Boston Evening Transcript

The Boston Evening Transcript was a daily afternoon newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, published from July 24, 1830, to April 30, 1941.
Beginnings.
"The Transcript" was founded in 1830 by Henry Dutton and James Wentworth of the firm of Dutton and Wentworth, who were, at that time, the official state printers of Massachusetts. and Lynde Walter who was also the first editor of the "Transcript". Dutton and Wentworth agreed to this as long as Walter would pay the expenses of the initial editions of the newspaper.
In 1830 "The Boston Evening Bulletin", which had been a penny paper, ceased publication. Lynde Walter decided to use the opening provided to start a new evening penny paper in Boston. Walter approached Dutton and Wentworth with the proposal that he would edit the paper and that they would do the printing and circulation.
"The Transcript" first appeared on July 24, 1830, however after three days Walter suspended publication of the paper until he could build up his patronage. After Walter canvassed the city to better develop the paper's business "The Transcript" resumed publication on August 28, 1830.
After Lynde Walter died, his sister, Cornelia Wells Walter, who had been the "Transcript" 's theatre critic, became, at 29, the editor of the "Transcript", becoming the first woman to become the editor of a major American daily. Cornelia Walter served as the editor of "The Transcript" from 1842 to 1847.
Great Fire.
The "Transcript" 's offices were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872. After the Great Fire "The Transcript" 's offices on Washington Street were rebuilt and expanded.
Literary influence.
In 1847 the poet Epes Sargent became editor of the paper. Many literary and poetic works debuted in the "Transcript's" pages.
An early version of "America the Beautiful" by Katharine Lee Bates first appeared in "The Boston Evening Transcript" on November 19, 1904.
Hazel Hall (poet)'s first published poem "To an English Sparrow", first appeared in "The Transcript" in 1916.
Features and columns.
Features and columns included: "Suburban Scenes", "The Listener", "The Nomad", "The Librarian", "Saturday Night Thoughts", as well as extensive book reviews and music criticism. "The Transcript" also had a Washington bureau, a college sports pages and a department of Bridge. In addition "The Transcript" had a well known genealogy column.
Harvard Medical School's first U.S. animal vivisection lab raised concern from then editor-in-chief Edward Clement, and the paper subsequently ran a series of anti-vivisection editorials.
In the summer of 1940 when Britain faced invasion in World War II, children were being evacuated overseas under a British Government scheme known as the Children's Overseas Reception Board. The readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" readily responded and agreed to sponsor a group of children. A group of 48 children left England on RMS Scythia (Cunard Line) 19,730 tons, from Liverpool on 24 September 1940 bound for Boston.
Genealogical columns.
Because of the genealogy column "The Transcript" is of value to historians and others. Gary Boyd Roberts of the New England Historic Genealogical Society noted:
The "Boston Evening Transcript", like the "New York Times" today, was a newspaper of record. Its genealogical column, which usually ran twice or more a week for several decades in the early twentieth century, was often an exchange among the most devoted and scholarly genealogists of the day. Many materials not published elsewhere are published therein.
In popular literature.
"The Boston Evening Transcript" is also the title of a poem by T. S. Eliot which reads: