Harriet Walden New Yorker papers 1926-2004

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Harriet Walden New Yorker papers 1926-2004

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18913

Harriet Walden (1914-2006) was on the administrative staff of the magazine for over forty years, from 1944 to 1985, and was E. B. and Katharine Sergeant Whites' secretary from 1956 to 1986. The Harriet Walden New Yorker papers contain correspondence, procedural documents, and printed materials that reflect her career at the , as well as the friendships she developed with various writers and editors. The bulk of the collection concerns Walden's role as secretary to the Whites. Other writers and editors represented in the papers include John Bainbridge, Geoffrey Hellman, Hendrik Hertzberg, Leo Hofeller, Mollie Panter-Downes, Harold Ross, William Shawn, and William Walden. New Yorker New Yorker New Yorker

3.57 linear feet; 9 boxes

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6312153

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Panter-Downes, Mollie, 1906-1997

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Ross, Harold Wallace, 1892-1951

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Hertzberg, Hendrik

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Bainbridge, John, 1913-1992

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White, Katharine Sergeant Angell

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Hellman, Geoffrey T. (Geoffrey Theodore), 1907-1977

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Walden, Harriet, 1914-2006

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Harriet Walden (1914-2006) was on the administrative staff of the New Yorker magazine for over forty years, from 1944 to 1985. Her parents, Bernhard and Sarah Kahn, were Russian immigrants and her father owned a jewelry store. In 1944, she replaced her husband, William Walden, as Harold Ross's secretary at the New Yorker, when William went off to war. William later returned to the New Yorker as a "Talk of the Town" reporter and remained on the editorial staff until 1983. Harriet Wal...

Shawn, William

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