James T. Fields
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James Thomas Fields was an American publisher, editor, and poet. His business, Ticknor and Fields, was a notable publishing house in 19th century Boston.
James Thomas Fields, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron, circa 1869
Fields, circa 1855
Fields retired from his publishing company in 1871 to focus on lecturing and writing.
Grave of James T. Fields at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
James T. Fields
…Mr. Fields establish literary salons at their home at 37 Charles Street in Boston, where they entertained many well-known writers. One such writer was Nathaniel Hawthorne. After Hawthorne's death in 1864, Fields served as a pallbearer for his funeral alongside Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell…
Hawthorne in the 1860s
Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Charles Osgood, 1841 (Peabody Essex Museum)
Nathaniel Hawthorne's childhood home in Raymond, Maine, built in 1804
Boston Custom House, Custom House Street, where Hawthorne worked c. 1839–40