Benson John Lossing Papers, . 1859-1882

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Benson John Lossing Papers, . 1859-1882

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Benson John Lossing (1813-1891) was an author, editor, wood-engraver, and popularizer of American history. The collection includes an autobiographical sketch (36 pages), 1882, of Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard (1809-1889), native of Massachusetts, astronomer, professor at the University of Alabama, and president of the University of Mississippi and Columbia University; three letters, 1871 and 1872, to Lossing from Cornelia Phillips Spencer, North Carolina writer, about teaching her daughter to draw, subscribers in North Carolina for a historical magazine Lossing was starting, and mailing manuscripts; and two letters, 1859, 1862, to Lossing from Lyman Copeland Draper (1815-1891) about publishing biographies and other matters.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891

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Historian, author. From the description of Transcriptions of documents, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122583022 Wood engraver, author, editor. From the description of Benson J. Lossing papers, 1861-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576931 From the description of Papers, 1861-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155519295 Benson John Lossing, editor, illustrator, and historian born in New York. Edited the Poughkeepsie Telegraph, Poughk...