Letters of Fitz Hugh Ludlow [manuscript] 1861-68.

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Letters of Fitz Hugh Ludlow [manuscript] 1861-68.

Ludlow asks Charles Godfrey Leland for the name of a writer of some southern sketches which he believes showed inside knowledge of a plot to destroy the Union. He is desirous of paying Edward Stansbury a sum of money. Ludlow requests Mary Louise Booth of Harper's to publish some wedding verses, & asks James Thomas Fields to add another footnote to an article he has written.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, 1836-1870

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Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903

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Born in Philadelphia, humorist Charles Godfrey Leland wrote quality material in a variety of literary forms, but is best remembered for his light comic verse, often written in a German dialect. He graduated from Princeton, and continued his education in Germany and Paris, eventually making contributions as linguist, folklorist, editor, educator, and aesthete. From the description of Charles Godfrey Leland letters and poems, 1854-1866. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldC...

Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise), 1831-1889

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Author, translator, editor. From the description of Letters of Mary Louise Booth, 1884-1886. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50390642 ...

Stansbury, Edward Augustus, 1811-1873

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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...