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James Munroe and Company. Correspondence, 1833-1866.

Title: Correspondence, 1833-1866.

This collection contains three folders of letters written to James Munroe and Company from authors, ministers, scholars, college instructors, booksellers, and other individuals. The letters were sent from various locations, including Missouri, Ohio, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New York, France, and many parts of New England. The ministers were mostly Unitarians or Baptists and wrote of their subscriptions to the Christian Examiner, which was published by Munroe and distributed by the Rev. Allen Putnam (1802-1887). Other ministers, such as Samuel May (1810-1899) and William Frothingham ( - ), were apparently distributing religious tracts and books for Munroe's company and wrote concerning compensation for their services in the form of cash or books. Among the authors who wrote to the company seeking publication of their works were: George Goldthwait Ingersoll (1796-1863); David Fosdick, Jr. (1813-1892); Eliza Jane Cate (1812-1884); Henry Peterson (1818-1891), an abolitionist author; and George Osborne Stearns ( - ), a Worcester, Mass., temperance writer. Several poets also contacted Munroe concerning publication. These included Nathan Ames ( - ) and William Edward Knowles ( - ). John Louis O'Sullivan (1813-1895) wrote to Munroe in 1844 on behalf of his friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), and his contract problems over the publication of Twice Told Tales. Many scholars also contacted the company with offers to translate classical works or with book orders for their classes, e.g., William Seymour Tyler (1810-1897) of Amherst College, James Phillips ( - ) of the University of North Carolina, and others at Oberlin College, Williams College, and various secondary and Sunday schools. Several individuals sent orders for book lists or specific books, detailing the type of binding they wished to be used, e.g., Edmund Quincy Sewall (1828-1908) and William Silsbee ( - ). The company was also appparently involved in collecting dues for the Peace Society in 1847.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders (192 items)

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Silsbee family papers, 1754-1907

Title: Silsbee Family Papers, 1637, 1754-1907.

The Silsbee Family Papers contain the personal papers, business papers, and shipping papers for four generations of Silsbees. The collection includes the shipping papers of Nathaniel Silsbee (1748-1791). It also includes the papers of: his sons, Nathaniel (1773-1850), William, and Zachariah; grandson Nathaniel (1804-1881) and; great-grandsons Nathaniel D. (b. 1830), William Edward, Francis Henry, George Z. and Edward Augustus.

ArchivalResource: 14.25 linear feet (22 boxes)

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Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney), 1814-1882. Henry W. Bellows papers, 1783-1907.

Title: Henry W. Bellows papers, 1783-1907.

Unitarian clergyman, of New York City. Correspondence, diary, addresses, sermons, reports, dissertations, legal documents, and schedule of properties. Correspondence (1831-82) relates to Bellows' religious work, his interest in Antioch College (1859-72), his work in the U.S. Sanitary Commission, and editorship of the Christian Examiner. Chief correspondents include Bellows' parents, his brothers Edward and John, Cyrus A. Bartol, James F. Clarke, and Edward Everett Hale. Other correspondents include George T. Curtis, Theodore Dorr, O.C. Everett, H.W. Foote, Amos Adams Lawrence, Charles Mason, and William Silsbee.

ArchivalResource: 103 boxes and 1 v.

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Stone, Silsbee, and Pickman. Stone Silsbee and Pickman Records, 1816-1903; bulk=1840-1880.

Title: Stone Silsbee and Pickman Records, 1816-1903; bulk=1840-1880.

Salem shipping firm. Collection contains account books, correspondence, and shipping papers for the partnerships of Stone Silsbee and Pickman, Silsbee and Pickman, and Silsbee Pickman and Allen.

ArchivalResource: 73 boxes, 41 volumes (39.25 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/613982944 View