James T. Fields letter to Dear friend, 1879 May 26.

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James T. Fields letter to Dear friend, 1879 May 26.

Fields writes to Dear friend, 26 May 1879, explaining that he cannot read his friend's poem at Andover in June because he is expected at Dartmouth and Cornell.

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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...