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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Dodge, Mary Mapes (1830-1905)
- Title:
- St. Nicholas Correspondence of Mary Mapes Dodge
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/js956f88b
- Dates:
- 1867-1903
- Size:
- 1 box
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
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.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
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:
Dodge
Mary Mapes Dodge was an American children's writer and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker; or The Silver Skates, A Story of Life in Holland. In 1859 she began writing and editing, working with her father to publish two magazines, the Working Farmer and the United States Journal. Within a few years she had great success with a collection of short stories ns2:titled The Irvington Stories (1864). Dodge then wrote Hans Brinker, which became an instant bestseller. Later on she was an associate editor of Health and Home, edited by Harriet Beecher Stowe. She had charge of the household and children's departments of that paper. She became an editor in her own right with the children's magazine St. Nicholas, published by Charles Scribner' Sons, for she was able to solicit stories from a number of well-known writers including Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. St. Nicholas became one of the most successful magazines for children during the second half of the nineteenth century, with a circulation of almost 70,000.. Dodge is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, at Hillside, New Jersey.
Collection History
- Custodial History
Copies of the Swann Galleries auction catalogs describing the lots which made the collection are kept with the collection.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Lauren Hoffman '15 in May 2012. Finding aid written by Lauren Hoffman '15 in May 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
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.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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.
- Credit this material:
St. Nicholas Correspondence of Mary Mapes Dodge; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/js956f88b
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
Find More
- Existence and Location of Copies
Publications: Some of the letters have been published in Catharine Morris Wright's Lady of the Silver Skates (Jamestown, RI: Clingstone Press, 1979)
- Subject Terms:
- Editors -- New York (State) -- New York. -- 19th century -- Correspondence
Novelists, American. -- 19th century -- Correspondence
Poets, American -- 19th century. -- Correspondence - Genre Terms:
- Women novelists. -- 19th century -- Correspondence
Women poets. -- 19th century -- Correspondence - Names:
- Thaxter, Celia (1835-1894)
