Caroline Ticknor collection of American authors and publishers

Content Description

This collection contains forty-one letters and manuscripts by American authors and publishers from the files of James R. Osgood & Co. and its successor Ticknor & Co assembled by Caroline Ticknor (1866-1937), daughter of Benjamin Holt Ticknor ( 1842-1914) and granddaughter of William Davis Ticknor (1810-1864). Many of the authors represented in this collection have related collections in the Small Library. Authors represented in this collection of letters and manuscripts are: Henry Mills Alden, Edward Bellamy, William Cullen Bryant, Edwin Lassetter Bynner, Rose Terry Cooke, Alice Durand, Edward Everett, Edgar Fawcett, Eugene Field, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Edmund Gosse, Joel Chandler Harris, Bret Harte, Lafcadio Hearn, Thomas Wentworth Higgison, William Dean Howells, Laurence Hutton, Lucy Larcom, Louise Chandler Moulton, Mary Noailles Murfree, James R. Osgood, Nora Perry, John Godfrey Saxe, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Richard Henry Stoddard, Hariet Beecher Stowe, Benjamin Holt Ticknor, John Townsend Trowbridge, Lewis Wallace, Susan Wallace, and John GreenLeaf Whittier.

Acquisition Type

Purchase

Provenance

Purchased March 12, 2021. A special note, in 1922, when the papers were in the possession of Caroline Ticknor, she selected from them approximately 65 autograph letters and manuscripts to use in an extra-illustrated copy of Glimpses of Authors, specially bound for her in two volumes. This was held in private hands until the Spring of 2020 when it was consigned to Forum Auctions. The consigner was not identified. Forum Auctions removed the letters and manuscripts sold them on July 2 and 16, 2020 in separate lots. Aprroximately forty were saved from being scattered apart. These are the letters held in this collection.

Restrictions Apply

No

Access Restrictions

This collection is minimally processed and opened for research.