Atlantic Monthly Press correspondence relating to Walter Dumaux Edmonds, 1940-1942.

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Atlantic Monthly Press correspondence relating to Walter Dumaux Edmonds, 1940-1942.

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The collection consists chiefly of correspondence between Chester Kerr and Walter Dumaux Edmonds and others regarding publication of Edmonds' novel "Young Ames." There is correspondence between Kerr, director of Atlantic Monthly Press during the early 1940s, and others at Atlantic Monthly Press, including Edward Weeks, Little, Brown and Company, and Edmonds' agent Harold Ober. There are also three third party letters.

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Little, Brown and Company, 1932, 1966, 1978

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Kerr, Chester

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Weeks, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1898-1989

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Edward A. Weeks (1898-1989) was an author, essayist, and editor for the Atlantic Monthly . He was also author of more than 10 books, including: Breaking into Print: an Editor's Advice on Writing (1962); In Friendly Candor [1959]; and Writers and Friends (1981). Weeks opposed censorship and, during the 1920's, served as chairman of the Massachusetts Committee to Reform Book Censorship. From the guide to the Edward Weeks Letter to Mrs. Henry Pettit (MS 235), 16 June 1961...

Atlantic Monthly Press

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The Atlantic Monthly Press was founded in 1917 as the publishing division of the Atlantic Monthly Company, publishers of the Atlantic Monthly magazine. Ellery Sedwick, editor of the Atlantic Monthly from 1909 to 1938, envisioned the press as a means to publish books expanded from articles and stories originally published in the Atlantic Monthly. The press had few best sellers, and, in 1925, Little, Brown and Company acquired the Atlantic Monthly Press through a merger arranged by S...

Ober, Harold, 1881-1959

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Edmonds, Walter Dumaux, 1903-1998

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Walter D. Edmonds was a popular writer of regional and historical fiction primarily set in the Mohawk Valley region of Upstate New York. From the description of Walter D. Edmonds correspondence with Harold Ober Associates, 1924-1974 (bulk 1931-1968). (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 82334287 American author of children's and adult fiction. From the description of The matchlock gun : production material. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). W...