Bristed, Charles Astor. "Life at a Watering Place: The Dog of Alcibiades." International Monthly, May 1, 1851, 211-221.
Bristed, Charles Astor. "Life at a Watering Place: The Lion in the Toils." International Monthly, June 1, 1851, 366-372.
Bristed, Charles Astor. "Life at a Watering Place: A Trot on the Island." International Monthly, August 1, 1851, 54-65.
Bristed, Charles Astor. "Life at a Watering Place: A Country Gentleman at Home." International Monthly, October 1, 1851, 389-398.
Bristed, Charles Astor. The Upper Ten Thousand: Sketches of American Society. New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1852.
Bristed, Charles Astor. "An Election Row in New York." International Monthly, March 1, 1852, 341-345.
Bristed, Charles Astor (Carl Benson). "A New Theory of Bohemians." The Knickerbocker; or New York Monthly Magazine, March 1, 1861, 311-17.
Bristed, Charles Astor. "A New Theory of Bohemians." The Knickerbocker Magazine, March 1, 1861, 311-317.
Bristed, Charles Astor. Now Is the Time to Settle It: Suggestions on the Present Crisis. New York: M. B. Brown, 1862.
Bristed, Charles Astor. A Few Words of Warning to New Yorkers, on the Consequences of a Railroad in Fifth Avenue, with Remarks on City Railroads Generally, and Reflections Suggested by the Passage of the Broadway Railroad Bill. New York: W. C. Bryant, 1863.
Benson, Carl [Charles Astor Bristed]. A Letter to Dr. Henry Halford Jones. New York: W. C. Bryant, 1864.
Bristed, Charles Astor. "The Probable Influence of the New Military Element on our Social National Character." The United States Service Magazine, June 1, 1864, 294-302.
Bristed, Charles Astor. "Popular Extravagence: Its Remedies and Their Limitations." The United States Service Magazine, November 1, 1864, 435-449.