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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

Burt, S. W. (Silas Wright), 1830-1912. My personal reminiscences, ms., 1883 Sept.-1911 Nov. 1.

Title: My personal reminiscences, ms., 1883 Sept.-1911 Nov. 1.

Burt's autobiographical account of his life from 1830-1863, written between Sept. 1883 and Nov. 1, 1911. Includes clippings, sketches, maps, a photograph of the "Miner's Hotel" in Golden City, Jefferson Territory (now Colorado), and a business card of Burt's when he was a civil engineer in Golden City.

ArchivalResource: 4 v. (624 p.) ; 8 x 13 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58660734 View

Burt, S. W. (Silas Wright), 1830-1912. An ancestral quest, ms., 1887 / by Silas W. Burt.

Title: An ancestral quest, ms., 1887 / by Silas W. Burt.

Burt's manuscript, dated 1887, containing biographical and genealogical notes about various members of the Burt family and related families. Includes ca. 25 loose sheets of notes in rear pocket, loose clippings of obituary notices for Wright, historical clippings, a pencil drawing, and genealogical charts.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (500 [i.e. ca. 300] p.) ; 10 x 12 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58660732 View

Garrison family papers, 1801-1948 (inclusive), 1840-1907 (bulk).

Title: Garrison family papers, 1801-1948 (inclusive), 1840-1907 (bulk).

Papers of American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and his family.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (7.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00673/catalog View

Silas W. Burt papers, 1886-1900.

Title: Silas W. Burt papers, 1886-1900.

Collection consists of writings by Burt and printed matter.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear foot (1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652190 View

Charles Eliot Norton papers

Title: Charles Eliot Norton papers

This archive contains letters addressed to Charles Eliot Norton from about 1845 to1908. Norton was a Harvard graduate (A.B. 1846) and professor of the History of Fine Arts at Harvard from 1874 to 1898, with a special interest in the study and translation of Dante. Many of the letters in this collection deal with art and with Dante. In addition he knew a great many prominent figures in both England and the United States, especially those in the political field and the literary and artistics fields. His correspondence with these people often touches upon their public and their private lives. From 1863 to 1868 Norton was joint editor with his friend James Russell Lowell of the North American review. The letters addressed to him as editor are marked in this index by a star (*) and the folders containing them are stamped with a red N.A.R.(=North American Review). In 1898 Norton's opposition to the Spanish-American war led Senator George F. Hoar to criticize him. A list of some of the letters Norton received commenting on this controversy is at the end of this index. Referenced throughout the finding aid is the Excavations at Delphi (scrapbook folder) with a folder designation, such as f.1, f.2, and so on. All folders can be found at item number 5308.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear feet (45 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00083/catalog View

Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Title: Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Papers of American author, journalist, editor, and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Includes materials that are unsorted and uncataloged.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear feet (169 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00082/catalog View

Burt, S. W. (Silas Wright), 1830-1912. Correspondence, 1870-1910.

Title: Correspondence, 1870-1910.

Letters received by Burt, 1870-1910, mostly pertaining to civil service reform. Includes 200 letters from George W. Curtis as well as smaller batches of letters from Richard Henry Dana, Dorman Bridgman Eaton, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, Edward Cary, Sen. James B. Beck, Abram S. Hewitt, John Jay, Daniel Scott Lamont, Augustus Schoonmaker, Carl Schurz, Gen. Isaac Jones Wistar, and others.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (ca. 500 items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58660736 View

Silas W. Burt papers, 1886-1900

Title: Silas W. Burt papers 1886-1900

Silas Wright Burt (1830-1912) was an American civil engineer, militia officer, and promoter of the merit system in the civil service. He served as a colonel and Assistant Inspector General in the New York State militia, Chief Examiner of the New York State Civil Service Commission from 1883 to 1885, and Commissioner from 1895 to 1900. He was an officer and founder of the Civil Reform Association of New York and the National Civil Service Reform League. Collection consists of writings by Burt and printed matter. Includes unpublished manuscript for a book on the history of civil service reform and the merit system in the United States; an essay entitled "A Brief History of the Civil Service Reform Movement in the United States;" and manuscript of a history of New York politics with special reference to patronage and civil service reform, and the role of Chester A. Arthur in civil service reform. Also, miscellaneous notes and newsclippings concerning civil service reform.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear foot (1 v.)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/438 View

Learned Hand papers

Title: Learned Hand papers

Materials relating to Hand's private and public life, his activities as an alumnus of Harvard University, his friendship with Felix Frankfurter, and to the Hand family. Includes material on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York City; information on the Progressive movement (1909-1914) and the beginnings of the New Republic and its early staff; and transcripts of oral-history interviews conducted by Gerald Gunther of Stanford Law School and others, of Judge Hand, his family and associates.

ArchivalResource: 116 linear feet linear feet (in 235 boxes and 18 paige boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00059/catalog View