Below is my current bibliography for “The Celestial Railroad.” I’m currently transcribing these versions. Eventually this site will (I hope) incorporate a web-based version of Juxta that will allow visitors to compare textual changes across these versions. Items prefaced with an asterisk (*) are new to Hawthorne studies; found mostly through searchable online newspaper repositories. My next task will be a bibliography of references to the story, which will be a considerably longer list.
Bibliography
Periodical reprintings of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Celestial Railroad”
“The Celestial Railroad,” United States Magazine and Democratic Review 12, no. 59 (May 1843): 515-523.
* ——, Morning Star (New York) 18, no. 5 (24 May 1843): 20.
* ——, Midnight Cry! (New York) 4, no. 20 & 21 (13 Jul. 1843): 156-159.
——, Signs of the Times and Expositor of Prophecy (Boston) 5, no. 21 (Jul. 1843): 161-164.
——, Cambridge Palladium (Cambridgeport, MA) 1, no. 31 (5 Aug. 1843): 1-2.
——, Christian Advocate and Journal (New York) 17, no. 52 (9 Aug. 1843): 205-206.
* ——, Christian Secretary (Hartford, CT) 22, no. 29 (29 Sep. 1843): 1, 4.
* ——, Christian Watchman (Boston) 24, no. 39 and 40 (29 Sep. and 6 Oct. 1843): 153, 157.
* ——, Scioto Gazette (Chillicothe, OH) 44, no. 2249 (18 Oct. 1843): 1-2.
* ——, Baptist Banner and Western Pioneer (Louisville, KY) 10, no. 42 and 43 (19 and 26 Oct. 1843):
——, Salem Gazette 42, no. 84 (20 Oct. 1843): 1.
——, Salem Mercury 4, no. 43 (25 Oct. 1843): 1.
* ——, Vermont Chronicle (Windsor) 18, no. 44 and 45 (1 Nov. and 8 Nov. 1843): 173-174, 177.
——, Gazette and Courier (Greenfield, MA) 52, no. 2700 (14 Nov. 1843): 1-2.
* ——, Episcopal Recorder (Philadelphia) 21, no. 40 and 41 (23 Dec. and 30 Dec. 1843): 160, 164.
* ——, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, PA) 26, no. 14 (25 Dec. 1843): 1-2.
——, Baptist Magazine for 1844 (London) 36, series 4, vol. 7 (Jan., Feb. 1844): 9-12, 71-76
* —— (excerpt), Liberator (Boston) 14, no. 11 (15 Mar. 1844): 44.
* ——, Hagers-town Torch Light & Public Advertiser (Hagers-town, MD) 30, no. 21 (21 Mar. 1844): 1.
——, Voices of the True-Hearted (Philadelphia) (Nov. 1844-Apr. 1846): 119-125.
* —— (excerpt), Ohio Observer (Hudson, OH) 21, no. 8 (24 Feb. 1847): 1.
* ——, Non-slaveholder (Philadelphia) 2, no. 10 (Oct. 1847): 228-236.
——, National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York) 8, no. 24 (11 Nov. 1847): 96.
——, The Friend, A Monthly Journal (London) 6, no. 61 (Jan. 1848): 4-8.
* ——, Christian Secretary (Hartford, CT) 26, no. 52 (3 Mar. 1848): 1-4.
——, Vermont Christian Messenger (Montpelier) 4, no. 23 (5 Jun. 1850): 1-2.
* ——, Circular (Brooklyn, NY) 2, no. 44 (16 Apr. 1853): 175-176.
* ——, Littell’s Living Age (Boston) no. 851 (22 Sep. 1860): 740-747.
* ——, Friends’ Intelligencer 17, nos. 39-41 (8, 15, and 22 Dec. 1860): 620-623, 637-639, 652-655.
Other notable reprintings:
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Celestial Rail-road (unauthorized pamphlet, Boston: James F. Fish, 1843).
——, The Celestial Rail-road (unauthorized pamplet, Boston: Wilder & Co., 1843).
[——], as A Visit to the Celestial City, revised by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday-School Union (Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1843).
—— and anon., as The Celestial Rail-road; or, Modern Pilgrim’s Progress: After the Manner of Bunyan. Vividly Representative of the Present-Day Professors of Religion, Bible Examiner, vol. 12 (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, February 23, 1844).
——, in Mosses from an Old Manse (New York: Wiley and Putnamn, 1846).
——, in Prose Writers of America, with a Survey of the History, Conditions, and Prospects of American Literature, ed. Rufus Wilmot Griswold (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1847).
——, The Celestial Rail-road (unauthorized pamphlet, Lowell: D. Skinner, 1847).
* [——] and Salomon Neitz (trans.), as Ein Besuch auf der Eisenbahn nach der Himmlischen Stadt (Philadelphia, 1853).
—— and anon., as The Celestial Rail-road; or, Modern Pilgrim’s Progress: After the Manner of Bunyan. Vividly Representative of the Present-Day Professors of Religion (Boston: J. V. Himes, 1860).
—— and anon., as The Celestial Rail-road; or, Modern Pilgrim’s Progress: After the Manner of Bunyan. Vividly Representative of the Present-Day Professors of Religion, Advent Tracts (Western Series), no. 16 (Buchanan, MI: W. A. C. P. Association, 1867).
——, “A Walk Through Vanity Fair, Hawthorne” (excerpt), in Roses and Holly: A Gift-Book for All the Year (Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1867): 129
*——, “The Celestial Railroad,” in A History of the Church of God, from the Creation to A. D. 1885; Including Especially the History of the Kehukee Primitive Baptist Association, ed. Elder Sylvester Hassell (Middletown, NY: Gilbert Beebe’s Sons, 1886): 951-963.
*——, “The Celestial Railroad,” in The Feast of Fat Things (Middletown, NY: Gilbert Beebe’s Sos, 1890): 93-120.
*——, “The Celestial Railroad,” in Capital Stories by American Authors, Published by the Christian Herald, ed. Louis Klopsch (New York: Bible House, 1895): 13-42.
* [——], as A Visit to the Celestial City, revised by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday-School Union (Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1897).
*——, The Celestial Railroad (Philadelphia: Union Press, 1899).