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Appleton-Century mss., 1846-1962

Title: Appleton-Century mss., 1846-1962

Consists of the office files of the publishing company, its two predecessors, D. Appleton & Co., and the Century Co., and to a small extent its successor, Appleton-Century Crofts, Inc. The papers in the collection consist of contracts with authors for the publication of their works, and for dramatizations, motion picture rights, foreign editions, and translations of books published by the firm; business correspondence with authors, executors of their estates, publishers and others; royalty statements; copies of the wills of some of the authors; and other business papers.

ArchivalResource: 6,249 items

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Hitchcock, Ripley, 1857-1918. Ripley Hitchcock papers, [ca. 1885]-1935.

Title: Ripley Hitchcock papers, [ca. 1885]-1935.

Letters written to James Ripley Wellman Hitchcock, to Mrs. Hitchcock, and to Richard Henry Stoddard from various people in literary artistic and dramatic circles, mainly of New York. There are letters and documents relating to Hitchcock's early life, photographs, a group of materials relating to the American Art Alliance in which Mrs. Hitchcock was interested, and a group of miscellaneous papers and letters relating to the publication, dramatization, filming, and radio rights of Edward N. Westcott's DAVID HARUM which Mr. Hitchcock was instrumental in having published. Also, manuscripts and printed versions of Charles Chapin Sargent's (brother of Mrs. Ripley Hitchcock) writings including short stories and a libretto for an operetta, "Cleopatra," written for the Columbia College Musical Society in 1897, two scrapbooks containing mementos of his college years, two pictures, and a Columbia College diploma.

ArchivalResource: 23 boxes & 1 flat box.

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Sharps' Rifle Manufacturing Company. Records, 1852-1898.

Title: Records, 1852-1898.

Correspondence, letterbooks for offices in South Windham, Conn., (1885-1892) and London, (1888-1892), check stubs for office in Bridgeport, Conn., 1884-1889, and notes and bills payable/receivable, 1878-1882, of firearms manufacturer. Correspondents include the Hopkins & Allen Manufacturing Company of Norwich, and Adams Nickel Plating and Manufacturing Company of South Windham, both in Connecticut, Hazeltine, Lake & Company of London, England, E.C. Winchester, A.S. Winchester, Edward G. Westcott, Nelson King, Hugo Borchardt, Charles H. Pond, F.C. Glaser, J.B. Russell and Charles E. Dwight, manufacturer of Kreassoter, the great corpse preserver.

ArchivalResource: 8 volumes, 4 boxes ; 39 x 26 x 12 cm. or smaller.

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Hitchcock, Ripley, 1857-1918. David Harum : a comedy in three acts, a story of American life : typescript, after 1898.

Title: David Harum : a comedy in three acts, a story of American life : typescript, after 1898.

Mimeograph of an adaptation by Ripley and M. W. Hitchcock from Edward N. Westcott's play, with synopsis of acts and stage diagrams; forms part of the inventory of the Chicago Manuscript Company, later owned by theater manager, Robert L. Sherman of Chicago.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (64 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84680078 View

D. Appleton-Century Company. Records, 1846-1962.

Title: Records, 1846-1962.

Consists of the office files of the publishing company, its two predecessors, D. Appleton & Co., and the Century Co., and to a small extent its successor, Appleton-Century Crofts, Inc. The papers in the collection consist of contracts with authors for the publication of their works, and for dramatizations, motion picture rights, foreign editions, and translations of books published by the firm; business correspondence with authors, executors of their estates, publishers and others; royalty statements; copies of the wills of some of the authors; and other business papers.

ArchivalResource: 6, 249 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36428869 View