Item 52: Photocopy of Letter from J.W. Masone to Walter Hilliard Bidwell, editor of the Eclectic Magazine for Foreign Literature, Art, and Science, 1846 December 12
Item — Box: 11, Folder: 52
Dates
- Created: 1846 December 12
Creator
- Masone, J.W. (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Photocopy, Letter/Correspondence
Condition Note:
Excellent.
Measurements:
11 in. x 8 ½ in.
Description:
This is a photocopy of a letter from J.W. Masone to Walter Hilliard on December 12, 1846. This letter is regarding finding information about people who haven’t paid for their subscription to Eclectic Magazine, Mrs. Martha Dwight Sturdevant and Luther Kidder. The note mentions that their accounts have lapsed possibly because no one has called on them yet.
The recipient of this letter, Walter Bidwell, was born in Connecticut in 1798. Bidwell became a prominent magazine editor for many different magazines.
Luther Kidder was born in Waterford, Connecticut on November 19, 1808. The family moved to Wilkes Barre, current day Kidder Township, Carbon County, where Kidder read and studied law. He graduated from Dickinson college, receiving an honorary Master of Arts degree in 1842. He was elected to the Pennsylvania senate in 1842 and later the president judge of Carbon County in 1847.
Location:
New York; Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Transcription:
New York Dec 12 1846
Dr. Sir
I enclose receipt for two years subscription to Eclectic Magazine with one but thanks for being remembered at this time.
We have two subscribers at Wilkes Barre who for ought we know are perfectly good as yourself - tho not so mindful of us. Their accounts have been permitted to face in anear, for reason perhaps that we have had no collector to call on them.
They are- Mrs. M.D. Sturdivant
+ L. Kidder.
The latter we have supposed to be Judge Kidder tho we are not sure of it - the former we know nothing about
If not asking too much, we will be much obliged if you will give us the best information you have as to them resformibility and Handing - We dont ask you to “bear virtue against your neighbor, but we like to know who our sub are
We once addressed a note to each, but probably this -
Careful nep -they omitted to answer-
Please drop us a line in reply-
Yours do-
J.W. Masone
for W. H. Bidwill
Creator
- Masone, J.W. (Person)
Repository Details
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu