[Note from webmaster, 2008: The Book Industry Study Group sells a more up-to-date Guide to Publishers' Archives covering book publishers active in the 20th century. Dr. Albinski's 1993 list remains, however, the only freely available listing of such archives, one which also includes periodicals and literary agents.]
to Periodicals' Records
to Literary Agents' Records
BOOK PUBLISHERS
Allen & Unwin, London (Graham Rawson, ed advisor)
University of Georgia
1913-1947, 8,199 items [NUCMC 84-2359]
American Heritage, University of Oregon
Boston 1954-1968, 3ft [NUCMC 76-1277]
(James Parton, ed)
Baker Library, Harvard University
1925-1974, records, 80ft [NUCMC 74-342]
Appleton, NY Columbia University
1864-1933, 128 items, f/a [NUCMC 64-1332]
Appleton-Century Lilly Library, Indiana University
1846-1962, 6,249 items, f/a [NUCMC 78-294]
Richard Bentley, London [Chadwyck-Healey mfm -
University of Illinois/
UCLA]
Corresp. to Richard Bentley
55 pces.
Princeton University Library
NYPL, The Berg Collection
Harvard, Houghton Library
copyright agreements
Black Sparrow Press University of New Mexico
1973-1975, 8ft, f/a [Hinding 11,221]
Black Sun Press (Caresse Crosby, publisher)
Southern Illinois University
1912-1970, 19cu.ft, f/a [NUCMC 82-252]
Bobbs-Merrill (J.B. Pinker files)
Indianapolis Lilly Library, Indiana,
1885-1957, 131,056 items, f/a [Ash 1695]
(J.J.Curtis, Director) aubiob. questionnaires, readers reports
(Angus Cameron, ed. 1930s)
Oral History, Columbia Univ.
Boni & Liveright University of Pennsylvania
RLIN
Book of the Month Club Library of Congress
1939-1958, 23ft, f/a [NUCMC 64-1558
Hinding, 2,216 : NIDS US 2.1.98]
R.R. Bowker & Co Company Offices
NY Fred G. Melcher Library
205 E 42nd St, NY, 10036
80 drawer vertical file [Ash 1696]
(R.R. Bowker, publisher)
NYPL
1859-1953, 171 boxes, 29 vols. 5
packages, f/a (part) [Hinding 12,395]
R.R. Bowker
DLC
Copyright/Harper's agent 1880-1882
2,200 items.
George Braziller, NY (G. Braziller, publisher)
Columbia University
Oral History
Brentano's (Lowell Brentano)
NY University of Oregon
1917-1952, 6ft, f/a [Hinding 14,328]
Calder & Boyars Lilly Library, Indiana University
London 1875-1950, 250,000 items [Ash 1695]
Chatto & Windus UCLA
London 1861-1900, 877 items [Ash 1695, UCLA
guide]
Univ. of Kansas City
Major -
City Lights Books Bancroft Library, Berkeley
SF (incl. Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
1953-1970, 13 boxes, 4 cartons, f/a
[NUCMC 80-2249]
Constable & Co Temple University
London 15,000 items corresp. [Ash 1696]
Directors' files, Records 1899-1959
9.6 cuft (24 boxes) RLIN
Copeland and Day American Antiquarian Scty
Boston 1880-1900, 1 box, corresp. [NUCMC 62-3209]
Coward-McCann (Ernestine Evans, ed)
NY Columbia University
1939-1950, 350 items [NUCMC 70-112]
Crowell Crowell-Collier
NY NYPL
1931-1955, 806ft f/a RLIN
(M.J. Moses, reader)
Duke University
1789-1960, 22,079 items & 408 vols,
card index [NUCMC 75-1963]
Curtis, Brown Columbia University
1914-1975, 661,000 items [NUCMC 78-675]
(C.H.K. Curtis, publisher)
Historical Society of Pa.
1912-1938, 677 items [NUCMC 60-3152]
John Day Princeton University
NY 1926-1963, 52 boxes, 126 cartons, 37 cases
ed files, corresp. [Hinding 11,166]
Dodd, Mead Amer. Antiquarian Scty
NY 1836-1939, 2 boxes, RLIN.
Doubleday (Daniel Longwell, ed)
NY Columbia University
1920-1974, 24,750 items RLIN
(Margaret Cousins, ed)
University of Texas
1921-1973, 14.5ft, f/a, RLIN
Doubleday archives, Florida?
[Jim West]
Doubleday, Doran (E. Reichl, graphic designer)
(1928 merger) Columbia University
1889-1981, 2,200 items f/a [NUCMC 84-609]
Dramatists Play Service American Play Co.
NY NYPL
1940-50, 1 carton [Hinding 12,372]
The Dryden Press (Stanley Burnshaw, ed)
University of Texas
Goliard Press Columbia University
London 1961-1970, 500 items [NUCMC 77-94]
Greenberg: Publisher Columbia University
1894-1976, 49,000 items, RLIN
Greenwillow Publishers University of Oregon
(division of Wm. Morrow) 1974-1984, 448 v, 46 boxes f/a
[NUCMC 89-1521 : NIDS 4.109.101]
The Grolier Club, NY The Grolier Club, NY
Correspondence & records,
incl. publication records
1884-1984, 40cuft. RLIN
Grosset & Dunlap, NY (to 1944, with Putnam; bought
by syndicate, later Bantam)
Harcourt Brace Harvard [Guide to Mss.]
Accessions *67M-150, 150A
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Company offices
NY 757 Third Avenue, NY [Ash 1696]
Harper Princeton University
NY nd, 14 boxes [NUCMC 61-969]
Harper & Bros Columbia University
Boston contract files & financial records
19thc, 13,000 items [Ash 1695]
Pierpont Morgan Library
[James West - smallish]
(Theodore Stanton, UK agent)
Rutgers University
1880-1925, 6,000 items, f/a [NUCMC 66-132]
DLC, rudimentary
(R.R. Bowker, agent)
University of Illinois
G.P. Putnam (London, agent)
6 cuft. [Brichford]
Harper & Row [Chadwyck-Healey mfm]
Columbia University
23,000 items [Ash 1695]
D.C. Heath & Co American Antiquarian Society
1877-1899, 432 items [Ash 1695] RLIN
Heritage Press (G.J. Macy, publisher)
Columbia University
1900-1959, 2,500 items [NUCMC 77-108]
Henry Holt & Co, NY Princeton University
1859+, 300 V. 75 cartons, large writers'
file 1900+ [NUCMC 61-831]
(Roland Holt, V-P)
Univ. of NC, Chapel Hill
1883-1956, 3,000 items [NUCMC 83-1744]
Houghton, Mifflin Houghton Library, Harvard
Boston 1850-1958, 85,000 items f/a
(& Riverside Press [NUCMC 82-628 - Harvard NIDS]
Cambridge)
Benjamin Huebsch Library of Congress
Viking 1893-1964, 17ft
[NUCMC 66-1421:NIDS 2.1.387]
Alfred A. Knopf Inc, HRC UT, Austin.
NY (merged with Random House, 1960)
NYPL
1930-1961, 28 boxes, f/a [NUCMC 69-892]
(Alfred A. Knopf, publ)
NYPL
1919-1951, 3 boxes, f/a [NUCMC 69-
891 : Hinding 12,537]
(E. Reichl, graphic designer)
Columbia University
1899-1981, 2,200 items [NUCMC 84-609]
(Angus Cameron, senior ed)
Columbia University
Oral History Collection
Lee & Shepard American Antiquarian Society
Boston 1861-1942, 12 boxes, calendar with
collection [NUCMC 62-3059]
J.B. Lippincott Trinity College, Hartford
Phil. 1860-1896, 65 items corres [NUCMC 71-497]
(Ernestine Evans, ed)
Columbia University
1939-1950, 350 items [NUCMC 70-112]
(family papers, including business papers of
Walter Lippincott, partner)
Historical Scty of Pennsylvania
1775-1950, 5,000 items [NUCMC 65-829]
Little, Brown (M.J. Moses, reader)
Boston Duke University
1789-1960, 22,079 items, 408 v. [NUCMC 75-1963]
(Angus Cameron, ed)
Columbia University
(1938-51) Oral History collection
A.C. MacClurg & Co Newberry Library
Chicago 1878-1967, 5,100 items, f/a [NUCMC 69-434]
Macmillan (Canada) McMaster University
150+ lin ft.
Macmillan (US) NYPL
1889-1960, 91ft [RLIN]
S.S. McClure Indiana University
21,000 items RLIN
Merrymount Press Huntington Library
Boston 1893-1948, 214,729 items, f/a [NUCMC 77-330]
Methuen Lilly Library, Indiana
London 1899-1944, 12 v stock ledgers [Ash 1695]
Modern American Library See Random, Columbia
NY (Random House)
Thomas Nelson & Sons (US) Temple University
[Ash 1696]
(John Buchan, ed)
Brown University
1898-1976, 150 items, f/a [NUCMC 78-81]
(John Buchan - with lit. agent Colles)
Dartmouth College
1898-1925, 313 items, includes corresp.
with J.B. Pinker, card catalogue [NUCMC 65-1845]
New American Library (Victor Weybright, founder)
University of Wyoming
1920-1974, 8ft [NUCMC 75-2105]
(Theodore Stanton, UK agent)
Rutgers University
1880-1925, 6,000 items, f/a
Nonesuch Press (G.J. Macy, publ)
Columbia University
1916-1960, 2,500 items [NUCMC 77-108]
W.W. Norton Columbia University
NY 1923-1967, 14,700 items, corres, mss &
proofs [NUCMC 70-135]
(Columbia Guide: 165,000 in 453 boxes)
Pantheon Books Columbia University
1944-1967, 12,500 items corres [NUCMC 77-116]
Putnam (Samuel Putnam, ed)
NY Princeton University
1927-1933, 1,500 items [NUCMC 60-1397]
[recent earlier acquisition - JW]
Random House (Bennet Cerf, founder)
NY Columbia University
1925-1971, 400,000 items [NUCMC 78-667]
Grant Richards Georgetown University
London 1872-1948 2.5 linft. [Ash 1695]
[Chadwyck-Healey mfm]
Univ. of Illinois
1897-1936, 20,000 items [NUCMC 61-2210]
Princeton University
1906-23, 1 box corresp. RLIN
Roberts Bros Columbia University
Boston 1843-1932, 3 boxes [NUCMC 61-3355]
Charles Scribner's Sons Princeton University
NY 1878-1960, 200ft, f/a [NUCMC 72-598]
Secker (Martin Secker)
Lilly Library, Indiana
1930-1944, 200 items [Ash 1695]
(Martin Secker)
University of Tulsa
[Ash 1696]
Univ. of Illinois
2.8 cu ft. 1910-31 [Brichford]
Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books (Richard L. Simon)
Columbia University
1915-1970, 14,000 items [NUCMC 84-624]
(Max L. Schuster)
Columbia University
1925-1969, 46,000 items [NUCMC 73-102]
Colin Smythe, London McMaster University
120+ linft.
Ticknor & Fields Houghton Library, Harvard
Boston 1832-1901, 120 vol, letter books
1848-1900, cost books 1832-1899,
f/a, fMS Am 1185 [NUCMC 83-995]
(also James R. Osgood; Fields Osgood & Co)
(Ticknor family papers)
Boston Public Library
1859-1940, 20 items (corresp. with
authors) f/a, [NUCMC 73-33]
Univ of NC, Chapel Hill
(papers, bib, 1989, 213)
Way & Williams (Chauncy Williams, publ)
Chicago Univ. of NC, Greensboro
corresp, scrapbooks [Ash 1696]
Weybright & Talley (Victor Weybright, publ.)
Signet/Penguin/Mentor University of Wyoming
1920-1974, 8ft [NUCMC 75-2105]
JOURNAL ARCHIVES
American Quarterly (W.V. O'Connor, ed)
Syracuse University
1943-1967, f/a [NUCMC 68-1747,
70-715 : NIDS 4.78.25]
Antipodes (Robert Ross, ed)
PSU
Atlantic Monthly Houghton Library, Harvard
85,000 items, unbound corresp.
1850-1958, [bMS An 1925] [NUCMC 82-628]
(Bliss Perry, ed)
Houghton Library, Harvard
1892-1942, 600 items (bMS Am 1343)
f/a [NUCMC 82-658]
(Thomas B. Aldrich, ed)
Houghton Library, Harvard
1855-1925, 5,400 items, f/a [NUCMC 81-401]
Briarcliff Quarterly (Norman MacLeod, ed)
(formerly Maryland Q.) Princeton University
.45 cu ft, unpubl. a/biog. RLIN
Century Magazine Huntington Library
(orig. Scribner's) 1885-1914, 760 items [Hinding 1,410]
NYPL
1870-1917 (incl. Scribner's) 207
boxes [NUCMC 69-810]
AAA, Detroit
mfm of letters on illus.
Chicago Tribune-NY News University of Oregon
Fiction Dept 1919-1969, 78ft, 7,700 items
f/a [NUCMC 74-823]
Contemporary Poetry (Mary Owings Miller, ed)
1941-44, Poetry Forum, Univ. of Baltimore, MD
Baltimore 1918-1974, 2.5 ft, RLIN
The Delineator (Marie Meloney, ed)
Columbia University
1915-1943, 4,730 items, f/a
[Hinding 12,044]
Famous Story Magazine (G.T. Delacorte, ed)
Columbia University
1925-1927, 26 items [NUCMC 78-676]
Fiction House (pulp magazines) (Malcolm Reiss, ed)
University of Oregon
1922-1975, 1.5ft, f/a [NUCMC
89-1571 : NIDS 4.109.75, no.2]
Galaxy, NY (W.C. Church, ed)
(Merged with Atlantic Monthly) NYPL
1863-1878, 8 boxes, 1 v.
[NUCMC 68-1124]
Grand Street Columbia University
1981-1983, 700 items, f/a
[NUCMC 84-547]
Harper's Magazine (R.R. Bowker, English agent)
NYPL
1859-1953, 171 boxes, 29 v, 5
packages [Hinding 12, 395]
Harper's Monthly (Edward S. Martin, ed)
NY Houghton Library, Harvard
1874-1939, 14,000 items, 35
folders, f/a [NUCMC 81-598]
(John Fischer, ed]
State Historical Scty of Wisconsin
1945-1963, 3ft, f/a [NUCMC 64-1604]
Archives of American Art, Detroit
1946-1965, illus, letters, biography,
1150 items, mfm [NUCMC 67-1070]
Interim, Seattle, 1944+ Will Stevens/Eliz. Dewey Stevens
Kenyon Review, 1939+ Kenyon College, Gambier OH
J.C. Ransom
Ladies Home Journal Haverford College
1900-1964, 28ft & 530 items f/a
[NUCMC 89-663 - last of 4 entries]
(Christopher Morley, ed)
University of Virginia
1915-1953, 160 items [NUCMC 77-1239]
Literary World (Edward Abbott, ed)
Bowdoin College, Maine
1877-1903, 515 items f/a [NUCMC 71-27]
Little Review University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1914-1929, 2cu.ft, f/a [Hinding
17,843 : Ash 1696]
London Magazine HRC, UT, Austin
John Lehmann, ed.
Masses, New Masses (Stanley Burnshaw)
1917+ The Liberator UT
(Charles Humboldt, ed)
Yale University
1935-1963, 4ft, register with
collection [NUCMC 76-1433]
Nation (Freda Kirchwey, ed/publ)
Schlesinger Library
1910-1958, 9 cartons, 2.5 boxes, 1
o/size folder [Hinding 6,694]
(Wm. C. Brownell, ed)
Amherst College
1871-1928, 5.5ft [Hinding 5,861]
(Irita Van Doren, lit ed)
Library of Congress
1920-1966, 4,360 items, f/a [NUCMC
69-2055 : NIDS US 2.1.708]
NYPL, records 1873-1906, 5 V, 1 box
[Hinding 12,572]
New Directions Houghton Library, Harvard
Norfolk, CT: 1936+ 1937-1974, 365 items, f/a, some
James Laughlin 1V. restrictions [NUCMC 81-614]
New Republic (Willard Straight, founder)
Cornell University
1857-1922, 90ft [Hinding 11,720]
(Robert Littell, asst. ed)
University of Oregon
1901-1963, 8ft, f/a [Hinding, 14,411]
New Review (Sam. Putnam, editor)
Paris, 1931-32 Princeton University
1927-1933, 1,500 items [NUCMC 60-1397]
New York Evening Post (John Thompson, lit. ed)
University of Virginia
1842-1926, 2ft. f/a [NUCMC 65-1029]
North American Review (Theodore Stanton, UK agent)
Rutgers University
1880-1925, 6000 items, f/a [NUCMC 66-132]
Pa'Lante Columbia University
1959-1969, 600 items [NUCMC 73-98]
Poetry. 1912+ (Harriet Monroe)
University of Chicago
1912-1960 (ms. before 1936), 32ft,
f/a [NUCMC 64-150]
(Augustine J. Bowe)
Newberry Library
1903-1966, 5,000 items, f/a [NUCMC 67-1958]
Harriet Monroe Lib. of Modern Poetry
University of Chicago
poetry mss, 49 items, f/a [NUCMC 64-806]
Poetry London-New York Columbia University
1943-1968, 400 items corres,
f/a [NUCMC 84-605]
Reality (Raphael Soyer, ed)
Cornell University
1949-1954, 288 items [NUCMC 70-1128]
Rocky Mountain Review (Ray B. West, ed)
Utah, 1937+ Utah State Univ, Logan
30 lin ft, register, RLIN
Saturday Review of Literature (Amy Loveman, founder)
Columbia University
1935-1943, 28 items f/a [Hinding 12,035]
Scribner's Magazine (Robert Bridges' personal papers, only
some of which pertain to his editorship)
Dickinson College
1865-1941, 1200 items, card cat [NUCMC 66-464]
Sewanee Review (Andrew N. Lytle, ed)
Joint University Libraries, TN
1868-1966, 5ft, f/a [Hinding 15,934]
Shenandoah Washington & Lee University
1950-1979, 5.5ft (mod poets) [NUCMC 89-2017]
Southern Humanities Review (Eugene Current-Garcia, ed)
Auburn University
1934-1978, 3ft [NUCMC 83-136]
Time-Life, Inc. (Henry R. Luce, ed)
Library of Congress
1917-1967, 35,000 items, f/a [NUCMC
77-1545 : NIDS US 2.1.451]
Woman's Journal (Mary Livermore, ed)
Princeton University
1846-1905, 7 boxes, f/a [Hinding, 11,167]
X: A Quarterly Review Lilly Library, Indiana
London 1959-1963, 334 items, calendar
with collection [NUCMC 83-1297]
LITERARY AGENTS
Lurton Blassingame University of Oregon
1965-1966, 5ft, corres [NUCMC 70-1775]
Brandt & Brandt Harvard, Guide to Mss.
Accession nos *67M-150
James O. Brown Columbia University
1927-70, 87000 items, f/a [Hinding 11,954]
Benjamin De Casseres Brooklyn Public Library
1900-45, 521 items, f/a [NUCMC 65-14]
Colles, Wm. Morris Columbia Univ.
Author's Syndicate 1800 items [NUCMC 78-670]
Rochester Univ.
1 box [NIDS 4.21.58]
HRC UT
[letters to Praed, listed Tiffin]
Maurice Crain Columbia University
1946-70, 3,200 items [NUCMC 73-71]
John Cushman Assoc Columbia University
[RLIN]
Frieda Fishbein NYPL
1926-31, 57 items [NUCMC 72-1024]
Nathan Goldstone (film) University of Oregon
?-1966, 1 box [NUCMC 72-378]
Greenburger Lit. Agency University of Oregon
1903-71, 33ft (20000 letters)
[NUCMC 78-1126]
Lenniger Lit. Agency University of Oregon
1961-1966, corresp. Lenniger & Margolis,
12ft, f/a [NUCMC 69-996]
Harold Matson co. Columbia University
1937-1980, 75,000 items [NUCMC 84-557]
Monica McCall Boston University
1936-1963, 3,000 items, 72 boxes
f/a [NUCMC 70-49 : Hinding 6,045]
Harold Ober & Assoc. Princeton University
1927-82, 163 cuft, f/a [RLIN]
J.B. Pinker Huntington Library
1903-1904, 61 items, f/a [NUCMC 81-76]
----------- Houghton Library, Harvard
1900+, 31 boxes, 143 items (47M-141,
bmsEng 796) [NUCMC 83-946]
------------- Northwestern University
1900-34, 50000 items [NUCMC 60-2951]
------------ Southern Illinois
1929-1934, 200 items corres. with Aldington,
f/a [NUCMC 77-527]
-------------- HRC UT [JW]
----------------- NYPL, Berg Collection
Paul Revere Reynolds Northwestern University
(part of Pinker collection)
------------------- Columbia University
1899-1980, 139,720 items [NUCMC 78-712] RLIN
------------------ Princeton University
11 folders, 1897-1937
Leah Salisbury Columbia University
1928-1957, 42,000 items [NUCMC 69-638]
John Schaffner Columbia University
1948-59, 40,000 items [NUCMC 69-639]
Toni Strassman Columbia University
1937-1976, 14,230 items [NUCMC 78-718]
Jean Starr Untermeyer Columbia University
[RLIN]
Louis Untermeyer University of Delaware
1906-40, 1194 items, 4ft, corres.
f/a [NUCMC 71-1647] (advance written request)
A. Watkins, Inc. Columbia University
1883-1981, 101,500 items [NUCMC 84-483]
Armitage Watkins Columbia University
1941-48, US OWI, 500 items[NUCMC 84-644]
A.P. Watt & Son NYPL, Berg Collection
Annie Laurie Williams Columbia University
1922-71, 35000 items[NUCMC 73-111]
Nan Bowman Albinski
Senior Research Associate
Australia-New Zealand Studies Center
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park. Pa 16802
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