Henry Livingston, Jr.
Henry Livingston's Prose


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"
Affidavit Henry
Livingston,jun.
CJPA
24 Apr 1798 "We think it unnecessary to make any remarks on the objections against"
Supporting David Brooks Henry
Livingston
CJPA
8 Apr 1800 "At a numerous and respectable meeting" (Henry supports. Writes?)
By R; Scraps MSS Unknown "The Town of Poughkeepsie - Agricultural & Commercial."
Invisible Momus
R
NW
21 Nov 1809 For the Northern Whig
"Nothing is, which is not of use."
Supporting James Madison and DeWitt Clinton Henry
Livingston
Chairman
CJPA
29 Mar 1820 "At a numerous and respectable meeting of the Electors"
OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK SUBMITTED BY R
in New-York Magazine or Poughkeepsie Journal
SHORT TITLE
PUBLISHED/MSS
DATE
FIRST LINE
The Power of Love and Filial Duty
R
NYMLR
Jul 1791 "At the time of the protectorship of Cromwell,"
Liberty Defined
R
NYMLR
Sep 1793 "DOES liberty, then, consist in the power of doing what we please?"
CJPA Country Journal and Poughkeepsie Advertiser
[Poughkeepsie Journal]
NYMLR New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository
NW Northern Whig





        
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