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YESTERDAYS WITH AUTHORS
By
JAMES T. FIELDS.

"Was it not yesterday we spoke together?"--SHAKESPEARE
Seventeenth Edition
BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1879
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,
BY JAMES T. FIELDS,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington

University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge.
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INSCRIBED
TO MY FELLOW-MEMBERS OF
THE SATURDAY CLUB.
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Preface to the Project Gutenberg Edition.
James Fields (1817-1881) at age 14 became a clerk in a bookstore in
Boston, and in a few years became a partner in the bookselling firm of
Ticknor, Reed and Fields.
Fields's firm became the publisher for most of the great American
writers of the Nineteenth Century. In this book, Fields tells how he
persuaded a jobless, despondent Nathaniel Hawthorne to let him print
"The Scarlet Letter.
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