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Frank N. Doubleday and Nelson Doubleday Collection

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Call Number:
C0162
Repository:
Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division
Extent:
  • 33 boxes
  • 1 item
  • 14 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Citations should be as follows: Frank N. Doubleday and Nelson Doubleday Collection, Box #, Folder #, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Date:
1734-1966 (inclusive) and 1890s-1940s (bulk)
Creator:
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Doubleday, Frank Nelson, 1862-1934
Form:
Correspondence, Drawings., Manuscripts., Photographs, Original., and Sketchbooks.
Abstract:
Consists primarily of papers of Frank Nelson Doubleday and his son, Nelson, relating to their personal and business relationships with prominent authors and artists published under the Doubleday imprint, such as Joseph Conrad, A. B. Frost, Rudyard Kipling, T. E. Lawrence, and W. Someset Maugham.

Doubleday, Frank Nelson, 1862-1934

Frank Nelson Doubleday

Frank Nelson Doubleday was born on January 8, 1862, in Brooklyn, New York, to William Edwards Doubleday and Ellen M. Dickinson. Although ultimately becoming one of the most famous and respected publishers in the United States, Doubleday's formal education was hardly extensive. He attended a public primary school in Brooklyn, and then went to the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute for two to three years, until his father's hat-manufacturing business failed, forcing the teenager to seek employment.

He began his career at Charles Scribner's Sons in 1877 and worked there for twenty years, rising through the ranks and leading many important projects, including the revival of the Book-Buyer magazine and the leadership of Scribner's Magazine in 1887.

Doubleday married Neltje DeGraff in 1886 and had one son, Nelson, and one daughter by her. The couple also adopted Doubleday's nephew, Felix.

In 1897, Doubleday began his first independent firm, Doubleday and McClure Company. He ended the partnership with McClure in 1900 and began Doubleday, Page & Company, partnering with Walter Page. Doubleday's many acquisitions of other publishing firms led to multiple reincarnations of Doubleday, Page & Company, including Doubleday, Doran & Company, and various subsidiaries in England and the United States.

Doubleday, Doran & Company became one of the leading publishing houses in the United States, with an impressive stable of writers, such as Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, T. E. Lawrence, and Jack London, and many popular periodicals, including Country Life, American Home, and World's Work.

Doubleday revolutionized the publishing industry by considering publishing a business, instead of a literary pursuit. As a result he launched such innovative projects as collected sets of authors' works, book subscriptions, and extensive advertising and publicity campaigns. He also established a publishing plant in Garden City, Long Island, which was one of the first day-lit factories and included a small hospital and dentist's office for employees. His employees also had health insurance and life insurance. Doubleday believed that happy workers increase productivity and quality. Photographs of the plant and its workers can be found in this collection.

Doubleday also figured prominently in American society, counting among his friends Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. He and his second wife, Florence Van Wyck, engaged in many philanthropic activities and were well-known and respected in New York society.

Doubleday died in 1934 after a heart attack. He was succeeded as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Doubleday, Doran & Company by his son, Nelson Doubleday.

Nelson Doubleday

Nelson Doubleday, the son of Frank Nelson and Neltje De Graff Doubleday, was born on June 16, 1889, in Brooklyn, New York. He was educated at the Friends School of New York and Holbrook Military Academy. His education was difficult because of extended illness as a child, but was supplemented by overseas travel with his family. Doubleday also completed two years at New York University before leaving to enter publishing.

Publishing was a passion for Nelson Doubleday which began at a young age. As a child he wrote to Rudyard Kipling, asking him to write a set of practical animal stories, which were ultimately published as the Just So Stories. The young Nelson also had an early instinct for business, negotiating a deal with his father, the publisher of the volume, to collect a penny of royalties for every copy sold, due to his involvement in the conception of the work. He collected this royalty for his lifetime.

Doubleday founded his independent publishing firm, Nelson Doubleday, Inc., in 1912. This company sold half-price magazine subscriptions of month-old magazines, and was profitable. Doubleday stopped the magazine sales when the post office increased its rates, but used the profits from the company to publish books, including an etiquette guide and reprints of nonfiction volumes.

Doubleday married Martha J. Nicholson in 1916, but the union ended in divorce in 1931. He then married Ellen McCarter Violett in 1932, who had two children from a previous marriage, and later had two more children with Doubleday. Ellen was a philanthropist and active participant in many causes, including the Parent Teacher Association.

Doubleday also enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War I but never served overseas. Following his service, he started at his father's company in 1918 as a junior partner. He became vice-president and then president of the company, helping it survive the Depression by selling recently acquired British publishing houses and all of Doubleday's magazines.

Nelson Doubleday also started various book clubs to introduce lower-priced books to the masses. He was very successful in this endeavor, with popular book clubs including the Literary Guild, of which he became the sole owner in 1934, the Young People's Division of the Literary Guild, the Junior Literary Guild, the Crime Club, the Doubleday One Dollar Book Club, the Family Reading Corporation, the Home Book Club, the Dollar Mystery Guild, and Book Club Associates. Doubleday published books for these clubs under separate imprints, including many lower-priced options.

Doubleday also controlled and maintained the business through the Depression by being quick to terminate projects that appeared unprofitable. His keen business sense also contributed to his success expanding the Doubleday house. He acquired a medical textbook publishing division and opened a second manufacturing plant in Hanover, Pennsylvania. He also established editorial and business offices in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Canada, in addition to the existing offices in New York and London.

Ultimately, Nelson Doubleday accomplished his father's goal of making Doubleday the largest publishing house in America. Nelson Doubleday died of cancer in January 1949. He left a large publishing empire as well as an important legacy of providing books and literature to the common man.

The collection consists primarily of papers of Frank Nelson Doubleday and his son, Nelson, relating to their personal and business relationships with prominent Doubleday authors and artists. Included are letters, manuscripts, and galleys of Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, T. E. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, and others; drawings by Kipling and his father, and by A. B. Frost and his sons; and letters from over 100 correspondents, including J. M. Barrie, Helen Keller, Christopher Morley, Frederic Remington, Gene Stratton-Porter, and Booth Tarkington, to members of the Doubleday family.

The collection includes approximately 190 letters of Kipling and the holograph manuscript, among others, of The Light That Failed (1891), presented by the author to Frank Nelson Doubleday in 1899. The holograph manuscript of The Razor's Edge, presented by Maugham to Nelson Doubleday at Christmas, 1944, highlights the second-generation acquisitions in the collection.

Additions to the collection include correspondence concerning the copyright and publication of works by O. Henry, and personal papers of Frank Nelson Doubleday, including a scrapbook and articles on his Red Cross trip to the Orient in 1918, typescript drafts of his autobiography, "Secret Memoirs of a Publisher," written in two installments (1926 and 1933) for private circulation, a journal (1897), a family genealogy, a 1734 English indenture, and photographs. Also present are financial and estate papers of Frank Nelson Doubleday, his two wives, Neltje Blanchan DeGraff Doubleday and Florence Van Wyck Doubleday, Lily Underhill Doubleday, Nelson Doubleday, Felix Doubleday, Samuel A. Everitt, and tax and estate papers (1930-1942) for Rudyard Kipling.

Former Assistant Librarian for Special Collections Howard C. Rice, Jr., wrote about the Princeton Doubleday collection in two articles in the Princeton University Library Chronicle: Volume XXII (spring 1961), pp. 105-117, and Volume XXIV (spring 1963), pp. 191-196.

Most of the material in the collection was given at various times, through 1993, by members of the Doubleday family--particularly, Mrs. Ellen McCarter Doubleday (1899-1978) and her son, Nelson Doubleday, Jr., Princeton Class of 1955.

Kipling and Doubleday family correspondence, including letters from Rudyard Kipling to Frank N. Doubleday, were purchased in 2014 (AM 2015-50).

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This collection was processed by Anna Bialek in July and August of 2005. The finding aid was written by Anna Bialek in the summer of 2005, incorporating detailed calendars compiled by Howard C. Rice, Jr., in 1961, which he revised in 1964.

The Ellen McCarter Doubleday Papers (C0747) contains additional Doubleday family papers. Included is correspondence of both Ellen and Nelson Doubleday with Thomas Costain, Noel Coward, Daphne Du Maurier, Edna Ferber, Ellen Glasgow, Sinclair Lewis, W. Somerset Maugham, Kenneth Roberts, Booth Tarkington, and other Doubleday authors; Du Maurier's typescript for a play entitled "Mother" and a photocopy of her notebook for Rebecca (1938); a great deal of social correspondence with English and American friends; correspondence with their children and other family members; correspondence with doctors and others concerning Nelson Doubleday's illness and letters of condolence on his death; and documents concerning the estates of Frank Nelson Doubleday and Nelson Doubleday and various trust disputes.

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Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Author
Anna Bialek
Finding Aid Date
2006
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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

This series consists of correspondence, primarily of Frank (FND) and Nelson Doubleday (ND), which has been integrated because of the father and son's overlapping years and shared acquaintances. "Effendi," the affectionate address used by many of Frank Nelson Doubleday's friends, was a play on his initials that made reference to the Near Eastern term that refers to an educated, respected man, equivalent to "Sir."

Arrangement

Arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent, then chronologically.

Physical Description

10 boxes

A (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Abbot, Lawrence X, 1920 July 27. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 pp., to Mrs. Doubleday, thanking her for a "happy evening"
Physical Description

1 folder

Ade, George (1866-1944), 1907 May 1. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Samuel Everitt, declining regretfully an invitation to the annual outing of the Periodical Publishers Association
Physical Description

1 folder

Allen, James Lane (1849-1925), 1907. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., May 7, 1907, to Samuel Everitt
  2. ALS, 4 pp., July 26, 1921, to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Astor, 1941 December 24. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. C, 1 p., Christmas Greetings from the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Plymouth (Viscount and Viscountess Astor)
Physical Description

1 folder

Auslander, Joseph (1897-?), 1941 July 26. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TMsS, 2 pp., "Prayer to Jehanne of France," inscribed to Mrs. Frank Nelson Doubleday by Auslander
Physical Description

1 folder

B (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Baillie, Albert, 1913-1936. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 3 ALsS, to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) (1860-1937), 1918-1936. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., May 26, 1918, to Mrs. Doubleday
  2. ANS, 1 p., October 26, 1921, to FND
  3. ANS, 1 p., October 29, 1922, to FND
  4. ALS, 1 p., May 22, 19[29?], to Mrs. Doubleday
  5. ALS, 1 p., February 22, 1933, to Mrs. Doubleday
  6. ALS, 1 p., June 30, 1936, to Mrs. Doubleday
  7. TMs, 4 pp., "The Adventure of Two Collaborators" by Barrie
Physical Description

1 folder

Beebe, William (1877-1962), 1926. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. C, 1 p. New Year's greeting card, with graphic of "William Beebe, His Bathysphere," to Mrs. Frank Doubleday
  2. TL, 1 p., December 9, 1926, to W. O. Rutherford, by unknown author
  3. TL, 1 p., December 10, 1926, Western Union telegram to ND from W. O. Rutherford, regarding problems with "rubber suit"
  4. TLS, 2 pp., December 30, 1926, to ND, by [James Capell], regarding William Beebe
Physical Description

1 folder

Bergner, Elizabeth, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. AC, 1 p., small [calling?] card with address "14 East 75 St. [Bu8] 8966" for Bergner, The Borth Theatre
Physical Description

1 folder

Betts, Bess St. John, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 3 pp., to Mrs. "Van-Doubleday"
Physical Description

1 folder

Bingham, Millicent Todd (1880-1968), 1963 May 29. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Mrs. White
Physical Description

1 folder

Bok, Edward William (1863-1930), 1928 December 26. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 2 pp., to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Bone, Muirhead, Sir (1876-1953), 1903. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., October 28, 1903, to Mrs. Doubleday
  2. ALS, 2 pp., August 11, 1923, to "Doubleday"
  3. ALS, 2 pp., October 16, 1924, to "My dear Effendi" (FND)
  4. ALS, 4 pp., December 8, 1929, to "My Dear Effendi" (FND)
  5. ALS, 2 pp., undated, to [Mrs.] Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Bossom, Alfred C. (1881-1965), 1919 April 18. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 2 pp., to FND, regarding his story in the Sunday issue of the Times "about the endeavor that is now being made to separate America and England"
Physical Description

1 folder

Brittain, Harry, Sir (1873-1974), 1919. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. newspaper article, 1 p., titled, "Anti-British Propaganda Is Found in Army U. S. Investigating Activity of German Agents Who Try to Sow Discord"
  2. "Parliamentary Debates. House of Commons. Vol. 113.--No. 21. UNITED STATES. Anti-British Propaganda,." TMs, 2 pp., Thursday, 6 March 1919. Partial transcription of the Parliamentary debate regarding Anti-British propaganda.
  3. "Parliamentary Debates. House of Commons. Vol. 113--No. 24. British Officers and German Girls (Marriages)," TMs, 1 p., Tuesday, 11 March 1919. Partial transcription of the Parliamentary debate.
Physical Description

1 folder

Brown, Charles H., Jr, 1928 March 15. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to FND, regarding his letter and discussing the conditions at The Shredded Wheat Company's factory outside of London and the Chocolate Triscuit confection
Physical Description

1 folder

Buchan, John (1875-1940), 1921 December. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., "Best Wishes for 1922 from Mr. and Mrs. John Buchan"
Physical Description

1 folder

Bullock, George, 1928-1929. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 4 TLsS to FND by Bullock, the Mayor of the Incorporated Village of Centre Island
Physical Description

1 folder

Burbank, E. A. (Elbridge Ayer) (1858-1949), 1922 December 6. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 pp., to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Burnett, Frances Hodgson (1849-1924), 1910 August 12. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to "Mr. Doubleday" by Burnett
Physical Description

1 folder

Burroughs, John (1837-1921), undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., April 18 [n.y.], to Samuel A. Everitt
Physical Description

1 folder

Butler, Ellis Parker (1869-1937), 1910-1914. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TNS, 1 p., August 11, 1910, to Doubleday Page & Co., accepting an invitation
  2. ALS, 1 p., January 1914, to Doubleday Page & Co.
Physical Description

1 folder

Butler, Neville, 1931 November 14. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS (third person), 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday, thanking her for her letter and telling her "what a real encouragement it is to him to have such a kindly greeting" on behalf of the Prime Minister
Physical Description

1 folder

Byard, Theodore, 1928-1929. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 20 TLsS, primarily between Byard and FND, relating to William Heinneman, Ltd., business
Physical Description

1 folder

C (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Carnegie, Andrew, 1913 October 6. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 3 pp., Dornoch, England
Physical Description

1 folder

Christy, Howard Chandler (1873-1952), 1907 May 15. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Samuel A. Everett, by Christy
Physical Description

1 folder

Comstock, Harriet Jane (b. 1883), 1914 December 26. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Doubleday and Page, by Comstock
Physical Description

1 folder

Comstock, Lillian A, 1928-1930. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 3 TLsS, between Comstock, FND, and Frere-Reeves
Physical Description

1 folder

Conrad, Jessie, 1923-1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 3 ALsS to Florence Doubleday: June 17, June 25, October 4, 1923, with photograph of Jessie Conrad, 1923
  2. 4 ALsS to Florence Doubleday and FND: March 11, May 12, September 14, October 30, 1924
  3. ALS to Florence Doubleday:. February 6, 1934, Torrens, Mill Lane, Harbledown, Canterbury, a letter of sympathy for F. N. Doubleday's death
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

Conrad, Joseph, 1921. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Conrad to FND, August 21, Oswalds
Physical Description

1 folder

Conrad, Joseph, 1923. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 2 pp., April 2, 1923, regarding "Rover" Galleys
  2. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 1 p., April 9, 1923, regarding speaking first time in public
  3. Conrad to Mrs. Conrad. Garden City, N. Y., cablegram, 2 pp., May 25, 1923, regarding returning from the U. S. A
  4. Conrad to Mr. Pinker, his agent. Garden City, N. Y. Cablegram, 2 pp., May 25, 1923, regarding returning from the U. S. A
  5. Conrad to Mr. and Mrs. FND. Oswalds, 1 p., June 14, 1923, holograph note regarding the return of Joseph Conrad from visit
  6. Conrad to FND. Cablegram, June 18, 1923, from Kent regarding Curle articles, Concord Edition
  7. Conrad to FND. Cablegram, June 19, 1923, from Kent regarding gifts to Doubleday children, greetings to friends
  8. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 2 pp., June 21, 1923, regarding "Rover." Enclosure: typed copy, by Conrad, for Dedication Page, Title Page, and Jacket of "The Rover."
  9. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 2 pp., July 10, 1923, regarding the Concord Edition, de luxe "Rover," school editions
  10. Conrad to Florence Doubleday. Oswalds, July 30, 1923
  11. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 1 p., August 8, 1923, regarding "Rover," Concord Edition
  12. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 4 pp, August 13, 1923, regarding "Lord Jim," son's success in business
  13. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, ALS, 2 pp., August 20, 1923, with 4 pp. typed and holograph, with suggestions regarding the Concord Edition.
  14. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 2 pp., Summer, 1923, regarding the Concord Edition
  15. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 2 pp., September 1923, regarding the Frontspiece, Concord Edition, and Curle article as prospectus
  16. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 2 pp., September 22, 1923, regarding Collected edition, frontspiece for "Nigger"
  17. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 2 pp., September 24, 1923, regarding Collected Edition, frontispiece for "Nigger"
  18. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 3 pp., October 4, 1923, regarding the Concord Edition, Curle payment, and "Rover."
Physical Description

1 folder

Conrad, Joseph, 1924. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 2 pp., January 28, 1924, "Rover" a success, "Suspence" slower seller
  2. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 3 pp., February 7, 1924, opinion of the idea of a book of short stories
  3. Conrad to Pinker, his agent. Oswalds, 1 p., February 12, 1924, with two-page scheme for publication of short stories
  4. Conrad to FND. Oswalds., 2 pp., March 27, 1924, short stories, "Rover" de luxe, French translations, Epstein bust
  5. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, 2 pp., May 8, 1924, "Shorter Tales" preface, son, Hugh Clifford
  6. Conrad to FND. Oswalds, June 2, 1924, regarding Seldes' Review of "Rover"
  7. Conrad to Mrs. F. N. Doubleday. Oswalds, June 2, 1924, written on back of letter to FND, regarding the Prime Minister's offer of Knighthood
Physical Description

1 folder

Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933), 1924. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., January 23, 1924, to FND
  2. TLS, 1 p., January 4, 1928, to Mr. Doubleday ("F. W. Doubleday"). "Thank you for sending the January copy of your magazine "Personality". It looks very interesting, and I shall take pleasure in going over it more carefully when I have the time. I am glad you liked the paragraph in my Message to Congress which you say you are using on the editorial page of the March number."
Physical Description

1 folder

Cordeaux, Mrs. M, 1931 December 24. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. C, 3 pp., Christmas and New Year greetings. Includes small photograph of house, titled, "The Priory, Stevenage, Heits."
Physical Description

1 folder

Country Life, Editor ("Reggie"), 1922 August 7. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday, congratulating her on an "excellent piece of work." referring to "The story on Horace"
Physical Description

1 folder

Coward, Noel (1899-1973), 1930. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., June 4, 1930
  2. ALS, 1 p., undated, to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Cowl, Jane (1884-1950), 1946 November 26. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday, asking for a donation of $10.00 to "help Stamp Out Venereal Disease in New York"
Physical Description

1 folder

Cravath, Paul, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 3 TLsS
Physical Description

1 folder

Cravath, Paul Drennan, 1927. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL (copy), 7 pp., January 1, 1927, first letter from Cravath during his Far Eastern cruise, sent to FND by Cravath's secretary
  2. TL (copy), 48 pp., January 19, 1927, second letter from Cravath during his Far Eastern cruise, sent to FND by Cravath's secretary
  3. TL (copy), 9 pp., March 9, 1927, "latest" letter from Cravath during his Far Eastern cruise, sent to FND by Cravath's secretary
Physical Description

1 folder

Curtis, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar (1850-1933), undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 3 pp., March 27 [n.y.], to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

D (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Dane, Clemence, 1928-1942. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 pp., to Mrs. Doubleday, by Dane (pseudonym of Winifred Ashton), with two photographs "to make Effendi laugh"
  2. ALS, 5 pp., to FND
  3. ALS, 3 pp., to FND
  4. ALS, 5 pp., to Florence Doubleday
  5. ALS, 4 pp., to FND
  6. ALS, 5 pp., March 27, 1928, to FND
  7. TLS, 1 p., June 5, 1932, to Florence
  8. ALS, 2 pp., (postmarked) June 21, 1932, to Florence Doubleday
  9. ALS, 2 pp., (postmarked) October 3, 1932, to "Effendi"
  10. TLS, 1 p., October 25, 1932, to Florence and "Effendie"
  11. TLS, 2 pp., January 10, 1933, to Florence Doubleday
  12. TLS, 2 pp., December 26, 1933, to "Effendi"
  13. TLS, 1 p., December 7, 1942, to Florence Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Darrow, Whitney (b. 1909), 1946. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., September 17, 1946, to ND
  2. TL, 1 p., September 20, 1946, by ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Davies, J. Conway, 1919. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., March [6], 1919, to FND
  2. ALS, 2 pp., March 1[5], 1919, to FND
  3. TLS, 2 pp., April 10, 1919, to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Davis, J. M. (John M.), 1942 June 17. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. LS (typed and holograph), 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday, apologizing for "leaving off your name" apparently on a locomotive bell
Physical Description

1 folder

Delano, Frederic Adrian (1863-1953), 1934 February 13. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday, acknowledging her note received by the author's office. Signed, Frederic Delano, President, American Civic Association
Physical Description

1 folder

DeCamp, C. A, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 2 TLs. DeCamp was the publisher of Personality magazine.
Physical Description

1 folder

Dickey, Carl, 1928 February 28. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., to Dickey, from [FND?]
Physical Description

1 folder

Dolley, Charles, 1923-1924. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 11 ALsS, 19 TLsS
Physical Description

1 folder

Doner, Mary Frances, 1944 March 4. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday, thanking her for letting the author know of "your enjoyment of my book O DISTANT STAR!"
Physical Description

1 folder

Doran, George, 1928 February 16. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Doran Co., George H., dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Doubleday, Nelson, 1927-1933. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., August 25, 1927, by FND, regarding an early special copy of Personality
  2. 3 TLsS, 1928-1930, to FND
  3. TL (carbon), 2 pp., July 11, 1933, by FND
  4. TL (carbon), 2 pp., July 27, 1933, by FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Doubleday, Russell, 1928 March 21. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., by [FND?]
Physical Description

1 folder

Doubleday & Co. (General), 1925-1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Memorandun to Miss Gerard, May 11, 1925, from Mr. Roe, regarding attached sales figures
  2. Memorandum to W. H. Eaton, Circulation Manager, titled "Suggestion," 4 pp., July 14, 1925, from H. L. Meyer, Circulation Department, suggesting a new magazine
  3. Memorandum for Mr. Eaton, July 23, 1925, by Mr. Meyer, regarding the "Feasibility of Starting a New Magazine"
  4. Memorandum (carbon) to Mr. Russell Doubleday, June 8, 1925, from ND
  5. Table of reprint sales for Doubleday, Page & Co, 1916-1925
  6. Memorandum to Everitt, R. Doubleday, ND, Page, J. J. Hessim, from Mr. Townsend, June 11, 1926, regarding photographs made of the plant by Harry G. Healy
  7. TMs, 11 pp., July 23, 1926, "A Prospectus for a Proposed New Biography Magazine"
  8. Memorandum from ND to FND, November 11, 1926, replying to included memo from FND to ND, November 9, 1926
  9. Memorandum, 2 pp., to ND from J. G. Fergusom, January 31, 1927
  10. TL, 1 p., February 8, 1927, to Arthur Page by unknown author [ND?], acknowledging receipt of check
  11. TLS, 1 p., March 21, 1927, to FND by Johnson
  12. TLS, 1 p., March 25, 1927, to FND, by "Charley" [Charles Evans]
  13. TLS, 1 p., April 5, 1927, to "Friend" (FND) by William Waterson, Treasurer of the Reformed Church of Locust Valley
  14. TLS, 1 p., April 11, 1927, to FND, by Reverend Hyacinth Cismowski, O. S. B., soliciting a donation to pay for the passage to New York of a young boy and his mother for an operation on the boy's club feet
  15. TLS, 1 p., April 12, 1927, to FND, by Robert Thorne
  16. TLS, 3 pp., April 12, 1927, to FND, by "Henry"
  17. TL (copy), 5 pp., April 14, 1927, to Theodore by FND
  18. TL, 1 p., April 21, 1927, to Charles Evans, by FND
  19. TLS, 1 p., (with 2 attached copies of letters) May 31, 1927, to FND, by George Bullock
  20. TL, 1 p., June 7, 1927, to Theodore Byrd
  21. ALS, 4 pp., June 24, 1927, to FND by Mrs. A. Robertson, with attached copy of secretary's acknowledgement of receipt of the letter
  22. TD, 1 p., announcement of contest titled "$250.00 for an Idea Well Expressed," in which readers of Country life Magazine can submit for the contest 1000-3000 words on a practical suggestion to accomplish President Coolidge's purposes to increase leadership and service towards greater humanity. Award will be made on December 1, 1927.
  23. TD, 2 pp., September 21, 1927, "An Event in Publishing," written by FND, announcing merge of Doubleday and Doran to form Doubleday, Doran and Company
  24. Receipt for FND's subscription to "The Enterprise and Pilot" from March 1, 1927, to March 1, 1928
  25. TL (copy), 1 p., December 6, 1927, to Doubleday Page & Co., by Morris S. Turner
  26. TL (copy), 1 p., December 9, 1927, to Doubleday, Page & Co. by Elvin S. Martin
  27. TD, 1 p., March 8, 1928, "New York Exchange for Woman's Work, Election of Officers, Managers, and Advisory Board"
  28. TLS, 1 p. (with 1 p. attachment), March 13, 1928, to Mr. Doubleday, by Edgar D. [Hellweg]
  29. TLS, 2 pp., March 16, 1928, to FND by [Reeves]. Regarding Well's Short History of the World
  30. TLS, 2 pp., March 20, 1928, to FND, by Theodore Byard
  31. TLS, 2 pp., March 20, 1928, to FND, by unknown (signature illegible)
  32. TLS, 3 pp., March 23, 1928, to FND by Theodore Byard
  33. TLS, 1 p., March 24, 1928, to FND by [Ralph Graves?]
  34. TLS, 1 p., March 26, 1928, to FND, by Alfred C. Dent. Requesting a letter from FND in support of the election of Ray Long to the Metropolitan Club. Includes typed response from FND's secretary informing the author that FND is out of the office for a few weeks, but will respond when he returns.
  35. TLS, 1 p., March 26, 1928, to FND by A. J. Hanna. Includes typed response from FND's secretary informing the author that FND is out of the office for a few weeks, but will respond when he returns.
  36. TLS, 1 p., March 28, 1928, to C. R. Crowell, by the H. R. Hunting Company
  37. TLS, 1 p., March 29, 1928, to FND, by [Steve?]
  38. TL, 2 pp., April 3, 1928, to Theodore Byard by [FND?]
  39. TL, 1 p., April 6, 1928, to The Manager of The Royal Bank of Canada, Nassau, Bahamas, [by FND?], authorizing the recipient to pay William Strong the sum of three pounds twelve shillings every two weeks, beginning Friday, April 20th
  40. TL, 1 p., April 6, 1928, to Theodore Byard, [by FND?]
  41. TLS, 2 p., April 12, 1928, to FND, by Henry
  42. TL, 1 p., April 24, 1928, to Frere-Reeves, by unknown author [FND?]
  43. AN, 1 p., May 29, 1928, to Mr. Wm. Browne, by ND
  44. TD, 3 pp., list of "Books That Sold 250 Copies or More During Six Months Ending December 31, 1928," in "Religious" category
  45. TD, 2 pp., list of "Books That Sold 250 Copies or More During Six Months Ending December 31, 1928," in "Juvenile" category
  46. TD, 4 pp., 1928, titled "Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., A Brief Summary of Properties, Activities, and Organization". Includes sections on "Diversification," "Magazine Division," "Physical Assets," "Preferred Stock Issues," "Common Stock," "Authors and Copyrights," and "Sales and Earnings"
  47. TMs, 1 p., titled "A New Kind of Magazine"
  48. TMs, 1 p., entitled "An Extraordinary Proposition"
  49. TMs (carbon), 1 p., announcement of the new monthly magazine Personality
  50. TL, 2 pp., draft with holograph corrections, to "Mr. President"
  51. TL, 2 pp., to the Editor of Personality by "D.D."
  52. Receipt from book order made by FND for Tilney's "Brain from Ape to Man"
Physical Description

1 folder

Doubleday & Co. (General), 1929-1946. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. general business documents and letters, including budget recapitulations
Physical Description

1 folder

Doubleday to Doubleday (General), undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. various letters between FND, ND, and other members of the Doubleday family
Physical Description

1 folder

Doubleday, Intra-Office Correspondence, 1927-1942. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

E (General), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Eastman, Fred (1886-?), 1931 June 11. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Eaton, W. H, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 3 TLsS, between FND and Eaton
Physical Description

1 folder

[unused], dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Evans, C. S, 1928-1930. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 3 TLsS, 1 ALS, between Evans and FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Everitt, Samuel A, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, February 10, 1928, by FND
  2. ALS, 2 pp., August 8, 1930, to FND
  3. TL, 1 p., August 13, 1930, to Everitt, by unknown
  4. ALS, 2 pp., February 25, 1931, to FND
  5. TL (fragment), 1 p., March 3, 1931, to Everitt, by unknown
  6. TLS, 1 p., March 13, 1931, to FND
  7. TL, 2 pp., April 2, 1931, to Everitt, by unknown
  8. TLS, 1 p., April 14, 1931, to FND
  9. TL, 1 p., April 20, 1931, by FND
  10. ALS, 1 p., June 1, 1931, to FND
  11. TL, 1 p., June 5, 1931, to Everitt, by unknown
  12. ALS, 2 pp., June 30, 1931, to "John," by Everitt
  13. TLS, 1 p., July 21, 1931, to FND
  14. TL, 1 p., July 21, 1931, to Everitt, by unknown
Physical Description

1 folder

F (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

F. W. Woolworth Company, 1942-1944. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 2 pp., July 2, 1942, to O. W. Reed, by ND. Draft of letter, with holograph corrections and attached handwritten page
  2. TL, 1 p., July 3, 1942, to O. W. Reed, by [ND]
  3. TL, 2 pp., September 17, 1942, to O. W. Reed, by [ND], regarding the recipient's accusations about advertising for the New Home Library. (Also includes drafts and newspaper clippings)
  4. TL, 2 pp., October 14, 1942, to O. W. Reed, by ND, regarding the publication and promotion of an income tax book for the public
  5. TLS, 1 p., December 30, 1943, to ND, by O. W. Reed
  6. TL, 1 p., January 14, 1944, to O. W. Reed, by ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Farley, James A, 1942 September 8. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday, thanking her for her letter and support
Physical Description

1 folder

Farrar, Rinehart, 1929 May 29. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 3 pp., to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Finley, John, 1934-1936. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., January 31, 1934 (penciled at the top), to Finley, signed "J. B. G."
  2. ALS, 2 pp., August 11, 1934, to "Lady Doubleday"
  3. ALS, 1 p: March 30, 1936, to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Forbes-Robertson, 1931 May 6. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Mr. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Fortiani, Harry, 1920 March 3. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday, regarding this week's edition of "The Motor," "the little car," and hunting clams
Physical Description

1 folder

Francis, David Rowland (1850-1927), 1919 February 13. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mr. and Mrs. Doubleday, with regrets that the author is unable to make a lunch engagement
Physical Description

1 folder

Fraser, John Forbes, 1920 June 8. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 3 pp., to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Frere-Reeves, A. S, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 1 ALS, 8 TLs, 16 TLsS, between Frere-Reeves and FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett) (1851-1928), 1891-1893. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 18 ALsS to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Fuld, Carrie B. F, 1928 February 27. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., to FND, regarding Helen Keller. Folder includes a copy of the letter sent to Fuld and an inter-office memorandum to FND from his secretary regarding the correspondence.
Physical Description

1 folder

G (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Galsworthy, Ada (d. 1956), 1928-1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., October 20, 1928, to Mrs. Doubleday
  2. C, 1 p: Christmas greetings and good wishes, 1928, including a small photograph of a woman and her Dalmatian
  3. ALS, 2 pp., April 4, 1931, to Mrs. Doubleday
  4. ALS, 1 p., February 4, 1934, to Mrs. Doubleday
  5. 2 photographs, one of John Galsworthy with dog "Marks," one of Ada Galsworth with Dalmatian, both signed by the photographer and subject
Physical Description

1 folder

Galsworthy, John (1867-1933), 1928-1929. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents
  1. 2 TLs, 1928, by [FND]
  2. ALS, 2 pp., August 27, 1929, to FND
Physical Description

2 folders

Gibson, C. [Charles Dana?], 1892. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ANS, 1 p., to FND
  2. ALS, 1 p., October 29, 1892, to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) (1850-1896), 1892 April 18. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., to FND, including a small drawing of pistol at bottom of page
Physical Description

1 folder

Glasgow, Ellen (1873-1945), 1920-1921. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 3 pp., April 24, 1920, to Mrs. Doubleday
  2. ALS, 4 pp., June 11, 1921, to Mrs. Doubleday
  3. ALS, 3 pp., July 16, 1921, to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Graves, Ralph (1900-1977), 1928-1937. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 8 TLs, between FND, Graves, and George Roosevelt
  2. 1 ALS, by ND
  3. 3 TLsS, to FND
  4. ALS, 1 p., March 23, 1928, to FND
  5. TLS, 2 pp., May 14, 1930, to "Effendi"
  6. ALS, 1 p., December 27, 1937, "[Mrs.] Effendi"
Physical Description

1 folder

Griffith, Edward, 1923-1924. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Gutterman, Arthur, 1939 December 1. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday, regarding a poem, "Relic"
Physical Description

1 folder

H (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Harcourt, Brace & Co., dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) (1865-1923), 1921. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., September 9, 1921, to FND, on White House letterhead, regarding FND's "very interesting favor of September 7th" and the International Conference of November 11, 1921
  2. TLS, 1 p., December 6, 1921, to FND, on White House letterhead, regarding the American representation at the International Conference
Physical Description

1 folder

Harrington, Harold, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 pp., March 7, 1928, to Mrs. FND, including a copy of the bills for February 1928
  2. ALS, 1 p., March 1, 1928, to Mrs. FND, including the milk, butter, and eggs receipt for February 1928
Physical Description

1 folder

Harper & Brothers Publishers, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Heinemann, William, Ltd. (Publishers), 1927-1930. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 3 pp., October 28, 1927, to "Effendi" from Theodore Byard
  2. ALS, 8 pp., July 1, 1929, to Florence Doubleday from Charles Evans
  3. TLS, 3 pp., September 12, 1930, to "Effendi" from Charles Evans
  4. TLS, 3 pp., September 19, 1930, to "Effendi" from Charles Evans
Physical Description

1 folder

Heinemann Holdings Ltd.: Brickhill-Woodman Affair, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Heinemann Holdings Ltd., dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Heinemann Publ. (Sydney & Claude & Mrs. S. Pawley), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

2 boxes

Correspondence Regarding The Badge of the Policeman O'Roon, 1935-1939. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Correspondence Regarding The Cabellero's Way and The Cisco Kid, 1938-1939. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence Regarding Double Dyed Deceiver, 1929-1939. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence Regarding The Gift of the Magi, 1940-1941. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence Regarding A Retrieved Reformation ( Alias Jimmy Valentine), 1931-1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

General Correspondence About His Works, 1929-1940. 3 folders.
Physical Description

3 folders

Lists and Miscellaneous Material, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hichens, Robert Smythe (1864-1950), 1934 February 10. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday, with condolences for the death of Mr. Nelson Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Hodenpyl, Anton G, 1929 September 30. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 5 pp., by FND, summarizing the holdings of his company
Physical Description

1 folder

Hofmann, Josef (1876-1957), 1915-1927. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., January 1, 1915, to Mr. Doubleday
  2. ALS, 1 p., June 17, 1921, to Effendi (FND)
  3. ALS, 2 pp., June 22, 1921, to Effendi, with small drawing on second page
  4. ANS, 1 p., September 6, 1923, to Doubleday, Page, & Co. Gentlemen
  5. ALS, 2 pp., December 19, 1923, to FND
  6. TL (copy?), 1 p., December 21, 1923, by FND
  7. ALS, 1 p., March 10, 1926, received by accounting department
  8. TLS, 1 p., to Doubleday, Page & Company Gentlemen, by Hofmann, acknowledging the "royalty statement of February 1st, and your check for 25.92"
  9. ALS, 2 pp., undated, to Effendi
Physical Description

1 folder

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910), 1892. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., June 9, 1892, to Mr. Brownell
  2. ALS, 1 p., June 25, 1892, to FND
  3. TLS, 1 p., August 10, 1892 (with holograph comments), by FND
  4. ALS, 1 p., October 31, 1892, to FND
  5. ALS, 1 p., to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Hooper, T. Albert, 1927 January 11. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to FND, thanking FND for making the Deseret Book Company a friend of the new firm Doubleday, Doran, and Co.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hoover, Herbert (1874-1964), 1930-1931. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., October 18, 1930, to FND
  2. TLS, 1 p., July 7, 1931, to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Horder, Thomas, 1902 August 27. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Mr. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

House, Edward Mandell (1858-1938), 1923. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., October 2, 1923, by [FND]
  2. TLS, 1 p., October 3, 1923, to FND
  3. TLS, 1 p: October 8, 1923, to FND
  4. TL, 1 p., October 11, 1923, to House, by unknown, secretary to FND
  5. TL, 1 p. Western Union telegram, September 17 [n.y.], to Miss Comstock, with a message for Mr. and Mrs. FND
Physical Description

1 folder

House, Julie H, 1920-1921. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. newspaper clipping, 1 p., December 6, 1921, "How Books Are Made; Film of Famous Publishing Firm" from the Morning Post
  2. TLS, 1 p., May 14, 1920, to FND
  3. ALS, 2 pp., May 26 [n.y.], to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

I (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Ingalls, Polly, 1939 March 3. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mr. Doubleday. Includes list of "Old Prints, Old Maps; Engravings Lithographs, Etc., Of Views of SOUTH CAROLINA, and Of Flowers And Birds Pertaining Thereto."
Physical Description

1 folder

J (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Jennings, Joseph M, 1928 January 16. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., to FND, thanking him for a copy of the Three Musketeers
Physical Description

1 folder

Johnson, Burger, 1928 February 18. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 2 pp., to the editor of Personality magazine, by Johnson
Physical Description

1 folder

Johnson, F. Coit, 1918-1935. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. primarily corespondence between Johnson and FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Jones, [Barry] L, 1928 February 21. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 5 pp., to FND, regarding a report on advertising
Physical Description

1 folder

K (General), 1923-1933. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Keller, Helen (1880-1968), 1927-1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., August 17 [1927], to FND
  2. TLS, 1 p., August 23, 1927, to FND
  3. TLS, 2 pp., September 22, 1927, to FND
  4. TL (carbon), 2 pp., January 13 and February 3, 1928, to FND
  5. TL (carbon), 2 pp., February 28, 1928, to Keller, by secretary to FND
  6. TLS, 4 pp., October 1, 1928, to FND
  7. TLS, 6 pp., November 21, 1929, to FND
  8. TLS, 1 p., November 30, 1929, to Mrs. Doubleday
  9. TLS, 3 pp., Decmber 28, 1929, to FND
  10. TLS, 7 pp., June 9, 1930, to FND
  11. TLS, 2 pp., Christmas, 1931, to FND, with holograph verses on verso
  12. TLS, 3 pp., January 4, 1933, to FND from Keller, regarding the joy of meeting and their friendship (includes verses by Keller about FND)
  13. TLS, 2 pp., February 2 [1934], to Mrs. Doubleday
  14. TLS, 2 pp., December 19 [n.y.], to FND
  15. C, 2 pp., to FND, Christmas and New Year greetings. Inscribed in Keller's hand, "To Effendi, whose kindness is a song in my heart. Helen Keller."
  16. TNS, 1 p., with photograph, described, "Another view of St. Cubby's Well. The vegetation is so luxuriant because of the overflow from the spring."
  17. Photograph, signed, "This introduces 'Sonny Boy,' my new Scottish terrier. Helen Keller."
  18. Photograph, signed, "The gardener's little son is enjoying a wheel-barrow ride. Helen Keller."
  19. TNS, 1 p., with photograph, described, "The farmer wouldn't let me sit on the ground in the presence of sheep. The power behind the throne is a splendid collie dog. I'm sorry you can't hear the lamb bleating. Helen Keller."
  20. TNS, 1 p., with photograph, described, "A smuggler's house. An underground passage leads up to it from the river. Hellen Keller"
  21. TNS, 1 p., with photograph, described, "Looe Harbor. I am feeding fish to the gulls. Sometimes their wings brush my face. Hellen Keller"
  22. TNS, 1 p., with photograph, described, "On the steps of our bungalow in Looe. Hellen Keller, Claire Sullivan Macy, Polly Thomson"
  23. TNS, 1 p., with photograph, described, "A cliff wall back of the Bodrigan Hotel. Hellen Keller"
  24. newspaper clipping, 1 p., "Just Five Words" by Helen Keller, two paragraphs by Keller on the importance to her of the quote, "I think, therefore I am," by Descartes
Physical Description

1 folder

Kellogg, Frederick R, 1929 September 26. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 3 pp., by FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Kemble, E. W. (Edward Windsor) (1861-1933), 1892. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 3 pp., October 28, 1892, to FND
  2. ALS, 1 p., July 13, 1892, to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

Kipling, Caroline, 1922. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., August 9 [1922], to FND
  2. ALS, 2 pp., July 29 [1936], to ND
  3. TL, 1 p., September 3, 1936, by [ND?]
  4. TLS, 1 p., June 10, 1937, to ND
  5. TL, 1 p., July 23, 1937, by ND
  6. TL, 1 p., August 30, 1937, by ND
  7. TLS, 1 p., October 2, 1937, to ND
  8. TL, 1 p., October 25, 1937, by [ND]
  9. TL, 1 p., December 16, 1937, by secretary to Mr. Doubleday
  10. TLS, 1 p., December 27, 1937, to ND
  11. TLS, 1 p., December 31, 1937, to Miss Robbins
  12. TL, 1 p., April 14, 1938, by ND
  13. TL, 1 p., November 7, 1938, by [ND]
  14. TL, 1 p., November 21, 1938, by ND
  15. TLS, 1 p., June 7, 1939, to ND
  16. TL, 1 p., June 29, 1939, by ND
  17. TLS, 1 p., December 13, 1939, to ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Kipling, Caroline, 1936 July 1. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS. Kipling to Florence Doubleday. Bateman's. Engagements relating to Rudyard's estate. Concerning luncheon date at Bateman's. Has to go to hospital for later weeks in July. "I so want a visit with you."
Physical Description

1 folder

Kipling, Caroline, 1936 July 17. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ACS. Kipling to Florence Doubleday. Bateman's [written from hospital]. Thanks for the flowers that Florence has sent.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

2 boxes

Kipling, Rudyard, 1897. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Kipling to FND, March 1, 1897. Typewritten copy, penciled note by FND: "Original letter held by Charles Scribner's Sons rec'd after FND had resigned." Acknowledges six copies of second volume. "The edition improves with every volume." Concerning arrangement of verses; will omit "Departmental Ditties" --- book has never existed as a book outside India.
Physical Description

1 folder

Kipling, Rudyard, 1904. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Kipling to Mrs. FND, November 27, 1904. Bateman's. Thanks Nellie for the scrapple -- impressed the English butler as better than sausage. "I wish you could see our rough & disorderly hedges being clipped and cut and hacked into neat thin lines and the rubbish fires burning all over the fields." Getting ready for the yearly voyage to the Cape. Sam McClure was in London, sent a letter "breathing energies and excitements." Has seen McClure's recent article on Lawlessness in the US. At Rottingdean yesterday to see Aunt Georgie; her book on Burne-Jones is just out.
Physical Description

1 folder

Kipling, Rudyard, 1907. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Kipling to Mrs. FND, December 1907. Bateman's. Thanks for glorious Christmas gift, pimolos, catsup, popcorn. The superb botany book, "the first on those clear and really educational lines and it's about the only one I know where the illustrations resemble the plants." Off to the Cape on the 28th. Just returned with Nobel medal diploma; bad crossing from Cherbourg.
Physical Description

1 folder

Kipling, Rudyard, 1908. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Kipling to FND. November 30, 1908. Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex. [1908] added in pencil. In returning proofs of "With the Night Mail," with comments...
  2. Kipling to FND. December 20, 1908. About extracts from Jungle Books for Kipling Reader.
  3. Century Co. "With the Night Mail." Is leaving for Switzerland on the 29th.
Physical Description

1 folder

Kipling, Rudyard, 1910. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. J. L. Kipling to FND, September 8, 1910, Tisbury, Wiltshire, about his article on bungalows
Physical Description

1 folder

Kipling, Rudyard, 1911. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Kipling to FND, October 5, 1911. Bateman's. About extracts from Jungle Books and Just So Stories for Kipling Reader. Postscript by Mrs. Kipling -- we are thinking over money proposals (re investments).
Physical Description

1 folder

Kipling, Rudyard, 1912. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Kipling to Mr. And Mrs. FND, [1912 or before?]. Bateman's. Addressed to "Dear People." Must see Dover Pageant, then come and see us at Bateman's and let Bank Holiday prostrate [?] the land.
  2. Kipling to FND. Hotel Britannia, Florence. March 6, 1912. Proofs of Verses from Books. Chapter headings from "Plain Tales" and "The Naulahka" to be added. Delightful stay in Florence, "which is populated by about 25% of female population of the United States."
  3. Kipling to Doubleday, Page & Co. Bateman's. July 9, 1912. Acknowledges payment for use of plates made from his books.
Physical Description

1 folder

Kipling, Rudyard, 1913. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Kipling to Mrs. FND, May 10, 1913. Bateman's. "Got 'em nearly all in! They came in the pink of condition of a drizzly wettish day -- ideal weather for planting . . . we forsook all for an hour and walked around with Martin and the dogwoods and the trilliums (or trillia is it) and the dog-tooth violets and the asters. Trilliums under East yew hedge; dogwoods on the south-west bed; Azaleas (bless you for the Azaleas) to thicken and glorify our existing stocks in the walled garden . . ." Moccasin plants, pitcher plants, aster seeds. Do you remember the day of the Dover pageant? Elsie is fit, lessons and bicycle rides and early suppers. John had a motor-bike all the holidays.
Physical Description

1 folder

Kipling, Rudyard, 1918. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Kipling to FND, December 21, 1918. Bateman's. Sends sample of German propaganda aiming to stir up friction between U. S. and England . . . piece of "Parlor Bolshevism."
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1919. 1 folder.
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  1. Kipling to FND, January 14, 1919. Bateman's. Mentions Katharine Fullerton Gerould and her article in Atlantic, "The Remarkable Rightness of Rudyard Kipling." She might be useful to do the article you were proposing. Has " done" the Collected Verse and the copy has gone to Watt. Tell your people to set it carefully and send proof in a block
  2. Kipling to FND, January 19, 1919. Bateman's. Clipping from Times (2 January) on proposal submitted to Peace Conference suggesting formation of a federation of Arab states under protection of U. S. With RK's comment: "Now it is up to the U. S. A. to make good. They say they like big propositions. They can't say this is a small one."
  3. Kipling to FND, March 27, 1919. Bateman's. Thanks for food parcel. News of Bateman's
  4. Kipling to FND, December 4, 1919. Praises Inclusive Verse, just published by Doubleday. "A beauty in every way." Has spotted very few errors, but will send shortly a marked copy "so that we can have it absolutely perfect." Mention of Prince of Wales. Is going to St. Leonard's to lunch with Rider Haggard. (This letter was laid in FND's copy of Inclusive Verse.)
  5. Kipling to FND, September 29, 1919. Brown's Hotel, London. Has just returned from holiday in the Highlands. Returns with corrections proofs for the "W. D. T. Edition," i.e., Inclusive Verse. "Mowgli's Song" has been omitted by the printer; must be inserted to follow "A Pilgrim's Way." Letter bound in to FND's copy of Verse, Inclusive Edition. [For first edition of Inclusive Verse 1919, with ten page proofs containing corrections, etc., see Ex 3814.9.1919.11.]
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1921. 1 folder.
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  1. Kipling to FND, January 4, 1921. Bateman's. Typed letter, with handwritten postscript. "Now, as regards the 'LIGHT' [THAT FAILED] I have dived back into the recesses of my memory, and, if you cut me open lengthways, I could not give you the story of the two endings. All I can say in explanation is that it happened before the days of Carrie; and you may guess in what sort of shape I kept my records in those primitive times! But, if I ever come across any evidence, I will turn it in for you to file with the M.S." Sam Everett has been at Bateman's. ". . . I want to send, through you, to every member of your Firm and Staff in every Department, my thanks and acknowledgements, overdue these many years, for the interest, care, thought, time, and trouble they have always taken over every detail connected with my books. I feel, as I have felt throughout that I have good friends at Garden City in every branch of the Shop. I should like them all to know that it touches me, cheers me, and makes me care to go on." Almost at the end of his Irish Guards history. Will go next month to Algeria, and return via Strasbourg. Postscript: "Here C. comes in who wishes me to add that your money Department has not sent from Canada though she heard from Canada, several months ago, that the money had been sent. If you could get this detail adjusted before we go abroad, I think it would please her orderly mind."
  2. Kipling to ND, January 5, 1921. Bateman's. Typewritten by Kipling, with holograph additions. Thanks for "the Duchess's nose-wipe," i.e., windshield-wiper for automobile. New tennis court, etc. Signed "Uncle Rud."
  3. Elsie Kipling (daughter of Rudyard and Caroline Kipling) to ND, February 6, [1921]. Bateman's. Playful letter about the Doubleday "Book of Etiquette." Is leaving with her parents for Algiers. Has been attending hunt balls. Love to Uncle Frank and to Patty.
  4. Kipling to ND, February 7, 1921. Bateman's. Looks forward to the Great National Etiquette Book. Suggestions for a "National Cookery Book for the U. S. A."
  5. Kipling "for Nelson," undated [ca. 1921]. Suggestion for advertisement for book of etiquette.
  6. Kipling to ND, June 1, 1921. Bateman's. Thanks for the gift of plants and seedlings. Whole lot will have a good chance, and will have plenty of care. Trailing arbutus, sequoia gigantica, etc.
  7. Caroline Kipling to ND, October 22, 1921. Bateman's. Thanks for the physical culture records, which all have enjoyed. Your father has been at Bateman's.
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1922. 1 folder.
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  1. Kipling to Sidney Pawling, April 1922. Hotel Reina Sristina, Algeciras. Typed letter, with holograph additions. Asks Pawling if it is possible to extend time on publication of André Chevrillon's three lectures on English literature, so that the translation can be revised. He has got into difficulties with the translatee, "an earnest Swede who has made it Boreally obscure. I sympathize with his difficulties. When next I see you I'll tell you of awful indignities perpetrated on my stuff by Translators." Is enjoying real warmth and color for first time in seven years
  2. Kipling to FND, June 22, 1922. Bateman's. Asks FND to wire his dates and times while in England. Will have a talk with him in London. Better still, hopes FND can some down to Bateman's. Addressed to Doubleday at Brown's Hotel.
  3. Kipling to FND, June 25, 1922. Welcoming FND to England, and making arrangements to meet him in London.
  4. Kipling to FND, July 1, 1922. Bateman's. Arranging for a meeting with Doubleday in London.
  5. Kipling to FND, October 19, 1922. Bateman's. Welcomes FND to England. Elections will be worth watching. Will be in town to see him as soon as possible.
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1923-1924, 1923-1924. 1 folder.
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  1. L. E. Waterman Co. to FND, July 6, 1923, TLS, 1 p.
  2. Secretary of FND to L. E. Waterman Co., July 9, 1923, TL (carbon), 1 p.
  3. FND to Kipling, July 10, 1923, TL (carbon), 1 p.
  4. Kipling to FND, June 5, 1924. Typed cablegram announcing his daughter Elsie's engagement.
  5. Kipling to FND, June 8, 1924. Bateman's. Elaborates on his recent cable concerning Elsie's engagement to Captain Bambridge in the Irish Guards. They will be married in the autumn.
  6. Caroline Kipling to Florence Doubleday, December 24, [1925]. Bateman's. Thanks for maple syrup, etc. Rud is sitting up tomorrow, is recovering. "He ought to get well with so many friends known and unknown wishing for it. Over 2000 of them have written or telegraphed their wish and certainly that ought to create an atmosphere." New Years greetings to Doubledays.
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1925. 1 folder.
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  1. Kipling to FND, August 6, 1925. Bateman's. News of work on the farms at Bateman's. Has been working on tales and verse interludes which will make a new book. Pleased with Mandalay edition. Warrington Dawson writes him often. Good news from Elsie in Belgium. Has been made member of Radio Broadcasting Commission, promises to be interesting. Has read about Dayton, Tennessee ["Bryan Evolution Trial"] in August World's Work; facts can be stranger than fiction; recalls his own story "The Village that Voted that the Earth Was Flat."
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1926. 1 folder.
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  1. Kipling to FND, May 18, 1926. Bateman's. Home from Paris. Arrangements for seeing the Doubledays in London.
  2. Kipling to FND, September 28, 1926. Bateman's. Typed letter signed, part in holograph. Good news of FND's health; their letters have crossed. Has been reading Henry Ford's book; is calculated for a mentality that has ceased to exist in England. State aid, the dole, etc. has killed the "will to work." "I do hope my Cousin [Baldwin] read the book. We are just finishing our long Civil War which we call the 'Coal Strike'." This has cost as much to date as the Boer War. Glad to hear of the boom with you; we boom social reform; income tax takes 41% of his earnings. Comments on the fuss created by his poem "The Vineyard."
  3. Kipling to ND, November 12, 1926. Bateman's. Typewritten letter, with holograph additions (with typed copy). Sends three stories for inclusion in one-volume authorized Kipling, "your reply to Woolf's pirated one vol. Kipling." "A very large number of U.S. reviews, sent me by correspondents, point out that I owe my wealth and so forth to 'generous recognition' by the American public of my work in my earlier years. You know how it was taken and exploited, then. It seems to me that Woolf coming on top of this talk, is a good excuse for making clear that I am not quite so deeply indebted to the generosity of the U.S. public as is thought. . . .There is no need to let the tradition of 'generosity' grow up simply because it flatters the public mind. So Woolf can be made useful." Encloses suggested foreword for Authorized Edition.
  4. "Preface to Authorized Early Kipling," typescript, signed, on half-sheet, undated (with typed copy). Enclosure to letter of 12 November 1926. Text of the Foreword to The One Volume Kipling Authorized, 1928.
  5. Kipling to FND, November 16, 1926. Bateman's. Typed letter with holograph additions. Confidential opinion about Methuen's publishing firm, which Doubleday is considering acquiring. Refers to one-volume edition discussed in letter to Nelson
  6. FND to Kipling November 30, 1926, TL (carbon), 4 pp.
  7. Kipling to FND, December 20, 1926. Bateman's. Thanks for Doubleday books. They head market in style and appearance. "Edna Ferber's Show Boat is splendid. There's a curious dickens-light on it and it reads (I read it all in one gulp) as though felt and observed, more keenly than I've ever met (even in her work) before." Difficulties with U.S. income tax assessments and deductions. Has referred them to his publishers, Doubleday, Page & Co.
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1927. 1 folder.
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  1. Kipling to Florence Doubleday, January 11, 1927. Bateman's. Thanks for conserves. Has had delightful and restful holiday in Paris. Speaks of godchildren. Saw Poincaré and Clemenceau, "the latter more wonderful, if possible, than ever." Good to hear that Frank makes steady return to "Normalcy." Elsie, in Madrid, has had attack of jaundice. Nelson has written long business letter "which I'm going to answer in my best style." Don't let Frank over-golf.
  2. Kipling to ND, January 16, 1927. Bateman's. Three new tales for "One Volume Authorized," to be held in case of need, as ammunition against the pirate volume. Has seen "With Kipling round the World"; pretty bit of special pleading and beautifully turned out. About an article by Kipling which ND wants him to write: "You, in your youthfulness, my dear, do not realize, or are too polite to tell your Uncle, that I have not been to the U.S. for close upon thirty years, in which time some thirty per cent of its population have been imported new, and the land itself, its works, and its outlook, have been changed and modified perhaps more than has been the case with any other country. If I wrote an article now, for you, I should certainly be what a good many of the American papers say I am -- that is, writing without knowledge or information. What I thought about the old U.S. stands in 'Captains Courageous' especially, and in several other yarns. Don't know as 'The Walking Delegate,' '007' and 'The Captive' don't give as good a line on my ancient views as any amount of 'serious' stuff. Any how, I stood with Mary Wilkins and all that lot who, though they knew it not, attended the funeral of the U. S. A. that died when Wilson came to the throne. Also, any thing I did would be misunderstood. The 'Vineyard' is a case in point . . . And that is why, my dear boy, I am not doing anything special on the line of the U.S.A. in the World's Work. All this I have written, my Beloved Theophilus, on the faith and understanding that you will destroy the page itself, and will not repeat the purport of it. The relations of the two lands are in the hand of your generation, and they must realize that in the give and take of 'this terrible world' it is now impossible for any people to stand aside and lavish criticism on their neighbours without at times coming in for criticisms on themselves. The old Reverences, and the old Illusions have perished everywhere. On which moral and lofty note, I will now drop my sermon. . . ." Will be leaving at end of month for Rio and Buenos Ayres.
  3. Kipling to FND, [May 1927]. [Bateman's]. Typed letter signed with some holograph. Sends comments and ideas for FND's scheme for series of articles on "people who have won through and made their mark on the world by character and effort." The whole psychology of success in a semi-scientific and semi-popular way. Various suggestions and examples. Luther Burbank. Asa Gray, neglected botanist. Mark Twain, "who had the first vision of the possibilities of what later grew to be the linotype." A propos Mississippi floods, look up Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi," see appendix about earliest systematic scheme for banking the river.
  4. Kipling to ND, May 30, 1927. Bateman's. Part typewritten, part handwritten (with typewritten copy). Has received Nelson's cable. Lindbergh's transatlantic flight. "No I'm afraid I haven't done any verses about him. You must get one of your own countrymen to attend to it. This thing is getting a bit beyond your Uncle." Comments whimsically on his own story "With the Night Mail." Has just written a letter to Nelson's Dad exuding good advice.
  5. Kipling to FND, September 16, 1927. Long chatty letter, partly typewritten, part holograph. "A Merger, a Magazine, accomplished, and a Methuen -- turned down! Not a bad record for one week's mail to drop on a fellow's head. Comments on new magazine, "Personalities," and makes many suggestions for articles, covers, etc. Elsie has been on leave from Madrid, is going to Vichy.
  6. Kipling to FND, November 4, 1927. Bateman's. Sam Everett has been at Bateman's, brought 'Gordonia' plant. Speaks of the Doubleday, Doran merger. About T. E. Lawrence: what he told you in his letter is perfectly amazing. [Note: Among T. E. Lawrence letters in the Doubleday Collection is one written to FND from Karchi, 25 August 1927 - perhaps the one referred to here. It contains remarks on Kipling, as well as an allusion to his own illegitimacy.] FND will soon have the privilege of seeing "our Mister Watt" in America. "Funny thing, I have worked over thirty five years with that man and close on thirty-one with you -- and never a thing that could be dignified by the name of a difference, with either." Has spent a fortnight at Vichy with Elsie, visit to Paris on return. As Senior Civilian Member of the Imperial War Graves Commission, assisted at opening of memorial near La Bassee, to the dead and missing of our Indian Army. Returned to Paris with Maréchal Foch, "who is as amazing a man as I have ever met." More about publishing business and of the new magazine, "Personalities."
  7. Kipling to FND, December 22, 1927. [Bateman's.] Signature torn off. About Methuen. New trans-atlantic "telephonic facilities." "In a year or two, we shan't be fussing over the wires and down tubes. We shall all turn ourselves loose on the Air." Doubleday publication figures are amazing. "But keep a strict eye on my little set of Works and do not allow the Great American Public to go without them." "They (the books) aren't doing so badly here: but there is a dam' organization called "The Kipling Society" which makes me feel more absurd and ridiculous that -- Allah knows! -- I really amm. And that is saying something." Book on India by Sir Walter Lawrence. Parenthesis about T. E. Lawrence. Hopes to get Sir John Bland-Sutton, late Head of the College of Surgeons, to write story of his life. Heavy rains and floods. Is looking over his "Book of Words," selection of various speeches made within last twenty years. His "Brazilian Sketches" are appearing in Morning Post. Has refused Gifford lectureship. What has happened to "Personality"? Please destroy letter when you have read it: "I am a bit sensitive about letters and M.S. just now. Also one says things that are the spillings of the undressed mind, and not for any sort of other eyes than yours." Thanks for books, likes the song books. Methuen's new verse book by A. A. Milne: "I think there is a lot in that man."
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1928. 1 folder.
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  1. Caroline Kipling to Florence Doubleday, September 8, 1928. Bateman's. Is recovering from illness. Thanks for present of shoes. Recalls visit of Doubledays. News of Elsie in Paris.
  2. Kipling to FND, October 18, 1928. Bateman's. Proposes date for Doubleday's visit to Bateman's. May see him in London next day. Is writing speech which he is to deliver next week. Hopes doctor won't let FND go away as soon as he thinks.
  3. Application for registration of copyright (October 1928) and affadavit regarding the copyright (November 16, 1928) for Barrack Room Ballads and Other Verses, TDsS, 2 pp.
  4. Kipling to FND, December 22, 1928. Bateman's. Off to Bath to spend Christmas there with Elsie and her husband. Greetings for the New Year. Refers to "my old and unchanging love after close upon forty years -- of business too!"
  5. Caroline Kipling to FND, December 28, 1928. Bateman's. Will be off early in the New Year for a trip to Italy. Refers to her poor health. "I get on in my stupid way, and at any rate I have the satisfaction of knowing the only job I have got is to prevent myself getting worse. It eliminates a certain excitement in life, but that is not as difficult for me as it would be for people who have been less accustomed to face the facts." Greetings for the New Year.
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  1. Kipling to FND, January 28, 1929. Bateman's. Greetings on eve of departure down the Mediterranean for Cairo, Holy Land, etc. Will be looking at our War Graves, which are literally scattered from Dan to Beersheba. Will stop at Gibraltar. Thanks for the little book. "You have gone a bit gently over THE BOK [Edward W. Bok], but you'll admit that he is funny? The Mark Twain lights are interesting too, but I liked about Lawrence the best. He is a strange portent, and I don't by any means think that we have seen or heard the last of him politically. But his time is not yet. He has inspired a lot of the young men who are due to arrive ten or fifteen years from now. I am most awfully grateful that you didn't do anything about our reminiscences together. You know too much, old man. And in this fallen world one is a bit wearied of that sort of knowledge. Lock up all the secrets of our past in your bosom! . . ."
  2. Kipling to FND, March 12, 1929. S. S. "Egypt," Cook's Nile Service. Written from Assouan, hot still even after a divine sunset. Turn back to Cairo tomorrow. Has received word from FND who is in Nassau. Comments on fellow passengers, many of them Americans. Travel has been made really luxurious. The trip has done Carrie good.
  3. Kipling to FND, March 18, [1929]. Semiramis Hotel, Cairo. Just in after the three weeks' Nile trip. Has received proofs of "Your Able Seamen,"will read them later.
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1930. 1 folder.
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  1. Kipling to Florence Doubleday, January 3, 1930. Brown's Hotel, London. Thanks for pecans and peel. Frank's note has come. When do you leave for Nassau and what will be address there? Both of us are very fit. Spent Christmas at Torquay with Elsie and husband. Elsie improved in health after settling into Paris house.
  2. Kipling to FND, January 25, 1930. Bateman's. Informs Doubleday that he "expects to be passing the Bahamas in general and the town of Nassau in special between the 12th and 18th March in the well known tripper boat Lady Rodney en route from Jamaica to the Bermudas." If ship lies to off Nassau hopes to find Doubleday swimming about there.
  3. Kipling to FND, March 31, 1930. Hotel Bermudiana, Bermuda (J. A. Sherrard, General Manager). 10 a.m. Envelope addressed to FND, Jungle Cove House, Nassau, N. P., Bahamas. Reports, following his cable to FND, that Mrs. Kipling is making good progress, recovering from burst abscess of appendix. Has returned from hospital to the hotel. Likely to stay for a month at least; going back on May 5.
  4. Kipling to FND, April 7-8, 1930. Hotel Bermudiana, Bermuda. Envelope addressed to FND, Garden City, Long Island. Carrie continues to recover, has been out walking, comes down to meals. "Had it been a month later in beginning, I am sure the whole lot of us would have flung ourselves on your board bosom at Oyster Bay but I can't risk running her up north now, even though I know that all your love & kindness is awaiting us." Hotel a queer place, used by tourists who want to drink, gives U.S.A. a bad name. Thanks Florence (Mrs. FND) for basket of delicacies. Keeps a little work going. "It's a third dog Tale -- how a Punch & Judy dog was introduced into the family of the two sleek Aberdeens -- a regular trained gamin of the streets, and a trained trick dog to boot. Its philosophy of life and theirs don't jibe." Also doing notes on Bermuda, which I expect I shall throw away. Story of his, a true incident, appears in "Liberty" of 26 April. Expects to see Doubleday in England in June. "I want to give C. an easy summer and if possible to prevent her taking charge of every something on every horizon now that we've got a Secretary who seems to have gifts that way." Elsie is well and happy in her own life, something to be thankful for.
  5. Kipling to Florence Doubleday, April 13, 1930. Hotel Bermudiana, Bermuda. Carrie recovering, went to lunch at Governor's yesterday, is still weak. "We wait and build up till May 5 when we hope to go to England by the Monagua direct from here." Good news to hear that Doubledays will be in England in June.
  6. Kipling to FND, April 28, 1930. Inglewood, Paget, Bermuda. Report on Carrie's progress. Hope to get away on the 28th May, allowing another month to build up her health. Has been very serious illness. Medical experts might counsel operations -- which would kill her. "Also, (she says and I believe) N Y. would equally slay her. It's not a civilized country for the sick and they're just as likely to shove one into Ellis Island as any where else. So we plan to go to Montreal by Canadian National Boat on the 28th May. Pick up the Duchess of Bedford C. P. R. at Montreal on June 6th and thence to Liverpool arriving about June 13 or 14."
  7. Kipling to FND, May 2, 1930. Inglewood, Paget East, Bermuda. Carrie has been normal for week, but taking no chances. . . . Is greatly interested in the new type of confession-autobiography that you have discovered. A promising vein to work.
  8. Kipling to Florence Doubleday, May 3, 1930. "Inglewood," Paget East, Bermuda. News of Carrie. She has been normal for a full week now and free from pain. Of course she is weak and has to be built up. This climate ideal for that purpose -- neither too hot nor too cold -- even better than Nassau. Present plan is to ship from here on the 28th on Lady Somers to Montreal, and from there on June 6th on Duchess of Bedford for Liverpool. "That explains to you two dear people why we aren't coming to N.Y. but to the Ritz-Carlton (or is it Carlton-Ritz?) at Montreal." Would like to see Frank. "I've got, tell him, his monograph on in taste and composition -- a thing to be proud of . . ." Has been reading Edna Ferber's "Cimarron" aloud to Carrie. Seems to me she's going out and getting quiet. And Golly! how they drink. It's a most ghastly portent. I can stand the men getting 'blotto' but not the women folk."
  9. Kipling to FND, September 3, 1930. Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex. Has just had reassuring word about him. Nelson was here and told of your operation being decided on. Then he took boat. "Now Evans's letter and your own indomitable heart have lifted a bit of a load from two hearts." Speaking of Nelson: "I like his poise, and his gravity (when that's needed) and his tenderness which he showed more this time." Has talked with Nelson about publishing schemes, book of animal yarns (collected) "which struck me as sound." Hot weather. Has acquired a new young bull called Petworth Duke. Is busy with proofs of the dog book, last of which go off today.
  10. Kipling to FND, October 6, 1930. Bateman's. Nelson dropped in for lunch. News of FND's progress is cheering. Great relief. Nelson full of plans, simultaneous translations published in various countries. Speaks of the crash of the R. 101. Carrie keeping well with occasional setbacks. Looking forward to publication of Dog booklet. Nelson has spread himself no end over the illustrations for the American edition. Not too pleased with those for the English edition.
  11. Kipling to FND, October 21, 1930. Bateman's. Acknowledges FND's letter of the 10th. Saw Nelson at Brown's, and has later news. Urges FND to get together "all your reflections on the changes in publishing since you began the game." Outlines in some detail what might be included. Such a book is your duty as Doyen of the Craft in the U.S.A. Might be called "A Perspective of Publishing."
  12. Kipling to FND, November 14, 1930. Bateman's. Typewritten letter (Corona), signed, with holograph additions. More suggestions about FND's book and how he might do it. Doesn't expect him to write it. Get a precis of the history of the development of the firm done in the office. Meditate, and add comments by Dictaphone. A compilation done in the Office, plus your personal comments. "Make it any way that is easiest to you but -- get it made!" Task is well within your powers even as they now are. The Dog Book is selling like smoke over here. Tell Nelson to "go and do likewise." "I have gone and got myself well-beloved by the Government with a pretty little set of verses." London is being devastated by new hotels for the U.S.A.
  13. Kipling to Mrs. FND, December 26, 1930. Thanks for Christmas gift. Carrie has been abed with rheumatism for six weeks. Now better. Lord Dawson due again today to say when it will be possible to get her to Bath for treatment. Difficult to make plans. Dog book sales up to 88,000 the week before Christmas and may reach 100,000 by New Year. News from Elsie good. Hopes Frank is thinking of his book on publishing. Death of dog, much missed. Rather grayish sort of letter.
  14. Kipling to Mr. and Mrs. ND, December 26, 1930. Bateman's. Thanks for the gift of pecans and for wire. Family news (as in preceding letter). Has got list of 100 picked stories typed, but question of arrangement baffles him. Inclined to a mixed grill, not by subject. Wants further advice about the omnibus volume.
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  1. Kipling to ND, February 1, 1931. Bateman's. Your uncle loves you, "but he will see you in---Chicago before he gives more than 800 pages for that dam Omnibus (You see the very Corona refuses to spell it!) book." Have returned from Bath "cure" few days ago. Aunt Carrie far from well but it did her good. Now trying to get away to Egypt and the sunshine of Helouan.
  2. Kipling to FND, March 5, 1931. Grand Hotel Helouan-les-Bains, near Cairo. Typewritten letter (new Remington) signed. Left England on 19th February. Carrie has made some progress, but still slow of foot and hand. Thinking of going to Assouan. Climate has slumped like world affairs. "There are not three pins to choose between your national indigestion (and flatulence) and ours. The only difference is that your people isn't used to trouble and ours are." No tourists here. Is working up a mass of verses meant for the next book of tales. Will return mid April to Continent, thence by car through Paris.
  3. Kipling to FND, April 21, 1931. Chateaubriand Britannique Hotel, Hyères-les-Palmiers, (Var), France. 21 April 1931. Got here from Egypt on 17th after fine voyage. Carrie's general health better. Loved Assouan, then north to the Mena House under the Pyramids. Bottom is out of tourist business all through Egypt. Will see Elsie in Paris. She is concerned about her friends in Spain after the revolution. France seems calm over the Spanish fuss. Recalls incident in earlier visit to Egypt with FND.
  4. Kipling memorandum, [Doubleday envelope, marked July 1931]. List: "Possible omissions in Humorous Tales." On Brown's Hotel card.
  5. Kipling to FND, September 5, 1931. Bateman's. Has seen Nelson. Has been away in Wales for a few days. Comments on the "Crisis" (depression). Carrie is not very fit. After thirty years the house is being rewired.
  6. Kipling to FND, October 6, 1931. Bateman's. Suggests subjects for books. "Also there should be (probably in the Smithsonian) papers & notes by poor old Professor Langley who actually created the flying plane but on a steam basis (v. the flight of the model and its fall into the Potomac 30 yrs. ago.) He confided in me a bit & never lost hope. I dont' think that's been covered yet. We're all too dam-excited over our own miracles." U. S. version of the Wandering Jew -- "the man with a child beside him, in a buggy always trying to get to Boston. The best (and even barring Poe) weird story that came out of the U.S. about 1830-1840 I think. But where I don't know." A question of finding new old stuff. Old U.S. Navy Dockyard records, details of the big 1200 ton frigates of 1812 war. . . . The Crisis has fairly well wiped out Ghandi and the Indian mess. China's dead for the next few years -- fought out and flooded out, and Japan is going for the bits.
  7. Kipling to ND, October 31, 1931. Bateman's. "I took Miss [Edna] Ferber's 'American Beauty' all in one piece last night. It's all right -- very much so -- and it has for me a personal interest, because we were in New England just as the outside invasion began, and the last of the old tough mortgaged-to-death white men were dropping off the naked farms. Mercifully, I didn't see the Poles move in. It was Italians in those days. They had finished laying down car-tracks in the small cities and were starting shops and restaurants there. The farms were derelict.""And she has handled the thing splendidly, from the historical point of view. If it isn't an impertinence please give her my best congratulations. I don't think her own people realize her value as a historical painter--yet. They will later. And now -- for her next job -- how did the Swedes get into Minnesota en bloc and what was (and is) their attitude to newcomers of (to them) alien extraction? Same with both Dakotas."
  8. Kipling to FND, November 21, 1931. Bateman's. World is upside down, broken nerve of many people, inability to face facts. Pretty well through with new book and trying to write a comic story.
  9. Kipling to FND, December 24, 1931. Bateman's. Thanks for Christmas gifts. State of the world. Germany has defaulted for third time. Leopard doesn't change his spots. "It's a wicked thing to say in this present peaceful world, but the Hun will never pay any more unless and until he can be convinced that it's not a paying proposition for him to start re-arming himself. He's the Leading Gangster of the world -- a fact we've forgotten."
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1932. 1 folder.
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  1. Kipling to FND, March 18-19, 1932. Hotel Hermitage, Monte Carlo. Here with George and Elsie. Desolated Riviera, two thirds of big hotels shut up. Despondent hotel proprietors. Life of laziness. Lunched with Nelson other day at Somerset Maugham's wonderful villa at Cap Martin. Asks for more about Nelson, he hasn't told us anything. Were struck by change in looks. "It was as if he had had some kind of a blow." [Note: Nelson Doubleday, after divorce, married Mrs. Ellen McCarter Violett, in 1932.] Winter at Bateman's, thirty calves. Lest gardens full of crocus. Engagements in France connected with War Graves next month and after. Speaks of FND's long sickness. Suggests that FND find some young man who can bring forth a message for the U.S. people: "They do need guidance between sullen apathy and false exaltation. I am so hopelessly out of touch with the present generation that my view of what is needed is useless." [Continues on March 19]. Battle of Flowers today. Two Italian destroyers moored under our wimdow. Lord Inchcape's yacht in harbor.
  2. Kipling to ND, May 10, 1932. Pont-Royal Hotel, Paris. Concerning typed copy of "Uprooted" by Major Creighton, which he has handed to Nelson some time ago. What is he to say to Creighton? Expects to be home in a few days.
  3. Kipling to FND, Saturday [postmark, June or July? 1932]. Bateman's. Addressed to FND at 17 Manchester Square, W. 1, London. "The main point of the Burgundy was that it helped you in your nap. (There was no story. I just droned out pieces of reading)." Is coming up to town Wednesday, and asks FND to take drive with him.
  4. Kipling note to Messrs Doubleday Doran & Co., [early 1932?]. Four additional corrections in proofs of Limits and Renewals. [Copyright for this book filed April 22, 1932.]
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1933. 1 folder.
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  1. Kipling to FND, March 17, 1933. Hotel Hermitage, Monte-Carlo. Moving west on our way to Paris. Nelson and his wife blew in here some days ago. Judging from what one hears from across the water, business is about as bad in the U.S. as it can be. Not specially bright in England. "I have let loose some articles of mine on France in the Revue des Deux Mondes, and, serially, in the D. T. I don't expect they will do much good, but the German Wolf is on the rampage again -- exactly as every one but the politicians knew he would. It takes a long time to teach mankind elementary facts! Also I have done a set of verses which are (though I say it) not too bad."
  2. FND to Kipling (carbon), July 10, 1933.
  3. FND to Caroline Kipling (carbon), July 18, 1933.
  4. Kipling to ND, December 28, 1933. Grand Pump Room Hotel, Bath. Spending Christmas week with Elsie and her husband at Bath. Thanks for pecans. "What we want now is some word about the Babe [Nelson Doubleday, Jr.] and how he does -- and more important -- what you think he's likely to do." Elsie and George to take West Indian trip on C. P. R. boat at end of month. Will any of you be at Nassau? Aunt Carrie doing electric treatment for rheumatism. "Your Uncle is still 'on a diet' and lives like an anchorite with a bad temper." Love to all three of you.
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1934. 1 folder.
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  1. Kipling to FND, January 25, 1934. Bateman's. Packing up for a couple months' stay on the Riviera at a villa behind Cannes. Their gardener has left; troubles of chauffer. Carrie badly crippled with rheumatism. Son-in-law ill for some weeks. "I can't make head-or-tail of the energies of Franklin Roosevelt as we get him, in pieces, on the Wireless. But I note that even pious Reconstruction work isn't free from graft. (No more, for that matter is ours!)" Is writing an Ode for the centenary celebration at Melbourne, Australia. Comments on his own health. "But I've schooled myself to more or less get out of myself and consider my feelings impersonally." [Note: last letter written by Kipling to FND, who died 30 January 1934.]
  2. Kipling to ND, February 6, 1934. Villa L'Enchantement, Mougins, Alpes Maritimes, France. [Postmarked, Cannes, 6 February 1934]. Has received his letter of the 26th, after the cables announcing FND's death. "When you're as old as I, you'll realize what it means and marks to lose a life-long friend and almost a brother. (I lost my father 20 years ago and I know rather precisely the misery of that)." Looks forward to seeing Nelson as head of the firm, and hopes there will be no break or change in relations with firm. Cottages waiting for him when he comes over. Will be at Bateman's in March. "Nothing much matters so long as the Babe does well. I expect he'll be about a fathom and a quarter long when he's seventeen -- like another boy whom I remember."
  3. Kipling to ND, June 7, 1934. Bateman's. Outlines scheme for A Kipling Pageant [Published in 1935.]
  4. Kipling to ND, November 4, 1934. Bateman's. Congratulations on birth of Nelson's daughter. "We're more pleased than we can tell you that you've got your family balanced. Boy and Girls makes the proper 'pigeons' pair,' as they say: and they educate each other unbelievably." Has received special edition of the Dog Stories with Miss Kirmse's illustrations, which are extremely good. Only criticism is that she has made her Scotties a little more wire-haired than we breed them now.
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1935. 1 folder.
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  1. Kipling to Florence Doubleday, January 3, 1935. Bateman's. Thanks for candied grapefruit peel. Have had quiet Christmas with Elsie and George. Hope to get away soon for the south of France. Is much better than he was. Asks for news. "Indeed we don't seem to get much news about the U.S.A. except now and again a very sympathetic broadcast on the wireless. It's a bit startling to see the whole world 'reconstructing' itself -- in various ways."
  2. Kipling to ND, August 22, 1935. Golf-Hotel, Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. Returns proof of the foreword to the "Kipling Pageant." Elsie and Carrie doing a cure here. "...a most perfect climate and a dream of a golf-course which belongs to the Hotel. I never saw -- outside of Vermont -- woods and hills to match these."
  3. "Foreword to the Publisher, Being The Instructions to the Nakoda, The Captain, of This Ship" [1935?], one sheet galley proof by Kipling with corrections in Kipling's hand. Enclosed with letter of 22 August. [This appeared as "Foreword" to A Kipling Pageant, published by Doubleday, 1935. This foreword (addressed to Nelson Doubleday) was published separately, together with the earlier foreword (addressed to FND) which had appeared in Vol. I of Outward Bound Edition of Kipling's works (1897), in the Christmas 1935 volume, Two Forewords.
  4. "Foreword to the Publisher," undated typescript, carbon copy [with no Kipling Ms. Notations] of "Foreword to the Publisher."
  5. Kipling to ND, August 30, 1935. Golf-Hotel, Marienbad. Has received Nelson's letter of the 15 August. Never thought Long Island a good place for children in summer. "It's those damp hot nights that wilt 'em. Why not park then somewhere above the 1000 foot line in New England?" Waters here doing Aunt Carrie good. Adorable little golf course. Adds on second page an idea for Kipling Pageant. Suggests reprinting the old foreword from the Scribner's Bombay [Outward Bound] edition, following the new foreword, of which he has returned proofs. He supplies a final paragraph for the latter, providing a transition to the early foreword. [This was included in the published version]. Also, as a suggestion for ornaments Kipling appends on separate sheet drawing of a big tramp steamer (as seal for the first, latest, foreword), and of an Arab dhow (as seal for a second, older, foreword). [Both of these drawings were used in the published version.]
  6. Kipling to ND, September 15, 1935. Bateman's. Back Marienbad yesterday. Has found your large-size picture of the Old Galley that I did for your Dad. Could be used as tail-piece of the New Foreword to Pageant book. Question for "the boys in the office" to decide. [Apparently not used.]
  7. Kipling to ND, November 22, 1935. Bateman's. "Pageant" copies have come to hand. "I'm very pleased with the nature of the selections, prose and verse: barring, always, that I think the 200 pp. of ' The Light' makes it a bit heavy. It wasn't a job, anyway, that I could have done for myself. Who chose the 'samples?' Please give my compliments to him -- or her. I think the double-preface covering something like forty years was a good notion, and gives the book extra respectability and venerability." Series of floods in our little valley. "Both of us are fairly well. Our best love to you & yours, Always your affectionate old Uncle Rud."
  8. Kipling to Florence Doubleday, December 28, 1935. Bateman's. Thanks for Christmas gift. Elsie and her husband here for Christmas. "She finds housekeeping among the Britons -- after ten years on the continent -- Brussels, Madrid, and Paris -- not quite so easy as she expected. The British servant of today is ----. Never mind. But she is." "I'm most pleased that you liked the preface to the 'pageant' book. I wrote it from my heart full of the old days." Carrie keeping well. Floods have been added to our winter diversions. Hope to get away to the south of France in February as usual, if the European situation clears up as I think it will. [Note: Kipling died January 18, 1936.]
  9. "Prologue to Scrap Book of Kipling articles," undated typewritten copy of verses written for Edmund Gosse by Kipling. Apparently not collected by Kipling, but was printed in The Library of Edmund Gosse, Being a Descriptive and Bibliographical Catalogue . . ., 1924. This typed copy may have been sent to FND by Kipling but there is no evidence to indicate that this was so. It may simply be a copy that FND had had made, and saved.
  10. Pencilled "doodle" on a scrap of newspaper, undated, size of postage stamp. In a Doubleday-Doran envelope marked "R. K. Drawing."
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Kipling, Rudyard, Correspondence and Papers about, 1917-1944. 1 folder.
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Consists primarily of letters from Rudyard Kipling to Frank Nelson Doubleday with a fair amount of correspondence to Doubleday from Caroline Kipling. Also included are some letters from Caroline and Elsie Kipling to Dorothy Doubleday as well as couple of letters from John and Alice Kipling.

The letters between Rudyard Kipling and Frank N. Doubleday, which are both professional and personal in nature, demonstrate how close the two men were. Topics of discussion include the political climate, World War I, and Kipling's major publications, including his novel Kim. Having finally finished the serial publication of Kim, which he had been working on for seven years intermittently, Kipling writes: "So take off your little coat and gird up your panties and proceed to cram ram and jam Kim down the throat of the Great Eagle. Make that pious but agitated bird understand that life without Kim is- inkimplete; that nobody with a hope of Heaven can pass St. Peter without a copy of Kim in his shroud; that existence in the country or in the manufacturing centers in lightened and sweetened by Kim: that you can garden & read Kim, plant bulbs and mow the grass with a better heart for reading him. (September 2, 1901)"

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Kipling, Rudyard, Letters to Frank Nelson Doubleday, 1899 September-1901 December. 1 folder.
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Kipling, Rudyard, Letters to Frank Nelson Doubleday, 1908-1915. 1 folder.
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Transcriptions of Letters from Rudyard Kipling to Frank Nelson Doubleday dating from 1899-1914, undated. 1 folder.
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Kipling, Rudyard, Letters to Russell Doubleday, 1921 May. 1 folder.
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Kipling, Rudyard, Poem, "Mulvaney Regrets", 1896. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

A poem that Kipling sent to the Kipling Club of Yale University as a declination to dine with the members on May 14, 1896.

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Kipling, Caroline, Letters to Frank Nelson Doubleday, 1899-1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Also included are a couple of letters from Caroline to Dorothy Doubleday.

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Transcriptions of Letters from Caroline Kipling to Frank Nelson Doubleday dating from 1899-1911, undated. 1 folder.
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Kipling, Elsie, Letters to Dorothy Doubleday, 1908-1952. 1 folder.
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Other Letters, circa 1899-1910. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter between Alice and Caroline Kipling; letters to Frank Nelson Doubleday from John L. Kipling and Sara Anderson; and an anonymous poem (possibly composed by Dorothy Doubleday).

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L (General), 1923-1924. 1 folder.
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La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry) (1882-1947), 1944. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., July 18, 1944, to Mrs. FND, in response to her letter regarding the teen age dance which was to be given by the PTA of P. S. 6
  2. TLS (marked "copy"), 1 p., October 7, 1944, to Mrs. Doubleday, regarding her work with the PTA
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Lawrence, A. W. (Arnold Walter), 1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL (marked "copy"), 1 p., February 1, 1934, to Mrs. Doubleday
  2. ALS, 2 pp., December 21, 1937, to Mrs. Doubleday
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Lawrence, T.E., 1920. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Lawrence to FND, June 30, [1920]. 2 pp., about "The Mint"
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Lawrence, T.E., 1923. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Lawrence to FND, September 17, 1923. London, 3 pp., regarding Cape Cod Fire-Lighters, private edition of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
  2. Lawrence to FND, November 15, 1923. 4 pp., regarding criticism of "Where the Blue Begins," "Seven Pillars," plans for private edition
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Lawrence, T.E., 1924. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Lawrence to FND, April 8, 1924. Cloud's Hill, 4 pp., regarding American Copyright re: "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
  2. Lawrence to FND, May 25, 1924. Cloud's Hill, 4 pp., regarding American Copyright re: "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
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Lawrence, T.E., 1925. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Lawrence to FND, May 25, 1925. Cloud's Hill, 4 pp., regarding American Copyright re: "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
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Lawrence, T.E., 1926. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Lawrence to FND, October 22, 1926. 2 pp., regarding publishing "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," future plans, life in R. A. F
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Lawrence, T.E., 1927. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Lawrence to FND, June 16, 1927. Karachi, 4 pp. No article for magazine on Arabia, "Revolt in the Desert," "Seven Pillars of Wisdom."
  2. Lawrence to FND, August 25, 1927. Karachi, 4 pp., regarding "Revolt in the Desert," refers to his illegitimacy
  3. Lawrence to FND, December 7, 1927. Karachi, 2 pp., regarding "Revolt in the Desert," "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," Graves' book, Lowell Thomas' book
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Lawrence, T.E., 1928. 1 folder.
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  1. Lawrence to FND, April 13, 1928. 2 pp., regarding "Effendi," Kipling, "Personality," e. e. Cummings
  2. Lawrence to FND, June 14, 1928. Miranshah, 2 pp., regarding "Revolt in the Desert," sales in U. S., copyright re "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
  3. Lawrence to FND, October 16, 1928. 2 pp., regarding Kipling being a great writer
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Lawrence, T.E., 1929. 1 folder.
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  1. Lawrence to FND, April 1, 1929. Plymouth, 2 pp. Back in England, staff at R. A. F.
  2. Lawrence to FND, May 30, 1929. Plymouth, 1 p. Meeting with FND in London.
  3. Lawrence to FND, June 4, 1929. Plymouth, 1 p. Meeting with FND, arrangements.
  4. Lawrence to FND, June 28, 1929. Plymouth, 1 p. Send two copies "Seven Pillars."
  5. Lawrence to FND, June 28, 1929. 2 pp. G. B. Shaw, recalls day with Kipling.
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Lawrence, T.E., 1930. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Lawrence to FND, February 8, 1930. Plymouth, 1 p. Send one "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," Kipling's visit.
  2. Lawrence to FND, June 27, 1930. 1 p. Thanks for books sent to him.
  3. Lawrence to FND, September 2, 1930. Plymouth, 2 pp. "Dollar Books," Noel Coward, flew over Kipling's garden.
  4. Lawrence to FND, September 10, 1930. Plymouth, 2 pp. "Dollar Books," E. M. Dell, FND's illness.
  5. Lawrence to FND, September 18, 1930. Scotland, 6 pp. Description of leave in North Scotland.
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Lawrence, T.E., 1931. 1 folder.
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  1. Lawrence to FND, January 27, 1931. Plymouth, 1 p. Won't write, speed boat, FND's autobiography.
  2. Lawrence to FND, June 10, 1931. Plymouth, 2 pp. Testing speed boats for R. A. F., send one copy "Seven Pillars of Wisdom."
  3. Lawrence to FND, September 5, 1931. Plymouth, 2 pp. Clemence Dane "Broome Stages," £300 in bank.
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Lawrence, T.E., 1932. 1 folder.
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  1. Lawrence to FND, June 21, 1932. Hythe, 1 p., regarding armored boats
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Lawrence, T.E., 1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Lawrence to ND, February 15, 1934. Cloud's Hill, 2 pp. "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" proof and letters in facsimile. Sue for copyright invasion.
  2. Lawrence to ND, April 7, 1934. Southampton, 2 pp., meeting Nelson Doubleday
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Le Gallienne, Richard (1866-1947), 1926 April 5. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Mrs. Frank Doubleday
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Leonard, Mary A, 1930-1933. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., August 27, 1930, to ND
  2. TL, 1 p., October 13, 1930, to Mr. Maule and Mr. Johnson
  3. TLS, 1 p., June 7, 1931, to ND
  4. TLS, 1 p., February 19, 1932, to LGG
  5. TL, 1 p., February 26, 1932, by [ND?]
  6. TL, 1 p., October 10, 1932, to LGG
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Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus) (1902-1974) and Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001), 1927-1931. 1 folder.
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  1. AN (third person), 1 p. "Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh regret very much that they are unable to accept the very kind invitation of Mrs. Frank N. Doubleday to tea and cocktails on Wednesday, July 1st, at 18 Rutland Court, Rutland Gate."
  2. TLS, 1 p., February 6, 1931, to FND, in appreciation of FND's letter and with regrets that he will be unable to carry out FND's suggestion at this time because he has little time to write
  3. TLS, 2 pp., June 13, 1927, to Lindbergh, by unknown author
  4. TL, 1 p., June 13, 1927, to C. M. Keys, by unknown author
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Literary Guild of America, 1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., September 10, 1934, to ND, by Frank White
  2. TL, 1 p., September 15, 1934, to Frank White, by "President" [ND] (includes 2 copies)
  3. TLS, 1 p., September 19, 1934, to ND, by Frank White
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M (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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Mac/Mc (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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MacDonald, James Ramsay (1866-1937), 1929-1933. 1 folder.
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  1. TLS, 1 p., October 7, 1929, to FND, by Rose Rosenberg, secretary to the Prime Minister
  2. TLS, 2 pp., June 20, 1930, to FND
  3. TLS, 1 p., July 2, 1930, to FND
  4. ALS, 1 p., December 16, 1930, to FND
  5. TLS, 1 p., July 14, 1931, to FND
  6. TLS, 1 p., September 7, 1931, to FND, by Rose Rosenberg
  7. TL, 1 p., November 13, 1931, by FND
  8. TLS, 1 p., November 23, 1931, to FND, by Rose Rosenberg on behalf of MacDonald
  9. TLS, 1 p., June 8, 1932, to Mrs. Doubleday
  10. TLS, 1 p., 10 Downing Street, Whitehall. July 11, 1933, to Mrs. Doubleday, regarding the author's appreciation of Mrs. Doubleday's friendship and asking if she will be in London to see him
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Markham, Edwin (1852-1940), 1907 April 18. 1 folder.
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  1. ALS, 1 p., to Samuel Everett
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1 folder

Masefield, John (1878-1967), 1941. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 2 pp., September 2, 1941, to Mrs. Doubleday, turning down her apparent request to write about his memories of FND
  2. C, 1 p., invitation for Mr. and Mrs. Doubleday to the Music Room, Hill Crest, on July 3rd for literary performances
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Matheson, William J, 1927-1929. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 2 pp., October 25, 1925, by [FND?]
  2. TLS, 4 pp., October 31, 1927, to FND
  3. TLS, 1 p., November 25, 1929, to FND
  4. 3 TLs, between Matheson, Frederick Tilney, FND, and E. C. Rosenow
  5. TLS, 1 p., to FND
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Marauley, [Ward?], 1928 January 23. 1 folder.
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  1. TLS, 1 p., to C. R. Crowell
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1 folder

Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) (1874-1965), undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., June 16 [n.y], [Mrs.] Doubleday, expressing thanks for an invitation to a party
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Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington) (1866-1938), 1922-1925. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., December 4, 1922, to Mrs. Doubleday, asking her and FND to lunch
  2. TLS, 1 p., December 21, 1922, to FND, thanking him for "Life of Mr. Page"
  3. TLS, 1 p., February 12, 1923, to FND, thanking him for his letter and "Mr. Page's book."
  4. ALS, 3 pp., April 6, 1923, to FND
  5. ALS, 2 pp., August 23, 1923, to Mrs. Doubleday
  6. ALS, 1 p., December 23, 1925, to Mr. Doubleday, thanks for his Christmas greeting
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McCarter, Thomas N. (Thomas Nesbitt) (1867-1955), 1940 May 17. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 2 pp., to ND
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1 folder

McClure, Harriet H, 1922 January 31. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to FND, thanking him for inviting her husband to a dinner party
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1 folder

McCormick, Ken, 1946. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., February 13, 1946, by [ND?]
  2. TLS, 1 p., February 20, 1946, to ND
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McCutcheon, George Barr (1866-1928), 1914. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 2 pp., May 15, 1914, by Samuel Everett
  2. ALS, 1 p., May 16, 1914, to Everett
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1 folder

McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney) (1870-1949), undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., April 8, to Florence Doubleday, written on letterhead from the Chicago Tribune
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McFee, William (1881-?), 1921. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 pp., August 4, 1921, to Mr. Doubleday
  2. ALS, 2 pp., August 10, 1921, to Mr. Doubleday
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1 folder

McNaughton, Larry, 1928 February 16. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., by [FND]
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1 folder

Melcher, Frederic Gershom (1879-1963), 1931 June 9. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to FND, thanking him for a visit and describing the good impression "Frere-Reeves made on me"
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Meredith, W. M, 1920-1921. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ANS, 2 pp., December 11, 1920, to Pawling
  2. ALS, 3 pp., September 2, 1921, to Mr. Doubleday
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1 folder

Messemer, Marie, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 pp.,March 9, to Mrs. Doubleday
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1 folder

Metcalf, W. L, 1892 September 5. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Steele
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1 folder

Montague, C. E. (Charles Edward) (1867-1928), 1919-1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., January 9, 1919, to Mr. Doubleday
  2. ALS, 1 p., January 8, 1928, to Mr. Doubleday
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1 folder

Montague, Margaret Prescott (1878-1955), 1921 December 24. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. printed booklet of poems by Montague, titled "Garden Wonder," with holograph inscription
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1 folder

Moore, George (1852-1933), 1921. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL (copy), 2 pp., May 18, 1921, by Horace Liveright
  2. TL (copy), 1 p., May 20, 1921, to Mr. Liveright
  3. TL (copy), 1 p., May 27, 1921, by T. R. Smith
  4. TL (copy), 1 p., May 30, 1921, to Mr. Liveright
  5. TL (copy), 1 p., May 30, 1921, to Mr. Liveright
  6. TL (copy), 1 p., May 31, 1921, to Mr. Smith
  7. TLS, 5 pp., May 31, 1921, to Pawling, by Moore, regarding his business with Boni & Liveright
  8. TL (copy), 1 p., June 7, 1921, by Horace B. Liveright
  9. TL (copy), 1 p., June 9, 1921, to Smith
  10. TLS, 1 p., June 9, 1921, to Pawling
  11. TLS, 2 pp., June 10, 1921, to FND, by Pawling, regarding George Moore
  12. TL (copy), 1 p., June 13, 1921, to Mr. Smith
  13. TL (copy), 1 p., June 20, 1921, to Sydney Pawling by unknown, regarding George Moore
  14. TLS, 1 p., June 21, 1921, to Liveright
  15. TLS, 1 p., June 23, 1921, to FND, from Sydney Pawling, regarding George Moore
  16. TLS, 2 pp., July 4, 1921, to FND, with transcript of an interview of Moore, TMs, 9 pp.
  17. TL (copy), 1 p., July 5, 1921, to Sydney Pawling, titled "George Moore"
  18. TL, 1 p., July 14, 1921, to George Moore, unsigned
  19. TL, 1 p., July 14, 1921, to Sidney Pawling, titled "George Moore," unsigned
  20. TL, 1 p., July 14, 1921, to Stephen Van Wyck, unsigned
  21. TL, 1 p., July 15, 1921, to FND, unsigned
  22. TLS, 1 p., July 16, 1921, to Stephen Van Wyck from Julian Messiner
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1 folder

Moore, Walter K, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 3 TLsS, between Moore and FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Morgenthau, Henry (1856-1946), 1923 October 15. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday, thanking her for an invitation to spend the weekend with her, and turning it down
Physical Description

1 folder

Morley, Christopher (1890-1957), 1917-1938. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 14 pp., April 14, 1917, by William McFee
  2. ALS (initialed), 9 pp., July 26, 1921, to FND
  3. TLS, 3 pp., December 26, 1922, to FND
  4. TLS, 3 pp., April 29, 1928, to FND, including typed reply to Morley on back of third page, by FND
  5. TLS, 1 p., May 7, 1928, to FND
  6. ALS, 1 p., July 26, 1930, to FND
  7. ALS, 1 p., September 16, 1931, to ND
  8. ALS, 1 p., December 22, 1933, to FND
  9. TN, 1 p., March 11, 1938, memorandum to ND by "Robbie"
  10. ANS, 1 p., July 1 [n.y.], to Samuel Everett, providing directions to his house (includes drawn map)
Physical Description

1 folder

Morrow, Elizabeth (1873-1955), 1938. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 p., March 28 [n.y.], to Florence Doubleday, thanking her for her offer of her house for "Anne's" honeymoon
  2. ALS, 7 pp., to Florence Doubleday
  3. ALS, 2 pp., to FND, quoting poetry written by her sister, Anne, with a P.S. breaking the news that Anne Morrow was just become secretly engaged to Charles Lindbergh
  4. ALS, 8 pp., July 19 [n.y.], to FND, regarding the honeymoon of Anne and Charles Lindbergh
  5. ALS, 2 pp., January 2, 1938, to Florence Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Murray, Graham, circa 1941 January 6. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ANS, 2 pp., to Mr. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

N (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Nast, Condé (1873-1942), 1927 April 28. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., by ND
Physical Description

1 folder

National Association of Book Publishers, 1937. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., March 29, 1937, to Board of Directors, National Association of Book Publishers, by Stanley M. Rinehart, Jr
  2. TL, 1 p., April 1, 1937, to Stanley M. Rinehart, by ND (2 copies)
  3. TN, 1 p., April 19, 1937, to Mr. Gillespie, by Mrs. Robins
  4. TLS, 2 pp., April 28, 1937, to ND, by Henry Hoyns
  5. TL, 1 p., April 30, 1937, to Henry Hoyns, by ND
  6. TL, 1 p., November 20, 1937, memorandum to Larry McNaughton, by ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Nerney, Winifred, 1938-1946. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 18 TLs between ND and Werney
Physical Description

1 folder

Net Results Club (NRC), 1932-1938. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. documents, letters, and memorandum regarding the affairs of the Net Results Club
Physical Description

1 folder

New York Trust Co, 1937-1945. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., November 1, 1937, to Murray Mitchell, by ND
  2. TN, 1 p., September 26, 1939, to Degnan, by ND
  3. TL, 1 p., September 29, 1939, to John Degnan, by ND
  4. TL, 1 p., August 20, 1941, to Bierwirth, by ND
  5. TL, 1 p., August 20, 1941, to Bierwirth, by ND, with holograph corrections
  6. TL, 1 p., September 11, 1941, to Bierwirth, by ND
  7. TLS, 1 p., September 16, 1941, to ND, by Bierwirth
  8. TLS, 1 p., March 24, 1945, to ND, by Bierwith
  9. TL, 1 p., April 5, 1945, to John Bierwith, by ND
  10. TLS, 1 p., August 21, 1945, to ND, by John Degnan
  11. TL, 1 p., August 21, 1945, to Milo Sutliff, by Degnan
  12. TL, 1 p., to unknown, by Degnan
  13. TD (carbon), 1 p., "Budget for New Offices of Doubleday, Doran & Company, 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York
Physical Description

1 folder

New Yorker, 1927 December 2. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., to Ralph Fleischmann, by ND, regarding the appearance of a reporter sent to do a profile sketch of ND for the New Yorker
Physical Description

1 folder

Newton [?], 1928 November 12. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday, announcing enclosed articles
Physical Description

1 folder

Nicholson, Meredith (1866-1947), 1914 January 24. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Doubleday, Page & Company
Physical Description

1 folder

Nicolson, Vita, 1933 March 22. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Mrs. Frank Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Norris, Charles & Kathleen, 1921-1944. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 pp., August 1921, to FND, by K. Norris
  2. TN, 1 p., July 21, 1930, to William Browne, by Mrs. Glaser (with attached list)
  3. TL, 1 p., January 3, 1931, to C. Norris, by [ND?]
  4. TL, 1 p., Western Union cablegram, March 2, 1931, to Sunlocks, London, by Glaser
  5. TL, 1 p., Western Union cablegram, March 3, 1931, to William Heinemann, Ltd., by Glaser
  6. TL, 1 p: April 27, 1931, to C. Norris, by [ND?]
  7. TN, 1 p., April 30, 1931, to Longwell, by ND
  8. TL, 1 p., June 4, 1931, to C. Norris, by [ND?]
  9. TL, 1 p., June 20, 1931, to C. Norris, by [ND?]
  10. TL, 1 p., Western Union cablegram, July 28, 1931, to Daniel Longwell, by ND
  11. TL, 1 p., Western Union telegram, July 30, 1931, to ND, by D. Longswell, with transcript of letter
  12. TL, 1 p., Western Union telegram, July 30, 1931, by ND
  13. TL, 1 p., Western Union telegram, August 3, 1931, to ND
  14. TL, 1 p., September 18, 1931, to C. and K. Norris, by [ND?]
  15. TLS, 1 p., November 25, 1931, to ND
  16. ALS, 2 pp., December 29, 1931, to ND by C. S. Evans, with printed menu for luncheon in honor of Charles Norris, with notes by various hands and drawings by J. C. Squire
  17. TLS, 2 pp., March 13, 1933, to ND
  18. TL, 1 p., March 13, 1933, to Westminister Bank, Ltd., Foreign Branch Office
  19. TL, 1 p., Western Union cablegram, March 14, 1933, to ND
  20. TL, 1 p., ("cc for Mrs. Glaser"), March 15, 1933, to C. Norris, by unknown
  21. TLS, 1 p., March 18, 1933, to ND
  22. TLS, 1 p., May 31, 1933, to ND
  23. TL, 1 p., June 16, 1933, by [ND?]
  24. TLS, 1 p., May 1, 1934, to ND, by K. Norris
  25. TL, 1 p., May 3, 1944, to C. and K. Norris, by ND
  26. TLS, 1 p., May 9, 1944, to ND
  27. TL, 1 p., December 11, 1944, to K. Norris, by ND
  28. TL, 1 p., Western Union radio message, by ND, "News is fine daughter"
  29. TL, 1 p., Western Union cablegram, to Doubleday, Doran & Co., by ND
  30. TL, 1 p., Western Union telegram, July 30 [n.y.], to [ND?], by unknown
  31. TL, 1 p., Western Union telegram, July 30 [n.y.], to ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Norris, Kathleen Thompson (1880-1966), circa 1922. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., May [1922?], to FND
  2. clipping, 1 p., May 5, 1950, from New York Herald Tribune titled "Better Cancer Drugs Forecast As Palliatives"
  3. ALS, 1 p., to unknown recipient
  4. ALS, 2 pp., to Mrs. Doubleday
  5. ALS, 1 p., to Florence Doubleday
  6. ANS, 2 pp., to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Northampton, Emma, 1921-1925. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 pp., November 18, 1921, to Mr. Doubleday
  2. ALS, 2 pp., November 26, 1921, to Mrs. Doubleday
  3. ALS, 2 pp., November 2, 1925, to [Mrs.] Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount (1865-1922), 1917-1919. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., July 9, 1917, to FND
  2. TLS, 1 p., December 26, 1919, to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

O (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Ollivant, Alfred (1874-1927), 1919. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., December 3, 1919 [1918?], dated 1919, but with New Year's greetings for 1919, to Doubleday
  2. ALS, 2 pp., October 21 [n.y.], to Mrs. Doubleday, by Hilda Ollivant
Physical Description

1 folder

Oliver, B. E, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., February 3, 1928, by FND
  2. TLS, 4 pp., February 27, 1928, to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

O'Malley, Mary, 1939 January 12. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Mr. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Ormond, Conrad, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., October 26, 1928, by unknown author
  2. TLS, 2 pp., November 12, 1928, to Mr. Doran
Physical Description

1 folder

P (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Page, Arthur W. (Arthur Wilson) (1883-1960), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Page, Walter Hines (1855-1918), 1917-1918. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 14 pp., May 3, 1917, to FND
  2. TLS (initialed), 8 pp., November 19, 1917, to FND
  3. ALS, 11 pp., March 8, 1918, to FND
  4. ALS (excerpt), 3 pp., ca. 1928, excerpt from letter from W. H. Page to Mr. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Palffy, Eleanor, Countess (d. 1952), 1945 October 2. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Park, Darragh A, 1936. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., November 9, 1936, to Winthrop Pizzini, by W. F. Austin
  2. TLS, 1 p., November 13, 1936, to ND
  3. TL, 1 p., November 16, 1936, by ND
  4. Parke, Austin & Lipscomb, Inc., Annual Report, 1935, 6 pp.
Physical Description

1 folder

Parker, Celia, 1919 April 12. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Parrish, Maxfield (1870-1966), undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., April 16 [n.y.], to Samuel Everett, expressing regrets, unable to attend the annual dinner of the Periodical Publisher's Association, but appreciative of the recipient's invitation
Physical Description

1 folder

Pawling, Sydney, 1921. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. leather-bound autograph book, embossed "to Sydney S. Pawling The Coffee House May 9, 1921"
  2. menu and program for "To Sydney S. Pawling at the Coffee House Monday May 9, at half past seven"
  3. ALS, 3 pp., May 28 [1921?] to Florence Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Pershing, John J. (John Joseph) (1860-1948), 1938. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., June 8, 1938, to ND
  2. TL, 1 p., June 14, 1938, by ND
  3. TL, 1 p., July 20, 1938, to Col. Roosevelt, by Mr. Maule
  4. TLS, 1 p., August 11, 1938, to ND, by G. E. Adamson
  5. TL, 1 p., August 15, 1938, to Captain G. E. Adamson, by unknown
Physical Description

1 folder

Pollock, Channing (1880-1946), 1942 May 2. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday, expressing many thanks for letter, looking forward to meeting her
Physical Description

1 folder

Publisher's Lunch Club, 1929-1930. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. letters and papers regarding the Publisher's Lunch Club, including a list of members from April 1, 1930
Physical Description

1 folder

Pyle, Howard (1853-1911), 1892. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., April 6, 1892, to Mr. Doubleday
  2. TLS, 1 p., May 14, 1892, to Mr. Doubleday
  3. ALS, 1 p., June 23, 1892, to Mr. Doubleday
  4. TLS (with holograph postscript), 1 p., July 16, 1892, to FND, by Page
  5. TLS, 1 p., August 12, 1892, to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

R (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Rascoe, Burton (1892-1957), 1934-1937. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 2 pp., December 6, 1934, to ND
  2. TLS, 1 p., August 9, 1935, to Lillian, by Winifred
  3. TL, 1 p., August 29, 1935, to Winifred Nerney, by unknown
  4. TLS, 4 pp., February 24, 1937, by Rascoe
  5. TL, 1 p., February 26, 1937, by ND
  6. TL, 1 p., May 21, 1937, by ND (two copies)
  7. TD, 1 p., "Pumpkin Coach Advertising Expense"
Physical Description

1 folder

Reeves, Charles, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., February 3, 1928, by FND
  2. TL, 1 p., February 13, 1928, by FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Remington, Frederic (1861-1909), 1892. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., August 7, 1892, to FND
  2. ALS, 1 p., August 18, 1892, to N. Y. Photogravure Co.
  3. ALS, 1 p., September 1[4], 1892, to FND
  4. ALS, 1 p., August 14 [n.y.], to FND
  5. ALS, 1 p., August 16 [n.y.], to FND
  6. ALS, 1 p., August 23 [n.y.], to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Rice, Grantland (1880-1954), undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. "Songs Above the Dust," TMs, 2 pp., poem
Physical Description

1 folder

Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith) (1866-1959), 1914-1921. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 pp., December 27, 1914, to "Publishers, All of You," with drawings
  2. ALS, 5 pp., August 1, 1921, to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1928 March 25. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 3 pp., to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Rinehart, Stanley M. & Mary, 1927-1929. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 2 pp., November 2, 1927, to Mrs. Rinehart, by ND
  2. TLS, 2 pp., December 24, 1927, to ND
  3. TL, 2 pp., December 30, 1927, by ND
  4. ALS, 1 p., October 18, 1928, to ND, by Mary Rinehart
  5. TL, 1 p., May 29, 1929, by unknown author
  6. ALS, 1 p., to Mr. Doubleday, by Mary Rinehart
Physical Description

1 folder

Ringel, Fred, 1933-1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 2 pp., November 1, 1933, by unknown (initials "MJS")
  2. TLS, 3 pp., September 10, 1934, to Milo Sutliff
  3. TMs, 2 pp., titled "OUTLOOK FOR 'OMNIBUS'"
  4. TMs, 8 pp., by Ringel, titled "A Presentation of LITERARY WINGS A Monthly Magazine," including possible titles for the first issue
  5. TMs, 1 p., describing The Wings Quarterly, a magazine
Physical Description

1 folder

Ritz Tower Hotel, 1942. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., October 1, 1942, to H. Van Cartnell, by Ernest P. Gordon
  2. TL, 2 pp., October 5, 1942, to Ernest P. Gordon, by ND, including list on verso of officers of Doubleday, Doran & Co.
  3. TL, 1 p., October 27, 1942, to Ernest P. Gordon, by unknown (initials "LFR")
Physical Description

1 folder

Roberts, Cecil, 1946. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., October 4, 1946, copy of cable to Miss Hensey, sent on to Bob Conlin and Mrs. Wood, by "Gibson"
  2. TLS, 2 pp., October 5, 1946, to ND
  3. TN (cable), 1 p., October 14, 1946, by ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Roberts, H. Chalmers, 1937-1944. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., August 27, 1937, by ND (two copies)
  2. ALS, 2 p., September 9, 1937, to ND
  3. TL, 1 p., September 17, 1937, by unknown
  4. TL, 1 p., July 25, 1938, by ND
  5. TLS, 1 p., August 3, 1938, to ND
  6. TL, 1 p., August 15, 1938, by ND
  7. TLS, 1 p., August 30, 1938, to ND
  8. TL, 1 p., October 4, 1939, by ND
  9. TL, 1 p., May 3, 1944, by ND
  10. TL, 2 pp., August 22, 1944, by ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Roberts, Henry, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., March 1, 1928, to FND
  2. TL, 1 p., March 19, 1928, by [FND?]
Physical Description

1 folder

Roberts, Kenneth Lewis (1885-1957), 1944. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., May 3, 1944, by ND
  2. TLS, 1 p., May 8, 1944, to ND
  3. TL, 2 pp., May 17, 1944, by ND
  4. TLS, 3 pp., June 23, 1944, to ND
  5. TL, 1 p., July 27, 1944, by ND
  6. TLS, 2 pp., July 31, 1944, to ND
  7. TL, 2 pp., September 11, 1944, by ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Robertson, Eileen, 1892 October 22. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 pp., to ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Robinson, Harry Perry, Sir (b. 1859), 1922 May 4. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 pp., to [Mrs.] Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Robinson, Julian P. Lay, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Mr. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison) (1874-1960), 1934 February 6. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday. "I want to add my tribute of respect to his memory and to express my deep sympathy for you in his going."
Physical Description

1 folder

Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow (1861-1948), undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 3 pp., March 16, to Mr. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919), 1918 December 6. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to FND, stating that he is utterly powerless and thus unable to request a favor from the Tribune office
Physical Description

1 folder

Roosevelt, Theodore (1887-1944), 1931-1944. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., April 9, 1931, to Lilliam Glaser, by Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc.
  2. TMsS, 4 pp., Jaunary 30, 1934, foreword by Theodore Roosevelt for The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday, with holograph corrections and attached memorandum regarding the handling of the manuscript
  3. TMs (carbon), 2 pp., September 11, 1935, "Memo. of conversation about scope and method of operation of the proposed THEODORE ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE"
  4. clipping, 1 p., from The New York Times, September 16, 1935, announcing that Roosevelt will become affiliated with Doubleday, Doran & Co.
  5. TMs, 3 pp., "For release to morning papers, Monday, February 3, 1936," entitled, "The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Award"
  6. TL, 2 pp., April 30, 1942, by ND (two copies)
  7. ALS, 2 pp., March 11, 1943, to ND
  8. TL, 1 p., April 2, 1943, by ND
  9. ALS (copy), 1 p., with transcript, May 21, 1943, to Mr. and Mrs. ND and all those at Bonnie Hall, by Roosevelt
  10. TL, 2 pp., July 8, 1943, by ND
  11. TL, 3 pp., May 17, 1944, by ND (two copies)
  12. printed program, 9 pp., for memorial service for Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., July 24, 1944, at 4:00 pm.
Physical Description

1 folder

Runyon, Milton, 1945-1946. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., October 15, 1945, memorandum to ND, and others
  2. TLS, 1 p., October 15, 1945, memorandum to ND, and others, with holograph note to ND, by M. J. Sutliff, dated October 15, 1945
  3. TL, 1 p., October 16, 1945, confidential memorandum by ND
  4. TL, 1 p., May 16, 1946, by ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Russell, Elizabeth Mary, Countess (1866-1941), 1918-1937. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., December 28, 1918, to FND
  2. ALS, 2 pp., January 2, 1919, to Florence Doubleday
  3. ALS, 2 pp., January 28, 1919, to Florence Doubleday
  4. ALS, 2 pp., February 13, 1919, to Florence Doubleday
  5. TLS, 2 pp., April 28, 1919, to FND
  6. TLS, 2 pp., April 29, 1919, to FND
  7. ALS, 4 pp., May 27, 1919, to FND
  8. ALS, 2 pp., June 12, 1919, to Florence Doubleday
  9. ALS, 4 pp., June 25, 1919, to FND
  10. Photograph, October 1919, signed "Affectionately, Elizabeth"
  11. ALS, 2 pp., October 1, 1919, to FND
  12. ALS, 2 pp., December 2, 1919, to Florence Doubleday
  13. ALS, 2 pp., December 30, 1919, to Florence Doubleday
  14. ALS, 2 pp., April 20, 1920, to Florence Doubleday
  15. ALS, 2 pp., July 15, 1920, to FND
  16. C, 1 p., postcard, September 28, [1920], to Florence Doubleday
  17. ALS, 2 pp., November 10, 19[20?], to Florence Doubleday
  18. ALS, 1 p., April 19, 1921, to FND
  19. ALS, 2 pp., July 25, 19[21], to Florence Doubleday
  20. ALS, 2 pp., August 14, 1921, to FND
  21. ALS, 2 pp., August 25, 1921, to FND
  22. ALS, 2 pp., September 29, 1921, to Florence Doubleday
  23. ALS, 1 p., December 6, [1922], to FND
  24. C, 1 p., postcard, September 29, 1924, to FND
  25. C, 1 p., postcard, June 3, 1925, to Florence Doubleday
  26. ALS, 2 pp., December 22, 1925, to FND
  27. ALS, 2 pp., January 26, 19[26?], to FND
  28. TL, 1 p., June 19, 1927, to Elizabeth Russell
  29. ALS, 1 p., May 29, 1928, to Florence Doubleday
  30. ALS, 2 pp., June 18, 1928, to Florence Doubleday
  31. TL (carbon), 1 p., July 27, 1933, by FND
  32. ALS, 2 pp., September 11, 1934, to FND
  33. ALS, 1 p., March 14, 1937, to Florence Doubleday
  34. ALS, 2 pp., to FND
  35. ALS, 3 pp., to Florence Doubleday
  36. ALS, 2 pp., to Florence Doubleday
  37. ALS, 2 pp., to FND
  38. ALS, 2 pp., to Florence Doubleday
  39. ALS, 2 pp., to [Mr.] Doubleday
  40. ALS, 1 p., to Florence Doubleday
  41. ALS, 2 pp., to Florence Doubleday
  42. ALS, 2 pp., to Florence Doubleday
  43. ALS, 2 pp., to Florence Doubleday
  44. AN (in unknown hand), 1 p., regarding "Elizabeth" and record of visit to her house
Physical Description

1 folder

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S (General), 1930-1946. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., November 21, 1930, to ND, by unknown
  2. TLS, 1 p., March 31, 1946, to ND, by unknown
Physical Description

1 folder

Sackville-West, V. (Victoria) (1892-1962), 1930-1932. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., September 15, 1930, to Mr. Doubleday, by Vita Nicolson
  2. TLS, 1 p., September 24, 1930, to Mr. Doubleday, by Vita Nicolson
  3. TLS, 1 p., November 20, 1930, to Mr. Doubleday, by Vita Nicolson
  4. ALS, 2 pp., July 21, 1932, to ND, by Vita Nicolson
  5. ALS, 2 pp., November 18 [n.y.], to ND, by Vita Nicolson
Physical Description

1 folder

Safford, May, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. AL (signed "Ray"), 2 pp., to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Safford, Ray J, 1923-1929. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., February 9 [n.y.], by [FND?]
  2. 4 TLs (carbons) to Safford, 1923-1924
  3. TLS to "Miss L. A. Comstock" (Scribner's) by Safford, February 9, 1924
  4. TLS, 1 p., July 27, 1929 to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Sandall, Mary, 1921. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 10 pp., July 25, 1921, to Florence Doubleday
  2. ALS, 2 pp., to Florence Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Schenck, V. M, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., February 16, 1928, to FND
  2. TL, 1 p., February 17, 1928, by a secretary to FND
  3. TL, 2 pp., March 6, 1928, to FND, marked "copy"
  4. TL, 1 p., March 12, 1928, by [FND?]
Physical Description

1 folder

Schroeder Corporation, 1936-1944. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 2 pp., July 15, 1936, to ND, by Robin Wilson
  2. TL, 1 p., to Robin Wilson, by [ND], regarding letter of July 15th, probably an incomplete draft of final letter
  3. TL, 2 pp., August 6, 1936, to Robin Wilson, by ND, regarding letter of July 15th (two copies)
  4. TL, 1 p., November 13, 1936, to Robin Wilson, by ND
  5. TL, 1 p., September 16, 1936, to ND, by Robin Wilson
  6. TL, 1 p., May 25, 1937, to Robin Wilson, by the Secretary to ND
  7. ALS, 2 pp., May 19 [n.y.], to Ellen Doubleday (Mrs. ND), by Robin Wilson
  8. TL, 1 p., May 25, 1937, to Albert T. Masson, by secretary to Mr. Doubleday
  9. TLS, 1 p., May 24, 1937, to ND, by A. T. Masson
  10. TL, 1 p., May 27, 1937, to Miss Margaret Gilmatrin, secretary to Mr. R. F. Wilson, by unknown
  11. TLS, 1 p., May 26, 1937, to Mrs. Lillian Robins, by Margaret [Gilmartin], secretary to Mr. Wilson
  12. TL, 1 p., July 1, 1937, to Robin Wilson, by ND
  13. TL, 1 p., July 13, 1937, to ND, by Robin Wilson
  14. TL, 1 p., July 23, 1937, to Robin Wilson, by unknown secretary
  15. TL, 1 p., August 17, 1937, to Robin Wilson, by ND
  16. TLS, 1 p., October 8, 1937, to ND, by Robin Wilson
  17. TL, 1 p., October 25, 1937, to Robin Wilson, by ND
  18. TLS, 1 p., November 22, 1937, to ND, by unknown author
  19. ALS, 1 p., December 22, 1937, to ND, by unknown author (A. P.?)
  20. TLS, 1 p., March 7, 1938, to ND, by Robin Wilson
  21. TL, 2 pp., March 18, 1938, to Robin Wilson, by ND
  22. TL, 1 p., March 22, 1938, to Robin Wilson, by ND
  23. TL, 1 p., June 14, 1938, to Robin Wilson, by ND
  24. TLS, 2 pp., June 20, 1938, to ND, by Robin Wilson
  25. TL, 1 p., July 12, 1938, to Robin Wilson, by ND
  26. TL, 1 p., July 25, 1938, to Robin Wilson, by ND
  27. TL, 1 p., July 25, 1938, to Robin Wilson, by ND
  28. TLS, 1 p., August 3, 1938, to ND, by M. A. Coombes
  29. TLS, 1 p., January 3, 1939, to ND, by unknown
  30. TLS, 1 p., January 4, 1939, to ND, by unknown author
  31. TLS, 2 pp., January 27, 1939, to ND, by Robin Wilson
  32. TL, 1 p., February 10, 1939, to Robin Wilson, by ND
  33. TL, 1 p., February 18, 1939, cable to L. C. Doubleday, by Robin Wilson
  34. TLS, 1 p., February 13, 1940, to ND, by Robin Wilson
  35. TL, 1 p., April 1, 1940, to ND, by Robin Wilson, with holograph draft
  36. TL, 1 p., April 4, 1940, to Neil R. Adshead, by ND
  37. TLS, 1 p., December 29, 1941, to ND, by Gerald F. Beal
  38. TL, 1 p., January 21, 1942, to Jerry Beal, by ND
  39. TLS, 1 p., June 24, 1942, to ND, by Gerald Beal
  40. TL, 1 p., June 26, 1942, to Gerald Beal, by ND
  41. TL, 1 p., June 26, 1942, to Gerald Beal, by ND
  42. TL, 1 p., July 9, 1942, to Robin Wilson, by ND
  43. TL, 1 p., July 9, 1942, to Robin Wilson, by ND
  44. TL, 1 p., September 1, 1944, to Schroeder Corporation, by ND, with sympathies about Robin Wilson's death
Physical Description

1 folder

Selincourt, Anne de, 1919. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., January 10, 1919, to "Sir"
  2. ALS, 2 pp., to Mr. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Seton, Ernest Thompson (1860-1946), 1914-1924. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., December 30, 1914, to Doubleday, Page & Co.
  2. TLS, 1 p., April 16, 1919, to FND
  3. ALS, 1 p., July 23, 1920, to Lady Doubleday
  4. TL, 1 p., January 11, 1923, to Woodcrafter, by T. H. McCauley, with list of questions regarding the Woodcraft League of America, Inc., TMs, 1 p.
  5. TL, 1 p., January 15, 1923, to T. H. McCauley, by unknown author
  6. TLS, 1 p., May 6, 1924, to FND
  7. TL, 1 p., May 8, 1924, to Seton, by unknown
Physical Description

1 folder

Sims, William, 1925 April 16. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to FND, thanking him for his invitation but declining it
Physical Description

1 folder

Slater, Nelson, 1923-1925. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., November 19, 1923, to ND
  2. TL, 1 p., November 21, 1923, by ND
  3. TL, 1 p., February 24, 1925, by secretary to ND
  4. TMs (carbon), 1 p., titled "Voice from the East"
Physical Description

1 folder

Smith, Francis Hopkinson (1838-1915), 1892. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., February 17, 1892, to FND
  2. ALS (initialed), 1 p., June 6, 1892, to FND
  3. ALS, 1 p., June 17, 1892, to FND
  4. ALS, 1 p., June 23, 1892, to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Smith, Harrison (1888-1971), 1938 June 30. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., by ND, regarding the 'future relationship" of Smith and ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Smith, Vincent, 1945. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., October 4, 1945, confidential memorandum by ND
  2. TL, 1 p., October 16, 1945, memorandum by ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Smith, Virginia Hope, 1931. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 3 pp., August 12, 1931, to FND
  2. TL, 1 p., August 10, 1931, by unknown
Physical Description

1 folder

Steen, Marguerite (pseud., Jane Nicholson), 1947. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., November 6, 1947, by ND
  2. TL, 1 p., October 3, 1947, by ND
  3. TLS, 1 p., May 5, 1947, to "Robbie" by unknown, regarding Steen
  4. TLS, 4 pp., August 12, 1947, to ND
  5. ALS, 6 pp., October 13, 1947, to ND, including transcript
Physical Description

1 folder

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur (1879-1962), 1919 December 18. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Stokowski, Leopold (1882-1977), 1931 July 16. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mrs. FND, thanking her for a book she sent
Physical Description

1 folder

Stone, Fred (1873-1959), 1925. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 3 pp., February 24, 1925, to ND
  2. TL, 1 p., May 5, 1925, by unknown author
  3. ALS, 4 pp., April 30, 1925, to ND
  4. TL, 2 pp., April 24, 1925, by ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Stratton-Porter, Gene (1863-1924), 1919-1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to FND, delivered through Nelson Doubleday
  2. 30 letters and documents exchanged between ND and Stratton-Porter
Physical Description

1 folder

Street, Julian (1879-1947), 1934 January 31. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 pp., to Mrs. Doubleday, expressing condolences
Physical Description

1 folder

Sutliff, Milo, 1938-1942. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS (initialed), 1 p., March 4, 1938, memorandum to ND
  2. ALS, 2 pp., 1940, to ND
  3. TLS, 2 pp., March 6, 1940, by unknown
  4. TL, 1 p., February 10, 1942, to Fred A. Kimmach
  5. TL, 1 p., February 10, 1942, to Lt. J. C. Kelly
  6. ALS, 3 pp., February 14, 1942, to ND
Physical Description

1 folder

Swinnerton, Frank, 1932-1947. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., October 19, 1932, to ND
  2. ALS, 1 p., November 12, 1932, to ND, with typed transcript of the letter
  3. TL, 1 p., January 29, 1946, by ND
  4. TLS, 2 pp., November 10, 1946, to ND
  5. TLS, 1 p., November 9, 1946, to Mrs. Lillian Robins
  6. TL, 1 p., November 4, 1946, by unknown [ND?]
  7. TL, 1 p., August 14, 1947, by unknown
Physical Description

1 folder

Swinton, Ernest Dunlop (1868-1951), 1919-1942. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., June 13, 1919, to FND
  2. ALS, 2 pp., October 13, 1921, to [Mrs.] Doubleday
  3. ALS, 2 pp., July 30, 1920, to FND
  4. ALS, 2 pp., June 15, 1932, to Mrs. Doubleday
  5. ALS, 2 pp., January 31, 1934, to Mrs. Doubleday, with condolences
  6. ALS, 2 pp., January 5, 1942, to "Mrs. 'Effendi'"
Physical Description

1 folder

T (General), 1928-1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., November 1, 1928, to Mrs. Talbott, Jr., by secretary to ND
  2. TL, 1 p., January 9, 1929, to Mrs. Talbott, Jr., by secretary to ND
  3. TL, 1 p., July 19, 1933, to Calhoun Thomas, by unknown
  4. TLS, 1 p., July 14, 1933, to Wilson Doubleday, by Calhoun Thomas
  5. TN, 1 p., August 10, 1931, to Mr. Thornton, by ND
  6. TLS, 2 pp., September 15, 1932, to Dr. Frederick Tilney, by unknown author
  7. TL, 1 p., November 1, 1930, to Harry Townsend, by unknown author
  8. TLS, 1 p., September 26, 1930, to ND, by Harry Townsend
  9. TL, 1 p., January 25, 1932, to Mr. Townsend, by unknown author
  10. TLS, 2 pp., February 20, 1934, to ND, by Turner
Physical Description

1 folder

Tarkington, Booth (1869-1946), 1918-1946. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., January 11, 1933, to FND, regarding a scene from "the 'old days'"
  2. 15 letters primarily between Booth Tarkington and Nelson Doubleday, including about the death of ND's mother, Neltje DeGraff Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Thompson, Sylvia (1902-1968), 1928 August 25. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 3 pp., to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Thomson, Basil (1861-1939), 1923 January 17. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., to FND, regarding upcoming visits
Physical Description

1 folder

Thurston, Templeton, 1932 August 29. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Tilden, Freeman, 1928 May 15. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Mr. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Tilney, Frederick, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 2 pp., January 28, 1928, to "Doctor," by [FND?]
  2. TLS, 2 pp., March 5, 1928, to FND
  3. TL, 2 pp., March 14, 1928, by FND
  4. TL, 1 p., March 21, 1928, by [FND?]
  5. TLS, 4 pp., February 16, 1928, to FND
  6. TL (carbon), 1 p., July 11, 1933, by FND
  7. TL (carbon), 2 pp., July 18, 1933, by FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Titus, [Melne], 1930 August 18. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major) (1873-1958), 1928 October 6. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Townshend, Charles V. F, 1920 June 7. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Tunstall, Poppie, 1930 November 23. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 2 pp., to ND, thanking him for his letter, and in anticipation of ND's next visit to England
Physical Description

1 folder

Turpin, Edna Henry Lee (1867-1952), 1921 June 16. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

U (General), 1927-1946. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., June 13, 1946, to ND, by H. S. Marlor
  2. TL, 1 p., December 7, 1927, to E. R. Hurt, by ND
  3. TLS, 2 pp., to ND, by [Hind?], president of the Universal Press
Physical Description

1 folder

V (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Van Paassen, Pierre (b. 1895), 1945-1947. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 17 TLs, primarily between Van Paassen and ND
Physical Description

1 folder

W (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Wallely, A. B, 1921 November 3. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., to [?] Pawling
Physical Description

1 folder

Walpole, Hugh (1884-1941), 1920-1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., October 8, 1920, to Mrs. Doubleday
  2. ALS, 2 pp., November 26, 1921, to Mr. and Mrs. Doubleday
  3. 30 ALsS, 15 TLs, primarily between ND and Walpole
Physical Description

1 folder

Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915), 1914-1945. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., December 29, 1914, to Doubleday, Page & Co., thanking them for three books: The Pastor's Wife, Penrod, and Bambi
  2. ALS, 2 pp., February 3, 1914, to Mrs. Lillian Robins, regarding plans in case of his death
Physical Description

1 folder

Watt, A. P, 1942 January 5. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Mrs. Doubleday. Thanks for a copy of "Trafalgar Day 1940."
Physical Description

1 folder

Watt, A. P. & A. S, 1931-1946. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 22 TLs, primarily between the Watts and ND, including list of "Popular Price Book and April 1931 Combinations" and a list of costs related to binding a book
Physical Description

1 folder

Watt, Alex S, 1928 March 17. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., to Watt, by [FND?]
Physical Description

1 folder

Weaver, Donald, 1922 November 22. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL (copy), 1 p., to Messrs Curtis Brown Ltd.
Physical Description

1 folder

Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith (1881-1927), undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 pp., March 1, to [Mr.] Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Weeks, Edward (b. 1898), 1935. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 57 TLs, 2 ALsS, primarily between Weeks and ND, regarding his article in the Atlantic Monthly, May 1935
Physical Description

1 folder

Wellesley, Gerald, 1928-1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., May 23, 1928, to Mrs. Doubleday
  2. ALS, 2 pp., February 5, 1934, to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Wellington [?], 1927-1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., July 26, 1927, to Mrs. Doubleday
  2. ALS, 2 pp., June 1, 1928, to Mrs. Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

Wells, Gabriel (1862-1946), 1934 February 1. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., to ND, with condolences for the death of his father
Physical Description

1 folder

Wells, H. G, 1929-1938. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 25 ALsS, 8 TLs, primarily between Wells and ND. Includes cablegrams and discussions of royalties.
Physical Description

1 folder

Wescott, Glenway (1901-?), 1946-1947. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., December 4, 1946, to ND
  2. TL, 1 p., December 9, 1946, by ND
  3. TLS, 2 pp., April 22, 1947, to ND
  4. TL, 1 p., May 1, 1947, by ND
  5. TD, 1 p., n.d., list of expenses, organized by publisher (includes holograph continuation of list on separate leaf)
Physical Description

1 folder

Wilis, Irving B, 1892. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., August 21, 1892, to Scribner's Sons Gentlemen
  2. ALS, 2 pp., August 26, 1892, to FND
  3. ALS, 1 p., September 2, 1892, to FND
  4. ALS, 2 pp., October 30, 1892, to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Willert, Florence, 1933. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL (carbon), 1 p., July 20, 1933, by FND
  2. ALS, 4 pp. February 20 [n.y.], to [Mr.] Doubleday
Physical Description

1 folder

William, Alice, circa 1920-1923. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 4 pp., March 25, [1920?], to Florence Doubleday
  2. TLS, 1 p., April 16, 1922, to Florence Doubleday
  3. ALS, 2 pp., [1922], to FND
  4. TLS, 3 pp., June 3, 1923, to Florence Doubleday
  5. ALS, 4 pp., 4 pp., March 4 [n.y.], to Mr. and Mrs. FND
  6. ALS, 2 pp., July 5 [n.y.], to Florence Doubleday
  7. ALS, 2 pp., September 5 [n.y.], to Florence Doubleday
Physical Description

2 folders

Wilson, Harry Leon (1867-1939), 1921 August 28. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to Doubleday, announcing that he will have a book ready for publication in Spring 1922, but "it will hardly be distinguished"
Physical Description

1 folder

Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924), 1919-1923. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., August 29, 1919, to FND, thanking him for his letter of support
  2. TLS, 1 p., February 17, 1923, to FND, thanking him for his letter and two novels
Physical Description

1 folder

Wing, Willis Kingsley, 1928 March 14. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Winterbottom Book Cloth Company, 1934-1947. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 31 TLs, 1 ALS, and printed report (4 pp.) of the Directors to be submitted to the Shareholders at the Ordinary General Meeting
Physical Description

1 folder

Wister, Owen (1860-1938), 1907 April 19. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., to "Sir" (unknown recipient), by Wister, sending regret that he will be unable to accept his invitation to the Periodical Publishers Association
Physical Description

1 folder

Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) (1881-1975), 1930-1931. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., November 25, 1930, to Mr. Doubleday
  2. ALS, 2 pp., December 19, 1930, to Mr. Doubleday
  3. TL, 1 p., March 11, 1931, to Wodehouse, by unknown (mentioning Mr. Doubleday, perhaps by a secretary)
  4. newspaper clipping, 1 p., n.d. [1945?], regarding the Wodehouses' experiences during WWII, titled "No Place Now for Jeeves in England"
Physical Description

1 folder

Woodman, G. V, 1933-1937. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 69 TLs and 2 ALsS, primarily between ND, Doubleday, Doran & Co., and Woodman
Physical Description

1 folder

Woodward, J. D, 1892. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., August 23, 1892, to Charles Scribner's Sons
  2. ALS, 1 p., September 3, 1892, to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Woollcott, Alexander (1887-1943), 1929-1931. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., November 20, 1929, to ND
  2. TLS, 2 pp., October 9, 1931, to ND
  3. TMs, 2 pp., from The New York Times (according to heading), titled, "Did 'The Tempest' come from a Sailor's Yarn? Kipling eavesdrops while Shakespeare plies Stephan with Liquor to get his Story"
Physical Description

1 folder

Worden, Eugene Charles, 1919 June 18. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 1 p., to Mr. Doubleday, thanking him for his hospitality
Physical Description

1 folder

Wyburg, 1928 January 31. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., by [FND?]
Physical Description

1 folder

Y-Z (General), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Ziegler, E. H, 1933 January 30. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TL, 1 p., to Mr. E. H. Ziegler, by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
Physical Description

1 folder

Unidentified, 1910-1912. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. TLS, 1 p., August 11, 1910, to Doubleday, Page & Co., by unknown
  2. ALS, 1 p., October 13, 1912, to unknown and FND, by Ellen [Cusquid?]
  3. ALS, 1 p., to FND, by unknown
  4. ALS, 2 pp., to FND, by F. H. S, with attached drawn portrait, with note ("How is this NOW?") and FND's answer ("Yes!")
Physical Description

1 folder

Unidentified or Unclassified, 1918-1927. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. ALS, 2 pp., August 20, 1918, to Mr. Page
  2. TLS, 2 pp., January 7, 1919, to Mrs. Doubleday from the English-Speaking Union, confirming her membership and including the receipt for her payment
  3. TLS, 2 pp., March 3, 1919, to FND
  4. TLS, 4 pp., March 4, 1920, to Florence, by "Frank"
  5. ALS, 4 pp., April 10, 1927, to "Frank"
  6. ALS, 3 pp., to "Beloved Friends" by "Jimes"
  7. printed invitation for Mr. and Mrs. Frank Doubleday to meet Her Majesty The Queen of the Belgians
Physical Description

1 folder

Unidentified, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 17 TLs, 9 ALsS
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters of Sympathy, 1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. letters of sympathy received at the time of FND's death from business associates
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Christmas Greetings, 1912. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. leather binder of pages, embossed with "Greetings to Frank Nelson Doubleday from his neighbors, Christmas 1912," with a preface from "The Editor" describing the endeavor, and containing pages of holograph Christmas greetings to FND
Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

This series is the "heart" of the collection, for it contains material that illustrates the friendships that developed between FND (and to a lesser extent ND) and some of Doubleday's most important authors and artists, such as Joseph Conrad, A. B. Frost, Rudyard Kipling, and W. Somerset Maugham. Several of the volumes were bound as personal gifts for the publishers. Included in them are letters, manuscripts, and drawings.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by author name, and then by volume title. The Miscellaneous volumes at the end are in chronological order.

Physical Description

8 boxes

Scope and Contents

Consists of works by Joseph Conrad, including CONRADIANA, "A Personal Record," and "Within the Tides."

Arrangement

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

Physical Description

1 box

Scope and Contents

Bound leather volume containing letters and manuscripts of Joseph Conrad, with embossed signature of Conrad on front cover, in French binding. The leaves have been numbered in pencil.

Physical Description

1 box

Letter, 1914 January 29. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Orlestone, 2 pp., saying "Chance" is a success

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1915 September 17. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Orlestone, 2 pp., regarding "Rescue," his son, the war

Physical Description

1 item

Letter, 1916 July 30. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Orlestone, 4 pp., regarding the collected edition of his works

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1917 January 22. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Orlestone, 2 pp., regarding his son's war service

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1918 December 21. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Orlestone, 6 pp., regarding "Arrow of Gold," Rescue," "Nigger," Collected Edition

Physical Description

1 folder

List of eighteen titles, 1918. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

list of eighteen titles of Conrad's works, with approximate number of words in each work

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1918 December 21. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

typewritten copy of letter from Conrad to FND (last page in holograph), Orlestone, 6 pp., regarding "Arrow of Gold," Rescue," "Nigger," Collected Edition

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1918 December 31. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Orlestone, 2 pp., regarding "Rescue"

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1919 February 24. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Orlestone, 2 pp., regarding "Rescue," prefaces for Collected Edition, "Napoleonic Novel"

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1919 April 1. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

FND to Conrad, carbon copy, 2 pp., regarding "Rescue," "Arrow of Gold," Limited Edition

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1919 August 30. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Spring Grove, 3 pp., regarding "Rescue," "Arrow of Gold," Limited Edition proofs

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1919 September 13. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Spring Grove, 4 pp., regarding "Rescue," Limited Edition prefaces

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1919 April 17. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Spring Grove, 2 pp., regarding "Rescue," "Arrow of Gold," Limited Edition proofs

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1920 July 5. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Oswalds, 1 p., regarding "One Day More," "Secret Agent," Notes on Life and Letters," "Rescue," "Napoleonic Novel."

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1922 February 19. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Oswalds, 2 pp., regarding the death of J. B. Pinker, his agent

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1920 December 29. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Oswalds, 2 pp., thanking his publisher for a bound copy of Kipling and other books

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1922 August 3. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Oswalds, 4 pp., announcing that a novel is finished, and regarding "Mediterranean Novel"

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1922 March 31. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Oswalds, 1 p., announcing that Eric Pinker is his new agent

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1922 June 28. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Oswalds, 4 pp., saying he has finished "Rover"

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1922 October 1. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Oswalds, 3 pp., regarding meeting with FND

Physical Description

1 folder

"A Personal Record", 1919 September. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TMs, 10 pp., "Author's Prefatory Note" to "A Personal Record" in Edition de Luxe, with holograph corrections by Conrad

Physical Description

1 folder

"Victory", 1915. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

one page of galley proof from "Victory," with holograph corrections by Conrad

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1922 October 24. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Oswalds, 2 pp., regarding French translations, "Nostromo," "Rover," big novel, play

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1922 December 8. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Oswalds, 3 pp., regarding "Rover," "Suspense," Nobel Prize, lecture tour in U.S.A., Galworthy

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1922 December 15. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Oswalds, 1 p., saying he has finished 45,000 words of novel

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1923 February 5. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Oswalds, 1 p., regarding the Serial publication of "Rover," with copy of letter to Mr. Vance re: same

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1923 February 8. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Oswalds, 1 p., regarding "Rover" serial in Pictorial Review

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1923 March 13. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Conrad to FND, Oswalds, 2 pp., regarding new novel, "Rover," "Suspense," and a visit to FND

Physical Description

1 folder

"A Personal Record", 1919 September. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TMsS, 10 pp., "Author's Prefatory Note" to "A Personal Record" in Edition de Luxe. This is the original typed and holograph manuscript, dated September 1919, Spring Grove, given to Nelson Doubleday, in four-leaf folio with Nelson Doubleday's bookplate.

Physical Description

1 folder

"Victory", 1915. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

galley proof of "Victory" by Conrad with holograph corrections throughout, bound, with portrait of Conrad, in lue levant morocco (gilt lettered on front cover), by French binders

Physical Description

1 folder

"Within the Tides", 1920 May. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TMsS, 6 pp., typescript, first draft of Author's Note to "Within the Tides," with numerous holograph corrections and additions, dated Oswalds, May, 1920, in four-leaf folio

Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

Consists of drawings by A. B. Frost, A. B. Frost, Jr., and John Frost.

Arrangement

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

Physical Description

1 box

Drawings by A. B. Frost, undated. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

two bound volumes of The Moth Book by W. J. Holland, with some pages of the actual book (text and illustrations), and many blank pages with drawings by A. B. Frost

Physical Description

2 folders

Drawings by A. B. Frost, A. B. Frost, Jr., and John Frost, 1900-1903. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Bound volume, titled on spine, "Speeches and Addresses by William McKinley, March 4, 1897 to January 1, 1900," containing drawings by A. B. Frost, A. B. Frost, Jr., and John Frost on pages (all of which are blank). An inscription [by FND?] reads: "The drawings in this book are made by A. B. Frost, A. B. Frost, Jr., and John Frost and were drawn between 1900 and 1903."

Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

The Kipling pieces are numbered consecutively throughout the volumes.

Arrangement

Arranged by volume.

Physical Description

3 boxes

Scope and Contents

Drawings, manuscripts and proofs of Kipling's work and a letter by Kipling to a newspaper editor. Includes an holographed copy of "If" by Kipling, multiple self-portraits, and a preface and introduction to the Outward Bound Edition of his work.

Physical Description

1 box

Design, 1897 March 25. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Design for a publisher's monogram. Pencil note added by FND: "Design drawn for D & McCles by Rudyard Kipling at St. Marychurch. March 25, 1897."

Physical Description

1 folder

Introduction to Outward Bound Edition, 1896 October 30. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

AMs, 2 pp., "To the Nakhoda or Skipper of this Venture." Enclosed with letter of 30 October.

Physical Description

1 folder

Fair copy of major portion of his Introduction, "To the Nahkoda...", undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

AMs, 1 p., fair copy of major portion of his Introduction, "To the Nahkoda...," prepared for the facsimile added as a special feature for collectors to the Japan paper copies. Sent with letter of 23 November.

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1 folder

Kipling, Rudyard, undated. 1 folder.
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AMs, 4 pp., lists of stories grouped for first volumes of Outward Bound Edition. Presumably the "indices" enclosed with letter of 7 October.

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1 folder

Kipling, Rudyard, undated. 1 folder.
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AMsS, 1 p., of the Preface to Vol. I of the Outward Bound Edition.

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1 folder

Unknown Newspaper Editor, 1899 April 2. 1 folder.
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Easter Day. Kipling to newspaper editor. Hotel Grenoble, New York. Asks help of newspaper in publicly expressing his thanks for sympathy shown him during his illness.

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1 folder

Drawing by R. Kipling, 1899 April. 1 folder.
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Drawing by Kipling. [Lakewood, N.J., April 1899]. Drawing of himself being pursued by his nurse, who wants him to take his medicine. "Miss R[yerson] in her new army hat (same which she wore at Camp Wikoff) looking for me."

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1 folder

Drawing by R. Kipling of himself, 1899 April. 1 folder.
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Drawing of himself, prostrate and being eaten up by pirates. (Dated by FND, April 1899).

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1 folder

Four Drawings by J. L. Kipling, undated. 1 folder.
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Four drawings of R. Kipling during convalescence at Lakewood, N. J. "A day of crime. April 24." Show RK rowing, fishing, cycling, and playing polo.

[Reproduced in P. U. L. Chronicle, Spring '61]

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1 folder

"If", 1913 April. 1 folder.
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Holograph copy of "If" by Kipling. Inscribed, "To Frank from Rud. April, 1913."

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1 folder

Two Drawings by J. L. Kipling, 1899 April. 1 folder.
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Two drawings: one of himself; the other showing himself and FND in difficulties because of a mix up in clothes. [Pencilled note by FND: "Letter April 1899 from J. L. Kipling."]

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1 folder

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Two manuscripts by Kipling and a letter to FND. Manuscripts of "The Years Between" and "An Error in the Fourth Dimension" include original notes and revisions.

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1 box

Kipling, Rudyard, 1919 March 18. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Brown's Hotel. London. Sends notes dealing with verses in "The Years Between." "Maybe one or two things useful when making up ads or choosing quotations." FND must have had an uncomfortable crossing.

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1 folder

"The Years Between (Notes)", 1919. 1 folder.
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TMs, 9 pp., by Kipling. Nine typewritten pages, with some ms. Corrections. Commentary on poems, circumstances of writing, etc., with emphasis on prophetic character. Pencilled note added by Caroline Kipling on first page: numbers of pages may not correspond with those in American edition. [The "Notes" printed in The Country Life Press, Garden City, N. Y., published for friends of Doubleday, Page & Co., 1919.]

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1 folder

"An Error in the Fourth Dimension", undated. 1 folder.
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Revised version of the story by Kipling, for inclusion in The Day's Work. Incomplete. Printed text clipped from The Cosmopolitan (December 1894), pasted on ruled yellow sheets, with RK's corrections. Sheets numbered in pencil 5-12.

[Note: missing portions have been located as follows: sheets 3-4 inserted in presentation copy of The Day's Work inscribed by FND to Percy Mallett (Princeton Library); sheets 1-2 inserted in presentation copy of The Day's Work inscribed by FND to Bliss Perry (Harvard Library). [Sheet 12 was reproduced in P. U. L. Chronicle, Spring '61.]

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1 folder

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Bound volume including proofs relating to the Outward Bound Edition of Kipling's work, as well as correspondence between Rudyard Kipling, John Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard Kipling's father), Caroline Kipling (RK's wife), and FND.

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Proof of Scribner's Prospectus for Outward Bound Edition of Kipling's work, undated. 1 folder.
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Proof, 3 pp., with Kipling's corrections; suggestion for ornament on title-page, etc. Returned with letter of 1 November.

[1 page reproduced in P. U. L. Chronicle, Spring 1961]

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1 folder

Proof of "Publisher's Note" to Outward Bound Edition (Vol. I), undated. 1 folder.
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Proof, 1 p., presumably returned with letter of 1 November. No author's corrections.

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1 folder

Proof of publisher's announcement for Japan paper copies, undated. 1 folder.
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Proof, 4 pp., with Kipling's corrections. Returned with letter of 1 November.

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1 folder

Proof of "Preface" to Outward Bound Edition, undated. 1 folder.
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Proof, 1 p., with Kipling's corrections. Returned with letter of 1 November.

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1 folder

Proofs of Intoduction to the Outward Bound Edition ("To the Nakhoda...."), undated. 1 folder.
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Proof, 5 pp., with Kipling's corrections. Sent with letter of 23 November. [1 page reproduced in the Princeton University Library Chronicle, Spring 1961].

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1 folder

Printed Prospectus, 1895. 1 folder.
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Printed Prospectus, or announcement, for Thistle Edition of Stevenson's works, Scribner's, 1895, 4 pp. Sent to Kipling by FND as sample of how the Outward Bound announcement would look when printed. Kipling's comment added in margin: "too heavy". Presumably returned to FND with letter of 1 November.

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1 folder

Letter, 1895 November 25. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Naulakha, Waite, Windham County, Vermont. Would be glad to see Doubleday, if he comes up to Naulakha. Endorsed in pencil by FND: "RK's first letter to FND when with C. S. S. [Charles Scribner's Sons] in answer for a request for an interview."

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1 folder

Letter, 1895 December 14. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Doubleday. Naulakha. Thanks for the superb Stevenson [Thistle Edition] ... "model of how a collected edition should be turned out."

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 January 26. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Thanks for two more vols. of Stevenson. "As regards my 'Works' &c. I have discussed the matter thoroughly with Watt. . . . He seems to think well of the plan: and it seems to me you would do well to open negotiations with him. . . ."

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 July 19. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Naulakha, Waite, Vt. No word from Watt. Acknowledges copy of Doubleday's letter of 14 July to Watt. I do hope you'll someday be able to turn out a sumptuous 'Kipling.'"

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 August 19added in pencil, 1896 August 19. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Naulakha, Waite, Vt. Is busy getting out a book of verses and finishing a story in prose. "...if you tell me when you intend getting out the 'luxurious Kipling' I'll get to work." Is leaving for England on the Lahn, in September. Would like reading matter for the voyage.

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 August 28. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Naulakha, Waite, Vt. Says to print collected edition; calls it "worst thing I've done;" list of titles of books for inclusion in collected edition. When he reaches England will ask his father to design some little conventional totem.

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 September 8. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Dampfer "Lahn," Norddeutscher Lloyd. Sends new list of titles and suggests combining them to avoid having thirteen volumes in collected edition. Will devote attntion to introductory verses and to "trade mark."

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 October 6, added in pencil, 1896 October 6. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Rock House, Maidencombe, St. Marychurch. Entirely new arrangment of contents of collected edition, especially "Plain Tales" and "Soldiers Three." "I shall be sending a short preface explaining how I am grouping the tales."

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 October 7. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Rock House, Maidencombe, St. Marychurch. "The work of putting the stories into groups has not been easy: but you will see from the enclosed indices that I have managed it...." Is going to Torquay to get photographs taken of himself and of elephant head medallion.

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 October 26. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Sends photograph of himself, and of plaques for illustrations. Suggests separate arrangement with his father [John Lockwood Kipling] for subsequent illustrations. Name for the edition, "Outward Bound" will be clarified by introduction. ". . . the introduction I am writing is in the form of a letter of instructions from a Bombay native ship-owner to his Captain or Nakodah who for the first time is taking a trading buggalow or dhow to America . . ."

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 October 30. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Rock House. Sends manuscript of introduction. Requests proof as soon as possible, as may want to make a few alterations.

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 November 1. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Rock House. Acknowledges FND's letter of 22 October and its enclosures. Comments on the circular (prospectus), should make more of his father's illustrations, suggests typographical ornaments. Has corrected proof of the Preface. FND can have "Captains Courageous," when published, for the outward Bound Edition, but make arrangements with Watt. Will get out a new volume of tales next year. "The mischief of completely publishing an author who is not completely dead is that the edition must necessarily be incomplete as long as the said author still owns an inkpot." Notion of a set of verses as Introduction to Outward Bound edition has been put aside for the letter of instructions to the native captain, copy for which went by last mail. "It's a heap too grubby to be facsimiled. . . ." Is sending mounted copy of photo, signed; has tried to keep this from leaking out. Concluding comment on "that Meriden-plated Ass Bryan."

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1 folder

Letter, circa 1896 November 23. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. The Gables, Tisbury, Salisbury, Wilts. Is staying with Father. Acknowledges Doubleday's letter. Returns corrected proof of the introduction. "I note your intention to facsimile the introduction and am sending the same written more or less neatly on another slip of paper. Take as much or as little of it as you want. It looks rather neat. . . . Please copyright in my name." Suggests prices for his father's illustrations.

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 November 24. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Acknowledges Doubleday's letter of the 13th. Has just come from his father's. Speaks volumes. About printing of elephant totem on title-page. Much interested in the "special edition of two copies," facetious suggestions for binding it, etc.

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 December 10. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. More about J. L. K.'s illustrations; changes from splitting "Soldiers Three" into two volumes.

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 January 10. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Rock House. Thanks for the butterflies: a swallow-tail from Vermont and another from India. Has received dummy of Volume I: "Leaves no ambition unrealized." Has signed photograph [for Japan paper copies]. Is going up to see father tomorrow. ". . . after all the real fun of a job is the doing of it -- the working and handling of the thing."

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 January 21. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Rock House. [date supplied in pencil]. Has been with father. Has re-arranged order of Jungle tales, necessitating some changes. Has received the "half-baked copy" of Plain Tales; comments on appearance.

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 January 25. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Acknowledges Doubleday's of the the 12th, with proofs, which he is returning. Will sign artist's proofs of "my adonis-like head as soon as they come in."

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 October 5. 1 folder.
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Caroline Kipling to FND. The Elms, Rottingdean, near Brighton. Mr. Kipling doesn't want to have another photograph taken. The "Outward Bound" was the only one done in years. Can send the good old stock one of Elliot & Frey, but far away the best is the Collier portrait. "Did you see Mr. Kipling's 'Truce of the Bear' and did you understand his point? . . . Kindest regards to Mrs. D. and yourself and every good wish for the success of 'The Day's Work'."

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 October 22. 1 folder.
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Caroline Kipling to FND. Rock House. Mr. Kipling will send the photographs, will sign the Japan paper copies.

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 October 30. 1 folder.
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J. L. Kipling to FND. Tisbury, Wiltshire. Sends "a photo of a clay sketch of the Elephant head" which his son wishes to have engraved on a small scale as a kind of totem on the title-page of all the volumes of the new edition. Comments on significance of the device.

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 December 22. 1 folder.
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J. L. Kipling to FND. Tisbury, Wiltshire. Acknowledges Doubleday's letter of the 11th with proofs of illustrations. Details about illustrations; sends more photographs of his clay sketches. "My son is anxious that the American edition of his work shall have a distinctive character of its own and I venture to think his wishes will be to some extent fulfilled."

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 January 7. 1 folder.
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J. L. Kipling to FND. Tisbury, Wilts. Sends photos for two more illustrations for "Soldiers Three."

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 January 14. 1 folder.
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J. L. Kipling to FND. Tisbury, Wilts. Has received Doubleday's letter of the 5th, with lists of stories and draft. Son has been with us two of three days, have just seen him off for Devonshire. Encloses Rudyard's list for Jungle stories, he will have some verbal alterations to make. Will have more reliefs finished soon.

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 January 22. 1 folder.
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J. L. Kipling to FND. Tisbury, Wilts. Sends final subject for "Soldiers Three." Regrets delays. Next will be Black and White series. Query about horizontal pictures, with sketch of ploughman as sample [cf. Vol. XVII, Outward Bound edition, facing p. 266, "What the People Said"]. [Reproduced in P. U. L. Chronicle, Spring 1961.]

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 January 26. 1 folder.
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J. L. Kipling to FND. Tisbury, Wilts. "I am obliged by a case - received yesterday - containing two proofs of Mulvaney dancing à la Krishna. The sculptor's saw goes - 'Clay, life; plaster, death; marble, resurrection.' Your delicate engraving process certainly seems to revive the best of my clay from the photographs I send with foreboding." Sends two subjects for "Black and White," with comments.

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1 folder

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Proofs and copies of Kipling's "The Maltese Cat," including revisions and notes.

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1 box

"The Maltese Cat", undated. 1 folder.
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Typewritten copy of "The Maltese Cat," with corrections by Kipling. 27 pages. On page 1, not by Kipling: "Print off this." On verso of p. 27, note to Doubleday: "Bantry Bay, with the Channel Fleet, 6 September 1898, This is corrected in a mud-floored cabin in Bantry Bay with six soldiers sorting the mails from the Fleet around me. . . ." Can't help errors and regrets delay.

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1 folder

"The Maltese Cat", undated. 1 folder.
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Galley-proofs, 6 sheets, with numerous revisions by RK. [Note: Most of these revisions are not incorporated into the story as printed in The Day's Work, New York, 1898, and London, 1898 -- or in later printings of it (Outward Bound Ed., vol. XIV; separate printing, 1936; Sussex Edition, vol. VI). The printed versions (with very slight variations between American and English editions) correspond to the corrected typescript in Doubleday Collection (above). Furthermore, the type of these galleys is not that of the book printings of The Day's Work. All of this suggests following hypothesis: that these galleys are a provisional setting in type of the story, sent by FND to Kipling so that he could make his revisions on them. Kipling did so, sent them back to FND, but they "went messing in the mail" (Kipling letter of 30 September 1898). FND therefore had a typewritten copy of story made, which overtook Kipling off Irish coast, where he hurriedly made corrections and sent it back. This corrected typescript was used as printer's copy for The Day's Work. The revised provisional galleys, after messing in the mail, eventually reached FND, but too late for use in the book. Thus, these galleys, now in Doubleday Collection appear to be an "unpublished revised version" of "The Maltese Cat."--H.C.R.]

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1 folder

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Revised versions of Kipling's "My Sunday at Home," The Brushwood Boy," and "Bread upon the Waters" for inclusion in The Day's Work. Also includes list of stories by Kipling, given to FND.

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1 box

"My Sunday at Home", undated. 1 folder.
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Revised version of the story by Kipling, for inclusion in The Day's Work. Pages 265-280 from The Idler (April 1895), with RK's corrections.

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1 folder

"The Brushwood Boy", undated. 1 folder.
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Revised version of the story by Kipling, for inclusion in The Day's Work. Pages 265-280 from Century Magazine (December 1895), with RK's corrections.

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1 folder

"'Bread upon the Waters'", undated. 1 folder.
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Revised version of the story by Kipling, for inclusion in The Day's Work. Pages 16-17 from The Graphic (Christmas number, 1895), with RK's corrections.

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1 folder

"The Ten Cent Sample Series", 1920. 1 folder.
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TMs, by Kipling. Typewritten list. Endorsed in pencil by FND: "A plan for a 10 ¢ book for Woolworth. Given to F. N. D. on visit to London in Sept-Oct 1920." List gives eight books of two stories each. The stories are paired under such titles as "Americans Abroad," "Work and Wages," etc. Three sketches for cover designs by RK

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1 folder

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Bound letters between FND and Kipling.

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1 box

Letter, circa 1897 February 25. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Rock House [undated, about February 25, 1897, added in pencil by FND]. Has been thinking hard over "your letter of th 28th." Thinks Doubleday is too previous in cutting Scribner . . . Further advice . . . His story "Bread upon the Waters" comes into a new book of yarns he is hoping to publish in a year of so, "but God and A. P. Watt alone know (and I think Watt knows rather more than God) who will have the publishing of that book." Thinks it is pledged in advance, as "Captains Courageous" is to Century . . . "Lie low for a while, you're young . . ." Outward Bound improves visibly at each volume; second is glorious; thanks for six copies of the first.

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 March 14. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Rock House [dated by R. K. 14 March 1895, but corrected in pencil by FND to 1897]. Has received FND's letter of the 5th with clipping announcing new firm of Doubleday and McClure. Recollections of McClure, his visit to Vermont, etc. Hopes FND will not cut the painter until the Edition de Luxe [i.e., Japan paper issue of Outward Bound] is through. First two vols. in their box on drawing-room table. "I feel as though I had just had a shave, and a shampoo at the Hoffman House; a Turkish bath; a new suit of dress clothes; a Sherry's dinner a green mint and a cigar." Yellow silk is a trifle too yellow. "I wish I'd had made that m.s. facsimile just the size of the page. Doubled insets are apt to tear." Is rearranging his verses along lines indicated.

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1 folder

Letter, undated. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. North End House, Rottingdean [undated, pencil note added by FND: rec'd Sept. 20, 1897]. Acknowledges first volume put out by Doubleday & McClure. A man in their office monkeyed with proofs of RK's story "Slaves of the Lamp" [a Stalky story, first published in McClure's Magazine, August 1897]; he should be crucified. Why didn't D. & McCl. get E. E. Hale's "Susan's Escort and Other Tales"; has just received a copy from the author..." P. S. Tell Mrs. Doubleday who will be interested, that our small son John, aged 3 weeks and a few days comes on apace."

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1 folder

Letter, 1898 June 12. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. The Elms, Rottingdean. Has just sent the proofs, "Much knocked about," of the Bridge Builders. Wants page proofs later. Saw "S. S." [McClure] the other day.

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1 folder

Letter, 1898 July 7. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. The Elms, Rottingdean. Thanks for cover and title-page of The Day's Work; comments on type, etc. Glad of delay in proofs. The schoolboy tales of Stalky, McTurk and Beetle have developed into a book, so he is taking "Slaves of the Lamp" out of The Day's Work and substituting for it "An Error in the Fourth Dimension" -- "an Anglo-American tale of some mirth," which appeared in the Cosmopolitan, Christmas 1894. Asks FND to dig this up from files and rush into proof, as he wants to correct it. Has seen S. S. McClure.

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1 folder

Letter, 1898 September 30. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. The Elms, Rottingdean. Has done more blaspheming over The Day's Work than is right or respectable, but it's all over now. "As you say the Maltese Cat must have gone messing in the mail. The typed copy overtook me on the coast of Ireland," with Channel Fleet, and he had to sit down and correct it instead of larking about with landing parties. Has written account of Fleet for newspapers. Today is advertised date for The Day's Work in England, hopes Macmillan has got it ready. Might as well have turned in all the proofs before he went to South Africa instead of waiting until May. Regrets trouble he has caused. Curious to notice how "Recessional" has been printed and re-printed.

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1 folder

Letter, 1899 April 24. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Lakewood [New Jersey]. Addressed to "Beloved Effendi," and signed "Rud." Has been three and a half days since FND left. Reports on his convalescence, with mention of his wife and of "the pater" [John Lockwood Kipling]. Postscript added by Mrs. Kipling, mention of Elsie.

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1 folder

Letter, 1899 May 19. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Morristown, New Jersey, Thursday [19 May 1899, added in pencil]. Has decided not to include "Edge of the East" letters, as they cover ground thoroughly dealt with in "From Sea to Sea." They are "rot." Distribute type and charge to charge to me. A rawish day and can't go fishing.

[Note: Princeton University Library has, in Gen. Mss. Misc., following letter: RK to Miss Margaret Ryerson. Cold Spring. 9 June 1899. Acknowledges her letter. "We are now at Cold Spring Harbor in the middle of what is the longest heat-wave that I remember but so far the kiddies are quite well. John's war-song is 'Swing Slow' which he sings waving his arms and stamping his feet to the time. I am very fairly well but now and again I get a small stitch in my side when the temperature changes too much. I haven't been writing of doing any sort of work at all and even now it seems a little strange to have my pen in hand." Met your Mrs. Lee's daughter at Morristown. Encloses the letter (official) which may be of use in your practice. We hope to sail S. S. Teutonic, 14th June.]

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1 folder

Letter, undated. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Hotel du Parc, Vernet-les-Bains, France. [pencilled note by FND: "This letter was written by RK in 1910 when certain plans of consolidation were discussed"]. Sends sketch of "Doubleday Enlightening the World," plan for a statue, with frieze of prostrate publishers on pedestal. Speaks of History of England that he's writing with C. R. L. Fletcher. New car. George V's coronation.

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1 folder

Letter, 1912 January 11. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Hotels Cattani, Engelberg, Switzerland. News of Engelburg and family. Speaks of "The Female of the Species" and E. Bok.

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1 folder

Letter, 1912 May 27. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. [Bateman's]. Speeches at Royal Geographical Dinner, and for literary society at John's college, Wellington. Other news of his son John. Comments on Doubleday's plans for new house. Mentions Taft -- "whose stomach be exalted." Has seen John Hays Hammond. The Titanic inquiry. Theodore Roosevelt.

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1 folder

Letter, 1912 November 5. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Pleased with "Just So Stories" and "Kim" in collected edition. Refers to "Songs from Books." Family news. "This business of looking after a family isn't all beer and skittles." "Carries is altering a cottage on one of the farms into a week-end residence." Mention of Woodrow Wilson ("harmless"), Balkan question.

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1 folder

Letter, 1912. 1 folder.
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TMs: Kipling to Doubleday, Page & Co. [1912, added in pencil]. Statement thanking Doubleday, Page & Co. for issuing authorized edition of nine of his books published before Copyright Act. [Presumably this was printed as a preface. Pencilled note in secretary's hand at top of sheet: "Please return to Mr. F. N. Doubleday."]

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1 folder

Letter, 1913 January 24. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Hotels Cattani, Engelberg, Switzerland. News of upcoming travels.

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1 folder

Letter, 1913 June 21. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Suggests ideas for Nelson in his publishing ventures -- book on technique of producing off-stage noises, etc. Children are fine. Cottage finished. New car. "Tell Nellie that the cypripediums are doing well, barring two or three that the rabbits are persecuting." More details about naturalizing American wildflowers.

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1 folder

Letter, 1913 August 4. 1 folder.
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TLS (part in holograph): Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Mention of Seven Seas Edition, Kipling Index, Kipling Dictionary, Bombay Edition, etc. Blow at the pirates. Has been working in brook with John hauling out stumps and logs. "Tell Nellie that the Cypripediums seem to have taken out their naturalization papers in England."

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1 folder

Letter, 1914 July 23. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Kessingland [Grange, Lowestoft]. Secretary has sent incomplete copy of "The Vampire"; now sends a perfect one.

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1 folder

Letter, 1914 September 11. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Concerning German atrocities in Belgium . . . Louvain . . . reports from friends in France . . . refugees arriving in England . . . "John goes off in a day or two to join his battalion at Warley in Essex and -- the rest is as God shall dispose . . ." "And so this Hell-dance goes on; and the U. S. makes no sign . . ." "Ponder these things in your heart. The end of the war is a long way off . . ."

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1 folder

Letter, 1914 September 15. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Encloses letter for U. S. consul in Berlin, Julius Lay, asking help in obtaining lists of prisoners in Germany. Asks FND to serve as intermediary. "Page is no good. He expects us to believe that he is unable to get through to Berlin." John has joined the Irish Guards as second lieutenant.

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Letter, 1914 October 5. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Some arrangements for exchange of lists of prisoners seem to have been made. "I hope you may never see the agony of a mother who does not know her son's fate." News of John in the Irish Guards. "The sooner your folk begin to whack up an army the healthier for you . . ." "It's very curious to see how slowly the English begin to that . . ."

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1 folder

Letter, 1919 June 5. 1 folder.
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TL with additions: Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Is plodding away on proof. It's understood that 25 poems from "Years Between" may be used: "It is, of course, understood that the notes on the poems are not to be pubished as my notes." Don't work the the prophetic idea too hard. Has been seeing U.S. students (ex-Army boys). Wilson has tied himself into double knots; "send a balltship and take him home, and let's get to business."

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Letter, 1919 August 27. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Has received "The Years Between" in Outward Bound ed. . . . "I don't think that the Outward Bound qua Edition will ever be beaten." Everything being done to poison Anglo-American relations. Praise of Walter Hines Page.

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1 folder

Letter, 1919 September 16. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Dalclathic [?] Lodge, Comrie [?], Perthshire. Thanks for Bok's autobiography [magazine version?]. "But Allah has deprived him of all sense of humour . . . The Dutch as neutrals . . . "I think you missed a chance in not taking it and running and running it serially -- under the title of 'Suffering America'." Is spending a holiday in "lone Glenartney's havel shade" . . . on terms of almost indecent familiarity with the stags.

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Letter, 1916 May 30. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Concerning American position in the war. Long and heartfelt letter elaborating, at FND's request, the theme that he has expressed more succinctly in the poem "The Neutral" [published at the time and later included in the volume The Years Between (1919) under the title "The Question"].

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Letter, undated. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. [No place, no date; added in pencil "1917?," but this appears to be incorrect. Internal evidence suggests 1899 or thereafter]. "Here's a cutting from the weekly which rather beats me . . . Surely there are enough papers in American that Putnam can get at without giving him a chance in the Weekly. . . . I wish to goodness you'd explain to Martin [?] what it is that I'm fighting for. . . ." [Perhaps a reference to the copyright lawsuits against G. P. Putnam's Sons.]

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Letter, undated. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's [no date; pencil note "1917" but from internal evidence should be autumn 1913]. Glad you and Watt have met on your ground. Long letter from Nelson. Autumn rush is on. Page and wife and daughter to dine. Sir E. Pynter is painting a portrait of me inside and Bateman's outside. Reference to Ouimet's golf victory [which was in 1913].

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1 folder

Letter, 1917 November 11. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Mentions "A Diversity of Creatures," of which he has received a copy. U. S. forces in the war. Has received Theodore Roosevelt's article, "Foes of One's Own Household."

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1 folder

Letter, 1918 June 16. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Comments on German propaganda, U. S. forces. Praise of U. S. fleet. Sympathy expressed to FND: "There is nothing left in sorrow but work; and the harder the better."

[Neltje De Graff Doubleday, FND's first wife, died on 21 February 1918. FND subsequently married, on 27 November 1918, Florence Van Wyck.]

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1 folder

Letter, 1918 August 21. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Comments on the Vatican: "the Holy Father is shifting uneasily on his fence; preparatory to descending into our embarrassed arms." Has seen U.S. troops at Winchester -- such a splendid revelation. Visits of American soldiers to Bateman's. Is working on proofs of new verses, as yet untitled. "Give my sincerest love to Theodore Roosevelt (I sent him a line when Quentin died) whom I respect more and more. . . ."

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1 folder

Letter, 1919 November 11. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Comments on story [one of his own?]. Call it propoganda if you will, it reflects common experience in England even though Americans don't understand. Speaks of death of his son John. Armistice Day. Political situation. Lloyd-George and Wilson ought to be sent to the Sahara.

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1 folder

Letter, 1920 February 16. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. About Doubleday's magazines. Country Life gets better and better -- "somehow Philadelphia (a most excellent city) is a bit of a backwater even if it did produce the L. H. J. and Bok!" Must be a delight to find your own boy wheeling in and lending a capable hand. There is nothing like that in the wide world. . . "but it will never come to me . . ." Will be seeing T. E. Lawrence, will keep him to the work if necessary. Carrie and Elsie both well.

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1 folder

Letter, 1920 April 13. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Has seen Doubleday [letter addressed to him in London]; is stirred with new ideas and notions. Has decided not to publish "Ed Baker," even to please FND, for it might be interpreted as interference. Not the same as "The White Man's Burden."

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1 folder

Letter, 1920 October 1. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex. Thanks for "a good 'heart-to-hearter'" regarding a selection of lines. Discussion of "'Ed Baker.'"

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1 folder

Letter, 1921 April 9. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Hotel Bellvue, Cannes. About trip to Algiers. We fell in love with the place, resolved to return again next year. Never really warm until we got to France, Bonar Law also at Cannes, and his daughter Isabel, childhood friend of Elsie's. Kipling is putting on weight, but must exercise patience for a month or so. Has had delightful letter from Nelson. Don't touch Claude Anet's "Ariane"; author tried to get help for a translation.

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1 folder

Letter, 1921 December 30. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Just back from Christams week with cousin Stan Baldwin in Worchestershire. Has decided to let chance go by for cheap edition of books. Has been to London office of the World's Work.

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1 folder

Letter, 1913 July 13. 1 folder.
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TLS, Kipling to FND. About Seven Seas Edition of his works. Will include first book publication of "Letters to the Family." About Kipling Index. Much interested in proposed Doubleday attack on general market, "which is going to swamp the pirates." Steady sales of translations, hasn't figures at hand, but the aggregate is hundreds and thousands every year.

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1 folder

Letter, 1914 August 31. 1 folder.
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TLS, Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Sending some notes for the November magazine. "As for the war, we have settled down to a three years' struggle ..."

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1 folder

Letter, 1914 October 12. 1 folder.
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TLS, Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Difficulties of getting lists of prisoners of war from the Germans.

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1 folder

Letter, 1919 April 22. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TLS, Kipling to FND. Bateman's. The U. S. should come into the game to stay. Comments on world affairs. Mrs. Gerould's article. [Katherine Fullertone Gerould, "The Remarkable Rightness of Rudyard Kipling," Atlantic Monthly, Jan. 1919, collected in her Modes and Morals, 1920.] "My stuff was right thirty years ago. What he wrote earlier still applies . . . examples . . . "the 'Walking Delegate' covers what is happening with your (and our) present Labour movement. . . ." "The great advantage of my not having ever been in 'movements' and having had my early education in the East, where the facts of life are a little more apparent than they are in the West, is that they enabled me to watch the movements without violent prepossessions." Does not want "Schoolboy Lyrics" and "Muse among the Motors" included in "Inclusive Verse"; they have both appeared in Outward Bound. Has reconsidered on "Great Heart," which may be used.

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1919 July 25. 1 folder.
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TLS, Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Concerning poems in "Inclusive Verse 1885-1919". Has decided to let 1885 stand in title, even though one poem from Departmental Ditties may have been earlier.

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1 folder

Letter, 1919 December 21. 1 folder.
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TLS, Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Sends copy of "Inclusive Verse," with his corrections -- remarkably few --, when needed for new edition.

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1 folder

Letter, 1921 February 17. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TLS, Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Here come the Kipling snippets in bulk, and a huge job it has been to collect them. Must rely on good judgement of editor for arrangement. Is off for Algiers.

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1 folder

Letter, 1921 November 1. 1 folder.
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Kipling to FND. Bateman's. [1921 added in pencil by FND]. Arranging a meeting with FND in London. Will bring along odds and ends of ideas for the World's Work.

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1 folder

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Letters primarily between Kipling and William Heinemann, a publisher.

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1 box

Letter, 1891 August 20. 1 folder.
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TLS: Kipling to Balestier (2 Dean's Yard, S. W.). London. Addressed to "My dear Balestier." Authorizes him "to deal with and for my share in 'The Naulahka: a Story of West and East' -- a tale written by you and myself in common, and jointly owned by owned by us -- absolutely as if it were your own. . . ."

Note: In the Princeton LIbrary, Gen. Mss. Misc., is a small group of papers concerning Wolcott Balestier's work in London as representative of John W. Lovell Co. (150 Worth Street, New York). Includes contract dated 5 October 1890 with Elkin Mathews for American edition of Richard Le Gallienne's "George Meredith, Some Characteristics," and correspondence, 1890-1891, concerning settlement of the account. Balestier's notes are written on his letter-head: 2 Dean's Yard, Westminister, S. W. In note written on his behalf by Arthur Waugh, 10 April 1891, the latter mentions that "Mr. Balestier is sailing for a very brief visit to America on Wednesday. . . ." In note dates 16 July 1891 Balestier himself excuses delay in sending draft on grounds that "Since my return from America, I have been almost continuously out of town."

Wolcott Balestier died in Dresden, 6 December 1891. His sister, Caroline Balestier, married Rudyard Kipling in London, 18 January 1892.

After Heinemann's death in 1920 FND acquired from Heineman's partner, Sidney S. Pawling, a controlling interest in the Heineman publishing firm; following Pawling's death Doubleday acquired the full interest.

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1892 March 11. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. New York, 11 East 32nd Street. "I send herewith all the Naulakha [sic] as it is ordained to be printed in books, including the 22 versified chapter headings, all home made which have cost me not a little thought. It's in full and ample time for printing by July 1st of for matter of that by May. . . ." As chapter headings indicate, has rough notion of some songs for a libretto. His father is hard at work on illustrations. The plan to leave Vancouver on the "Empress of India" on 6 April. --- (on smae sheet): Mrs. Caroline Balestier Kipling to Heinemann. Mentions Jeanette Gilder who would like to do business with Heinemann for American authors. Hopes to get Mary Hallock Foot interested in doing Western illustrations for "The Naulahka."

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1 folder

Letter, 1892 March 16. 1 folder.
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Caroline Kipling to Heineman. Brattleboro, Vermont. Asks him to bring from England to her mother "a package of ms. Which Stuart has found since we left" [i.e. Wolcott Balestier's ms.]. She has arranged with Lovell to publish "The Average Woman" (by Wolcott B.) in the U.S. Off next week for the West and Japan.

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1 folder

Letter, 1892 September 2. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Brattleboro, Vermont. "I'm settling down in a house and my soul is divided between painting floors and hunting for lost gimlets." Reviews of "The Naulahka." Their dramatic flight from Japan, sue to the smash of the bank. Comments on W. E. Henley. Carrie is organizing the house. Has two stunning Naulahka drawings from Mary Hallock Foot. -- Postscript from Carolina Kipling to Heinemann. "Rud is at work for 3 hours most days and the remainder of the day we spend outdoors." About their financial affairs, blames herself for her mother's losses in the "O.B.C. affair." Sale of English and American books in Japan.

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1 folder

Letter, 1892 November 1. 1 folder.
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Caroline Kipling to Heineman. Brattleboro, Vermont. Speaks confidentially of his new book: "a collection of twelve tales such as 'The Finest Story in the World,' 'The Disturber of Traffic,' 'The Children of the Zodiac,' and so forth ornamented and embellished with two new tales . . ." [ Many Inventions, 1893]. Mentions book by Le Caron published by Heinemann. Asks for report on receipts from The Naulahka. Looks forward to Heinemann's visit in the spring. "The snow is beginning to fall in Vermont. . . ."

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1 folder

Letter, 1892 November 19. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Brattleboro. Apologies for being a procrastinating correspondent. Discussion of Heinemann's allusions to those who "tended you in your illness."

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Letter, 1892 December 3. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Brattleboro, Vermont. In reply to cable from Heinemann asks him not to publish his comments on Le Caron.

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1 folder

Letter, 1892 December 10. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Brattleboro. Thanks him for forcast of the Naulahka and English Library. In regard to that opera . . . "it is a thing that cannot be commanded. It must come and I'm blowed if I see any signs of its arriving. Libretto work is the one thing that I should like to do: but so far I can make no decent headway with it and I cannot sit down and write just rhymes to music. . . ." What a splash Le Caron is making! Libel suit the best form of advertising.

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1892 December 16. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Brattleboro. Heinemann's difficulties with Ouida. "Carrie is not a little amused over the correspondence. She knowns the thing from the inside and heard Wolcott tell of his interviews with the bitch."

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1 folder

Letter, 1893 January 3. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Brattleboro. Thanks for check for his half share in "The Naulahka." What about accounts with the English Library, of Continental Library? "We are going to New York anon and shall probably see you there. At present we're thawing out three feet of snow and the country is like a gruelly pond of slush." Postscript from Caroline Kipling. Mama would prefer a draft on a New York bank rather than a check on an English bank. Hopes to see Heinemann in town. Will be staying at the Dunmore, 230 West 42nd Street.

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1893 March 12. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Kipling to Heinemann. Brattleboro. Thanks for the check (half share of Naulakha), regarding "furious" letters in The Athen[oeum].

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1 folder

Letter, 1893 April 21. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Brattleboro. Letter addressed to Heinemann at Calumet Club, 29th and 5th Avenue, New York. About continental rights for his new book "Many Inventions." Has received no accounting from Continental Library; when he has word about this will be able to instruct A. P. Watt. "I'm sorry to trouble you about business on a pleasure trip but we didn't get round to talking about it the other night."

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1 folder

Letter, 1893 May 2. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Brattleboro. Accepts £100 for continental reprinting of "Many Inventions." Will instruct Watt about contract. "You have been through the racket of Chicago. I should fancy that you are about dead by this time. Wasn't it awful?"

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1 folder

Letter, 1893 May 24. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Brattleboro. Many thanks for the draft for the Continental rights of Many Inventions.

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1 folder

Letter, 1893 May 25. 1 folder.
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Caroline Kipling to Heinemann. Brattleboro. Will send photograph of her husband. But only one she has of herself "was made by an amateur who 'took' me because I was holding our small maiden, and it was most dreadful." Hopes to see him when they come over in the autumn.

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1 folder

Letter, 1895 January 20. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Naulakha, Brattleboro, Vt. "Of course you'll come up, for New York in April is greasy damnation besides being cold. We'll drive you out of your mind round Brattlebro in deep mud and what Limericks I have manufactured I will disgorge. . . ." About an almanac H. is publishing. The "New Review" and W. E. Henley.

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1895 November 25. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Wm. Heinemann. Naulakha, Waite, Windham County, Vt. Has been Bostonizing for the past few days. "For the rest we go on in great peace up here: building walls and planting trees and have no thought of going away this winter at least. I may and probably shall come over in the autumn." About proposed Canadian copyright laws. "I am now writing verses and stories about machinery and easy things of that kind but I dream of doing novels with women in them some fine day."

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1896 January 25. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Thanks for Heinemann's "Fascinating notion." Has got to write the tale of Cinderella for his small daughter. Not keen on doing it in prose, might do it in verse.

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1 folder

Letter, 1896 November 5. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Rock House, Maidencombe, St. Marychurch. Praises Steele's book, "in my opinion the mutiny novel for which we have waited so long . . ." Declines to review it, for has already refused to review work of others. Suggets his father. Comments on innapropriate binding of the book.

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 February 17. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Rottingdean. Asks what Heinemann will give for verses to accompany Nicholson's "Almanack of Sports."

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 March 24. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Rock House, Maidencombe, St. Marychurch. Thanks for draft contract. Suggests royalty of sixpence on Colonial edition, which he gets for "Soldiers Three," "Light that Failed," "Poems," etc., "and I love uniformity."

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1897 April 21. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Pawling (partner of Heinemann). Rock House, Maidencombe, St. marychurch. Thanks for check and asks for explanation of debt to the firm at end of previous year.

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 April 29. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Rock House, Maidencombe, St. Marychurch. Glad to let Macmillam include "The Naulahka" in their edition de luxe.

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 August 7. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. The Elms, Rottingdean, near Brighton. Thanks for the "noble vellum." Asks about plan for "London Types" by Nicholson. Has thought of writing out "Recessional," but his father is better fitted for the task.

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1897 August 7. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Rottingdean. Concerning his picture by Nicholson. Has just seen Henley who is at Brighton for a while.

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1 folder

Letter, 1897 December 3. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. The Elms, Rottingdean. Mrs. Balestier's address is 202 West 79th Street "over against the river; out of town as one reckons it; almost at the end of the world. My own notions of the city uptown are limited to the 4th Ave. horse cars but I think the L. will serve your purpose better." Wishes H. a pleasant journey across the Atlantic. Asks for a Nicholson calendar, plain kind, for framing in his study.

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1 folder

Letter, 1898 June 1. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. The Elms, Rottingdean. About difficulty of writing on parchment. Young ambrose Poynter staying with him for Whitsuntide. Will tell his father of your find. "Corregios aren't so beastly plentiful that we can afford to let them drift across the Atlantic."

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter, 1898 August 9. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Kipling to Heinemann. The Elms, Rottingdean. More about London types.

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1 folder

Letter, 1898 August 12. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Kipling to Heinemann. The Elms, Rottingdean. More about London types. Bar-maid takes the cake, but it is more Henley's line than his own.

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1 folder

Letter, 1898 November 8. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. The Elms, Rottingdean. Get Nicholson to see it, it's his duty to draw ships. Make him try anyhow. [Reference to "A Fleet in Being"?]

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1 folder

Letter, 1899 August 3. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. The Elms, Rottingdean. Can't write verses for Nicholson's animal pictures. His animals practically extinct in Great Britain, their places being supplied by New Zealand lamb, Argentine beef, etc., "Why don't you call the book 'The Strange Beasts of Great Britain'?"

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1 folder

Letter, 1900 May 6. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. The Elms, Rottingdean. Declines invitation for dinner to honor D'Annunzio. Just returned from the south with horrible arrears of work to do, which will take him all summer to finish.

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1 folder

Letter, 1900 June 26. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. The Elms, Rottingdean. "I know Bell and I think rather well of his book. . . . but I'm afraid an introduction by my hand is out of the question." Has refused to write so many introductions, "my life would be embittered if I fell now. I begin to understand how women keep virtuous under difficult circumstances."

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1 folder

Letter, 1901 October 21. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. The Elms, Rottingdean. Thanks for "The Garden of Kama" [Laurence Hope]. "The are what you might call a shade luscious from the Western point of view but they are the real stuff, as far as I can judge."

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1 folder

Letter, 1904 May 31. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex. Thanks for "The web of Indian Life." Unluckily it's an India "from which my sex and gender shuts me off ..."

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1 folder

Letter, 1904 October 26. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Bateman's. Thanks for the Arabian Nights book. Once again, this is an India that is new to me.

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1 folder

Letter, circa 1908 November 9. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Bateman's. Facetious advice about getting a top hat, frock coat, etc. Don't get inoculated.

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1 folder

Letter, circa 1903-1904. 1 folder.
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Kipling to Heinemann. Bateman's. Thanks for [Jack London] "The Call of the Wild." Recalls having read it with much interest when it first came out serially.

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1 folder

Letter, 1906 October 10. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Kipling to Heinemann. Bateman's. Marked "private." About "Hooper's last annoying effusion in the Times." Has damned him more than anything one could have invented. Doesn't see his way to going into the fray yet.

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1 folder

Letter, 1907 July 3. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Kipling to Heinemann. Bateman's. Rackham's illustrations [for "Puck of Pook's Hill"] are beautiful. Reference to Moberley Bell and Hooper. [Four Rackham plates for "Puck" with letter.]

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1 folder

Letter, 1908 November 3. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Kipling to Heinemann. Bateman's. Advice to Heinemann about his fothcoming trip to India. "I don't know any one in India now: as I expect most of my friends are in local cemeteries but . . ."

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1 folder

Scrapbook, 1899. 1 folder.
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Leather-bound scrapbook concerning Kipling's illness in New York, 1899. "The Sick Man's Burden. Rudyard Kipling from Warren Leland, Jr., New York, May 10 1899." Compiled by the owner of the Hotel Grenoble and presented by him to Kipling. Includes 24 bulletins reporting Kipling's progress (23 February -- 20 March 1899), issued by Dr. E. G. Janeway and Dr. Theodore Dunham, posted in the Hotel Grenoble. Some handwritten, some typed. Also: clippings from New York Journal, 27 February 1899, "Kipling Sinking; Little Hope for Him," with drawing showing William Dean Howells and Joaquim Miller in lobby of hotel. Brochure of Hotel Grenoble and photograph of its owner, Warren Leland, Jr.

Note: Princeton University Library has copies of Vols. I-XI of the Outward Bound Edition of Kipling's Works, presented by him to Miss Margaret Ryerson. [Ex 3814.9.1898]. In Volume I the frontispiece portrait of Kipling is inscribed by RK: "Margaret Ryerson from Rudyard Kipling -- in memory of a few weeks of pneumonia. Mar. '99." Miss Ryerson was one of the murses who cared for Kipling; see mention of her, drawing, Lakewood, April 1899, and letter to her, 9 June 1899.

Physical Description

1 folder

"The Teuton Tonic", 1899. 1 folder.
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leather-bound manuscript of Kipling's "The Teuton Tonic," also titled "The Teutonic".

Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

Consists of The Razor's Edge and "The Traveler's Library."

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by title.

Physical Description

1 box

The Razor's Edge, undated. 1 folder.
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original manuscript of The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, bound in leather and in box, inscribed to "Nelson Doubleday, Christmas, 1944"

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1 folder

"Traveler's Library", undated. 1 folder.
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manuscript of the introduction and notes to "Traveler's Library" by W. Somerset Maugham

Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

Consists of "A Ride in the Forest."

Arrangement

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

Physical Description

1 box

"A Ride in the Forest", undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

original manuscript of Stevenson's South Sea tale

Physical Description

1 folder

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Consists of journals, scrapbooks, and stock notebooks.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Physical Description

2 boxes

Scrapbook, 1885-1889. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

scrapbook including clippings and literary news

Physical Description

1 folder

Stock notebook, 1889-1897. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

FND's stock notebook

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1 folder

Journal, 1897. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Titled "Printers and Binders, 1897, Braunworth Munn and Barber, Brooklyn, New York" on cover; titled "Daily Reminder 1897" on first page. Contains entries through day 69. Has "Frank Nelson Doubleday" in holograph on front cover and many entries in adult's hand; some entries in child's hand and initialed "D. D."

Physical Description

1 folder

Red Cross (Hong Kong) Scrapbook, 1918. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

scrapbook of printed cards and other souvenirs and materials collected in and related to FND's Red Cross trip to Hong Kong

Physical Description

1 folder

Oyster Bay House, Appraisal of Contents, 1922. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Appraisal made by The Universal Appraisal Co., Week Ending Sept. 30, 1922, of the articles contained in the Residence of F. N. Doubleday, Oyster Bay, L.I."

Physical Description

1 folder

Finances notebook, 1933-1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

financial notebook of FND

Physical Description

1 folder

Scrapbook, "Doubleday Workers Get 10% Raise", 1945. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

scrapbook containing press releases and newspaper clippings regarding the 10% raise given to Doubleday workers in 1945

Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

This series contains only unbound manuscripts and proofs, including works by Rudyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, FND, and ND.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by author and then by date.

Physical Description

4 boxes

Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919), 1903. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

corrected galley proofs of a speech delivered in 1903 on election to presidency of Iron and Steel Institute, 19 pages, with holograph corrections and additions by Carnegie

Physical Description

1 folder

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2 boxes

Red Crossing in the Orient, 1917. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TMs, 80 pp. and miscellaneous pp.

Physical Description

1 folder

Secret Memoirs of a Publisher, 1926. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

TMs, pp. 1-306. This was not printed or published in FND's lifetime, but three typewritten copies, bound in blue levant, were presented to his children, Nelson and Dorothy, and to his wife Florence. Nelson Doubleday, Jr., published the autobiography in 1972 under the title Memoirs of a Publisher.

Physical Description

2 folders

Secret Memoirs of a Publisher, 1926. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

TMs (carbon), pp. 1-306

Physical Description

2 folders

Secret Memoirs of a Publisher, 1926. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TMs, with holograph corrections: Chapters I-XIV

Physical Description

1 folder

He's Done It Again, 1933. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TMss, with holograph corrections. This was privately published as He's Done It Again: More Indiscreet Recollections in December 1933 in an edition of 99 copies. [see EX 3719.24.344]

Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Memoirs, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TMs, 5 pp.

Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

"Comments on Country Life Press Report", 1953. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TMs (carbon), 6 pp.

Physical Description

1 folder

"Business vs. City and Country", undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TMs (carbon), 4 pp., subtitled, "A series of articles describing the movement away from the city, not only for manufacturing purposes but for the departments of business executives as well"

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1 folder

Physical Description

2 boxes

"For One Night Only", undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TMs, 14 pp.

Physical Description

1 folder

"The Lamentable Comedy of Willow Wood", undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TMs, 21 pp.

Physical Description

1 folder

"The Legs of Sister Ursula", undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TMs, 12 pp.

Physical Description

1 folder

The Light That Failed, 1899 April. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

AMs, pp. 1-88, with typed lists of chapter headings, enclosed in leather case, with embossed inscription: "F. N. Doubleday from Rudyard Kipling April 1899"

Physical Description

1 folder

The Light That Failed: Chapter Headings, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

AMs, 4 pp., with Xerox copies of typed lists of the book's chapter headings and collation notes

Physical Description

1 folder

Notes by Lloyd H. Chandler on Editions of The Light That Failed, 1920s. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

TMs (Xerox), 5 pp., of Chandler's notes on The Light That Failed, sent to E. H. Martindell (Kipling bibliographer) some time in the 1920s, with note from H. C. Rice, dated 4 April 1966, describing the provenance of the notes

Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

The Mint: Notes Made in the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922, and at Cadet College in 1925, 1935. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

galleys, 1-58, marked up in red for the printer

Physical Description

1 folder

The Mint: Notes Made in the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922, and at Cadet College in 1925, 1935. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

page proofs, 1-199, with a second set of the front matter, marked up in red

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1 folder

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1 box

"The Breadwinner, A Comedy in One Act", undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

four sections, boxed:

  1. TMs, pp. 1-62, with holograph corrections
  2. AMs, pp. 1-5; TMs, pp. 3-56, with holograph corrections; AMs, 2 unnumbered pages
  3. TMs and AMs, approx. 40 pages, various numberings
  4. TMs, pp. 1-58, with holograph corrections
Physical Description

1 folder

Meredith, George (1828-1909), undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

4 lines in holograph by George Meredith, beginning "There was a delicate sound...," with penciled note by FND stating that the Ms was given to FND by George Meredith's son, W. M. Meredith, at his home at Fleet on October 9, 1921

Physical Description

1 folder

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) (1866-1946), 1931. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. 43 copies of a printed sheet, signed by Wells, announcing that "This edition of THE WORK, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS OF MANKIND is limited to 250 sets. Each set consists of two volumes. The first volume of which is numbered and signed by the author."
  2. TMs, 1 p., listing names and the number of specially signed copies each is to receive of Wells's The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Manking, with Roy Chapin's handwritten list
  3. TMs, 5 pp., of a radio speech given by Wells on 16 October 1931
Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

This series contains the business, financial, and personal papers of FND, ND, members of the Doubleday family, and business associates of FND, including Samuel Everitt, William Heinemann, and Rudyard Kipling.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by person, then chronologically by the starting date of the papers in each folder.

Physical Description

12 boxes

Doubleday, Felix, 1930s. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

financial and personal papers of Felix Doubleday, the adopted son of FND and Neltje Doubleday, including papers "in the matter of the Adoption of Felix Doubleday"

Physical Description

2 folders

Physical Description

2 boxes

Financial Documents, 1920s. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Tax Documents, 1937-1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Tax Documents, 1937-1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Wills and Estate Documents, 1935-1946. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

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5 boxes

Oyster Bay House Financial Documents, 1906-1914. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Properties, Financial, Estate, Etc., Documents, 1909-1938. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Properties, Financial, Estate, Etc., Documents, 1909-1938. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Oyster Bay House Financial Documents, 1912-1917. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Memorandum of Agreement, Doubleday, Page & Co, 1912. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Properties and Taxes, 1914-1933. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Red Cross Mission to Orient, 1918. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

reports and documents by FND from his Mission to the Orient in 1918 with the Red Cross

Physical Description

1 folder

Red Cross (Hong Kong) Reports, 1918. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Red Cross (Hong Kong) Printed Matter, 1918. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Cancelled Checks, 1918-1921. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Wills of FND, 1925-1935. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

drafts of FND's will, and letter regarding its preparation, including the assignment of fees

Physical Description

1 folder

Medical Records, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

medical records from Millneck, Long Island, including a medical schedule for FND from Dr. Frederick Tilney.

Physical Description

1 folder

Receipts & Bills, 1929. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Stationery Case, 1930. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

red leather stationery case, a Christmas gift from staff

Physical Description

1 folder

Financial & Estate Documents, 1932-1935. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Financial & Estate Documents, 1932-1935. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Financial Documents, 1934. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

FND & Russell Doubleday Tax Documents, 1937-1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Various Souvenirs, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

including invitation and a watercolor caricature of FND

Physical Description

1 folder

Photographs: FND, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

assorted photographs of FND by various artists

Physical Description

1 folder

Photographs: Garden City Plant, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

photographs of the Doubleday & Co. publishing plant in Garden City, Long Island

Physical Description

1 folder

Photographs: Kingswood Garden Party, 1933 July 12. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Photographs of people and grounds at Kingswood in Surrey, England, at a garden party celebrating FND's English private press there (Windmill Press). Included is his typed description of the event and a list of the attendees.

Physical Description

1 folder

Photograph: Miscellaneous, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

miscellaneous photographs of people, houses, and books, including one of Joseph Conrad aboard unidentified ship

Physical Description

1 folder

List of Papers at Oyster Bay House, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

list of books, manuscripts, letters, etc., at Oyster Bay House

Physical Description

1 folder

Doubleday, Lily Underhill, 1927-1928. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

wills and estate papers of Lily Underhill Doubleday, the wife of Charles D. Doubleday

Physical Description

2 folders

Scope and Contents

personal, business, and financial papers of Nelson Doubleday, son of FND and Neltje Doubleday, arranged chronologically by the beginning date of each folder

Physical Description

4 boxes

Doubleday Companies: Stocks, 1915-1932. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to the stocks of Doubleday, Page & Co. and Doubleday, Doran & Co. Includes stock certificates.

Physical Description

1 folder

Personal Accounts & Paid Receipts (6 packets), 1933-1937. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Personal Accounts & Paid Receipts (7 packets), 1937-1941. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Personal Accounts & Paid Receipts (2 packets), 1941-1942. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Business & Estate Documents, 1937-1952. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

business and estate papers of Nelson Doubleday and Ellen McCarter Doubleday, his wife

Physical Description

1 folder

Employee Stock & Earnings Records, 1940-1945. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

records of stock purchased by employees and employee earnings records

Physical Description

1 folder

Memorabilia, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

memorabilia of ND, including a certificate of membership to the National Aeronautic Association of U.S.A., and a pamphlet advertising a book of etiquette

Physical Description

1 folder

Doubleday, Neltje DeGraff Blanchan, 1914-1918. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

miscellaneous papers of Neltje DeGraff Blanchan Doubleday, the first wife of FND, including letters regarding a cemetery deed and the program from her funeral

Physical Description

1 folder

Doubleday, [Russell?], undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Leather bound ledger of securities records, embossed with "Halsey, Stuart & Co. Incorporated" on front cover. Contains loose sheets.

Physical Description

1 folder

Everitt, Samuel A, 1937-1944. 3 folders.
Scope and Contents

tax papers

Physical Description

3 folders

Heinemann, William, 1928-1932. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

letters, receipts, and other documents

Physical Description

1 folder

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936), 1930-1942. 3 folders.
Scope and Contents

papers relating to the taxes and estate of Kipling

Physical Description

3 folders

Miscellaneous, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

primarily unmarked, miscellaneous manuscripts

Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

This series consists of secondary sources about the Doubleday firm, its principals, and selected authors.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically.

Physical Description

2 boxes

Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

historical information about Doubleday, Doran & Company

Physical Description

1 folder

"Doubleday's Minaret", 1931. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook titled "Doubleday's Minaret." Includes a letter (1931) by the "editor," Russell Doubleday, to his brother, Nelson, about it.

Physical Description

1 box

FND: Biographical & Genealogical Material, 1734. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents
  1. Passport, issued October 4, 1922, to FND, with photograph of FND and Florence Doubleday, and visa stamps from the United Kingdom and Calais
  2. TL (fragment), 1 p., November 6, 1946, to Russell Doubleday, by J. C. Pearson, with accompanying 1734 parchment document
  3. ALS, 1 p., November 9, 1948, to ND, by Russell Doubleday
  4. ALS, 1 p., August 29 [n.y.], to unknown recipient, by Chas. Doubleday
  5. TMs (and carbon copy), 3 pp., undated, biographical sketch of FND
  6. Printed document, No. 8 of an edition of 12, titled "Anent The Doubledays of 1906 and their Progenitors," including an appendix with genealogical information about the Doubleday family, tracing back to Charlemagne
Physical Description

1 folder

FND's Death: Clippings and Articles, 1934. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Clippings and articles at the time of FND's death in 1934. List of letters of sympathy received and acknowledged by family, in leather binder.

Physical Description

1 folder

"In Joseph Conrad's Literary Workshop", 1923 October 20. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

article by George H. Sargent concerning original manuscripts, which appeared in the Book Section of the Boston Evening Transcript

Physical Description

1 folder

Kipling and Vermont, 1954 October. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

pamphlet entitled, "Kipling and Vermont by Vilhjalmur Stefansson," reprinted from Vermont History, October 1954, inscribed with holiday greetings by the author and his wife

Physical Description

1 folder

"Lawrence of Arabia", 1962. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

booklet on the film Lawrence of Arabia, including information about the cast and production process

Physical Description

1 folder

Maugham Exhibition Catalog, 1958. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

accompanying pamphlet to the exhibition "A Comprehensive Exhibition of the Writings of W. Somerset Maugham Drawn from Various Private Collections and Libraries with a preface by the Author" at the Albert M. Bender Room of the Stanford University Library, May 25 through August 1, 1958

Physical Description

1 folder

Nelson Doubleday Memorial, 1949 January 31. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

printed resolution in memory of Nelson Doubleday, written at a meeting of the Board of Directors of Doubleday & Company, and signed (in type) by Russell Doubleday, H. Barnard Brownell, John F. Sengstack, A. Milton Runyon, Dorothy Doubleday Babcock, R. L. Conlin, L. J. McNaughton, and Douglas M. Black

Physical Description

1 folder

Princeton University Library Chronicle, 1966 Winter. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

article titled, "A Manuscript of Kipling's 'The Light that Failed'," from the Princeton University Library Chronicle (Vol. XXVII, No. 2) "New & Notable" section. Includes TMs of note to the Chronicle by H. C. Rice.

Physical Description

1 folder

Windmill Press, 1928. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

items relating to Doubleday's private English press in Kingswood, Surrey, England:

  1. "The Windmill Press" pamphlet: number 26 of 650 copies printed for guests at the opening on 23 May 1928. Includes the speech given by John Galsworthy.
  2. "Battle Hymn of the Republic" pamphlet: unnumbered copy (in an edition of six) of President Theodore Roosevelt's favorite poem
  3. play program for a Windmill Players' performance of "Maria Marten," June 14-15 [n.y.], presumably a Windmill Press staff production
Physical Description

1 folder

World's Work, 1900 November. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

First issue of The World's Work, FND's copy. Includes, p. 7, reproduction of Kipling portrait by Philip Burne-Jones.

Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous, 1921-1956. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

printed matter including newspaper clippings

Physical Description

1 folder

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