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Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records

Records of Houghton Mifflin Company and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business.

ArchivalResource: 64 linear feet (165 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00009/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

Merwin, Samuel, 1874-1936. Letter, 1908 October 24, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham[Staten Island] / Samuel Merwin.

Title: Letter, 1908 October 24, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham[Staten Island] / Samuel Merwin. 1908.

Informs Markham that his poem "The Manger Song of Mary" will appear on the first editorial front page of the "Success Magazine".

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44120015 View

Burroughs, John, 1837-1921. Papers of John Burroughs [manuscript], 1856-1943.

Title: Papers of John Burroughs [manuscript], 1856-1943.

There are 71 manuscripts or portions by Burroughs including "Breath of Life," "A Critical Glance into Darwin," "Emerson and his Journals," "Gospel of Nature," "Hazards of the Past," "Hepatica," "A Hunt for the Nightingale," "The Last Harvest," "Leaf and Tendril," "The Long Road," "The New Materialism," "Noon of Science," and "Pepacton." Also "The Phantoms Behind Us," "President Roosevelt as a Nature Lover and Observer," "The Return," "Riverby," "Science and Literature," "Time and Change," "Under the Apple Trees," "Waiting," and "Ways of Nature." There are also three manuscripts about Burroughs by others. The correspondence of Burroughs discusses his daily life; sitting for artists; health; writing; travels; visitors; marriage and family; car; homes; philosophy of writing, life and economics; feelings about Germany and World War I; auto camping trips with Thomas A. Edison, Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford; and his death. Other topics discussed include nature; the weather; England; the Harriman Expedition to Alaska; locusts; travel in North America in 1870; Scotland; and "nature fakers" particularly Henry H. Cross, William J. Long, Ernest Thompson Seton, Abbott H. Thayer and Henry W. Warren. People discussed include Clara Barrus, Henri Bergson, Julian Burroughs, Ursula North Burroughs, Hamlin Garland, William Dean Howells, Ernest Ingersoll, John Jay Knox, Edgar Lee Masters, John Muir, Cartaino Sciarrino Pietro, Archibald Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Orlando Rouland, Eugene A. Rowland, Alfred H. Sellers, Henry D. Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Woodrow Wilson, and William Winter. Of special interest are a 1909 friendship calendar with autograph entries by several contemporary authors; 53 birthday greetings to Burroughs on his 70th birthday; an autograph agreement to take a camping trip signed by Burroughs, Clara Burrus, the Thomas A. Edisons, the Henry Fords, and the Harvey S. Firestones; and a lock of Burroughs' hair. There are also biographical sketches of Burroughs; photographs of oil paintings by Orlando Rouland; sketches by Rouland, E.M. Allen and Myron Beecher Benton; photographs of Burroughs; printed articles by and about him; brochures; postcards; and a John Burroughs Nature Calendar.

ArchivalResource: 504 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647849933 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

Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books, 1935-1965

Title: Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books 1935-1965

Includes more than 2,550 Penguin books published from 1935 through 1965, as well as about 175 reference items–books, serials, catalogs, and articles.

ArchivalResource: circa 2,500 vols.

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Miller, Hans W., 1890-1960. Concord Players scrap book, 1919-1954.

Title: Concord Players scrap book, 1919-1954.

Ten scrapbook volumes covering the years 1919 through 1954. The volumes include: theatrical programs, posters, tickets, order forms, handbills, and announcements; correspondence and telegrams; newspaper clippings; schedules, charts, and statistical summaries relating to various aspects of productions; lists of officers and members; resolutions; duties of stage manager; season performance lists; photographs; and pencil-and-watercolor designs of sets by Fletcher Adams.

ArchivalResource: 10 v. : photos. ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36630951 View

Merwin, Samuel, 1874-1936. Papers of Samuel Merwin [manuscript], 1900.

Title: Papers of Samuel Merwin [manuscript], 1900.

The papers contain the manuscript of "At the wreck of the circus train," and an accompanying letter, 1900 December 13, Merwin to Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, explaining that this short story is the first in a series of three or four about freight trains and train wrecking crews. The collection also contains three letters to W. G. Chapman, 1914 April 17, April 22 and 1920 April 27, concerning second serial rights to the Century Company for the "Miss Austin" stories, and suggesting other possibilities. A letter to Miss Bennet Thompson, 1916 September 18, concerns the identity of the character "Peter" in "The Trufflers."

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647810904 View

Success Company. [Letter] 1908 January 6, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Samuel Merwin.

Title: [Letter] 1908 January 6, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Samuel Merwin. 1908.

Informs Markham, due to changes in the layout his permanent column must be cancelled as of the February issue; will pay in installemts a sum of $750 for the back accounts.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. on 1 leaf ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45036838 View

Merwin, Samuel, 1874-1936. Letter, 1908 September 23, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham[Staten Island] / Samuel Merwin.

Title: Letter, 1908 September 23, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham[Staten Island] / Samuel Merwin. 1908.

Agrees to publish his poem "The Manger Song of Mary" in the "Success Magazine".

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44119960 View

Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932. Henry Kitchell Webster papers, 1880-1932, bulk 1900-1932.

Title: Henry Kitchell Webster papers, 1880-1932, bulk 1900-1932.

Correspondence, and drafts and/or typescripts of Webster's works.

ArchivalResource: 5.8 linear feet (15 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/659534298 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