Southern Literary Messenger
(reviewed Vols. 1--18)

On SW Humor:

Find Alabama sketches in volumes XVII and XVIII (see Minor’s Southern Literary Messenger (LVA, VA Authors’ Rm. PN2900 S7 M6, p. 176)

Baldwin's "Bench & the Bar": vol. 18 (1852), 674

Sketches of the Flush Times of Alabama: "Ovid Bolus, Esq." vol. 18, 433. Introduction.

"My First Appearance at the Bar" vol. 18, 558.

"How the Times Served the Virginians" vol 18, 746.

Vol. 18, 630. Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin. "this slanderous work. . .filling the minds of all who know nothing of slavery with hatred for that institution and those who uphold it" (638). Stowe "the mouthpiece of a large and dangerous faction which if we do not put down with the pen, we may be compelled one day (God grant that day may never come!) to repel with the bayonet" (638).

Review of Georgia Scenes: 2.4 Pp. 287-292. Poe heaped praise upon the book and the most anthologized pieces--Fight and Horse-Swap--recognized for their genius.

Longstreet's Georgia Scenes (New Series) with "Little Ben" (vol 4, 1838 404-406). Baldwin discusses his encounter with Little Ben, a boor of a farmer who can only talk about himself. The two short tales are not very interesting except they try, at length, to portray the idiom of the farmer.

"Darby Anvil" 10. (10.1, Jan. 1844): 43-52.

Vol 15., p. 572 (GA Scenes) About Longstreet's abandoning humor

FIND "The Family Picture" from Vols 1-4 (third GA scene publ in Messenger)

Other materials:

"Old Willy: A Sketch," A.F. Olmsted. 7.1, (Jan. 1841): 30-31. Good, sentimental character sketch that provides excellent contrast–it has the "Walter Scott Disease"–to the SW sketches students will read later.

"Random Sketch of a Trip from the ‘Old Dominion’ to the ‘Crescent City’ of the South" by "Viator." 8.7 (July, 1842): 450-452. Interesting mainly for its description of the bounty of the valley and its importance for commerce; hence, it shows why contemporaries would flock there during the "flush times" of the era.

"My First Frolic in College," by "Jo of Mississippi." (11.2, Feb. 1845): 109-112.

"A Reminiscence of the Florida Campaign; or, Bony M’Shane’s Raisons for Going to the Wars." By "J.F.K. 12.12, (Dec. 1846): 743-750.

"Canvassing," by "T, Gloucester Co, VA." 11.11, (Nov. 1845): 666-670

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