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Ruth E. and Edward M. Brecher Collection on William F. Mannix
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
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Edward Moritz Brecher (1911-1989) was an American editor, science and medical writer, and journalist.
The collection consists of papers gathered and generated by Ruth E. and Edward M. Brecher while researching the life of William Francis Mannix (1870?-1920), a journalist, soldier of fortune, grafter, and literary forger, for a proposed biography that was never completed. Included are manuscript drafts; correspondence with Ralph D. Paine, Mabel Scudder, Mrs. Mannix, and others about Mannix; copies of his birth, marriage, and army records; and other letters, notes, and clippings on Mannix's background, psychopathic personalities, and literary forgeries.
Also present is material concerning the book Memoirs of Li Hung Chang (1913), edited by Mannix, which later proved to be a fabrication, and about a collection of love letters supposedly written by Abraham Lincoln to Ann Rutledge, published by the Atlantic Monthly in 1929, and later thought to have been forged by Mannix.
This is an unprocessed collection and remains in its original arrangement.
NOTE: The collection consists of four record-center cartons. This contents list was created mainly from labels affixed to placards separating the materials in each box.
Gift of Jeremy Brecher.
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
This is an unprocessed collection. The contents list provided is a preliminary inventory.
The collection inventory was created by Michael Heist in August 2007.
No appraisal information is available.
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- 2007
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Collection is open for research use.
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