Ticknor and Fields records, 1839-1881 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Primarily correspondence of James Thomas Fields, along with the correspondence of James R. Osgood and other Ticknor and Fields editors. Correspondents include Louis Agassiz, Lydia Maria Francis Child, George William Curtis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, among other nineteenth-century literary figures. Some letters include cartes-de-visite of the correspondent. There is a small amount of correspondence among Ticknor and Fields authors as well as letters from Annie Fields. Compositions include autograph manuscript poems by Annie Fields, print and autograph manuscript poems by James Thomas Fields, and a partial autograph manuscript of George Stillman Hillard's Six months in Italy, among other items. Finally, there are royalty checks to various Ticknor and Fields authors, visiting cards of James Thomas Fields, and a cabinet photograph of an unidentified man