October 1864

Articles

• The Wellfleet Oysterman

  “He, being an old man, first ate his breakfast, and then walked over to the top of the hill by the shore, and sat down there, having found a comfortable seat, to see the ship wrecked.”

  Henry David Thoreau

• A Night in the Water

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• On a Late Vendue

• The Ride to Camp

  G. H. Boker

• The True Story of Luigi

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott

• Communication

  D.A. Wasson

• House and Home Papers: Ix

  Christopher Crowfield

• Service

  John Trowbridge

• Madame Récamier: Her Lovers, and Her Friends

  J. M. Luyster

• Charles Lamb's Uncollected Writings: Third Paper

  J. E. Babson

• Works and Days

  Thomas William Parsons

• Paul Jones and Denis Duval

  F. Ingham

• The Future Summer

• Democracy and the Secession War

  Charles Creighton Hazewell

• A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England

• Azarian: An Episode

• The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States

• Enoch Arden

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