_Graham's Magazine_ began with volume eighteen, being the addition of the ten volumes of Atkinson's _Casket_, and the seven volumes of Burton's _Gentleman's Magazine_. This first volume, 1841, contained Poe's "Descent into a Maelstrom" and his "Murders in the Rue Morgue."
The twenty-first volume, 1842, presents the name of Rufus W. Griswold upon the cover. The thirtieth volume was edited by Graham alone; the thirty-second by Graham and Robert T. Conrad; the thirty-fifth by Graham, Joseph R. Chandler and Bayard Taylor; the fiftieth by Charles Godfrey Leland. On the first of January, 1859, _Graham's Magazine_ became the _American Monthly_.
On March 15, 1838, John Greenleaf Whittier became editor of the _Pennsylvania Freeman_, published at 31 North Fifth Street. He was successor to Benjamin Lundy.
Graham's particular patent of nobility is the fact that he was the first of American publishers to pay fair prices to American authors.
The _Lady's Amaranth_ was another venture of 1838, and was issued from No. 274 Market Street.
Adam Waldie was the publisher of the _American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany_, begun in November, 1838.
The _Philadelphia Reporter_ was called into being in 1838, at No. 45 North Sixth Street, but no physic could prolong its sickly days, and it was discontinued in a few months' time.
The _Christian Observer_ was a weekly Presbyterian journal commenced in 1838, and was for many years published from No. 134 Chestnut Street.
The _Baptist Record_ was a religious publication continued from 1838 to 1857.
The _American Phrenological Journal_ was issued from No. 46 Carpenter Street from 1838 to 1841.
The _Farmer's Cabinet_, devoted to agriculture, was published from 1838 to 1850.
The _Ladies' Companion_ was published by Orrin Rodgers for two years following 1838.
Rodgers also published the _Medico-Chirurgical Review_, about 1838. Its life, however, was short.
_Peterson's Ladies' National Magazine_.--It was George R. Graham who first suggested to his friend, Charles J. Peterson, then editor of the _Saturday Evening Post_, the publication of a fashion journal, patterned upon the popular French periodicals. _Peterson's Magazine_ is now (1891) in its fiftieth year, and is still the best and most popular publication of its class. Its circulation has been as high as one hundred and sixty-five thousand. It is to-day a stock company, of which Mrs. C. J. Peterson is President. The same glittering row of writers who contributed to _Graham's_ helped also in the making of _Peterson's_.