The Token and Atlantic Souvenir

The Token, 1838 The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, was a literary almanac that 1828-1842 was published annually in Boston. For the American literary history, it is of importance since published numerous short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne's in it.

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The token was in 1828 by Samuel Griswold Goodrich launched the first acted both as editor and as a publisher. With the exception of the second volume (ie, the Yearbook 1829), responsible for the Nathaniel Parker Willis drew, Goodrich was all volumes out to the end of the token 1842.

The token was one of many "gift books " ( poison book or keepsake ), which were popular at that time and were given away for Christmas, New Year or Birthday. They were modeled after the European Muses almanacs, but were, if not exclusively directed at a female audience in particular. You should be at least as decorative as edifying thus connecting poems, essays and stories with mostly very sweet and sentimental illustrations. The token stood out among the large number of such publications by the high literary quality of his writings, in addition to Hawthorne published, among others, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Catharine Maria Sedgwick. 1832 merged the token with The Atlantic souvenir, one of its main competitors, and carried from 1838 called The Token and Atlantic Souvenir. Especially the later cohorts were often placed by predators printers, so that it is possible for example for the 1838er year differ by at least ten different editions.