[1] The magazine’s name references John Bunyan’s 1678 Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, a book that many children of the mid-1800s would have been familiar with.

[2] The Little Pilgrim had a peak subscription rate of 50,000, and published such well-known authors as John Greenleaf Whittier, James T. Fields, Lucy Larcom, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens and Louisa May Alcott.

[3] The magazine had a few woodcut illustrations, and was filled with stories, poems, history articles, letters, puzzles and anecdotes.

There were stories and poems by well-known authors, and readers were encouraged to send in puzzles and letters on topics that interested them.

[2] Inside the front cover of the April 1869 issue was a notice informing readers that the magazine would no longer be published.