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Childs, George William, 1829-1894. George William Childs letters, 1857-1890.

Title: George William Childs letters, 1857-1890.

The collection consists of six letters, including: to Dr. Isaac Hayes, 22 June 1857, about helping Dr. Elder write a book on the life of Dr. [Elisha Kent] Kane; to Dr. John W. Francis, 25 Jan. 1858, thanking him for the volume of the Proceedings of the N.B. Historical Society; to Dr. Hayes, 18 Sept. 1858, asking him to write an account of a spearhead he had brought back from his Alaskan Expedition, so that Childs may give the spearhead and description to Jas. T. Fields; to Mr. Leland, 18 July 1857, about the payment of royalties to Dr. Kane's estate for the book his firm published, including a laudatory clipping; to Mr. Phillips, 19 June 1874, concerning an unkind allusion to him in Friday's Herald, and wondering if the publishers, the Bennetts, had any unkind feeling toward him; to H.D. Beach, 6 June 1867, on Public Ledger letterhead, asking him to reconsider attending the opening of the new Ledger Building; to Mr. Pond, 22 April 1890, regretfully declining an invitation to breakfast with Max O'Rell.

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