St. Nicholas Correspondence of Mary Mapes Dodge 1867-1903

Summary

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Overview

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Abstract

Consists of letters to Mary Mapes Dodge in her capacity as editor of the successful New York City children's magazine St. Nicholas from contributors and literary friends.

Description

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Description

The collection consists of letters to Dodge in her capacity as editor of St. Nicholas magazine from contributors and literary friends. Included are autograph letters of Amelia E. Barr, John Burroughs, Susan Coolidge, Rebecca Harding Davis, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Constance Cary Harrison, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, H.H. (Helen Hunt), Rudyard Kipling, Lucy Larcom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mrs. Oliphant, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Celia Thaxter, Edith Matilda Thomas, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

Collection Creator Biography

Mary Mapes Dodge was an author and the first editor and principal force behind St. Nicholas, a children's magazine published by Charles Scribner's Sons. She is best known for the novel Hans Brinker, or, The Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland (1866), which was an instant best-seller.

Collection History

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Custodial History

Copies of the Swann Galleries auction catalogs describing the lots which made the collection are kept with the collection.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Lauren Hoffman '15 in May 2012. Finding aid written by Lauren Hoffman '15 in May 2012.

Access and Use

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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. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Preferred Citation

St. Nicholas Correspondence of Mary Mapes Dodge; 1867-1903, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

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Topics

• American literature
• Women's studies

Subject Terms

Genre Terms

• Correspondence
• Editors
• New York
• New York (State)
• Novelists, American
• Poets, American
• Women novelists
• Women poets

Alternative Form Available

Publications: Some of the letters have been published in Catharine Morris Wright's Lady of the Silver Skates (Jamestown, RI: Clingstone Press, 1979)

Contents and Arrangement

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	Title	Date	Container
	Swann's Sale Catalogue	1982 June 24	Box 1, Folder 1
	Aldrich, Thomas Bailey	1889 March 27	Box 1, Folder 2
	Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston	1899 August 24	Box 1, Folder 3
	Burroughs, John	1898 November 25	Box 1, Folder 4
	Champney, Elizabeth Williams	undated	Box 1, Folder 5
	Cone, Helen Gray	1899 October 30	Box 1, Folder 6
	Cowden-Clarke, Mary Victoria	1888 March 23	Box 1, Folder 7
	Custer, Elizabeth Bacon	undated	Box 1, Folder 8
	Davis, Rebecca Blaire Harding	undated	Box 1, Folder 9
	Field, Kate	1885 September 7	Box 1, Folder 10
	Freeman, Mary Eleanor (Wilkins)	1896 January 1	Box 1, Folder 11
	Gilder, Richard Watson	1896-1901	Box 1, Folder 12
	Goodale, Dora Read	1895 August 3	Box 1, Folder 13
	Hale, Edward E.	1885 October 25	Box 1, Folder 14
	Harland, Anne	1898 October 17	Box 1, Folder 15
	Harrison, Constance Cary	undated	Box 1, Folder 16
	Harte, Bret	1887 September 13	Box 1, Folder 17
	Hawthorne, Julian	1883 September 9	Box 1, Folder 18
	Herrick, Christine Terhune	1886 November 27	Box 1, Folder 19
	Higginson, T.W.	1877-1882	Box 1, Folder 20
	Howells, Mildred	undated	Box 1, Folder 21
	Howells, William Dean	1884-1890	Box 1, Folder 22
	Hutton, Lawrence	undated	Box 1, Folder 23
	Jackson, Helen Maria (Fiske) Hunt	1885 April 30	Box 1, Folder 24
	Jenks, Tudor	1899 September 11	Box 1, Folder 25
	Johnson, Rossiter	1898	Box 1, Folder 26
	Kinney, Elizabeth Clementine (Dodge)	1885 February 6	Box 1, Folder 27
	Kipling, Rudyard	1892-1895	Box 1, Folder 28
	Lathrop, Rose (Hawthorne)	undated	Box 1, Folder 29
	Larcom, Lucy	1881-1884	Box 1, Folder 30
	Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	1877 May 20	Box 1, Folder 31
	Merington, Marguerite	1902 February 20	Box 1, Folder 32
	Miller, Joaquin	1882 September 14	Box 1, Folder 33
	Mitchell, D.G.	undated	Box 1, Folder 34
	Mitchell, Maria	undated	Box 1, Folder 35
	Moulton, Ellen Louise (Chandler)	1875	Box 1, Folder 36
	Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson	undated	Box 1, Folder 37
	Page, Thomas Nelson	1887 September 17	Box 1, Folder 38
	Proctor, Edna Dean	1903	Box 1, Folder 39
	Reid, Captain Mayne	1883	Box 1, Folder 40
	Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth Munson	1893 February 28	Box 1, Folder 41
	Scudder, Horace E.	1867	Box 1, Folder 42
	Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott	1889	Box 1, Folder 43
	Sprague-Smith, Isabelle Dwight	undated	Box 1, Folder 44
	Stedman, Edmund C.	1875-1893	Box 1, Folder 45
	Stockton, Frank R.	1881-1889	Box 1, Folder 46
	Stoddard, Elizabeth Drew Barston	undated	Box 1, Folder 47
	Stuart, Ruth MacEnery	undated	Box 1, Folder 48
	Taylor, Bayard	1876 January 13	Box 1, Folder 49
	Thaxter, Celia	1879-1893	Box 1, Folder 50
	Thomas, Edith Matilda	undated	Box 1, Folder 51
	Throwbridge, John Townsend	1873-1883	Box 1, Folder 52
	Warner, C.D.	1883-1886	Box 1, Folder 53
	Wells, Carolyn	1902 March 8	Box 1, Folder 54
	Whittier, John Greenleaf	1887-1892	Box 1, Folder 55
	Willard, Frances Elizabeth	1894 September 15	Box 1, Folder 56
	Winter, William	1874 December 19	Box 1, Folder 57
	Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey	1889	Box 1, Folder 58
	Miscellaenous Mail	undated	Box 1, Folder 59