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Barton Wood Currie Collection

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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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Currie, Barton, 1877-1962

Barton Wood Currie was an American reporter, editor and book collector. He wrote essays on food and home economics for Good Housekeepingmagazine (1909-1911). He was editor for Ladies' Home Journaland wrote a page on farming for Country Gentlemen, both publications of the Curtis Co. in Philadelphia. Currie joined Doubleday, Doran& Co. in 1928, and became editor of their business magazine, World's Work. He also wrote and edited non-fiction books including Fishers of Books, which is about book collecting, and Booth Tarkington, A Bibliography.

The collection consists of selected letters of authors and publishers sent to Barton Currie and his wife, Florence. Correspondents include the author Edward William Bok, the Philadelphia publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, and novelist Joseph Crosby Lincoln and his wife Florence; one of the latter's missives is a Christmas card with a poem titled "Christmas A.D. 1940." There are also letters from author A. Edward Newton and from novelist Booth Tarkington and his wife Susanah. In his letter dated October 17, 1932, Tarkington thanks Currie for publishing Booth Tarkington, A Bibliography. There is a Christmas card from Frederic Franklyn Van de Water, with a printed poem, signed "Dougal, the Van de Water's terrier," as well as correspondence between A. Edward Newton and Nelson Doubelday regarding the latter having employed Curtis as editor for Doubleday, Doran & Co.

Also included is a copy of a drawing of Booth Tarkington, which is inscribed by him to Currie and dated September 1926.

The collection was formed as a result of a Departmental practice of combining into one collection material of various accessions relating to a particular person, family, or subject.

The two letters from J. C. Lincoln, the letter from Susanah Tarkington dated December 28, 1948, the letter from J. J. Dessert, and the drawing of Tarkington were given by Mr. and Mrs. Barton Currie on November 28, 1961.

All other material was a given by Mrs. Barton Currie on May 2, 1963. AM17668, 83-61.

This collection was processed by Dina Britain on May 6, 2009. Finding aid written by Lauren Kustner on May 21, 2009. Folder Inventory added by Hilde Creager (2015) in 2012.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2009
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Collection Inventory

3 Letters from Edward William Bok to Barton Wood Currie, 1922-1923. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letter from C.H.K. Curtis to Barton Wood Currie, 1918 July 19. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letter from J.J. Dessent to Barton Wood Currie, 1933 August 9. 1 folder.
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1 folder

3 Letters and Typed Card from J.C. Lincoln to Barton Wood Currie, 1930-1943. 1 folder.
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1 folder

2 Letters from Edward A. Newton to Nelson, 1 from Nelson to Newton, 2 Letters from Newton to Barton Wood Currie, 1928-1933. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Portrait of Booth Tarkington, 4 Letters from Booth and Suzannah Tarkington to Barton Wood Currie, 1928-1948. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Card from Frederic Franklyn Van de Water to Barton Wood Currie, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Printed article by Harry Emerson Wildes about Barton Wood Currie, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

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