Letters of John Lauris Blake, 1847-1856.

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Letters of John Lauris Blake, 1847-1856.

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In a letter to James Munroe & Co., Booksellers, 1847 December 10, Blake discusses his move to Orange, N.J., the disaster at 79 Fulton Street interfering with his travels to New York; his desire to write reviews; and reference materials he will need. The letter is written on the verso of a prospectus for "Memoirs of American Merchants." In a letter to Luther Tucker, 1851 December 31, Tucker mentions woodcuts from Tucker for one of Blake's books; Andrew Jackson Downing's work; the superiority of Downing's "Horticulturist" to Hovey's magazine; inevitable obsolesence of authors and journalists; Saxton's woodcuts; and the possibility of Tucker's re-stereotyping the 1848 volume of "Cultivator." In a letter to the Rev. Andrew Preston Peabody, 1856 November 4, Tucker thanks Peabody for corrections to biographical dictionary entries on William B.O. Peabody, William Plumer and William Plumer, Jr., and [Robert?] Rantoul; defends his work; discusses a Mr. Dabney and Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography; and expresses his delight that Peabody had not left New Hampshire.

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James Munroe and Company

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James Munroe and Company, publishers and booksellers, were located at 134 Washington Street in Boston and also in Cambridge, Mass., during the middle part of the nineteenth century. The head of the company was James Munroe (1808-1861), who was born in Lexington, Mass., the son of James Munroe (1775-1848) and Margaret Watson Munroe ( - ). In 1834 he married Sarah Russell Mason Fiske (1808- ). They had two daughters. From the description of Correspondence, 1833-1866. (Unknown). WorldCa...

Hovey, C. M. (Charles Mason), 1810-1887

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Blake, John Lauris, 1788-1857

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Author and teacher, Concord, Mass. From the description of Letters to John Rowe Parker, 1821. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63615045 ...

Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852

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American horticulturist and landscape architect. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Newburgh, N.Y., to James Arnold, 1844 Apr. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526124 Landscape architect, horticulturalist, and writer. From the description of Papers, 1830-1850. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 122583167 Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852) of Newburgh (N.Y.). Architect, gardener, author and nursery owner. A. J. Downing was i...

Tucker, Luther, 1802-1873

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Luther Tucker was born in Brandon, Vermont; he apprenticed to a printer in Middlebury, relocating with his employer to Palmyra, New York, in 1817. He travelled as a journeyman, and went into business as a printer on Long Island, and later Rochester, where he founded the Daily Advertiser. He also founded the first agricultural journal in the United States, The Genesee Farmer, and, later The Country Gentlemen, eventually merging the two with The Cultivator. He also owned a large farm near Rocheste...