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		This article is about the 19th century publication. For 20th century magazine, see Salmagundi (magazine). For the food, see salmagundi.

Salmagundi 	From an 1869 reprint

	Author	Washington Irving
(with James Kirke Paulding and William Irving, Jr.)
	Original title	Salmagundi; or The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. & Others
	Country	United States
	Language	English
	Genre	Satire
	Publisher	David Longworth
(New York City)
	Publication date
	1807-1808
	Media type	Print (Periodical)
	ISBN	978-0-940450-14-1 (reprint)
	OCLC	9412147
	Dewey Decimal
	818/.209 19
	LC Class	PS2052 1983


Salmagundi; or The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. & Others, commonly referred to as Salmagundi, was a 19th-century satirical periodical created and written by American writer Washington Irving, his oldest brother, William, and James Kirke Paulding.  The collaborators produced twenty issues at irregular intervals between January 24, 1807 and January 15, 1808.

Salmagundi lampooned New York City culture and politics in a manner much like today's Mad magazine.[1] It was in the November 11, 1807, issue that Irving first attached the name "Gotham" to New York City, based on the alleged stupidity of the people of Gotham, Nottinghamshire.[2]

Irving and his collaborators published the periodical using a wide variety of pseudonyms, including Will Wizard, Launcelot Langstaff, Pindar Cockloft, and Mustapha Rub-a-Dub Keli Khan.

Irving and Paulding discontinued Salmagundi in January 1808, following a disagreement with publisher David Longworth over profits.


Notes[edit]


	^ Jones, 82.

	^ Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. (Oxford University Press, 1999), 417.





References[edit]

	Irving, Washington. "Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent./Salmagundi." The Complete Works of Washington Irving, Volume 6. Edited by Bruce Granger & Martha Hartzog. (Twayne, 1977) 
ISBN 0-8057-8509-4
	Jones, Brian Jay. Washington Irving: An American Original. (Arcade, 2008) 
ISBN 978-1-55970-836-4


Further reading[edit]

	Hankins, Laurel V. "The Art of Retreat: Salmagundi’s Elbow-Chair Domesticity." Nineteenth Century Literature 71.4 (2017): 431-456 online.


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