Call Number:

C0007

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

2 boxes

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); "We Saw It Happen" Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1937 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections

Form:

Foreign correspondents -- United States -- 20th century. and Journalists -- United States -- 20th century.

Abstract:

Consists of the typed manuscripts of We Saw It Happen (1938), edited by Hanson W. Baldwin and Shepard Stone, each chapter contributed by a different correspondent of the New York Times. The work details major news stories chronicled by important journalists of the day.

The collection consists of the typed manuscripts of the introduction and the twelve chapters of We Saw It Happen (1938), edited by Hanson W. Baldwin and Shepard Stone, each chapter contributed by a different correspondent of the New York Times: Arthur Krock, G. E. R. Gedye, F. Raymond Daniell, Frank Nugent and Douglas Churchill, Elliott V. Bell, Ferdinand Kuhn, Russell Owen, John Kieran, William R. Conklin, Hugh Byas, Brooks Atkinson, and Louis Stark. Most of the manuscripts exist in two versions: one with the author's corrections, the other, "final" version with the proofreader's marks.