Call Number:

C0044

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

7 boxes

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Don C. Seitz Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1854-1930 (inclusive)

Creator:

Seitz, Don C. (Don Carlos), 1862-1935

Form:

Photoprints. and Poems.

Abstract:

Consists of research notes, articles, bibliographies, photographs, and printed matter of Don C. Seitz, American journalist, poet, and business manager of the New York World (1898–1923).

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.