The Boston True Flag (1851-1908) or True Flag was a weekly fiction periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.Frank Luther Mott. A history of American magazines, Volume 2. Harvard University Press, 1968 Contributors included Francis A. Corey,Metcalf, ed. One thousand New Hampshire notables. Concord, NH: Rumford printing company, 1919 Susan E. Dickinson,Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, eds. A woman of the century: fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life. NY: Moulton, 1893. p. 242. Fanny Fern,Melissa J. Homestead. "'Every Body Sees the Theft': Fanny Fern and Literary Proprietorship in Antebellum America". New England Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (June 2001), pp. 210-237 Louise Chandler Moulton,Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Oliver Optic, and John Townsend Trowbridge.Rufus A. Coleman. Trowbridge and Shillaber. New England Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2 (June 1947), pp. 232-246 Publishers William U. Moulton, J. R. Elliott, Martin V. Lincoln, and J. W. Nichols produced the paper from offices on School Street (c. 1852–1864),Boston Directory. 1852, 1864 Bromfield Street (c. 1868–1884),Boston Directory. 1868, 1873Boston almanac and business directory. 1884 and Arch Street (c. 1887–1908).Boston almanac and business directory. 1887, 1891, 1894The Editor, October 1898A guide to the current periodicals and serials of the United States and Canada, 1909. Ann Arbor: G. Wahr, 1908
The paper circulated widely enough to attract the notice of Mark Twain, who mentions it in his 1855 sketch "Jul'us Cesar": "He was decidedly literary, after a fashion of his own, and the gems which find their way before the public through the medium of the Flag of Our Union, and Boston True Flag ... were food and drink to his soul."Mark Twain. Early tales & sketches: 1851-1864, v.1. Branch and Hirst, eds. The works of Mark Twain. University of California Press, 1972
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