[1] The magazine published works by Lucretia Peabody Hale, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horatio Alger, Oliver Optic, Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[2] and Frances Matilda Abbott.

Lucy Larcom was in charge of the major editorial duties during the magazine’s entire publication history, and she was paid a salary of $1,200 a year.

[4] Mary Abigail Dodge, who used the pen name of Gail Hamilton, was editor from 1865 until 1868, when she left after having a disagreement with publisher James T. Fields.

[4] Starting with the first issue the monthly feature Round the Evening Lamp contained charades, arithmetic puzzles and illustrated rebuses.

An editorial piece in Our Letter Box announced a new serial for 1874, as well as an “unusually interesting variety of articles by our best writers.” Readers were told that the publisher had promised to send a chromo (colored picture) to every subscriber who sent in the full subscription price for 1874.

John Townsend Trowbridge wrote: "Through the courtesy of the conductor of ST. NICHOLAS, I am enabled to say a few words to the readers of ‘Our Young Folks,’ in place of the many I should have wished to say in the last number of that lamented magazine, had it been known to be the last when it left the editorial hands.

"[1] In 1874, eight months after the periodical's last issue had been published, a poll taken amongst readers of The Literary World ranked Our Young Folks to be "the best of modern American juvenile magazines".