I. INTRODUCTORY.
Surrounded by the portraits of those I have long counted
my friends, I like to chat with the people about me
concerning these pictures, my companions on the wall,
and the men and wome...
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James Thomas Fields, poet, editor, and publisher, was born the son of a ship's captain at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His father died when he was two and he and his younger brother George were raised b...
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James T. Fields was the preeminent publisher of American and British literature in the United States at a time when Boston proclaimed itself capital of literary culture in the nation, and American wri...
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James Thomas Fields