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Start Over Repository Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division Subject Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence Subject Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence Year 1870

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George Augustus Sala Correspondence, 1857-1890 (inclusive) 1857-1894 (bulk)

Extent:
4 boxes and 1.75 linear feet
Abstract:
George Augustus Sala was a nineteenth-century English journalist, artist, book illustrator, traveler, humorist, and novelist. The collection contains approximately 300 letters written to Sala by about 200 different people over the course of 40 years. Among the correspondents are prominent authors, journalists, artists, nobility, philanthropists, and other notables.

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William Tinsley Publishing Correspondence, 1866-1889 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box, 2 items, and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:
The Tinsley brothers, Edward (1833-1866) and William (1831-1902), set up in the book trade business around 1854. They focused mainly on publishing fiction for the popular lending libraries, and specialized in luxuriously bound three-volume novels. Consists of 77 letters, 1866-1889, received by the Tinsley Brothers publishing firm of London, England.

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