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Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records

Records of Houghton Mifflin Company and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business.

ArchivalResource: 64 linear feet (165 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00009/catalog View

Green, Horace, 1885-. Advantages and disadvantages in the municipalization of gas industries : [thesis in Government 10, 1907-1908]

Title: Advantages and disadvantages in the municipalization of gas industries : [thesis in Government 10, 1907-1908]

ArchivalResource: 25 leaves ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77074832 View

Dodd, Mead & Company. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1901-1934.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1901-1934.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from various members of the editorial and administrative staff of the publishing firm Dodd, Mead & Co.

ArchivalResource: 38 items (54 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155898325 View

Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

https://sova.si.edu/record/SIA.FARU7060 View

Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. Papers of Theodore Dreiser, 1898-1945.

Title: Papers of Theodore Dreiser, 1898-1945.

The collection contains 83 manuscripts of works by Dreiser including his novel "Jennie Gerhardt"; short essays, chiefly biographical sketches; poems; stories; interviews; miscellaneous pieces; and galley proofs of "An American Tragedy." Essay topics include William Archer, Philip Armour, Katherine Bloodgood, John Burroughs, Joseph H. Choate, H. Barringer Cox, Louise Cox, Edward Croarkin, Chauncey Depew, William De Morgan, Frank E. Elwell, Louis Fagan, Frank Fowler, Gilbert Gane, Frank Wakely Gunsaulus, Moses Handy, William Dean Howells, John LaFarage, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lillian Nordica, Horace Pingree, Maria Louise Pool, George M. Pullman, Thomas B. Reed, Bayard Taylor, the University of Chicago, J.Q.A. Ward, modern business men, the University of Chicago, The American Museum of Natural History, Armour Institute, American women composers, artists, dramatists, and poets, Brandywine, Cedermere, Cramp Ship Yards, and lynching. Correspondence discusses his writing, publication efforts, critical reaction, censorship, legal suits with publishers, (John Lane Company) and his personal life including friendships, romances and travel. Specific topics include early editorial work, the publication of "Sister Carrie," "The Titan," and "The Genius" in an era of censorship; suppression of "The Genius"; copyright problems; a possible dramatization of "Sister Carrie"; a French translation and a film version of "An American Tragedy"; a hiking trip from Georgia to New Jersey; African-Americans in Savannah; Walt Whitman and Mark Twain; religious views; role of the Author's League of America; dislike of film version of "An American Tragedy"; Norman Duncan; the Fortean Society; respect for Lenin and Trotsky; Caldwell's "Tobacco Road." Miscellaneous material includes the Anti-Vice Commission report on "The Genius"; promotional pamphlets; and clippings pertaining to Dreiser.

ArchivalResource: 350 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50722338 View

United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18809 View

Green, Horace. Letter, 1852 September 21, New York, to Joel Parker, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Title: Letter, 1852 September 21, New York, to Joel Parker, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Concerns Parker's election as professor of medical jurisprudence atthe New York Medical College.

ArchivalResource: [2] p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5375075 View

Duffield & Company. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1905-1934.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1905-1934.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from various members of the management of the publishing firm Duffield & Company.

ArchivalResource: 14 items (16 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155898514 View

Hall, James Norman, 1887-1951. Letters to James B. Pond, 1919-1949.

Title: Letters to James B. Pond, 1919-1949.

One letter is to Horace Green, 1938. Of those to James B. Pond (his publisher?), there is one very informative letter with considerable autobiographical content, 4 pp.

ArchivalResource: 4 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122384601 View

Dalliba, Gerda, 1885-1913. Letter, 1929 May 1, New york City [to] Mrs. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Horace Green.

Title: Letter, 1929 May 1, New york City [to] Mrs. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Horace Green. 1929.

Editor of the "Duffield & Co. Publishing firm refuses to pring the late Gerda Dalliba's poems under his imprint. The would print it under a private label .

ArchivalResource: 1 p. on 1 leaf ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44802172 View