Letters, 1913-1933.

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Letters, 1913-1933.

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1st letter (August 27, 1913) to Hayden Carruth of Woman's Home Companion discusses in detail the possibility of using stories from Carruth's The Adventures of Jones and Mr. Milo Bush "in the service to newspapers." 2nd letter (September 17, 1915) to Carruth discusses in detail the possibility of obtaining the second serial rights of the W[illia]m J. Burns detective stories. 3rd letter (August 26, 1916) to Carruth discusses in detail having access to serials of high quality which might interest Carruth for use in Woman's Home Companion. 4th letter (November 2, 1916) to Carruth discusses in detail the enclosed manuscript of Harry Irving Greene's In the Light of her Eyes. 5th letter (July 2, 1917) to Carruth discusses in detail offers of first serial rights to Victor Rousseau's "The Fifth Guardian" and briefly Rousseau's "The Messiah of the Cylinder." 6th letter (February 2, 1925) to Arthur D. Howden Smith, discusses in detail purchasing serial rights to "Porto Bello Gold" for his service and his aggressive marketing of same. 7th letter (February 6, 1925) to Howden Smith discusses in detail sending copies of the Brentano folder extensively to newspapers, including Mr. Dennis of the News; also sending out large numbers of the page advertisement which Mr. Dennis let him have; hoping "Porto Bello Gold" profits bookwise from the publicity. 8th letter (May 26, 1933) to John T. McIntyre discusses in detail his interest in using some of McIntyre's baseball stories; McIntyre's response indicates he does not want to sell the rights of his stories "just now."

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Carruth, Hayden, 1862-1932

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Carruth was an American author. From the description of Letter, 1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78885691 Editor and author. From the description of Letters to William Gerard Chapman, 1913-1916. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54674230 Hayden Carruth (originally Fred Hayden Carruth) (1862-1932) was an American newspaper publisher, journalist, humorist, and author of juvenile fiction. After working for various weekly newspapers in the Mi...

Chapman, William Gerard, 1877-1945

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William Gerard Chapman (1877-1945), a native of New York, was an American author of Green-Timber Trails and journalist and the owner of the International Press Bureau, a literary agency in Chicago. ...

McIntyre, John Thomas, 1871-1951

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Colorful Philadelphia author John T. McIntyre was orphaned as a youth, and raised by an aunt; he left school by his early teens to earn a living at hard labor. Inspired by pulp adventure tales, he began to publish stories in Philadelphia papers in the 1890s; he also wrote plays for the South Street Standard Theatre and, later, novels. He eked out a living as a writer, but success eluded him until 1936, when the eerie minor classic Steps Going Down made him an overnight sensation at the age of si...

Smith, Arthur D. Howden (Arthur Douglas Howden), 1887-1945

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American author of biographies. From the description of Letters to Mr. Chapman [manuscript], 1924-19255. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647922745 From the description of Letters to Mr. Chapman, 1924-1925. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 48926788 ...