Arthur S. Hoffman correspondence | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Collection includes letters from and to author, editor, and teacher Arthur Hoffman while editor of Adventure Magazine, Chautauquan, Delineator, McClure's Magazine, Smart Set, Transatlantic Tales, and Watson's, and while a critic and teacher of fiction writing. Correspondents include Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, Harold Lamb, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt, and W.C. Tuttle. This collection also includes a 1904 passport, clippings from various magazines, and photocopies of Hoffman's scrapbooks. The scrapbooks contain correspondence, notes relating to his editing work, clippings, and reprints of short writings by Hoffman and others. A note in the collection indicates that the original scrapbooks remain with Hoffman's family