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Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Jan 19, 1850
Greenwood has not received an answer from Fields for some time now. She will send the corrected copy of Greenwood Leaves within the next two days. Greenwood states that she would not publish a new volume in the spring if there is no demand for a…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Jan 28, 1850
Greenwood has sent Fields the corrected copy of Greenwood Leaves and hopes he will amend the errors. She has contacted the artist Seth Cheney to commission her portrait but has not received a reply yet. She asks Fields to attend to the matter should…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Jan 29, 1850
Greenwood asks Fields to correct an omitted line in the book.
Credit
Huntington Library, James Thomas Fields Papers and Addenda
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Jan 3, 1854
Greenwood provides Fields with a list of names and addresses he should send copies to in her place. Fields should sign the copies going across the sea with "with regards from the author."
Credit
Huntington Library, James Thomas Fields Papers and…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Jan 4, 1850
Greenwood is anxious to know how the book sale is going. She has some pending payments which is why she is anxious to know whether the book will profit her at all before she starts working on another book line. Fields should send a new supply of…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, July 19, [1853]
Greenwood has been ill with bronchitis and cannot travel yet but hopes to sail by the "America" on August 6th. She asks him to forward the enclosed notes.
Credit
Huntington Library, James Thomas Fields Papers and Addenda
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, July 25, 1851
Greenwood is saddened by the death of Eliza and offers Fields her condolences. She regrets not having known her better and describes her as "a [quite] and amiable being" and bearing "an atmosphere of love like a light perfume of…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, June 6, 1851
Greenwood is ready to send Fields the copy for the new collection. He can start printing as soon as he receives the last story when it has been published in the Era. If there is too much material he may omit the first nine letters and a sketch or an…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Mar 1, 1850
Greenwood still has not received the books, which Fields was supposed to send her, and has been waiting on his response regarding Cheney's picture. She inquires of Fields about a piano which he should commission for her from Chickering or…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Mar 3, 1854
Greenwood informs Fields about how he should take the medicine for nausea as prescribed by Dr. Laurie.Dickens awaits Haps and Mishaps with "friendly interest." She has not heard of Ticknor for some time and asks Fields to find poetry for The Little…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, May 20, 1849
Greenwood trusts Fields to do what he thinks best about the volume until she reaches Boston by the end of June. Whittier agrees with Fields in regards to the name of the work. Greenwood has recently come off the sickbed after overexerting herself…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, May 21, 1854
Greenwood has sent a package for the Bennochs on Saturday and asks Fields to forward it. She wonders why Mr. Ticknor will not write about her book and whether the Fields will attend Mrs. Mowatt's wedding.
Credit
Huntington Library, James Thomas…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Nov 1, 1853
Greenwood asks Fields for more money because she wants to make a few purchases "necessary [...] to keep up a respectable bridal appearance." She does not want to ask her husband as he is busy with The Little Pilgrim.Greenwood informs Fields that she…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Nov 11, 1848
Greenwood is dissatisfied with Fields' previous hastily written letter as he forgot to refer to her concerns regarding the publishing of her poems. She is still intent on publishing her poems in a separate volume and asks Fields to solely publish her…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Nov 14, 1849
Greenwood recounts Mr. Whipple's visit to Lynn.Mr. Phillips also left for California last March and has since left his friends anxious about his lack of contact. But a few weeks prior they heard the good news of him being on a…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Nov 15, [1853]
Greenwood still has not received the proof and Fields also has not answered her question regarding the address on the subscriber list. He should ask Mr. Ticknor if he can acquire some storybooks for her.Greenwood compliments Fields' poem which she…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Nov 21, 1853
Greenwood informs Fields that she sent a cake by express. It should have been posted much sooner but she has been "so excessively busy." The box, in which the cake is contained, is a rather tight fit so Fields should handle the cake carefully.…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Nov 30, [1854]
Greenwood informs Fields that she will send half of the proof by mail that night and the rest the following day.
Credit
Huntington Library, James Thomas Fields Papers and Addenda
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Nov 6, 1853
Greenwood thanks Fields for the money he has sent her and apologizes for the delay of the corrected proof. She intends to take Fields' advice regarding agents and aims to compile a volume from the articles published in The Little Pilgrim at the close…
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Oct 17, 1849
Greenwood has recovered from her "brief, yet serious illness." She hopes to correct the poof in an intelligible manner and asks whether she is supposed to write the preface soon. She met a friend of Fields, Mr. Peabody of Portsmouth, who heavily…
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