Papers of Samuel Merwin [manuscript], 1900.

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Papers of Samuel Merwin [manuscript], 1900.

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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."

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Century Company.

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The Century Company was founded in New York City in 1881. Century published magazines including the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine and St. Nicholas and publications such as Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Roswell Smith formed the company and appointed Richard Watson Gilder as editor of the Century which was noted for its fiction, poetry, historical studies, and woodcut illustrations. In 1930 the Century was merged with The Forum magazine. From the description of Century C...

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. ...

Howe, M.A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960

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American author of numerous biographies and nonfiction accounts, many about the New England area; recipient of 1924 Pulitzer Prize for his biography, BARRETT WENDELL AND HIS LETTERS. From the description of Correspondence, 1921-1960. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122492230 Biographer, editor, historian, and poet. From the description of Papers of M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1920,1935. (University of Vir...

Merwin, Samuel, 1874-1936

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Bennet-Thompson, Miss,

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