The Union Magazine
Union Magazine, The ( 1847–52),New York monthly, edited for the first year by Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, who contributed Western stories, and obtained reviews, essays, sketches, and sentimental, moral, and didactic tales from Simms, C.F. Hoffman, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, T.S. Arthur, and Park Benjamin. Poe contributed An Enigma and To Helen. The magazine was purchased by John Sartain (1848), who added his name to the title. Contributors under his editorship included Longfellow, Lowell, N.P. Willis, Boker, Stoddard, T.D. English, Griswold, J.G. Saxe, and T.B. Read. At this time Poe contributed The Bells and The Poetic Principle, and Thoreau contributed the first part of The Maine Woods.
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