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Charles Mackay Correspondence

The collection consists of correspondence of editor Charles Mackay and publisherGeorge Routledge with major English and American authors and poets or theirrepresentatives, granting Mackay permission to include their work in hisillustrated poetry anthology The Home Affections Pourtrayed by the Poets (1858). Correspondents include William CullenBryant, Barry Cornwall, George Croly, Camilla Dufour Toulmin Crosland, SydneyDobell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Thomas Fields, Thomas Hood, Richard MoncktonMilnes Houghton, Leigh Hunt, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Samuel Lover, EdwardBulwer-Lytton, Gerald Massey, Edward Moxon, Coventry Patmore, Charles Swain,Alfred Lord Tennyson, Martin Tupper, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Attached to aletter from the American author and poet Grace Greenwood, dated March 23, 1857,is an autograph poem titled "Sunshine and Shadow." In addition, there are fourletters (1861-1872) written by Mackay on unrelated publishing business to fourunidentified persons. Collection includes computer printout, "Letters addressedto Charles Mackay and/or George Routledge for Mackay's anthology."