Joseph T. Buckingham founded the weekly New England Galaxy and was its editor until 1828, when he sold it to Willard Phillips and Theophilus Parsons. This literary miscellany consisted mainly of biographies, poetry, political and literary material, and masonic and agricultural news; and it gave special attention to the Boston theater. In 1824 it published William Austin's "Peter Rugg, the Missing Man." Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900. Title from caption.
Reproduction Note
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms. 2 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (American periodical series, 1800-1850 ; 1123). Filmed with: New England galaxy (Boston, Mass. : 1833).
Complexity Note
Merged with: Boston pearl, to form: Boston pearl and Galaxy.
