Boston College collection of Charles Morris correspondence

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Boston College collection of Charles Morris correspondence

1885-1890

http://hdl.handle.net/2345.2/MS1986-025

Correspondence between American author Charles Morris and publishing companies, regarding his requests to use passages from a variety of books. Letters were addressed to and from his home in Philadelphia during 1885-1890.

.5 linear feet

eng, Latn

Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11677392

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Morris, Charles, 1833-1922

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Charles Morris was born in Chester, Pennsylvania on October 1, 1833 to Margaret Burns and Samuel Pearson Morris. He began his career as a teacher, first in his hometown and then at the Academy of Ancient and Modern Languages in Philadelphia. From 1860-1878 he worked for a manufacturing company while beginning to publish short stories, poems, and dime novels as serials in magazines such as Beadle's Saturday Journal. By the 1880s he was able to write full-time, and he began publishing biographies,...