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St. Nicholas Correspondence of Mary Mapes Dodge

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Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905

Mary Mapes Dodge was an American children's writer and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker; or The Silver Skates, A Story of Life in Holland. In 1859 she began writing and editing, working with her father to publish two magazines, the Working Farmer and the United States Journal. Within a few years she had great success with a collection of short stories ns2:titled The Irvington Stories (1864). Dodge then wrote Hans Brinker, which became an instant bestseller. Later on she was an associate editor of Health and Home, edited by Harriet Beecher Stowe. She had charge of the household and children's departments of that paper. She became an editor in her own right with the children's magazine St. Nicholas, published by Charles Scribner' Sons, for she was able to solicit stories from a number of well-known writers including Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. St. Nicholas became one of the most successful magazines for children during the second half of the nineteenth century, with a circulation of almost 70,000.. Dodge is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, at Hillside, New Jersey.

The collection consists of letters to Dodge in her capacity as editor of St. Nicholas magazine from contributors and literary friends. Included are autograph letters of Amelia E. Barr, John Burroughs, Susan Coolidge, Rebecca Harding Davis, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Constance Cary Harrison, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, H.H. (Helen Hunt), Rudyard Kipling, Lucy Larcom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mrs. Oliphant, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Celia Thaxter, Edith Matilda Thomas, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

Copies of the Swann Galleries auction catalogs describing the lots which made the collection are kept with the collection.

Publications: Some of the letters have been published in Catharine Morris Wright's Lady of the Silver Skates (Jamestown, RI: Clingstone Press, 1979)

This collection was processed by Lauren Hoffman '15 in May 2012. Finding aid written by Lauren Hoffman '15 in May 2012.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Author
Lauren Hoffman '15
Finding Aid Date
2008
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Collection Inventory

Swann's Sale Catalogue, 1982 June 24. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1889 March 27. 1 folder.
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1 ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston, 1899 August 24. 1 folder.
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1 ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Burroughs, John, 1898 November 25. 1 folder.
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1 ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Champney, Elizabeth Williams, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ANS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Cone, Helen Gray, 1899 October 30. 1 folder.
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ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Cowden-Clarke, Mary Victoria, 1888 March 23. 1 folder.
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ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, undated. 1 folder.
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3 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Davis, Rebecca Blaire Harding, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Field, Kate, 1885 September 7. 1 folder.
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ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Freeman, Mary Eleanor (Wilkins), 1896 January 1. 1 folder.
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ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Gilder, Richard Watson, 1896-1901. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Goodale, Dora Read, 1895 August 3. 1 folder.
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ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Hale, Edward E., 1885 October 25. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Harland, Anne, 1898 October 17. 1 folder.
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ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Harrison, Constance Cary, undated. 1 folder.
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ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Harte, Bret, 1887 September 13. 1 folder.
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ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Hawthorne, Julian, 1883 September 9. 1 folder.
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ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Herrick, Christine Terhune, 1886 November 27. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Higginson, T.W., 1877-1882. 1 folder.
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1 ALS and 1 postcard to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Howells, Mildred, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Howells, William Dean, 1884-1890. 1 folder.
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4 ALS and 1 engraved note to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Hutton, Lawrence, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Jackson, Helen Maria (Fiske) Hunt, 1885 April 30. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Jenks, Tudor, 1899 September 11. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Johnson, Rossiter, 1898. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Kinney, Elizabeth Clementine (Dodge), 1885 February 6. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Kipling, Rudyard, 1892-1895. 1 folder.
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2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge and AL draft of her response.

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1 folder

Lathrop, Rose (Hawthorne), undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Larcom, Lucy, 1881-1884. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1877 May 20. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Merington, Marguerite, 1902 February 20. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Miller, Joaquin, 1882 September 14. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ANS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Mitchell, D.G., undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Mitchell, Maria, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Moulton, Ellen Louise (Chandler), 1875. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Page, Thomas Nelson, 1887 September 17. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Proctor, Edna Dean, 1903. 1 folder.
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3 ALsS and 1 card to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Reid, Captain Mayne, 1883. 1 folder.
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2 ALsS, 1 to Edmund Gosse, with his note sending it to M.M. Dodge, and 1 to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth Munson, 1893 February 28. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Scudder, Horace E., 1867. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2.5 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1889. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

4 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Sprague-Smith, Isabelle Dwight, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Stedman, Edmund C., 1875-1893. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

4 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Stockton, Frank R., 1881-1889. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

6 ALsS to M.M. Dodge and AL draft from M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Stoddard, Elizabeth Drew Barston, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Stuart, Ruth MacEnery, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS and card to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Taylor, Bayard, 1876 January 13. 1 folder.
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ALS to M.M. Dodge, and letter from Maria Taylor to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Thaxter, Celia, 1879-1893. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

14 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Thomas, Edith Matilda, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Throwbridge, John Townsend, 1873-1883. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Warner, C.D., 1883-1886. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 ALsS and card to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Wells, Carolyn, 1902 March 8. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1887-1892. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1894 September 15. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Winter, William, 1874 December 19. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

ALS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey, 1889. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.

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1 folder

Miscellaenous Mail, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 ALsS and 1 calling card for M.M. Dodge.

Physical Description

1 folder

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