Theodore S. Fay letters to Jane Porter, 1836-1840.

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Theodore S. Fay letters to Jane Porter, 1836-1840.

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Theodore Sedgwick Fay writes to Scottish novelist Jane Porter, 1834-1840, about her writing commissions, commenting on the petition to secure American copyright for British authors (mentioning Maria Edgeworth and Lady Blessington), reporting a rumor that President Andrew Jackson had died, discussing the American author, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and about his appointment as Secretary of Legation at Berlin. Fay writes to George Pope Morris, 4 August 1834, from Paris seeking money owed to him and answers to his letters, and 19 May 1840, from Berlin about his finances, his writings, and the declining health of the King of Prussia.

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Fay, Theodore S. (Theodore Sedgwick), 1807-1898

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Theodore Sedgwick Fay was an American novelist and poet. In 1828 he joined N. P. Willis and George Pope Morris in the editorship of the New York mirror. In 1833 he began supplying the Mirror with a series of sprightly travel sketches from Europe. Edgar Allan Poe's excoriating review of Fay's popular novel, Norman Leslie, in 1835 launched Poe's career as a critic. After holding various diplomatic posts in London, Berlin, and Switzerland, Fay retired in 1861 to Germany where he died. F...

Porter, Jane, 1776-1850

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Jane Porter (1776-1850) was a best selling British historical novelist and the author of Thaddeus of Warsaw (1804) and The Scottish chiefs (1810). From the description of Papers of Jane Porter, 1760-1850. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122559985 Francis Legatt Chantrey was a popular and successful sculptor who made portrait busts of many of the most distinguished men of his time, including George IV, Sir Walter Scott, Willi...

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867

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