Call Number:

C0560

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 14 boxes
• 6.5 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William M. Armstrong Collection on E.L. Godkin, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1833-1978 (inclusive)

Creator:

Armstrong, William M. (William Martin), 1919-

Form:

Bibliographies., Correspondence., Manuscripts., and Photographs.

Abstract:

This collection consists of American historian William M. Armstrong's works and research material on Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1831-1902), a founder and editor of The Nation (1865-1881) and editor of the New York Evening Post (1883-1900). The collection contains typed manuscripts of Armstrong's biography on Godkin along with other writings, as well as photocopies, microfilms, and typescripts of correspondence.

William Martin Armstrong is an American historian who did research on Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1831-1902), a founder and editor of The Nation (1865-1881) and editor of the New York Evening Post (1883-1900).

Consists of Armstrong's works and research material on Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1831-1902), a founder and editor of The Nation (1865-1881) and editor of the New York Evening Post (1883-1900). The collection contains typed manuscripts with holograph corrections of Armstrong's biography E. L. Godkin (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York, 1978) and The Gilded Age Letters of E. L. Godkin (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York, 1974), as well as photocopies, microfilms, and typescripts of correspondence, particularly of that between Godkin and James Bryce, indexes to correspondence at Harvard and other libraries, bibliographies of Godkin, and photographs of such colleagues and friends of Godkin as Wendell Phillips Garrison, William James, Charles Eliot Norton, Frederick Law Olmstead, Carl Schurz, Henry Villard, and Horace White. In addition, there are offprints of articles about Godkin by Armstrong and others.

This is an unprocessed collection and remains in its original arrangement.