Scope and Content Note
Correspondence of the North American Review spans the years 1858-1912 and chiefly concerns contributions to the magazine and requests for copies of published articles. Contributors came from various backgrounds, including archaeology, statistics, law, literature, history, journalism, social reform, the military, politics, economics, engineering, public office, astronomy, missionary work, education, agriculture, and medicine. Letters were frequently addressed to editors Lloyd Stephens Bryce and Allen Thorndike Rice. Correspondents were both American and international, and include Leonard Dalton Abbott, Charles A. Beard, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, William E. Dodd, Charles S. Duke, Paul Gibier, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry James, Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami, Sir Henry W. Lucy, Luigi Luzzatti, Herbert Putnam, and Ezekiel Stone Wiggins.