Autograph letter signed S. Austin Allibone to: James T. Fields, Esq. March 5, 1857.

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Autograph letter signed S. Austin Allibone to: James T. Fields, Esq. March 5, 1857.

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Allibone, S. Austin (Samuel Austin), 1816-1889

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American author and biographer of important literary figures. From the description of Letter, 1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367564811 Samuel Austin Allibone, American lexicographer and librarian, author of A Critical Dictionary of English Literature. From the guide to the S. Austin Allibone manuscript material : 1 item, 1879, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Literary lexicographer, biographer...

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...