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Tompkins, Elizabeth Knight, 1865-. Letters to Edward William Bok and William Valentine Alexander [manuscript] 1900-06.

Title: Letters to Edward William Bok and William Valentine Alexander [manuscript] 1900-06.

Miss Tompkins writes about pieces she is submitting to the Ladies Home journal including the story Delia, daughter of Mary, and article on boarding schools. A reply from Bok is drafted on the verso of one of the letters.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647937712 View

Standard, Paul, 1896-1992. Letter, 1977 December 5 [manuscript].

Title: Letter, 1977 December 5 [manuscript].

Standard writes to Elizabeth and Willis Tompkins about access to the incunabula in Lessing Rosenwald's library; Stella Standard's new cookbook; a paperback edition of "Calligraphy's flowering, decay, restoration"; and his critical study of Arrighi's hand.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2p on 1 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647827177 View

Black, Emmett,. Sierra Madre Community Friendship Club, Oct. 3, 1949 [graphic].

Title: Sierra Madre Community Friendship Club, Oct. 3, 1949 [graphic]. 1949.

Image depicts the officers of the Sierra Madre Community Friendship Club for year beginning Oct. 3, 1949. Ten women (four standing, six sitting on park bench) are shown in Memorial Park. They are identified as follows: (back Row, left to right) Mrs. Frank Holloway - Tea chairman, Etta D. Leguin - Recreation secretary & music chairman, Abigail Slater, Mrs. Fred Hahn - vice president, (front row) Madam Babin (mother of Lee Shippey) - Needle work chairman, Mabel Prill - corresponding secretary, Alice Sedgman - President and program chairman, Elizabeth Turner - Sunshine chairman, Mary Talbot - Treasurer, & Elizabeth Tompkins - Historian. The photograph was taken in 1949.

ArchivalResource: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44591779 View

William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01777 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

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

The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Title: The Nation records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Records of the weekly magazine, The Nation, primarily during the editorship of Freda Kirchwey.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (42.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00189/catalog View

Douglas Tilden Papers, 1860-1970

Title: Douglas Tilden Papers, 1860-1970

Collection includes personal and professional correspondence (chiefly incoming), contracts, sketches, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts of published and unpublished writings, and "written" conversations between Tilden, who was deaf, and others. Also includes medals, other personal memora bilia. Principal correspondents are his daughter, Gladys Tilden, James D. Phelan & Alexander Stirling Calder.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 11 boxes, 4 cartons, 6 oversize volumes, 1 oversize folder; Linear feet: 11.6

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3t1nb05j View