Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe, [Andover, Massachusetts], to Phillips, Sampson & Company, [1856] July 13

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Title:
Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe, [Andover, Massachusetts], to Phillips, Sampson & Company, [1856] July 13
Description:
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes to Mr. Phillips of Phillips, Sampson & Company in regards to her publishing deadline for her next anti-slavery novel "Dred." She writes, "Between now & the 30th are only about 12 working days-I cannot calculate on producing more than 20 pages of manuscript a day." She requests a half a dozen more bottles of Catawba to "support the hot weather & the long pull." A second letter is written Monday morning by Calvin Ellis Stowe requesting more time to finish the novel and dividing it into two volumes.
Author:
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Addressee:
Phillips, Sampson & Company
Date:
[July 13, 1856]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Women educators--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Publishers and publishing
Women educators--United States
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Stowe, C. E. (Calvin Ellis), 1802-1886
Phillips, Sampson & Company
Extent:
1 leaf (6 p.) ; 21 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z1116379
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Andover, Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
There is no year on this manuscript, however, Harriet is discussing the publishing deadline for her next book, Dred, which was published in August of 1856, so I have deduced that this was written in July of 1856.
Included is an engraving of Harriet Beecher Stowe by T. Johnson from a photograph by Sarony.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5144401
Call #:
MS Ch B 5.73
Barcode:
39999086049663