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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Seitz, Don C. (Don Carlos), 1862-1935
- Title:
- Don C. Seitz Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1v53jx00g
- Dates:
- 1854-1930
- Size:
- 7 boxes
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-7
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of research notes, articles, bibliographies, photographs, and printed matter of Don C. Seitz, American journalist, poet, and business manager of the New York World (1898–1923).
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of research notes, articles, bibliographies, photographs, and printed matter of Seitz. The bibliographies primarily cover pirates, buccaneers, privateers, filibusters, and adventurers of various sorts; included are manuscripts for Paul Jones: His Exploits in English Seas During 1778-1780 (NY: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1917) and The Tryal of Capt. William Kidd For Murther & Privacy Upon Six Several Indictments (N.Y.: R.R. Wilson, 1936). There are also bibliographies of American humorists, such as Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, and Eugene Field, as well as notes, articles, and photographs concerning Artemus Ward, James Gordon Bennett, Walt Whitman's home, Indian treaties, Mormons, Henry M. Stanley, and William Walker and his invasion of Nicaragua. In addition, there are poems by Seitz, including the collection Traveller: Poems of Life and Longing.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Seitz, Don C. (Don Carlos), 1862-1935
Don C. Seitz was a journalist, poet, and business manager of the New York World (1898–1923). He also wrote biographies of Joseph Pulitzer and Horace Greeley, among others.
Collection History
- Processing Information
This collection was processed in 2002. Finding aid written in 2002.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
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. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Don C. Seitz Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1v53jx00g
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-7
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- Subject Terms:
- American poetry -- 20th century.
Buccaneers.
Filibusters.
Humorists, American -- Bibliography.
Indigenous peoples of North America -- Treaties -- 19th century.
Journalists -- United States -- 20th century.
Mormons -- United States -- Bibliography.
Pirates -- Bibliography.
Pirates in literature. - Genre Terms:
- Photoprints.
Poems. - Names:
- Field, Eugene, 1850-1895
Kidd, William, ?-1701
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Walker, William, 1824-1860
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. - Places:
- Nicaragua -- History -- Filibuster war, 1855-1860.
