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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,"Elias Nason. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts. Boston: B.B. Russell, 1874Boston directory. 1874 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.Boston register and business directory. 1921
Lecturers/Performers
Susan B. AnthonyJohn R. McKivigan. "James Redpath" in: Encyclopedia of antislavery and abolition. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007 Henry Ward BeecherJames C. McNutt. Mark Twain and the American Indian: Earthly Realism and Heavenly Idealism. American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Aug., 1978) Josh BillingsAmerican Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1 Emma Hardinge BrittenThe Nation. Oct. 12, 1871 Moses T. Brown Isabella Dallas-Glynn Frederick Douglass Adrian J. Ebell Fanny R. Edmunds Ralph Waldo EmersonJohn P. Koontz. "James Redpath" in: Writers of the American Renaissance: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003; p.309 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 StantonLori D. Ginzberg. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life, p. 143. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2009 Charles Sumner Virginia F. Townsend Mark Twain Edwin Percy Whipple
See also James Redpath
References
Further reading
Pond. "The Lyceum." The Cosmopolitan. April 1896. James "Redpath and the pioneer bureau he founded." Lyceum Magazine. Aug. 1922.