James Thomas Fields Papers: Finding Aid mssFI

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Finding aid last updated on July 1, 2022, by Melissa Haley.


Contributing Institution: The Huntington Library
Title: James Thomas Fields papers
Creator: Fields, James Thomas
Identifier/Call Number: mssFI
Physical Description: 70 Linear Feet (74 boxes, 1 envelope, 1 oversize folder, 1 volume)
Date (inclusive): 1767-1914
Date (bulk): 1850-1914
Abstract: The collections consist primarily of letters, as well as poems and manuscripts, from various American and British authors to American editor, publisher, and poet James Thomas Fields (1817-1881), mostly relating to publication of their manuscripts by his firm Ticknor and Fields and in The Atlantic Monthly. The collection also includes letters to Fields's wife Annie Fields (1834-1915) concerning literary matters.
Language of Material: The materials are in English.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. James Thomas Fields papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The bulk of the collection was received as the gift of A. S. W. Rosenbach, 1922. FI 5097-5438 and FAC 1015 were received as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bole Jr. (Benjamin Patterson Bole Jr. and Nancy Adams Bole) and Samuel Adams in 1978 and of Mrs. Benjamin P. Bole Jr. (Nancy Adams Bole) in 1986. Boylston Beal, Gift, 1934 and 1936. FI 5447 was purchased from the Autograph Alcove, in May 1989.

Biographical / Historical

James Thomas Fields (1817-1881) occupied an important position in the nineteenth century literary scene in his dual role as editor of The Atlantic Monthly and publisher in the Boston firm of Ticknor and Fields. His career as publisher began in 1831, when he became a clerk for the Old Corner Bookstore, which evolved into the firm of William D. Ticknor and Company. During the forties, Ticknor and Co. began its rise to greatness, with extra impetus provided by its publication in 1847 of Longfellow's Evangeline. Soon after, the firm also established relations with other New England writers such as Whittier, Lowell, Hawthorne, and Holmes, each of whom contributed to the increasing prestige of Ticknor and Co. Meanwhile, Fields began a corresponding rise, advancing to a junior partnership in 1843, though the firm retained its title until 1849, when it became Ticknor, Reed and Fields. The title of Ticknor and Fields came into being in June, 1854, and lasted until 1868, when reorganization changed the name to Fields, Osgood and Company, with Fields as senior partner. Throughout his career as a publisher, Fields was extremely successful in establishing good relationships (and in a great many cases, friendships) with a large number of authors, both American and English. Through his fair and generous terms in dealing with them and through his policy of protecting their works against piracy in spite of the absence of any international copyright laws, he was able to attract established, well-known writers to his firm, as well as many who would yet achieve fame. Fields succeeded also in obtaining wide exposure of his firm's books by means of his extensive circle of friends and acquaintances among editors and book reviewers. Chiefly as a result of his promotional talents, Ticknor and Fields were able to develop a national market for their books and hence to make Boston the primary center in the United States for the publication of literary works.
In his capacity as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, Fields was no less successful. Created in May, 1857, the magazine was purchased by Ticknor and Fields two years later. The following year, Fields took over the editorship of the magazine from James Russell Lowell. During Field's tenure as editor, he continued to maintain the magazine's reputation for dignity and integrity which Lowell had established, and his promptness and business acumen provided a marked contrast to Lowell's sometimes casual methods. As in his role of publisher, Fields dealt fairly and generously with Atlantic contributors, inaugurating the practice of paying for articles when accepted rather than when published. Further, he actively sought out new writers in an effort to broaden the appeal of the magazine, also accepting more pieces of light fiction to ease the number of scholarly literary and historical articles. Under his leadership, the Atlantic significantly increased its circulation, becoming widely known throughout much of the United States and England, as well.
On December 31, 1870, Fields retired from business, partly because of health, but was able to continue his writing and lecturing. He also continued to enjoy the many friendships he had formed with authors and other literary figures. The Fields home, with James and his wife, Annie (Adams) Fields (1834-1915) receiving, had become a delightful gathering place for literary people in Boston. There were frequent visits from those in and around Boston, such as Dr. Holmes, who lived just down the street, and there were guests from abroad -- those whom the Fieldses had met on their several trips to England, and many distinguished visitors who were brought to the Fieldses to meet the Boston literary circle. The story of the many hours spent with their literary friends is told in their memoirs: Authors and Friends, by Annie Fields, and Yesterdays with Authors, by James T. Fields.
Following James Fields's death in 1881, Annie continued to receive her many friends, with the frequent companionship of Sarah Orne Jewett, and continued her own literary activities until her death in 1915.

Scope and Contents

The collections consist primarily of letters from various American and British authors to James Fields, mostly relating to publication of their manuscripts by his firm Ticknor and Fields and in The Atlantic Monthly. The collection also includes letters to Annie (Adams) Fields concerning literary matters. There are also poems, manuscripts, and correspondence by and about the following individuals: Thomas Aldrich, Charlotte Cushman, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jessie Benton Frémont, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Lucy Larcom, Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott (better known by her pen name Grace Greenwood), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Helena Modjeska, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Booker T. Washington and John Greenleaf Whittier. The collection also contains essays, notes, speeches, notebooks, photographs, and articles. The collections chiefly deal with the activities of Ticknor and Fields, as well as Fields' and his wife's own literary efforts. The following authors are subjects in the collections: Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Milton and Percy Shelley. Presidential items in this collection include John Adams autograph bill for legal services to Thomas Pratt, 1767 October 14 (FI 5102) and two autograph letters signed from William H. Taft to Annie Adams Fields, 1914 February? and 1914 March 10 (FI 4098, FI 4099).

Processing Information

The collection was processed and a summary report first created in 1976, and revised in 1983. In March 2000, an initial EAD-encoded finding aid was created and then updated in 2004. In January 2015, Diann Benti created a box list for the collection and this updated version of the finding aid.
This finding aid was updated in 2022 by Melissa Haley as part of the American Presidential Papers Project with enhanced description of the presidential material present.

General

Significant persons represented in the collection: Manuscripts

  1. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 2 poems
  2. Ames, Charles Gordon, 1 poem
  3. Andrew, John Albion, 1 poem
  4. Bartol, Cyrus Augustus, 1 poem
  5. Boker, George Henry, 2 poems
  6. Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson, table of contents
  7. Brooks, Phillips, 1 prayer
  8. Butler, Frances Anne (Kemble), group of poems
  9. Cable, George Washington, fragment of novel
  10. Carman, Bliss, 1 poem
  11. Clarke, Mary Victoria (Novello) Cowden-, 1 poem
  12. Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1 poem
  13. Cooke, Rose Terry, 2 poems
  14. Cooper, James Fenimore, fragment of novel
  15. Craik, Dinah Maria (Mulock), preface and title page
  16. Davis, Rebecca Blaine (Harding), 2 short stories
  17. Duganne, Augustine Joseph Hickey, 1 poem
  18. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, preface to work by Thoreau
  19. Everett, Edward, 1 poem
  20. Fields, James Thomas, 3 poems
  21. Galton, Sir Francis, 1 poem (couplet)
  22. Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1 poem
  23. Hale, Edward Everett, 1 poem
  24. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 2 essays
  25. Hill, George Birkbeck Norman, 1 poem
  26. Holmes, Oliver Wendell , 10 poems; 7 essays, 2 photographs
  27. Howe, Julia (Ward), 3 poems
  28. Landor, Walter Savage, 1 essay
  29. Lanier, Clifford Anderson, 1 poem
  30. Larcom, Lucy, 1 poem
  31. Lear, Edward, 1 poem; 1 drawing
  32. Lippincott, Sara Jane (Clarke), 1 poem; preface
  33. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1 poem
  34. Longfellow, Samuel, 1 poem
  35. Lowell, James Russell, 2 book reviews; 1 essay
  36. Martineau, Harriet, 2 essays
  37. Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1 essay
  38. Novello, Mary Sabilla, 1 poem
  39. Osgood, Kate Putnam, 1 poem
  40. Parker, Nathan, 1 sermon
  41. Parsons, Thomas William, 3 poems
  42. Procter, Bryan Waller, 2 poems
  43. Reade, Charles, corrections for ms.
  44. Sala, George Augustus Henry, 1 essay
  45. Sheppard, Elizabeth Sara, 6 poems, and misc. verses
  46. Stoddard, Richard Henry, 5 poems
  47. Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher), 1 poem; 16 selections from fiction and essays, incl. Chimney Corner and House and Home Papers
  48. Taylor, Bayard, 2 essays; Poems of Home and Travel, and Poems of the Orient
  49. Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson, draft of a prelude
  50. Thaxter, Celia (Laighton), 29 poems
  51. Thomas, Edith Matilda, 1 poem
  52. Trowbridge, John Townsend, 1 poem
  53. Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps), 2 poems
  54. Waterston, Anna Cabot Lowell (Quincy), 1 poem
  55. Whitney, Adeline Dutton (Train), 2 poems
  56. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 7 poems, and extract from Margaret Smith's Journal
  57. Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey, 1 poem

Significant persons represented in the collection: Correspondence (persons represented by 10 or more pieces)

  1. Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot, (Cary), 33 pieces, between 1850 and 1908
  2. Alden, Henry Mills, 50 pieces, 1861-1912
  3. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 60 pieces, 1855->1907
  4. Allibone, Samuel Austin, 29 pieces, 1855-1863
  5. Armstrong, Samuel Chapman, 16 pieces, 1881-1893
  6. Arnold, Ethel Margaret, 13 pieces, 1889-1912
  7. Bartol, Cyrus Augustus, 28 pieces, 1854-1883
  8. Boker, George Henry, 37 pieces, 1849-1867
  9. Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson, 21 pieces, 1861-1862
  10. Brooks, Phillips, 13 pieces, 1879-1890
  11. Brown, John h, 25 pieces, 1860->1895
  12. Brownell, Henry Howard, 29 pieces, 1865-1867
  13. Cary, Alice, 17 pieces, 1856->1871
  14. Child, Lydia Maria (Francis), 41 pieces, 1859-1879
  15. Clarke, Charles Cowden- and Clarke, Mary Victoria (Novello) Cowden-, 61 pieces, 1860-1896
  16. Clarke, James Freeman, 11 pieces, 1875-1884
  17. Collyer, Robert, 118 pieces, 1866-1912
  18. Cooke, Rose Terry, 10 pieces, 1860-1889
  19. Craig, Margaret (deQuincey), 10 pieces, 1852-1855
  20. Curtis, George William, 47 pieces, 1854-1880
  21. Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 44 pieces, 1860->1876
  22. Dana, Richard Henry a, 10 pieces, 1841-1878
  23. Diaz, Abby (Morton), 51 pieces, 1863->1905
  24. Dickens, Charles, 32 pieces, 1859-1870
  25. Dickinson, Lowes Cato, 19 pieces, 1873-1888
  26. Douglas, David, 13 pieces, 1888-1911
  27. Emerson, Ellen Tucker, 15 pieces, 1864-1908
  28. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 36 pieces, 1859-1873
  29. Fairbanks, Charles B, 11 pieces, 1851-1857
  30. Farrar, Eliza Ware (Rotch), 12 pieces, 1864-1866
  31. Fields, Annie (Adams), 44 pieces, 1857->1915
  32. Fields, James Thomas, 337 pieces, 1845->1881
  33. Forbes, Edith (Emerson), 15 pieces, 1898->1915
  34. Fremont, Jessie (Benton), 26 pieces, 1861-1864
  35. Furness, Horace Howard, 18 pieces, 1874-1911
  36. Furness, William Henry a, 18 pieces, 1863-1881
  37. Giles, Henry, 41 pieces, 1849-1865
  38. Godwin, Parke, 15 pieces, 1861-1901
  39. Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, 41 pieces, 1840-1855
  40. Guiney, Louise Imogen, 126 pieces, 1884-1914
  41. Hale, Edward Everett, 47 pieces, 1863->1909
  42. Hale, George Silsbee, 14 pieces, 1879-1889
  43. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 34 pieces, 1851-1864
  44. Hayes, Isaac Israel, 27 pieces, 1867-1872
  45. Higginson, Ida (Agassiz), 20 pieces, 1893->1915
  46. Hogarth, Georgina, 93 pieces, 1869-1913
  47. Holmes, Oliver Wendell , 136 pieces, 1850-1894
  48. Howe, Julia (Ward), 68 pieces, 1852-1908
  49. Howells, William Dean, 111 pieces, 1860-1914
  50. Ireland, Alexander, 10 pieces, 1868-1886
  51. Jackson, Helen Maria (Fiske) Hunt, 21 pieces, 1867-1884
  52. James, Henry , 12 pieces, 1882-1911
  53. Jerdan, William, 11 pieces, 1851-1855
  54. Jesse, Edward, 24 pieces, 1854-1867
  55. King, Thomas Starr, 11 pieces, 1853-1863
  56. Larcom, Lucy, 31 pieces, 1860->1893
  57. Leonowens, Anna Harriette (Crawford), 49 pieces, 1873-1911
  58. Lippincott, Sara Jane (Clarke), 70 pieces, 1848->1855
  59. Livermore, Mary Ashton (Rice), 15 pieces, 1873-1887
  60. Longfellow, Alice Mary, 10 pieces, 1882-1899
  61. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 142 pieces, 1845-1881
  62. Longfellow, Samuel, 14 pieces, 1864->1892
  63. Lowell, James Russell, 66 pieces, 1849-1891
  64. Lowell, Josephine (Shaw), 13 pieces, 1882-1897
  65. Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, 12 pieces, 1861-1863
  66. Meynell, Alice Christiana Gertrude (Thompson), 21 pieces, 1901-1914
  67. Mitchell, Donald Grant, 27 pieces, 1857-1868
  68. Mitchell, Silas Weir, 12 pieces, 1866-1908
  69. Mitford, Mary Russell, 65 pieces, 1848-1854
  70. Modjeska, Helena (Opid), 14 pieces, 1879-1900
  71. Norton, Charles Eliot, 25 pieces, 1850-1907
  72. Palfrey, Sara Hammond, 10 pieces, 1861-1905
  73. Parsons, Thomas William, 18 pieces, 1850-1882
  74. Parton, James, 40 pieces, 1866-1877
  75. Preston, Harriet Waters, 12 pieces, 1873-1910
  76. Procter, Bryan Waller, 12 pieces, 1851-1864
  77. Putnam, Mary Traill Spence (Lowell), 33 pieces, 1862->1898
  78. Reade, Charles, 77 pieces, 1855-1881
  79. Rich, Hiram, 19 pieces, 1865-1888
  80. Richards, Laura Elizabeth (Howe), 17 pieces, 1891->1915
  81. Ritchie, Lady Anne Isabella (Thackeray), 11 pieces, 1867-1912
  82. Sinclair, May, 13 pieces, 1905-1912
  83. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 14 pieces, 1866-1897
  84. Stoddard, Richard Henry, 46 pieces, 1850-1858
  85. Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher), 132 pieces, 1860->1896
  86. Sullivan, Thomas Russell, 15 pieces, 1898-1912
  87. Sumner, Charles, 17 pieces, 1841-1868
  88. Tennyson, Emily (Sellwood), Baroness, Tennyson, 16 pieces, 1859-1894
  89. Thaxter, Celia (Laighton), 62 pieces, 1861-1892
  90. Thomas, Edith Matilda, 10 pieces, 1885-1888
  91. Trowbridge, John Townsend, 18 pieces, 1865-1867
  92. Ward, Mary Augusta (Arnold), 14 pieces, 1892-1914
  93. Warner, Charles Dudley, 32 pieces, 1880-1900
  94. Wasson, David Atwood, 49 pieces, 1861-1876
  95. Waterston, Anna Cabot Lowell (Quincy), 20 pieces, 1860-1880
  96. Wayland, Francis b, 12 pieces, 1861-1867
  97. Weiss, John, 24 pieces, 1862-1875
  98. White, Richard Grant, 13 pieces, 1855-1863
  99. Whitney, Adeline Dutton (Train), 36 pieces, 1861-1898
  100. Whitney, Anne, 23 pieces, 1867->1915
  101. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 305 pieces, 1843-1892
  102. Willson, Byron Forceythe, 19 pieces, 1865-1866
  103. Woodberry, George Edward, 36 pieces, 1889->1915

Related Materials

  1. James Thomas Fields Addenda, 1838-1901  

Other Finding Aids

Cards for individual items in the James Thomas Fields Papers are filed chronologically in the collection section of the Huntington Library Manuscripts Catalogue and alphabetically by author in the main card catalogue.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged alphabetically by author.

Bibliography

Austin, James C. Fields of the Atlantic Monthly. (San Marino, Calif.: The Huntington Library, 1953).
Charvat, William. James T. Fields and the Beginnings of Book Promotion, 1840-1855, The Huntington Library Quarterly VIII (Nov., 1944), 75-94.
Fields, Annie. Authors and Friends. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1897).
Fields, James T. Yesterdays with Authors. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900).
Howe, M. A. DeWolfe. Memories of a Hostess. (Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Authors, American.
Authors, English.
Poets, American.
Poets, British.
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Archives
Women authors, American
Boston (Mass.)
Articles -- United States.
Essays -- United States.
Letters (correspondence) -- United States.
Manuscripts for publication -- United States.
Notes -- United States.
Notebooks -- United States.
Photographs -- United States.
Poems -- United States.
Speeches -- United States.
Adams, John, 1735-1826
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Fields, Annie, 1834-1915
Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902
Greenwood, Grace, 1823-1904
Hale, Edward Everett, Sr., 1822-1909
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Modjeska, Helena, 1840-1909
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894
Atlantic Monthly Press.
Ticknor and Fields.

Box 1

Abbott - Alden

Scope and Contents

Box includes John Adams autograph bill for legal services to Thomas Pratt, 1767 October 14 (FI 5102).
Box 2

Aldrich - Allibone

Box 3

Allingham - Bassi

Box 4

Beal - Bowditch

Box 5

Black, Marie Therese (de Solms)

Box 6

Boyd - Brown, John

Box 7

Brown, John Appleton-Cable

Box 8

Cabot - Child

Box 9

Choate - Coleridge

Box 10

Collier - Collyer, Robert (1866-1906)

Box 11

Collyer, Robert (1907-1912) - Crawford

Box 12

Cross - Cushman

Box 13

D - Denison

Box 14

DeQuincy - Diaz

Box 15

Dickens-Dole

Box 16

Douglas - Emerson, Lidian

Box 17

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Everett

Box 18

Fairbanks - Fields, James T. (1838-1850)

Box 19

Fields, James T. (1851-1860)

Box 20

Fields, James T. (1861-1866)

Box 21

Fields, James T. (1867-1874)

Box 22

Fields, James T. (1875-1881) - Frothingham

Box 23

Furness - Gilder

Box 24

Giles - Gregory

Box 25

Griswold - Guiney, Louise Imogen (1884-1896, Aug. 5)

Box 26

Guiney, Louise Imogen (1896, Nov. 27-1914)

Box 27

Hale - Halleck

Box 28

Hamerton - Hayes

Box 29

Hazard - Hoffman

Box 30

Hogarth

Box 31

Holland - Holmes (to 1869)

Box 32

Holmes (1870-1894)

Box 33

Hone - Howe, Julia (Ward) (1852-after 1870)

Box 34

Howe, Julia (Ward) (1877-before 1911) - Howells, William Dean (1860-1878)

Box 35

Howells, William Dean (1879-1914) - Hugo

Box 36

Hunt - James, Henry

Box 37

James, Marian - Jusserand

Related Materials

See the Oversize folder for additional letters of Sarah Orne Jewett, [1911].
Box 38

Keller - Larcom, Lucy (1860-1880)

Box 39

Larcom, Lucy (1881-1893) - Leonowens, Anna (1873-1896)

Box 40

Leonowens, Anna (1900-1911) - Lippincott, Sara Jane (Clarke) (1848-1852)

Box 41

Lippincott, Sara Jane (Clarke) (1853-1855) - Long

Box 42

Longfellow, Alice - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworh (1845-1865)

Box 43

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1866-1874)

Box 44

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1875-1881) - Lowell, Charles

Box 45

Lowell, James Russell

Box 46

Lowell - Mazzini

Box 47

Merriman - Mitchell

Box 48

Mitford, John - Mitford, Mary Russell

Box 49

O'Brien - Parsons

Box 50

Modjeska - Novello

Box 51

Parton - Preston

Box 52

Prince - Putnam

Box 53

Quincy, Josiah - Reade, Charles (1855-1861)

Box 54

Reade, Charles (1862-1881) - Rich, Hiram

Box 55

Richards - Sala

Box 56

Santley - Stedman

Box 57

Stephen - Stoddard

Box 58

Storrs - Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Manuscripts

Box 59

Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Correspondence (1860-1867)

Box 60

Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Correspondence (1868-1884) - Sumner, Charles

Box 61

Sumner, George - Tesla

Scope and Contents

Box includes two autograph letters signed from William H. Taft to Annie Adams Fields, 1914 February? and 1914 March 10 (FI 4098, FI 4099).
Box 62

Thackeray - Thaxter, Celia (Laighton) (1861-1881)

Box 63

Thaxter, Celia (Laighton) (1882-1890) - Trowbridge

Box 64

Tuckerman - Warner, Charles Dudley (1880-1894)

Box 65

Warner, Charles Dudley (1895-1900) - Waterfield

Box 66

Waterson - Welby

Box 67

Whipple - Whitney, Adeline Dutton (Train)

Box 68

Whitney, Anne - Whittier, John Greenfleaf (1843-1862)

Box 69

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1863-1868)

Box 70

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1869-1881)

Box 71

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1882-1886)

Box 72

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1887-before 1893) - Wills

Box 73

Wilson - Woodberry, George Edward (1889-1910)

Box 74

Woodberry, George Edward (1911-before 1915) - Worcester; anonymous; ephemera

Folder Oversize folder

Jewett, Sarah Orne. [Proof sheets for Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett, 4 pp.], [1911] FI 5637

Envelope 1

Miscellaneous items

 

Fields, James C. Anniversary Poem delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, November 15, 1848 FI 5097

General

Volume.
 

Souvenir reconnaissant … December 1893-April 1894 FI 5098

General

Volume.
 

[Leaf from a choir book, Italy, 15th century] FI 5099

General

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bole, Jr., December 1978. Transferred from Rare Books, March 1979.
 

[Leaf from a missal: Mass for the Sunday following the octave of Epiphany, Italy, 15th century] FI 5100

General

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bole, Jr., December 1978. Transferred from Rare Books, March 1979.
 

"Who shall be Judge?" [poem with pencil drawings of birds, approximately 1870?] FI 5310

General

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bole, Jr., December 1978. Trasnffered from Rare Books, March 1979.
 

To James T. Fields [poem, before 1881] FI 5308

General

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bole, Jr., December 1978. Removed from autograph album no. 2
 

"Welcome, oh brother! To our household meeting--" [poem, approximately 1860?] FI 5309

General

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bole, Jr., December 1978. Removed from autograph album
 

Bradley, William Aspenwall. To Mrs. Annie Fields [poem, before 1915] FI 5117

General

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bole, Jr., December 1978. Transferred from Rare Books, March 1979.
 

[Thackeray, William Makepeace]. [The Roundabout Papers: No. 1, On a lazy idle bay, 1860] FAC 1015

General

Photocopy. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bole, Jr., December 1978. Transferred from Rare Books, March 1979.
Volume 1

The Hogarth-Fields Letters

General

Volume with copies of typescript correspondence. Signed by K.T. Fielding, Edinburgh, 1989.