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"We Saw It Happen" Collection

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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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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.

Originally, this collection formed part of Princeton's Archives of American Literature.

Publications: We Saw It Happen (N.Y.: Simon & Shuster, 1938), edited by Hanson W. Baldwin and Shepard Stone.

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Folder inventory prepared by Alex Rodgers '2014 in 2011.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2008
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The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Introduction - By Baldwin, Hanson W. and Shepard Stone (with Corrections), 1938. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 1: Washington, D. C." - Krock, Arthur; Some Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 1: Washington, D. C." - Krock, Arthur; Final Version and Printers Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 2: Vienna Waltz" - Gedye, G. E. R.; Final Version and Notes to Printer, 2 Pages Unpublished, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 3: Land of the Free" - Daniell, F. Raymond; Final Version and Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 4: Graustark" - Nugent, Frank and D. Churchill; Carbon with Many Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 4: Graustark" - Nugent, Frank and D. Churchill; Final Version and Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 5: The Decline of the Money Barons" - Bell, Elliott V.; Original Manuscript with Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 5: The Decline of the Money Barons" - Bell, Elliott V.; Final Version and Proffreader's Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 6: Britain - A Story of Old Age" - Kuhn, Ferdinand; Corrections, 1937. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 6: Britain - A Story of Old Age" - Kuhn, Ferdinand; Final Version and Proofreader's Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 7: Hot Lands and Cold" - Owen, Russell; with Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 7: Hot Lands and Cold" - Owen, Russell; Final Version and Some Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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"Chapter 8: Sports of the Times" - Kieran, John; with Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 8: Sports of the Times" - Kieran, John; Final Version and Proofreader's Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 9: Manhattan Machine" - Conklin, William R.; Original Manuscript and Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 9: Manhattan Machine" - Conklin, William R.; Final Version and Proofreader's Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 10: Land of the Rising Sun" - Byas, Hugh; with Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 10: Land of the Rising Sun" - Byas, Hugh; Final Version and Proofreader's Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 11: Off Stage and On" - Atkinson, Brooks; Original Title: "Dramatic Buccaneering" and Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 11: Off Stage and On" - Atkinson, Brooks; Final Version and Proofreader's Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 12: A Case that Rocked the World" - Stark, Louis; with Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Chapter 12: A Case that Rocked the World" - Stark, Louis; Final Version and Proofreader's Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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