The Quarterly Republic was edited and owned by Warner Esmond Lee Ward during 1877 in Newburgh, Orange County, New York Ward included articles describing a visit to a temple in Japan and feeding stray dogs, a story of a missionary boy leaving China, a description of Constantinople titled "The City Russia Desires," and original religious poems. He included decorations and illustrations on the front and back cover, as well as the first and last page. Two of these are a tracing of a late-19th century United States trade dollar coin.