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Webster : an ode ... 1782-1852
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
125110
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Manuscripts
The majority of the collection is made of up correspondence by Fiske and his family. It includes letters by his mother Mary Fiske Bound Green Stoughton. There are several letters written to Fiske's step-father E. W. Stoughton. Prominent participants in the collection include: editor George S. Hellman, writer and literary critic William Dean Howells, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State Daniel Webster, Charles Francis Adams, artist James E. Taylor, Reverend Samuel Longfellow, artist Carl L. Brandt, and artist Albert Bierstadt. There are letters by Secretary of State William M. Evarts appointing Edwin Stoughton as minister to Russia (1877) and the letter accepting Stoughton's resignation from that position (1879). Subjects include: Fiske and his work and writings, Ignatius Donnelly, Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, Prince Kropotkin, and the assassination of Alexander II in 1881.
mssFiske addenda
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Manuscripts
1 item. Facsimile from New York Historical Society.
mssHM 35183