Godey's Lady's Book
Volume LIX, July-December 1859 

A Lover's Dream, by Shenandoah [poem]                                                       230
Alphabet of Fancy Letters (Illustrated)
   
         Crochet, capitals, lower case, numbers                                                  108
            Variety alphabet, capitals, A-0                                                              300
            Variety alphabet, capitals, P-Z                                                              400
            Floral, capitals, A-U                                                                             496
A Mother's Love, by George W. Cook [poem]                                                  61
Amusements at Home [dancing, music, drawing]                                                 47
Amusing Tricks [freezing mixture; wine upon water; night light; to obtain flame 
            from water; metallic vegetation; to produce cold; to melt steel as easily 
            as lead]                                                                                                327
An Appeal, by S. P. Bryan, M. D. [poem]                                                        254
A Netted Couverette for Fruit, Cake, etc. (Illustrated)                                     362
A Parting Lay, by Alone [poem]                                                                       350
A Pleasant Letter [from Nahma, Delta Co., MI]                                                147
Applique Reticule (Illustrated)                                                                           71
Articles for Fancy Fairs (Illustrated)  
           
Glass boxes with raised covers; temple or cottage boxes; diamond
                boxes; octagon boxes; mirror and pincushion boxes; painted-glass 
                jewel boxes                                                                                      164
           
Harlequin and mirror jewel boxes; glass picture-frames                          260
           
Glass baskets                                                                                       358
           
Worsted work-basket; moss baskets                                                    457
A Title Lost, a Heart Won:  A Novellette, by Captain B_____, Mississippi
   
         [fiction]                                                                              29, 149, 246, 339, 439, 533
Aunt Bethiah's Visit, by Mary W. Janvrin [fiction]                                            210, 301
Aunt Magwire's Account of the Mission to Muffletegawny, by the author of 
            the "Widow Bedott Papers"
[fiction]                                                     13
Aunt Sophie's Visits, by Lucy N. Godfrey [fiction]                                              21
Aunt Tabitha's Fire-side:  A Ghost Story, by Edith Woodley [fiction]                317
Autumn, by Lillian [poem]                                                                               417
Autumn, by R. S. H. [poem]                                                                              539
Autumn Bonnets (Illustrated)                                                                           200, 287
Autumn Musings, by Mabel Gray [poem]                                                         351
Bead Net for the Hair (Illustrated)                                                                   204, 287
Beautiful Extract                                                                                               113
Beauty, by Ellen [poem]                                                                                   445
Beware of the Thorns (Illustrated)                                                                     97
Blind Little Eddie, by Kruna [poem]                                                                   62
Bonnets (Illustrated)                                                            102,190, 200, 256, 287, 352, 598
Borders for Mats, in O. P. Beads (Illustrated)                                                  357
Braiding Pattern for a Mantle (Illustrated)                                                        398
Braiding Pattern for a Note-Case (Illustrated)                                                  209, 354
Broad Line Drawing Lessons (Illustrated)                                    43, 139, 237, 319, 427, 526
Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)                                                                         492
Broderie for a Skirt (Illustrated)                                                                       198
Buttercups (Illustrated)                                                                                        1
By the Graves of my Kindred, by Charles Stewart                                           519
Cable Border, in Beads (Illustrated)                                                                  70
Capes (Illustrated)                                                                                            66, 352, 450
Caps (Illustrated)                                                                                              66, 159, 450
Carriage Friends, by Alice B. Haven [fiction]                                        133, 231, 320, 429, 510
Centre-Table Gossip, containing--
           
"A Cooking School"                                                                               92
           
A Mother's Wages, by Alice B. Haven [poem]                                     189
           
Becoming Colors                                                                                  189
           
Books for Summer Reading                                                                    93
           
Caprices of Fashion      [use of flowers, lace, and ribbon on ball 
                dresses, headdresses, bonnets, berthes; jewelry]                               286
           
House Gardening                                             
   
             No. 7—Hints for the Arrangement of Cut Flowers                              93
                No. 8—Cut Flowers Again                                                               190
                No. 9—Moss, etc. as Parlor Ornaments                                           285
                No.10—Potting House Plants                                                           381
                No. 11—Generalities                                                                        475
                No. 12—Concluding Hints                                                               566
           
Notes and Queries                                           
   
             How to remove stains from marble; signs of the times—detailed list 
                    for sale of furniture from home; to cleanse the hair, and prevent its 
                    falling out; Mechlin lace                                                                  94
              
Carpet moths; pearls and topaz; cheap furniture; old cornices             190
               
"Ice storm carriages"—what are they, and what is their use?; 
                    Brazilian pebble for eyeglasses lenses; black lead for pencils; 
                    cleaning bone or ivory handles of knives; artificial flowers              286
                
Is jet a mineral?; varnish for wall-paper; Egyptian burials; how to 
                    have an inodorous scouring liquid, that will take out paint, grease, 
                    and soil from silks and woollens; how to conquer an over-sensitive 
                    disposition                                                                                   382
               
Camphor; "Gentle Annie": care of the feet; lip salve; Australian 
                    flowers; to cleanse books or drawings from grease; straw 
                    braiding—history                                                                         475
               
We will forward any or all of our books; how are authors paid?; 
                    styles of note-paper and envelopes; crimson and black vs. scarlet 
                    and black                                                                                     566
           
Juvenile Libraries:  A Gift for All Times and Seasons
                The Baby Library, for children from two to five                                 285
                No. 2                                                                                               382
                History, Travels, Biography, etc.                                                       565
           
"The Murder of the Innocents"                                                              565
           
The Preacher of Beckenham Barn—Miss Marsh                                   381
           
The Sunday Library [37 chosen titles]                                                   475
Charades in Action (Illustrated) [game-stir]                                                        57
Chemisettes (Illustrated)                                                                                  255, 451
Chemistry for the Young                                                          
   
         Lesson XIII (continued)                                                                          92
            Lesson XIII (continued)                                                                        188
            Lesson XIII (continued)                                                                        284
            Lesson XIV.  Zinc and iron                                                                   380
Chenille Headdress (Illustrated)                                                                         12, 96
Children                                                                                                           506
Child's Bib in Crochet (Illustrated)                                                                   459
Child's Braided Boot (Illustrated)                                                                      74, 75
Child's Shoe (Illustrated)                                                                                 169
Children's Dresses (Illustrated)                                                                 7, 95, 209, 383, 541
Church (Illustrated)                                                                                         289, 364
Cigar-Case in Application and Embroidery (Illustrated)                                    262
CLOAKS, DRESSES, MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c.
           
Boy's Dress (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                               543
           
Children's Dresses (Illustrated)                                                              7, 298
           
Elegant Summer Mantle (Illustrated) [includes diagram]                          65, 67, 69, 159
           
Evening Dress (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                            256
            Evening Dress (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                            354, 355
           
Fall Cloaks (Illustrated)                                                                       295, 383
           
Fall Dress (Illustrated)                                                                         486, 567
           
Fall Paletot (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                                452, 454
           
Ladies' Working-dress (Illustrated)                                                        73
           
La Mode (Illustrated) [dress]                                                              481, 567
           
New Fall Style (Illustrated) [dress]                                                      293, 383
           
New Style Gored Dress (Illustrated)                                                    484, 485, 567
           
Organdie Robe (Illustrated)                                                                     6, 95
           
Sortie du Bal, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                    393, 488
           
The Castilian, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                        4
           
The Cora Mantle (Illustrated)                                                              294
           
The Cordovan, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                  196
           
The Florentine, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                  387
           
The Hispania, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                    292
           
The Saragossa, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                  100
           
The Zouave Jacket (Illustrated) [and skirt]                                           487, 567
           
Winter Cloaks (Illustrated)                                                              390, 391, 491, 477
Cold from Damp Clothes                                                                                    49
Collars (Illustrated)                                                                                 76, 170, 450, 459, 493
Collar, in Broderie a la Point de Poste (Illustrated)                                             76
Corners for Pocket Handkerchiefs (Illustrated)                              67, 166, 259, 456, 460, 549
Crochet Alphabet and Figures (Illustrated) [capitals, lower case, numbers]       109
Crochet Coronet Basket (Illustrated)                                                               545
Crochet Lace (Illustrated)                                                                               160, 458, 548
Crochet Neck-Tie (Illustrated)                                                                        490, 546
Crochet Tidy (Illustrated)                                                                            68, 394, 455, 491
Crochet Undersleeve with Cuff (Illustrated)                                                     489, 543
Crucified, by Carrie Calderwood [poem]                                                          62
Curtains for Parlor or Drawing-Room Windows (Illustrated)                            265
Design for a Braided Pen-wiper (Illustrated)                                                    546
Design for Braidwork (Illustrated)                                                                   460
Design for Quilting (Illustrated)                                                                        550
Despair, by Wm. W. Turner [poem]                                                                 539
Diagram for Boy's Dress (Illustrated)                                                               544
Diagram for Summer Mantle (Illustrated)                                                           69
Diagram for Evening-Dress (Illustrated)                                                           257, 355
Diagrams for Dressing Children—For Little Girls Who Read Godey 
            (Illustrated) [paper dolls]                                                                     385, 455
Drawing-Room Chess-Table (Illustrated) [Berlin work]                                   266
Editors' Table, containing--
           
A Dear Little Baby, by Lucy Hardy Odercurk                                      177
           
A Few Words to Our Lovely Young Friends                                         555
           
American Missionaries and Thanksgiving Day                                        177
           
A Mother's Lyric, by Sarah Josepha Hale [poem]                               467
           
An Adventurous Lady [Mrs. Louisa Kay Kerr]                                     178
           
A Physician's Advice                                                                            370
           
A Word for Young Poets                                                                      273
           
Be Careful What You Write                                                                  557
           
Books for the Season                                                                           557
           
Christmas Hymn, by Mrs. S. J. Hale [poem]                                         555
           
Do Women Commit as Many Crimes as Men?                                      465
           
Education for Woman [Mary Sharp College, Winchester, TN]              178
           
Growing Old, by Mrs. Hale [poem]                                                        81
           
Heroes                                                                                                 497
           
Idleness                                                                                                273
           
Judgment and Mercy [poem]                                                                371
           
Life Sketches—Mrs. Shimmelpenninck                                                   82
           
Madame de Genlis                                                                                  82
           
Mary Stuart                                                                                          466
           
Mount Vernon                                                                                      371
           
Mount Vernon Association                                                       83, 178, 274, 371, 557
           
Music Teachers                                                                                    370
           
Our Little Children                                                                                272
           
Our Thanksgiving Union                                                                        466
           
Places of Education for Young Ladies
                The Ohio Female College at College Hill, Hamilton, County, OH; 
                    Miss S. J. Hale's Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies         82
                The French Institute at Worcester, MA; Miss S. J. Hale's Boarding 
                    and Day School for Young Ladies                                                 274
                
Troy Female (Ladies') Seminary; The Wesleyan College at 
                    Cincinnati; The Baltimore Ladies' College; The Female (Woman's) 
                    Medical College of Pennsylvania; Miss S. J. Hale's Boarding and 
                    Day School for Young Ladies                                                       556
           
Property Rights of Married Women [Michigan]                                     273
           
School for Young Ladies                                                                        83
           
School-houses and School-teachers                                                      467
           
Shall Thanksgiving Day be an American National Festival?                      81
           
Smiles and Tears, by E. C. D. [poem]                                                   273
           
Subscribers for the Washington Portrait                                                   83, 179
           
The Costume of the Puritans                                                                 272
           
The Instinct of Faith in God                                                                   177
           
The Furman University                                                                          467
           
The White Mountains of New Hampshire                                              369
           
The Woman of Letters                                                                          176
           
Woman's Condition in Great Britain                                                      370
Ellen Galt Martin, by a Deaf Mute [poem]                                                          64
Embroidered Collar (Illustrated)                                                                      493
Embroidered Shoe, for an Infant (Illustrated)                                                   548
Embroidered Slipper (Illustrated)                                                                     395
Embroidery for an Infant's Cloak or Talma (Illustrated)                                    106
Embroidery, Inserting, &c. (Illustrated)            8, 66, 74, 75, 105, 106, 107, 163, 167,
           
168, 170, 201, 262, 264, 265, 267, 296, 297, 364, 394, 395, 399, 452, 455, 456,
           
458, 460, 489, 490, 491, 494, 495, 542, 547, 550
Enigmas                                                                                        64, 158, 254, 351, 448, 540
Erroneous Judgment in Youth                                                                            518
Eyes, by Mrs. H. Stanton [poem]                                                                       62
Fancy Plait for Velvet (Illustrated)                                                                   204
Fancy Ribbon Headdress (Illustrated)                                                              103
Fashions                                                                      
   
         Out of door wraps; walking dress; dinner dress; muslin robe; cap; 
                handkerchief; slippers; organdie dress; children's dresses; hoods for 
                sea voyage and sea shore; headdress; new styles for dressing hair; 
                new department store at Genin's Bazaar; robes/wrappers/peignoirs; 
                travelling dresses; travelling bonnets; mantles; mantillas                       94
           
Dinner dress; visiting dress; evening dresses; summer bonnets; outfits 
                for boys just past petticoat stage; travelling dresses during hot 
                weather; clothing for watering places; evening dresses for young 
                ladies; headdresses for balls; sortie de bal                                       191
           
Street dress; walking dress and mantle; infant's clothing; autumn
                bonnets; straw bonnets; mantillas and shawls; black silk dresses; 
                Francis 1st sleeve; pagoda sleeve; Eugenie's bonnets; pocket 
                handkerchiefs; undersleeves and collars; crossings of velvet            286
           
Walking dress; black silk dress; carriage or dinner dress; fall cloaks; 
                headdress; hood for evening; children's dresses; short 
                night-dresses; new dress trimmings; sleeves; cord trimming 
                (Illustrated); Zouave jackets; white bodies with colored skirts; 
                flounces; hoops; black with everything; fall travelling cloaks             382
           
Cloaks and mantles; ladies' drawers; night-dresses; bonnets; the
                trousseau of "the Spanish wedding'                                                476
           
Dresses for evening gatherings; carriage dresses; Zouave jacket;
                gored dresses; walking dresses; Bayadere stripes; morning 
                dresses; bonnets [Illustrated]; children's hats; walking coats; girls' 
                burnous; Demorest patterns                                                           566
Firesides and Facts of the Revolution, by E. F. Ellet  
           
[The Dutch Supper; The Election; A Brief; Court Anecdotes; The 
                Night Assault; An Heroic Act]                                                        145
Five Years, by Pauline Forsyth [fiction]                                                         330
Fix, Communication from Mons. Bon Jean    [definition of word, confusing 
            to Frenchman]                                                                                       41
Flower Stands (Illustrated)                                                                              257
Fruit Basket in Chenille and Beads (Illustrated)                                                360
Gather Me Pinks, by S. Newton Perryhill [poem]                                              63
Godey's Arm-Chair                                                                 
   
         Hand Shadows—camel, goose; subscriptions from Choctaw Nation        87
           
Miss C. Richings; embroidery stamps; the best sewing machine (a wife); 
                how you may know good fathers; every day absurdities; jokes; hand 
                shadows—goat, old man; noises in the sick-room                              183
           
The way to spoil girls; Godey's by dog train; learning to swim; hand 
                shadows—bird; neutralizing poisons; Medley from the Poets [poem]; 
                fruits and flowers—the strawberry, pompon or daisy 
                chrysanthemums; dresses worn at Her Majesty of England's last 
                drawing room; spirit of the country press                                          277
           
Hand shadows—rabbit; regulations for the household of Henry VIII; 
                pianos for schools, cottages, small rooms, etc., etc.; a pretty 
                conceit (period chia pet); Shakespeare and his friends; definitions of 
                "alarm"; hearing with the teeth                                                            375
           
Losses by mail to Texas; cure for hydrophobia; a list of articles we can 
                supply; a young lady's pastime in Paris; various quotations; note from 
                Lockport, TX                                                                                   470
           
A slight explanation of the "Trial of Effie Deans"; a note from the Iowa 
                Western Freemason; piano-fortes for $150; A valuable book for 
                ladies—Art Recreations                                                                     560
Ground Plan for Suburban Villa (Illustrated)                                                     167
Hair-Crimper--How to Use It (Illustrated)                                                       167
Hair-Net in Chenille and Beads (Illustrated)                                                     547
Hanging Baskets, etc. (Illustrated)                                                                   162
Hanging Flower Basket (Illustrated) [beads]                                                    202, 263
Has Summer Fled? by Willie Myrtle De Haven [poem]                                    252
Headdresses (Illustrated)                                                         12, 96, 103, 159, 160, 353, 450
Health Department, by Jno. Stainback Wilson, M. D., Columbus, Ga.                             
           
Manner of exercising—walking, bowling, jumping the rope, dancing 
                during the daytime, singing and reading aloud; work, etc.—why 
                young men cannot afford to marry; position in sleep; how to acquire 
                a good carriage; cold feet and corns; rules to be hung over every 
                lady's looking-glass                                                                            83
           
Carriage riding; riding on horseback; the muscles of expression—beauty; 
                dreaming; smell injured by snuff, etc.; the pupil in disease; mind your 
                eyes; grow fat and laugh                                                                     179
           
The air of cities—health a duty; can nothing be done?  what woman can 
                do; fashionable ladies                                                                         274
           
Falling of the palate; salivation—how produced; the pupil in disease; 
                taste influenced by education; we should follow nature; the pulse; Mrs. 
                Willard on the circulation                                                                   372
           
The Skin—dangers of mistreatment, etc.; man, a mass of little cells;
                    power and happiness                                                                    558
Henry Sandford's Fortunes, by Annie Fraust (Illustrated) [fiction]                   528
Heroic Women of the Revolution, by Mrs. E. F. Ellet (Illustrated) [Mary
            Anna Gibbes, Dicey Langston, Hannah Erwin Israel, Mary Slocumb, 
            Rebecca Motte, all of SC]                                                                    224
Hoods for Sea Voyage (Illustrated)                                                                     8, 9, 95
Household Education                                                                                        538
Human Judgment, by Sheelah [fiction]                                                              420
Hymn to the Southern Breeze, by J. M. T. [poem]                                            351
Impromptu Taper for a Sick-room (Illustrated)                                                  75
Infant's Shoe (Illustrated)                                                                                 353
Infidelity, by Harriet E. Francis [poem]                                                           540
Initials (Illustrated) [E, C]                                                                                546
Josephine's Farewell to Napoleon, by Harriet M. Bean [poem]                        348
Lady's Apron (Illustrated)                                                                               550
Ladies' Drawers (Illustrated)                                                                           396, 477
Ladies' Robe Department, from Genin (Illustrated)                                            5, 95
Lamp Fairy (Illustrated) [crochet]                                                                    203, 263
Latest Style of Collar (Illustrated)                                                                    459
Letter-Cases (Illustrated)                                                                                361
Letter to a Lady on Things She Ought to Know, by a Physician [how the 
            human hair might be best preserved in its integrity]                                 412
Letters for Marking (Illustrated) [C, D, F, G]                                                   355
Letters from Rio de Janeiro, by C. H. E. [Brazilian Independence Day
            celebration; botanical gardens]                                                              419
Life, by Rev. D. S_____ [poem]                                                                       448
Life's Morning-Land, by John B. Duffey [poem]                       &n