Letter, [18--?] : to James T. Fields, Esq.

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Letter, [18--?] : to James T. Fields, Esq.

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Written to James T. Fields and delivered via a "Mr. Lewis," this letter is signed with the forged signature of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Several lines in the middle of the letter are excised, as is clear from the spilit along the middle of the leaf and from the address written the verso (it is clearly missing the letters "elds, Es" from the inscription "James T. Fields, Esq"). Though this is likely a genuine letter to Fields from an unknown party, the signature of Hawthorne has been added in a different hand and with a different ink at a later date.

1 leaf ; 178 x 184 mm.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7516265

University of California, Los Angeles

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author. From the description of Nathaniel Hawthorne manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1853-1857 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 301761440 American author, writer of romances, stories, and juvenile works. Born July 4, 1804, in Salem, Mass.; died May, 1864, in Plymouth, N.H. Sometime resident of Concord, Mass. Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. Hawthorne's association with the Boston publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields began ...

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...