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PART I. BOOKS

    A. Novels

  • "Witching Times. A Novel in Thirty Chapters." Putnam's Monthly Magazine, VIII-X (December, 1856-September, 1857), VIII, 570-594; IX, 11-28, 188-207, 297-317, 394-413, 515-524, 621-630; X, 62-74, 218-231, 393-404. [This novel did not receive volume publication.]
  • Seacliff; or, The Mystery of the Westervelts. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859. 466 pp.
  • Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867. 521 pp.
  • "Overland." The Galaxy, X-XII (August, 1870-July, 1871), X, 149-175; 293-320, 483-497, 638-656, 785-802; XI, 53-65, 205-218, 387-400, 535-547, 662-675, 801-816; XII, 41-56. [Frontispiece to Volume XII (bound) is a portrait of De Forest.]
  • Overland. New York: Sheldon and Company, [1871]. 209 pp. [Frontispiece to book is a portrait of De Forest.]
  • "Kate Beaumont." The Atlantic Monthly, XXVII-XXVIII (January, 1871-December, 1871), XXVII, 70-92, 184-201, 298-321, 446-462, 573-589, 726-743; XXVIII, 45-63, 189-206, 289-306, 483-499, 546-563, 660-677.
  • "Kate Beaumont." New Monthly Magazine (London), N.S. V-VI (June, 1874-December, 1874), N.S. V, 639-652; N.S. VI, 42-56, 161-174, 273-288, 408-426, 521-533, 692-699. [Appeared anonymously. This is the only instance, so far as I have been able to determine, that De Forest was serialized in an English periodical.]
  • Kate Beaumont. Boston: J. R. Osgood and Company, 1872. 165 pp.
  • "The Wetherel Affair." The Galaxy, XIV-XVII (December, 1872-January, 1874), XIV, 727-740; XV, 15-29, 149-163, 293-307, 437-451, 590-604, 735-750; XVI, 16-32, 157-173, 305-323, 456-471, 615-630, 735-746; XVII, 15-30.
  • The Wetherel Affair. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1873. 222 pp.
  • "Honest John Vane." The Atlantic Monthly, XXXII (July-November, 1873), 66-76, 150-164, 285-296, 438-447, 574-590. [In five parts, twelve chapters.]
  • Honest John Vane. New Haven, Conn.: Richmond and Patten, 1875. 259 pp. [The five parts are dropped and the twelve chapters of serialization are expanded into twenty-four.]
  • "Playing the Mischief." Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner, XX-XXI (November 21, 1874-May 22, 1875), XX, 2-4, 17-20, 33-35, 51-54, 67-70, 85-86, 101-102, 118-119, 131-133, 147-149, 164-166, 181-182, 195-196, 211-212, 227-229, 245-246, 260-262, 275-278, 291-294, 306-308, 324-326, 351, 359-361, 382-383, 397-399, 413-415; XXI, 14-15.
  • Playing the Mischief. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875, 185 pp.
  • Justine's Lovers. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. 135 pp. [Appeared anonymously. The pen-name "Jane L. Howell" is given in The Cumulative Catalog of Library of Congress Cards (1948); nowhere else have I been able to find this name. The R. B. Hayes' Copy in The Hayes Memorial Library, Fremont, Ohio, does not have this name.]
  • "Irene the Missionary." The Atlantic Monthly, XLIII-XLIV (April, 1879-November, 1879), XLIII, 426-442, 587-601, 759-774; XLIV, 64-80, 172-190, 311-325, 417-434, 598-611. [Serialized anonymously.]
  • Irene the Missionary. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879. 390 pp. [Appeared anonymously.]
  • The Bloody Chasm. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. 301 pp.
  • The Oddest of Courtships; or, The Bloody Chasm. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882. 301 pp.
  • A Lover's Revolt. New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1898. 417 pp.
  • Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty. Intro. by Gordon S. Haight. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. 467 pp.
  • Haight, Gordon S., ed. Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1955. 485 pp. [Printed from the 1867 edition; the numerous typographical errors have been corrected.]

    B. Travel Books

  • Oriental Acquaintance; or, Letters from Syria. New York: Dix, Edwards & Company, 1856. 285 pp.
  • European Acquaintance; Being Sketches of People in Europe. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. 276 pp.

    C. Poetry

  • The Downing Legends; Stories in Rhyme. New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1901. 206 pp. [Contents:

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    "Prelude," "The Witch of Shiloh," "The Last of the Wampahoags," "The Gentle Earl," and "The Enchanted Voyage."]
  • Poems; Medley and Palestrina. New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1902. [Some of De Forest's fugitive verses, rewritten or revised, were included here. See under "Poems" for bibliographical data. Also included here were "The Deliverer," first printed in Justine's Lovers, p. 72; "The Human," first printed in Justine's Lovers as "Man," p. 119; "Pickett's Charge," first printed in The Bloody Chasm, pp. 235-236; and "Raven Van Ross," first printed in The Bloody Chasm, pp. 284-285.]

    D. History and Genealogy

  • History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850. Hartford, Conn.: W. J. Hammersley [sic], 1851. 504 pp. [Hamersley published two subsequent editions in 1852 and 1853. In 1871, Joel Munsell (1808-1880) published a fourth edition in Albany, N. Y., from a remainder he had purchased, and added a new title-page.]
  • The De Forests of Avesnes (and of New Netherland) a Huguenot Thread in American Colonial History. 1494 to the Present Time. New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1900. 288 pp.

    E. Autobiographical Writings

  • Croushore, James H., ed. A Volunteer's Adventures. Introd. by Stanley T. Williams. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1946. 237 pp. [Seven of fourteen chapters appeared in periodicals; see under "Articles."]
  • Croushore, James H., and David M. Potter, eds. A Union Officer in the Reconstruction. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1948. 211 pp. [The ten chapters appeared in periodicals; see under "Articles."]