Houghton Mifflin Company records, 1832-1944.

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Houghton Mifflin Company records, 1832-1944.

Records of Houghton Mifflin and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business. Includes cost books, sales books, invoice books, sheet stock books and ledgers;letterbooks, containing copies of outgoing letters, including correspondence of The Atlantic Monthly; scrapbooks; clippings; a few compositions and photographs; and diaries of Horace E. Scudder concerning his work as editor of the Riverside Magazine for Young People.

123 volumes (55 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7794783

Houghton Library

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Atlantic Monthly

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Ticknor and Fields

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Ticknor and Fields of Boston, Massachusetts was the premier "literary" publishing house in the United States during the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ticknor and Fields originated in the firm of Allen and Ticknor established in 1832. The partners in Ticknor and Fields were William D. Ticknor (one of the partners in Allen and Ticknor) and James T. Fields, who entered the firm as a junior partner in 1843. Fields edited the Atlantic monthly from 1861-1870. Fields was also a wri...

William D. Ticknor & Co.

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Ticknor, William D. (William Davis), 1810-1864

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American publisher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Mr. Clark, 1859 Sept. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572593 ...

Ticknor, Reed & Fields

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Houghton, Osgood, and Company

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Houghton, Henry Oscar, 1823-1895

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Houghton was an American printer and publisher, proprietor of the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Mass. and partner, successively, in the publishing firms of Hurd and Houghton; Houghton, Osgood ? and Houghton, Mifflin & Company. From the description of Papers, 1773-1932 (inclusive) 1833-1895 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505871 Houghton was an American printer and publisher, proprietor of the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Mass., and partner, successi...

H.O. Houghton & Company.

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Fields, Osgood and Company.

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James R. Osgood and Company

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Fields, Osgood & Co.

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Allen & Ticknor

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Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Hurd & Houghton

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Riverside magazine for young people.

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Houghton Mifflin Company.

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Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house of Boston, Mass., From the description of Houghton Mifflin Company records, 1832-1944. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612205133 Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts, traces its roots back to the firm of Ticknor and Fields, the premier "literary" publishing house in the United States during the middle years of the nineteenth century; and to the Riverside Press, Henry Oscar Houghton's printi...

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...

Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902

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Scudder was an editor with Houghton, Mifflin and Company and editor of the Atlantic Monthly (1890-1898). From the description of Papers, 1879-1901. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612370549 From the description of Additional papers, 1859-1903. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82251260 From the guide to the Additional papers, 1859-1903., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Scudder was an editor with Houghton, Mi...