Manuscripts
Letters of John Fiske as joint editor of Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography
- Description
97 letters. 88 letters are addressed to James Grant Wilson, editor, four to Rossiter Johnson, and three to J. W. Weidemeyer. The collection also contains one letter each from Octavius B. Frothingham and Alice A. Gray to Fiske.
- Date
- 1886-1888
- Call number
- HM 24781-24877
- 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,)
