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St. Nicholas Correspondence of Mary Mapes Dodge
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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.
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Lauren Hoffman '15
- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
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The collection is open for research.
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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
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1 ALS to M.M. Dodge.
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1 ALS to M.M. Dodge.
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1 ALS to M.M. Dodge.
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ANS to M.M. Dodge.
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3 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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3 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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1 ALS and 1 postcard to M.M. Dodge.
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4 ALS and 1 engraved note to M.M. Dodge.
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2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge and AL draft of her response.
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3 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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ANS to M.M. Dodge.
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2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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3 ALsS and 1 card to M.M. Dodge.
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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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2.5 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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4 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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4 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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6 ALsS to M.M. Dodge and AL draft from M.M. Dodge.
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ALS to M.M. Dodge.
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ALS and card to M.M. Dodge.
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ALS to M.M. Dodge, and letter from Maria Taylor to M.M. Dodge.
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14 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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3 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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3 ALsS and card to M.M. Dodge.
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2 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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3 ALsS to M.M. Dodge.
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2 ALsS and 1 calling card for M.M. Dodge.
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