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Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin Papers

Title: Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin Papers

Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Historian. The Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence, notes, and manuscripts. The collection documents McLaughlin's interest in improving the quality of teaching history and teacher training; the role of the historian in American society, in particular during and after World War I; and the writing of constitutional history.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (4 boxes)

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.MCLAUGHLIN View

Eastman, Max Forrester, 1883-1969. Eastman mss. 1892-1968

Title: Eastman mss. 1892-1968

Consists of the correspondence and writings of Max Forrester Eastman, 1883-1969, author.

ArchivalResource: 4,096 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC5512 View

Gale, Zona, 1874-1938. Papers of Zona Gale [manuscript], 1914-1937.

Title: Papers of Zona Gale [manuscript], 1914-1937.

Primarily literary and social correspondence from Gale. Twelve of the letters are to Edward A. Filene, covering both literary and social matters; other correspondents include Mabel Beeman Curran, Emily Hale, Robert Bridges, and Frederick L. Allen on literary matters and C.T. Brainard, Mrs. Alfred L. Castle, and several unidentified people on social matters. Traveling or geographic places are discussed in several letters. Specific works mentioned in the literary correspondence include "The Growth of the Soil" and "The Mind in the Making," both of which she received from Filene and commented on to him; her play, "Uncle Jimmy" which was published in "The Ladies Home Journal" and her novel "Faint Perfume" to be serialized in "Century Magazine." She sent Frederick L. Allen quotations from "Are You a Bromide?" and "Adrienne Toner" and samples of her own collection of glib catch phrases. Two letters discuss royalties. Collection also contains a one-page manuscript fragment of "Miss Lulu Bennett," a photograph of Zona Gale, and a presentation slip to Mary Johnston.

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647874662 View

Gale, Zona, 1874-1938. Papers of Zona Gale, 1914-1937.

Title: Papers of Zona Gale, 1914-1937.

Primarily literary and social correspondence from Gale. Twelve of the letters are to Edward A. Filene, covering both literary and social matters; other correspondents include Mabel Beeman Curran, Emily Hale, Robert Bridges, and Frederick L. Allen on literary matters and C.T. Brainard, Mrs. Alfred L. Castle, and several unidentified people on social matters. Traveling or geographic places are discussed in several letters. Specific works mentioned in the literary correspondence include "The Growth of the Soil" and "The Mind in the Making," both of which she received from Filene and commented on to him; her play, "Uncle Jimmy" which was published in "The Ladies Home Journal" and her novel "Faint Perfume" to be serialized in "Century Magazine." She sent Frederick L. Allen quotations from "Are You a Bromide?" and "Adrienne Toner" and samples of her own collection of glib catch phrases. Two letters discuss royalties. Collection also contains a one-page manuscript fragment of "Miss Lulu Bennett," a photograph of Zona Gale, and a presentation slip to Mary Johnston.

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34689933 View

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958. Scrapbooks of James Branch Cabell [manuscript], 1886-1958 (bulk 1904-1926).

Title: Scrapbooks of James Branch Cabell [manuscript], 1886-1958 (bulk 1904-1926).

The scrapbooks contain clippings supplied by a clippings service regarding Cabell and his works, chiefly reviews of his early books. The scrapbooks also contain letters to Cabell from publishers, fellow authors, readers, and reviewers; as well as programs and announcements. The "Jurgen" obscenity controversy is a frequent topic. In addition there are fragments of manuscripts by Cabell, manuscripts of poetry, essays and book reviews by other authors including "The unknown poetry of James Branch Cabell" by Louis Untermeyer, "The hashish-eater" by Clark Ashton Smith, and "Literary sore toes" by Edward Hale Bierstadt. Correspondents include Henry Mills Alden, Charles Dexter Allen, David W. Amram, Charlton Andrews, Edmund M. Ashe, Charles C. Baldwin, Samuel Barlow, Charles Bayly, Jr., Carleton Beals, Arthur E. Becher, William Rose Benét, William John Bernhard, Edward Hale Bierstadt, John Peale Bishop, edwin Björkman, Emily N. Blair, Ralph Block, Glen Walton Blodgett, Walter Russell Bowie, Ernest A. Boyd, Thomas A. Boyd, Henry Walcott Boynton, Anna Hempstead Branch, Don Marshall Bregenzer, Harold Chapman Brown, I. R. Brussel, Mitchell S. Buck, Abraham Cahan, George Chambers Calvert, Henry Seidel Canby, Lewis Chase, Donald Barr Chidsey, Thomas Caldecot Chubb, Barrett H. Clark, Wilson Ober Clough, Wilbur L. Cross, Frank Crowninshield, Aleister Crowley, Richard Harding Davis, R. De Roussy De Sales, William Arthur Deacon, Benjamin De Casseres, Leonard Cline, Frank Daniel, A. Grove Day, Floyd Dell, William Kavanaugh Doty, Philip C. Duschnes, Horace H. Edwards, Milton I. D. Einstein, Thomas Hornsly Ferril, Charles J. Finger, Samuel Fischer, Morris Fishbein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sydney B. Flower, Wilson Follett, Justus Miles Forman, Henry B. Fuller, Lewis Galantière, Glenn Garrard, Ellen Glasgow, Benjamin Glazer, Isaac Goldberg, Alfred F. Goldsmith, E. S. Goodhue, W. Cabell Greet, Elizabeth Grinnell, Frederick S. Hammett, T. Swann Harding, Lester Hargrett, Arthur Hartmann, William R. A. Hays, Joseph Hergesheimer, B. Russell Herts, H. R. R. Hertzberg, Harry Hervey, John M. Hill, Grover Cleveland Hite, Robert C. Holliday, Guy Holt, Fannie Hurst, Merle Johnson, George T. Keating, Ethel May Kelly, Alfred Kreymborg, Joseph Wood Krutch, Elinor Macartney Lane, Kenneth Westmacott Lane (Keith West), Henry W. Lanier, Clarence John Laughlin, Grace Hegger Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, H. Baxter Liebler, J. B. Lippincott Co., Horace B. Liveright, William Loeb, Jr., F. B. Luquiens, George Macy, John Macy, Dorothea Lawrance Mann, Edwin J. Mayer, Helen F. McAfee, Roy L. McCardell, Warren Albert McNeill, H. L. Mencken, George Moore, Willard S. Morse, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, George Jean Nathan, Robert Nathan, Frances Newman, Charles Edmund Noyes, Edward J. O'Brien, Hamilton Owens, Walter Hines Page, Albert Bigelow Paine, Stuart Palmer, Isabel Paterson, Thomas Rossman Palfrey, Mary Plum, Mary Brecht Pulver, Burton Rascoe, Ben Ray Redman, John R. Reinhard, Laban Lacy Rice, Thomas Geale Rice, Walter Adolphe Roberts, James Harvey Robinson, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Theodore Roosevelt, Viscountess Lilian Rothermere of Harmsworth, Harold Goddard Rugg, B. K. Sandwell, Whitelaw Saunders, Eugene Francis Saxton, Dorothy Scarborough, Laurence Schwab, George Steele Seymour, Frank Shay, Lewis Worthington Smith, Lloyd E. Smith, Paul Jordan Smith, Maurice J. Speiser, Laurence Stallings, Vincent Starrett, Donald Ogden Stewart, Gideon Timberlake, Pierre Troubetzkoy, Louis Untermeyer, Carl Van Doren, Nathan Van Patten, Carl Van Vechten, George Sylvester Viereck, Frank H. Vizetelly, Bernhardt Wall, Hugh Walpole, Harold Ward, Anne Rutherfoord Wayland, Franklin Wentworth, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Blanche Colton Williams, Marshall Wingfield, A. L. S. Wood, and Jack Woodford.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647901738 View

George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956

Title: George Sarton additional papers

Primarily correspondence of historian of science and Harvard professor George Sarton with professional colleagues about the journal Isis.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (23 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01643/catalog View

Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936. Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1895-1908.

Title: Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1895-1908.

Comprises 30 items from Robinson, some in reference to International Monthly and the American Academy of Political and Social Science; one item is a photograph of Robinson; with 2 items from Lea.

ArchivalResource: 32 items (49 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63556576 View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Ellsworth Huntington papers, 1779-1952, 1890-1947

Title: Ellsworth Huntington papers 1779-1952 1890-1947

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes and notebooks, clippings, printed matter, which relate to Ellsworth Huntington's professional career and his activities for a number of professional organizations with which he was associated. The papers also include notebooks covering his numerous field trips and ancient artifacts collected by Huntington in Chinese Turkestan. Correspondents of note include Arnold Toynbee, Ernst Antevs, Henry Adams, James Breasted, Frederick Jackson Turner, Margaret Sanger, Henry Fairchild, James Rowland Angell, and Henry Seidel Canby.

ArchivalResource: 228.25 linear feet (355 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0001 View

Claude Halstead Van Tyne papers

Title: Claude Halstead Van Tyne papers

Professor of history at University of Michigan; scholar of America's revolutionary era. Correspondence concerning the historical profession, publishing, current events, and personal matters; lecture notes, newspaper clippings concerning personal matters and travels in Europe and India; papers concerning his activities during World War I, particularly with the National Security League.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-86747?rgn=main;view=text View

Records of the American Historical Association

Title: Records of the American Historical Association

Correspondence, minutes of meetings, manuscripts of published and unpublished articles, reports, notes, resolutions, legal briefs, membership cards and lists, administrative files, subject files, financial records, printed matter, and other records reflecting the association's history and its development of programs stimulating scholarly historical research and other activities. Subjects include the role of the association's boards and commissions including the Commission on the Social Studies, Committee on Women Historians, Historical Service Board, and Public Archives Commission; relations with various professional associations including the American Council of Learned Societies, American Economic Association, American Political Science Association, Social Science Research Council (U.S.), and Society of American Archivists; establishment of the American Historical Review and its relations with Macmillan Company; encouragement of various writing projects such as the Dictionary of American Biography, Guide to Historical Literature, and Writings on American History; awards promoting historical scholarship; archival activities at the state and federal level such as training of archivists and museum curators, publication of guides to archival resources, and construction of the National Archives and Records Service building; the protection of members of the historical profession in their pursuit of scholarship, teaching at the secondary level as reflected in the establishment of the Service Center for Teachers of History, and cooperation in various government publications. Individuals represented include Thomas Perkins Abernethy, Herbert B. Adams, Charles McLean Andrews, Thomas Andrew Bailey, Frederic Bancroft, George Bancroft, Charles A. Beard, Mary Ritter Beard, Carl L. Becker, Samuel Flagg Bemis, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Solon J. Buck, Alfred LeRoy Burt, Avery Craven, Merle Curti, William Archibald Dunning, John King Fairbank, Sidney Bradshaw Fay, Guy Stanton Ford, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Dixon Ryan Fox, Leo Gershoy, Charles Gibson, Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk, Lewis Hanke, Albert Bushnell Hart, Carlton J.H. Hayes, J. Franklin Jameson, Waldo Gifford Leland, Arthur S. Link, Dumas Malone, Ernest R. May, Donald R. McCoy, William Hardy McNeill, Frederick Merk, Samuel Eliot Morison, Richard B. Morris, William Alfred Morris, Dana Gardner Munro, Frank Lawrence Owsley, R.R. Palmer, J.H. Parry, Frederic L. Paxson, Louis Pelzer, Dexter Perkins, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, David H. Pinkney, Julius W. Pratt, Charles W. Ramsdell, J.G. Randall, James Harvey Robinson, Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965), Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Livingston Schuyler, Charles Seymour, Boyd C. Shafer, H. Morse Stephens, Frederick Jackson Turner, Arthur Preston Whitaker, and Gordon Wright.

ArchivalResource: 364,000 items. 1,155 containers plus 1 oversize. 464.4 linear feet.

https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79010686 View

William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Title: William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Journal reprints on evolutionary biology.

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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM06776-R.xml View

Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876-1947. Ellsworth Huntington papers, 1779-1953 (inclusive), 1890-1947 (bulk).

Title: Ellsworth Huntington papers, 1779-1953 (inclusive), 1890-1947 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes and notebooks, clippings, printed matter, which relate to Ellsworth Huntington's professional career and his activities for a number of professional organizations with which he was associated. The papers also include notebooks covering his numerous field trips and ancient artifacts collected by Huntington in Chinese Turkestan. Correspondents of note include Arnold Toynbee, Ernst Antevs, Henry Adams, James Breasted, Frederick Jackson Turner, Margaret Sanger, Henry Fairchild, James Rowland Angell, and Henry Seidel Canby.

ArchivalResource: 228.25 linear feet (355 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702204506 View

James Branch Cabell Collection, 1886-1928

Title: James Branch Cabell Collection 1886-1928

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00721.xml View

Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936. Diaries and journals, 1888-1911.

Title: Diaries and journals, 1888-1911.

A collection of diaries and journals relating to Robinson's years at the University of Freiburg, where he took his doctorate, and to his subsequent European travels before his return to America. Also, several volumes bearing Robinson's marginal notes.

ArchivalResource: 15 items (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309771731 View