Ellery Sedgwick Papers, 1881-1969 (original) (raw)

Collection Summary

Abstract

This collection contains papers documenting Ellery Sedgwick's professional career as editor of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, 1908-1938, and his personal and varied associations. The bulk of the papers consists of correspondence with contributing authors and poets, notes, and manuscripts in various forms.

Biographical Sketch

Ellery Sedgwick was born 17 Feb. 1872 in New York City to Henry Dwight Sedgwick and Henrietta (Ellery) Sedgwick. Sedgwick's ancestors, a leading family of Stockbridge, Mass., established a tradition of literary achievement and included authors Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Henry Dwight Sedgwick.

Sedgwick attended the Groton School of Massachusetts, from which he graduated in 1890, and Harvard University. Upon graduation as part of Harvard's Class of 1894, Sedgwick returned to Groton to teach classics for two years. He left the school in 1896 to accept a position as assistant editor at Youth's Companion. In 1900, Sedgwick took over editorship of Leslie's Monthly Magazine, a position he held for four years. He later worked for one year at McClure's Magazine and in 1908 for D. Appleton and Company.

Sedgwick began his career with the Atlantic Monthly in 1908, when he purchased the magazine from Houghton Mifflin. At that time, monthly circulation was 15,000, and the magazine ran an annual deficit of $5,000. Sedgwick worked to reverse the trend, and by 1928, he had increased circulation to 137,000. He has been credited with discovering many writers and with being the first American publisher to print the works of Ernest Hemingway. Sedgwick resigned as editor in 1938 and sold the magazine in 1939. He was recognized for his editorial skills by three academic institutions. Tufts University and Dartmouth College awarded Sedgwick the Litt.D. in 1920 and 1921, and he received the LhD. from Syracuse University.

In 1946, Sedgwick wrote his memoirs, The Happy Profession, and in 1947 published a compilation of his favorite pieces from the Atlantic Monthly, titled Atlantic Harvest. He also edited Novel and Story: A Book of Modern Readings with Harry A. Domincovich, which was published in 1939.

His professional activities were not limited to editing. In 1918, he became vice president and part-owner of Rumford Press, an affiliation he maintained through the 1940s. He also maintained ties to Groton and Harvard as a trustee and served as trustee of the Boston Public Library.

Sedgwick married Mabel Cabot in 1904. They had four children: Ellery, Cabot, Theodora, and Henrietta. Mabel Sedgwick died in 1937. Around that time, Sedgwick also had troubles with his own health. He was bed-ridden with sciatica for a few months in 1938-1939, and he suffered from arthritis. He remarried in 1939 [Isabel] Marjorie Russell, from England. He died 21 Apr. 1960 in Washington, D.C.

Collection Description

The Ellery Sedgwick papers document Sedgwick's career as editor of the Atlantic Monthly magazine from 1908 through his retirement in 1938, as well as other personal and professional activities and relationships during this time and until his death in 1960. Correspondents include relatives, literary figures, politicians, and fellow Harvard alumni.

Papers documenting Sedgwick's editorship of the Atlantic Monthly consist mainly of correspondence, office files on authors, notes, manuscripts in various forms (notes, drafts, proofs, and reprints), royalty statements, stockholders' records, Sedgwick's (and his staff's) carbon letters and replies, clippings, and printed materials. These papers make up more than half of the collection. Included is material related to the writings of Wilma Francis Minor and Opal Whiteley; Al Smith's candidacy for the presidential nomination; and Sedgwick's writings on the Spanish Civil War and his trip to Spain in 1938.

This guide contains two indexes to the correspondence in Series II-V: a Select Correspondent Index and a Select Institutional Affiliation Index.

Arrangement Note

The organization of this collection is based loosely on what is assumed to be Ellery Sedgwick's original working arrangement. The collection has been moved several times and material has been integrated, so original order was impossible to maintain.

The papers are arranged in seven series: Atlantic Monthly general files, Atlantic Monthly special subject files, personal files, professional affiliations, publications, oversize papers, and photocopies.

Acquisition Information

The first donation of Ellery Sedgwick papers to the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) was made by Mrs. Marjorie (Russell) Sedgwick in 1967 and consisted of some Atlantic Monthly files, the Spanish Civil War papers, and Sedgwick's records as an overseer of Harvard University. Family letters and more general papers were donated by Mrs. Sedgwick in 1968, but the bulk of the approximately 1,940 letters written to Sedgwick during his editorship were acquired by the MHS. The Atlantic Monthly Press added a box to the collection in 1987, with the remainder of the material coming in small parcels between 1969 and 1989, the last after the death of Sedgwick’s successor, Edward Weeks.

The Atlantic Monthly general files were initially processed as the Ellery Sedgwick papers, a distinct collection. The additions were processed as Ellery Sedgwick papers II, III, IV, V, Mrs. Sedgwick papers, and Additions. All of these collections have now been integrated into one collection.

Restrictions on Access

The bulk of the Ellery Sedgwick papers (except photocopies and oversize) is stored offsite and must be requested at least two business days in advance via Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should provide additional advance notice. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@masshist.org.

Detailed Description of the Collection

The description of Series II-V below includes box and folder numbers used prior to the transfer of the collection to record cartons for offsite storage. These old box and folder numbers have been retained because the Select Correspondent Index and Select Institutional Affiliation Index refer to them. Researchers should use carton and barcode numbers to request materials for retrieval.

I. Atlantic Monthly general files,1908-1960

Arranged alphabetically.

This series comprises the bulk of the Ellery Sedgwick papers and consists primarily of correspondence, 1908-1960, particularly during the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to correspondence between Sedgwick and authors, agents, and publishers, the files include pamphlets, article reprints, and newspaper clippings, as well as correspondence of Atlantic Monthly staff. Staff members include Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, Edward A. Weeks, Teresa S. Fitzpatrick, MacGregor Jenkins, and Theodore Morrison. (These individuals are not indexed for this series because they worked in an official capacity for the magazine.) This series also contains carbon copies of outgoing correspondence, mostly generated by Sedgwick (which have also not been indexed). A significant portion of the collection consists of correspondence from Atlantic Monthly readers, called "Comments." These are interspersed throughout the files, but are separated from author's correspondence and arranged at the end of each file.

The primarily subject of the correspondence is the publication of articles in the Atlantic Monthly. Many folders contain only a few letters presenting manuscripts. However, there were many authors with whom Sedgwick developed personal relationships and/or whose works were frequently printed in the magazine. Among the authors with whom Sedgwick had extensive correspondence were James Truslow Adams, Mary Antin, L. Adams Beck, Godfrey Rathbone Benson (Lord Charnwood), Gamaliel Bradford, William H. Chamberlin, John Jay Chapman, W. Hans Coudenhove, Mazo de la Roche, Walter D. Edmonds, Felix Frankfurter, Robert Dean Frisbie, John Galsworthy, James Norman Hall, Charles Boardman Hawes, Hudson Hoagland, Albert Kinross, Walter Lippmann, Amy Lowell, William McFee, Margaret Prescott Montague, Samuel Eliot Morison, Edward A. Newton, Albert J. Nock, Charles Nordhoff, Nora Waln Osland-Hill, Arthur Pound, Agnes Repplier, Hilda Rose, Harrison W. Smith, Logan Pearsall Smith, Henry Williamson, Owen Wister, and Hans Zinsser.

Other significant correspondents include Pearl S. Buck, Winston S. Churchill, John Foster Dulles, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Cabot Lodge, Archibald MacLeish, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, George Santayana, William H. Taft, Rabindranath Tagore, Wendell L. Wilkie, and Virginia Woolf.

Some of the correspondence in this series has been photocopied for use by researchers and stored onsite at Ms. N-854. See the List of Photocopied Correspondence below.

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Adamic, Louis

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Adams, Brooks

Adams, James Truslow

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Correspondence, undated, 1920-1926

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Correspondence, 1927-1954

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Comments, undated, 1934-1943,1966

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Addams, Jane

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Agassiz, George R.

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Aiken, Conrad

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Aldrich, Mildred

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Alger, George W.

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Allen, Annie Winslow

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Angell, Norman

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Anger, Henry

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Antin, Mary

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Arliss, George

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Arnold, Julian

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Asgwith, Hon. H. H.

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Atlantic Monthly Almanac

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Aydelotte, Frank

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Ayer, Fred

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Ayscough, John

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B., C. C.

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Baker, Newton D.

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Baldenspage, Fernand

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Balfour, Earl Arthur James

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Barbour, Thomas

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Barrie, James M.

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Barry, William Canon D. D.

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Baruch, Bernard M.

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Bates, H. E.

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Beaverbrook, Lord

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Beck, L. Adams

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Beebe, William

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Benit, William Rose

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Bennett, Arnold

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Benson, Robert Hugh

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Bernard, J. H.

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Bigelow, John

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Bingham, Robert W.

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Binyon, Lawrence

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Bland, J. O. P.

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Bok, E. W.

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Bonsal, Stephen

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Borah, William E.

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Bordeaux, Henry

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Boutroux, Em[ile]

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Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Bradford, Gamaliel E.

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Brent, Charles H. (Bishop)

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Bridge, Ann

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British Library of Information

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Bromfield, Louis

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Brookfield, A. M.

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Brooks, Van Wyck

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Brown, W. G.

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Brownell, W. C.

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Bryce, James

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Buchan, John

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Buck, Pearl S.

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Bundy, Harvey H.

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Burman, Ben Lucien

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Burnett Smith, Mrs.

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Burroughs, John

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Butler, Elias Parker

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Bynner, Witter

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Byrd, Richard E.

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Cabot, Richard C.

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Campbell, Cyril

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Campbell, Sir John

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Canby, Henry S.

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Carpenter, W. Boyd

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Casson, Stanley

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Cather, Willa

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Cawein, Madison

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Cecil, Lord David

Chamberlin, William Henry

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Correspondence, 1924-1944

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Comments, A-Z

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Chapman, John Jay

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Chapman, R. W.

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Charnwood, Lord (Godfrey Rathbone Benson)

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Chase, Mary Ellen

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Cherodame, Andre

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Churchill, Winston S.

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Clarke, John M.

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Clarke, Joseph I. D.

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Clay, Lucius D.

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Cloud, Dudley H.

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Collins, Charles A.

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Colum, Padrai

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Conant, James Bryant

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Connolly, Cyril

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Conrad, Joseph

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Constable & Co. Ltd.

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Conway family

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Coolidge, Calvin

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Copeland, C. T.

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Coppard, A. E.

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Cortissoz, Royal

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Cotting, Joseph P.

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Coudenhove, Hans

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Coulerain, Pierre de

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Cowden, Roy W.

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Cox, Harold

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Cozzens, James Gould

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Cram, R. A.

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Crane, Winthrop Murray

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Cromer, Lord

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Crosby, Caresse

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Crothers, S. M.

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Crowninshield, Frank

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Curley, James M.

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Curtis, Charles P., Jr.

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Cushing, Harvey

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Daniels, Josephus

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Danielson, Richard E.

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Dartmouth College

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Daudet, Ernest

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Davis, John W.

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De La Mare, Walter

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Deland, Margaret

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De La Roche, Mazo

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Delbruck, Hans

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DeMadariaja, Salvador

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Denison, T.

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De Selincourt, Ann

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DeVoto, Bernard

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Dewey, John

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Dewey, Stoddard

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Dexter, Philip

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Dickinson, G. Lowes

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Dillon, John

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Dillon, Mary

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Dimnet, Ernest (M. l'Abbe)

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Donald, Malcolm

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Douglas, Lloyd

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Dowden, Edward

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Draper, Ruth

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Dreiser, Theodore

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Drinkwater, John

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Dukes, Jane

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Dulles, John Foster

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Duncan, Norman

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Dunsany, Lord B. (Plunkett, Edward John Moreton Drax)

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Durant, Will

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Dwight, H. G.

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E[cageberg ?], Raphael

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Edmonds, Walter D.

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Eliot, Charles W.

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Ellis, Havelock

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Ely, John

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Emery, Brooks

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Emery, Charles F., Jr.

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Ernst, Morris L.

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Eucken, Rudolph

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Evans, B. Ifor

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[F?]

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Fabyan, George

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Faik, Joseph W.

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Ferrero, Frances L.

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Ferrero, Gugliemo

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Fields, Annie

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Finley, John

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Fisher, A.

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Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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Fitzpatrick, Teresa S.

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Flexner, Abraham

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Forbes, Waldo

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Forster, E. M.

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Frankfurter, Felix

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Freeman, Douglas S.

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Freeman, Lewis

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Frisbie, Robert Dean

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Frost, Robert

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Fuess, Claude

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Galsworthy, John

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Garland, Hamlin

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Garnett, Edward

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George, Lloyd

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Gibbes, A. Hamilton

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Graham, Stephen

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Great Britain. Sovereigns. George V

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Grew, Joseph

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Grey, Viscount of Falladoon

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Griffin, Wilfred

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Guerard, Albert

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Guild, Curtis, Jr.

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Haggard, Henry Rider

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Haines, William Wister

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Haldane, Viscount

Hall, James Norman

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Correspondence, 1915-1931

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Correspondence, 1932-1939

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Correspondence, 1940-1952

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Correspondence, 1962-1963, microfilming of

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Re: Bounty Collection, Phillips Exeter Academy

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Comments, 1921-1942

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Hamilton, Edith

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Hand, Judge Learned

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Harcourt, Alfred

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Hardy, Thomas

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Hart, B. H. Liddell

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Hassam, Childe

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Hawes, Charles Boardman

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Hayes, Roland

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Herbert, A. P.

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Herrick, Myron T.

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Herter, Christian A.

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Heywood, DuBose

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Higginson, Henry L.

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Higginson, T. W.

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Hillyer, Robert

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Hilton, James

Hoagland, Hudson

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Correspondence, 1924-1927

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"Science and the Medium," 1924

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Hobhouse, L. T.

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Hodges, George

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Holman, Alfred

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Hoover, Herbert

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Hopkins, Gerard

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Hotson, Leslie

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Houghton Mifflin Co.

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House, Edward M.

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Household, Geoffrey

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Houseman, A. E.

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Howard, E.

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Howe, E. W.

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Howe, Mark Anthony DeWolfe

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Howells, William Dean

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Hull, Cordell

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Husland, Joseph

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Huxley, Julian

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Inge, W. R.

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Jacks, L. P.

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James, Henry

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James, William

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Jenkins, MacGregor "Mac"

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Jewett, [Miles?]

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Johnston, Mary

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Kaneko, Baron K.

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Kanton, Mackinlay

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Keable, Robert

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Keller, Helen

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Kennedy, C. R.

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Kenyon, L. R.

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Key, Ellen

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King, McKenzie

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Kinross, Albert

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Kipling, Rudyard

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Kittredge, George Lyman

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Knox, Frank

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Komatsu, Takashi

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Konoye, F.

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Koszue, Andre

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Krock, Arthur

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L., T. W.

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LaFarge, Christopher

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LaFarge, Oliver

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LaGallienne, Richard

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Lamont, Thomas

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Landon, Alf M.

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Landon, Walter Savage

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Lattimore, Owen and Eleanor

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Laughlin, Henry A.

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Lavin, Mary

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Leacock, Stephen

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Lewis, Edward

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Lewis, Sinclair

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Lewis, W. S.

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Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel

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Lippmann, Walter

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Lockwood, Sally

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Lodge, Henry Cabot, Sr.

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Lodge, Henry Cabot

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Lodge, Oliver

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London, Mr. and Mrs. Jack

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Lothian [Phillip Henry Kerr]

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Lowell, Abbott Lawrence

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Lowell, Amy

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Lucas, E. V.

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Ludindorff

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Lyautey

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Lynd, Robert

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L[?], Charles W.

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M., E. J.

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Macauley, Rose

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MacKenzie, Jean K.

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McCord, David

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McFee, William

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McIntyre, Alfred R.

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MacLeish, Archibald

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[McReynolds, James Clark]

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Mansbridge, Albert

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Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia

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Mariett, Paul

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Marshall, Thomas R.

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Martin, Edward S.

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[Martinenzo?], E.

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Masefield, John

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Master, Edgar L.

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Maurice, F.

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Maurois, Andre

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Maxim, H.

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Mayo, Charles H.

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Merrick, Leonard

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Merriman, Roger B.

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Merton, Thomas James

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Meynell, Mrs. Wilfred T.

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Miller, Alice Doer

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Millis, Olga

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Mirman, Leon

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Mitchell, S. Weir

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Montague, C. E.

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Montague, Margaret Prescott

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Moore, Merrill

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Morgan, Edwin

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Morganthau, Henry

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Morison, Samuel Eliot

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Morlae, E.

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Morley, Christopher

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Morley, Felix

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Morley, Frank V.

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Morley, John

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Morse, Bernard

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Muir, John

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Munsterberg, Hugo

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Murchie, Guy, Jr.

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Murfree, Mary N.

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Murray, Gilbert

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Nash, Paul

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Nathan, Robert

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Nevinson, Henry

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Nicholson, Meredith

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Newbolt, Henry

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A. E. Newton Collection of Louis E. Kahn

Newton, A. Edward

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Correspondence, 1913-1923

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Correspondence, 1924-1933

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Correspondence, 1934-1940

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Comments, 1920-1931

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Comments, 1932-1940

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Portion of ms. "Tourist in Spite"

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Printed material

Newton, E. Swift (re: A. E. Newton)

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Correspondence, 1940-1962

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Miscellaneous

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Niebuhr, Reinhold

Nock, Albert J.

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Correspondence, 1914-1943

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Comments, 1930-1936

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Pro-German Inquiry Petition (ms.)

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"Quest of the Missing Link" (ms.)

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"Thoughts of Utopia" (ms.)

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"Free Speech and..." (ms.)

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"Imposter Terms" (ms.)

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"Isaiah's Job" (ms.)

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"A Letter from the Tropics" (ms.)

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"Bright Isle" (ms.)

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"The Oxometer" (ms.)

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"A Little Conservative" (ms.)

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"If Only--" (ms.)

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Nock, Samuel A.

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Nordhoff, Charles B.

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Northcliffe, Viscount (Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William)

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Norton, C. E.

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Norton, Eliot

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Norton, Richard

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Noyes, Alfred

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[N]oyen, V.

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O'Connor, Frank

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Oelwant, Alfred

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O'Faolain, Sean

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O'Malley, Mary

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O'Neill, Eugene

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Osland-Hill, Nora Waln

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Page, Arthur

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Page, Walter

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Palmer, Frederick

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Palmer, George Herbert

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Peabody, Endicott

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Pennell, Elizabeth R.

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Pennell, Joseph

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Perkins, Maxwell

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Perry, Bliss

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Perry, E.

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Pershing, John

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Pertain

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Phelps, William Lyon

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Phillippe, Louis

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Phillips, Stephen

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Plunkett, Sir Horace

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Post, Chandler R.

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Pound, Arthur

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Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur

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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

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Redfield, William C.

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Redlich, Josef

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Reinsch, Paul S.

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Repplier, Agnes

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Rhodes, James

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Rich, Everett

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Richard, Laura

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Riis, Jacob A.

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Ripley, William Z.

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Ritchie, Anne

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Roberts, Kenneth L.

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Robertson, J. F.

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Robinson, Edward Arlington

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Rockefeller, John D., Jr.

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

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Roosevelt, Theodore

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Root, Elihu

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Rose, Hilda

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Royce, Josiah

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Royden, A. Maude

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Russell, Bertrand

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Russell, George "A. E."

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Saito, H.

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Salmen, Stanley

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Saltonstall, Leverett

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Salvemini, Gaetano

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Sandburg, Carl

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Santayana, George

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Sargent, C. S.

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Saturday Club

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Sauter, Viola and Rudolph

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Scott, J. R.

Sedgwick, Ellery

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Miscellaneous correspondence

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Miscellaneous notes

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Sharp, Dallas Lore

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Sharp, Margery

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Shaw, B.

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Sitwell, Osbert

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Smith, Alfred

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Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Smith, J. C.

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Snowden

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Sokolsky, George E.

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Southern, Julia M.

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Spencer, Theodore

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Stettinius, Edward R., Jr.

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Storey, Moorfield

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Sullivan, Anne (Macy)

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Sullivan, Mark

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Swing, Raymond

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Symons, Arthur

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Taft, John B.

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Taft, William H.

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Taylor, Francis Henry

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Taylor, Henry Osborn

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Tennyson, Charles

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Thomas, Norman

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Thompson, W. G.

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Torrey, Bradford

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Toynbee, Arnold J.

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay

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Tucker, W. J.

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Tweedsmuir

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Tyrell, W.

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Vail, T. N.

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[Vanderbilt?]

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Van Doren, Carl and Irita

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Van Horne, Sir William

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VanderGoltz, Peggy

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Wald, L. D.

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Wallace, D.

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Wallace, Henry A.

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Wallas, Graham

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Walpole, Hugh

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[Warren, Mrs. Fiske]

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Watterson, Henry

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Webb, Mary

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Wells, H. G.

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Woodberry, G. E.

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Zinsser, Hans

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II. Atlantic Monthly special subject files,1915-1966

Arranged by subject.

This series contains four subseries related to significant incidents during Sedgwick's editorship at the Atlantic Monthly. Wilma Frances Minor and Opal Whiteley submitted unusual material for publication in the magazine, the former regarding love letters of Abraham Lincoln and the latter a childhood diary. Sedgwick supported their stories, despite the controversies they caused. Another controversy raised in the magazine was the Spanish Civil War. Sedgwick's politics and stories he submitted made the Atlantic a forum for debate on the merits of the war. This series also contains papers related to Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for nomination to the U.S. presidency.

Correspondents in this series are listed in the Select Correspondent Index and Select Institutional Affiliation Index below.

A. Wilma Frances Minor, 1928-1960

Arranged chronologically.

In 1928, Wilma Frances Minor, a television interviewer and writer from California, presented Sedgwick with the opportunity to publish the story of a love affair between Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, based on "original" love letters. Minor entrusted Sedgwick with the letters, from which she planned to write a book serialized in the Atlantic Monthly. Upon publication of the first installment, Lincoln experts questioned the authenticity of the letters. Work on the novel continued while Sedgwick contracted with California detective J. B. Armstrong to research the case. Teresa S. Fitzpatrick of the Atlantic Monthly staff was responsible for supervising the investigation. The letters were proven by experts to be forgeries, and in June 1929, Minor and her mother confessed to having created them. Minor claimed her mother was a psychic and that the spirits of Lincoln and Rutledge had urged her to make their story known.

This subseries is divided into three sections. Carton 13 contains Minor's correspondence with Sedgwick and his staff, as well as their correspondence with others regarding the authenticity of the letters. Sedgwick retained the forgeries, which are filed in Carton 13, along with drafts of Minor's manuscript. Correspondence and reports filed by Armstrong, the detective, and correspondence with Paul Angle, president of the Lincoln Centennial Association, are also located in Carton 13. Cartons 13 and 14 contain comments and inquiries about the story and Sedgwick's research on the letters.

Correspondents of note include Worthington Ford, Wayland A. Morrison, Ida Tarbell, Charles T. and William A. White. Also included is correspondence with representatives from Rumford Press and Little, Brown & Co. regarding publication of Minor's book.

Carton 13SH 117W 0[Box 32]

General correspondence, 1928-1929

Carton 13SH 117W 0[Box 32]

Misc. materials, misc. ms. notes

Carton 13SH 117W 0[Box 33]

Lincoln forgeries, manuscripts, clippings

Carton 13SH 117W 0[Box 34]

Detective's reports, comments, 1928-1929 (A-G)

Carton 14SH 117X 1[Box 35]

Comments, 1928-1929 (H-Z)-1960

B. Alfred E. Smith / Charles C. Marshall,1926-1929

Arranged chronologically.

This subseries contains letters, newspaper clippings, and comments on an open-letter debate between Alfred E. Smith and Charles C. Marshall printed in the Atlantic Monthly in 1927. Included are six parts: general correspondence, Charles C. Marshall correspondence, Alfred E. Smith correspondence, miscellaneous, publicity, and comments.

Charles C. Marshall, a New York attorney, wrote to Smith in 1927 challenging Smith's candidacy as a Democratic nominee for president of the United States. Marshall charged that Smith, a Catholic, would have a conflict of interest which would impede his ability to fulfill the oath of office. Marshall's letter was printed by the Atlantic Monthly, which then became a forum for the controversy raised over a Roman Catholic running for president. Notable correspondents on this issue included Bernard M. Baruch, Felix Frankfurter, Edmund F. Gibbons (the Bishop of Albany), Christian A. Herter, Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lillian D. Wald.

Carton 14SH 117X 1[Box 36]

Correspondence, 1926-1929

Carton 14SH 117X 1[Box 36]

Publicity materials; comments, 1927-1928

C. Spanish Civil War, 1938-1940

Arranged chronologically by subject.

This subseries consists of one carton of materials related to Sedgwick's interest in the Spanish Civil War, his trip to meet with General Francisco Franco in 1937, and articles written on the war. The correspondence is divided into seven parts, with separate files for Juan de Cardenas, the Spanish Consul; Winthrop Carter, whose son was missing in Spain in 1938; and the Marquis del Moral. Included is general correspondence and material related to trip arrangements. Comments about Sedgwick's politics and his articles were divided into pros and cons. Correspondents include J. Roscoe Drummond, John H. Finley, J. D. M. Ford, W. Cameron Forbes, John A. Gade, and Sumner Welles.

Carton 15SH 117Y 2[Box 37]

Correspondence, 1938-1940

Carton 15SH 117Y 2[Box 37]

Letters pro-ES articles,1938-1939

Carton 15SH 117Y 2[Box 37]

Pamphlets, clippings

D. Opal Whiteley, 1915-1966; bulk,1918-1929

Arranged chronologically and by subject.

This subseries consists of material related to the publication of Opal Whiteley's book,The Story of Opal, which was serialized in the Atlantic Monthly from March to August 1920 and published later that year by G. P. Putnam's Sons. The story appealed to many people, but provoked questions about the diary's authenticity. Whiteley claimed to be the daughter of Prince Henri D'Orleans, allegedly raised by foster parents in an Oregon lumber camp. Belief in her story was widespread, and she was recognized by her late father's mother, the Duchess de Chartres. Whiteley adopted the family name, calling herself Francoise d'Orleans. She toured India as a princess of that country (where she had lived as a small child with her "real" parents) and was an honored guest of that country's noble families.

Sedgwick spent years corresponding with people who knew Whiteley to verify her story, but never renounced its authenticity. His most extensive correspondence was with Whiteley and Elbert Bede, publisher of Oregon's Cottage Grove Sentinel. Bede was his primary research associate on the project.

Sedgwick's correspondence with Whiteley, Bede, and others about Whiteley's unusual childhood is located in Carton 16. Cartons 16 and 17 contain comments from Atlantic Monthly readers. Other materials in Carton 17 include correspondence between Sedgwick and Barbara Ward of The Economist about a fund established to aid Whiteley, who spent her last years in a mental institution; correspondence with G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920-1921; correspondence with lawyers of Vanity Fair in 1920; drafts of The Story of Opal; miscellaneous notes regarding the manuscript; notes on Whiteley's biography; and assorted printed materials, including newspaper clippings.

Carton 16SH 117Z 3[Box 39]

Correspondence, 1918-1945

Carton 16SH 117Z 3[Box 40]

Comments, 1920-1929

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 41]

Comments, 1930-1959

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 41]

Opal Whiteley Fund

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 41]

G. P. Putnam's Sons

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 41]

Vanity Fair, 1920

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 41]

Article, Cottage Grove Sentinel, 5 May 1915

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 41]

Meeting with Sir Edward Grey

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 41]

Miscellaneous materials

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 41]

Miscellaneous printed materials

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 41]

Miscellaneous biographical materials

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 41]

Corrections for manuscript, undated

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 41]

"The Story of Opal" (drafts)

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 41]

Materials regarding her story

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 41]

Clippings

III. Personal files, 1881-1969

Arranged alphabetically by individual, institution, or subject.

This series contains personal correspondence of Ellery Sedgwick, primarily dating from his later years at the Atlantic Monthly (1930s) and the first decade of his retirement (1940s), documenting his interests and activities outside of the magazine. Because he established personal relationships with many professional associates, the distinction between personal and professional correspondence is blurred. Papers of individuals for whom there were Atlantic Monthly files were moved to that series, unless the letters were purely personal, in which case they are located here.

The bulk of the correspondence, filed in Cartons 17 and 18, relates to political, literary or personal issues. Sedgwick's professional advice on various topics was sought by many individuals. Also included is correspondence with colleagues regarding membership in various men's clubs. Among Sedgwick's correspondents regarding candidacy to the Century Association were Henry James, Pierre Jay, and Edward Forbes. Sedgwick's own candidacy to England's Athenaeum was supported by nominating letters from John Buchan, William Galsworthy, Elizabeth Haldane, Lord Dunsany, and Henry Newbolt. Sedgwick was also a member of Boston's Wednesday Evening Club.

The series also contains letters of Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1820s) and from C. F. Sedgwick (1879-1880), as well as subject files documenting Ellery Sedgwick's intervention on behalf of foreigners seeking assistance in leaving war-torn Europe. Included in the file "Czechoslovakia" are letters of introduction used by Sedgwick for a 1937 trip to that country, as well as correspondence regarding P. Dobias, a student who sought asylum in the U.S. in 1939. The Harding/Hanfstaengl file contains correspondence about the financial support of Egon Hanfstaengl, a German student at Harvard. Hanfstaengl, a distant cousin of Sedgwick's, was the son of Hitler supporter Ernst Hanfstaengl, who spent World War II incarcerated in various concentration camps in England and Canada.

Also included in this series is correspondence with gardeners, book dealers, wine and cigar dealers, and fund-raisers, as well as invitations to social events. None of these correspondents has been indexed. The series also contains condolences sent to Mrs. Sedgwick after Ellery Sedgwick's death in 1960. Letters of condolence from people for whom Atlantic Monthly files existed were moved to those files.

Carton 19 contains an assortment of materials, including essays written by Sedgwick about countries he visited, such as Greece, Portugal, Sicily, and Spain, as well as his handwritten journals (travel diaries) of trips to Japan and South America between 1918 and 1936. The diaries include addresses of contacts, daily activities, and impressions. These diaries formed the basis for articles Sedgwick later submitted to the Atlantic Monthly. Additional miscellaneous materials in Carton 19 include drafts of a manuscript history of the Field family of Stockbridge, Mass. and notes on word ciphers labeled "William Shakespeare."

Correspondents in this series are listed in the Select Correspondent Index and Select Institutional Affiliation Index below.

A. Correspondence

Carton 17SH 1857 N[Box 42]

Adams -- Fuller

Carton 18SH 1182 E[Box 43]

Garden Month-by-Month -- G. P. Putnam's Sons

Carton 18SH 1182 E[Box 44]

Rand -- Sedgwick

Carton 18SH 1182 E[Box 45]

Shattuck -- Y

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 46][Folder 1]

Quotations

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 46][Folder 2]

Sedgwick, Ellery, "The American Conundrum"

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 46][Folder 3]

Greece, writings, 1951

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 46][Folder 4]

Miscellaneous notes

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 46][Folder 5-6]

Portugal, writings, undated, 1950-1954

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 46][Folder 7]

"The Provencal Adventures of the Aunts of Jesus"

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 46][Folder 8]

Sicily

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 46][Folder 9]

Spain

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 46][Folder 10]

Japan journals, 1930

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 46][Folder 11-15]

South America journals, handwritten, typescript,1923

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 46][Folder 16-18]

Travel diaries: 1918, 1934, Japan,1936

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 46][Folder 19]

Miscellaneous notebooks

B. Miscellaneous personal files

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 47][Folder 1-2]

Field family

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 47][Folder 3]

William Shakespeare

IV. Professional affiliations, 1898-1959

Arranged by individual institution.

Sedgwick's professional life was not limited to literary associations. As an influential figure in Boston, he served on numerous boards. He was a trustee of the Groton School in Groton, Mass. and the Boston Public Library, as well as an overseer of Harvard University. His wife was appointed by Harvard's Board of Overseers to a special committee to oversee management of the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, Mass. Ellery Sedgwick was also a part-owner and vice president of Rumford Press, which printed the Reader's Digest, among other publications. Also included in this series are files from his days as an associate editor at Youth's Companion.

Correspondents in this series are listed in the Select Correspondent Index and Select Institutional Affiliation Index below.

A. Arnold Arboretum, 1949-1959

This subseries includes correspondence, notes, reports, and committee resolutions, apparently kept by Marjorie Russell Sedgwick, who was appointed to the Committee to Visit the Arnold Arboretum by the Harvard Board of Overseers. The Arboretum, established in Jamaica Plain, Mass. in 1880 as a 500-acre park, became Harvard's botanical gardens. The park is administered by Harvard University and the Boston Department of Parks and Recreation.

Mrs. Sedgwick served during a tense period. In 1953, the corporation which had been founded to raise money for the arboretum challenged Harvard University for control. Included are letters from Mrs. Sedgwick and her husband, as well as "A Survey of the Controversy," by Professor Karl Sax.

Carton 19SH 1183 F[Box 48]

B. Boston Public Library, 1936-1942

Arranged by correspondent or subject.

This subseries documents Ellery Sedgwick's tenure as trustee of the Boston Public Library. Cartons 20 and 21 contain correspondence and library reports from Milton E. Lord, director of the library. Other significant correspondents include Frank W. Buxton; Wallace B. Donham, dean of the Harvard Business School; Cardinal William O'Connell; John J. Hall, Esquire; and Louis E. Kirstein of Filene's. The subseries also contains reports of the library's Examining Committee, comptroller's reports, budget estimates, personnel reports and staff exams, reports of the Board of Director's meetings, and accountants' reports from the estate of Josiah H. Benton, one of the library's benefactors.

Carton 20SH 1184 G[Box 49][Folder 1-2]

General correspondence, undated, 1938-1942

Carton 20SH 1184 G[Box 49][Folder 3-4]

Benton Bequest, undated, 1937-1941

Carton 20SH 1184 G[Box 49][Folder 5]

Boston Library Club

Carton 20SH 1184 G[Box 49][Folder 6]

Donham, Dean Wallace

Carton 20SH 1184 G[Box 49][Folder 7]

Examinations

Carton 20SH 1184 G[Box 49][Folder 8]

Mayor of Boston

Carton 20SH 1184 G[Box 49][Folder 9-12]

Staff (A-R)

Carton 20SH 1184 G[Box 49][Folder 13-14]

Trustees, meetings, memoranda

Carton 20SH 1184 G[Box 49][Folder 15]

Buxton, Frank W.

Carton 20SH 1184 G[Box 49][Folder 16]

Hall, John L.

Carton 20SH 1184 G[Box 49][Folder 17]

Kirstein, Louis E.

Carton 20SH 1184 G[Box 49][Folder 18]

O'Connell, William, Cardinal

Papers concerning Milton E. Lord

Carton 20SH 1184 G[Box 50]

Undated, 1936-1938

Carton 21SH 1185 H[Box 51]

1939-1940

C. Harvard University, 1927-1944

This subseries contains correspondence and reports during Sedgwick's tenure on Harvard University's Board of Overseers and as a member of the Committee on the Classics. Sedgwick was also involved in the university's tercentenary celebration, the reunion of the Class of 1894, and the 1938 Nieman Fellowship awards. The bulk of the correspondence is with other members of the board and the Committee on the Classics, including Philip R. Allen, John Nicholas Brown, W. S. Ferguson, Jerome D. Green, Fred B. Lund, Lewis Perry, W. K. Richardson, George S. Stevenson, Winthrop H. Wade, James P. Warburg, and Charles Warren.

Carton 21 contains Board of Overseers records, general correspondence, and anniversary materials. Cartons 21 and 22 contain correspondence regarding classics at Harvard and class reunions. Carton 22 also contains fellowship awards papers and printed materials.

Carton 21SH 1185 H[Box 52][Folder 1-5]

General correspondence, 1937-1943

Carton 21SH 1185 H[Box 52][Folder 6]

Tercentenary

Board of Overseers

Carton 21SH 1185 H[Box 52][Folder 7-21]

1929-1939

Carton 21SH 1185 H[Box 52][Folder 1-7]

1940-1942

Carton 21SH 1185 H[Box 53][Folder 8]

Class of 1894, 1944 Reunion

Committee on the Classics

Carton 22SH 1186 I[Box 54]

1927-1939

Carton 22SH 1186 I[Box 55][Folder 1-10]

1940-1943

Carton 22SH 1186 I[Box 55][Folder 11-13]

Nieman Fellowships, 1938

Carton 22SH 1186 I[Box 55][Folder 14-16]

Printed materials, 1936-1940

D. Rumford Press, 1933-1945

This subseries consists of correspondence, sales earnings reports, financial statements, and reports for stockholders for Rumford Press of New Hampshire. Sedgwick joined the board of directors in 1918 and was the company's first vice president. He became particularly active in the management of the company, which printed Reader's Digest and the Atlantic Monthly, after his retirement in 1939. Important topics of correspondence include the death of R. P. Weston, company president; the hiring of John G. Gerken as his replacement; and subsequent management problems. His primary correspondents were company presidents John G. Gerken and R. P. Weston and New Hampshire Senator George H. Moses.

Carton 22 contains chronological correspondence files for Gerken, Weston, and Moses. Carton 23 contains general correspondence, correspondence/financial statements, sales and earnings/balance sheets, and prospects (potential printing jobs). Carton 23 also contains correspondence and reports concerning stockholders.

Carton 22SH 1186 I[Box 56][Folder 1-6]

Gerken, John G., 1943-1945

Carton 22SH 1186 I[Box 56][Folder 7-12]

Moses, George H., 1943-1945

Carton 22SH 1186 I[Box 56][Folder 13-16]

Weston, R. P., 1942-1943

Carton 23SH 1187 J[Box 57][Folder 1]

General correspondence

Carton 23SH 1187 J[Box 57][Folder 2-6]

Correspondence/financial statements, 1936-1941

Carton 23SH 1187 J[Box 57][Folder 7-13]

Sales & earnings/balance sheets, 1937-1944

Carton 23SH 1187 J[Box 57][Folder 14-19]

Prospects, 1933-1939

Stockholders

Carton 23SH 1187 J[Box 58]

1941

Carton 23SH 1187 J[Box 59]

1942-1945

E. Groton School, 1944

This subseries contains miscellaneous papers related to trustees and alumni of the Groton School of Groton, Mass., of which Sedgwick was both. He graduated from Groton in 1890, taught there from 1895-1896, and served as trustee from 1909 to 1940. This file contains correspondence from 1944 only. Correspondents include John Crocker and Pierre Jay.

Carton 24SH 1188 K[Box 60][Folder 1]

F. Youth's Companion,1898-1900

This subseries consists of manuscripts submitted to Sedgwick as an assistant editor at the_Youth's Companion_, where he worked from 1896 to 1900. Correspondents include Eben C. Lamson and George S. Boutwell.

Carton 24SH 1188 K[Box 60][Folder 2-3]

V. Publications, 1946-1947

Arranged chronologically and alphabetically by correspondent.

This series contains materials related to the publication of Sedgwick's two books: The Happy Profession (1946) and Atlantic Harvest (1947). Papers concerning Sedgwick's autobiography, The Happy Profession, located in Carton 24, include the publication contract and correspondence from 1946 to 1948. Correspondence consists mainly of responses to The Happy Profession from people with whom Sedgwick had corresponded during his editorship. Included are letters from George Alger, Henry S. Canby, W. Cameron Forbes, E. M. Forster, Felix Frankfurter, James Norman Hall, Henry James, Thomas Lamont, William McFee, Margaret Prescott Montague, Leverett Saltonstall, and Edward A. Sumner.

Carton 24 also contains miscellaneous correspondence and notes for Atlantic Harvest, a compilation of Sedgwick's favorite articles printed in the_Atlantic Monthly_. Included are brief biographical sketches Sedgwick wrote about each author represented in his compilation.

Correspondents in this series are listed in the Select Correspondent Index and Select Institutional Affiliation Index below.

Carton 24SH 1188 K[Box 61][Folder 1]

Contract for The Happy Profession

Carton 24SH 1188 K[Box 61][Folder 2]

Unidentified letters

Carton 24SH 1188 K[Box 61][Folder 3-22]

Comments (A-Z)

Carton 24SH 1188 K[Box 62][Folder 1]

Atlantic Harvest, misc. correspondence and notes

Carton 24SH 1188 K[Box 62][Folder 2]

Introductory notes

Carton 24SH 1188 K[Box 62][Folder 3-8]

Notes (A-Z)

VI. Oversize papers

STORED ONSITE at Ms. N-854 (oversize).

OS Box

Scrapbook, 1946-1947

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about The Happy Profession (1946) and Atlantic Harvest (1947) from a wide variety of major American and English newspapers.

OS Box

Oversize materials

Included are newspaper clippings about Sedgwick's publications, oversized magazine articles and graphics, and galley proofs removed from the Atlantic Monthly general files.

VII. Photocopies

The final part of this collection consists of five boxes of photocopies (stored onsite) of some of the correspondence in the Atlantic Monthly general files. These photocopies were made prior to the integration of the Ellery Sedgwick papers in the spring of 1989. See the List of Photocopied Correspondence below.

Box 1-5

STORED ONSITE at Ms. N-854.

Select Correspondent Index

The following index contains select individuals who corresponded with Ellery Sedgwick, organized by name. See the Select Institutional Affiliation Index below for this information organized by affiliation. The names were taken from Series II-V of the collection and include individuals with whom Sedgwick exchanged a significant amount of correspondence or who had significant institutional affiliations. All members of the Sedgwick family are included. Individuals for whom files exist in Series I (Atlantic Monthly general files) are designated with an asterisk (*) after their names.

This index refers to box and folder numbers used prior to the transfer of the collection to record cartons for offsite storage. Users should refer to the carton and barcode numbers in the Detailed Description above for retrieval.

Select Institutional Affiliation Index

The following index contains select individuals who corresponded with Ellery Sedgwick, organized by institutional affiliation. See the Select Correspondent Index above for this information organized by name. The names were taken from Series II-V of the collection and include individuals with whom Sedgwick exchanged a significant amount of correspondence or who had significant institutional affiliations. All members of the Sedgwick family are included. Individuals for whom files exist in Series I (Atlantic Monthly general files) are designated with an asterisk (*) after their names.

This index refers to box and folder numbers used prior to the transfer of the collection to record cartons for offsite storage. Users should refer to the carton and barcode numbers in the Detailed Description above for retrieval.

List of Photocopied Correspondence from General Files

The following is an alphabetical list of correspondents whose letters in the Atlantic Monthly general files have been photocopied and stored onsite at Ms. N-854. Whenever possible, researchers should use the photocopies instead of the original letters. NOTE: This is a select list. These photocopies were made prior to the integration of the Ellery Sedgwick papers in the spring of 1989, so some letters by the individuals listed below may not have been photocopied. Please consult a reference librarian for more information.

Louis Adamic (Clarence Darrow) (4)
Jane Addams (1915-1931) (18)
George R. Agassiz (1914-1922) (10)
Conrad Aiken (1915) (4)
George Arliss (1922-1923, 1930) (8)
Hon. H. H. Asquith (1919) (1)
Earl Arthur James Balfour (1922) (1)
Thomas Barbour (1919-1945) (12)
James M. Barrie (1932) (2)
Bernard M. Baruch (1921-1940) (31)
H. E. Bates (1929-1945) (10)
Lord Beaverbrook (1924-1928) (3)
William Rose Benet (1915-1934) (11)
Arnold Bennett (1916-1928) (6)
Louis Bromfield (1924) (1)
Van Wyck Brooks (1921-1940) (21)
John Buchan (1917-1935) (22)
Pearl Buck (1922-1934) (13)
Harvey H. Bundy (1928) (2)
Ben Lucien Burman (1926) (3)
Witter Bynner (1922-1934) (6)
Admiral Richard E. Byrd (1938) (2)
Henry S. Canby (1914-1940) (34)
Willa Cather (1922-1932) (18)
Lord David Cecil (1932-1938) (9)
John Jay Chapman (1914) (11)
Lord Charnwood (1918-1941)
Mary Ellen Chase (1920-1930) (33)
Sir Winston Churchill (1914-1917) (4)
Padraic Colum (1923; 1935-1940) (3)
James Bryant Conant (1935-1940) (6)
Cyril Connolly (1936) (3)
C. T. Copeland (1915-1935) (8)
A. E. Coppard (1921, 1922, 1924) (3)
James Gould Cozzens (1920-1925) (4)
Harry & Caresse Crosby (1925) (2)
S. M. Crothers (1911) (1)
Frank Crowninshield (1915-1931) (20)
James M. Curley (1930-1934) (4)
Charles P. Curtis, Jr. (1927) (1)
Harvey Cushing (1916-1936) (22)
Richard Ely Danielson (1920-1922)
Walter De La Mare (1915) (1)
Salvador De Madariage (1928)
Bernard De Voto (1926) (3)
John Dewey (1921) (2)
Ruth Draper (1932) (3)
Theodore Dreiser (1919) (2)
John Foster Dulles (1935) (5)
Lord Dunsany (1919-1957) (43)
Will Durant (1926) (4)
Charles W. Eliot (1915-1925) (31)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915-1937) (25)
Abraham Flexner (1914-1934) (27)
E. M. Forster (1933) (1)
Douglas S. Freeman (1935) (5)
Felix Frankfurter (1916-1943) (70)
Robert Frost (1915, 1916, 1927, 1936) (14)
Claude Fuess (1919-1942) (47)
John Galsworthy (1924-1931) (12)
Edward Garnett (1914-1917) (16)
A. Hamilton Gibbs (1919-1933) (9)
Joseph Grew (1933) (1)
Viscount Grey (1919-1920) (4)
Albert Guerard (1922-1933) (19)
Henry Rider Haggard (1921) (1)
William Wister Haines (1934-1941) (5)
Edith Hamilton (1916-1929) (9)
Judge Learned Hand (1930) (1)
B. H. Liddell Hart (1925-1933)
Childe Hassam (1929, 1914) (2)
Roland Hayes (1942) (1)
A. P. Herbert (1927) (6)
Christian A. Herter (1919-1941) (13)
Heyward DuBose (1921-1931) (12)
Robert Hillyer (1922-1937) (9)
James Hilton (1934-1942) (16)
Herbert Hoover (1927, 1936-1938) (4)
Gerard Hopkins (1916) (2)
A. E. Housman (1926) (1)
Mark A. DeWolfe Howe (1915-1945) (49)
William Dean Howells (1915-1919) (20)
Cordell Hull (1924, 1937, 1939) (5)
Julian Huxley (1929-1932) (9)
MacKinley Kantor (1935-1936) (4)
McKenzie King (1919) (1)
Rudyard Kipling (1919) (1) + (7) notes
George Lyman Kittredge (1920-1937) (11)
Frank Knox (1941) (1)
Christopher LaFarge (1927-1940) (7)
Oliver LaFarge (1927-1940) (7)
Walter Savage Landor (1924) (2)
Owen and Eleanor Lattimore (1926-1934) (7)
Mary Lavin (1939-1941) (7)
Stephen Leacock (1919) (2)
Sinclair Lewis (1915, 1936) (3)
Vachel Lindsay (1921-1928) (5)
Walter Lippmann (1918-1939) (43)
Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. (1917) (1)
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (?) (1)
Mr. and Mrs. Jack London (1916-1917) (6)
A. Lawrence Lowell (1915-1934) (15)
Amy Lowell (1914-1925) (38)
E. V. Lucas (1918-?) (5)
Rose Macaulay (1938-1944) (16)
David McCord (1922-1932) (6)
Alfred R. McIntyre (1927-1946) (16)
Archibald McLeish (1917-1935) (11)
John Masefield (1915-1926) (10)
Andre Naurois (1925, 1931) (4)
Charles Mayo (1924) (1)
Roger B. Merriman (1937) (1)
Thomas James Merton (1940-1941) (3)
Alice Duer Miller (1915) (1)
Margaret Prescott Montague
Merrill Moore (inscribes POEMS, 1922-1926)
Henry Morgenthau (1931) (3)
Samuel Eliot Morison (1918-1942) (23)
Christopher Morley (1915-1944) (35)
Guy Murchie, Jr. (1916, 1930) (2)
Robert Nathan (1934) (2)
Reinhold Niebuhr (1916-1930) (23)
Eliot Norton (1930, 1932) (2)
Alfred Noyes (1915, 1921) (2)
Frank O'Connor (1930, 1931) (2)
Alfred Ollivant (1916) (1)
Eugene O'Neill (1932) (1)
Endicott Peabody (1918, 1931, 1933, 1939) (4)
Maxwell Perkins (1928-1933) (4)
Bliss Perry (1915-1943) (26)
General John Pershing (1922) (1)
William Lyon Phelps (1920-1930) (9)
Arthur Pound (1918-1944) (49)
Chandler R. Post (1925) (1)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1931, 1920) (2)
Agnes Repplier (1914-1938) (86)
Kenneth L. Roberts (1922) (1)
Edward Arlington Robinson (1915-1929) (13)
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1915-1933) (14)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1921-1932) (4)
Theodore Roosevelt (1927) (1)
Hilda Rose (1924-1937) (several)
Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy
Bertrand Russell (1915-1937) (42)
Leverett Saltonstall 1932) (1)
Carl Sandburg (1922-1927) (8)
George Santayana (1920) (1)
Harlow Shapley (1936-1945) (5)
Dallas Lore Sharp (1915-1925) (23)
Margery Sharp (1928) (2)
Vincent Sheean (1925-1950) (17)
Robert Sherwood (1936) (1)
Andre Sigfried (1927-?) (18)
Otis Skinner (1922, 1932) (2)
Alfred Smith (1930) (1)
Betty Smith (1942) (2)
Logan Pearsal Smith (1936-1944) (45)
Julia M. Sothern & E. H. Sothern (1917) (4)
Theodore Spencer (1932, 1943) (2)
Edward R. Stettinius (1934) (1)
Lytton Strachey (1918-1929) (3)
Anne Sullivan (Macy) (1933) (1)
William H. Taft (1925-1929) (5)
Rabindranath Tagore (1929) (3)
Booth Tarkington (1922) (1)
Francis Henry Taylor (1935) (2)
Albert Payson Terhune (1935) (2)
Norman Thomas (1931) (3)
Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) (1918-1937) (13)
Arnold Toynbee (1918-1933) (20)
George Macaulay Trevelyan (1914-1923) (9)
Carl and Irita Can Doren (8)
Henry A. Wallace (1935) (2)
Hugh Walpole (1923-1940) (5)
Sidney Webb (1914, 1917, 1922) (3)
H. G. Wells (undated) (6 signatures)
Rebecca West (1915-1924) (9 signatures)
Edith Wharton (1916, 1933) (5)
William Allen White (1915-1939) (25)
Alfred North Whitehead (1924-1926) (4)
Thornton Wilder (1934) (1)
Wendell L. Willkie (1937-1941) (4)
Ben Ames Williams (1926, 1942) (3)
Robert Cade Wilson (1946) (1)
Woodrow Wilson (1921, 1923) (3)
Owen Wister (1915-1937) (55)
Virginia Woolf (1929-1933) (7)
Alexander Woollcott (1934 and undated) (2)

Materials Removed from the Collection

Photographs from this collection have been removed to the Ellery Sedgwick photographs, ca. 1900-1942. Photo. Coll. 208.

For a list of printed materials removed from this collection, see Curator of Manuscripts.

Preferred Citation

Ellery Sedgwick papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.

Access Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in ABIGAIL, the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.

Persons:

Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949.

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.

Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.

Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958.

Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965.

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.

Hall, James Norman, 1887-1951.

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925.

Marshall, Charles C. (Charles Clinton), 1860-1938.

Minor, Wilma Frances.

Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.

Nock, Albert Jay, 1872 or 3-1945.

Nordhoff, Charles, 1887-1947.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.

Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944.

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930.

Whiteley, Opal Stanley.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Organizations:

Arnold Arboretum.

Boston Public Library.

Harvard University.

Rumford Press.

Subjects:

Authors.

Editors.

Forgery of manuscripts.

Japan--Description and travel.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Periodicals--Publishing.

Poets.

Scrapbooks--1946-1947.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Foreign public opinion.

Women authors.

Titles:

Atlantic Monthly Magazine.