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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930
- Title:
- George Haven Putnam Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3484zg98h
- Dates:
- 1853-1929
- Size:
- 11 boxes and 2.8 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-11
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of business and personal papers of George Haven Putnam (1844-1930), an American publisher and author. Included are fully-indexed letterbooks (1879-1910), typescripts of Putnam's writings (ca. 1905-1929), scrapbooks of letters received and press clippings (1878-1917), and other clippings and printed material (1853-1928).
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of business and personal papers of Putnam. Included are fully-indexed letterbooks (1879-1910); typescripts of Putnam's writings (ca. 1905-1929); scrapbooks of letters received and press clippings (1878-1917); and other clippings and printed material (1891-1917). The collection also contains a letterbook dealing with the estate of Putnam's mother, Victorine Haven Putnam (1891-1908); a 1923 memoir of Theodore Roosevelt, who was Putnam's partner in the 1880s; and a pencil portrait of Putnam by Henry Van der Weyde, drawn while both Union soldiers were imprisoned in Danville, a Confederate prison, during the Civil War.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930
George Haven Putnam (1844-1930) was an American publisher and author, and the eldest son of the co-founder of Wiley & Putnam, George Palmer Putnam, and Victorine Haven Putnam. Putnam served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was captured following the Battle of Cedar Creek and held prisoner at Libby Prison and Danville before being returned to the Union Army as part of a prisoner exchange in 1865. After his father's death in 1872, he and two of his brothers, John Bishop Putnam and Irving Putnam, took over the publishing company, renaming it "G. P. Putnam's Sons." In 1887, Putnam was involved in establishing the American Publishers' Copyright League.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Purchased from Joseph J. Felcone in 2009 (AM2010-27).
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Regine Heberlein in September 2010. Finding aid written by Regine Heberlein in September 2010.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- 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:
George Haven Putnam Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3484zg98h
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-11
