Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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Samuel Griswold Goodrich, better known by his pseudonym Peter Parley, was an American author and politician who established the children's magazine Merry's Museum. He was a Massachusetts State Senator
Portrait by Rembrandt Peale, c. 1820–1830
Commemorative medal given to Goodrich for his work as the American consul in Paris
Photograph of Goodrich, c. 1844–1860
Reconstruction of Megalosaurus by Samuel Griswold Goodrich from Illustrated Natural History of the Animal Kingdom
The Token and Atlantic Souvenir was the first American gift book, featuring romantic and sentimental short stories, poems, and essays, as well as copies of original paintings. Published annually, it w
Samuel Griswold Goodrich
…and built a home in what is now Jamaica Plain. There he continued in the publishing business, and from 1828 to 1842 published an illustrated annual, The Token, to which he was a frequent contributor both in prose and verse. A selection from these contributions was published in 1841 under the title Sketches…
1834 frontispiece engraving by Edward Gallaudet
Inscription page, Atlantic Souvenir 1828
The Whirlwind by Thomas Cole; engraved by Edward Gallaudet for The Token and Atlantic Souvenir (1837)
Pat Lyon at the Forge