SOUTHERN LITERARY MAGAZINES
		    1727-1900
		    COMPILED 
		       BY
		  NATALIA SMITH

		    EDITORIAL STATEMENT
	   This database includes bibliographic information about 
literary magazines of the American South. It begins in 1727, 
when William Parks published THE MARYLAND GAZETTE,
the first "traceable" literary periodical, and ends in 1900. 
This database represents the first step in creating a multi-
disciplinary multi-media database, "DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN 
SOUTH", at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  
		     RATIONALE
	   The literatures of the South together make up one 
of the richest veins of the American creative imagination. 
Unfortunately, while there are many bibliographic sources 
describing Southern novels, for example, the literary magazines 
of the South have been less comprehensively covered. 
This bibliographic database seeks to address that need 
by including information about all the literary periodicals 
published in the American South before the twentieth 
century.
	  In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, few publications 
were literary magazines in a belles lettres sense. At the same 
time, most Southern periodicals had literary features. For example,
women's magazines contained very large literary departments,
and even  politically oriented periodicals published short 
stories and poems. The database therefore includes all periodicals
with major literary content that contributed to the development of 
Southern literature, even if the word "literary" did not appear in 
the title. Many magazines had a short life, and did not leave behind
them any traceable files. In this case, we included them in this 
database only if there were references about their  literary content
in other sources, particularly periodicals
	   For the purposes of this database we have considered 
Southern literary magazines to be those that were published in
what are now fourteen states. They include: Alabama, Arkansas,
Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, 
Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, 
and West Virginia. (We excluded North Carolina, because its 
literary periodicals are covered by the North Carolina Collection.)
  
	     STRUCTURE OF THE DATABASE:
	    The database is divided into four parts. The first includes 
the editorial statement  and the editors' addresses. The second 
section contains the bibliographic database. The third part provides 
keys to the abbreviations used, and the fourth lists selected 
bibliographic print and online sources consulted.
	     I. Editorial Statement and Editors' Addresses
	     II. Bibliographic database
	     III. Keys to Abbreviations 
		    A. Holdings
		    B. States
	     IV. Selected Bibliographic Sources
	  The bibliographic database is composed of records with 
SEVEN fields: 1. Title (Ti); 2. Years of publication (Yr); 
3. Place of publication (Pl) --  town, state (full name); 4. Editor (Ed); 
5. Publisher (Pb); 6. Note; 7. Locations of holdings (Loc) --
 State (postal abbreviation) and  institution.
	   Please note that if you want to search for PLACE OF 
PUBLICATION, you must type the full name of the State. If you want 
to retrieve information about ALL THE LITERARY MAGAZINES HELD 
IN A STATE, you must type the postal abbreviation for the State. 
(See Part III-B of the database.) If you want to  find which 
INSTITUTIONS IN A STATE HOLD COPIES of periodicals,
you must use the OCLC symbols. (See Part III-A of the database. 
Italicized symbols indicate that no OCLC symbol was found for an 
institution.)
	  As we have seen, Southern magazines perished quickly. 
Many of them existed for only a few months. Others, in their fight for 
survival,  moved from editor to editor, publisher to publisher, town to 
town, and from State to State. SEE and SEE ALSO references help 
trace their adventurous lives.
  
		 EDITORIAL ADDRESS
	   This database as an open-ended dynamic project. In the 
future, we hope to extend it to the twentieth century, include new 
fields (e.g.,  table of contents), add missing information in 
already existing fields, and add more titles. We welcome any 
information about literary periodicals of the American South, 
including suggestions and comments from our readers. We hope 
to enlarge this database with your help, although we reserve 
the right to edit any information. Thank you.

Editors 
Natalia Smith
1904 Bearkling Place
Chapel Hill, NC 27514 
E-mail address  smitn@ruby.ils.unc.edu
  
Patricia Buck Dominguez
Humanities Bibliographer
Collection Development Department
CB# 3918 Davis Library
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
E-mail address  pat_dominguez@unc.edu