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1865-1917.
Author(s): Fiske, John, 1842-1901.
Year: 1865-1917
Description: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.) 1 oversize box.
Language: English
Abstract: Collection consists of John Fiske's correspondence with various
persons about historical and philosophical writings, as well as letters
from various persons to his wife, Abbey (Brooks) Fiske. It also
includes Fiske's manuscripts on historical, theological, and
philosophical subjects, including The Bacon-Shakespeare folly,
Evolution of language, The Jesus of history, and various essays.
Also contains catalog cards of Fiske's library.
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Descriptor: Historians -- United States -- Archival resources.
Philosophers -- United States -- Archival resources.
Named Person: Fiske, John, 1842-1901 -- Archives.
Note(s): Bio/History: John Fiske was born Edmund Fisk Green on Mar. 30,
1842 in Hartford, CT; attended Betts Academy; graduated from
Harvard, 1863; married Abby Morgan Brooks in 1864; lecturer in
history beginning 1879; served temporary appointments at Harvard
and Washington Univ. (St. Louis); wrote books on a variety of
subjects: Darwinism and other essays (1879), The idea of God as
affected by modern knowledge (1885), The critical period of
American history, 1783-1789 (1888), Through nature to God (1899),
and Essays historical and literary (1902); died on July 4, 1901.
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access./ Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of
Special Collections, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the
Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of the Dept. of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the
copyright holder, which must also be obtained./ Organization:
Arranged in the following series: 1. Correspondence of John Fiske
and his wife, Abbey M. (Brooks) Fiske with various persons (box 1);
2. Holograph writings of John Fiske (boxes 1-2); 3. Misc. books and
papers (boxes 1-2); 4. Catalog cards of Fiske's library (boxes 3-5);
5. Photographs illustrating a tour through Europe (box 6)./ Preferred
citation: Cite as: John Fiske Papers (Collection 303). Department
of Special Collections, University Research Library, University of
California, Los Angeles./ Unpublished finding aid available; inquire
at Dept. of Special Collections reference desk.
Other Titles: John Fiske papers
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Fiske
Fiske
All those policies were vigorously upheld during
was soon at sea again, watching for English
Gree
the ten years of his presidency. At the time of his
ships returning from the West Indies. He cap
Sept
sudden death, the company had in force about
tured some prizes and returned to Salem in mid-
Hart
seventeen and one-half per cent of all life insur-
October. Meantime, his professional honor hav-
Was
ance reported, involving more than 42,000,000
ing been assailed, an investigation of the charges
Pana
policies.
made against him was made and he received
Throughout his life Fiske gave the impression
public vindication. In 1778 he was recommended
New
of unusual physical vigor. After he was seventy
for another command, and was offered the Haz-
hi
he occasionally played tennis. He was a leading
ard, but he refused it, alleging that it was not
On 1
layman of the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Prot-
formidable enough.
estant Episcopal Church, contributed liberally to
Fiske now set up as a merchant, and his ven-
fate
the various church enterprises, notably the build-
tures proved fortunate till near the end of his
elect
ing of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and
life. He continued to buy ships, and fitted them
was versed in theology and church history. He
out for voyages to the Mediterranean and to the
was twice married: first, on Jan. IO, 1878, to
East and West Indies. In ¥791 he was elected
T
Mary G. Mulford who died in 1886 and second,
master of the Salem Marine Society and he then
year
on Apr. 27, 1887, to Marione Cowles Cushman,
urged Congress to establish aids to navigation on
two
who survived him. He left four daughters and
the Massachusetts coast (Laws of the Salem
che
Marine Society, 60-62 I3I). After the war he
and
two sons.
[F. C. Pierce, Fiske and Fisk Family (1896) N. Y.
filled a few minor civic, offices acceptably. In I792
Spa
Times, Mar. 4, 1929 Who's Who in America, 1928-29
he attained the rank of major-general in the state
of 1
"The Metropolitan as a Public Institution," in the
militia, and during his term of service he greatly
and
Eastern Underwriter, Apr. 8, 921 and the Insurance
strengthened its morale. Capt. Fiske was a bluff,
mar
Field (Louisville, Ky.), Mar. 1929.] W.B.S-w.
hearty man, vehement but reasonable and honest
Gre
FISKE, JOHN (Apr. If, 1744-Sept. 1797),
He was generous to clerks and captains, and his
Da
naval commander, merchant capitalist, militia of-
reputation for hospitality was justly celebrated
skr
Go
ficer, traced his descent from John Fiske, who
In 1766 he married Lydia Phippen and had by
was in New England in 1637. Born at Salem,
her several children. She died in 1782. His sec-
I,
Mass., he was the son of Anna Gerrish Fiske and
ond wife, Martha Lee Hibbert, whom he married
tov
the Rev. Samuel Fiske, a talented divine whose
in 1783, died in 1785 and the following year he
St
usefulness was prematurely ended by quarrels
married Sarah Wendell Gerry who, with three
stu
with his parishioners. After a common-school
children by his first wife, survived his death.
to
education the son went to sea, forged ahead rap-
[Wm. Bentley, Funeral Discourse (1797) : The Diary
idly, and when barely twenty-one he was mas-
of Wm Bentley (1905-11) Essex Inst. Hist. Colls.;
H
. O. Paullin, The Navy of the Am. Revolution (1906)
ph
ter of a brigantine voyaging to Spain. At the
G. W. Allen, A Naval Hist. of the Am. Revolution
un
outbreak of the Revolution, his affairs were pros-
(1913) ; Mass. Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution-
(1896-1907) ; Vital Records of Salem (1916-
m
pering, and he was well liked. In I775 he acted
25), which gives Apr. II, 1744, as date of birth; Laws
an
as member of the Salem committee of safety and
the Salem Marine Soc. (1914) J. B. Felt, Annals of
correspondence. In the next year, after a state
alem (1827) F. C. Pierce, Fiske and Fisk Family
op
1896).]
F.M-d.
ev
navy had been authorized by the Massachusetts
General Court, Fiske was commissioned captain
FISKE, JOHN (Mar. 30, 1842-July 4, 1901),
pe
W
of the brigantine Tyrannicide (Apr. 20). He was
philosopher, historian, only child of Edmund
sh
not the first naval officer of the state to receive a
Brewster and Mary Fisk (Bound) Green, was
b
commission, despite Bentley's assertion, for that
born at Hartford, Conn., and was baptized Ed-
t
of Capt. eremiah O'Brien bore the date of Mar.
mund Fisk. His original legal name was thus
a
I5,
1776. Fiske put to sea in July, captured a
Edmund Fisk Green, which was changed by act
S
British prize four days after sailing, and in Au-
of legislature in 1855 to John Fisk, the final e
i
gust he brought in three more. Other cruises
being added five years later without legal action.
followed. From February till October 1777,
The Greens were of New Jersey Quaker ances-
Fiske commanded the brigantine Massachusetts,
try. Little is known of them except that the
then in March, by order of the board of war, Cap-
child's grandfather was a substantial merchant in
tains Fiske, Haraden, and Clouston sailed to
Philadelphia. The Bounds and Fisks were of
harass enemy shipping off the coasts of western
English Puritan descent, branches of both fami-
Europe. It was a notable cruise in the annals of
lies, after having been for some generations in
the state navy. Many prizes fell into their hands
Massachusetts, having established themselves in
some of which escaped, but Fiske took eight ves-
Middletown, Conn. There, subsequent to his
sels. He put in at Marblehead late in July, but
graduation from Wesleyan University, Edmund
420
Fiske
Fiske
ching for
became a lawyer and married Mary Bound,
The Civil War, then raging, had left him ut-
Indies.
15, Green was in turn a journalist in
terly cold at first; and although later he became
d to Salem
Hord, private secretary to Henry Clay in
interested, he does not seem to have considered
ssional hono
thington, and owner and editor of a paper in
taking a part in the great conflict. Before gradu-
tion
of
the
where he died in 1852. During the later
ation he had become engaged to Abby Morgan
and
he
recen
of the marriage, his wife taught school in
Brooks, daughter of Aaron Brooks, of Petersham,
was recomme
York and Newark, and the child spent most
Mass., to whom he was married Sept. 6, 1864.
offered they
time with his grandparents in Middletown.
His mother, who was now well-to-do, seems to
ig that it
mother's second marriage, to Edwin Wal-
have been willing to assist him financially;
Stoughton, a well-to-do New York lawyer,
but his marriage made the choice of a career
hant, and hi
United States minister to Russia, the son
imperative. That choice was between law and
ar the end
to remain at the Fisk home in Middle-
teaching, but he found the latter closed to
os, and fittee
and it was then that he took the name of his
him, at least at Harvard, on account of his open
ranean and
-grandfather on his mother's side.
advocacy of the doctrine of evolution. In July
91 he waster
boy was extremely precocious, and at eight
1864 he passed his examination for the bar, with-
ociety and
of age wrote that he had then read about
out formal study at the law school, and was ad-
is to navigati
hundred volumes, mostly on philosophy,
mitted, taking his degree of LL.B. the following
ws of the
mistry, astronomy, grammar, mathematics,
year. Although he started to practise in Boston,
After the
miscellaneous things," including some in
he had few clients, and his heart was not in his
cceptably.
hish. Throughout life the range and variety
work. Some months before his marriage he had
eneral in the
slinguistic attainments were extraordinary,
begun a correspondence with Spencer, and phil-
service he
when not yet twenty he could read Ger-
osophical interests now dominated him. With
Fiske was
French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Latin,
the support of both his own and his wife's fami-
nable and
and Anglo-Saxon, less readily, Dutch,
ly, he decided to trust solely to writing for his
captains,
wish, Swedish, Hebrew, Chaldee, and San-
living, taking a house in Cambridge, which was
justly celebt
while he had also "dipped into" Zend,
thenceforth to remain his home. The situation at
ppen and
thic, Wallachian and Provencal (Clark, post,
Harvard had now altered. After a conflict be-
in 1782. Hi
54).
tween the reactionary and progressive factions,
whom he ma
first he attended private schools in Middle-
in which Fiske had taken part by articles in the
Following ye
and from 1855 to 1857, Betts Academy,
Atlantic Monthly, and the Nation, Charles W.
who, with
inford, Conn. Returning to Middletown, he
Eliot had been elected president. As one direct
ed his death
died for two years under the Rev. H. M. Col-
result of this invigorating change, Fiske was
(1797) The
as tutor, preparing for Yale. He preferred
asked to deliver a course of lectures in 1869 on
Inst. Hist.
vard, however, with its more liberal atmos-
"The Positive Philosophy." During the next
Revolution
'ie Am. R
ere, and after a year of study by himself and
three years, although still encountering much op-
of the Rev
der a tutor at Cambridge, he entered the sopho-
position, he lectured on both philosophy and his-
is of Salem
ate of birth
class in 1860. His wide reading in science
tory, giving public courses in Boston also. In
B. Felt,
philosophy had already led him to heterodox
1872 he was appointed assistant librarian of the
and Fisk
inions in religion, with the social results in-
college at a salary of $2,500 a year, and soon after
F
table in a small New England town of that
published his first important volume, Myths and
2-July
nod. He did not fare much better at Harvard,
Myth-Makers. The following year, 1873, owing
ild of
here through an accidental discovery in a book-
to the generosity of a friend who gave him $1,000
ind) Gree
he became an enthusiastic disciple of Her-
to continue his studies in Europe, and a year's
as baptiz
Spencer, whose long series of volumes were
leave granted him by Harvard, he was able to go
name was
in course of publication and to which Fiske
abroad. In England, where his writings had al-
changed
once subscribed. His vast reading-the boy
ready made him known, he met Spencer, Darwin,
Fisk, the
died from twelve to sixteen hours daily-bore
Huxley, Lewes, Clifford, Tyndall, and others, and
out legal
portant fruit even before graduation. Two ar-
while in London wrote his two volumes on The
y Quaker
les, one pointing out fallacies in Buckle's His-
Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (1874). After
except
of Civilization in England, published in his
some months on the Continent he returned to
tial merci
nior year in the North American Review, clear-
Cambridge.
Fisks
aligned him with the most advanced thinkers of
In 1879, having resigned as librarian at Har-
es of both
day on evolution. His views brought him in-
vard, he delivered a course of lectures on Amer-
: generan
conflict with the Harvard authorities, who
ican history at the Old South Church, and, in the
d themse
rned him of expulsion, should he attempt to
autumn of the same year, a similar course in Lon-
sequent
read his opinions. In spite of some difficulties,
don with great success. He now entered upon a
ersity,
wever, he received his degree of B.A. in 1863.
life career as perhaps the most popular lecturer
421
Fiske
Fiske
on history America has ever known. For some
Music. He was a devoted music lover, an
Even
years, however, his chief interest still centered in
cellent performer, and an occasional composer.
years
science and philosophy, as is evidenced in part
In his later years, Fiske made two more visits
genuir
by the list of his published volumes The Unseen
to England and traveled extensively through the
ing
th
World (1876), Darwinism and Other Essays
United States, including Alaska. He had de-
must b
(1879), Excursions of an Evolutionist (1884),
livered lectures at Washington University, St.
religio
The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of his
Louis, since 1881, and had been professor or
upon ti
Origin (1884), The Idea of God as Affected by
American history there since 1884, although he
his wri
Modern Knowledge (1886).
continued to reside at Cambridge. As the years
with tl
About this time he turned from philosophy to
passed he failed to receive the Harvard professor.
fended
history as a main preoccupation, due, according
ship which would have gratified him. The reason
don wh
to some, to financial need, and, according to
may possibly be found in a shift from the former
his reli
others, to his wish to study America from the
opposition to Fiske as an evolutionist to a slight
popula:
standpoint of an evolutionist. As early as 1880
mistrust of him as a scholar. In June 1894, how
effort
he had delivered a course of lectures before the
ever, he received signal honors: the degree of
though
Royal Institution of Great Britain in London,
Litt.D., from the University of Pennsylvania
use of
many times repeated in the United States, and in
and that of LL.D., from Harvard University
Howell
1885 he published these under the title of Amer-
Shortly before his death, Yale University had
In th
ican Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint
signified its intention of giving him an LL.D.
larizer,
of Universal History. The following year he be-
and he had been asked to represent the New
evolutic
came one of the editors of Appletons' Cyclopadia
World and to deliver an address at the millennial
so ofter
of American Biography, wrote six articles for the
celebration in honor of King Alfred at Winches-
making
Atlantic Monthly, and lectured extensively. Fiske
ter, England, but his death intervened. He had
interpre
loved comfort and an ample scale of living, and he
long been forcing himself at a rate of production
facts, a.
had to provide for six children. He undertook
too great for any man. Constant appearance on
with a C
much heavy work, therefore, mainly for its finan-
the lecture platform, and the traveling this in-
torians.
cial return. That under the circumstances his
volved, overtaxed him. Never given to sports or
reliance
books maintained their easy and flowing style is
exercise, his tendency to corpulency had so
volved
somewhat remarkable. These appeared in rapid
grown upon him that he had come to weigh over
criticisr.
succession in his new historical field: The
three hundred pounds. On July 4, 1901, worn by
importa
Critical Period of American History, 1783-89
overwork and exhausted by the heat, he died at
the last
(1888) The Beginnings of New England
Gloucester, Mass. He was survived by his wid-
was pro
(1889) ; The War of Independence (1889) ; Civil
ow and five children, and was buried at Peters-
his cont
Government in the United States (1890) ; The
ham, where he had long been in the habit of
among 1.
American Revolution (2 vols., 1891) ; The Dis-
spending the summer.
torical V
covery of America (2 vols., 1892) ; A History of
It has been said of him that "philosophers were
interest
the United States for Schools (1894) ; Old Vir-
inclined to think of him at his best as an historian,
ple but
ginia and her Neighbors (2 vols., 1897) ; Dutch
and historians to urge that he was primarily a
distingu
and Quaker Colonies (2 vols., 1899). There also
philosopher" (Nation, Jan. 24, 1918). The truth
history :
appeared in the last years of his life or soon after
is that he was neither a profound scholar nor an
[J. S.
original thinker in either domain. He first came
(1917)
his death, several volumes dealing with philoso-
Perry, Jo
before the public as a lucid, brilliant, and coura-
the Unpc
phy and history, including: The Origin of Evil
geous defender of the new doctrine of evolution.
Rensselae
(1899) ; A Century of Science and Other Essays
Am. Rev.
Darwin, Spencer, and Huxley all claimed him as
Harper's
(1899) Through Nature to God (1899) ; and
no mean ally in the fight for scientific truth. He
Fiske," t
Life Everlasting (1901), in one group; and in
Fiske," P
was the chief exponent of the new ideas in Amer
F. C. Pie
the other, The Mississippi Valley in the Civil
ica, and, now that the bitterness of that fight has
War (1900) ; Essays, Historical and Literary (2
largely been forgotten, it is easy to belittle the
FISKE
vols., 1902) New France and New England
importance of the service he rendered to Amer-
Apr. 27
(1902) How the United States became a Nation
ican thought. Although in science, as in history,
was bor:
(1904). His only biographical work on a large
he relied upon others and did no original re-
son of T
scale was his life of Edward Livingston You-
search, the lucidity and charm of his style made
ney) Fi
mans, Interpreter of Science for the People
him unrivaled as a popularizer. In science he
and a de
(1894). Three other titles indicate his varied in-
contributed only one original suggestion, that of
Salem, I
terests: Tobacco and Alcohol (1869), History of
the importance of the long and helpless childhood
he was
English Literature. abridged from Taine (1872),
of the human infant in influencing the psycho-
tions an
and the article on Schubert in the Cyclopadia of
logical complex of the family as a social unit.
He ente
422
Fiske
Fiske
Fiske
voted music lover, an ex-
Even in that he was forestalled two thousand
appearance, some two years later, of the opening
an occasional composer.
iske made two more visits
years ago by Anaximander, but the idea was a
chapters of a novel satirizing the professors and
genuine contribution as made by Fiske. In trac-
their methods, he was duly asked to resign. Up-
ed extensively through the
ling Alaska. He had de-
ing the development of his thought, allowance
on leaving college he went to New York where
must be made for the much stronger hold which
he became connected with the New York Herald
ashington University, St.
religious ideas and emotions had upon him than
which he served as editorial writer, special cor-
d had been professor of
upon the English leaders; the various stages of
respondent, and war correspondent during the
C since 1884, although he
his writing show the struggle to harmonize these
Civil War. As the Herald's special correspon-
Cambridge. As the years
with the scientific doctrines which he also de-
dent, he accompanied the Japanese princes, the
ive the Harvard professor-
fended. He could never bring himself to aban-
Prince of Wales (later King Edward/VII), and
gratified him. The reason
don what he felt to be man's deepest interests-
President Lincoln on tours of the United States.
in a shift from the former
his religious beliefs and ideals-and much of his
Although many stories are told of the ingenuity
in evolutionist to a slight
popular success was probably due to this very
exercised by newspapermen in attempting to file
olar. In June 1894, how-
effort to combine two conflicting attitudes, even
dispatches ahead of those of rival correspondents,
il honors : the degree of
though this involved, as one critic averred, the
one of the best of these records how Fiske tele-
versity of Pennsylvania,
use of the "block system" in his mind (W. D.
graphed passages from the Bible from Niagara
m Harvard University.
th, Yale University had
Howells, post).
Falls to New York to hold the wires from com-
In the historical field, Fiske was solely a popu-
petitors. He was recalled from the seat of war
if giving him an LL.D.,
larizer, and in spite of his strong adhesion to
to become dramatic critic of the Herald in 1862.
I to represent the New
evolution his historical writing was not, as has
He continued as critic until 1866 when he sailed
address at the millennial
so often been claimed, philosophical. Far from
for England on the yacht Henrietta in the first
King Alfred at Winches-
making any original contribution of material or
Atlantic yacht race.
ath intervened. He had
interpretation, he merely narrated conspicuous
Fiske's rapidly moving career next took him to
If at a rate of production
facts, and he did that not authoritatively, but
Italy where he was with Garibaldi at Rome dur-
Constant appearance on
with a charm of style rare among American his-
ing the revolution, and thence to London where
d the traveling this in-
torians. He never got below the surface, and his
he became manager of St. James's Theatre and
Never given to sports or
reliance upon secondary works not seldom in-
the Royal English Opera Company, and engaged
to corpulency had so
volved him in errors of fact. In spite of such
in several journalistic projects. In 1873 he pro-
had come to weigh over
criticisms, however, Fiske was one of the most
duced at St. James's a version of Sardou's play,
'11 July 4, 1901, worn by
by the heat, he died at
important intellectual influences in America in
Rabagas, written by himself, with Charles Wynd-
the last quarter of the nineteenth century. He
ham playing the title-rôle. Upon his return to
as survived by his wid-
1 was buried at Peters-
was probably the most admirably fitted among all
the United States he took over the management
his contemporaries to lead the fight for evolution
of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, Oct. 15,
been in the habit of
among his countrymen; and the charm of his his-
1877, succeeding Augustin Daly. There Mary
that "philosophers were
torical writings and lectures not only instilled an
Anderson and Madame Modjeska made their
his best as an historian,
interest in the subject into a vast number of peo-
New York débuts, the former on Nov. 12, 1877.
ple but was the prime cause of not a few of the
Edwin Booth and Joseph Jefferson played under
at he was primarily a
distinguished scholars of to-day first turning to
his management in 1878. Following his retire-
1. 24, 1918). The truth
ofound scholar nor an
history as their life-work.
ment as manager of the theatre in January 1879,
[J. S. Clark, The Life and Letters of John Fiske
Fiske founded the New York Dramatic Mirror
lomain. He first came
(1917) reviewed in the Nation, Jan. 24, 1918 T. S.
1. brilliant, and coura-
Perry, John Fiske (1906) ; Josiah Royce, "John Fiske,"
and took an important part in the establishment
doctrine of evolution.
the Unpopular Rev., July, Sept. 1918: Mrs. S. Van
of the Actors' Fund. After giving up control of
Rensselaer, "Mr. Fiske and the Hist. of N. Y.," North
very all claimed him as
Am. Rev., July 1901 W. D. Howells, 'John Fiske,"
the Mirror, he devoted several years to the writ-
ing of plays. During the last ten years of his life,
'r scientific truth. He
Harper's Weekly, July 20, 1901 G. L. Beer, "John
Fiske," the Critic, Aug. 1901; A. McF. Davis, "John
he was connected with The Sports of the Times
he new ideas in Amer-
Fiske." Proc. Am. Acad. of Arts and Sci., Aug. 1902;
rness of that fight has
F. C. Pierce, Fiske and Fisk Family (1896).]
(originally The Spirit of the Times) and was
is easy to belittle the
J.T.A.
regarded as the dean of active dramatic critics.
he rendered to Amer-
FISKE, STEPHEN RYDER (Nov. 22, 1840-
His better known plays included: Corporal Car-
science, as in history,
Apr. 27, 1916), journalist, theatrical manager,
touche; Martin Chuzzlewit (adapted from Dick-
did no original re-
was born at New Brunswick, N. J. He was the
ens't novel) ; My Noble Son-in-law; and Robert
son of William Henry and Sarah Ann (Blake-
Rabagas. He was also a writer of sketches and
trm of his style made
rizer. In science he
ney) Fiske, the brother of Haley Fiske [q.v.],
stories some of which he published, as English
al suggestion, that of
and a descendant of William Fiske, who came to
Photographs, by an American (London, 1869)
nd helpless childhood
Salem, Mass. before 1637. Before he was twelve
ff-hand Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers
luencing the psycho-
he was being paid for his newspaper contribu-
1884) ; Holiday Stories (1891) : and Paddy
illy as a social unit.
tions and at fourteen he was editing a small paper.
from Cork, and Other Stories (1891)
He entered Rutgers College in 1858 but upon the
[F. C. Pierce, Fiske and Fisk Family (1896) Who's
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New France and New England,
John Fiske
1902
English
Book 1 p. I., v-xxiii p., 1 I., 378 p., 1 I. front., maps. 21 cm.
Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company,
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Title: New France and New England,
Author(s): Fiske, John, 1842-1901.
Publication: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company,
Year: 1902
Description: 1 p. I., v-xxiii p., 1 I., 378 p., 1 I. front., maps. 21 cm.
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Geographic: United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Nouvelle-France -- Histoire.
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