Walsh was United States Consul at Paris from 1845-1851, and remained in France until his death, February 7, 1859.
Joseph Delaplaine, in April, 1812, respectfully solicited the patronage of the public to the _Emporium of Arts and Sciences_, "conducted by John Redman Coxe, M.D., professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania." The magazine was published monthly, beginning in May, 1812. It made three volumes, but two volumes only were published in Philadelphia. The second volume was conducted by Thomas Cooper, who, in 1813, removed the magazine to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where it was printed by Kimber and Richardson.
The _Religious Remembrancer_ was begun by John Welwood Scott on the 4th of September, 1813. It was the first religious weekly published in the United States, and was three years in advance of Willis's _Boston Recorder_.
Two children's papers publishing about this time were: the _Juvenile Magazine--Religious, Moral, and Entertaining Pieces in Prose and Verse_, "compiled by Arthur Donaldson," Philadelphia, 1811, published monthly, twelve and a half cents per number. The _Juvenile Port Folio_, a weekly miscellany, was published by Thomas G. Condie, Jr., 22 Carter's Alley, in 1813.
A French weekly was started in 1815, _L'Abeille Americaine, Journal Historique, Politique, et Litteraire a Philadelphie_, A. J. Blocquerst, 130 South Fifth Street. Matthew Carey took subscriptions for the work, which continued several years.
The _Parterre: by a Trio_ (Cora and Charles Chandler), 1816, printed by Probasco and Justice, 350 North Second Street. This worthless little weekly was begun June 15, 1816, and ended June 28, 1817.
The _American Register, or Summary Review of History, Politics and Literature_--Phila.: Thos. Dobson, 1817-1818--made two volumes.
The _American Medical Recorder_ appeared in 1818, supported by a number of physicians. It was a quarterly publication. The title was changed in 1824 to the _Medical Recorder of Original Papers and Intelligence on Medicine and Surgery_. It was merged in 1829 into the _American Journal of the American Sciences_.
The _Ladies' and Gentlemen's Weekly Literary Museum and Musical Magazine_ was a weekly publication begun, January 1, 1819, by H. C. Lewis, No. 164 South Eleventh Street.