New-York Mirror

This article is about the 1823–1842 weekly newspaper. For the 1924–1963 daily newspaper, see New York Daily Mirror. For the 1879–1922 theatre weekly, see New York Dramatic Mirror.

The New-York Mirror was a weekly newspaper published in New York City from 1823 to 1842, succeeded by The New Mirror in 1843 and 1844. Its producers then launched a daily newspaper named The Evening Mirror, which published from 1844 to 1898.

New-York Mirror

New-York Mirror, A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts, Vol. XIII, No. 24 (Saturday, December 12, 1835)
Type	Weekly newspaper
Founder(s)	George Pope Morris and Samuel Woodworth
Founded	1823
Language	English
Ceased publication	1842
City	New York City
OCLC number	244175464

History

The Mirror was founded by George Pope Morris and Samuel Woodworth in August 1823. The journal was a weekly publication, and it included coverage of arts and literature in addition to local news. Circulation flagged in the 1840s and at the end of 1842 the paper was closed. In 1843 Morris partnered with popular writer Nathaniel Parker Willis to revamp the business, and together they relaunched the newspaper as The New Mirror, which published weekly for eighteen months. They then established The Evening Mirror in 1844.^[1]

In all three incarnations, the paper employed many well known literary figures of the day. The Mirror's September 2, 1843 issue saw the publication of "Ben Bolt" by Thomas Dunn English, which was soon to attain widespread popularity. Edgar Allan Poe worked for the newspaper as a critic until February 1845. In the January 29, 1845 issue, the Mirror was the first to publish Poe's poem "The Raven" with the author's name. In his introduction to the poem, Willis called it "unsurpassed in English poetry for subtle conception, masterly ingenuity of versification, and consistent, sustaining of imaginative lift... It will stick to the memory of everybody who reads it."^[2] Willis and Morris left the publication in 1846.^[3]

After Willis, the newspaper was edited by Hiram Fuller, a noted enemy of Poe. Fuller published attacks on Poe made by Charles Frederick Briggs and Thomas Dunn English in May and June 1846. A letter printed by the Mirror in the July 23, 1846 issue caused Poe to sue the newspaper for libel and defamation of character.^[4] Poe won the suit and was awarded $225.06 as well as an additional $101.42 in court costs.^[5]

References

1. "Obituary: Gen. George P. Morris" (PDF). The New York Times. 8 July 1864. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
2. Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. Harper Perennial, 1991. p. 237
3. Auser, Courtland P. Nathaniel P. Willis. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1969. p. 125
4. Sova, Dawn B. Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z. Checkmark Books, 2001. ISBN 0-8160-3850-3. pp. 81, 83, 91
5. Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. Harper Perennial, 1991. p. 328

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• The New-York Mirror (New York, NY) at Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
• The New-York Mirror Volume I–XIX at HathiTrust (duplicates of a given volume are scanned from different originals and vary in quality):

• August 2, 1823 – January 24, 1824 Volume I (numbers 1–26)
• August 2, 1823 – July 24, 1824 Volume I
• July 31, 1824 – July 23, 1825 Volume II
• July 30, 1825 – July 22, 1826 Volume III
• July 29, 1826 – July 7, 1827 Volume IV (numbers 1–50, which is the whole volume; missing index)
• July 29, 1826 – July 7, 1827 Volume IV (numbers 1–50, which is the whole volume; missing index)
• July 14, 1827 – January 10, 1829 Volume V and VI (numbers 1–27)
• July 14, 1827 – July 5, 1828 Volume V
• July 12, 1828 – July 4, 1829 Volume VI
• January 17, 1829 – July 3, 1830 Volume VI (numbers 27–52) and VII
• July 11, 1829 – July 3, 1830 Volume VII
• July 11, 1829 – July 3, 1830 Volume VII
• July 10, 1830 – July 2, 1831 Volume VIII
• July 9, 1831 – June 30, 1832 Volume IX
• July 9, 1831 – June 30, 1832 Volume IX
• July 9, 1831 – June 30, 1832 Volume IX
• July 7, 1832 – June 29, 1833 Volume X
• July 7, 1832 – June 29, 1833 Volume X
• July 6, 1833 – December 27, 1834 Volume XI and XII (1–26)
• July 6, 1833 – June 28, 1834 Volume XI
• July 5, 1834 – June 27, 1835 Volume XII (missing pp. 415–16)
• July 5, 1834 – June 27, 1835 Volume XII
• July 4, 1835 – June 25, 1836 Volume XIII
• July 2, 1836 – June 24, 1837 Volume XIV
• July 2, 1836 – December 31, 1836 Volume XIV (numbers 1–27)
• January 7, 1837 – December 30, 1837 Volume XIV (numbers 28–52) and XV (1–27)
• July 1, 1837 – June 23, 1838 Volume XV
• July 1, 1837 – June 23, 1838 Volume XV
• June 30, 1838 – June 22, 1839 Volume XVI
• June 30, 1838 – June 22, 1839 Volume XVI
• June 29, 1839 – December 19, 1840 Volume XVII and XVIII (1–26, which is the whole volume)
• June 29, 1839 – June 20, 1840 Volume XVII
• June 29, 1839 – June 20, 1840 Volume XVII
• June 27, 1840 – December 19, 1840 Volume XVIII (1–26, which is the whole volume)
• June 27, 1840 – December 25, 1841 Volume XVIII and XIX (missing pp. 409–10 and 415–16)
• January 2, 1841 – December 25, 1841 Volume XIX (missing pp. 409–10)
• January 9, 1841 – December 18, 1841 Volume XIX (missing numbers 1 and 52)

• The New-York Mirror (New York, NY) at Google Books:

• January 2, 1841 – June 25, 1842 Volume XIX (missing number 52, except the engraving "The Rescue") and XX (1–26, missing index)

• The New Mirror Volume I–III at HathiTrust (six-month volumes, no indexes):

• April 8, 1843 – September 30, 1843 Volume I (numbers 1–26)
• October 7, 1843 – March 30, 1844 Volume II (numbers 1–26)
• April 6, 1844 – September 28, 1844 Volume III (numbers 1–26)