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    Evert Augustus Duyckinck (pronounced DIE-KINK) (November 23, 1816 – August 13, 1878) was an American publisher and biographer. He was associated with the...
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  • Duyckinck (/ˌdaɪ.kiːŋk/) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1818–1878), American publisher and biographer...
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  • include: Evert van Aelst (1602–1657), Dutch still life painter Evert Andersen (1772–1809), Norwegian naval officer Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1816–1878)...
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    price was estimated in 2014 at $12,500. On its publication, critic Evert Augustus Duyckinck, a friend of Hawthorne's, said he preferred the author's Washington...
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    Various Sources. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society. Duyckinck, Evert Augustus; Duyckinck, George Long (1856). "Biographical Anecdote of Benjamin Lay"...
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    he admired the "weird and subtle beauty" in Hawthorne's tales. Evert Augustus Duyckinck said of Hawthorne, "Of the American writers destined to live, he...
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    specifically to compete with a similar anthology by Cornelius Mathews and Evert Augustus Duyckinck. The prose collection earned Griswold a rivalry with the two men...
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  • ISBN 978-3-8460-4770-5. Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1855). Cyclopaedia of American literature, by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck. p. 49. Copleston, Frederick...
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    Monument Mountain south of Pittsfield with a group that also included Evert Augustus Duyckinck and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Melville and Hawthorne struck up...
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    linking religion, nature, and poetry, as well as social reform. Evert Augustus Duyckinck and others welcomed Lowell as part of Young America, a New York-based...
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    Knickerbocker called Typee "a piece of Münchhausenism." New York publisher Evert Augustus Duyckinck wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne that "it is a lively and pleasant...
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    patriot." After reading Twice-Told Tales, Herman Melville wrote to Evert Augustus Duyckinck that the stories weren't meaty enough. "Their deeper meanings are...
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  • Brigade", Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech Evert Augustus Duyckinck, History of the war for the union, civil, military & naval The...
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    she completed writing on her 34th birthday in 1844. The critic Evert Augustus Duyckinck called it "the only genuine book, I can think of, this season."...
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    rewrite Greek myths as early as 1846 when he outlined a book to Evert Augustus Duyckinck of stories "taken out of the cold moonshine of classical mythology...
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    Boston correspondent to The Literary World under Evert Augustus Duyckinck and George Long Duyckinck. Historian Perry Miller called Whipple "Boston's most...
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    Berkshires; in August 1850, for example, Holmes spent time with Evert Augustus Duyckinck, Cornelius Mathews, Herman Melville, James T. Fields and Nathaniel...
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    author was, on Poe's request, to stir up interest. Some, including Evert Augustus Duyckinck, presumed that the poem's author was Willis. The initial publication...
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    Brown; it went into three printings in Fuller's lifetime. Critic Evert Augustus Duyckinck called it "the only genuine book, I can think of, this season."...
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    Description of home Bits Of Harvard History by Samuel F. Batchelder Evert Augustus Duyckinck. Cyclopedia of American Literature, Vol.1, p. 127 p.6 Image of...
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    Long Duyckinck (October 17, 1823 – March 30, 1863) was a New York City writer. He was born on October 17, 1823, in New York City; his sibling was Evert Augustus...
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    had been published four years earlier. Another of the hikers, Evert Augustus Duyckinck, publisher of Hawthorne and friend of Melville, urged Melville...
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    own literary tradition. Other writers of the movement included Evert Augustus Duyckinck, Cornelius Mathews, It was Mathews that adopted the name for the...
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    Opera House was built by wealthy men and opened in 1847. Publisher Evert Augustus Duyckinck founded a private library at his 50 East Eighth Street home. Anne...
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    1, 1847. The weekly journal, which also included Evert Augustus Duyckinck and George Long Duyckinck, ceased publication in 1853. Under the strain of work...
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  • literature from 1847 to 1852". The editor for the first issues was Evert Augustus Duyckinck but was succeeded in May 1847 by Charles Fenno Hoffman. During...
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  • a weekly newspaper published by Libbey & Dennison. Evert Augustus Duyckinck; George Long Duyckinck, eds. (1856). "Joseph T. Buckingham". Cyclopaedia of...
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    Part 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 507–8. Evert Augustus Duyckinck; George Long Duyckinck (1856). Cyclopaedia of American literature. C. Scribner...
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    145 Nassau Street and 36 Park Row. Sources Duyckinck, Evert A., and George L. Duyckinck. "Henry Augustus Wise. Cyclopaedia of American Literature; Embracing...
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    1894, composed chiefly of books from James Lenox (~30,000 books), Evert Augustus Duyckinck (15,000 books), Felix Astoin (4,500 books), Joseph William Drexel...
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