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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Am 1096

Thomas Bird Mosher papers

Overview

Correspondence of the American publisher Thomas Bird Mosher.

Dates

  • Creation: 1890-1939
  • Creation: Majority of material found in 1895-1924

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.

Extent

3 linear feet (9 boxes)

Chiefly letters to Mosher, together with some copies of outgoing letters. Correspondents include Gordon Bottomley, Richard Burton, Charles Joseph Finger, Jeannette L. Gilder, Mitchell Kennerley, Lizette Woodworth Reese, and Charles Hanson Towne. Includes clippings and letters relating to the piracy controversy; and clippings and letters concerning the mock Italian opera Il Pesceballo by Francis James Child and James Russell Lowell.

Biographical / Historical

Mosher was a publisher of inexpensive but well-printed books devoted to belles lettres in Portland, Maine. Many of these were reprints of English authors and caused him to be the subject of some controversy over piracy. He also edited and published The Bibelot (1895-1915), a monthly magazine reprinting "poetry and prose from scarce editions and sources not generally known."

Arrangement

Organized into the following series:

  1. I. Correspondence
  2. II. Other papers

Physical Location

b

Immediate Source of Acquisition

*47M-359. Gift of Oliver C. Sheean; received: 1948.

Title
Mosher, Thomas Bird, 1852-1923. Thomas Bird Mosher papers: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou00352

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

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