ContentsScope and Contents of the Collection
Incoming Correspondence, A - C 1833 - 45 Incoming Correspondence, D - H 1836 - 52 |
G. & C. Merriam Company CollectionFinding AidFinding aid prepared by Zoe Kiefer, AC 2005.© 2007
Historical NoteBooksellers in Springfield, Massachusetts, George and Charles Merriam owned and operated a successful press that sold a variety of publications. The most well-known and popular of these was Webster's Dictionary, on which the Merriam brothers bought the copyright in 1845 from the firm J. S. & C. Adams, which had purchased it after Webster's death in 1843. Today the Company exists as Merriam-Webster; it continues to publish editions of Merriam-Webster's Dictionary. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionThe collection consists of 30 business letters written to George and Charles Merriam from 1833-1852. Letters are from people associated with Amherst College and the town of Amherst: J. L. H. Adams; Amherst College, Committee for the Sophomore Class; W. H. Beaman; Rev. L. Coleman; Simeon Colton; Edward Dickinson; N. S. Dickinson; George H. Gould; William S. Howland; William W. Hunt; H. B. Nims; William Randall Palmer; E. N. Stores; Martin A. Tinker; W. W. Whipple; and Samuel N. White. Return to the Table of Contents Arrangement of the CollectionThe collection is arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. Return to the Table of Contents
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