Port Folio was a Philadelphia literary and political magazine, published 1801-1812 by Joseph Dennie

Joseph Dennie

Joseph Dennie was an American author and journalist who was one of the foremost men of letters of the Federalist Era. A Federalist, Dennie is best remembered for his series of essays entitled The Lay Preacher and as the founding editor of Port Folio, a journal espousing classical republican values...

 and Asbury Dickens. Dennie wrote under the pen name of Oliver Oldschool. Many other contributors to the magazine wrote under pseudonyms, including members of the Federalist Party. Paul Allen

Paul Allen (editor)

Paul Allen was an American author and editor, and a graduate of Brown University.Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he edited a two-volume history of the Lewis and Clark expedition that was published in 1814, in Philadelphia, but without mention of the actual author, banker Nicholas Biddle.This...

 (February 15, 1775 – August 18, 1826), a graduate of Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

, was hired about 1800 as an editor.
After Dennie's death in 1812, Nicholas Biddle

Nicholas Biddle (banker)

Nicholas Biddle was an American financier who served as the president of the Second Bank of the United States.-Ancestry and early life:...

, who was already a lterary contributor and patron, became editor, but only until 1814. Charles Jared Ingersoll

Charles Jared Ingersoll

Charles Jared Ingersoll was an American lawyer and Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania...

, a non-practicing lawyer, was also a contributor and patron.

Supplemental Bibliography

1. Rothman, Irving N. Alexander Wilson's Forest Adventure: the Sublime and the Satirical in Wilson's Poem 'The Foresters.'" Journal of the Society in the Bibliography of Natural History [British Museum] 6 (1973):142-54. [The Port Folio]

2. Rothman, Irving N. "An Imitation of Boileau's Fourth Satire in the American Republic [in The Port Folio]." Revue de Litérature Comparée 53 (Jan.-March 1979): 76-85. [The Port Folio]

3. Rothman, Irving N. "John Trumbull's Parody of Spenser's Epithalamium," The Yale University Library Gazette 47 (April 1973): 193-215. [The Port Folio]

4. Rothman, Irving N. “Joseph Dennie, a Sceptic, and Philip Freneau, a Celebrant, on Ballooning in Early America.” Y2002 Annual Report of the Institute for Space Systems Operations. Houston: ISSO, 2003. 118-23. [The Port Folio]

5. Rothman, Irving N. “Niagara Falls and The Port Folio.” Aldus [University of Houston] 11 (November 1973): 242-54.[The Port Folio]

6. Rothman, Irving N. "Structure and Theme in Samuel Ewing's Satire, the 'American Miracle,'" American Literature 40 (Nov. 1968):294-308. [The Port Folio]

7. Rothman, Irving N. "Two Juvenalian Satires by John Quincy Adams." Early American Literature 6 (1971): 234-51.

8. Rothman, Irving N. Verse Satire in the Port Folio, an Early American Magazine. Edited by Joseph Dennie, 1801–1812. Diss. University of Pittsburgh, 1967. 226 pages.