Letters and journals, 1824-1910 (inclusive), 1837-1882 (bulk).

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Letters and journals, 1824-1910 (inclusive), 1837-1882 (bulk).

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Chiefly letters by Higginson, together with journals, clippings, a few letters to Higginson, and a few letters of other family members. Correspondence is chiefly to his mother, wife, and sisters, but also includes letters to the publisher James T. Fields. Journals include accounts of his student days at Harvard and his Civil War experiences. Letters to his mother in 1855-1856 describe a trip to the Azores. There are clippings concerning slave insurrections and clippings and letters relating to the anti-slavery movement. Also includes subject files, account books, and a few of his manuscript compositions of lectures and writings.

6 boxes (3 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911

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Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1823. He was a descendant of Francis Higginson, a Puritan minister and immigrant to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson (born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 20, 1770; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 20, 1834), was a merchant and philanthropist in Boston and steward of Harvard University from 1818 until 1834. His grandfather, also named Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congre...

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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James Thomas Fields, American publisher and author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1817. At the age of 17, he went to Boston to clerk in a booksellers shop. While clerking, he often wrote for newspapers and in 1839 he became junior partner in the publishing and bookselling firm known after 1846 as Ticknor and Fields, and after 1868 as Fields, Osgood & Company. He was the publisher of several prominent contemporary American and British writers. Besides just publishing the authors, h...