George A. Plimpton Papers, 1634-1956 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The George Arthur Plimpton Papers consist primarily of correspondence relating to Plimpton's personal, financial, organizational, and collecting endeavors, including correspondence addressed to George Plimpton as well as carbon copies of outgoing correspondence. The collection also includes correspondence between members of Ginn and Company that often relate only indirectly to Plimpton himself. Other financial correspondence relates to Plimpton's various property holdings. In addition to decades' worth of Plimpton's personal account books and diaries, the collection contains Plimpton's financial and legal records, including his checkbooks, check stubs, receipts, and wills. Other items include notes, drafts of Plimpton's lectures and essays, family scrapbooks, guestbooks, travel diaries, a small number of family photographs, documents bearing the autographs of United States presidents, historical documents relating to the American slave trade, handwriting specimens, and notes on Plimpton's collection of medieval manuscripts