Correspondence, 1861-1881.

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Correspondence, 1861-1881.

James T. Fields, author, poet, and publisher, was born in Portsmouth, NH in 1817. At the age of fourteen, he became a clerk in a bookstore in Boston, MA and later a partner in the publishing house Ticknor & Fields. He edited the Atlantic Monthly, which was published by his firm, wrote several books of poetry and prose, and, like his wife Annie Adams Fields, he befriended some of America's foremost intellectuals. He died at his home in Boston in 1881.

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