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Lettre autographe signée de George Ticknor
Boston, 2 juillet 1833
1 p. in-4
LETTRE À LAFAYETTE DE L’UN DES PLUS GRANDS PROFESSEURS DE
LITTÉRATUREEUROPÉENNEAUXÉTATS-UNIS, L’UNDESPREMIERSBIBLIOPHILES
AMÉRICAINS DONT LES LIVRES SONT AUJOURD’HUI CONSERVÉS À LA BOSTON
PUBLIC LIBRARY
“I ask your kindness for two of my most respected friends and of our most valuable fellow citizens :
- Hon[orable] Jonathan Phillips & the Rev. Dr. Joseph Tuckerman. Dr Tuckerman has been for
years employed in examining the great political and moral questions connected with
pauperism
and now enjoy an influence and consideration on that subject second to no person in the United
States. - Mr Phillips is one of our wealthiest most intellectual and most philantropics Bostonians”...
George Ticknor (1791-1871) was an American academician and Hispanist. He
is known for his scholarly work on the history and criticism of Spanish literature.
Between 1815 and 1819, he spent his time in Europe, became
Smith
professor of
French and Spanish languages and literatures, and professor of belles-lettres at
Harvard University
. In 1819 he returned to the United States, bringing with him his
valuable library which became one of the largest and unsurpassed private collections
in America. He was one of the first in America to enter into a critical analysis of such
writers as Dante, Goethe, Milton, and Shakespeare. He also left his own collection of
books to the
Boston Public Library
, after it was famously turned down by
Harvard
.
Joseph Tuckerman (1778-1840) was a Unitarian minister widely known in his time for
his labor for poor’s and for his advocacy of social and political reforms on their behalf.
He became known as the “father of American social work.”
RÉFÉRENCE : George Ticknor était un correspondant régulier de Lafayette qui lui écrivit dix lettres
dont neuf sont conservées à la
Baker Library, Dartmouth College Archives
(cf. Gottschalk,
Guide
)
2 500 / 3 500
€
George Ticknor
, 1831. Par Thomas Sully.
Hood Museum of Art