. . . . . "Between 1833 and 1864, Ticknor & Fields was the nation's premier publisher and attracted writers such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Dickins, and Louisa May Alcott." . . . . .