Oliver Wendell Holmes contracts with Ticknor and Fields, 1858-1900 (inclusive), 1959-1871 (bulk).

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Oliver Wendell Holmes contracts with Ticknor and Fields, 1858-1900 (inclusive), 1959-1871 (bulk).

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The collection includes book contracts between Holmes and the Boston, Massachusetts publishing house Ticknor and Fields, copyright contracts for two of Holmes' books, and a letter to Holmes' son, Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr. from Houghton, Mifflin and Company (successor firm to Ticknor and Fields).

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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...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Houghton, Mifflin and Company.

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Boston, Mass., publishing firm. From the description of Houghton, Mifflin and Company note [manuscript], 1899 April 18. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 715378844 ...