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Don C. Seitz Papers

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Seitz

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.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2002
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research use.

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Collection Inventory

"The Adjustment of Labor Problems and the Policy of Incorporating Unions": printed material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Adventurers: TMs (with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

American Humor: AMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

American Humor: TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Artemus Ward: research notes- original and reproduced, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Artemus Ward: research correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Artemus Ward: research photographs and photostats, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Artemus Ward: research printed material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Barbary Corsairs I: TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Barbary Corsairs III: TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"The Bible's Life of Christ," TMs (carbon)S, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Braxton Bragg, General of the Confederacy: notes, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Braxton Bragg, General of the Confederacy: research correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Braxton Bragg, General of the Confederacy: research photostats, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Braxton Bragg, General of the Confederacy: research printed material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Brown, John (subject): TMs (with holograph corrections), galleys, photostat, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Buccaneers I: AMs with TMs (with holograph corrections) inserts- bibliography, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Buccaneers II, AMs with TMs (with holograph corrections) inserts- bibliography, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Captain Mission; Good Pirate": TMs (carbon)S, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"The D--d Lite'ry Fellers": TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Devil and His Hell: A Study in Superstition: TMs, unrelated pages, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Drake, Sir Francis (subject): research printed material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Drake, Sir Francis (subject): TMs (carbon) with holograph corrections, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Education in Salesmanship": TMs (with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Embellishment of Life: TMs (carbon with holograph corrections) incomplete, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Embellishment of Life: printed with holograph corrections and TMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Embellishment of Life: printed with holograph corrections and TMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Embellishment of Life: TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Embellishment of Life: TMs (carbon with holograph correctins), miscellaneous pages, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Feild, Eugene (subject): TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Fillibusters: TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Government by Guess": AMs, TMs, incomplete, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"How Lincoln's Body Was Borne to the Tomb": TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

humorous and satirical verse (subject): AMs with TMs (with holograph corrections) inserts, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Indians, American (subject): correspondence about, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Indians, American (subject): TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The James Gordon Bennetts: research photostats, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The James Gordon Bennetts: research printed material ["Justice Uner the Constitution" see "Government by Guess"], dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lincoln, Abraham (subject): correspondence about, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lincoln, Abraham (subject): photostats, photographs, and negatives, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lincoln, Abraham (subject): printed material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"The Man-Bird May Make His Nest Where He Will": TMs (with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Mark Twain Compendium: research printed material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Mark Twain Compendium: TMs (wtih holograph corrections), notes and later draft, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Mormons (subject): correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Mormons (subject): AMs with printed inserts, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Mutiny of the Bounty: TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[ 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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1 folder

Paul Jones: His Exploits in English Seas During 1778-1780: research photostats, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Paul Jones: His Exploits in English Seas During 1778-1780: research printed material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Paul Jones: His Exploits in English Seas During 1778-1780: TMs (carbon with holograph corrections) pp. 1-103, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Paul Jones: His Exploits in English Seas During 1778-1780: TMs (with holograph corrections), bibliography, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Paumano-Walt Whitman's Island": research correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Paumano-Walt Whitman's Island": research photographs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Paumano-Walt Whitman's Island": research printed material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Paumano-Walt Whitman's Island": TMs (with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[ Piracy in Fiction see pirates (subject) #5]

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1 folder

Pirates (subject): TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), photostat, printed material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pirates (subject): AMs with TMs (with holograph corrections) inserts, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pirates (subject): AMs with TMs (with holograph corrections) inserts, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pirates (subject): AMs with TMs (with holograph corrections) inserts, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pirates (subject): TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pirates (subject): TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pirates (subject): AMs with TMs (carbon with holograph corrections) inserts, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pirates (subject): AMs with TMs (carbon with holograph corrections) inserts, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pirates (subject): TMs (with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[see also "Captain Mission; Good Pirate"]

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1 folder

Poems, unpublished: TMss (carbons), TMss (carbons with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Poems, his interpretations of the Chinese- English translation of Li Po's verses: TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Privateers (subject): AMs with TMs (with holograph corrections) inserts, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Privateers (subject): AMs with TMs (with holograph corrections) inserts, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Privateers (subject): AMs with TMs (with holograph corrections) inserts, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Riley, James Whitcomb (subject): TMs (carbon with holograph corrections, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

["The Rulers of America: A Short History of the United States Supreme Court" see "Government by Guess"]

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1 folder

Stray Rhymes: AMs, TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"A Theory of Correct Educating": printed material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Thomas Jefferson, Reporter": TMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Traveller: Poems of Life and Longing: TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Trial of Captain William Kidd for Murder and Piracy Upon Six Several Incidents: AMs, bibliography, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Unhallowed Americans: research printed material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Unhallowed Americans: TMs (carbon with holograph corrections) incomplete, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Walker, William (subject): notes, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Walker, William (subject): correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[see also William Walker: Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny]

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1 folder

Walker, William (subject): photographs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Walker, William (subject): printed material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Washington Irving: The First and Last American Gentleman of Letters: TMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Whitman, Walt (subject): correspondence about, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

["Where John Brown Was Born" see Brown, John (subject)]

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1 folder

Whitman, Walt (subject): notes, printed material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

[Whitman, Walt see "Paumano-Walt Whitman's Island"]

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1 folder

William Walker: Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny: AMs, TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), incomplete, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Bibliography, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Notes and Fragments, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Photostats and Photographs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Print, Suggest