Contents and Contributions: Correspondence column

Saltcoats Literary Society Magazine

Overview The records for the Saltcoats Literary and Debating Society are housed in Ayrshire Archives Headquarters, Ayr. They include the minutes from 1897 until 1982, along with lists of members, syllabi, cash books, correspondence and newspaper articles for various years. Read More …

The Excelsior Manuscript Magazine

Overview There are nine extant issues of the manuscript magazine that was produced by this mutual improvement society. The title was taken from the poem, ‘Excelsior’, written in 1841 by the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and the poem’s message Read More …

Edinburgh Collegiate Magazine

Overview Members of this literary club were enrolled at Edinburgh Collegiate College. Opened in 1868, the College was located at Nos. 27/28, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. From a photograph of the group in the 1871 magazine, the club was quite small Read More …

Friends’ Hall Literary Society MSS Magazine

Overview The society that produced this magazine had its origins in the adult school classes run by Quakers held at Friends’ Hall, located on Barnet Grove in Bethnal Green in the East End of London. Amongst the fairly complete set Read More …

Kent Road Quarterly

Overview A summary of the history of the Kent Road United Presbyterian Church Young Men’s Institute is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). The one extant issue of this magazine is a miscellany comprising 162 pages with Read More …

The College News, A Quarterly Magazine

Overview This magazine was founded by Frances Martin, an influential foundress of the College for Working Women (Queen Square, Bloomsbury) which was to take Martin’s name following her death. (For more information about the College for Working Women — later Read More …

The College Stethescope and Literary Index

Overview Like The Athenaeum, this magazine was founded by and for the students of the University of Glasgow (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). The idea to start a periodical was raised at a student meeting presumably in late 1827.  There are Read More …

The Foundry Boy

Overview A summary of the history of the Glasgow Foundry Boys’ Religious Society, Wellington Palace Branch is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). This magazine is printed in double columns and laid out in newspaper format. It Read More …

The Monthly Instructer

Overview The London Metropolitan Archives suggests that this Sunday school was connected to a Baptist church that was located on Worship Street, City of London. The church itself was running from at least 1791. It was still running in the 1870s, Read More …

The Overnewton Whisper

Overview A summary of the history of the Overnewton Literary Club is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). This society’s magazine (as it was called by its contributors) is unusually presented on single sheets, with articles on Read More …

The Weekly Miscellany

Overview According to the ‘Preface’ of the 1849 volume, The Society for Mutual Improvement was formed in 1846. Since that time, it had admitted 48 men (see below) and had 108 essays delivered at its meetings. The society had its Read More …

(Magazine Evening: Magazine Later Bound)

Overview A summary of the history of the Renwick Free Church Literary Association is available on our sister website, Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (see ‘Additional Notes’ below). At the first formative meeting of this group in October 1889, a proposal was made to Read More …