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Bechtel, Louise Seaman, b. 1894. Papers, 1877-1980, 1913-1980 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1877-1980, 1913-1980 (bulk).

Papers primarily concern her work in literature, publishing, and editing, especially for children, and include correspondence, manuscripts, illustrations, biographical information, and published articles and reviews from or pertaining to authors, illustrators, and publishers, 1922-1978, including Rachel Lyman Field, Dorothy Pulis Lathrop, Marianne Moore, Helen Sewell, Wallace Stevens, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Carroll Moore, Frances Clarke Sayers, Harry Behn, Padraic Colum, Anne Parrish, and Sara Teasdale. Extensive correspondence from Elizabeth Coatsworth, Vassar classmate and children's author, concerning travel, writing, mutual friends, the onset of World War II, volunteer war work, and family news, 1913-1980; biographical articles on Coatsworth, 1936-1978; and a Coatsworth family photograph album, 1898-1979. Letters from editors and board members at the Horn Book Company, publishers of THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINE and other children's literature, concerning Bechtel's work, editorial policy, conflicts between editors and the board, and publishing plans, with some personal and family news, 1934-1974. Correspondents include Bertha E. Mahony (Miller), Jennie D. Linquist, and Ruth Hill Viguers. Also, scrapbooks of Bechtel's published reviews and articles.

ArchivalResource: 8 cubic ft.

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Bertha E. Miller Papers, n.d.

Title: Bertha E. Miller Papers n.d.

The collection contaions 1 piece of correspondence to Nancy Willard.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

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Horn Book, Inc. The Horn Book Magazine and Horn Book, Inc. Records, 1899-1993, 1916-1993.

Title: The Horn Book Magazine and Horn Book, Inc. Records, 1899-1993, 1916-1993.

The records of the Horn Book Magazine and Horn Book Inc. document the development of the first magazine published with a concern for children's books and reading. The records also document the personal life of the magazine's founder, Bertha Mahony Miller (BMM), a graduate of Simmons College, and her influence on the field of children's literature. The records include office files, correspondence, illustrations, photographs, clippings and printed material related to the Bookshop for Boys and Girls (1916-36) (founded by BMM and operated under the auspices of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union), The Horn Book Magazine (1924-67) and The Horn Book, Inc. (1936-67). Correspondence among the editors of the magazine and numerous authors, illustrators, librarians, editors, publishers and educators document the field of children's literature from the early to mid-twentieth century. Among others, correspondents include Jennie Lindquist, Ruth Hill Viguers, Elinor Whitney Field, Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, Caroline Hewins, Beatrix Potter, Siri Andrews, Issac Asimov, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Louise Seaman Bechtel, Ruth Sawyer, Beulah Folmsbee, Virginia Haviland, Lee Kingman, May Massee, Maurice Sendak, J. R. R. Tolkien, Virginia Burton, Walter De la Mare, Elmer Hader, Bertha Hader, Leslie Linder and Momoko Ishii.

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Evans, Ernestine. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1946-1950.

Title: Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1946-1950.

Comprises items from editors Bertha E. Mahony Miller, Josephine Macri, Beulah Folmsbee, and Ernestine Evans, with responses from Zigrosser, regarding Wanda Gág.

ArchivalResource: 13 items (13 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63645931 View

Matthews, James H., 1942-. Social & General Supplementary Correspondence M : 1957.

Title: Social & General Supplementary Correspondence M : 1957. 1957 Aug. 8 - Dec. 23.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 39 (42 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270529216 View

Bechtel, Louise Seaman, b. 1894. Louise Seaman Bechtel papers, 1877-1980, 1913-1980 (bulk).

Title: Louise Seaman Bechtel papers, 1877-1980, 1913-1980 (bulk).

Papers primarily concern her work in literature, publishing, and editing, especially for children, and include correspondence, manuscripts, illustrations, biographical information, and published articles and reviews from or pertaining to authors, illustrators, and publishers, 1922-1978, including Rachel Lyman Field, Dorothy Pulis Lathrop, Marianne Moore, Helen Sewell, Wallace Stevens, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Carroll Moore, Frances Clarke Sayers, Harry Behn, Padraic Colum, Anne Parrish, and Sara Teasdale. Extensive correspondence from Elizabeth Coatsworth, Vassar classmate and children's author, concerning travel, writing, mutual friends, the onset of World War II, volunteer war work, and family news, 1913-1980; biographical articles on Coatsworth, 1936-1978; and a Coatsworth family photograph album, 1898-1979. Letters from editors and board members at the Horn Book Company, publishers of THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINE and other children's literature, concerning Bechtel's work, editorial policy, conflicts between editors and the board, and publishing plans, with some personal and family news, 1934-1974. Correspondents include Bertha E. Mahony (Miller), Jennie D. Linquist, and Ruth Hill Viguers. Also, scrapbooks of Bechtel's published reviews and articles. Other items include typed excerpts from the diary of her father Charles F. Seaman, 1877-1950; family photographs, clippings, announcements, and postcards; and Bechtel's collection of prints and photographs including works by Boris Artzybasheff, Pamela Bianco, Fritz Eichenberg, Dorothy Lathrop, Howard Pyle, Lynd Ward, and Stanley Wengenroth.

ArchivalResource: 8 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51617324 View