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Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource:

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01543/catalog View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

Sedgwick, Henry Dwight, 1861-1957. Letters by Henry Dwight Sedgwick.

Title: Letters by Henry Dwight Sedgwick.

Two letters, Henry Dwight Sedgwick to H. O. Houghton & Co. and to [publishers.].

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647900727 View

William James Jr. papers, 1857-1960 (inclusive), 1911-1959 (bulk).

Title: William James Jr. papers, 1857-1960 (inclusive), 1911-1959(bulk).

Papers of American painter William James.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00577/catalog View

Volkhovskii, F. (Feliks), 1846-1914. Correspondence, 1878-1932

Title: F. Volkhovskii correspondence, 1878-1932

Correspondence of Russian revolutionist Feliks Volkhovskii concerning Russian political affairs, Volkhovskīĭ's activities in connection with political groups in England such as the Russian Free Press Fund, his articles and speeches, and personal and social matters.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00672/catalog View

Wendell family papers

Title: Wendell family papers

Correspondence, business papers, and compositions by members of the Wendell family, a prominent merchant family from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear feet (93 boxes and 1 folder)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01421/catalog View

Burlingham, Charles Culp, 1858-1959. Papers, 1876-1960

Title: Charles Culp Burlingham papers, 1876-1960

Papers of Charles Culp Burlingham (1858-1959), attorney, civic leader, and reformer. Chiefly correspondence, together with writings, speeches, reports, government documents, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, genealogies, photos, and other papers, relating to personal and professional affairs, cultural affairs in New York City, efforts on behalf of civic and judicial reform, alumni activities with Harvard College and Columbia University Law School, espousal of civil liberties causes, and work on behalf of the Episcopal Church.

ArchivalResource: 22 boxes and 1 Paige box

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00016/catalog View

Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Reading Library, 1707-1961.

Title: Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Reading Library, 1707-1961.

The Robert Sterling Clark reading library is comprised of ca. 800 titles that document a broad range of interests. Fiction and history predominate, though there is significant subject development in cookery and horses. The collection includes multiple volumes by a number of authors, including substantive first edition holdings of Pearl S. Buck, John Galsworthy, Sinclair Lewis, and P.G. Wodehouse. Many of the volumes include minor penciled annotations by RSC which record reading dates and brief thoughts on the volume in hand.

ArchivalResource: 113.5 linear ft. : (ca. 1012 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263962247 View

Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

Title: Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 boxes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01442/catalog View

Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Company reader reports on manuscripts submitted for publication. 1882-1931.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company reader reports on manuscripts submitted for publication

Reader reports on manuscripts submitted for review and potential publicationby Houghton Mifflin Company.

ArchivalResource: 103 boxes, 1 volume (130 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01623/catalog View

Sedgwick, Henry Dwight, 1861-1957. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [Between 1915 and 1963].

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [Between 1915 and 1963].

ArchivalResource: 4 items (5 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184906687 View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

Burlingham, Charles Culp, 1858-1959. Papers, 1876-1960

Title: Charles Culp Burlingham papers, 1876-1960

Papers of Charles Culp Burlingham (1858-1959), attorney, civic leader, and reformer. Chiefly correspondence, together with writings, speeches, reports, government documents, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, genealogies, photos, and other papers, relating to personal and professional affairs, cultural affairs in New York City, efforts on behalf of civic and judicial reform, alumni activities with Harvard College and Columbia University Law School, espousal of civil liberties causes, and work on behalf of the Episcopal Church.

ArchivalResource: 22 boxes and 1 Paige box

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00016/catalog 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

Henry Dwight Sedgwick Collection, 1899, 1905

Title: Henry Dwight Sedgwick Collection 1899, 1905

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00476.xml View

Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Title: Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Letters from various correspondents to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page concerning his editorial work and his interest in education in the South.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01471/catalog View

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

Sedgwick, Henry Dwight, 1861-1957. Essay by Henry Dwight Sedgwick [manuscript], n.y.

Title: Essay by Henry Dwight Sedgwick [manuscript], n.y.

Essay, "A Letter from Italy," n.y. Jul.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647900734 View

Sedgwick, Henry Dwight, 1861-1957. Letters to Mabel Hooper La Farge, 1920-1937.

Title: Letters to Mabel Hooper La Farge, 1920-1937.

Consists of 55 letters by Sedgwick to Mabel Hooper La Farge, together with one letter from Ellery Sedgwick to Mabel Hooper La Farge and one letter from Thomas La Farge to Henry Dwight Sedgwick. Sedgwick's letters are often concerned with questions of religious belief as well as his travels and writings.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122575007 View

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

Sedgwick, Theodore, 1863-1951. Theodore Sedgwick diaries, 1884-1950.

Title: Theodore Sedgwick diaries, 1884-1950.

Diaries kept by Rev. Theodore Sedgwick of New York, Rome, and Sharon, Conn. during ocean voyages to Europe; as rector of St. Paul's American Church in Rome; and during his retirement years. Entries describe Sedgwick's views on Italian politics and culture during the Fascist revolution and World War II, including his changing impressions of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini; religious thought in Rome; daily activities; trips throughout the United States and Europe; family news and events; and personal reminiscences. The diaries also contain scrapbook material, including newsclippings, correspondence, photographs, postcards, and other memorabilia. Included is information about Sedgwick's children and their families, particularly the career of his son Harold Bend Sedgwick within the Episcopal church, and the acting and teaching career of his son Charles Sedgwick. Some printed matter relates to the writing and publishing careers of his brothers Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1861-1957) and Ellery Sedgwick (1872-1960). Other family members represented in the diaries are Elizabeth Ludlow Sedgwick, Mary Aspinwall Bend Sedgwick, and Theodore Sedgwick (1904-1974). Also included is material related to Harvard University, from which Theodore Sedgwick graduated in 1886.

ArchivalResource: 46 volumes in 7 cartons and 4 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/670228494 View

John Jay Chapman papers

Title: John Jay Chapman papers

Correspondence between American essayist John Jay Chapman and his family and friends, as well as compositions by him.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00932/catalog View

Letters to Mabel Hooper La Farge, 1920-1937.

Title: Letters to Mabel Hooper La Farge, 1920-1937.

Letters of American essayist, biographer and historian Henry Dwight Sedgwick to Mabel Hooper La Farge.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01071/catalog View

Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Title: Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Correspondence, compositions, and diaries of American novelist William Dean Howells as well as papers of his wife and children.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes, 2 volumes, 2 portfolio boxes (26 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01480/catalog View

Mary Augusta Scott Papers

Title: Mary Augusta Scott Papers

Correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, journals and photographs relating to Scott's personal life and professional life as an author and professor of English at Smith College.

ArchivalResource: 8.5 cubic feet (10 boxes)

https://digitallibrary.vassar.edu/collections/finding-aids/02dba216-f09b-4584-be31-83a619472ecd View

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

Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Title: Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Primarily professional correspondence of biographer and editor M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

ArchivalResource: 35 boxes (9 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00489/catalog View

Class Book, 1843.

Title: ClassBook, 1843.

The Class Book of 1843 contains biographical entries for nearly all members of the Class of 1843, many of them written by the students themselves. Broad portraits of undergraduate life are not found in these pages; they consist mainly of biographical facts and anecdotes. The Class Book also contains the Class Oration and Class Poem, as well as the minutes of Class Meetings and Suppers.

ArchivalResource: [8], 548 p.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua12005/catalog View

Letters to Mabel Hooper La Farge, 1920-1937.

Title: Letters to Mabel Hooper La Farge, 1920-1937.

Letters of American essayist, biographer and historian Henry Dwight Sedgwick to Mabel Hooper La Farge.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01071/catalog View

Owen Wister Papers, 1829-1966, (bulk 1890-1930)

Title: Owen Wister Papers 1829-1966 (bulk 1890-1930)

Author and writer of western novels. Correspondence, diaries and journals, family papers, drafts of articles, poems, novels, short stories, speeches, and other writings and papers; includes partial ms. and dramatizations of Wister's and his libretto for "Villon; a Romantic Opera in Four Acts." Family correspondents include Fanny Kemble (Wister's grandmother), Sarah Butler Wister (his mother), Mary Channing Wister (his wife), and his cousins, S. Weir Mitchell and Langdon Elwyn Mitchell. The Virginian

ArchivalResource: 26,130 items; 103 containers; 41 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997008 View

William James Jr. papers, 1857-1960 (inclusive), 1911-1959 (bulk).

Title: William James Jr. papers, 1857-1960 (inclusive), 1911-1959(bulk).

Papers of American painter William James.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00577/catalog View

Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Title: Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Letters from various correspondents to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page concerning his editorial work and his interest in education in the South.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01471/catalog View

Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933. Additional papers, 1841-1940

Title: John Jay Chapman additional papers, 1841-1940.

Chiefly correspondence between American essayist John Jay Chapman and family, friends, and associates.

ArchivalResource: 37 boxes (18.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00718/catalog View