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Joel Chandler Harris letter to James R. Osgood and Company 1883 July 24 on The Constitution stationery about Harris's second book, Nights with Uncle Remus.

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Joel Chandler Harris note to Benjamin Ticknor on 1887 February 25 on The Constitution stationery about the publication of a short story, Free Joe and Other Georgia Sketches

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Joel Chandler Harris note to Benjamin Ticknor and James R. Osgood and Company on [1883] April 23, writing that Harris would only be willing to illustrate the particular part of the Uncle Remus that is confined to animal subbects and discussion of the price.

Scope and Contents Parody on Algernon Charles Swinburne's poem "Atalanta in Calydon (1865). It was first published in the September, 1870 issue of the Overland Monthly.The connecton to Swinburne was quickly lost as the poem became known as "The Heathen Chinee" and was reprinted widely throughout the United States. The sixth stanza concerns the discovery that the heathen Chinee and Nye are both cheating at a card game. Harte in his fair copy of a single stanza, has changed one revealing word:...

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Hearn writes to James Osgood about the publication of his book, Stray Leaves from Stray Literature ,an anthology of fables, from Indian, Polynesian, Buddhist, Egyptian, and Persian parables and fables. Hearn referred to it as a collection of "very strange and beautiful literatures." Osgood published it in June 1884, the month following this letter.

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson note to Caroline Ticknor on 1903 May 29, about his address on the centenary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's birth, published in June 1903.He mentions that Samuel Taylor Coleridge can help at the museum and he is the man who is deeply interested in American Literature.

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William Dean Howells note to Benjamin Ticknor on 1887 July 24, about a reprint of Howells edition of his novels and the financial terms of their contract.

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William Dean Howells note to Benjamin Ticknor on 1883 November 15, thanking Ticknor for writing to him about the little book, A Little Girl Among the Old Masters which was a collaboration between Howells and his daughter, Mildred Howells

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William Dean Howells note to Benjamin Ticknor on 1885 July 30, about the publication of The Rise of Silas Lapham, Tuscan Cities, and Poems

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William Dean Howells note to Caroline Ticknor on 1913 November 26, writing that he has been reading her book about her grandfather and Hawthorne with the greatest pleasure and remembers Mr. Ticknor even though he saw him for only a few moments.

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Laurence Hutton note to Benjamin Ticknor on 1881 March 13, about an essay Hutton wrote on Shakespeare and defends his spelling Shakespere.

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Lucy Larcom letter to Benjamin Ticknor and manuscript poem about the American Civil War. Larcom, a poet and abolitionist, writes that she would like to revive the enthusiastic outburst of song that was awakened by the War.

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Louise Chandler Moulton letter to Benjamin Ticknor on [1881] December 30 about the possibility of creating an illustrated book of poetry. Moulton also mentioned her appreciation of Songs and Lyrics by Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, published by James R. Osgood and Company in 1881.

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Mary Noailles Murfree note to James R. Osgood on 1884 May 22 about the publication of her second book, Where the Battle was Fought published by Osgood in June 1884. Noailles requested that the copyright entry should be made in his name and that the book should be advertised and published under the pseudonym Charles Egbert Craddock.

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James R. Osgood note to Benjamin Ticknor [1882] May 5 responds in general to work regarding Miss Brown, "Uncle Remus", George Washington Cable's novel,Samuel Clemens's lawsuit, and a matter involving Nathaniel Hawthorne (no details provided). Osgood is traveling with Samuel Clemens to New Orleans and the Mississippi River, gathering material for Clemens'book, Life on the Mississippi.

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Nora Perry letter to Benjamin Ticknor 1886 April 5, praising and encouraging the work of Rose Terry Cooke. She also criticizes the dialect used by Mary Noailles Murfree,(pseudonym, Charles Egbert Craddock.)

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John Godfrey Saxe letter to Benjamin Ticknor on 1873 June 29 about a new edition of his poems to be called the "Diamond" edition.

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Harriet Prescott Spofford note to Caroline Ticknor regardin a portrait of Nora Perry that would do her justice for Spofford's book, Glimpses of Authors.

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Edmund Clarence Stedman letter to Benjamin Ticknor 1887 April 22, as part of an ongoing conversation on the subject of Eugene Field. Stedman also mentions frustrations with his own work.

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Richard Henry Stoddard note and letter to Benjamin Ticknor, 1896 November 15 & 29, and 1897 April 16, about publishing projects, Funk & Wagnalls, "Memoirs of Hawthorne," and related literary business matters.