James Thomas Fields manuscript material : 1 item, 1861

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James Thomas Fields manuscript material : 1 item, 1861

ยท To Thornton Leigh Hunt, journalist, son of Leigh Hunt : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Oct 1861 : (H'ANA 0044) : begins, "You promised to write for the 'Atlantic Monthly' your recollections of Shelley as you knew him in your boy-life." Also asks of the papers of Leigh Hunt, "Is there a note from Shelley of Keats to spare?"

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SNAC Resource ID: 7079413

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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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...

Hunt, Thornton Leigh, 1810-1873

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Thornton Leigh Hunt, English journalist. He was the first child of the poet, journalist and critic Leigh Hunt. From the description of Thornton Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 14 items, 1823-1870 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 434595856 ...

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859

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English essayist and poet. From the description of [Letters] / Leigh Hunt. [1848-1856] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 234302986 From the description of Criticism on female beauty : notes, ca. 1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510755 Leigh Hunt moved from Chelsea to Kensington in 1840. From the description of Leigh Hunt, letter : Kensington, England : Autograph note signed, [1840?] Nov. 22. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...