Charles A. Dana note and endorsed letters received, 1855.

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Charles A. Dana note and endorsed letters received, 1855.

The collection consists of five items: three letters from Dix and Edwards to Dana, all endorsed by Dana, all 1855, all enclosing checks in payment for articles Dana had written; letter from Dix and Edwards to Horace Greeley, publisher of the Tribune, endorsed by Dana, 1 Dec. 1855, also enclosing a check in payment for an article published in Putnam's Monthly; also, note or fragment signed by Dana, undated, commending an unknown person to an unknown recipient.

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Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897

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Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and senior government official. He was a top aide to Horace Greeley as the managing editor of the powerful Republican newspaper New-York Tribune until 1862. During the American Civil War, he served as Assistant Secretary of War, playing especially the role of the liaison between the War Department and General Ulysses S. Grant. In 1868 he became the editor and part-owner of the New York Sun. He at first ...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Dix & Edwards

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