Will Carleton manuscript magazine, The Gazette, 1871

Summary

Creator:

Carleton, Will, 1845-1912

Abstract:

Poet Will Carleton of Detroit, Michigan, created this issue of The Gazette (vol. 1, no. 6), an apparently unpublished literary magazine, in December 1871.

Extent:

16 pages

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by Cheney J. Schopieray, October 2018

Background

Scope and Content:

Will Carleton of Detroit, Michigan, created this issue of The Gazette (vol. 1, no. 6), an apparently unpublished literary magazine, in December 1871. Pagination [1], 5, 2, 6, 3, 7, 4, 8, 9, 11, 10, 12, 13, 15, 14, 16. Portions, particularly the fifth leaf (pages 9/11), are mutilated, with text loss.

The 16-page production includes an editorial, "News and Notions," "The Poet's Corner," "Current Clippings," "Selected Miscellany," "A Memorial to Alice Cary," and a "Special Announcement." The Poet's Corner section includes "The Editor's Table," an early draft of Carleton's "The Editor's Guest", published in his Farm Ballads (1873). Carleton's memorial to Ohio and New York poet Alice Cary includes her last words to him, although this portion of the manuscript is tattered and has considerable text loss. Throughout The Gazette are handwritten copies of text from other newspapers, including items by Charles Dudley Warner, Fanny Fern, Mary Clemmer Ames, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Will McKendree Carleton was born in Hudson, Michigan, to parents John and Celeste Carleton, on October 21, 1845. He graduated from Hillsdale College in 1869, and he worked as a newspaper journalist, editor, and writer for multiple newspapers and weeklies, including the Detroit Weekly Tribune. He married Anne Goodell of Boston and the two moved to New York City in 1882. Will Carleton's poems about life in rural America gained wide recognition. He died on December 18, 1912.

Acquisition Information:

Gift, 2016. M-6040.7 .

Processing information:

This collection has been processed according to minimal, accession-level processing procedures and may be revised, expanded, or updated in the future.

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Subjects

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Subjects:

Poets, American--Michigan--Detroit.

Formats:

Magazines (periodicals)

Names:

Cary, Alice, 1820-1871.
Clemmer, Mary, 1839-1884.
Fern, Fanny, 1811-1872.
Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900.