Papers of Frederic S. Cozzens, 1851-1868 and n.d.

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Papers of Frederic S. Cozzens, 1851-1868 and n.d.

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The papers contain a manuscript of "To My Big Sweetheart." Correspondence discusses his publications, his wine and cigar import business, his book, "The Sparrowgrass Papers," travel on the St. Lawrence River, reading, social life, lectures, his country home in Yonkers, finances, his son's education, authors, literary friends in the Century Club, and the painter, J.F. Kensett. Correspondents include George William Curtis, James T. Fields, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Ford B. McGuireGeorge McLaughlin, Henry Pointer, and W.C. Westervelt. Three portrait prints of Cozzens are by Charles Elliott and J.C. Buttre.

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Curtis, George William, 1824-1892

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George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 – August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Englander ancestry. A Republican, he spoke in favor of African-American equality and civil rights. Curtis, the son of George and Mary Elizabeth (Burrill) Curtis, was born in Providence on February 24, 1824. His mother died when he was two. At six he was sent with his elder brother to school in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, where he remained for fi...

McGuire, Ford B., fl. 1868,

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Elliot, Charles Loring.

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Pointer, Henry, 1853,

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Cozzens, Frederic S. (Frederic Swartwout), 1818-1869

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Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 1790-1867

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American author and poet, born and died in Guildford, Connecticut. After a youth spent in business in Connecticut, Halleck came to New York City and attracted attention with humorous articles he wrote for the New York Evening Post. In 1819 he published the first of several editions of his longest single poem, Fanny, a satire on current fashions, social climbings, and politics written in the stanza form and meter of Byron's Don Juan. Halleck's output was small and much of his best work was includ...

Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893

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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...

Seaver, Mr., fl. 1856,

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McLaughlin, George B. (George Beatty), 1924-

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George M. McLaughlin was born in Hempstead, New York in 1914. He received a B.A. degree from St. Peter's College in New Jersey in 1936, and a law degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1938. He had a private law practice in Anchorage from 1949 to 1958. McLaughlin also served as Anchorage City Magistrate (1952-1955), delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention (1955-1956), board member of the Cook Inlet Historical Society (1955-1958), founder of the Alaska Igloo of the Friendly Sons...

Westervelt, W. C., fl. 1857,

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