Boston Lyceum Bureau Explained

The Boston Lyceum Bureau (est.1868) in Boston, Massachusetts, was a project of James Redpath and George L. Fall. Its office stood at no.36 Bromfield Street. "Through its agency, many ... lecturers and authors of celebrity have been introduced to American audiences,"^{[1] [2]} including Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, and George MacDonald.

The partnership dissolved around 1874. Redpath continued briefly with the "Redpath Lyceum Bureau" which featured many of the same lecturers and performers as before. Eventually, other proprietors took over and the "Boston Lyceum Bureau" and the "Redpath Lyceum Bureau" expanded vigorously into the 20th century, with branches throughout the United States. ^{[3] [4]}

Lecturers/Performers

• Susan B. Anthony^[5]
• Henry Ward Beecher^[6]
• Josh Billings^[7]
• Emma Hardinge Britten^[8]
• Moses T. Brown
• Isabella Dallas-Glynn
• Frederick Douglass
• Adrian J. Ebell
• Fanny R. Edmunds
• Ralph Waldo Emerson^[9]
• Thomas Fitch
• Edward Everett Hale
• B. Waterhouse Hawkins
• John Hay
• Isaac I. Hayes
• Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• Lottie Hough
• Julia Ward Howe
• The Hyers Sisters
• Mary A. Livermore
• David Ross Locke
• Sam Lucas
• George MacDonald
• Mendelssohn Quintette Club
• Rev. W.H.H. Murray
• Mr. & Mrs. Madison Obrey
• Oliver Optic
• Wendell Phillips
• Kate Reignolds
• Erminia Rudersdorff
• Matthew Hale Smith
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton^[10]
• Charles Sumner
• Virginia F. Townsend
• Mark Twain
• Edwin Percy Whipple

See also

• James Redpath

Further reading

• Pond. "The Lyceum." The Cosmopolitan. April 1896.
• James "Redpath and the pioneer bureau he founded." Lyceum Magazine. Aug. 1922.

Notes and References

1. [Elias Nason]
2. Boston directory. 1874
3. Web site: Redpath Chautauqua Collection - Special Collections & University Archives - the University of Iowa Libraries .
4. Boston register and business directory. 1921
5. John R. McKivigan. "James Redpath" in: Encyclopedia of antislavery and abolition. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007
6. James C. McNutt. Mark Twain and the American Indian: Earthly Realism and Heavenly Idealism. American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Aug., 1978)
7. American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
8. The Nation. Oct. 12, 1871
9. John P. Koontz. "James Redpath" in: Writers of the American Renaissance: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003; p.309
10. Lori D. Ginzberg. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life, p. 143. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2009