Sample Notices: 1865 - 1930

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  • A Pioneer Editor (The Atlantic, June 1866)
  • International Copyright (The Atlantic, October 1867)
  • The Great American Novel by John William DeForest (9 January 1868)
  • [H.P.B. Jewett's Letter about UTC] (NY Times, 15 November 1868)
  • [Our Most Brilliant Romance Writer?] (Putnam's, December 1868)
  • Rise and Fall of the Slave Power (North American Review, January 1875)
  • [George Aiken's Obituary Notice] (NY Clipper, 3 June 1876)
  • Tooth and Uncle Tom (NY Times, 19 March 1877)
  • Uncle Toms (NY Times, 30 March 1877)
  • Performance Which Did Not Come Off (NY Times, 18 April 1877)
  • Sweet Singers Wanted (NY Times, 10 February 1878)
  • Matinee on Blackwell's Island (NY Times, 2 March 1878)
  • [Mrs. Stowe's Potential Royalties] (Washington Post, 16 April 1878)
  • [Authors' Royalties and Stowe] (NY Times, 20 May 1878)
  • The Genuine Uncle Tom (NY Times, 3 June 1878)
  • Colored "Artists" Off for Europe (NY Times, 4 August 1878)
  • [Professor Huxley and Topsy] (Washington Post, 15 November 1878)
  • Purifying the Stage (NY Times, 24 August 1879)
  • [Mrs. Stowe's Royalties] (Washington Post, 3 September 1879)
  • [Caleb Cushman's Library] (Washington Post, 13 September 1879)
  • Has the Southern Pulpit Failed? (North American Review, June 1880)
  • Curiosities of Advertising (Scribner's Magazine, August 1880)
  • [Original George Harris and Uncle Tom] (Washington Post, 3 September 1880)
  • [UTC & the Women's Movement] (History of Woman's Suffrage, 1881)
  • Hawthorne, Macaulay and Mrs. Stowe (NY Times, 3 July 1882)
  • [UTC and American Taste] (NY Times, 11 July 1882)
  • "Original" Uncle Tom (NY Times, 5 August 1882)
  • [Letters to the Atlantic's Stowe Garden Party] (1882)
  • Interview with Jewett (The Manhattan, January 1883)
  • [UTC and Women's Rights] (Washington Post, 26 January 1883)
  • [Death of Josiah Henson] (NY Times, 6 May 1883)
  • Among the Blue-Grass Trotters (Harper's Monthly, October 1883)
  • [Biographical Sketch in Our Famous Women] (1884)
  • [New Cheap Edition of UTC] (The Atlantic, November 1885)
  • [Stowe Announces Retirement] (Washington Post, 15 July 1886)
  • [Continuing Popularity of UTC] (Washington Post, 16 January 1887)
  • [The 3 Best-Selling American Books] (Washington Post, 10 April 1887)
  • Where Uncle Tom's Cabin Was Built (NY Times, 11 August 1887)
  • [Kitty from Oskosh & UTC] (Washington Post, 10 April 1886)
  • [Uncle Tom's Tenement] (Washington Post, 7 August 1886)
  • [Stowe is Dying] (Washington Post, 9 September 1886)
  • [Stowe Rewriting UTC] (Washington Post, 16 September 1886)
  • Some Reminiscences about Mrs. Stowe (NY Times, 10 November 1888)
  • [New Boom in UTC Sales] (Washington Post, 21 April 1889)
  • New Publications [Excerpts] (NY Times, 22 December 1889)
  • McCray's Life-Work of the Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1889)
      CHAPTER 3 (Composition of UTC) | CHAPTER 4 (Analysis of UTC) | CHAPTER 5 (Reception of UTC)
  • Charles Stowe's Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1890)
      CHAPTER 6 (Composition of UTC) | CHAPTER 7 (Reception of UTC)
  • [The Original George Harris] (Washington Post, 12 May 1890)
  • Woman in American Literature (The Century, October 1890)
  • [UTC Still Selling Well] (Washington Post, 23 January 1891)
  • "Uncle Tom" Lectures in Boston (Washington Post, 30 May 1891)
  • An Opera by Colored People (NY Times, 7 January 1893)
  • In Aid of Cook's Opera Scheme (NY Times, 10 February 1893)
  • Fred Douglass as Uncle Tom (Chicago Record, 25 May 1893)
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett on Reading UTC (1893)
  • [Graves] Suggests a Negro State (Washington Post, 13 August 1893)
  • [Reply to Graves' Lecture] (Washington Post, 20 August 1893)
  • A Visit to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1893)
  • "Not His Real Home" (Chicago Tribune, 20 November 1893)
  • The Sons of "Uncle Tom" (American Missionary, January 1894)
  • The 100 Best Sunday-School Books (Washington Post, 8 August 1894)
  • H. B. Stowe at Cincinnati (New England Magazine, March 1895)
  • [Cincinnati & the History of UTC] (Washington Post, 29 June 1895)
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe (New England Magazine, September 1895)
  • [UTC & Slavery in the South] (Washington Post, 12 September 1895)
  • [UTC's Popularity at New York Public Library] (Washington Post, 26 March 1896)
  • SELECTED OBITUARY NOTICES (1896)
  • Declaration of Independence and UTC (New York Times, 6 July 1896)
  • The Village of UTC (Washington Post, 12 July 1896)
  • [Model for Mrs. Stowe's Legree] (Washington Post, 19 July 1896)
  • How UTC Was Written (New York Times, 26 July 1896)
  • Instant Power of UTC (Washington Post, 1 August 1896)
  • Meredith Calhoun Not Model for Legree (Washington Post, 31 August 1896)
  • "The Story of Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Atlantic Monthly, September 1896)
  • The Author of UTC (The Century Magazine, September 1896)
  • "The Story of the Book" (Art Memorial Edition, 1897)
  • "A Key to the Characters" (Art Memorial Edition, 1897)
  • "The Life of Mrs. Stowe" (Art Memorial Edition, 1897)
  • "Introduction & Author's Life" (International Publishing Edition, 1897)
  • End of a Noted Negro (Washington Post, 11 January 1897)
  • The Drama [Excerpt] (NY Times, 23 May 1897)
  • The Hero (The Century Magazine, June 1897)
  • Letter from William Hill (U.S. War Department, 1897)
  • Lynching of Negroes (Washington Post, 6 September 1897)
  • Fields's Life & Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1898)
      CHAPTER 5 (Composition of UTC) | CHAPTER 6 (Reception of UTC)
  • War Memories of an Army Chaplain (1898)
  • [Bishop Wilmer's Proslavery Reinterpretation of UTC] (1898)
  • The End of an Era (1899)
  • Bringing Out the First English Edition (NY Times, 5 October 1901)
  • [More on First English Edition] (NY Times, 7 December 1901)
  • Against "UTC" (NY Times, 11 January 1902)
  • Favors "UTC" (NY Times, 12 January 1902)
  • Daughters of Confederacy Against UTC (unidentified paper, 18 January 1902)
  • Bar "UTC" (NY Times, 25 April 1903)
  • Retain "UTC" (NY Times, 21 May 1903)
  • Paul Jones in School Libraries (NY Times, 24 May 1904)
  • "Uncle Tom" Attacked Once More (NY Times, 13 March 1905)
  • Butt Chanler, Freshman [Excerpt]
  • Mrs. Harrison's Recollections Grave and Gay (1911)
  • Stowe & Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Story of Her Life (1911)
      CHAPTER 5 (How UTC Was Built) | CHAPTER 6 (From Obscurity to Fame) | FROM CHAPTER 7 (Meeting with Lincoln)
  • Hopkinson Smith's Heresy (NY Times, 9 February 1913)
  • Henry James Remembers Uncle Tom's Cabin (1913)
  • Chorus Girl Helps Little Eva Hide (Variety, 16 July 1920)
  • Original "Little Eva" (Billboard, 15 October 1921)
  • Percy Marks' Plastic Age (1924)
  • William Lyon Phelps' Essay (1924)
  • "Sent Back to Bedford as 'White Topsy'" (New York Times, 8 May 1925)
  • "Too Many Toms" (Time Magazine, 31 August 1925)
  • Charles Correll as a "Tommer" (All About Amos 'n' Andy, 1929)

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