Manuscripts

Manuscripts and documents (unbound)

Description: This box contains FK 1278-1289, HM 7227-7230, HM 18866-18872; and HM 18892-18895.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1850-1901.
Call number: mssFK
Creator: Fiske, John (1842-1901)(Opens in new tab)
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,)

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Manuscripts

This box contains miscellaneous ephemera including fragments of Fiske writings, envelopes, visiting cards and other cards, copies of manuscripts and correspondence (for which the originals are held by the Huntington Library), newspaper clippings, including those related to the marriage of President Grover Cleveland, etc., 1887, Cleveland and the tariff, 1888, and the protective tariff, and newspaper clippings removed from HM 555, HM 560, HM 8260-8270, HM 13181, HM 13241-13256, and HM 13718-13758.

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Manuscripts, documents, and ephemera

Manuscripts

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. Some of the volumes have the bookplates of William Bixby and William F. Gable.

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John Fiske letters

Manuscripts

Letters to Henry Holt, approximately 1868-1896 (HM 24878-24916). Letters to Henry A. Richmond, 1881-1899 (HM 24917-24957). Letters to Edwin Ginn and Ginn & Co., 1886-1888 (HM 25385-25420). Letters to Thomas Henry Huxley (HM 13243-13257).

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John Fiske papers

Manuscripts

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.

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Volumes, Documents, Manuscripts and Correspondence (1843-1931)

Manuscripts

The collection consists of two boxes. Box 1: Volumes and Documents, approx. 1575-1822, HM 83505-83510; significant authors include Thomas Day, Francesco Dolce, Colin Mackenzie, and Giovam Batista Muzio. Box 2: Volumes, Documents, Manuscripts and Correspondence, 1843-1931, HM 83511-83529; significant authors and correspondents include John W. Ballantyne, Samuel W. Butler, Robert P. Harris, Richard H. Horne, William T. Howard, Madame Viviane Jeannin, William G. MacCallum, Edward E. Mackenzie, James W. Mandigo, Richard Owen, Francis R. Packard, George C. Peachey, William S. Playfair, J. Whitridge Williams, and Leroy M. Yale.

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