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- catalog abstract "Primarily contracts of the publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, but also includes some from its predecessors: Hurd and Houghton (1864-1878); Houghton, Osgood and Company (1878-1880); Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1880-1908). Correspondence is between the publisher and the authors, or their representatives or contractors. Houghton, Mifflin and Company editors and staff include: C. W. Bramhall, James Thomas Fields, Ferris Greenslet, Franklin Sherman Hoyt, George Harrison Mifflin, E. C. Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Roger Livingston Scaife, and Horace Elisha Scudder. Authors include: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Willa Cather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Francis Jackson Garrison, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), William Dean Howells, Henry James, Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Mary Noailles Murfree, Scott O'Dell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, and many others. Files include book and journal contracts, along with related materials such as: copyright renewals, assignment of copyrights, copyright certificates, copyright cards, copyright deposit receipts, purchase orders, title pages, correspondence and interoffice memoranda, option agreements, and literary scout agreements. Correspondence and interoffice memoranda usually concern the fate of printing plates, royalties, remaindering of books and authors' estates and executorships. Documents and correspondence about wills and estates are noted. Also includes business records (disposal of printing plates, remainders, royalties), non-book contracts, and occasionally correspondence not related to contracts.".
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- catalog date "1831".
- catalog description "After a series of changes, the original company of Ticknor and Fields evolved into Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The succession of corporate names was as follows: Allen and Ticknor (1832-1834); William D. Ticknor (1834-1843); William D. Ticknor and Co. (1843-1849); Ticknor, Reed and Fields (1849-1854); Ticknor and Fields (1854-1868); Fields, Osgood and Co. (1868-1871); James R. Osgood and Co. (1871-1878); Houghton, Osgood and Co. (1878-1880); Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (1880-1908). In 1908 the company changed from a partnership to a corporation as the Houghton Mifflin Company. The company became publicly owned in 1967 and was purchased by the French conglomerate, Vivendi Universal SA, in 2001. In 2002 it was acquired by Thomas H. Lee, Bain Capital, and the Blackstone Group.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00239".
- catalog description "Files include book and journal contracts, along with related materials such as: copyright renewals, assignment of copyrights, copyright certificates, copyright cards, copyright deposit receipts, purchase orders, title pages, correspondence and interoffice memoranda, option agreements, and literary scout agreements. Correspondence and interoffice memoranda usually concern the fate of printing plates, royalties, remaindering of books and authors' estates and executorships. Documents and correspondence about wills and estates are noted. Also includes business records (disposal of printing plates, remainders, royalties), non-book contracts, and occasionally correspondence not related to contracts.".
- catalog description "Houghton Mifflin Company Contracts (MS Am 2346). Houghton Library, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts, traces its roots back to the firm of Ticknor and Fields, the premier "literary" publishing house in the United States during the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ticknor and Fields originated in the firm of Allen and Ticknor, established in 1832. The partners in Ticknor and Fields were William D. Ticknor (one of the partners in Allen and Ticknor) and James T. Fields, who entered the firm as a junior partner in 1843. Henry Oscar Houghton began as a printer in Cambridge, Mass. and established H. O. Houghton and Co. in 1852. Houghton's printing establishment on the Charles River in Cambridge was known as the Riverside Press. In 1864 he formed a publishing partnership in the firm of Hurd and Houghton. In 1878 the business merged with James R. Osgood and Co. as Houghton, Osgood and Co.".
- catalog description "Primarily contracts of the publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, but also includes some from its predecessors: Hurd and Houghton (1864-1878); Houghton, Osgood and Company (1878-1880); Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1880-1908). Correspondence is between the publisher and the authors, or their representatives or contractors. Houghton, Mifflin and Company editors and staff include: C. W. Bramhall, James Thomas Fields, Ferris Greenslet, Franklin Sherman Hoyt, George Harrison Mifflin, E. C. Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Roger Livingston Scaife, and Horace Elisha Scudder. Authors include: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Willa Cather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Francis Jackson Garrison, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), William Dean Howells, Henry James, Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Mary Noailles Murfree, Scott O'Dell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, and many others.".
- catalog description "Unpublished printed finding aid available in the Houghton Reading Room and in the Houghton Accessions Records, 1986-1987, under *86M-113.".
- catalog extent "36 boxes (48 linear ft.)".
- catalog hasFormat "Selected color digital images available; see finding aid.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Selected color digital images available; see finding aid.".
- catalog issued "1831".
- catalog language "In English.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog relation "Selected color digital images available; see finding aid.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Allen & Ticknor.".
- catalog subject "American literature 19th century.".
- catalog subject "American literature 20th century.".
- catalog subject "American poetry 19th century.".
- catalog subject "American poetry 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Authors and publishers 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Authors and publishers 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Book proposals.".
- catalog subject "Book registration, National.".
- catalog subject "Copyright United States.".
- catalog subject "Fields, Osgood and Company.".
- catalog subject "H.O. Houghton & Company.".
- catalog subject "Houghton Mifflin Company.".
- catalog subject "Houghton, Mifflin and Company.".
- catalog subject "Houghton, Osgood, and Company.".
- catalog subject "Hurd & Houghton.".
- catalog subject "James R. Osgood and Company.".
- catalog subject "Publishers and publishing.".
- catalog subject "Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.)".
- catalog subject "Ticknor and Fields.".
- catalog subject "Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.".
- catalog subject "William D. Ticknor & Co.".
- catalog title "Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive), 1880-1940 (bulk).".
- catalog type "Bookkeeping records. aat".
- catalog type "Business records. aat".
- catalog type "Contracts. aat".
- catalog type "Copyright certificates. aat".
- catalog type "Royalty statements. aat".
- catalog type "Wills. aat".
- catalog type "text".