Papers, 1785-1859.

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Papers, 1785-1859.

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This collection consists principally of forty-one volumes of receipts, bills, memoranda, invoices, bills of lading, and other records of Carey's publishing business, and its successors, Carey, Lea, and Carey, and Lea and Blanchard. All volumes, except the last volume of Lea and Blanchard accounts for 1856-1857, are catalogued or indexed. The loose correspondence consists of material relating to the Committee for Relief of the Greeks (1826-1828), reform of criminal law (1827-1828), and the Committee for Aid to Polish Refugees (1833-1834). Many are undated and unsigned. Principal correspondents include Aaron Hobart (1787-1858), Edward Everett (1794-1865), John Broomhall (1799-1873), William Meredith (1799-1873), Philip Ricard Fendall (1794-1868), and Thomas J. McKaig. Also included are thirty-two items pertaining to the Thomas Abthorpe Cooper (1776-1849) Benefit held in Philadelphia in 1833. Most are letters concerning attendance or performance at the benefit or enclosing donations for the Cooper fund. There are two broadsides included representing the prologue and an address presented at the benefit. Volumes 9, 10, 11, and 12 are missing from the series of folio volumes of account books (nor are they located in the Mathew Carey Papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania).

41 v. ; folio.1 box (200 items)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7011459

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Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

Fendall, Philip Ricard, 1794-1868

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Attorney, of Alexandria (formerly Alexandria Co., now Arlington Co.), Va., and Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1658-1962. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19646999 From the description of Letters, 1779-1916. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40421935 Washington, D.C., District Attorney, 1841-1845, 1849-1853. From the description of Correspondence of Philip R. Fendall [manuscript], 1813-1841, bulk 1813-1817. (Un...

Broomhall, John, 1799-1873.

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Lea & Blanchard

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Hobart, Aaron, 1787-1858

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McKaig, Thomas B.

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Blanchard & Lea

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Carey, Lea & Carey

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Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839

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Mathew C. Carey (1760-1839) was a publisher, economist, and humanitarian. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and came to America in 1784, after involvement in Irish revolutionary activity. He took up his trade as a printer, publishing the Pennsylvania Herald and the periodical, The American Museum. His book publishing ventures prospered and his firm was a leader in American printing and publishing in the period 1795-1835. He was an active proponent of the protective tariff, as well as an ardent cha...