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Series II. Letterpress Copybooks, 1876-1911. 4.58 Linear feet in six flat boxes
Arrangement NoteThe series includes seven volumes, in chronological order.
Processing Information NoteThe series was processed by archivist Brynn White. Conservation work for the volumes, including custom-made housing, was done by conservator Janet Lee.
Scope and Contents NoteThe Letterpress Copybooks series is comprised of five bound volumes containing copies of the New-York Historical Society's outgoing mail between the years of 1876 and 1913, chiefly written by the Librarian as well as other N-YHS officers; two additional volumes contain the correspondence of Magazine of American History editor and founder John Austin Stevens for the full year of 1878 and November-December of 1879. The letters are recorded in chronological order, with individual pages containing one to two letters. Registers in the front of the letter books offer accurate lists of recipients recorded alphabetically by last name, alongside the page numbers of relevant correspondence. The general materials appear relatively comprehensive for the 1870s and 1880s, which also frequently feature formal correspondence directed between N-YHS officers, and the 1900s; copies of outgoing mail were less consistently maintained in other years. Series content commonly mirrors the General Correspondence files of Series III, consisting of answers to research, library operations, and membership inquiries; responses to acquisitions proposals and suggestions; acknowledgments of receipt of materials; arrangements for events and publications; and notifications of elections, appointments, resolutions, meetings, lectures, and other N-YHS committee activity. The Stevens copybooks concern various facets of magazine production such as contributor solicitation, research, and more. Notes for each volume identify frequent and/or notable correspondents, as applicable, and break down the page ranges by year for general correspondence copybooks, to provide researchers with a sense of scope for time periods of interest. The letter book registers may serve as a potential guide to the General Correspondence files for researchers interested in specific correspondents, as they may suggest time frames in which people were in communication with N-YHS. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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| Box: 67 | Volume : 1 | Letter Book.
Scope and Contents NoteFrequent correspondents include Erastus Benedict, Charles W. Baird, Samuel L. Boardman, Henry H. Browne, Jeremiah Colburn, E.B. Coley, Samuel W. Francis, William Henry Hurlbert, Charles P. Kirkland, Juo W.M. Lee, William Beach Lawrence, Amos Perry, Eugene Revillout, Rev. Ebenezer Rogers, J.H. Trumbull, H.C. Van Schaack, Justin Winsor, and former N-YHS Librarian George H. Moore.
The associated register for the letterpress book is detached and stored in a folder in the box with the volume. |
1876-1881 | |
| Box: 115 | Volume : 1 | Letter Book. Magazine of American History
Scope and Contents NoteFrequent correspondents include James Carson Brevoort, John Russell Bartlett, Charles W. Baird, John Chester Buttre, Joseph J. Cooke, Thomas Addis Emmet, George W. Green, George Geddes, Henry A. Homes, Henry Cabot Lodge, Orasmus Holmes Marshall, Theodorus Bailey Myers, George C. Mason, J.C. Mamau(?), William H. Newton, R.E. Nelson, Photo Engraving Co., George Henry Preble, R.M Potter, James H. Rogers, R.S. Robertson, William L. Stone, L.H. Shreve, Henry Cruger Van Schaack, H.C. Wickes, and Ella B. Washington. |
1878 | |
| Box: 115 | Volume : 2 | Letter Book. Magazine of American History
Scope and Contents NoteAll letters addressed in November and December of 1879. Frequent correspondents include T.F. Donnelly, Photo Engraving Co., James A. Rogers,and James H. Teevau(?). |
1878 | |
| Box: 68 | Volume : 1 | Letter Book.
Scope and Contents NoteFrequent correspondents include Frederick Cook, Ellen Kemble, Luther R. Marsh, Royal Phelps, G.D. Scull, Moses Coit Tyler, and George Cabot Ward.
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1881-1888 | |
| Box: 69 | Volume : 1 | Letter Book.
Scope and Contents NoteFrequent correspondents include William R. Huntington, William B. Isham, Frank B. Kelly, and Lewis S. Patrick.
The associated register for letters A-G from the letterpress book is detached and stored in a folder in the box with the volume. |
1888-1907 | |
| Box: 70 | Volume : 1 | Letter Book.
Scope and Contents NoteFrequent correspondents include V.D. Allen, Gerard Beekman, Mrs. Amos Draper, Stuyvesant Fish, Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, Nelson Robinson, Herbert Satterlee, and John A. Weekes.
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1907-1911 | |
| Box: 71 | Volume : 1 | Letter Book.
Scope and Contents NoteNo notable frequent correspondents.
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1911-1913 | |
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