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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2009
On July 2. 1874, the Ashtabula Sentinel carried the following announcement: “Hon. W. C. Howells left home for Quebec on last Thursday morning. He will enter immediately upon his duties as Consul.” At first glance, there seems to be little of importance in this editorial lead: but, in fact, it marked the end of an era. For the first time since 1840, it seemed, the influential editorial voice of William Cooper Howells would be missing in Ohio. As editor of the Scioto Gazette, he had first put William Henry Harrison's name “at the head” of the paper for nomination; his first number as editor of the Hamilton Intelligencer recounted the Columbus nominating convention; and he marked his first year as editor there with the official announcement of Harrison's election—“the crowning of that great struggle for right principles that has characterized the past year.”
1. The Hamilton Intelligencer, 01 8, 1841.Google Scholar
2. Ibid., February 19, 1841.
3. Ibid., January 8, 1841.
4. Howells, William Cooper, Recollections of Life in Ohio from 1813 to 1840, ed., Cady, Edwin H. (Gainesville, Fla.: Scholars Facsimiles and Reprints, 1963), pp iv, v and passim.Google Scholar
5. The Retina, I, 3 (07 15, 1843), p. 24.Google Scholar
6. Ashtabula Sentinel, 06 25, 1874, p. 4Google Scholar The Painesville Journal charged that the appointment was payment for support of Garfield. W. C. Howells pointed out logically that if Garfield wanted Howells' help he would not remove him from Ohio.
7. Ashtabula Sentinel, 07 9, 1874, p. 4Google Scholar. Hereafter, since all “Familiar Letters” appear on page 4 of the Ashtabula Sentinel, only the pertinent date will be given.
8. July 16, 1874.
9. July 23, 1874.
10. November 25, 1875.
11. Holman, C. Hugh, A Handbook to Literature (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972), pp. 218–19.Google Scholar
12. July 23, 1874
13. August 13, 1874.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. December 10, 1874.
17. June 24, 1875.
18. July 30, 1874.
19. Ibid.
20. August 27, 1874.
21. August 20 and 27, 1874.
22. September 3, 1874.
23. October 15, 1874.
24. February 25, 1875.
25. April 8, 1875.
26. September 16, 1875.
27. August 5, 1875.
28. August 26, 1875.
29. July 19, 1875.
30. November 18, 1875.
31. December 9, 1875.
32. January 13, 1876.
33. February 17, 1876.
34. Ibid.
35. May 30, 1878.
36. March 11, 1875.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. For more detailed treatment see Payne, Alma J., “The Ashtabula Sentinel and the Election of 1876,” Hayes Historical Journal, I, No. 2 (Fall 1976), 99–111.Google Scholar
40. June 15, 1876.
41. Dreams figure to an increasing degree in W. D. Howells' later work such as Shadow of a Dream.
42. June 15, 1876.
43. June 22, 1876.
44. October 25, 1877.
45. The paper was printed in its entirety in the Ashtabula Sentinel, 11 27, 1878.Google Scholar
46. May 27, 1875.
47. Ibid.
48. Ibid.
49. May 17, 1877.
50. William Dean Howells, introduction to Recollections of Life in Ohio, p. iv.Google Scholar