[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée de George Ticknor Boston, 2 juillet 1833 1 p. in-4
Estimation :
2500 / 3500
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
LETTRE À LAFAYETTE DE L’UN DES PLUS GRANDS PROFESSEURS DE LITTÉRATURE EUROPÉENNE AUX ÉTATS-UNIS, L’UN DES PREMIERS BIBLIOPHILES 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)
