Call Number:

C0747

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

13 boxes

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Ellen McCarter Doubleday Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1930s-1978 (inclusive)

Creator:

Doubleday, Ellen McCarter, 1899-1978

Form:

Correspondence.

Abstract:

Ellen McCarter Doubleday was the wife of Nelson Doubleday (1889-1949), president of the publishing firm Doubleday & Company, and daughter of Thomas N. McCarter (Princeton Class of 1888), president of the Public Service Co. of New Jersey and a Princeton University benefactor. After her husband's death, she served on the board of directors of Doubleday until she moved to Hawaii in 1965. Papers consist of personal and business correspondence of Ellen McCarter Doubleday.

Ellen McCarter Doubleday was the wife of Nelson Doubleday (1889-1949), president of the publishing firm Doubleday & Company, and daughter of Thomas N. McCarter (Princeton Class of 1888), president of the Public Service Co. of New Jersey and a Princeton University benefactor. After her husband's death, she served on the board of directors of Doubleday until she moved to Hawaii in 1965.

Consists of papers of Ellen McCarter Doubleday. Included is correspondence of both Ellen and Nelson Doubleday with Daphne Du Maurier, W. Somerset Maugham, Noel Coward, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Costain, Ellen Glasgow, Edna Ferber, 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 (1862-1934) and Nelson Doubleday and various trust disputes.

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