G. & C. Merriam Company Collection, 1833-1852
1 half archives box (0.25 linear ft.)
Terms of Access and Use:
There is no restriction on access to the collection for research use. Particularly fragile items are restricted for preservation purposes.
Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
Booksellers in Springfield, Massachusetts, George and Charles Merriam owned and operated a successful press that sold a variety of publications. The most well-known and popular of these was Webster's Dictionary, on which the Merriam brothers bought the copyright in 1845 from the firm J. S. & C. Adams, which had purchased it after Webster's death in 1843. Today the Company exists as Merriam-Webster; it continues to publish editions of Merriam-Webster's Dictionary.
The collection consists of 30 business letters written to George and Charles Merriam from 1833-1852. Letters are from people associated with Amherst College and the town of Amherst: J. L. H. Adams; Amherst College, Committee for the Sophomore Class; W. H. Beaman; Rev. L. Coleman; Simeon Colton; Edward Dickinson; N. S. Dickinson; George H. Gould; William S. Howland; William W. Hunt; H. B. Nims; William Randall Palmer; E. N. Stores; Martin A. Tinker; W. W. Whipple; and Samuel N. White.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
There is no restriction on access to the collection for research use. Particularly fragile items are restricted for preservation purposes.
Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
[Identification of item], in G. & C. Merriam Co. Collection (Box #, Folder #), Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library.
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Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Robert Frost Library
PO Box 5000 Amherst, MA 01002-5000 Phone: (413) 542-2299 Fax: (413) 542-2692 Email Reference Form: http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/askus URL: http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives |
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Incoming Correspondence, A - C
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1833 - 45
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Box 1: folder 1
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Incoming Correspondence, D - H
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1836 - 52
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Box 1: folder 2
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Incoming Correspondence, N - P
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1847 - 48
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Box 1: folder 3
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Incoming Correspondence, T - W
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1839 - 45
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Box 1: folder 4
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