Manuscripts
John Fiske papers
- Description
The collection contains papers and correspondence of John Fiske. Included are manuscripts and proof sheets of his books, articles, lectures and other works on history, theology, and education, his literary works, musical compositions, and some documents. The professional and personal correspondence includes letters from Fiske to his wife Abby Morgan Fiske, mother Mary Fiske Bound Green Stoughton, Henry Holt, Henry A. Richmond, James Grant Wilson, and others. There are also letters to Fiske's step-father E. W. Stoughton.
- Date
- 1850-1901
- Call number
- mssFK
- Provenance
- Purchased from Godspeed in the 1920's.
- Purchased from Mrs Otis D. Fisk, 1955.
- Associated people
- Bixby, William K. (1857-1931,)
- Darwin, Charles, (1809-1882.)
- Fiske, Abby Morgan, (1856-1921,)
- Gable, William F., (1840-1926,)
- Holt, Henry, (1825-1895.)
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, (1840-1913,)
- Richmond, Henry Augustus, (1820-1903.)
- Spencer, Herbert, (1818-1882,)
- Stoughton, E. W. (1832-1914,)
- Stoughton, Mary Fiske Bound Green,
- Wilson, James Grant,
