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Authors' League of America. Letter from the Authors' League of America to an unknown recipient [manuscript], n.d.

Title: Letter from the Authors' League of America to an unknown recipient [manuscript], n.d.

In this half page fragment, written between 1912 and 1929, the members of the executive committee appeal to 100 successful members to subscribe $100 each to meet the League's expenses and carry out projects. The letter is signed by George Creel, Arthur Guiterman, Robert Hughes, Burges Johnson, Orson B. Lowell, Alice Duer Miller and Jesse Lynch Williams.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647844409 View

Korzybska, Mira Edgerly, 1872-1954. Mira Edgerly Korzybska papers, ca.1850-1960.

Title: Mira Edgerly Korzybska papers, ca.1850-1960.

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, diaries, documents, photographs, audio tape recordings, printed materials, scrapbooks, and sketches and drafts of portraits. Her finished portraits on ivory are cataloged separately for the Art Collection (q.v.).

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft. ( 25 boxes, 2 scrapbooks, & 19 oversized folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/506131166 View

Johnson, Burges, 1877-1963. Johnson papers, 1894-1948.

Title: Johnson papers, 1894-1948.

Contains letters to Burges Johnson primarily from 20th century literary and political individuals, including Gelett Burgess, Margaret Deland, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Orson Lowell, H.L. Mencken, Channing Pollock, Julian Street and George W. Wickersham. There are also letters to Johnson on the subject of good writing and the teaching of English composition in American colleges written in reply to a query by Johnson in 1932. There are letters from Charles Evans Hughes and a letter from Grover Cleveland to Everett P. Wheeler.

ArchivalResource: 1 archive box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52218868 View

Johnson, Burges, 1877-1963. Letter to E. Ording [manuscript], 1942 March 6.

Title: Letter to E. Ording [manuscript], 1942 March 6.

Johnson agrees to inscribe a book.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647806023 View

Theodore Roosevelt Collection: Books, pamphlets, periodicals, 18-- - <ongoing>

Title: Theodore Roosevelt Collection: Books, pamphlets, periodicals, 18-- - <ongoing>

Publications are primarily contained in the Roosevelt class, a classified sequence of books, pamphlets, contemporary periodical and later scholarly journal articles (clippings or offprints), theses and dissertations, broadsides, newsclippings, and other formats as noted below. Some ms. items. Works by Theodore Roosevelt: Collected sets, individual editions and reprints, reviews, translations. Collected and individual letters, diaries, speeches (including extracts and commentaries), proclamations, and official messages. Contributions (including prefaces, introductions, and forewords) in works by others, to magazines and society publications, book reviews, works of joint authorship, editorials. Anthologies. Editions for the blind. Works about Theodore Roosevelt: Bibliographies. Biographies and other general works. Anecdotes, reminiscences of contemporaries, and other works with TR references. TR as a religious man, naturalist, man of letters (also books belonging to TR, largely Harvard texts, and to other family), outdoorsman. Works dedicated to TR. Ancestry, family, works by family members, homes. Career by special periods and events, each segment including all formats, campaign literature, honorary degrees and citations received. Memorials: addresses, resolutions, anniversaries, sites, organizations. Pictures and cartoons (see: Theodore Roosevelt Collection : visual materials (008177700); Theodore Roosevelt Collection : political cartoons (008177701)). Satirical and comic works. Poetry, drama, fiction, juvenile biographies. Biographies and writings of contemporaries. General U.S. history, local history, political parties (including Progressive periodicals; see also special periods). Files of contemporary periodicals, newspapers; newspaper indexes, biographies of journalists. General newsclippings: mounted and unmounted series, scrapbooks (see: Theodore Roosevelt Collection: ephemera (000602382)) For further details see: Guide to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, available onsite, under: Roosevelt class.

ArchivalResource: Ca. 12,000 volumes

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990081776990203941/catalog View

Johnson, Burges, 1877-1963. Letter, 1920 Feb. 9, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to Mrs. Roger Warner, New York, N.Y.

Title: Letter, 1920 Feb. 9, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to Mrs. Roger Warner, New York, N.Y.

Recommends one Katherine Scott, who has been doing publicity work for the Y.W.C.A.

ArchivalResource: [1] leaf ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8721623 View

Johnson, Burges, 1877-1963. Burges Johnson papers [microform].

Title: Burges Johnson papers [microform]. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 2 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49367061 View

Johnson family. Burges and Constance Johnson family papers, ca. 1895-1963.

Title: Burges and Constance Johnson family papers, ca. 1895-1963.

The papers contain information about the Johnson family as a whole. However, the bulk of the material relates to Burges Johnson; his wife, Constance Wheeler Johnson; their daughter, Miriam Jarvis Johnson Carreker; and many of Burges Johnson's professional acquaintances and personal friends. Materials relating to Burges Johnson's parents, brothers and sisters, and other children are also included.

ArchivalResource: 17 record storage boxes, 2 archive boxes, 3 half archive boxes, 3 flat boxes, 2 wrapped packages (22 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52218835 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

John MacKay Shaw Collection, 1737-2007

Title: John MacKay Shaw Collection, 1737-2007

ArchivalResource: Over 22,400 books in the Childhood in Poetry Collection, which includes approximately 35,000 volumes, since many sets have multiple volumes. Over 69 Linear Ft. of manuscript and additional materials.

http://digitool.fcla.edu/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=2263488&custom_att_2=direct View

Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937. Papers of Ellis Parker Butler, 1891-1940.

Title: Papers of Ellis Parker Butler, 1891-1940.

The papers of Ellis Parker Butler are primarily comprised of correspondence, but they also include some manuscripts of his poetry. Most of the letters concern his writing or his work with the Authors' League of America. Some of the correspondents include: Frank Bacon, Witter Bynner, William Chapman, Irvin S. Cobb, Raymond Davis, Robert Davis, Sewell Ford, Hamlin Garland, Robert Holliday, Burges Johnson, Joseph Lincoln, Orson Lowell, George McCutcheon, Thomas Masson, Leo Mielziner, Fulton Oursler, Leroy Scott, Ellery Sedgwick, Henry A. Shute, Julian Street, Arthur Train, Louis Vance, and Jesse Williams. There is also personal correspondence, most of it with his daughter Jean Chapin. Finally, the correspondence of Ida Zipster Butler is also included in the papers of her husband. Almost all of these letters relate in some way to Ellis Parker Butler.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 linear ft., (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233126764 View

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. Papers, 1897-1930

Title: William Stanley Braithwaite papers, 1897-1930

Papers of the African-American poet, literary critic, and editor William Stanley Braithwaite.

ArchivalResource: 31 boxes (10.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01469/catalog View

Witter Bynner papers, 1829-1965.

Title: Witter Bynner papers, 1829-1965.

Correspondence and compositions of American poet and translator Witter Bynner.

ArchivalResource: 99 boxes (49.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00668/catalog View

Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922. Papers of John Kendrick Bangs [manuscript] 1890-1921.

Title: Papers of John Kendrick Bangs [manuscript] 1890-1921.

Manuscripts by Bangs include: Chapter 8 of The idiot at home, 1900; the poems Consolation and To Mark Twain on his seventieth birthday; and a brief essay about Thomas Bailey Aldrich [9 items. holograph & typescript signed]. For a fuller treatment, see listing in control folder.--Letters, 1892-1921, concern publication of poems and stories, second serial rights, autographs, lecture tours, and Bangs' musical play Lady Teazle [30 items. chiefly holograph signed]--Photograph, 1894, of Bangs, inscribed to Hayden Carruth [black & white. 16.5 x 10.8 cm.]--Autograph album contains signatures and poems by various American authors including Irving Bacheller, Burges Johnson and Percy Wallace MacKaye. [1 v. ca. 115 p. leather-bound. 20 cm.]. Correspondents include William Gerard Chapman, Samuel Sidney McClure, Franklin Harvey Head? and James Arthur Tufts.

ArchivalResource: 41 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647946015 View

Authors' League of America. Letter from the Authors' League of America to an unknown recipient, n.d.

Title: Letter from the Authors' League of America to an unknown recipient, n.d.

In this half page fragment, written between 1912 and 1929, the members of the executive committee appeal to 100 successful members to subscribe $100 each to meet the League's expenses and carry out projects. The letter is signed by George Creel, Arthur Guiterman, Robert Hughes, Burges Johnson, Orson B. Lowell, Alice Duer Miller and Jesse Lynch Williams.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136277 View

Johnson, Burges, 1877-1963. Typed letter signed Burges Johnson to: "Dear Mr. Fullerton" August 16, 1925.

Title: Typed letter signed Burges Johnson to: "Dear Mr. Fullerton" August 16, 1925.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70814483 View

Hopwood Awards Collection, 1930-

Title: Hopwood Awards Collection, 1930-

Consists of correspondence relating to the annual University of Michigan student contests in creative literature for the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Prizes funded by income from the Avery Hopwood bequest.

ArchivalResource: 8, 111 items.

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/990039225410106381 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

Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949. Barrett assorted authors collection, 1814-1947

Title: Barrett assorted authors collection [manuscript] 1814-1947.

The collection contains manuscripts of The broken battalions by Paul Hamilton Hayne, The flower of Liberty by Oliver W. Holmes, and The need of two loaves by Nathaniel Parker Willis, as well as a printed pamphlet What Mr. Jenkins thinks by Heman Lincoln Wayland. Topics discussed in the authors' correspondence include personal finances, efforts to get published, lectures and public appearances, booksellers and selling, book reviews, book and autograph collecting, other writers, current writing, illnesses, regrets and acceptances and editing. There are brief comments on current events including the slave trade, the War of 1812, the Civil War and World War I. Correspondents are: James Truslow Adams, George Ade, Washington Allston, Leonard Bacon, Isaac Bailey, S. Baring-Gould, Albert Barnes, Theodric Romeyn Beck, Lyman Beecher, J.D. Bell, William Rose Benét, Robert Bonner, Henry Chandler Bowen, Louis Bromfield, James Brooks, George Washington Bungay, Thornton W. Burgess, John Burroughs, George Washington Cable, Henry Charles Carey, William Ellery Channing, William Ellery Channing, Francis James Child, George William Childs, Horace Porter, Alexander Robert Chisolm, William Conant Church, Edward Daniel Clarke, Richard Coe, Joseph Green Cogswell, Samuel Stillman Conant, Charles Taber Congdon, Martin Franklin Conway, Moncure Daniel Conway, Joseph Cook, David Goodman Croly, Jane Cunningham Croly, Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, George Ticknor Curtis, George William Curtis. Frederic Dannay, Francis W. Dawson, Joseph Delaplaine, Eugene Lemoine Didier, Mary Abigail Dodge, Ignatius Donnelly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Addis Emmet, Jeremiah Evarts, Edward Everett, T. Farre, Edward S. Farrow, C.C. Felton, John Fiske, Clyde Fitch, Peter Force, Hamlin Garland, Caroline Howard Gilman, Parke Godwin, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Asa Gray, Barry Gray, George Gray, Joel Tyler Headley, Robert Silliman Hillyer, Edward Howard House, Freeman Hurst, Burges Johnson, Thomas Wallace Knox, Melville de Lancey Landon, Fitzhugh Lee, Francis Lieber, Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Benson Lossing, Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop, William McFee, Archibald MacLeish, Julia Marlowe, Samuel Merwin, Elias Nason, Scott Nearing, Bill Nye, Edgar Wilson, James Parton, James Kirke Paulding. Jonathan Cogswall Perkins, Bliss Perry, Morris Phillips, Wendell Phillips, Octavius Pickering, George Henry Preble, William Hickling Prescott, Agnes Repplier, Edgar Saltus, Carl Sandburg, Frederick Saunders, John Savage, Montgomery Schuyler, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Ernest Thompson Seton, Elizabeth M. Sewell, Lemuel Shattuck, George William Sheldon, Henry Augustus Shute, L.H. Sigourney, Upton Sinclair, Edward Spencer, Charles Sprague, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ann Sophia Stephens, M. Stillman, Jared Sparks, Richard Henry Stoddard, Wilkins Tannehill, Bayard Taylor, Marion Harland, Maurice Thompson, John Reuben Thompson, Benjamin W. Ticknor, George Ticknor, Theodore Tilton, George Francis Train, John Townsend Trowbridge, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Henry Van Dyke, Jeanette Walworth, Joseph Warren, Heman Lincoln Wayland. Noah Webster, R.A. West, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Marshall Pinckney Wilder, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and James Grant Wilson. Recipients includes William Johnson Bacon, Henry Carey Baird, James Nelson Barker, [Maxwell Struthers?] Burt, Henry Charles Carey, Carey & Hart, Eckstein Case, Salmon Portland Chase, William Pleater Davidge, Eugene Lemoine Didier, Charles Daniel Drake, John Wakefield Francis, Samuel Ward Francis, Nathan Hale, Joseph LeRoy Harrison, Abraham Hart, George Stillman Hillard, Isabella Batchelder James, Ralph Olmstead Keeler, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, F.W. McDonough, R. Shelton Mackenzie, North American Review, Horace Porter, Justus Starr Redfield, Matthew Hale Smith, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Richard Henry Stoddard, Theodore Tilton, Charles Burr Todd, and James Wolcott Wadsworth. The collection also contains portraits of John Esten Cooke, George William Curtis, Jeremiah Evarts, James Kirke Paulding, William H. Prescott, and Bayard Taylor.

ArchivalResource: 144 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647968743 View