Publishers and publishing
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
George Wilson Publishing Accounts Payable List
Collection
Identifier: MS-2768
Abstract
This folder contains a list of accounts payable from June to October 1801 to East Tennessee publisher George Wilson of George Wilson Publishing. Wilson, as partner to George Raulston, was the publisher of the Knoxville Gazette. After the partnership dissolved, Wilson moved to Jonesborough to start his own newspaper, The Washington Newspaper and Advertiser, which was established in 1803. Items on the list include: whiskey and workmen, gate and...
Dates:
1801 June-October
Sir Samuel White Baker Letters and Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MS-3695
Abstract
This collection contains a letter from Sir Samuel Baker to his publisher, Mr. Macmillan. In the letter, Baker addresses Macmillan’s negotiations with Hachette for French translations of two of his books, and selects The Albert N’Yanza Great Basin of the Nile; And Exploration of the Nile Sources (1866), to be sent first to the Emperor. The collection also includes a letter from Florence Baker, Baker’s wife, detailing her nearing departure from London to Constantinople...
Dates:
1867-1878, undated