Hannibal and the River (1851–1861)
A Gallant Fireman
- Description: Hannibal Western Union, 16 January 1851
The Dandy Frightening the Squatter
- Description: Boston Carpet Bag, May 1852
Hannibal, Missouri
- Description: Philadelphia American Courier, 8 May 1852
A Family Muss
- Description: Hannibal Journal, 9 September 1852
'Local' Resolves to Commit Suicide
- Description: Hannibal Journal, 16 September 1852
'Pictur' Department
- Description: Hannibal Journal, 23 September 1852
Historical Exhibition—A No. 1 Ruse
- Description: Hannibal Journal, 16 September 1852
[Blab's Jour]
- Description: Hannibal Journal, 23 September 1852
Connubial Bliss
- Description: Hannibal Journal, 4 November 1852
The Heart's Lament
- Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 5 May 1853
Love Concealed
- Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 6 May 1853
[First Letter from Grumbler]
- Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 7 May 1853
[First Letter from Rambler]
- Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 9 May 1853
To Rambler
- Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 10 May 1853
[Letter from Peter Pencilcase's Son, John Snooks]
- Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 12 May 1853
[Second Letter from Rambler]
- Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 13 May 1853
Separation
- Description: Hannibal Missouri Courier, 12 May 1853
“Oh, She Has a Red Head!”
- Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 13 May 1853
The Burial of Sir Abner Gilstrap, Editor of the Bloomington “Republican”
- Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 23 May 1853
“Jul'us Caesar”
- Description: Manuscript (previously unpublished), 1855–1856
To Mollie
- Description: Manuscript, 20 April 1856
“Lines Suggested by a Reminiscence, and Which You Will Perhaps Understand”
- Description: Hannibal Evening Courier-Post, Early May 1856
To Jennie
- Description: Hannibal Evening Courier-Post, 7 May 1856
[River Intelligence]
- Description: New Orleans Crescent, 17 May 1859
[The Mysterious Murders in Risse]
- Description: Manuscript (previously unpublished), 1 August 1859
[Pilot's Memoranda]
- Description: St. Louis Missouri Republican, 30 August 1860
[Ghost Life on the Mississippi]
- Description: Manuscript, January–June 1861