A. Contents as listed on contents pages (authors’ names of anonymously or pseudonymously published contributions given in square brackets)

Printed on all four covers: ‘When whoso merely hath a little thought’ [sonnet, William Michael Rossetti]

No. 1, January 1850 [all contributions anonymous in this issue, except the etching]

Etching by William Holman Hunt, to accompany ‘My Beautiful Lady’ and ‘Of my Lady in Death’

My Beautiful Lady [poem, Thomas Woolner]

Of my Lady in Death [poem, Thomas Woolner]

The Love of Beauty [sonnet, Ford Madox Brown]

The Subject in Art (No. 1.) [essay, John L. Tupper (No. II in issue no. 3)]

The Seasons [poem, Coventry Patmore]

Dream Land [poem, Christina Rossetti]

Songs of One Household (My Sister's Sleep) [poem, Dante Gabriel Rossetti]

Hand and Soul [story, Dante Gabriel Rossetti]

The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich [review, William Michael Rossetti]

Her First Season [sonnet, William Michael Rossetti]

A Sketch from Nature [poem, John L. Tupper]

An End [poem, Christina Rossetti]

No. 2, February 1850

Etching by James Collinson, to accompany ‘The Child Jesus’

The Child Jesus: by James Collinson [poem]

A Pause of Thought: by Ellen Alleyn [poem, Christina Rossetti]

The Purpose and Tendency of Early Italian Art: by John Seward [essay, F. G. Stephens]

Song: by Ellen Alleyn [poem, Christina Rossetti]

Morning Sleep: by Wm. B. Scott [poem]

Sonnet: by Calder Campbell

Stars and Moon [poem, Coventry Patmore]

On the Mechanism of a Historical Picture: by F. Madox Brown [essay]

A Testimony: by Ellen Alleyn [poem, Christina Rossetti]

O When and Where: by Thomas Woolner [poem]

Fancies at Leisure: by Wm. M. Rossetti [poem]

The Light Beyond: by Walter H. Deverell [three sonnets]

The Blessed Damozel: by Dante G. Rossetti [poem]

Reviews: ‘The Strayed Reveller, and other Poems:’ by Wm. M. Rossetti