Autograph letters signed from George P. Marsh, Burlington, to Richard Grant White, 1860.

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Autograph letters signed from George P. Marsh, Burlington, to Richard Grant White, 1860.

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Two letters dated March 13 and July 19 1860. Lengthy letters discussing the creation and reception of his Lectures (the host volume), the sale of White's "Shakespeare," American contributions to "the Dictionary," Marsh's attempts to write lectures with Mr. Coleridge on the subject of American authors, and orthographic debates between "the unanimous judgment of English and American scholarship on one side and the private interests of a knot of booksellers who have invested capital in lipogrammatic schoolbooks."

6 leaves.

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Marsh, George P. (George Perkins), 1801-1882

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George Perkins Marsh was born in Woodstock, Vermont, educated at Dartmouth, and taught Greek and Latin in a local academy, then studied and practiced law. He was elected to the Vermont legislature, then to Congress in 1843, where he actively supported the Library of Congress and the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution. He was appointed Minister to Italy, 1861-1862. He was an active lecturer, and his book Man and Nature (1864) earns him credit today as the first environmentalist...

White, Richard Grant, 1821-1885

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American man of letters, author, critic. From the description of Papers of Richard Grant White, 1842-1884. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31685639 Child was a professor of rhetoric and English at Harvard, best known for his compilation The English and Scottish popular ballads. Charles Eliot Norton was a scholar, professor of art history at Harvard, and a founder of "The Nation." Richard Grant White was a journalist, writer, and Shakespearean scholar. ...