| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | The Boston Transcript Company |
| Founded | July 24, 1830[1] |
| Language | English |
| Ceased publication | April 30, 1941 |
| Headquarters | 324 Washington Street (Corner of Milk Street and Washington Street), Boston, Massachusetts  United States |
The Boston Evening Transcript was a daily afternoon newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts published from July 24, 1830 to April 30, 1941.[2]
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Beginnings
The Transcript was founded in 1830 by Henry Dutton and James Wentworth of the firm of Dutton and Wentworth, who were, at that time, the official state printers of Massachusetts.[3] and Lynde Walter who was also the first editor of the Transcript.[4]
In 1830 The Boston Evening Bulletin, which had been a penny paper, ceased publication. Lynde Walter decided to use the opening provided to start a new evening penny paper in Boston. Walter approached Dutton and Wentworth with the proposal that he would edit the paper and that they would do the printing and circulation.[4]
Dutton and Wentworth agreed to this as long as Walter would pay the expenses of the initial editions of the newspaper.[4]
The Transcript first appeared on July 24, 1830,[1] however after three days Walter suspended publication of the paper until he could build up his patronage. After Walker canvassed the city to better develop the paper's business The Transcript resumed publication on August 28, 1830.[5]
After Lynde Walter died, his sister, Cornelia Wells Walter, who had been the Transcript 's theatre critic, became, at 27, the editor of the Transcript,[6] becoming the first woman to become the editor of a major American daily. Cornelia Walter served as the editor of The Transcript from 1842 to 1847.[7]
Great Fire
The Transcript 's offices were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872. After the Great Fire The Transcript 's offices on Washington Street were rebuilt and expanded.[8]
Literary influence
In 1847 the poet Epes Sargent became editor of the paper.
Many literary and poetic works debuted in the Transcript's pages.
An early version of "America the Beautiful" by Katharine Lee Bates first appeared in The Boston Evening Transcript on November 19, 1904.[9]
Features and columns
Features and columns included: "Suburban Scenes", "The Listener", The Nomad, The Librarian, Saturday Night Thoughts, as well as extensive book reviews and music criticism. The Transcript also had a Washington bureau, a college sports pages and a department of Bridge. In addition The Transcript had a well known genealogy column.
Genealogical columns
Because of the genealogy column The Transcript is of value to historians and others. Gary Boyd Roberts of the New England Historic Genealogical Society noted:
"The Boston Evening Transcript, like the New York Times today, was a newspaper of record.
Its genealogical column, which usually ran twice or more a week for several decades in the early twentieth century,
was often an exchange among the most devoted and scholarly genealogists of the day.
Many materials not published elsewhere are published therein."[11]
Contributors
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In Popular literature
The Boston Evening Transcript is also the title of a poem by T. S. Eliot which reads:
- The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript
- Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.
- When evening quickens faintly in the street,
- Wakening the appetites of life in some
- And to others bringing the Boston Evening Transcript,
- I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning
- Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,
- If the street were time and he at the end of the street,
- And I say, "Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript."
Allusions in literature
- In John P. Marquand's 1937 novel The Late George Apley, The Boston Evening Transcript is mentioned several times.
Triva
A former Boston radio station, WBET (now WLLH in Lowell and Lawrence), took its call letters from the Boston Evening Transcript as they shared a common owner.
The Golden Transcript, which publishes in Golden, Colorado, was begun in 1866 by recent Boston Evening Transcript worker George West.
References
- ^ a b Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar (1969), The Boston Transcript: A History of Its First Hundred Years, Freport, NY: Ayer Publishing, p. 11 ISBN 0836951468
- ^ "BOSTON TRANSCRIPT TO QUIT WEDNESDAY; Five-Cent Price Fails to Save Newspaper, Approaching Its 111th Anniversary PROFITABLE UNTIL 1929 Patron of Arts and Sciences Began Decline With Slump in 'Lush Financial Advertising' ", New York, NY: The New York Times, 24 April 1941, p. 23.
- ^ King, Moses (1881), King's Handbook of Boston 4th ed., Cambridge, MA: M. King, p. 263
- ^ a b c Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar (1969), The Boston Transcript: A History of Its First Hundred Years, Freport, NY: Ayer Publishing, p. 10 ISBN 0836951468
- ^ Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar (1969), The Boston Transcript: A History of Its First Hundred Years, Freport, NY: Ayer Publishing, p. 16 ISBN 0836951468
- ^ Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar (1969), The Boston Transcript: A History of Its First Hundred Years, Freport, NY: Ayer Publishing, p. 69 ISBN 0836951468
- ^ Madison, D. Soyini (2006), The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies, Thousand Oaks, CA: Published by SAGE, p. 119 ISBN 0761929312
- ^ [1] History of the Great Fire of Boston
- ^ McLaughlin, Jeff (July 22, 1993), A century of 'spacious skies'; Bates' 'America the Beautiful' has endured time and tinkering, Boston, MA: The Boston Globe, p. 21 Metro Region Section.
- ^ Terry (October 10, 2004). "Oregon's Trails: Hazel Hall's Poems a Prism to Life and Why this is so". Portland, Oregon: The Oregonian. p. A23 Northwest; Oregon & The West Section.
- ^ New England Historical Genealogical Society: Genealogical Thoughts by Gary Boyd Roberts
- ^ Glenn, Joshua (June 15, 2008), Icons of the 20th century, in Lego, Boston, MA: The Boston Globe., p. C10 Ideas Section
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1898), The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic Vol. VIII, New York, NY: J.T. White, p. 441.
- ^ Special to The New York Times (July 13, 1968), Olga Huckins, Ex-Editor At Boston Transcript, 67, New York, NY: New York Times, p. 27
- ^ Matthiessen, Peter (2007), Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson, Boston, MA; New York, NY: Mariner Books, p. 135 ISBN 0618872760.
- ^ Himaras, Eleni (May 26, 2007), Rachel's Legacy - Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 'Silent Spring’ was inspired by Duxbury woman, Quincy, MA: The Patriot Ledger.
- ^ Colby, Frank Moore (1911), The New International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress for the year 1910, New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Co., p. 356
- ^ De Bekker, Leander Jan (1924), Black's Dictionary of Music & Musicians: Covering the Entire Period of Musical History from the Earliest Times to 1924, London, UK: A. & C. Black, ltd., p. 296
- ^ Holman, C. Hugh (1965), John P. Marquand, Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota Press, p. 10 ISBN 0816603502
- ^ Wier, Albert Ernest (1943), Thesaurus of the Arts: Drama, Music, Radio, Painting, Screen, Television, Literature, Sculpture, Architecture, Ballet, New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, p. 360
- ^ Kisselgoff, Anna (January 11, 1981), Dance View;CARL VAN VECHTEN'S CENTENARY, New York, NY: New York Times, Section 2; Page 8, Column 2.
- ^ Miller, Stephen (March 6, 2007), Paul Secon, 91, Founded Pottery Barn, New York, NY: New York Sun, p. 10.
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