Chronological Checklist
of Publications
by
Susan Blagge
Caldwell Samuels (Mrs. S. B. C. Samuels)
AAS = Available in American Antiquarian Society
Historical Periodicals Collection
APS = Available in American Periodicals Series
Collection
As Susie Caldwell
1866
"To My Baby Brother." Merry's Museum (Jan 1866): 53. APS
Poem.
As Susie B. Caldwell
1868
"Name Me in Thy Prayer." Root & Cady, 1868.
Song. Music and lyrics.
As S. B. C. Samuels
1870
Adele; or, The Shipwrecked Girl. Lee & Shepard, 1870.
#1 of Springdale Stories. Series retitled "The Golden Rule" in 1886. Also reissued as Shipwrecked Girl; or, Adele in The Mayflower Series for Girls ca1897.
Eric; or, Under the Sea. Lee & Shepard, 1870.
#2 of Springdale Stories. Series retitled "The Golden Rule" in 1886. Also reissued as Under the Sea; or, Eric in The Pilgrim Series for Boys ca1897.
Herbert; or, The Golden Rule. Lee & Shepard, 1870.
#3 of Springdale Stories. Series retitled "The Golden Rule" in 1886. Also reissued as Golden Rule; or, Herbert in The Pilgrim Series for Boys ca1897.
Nettie's Trial. Lee & Shepard, 1870.
#4 of Springdale Stories. Series retitled "The Golden Rule" in 1886. Also reissued in The Mayflower Series for Girls ca1897.
Johnstone's Farm; or, The Burning Prairie. Lee & Shepard, 1870.
#5 of Springdale Stories. Series retitled "The Golden Rule" in 1886. Also reissued as Burning Prairie; or, Johnstone's Farm in The Pilgrim Series for Boys ca1897.
Ennisfellen; or,
#6 of Springdale Stories. Series retitled "The Golden Rule" in 1886. Also reissued as Smuggler's Cave; or, Ennisfellen in The Pilgrim Series for Boys ca1897.
1871
"A Holiday Festival: An Opretta in Four Acts." Oliver Optic's Magazine. Our Boys and Girls 9 (June 1871): 399-406. AAS APS
1872
"Winning the Prize." Oliver Optic's Magazine. Our Boys and Girls 11 (Mar 1872): 168-77. AAS APS
"A New 'Goody Two-Shoes'." Our Young Folks 8.5 (May 1872): 269-74. AAS APS
"The Building of the Mystic." Our Young Folks 8.8 (Aug 1872): 486-91. AAS APS
1873
"Pigs and Guinea Pigs, and What They Paid For." Our Young Folks 9.2 (Feb 1873): 89-93. AAS APS
1874
"Christmas City." St. Nicholas 1.7 (May 1874): 405-07. AAS APS
Largely non-fiction: Instructions on building a city
of cardboard houses, loosely framed with a story.
"Holiday Harbor." St. Nicholas 2.2 (Dec. 1874): 112-17. AAS APS
A continuation of the crafts from
"Christmas City" (St Nicholas, May 1874).
1875
Cherry the Singer. Boston: E. A. Samuels, 1875.
Published by Samuels' husband. Fictionalized tale reworking the Charley Ross kidnapping.
1876
"The Fighting Fleet." St. Nicholas 3.5 (March 1876): 317-19. AAS APS
More crafts, again framed by a slight narrative.
1878
"August’s ' ’Speriment.' "Wide Awake 6.6 (June 1880): 404-09?
Original
not seen. Information from Fictionmags. Reprinted in Wonder Stories of Science. Boston:
Lothrop,1885: 211-32. Online via Internet
Archive.
Informational story about building incubators &
hatching hens' eggs (possibly based on her husband's work in that area).
"Monkeys." Massachusetts Ploughman and New England Journal of Agriculture 37.42 (20 July 1878): 4. APS
Originally published in Cottage
Hearth (not located). Reprinted in New York Observer and
Chronicle (1 Aug. 1878): 248. APS
1880
"The Torch-Light Brigade." Wide Awake 11.6 (Dec. 1880): 372-74?
Original
not seen. Information from Fictionmags. Reprinted in Borrowed Plumes
(Boston: Lothrop, 1881).
1881
"Straw Flower Culture." The Youth's Companion 54.13 (31 March 1881): 123. APS
"How Logs Go To Mill." Wide Awake 12.4 (April 1881): 234-35?
Original
not seen. Information from Fictionmags.
Reprinted in Wonder Stories of Science Boston: Lothrop,
1885: 331-42.. Online via Internet
Archive.
Informational. An endnote adds "I saw the driving and sluicing,
as I have described it, in May 1880."
1882
"The Story of a Little Boy's Nap in a Cannon." Wide Awake 15.4 (Oct. 1882): 224-28.
Reprinted in National Tribune [Washington,
D.C.] 5 Oct. 1882: 6. Also in Wide-Awake Pleasure Book (Boston: Lothrop, n.d.)
"How the Pig Paid for the Pony" Congregationalist 11 Oct. 1882: 6.
1883
"Ted's Fire-Works." The Congregationalist 19 July 1883: 6.
"Good for Evil." The Congregationalist 13 Sept. 1883: 6.
1884
"Buying Shares." The Congregationalist 13 Nov. 1884: 6.
1891
"A Giant Preacher." Wide Awake 32.3 (Feb 1891): 232-33.
Reprinted in Daily Leader [Gloversville,
NY] 17 March 1891, and in the Norwalk [OH] Daily Reflector, 14 March 1891.
Probable:
As S. B. C.
1868
"The Famous Astronomical Clock."
Oliver Optic's
Magazine. Our Boys and Girls 4 (10 Oct. 1868): 650-51. AAS
Reprinted in Religio-philosophical Journal (14 Nov. 1868):
3. AAS
Although at least one other
person wrote as S. B. C., "Clock" was later incorporated into
Samuels' Eric, suggesting this piece is her work.
As S. B. C. S.
1869
"The Roses." Massachusetts Ploughman and New England Journal of Agriculture (25 Sept. 1869): 1.
Non-fiction. In 1870, the Ploughman
referred to Samuels as a contributor; this is the only piece found where
the author attribution suggests it could be her
work. (It's also possible the Ploughman
had confused Samuels with her husband, Edward A. Samuels, who was a
contributor.)
1876
"Rest, By and By." Musician & Artist 1 (Jan. 1876): 14. AAS
Poem. Musician
& Artist was published by Samuels' husband.
