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Document 56747

CHARLES SCRIBNER. ALS: "Charles Scribner", 2½p, 4½x7. Boston, 1858 January 22. To unnamed recipient. In full: "I have written to Washington, ordering 742 copies of the Ag. Rep. for '55 to be forwarded to you. They will come in bags to my address, yr care. When recd, do with them as you think best for the interest of agriculture. If persons receive duplicate copies they should be invited to give one to their neighbors. All my copies of the [illegible] Rep. & of [illegible] have been already distributed." In the year of this letter, Charles Scribner & Co. moved into the Brooks Building at 124 Grand Street in New York. Among the titles published that year were Sermons for the New Life, Horace Bushnell's first Scribner book, and Letters to Young People, Single and Married, the first Scribner book for J.G. Holland. A year after he wrote this letter, Scribner published his first periodical, "The American Theological Review". In January 1846, Charles Scribner (1821-1871) and Isaac D. Baker established their publishing business, Baker & Scribner, in New York City. Baker died in 1850, and the firm became Charles Scribner & Co. in January 1851. Scribner began publishing periodicals in 1859, ten years before his oldest son, John Blair Scribner (1850-1879), joined the business. In 1870, "Scribner's Monthly" was first published. Four years after Charles' death, his son, Charles (1854-1930), joined the firm, which became Charles Scribner's Sons in 1878, the year before John's death. Another of Charles' sons, Arthur Hawley Scribner (1859-1932), joined the firm in 1881. Slightly creased with folds. Lightly soiled, stray ink marks at blank areas. Ink smudged at some words (all legible). Mounting remnant at blank right margin on verso of integral leaf shows through at blank left margin of signature sheet. Light paper loss at blank margin above remnant.

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