Edward William Johnston (1799-1867): A Select Bibliography

"To the Whig Public" [circa 1841]. Library of Congress ID rbpe 21004500 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.21004500 

Select Bibliography

Monographs and Pamphlets by Edward William Johnston, including as E.W.J., Il Secretario and Il Segretario.

Catalogue of the Library of the South Carolina College. Columbia, S.C., Telescope Print, 1836.  http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433069263188

[Uncredited] Systematic Catalogue of Books in the Collection of the Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York with a General Index, and one of Dramatic Pieces; Together with an Appendix; Containing the Constitution, and the Rules and Regulations of the Association. New York: Harper, 1837.  https://archive.org/details/systematiccatalo00merciala

[Uncredited editor, credited for preface] Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré, Late Attorney General and Acting Secretary of State of the United States: Consisting of a Diary of Brussels, and Journal of the Rhine: Extracts from His Private and Diplomatic Correspondence: Orations and Speeches: and Contributions to the New-York and Southern Review: Prefaced by a Memoir of His Life, Embellished with a Portrait. Columbia: Burges & James, 1846. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044010069904   

Argument in the case of [Lt] Col. A[braham] R. Woolley [circa 1848].

Anecdotes of Winfield Scott as Soldier and as Citizen. Washington, DC: Daily American Telegraph [circa 1852]. https://archive.org/details/anecdotesofwinfi00john

Catalogue Systematic and Analytical of the Books of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association. St. Louis: Printed for the Association by R.P. Studley, 1858.

A Guide to the Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects of Art, in the Halls of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, December, 1859. St. Louis: G. Knapp & Co., Printers, 1859.

A Guide to the Sculpture, Paintings, Coins, and Other Objects of Art, in the Halls of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, October, 1862. St. Louis: Printed at the Missouri Democrat Book and Job Office, 1862.

Articles by Edward William Johnston, including as Edward W. Johnston, E.W.J., Il Secretario and Il Segretario -- in chronological order.

[Uncredited]. “American Literature,” Southern Review, August 1831. Vol. VII (1828-1832): pages 436-459. Charleston, S.C.: A. S. Miller, 1831.

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015028574864?urlappend=%3Bseq=446

E.W.J. “Classical Bibliography.” Southern Literary Messenger: Devoted to Every Department of Literature and the Fine Arts Vol. II, No. XL (October 1836): pages 677-684. Richmond, Virginia: T. W. White.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/acf2679.0002.011/683:6?rgn=full+text;view=image

E.W.J. “Genealogy of Ideas” Southern Literary Messenger: Devoted to Every Department of Literature and the Fine Arts. Volume VIII, No.  9 (September 1842): pages 548-555. Richmond, Virginia: T.W. White.  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/acf2679.0008.009/556:3?rgn=full+text;view=image

Il Secretario. Richmond Whig. “Correspondence” from Washington, D.C.: January 5, 1844, January 7, 19 and 21, 1845, March 11, 1845, et al.

Il Secretario. "American Letters -- Their Character and Advancement." The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science. Volume I, Issue 6 (June 1845): pages 575-581.

Il Secretario. "Life and Labors, Literary, Professional and Public, of Legare." American Whig Review 2 (Oct. 1845): pages 416-30.

“Sam Houston and his Republic [review].” New York : Wiley & Putnam, 1847.

“Washington: To the Editor of the New York Daily Times: The Death of Mr. Webster.”  New York Daily Times. October 27, 1852: 2.

 Il Segretario. “Great Conversationists." New York Daily Times. November 10, 1852: 4.

 “Great Conversationists, II.: Randolph of Roanoke." New York Daily Times. December 1852: 2.

“Great Conversationists: No. III.: Chief Justice Marshall.” New York Daily Times. December 23, 1852: 2.

“Great Conversationists, Number Four. Jefferson--The Sage of Monticello." New York Daily Times. January 8, 1853: 2.

“Great Conversationists, Number Five: John C. Calhoun.” New York Daily Times.

January 19, 1853: 2.

“Great Conversationists, Number Six: The Lesser Lights of Carolina.” New York Daily Times.  January 29, 1853: 2.

“Great Conversationists, Number Seven: Dr. Thomas Cooper.” New York Daily Times. February 9, 1853: 2.

“Great Conversationists, Number Eight: Dr. Cooper.--Concluding Article.” New York Daily Times. March 7, 1853: 2.

 
“Great Conversationists, Number Nine: Hugh Swinton Legare.” New York Daily Times. March 35, 1853: 2.

 
“The Great Conversationists, Number Ten: Another Carolinian.” New York Daily Times. June 2, 1853: 2.

 
“The Great Conversationists: Number Ten [Eleven]: Warren Davis of South Carolina. Conclusion.” New York Daily Times. June 8, 1853: 2.

“The Great Conversationists, Number Twelve: Additional Reminiscences of Hugh Swinton Legare.” New York Daily Times. July 19, 1853: 2.

As Edward W. Johnston. “Patrick Henry” and “Madison,” Homes of American Statesmen: with Anecdotical [sic], Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by Various Writers. Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, from Drawings by Döpler and Daguerreotypes: and Facsimiles of Autograph Letters. New York, G. P. Putnam and Co., 1854, pages [151]-178, [179]-196.  http://hdl.handle.net/2027/dul1.ark:/13960/t74t8n34d

Manuscript Collections

Robert Morton Hughes Collection, Special Collections, Old Dominion University Library, Norfolk, Virginia.

Trigg-Floyd Collection, Special Collections, John Cook Wyllie Library, The University of Virginia's College at Wise -- formerly Clinch Valley College -- Wise, Virginia.

Secondary Sources

Arenson, Adam. The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War (Harvard University Press, 2011), pages 137-138 and 282-283, and "Anna and the Librarian," Opinionator: Disunion, New York Times online (January 11, 2012): http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/anna-and-the-librarian/ 

Bridges, Peter. "A Pen of Fire," VQR (Virginia Quarterly Review) Winter 2002, pages 41-53; and same author, Pen of Fire: John Moncure Daniel (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2002), pages 45-48. Online version:http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2002/winter/bridges-pen-fire/

France, Erik Donald. Joseph E. Johnston and the Family List, UMI #9997263 (Temple University, 2001).

Green, Edward L.  A History of the University of South Carolina (Columbia: 1916).

Jones, Arthur.  Pierre Toussaint: A Biography (Doubleday, 2003).

Knight, J. Stephen, Jr.  “Discontent, Disunity, and Dissent in the Antebellum South: Virginia as a Test Case, 1844-1846.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 81, No. 4 (October, 1973), pages 437-456.

LaBorde, M.  History of the South Carolina College: from its Incorporation December 19, 1801 to Nov. 25, 1857 (1859).

Larner, John B. "Some Reminiscences of Mrs. John M. Binckley of Early Days in Washington," Records of the Columbia History Society, Washington, D.C., Vol. 29/30, 1928, pages 348-349. 

Miller, Clarence E. “Edward William Johnston, Roving Scholar,” Missouri Historical Society Bulletin 9, no. 1. (October 1952): 81–87.

New York Mercantile Association, 17^th Annual Report (N.Y.: Printed by James Van Norden, 1838)  http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3036422 (see page 15).

O’Brien, Michael. Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina, 2004.

Scott, Margaret P., and Rachel Wilson, “Edward William Johnston and Roanoke Female Seminary,” Journal of the Roanoke Historical Society, Vol. 2 Winter 1969: pages 15-25.

Note: Newspapers barely included here. There are many pertinent articles that will be cited in future. Edward William Johnston probably wrote scores of articles under pseudonym or without any direct credit.

Contact: Erik D. France, efrance23@gmail.com