Benjamin H. Ticknor note to Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1889

Containers:
Box BW 27, Folder 2
Language:
English
Scope and content:

Benjamin Ticknor note to Alfred Lord Tennyson 1889 August 6 wishing Tennyson a happy anniversary and remarking it as also being his grandfather's birthday, William Davis Ticknor.

William Ticknor published Tennyson's first poems, and established the principle of international copyright forty seven years earlier. Ticknor was the first American publisher to pay foreign authors for the rights to their works, beginning with a check to Alfred Tennyson in 1842.

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