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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 volume</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1859/1860" type="inclusive">1859-1860</unitdate>
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<p>Cataloged.</p>  </arrangement>
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<p>This collection is located on-site.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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<p>Seven letters: two from Ralph Waldo Emerson, and one each from James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Charles W. Eliot, Charles E. Norton, and Charles Scribner. They are concerned with publishing matters such as returning proofs and forwarding manuscripts.</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Houghton Mifflin Company letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--12/06/34. Accession number--M-34-12-06.</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 07/--/89.</p>  </processinfo>
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    <subject source="lcsh">Publishers and publishing -- United States</subject>
    <subject source="lcsh">Literature publishing -- United States</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009808" source="lcsh">Authors, American</subject>
    <geogname source="lcsh">Boston (Mass.) -- Commerce</geogname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78085476" source="naf">Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79076124" source="naf">Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86140955" source="naf">Everett, Edward, 1818-1903</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50012099" source="naf">Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029784" source="naf">Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78027974" source="naf">Scribner, Charles, 1821-1871</persname>
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