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Wilkinson Collection of Mary Mapes Dodge
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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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 manuscripts and correspondence concerning St. Nicholas magazine, and correspondence, documents, photographs (including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes), and memorabilia relating to the Dodge family, particularly James Mapes Dodge--collected by Mrs. H. Bernard Wilkinson, granddaughter of Mary Mapes Dodge. The collection contains several pages of Mary Mapes Dodge's Hans Brinker, as well as manuscripts for Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins and Under the Lilacs (47 pp.), Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy, and a biography of Douglas Jerrold. Correspondents include Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Rudyard Kipling, Theodore Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Kate Douglas Wiggin. In addition, there is material about the Dodge Coal Storage Company, including a copy of its articles of incorporation, and various patents. Photographs include images of Mark Twain and family (some playful), Laurence Hutton, and James Mapes Dodge at the Onteora Club in the Catskills, as well as images of Douglas Jerrold, Celia Thaxter, and William Fayal Clarke.
Most of the collection is a gift of Mrs. H. Bernard Wilkinson. "Little Lord Fauntleroy" is a gift of Mrs. Penny Deupree.
Biography written by Jessica Marati, '08.
No appraisal information is available.
People
- Dodge, James Mapes, 1852-1915
- Hutton, Laurence, 1843-1904
- Jerrold, Douglas, 1803-1857
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Wilkinson, Josephine Dodge
Subject
- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2002
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research use.
- Use Restrictions
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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
Consists of prose and poetry of Mary Mapes Dodge as well as the works of others.
This series is arranged into three subseries: Prose, Poetry, and Works of persons other than Mary Mapes Dodge.
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Consists of manuscripts for "Hans Brinker."
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Consists of manuscripts for works such as "The Modern Girl" and "This is My Monogram So Airy," as well as others.
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Consists of works by individuals such as Louisa May Alcott, Richard A. Proctor, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as well as others.
Arranged alphabetically by author.
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Consists of the correspondence of Mary Mapes Dodge with individuals such as Louisa May Alcott, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Edmund William Gosse, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Theodore Roosevelt, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Charles Scribner, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as others.
This series is arranged into two subseries: Correspondence of Mary Mapes Dodge, and Dodge Family Correspondence.
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Consists of the correspondence of Mary Mapes Dodge with individuals such as Louisa May Alcott, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Edmund William Gosse, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Theodore Roosevelt, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Charles Scribner, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as others.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
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Consists of the correspondence of the Dodge family, including James Mapes Dodge, Josephine Kern Dodge, and Mary Barker Dodge, as well as others.
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Consists of documents of the Dodge family, the Dodge family genealogies, and miscellaneous 18th-century documents.
This series is arranged into three subseries: Dodge Family Documents, Dodge Family Genealogies, and Miscellaneous 18th Century Documents.
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Consists of documents of family members such as James Mapes Dodge, Mary Mapes Dodge, and Spencer Mapes, as well as others.
Arranged alphabetically by subject of document.
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Consists of genealogies of the Dodge family.
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Consists of miscellaneous 18th-century documents related to the Dodge family.
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Consists of miscellaneous memorabilia related to Mary Mapes Dodge.
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Consists of printed material, largely comprised of the works of Mary Mapes Dodge.
This series is arranged into two subseries: Works by Mary Mapes Dodge, and Miscellaneous (1).
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Consists of miscellaneous printed works by Mary Mapes Dodge.
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Consists of miscellaneous printed material related to Mary Mapes Dodge.
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Consists of miscellaneous clippings related to Mary Mapes Dodge.
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Consists of photographs of Mary Mapes Dodge and the Dodge family. Also included are daguerreotypes and tintypes.
This series is arranged into four subseries: Photographs of Mary Mapes Dodge, Dodge Family Photographs, Miscellaneous, and Daguerreotypes, Tintypes, and Photographs.
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Consists of photographs of Mary Mapes Dodge.
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Consists of photographs of the Dodge family.
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Consists of photographs of William Fayal Clarke, Mark Twain, Laurence Hutton, Douglas William Jerrold, and Celia Thaxter.
Arranged alphabetically by subject of photograph.
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Consists of daguerreotypes, tintypes, and miscellaneous photographs.
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Consists of miscellaneous books owned by or related to Mary Mapes Dodge.
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Consists of the obituaries of Mary Mapes Dodge.
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