Correspondence and photographs of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward [manuscript], 1895-1909.

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Correspondence and photographs of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward [manuscript], 1895-1909.

Collection includes her correspondence with the editors of "The Ladies Home Journal," mostly to Edward Bok with 4 to William V. Alexander and 2 to unknown recipients. Nearly all the letters concern her work. Also included are 2 photographs cut from magazines.

40ca. items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7934992

University of Virginia. Library

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Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930

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Born in the Netherlands, Edward Bok came to the United States with his family at the age of six. He worked in publishing from the age of thirteen. He founded the Brooklyn magazine and 1886 he established the Bok Syndicate Press. Bok became editor of Ladies' home journal in 1889. In 1896 Bok married Mary Louise Curtis (1876-1970), the daughter of Ladies' home journal publisher, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (1850-1933). He worked as an editor at Curtis publishing for thirty years retiring at th...

Alexander, William Valentine

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Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911

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American author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston Highlands, to Mr. Ward, 1872 Nov. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270659301 American author, Mary Grey Phelps, used her mother's name for her pseudonym. After her marriage in 1888 to Herbert Dickinson Ward, she occasionally used his surname in her publications. Charles Addison Richardson was the managing editor of the Congregationalist for 40 years. From the description of [Letter] 1869 ...