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Periodical: Tiffany's Monthly

Summary:   From Pat Deveney's database:

Tiffany's Monthly.
Devoted to the Investigation of Spiritual Science.
1856-1859 Monthly
New York, NY. Language: English.
Publisher: Partridge and Brittan. Editor: Joel Tiffany, editor and proprietor, assisted by Rev. William Fishbough.
1/1, March 1, 1856-5/4, August 1859. $3.00 a year (1859 Spiritualists' Register: $2.00). 96 pp. 8vo. No advertisements.

Tiffany (1811-1893) became acquainted with the spiritual phenomena when he acted as the attorney for Mrs. Leah Fox Fish in a slander suit against Chauncy Burr who had accused her of fraud. He announced his purpose in starting this journal as the publishing of "a Monthly, devoted to the investigation of the Philosophy of Mind in in its being, action and manifestation in every plane of development, including the Philosophy of Spiritual Manifestation." "Tiffany's Monthly," Spiritual Telegraph 5/5 (May 31, 1856). U. Clark's Spiritualist Register for 1858 praises the journal: "This is conceded the most sound, philosophical, and indispensable of the Spiritual periodicals, taking the broadest, loftiest harmonic ground adapted to the needs of all who are seeking the divinest light and life." The articles, most of which were unsigned, were thoughtful, dense and dull. The journal also has a review of Mary Wollstoncraft's Rights of Women, and carries notices of "Od," Emma Hardinge [Britten's] Musical Academy, and Stephen Pearl Andrews' Universology.

Other Sources:LOC; NYPL; WHi; Boston Athenaeum.
Issues:Tiffanys Monthly V1 1856
Tiffanys Monthly V2 1856
Tiffanys Monthly V3 1857
Tiffanys Monthly V4 N2 Jun 1858
Tiffanys Monthly V4 N3 Jul 1858
Tiffanys Monthly V4 N4 Aug 1858
Tiffanys Monthly V4 N5 Sep 1858
Tiffanys Monthly V4 N6 Oct 1858
Tiffanys Monthly V4 N8 Feb 1859
Tiffanys Monthly V4 N9 Mar 1859
Tiffanys Monthly V4 N10 Apr 1859
Tiffanys Monthly V5 N1 May 1859
Tiffanys Monthly V5 N2 Jun 1859
Tiffanys Monthly V5 N3 Jul 1859
Tiffanys Monthly V5 N4 Aug 1859
Claude-Generated Themes:   Tiffany's Monthly was published in New York by Joel Tiffany from 1856 to 1859, in the first decade of American Spiritualism, and it belongs to the movement's philosophical rather than its phenomenal wing. Mediumship and spirit communion appear throughout, but as the empirical ground of an argument rather than as spectacle: Tiffany's purpose was to build from them a systematic harmonial religious philosophy that could stand against the orthodoxy of the churches. His characteristic moves are philosophical — that faith is an exercise of will of the same kind God exercises, that the mind can demand no truth which does not somewhere exist to satisfy it, that the religion to come will differ from its predecessors in the catholicity of its spirit and will value forms only for what they suggest. Beneath that argument lies the antebellum reform substratum from which the movement grew, including the clairvoyance of the mesmerists and a substantial presence of Karl von Reichenbach's odic force. It reads less as a record of seances than as a reasoned case for Spiritualism as a rival religious science.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Spiritualism