Roberts Brothers papers, 1838-1932, bulk 1882-1898
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1071
- Bib ID:
- 4079266 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Roberts Brothers (Boston, Mass.)
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 2.5 linear feet (5 boxes)
- Language(s):
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English
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- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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The following boxes are located off-site: 3-5. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Summary
Correspondence files of Roberts Brothers, pertaining to all departments, editorial, production, advertising, and sales. Also, some miscellaneous letters and documents, unrelated to Roberts Brothers, which deal with various legal matters, including those of Frederick D. Ely and of William A. Dunn, from 1838 until 1932, and letters to the Secretary of Harvard University from 1900 to 1907.
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
The following boxes are located off-site: 3-5. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Roberts Brothers papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Alternate Form Available
Entire collection is on microfilm (Box 1: MN#2002-1014; Box 2: MN#2002-1015; Box 3: MN#2002-1016; Box 4: MN#2002-1017; Box 5: MN#2002-1018 & 2002-1019).
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Biographical / Historical
Publishing firm in Boston. In 1898 Roberts Brothers merged into Little, Brown and Company.
Subject Headings
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| Accounts |
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| Affidavits |
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| Briefs (legal documents) |
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| Brochures |
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| Certificates |
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| Checks (bank checks) |
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| Claims |
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| Contracts |
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| Drawings (visual works) |
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| Financial records |
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| Invoices |
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| Lists (document genres) |
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| Memorandums |
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| Notes (documents) |
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| Obituaries |
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| Poems |
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| Promissory notes |
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| Prospectuses |
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| Publishers and publishing -- Massachusetts -- Boston |
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| Receipts (financial records) |
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| Reports |
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| Tax bills |
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| minutes (administrative records) |
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| Abbe, Cleveland, 1838-1916 |
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| Ackermann, A. S. E (Alfred Seabold Eli), 1867-1951 |
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| Alden, John B (John Berry), 1847-1924 |
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| Alger, Abby Langdon |
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| Allen, Emma S (Emma Sarah), 1859- |
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| Ames, Joseph Sweetman, 1864-1943 |
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| Badger, Henry C (Henry Clay), 1832-1894 |
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| Bainbridge, William F (William Folwell), 1843- |
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| Baker, Franklin T (Franklin Thomas), 1864-1949 |
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| Barrows, Samuel J (Samuel June), 1845-1909 |
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| Barton, Samuel Marx, 1859-1926 |
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| Baskett, James Newton, 1849-1925 |
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| Bixby, James Thompson, 1843-1921 |
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| Blood, Henry Ames, 1838-1901? |
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| Boland, Mary A., 1852- |
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| Bonnell, Henry H (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 |
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| Bradley, Mary E (Mary Emily), 1835-1898 |
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| Bridgman, L. J (Lewis Jesse), 1857-1931 |
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| Browne, Lewis Allen, 1876-1937 |
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| Burpee, Charles W (Charles Winslow), 1859- |
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| Candler, Warren A (Warren Akin), 1857-1941 |
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| Carpenter, Edmund J (Edmund Janes), 1845-1924 |
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| Carrington, Fitz Roy, 1869-1954 |
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| Champlin, Edwin Ross, 1854-1928 |
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| Collins, Mabel, 1851-1927 |
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| Colver, Frederic Lathrop, 1863- |
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| Commons, John R (John Rogers), 1862-1945 |
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| Conant, Charles A (Charles Arthur), 1861-1915 |
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| Conway, Eustace |
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| Cotton, Joseph P (Joseph Potter), 1875-1931 |
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| Cramer, M. J (Michael John), 1835-1898 |
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| Croffut, W. A (William Augustus), 1835-1915 |
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| Dana, John Cotton, 1856-1929 |
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| Dana, Olive E., 1859- |
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| Davis, Charles Henry Stanley, 1840-1917 |
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| Denison, Mary A (Mary Andrews), 1826-1911 |
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| Dhole, Heeralal |
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| Didier, Eugene Lemoine, 1838-1913 |
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| Dodge, Mary B. |
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| Dowling, Geo. Thos (George Thomas), 1849-1928 |
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| Dromgoole, Will Allen, 1860-1934 |
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| Drury, Wells, 1851-1932 |
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| Dunbar, Newell |
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| Dunn, William A. (William Aloysius), 1852-1918 |
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| Earle, Anne Richardson |
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| Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 |
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| Elkins, Stephen B (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 |
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| Ellis, Frederick Startridge, 1830-1901 |
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| Ellis, Griffith Ogden, 1869-1948 |
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| Ellis, Job Bicknell, 1829-1905 |
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| Elson, A. W (Alfred Walter), 1859- |
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| Ely, Frederick David, 1838-1921 |
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| Ely, Richard T (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 |
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| Everett, William, 1839-1910 |
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| Farley, Frederick A (Frederick Augustus), 1800-1892 |
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| Farlow, W. G (William Gilson), 1844-1919 |
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| Farquhar, Anna, 1865- |
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| Fisher, George P (George Purnell), 1817-1899 |
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| Flower, B. O (Benjamin Orange), 1858-1918 |
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| Ford, James, 1884-1944 |
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| French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 |
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| Fulton, Robert I (Robert Irving), 1855-1916 |
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| Gardner, Celia E (Celia Emmeline), 1844- |
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| Garner, John Leslie |
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| Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916 |
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| Gasson, Thomas Ignatius, 1859-1930 |
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| Gilder, Jeannette L (Jeannette Leonard), 1849-1916 |
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| Gordon, George A (George Angier), 1853-1929 |
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| Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan, 1871-1940 |
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| Hale, Philip, 1854-1934 |
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| Halm, Geo. R (George R.), 1850-1899 |
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| Halsey, Frederic R. (Frederic Robert), 1847-1918 |
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| Halsted, Leonora B |
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| Hamlin, Myra Louisa Sawyer, 1856-1927 |
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| Hardy, John Henry, 1847-1917 |
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| Hardy, Mary Earle, Mrs., 1846-1928 |
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| Harvard University |
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| Hazard, Caroline, 1856-1945 |
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| Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966 |
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| Hosmer, Frederick L (Frederick Lucian), 1840-1929 |
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| Huebsch, B. W (Benjamin W.), 1876-1964 |
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| Hunter-Duvar, John, 1821-1899 |
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| Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman, 1843-1930 |
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| Ireland, Mary E (Mary Eliza), 1834-1927 |
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| Irish, Frank V (Frank Van Buren), 1848-1940 |
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| Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 |
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| Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 |
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| Jackson, William Sharpless |
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| Keeler, Lucy Elliot |
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| Kelley, Emma Dunham |
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| Kimball, Harriet McEwen, 1834-1917 |
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| Kingsley, William Lathrop, 1824-1896 |
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| Kitchin, Claude, 1869-1923 |
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| Lampman, Archibald, 1861-1899 |
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| Lane, John, 1854-1925 |
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| Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley, 1822-1904 |
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| Leonard, Mary Hall, 1847-1921 |
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| Leonard, William Ellery, 1876-1944 |
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| Lincoln, Mary J (Mary Johnson), 1844-1921 |
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| Little, Brown and Company |
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| Loomis, Eben Jenks, 1828-1912 |
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| MacArthur, James, 1866-1909 |
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| Maule, Mary Katherine Finigan, 1861- |
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| Mayer, Frédéric |
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| McAneny, George, 1869-1953 |
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| McDowell, Henry Burden, 1857-1928 |
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| Milburn, William Henry, 1823-1903 |
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| Moody, Winfield Scott, 1856-1931 |
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| Moore, George Foot, 1851-1931 |
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| Moore, Wm. Underhill (William Underhill), 1879-1949 |
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| Moorehead, Warren King, 1866-1939 |
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| Morris, Helen |
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| Moulton, Charles Wells, 1859-1913 |
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| Nelson, Henry Loomis, 1846-1908 |
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| Nichols, Frank A., 1857-1924 |
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| North, Leigh |
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| O'Brien, Robert Lincoln, 1865-1955 |
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| Paine, Robert Treat, 1835-1910 |
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| Pierce, Edward Lillie, 1829-1897 |
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| Powers, Ella M (Ella Marie), 1865- |
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| Raymond, Evelyn, 1843-1910 |
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| Russan, Ashmore |
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| Safford, Mary J |
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| Sargent, Franklin Haven, 1856-1923 |
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| Scales, John, 1835-1928 |
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| Schayer, Julia Thompson von Stosch, 1840-1928 |
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| Schoenfeld, Hermann, 1861-1926 |
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| Searles, Victor A |
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| Sewall, Frank, 1837-1915 |
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| Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947 |
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| Singleton, Fred T (Frederic Thoreau) |
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| Smith, Minna Caroline, d. 1929 |
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| Steffens, Josephine Bontecou |
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| Stetson, George R (George Rochford), 1833- |
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| Stewart, George, 1848-1906 |
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| Stoddart, J. M (Joseph Marshall), 1845-1921 |
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| Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 |
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| Stratemeyer, Edward, 1862-1930 |
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| Swift, Lindsay, 1856-1921 |
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| Taft, Royal C (Royal Chapin), 1823-1912 |
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| Tarbox, Increase N (Increase Niles), 1815-1888 |
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| Taylor, Marcia A |
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| Thompson, John Bodine, 1830-1907 |
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| Tompkins, Hamilton Bullock, 1843-1921 |
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| Tooley, Sarah A., 1857- |
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| True, John Preston, 1859-1933 |
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| Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson, 1854-1939 |
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| Tucker, Elizabeth S |
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| Twining, Kinsley, 1832-1901 |
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| Unwin, T. Fisher (Thomas Fisher), 1848-1935 |
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| Vaughan, Virginia, -1913 |
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| Vickery, Willis, 1857-1932 |
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| Von Ravn, Clara, 1870- |
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| Wadsworth, Wedworth, 1846-1926 |
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| Weaver, Emily P (Emily Poynton), 1865-1943 |
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| Weeden, William B (William Babcock), 1834-1912 |
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| Wheelwright, John T (John Tyler), 1856-1925 |
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| Whipple, Henry Benjamin, 1822-1901 |
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| White, Matthew, 1857-1940 |
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| Whiting, Lilian, 1847-1942 |
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| Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 |
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| Wilshire, Gaylord, 1861-1927 |
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| Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 |
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| Wood, Edith Elmer, 1871-1945 |
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| Wood, Edward S (Edward Stickney), 1846-1905 |
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| Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey, 1835-1905 |
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| Wormeley, Katharine Prescott |
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| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
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| American literature -- 19th century |
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| Authors, American |
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| Authors, English |
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| Book industries and trade -- United States -- 19th century |
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| Books -- United States -- History -- 19th century |
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| Clergy |
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| Deeds |
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| English literature -- 19th century |
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| Fraternal organizations |
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| Journalists |
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| Legal documents |
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| Literature publishing -- United States -- 19th century |
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| Novelists |
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| Poets |
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| Publishers and publishing |
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| Secret societies |
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| Women authors |
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| Women journalists |
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| Women novelists |
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| Women poets |
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