Main content
Doubleday & Company File of Louis Kronenberger Correspondence
Notifications
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.
Overview and metadata sections
Doubleday is an American publishing company founded by Frank Nelson Doubleday in 1897 as Doubleday & McClure Company. By 1947, it was the largest publishing house in the United States. With the acquisition of a new partner, Walter Hines Page, the firm became known as Doubleday, Page & Company from 1900 to 1927, and after its merger with George H. Doran, as Doubleday, Doran & Company from 1928 to 1945. The company assumed the title Doubleday & Company in 1946 upon Doran's retirement. In 2009, Doubleday merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is now part of Penguin Random House.
Primarily includes a couple dozen autograph and typed letters, with a handful of postcards and notes from critic, novelist, and biographer Louis Kronenberger to his editors at Doubleday & Company, including editors-in-chief Sandy Richardson, Ray Roberts, and JoAnn Johnson, as well as other staff persons. The file also includes two letters from Kronenberger's wife, Emily Kronenberger, to Ray Roberts, and a small amount of related material, including routine publisher correspondence, printed matter, and ephemera.
Several letters relate directly to Kronenberger's 1974 life of John Wilkes, The Extraordinary Mr. Wilkes: His Life and Times (1974) and discuss it in detail. Additional letters straightforwardly deal with the business of writing-- Kronenberger references permissions, advances, contracts, reviews, and things of that nature. He also relays travel plans, mentions life in St. Andrews (New Brunswick), sends a list of people who should receive copies of his new book, and thanks Roberts for sending along various publications.
Purchase, 2017. (AM 2018-20)
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 collection was processed by Faith Charlton in August 2017. Finding aid written by Faith Charlton in August 2017.
No materials were separated during 2017 processing.
People
Subject
- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Faith Charlton
- Finding Aid Date
- 2017
- Access Restrictions
-
Open for research.
- Use Restrictions
-
Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.
Collection Inventory
Some materials include annotations by Doubleday staff.
Physical Description1 folder