vigorous and eclectic spiritualist publications.'

Light on the Way. Devoted to the dissemination of Spiritual Knowledge.

Dover, Mass. 1888.
Pub. and ed. George A. Fuller
I

Little Bouquet. Chicago. Monthly. May 1865-May 1867.

 American Spiritualist Periodicals 423

Published by the Religio-Philosophical Publishing Associadon, ed. Mrs.

H. F. M. Brown
Succeeded by Lyceum Banner.
Note: Prospectus notes that the paper is 'exclusively devoted to the interests of
Children and Youth, and is an especial advocate of the Children's Progressive
Lyceum.'
ICHi [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

Little Bouquet. Chicago. Monthly. May 1872-1876.

Published by the Religio-Philosophical Publishing Associadon, Ed. S. S.
Jones
Note: Richly illustrated.
ICHi MWA

Living Gospel. Devoted to Spiritualism, Free Thought, and the advance-

ment of Truth, MoraUty and Human Progress. New Berlin, N. Y.
Monthly. 1878.
Pub. and ed. Addison Ellsworth
Note: Prospectus noted in Messenger 2 (1877), p. 56.

Lucifer. The Lightbearer. Valley Falls, Topeka, Kans.; Chicago. 1883-

1907.
Ed. Moses Harmon
Succeeds Kansas Liberal. Succeeded by American Journal of Eugenics.
KHi MH WHi [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

Lyceum. A liberal paper for the young. Toledo, Ohio. Monthly. 1874-
1875.
Pub. P. H. Bateson, for the children of the Progressive Lyceum
Note: Mentioned in Banner of Light (Apr. 18, 1874, p. 5) asforsale at the Banner
of Light office; advertised in Banner of Light (July 11,1875, p. 7) as an illustrated
journal for children advocating 'religion without superstition.'

Lyceum Banner. Devoted to the Culture and Amusement of the Young.

Chicago. Biweekly. Sept. i, 1867-Mar. 16, 1872.
Pub. Mrs. Lou H. Kimball, ed. Mrs. H. E M. Brown
434 American Antiquarian Society
Succeeds Little Bouquet.
Note: Includes illustrations and music.
DLC ICHi MWA [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

Lyceum Herald. New York. 1865.

Pub. Andrew Jackson Davis, ed. Mary Davis
Note: Prospectus issue was the sole puhlication issued.

Medium. Conneaut, Ind. 1856-1857?

Ed. Barnes and Hulbert
Note: Exchanged with Sodal Revolutionist, May 1856.

. Los Angeles, Calif 1895-?

Ed. E. D. Lunt

Medium's Friend. Terre Haute, Ind. Weekly. 1880-1882.

Pub. George R. Moore
Note: Advertised in the Watchman as being published 'in the interest of honest
and conscientious mediums' and including biographical sketches of mediums.

Messenger. Westfield, N.Y. Monthly. Nov. 1876-1879?

Ed. S. G. McEwen
NNHi

Messenger of Light. ^e^NYovV. 1854.

Note: Nicholas Journal (May 13,1854, p. 3) reprints an article from it and describes
it as a 'new spiritualist paper recently established in N.Y.'

Miller's Psychometric Circular. Brooklyn, N.Y. Monthly. 1882.

Charles R. Miller
Note: Described by Charles Miller inside the back cover of his other magazine
Gallery of Spirit Art (Aug. 1882) as 'one of our twin publications ... a 16 page
monthly... devoted to the young science of psychometry.'

Mind and Matte?; Spiritualism, science and free thought. Philadelphia.

Weekly. Nov. 30, 1878-Nov. 13, 1883.
 American Spiritualist Periodicals 425

Pub. and ed. J. M. Roberts

MB

Modem Age. A journal of progressive thought and sentiment. Hopedale,

Mass. Monthly. 1862-June 1866?
Pub. Bryan J. Butts, ed. Harriet N. Green
Succeeded the Progressive Age according to Lewis Perry, Radical Abolition
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1973), p. 275.
CtY MH MWA [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

Monthly Review. A liberal journal. Milan, Ohio. Monthly. 1882.

Also published as the Semi-monthly Review.
Ed. R. P. Wilcox
Note: Advertised in the Watcbman (Sept. 1882) as 'a free thought paper—the
Christian, Materialist and Spiritualist each being accorded a chance of presenting
their peculiar views in its columns.'

Morning Star. Van Wert, Ohio. Weekly. 1873-1874?

Ed. Mrs. Adolphus Kline
WHi

Mountain Cove Journal and Spiritual Harbinger. Mountain Cove, Va.

[W. Va.] Weekly Aug. 12, 1852-Oct. 30, 1853.
Ed. Thomas Lake Harris and James L. Scott
WvU [OCLC]

N.D.C Axe and True Key Stone. Cincinnati, Ohio. Weekly. 1888.
Pub. James A. Bliss
Note: Advertised in the Banner ofLight as the 'Organ ofthe National Developing
Circle ... especially devoted to the development of mediumship.'

National Spiritualist Association ofthe United States ofAmerica. Proceedings

of the Annual Convention. Washington, D.C. Annual. 1893-1905?
CtY NN [other locations in ULS]

Nebraska State Register. Lincoln, Neb. 1874.

Ed. Wm. C. Cloyd
420 American Antiquarian Society
Note: Advertised in the Banner ofLight (Apr. 4, 1874, p. 5) as a '40 column paper
... full of Nebraska News including a section on Indian customs and a
"Spiritualistic department, conducted by a Medium."'

New Age. Free Religion, Labor Reform, Emancipation of Women,

Spiritualism, MateriaUsm, and Temperance. Boston. Nov. 6, 1875-June
9, 1877.
Ed.JohnM. L. Babcock
MH MWA [other locations in ULS]

New Campaign. Berlin Heights, Ohio. Monthly. 1871.

OClWHi

New England Spiritualist. A Journal of the Methods and Philosophy of

Spirit-Manifestation, and its Uses to Mankind. Boston. Weekly. Apr. 7,
1855-Dec. 26, 1857.
Pub. and ed. Alonzo E. Newton
Succeeded by the Spiritual Age.
DLC MB MH MWA NN [ULS]

New Era of Heaven Opened to Man. Devoted to the New Dispetisadon.

Boston. Weekly. 1852-1855.
Ed. S. Crosby Hewitt
Succeeded by New England Spiritualist
Note: Described in the prospectus as 'a medium for the higher order of Spiritual
communications... free for the utterance of all worthy and useful thought. . . . It
will spontaneously avoid all sectarianism, (except to give it criticism,) and will be
the unswerving advocate of Universal Truth.'
MWA

New Life. Free in thought—fearless in expression. Baltimore. 1870.

Note: Banner of Light (June 25, r 870, p.4) reports receiving

New Thought. Ajournai of Spiritualism in its Higher Aspects. Chicago.

Monthly. July 1892-Dec. 1906.
Pub. and ed. Moses Hull
DLC [other locations in ULS]
 American Spiritualist Periodicals 427

New Thought. Devoted to Spiritualism and General and Political Reform.

Des Moines, Iowa. 1885-1889.
Ed. Moses Hull
Note: Listed in Alan Schroder, A Bibliography ofIowa Newspapers, iSjó- ipyó (Iowa
City: Iowa State Historical Society, 1979), p. 115.

From the Spirit World. Chicago. 1868?-1870.

Ed. Rev. Mrs. Adeline Buffum
Note: Listed in Franklin William Scott, Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois,
(Spring^eld, 111.: Illinois State Historical Library, 1910), p. 92.

Nichols' Joumal. Devoted to Health, Intelligence, Freedom; Individual

Sovereignty and Social Harmony. New York. Monthly, Apr.-Dec. 1853;
weekly, Jan.-? 1854. Apr. 1853-1854.
Ed. Thomas Low Nichols and Mary S. Gove Nichols
Note: Begins as a water-cure joumal. The editors report their investigation and
adoption of Spiritualism beginning with the issue of Jan. 7, 1854-
MWA [ULS]

Nichols' Monthly. Cincirmad, Ohio. 1855.

Ed. Thomas Low Nichols and Mary S. Gove Nichols
MWA

Northwestern Excelsior. Waukegan, 111. 1856-1859.

Ed. Ira Porter and J. C. Smith, then by Pooler and Kribs
Succeeded the Northwestern Orient.
N

Nucleus. Boston. Monthly. 1857.

Pub. LeRoy Sunderland, ed. Charles H. White
Note: Described in the Vanguard (i 11857], p. 358) as 'a proposed monthly.'

Nya Tiden. See Skandinaviske Spiritulisten.

Olive Branch. Devoted to the Spiritual Elevation of Humanity. Utica,

N.Y. Monthly 1876-1889.
428 American Antiquarian Society
Ed. David Jones
WHi [other locadons in ULS]

Olive Branch. Grand Rapids, Mich. 1890.

Note: Mentioned in Banner of Light (May 17, 1890, p. 3).

Ohio Spiritualist. See American Spiritualist.

Optimist and Kingdom of Heaven. Anderson, Huntsville, Ind.; Berlin

Heights, Ohio; Manmonton, N. J. 1864-1868.
Ed. Thomas Cook and Eliza Jane Robinson
Title varies, also published as Kingdom of Heaven or the Little Philosopher,
and as True Union or the Scientific Socialist.
MB [ULS]

Ouina'sBasket. Chicago. 1878.

Note: Messages through the mediumship of Cora Richmond.

Our Age. Devoted to the Interests of Spiritualism in the Broad Sense of

that Term: Free Press, Speech, and Has No Love to Sell. Battle Creek,
Mich. Weekly. 1873-1874
Pub. and ed. Lois Waisbrooker
Note: Prospectus published in Banner of Light Qxày 26, 1873, p. 8).

Pacific Coast Spiritualist. San Francisco. 1893-1895

Ed. Julia Schlesinger
Note: Mentioned in Banner of Light (Dec. 16, 1893, p. 7).

Philosophical Journal. See Religio-Philosophical Journal.

Praaical Christian. Hopedale, Mass. Weekly. 1840-1860.

Ed. Adin Ballou
Note: The Practical Christian, begun hefore the advent of Spiritualism, first
noticed the Fox sisters on Feb. 3, 1849, p. 3, and, following the conversion of its
editor, reported frequently on Spiritualism throughout the 1850s.
MWA [other locations in ULS and OCLC]
 American Spiritualist. Periodicals 429
Present Age. Kalamazoo, Mich.; Chicago. Weekly. 1868-1872.
Pub. and ed., Doms M. Fox
Note: Described in the prospectus as 'devoted to the spiritual philosphy, polite
literature, and general intelligence, and alt the reformatory movements ofthe
day. Suffrage for women especially advocated.'
DLC MWA [t/LS]

Principle. 'Break from thy body's grasp—the Spirit-trance; Give thy soul
room—thy Faculties expanse.' New York. Monthly. Dec. 1856-1859.
Ed.J. B. Conklin
DLC MWA [other locations in ULS\

Problem of Life. Devoted to Spiritual Science and Philosophy and all

subjects pertaining to the welfare and progress of humanity. Boston.
Monthly. 1893.
Pub. Frank Lovell, ed. W. J. Colville
Note: Advertised in Banner of Light (Feb. 11,189Î, p. 3).

Progressive Age. Free, Fraternal, Spiritual. Hopedale, Mass. 1862.

Eds. Harriet N. Green and Bryan J. Butts
Succeeded the Spirihml Reformer-, succeeded by the Modem Age, accord-
ing to Lewis Perry, Radical Abolition, p. 275.

Progressive Age. Kalamazoo, Mich. Weekly. 1864-May 20, 1865.

Ed. Moses Hull
Note: Banner of Light (Sept. 3, 1864, p. 4) reports that it has received the first
number and that the paper will be 'devoted to Spiritualism and general reform.'
Editor Hull, in Banner of Light {Aug. 12, i865,p. 4), apologized to his readers for
the delay in the appearance of tbe new publication intended to replace tbis one.
NNHi holds an extra ofthe Progressive Age, a broadside entided 'A Discourse on
the Death of President Lincoln' that was preached before the Friends of Progress
in Stuart's Hall, Battle Creek, Micbigan, on Apr. 19, 1865, by Moses Hull.

Progressive Age. Atlanta, Ga. Monthly. 1881-1882.

Note: Advertised in Banner of Light as devoted to 'phenomenal facts in every
department of what is known as Spirituahsm.'
TN
430 American Antiquarian Society
Progressive Annual. Comprising an Almanac, a Spiritualist Register, and
a Gieneral Calendar of Reform, New York. 1862-1865?
Pub. and ed. Andrew Jackson Davis
MHNN • ;

Progressive Friend. Elgin, III. i860.

Note: Mentioned in the Spiritual Clarion (Jan. 14, 1860).

Progressive Thinker, Spiritualism—Progress, the Universal Law of Na-

ture. Chicago. Weekly. 1889-1912.
Pub. J. R. Francis, ed. Mrs. M. E. Cadwaller
KHi WHi [ULS and OCLC]

Psychical Review. JoMTns] of Psychical Science and Organ ofthe American

Psychical Society. Grafton, Mass. Quarterly. Aug. 1892-May 1894?
Note: Contributors include Benjamin O. Flower, Minot J. Savage, Hatnlin Gar-
lin, Joseph Rodes Buchanan.
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Radical Spiritualist. Hopedale, Mass. Monthly May 1858-Apr. i860.

Eds . Harriet N . Green and Bryan J. Butts
Succeeded by Spiritual Reformer.
Bancroft Memorial Library, Hopedale Mass. Available on microfilm at Berkeley
and Columbia.

Religio-Philosophical Journal. Devoted to Spiritual Philosophy, the Arts

and Sciences, Literature, Romance, and General Reform. Chicago, San
Francisco. Weekly. 1865-1907.
Ed. S. S.Jones,John C. Bundy, Thomas G. Newman
Moved to San Francisco and became Philosophical Journal in 1895.
Succeeded by the Pine Mountain Jonrtial, Crystola, Calif.
CtY DLC ICHi MWA NN WHi [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

Religio-Politico Party. Chicago. 1872-1873.

Ed. Mrs. Adeline Buffum
 American Spiritualist Periodicals 43«

The masthead 0/Religio-Philosophical Journal. This weekly periodical, which ran

from i86<; until i^oy, began in Chicago. When the publication was relocated to San
Francisco in /¿"yj, the title -was changed to Philosophical Journal.

Note: Listed in Franklin William Scott, Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois,

Ripley Herald. Ripley, Ohio. May 6-Sept. 16, 1852.

Ed. Tomhnson
OClWHi [other locations in OCLC]

Rising Tide. Independence, Iowa, i860-1865.

Pub. and ed. Mrs. M. M. Daniel
WHi

Rostrum. Devoted to the philosophy of spiritualism, liberalism, and the

progress of humanity. Vineland, N.J. Weekly. Nov. 11, 1883-1887.
E d . J . C Wright
Available at Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society.

Sacred Circle. The Truth against the World. New York. Monthly. May
1854-1856.
Ed. Samuel Byron Brittan, Charles Partridge, John W. F^dmunds,
George W. Dexter, and Owen G. Warren
Note: Prospectus states that its goal is to 'advance Truth in every form and shape;
to discuss Radical Moral Reform, Radical Intellectual Reform' and to print 'such
communications from Spirits as may be intrinsically valuable.'
DLC MWA NN WHi [other locations in OCLC]
432 American Antiquarian Society
Le Salut. (Salvation). New Orleatis. Monthly. 1870.
Ed. E. T. Simmons
Printed in French.
Note: Mentioned in Hudson Tuttle and J. M. Peebles, The Yearirook of Spiri-
tualism for 18/i (Boston: Wm. White, 1871), p. 194.

Scientific Investigator. Devoted to Science, art. Spiritual Philosophy and

radical Reform. Portland, Oreg. Monthly. 1881.

Note: Advertised in the Banner of Light (June 11, 1881, p. 7).

Semi-monthly Review. See Monthly Review.

fi.Bridgeport,Conn.,NewYork.Monthly.Oct. i85[-Oct. 1H53.
Ed. Samuel Byron Brittan
Note: Includes music.
CtY MH MWA NNHi [other locations in ULS]

Skandinaviske Spiritulisten. Minneapolis, Minn. 1897.

Also published as Nya Tiden (New Tidings).
Ed. Carrie Swenson
Puhlished in Swedish.
Note: Mentioned in World's Advance Thought (Dec. 1897, p. 124).

Social Revolutionist. A medium for the free discussion of General Princi-

ples and Practical Measures, pertaining to Human Progress. Greenville,
Ohio. Monthly Jan. 1856-Dec. 1857.
Published by the Rising Star Community
Ed. John Patterson and William Dentón
DLC MWA [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

Sold. A Monthly Magazine, devoted to the Theories and Phenomena of

Soul, Mind and Intelligence. Boston. Monthly. 1888.
MB {ULS\

Sower. The Medium's True Friend. Elmwood Place, Ohio; Detroit,

Mich., Chicago. Monthly. 1889-1895.
 American Spiritualist Periodicals 433

Ed. James A. Bhss, Mrs. James A. Bliss

Note: Advertised in Banner of Light (Feb. 7, 1891, p. 3).

Spirit Advocate. Rockford, 111. 1854-1856.

Ed. Dr. George Haskell
Note: Merged with the Orient, Waukegan.
Rockford Public Library

Spirit Guardian. Bangor, Maine, i860.

Ed. George W. Brown
Note: Listed among the exchanges oí Radical Spiritualist t ( 1858), p. 86. An article
v/iS Teprinted in the Herald of Progress (]une 2, i860, p. 5).

Spirit Land. New Orleans, i860.

Pub and ed. Wallace A. Brice
Note: One quarter of journal printed in French; noted in Radical Spiritualist 1
(1858), p. 94.

Spirit Messenger. 'Brethren, fear Not: for Error is mortal and cannot live,
and Truth is immortal and cannot die.' Springfield, Mass. Weekly. Aug.
10, 1850-1852.
Ed. Apollus Munn, R. P. Ambler, Erances H. Green
Succeeded by Spirit Messenger and Harmonial Guide.
MWANN [ULS]

Spirit Messenger and Harmonial Guide. 'Brethren, fear Not: for Error is
mortal and cannot live, and Truth is immortal and cannot die.' New York.
Weekly. Aug. 9, 1852-Apr. 9, 1853.
Ed. Apollus Munn, R. P. Ambler, Erances H. Green
Succeeded Spirit Messejiger.
DLC MWA NNHi WHi [ULS]

Spirit Voices. Boston. Monthly. 1885.

Pub. James A. Bliss, ed. George A. Euller
Note: Published under the auspices of the National Developing Circle; men-
tioned in Banner of Light (Sept. 26, 1885, p. 7).
434 American Antiquarian Society
Spirit World. Boston. Jan. 4-June 7, 1851.
Ed. LaRoy Sunderland
Continuation of the Spiritual Philosopher.
Note: Described in the prospectus as 'devoted to the Exposition of all questions
respecting SPIRITS and the Future Progression of the Human Race. ... It
acknowledges no AUTHORITY but die INFINITE HARMONL\, and takes
for the scope of its Mission the universal diffusion of Goodness, Justice, and
Truth.'
MH MWA WATK lother locations in ULS]

Spiritual Age. Devoted to rational Spiritualism and Practical Reform.

NewYork. May 2, 1857-Oct. 17, 1857.
Pub. and ed. Samuel Byron Brittan
Succeeded by Spiritual Age (Boston).
DLC

Spiritual Age. Devoted to rational Spiritualism and Practical Reform.

Boston.Jan. 2, 1858-Feb. 11, i860.
Ed. Alonzo E. Newton and Samuel Byron Brittan
Succeeds New England Spiritualist and Spiritual Age (New York); suc-
ceeded by Spiritual Eclectic. \
MH MWA {ULS and OCLC]

Spiritual Analyst and Scientific Record. Boston. Monthly. 1871.

Ed.J.RWToohey
Note: The June issue is reviewed in the SOBBÍT o/L/gAi (July 15, 1871, p. 8).

Spiritual and Moral Instmctor. Auburn, N.Y. 1851.

Ed. T. S. Hiatt and Rev. William Fishbough
Note : Mentioned in Frank Podmore, Modem Spiritualism: A History and a Criti-
cism, p. 204.

Spiritual Beacon. Cincinnati. 1853.

Pub. Charles E. King
Note; Prospectus published in the Neu" Era (Feb. 16, 1853,p.79).

Spiritual Clarion. Spiritualism, Its Tests, Harmonies, and Religion. Au-

burn, N.Y. Monthly. [857-Jan. 14, i860?
 American Spiritualist Periodicals 435

Ed. Mr. and Mrs. Uriah Clark

MW\[ULS]

Spiritual Eclectic. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Boston,
Portland, Maine. Apr. 14-June 2, i860.
'Published by an Association of Gentlemen,' ed. Alonzo E. Newton.
Succeeds Spiritual Age (Boston).
MH MWA [OCLC]

Spiritual Helper. Lake Mills, Wis. Monthly. 1870.

Pub. and ed. M. M. Tousey
Note: Prospectus published in Religio-PhilosophicalJou?yial (Aug. 13, 1870, p. 5).
See also Hudson Tuttle and J. M. Peebles, i'he Yearbook of Spiritualism for 18/1,
P- 238.

Spiritual Light. Designed to promote the cause of Spiritualism. San Fran-

cisco. Nov. 8, 1868-1869.
Pub. and ed. George C. W. Morgan
CU [OCLC]

Spiritual Light. Devoted to the interest and progression of humanity,

from a spiritual and liberal standpoint. Chattanooga, Tenn. Monthly.
1883.
Pub. and ed. J. D. Hagaman
Note: Advertised in Banner of Light (June 14, 1883, p. 7).

Spiritual Magazine. SeeAmerian Spiritual Magazine.

Spiritual Messenger. Cincinatti, Ohio. 1856.

Pub. and ed. E. Mead
Note: 'We have taken the subscription list and a portion ofthe printing materials
ofthe above paper' {Vanguard i [1857], p. 6).

Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record. Boston. Monthly. 1870.

Ed.J. H.Powell
Note: Described in Banner of Light (Oct. 15, 1870, p. 4).
436 American Antiquarian Society
Spiritual Offering. A scientific and Spiritualistic Magazine devoted to the
interests of humanity. Springfield, Mo.; Rochester, N . \ . Monthly. 1877-
May 1879?
Ed. Nettie Pease Fox
MBAt [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

Spiritual Offering. Ottumwa, Iowa. Weekly. 1880-1887.

Ed. Doms Fox and E. V. Wilson
OClWHi

Spiritual Philosopher. Devoted to the Exposition of Nature, Physical,

Spiritual, Divine. Boston. Monthly, July-Aug.; biweekly, Sept. 7-Oct.
19; weekly, Oct. 26-Dec. 28. July-Dec. 28, 1850.
Ed. LaRoy Sunderland
Became Spirit World in 1851.
MWA NN N WHi [OCLC]
.r

Spiritual Reasoner. San Francisco. Weekly. 1881.

Note: Mentioned in Banner ofLight (Dec. 24,1KH 3, p. 10) as available for purchase
at Banner of Light office.

Spiritual Record. Chicago. Weekly. 1879-June 12, 1880.

Pub. First Society of Spiritualists, Cora L. V. Richmond, medium
ICHi MBAt [other locations in ULS]

Spiritual Reformer. Hopedale, Mass, i860-1862.

Eds. Harriet N. Green and Bryan J. Butts
Succeeded the Radical Spiritualist; succeeded by the Processive Age., ac-
cording to Lewis Perry, Radical Abolition, p. 275.
Bancroft Memorial Library, Hopedale Mass. Available on microfilm at
Berkeley and Columbia.

Spiritual Reporter. 1867.

Ed. W. F. Jamieson
Note: Banner of Light (Jan. 26, 1867, p. 4) reports receiving the first issue.
 American Spiritualist Periodicals 437

Spiritual Republic. Devoted to Radical Reform. Chicago. Weekly. Jan.

5-Aug. 24, 1867?
Ed. E L. Wadsworth, J. O. Barrett
Note: Prospectus describes it as 'independent of sect and parties, criticizes men
and their po]icies without compromise, demanding Equal Rights for all.'
ICHi MWA [ULS\

Spiritual Rostrum. Devoted to the Harmonial Philosophy. Chicago.

Monthly. June-? 1868.
Ed. Moses Hull & W. F. Jamieson
Absorbed into the Universe.
WHi [OCLC] -,

Spiritual Scientist. Devoted to the Science, History, Philosophy, and

Teachings of Spiritualism. Boston. Weekly. Sept. 10, 1874-1878.
Ed. E. Gerry Brown
Note: This joumal became the first organ for the expression of the views of
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy. Her articles from the
Spiritual Scientist are reprinted in her Collected Writings: Volume One: i8j4-i8y8
(Wheaton, III.: The Theosophical Press, 1966), pp. 85-162.
MB MBAt MWA [other locations in ULS]

Spiritual Telegraph. Devoted to the illustration of Spiriltual intercourse.

New York. Weekly. 1852-1857.
Ed. Samuel Byron Brittan, Charles Partridge
Succeeded by Herald of Progress.
Note: Excerpts appear throughout Emma Hardinge, Modem American Spiritual-
ism.
MWA NN [other locations in ULS]

Spiritual Tribune. Chicago. 1857.

Note: Mentioned in Vanguard, 1 (1857), p. 267.

Spiritual Universe. Radical Advocate, and Joumal of Reform. Cleveland,

Ohio. 1854-1855?
Ed. L. S. Everett
OCiWHi
438 American Antiquarian Society
Spiritualist. Appleton, Wis. and Janesville, Ohio. Monthly, Mar.-Oct.
1868; weekly, Nov. 2, 1868-1872. Mar. 1868-1872.
Ed. Joseph Baker
Succeeded by American Spiritualist.
WHi

Spiritualist. Cleveland, Ohio. 1857.

Ed. L. S. Everett and J. S. Crampton
Succeeded the Spiritual Universe.
Note: Advertised in S'/j/Wn/a/í^gí'(New York, Oct. 17, 1857, p. io«) as'the only
paper in Northern Ohio devoted to Spiritualism . . . filled with facts calculated
to throw light on the new philosophy.'

Spiritualist. New York. 1860?

Note: An excerpt is printed in Emma Hardinge, Modem American Spiritmlism,
p. 302.

•|

Spiritualist at Work. Devoted to the Best Interests of Humanity. Progres-

sion Here and Hereafter. New York. Biweekly. July 1, 1874-1876.
Ed. D. M. Bennett, E. V. Wilson
Note: Puhlished alternate weeks with Bennett's Truth Seeker.
NNHi TxU WHi [OCLC]

Spiritualist Register. Facts, Philosophy, statistics of Spiritualism. Auburn,

N.Y. Annual. 185 7-1861.
Ed. Uriah Ciark
DLC MBAt MH MWA NN [ULS]

Spiritualiste de la Nouvelle-Orleans; écho-mensuel. New Orleans. Monthly.

Jan. 1857-Dec. 1858.
Published in French.
DLC MH MWA N NN [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

r. San Erancisco. Weekly. 1884-Jan. 1921.

CU [other locations in ULS]
 American Spiritualist Periodicals 439

Star of Truth. Boston. 1852.

Pub. Charles White
Note: Mentioned m Practical Christian y (July 17, 1852, p. 22).
A letter from editor White to Isaac Post (June 14, 1852), soliciting an article, is
in the Amy and Isaac Post Family Papers, NRU.
I

Starling Progressive Papers. Philadelphia. 1868.

Pub. White Banner Press, ed. W. D. Reicher
WHi

Strong Words. Devoted to Progressive Thought. New Orleans. June 30,

1878-?
LNHT [other locations in OCLC]

Su7Nmerland. Summerland, Calif. Weekly. 1881-1883.

Pub. H. L. Williams, ed. Dwight Kempton
Note: Advertised in Carrier Dove (June 1893). A clipping may be seen in the John
D. Powers Scrapbooks, vol. 11, p. 8, Vermont Histórica] Society.

Summerland Messenger. A journal of Art Literature and Science for the

Progressive Lyceum and the family fireside. Boston. Monthly. June
1874-1875.
Ed. T. P. James
Note: Includes literature from the 'spirit pen' of Charles Dickens, received
through the mediumship ofthe editor.
MWA

Sunbeam. Truth is Light. Batavia, N.Y. Weekly. 1859-1860.

Ed.C. D. Griswold,M. D.
Note: Described in Fmma Hardinge, Modem American Spiritualism, p. 156, as 'a
spiritual paper of an eminendy religious tone.'
MWA

Sunflower. An Exponent of the Spiritual Philosophy, its Science, and

Allied Subjects. Lilly Dale, N.Y. Weekly. 1890-1909.
Pub. and ed. W.H. Bach
DLC [VLS]
440 American Antiquarian Society
Tafelrunde. (Round Table). Spirituahsche Blätter fur Fortschritt und Re-
form. Washington, D.C. Biweekly. July 1870-June 15, 1872.
Ed. Dr. P. L. Schucking • ,, •
Published in German.
Note: A complete run is in the Publisher's Collection ofthe Washington Journal,
according to KarlJ. Arndt and Mary E. Olson, German-American Newspapers and
Periodicals, 17^2-1955, id. ed. (New York: Johnson Reprint Co., 1965), p. 16.

Telegraph Papers. New York. 1852-1857.

Ed. Charles Partridge and Samuel Byron Brittan
Note: 'Republication of articles selected from the Spiritual Telegraph.^
CtY DLC MH NN NNHi

Temple of Health. Devoted to Life, Health, and How to Live for a Gentuiy.
San Diego, Calif. Monthly 1895-1896.
Pub. and ed. J. M. Peebles
Note: Advertised in Banner of Light (October 26, 1895, p. 7), as 'devoted to
Psychic Treatment, Spiritual Hygeine and the Finer Forces.'

Texas Spiritualist. Hempstead, Tex. Monthly. 1876-1879.

Pub. C. B. Ketteringham and Charles W. Newman
TxU

Theocrat. A semimonthly Journal, Devoted to Spiritual, Mental, and

Physical Reform. Harmony Springs, Ark. 1860.
Ed.J. E. Spencer and Martha Spencer
Note: The editors are described by Emma Hardinge, Modem American
Spiritualis?n, pp. 364-68, as the leadere and mediums ofthe Harmonial Society,
a socialist community 'organized by angelic direction,' of which this paper is the
organ. Advertised in Spiritual Reformer 2 ( 1860), p. 31.

This World. Boston. Weekly. 1882.

Ed. George Chainey
Note: Advertised in SAnwCT-o/Lí¿Ar(June 3, 1882, p. 11).

Tiffany's Monthly. Devoted to the investigation of Spiritual Science. New

 American Spiritualist Periodicals 441
York. Monthly. 1856-July 1859.
Ed. Joel Tiffany
MWA N NN WATK WHi [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

True Life. Edenvale, Cahf Monthly. 1894-1903.

Ed. Mary Hayes Chenoweth
CU Stanford

True Union or the Scientific Socialist. See Optimist and Kingdom of Heaven.

. Angola, Ind. 1857.

Ed. A. P. Bowman and Elmer R. Louden
Note: Mentioned in Vanguard i [1857], p. 7, and in Elmer B. Louden to Achsa
W. Sprague, Feb. 4,1H5H, Achsa W. Sprague Papers, Vermont Historical Society.

Twilight. Devoted to Spirit Messages. Augusta, Maine. 1888-1890.

Pub. and ed. Dr. H. F Merril
Note: Advertised in Banner of Light 1888-1890 (e.g., Sept. 27, 1890, p. 3).

Univercoelum and Spiritual Philosopher. New York. Weekly. Dec. 4, 1847-

June 30, [849.
Pub. and ed. Samuel Byron Brittan
Succeeded by Spirit ofthe Age.
CtY DLC MBAt MH MWA NNHi [other locations in ULS and OCLC]

Universe. A Journal of Literature, the Spiritual Philosophy, Woman's

Independence, etc. Chicago; New York. Weekly. [868-1870.
Pub. H. N. F Lewis, ed. J. M. Peebles
Consolidation of the Chicagoan, Chicago Sorosis, and Advanced Guard.
Issued in 1868 as the Chicagoan.
MWk [ULS]

Vanguard. Devoted to Spiritualism, Practical Reform, and Progressive

Literature. Dayton, Ohio; Richmond, Ind.; Cleveland, Ohio. Weekly.
Mar. 7, 1857-1859.
442 American Antiquarian Society
Ed. William Dentón, Elizabeth M. Foote Dentón, Alfred Cridge, and
Anne Dentón Cridge
MWA

Voice of Angels. Somerville, Mass. Semimonthly. 1876-1887. .-_.

Ed. David C. Densmore
MB [ULS]

Voice of Truth. Memphis, Tenn. 1878.

Ed. Mary Dana Shindler and Annie C. Torrey Hawks
Succeeded American Spirittial Magazine.

Watchman. Devoted to the Interests of Humanity and Spiritualism.

Chicago. Monthly. [880-1891.
Ed. Hattie A. Cate [Berry]
Mouthpiece of the American and Eastern Congress of Spirit Life.
Watchman, spirit editor; H. A. Cate, amanuensis.
DLC

Weekly Discourse. Containing Spiritual Sermons by the Guides of Mrs.

Cora L. V. Richmond. Chicago. 1886-1891.
Pub. William Richmond
ICHi WHi [other locations in ULS]

Weekly Spiritualist. Marysville, Calif. Feb.-May, 1857.

Pub. and ed. Mr. L. W. Ransom
Note: The Banner of Light accused this paper of'pirating' articles without permis-
sion (May2i, 1857, p. 6).

Western Light. Devoted to Universal Liberty and Scientific Spiritualism.

St. Louis, Mo. Weekly. 1881.
Pub. Mrs. Annie T. Anderson
Note: Advertised in the Banner of Light (Feb. 19, [881, p. 7).

Western Star. Devoted to a Record ofthe Facts, Philosophy, and History

 American Spiritualist Periodicals 443
of the Communion between Spirits and Mortals. Boston. Monthly.
July-Dec. 1872.
Ed. Emma Hardinge
Note: Description and excerpts appear in Emma Hardinge Britten, Nineteenth-
Century Miracles, pp. 43 1-36.
CtY DLC MWA RPB

ite Banner. A Literary Journal of Progressive Philosophy. Philadel-

phia. Semimonthly. Jan. 1869-?
Pub. W D. Richner & Co.
MWA

Williamsburgh Spiritualist and Progressive Recorder. Brooklyn, N.Y. Trian-

nual. 1866.
Note: Banner of Light (June 23, 1866, p. 5) reports receiving thefirstcopy, which
includes many articles from the Banner of Light.

Winning Way. Industry, Education, Health, Spiritualism. Sacramento,

Calif. Weekly 1872.
Pub. Mrs. H. H. Clark & Co.
Note: Banner of Light (Jan. 18, 1873, p. 4) reports that it receives the Winning
Way regularly.

World's Advance Thought and the Universal Republic. Salem, Portland,

Oreg. 1876-1918.
Pub. and ed. Lucy A. Mallory
DLC NN [other locadons in ULS]

World's Friend. Dobbs Eerry, N.Y. 1885.

Ed. Olivia E Shepard

World's Paper. For the discussion and Diffusion of Truth, and Exposure
of Error. Sandusky (Granville), Vt. 1857-1866.
Pub. A. C. Estabrook, ed. Daniel Tarbell
Vermont State Library
444 American Antiquarian Society
GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX

ARKANSAS Progressive Age. 1881-1882

Harmony Springs Augusta
Theocrat. i860 Impending Epoch. 1866-1867
CALIFORNIA Macon
Edenvale Christian Spiritualist. 1859-1860
True Life. 1894-1903
ILLINOIS
Los Angeles
Chicago
Medium. 1895-?
Champion. 1867
Marysville
Christian Banker. 1855
Weekly Spiritualist. 1857
Little Bouquet. 1865 -1867
Oakland
Little Bouquet. 1872-1876
Carrier Dove. 1884-1893
Lucifer. 1883-1907
Sacramento
Lyceum Banner. 1867-1872
Golden Gate. 1864
NewThought. 1892-1906
Winning Way. 1872
News from the Spirit World.
San Diego
1868-1870
Temple of Health. 1895-1896
Ouina's Basket. 1878
San Francisco
PresentAge. 1868-1872
Banner of Progress. 1867-1868
Processive Thinker. 1889-1912
Common Sense. 1874-1875
Religio-Philosophical Journal.
Gnostic. 1885
1865-1907
Golden Gate. 1885-1890
Religio-Politico Party, i S 7 2 -187 3
Golden Way. 1891
Sower. 1889-1895
Harbinger of Dawn. 1899-1900
Spiritual Record. 1879-1880
Liberator. 1898
Spiritual Republic. 1867
LightForAll. 1880-1883
Spiritual Rostrum. 1868
Pacific Coast Spiritualist. 1893-1895
Spiritual Tribune. 1857
Philosophical Journal. 1895-1905
Universe. 1868-1870
Spiritual Light. 1868-1869
Watchman. 1880-1891
Spiritual Reasoner. 1881
Weekly Discourse. 18 86-1891
Star. 1884-192 I
Elgin
Summerland
Progressive Friend. 1860
Summerland. 1881-1883
Rockford
CONNECTICUT Spirit Advocate. 1854-1856
Shekinah. 1851-1853 , Waukegan
GEORGIA Northwestern Excelsior.
Atlanta 1856-1859
Light ßr Thinkers. 1881-1886
 American Spiritualist Periodicals 445
INDIANA MAINE
Anderson Augusta
Optimist and Kingdom of Heaven. Twilight. 1888-1890
1864-1868 Bangor
Angola Spirit Guardian, i860
Truth Seeker. 1857 Glenbum
Conneaut Eastern Star. 1886-1888
Medium, 1856-1857? Pordand
Huntsville Spiritual Eclectic, i860
Optimist and Kingdom of Heaven. MARYLAND
1864-1868 Baltimore
La Porte New Life. 1870
Crisis. 1852-1857
Richmond MASSACHUSETTS
Vanguard. 1857-1859 Ayer
Terre Haute Life and Health. 1895-1896
Medium's Friend. 1880-1882 Boston
Banner of Light. 1857-1907
IOWA Buchanan ^s Journal of Man.
Clinton 1887-1890
Foundation Principles. 1885-1887 Christian Rationalist and
Des Moines Theological Reformer. 1848
NewThought. 1885-1889 Facts. 1S82-1887
Independence Heat and Light. 1851
Rising Tide. 1860-1865 Hull's Cruáble. 1871-1877
Ottumwa Independent Pulpit. 1885
Spiritual Offering. 1880-1887 Kingdom of Heaven. 1874
New Age. 1875-1877
KANSAS New England Spiritualist.
Valley Fails
1855-1856
Lucifer. 1883-1896
New Era or Heaven Opened to
Topeka
Man. 1852-1855
Foundation Principles. 1890-1894
Nucleus. 1857
Lucifer. 1883-1896
Problem of Life. 1893
LOUISIANA Soul. 1888
New Orleans Spirit Voices. 1885
Le Salut. 1870 Spirit World. 1850-1851
Spirit Land. 1860 Spiritual Age. 1858-1860
Spiritualiste de la Nouvelle- Spiritual Analyst and Scientific
Orléans. 1857-1858 Record. 1871
Strong Words. 1878 Spiritual Eclectic, i860
446 American Antiquarian Society
Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum West Detroit
Record. 1870 Sower. 1889-1895
Spiritual Philosopher. 1850
MINNESOTA
Spiritual Scientist. 1874-1878
Minneapolis
Star of Truth. 1852
Skandinaviske Spiritulisten. 1897
Summerland Messenger.
1874-1875 MISSOURI
This World 1882 St. Louis
Western Star. 1872 Convention Day Journal. 1868
Dover Light from the Spirit World.
Light on the Way. 1888
Grafton Light in the West. 1886-1887
Psychical Review. 1892-1894 Western Light. 1881
Hopedale (Milford) Springfield
Modem Age. 1862-1866 Clairvoyant Jouri'al. 1897
Practical Christian. 1840-1860 Spiritual Offering. 1877-1897
Processive Age. r862 NEBRASKA
Radical Spiritualist. 18 5 8 -18 60 Lincoln
Spiritual Reformer. 1860-1862 Nebraska State Register. \ 874
Somerville West Point
Voice ofAngels. 1875-1885 Lichtstrahlen. 1899-1907
Springfield
NEW JERSEY
Alcyone. [888-1892
Manmonton
Spirit Messenger. 1850-185 2
Optifnist and Kingdom of Heaven.
MICHIGAN 1865
Batde Creek Vineland
Our Age. 1873-1874 Rostrum. 1883-1887
Decatur NEW YORK
HulVs New Monthly Clarion. Auburn
[866-1867 Disclosures from the Interior. 1851
Detroit Spiritual and Moral Instructor.
Illumina ti. 1857 1851
Grand Rapids Spiritual Clarion. 1857-1860
Olive Branch. 1809 Spiritualist Register. 1857-1861
Haslet Park Batavia
Haslet Park Camp Meeting Sunbeam. 1859
Bulletin. 1887 Brooklyn
Kalamazoo Evolutionht. 1897
Progressive Age. [864-1865 Gallery of Spirit Art.
Progressive Age. 1868-1872
 American Spiritualist Periodicals 447
Miller's Psychometric Circular. Spiritualist. 1860
[880-18H7? Spiritualist at Work. 1874-1876
Williamshurgh Spiritualist and Telegraph Papers. 1852-1857
Progressive Recorder, r 866 Tiffafiy's Monthly. 1856-1859
Buffalo Univercoeluni and Spirittial
Age of Progress. 1854-1858 Philosopher. 1847-1849
Dobbs Ferry Universe. 1868-1870
World's Fricîid. 1H85 Rochester
Lily Dale Spiritual Offering. 1877-1879
Cassadagan. 1892-1897 Udca
Sunflower. 1890-1909 Olive Branch. 1876-1889
Newburgh Westfield
Banner of Life, i860 Messenger. 1H76-1879?
New Berlin
Living Gospel. 1878 OHIO
New York Appleton
Age of Reason and Spirit Annunci- Spiritualist. 1868
ator. 1858 Berlin Heights
American Joumal of Spiritual Age of Freedom. 1857
Sciences. 1870 Good Ti?ne Corning. 1859.
Beacon Light. 1885-1887 New Campaign. 1871
Brittan^s Joumal of Spiritual Optimist and Kingdom of Heaven.
Science. 1H73-1874 1867-1868
Champion of Humanity. 1874 Cincinnati
Christian Spiritualist. 1854-1857 Better Way. 1886-1892?
Friend of Process. 1864-1865 Buchanan's Joumal of Man.
Herald of Light. 1857-1861 [849-1856
Herald of Proff-ess. 1860-1864 Light of Truth. 1887-1893
Joumal of Process. 1853 N.D.C. Axe and True Key Stone.
Light. 1889 1888
Lyceum Herald. 1865 Nichols'Monthly. 1855
Messenger of Light. 1854 Spiritual Beacon. 1853
Nichols'Joumal. 1853-1854 Spiritual Messenger. 1856
Principle. 1856-1859 Cleveland
Processive Annual. 1862-1865? Agitator. 1858-1860
Sacred Circle. 1K54-1S56 A?nerican Spiritualist.
Shekinah. 1851 -185 3 1868-1872
Spirit Messenger and Hai-monial Home Gem. 1858
Guide. 1852-1853 Spiritual Universe. 1854-1855
Spiritual Age. 1857 Spiritualist. 1857
Spiritual Telegraph. 18 5 3 -18 5 7 Vanguard. 1H58-1859
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Dayton Memphis
Vanguard. 1857 American Spiritual Magazine.
Elmwood Place .875-1877
Sower. 1889-1895 Voice of Truth. 1878
Greenville TEXAS
Social Revolutionist. 1856-1857 Hempstead
Janesville Texas Spiritualist. 1876-1879
Spiritualist. 1868-1872 Waco
Milan Harmonia. 1882
Monthly Review. 1882
VERMONT
Ripley
Ripley Herald. 1852 Sandusky (Granville)
Toledo Green Mountain Sybil. 1859
Lyceum. 1874-1875 World's Paper. 1857-1866
Van Wert WASHINGTON, D.C.
MomingStar. 1873-1874? National Spiritualist Associa-
OREGON
tion of the United States of
America. Proceedings of the
Portland
Annual Convention. 1894-
Scientific Investigator. 1881
World^s Advance Thought and the 1905
Universal Republic. 1876-1918 Tafelrunde. 1870-1872
Salem WEST VIRGINIA
World's Advance Thought and the Mountain Cove
Universal Republic. 1876—1918 Mountain Cove Journal and
PENNSYLVANIA
Spiritual Harbinger. 1852-
Philadelphia 1853
Church's Bizarre. 1852-1855 WINCONSIN
Index. 1855 Appleton
Mind and Matter. 1878-1883 Spiritualist. 1868-1872
Starling Progressive Papers. 1868 Lake Mills
White Banner. 1869 Spiritual Helper. 1870
TENNESSEE
Milwaukee
Chattanooga Anthropologist. 1851
Spiritual Light. 1883
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INDEX OF E D I T O R S AND PUBLISHERS

Abbott, W. Scott, Green Mountain Sybil (Sandusky [Granville], Vt.)

Albro, Stephen, Age of Progress (Buffalo, N. Y.)
Ambler, R. P., Spirit Messenger (Springfield, Mass.); Spirit Messenger and
Harmonial Guide (New York); Journal of Progress (New York)
Anderson, Mrs. Annie T., Western Light (St. Louis, Mo.)
Andrews, L. F. W., Christian Spiritualist (Macon, Ga.)

Babcock, John M. L., New Age (Boston)

Bach, W. H., Sunflower (Lily Dale, N.Y.)
Bacon, George A., American Spiritualist (Cleveland, Ohio)
Baker, Joseph, American Spiritualist (Cleveland, Ohio); Spiritualist (Ap-
pleton, Wis., andjanesville, Ohio)
Baker, Lydia H., Impending Epoch (Augusta, Ga.)
Ballou, Adin, Practical Christian (Hopedale, Mass.)
Barnes, Medium (Conneaut, Ind.)
Barrett, J. O., American Spiritualist (Cleveland, Ohio, New York); Cham-
pion (Chicago); Spiritual Republic (Chicago)
Barry, Cordelia, Age of Freedom (Berlin Heights, Ohio)
Barry, Francis, Age of Freedom (Berlin Heights, Ohio)
Bateson, P. H., Lyceum (Toledo, Ohio)
Bemis, Mr., Cassadagan (Lily Dale, N.Y.)
Bennett, D. M., Spiritualist at Work (New York)
Bishop, Annette, Jouitial of Process (New York)
Bland, Peter, Light fro'm the Spirit World (St. Louis, Mo.)
Bliss, James A., National Developing Circle Axe and True Key Stone (Cincin-
nati, Ohio); Sower (Elmwood Place, Ohio; West Detroit, Mich.;
Chicago); Spifit Voices (Boston)
Bliss, Mrs. James A., Sower (Elmwood Place, Ohio; West Detroit, Mich.;
Chicago)
Bowman, A. P., Truth Seeker (Angola, Ind.)
Brice, Wallace A., Spirit Land (New Orleans)
Brittan, Samuel Byron, Brittan V Jotimal of Spiritual Science, Literature,
Art, and Inspiration (New York); Shekinah (Bridgeport, Conn.); Sacred
Circle (New York); Spiritual Age (New York); Spiritual Age (Boston);
Spiritual Telegraph (New York); Telegraph Papers (New York); Univer-
coelu?n and Spiritual Philosopher (New York)
Britten, Emma Hardinge. See Hardinge, Emma
Brown, C. M., Eastern 5ííar (Bangor, Maine)
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Brovm, George W , Spirit Guardian (Glenbum, Maine)
Brown, E. Gerry, Spiritual Scientist (Boston)
Brovm, Mrs. H[annah] F. M., Agitator (Cleveland, Ohio); Little Bouquet
(Chicago); Lyceum Banner (Chicago)
Buchanan, J. Rodes, Buchanan^s Journal of Man (Cincinnati, Ohio);
Buchanan's Journal of Man (Boston); Psychical Review (Grafton, Mass.)
Budington, H. A., Alcyone (Springfield, Mass.)
Buffum, Rev. Mrs. Adeline, News from the Spirit World (Chicago);
Religio-Politico Party (Cbicago)
Bundy, John C , Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago)
Bushneil, Mrs. Rose L., Golden Way (San Francisco)
Butts, Bryan J., Radical Spiritualist (Hopedale, Mass.); Modem Age
(Hopedale, Mass.); Progressive Age (Hopedale, Mass.); Spiritual Re-
former (Hopedale, Mass.)

Cadwaller, Mrs. M. E., Progressive Thinker (Chicago)

Cate, Hattie A., Watchman (Chicago)
Chainey, George, Gnostic (San Francisco); Independent Pulpit (Boston);
This World (Boston)
Chenoweth, Mary Hayes, True Life (Edenvale, Calif.)
Church, Joseph M., Churches Bizarre (Philadelphia)
Clapp, O., Heat and Light (Boston)
Clark, Mrs. H. H., Winning Way (Sacramento, Calif.)
Clark, Uriah, Spiritualist Register (Auburn, N.Y.); Spiritual Clarion (Au-
burn, N.Y.)
Clark, Mrs. Uriah, Spiritual Clarion (Auburn, N.Y.)
Cloyd, William C , Nebraska State Registe?- (Lincoln, Nebr.)
Colby, Luther, Banner of Light (Boston)
Colville, W. J., Faith and Hope Messenger; Problem of Life (Boston)
Conklin, J. B., Principle (New York)
Cook, Sarah, Kingdom of Heaven (Boston)
Cook, Thomas, Optimist and Kingdom of Heaven (Anderson, Huntsville,
Ind.; Berlin Heights, Ohio; Manmonton, N.J.); Kingdom of Heaven
(Boston)
Courtney, W. S.,Jour7?al of Progress (New York)
Crampton, J. S., Spiritualist (Cleveland, Ohio)
Cridge, Alfred, Vanguard (Dayton, Ohio; Richmond, Ind.; Cleveland,
Ohio)
Cridge, Anne Demon, Home Gem (Cleveland, Ohio); Vanguard {Dayton^
Ohio; Richmond, Ind.; Cleveland, Ohio)
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Daniel, Mrs. M. M., Rising Tide (Independence, Iowa)

Davis, Andrew Jackson, Herald of Process (New York); Lyceum Herald
(New York); Processive Annual (New York)
Davis, Mary Fenn Love, Lyceum Herald (New York)
Day, John W , Banner of Light (Boston)
Day, Horace, Christian Spiritualist (New York)
Densmore, David C , Voice of Angels (Somerville, Mass.)
Dentón, Elizabeth M. Foote, Vanguard (Dayton, Ohio; Richmond, Ind.;
Cleveland, Ohio)
Dentón, William, Social Revolutionist (GreenviWe, Ohio); Vanguard(Dsy-
ton, Ohio; Richmond, Ind.; Cleveland, Ohio)
Dexter, George W , Saa-ed Circle (New York)

Edmunds, John W , Sacred Circle (New York)

Ellsworth, Addison, Living Gospel (New Berlin, N.Y.)
Estabrook, A. C , Green Mountain Sybil (Sandusky [Granville], Vt.);
World's Paper (Sandusky [Granville], Vt.)
Everett, L. S., Spiritual Universe (Cleveland, Ohio); Spiritualist (Cleve-
land, Ohio)

Eemald, Woodbury Melcher, Christian Rationalist and Theological Re-

former (Boston)
Fishbough, Rev. William, Spiritual and Moral Instructor {Kuhuxn, N.Y.);
Jourtial of Process (New York)
Flower, Benjamin O., Psychical Review (Grafton, Mass.)
Fox, Doms M., Present Age (Kalamazoo, Mich.; Chicago); Spiritual Offer-
ing (Ottumwa, Iowa)
Fox, John, Anthropologist (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Fox, Nettie Pease, Spiritual Offering (Springfield, Mo.; Rochester,
N.Y)
Francis, J.R., Processive Thinker (Qhicz^o)
Fuller, George A., Light on the Way (Dover, Mass.); Spirit Voices (Boston)

Garlin, Hamlin, Psychical Review (Grafton, Mass.)

Garrison, Bishop S., Liberator (San Francisco)
Gentzke, Max. Lichtstrahlen (West Point, Nebr.)
Green, Ernest S., Harbinger of Daum (San Francisco)
Green, Frances (Fanny) H[arriet Whipple], 5p/r;f Me5-i-ragCT-(Springfield,
Mass.); Spirit Messenger and Harmonial Guide (New York); Journal of
Progrfxr (New York); Golden Gdie (Sacramento, Calif.)
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Green, Harriet N . Radical Spiritualist (Hopedale, Mass.); Progressive Age
{Hopedale, Mass.); Modem Age (Hopedale, Mass.); Spiritual Reformer
(Hopedale, Mass.)
Griswold, C. D., M. D., Sunbeam (Batavia, N.Y.)

Hagaman, J. D., Spiritual Light (Chattanooga, Tenn.)

Hammond, H. O., American Spiritualist (Cleveland, Ohio)
Hardinge, Emma, Western Star (Boston)
Harmon, Moses, Lucifer (Valley Fa]ls, Topeka, Kan.; Chicago)
Harris, Thomas Lake, Disclosures from the Interior (Auburn, N.Y.); Her-
ald ofLight (New York); Mountain Cove Joumal and Spiritual Harbinger
(Mountain Cove, Va. [W.Va.])
Haskell, Dr. George, Spirit Advocate (Rockford, 11].)
Hawks, Annie C. Torrey, Voice of Truth (Memphis, Tenn.)
Hewitt, S. Crosby, New Era or Heaven Opened to Man (Boston)
Hiatt, T. S., Spiritual and Moral Instructor (Auburn, N.Y.)
Hulbert, Medium (Conneaut, Ind.)
Hull, Moses, HuWs New Monthly Clarion (Decatur, Mich.); Hull's Crucible
(Boston); New Thought (Chicago); New Thought (Des Moines, Iowa);
Processive Age (Kalamazoo, Mich.); Spiritual Rostrum (Chicago)

James, T. P., SummerlandMessenger (Boston)

Jamieson, W. E, Spiritual Reporter, Spiritual Rostrum (Chicago)
Jones, David, Olive Branch (Utica, N.Y.)
Jones, S. S., Little Bouquet (Chicago); Religio-Philosophical Joumal (Chi-
cago)

Kates, G. W , Light for Thinkers (Adanta, Ga.)

Kempton, Dwight, Summerland (Summerland, Calif.)
Ketteringham, C. B., Texas Spiritualist (Hempstead, Tex.)
Kimball, Anna, Gnostic (San Francisco)
Kimball, Mrs. Lou H., Lyceum Banner (Chicago)
King, Charles E., Spiritual Beacon (Cincirmad, Ohio)
Kline, Mrs. Adolphus, Morning Star (Van Wert, Ohio)
Kribs, Northwestern Excelsior (Waukegan, I]l.)

Ladd, A. C , Light for Thinkers (Adanta, Ga.)

Lewis, H. N. F., Universe (Chicago, New York)
Louden, Elmer R., Tn4th Seeker (Angola, Ind.); Chief (n.p.)
Lovell, Frank, Problem of Life (Boston)
Lunt, E. D., Medium (Los Angeles) • ;
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Mallory, Lucy A., World's Advance Thought and the Universal Republic (^2.-
lem, Pordand, Oreg.)
Manz, Mr., Light from the Spirit World (St. Louis, Mo.)
Marsh, H. H., Champion (Chicago)
McDougal, Mrs. Frances H. See Green, Erances H.
McEwen, S. G., Messenger (Westfield, N.Y.)
Mead, E., Spiritual Messenger {CÁncÍTin.zúy Ohio)
Merril, Dr. H. E, Twilight (Augusta, Maine)
Miller, Charles, Gallery of Spirit Art (Brooklyn, N.Y); Miller's Psycho-
metric Circular (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Moore, George R., Medium's Friend (Terre Haute, Ind.)
Moores, J. B., Banner of Life (Newburgh, N.Y.)
Morgan, George C. W , Spiritual Light (San Francisco)
Munn, Apollus, Spirit Messenger (Springfield, Mass.); Spirit Messenger and
Harmonial Guide (New York)

Newton, Alonzo E., New England Spiritualist (Boston); Spiritual Age

(Boston); Spiritual Eclectic (Boston, Portland, Maine)
Nevraian, Charles W , Texas Spiritualist (Hempstead, Tex.)
Newman, Thomas G., Religio-Philosophical Journal (San Francisco)
Nichols, Mary S. Gove, Nichols' Journal (New York); Nichols' Monthly
(Cincinnati, Ohio)
Nichols, Thomas Low, Nichols' Journal (New York); Nichols' Monthly
(Cincirmati, Ohio)

Osborne, Henry J., I?npendi?ig Epoch (Augusta, Ga.)

Overton, C. M., Age of Freedom (Berlin Heights, Ohio)
Owen, J. J., Golden Gate (San Francisco)
Owen, Mrs. Mattie P., Golden Gate (San Francisco); Golden Way (San
Francisco)

Patterson, John, Age of Freedom (Berlin Heights, Ohio); Social Revo-

lutionist (Greenville, Ohio)
Partridge, Charles, Sacred Circle (New York); Spiritual Telegraph (New
York); Telegraph Papers (New York)
Payne, Seth, Christian Banker (Chicago)
Peebles, J. M., American Spiritualist (New York); New Life (Baltimore);
Te?nple of Health (San Diego, Calif); Universe (Chicago, New York)
Plumb, C. M., Friend of Process (New York)
Pooler, Northwestern Excelsior (Waukegan, III.)
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Porter, Ira, Northwestern Excelsior (Waukegan, 111.)
Powell, J. H., Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record (Boston)
Pratt, Ambrose, Anthropologist (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Price, Thomas, Index (Philadelphia)

Ransom, Mr. L. W., Weekly Spiritualist (Marysviile, Calif.)

Reicher, W. D., Starling Progressive Papers (Philadelphia). See also Rich-
ner.
Rich, Isaac, Banner ofLight (Boston)
Richards, P. A., Harmonia (Waco, Tex.)
Richmond, Cora L. V. (Scott) [Hatch Daniels Tappan], Ouina's Basket
(Chicago); Spiritual Record (Chicago); Weekly Discourse (Chicago)
Richner, W. D., White Banner (Philadelphia). See also Reicher.
Roberts, J. M.,M/Hí/úrMí/MAffer (Philadelphia)
Robinson, Eliza Jane, Optimist and Ki?igdom of Heaven (Anderson, Hunts-
ville, Ind.; Berlin Heights, Ohio; Manmonton, N.J.)

Sargent, Epes, Banner of Light (Boston)

Sargent, W. Wines, Evolutionist (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Savage, Minot J., Psychical Review (Grafton, Mass.)
Schindler, Mary Dana, Voice of Truth (Memphis, Tenn.)
Schlesinger, Julia, Carrier Dove (Oakland, Calif.); Pacific Coast Spiritualist
(San Francisco); Liberator (San Francisco)
Schlesinger, Louis, Carrier Dove (Oakland, Calif.)
Schucking, Dr. P. L., Tafelrunde (Washington, D.C.)
Scott, James L., Disclosures from the Interior (Auburn, N.Y.); Mountain
Cove Journal and Spiritual Harbinger (Mountain Cove, Va. [W.Va.])
Scott, John, Age of Reason and Spirit Annunciator (New York)
Shepard, Olivia F., World's Friend (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.)
Shindler, Mary Dana, Voice of Truth (Memphis, Tenn.)
Simmons, E. T., Le Salut (New Orleans)
Slocum, Amanda, Common Sense (San Francisco)
Slocum, W. N., Common Sense (San Francisco)
Smith, J. C , Northwestern Excelsior (Waukegan, 111.)
Smith, John Brown, Champion of Humanity (New York)
Spencer, J. E., Theocrat (Harmony Springs, Ark.)
Spencer, Martha, Theocrat (Harmony Springs, Ark.)
Steinmetz, Lessie Goodell, Champion of Humanity (New York)
Stowell, C. C , Light of Truth (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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Sunderland, LeRoy, Nucleus (Boston); Spirit World (Boston); Spiritual
Philosopher (Boston)
Swenson, Carrie, Skandinaviske Spiritulisten (Minneapolis, Minn.)

Tarbell, Daniel, World's Paper (Sandusky [Granville], Vt.)

Tiffany, Joel, Tiffany's Monthly (New York)
Todd, Benjamin, Banner of Process (San Francisco)
Tomlinson, Ripley Herald (Ripley, Ohio)
Toohey, J. H., Christian Spiritualist (New York); Spiritual Analyst and
Scientific Record (Boston)
Tousey, M. M., Spiritual Helper (Lake Mills, Wis.)
Tuttle, Hudson, American Spiritualist (Cleveland, Ohio); New Life (Bald-
more)

Valentine, Antoine V. llluminati (Detroit, Mich.)

Wadsworth, F. L., Spiritual Republic (Chicago)

Waisbrooker, Lois, Foundation Principles (Clinton, Iowa; Topeka, Kans.);
Our Age (Battle Creek, Mich.)
Weiler, Henry, Crisis (La Porte, Ind.)
Weller, John S., Crisis (La Porte, Ind.)
Warren, Sacred Circle (New York)
Washburn, W. O., Cassadagan (Lily Dale, N.Y.)
Watkins, Dr. C. E., Life and Health (Ayer, Mass.)
Watson, Elizabeth Lowe, Carrier Dove (Oakland, Calif.)
Watson, Samuel, American Spiritual Magazine (Memphis, Tenn.)
White Banner Press, Starling Progressive Papers (Philadelphia)
White, Charles H., Nucleus (Boston); Star of Truth (Boston)
Whitlock, L. L., Facts (Boston)
Wilcox, W. P., Monthly Review (Milan, Ohio)
Williams, H. L., Summerland (Summerland, Calif)
Williams, Mrs. M. E., Beacon Light (New York)
Wilson, E. V-, Spiritual Offering (Ottumwa, Iowa); Spiritualist at Work
(New York)
Winchester, A. S., Light for All (San Francisco)
Winchester, Mrs. A. S., Light for All (San Francisco)
Woman's Publishing Company, Common Sense (San Francisco)
Wright, J. C , Rostrum (Vineland, N.J.)
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INDEX BY DECADE OF PUBLICATION

THROUGH 1850
Buchanan's Journal of Man (Cincinnati, Ohio), 1849-1856
Christian Rationalist and Theological Reformer (Boston), 1848
Practical Christian (Hopedale, Mass.), 1840-1860
Spirit Messenger (Springfield, Mass.), 1850-1851
Spirit World (Boston), 1850-1851
Spiritual Philosopher (Boston), 1850
Univercoelum and Spiritual Philosopher (New York), E 847-1849
1851-1860
Age of Freedom (Berlin Heights, Ohio), 1857
Age of Progress (Buffalo, N.Y), 1854-1858
Age of Reason and Spirit Annunciator (New York), 1858
Agitator (Cievthnd, Ohio), [858-1860
Anthropologist (Milwaukee, Wis.), 1851
Banner of Life (Newburgh, N.Y), i860
Banner of Light (Boston), 1857—1907
Buchanan's Journal ofMan (Cincinnati, Ohio), 1849-1856
Chief, 1858
Christian Banker (Chicago), 1853
Christian Spiritualist (Macon, Ga.), 1859-1860
Christian Spiritualist (New York), 1854-1856
Church's Bizarre (Philadelphia), 1852-1855
Cm/j-(La Porte, Ind.), 1852-1857
Disclosures from the Interior (Auburn, N.Y), 1851
Good Time Coming (Berlin Heights, Ohio), 1859
Green Mountain Sybil (Sandusky [Granville], Vt.), 1859
Heat and Light (Boston), 1851
Herald of Light (New York), 1857-1861
Herald of Progress (New York), 1860-1864
Home Gem (Cleveland, Ohio), 1858
illuminati (Detroit, Mich.), 1857
/wí¿ejc (Philadelphia), 1855
Journal of Progress (New York), 1853
Light from the Spirit World (St. Louis, Mo.), 1852-1853
Messenger of Light (New York), 1854
Medium (Conneaut, Ind.), 1856-1857
Mountain Cove Journal and Spiritual Harbinger (Mountain Cove, Va.
[W.Va.]), 1852-1853
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New England Spiritualist (Boston), 1855-1856
New Era or Heaven Opened to Man (Boston), 1852
Nichols'Joumal (New York), 1853-1854
Nichols' Monthly (Cincinnad, Ohio), 1855
Northwestern Etce/r/or (Waukegan, III.) 1856-1859
Nucleus (Boston), 1857
Practical Christian (Hopedale, Mass.), 1840-1860
Principle (New York), 1856-1859
Processive Friend (E\pn,'i\i.), i860
Radical Spiritualist (Hopedale, Mass.), 1858-1860
Ripley Herald (^pley, Ohio), 1852
Rising Tide (Independence, Iowa), 1860-1865
Sacred Circle (New York), 1854-1856
Shekinah (Bridgeport, Conn.; New York), 1851-1853
Social Revolutionist (Greenville, Ohio), [856-1857
Spirit Advocate (Rockford, 111.), 1854-1856
Spirit Guardian (Bangor, Maine), i860
Spirit Land (New Orleans), 1860
Spirit Messenger (Springfield, Mass.), 1850-185 i
Spirit Messenger and Harmonial Guide (Springfield, Mass.), 1852-1853
Spirit World (Boston), 185 i
Spiritual Age (New York), 1857
Spiritual Age (Boston), 1858-1860
Spiritual and Moral Instructor (Auburn, N.Y.), 1851
Spiritual Beacon (Cincinnad, Ohio), 1853
Spiritual Clarion (Auburn, N.Y.), 185 7-1860
Spiritual Eclectic (Boston; Portland, Maine), i860
Spiritual Messenger {Cincinnaú, Ohio), 1856
Spiritual Reformer (Hopedale, Mass.), 1860-1862
Spiritual Telegraph (New York), 1852-1857
Spiritual Tribune (Chicago), 1857
Spiritual Universe (Cleveland, Ohio), 1854-1855
Spiritualist (Cleveland, Ohio), 1857
Spiritualist (New York), i860
Spiritualist Register (New York), 1857-1861
Spiritualiste de la Nouvelle-Orleans (New Orleans), 1857-1858
Star of Truth (Boston), 1852
Sunbeam (Batavia, N.Y.), 1859-1860
Telegraph Papers (New York), 1852-1857
Theocrat (Harmony Springs, Ark.), i860
Tiffany's Monthly (New York), 1856-1859
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Truth Seeker {Angola, Ind.), 1857
Vanguard (Dayton, Ohio; Richmond, Ind.; Cíeveland, Ohio), 1857-1859
Weekly Spiritualist (Marysville, Calif), 1857
World's Paper (Sandusky [Granville], Vt.), 1857-1866
1861-1870 I i
American Journal of Spiritîutl Sciences ÇSew York), 1870
American Spiritualist (Cleveland, Ohio; New York; Boston), 1868-187 2
Banner of Light (Boston), 1857-1907
Banner of Progress (San Francisco), 1867-1868
Champion (Chicago), 1867
Convention Day Journal (St. Louis, Mo.), 1868
Friend of Progress (New York), 1864-1865
Golden Gjif (Sacramento), 1864
Heraldof Light (Chicago), 1857-1861
Herald of Progress (New York), 1860-1864
Hull's New Monthly Clarion (Decatur, Mich.), 1866-1867
Impending Epoch (Augusta, Ga.), 1866-1867
Le Sa/wf (New Orleans), 1870
Little Bouquet ((Chicago), 1865-1867
Lyceum Banner (Chicago), 1867-1872
Lyceum Herald (New York), 1865
Modem Age (Hopedale, Mass.), 1862-1866
A^ra; Li/è (Baltimore), 1870
News from the Spirit World (Chicago), 1868-1870
Optimist and Kingdom of Heaven (Anderson, Huntsville, Ind.; Berlin
Heights, Ohio; Manmonton, NJ.), 1864-1868
Present Age Qialamazoo, Mich.; Chicago), 1868-1872
Processive Age (Hopedale, Mass.), 1862
Progressive Age (Kalamazoo, Mich.), 1864-1865
Progressive Annual (New York), 1862-1865
Religio-Philosophical Jou77ial (Chicago; San Francisco), 1865-1907
Rising Tide (Independence, Iowa), 1860-1865
Spiritual Helper (Lake. MiWs, Wise), 1870
Spiritual Light (San Francisco), 1868-1869
Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record (Boston), 1870
Spiritual Reformer (Hopedale, Mass.), 1860-1862
Spiritualist Register (Auburn, N.Y.), 1857-1861
Spiritual Reporter, 1867
Spiritual Republic (Chicago), 1867
Spiritual Rostrum (Chicago), 1868
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leton, Wise; Janesville, Ohio), 1868
Starling Progressive Papers (Philadelphia), 1868
Tafelrunde (Washington, D.C), 1870-1872)
Universe (Chicago; New York), 1868-1870
IVhite Banner (Philadelphia), 1869
Williaimburgh Spiritualist (Brooklyn, N.Y), 1866
World's Paper (Sandusky [Granville], Vt.), 1857-1866
1871-1880
American Spiritual Magazine (Memphis, Tenn.), 1875-1877
American Spiritualist (Cleveland, Ohio; New York; Boston), 1868-187 2
Banner of Light (Boston), 1857-1907
Brittan ^s Journal of Spiritual Science (New York), 187 3-1874
Champion of Humanity (New York), 1874
Co?n?non Sense (San Francisco), 1874-1875
HuWs Crucible (Boston), 1871 -1877
Kingdom of Heaven (Boston), 1874
Light for All {S^n Francisco), 1880-1883
Little Bouquet (Chicago), 1872-1876
Living Gospel (New Berlin, N.Y.), 1878
Lyceum (Toledo, Ohio), 1874-1875
Lyceum Banner (Chicago), 1867-1872
Messefiger (Westfield, N.Y), 1876-1879
Miller's Psychometric Circular (New York), 1882
Mind and Matter (Philadelphia), 1878-1883
Morning Star (Van Wert, Ohio), 187 3-1874
Nebraska State Register (Lincoln, Nebr.), 1874
New Age (Boston), 1875-1877
New Campaign (Berlin Heights, Ohio), 1871
Olive Branch (Udca, N.Y), 1876-1889
Ouina's Basket (Qhxczpi), 1878
Our Age (Batde Creek, Mich.), 1873-1874
Present Age (Kalamazoo, Mich.; Chicago), 1868-1872
Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago; San Francisco), 1865-1907
Religio-Politico Ptfriy (Chicago), 1872-1873
Spiritual Analyst and Scientific Record (Boston), 1871
Spiritual Offering (Ottumwa, Iowa), 1880-1887
Spiritual Offering (Springñelá, Mo.; Rochester, N.Y), 1877-1879
Spiîitual Record (Chicago), 1879-1880
Spiritual Scientist (Boston), 1874-1878
Spiritualist at Work (New York), 1874-1876
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Strong Words (New Orleans), 1878
Summerland Messenger (Boston), 1874-1875
Tafelrunde (y^as\\mp.onD.Q), 1870-1872
Texas SpiritualLn (Hempstead, Tex.), 1876-1879
Voice ofAngels (Somerville, Mass.), 1876-1887
f^/fi o/Tn/í/í (Memphis, Tenn.), 1878
Watchman (Chicago), 1880-1891 •
Western Star (Boston), 187 2
Winning Way (Sacramento, Calif.), 1872
World's Advance Thought (Salem, Portland, Oreg.), 1876-1918
1881-1890
Alcyone (Springfield, Mass.), 1888-1892
Banner of Light (Boston), 1H57-1907
Beacon Light (New York), 1885-1887
Better Way (Cincinnati, Ohio), 1886-1892
Buchanan's Journal of Man (&osX.QX\), 1887-1890
Carrier Dove (Oakland, Calif.), 1884-1893
Êmfra 5idr (Glenbum, Maine), 1886-1888
Facts (Boston), 1882-1887
Fojindation Principles (CUnton, Iowa), 1885-1887
Gallery of Spirit Art. (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 1882-1883
Gnoiï/i: (San Francisco), 1885-1888
Golden Gafe (San Francisco), 1885—1890
Harmonia (W3ÍCO,TQX.), 1882
Haslet Park Camp Meeting Bulletin (Haslet Park, Mich.), 1887
Independent Pulpit (Boston), 1885
Light for Thinkers (Adanta, Ga.), 1881-1886
Light (New York), 1889
Light fhr All (San Francisco), i88o-i883
Light in the West (St. Louis., Mo.), 1886
Light of Truth (Cincinnad, Columbus, Ohio), 1887-1893
Light on the Way (Dover, Mass.), 1888
L«fi/êr (Valley Falls, Topeka, Kans.; Chicago), 1883-1896
Medium's Friend (Terre Haute, Ind.), 1880-1882
Mind and Matter (Philadelphia), 1878-1883
Monthly Review (Milan, Ohio), 1882
N.D. C. Axe and True Key Stone (Cincinnad, Ohio), 1888
New Thought (Des Moines, Iowa), 1885-1889
Olive Branch (Udca, N.Y.), 1876-1889
Olive Branch (Grand Rapids, Mich.), 1890
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Processive Age (Adanta, Ga.), 1881-1882
Processive Thinker (Chicago), 1889-1912
Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago, San Francisco), 1865-1907
Rostnmi (Vineland, NJ.), 1883-1887
Scientific Investigator {Portland, Oreg.), 1881
So7//(Boston), [888
Sower (Elmwood Place, Ohio; West Detroit, Mich.; Chicago), 1889-
1895
Spirit Ko/cw (Boston), 1885
Spiritual Light (Chattanooga, Tenn.), 1883
Spiritual Offering (Ottumwa, Iowa), [ 880-1887
Spiritual Reasoner (San Francisco), 1881
Star (San Francisco), 1884-1921
Su?n?nerland (Summerland, Calif), 1881 -188 3
Stmflower (Lily Dale, N.Y), 1890-1909
This World (Boston), [ 882
Twilight (Augusta, Maine), 1888-1890
Voice ofAngels (Somerville, Mass.), 1876-1887
Watchman (Chicago), 1880-189 [
Weekly Discourse (Chicago), [886-1891
Western Light (St. Louis, Mo.), 188 [
World's Advance Thought (SaXcm, Oreg.), 1876-1918
World's Friend (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y), 1885
1891 — 1900
Alcyone (Springfield, Mass.), [888-1892
Banner of Light (Roston), 1857-1907
Better Way (Cincinnati, Ohio), 1886-[892
Carrier Dove (Oakland, Calif), 1884- [ 893
Cassadagan (Lily Dale, N.Y), 1892-1897
Clairvoyant Journal (Springñeiá, Mo.), 1897
Evolutionist (Brooklyn, N.Y), 1897
Faith and Hope Messenger, 1899-1900
Foundation Principles (Topeka, Kans.), 1892
Golden Way (San Francisco), 1891
Harbinger of Dawn (San Francisco), 1899-1900
L/éfTAíor (San Francisco), 1898
Lichtstrahlen (West Point, Nebr.), 1899-1907
Life and Health (Ayer, Mass.), 1895-1896
Light of Truth (Cincmnaú, Ohio), 1893
(Valley Falls, Topeka, Kans.; Chicago), 1883-1896
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Medium (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1895
National Spiritualist Association ofthe United States ofAmerica. Proceedings
of the Annual Convention (Washington, D.C), 1893-1905
New Thought (CYúcagó), 1892-1906
Pacific Coast Spiritualist (San Francisco), 1893-1895
Prohle?n of Life (Boston), 1895
Progressive Thinker (Chicago), 1889-1912
Psychical Review (Grafton, Mass.), 1892-1894
Religio-Philosophical Jourfial (Chicago, San Francisco), 1865-1907
Skandinaviske Spiritulisten (Minneapolis, Minn.), 1897
5/»r (San Francisco), 1884-1921
Sower (Elmwood Place, Ohio; West Detroit, Mich.; Chicago), 1889-
1895
Sunflower (Lilly Dale, N.Y.), 1890-1909
7>wip/f (Denver, Colo.), 1897-1899
Temple of Health (San Diego, Calif.), 1895-1896
Traf L/^ (Edenvale, Calif.), 1894-1903
Watchman (Chicago), 18S0-1891
Weekly Discourse (Chicago), 1886-1891
World's Advance Thought and the Universal Republic (Salem, Portland,
Oreg.), 1876-1918