Autograph letter signed : Boston, to "friend Duychinck", 1850 Nov. 25.

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Autograph letter signed : Boston, to "friend Duychinck", 1850 Nov. 25.

Asking for some old numbers of a magazine with papers by De Quincey.

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Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878

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Evert A. Duyckinck was born on Manhattan Island, and graduated from Columbia University. Although accepted to the bar, he did not practice law, but lived a life devoted to literature. At the center of New York's literary culture, he had important friendships with Poe, Irving, and Melville, acting as editor, associate, and friend. He and his younger brother, George, served as editors for several noteworthy literary enterprises, including the influential Literary World and the groundbreaking Cyclo...

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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