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James B. Pinker and Son correspondence concerning John Galsworthy, 1901-1946.

Title: James B. Pinker and Son correspondence concerning John Galsworthy, 1901-1946.

Correspondence with British literary agent firm James B. Pinker and Son, regarding publication, translation, or adaptation of works by John Galsworthy and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (1.25 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00246/catalog View

Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925. Henry Rider Haggard collection of papers, 1884-1920 bulk (1885-1915).

Title: Henry Rider Haggard collection of papers, 1884-1920 bulk (1885-1915).

This is a synthetic collection consisting of mansucripts, a typescript, correspondence by and about the author, financial and legal documents, and a portrait photograph.

ArchivalResource: 204 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122485897 View

Humbert Wolfe collection of papers, 1901-1944

Title: Humbert Wolfe collection of papers 1901-1944

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, a notebook for 1901-1902, legal documents, and portraits.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3,567 items.

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19144 View

Arthur H. Clark Company. Trade catalogs of booksellers, 1884-1968.

Title: Trade catalogs of booksellers, 1884-1968.

Trade catalogs, advertising of books, booksellers and other ephemera relating to the selling of books.

ArchivalResource: 85 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122591371 View

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. Papers of John Dos Passos [manuscript], 1896-1970.

Title: Papers of John Dos Passos [manuscript], 1896-1970.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence with publishers, lecture organizer Harold R. Peat, inc., and academics. Correspondence, 1953-1955, with the Peat agency discusses itineraries, monetary arrangements, criticism, advice, lecture format and stress. Some contracts, itinaries and instruction sheets are included. Correspondence with agents and publishers traces the publication history of his books. Very brief, routine letters from academics generally request permission to reprint selections in anthologies and college texts. Of interest in the correspondence are a 1952 letter resigning from the American Civil Liberties Union and three letters re potential libel over the character "Elsa" in "Great Days." The collection also contains a Columbia University Law School Class Book, 1896, with a biographical note and photograph of his half brother James Madison; royalty statements; clippings; obituaries; a memoranda notebook; miscellaneous printed material and two articles by Dos Passos "The Truth About Visual Training," "Two Eighteenth-Century Careers"and "Thomas Jefferson Looks At the Modern World."

ArchivalResource: 680 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647834374 View

Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931. La Fayette Butler Collection of Arnold Bennett publishing correspondence and manuscripts, 1903-1931.

Title: La Fayette Butler Collection of Arnold Bennett publishing correspondence and manuscripts, 1903-1931.

The collection contains Arnold Bennett's letters from his agents, colleagues, and publishers; manuscripts of some of his articles and books; and six watercolors he painted. The correspondence with Bennett's publishers concerns topics such as the design of bookcovers, illustrations, various proofs of manuscripts, publishers asking for autographed copies of certain novels, publishers asking Bennett to write prefaces for other authors' books they publish, discussion about the rights Bennett has over works in Europe and in the United States, publishing new editions of Bennett's books, and working out new contracts and serializing his stories. Among the correspondents are agents James B. Pinker and Martin Secker, author George Sturt, and publishers Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; Bookman Journal, Cassell and Company; Chapman and Hall; Chatto and Windus; Doubleday, Doran and Company; Ernest Benn Ltd.; Frank Palmer, Publisher; George H. Doran Company; Harper and Brothers; Hodder and Stoughton; Jonathan Cape; Methuen and Co.; and T. Werner Laurie. Includes manuscripts of Bennett's personal bibliography, catalogue of his papers for sale by Sotheby's after his death, film scenario for Punch and Judy, novels (Lord Raingo, and These twain), operatic libretto of Anthony and Cleopatra, plays (Flora, What the public wants), review he wrote, and short story (The Night visitor).

ArchivalResource: 6.06 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51651727 View

Henry Rider Haggard collection of papers, 1879-1920, 1885-1915

Title: Henry Rider Haggard collection of papers 1879-1920 1885-1915

This is a synthetic collection consisting of mansucripts, a typescript, correspondence, financial and legal documents, and a portrait photograph.

ArchivalResource: 204 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19284 View

Manson, James Alexander, 1851-1921. Papers, 1897-1912.

Title: Papers, 1897-1912.

Seventeen letters, 1897-1906, to Manson from Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, concern writings by Quiller-Couch and manuscripts of other authors about which he was advising Manson, editor of Cassell and Company. There are also a signed, autograph manuscript and a revised proof of Quiller-Couch's "Foreword" to Parodies and Imitations, Old and New (London: 1912), edited by J.A. Stanley Adams and Bernard C. White.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19902892 View

Whyte, Frederic, 1867-1941. Frederic Whyte correspondence : ALS, 1894-1905.

Title: Frederic Whyte correspondence : ALS, 1894-1905.

Most letters are addressed to Whyte, mainly as editor for Cassell and Company. Correspondents are Winifred Ashton (Clemence Dane), Sir S.B. Bancroft, Charles Marriott, Neil Munro, Sir F. C. Gould, E. W. Hornung, and Barry Pain. One letter, undated, is written by Whyte.

ArchivalResource: 8 items in portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122593137 View

James B. Pinker collection of papers, 1886-1926

Title: James B. Pinker collection of papers 1886-1926

This is a synthetic collection consisting of portraits, legal documents, a manuscript and typescript, and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 40 items.

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19108 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

Hudspeth, Beatrice Mary, 1867-. [Santa Claus and the shadow, short stories and original illustrations] / B.M. Hudspeth.

Title: [Santa Claus and the shadow, short stories and original illustrations] / B.M. Hudspeth. [1890-1896]

An archive of original and mainly unpublished material by Tasmanian children's author. Comprising three ink manuscripts circa 1890s, a copy of the Sydney edition of Santa Claus and the shadow, and a series of untitled pen and ink and coloured pencil illustrations on Bristol board. The drawings are signed only with an unidentified monogram but are possibly by Lily [Curzona Frances Louise] Allport for one of the manuscripts, Billy's hunt for the bunyip. All loosely enclosed in postally used wrapping labelled Cassell & Company (1896), addressed to Miss B.M. Hudspeth, Paddington [London], 12 September 1896.

ArchivalResource: 3 manuscripts (47 leaves) ; 26 x 16 cm. + 6 drawings (pen & ink) + 1 book (60 p. : ill. ; 23 x 18 cm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/271304605 View

Forman, Maurice Buxton. Papers of Maurice Buxton Forman, 1898-1942.

Title: Papers of Maurice Buxton Forman, 1898-1942.

The collection contains papers pertaining to Forman's bibliographical work on Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960). Included in the collection is correspondence, copies of three poems by Phillpotts (either typewritten or in the hand of Forman), notes and memoranda Forman compiled on Phillpotts and a collection of printed materials. The majority of the correspondence occurs between Forman and book publishers, booksellers and bibliographers and discusses Phillpott and his work. The collection of printed matter contains book lists and articles on Phillpotts as well as one article on George Meredith.

ArchivalResource: 51 pieces.1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122386415 View

A. P. Watt and Son records, 1861-1971, 1880-1949

Title: A. P. Watt and Son records 1861-1971 1880-1949

This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts, manuscripts, correspondence, and legal and financial documents.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2,468 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19277 View

English literature mss., 1901-1950

Title: English literature mss., 1901-1950

Consists of individual items acquiredseparately either as a gift, purchase, transfer, or removal from a variety ofsources, relating to English literature. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 318 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA3047 View