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| Creator: | Rider, Fremont, 1885-1962. |
| Title: | Fremont Rider Autograph Collection |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1826-1953 |
| Quantity: | 391 items. |
| Abstract: | Papers of the American librarian, periodical editor. Collection includes autographed letters, signed documents, postcards, and a drawing; individuals represented include scholars, politicians, diplomats, social reformers, authors, and more. Includes letters collected by Rider as well as his own correspondence. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Biographical History
Arthur Fremont Rider (1885-1962) was an American editor, author and librarian.
Born in Trenton, New Jersey, the son of George Arthur and Charlotte Elizabeth (Meader) Rider, he was educated in the public schools in Middletown, Connecticut and later in Syracuse, New York. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1905 with a PhB (Bachelor of Philosophy) and went on to the New York State Library School in Albany. Syracuse University awarded him the honorary LHD (Doctor of Humane Letters) in 1937.
Rider's first career as editor and publisher began in 1907. Over the course of more than thirty years, he served as associate editor of The Delineator, editor of The Monthly Book Review for nearly ten years, managing editor of Publisher's Weekly, editor of The American Library Annual, and managing editor of Library Journal. During World War I he published the International Military Digest, which he edited at the United States Military Academy. From 1914-1933 he was president of the Rider Press, periodicals printers in New York City, and for a time was associated with B. W. Dodge & Co., publishers.
In 1933 he was named Librarian of Wesleyan University's Olin Library, a position he retained until his retirement in 1953. He was the author of numerous magazine articles and books, including a biography of Melvil Dewey. He wrote on library policy, among other subjects, and in his book The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library (1944) he was an early proponent of microcard technology. Not content with the theoretical, he was also the inventor of a book truck, stack shelving, and other library equipment.
As chairman of the American Genealogical Index from 1934, and as founder (1951) of the Godfrey Memorial Library (which he continued to direct after his retirement from Wesleyan), he was a leader in the assembly of American genealogical data.
Fremont Rider married his first wife, Grace Godfrey, on October 21, 1908; he and his second wife, Marie Gallup (Ambrose), were married on June 6, 1951.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Fremont Rider Autograph Collection comprises 391 items mounted in ten binders. Items range from letters and notes to postcards, signed documents, and at least one drawing, and span more than one hundred years (1826-1953). Each page gives additional information about the writer such as his or her profession or notable accomplishments, and portions of this information have been transferred to the inventory below. The information on the pages in the binders is Rider's own and has not been altered; the inventory below, however, has been supplemented where appropriate with additional research.
Of the 391 items in the collection, 264 are addressed to Rider, 125 are addressed to other correspondents, and there are two odd items (see Moffatt and Rice). The collection contains no letters from Fremont Rider himself.
The collection contains letters written to Fremont Rider personally, to the Rider Press, or to him as Wesleyan University Librarian, as well as autographs and signed items that he "happened upon casually," as he said in a letter (25 Jun 1954) to Wharton Miller of the Syracuse University Library, explaining that he had never been an assiduous collector. Among the correspondents are Sherwood Anderson, Rex Beach, James Warner Bellah, Melvil Dewey, Theodore Dreiser, John Nance Garner, Francis Hackett, Jack London, John L. Lewis, Christopher Morley, Eleanor Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith, Rex Stout, Robert A. Taft, Booth Tarkington, Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, and Sumner Welles.
The earliest item in the collection is an 1826 certificate of ordination signed by Thomas C. Brownell, a Connecticut Episcopal bishop. The earliest letter, dated August 25, 1831, is signed "Hanniball" and is addressed to the noted slave leader Nat Turner. (Its authenticity has not been established.) In a 1922 postcard Franklin Delano Roosevelt answered a publisher's inquiry by stating that his reading interests centered around the U.S. Navy. Many of the other letters are from Episcopal bishops and other members of the clergy, authors, librarians, publishers, or individuals associated with colleges or universities.
Other letters not addressed to Fremont Rider include those from Irving Bacheller, Richard Harding Davis, Eugene Debs, William Lloyd Garrison, Robert LaFollette, William Howard Taft, and Stewart Edward White. Among the recipients of these letters are B. D. Godfrey of Newtonville, Massachusetts, and Edward Campion Acheson and Richard Lawrence DeZeng, both of Middletown, Connecticut.
The collection also includes a detailed card index listing each item with name of sender, recipient, date and other pertinent information.
Restrictions
Access Restrictions
The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.
Use Restrictions
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Related Material
Special Collections Research Center has several other collections of autographs. See for example the following:
Argosy Autograph Collection
Frances Ward Harrington Autograph Collection
Graeme O'Geran Presidential Autograph Collection
Howes Norris Jr. Autograph Cartoon Collection
Gordon N. Ray Collection of Victorian Autographs
Subject Headings
Persons
Subjects
Genres and Forms
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Fremont Rider Autograph Collection
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Fremont Rider, 1954, with some later additions.
Finding Aid Information
Created by: [Summit record]
Date: 2001-01-01
Revision history: 9 Nov 2009 - converted to EAD (MRC)
Inventory
| Autographs | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Acheson, Edward Campion August 21, 1909; November 15, 1918 - Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Adams, Arthur July 7, 1934; October 24, 1949 - Librarian, Trinity College | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Aitken, Robert Grant June 29, 1925 - Assoc. Director, Lick Observatory | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Alsop, Stewart Johonnett Oliver May 30, 1946 - journalist, political analyst | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Anderson, Edwin Hatfield December 29, 1933 - Director, New York Public Library | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Anderson, Sherwood November 15 [no year] - author | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bacheller, Irving September 10, 1909 - journalist | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bacon, Robert L. March 4, 1932 - U.S. Representative | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bailey, Louis Jonathan April 1, 1921 - Librarian, Gary Public Library | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Baker, George Barr November 21, 1907 - Assoc. editor, Everybody's Magazine | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Baldwin, Raymond Earl February 3, 1940 - Governor of Connecticut | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Baldwin, Roger Sherman July 24, 1944 - Attorney | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ball, Thomas Raymond April 27, 1939 - U.S. Representative | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Beach, Rex Ellingwood January 26, 1918 - President, Authors League of America | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bellah, James Warner September 24, 1936 - author of Westerns | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Benedict, Clare November 3 [no year] - chess patron | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bertram, James June 17, 1914 - Secretary, Carnegie Corporation | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Blatch, Harriet Stanton February 16, 1936 - writer, women's suffrage activist | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bloom, Sol April 26, 1932 - U.S. Representative | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Borden, Fanny October 10, 1933 - Librarian, Vassar University | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bowerman, George Franklin May 24, 1922 - Library, District of Columbia | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bowman, Isaiah January 31, 1917 - Director, American Geographical Society | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Boyer, Norman September 14, 1909 - editor[?}, The Smart Set | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brandegee, Frank B. January 6, 1920 - U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Branscomb, Bennett Harvie September 1, 1938 - Association of American Colleges | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brett, George Platt October 27, 1916; July 2, 1923; April 16, 1924 - President, The MacMillan Company | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brewster, Chauncey Bunce April 17, 1901; December 10, 1913 - Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brown, Alice October 6, 1908 - novelist, poet, playwright | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brown, Charles Harvey January 18, 1941 - Librarian, Iowa State College | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brown, Kenneth March 15, 1908 - author? | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brownell, Thomas Church June 7, 1826 - Bishop of the Episcopal Church, founder of Trinity College in Hartford, CT | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brownson, Carleton January 29, 1923 - Dean, College of the City of New York | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Butler, Benjamin Franklin October 2, 1883 - Governor of Massachusetts | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Butler, Ellis Parker January 19, 1917 - author | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Cadman, Samuel Parkes March 13, 1926 - Chairman, Churches, American Guardian Association | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Caldwell, George B. August 18, 1920 - President, Sperry & Hutchinson | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Camp, E. July 3, 1925 - Director of Customs, Dept of the Treasury | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Capper, Arthur April 26, 1921 - U.S. Senator | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Chancellor, William Estabrook undated - academic and author | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Civil War soldier, name unknown Nov 1862 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Claflin, Horace Brigham July 1, 1873; July 28, 1882 - merchant and businessman | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Claflin, William January 3, 1869 - Governor of Massachusetts | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Clayton, William undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Comfort, Will Levington October 16, 1916 - author of adventure novels | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Cooper, Frederic Taber July 22, 1929; August 4, 1930 - author and editor | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Cross, Wilbur Lucius March 30, 1937 - Governor of Connecticut | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Crowninshield, Frank October 8, 1930 - Editor, Vanity Fair | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Curtis, Florence R. October 10, 1933 - Director, Library School, Hampton Institute | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Danton, Joseph Periam November 17, 1936 - Librarian, Temple University | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Davenport, Frederick Morgan November 21, 1938 - President, National Institute of Public Affairs | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Davenport, Homer Calvin March 11, 1929 - to Theodore Dreiser | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Davey, Martin L. November 29, 1919 - U.S. Representative | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Davey, Martin L. December 1, 1919 - U.S. Representative | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Davies, Thomas Frederick February 25, 1913 - Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Davies, Thomas Frederick April 28, 1913; February 22, 1913; May 7, 1913; June 26, 1917 - Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Davis, James John January 18, 1924 - U.S. Secretary of Labor | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Davis, Richard Harding June 12 [no year] - journalist, novelist | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Davison, George Willets January 21, 1932; April 6, 1937; December 10, 1937 - attorney, businessman | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Dawson, Coningsby William November 5, 1913 - George H. Doran Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Day, Holman Francis May 20 [no year] - editor, novelist | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Day, Joseph P. April 26, 1932 - auctioneer, real estate | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Debs, Eugene October 15, 1908 - Presidential candidate, Socialist Party | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | DeLancey, William Heathcote 3/30/1843; 8/20/1847 - Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Western New York | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Deland, Margaret (Margaretta Wade, nee Campbell) March 9, 1917 - novelist, poet | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Dent, J. June 9, 1922 - J. M. Dent & Sons | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Dent, Joseph Malaby August 11, 1922 - British publisher of the "Everyman" imprint | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Dewey, Godfrey November 19, 1934 - Lake Placid Club; proponent of 1932 Lake Placid Olympics | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Dewey, Melvil August 18, 1914; undated - librarian and educator | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Dodge, B. February 24, 1924; May 6, 1924 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Doran, George H. October 26, 1916; June 9, 1922; February 3, 1923 - George H. Doran Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Doubleday, Frank Nelson June 7, 1922 - publisher | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Dreiser, Theodore November 16, 1910; undated - author | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Dunham, Mary February 23, 1934 - Librarian, Smith College | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Eastman, Linda A. July 26, 1934 - Librarian, Cleveland Public Library | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Eastman, William R. January 28, 1914 - New York State Education Department | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Eidlitz, Otto W. March 6, 1918 - Housing Committee, Council of National Defense | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Elder, Paul February 11, 1925; March 4, 1925; April 15, 1925; May 5, 1925 - Paul Elder & Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ellsworth, William W. August 8, 1913 - President, The Century Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fackenthal, Frank D. July 7, 1923 - Secretary of the University, Columbia University | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fisher, Irving June 28, 1909 - President, Committee of One Hundred | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fisher, Samuel H. February 13, 1935 - Chairman, Connecticut Tercentenary Commission | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fisher, Samuel H. August 18, 1938 - Chairman, Connecticut Tercentenary Commission | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fletcher, Duncan U. April 30, 1932; July 12, 1934 - U.S. Senate, Commission on Banking and Currency | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Flynn, W. J. February 17, 1917 - Chief of the Treasury Department | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Folks, Homer July 22, 1909 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Forbes, B. C. May 12, 1932 - Scottish financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fosdick, Harry Emerson May 23, 1946 - clergyman; Riverside Church | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins October 2, 1909 - short story author and novelist | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Garner, John Nance March 2, 1932 - U.S. House of Representatives, Speaker | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Garrison, William Lloyd April 4, 1878 - journalist and reformer | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gates, Milo H. November 20, 1915 - Vicar, Chapel of the Intercession, NY | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Giddings, Franklin H. December 4, 1895 - professor, sociologist, economist | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gillette, William April 28, 1935 - playwright? | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gillis, Mabel R. May 25, 1934 - Librarian, California State Library | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson November 22, 1908 - Pulitzer prize-winning novelist | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Godard, George S. July 26, 1923; August 2, 1923; September 20, 1934 - State Librarian, Hartford, CT | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Goldberg, Isaac March 30, 1937 - journalist, editor, author | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Goodrich, Arthur June 7, 1936 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gough, John B. November 12, 1875 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Greeley-Smith, Nicola February 1, 1908 - Editor[?}, The World | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Green, Anna Katharine September 12, 1908 - poet and author of detective fiction | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Green, Stephen H. December 8, 1899 - Reverend | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Greenbie, Marjorie April 19, 1926 - Mt. Holyoke College | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Greer, David Hummell January 16, 1893; November 23, 1915 - Protestant Episcopal bishop.; St. Bartholomew's Rectory | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gregory, W. F. August 30, 1913 - Manager, Lothrop Lee & Shepard | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gregory, Winifred September 19, 1935 - Editor, Union List of Newspapers | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Griswold, Alexander 1827 - Bishop, Episcopal Eastern Diocese | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Grosvenor, William M. October 30, 1916 - Dean, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hackett, Francis August 9 [no year] - Irish author, critic [?] | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Haldeman-Julius, Emanuel June 30, 1932 - reformer, publisher | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hall, Bolton March 5, 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Halsey, Forrest undated - screenwriter | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hanniball August 25, 1831 - to Nat Turner, Suffolk, VA | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Harcourt, Alfred April 20, 1912; February 3, 1923; June 29, 1923; May 1, 1917 - Henry Holt & Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Harriman, Karl Edward December 3, 1921 - Editor, Redbook Magazine | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hays, Will H. September 10, 1921 - Postmaster General | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Heidel, W. A. August 26, 1933 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Herbert, Victor undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Herrick, Robert September 19, 1908 - novelist; University of Chicago | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Heye, George Gustav July 7, 1923 - Director, Museum of the American Indian | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hill, Frank P. December 28, 1914; November 19, 1934 - Librarian, Brooklyn Public Library | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hoar, George F. October 1, 1883 - U.S. Senator | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hochwalt, Frederick G., Reverend Monsignor May 21, 1946 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hoe, Richard March May 30, 1882 - R. Hoe & Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Holder, Charles Frederick undated - naturalist, author, founder of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Holt, Hamilton March 25, 1911; April 22, 1911; May 23, 1946 - President, Rollins College | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hopkins, Mary Alden undated - author [?] | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hough, Emerson July 17, 1904 - author of Westerns | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Howe, Louis McHenry March 15, 1933; March 25, 1933 - Secretary to President Roosevelt | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Howe, Marshall June 3, 1925 - Asst. Director, NY Botanical Garden | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hoyem, Oliver January 18, 1924 - National Cathedral Foundation | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hoyns, Henry February 6, 1931 - President, Harper & Brothers | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hubbard, E. Kent December 1, 1908; December 11, 1918; February 13, 1940 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hubsch, B. W. September 17, 1924 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hurt, Peyton April 22, 1939 - Librarian, Williams College | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hyslop, James H. October 1, 1908; October 6, 1908 - American Society for Psychical Research | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Jewett, Frank Baldwin June 11, 1946 - American physicist, president of Bell Labs | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Johnson, Burges August 29, 1931 - Director of Public Relations, Syracuse University | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Johnson, Helen Louise June 25, 1913 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Johnston, Albert W. December 8, 1939 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Johnston, Charles October 6, 1908 - University Club | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Junker, Carl December 28, 1908 - Austrian author, General Secretary of the Central Association of the Austrian Book Trade. | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Jzabo, Edwin February 15, 1907 - Librarian, City of Budapest | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Kahn, Donald A. February 24, 1913 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Kauffman, Ruth March 17, 1910 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Kennerley, Mitchell May 11, 1915 - British-born American publisher | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Kent, Frank Richardson October 20, 1943 - The Baltimore Sun | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Kenyon, William Squire April 27, 1921 - U.S. Senator | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Keogh, Andrew October 25, 1934 - Librarian, Yale University | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Keppel, Frederick Paul December 11, 1936 - Carnegie Corporation of New York | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | King, Willford I. April 22, 1932 - statistician, economist, chairman of the Committee for Constitutional Government | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | King, William H. March 10, 1932 - U.S. Senator | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Kingsley, Florence M. September 7, 1908 - author of Christian children's novels [?] | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Kinsolving, G. November 14, 1899 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Knapp, Martin Augustine January 21, 1904 - Interstate Commerce Commission | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | La Follette, Robert Marion September 8, 1908 - U.S. Senator | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lane, William Coolidge December 23, 1914 - Librarian, Harvard University | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lanier, H. April 9, 1912 - Editor, Doubleday, Page & Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lauck, W. Jett February 8, 1919 - Secretary, National War Labor Board | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Leffingwell, H. April 21, 1902 - Reverend, Trinity Church, Toledo OH | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Leidinge, ---- October 24, 1933 - Librarian, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lewis, Fulton Jr. December 11, 1953 - conservative radio personality | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lewis, John Llewellyn June 6, 1946 - labor leader, president of United Mine Workers for 40 years | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lewis, Willard P. November 18, 1936 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lewisohn, Ludwig November 19 [no year] - Jewish critic and novelist | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | London, Jack July 27, 1909 - author | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lonergan, Augustine April 8, 1933 - U.S. Senator | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lord, Milton Edward December 11, 1933; December 2, 1936 - Director, Boston Public Library | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lorimer, George Horace May 3, 1934 - Editor, The Saturday Evening Post | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Losey, Frederick Douglas April 7, 1916; October 25, 1916; December 28, 1916 - author, professor; director of the Boar's Head Dramatic Society (Syracuse University) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lovejoy, Owen B. May 26, 1932 - Secretary, Children's Aid Society | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | McConaughy, James L. June 1 [no year] - Governor of Connecticut | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | McCrum, Blanche Prichard December 29, 1938 - Librarian, Wellesley College | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | MacGrath, Harold July 9, 1909 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | MacGregor, T. D. April 28, 1922; November 2, 1922; May 5, 1924 - Vice President, Edwin Bird Wilson Inc. | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Mackenzie, James C. undated - Mackenzie School | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | McMurtrie, Douglas C. May 14, 1937 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Maloney, Francis April 30, 1941 - U.S. Senator | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Manchester, Earl N. July 31, 1934 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Marbury, Elisabeth May 14, 1912 - theatre and literary agent [?] | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Marshall, L. C. March 11, 1920 - Dean, School of Commerce and Administration, University of Chicago | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Mason, C. E. May 8, 1929 - Miss C. E. Mason's School | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Masson, Thomas Lansing July 21 [no year] - editor, professor of dramatic literature at Columbia | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Matthews, James Brander March 22, 1919 - author, educator | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Melcher, Frederic Gershom January 4, 1924 - publisher, bookseller, editor, creator of Newbery and Caldecott awards | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Melish, John Howard February 3, 1916; January 27, 1918 - pastor, Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, NY | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Merritt, Schuyler July 5, 1919 - U.S. Representative | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Metcalf, Keyes January 21, 1938 - Librarian, Harvard University | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Meyer, Agnes E. (Mrs. Eugene) May 24, 1946 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Mifflin, George Harrison March 11, 1910 - Houghton Mifflin Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Milam, Carl H. April 13, 1933; November 17, 1934 - Secretary, American Library Association | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Miller, Gerrit Smith April 15, 1922 - Smithsonian Institution | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Mills, Ogden L. July 11, 1934 - businessman, politician | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Minnigerode, C. Powell February 2, 1923 - Director, Corcoran Gallery of Art | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Mitchell, Silas Weir October 14 [no year] - physician, author | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Moffatt, ---- undated - artist; includes pencil sketch | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Mohrhardt, Foster February 20, 1940 - Librarian, Washington and Lee University | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Morley, Christopher Darlington April 6, 1937; April 7, 1937; April 16, 1937 - journalist, novelist, poet | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Morrow, William March 13, 1922; June 7, 1922 - Secretary, Frederick A. Stokes Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Muldoon, William October 11, 1912 - Hygienic Institute | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Nichols, Harry Peirce, Reverend November 22, 1915 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Nicholson, Meredith July 1, 1909 - author, politician, diplomat | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Nicolson, Frank W. January 25, 1932 - Dean, Wesleyan University | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Nock, Albert Jay December 10, 1923 - Libertarian, author, critic | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Oakes-Ochs, George Washington September 10, 1928 - American journalist; New York Times | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Cohs, Adolph Simon August 7, 1918 - American journalist; New York Times | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Olmsted, John Charles August 10, 1901 - Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Oskison, John Milton August 17, 1909 - Collier's Magazine | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Oswald, John Clyde March 12, 1926 - New York Employing Printers Association | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Page, Arthur Wilson December 10, 1917 - Editor, Doubleday Page & Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Paine, Paul M. February 5, 1923 - Librarian, Syracuse Public Library | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Patterson, Mortimer B. February 22, 1936 - Justice, Supreme Court of the State of New York | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Patton, James G. June 24, 1946 - President, Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Payne, Will October 1, 1908 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Pearson, Edmund Lester January 16, 1918; February 18, 1936; January 9 [no year] - Librarian, true crime author | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Perry, Everett R. June 29, 1925; July 28, 1925 - Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Pettengill, Samuel B. March 31, 1933 - U.S. Representative | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Pharr, Clyde December 1, 1926 - professor of classics, Vanderbilt University | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Phelps, William Lyon March 30, 1937 - author; professor of English, Yale University | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Platt, Orville Hitchcock February 25, 1885 - U.S. Senator | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Politzer, Irving January 19, 1928 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Price, Carl Fowler November 15, 1939 - author of "Who's Who in American Methodism" among other works | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Pulsifer, William E. August 29, 1916 - D. C. Heath & Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Putnam, George Haven June 8, 1922 - G. P. Putnam's Sons | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Putnam, Herbert April 19, 1922 - Librarian, Library of Congress | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Raymond, B. P. April 23, 1894 - President, Wesleyan University | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Rice, William North undated - American geologist, educator, Methodist minister and theologian | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Richey, Lawrence May 13, 1932 - Secretary to President Herbert Hoover | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Rideout, Henry Milner June 29, 1925 - novelist, editor, short-story writer | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Roberts, Owen J. June 26, 1946 - Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Roosevelt, Eleanor May 27, 1946 - wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Roosevelt, Franklin Delano March 1, 1922 - U.S. President | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Russell, Charles Edward March 15 [no year] - Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, politician | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sargent, Porter May 15, 1924 - educational adviser, consultant | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sarnoff, David May 20, 1946 - Russian-American businessman, president of RCA | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sayles, Robert W. November 8, 1926; January 5, 1932 - geologist, Dept. of Geology and Geography, Harvard University; curator, University Museum, Cambridge | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Scaife, Roger Livingston November 23, 1910; June 29, 1923 - author; Houghton Mifflin Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Searle, Nancy July 6, 1951 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Shanklin, William Arnold December 18, 1911 - President, Wesleyan University | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Shaw, Mary July 14 [no year] - American suffragette, feminist, playwright, actress [?] | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Shearer, Augustus H. April 17, 1933 - Librarian, Grosvenor Library | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sheppard, Morris June 12, 1909 - U.S. Representative | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sherman, Clarence E. November 18, 1936 - Providence Public Library | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Shipman, Herbert November 4, 1912; October 23, 1912; November 22, 1915; May 26, 1916 - Rector, Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York NY | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Shotwell, James Thomson May 21, 1946 - Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sinclair, Upton July 10, 1908 - Pulitzer prize-winning author | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sirovich, William I. March 7, 1932 - U.S. Representative | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Smith, Alfred Emanuel April 27, 1932 - Governor of New York, Democratic presidential candidate | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Smith, George Otis March 8, 1922; May 8, 1926 - Director, Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Snow, Charles Wilbert June 14, 1932 - Governor of Connecticut | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sohon, Julian A. November 4, 1939 - Librarian, Bridgeport Public Library | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sokolsky, George Ephraim August 19, 1946 - radio broadcaster, journalist | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Spellman, Francis Joseph August 8, 1945 - Cardinal, Archbishop of New York | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Speyer, Edgar November 19, 1924 - financier, philanthropist | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Stettinius, Edward Reilly May 27, 1946 - U.S. Secretary of State | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Stewart, Lavinia April 25, 1939 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Stokes, Anson Phelps April 9, 1919 - merchant, banker, publicist, philanthropist; Yale University | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Stokes, Frederick A. May 17, 1912; February 14, 1918 - publisher, Frederick A. Stokes Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Stout, Rex Todhunter May 26, 1946 - author, Nero Wolfe series | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott July 20, 1908 - Canadian film writer | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Taft, Robert Alphonso May 28, 1946 - U.S. Senator | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Taft, William Howard March 4, 1911 - U.S. President | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Taliaferro, Anne May 22, 1906 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Tarkington, Booth July 3, 1909 - Pulitzer prize-winning novelist | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Tassin, Algernon October 15, 1912 - professor of English, Columbia University | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Tchernavina, Tatia November 27, 1916; undated - Russian emigre, author of Escape from the Soviets | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Thomas, Percy H. October 6, 1915 - electrical engineer | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Tien Hung-Tu November 5, 1934 - Librarian, Yenching University | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Tolstoy, Alexandra October 7, 1935; March 12, 1936 - Russian countess | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Towne, Charles Hanson January 20, 1935; May 1, 1908 - author, poet, editor | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Trites, W. B. November 15, 1913 - author, self-publisher | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Tweedy, Henry H. October 31, 1934 - Yale Divinity School | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Urner, Mabel Herbert January 18 [no year] - author of "Journal of a Neglected Wife" (1909) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Vanderbilt, Arthur T. November 11, 1938 - Chief Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Van Hoesen, Henry B. January 7, 1941 - Librarian, Brown University | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Viereck, George Sylvester September 12, 1908 - German-American poet, writer, propagandist | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Villiers, Alan John January 6, 1937; January 11, 1937 - author, adventurer, photographer, Master Mariner | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Waldron, W. H. December 6, 1918 - Colonel, General Staff, France | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wales, Hubert October 3, 1908; January 18, 1909 - author, novelist | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wall, Alexander J. January 24, 1923 - Librarian, New York Historical Society | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Walter, Frank K. November 16, 1936 - Librarian, University of Minnesota | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Ward, William Hayes September 22, 1910 - Editor, The Independent | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Webb, Sidney James March 14, 1913 - British socialist, economist, reformer | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Weeks, Frank B. March 6, 1911; May 8, 1911 - Governor of Connecticut | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Welch, Herbert January 29 [no year] - Bishop, Methodist Church | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Welles, Sumner May 23, 1946 - foreign policy advisor, diplomat | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wells, Catherine (Mrs. H. G.) December 4 [no year] - second wife of author H. G. Wells | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | White, Stewart Edward June 27, 1909 - author of adventure and travel books | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | White, Trumbull December 18, 1907; September 17, 1908; June 22, 1926 - author; first editor of Redbook | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wickersham, George Woodward September 1, 1924 - International Near East Association | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wilcox, Cornelis Dewitt December 16, 1919; March 17, 1921 - military author | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wiley, Louis September 15, 1928 - business manager, New York Times | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wiley, Harvey Washington February 11, 1928 - chemist; proponent of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), first commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Will, Grinton I. January 28, 1938 - Librarian, Yonkers Public Library | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Williams, J. April 20, 1881 - Bishop of Connecticut | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Williamson, C. C. December 8, 1932; February 11, 1933; June 17, 1936; November 20, 1936 - Dean, School of Library Service, Columbia University | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Willoughby, Harold R. January 19, 1940; January 30, 1940 - professor, theologian; University of Chicago | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wilson, Carroll A. May 6, 1937; March 27, 1939; March 29, 1937 - author, bibliographer | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wilson, Francis March 19, 1922 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wilson, Halsey William June 17, 1916; March 18, 1919; March 1, 1934; October 8, 1940 - H. W. Wilson Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wilson, Rufus Rockwell September 21, 1908 - The Malden Herald | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Winchester, C. T. August 6, 1896 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Windsor, Phineas Lawrence December 16, 1910 - Librarian, University of Illinois | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Woodhouse, Chase Going October 4, 1950 - U.S. Representative | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Woods, Elliott February 7, 1923 - Architect of the Capitol | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Woolley, Mary Emma June 15, 1946 - educator, activist for peace and women's suffrage | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wriston, Henry Merritt April 2, 1937 - President, Brown University | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wyer, James Ingersoll April 3, 1925; October 9, 1926 - Director, New York State Library | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Young, Owen D. May 8, 1935 - industrialist, lawyer, diplomat | ||||||||||
| Index | |||||||||||
| Card index to all items, in small box | |||||||||||