A Preliminary Checklist of Mary Prudence Wells Smith's Publications

Mary P. Wells Smith autograph

 

Database abbreviations: AHN = available via Readex's America's Historical Newspapers series; APS = available via ProQuest's American Periodicals Series

Note: Links to online versions of series volumes can be found at the Series Bibliography page.



1863

Trials

"Trials Of A Tall Young Lady," Springfield [MA] Weekly Republican, Oct. 10, 1863: 7. As P. Thorne. Also AHN.

"Quaker Meeting," Springfield [MA] Weekly Republican, Oct. 31, 1863: 6. As P. Thorne. AHN.

"Sitting For A Photograph," Springfield [MA] Weekly Republican, Nov. 14,1863: 6. As P. Thorne. AHN.

"Getting Up," Springfield [MA] Weekly Republican, Dec.19,1863: Page: 6; reprinted in Lowell Daily Citizen and News, Dec. 26, 1863. As P. Thorne. AHN.

1864

"The Wandering Jew. A Tale of the Interregnum" Springfield [MA] Weekly Republican, April 30,1864: 6. As P. Thorne.

1867

How To Be Happy: A Lay Sermon. (American Unitarian Association, 1867) Tract, Fifth Series. 8 pgs Not seen. As M. P. Wells.

1868

"Lucy's First Prayer." Sunday School Gazette 19 (1 April 1868): 26-27. As P. Thorne.

"Mr. Mudfoot." Sunday School Gazette 19 (1 August 1868): 26-27. As P. Thorne.

"Children's Sayings." Sunday School Gazette 19 (15 November 1868): 87. As P. Thorne.

1869

"Pleasures of Poverty," Lippincott's 4 (Oct. 1869): 453-455. As P. Thorne Google Books Reprinted as "The Joys of Poverty," The Ladies' Repository 31 (April 1871) :254-56. Google Books ; also APS.

1870

"The Consequences," Harper's New Monthly Magazine 40 (February 1870): 376-80. Google Books. Excerpted as "A Farmer's Home" Ohio Farmer 19 (Feb 12, 1870): 106. As Mary P. Wells.

"The Coming Woman," Lippincott's 5 (May 1870): 529-532. As P. Thorne (but attributed to "Miss Mary P. Wells" in the May 2, 1870, American Literary Gazette notice about the issue). Google Books; also APS.

"Cacoethes Scribendi; and What Came of It" Lippincott's 6 (Dec. 1870): 639-645. As P. Thorne; also via Google Books and APS.

1872

"About Bunch," The Dayspring 23 (July 1872): 103-04. As P. Thorne. Google Books. Reprinted in The Children's Hour 12 (September 1872) 99-100. Google Books.

First installment of Child-Life on a Farm

1873

"Ten-pins and Repose," The Advance 7 (Dec. 4, 1873): 6. As P. Thorne Not seen.

1874

"Child-life on a Farm," Serial. Christian Union 9 ( Apr 1, 1874) - 10 (Dec 2, 1874). As P. Thorne Published in 1875 by Roberts Bros. as Jolly Good Times; or, Child Life on a Farm. [vol. 1 - Jolly Good Times Series]. APS.

"Old People," Friends' Intelligencer 31 (May 23, 1874): 197. As P. Thorne. Not seen.

1875

"Our Dickens Party," Christian Union 11 (March 24, 1875): 240. As P. Thorne. APS.

"Betsey and Jacob," Christian Union 11 (Apr 28, 1875): 360. As P. Thorne. APS.

"From Florence to Turin," [Greenfield] Gazette and Courier, Sept. 20, 1875. As P. Thorne. Not seen.

1876

Letter, Christian Register, April 17, 1876. As P. Thorne. Not seen.

1877

Jolly Good Times at School (Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1877). As P. Thorne. [vol. 2 - Jolly Good Times Series]

Possible: The Great Match and Other Matches. No-Name Series. (Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1877). Anonymously.

1878

Infant Class Cards: "Sayings of Jesus" and "Kindness to Animals." L. Prang, 1878. [10 cards per envelope.] Examples online at New York Public Library's Digital Gallery

1879

"The Family Circle," The Advance 13 (Feb 20, 1879): 123. As P. Thorne. Not seen.

1885

The Browns (Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1877). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 3 - Jolly Good Times Series]

Jolly Good Times at Hackmatack

1886

"I Was a Stranger, and Ye Took Me In." Herald of Truth 23 (Nov 1, 1886): 322. As P. Thorne. Not seen.

Miss Ellis's Mission (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1886). As Mary P. W. Smith. At Google Books.

1889

Their Canoe Trip. (Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1889). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 4 - Jolly Good Times Series]

1891

Jolly Good Times at Hackmatack. (Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1891). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 5 - Jolly Good Times Series]

1892

More Jolly Good Times at Hackmatack. (Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1892). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 6 - Jolly Good Times Series]

1893

"Behind the Wardrobe," Wide-Awake 36 (Jan. 1893). 142- . As Mary P. Wells Smith. Not seen.

1894

Jolly Good Times To-Day. (Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1894). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 7 - Jolly Good Times Series]

1895

A Jolly Good Summer. (Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1895). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 8 - Jolly Good Times Series]

Third Congregational (Unitarian) Society booklet

1897

The Young Puritans of Old Hadley. (Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1897). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 1 - Young Puritans Series]

The Third Congregational (Unitarian) Society of Greenfield, Mass.: An Historical Sketch. (Greenfield, 1897). Booklet. As Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith. Online at ancestry.com. (Subscription required for access.)

1898

The Young Puritans in King Philip's War. (Boston, Little, Brown, 1897). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 2 - Young Puritans Series]

1899

The Young Puritans in Captivity. (Boston, Little, Brown, 1897). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 3 - Young Puritans Series]

1900

"A Puritan Foremother." Paper read at the annual meeting of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Feb. 27, 1900. Published in History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association 4 (1905): 85-98. Google Books As Mary P. Wells Smith.

The Young and Old Puritans of Hatfield. (Boston, Little, Brown, 1900). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 4 - Young Puritans Series]

1901

Four on a Farm. (Boston, Little, Brown, 1901). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 1 - Summer Vacation Series]

"In Memoriam--Jonathan Wells." Paper read ca July 30, 1901, at a field meeting of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association. Published in History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Yearbook 4 (1905): 262-68. As Mary P. Wells Smith. Google Books

1904

Letter, Gazette and Courier, ca1903-04 [for Greenfield's sesquicentennial?]. Reprinted as "Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith's Recollections" in Francis M. Thompson, History of Greenfield: Shire Town of Franklin County Massachusetts, vol. 2 (Greenfield: 1904): <1168-73. Google Books

The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield. (Boston, Little, Brown, 1904). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 1 - Old Deerfield Series]

1905

The Boy Captive in Canada (Boston, Little, Brown, 1905). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 2 - Old Deerfield Series]

1906

Judge Fayette Smith: A Sketch of His Life. (Greenfield, MA: Privately Printed, 1906). As Mary P. Wells Smith Not seen.

1907

Five in a Ford

Boys of the Border. (Boston, Little, Brown, 1907). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 3 - Old Deerfield Series]

An Address Delivered on Old Home Day, August 15, 1907 in Warwick, Mass. Booklet. As Mary P. Wells Smith. Not seen. Cover online at Warwick Historical Society.

1909

Boys and Girls of Seventy-Seven. (Boston, Little, Brown, 1909). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 4 - Old Deerfield Series]

1914

Two in a Bungalow. (Boston, Little, Brown, 1914). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 2 - Summer Vacation Series]

1916

Three in a Camp. (Boston, Little, Brown, 1916). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 3 - Summer Vacation Series]

1918

Five in a Ford. (Boston, Little, Brown, 1918). As Mary P. Wells Smith. [vol. 4 - Summer Vacation Series]

1921

"Post Office Mission: Its Origin," Christian Register 100 (May 5, 1921): 414-415. As Mary P. Wells Smith. Google Books

1927

"Old Deerfield in Indian Times." Horn Book 3 (Aug-Sept. 1927): 39-41. As Mary P. Wells Smith.

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