Title
Boston Magazine
Coverage
Boston
Publisher
Freeman
Date
October, 1785
Subject
Volume 1, number 24,
Description
The first magazine of any consequence to be published in Boston in forty years. Boston Magazine began with a promise of original material in October 1783, but never overcame lukewarm public interest and the mismanagement of the disparate group of prominent Bostonians that comprised its editorial board. The first year and a half are notable for John Norman’s illustrations of prominent patriots, early balloon aviation, and poetry by former slave Phillis Wheatley.