The Boston True Flag or True Flag was a weekly fiction periodical published in Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, in the 19th century. Contributors included Francis A. Corey, Susan E. Dickinson, Fanny Fern

Fanny Fern

Fanny Fern, born Sara Willis , was an American writer and the first woman to have a regular newspaper column. She was also a humorist, novelist, and author of children's stories in the 1850s-1870s. Fern's great popularity has been attributed to her conversational style and sense of what mattered to...

, Louise Chandler Moulton

Louise Chandler Moulton

Louise Chandler Moulton was an American poet, story-writer and critic.-Biography:She was born in 1835, the daughter of Lucius L. Chandler, in Pomfret, Connecticut....

, Oliver Optic, and John Townsend Trowbridge

John Townsend Trowbridge

John Townsend Trowbridge was an American author born in Ogden, New York, USA, to Windsor Stone Trowbridge and Rebecca Willey...

. Publishers William U. Moulton, J.R. Elliott, Martin V. Lincoln, and J.W. Nichols produced the paper from offices on School Street

School Street

School Street is a short but significant street in the center of Boston, Massachusetts. It is so named for being the site of the first public school in the United States...

 (ca.1852-1864), Bromfield Street (ca.1868-1884), and Arch Street (ca.1887-1908).

The paper circulated widely enough to attract the notice of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...

, who mentions it in his 1855 sketch "Jul'us Cesar": "He was decidedly literary, after a fashion of his own, and the gems which find their way before the public through the medium of the Flag of Our Union, and Boston True Flag ... were food and drink to his soul."