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Selected Papers of Edward T. Chase
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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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Edward Tinsley (Ned) Chase (1919-2005), Princeton Class of 1941, was a book editor and writer whose professional career spanned almost 50 years in New York City--at the Hyperion Press (1946-1949), The New Yorker magazine (1949-1952), Cunningham & Walsh (Vice President for Public Affairs, 1953-1964), the New American Library (Editorial Vice President, 1964-1972), G. P. Putnam's Sons and Berkley Books (Vice President, 1972-1978), Times Books (Senior Editorial Vice President, 1978-1983), Macmillan Publishing, and Charles Scribner's Sons (Senior Editor, 1983-1994). Chase was best known for editing books on public affairs and policy.
The collection consists of selected papers of Edward T. Chase, primarily correspondence and editorial files documenting Chase's career as an editor at various publishing companies (1964-1994) and as a freelance writer and editor (until 2002). There is also a small amount of material tracing back to the Chase family's connections to the artist's colony in Woodstock, N.Y., including a 1904 letter containing pen-and-ink drawings by Chase's father, the American painter and illustrator Edward Leigh Chase (1894-1965), to his own mother.
The collection is organized into the following series:
Gift of the Chase family in 2009-2010 (AM2010-61, 2010-137, 2011-21, 2011-27).
This collection was processed by Sylvia Yu in March 2010. Finding aid written by Sylvia Yu in April 2010.
No appraisal information is available.
Organization
- Charles Scribner's Sons.
- Woodstock Artists Association (Woodstock, N.Y.)
- Times Books (New York, N.Y.)
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Macmillan publishing company
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- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Sylvia Yu
- Finding Aid Date
- 2009
- Access Restrictions
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Open for research/
- Use Restrictions
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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
The material in this series primarily consists of correspondence and editorial files pertaining to Chase's career as a writer and book editor. There are gaps in the correspondence through the years, as well as Xerox copies of many letters.
This series has been arranged chronologically to match Chase's career as closely as possible.
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Includes items regarding Berkley Books, Putnam's paperback publisher
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Majority are carbon copies of TLs
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Black was the Publisher of the General Books Division at Macmillan; Chase signed a contract to be an editorial consultant on June 29, 1983.
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Includes a soft cover copy of book with Chase's autograph notes inside.
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This series consists of various items mostly relating to Chase's family connections to the artist's colony in Woodstock, New York.
The series is primarily arranged by personal name.
Physical Description8 folders
ALS (illustrated) from Edward Leigh Chase to his mother [Mabel], 4 pp. (p. 3 missing), and a Xerox copy.
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Miscellaneous material. Includes a Xerox copy and autograph notes of Edward T. Chase's eulogy for his father, Edward Leigh Chase (1884-1965), as well as a carbon copy of his father's last will and testament.
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Miscellaneous material. Chase's uncle was Frank Swift Chase (1886-1958), the Post-Impressionist landscape painter who, with his older brother, Edward Leigh Chase, traveled from Arkansas to study at the Art Students' League in New York City, and then at the Art League School of Landscape Painting at Woodstock, New York, in 1909 under Birge Harrison and John Carlson. Chase was one of the founding members of the Woodstock Artists Association in Woodstock, New York, in 1919.
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Related correspondence. Carlson was a landscape painter who participated in the Arts and Crafts Movement at Woodstock, New York, as part of the Byrdcliffe Colony in the early part of the twentieth century and later founded his own school there. Included in this file are letters from various acquaintances of Chase that may be related to John Carlson.
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Writings list (incomplete) and curriculum vitae
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Correspondence and miscellaneous materials re: Woodstock, New York
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