In June 1870, a Brooklyn based writer, whose name was Laura Curtis Bullard, bought the rights to The Revolution for one dollar. Her parents became wealthy from selling a popular morphine containing patent medicine called “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup”. Anyways, I used my lecture fees to repay the debt. I completed the task in six years. That is a long time when you think about it. Under Bullard, the journal adopted a literary orientation and accepted patent medicine ads, but it folded in February 1872.