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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Am 2016

James Thomas Fields collection of autographs and portraits of distinguished women

Overview

Letters and portraits collected by the American publisher James Thomas Fields.

Dates

  • Creation: 1814-1907

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.

Extent

1 linear feet (3 boxes)

Chiefly letters to James T. Fields, his wife Annie Adams Fields, and Ticknor and Fields from American and European authors, actresses, and aristocrats, including Empress Joséphine, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Hester Piozzi, among others. Many letters also include portrait engravings and manuscript poems.

Biographical / Historical

Fields was a Boston publisher, editor, and author. He was head of the publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields and editor of The Atlantic Monthly (1861-1870).

Physical Location

b

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Bequest of Annie Adams Fields; received: 1915 Dec. 4.

Recataloged from X5.1F*; then from MS Am 2001. Some item folders were missing at time of encoding this finding aid in December of 2004. These numbers are: (22), (50), (52), (70), (76), (80), (83), (87).

Title
Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881, collector. James Thomas Fields collection of autographs and portraits of distinguished women, 1814-1907: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou01490

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

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