Box BW 27

Harriet Beecher Stowe note to James R. Osgood, 1872 December 29, about her forthcoming epistolary travel narrative about the St. John's River area of Florida, Palmetto-Leaves. In her note, Stowe identifies the anonymous illustrator as "Miss Aikens", an obscure artist whose work was rarely credited.

Benjamin Ticknor note to Alfred Lord Tennyson 1889 August 6 wishing Tennyson a happy anniversary and remarking it as also being his grandfather's birthday, William Davis Ticknor.

William Ticknor published Tennyson's first poems, and established the principle of international copyright forty seven years earlier. Ticknor was the first American publisher to pay foreign authors for the rights to their works, beginning with a check to Alfred Tennyson in 1842.

John Townsend Trowbridge manuscript poem, "When We Came from the War: Song of the Poorhouse Veterans." It was first collected in Trowbridge's The Lost Earl with Other Poems and Tales in Verse before 1888. Townsend writes that many of the veterans ended up in the almshouse with the poor people in the town.

Lewis Wallace letter to his acquaintance from serving in the American Civil War, Benjamin Ticknor 1882 January 1 about a play Wallace was writing on Maternus, a slave who lead an uprising against the Roman emperor Commodus. He also mentions Ben Hur and The Fair God.

Susan Wallace (wife of Lewis Wallace) letter to Benjamin Ticknor 1884 December 29 about the possibility of publishing her Christmas story "Ginevra or the Old Oak Chest". She mentions how "Ben Hur" is selling well. Her story was published by Worthington in New York in 1887.

John Greenleaf Whittier letter to Benjamin Ticknor 1886 February 15 about selecting his biographer and publisher. He mentions Samuel T. Pickard, [Horace E.] Scudder, and [Edwin P.] Whipple. Samuel T. Pickard wrote the biography Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier which was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1894.

John Hay note to James R. Osgood asking him about the original photographs of engravings from (Ward Hill) Lamon's "The Life Of Abraham Lincoln." On the next page of the note, is a question from James Osgood to Benjamin Ticknor asking about the plates (engravings) and requesting a copy of Longfellow's book.

Samuel Adams Drake note to Benjamin Ticknor about his health, the weather, and no plans to make a trip to Boston.

Wendell Phillips to his cousin Miss Wainwright about the burial and resting place of John Brown.

Annie Fields note to Caroline Ticknor responding to her about her passport.

Samuel Pickard note to Caroline Ticknor requesting two tickets to the annual dinner.

John Bright letter to James R. Osgood thanking him for the volume on the life of James Greenleaf Whittier that was sent as a gift. He mentions his reverence for Whittier and praises his work against slavery in America.