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| Scott Number | 1 |
|---|---|
| Date | March 14, 1850 |
| From City | New York |
| From State | NY |
| To City | Providence |
| To State | RI |
| Addressee | J. R. Bartlett |
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| Fake | |
| Quantity 1 | 1 |
| Quantity 2 | 0 |
| Bisect | |
| Others | 6LB11 |
Notes
Lot 2293 #28 5c red brown tied together with US Mail Carrier 1c buff #6LB11 by red square grid, New York to Providence, superb (E. S. K. notes The Carrier took it to the Post Office.)
Parke-Bernet sale 282 May 10 1941 (Knapp) realized 41
Alexander listed as 3/14/50 addressed to J R Bartlett.
Letter addressed to James Russell Bartlett (1805-1886). Bartlett moved to New York City in 1836, where he became a partner in the dry goods commission house of Jesup, Swift and Company. In 1840 he and his friend Charles Welford started the bookselling and publishing firm of Bartlett and Welford which was located in the Astor House hotel on the west side of Broadway between Vesey and Barclay streets. The firm, which was known for its large stock of foreign books, issued five catalogs between 1840 and 1848. While in New York, he became friends with a number of leading intellectuals, including the ethnologist and public servant Albert Gallatin. In 1842, he helped Gallatin found the American Ethnological Society. Bartlett later served as the Foreign Corresponding Secretary of the organization.
Bartlett is known in the field of lexicography for his Dictionary of Americanisms (1848), a pioneering work that, although supplanted by later dialect studies, is still of value to students of language and remains a valuable contribution to the subject. Bartlett returned to Providence in 1850.
Parke-Bernet sale 282 May 10 1941 (Knapp) realized 41
Alexander listed as 3/14/50 addressed to J R Bartlett.
Letter addressed to James Russell Bartlett (1805-1886). Bartlett moved to New York City in 1836, where he became a partner in the dry goods commission house of Jesup, Swift and Company. In 1840 he and his friend Charles Welford started the bookselling and publishing firm of Bartlett and Welford which was located in the Astor House hotel on the west side of Broadway between Vesey and Barclay streets. The firm, which was known for its large stock of foreign books, issued five catalogs between 1840 and 1848. While in New York, he became friends with a number of leading intellectuals, including the ethnologist and public servant Albert Gallatin. In 1842, he helped Gallatin found the American Ethnological Society. Bartlett later served as the Foreign Corresponding Secretary of the organization.
Bartlett is known in the field of lexicography for his Dictionary of Americanisms (1848), a pioneering work that, although supplanted by later dialect studies, is still of value to students of language and remains a valuable contribution to the subject. Bartlett returned to Providence in 1850.
