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© 2002 The President and Fellows of Harvard College
Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: b
Call No.: MS Am 1096
Creator: Mosher, Thomas Bird, 1852-1923.
Title: Papers,
Date(s): 1890-1939 (inclusive) 1895-1924 (bulk).
Quantity: 9 boxes (3 linear ft.)
Abstract: Correspondence of the American publisher Thomas Bird Mosher.
Mosher was a publisher of inexpensive but well-printed books devoted to belles lettres in Portland, Me. Many of these were reprints of English authors and caused him to be the subject of some controversy over piracy. He also edited and published The Bibelot (1895-1915), a monthly magazine reprinting "poetry and prose from scarce editions and sources not generally known."
Organized into the following series:
- I. Correspondence
- II. Other papers
Chiefly letters to Mosher, together with some copies of outgoing letters. Correspondents include Gordon Bottomley, Richard Burton, Charles Joseph Finger, Jeannette L. Gilder, Mitchell Kennerley, Lizette Woodworth Reese, and Charles Hanson Towne. Includes clippings and letters relating to the piracy controversy; and clippings and letters concerning the mock Italian opera Il Pesceballo by Francis James Child and James Russell Lowell.