The Prose of Major Henry Livingston, Jr.

These first adventurers were succeeded by others, and all multiplied rapidly -- the aboriginals receded -- till at length the sons of Europe covered the face of this western world with a splendor and magnificence, not yet proved to be more intrinsically beautiful than the virgin apparatus of nature, or more conducive to the real felicity of man.¹

Although Henry frequently published his writing anonymously, or under the pseudonym "R", he seems to have been more concerned with his drawings, which he frequently signed with his name in the same article in which he he signed the prose "R." Henry was a subscriber to the New-York Magazine, as were many members of his family, and even Clement Clarke Moore's father, Rev. Benjamin Moore.

PROSE GUARANTEED BY HENRY FROM MSS OR NAME/PSEUDONYM

SHORT TITLE

PUBLISHED/MSS

DATE

FIRST LINE

Revolutionary War Diary

MSS

Aug-Dec 1775

"l775, August 25.-Embark'd on board Cap't Jacksons sloop"

To the Justices and Supervisers of Dutchess County Need pub

R
CJPA

14 Mar 1787

"AMONG the several classes of public bodies"

Female Happiness Need pub

R
CJPA

14 Oct 1788

"VERY remote from common conceptions"

Astronomical Intelligence

R
CJPA

15 Sep 1789

"IN the month of February, 1789, a most excentric idea"

Anticipation

R
CJPA

26 Jun 1790

For the Poughkeepsie Journal
"WHEREAS in a country like our own, just emancipated from foreign control"

Anecdote of Dr. Franklin

R
CJPA

26 Jun 1790

"A Gentleman of Pennsylvania remarkable for his aversion from revealed religion,"

Of the enormous Bones found in America

R
CJPA

6 Nov 1790

For the Poughkeepsie Journal
"BETWEEN thirty and forty years ago at a salt-lick near the banks of the Ohio"

West Point

H. Livingston
NYMLR

Mar 1791

For the New-York Magazine
"This formidable spot of ground is on the west side of Hudson's River,"

Universal Hospital

R
NYMLR

Apr 1791

For the New-York Magazine
"The subscriber, with whose education no pains has been spared"

Seat of Henry Livingston, Esq

NYMLR

May 1791

For the New-York Magazine
"THE seat which the annexed plate is designed to represent,"

Of the Honey-Dew

R
NYMLR

Jun 1791

For the New-York Magazine
"IF all the phenomena of nature were faithfully registered,"

Steep Rocks on Hudson's River

HL
NYMLR

Jun 1791

For the New-York Magazine
"This remarkable range of rocks"

The Sermon

R
NYMLR
R
CJPA

Jul 1791

"IN your magazine of the last month is inserted a sermon,"

Tipling Mouse

R
NYMLR

Sep 1791

For the New-York Magazine
"It has been asserted by some amateurs of natural history"

Antiquity and Universality of English

R
NYMLR

Sep 1791

For the New-York Magazine
"THE people of the United States are almost generally descended from Englishmen:"

Indian Ruins

H. Livingston
R
NYMLR

Oct 1791

For the New-York Magazine
"These remains of Indian ingenuity, are unequalled"

Oxen

A.B
A Dutchess
County Farmer
NYMLR

Oct 1791

"In the Christian's, Scholar's, and Farmer's Magazine,"

Recovery of Drowned Child

R
NYMLR

Nov 1791

For the New-York Magazine
"Some time in September last, a female black servant child, between three and four"

Egg Within Egg

R
NYMLR

16 Nov 1791

For the New-York Magazine
"As I look upon your Repository to be one of those archives"

Maelstroom

H. Livingston
R
NYMLR

Dec 1791

For the New-York Magazine
"NATURE has no where assumed a more terrific form than in this vortex."

Baby House

Seignior
Whimsicallo
Pomposo
R
CJPA

19 Jan 1792

"The whole ground to be improved"

Happy Vale

HL
R
NYMLR

Jan 1792

For the New-York Magazine
"THE inhabitants of this place have been of late exceedingly entertained"

Battle of Miami

R
NYMLR

Jan 1792

For the New-York Magazine
"IN the autumn of the year 1791, the pale men, to the number of five thousand,"

Memoirs of a Pine Tree

R
NYMLR

Mar 1792

For the New-York Magazine
"I arose from the cone of my parent pine on the 23d day of May, 1452,"

Of the Esquimaux Indians

H. Livingston
R
NYMLR

May 1792

For the New-York Magazine
"These people from the whiteness of their skins, their having beards,"

Of the SAW-MILL of Henry Livingston

HL
NYMLR

Aug 1792

text not Henry's

Remarkable Watch

R
NYMLR

17 Dec 1792

"As I consider your Magazine a deposit as well of the arts and sciences"

Indian Fortifications

R
NYMLR

Jan 1793

For the New-York Magazine
"In the summer of 1791, several gentlemen of distinction"

Journal of an Asiatic Expedition
(Alexander the Great's War Diary)
Need pub scanned

R
NYMLR

Feb 1793

For the New-York Magazine
"TIS NOT long since I happened to purchase at a venue, an old trunk,"
"446th Olympiad, June 23. Eight o'clock in the evening. Confoundedly tired with marching through this sun-burnt oriental country."

Mohawk River

H. Livingston
R
NYMLR

Mar 1793

For the New-York Magazine
THAT part of the Mohawk River which the Plate represents is very remarkable"

Of the Catamount; or Panther

H. Livingston
R
NYMLR

Apr 1795

For the New-York Magazine
"The Panther is, in America, what the Lion and Tyger are in Africa and Asia,"

Supporting John Jay

Henry
Livingston,jun.
CJPA

17 Apr 1798

"IT is not for us to tell you that you have rights great and unalienable"