Letters, 1840 Feb. 1 and 1842 Feb. 27, Philadelphia and Boston, to George Ticknor, Boston.

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Letters, 1840 Feb. 1 and 1842 Feb. 27, Philadelphia and Boston, to George Ticknor, Boston.

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Offers to send Ticknor a book by Count Raizynski on "the modern art of painting in Germany." Apologizes for the delay in distributing the Count's books. He has been busy "as arbiter to decide the claims upon Mexico."

2 items. 27 cm.

Dartmouth College Library

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Ticknor, George, 1791-1871

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George Ticknor (1791-1871), educator and author, served as the first Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard from 1817 to 1835. After his arrival at Harvard, Ticknor became disenchanted with the school curriculum, characterizing the College as a well-disciplined high school, and began an effort to reorganize the College around four main goals: the division of students in courses according to academic proficiency and merit; the division of the ...

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