Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is a reading of the short story "The Raffle" by John Frost, A.M. (the A.M. after his name stands for Artium Magister which today would be a M.A. or master of arts degree) from “The Gift: A Christmas And New Year's Present 1842.” "The Gift" was an annual gift book that many authors contributed short stories and poems to. Gift books were popular at the time and were given as Christmas gifts.
John Frost was written about by Edgar Allan Poe in his second "Chapter on Autography" from “Graham's Magazine,” December 1841: "John Frost, Esq., Professor of Belles Lettres in the High School of Philadelphia, and at present editor of “The Young People’s Book,” has distinguished himself by numerous literary compositions for the periodicals of the day, and by a great number of published works which come under the head of the utile rather than of the dulce—at least in the estimation of the young. He is a gentleman of fine taste, sound scholarship, and great general ability."
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Drew Rampley - 2025
This is a reading of the short story "The Raffle" by John Frost, A.M. (the A.M. after his name stands for Artium Magister which today would be a M.A. or master of arts degree) from “The Gift: A Christmas And New Year's Present 1842.” "The Gift" was an annual gift book that many authors contributed short stories and poems to. Gift books were popular at the time and were given as Christmas gifts.
John Frost was written about by Edgar Allan Poe in his second "Chapter on Autography" from “Graham's Magazine,” December 1841: "John Frost, Esq., Professor of Belles Lettres in the High School of Philadelphia, and at present editor of “The Young People’s Book,” has distinguished himself by numerous literary compositions for the periodicals of the day, and by a great number of published works which come under the head of the utile rather than of the dulce—at least in the estimation of the young. He is a gentleman of fine taste, sound scholarship, and great general ability."
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