Publishers and publishing.
Subject
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Anne LaBastille papers
Collection
Identifier: 6420
Abstract
The Anne LaBastille papers include correspondence, fan mail, children's journals and letters, manuscripts, reviews, scrapbooks documenting publicity and promotion, as well as original artwork and photographs. Her papers clearly document the creative and publishing processes for Jaguar Totem, Woodswoman III, Birds of the Mayas, The Wilderness World of Anne LaBastille, Mama Poc, Beyond Black Bear Lake, and Women and Wilderness. Of particular interest is her extensive collection of letters from...
Dates:
1963-2004.
Harry Porter Weld papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065228730]
Identifier: 14-23-2175
Scope and content
Correspondence among Harry P. Weld, Edwin G. Boring, and Herbert S. Langfeld and their publisher, John Wiley and Sons, about their psychology textbook INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY.
Dates:
1937-1946.
Jay McInerney papers
Collection
Identifier: 4666
Abstract
The Jay McInerney papers consist of personal correspondence, professional and publishing correspondence, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the publicity for his novel Bright Lights Big City.
Dates:
1971-1989.
Josiah Emery autobiography
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938172]
Identifier: 731
Scope and content
Describes his early religious experiences and his Arminian leanings; his days at Dartmouth College; his study of medicine and his involvement in a grave robbery of a cadaver and the subsequent trial; his student days at Union College; his activities as a lawyer, district attorney, newspaper publisher, and politician in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania; his interest in the Corning and Blossburg Railroad, and land speculation. In 1837, Horace Greeley approached Emery with the offer of a literary...
Dates:
1801-1891.
Kurt Vonnegut papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8789
Abstract
Chiefly incoming correspondence from publishers, agents, friends, and readers, as well as materials relating to Vonnegut's family and personal life from the period he lived in Barnstable, MA (1950s-1970s). Highlights also include his notebooks from his time as a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Chicago from 1945 to 1947 after serving in World War II; several manuscript notes or typescripts of plays, essays, speeches and screenplays; and scrapbooks Vonnegut compiled...
Dates:
1924 - 1997
Letters by nineteenth century women authors
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065353934]
Identifier: 6454
Scope and content
76 letters by 19th century women authors to their publishers and editors regarding the writing and publication of their works. Correspondents include: R. Bentley, George Bentley, Mrs. Alexander, Matilda Betham-Edwards, Courteney Grant, Fredrika Bremer, Rhoda Broughton, B. H. Buxton, Rosa Nouchette Carey, Mary Cholmondeley, Marie Corelli, Henrietta Duff, Georgiana Fullerton, Theo Gift, Anna Maria Hall, Mrs. Humphries ("Rita"), Harriet Jay, Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury, Julia Kavanagh, Fanny...
Dates:
1851-1917.
Publisher's advertising collection
Collection — Folder 20 in Box: [Barcode: 31924070576891]
Identifier: 8751
Content Description
Prospectuses, lists of new publications, and other advertisements issued by publishers. Includes a prospectus for the Journal of speculative philosophy (circa 1867), a list of new books and new editions from Macmillan and Co. (January 1872), and an advertisement for the Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (circa 1833).
Dates:
1833 - 1872