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2 unusual facts about Ticknor and Fields


Alice Mary Longfellow

She maintained friendships with the wives of some of her father's friends, such as Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, the wife of the natural historian and Harvard professor Louis Agassiz, and Annie Adams Fields, the wife of her father's publisher, James Thomas Fields of Ticknor and Fields.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In 1880, Ticknor and Fields and Houghton and Mifflin merged their operations, combining the literary works of writers with the expertise of a publisher and creating a new partnership named Houghton, Mifflin and Company.



see also

Arithmometer

Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit, p 37-39, Ticknor and Fields, 1984