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Don C. Seitz Papers
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Don C. Seitz was a journalist, poet, and business manager of the New York World (1898–1923). He also wrote biographies of Joseph Pulitzer and Horace Greeley, among others.
The collection consists of research notes, articles, bibliographies, photographs, and printed matter of Seitz. The bibliographies primarily cover pirates, buccaneers, privateers, filibusters, and adventurers of various sorts; included are manuscripts for Paul Jones: His Exploits in English Seas During 1778-1780 (NY: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1917) and The Tryal of Capt. William Kidd For Murther & Privacy Upon Six Several Indictments (N.Y.: R.R. Wilson, 1936). There are also bibliographies of American humorists, such as Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, and Eugene Field, as well as notes, articles, and photographs concerning Artemus Ward, James Gordon Bennett, Walt Whitman's home, Indian treaties, Mormons, Henry M. Stanley, and William Walker and his invasion of Nicaragua. In addition, there are poems by Seitz, including the collection Traveller: Poems of Life and Longing.
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This collection was processed in 2002. Finding aid written in 2002.
People
- Field, Eugene (1850-1895)
- Kidd, William (1701)
- Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)
- Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
- Walker, William (1824-1860)
- Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
Subject
- American poetry. -- 20th century
- Buccaneers
- Filibusters
- Humorists, American. -- Bibliography
- Indians of North America -- Treaties. -- 19th century
- Mormons -- United States. -- Bibliography
- Pirates. -- Bibliography
- Pirates in literature
- Journalists -- United States. -- 20th century
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2002
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[ Nicaragua and the Gray-Eyed Man, Whose Destiny Led Him to the Grave see William Walker: Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny]
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[ Piracy in Fiction see pirates (subject) #5]
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[see also "Captain Mission; Good Pirate"]
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["The Rulers of America: A Short History of the United States Supreme Court" see "Government by Guess"]
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[see also William Walker: Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny]
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["Where John Brown Was Born" see Brown, John (subject)]
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[Whitman, Walt see "Paumano-Walt Whitman's Island"]
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