In fairness, it should be mentioned that the first references to a fixed barrel volume of 42 gallons appeared just one year after Colonel Drake finished drilling his well. In issue 66 of Eliakim Little's almanac 'Living Age', covering the period from July to September 1860, which included articles from key British and American newspapers and magazines, a letter to the editor of the New York Evening Post was reprinted, titled "Good Times for Whales: The Oil Fountains of Pennsylvania."