On October 23, 1858, Henry Clapp, Jr., published the inaugural issue of The Saturday Press.
This column makes remarks about the beginning of the lecture season and reprints a letter from a correspondent that criticized the Saturday Press for not "puffing" him in the past and leaving him in relative obscurity. The letter outlines the writer's qualifications and gives his tentative lecture program in detail.
A letter to the newspaper from a correspondent is printed in this column that argues that the Press has never helped the writer move beyond his relative obscurity as a lecturer.
An electronic version of this text was previously available in CONTENTdm and has been migrated to Lehigh University's Digital Collections. Reconstruction of direct links to individual articles is in progress. In the meantime, browse issues of the Saturday Press in the Vault at Pfaff's Digital Collection. Page images of The New York Saturday Press were scanned from microfilm owned by Emory University, which was made from original copies held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
On October 23, 1858, Henry Clapp, Jr., published the inaugural issue of The Saturday Press.
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