Henry Charles Carey correspondence [Letters to and from Charles Jared Ingersoll 1846, Box 2, Folder 8]

Henry Charles Carey correspondence [Letters to and from Charles Jared Ingersoll 1846, Box 2, Folder 8]

Books and Bookselling--19th Century

Booksellers and bookselling -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Economics--19th century

Publishers and publishing

Publishers and Publishing--Philadelphia--19th century

Publishing--19th century

Publishing.

Selling--Books.

This collection consists of Carey's incoming letters as well as some copies of his outgoing letters. There are 390 letters total with 132 different correspondents represented. The letters are organized alphabetically by correspondent. The incoming letters date from the time around the publication of his work, The Past, the Present, and the Future (1848), and are from various publishers, printers, colleagues, friends, and family members. They discuss not only his work but also some of his economic and political philosophies. Some letters concern St. Clair, a coal tract in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, of which he had holdings.

Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

[1846]

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