Reminiscences of Sherman Phelps Platt, Jr. : oral history, 1977.

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Reminiscences of Sherman Phelps Platt, Jr. : oral history, 1977.

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Childhood, education, Yale 1940; career progression in Dodd, Mead and Co.: production manager to president; history of Dodd, Mead; changes in publishing since World War I; advice to young writers; impressions of Winston Churchill, Agatha Christie, Roger Peterson, Frank H. Dodd.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Dodd, Mead & Company

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In 1839 Moses W. Dodd purchased an interest in a New York publishing firm established by John S. Taylor. The following year he severed his connection with Taylor and continued alone until his retirement in 1870. He was succeeded by his son, Frank H. Dodd, who, with his cousin Edward S. Mead, formed the firm Dodd & Mead. A retail department was added to the firm and in 1876 Bleecker Van Wagnen was taken as a partner. The firm was then renamed Dodd, Mead & Company. From the guide to t...

Honig, Margot,

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Platt, Sherman Phelps, 1918-

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Publisher. From the description of Reminiscences of Sherman Phelps Platt, Jr. : oral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726113 ...