Writing
An authority on U.S. history, Thacher's publications include:
- The Continent of America, Its Discovery and Its Baptism; An Essay on the Nomenclature of the Old Continents, etc. (1896)
- A drama, Charlecote: or the Trial of William Shakespeare (1896)
- The Cabotian Discovery (1897)
- Christopher Columbus, His Life, His Works, His Remains, together with an Essay on Peter Martyr of Anghera and Bartolomé de las Casas, the first Historians of America (two volumes, 1903)
- Outlines of the French Revolution told in Autographs (1905)
The French Revolution autograph publication highlighted Thacher's extensive collection of autographs which also included those of every signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Thacher purchased a large plot of land in central Albany County, New York which his widow, Emma Treadwell Thacher, donated to the state in 1914, and is now known as John Boyd Thacher State Park.
John Boyd Thacher is interred in Albany Rural Cemetery.
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Famous quotes containing the word writing:
“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
“That isn’t writing at all, it’s typing.”
—Truman Capote (1924–1984)