<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<item xmlns="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5" itemId="766" public="1" featured="0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5 http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5/omeka-xml-5-0.xsd" uri="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/766?output=omeka-xml" accessDate="2026-10-04T14:59:24+00:00">
  <fileContainer>
    <file fileId="710">
      <src>https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/d71e50fe39df0a497de3ea55e7a25519.pdf</src>
      <authentication>52cb351f78a2cd05fe909f55d5bd14cd</authentication>
    </file>
  </fileContainer>
  <collection collectionId="3">
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="8913">
                <text>Gossip Columns and Columnists</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="8914">
                <text>The collection stores items related to the question of how gossip was talked about, referenced, and used in nineteenth-century periodicals. It showcases letters, diaries, articles, auto/biographical accounts of relevant journalists as well as exemplary gossip columns and articles. &lt;br /&gt;Visit the &lt;a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/sources/archives/"&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; of archives from which the archival sources were derived.&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/4a92a43e5ed873676c0588fd6cc4326f.JPG"&gt;&lt;img title="Item Locations" alt="Item Locations" src="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/4a92a43e5ed873676c0588fd6cc4326f.JPG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="469" height="324.5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/"&gt;Palladio&lt;/a&gt; visualization, location of items in collection, size nodes)&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </collection>
  <itemType itemTypeId="18">
    <name>Letter</name>
    <description>A resource containing textual messages sent from one person to another or one person to many people.</description>
    <elementContainer>
      <element elementId="19">
        <name>From</name>
        <description>The name and email address of the person sending the email</description>
        <elementTextContainer>
          <elementText elementTextId="10003">
            <text>Lippincott, Sara Jane (pseudonym: Grace Greenwood), 1832-1904</text>
          </elementText>
        </elementTextContainer>
      </element>
      <element elementId="20">
        <name>To</name>
        <description>The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent</description>
        <elementTextContainer>
          <elementText elementTextId="10004">
            <text>Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881</text>
          </elementText>
        </elementTextContainer>
      </element>
      <element elementId="4">
        <name>Location</name>
        <description>The location of the interview</description>
        <elementTextContainer>
          <elementText elementTextId="10035">
            <text>Lynn, MA, US</text>
          </elementText>
        </elementTextContainer>
      </element>
      <element elementId="62">
        <name>Geocode (Latitude)</name>
        <description/>
        <elementTextContainer>
          <elementText elementTextId="10036">
            <text>42.466763</text>
          </elementText>
        </elementTextContainer>
      </element>
      <element elementId="63">
        <name>Geocode (Longitude)</name>
        <description/>
        <elementTextContainer>
          <elementText elementTextId="10037">
            <text>-70.949493</text>
          </elementText>
        </elementTextContainer>
      </element>
      <element elementId="1">
        <name>Text</name>
        <description>Any textual data included in the document</description>
        <elementTextContainer>
          <elementText elementTextId="11200">
            <text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;[page 1] Dear Mr. Fields.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Anna Phillips and I are very anxious to hear Jenny Lind sing on one of her last nights. are you as Mr. Ticknor going on Friday or Saturday night?— If so will you take charge of us. If not will you find out if Whipple, &lt;u&gt;King&lt;/u&gt; [inserted] or any other acquaintance of ours is going, who will consent to bear us there. and will you get us tickets&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;We do not wish to give more than three dollars if tickets can be purchased for that.— Now do help us, poor parlour damsels in this matter. do if you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;[page 2] wish any more Christmas books written in a style suited to your years and understanding. if you wish proof corrected promptly. if you wish the illustrations house of J. R. &amp;amp; Jr. to be glorified by the pen and patronage of. Yours truly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Grace&lt;br /&gt;P.S.— Let me hear from you as soon as possible So that if you cannot help me I can call on some other friend. the Lord knows who!—Dont [sic] say I bore you. When I am a poet and publisher in town and you "a poor lone, lorn [?]". girl in the country, I'll do as much for you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Love to Ticknor. Grace&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;[page 3] 2nd P.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Of course you have heard that Jenny is to sing on Friday &amp;amp; Saturday night over the +++ +++.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
          </elementText>
        </elementTextContainer>
      </element>
    </elementContainer>
  </itemType>
  <elementSetContainer>
    <elementSet elementSetId="1">
      <name>Dublin Core</name>
      <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="50">
          <name>Title</name>
          <description>A name given to the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="9998">
              <text>Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Oct 9, 1850</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="41">
          <name>Description</name>
          <description>An account of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="9999">
              <text>&lt;span&gt;Greenwood and Anna Phillips want to attend Jenny Lind's concert. She asks Fields whether he knows of any acquaintances who would accompany them and whether he could purchase the tickets for them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Credit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#13;
&lt;a href="https://www.huntington.org/"&gt;Huntington Library&lt;/a&gt;, James Thomas Fields Papers and Addenda</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="39">
          <name>Creator</name>
          <description>An entity primarily responsible for making the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="10000">
              <text>Lippincott, Sara Jane (pseudonym: Grace Greenwood), 1832-1904</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="48">
          <name>Source</name>
          <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="10001">
              <text>Huntington, JTFP, Box 40, FI 1771</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="51">
          <name>Type</name>
          <description>The nature or genre of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="10002">
              <text>Reference</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="40">
          <name>Date</name>
          <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="10023">
              <text>1850-10-09</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="43">
          <name>Identifier</name>
          <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="10024">
              <text>0766</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="49">
          <name>Subject</name>
          <description>The topic of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11394">
              <text>Lippincott, Sara Jane (pseudonym: Grace Greenwood), 1832-1904</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="11395">
              <text>Arts--Literature</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="11396">
              <text>Gender Norms</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="11397">
              <text>Finances</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="11398">
              <text>Social Events</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="11428">
              <text>Humor</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="19363">
              <text>Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </elementSet>
  </elementSetContainer>
  <tagContainer>
    <tag tagId="11">
      <name>financial concerns</name>
    </tag>
    <tag tagId="12">
      <name>gender norms/bending</name>
    </tag>
    <tag tagId="43">
      <name>humor</name>
    </tag>
    <tag tagId="13">
      <name>social capital</name>
    </tag>
  </tagContainer>
</item>
