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Bacheller, Irving, 1859-1950. Papers of Irving Bacheller [manuscript] 1900-1947.

Title: Papers of Irving Bacheller [manuscript] 1900-1947.

The collection contains several manuscripts, including the novel "The master of chaos," 1931; portions of the novel "The master, "1910; an early version of the novel "The prodigal village," 1920; essays, poems, fragments, and notebooks on Josephus and the origins of the Christian church. A few letters, 1907-1947, from Bacheller concern social engagements and planned articles. Letters, 1900-39, to Bacheller from prominent literary and political figures of the day praise his books, especially Eben Holden, 1900; and congratulate him on his eightieth birthday. The collection also contains a photograph, 1942, of Bacheller and a guess book in which the names of John Dewey, Hamlin Garland, Alice Hegan Rice, Jessie B. Rittenhouse, Max Rosen and Lewis Worthington Smith are inscribed. Correspondents, many of whom wrote regarding "Eben Holden" and "Coming up the road," or congratulating him on his 80th birthday, include John Kendrick Bangs, Amelia E. Barr, Albert J. Beveridge, Alexander Black, John Burroughs, S. Parkes Cadman, Andrew Carnegie, Cyril Clemens, Calvin Coolidge, Grace Coolidge, Marie Curie, Walter Damsrosch, Frank Nelson Doubleday, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frederick Duneka, John Erskine, Lyman Judson Gage, Zona Gale, and Hamlin Garland. Also Arthur Guiterman, Arthur T. Hadley, John Hay, James A. Herne, Herbert Hoover, E. W. Hornung, William Dean Howells, John Hay, Elbert Hubbard, Charles Evans Hughes, William deW. Hyde, Rossiter Johnson, Frank Billings Kellogg, Joseph C. Lincoln, Edwin Markham, A. W. Mellon, Walter H. Page, Frederick Palmer, William Lyon Phelps, John W. Platner, H. C. Potter, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Jessie B. Rittenhouse who includes a poem, and John D. Rockefeller, Also John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Kermit Roosevelt, Sara Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Clinton Scollard, Harriet Prescott Spofford, H. W. Taft, William Howard Taft, Albert Payson Terhune, Maurice Thompson, Gene Tunney, Henry Van Dyke, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, William Allen White, Mark Twain, Mary E. Wilkins, and Owen D. Young. Recipients included William Gerard Chapman, Frederick Duneka, Robert Frost, Vincent Starrett, and George A. Zabriskie.

ArchivalResource: 250 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647938868 View

Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916. Letter to Nelson Doubleday [manuscript], 1899 December 22.

Title: Letter to Nelson Doubleday [manuscript], 1899 December 22.

Letter, December 22, 1899, to Nelson Doubleday.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647902750 View

Doubleday, Frank Nelson, 1862-1934,. Frank N. Doubleday and Nelson Doubleday collection, 1885-1963 (bulk 1890s-1940s)

Title: Frank N. Doubleday and Nelson Doubleday collection, 1885-1963 (bulk 1890s-1940s)

ArchivalResource: 5.00 cu. ft. (38 boxes, 1 carton)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60358278 View

Marvin, Samuel W. Autograph collection, 1815-1917.

Title: Autograph collection, 1815-1917.

Includes 4 1815 United States Treasury notes (5, 10, and 100 dollar denominations). Includes correspondence, 1879-1917, addressed to Samuel W. Marvin from distinguished writers, editors, and illustrators of the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. Correspondents (years of correspondence in parentheses) include Maria Rebecca Audubon (1898), James Vernon Bartlet (1899), Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1905), Edward William Bok (1895), Noah Brooks (1901), William Adams Brown (1906), William Crary Brownell (n.d.), Henry Cuyler Bunner (n.d.), Edward Livermore Burlingame (1903), Richard Burton (n.d.), Howard Chandler Christy (n.d.), Timothy Cole (1912), Balbino Dávalos (1904), Mary (Mapes) Dodge (1879), Frank Nelson Doubleday (1916), Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (n.d.), George Park Fisher (1905), Arthur Burdett Frost (1881), Richard Watson Gilder (1894), George Stephen Goodspeed (n.y.), Arthur Twining Hadley (1903), Arthur Henry Howard Heming (1900), William Temple Hornaday (1904), Laurence Hutton (1903), Claude Hermann Walter Johns (1904), John Lane (1899), James Laurence Laughlin (1903, 1906), Carl Sofus Lumholtz (1904), Francis Lynde (1897), Brander Matthews (1901, 1903), Donald Grant Mitchell (1891), John Ames Mitchell (1884, 1896), Howard Pyle (1903, 1905), Abby (Sage) Richardson (n.d.), William Thomas Smedley (1899), Arthur Cheney Train (1906), Henry van Dyke (1907), Lewis Wallace (1895), Andrew Fleming West (1917), Edith Newbold (Jones) Wharton (1905), Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggins (Mrs. G.C. Riggs) (n.d.), Francis Wilson (1894). Includes handwirtten preface for the limited ed. of "The Blue Flower" by Henry van Dyke.

ArchivalResource: 58 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58652908 View

Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920. Robert E. Peary correspondence [manuscript], 1892-1898.

Title: Robert E. Peary correspondence [manuscript], 1892-1898.

Letter #1: 1892 Oct 8. To S. S. McClure. Refers to McClure's favor of the 28th regarding articles for their "syndicate." Peary writes that he will be glad to hear any proposition they wish to offer him. Letter #2: 1893 June 2. To S. S. McClure. Writes to acknowledge receipt of McClure's letter of June 1 as well as the proofs of his article from Mr. Williams. While he has not had much time to correct errors, he finds them to be in general accordance with his statements. Includes clipping of 6 portraits. Letter #3: 1893 June 2. To Mr. Williams. Writes that he has received Williams' letter and corrected proof, and has no objections to it being published, although he has not had time to revise it. He wishes Williams and his wife well and invites them to visit. Letter #4: 1898 June 23. From F. N. Doubleday to R. E. Peary. Central National Bank check for $250.00 made out to Lieutenant R. E. Peary and signed by F. N. Doubleday, Treasurer, S. S. McClure Company.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/275107130 View

Don Carlos Seitz papers, 1882-1934

Title: Don Carlos Seitz papers 1882-1934

Don Carlos Seitz (1862-1935), American journalist and author, worked for several magazines and newspapers, including the New York World where he was business manager from 1898 to 1923. In addition to his editorial career, he wrote biographies and articles for magazines. Collection consists of correspondence and typescripts by Seitz. Correspondence, 1882-1934, mostly incoming, is with political leaders, authors, publishers, editors, and literary people. Topics covered are the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer and Seitz's books. Also, typescripts, 1925 and 1929, with corrections by Seitz.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (3 boxes, 2 packages)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2717 View

Doubleday, Frank Nelson, 1862-1934. Letter to D. M. Martin [manuscript], 1926 November 19.

Title: Letter to D. M. Martin [manuscript], 1926 November 19.

Doubleday writes to Martin regarding controversy over Edna Ferber's novel, "Show Boat." He mentions a threat from Tom Taggart and a potential problem with the Catholic Church.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647816280 View

Morley family. Papers. Christopher Darlington Morley, 1890-1957. Additions.

Title: Papers. Christopher Darlington Morley, 1890-1957. Additions. 1908-1954.

These papers embrace Morley's correspondence, primarily letters to him, mostly from people connected with the literary market place; manuscripts, miscellaneous; and printed items. Correspondents include William Rose Benet, Earl Biggers, David Bone, Muirhead Bone, Heywood Brown, Homer Croy, Walter De La Mare, Frank Doubleday, Sara Teasdale, Glenn Frank, Buckminster Fuller, Stephen Graham, William Bayard Hale, Bart Haley, A.P. Herbert, Jerome Kern, Arthur Koestler, Stephen Leacock, Leonard Lyons, Arthur Morgan, Thomas Bird Mosher, Ogden Nash, A. Edward Newton, Frederick Niven, John Ransom, A.W.S. Rosenbach, Carl Sandburg, Ernest Bramah Smith, Logan Pearsall Smith, Vincent Starret, Julian Street, H.M. Tomlinson.

ArchivalResource: 11 feet, ca. 600 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3929281 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

Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945. Papers of Ellen Glasgow [manuscript], 1880-1963.

Title: Papers of Ellen Glasgow [manuscript], 1880-1963.

Papers of Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow include drafts of and notes on several novels including "Phases of an inferior planet," "Vein of iron," "A certain measure," "In this our life," and "The woman within," as well as copies of speeches and articles, and notes relating to her personal and literary affairs. Letters and telegrams, 1916 -1944, from Henry W. Anderson form about half of the correspondence; the more than 50 letters from James Lane Allen make up the second largest group. The collection also includes notebooks containing addresses, comments, bibliography, recipes and miscellaneous notes; and photographs and drawings of Miss Glasgow, her homes, pets, and other literary figures including a commercial strike of a woodcut of Glasgow's home by J.J. Lankes, 1926, commissioned as a design for her Christmas card.

ArchivalResource: 3385 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647898536 View

Nye, Daniel Webb. Correspondence of Daniel Webb Nye, 1911-1960.

Title: Correspondence of Daniel Webb Nye, 1911-1960.

Authors and company officials write to Mr. Nye about publishing matters and personal news. Included is a 19th century company financial statement and Memories, a collection of verse by M.A. Nye. Among the correspondents are Frank Nelson Doubleday, Edna Ferber, Rudyard Kipling, Gertrude Klason Lawrence, William McFee, and Charles Gilman Norris.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31254200 View

Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939. Papers, ca.1800-1941.

Title: Papers, ca.1800-1941.

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs and printed materials.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (ca. 1,000 items in 3 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122529084 View

Doubleday, Ellen McCarter, 1899-1978. Ellen McCarter Doubleday papers, [1930s]-1978.

Title: Ellen McCarter Doubleday papers, [1930s]-1978.

Consists of papers of Ellen McCarter Doubleday.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft. (9 boxes, 4 cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77992624 View

Doubleday, Frank Nelson, 1862-1934. Frank N. Doubleday and Nelson Doubleday collection, 1734-1966 (bulk 1890s-1940s)

Title: Frank N. Doubleday and Nelson Doubleday collection, 1734-1966 (bulk 1890s-1940s)

Consists primarily of papers of Frank Nelson Doubleday and his son, Nelson, relating to their personal and business relationships with prominent Doubleday authors and artists. The collection includes approximately 190 letters of Kipling and the holograph manuscript, among others, of THE LIGHT THAT FAILED, presented by the author to F. N. Doubleday in 1899. The holograph manuscript of THE RAZOR'S EDGE, presented by Maugham to Nelson Doubleday at Christmas, 1944, highlights the second-generation acquisitions in the collection. Additions to the collection include correspondence concerning the copyright and publication of works by O. Henry; and personal papers of Frank Nelson Doubleday, including additional articles and reports on his Red Cross trip to Hong Kong in 1918, typescript drafts of his autobiography, "Secret Memoirs of a Publisher," written in two installments (1926 and 1933) for private circulation, a journal (1897), a family genealogy, a 1734 English indenture, and photographs. Also present are financial and estate papers of Frank Nelson Doubleday, his two wives, Neltje Blanchan DeGraff Doubleday and Florence Van Wyck Doubleday, Lily Underhill Doubleday, Nelson Doubleday, Felix Doubleday, Samuel A. Everitt, and tax and estate papers (1930-1942) for Rudyard Kipling.

ArchivalResource: 13.7 linear ft. (31 archival boxes, 1 flat print box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/175679202 View

Letters sent to Walter Hines Page from various correspondents, English period, 1876-1937.

Title: Letters sent to Walter Hines Page from various correspondents, English period, 1876-1937.

Letters to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page from various correspondents concerning his diplomatic service.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (11.88 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00275/catalog View

Seitz, Don Carlos, 1862-1935. Don Carlos Seitz papers, 1882-1934.

Title: Don Carlos Seitz papers, 1882-1934.

Collection consists of correspondence and typescripts by Seitz.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (3 boxes, 2 packages)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122571283 View

Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935. Autograph letters (2) signed : Wolverhampton and Clouds Hill, Moreton, Dorset, to Mrs Doubleday, 1934 Feb. 1 and Aug. 16.

Title: Autograph letters (2) signed : Wolverhampton and Clouds Hill, Moreton, Dorset, to Mrs Doubleday, 1934 Feb. 1 and Aug. 16.

Concerning the death of her husband.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (4 p.) + with envelopes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270598284 View

Andrew Carnegie Papers, 1803-1935, (bulk 1890-1919)

Title: Andrew Carnegie Papers 1803-1935 (bulk 1890-1919)

Industrialist and philanthropist. Correspondence, reports, memoranda, speeches, articles, book files, financial papers, printed materials, and other papers relating to Carnegie's steel manufacturing and other business and philanthropic activities.

ArchivalResource: 67,400 items; 304 containers; 72 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009340 View

Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers, 1856-1938, 1870-1938

Title: Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers 1856-1938 1870-1938

This is a synthetic collection consisting of portraits, pictorial works, manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence from, to, and about the author, a diary for 1885, a notebook for 1895, portraits, and pictorial works.

ArchivalResource: 717 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19174 View

Charles Eliot Norton papers

Title: Charles Eliot Norton papers

This archive contains letters addressed to Charles Eliot Norton from about 1845 to1908. Norton was a Harvard graduate (A.B. 1846) and professor of the History of Fine Arts at Harvard from 1874 to 1898, with a special interest in the study and translation of Dante. Many of the letters in this collection deal with art and with Dante. In addition he knew a great many prominent figures in both England and the United States, especially those in the political field and the literary and artistics fields. His correspondence with these people often touches upon their public and their private lives. From 1863 to 1868 Norton was joint editor with his friend James Russell Lowell of the North American review. The letters addressed to him as editor are marked in this index by a star (*) and the folders containing them are stamped with a red N.A.R.(=North American Review). In 1898 Norton's opposition to the Spanish-American war led Senator George F. Hoar to criticize him. A list of some of the letters Norton received commenting on this controversy is at the end of this index. Referenced throughout the finding aid is the Excavations at Delphi (scrapbook folder) with a folder designation, such as f.1, f.2, and so on. All folders can be found at item number 5308.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear feet (45 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00083/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

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910. Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers, 1856-1938 bulk (1870-1938).

Title: Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers, 1856-1938 bulk (1870-1938).

This is a synthetic collection consisting of portraits, pictorial works, manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, a diary for 1885, a notebook for 1895, portraits, and pictorial works.

ArchivalResource: 692 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122517270 View

Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935. Autograph letters (2) signed : Wolverhampton and Clouds Hill, Moreton, Dorset, to Mrs Doubleday, 1934 Feb. 1 and Aug. 16.

Title: Autograph letters (2) signed : Wolverhampton and Clouds Hill, Moreton, Dorset, to Mrs Doubleday, 1934 Feb. 1 and Aug. 16.

Concerning the death of her husband.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (4 p.) + with envelopes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270598284 View

Ray Stannard Baker Papers 1836-1947 (bulk 1907-1944)

Title: Ray Stannard Baker Papers 1836-1947 (bulk 1907-1944)

Journalist and author. Correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks, drafts of books and articles, family papers, scrapbooks, clippings, and printed matter concerning Baker's career in newspaper and magazine writing, his books, and his role in the Paris Peace Conference. Included is a large group of papers collected by Baker for his biography of Woodrow Wilson. Also includes portions of an autobiography of Robert M. La Follette (1855-1925) and material relating to Baker's study of African Americans in the Progressive era, "Following the Color Line."

ArchivalResource: 30,000 items; 138 containers; 55.6 linear feet; 97 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006006 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

Harry Elkins Widener manuscript file, 1861-1908.

Title: Harry Elkins Widener manuscript file, 1861-1908.

Miscellaneous letters and other manuscripts removed from volumes in theHarry Elkins Widener Collection, with items added from other sources.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01545/catalog View

Doubleday, Doran & Company. Correspondence with Theodore and Helen Dreiser, 1899-1950.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore and Helen Dreiser, 1899-1950.

Correspondence with Theodore and Helen Dreiser from various members of the editorial and administrative staff of the publishing firm of Doubleday, Doran & Company; also contains correspondence with Doubleday from Harold J. Dies, acting on behalf of Helen Dreiser.

ArchivalResource: 286 items (489 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155898372 View