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A Guide to Publishers' Archives in the United States

by Nan Bowman Albinski

Dr. Albinski's list, compiled in 1993, remains the only freely available listing of publishers archives, and one which also includes periodicals and literary agents.

Book Publishers | Journal Publishers | Literary Agents

BOOK PUBLISHERS
Allen & Unwin London		(Graham Rawson, ed. advisor) University of Georgia 1913-1947, 8,199 items [NUCMC 84-2359]

American Heritage Boston		University of Oregon 1954-1968, 3ft [NUCMC 76-1277] (James Parton, editor) Baker Library, Harvard University 1925-1974, records, 80ft [NUCMC 74-342]

Appleton, NY New York		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 mf - University of Illinois/UCLA] Corresp. to Richard Bentley 55 pcs. Princeton University Library New York Public Library 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 Indianapolis		(J.B. Pinker files) Lilly Library, Indiana University 1885-1957, 131,056 items, f/a [Ash 1695] (J.J.Curtis, Director) autobiography questionnaires, readers reports (Angus Cameron, editor, 1930s) Oral History, Columbia University

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. New York		Company Offices Fred G. Melcher Library 205 E 42nd St, NY, 10036 80 drawer vertical file [Ash 1696] (R.R. Bowker, publisher) New York Public Library 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 New York		(G. Braziller, publisher) Columbia University Oral History

Brentano's New York		(Lowell Brentano) University of Oregon 1917-1952, 6ft, f/a [Hinding 14,328]

Calder & Boyars London		Lilly Library, Indiana University 1875-1950, 250,000 items [Ash 1695]

Chatto & Windus London		UCLA 1861-1900, 877 items [Ash 1695, UCLA guide] University of Kansas City Major -

City Lights Books San Francisco		Bancroft Library, Berkeley (including Lawrence Ferlinghetti) 1953-1970, 13 boxes, 4 cartons, f/a [NUCMC 80-2249]

Constable & Co. London		Temple University 15,000 items corresp. [Ash 1696] Directors' files, Records 1899-1959 9.6 cuft (24 boxes) RLIN

Copeland and Day Boston		American Antiquarian Society 1880-1900, 1 box, corresp. [NUCMC 62-3209]

Coward-McCann New York		(Ernestine Evans, editor) Columbia University 1939-1950, 350 items [NUCMC 70-112]

Crowell New York		Crowell-Collier New York Public Library 1931-1955, 806 ft 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 Pennsylvania 1912-1938, 677 items [NUCMC 60-3152]

John Day New York		Princeton University 1926-1963, 52 boxes, 126 cartons, 37 cases Editors files, corresp. [Hinding 11,166]

Dodd, Mead New York		American Antiquarian Society 1836-1939, 2 boxes, RLIN.

Doubleday New York		(Daniel Longwell, editor) Columbia University 1920-1974, 24,750 items RLIN (Margaret Cousins, editor) HRC University of Texas-Austin 1921-1973, 14.5ft, f/a, RLIN Doubleday archives, Florida? [Jim West]

Doubleday, Doran (1928 merger)		(E. Reichl, graphic designer) Columbia University 1889-1981, 2,200 items f/a [NUCMC 84-609]

Dramatists Play Service New York		American Play Co. New York Public Library 1940-1950, 1 carton [Hinding 12,372]

The Dryden Press		(Stanley Burnshaw, editor) HRC University of Texas-Austin

Goliard Press London		Columbia University 1961-1970, 500 items [NUCMC 77-94]

Greenberg: Publisher		Columbia University 1894-1976, 49,000 items, RLIN

Greenwillow Publishers (division of Wm. Morrow)		University of Oregon 1974-1984, 448 v, 46 boxes f/a [NUCMC 89-1521 : NIDS 4.109.101]

The Grolier Club New York		The Grolier Club, New York Correspondence & records, including publication records 1884-1984, 40cuft. RLIN

Grosset & Dunlap New York		(to 1944, with Putnam; bought by syndicate, later Bantam)

Harcourt Brace		Harvard [Guide to Mss.] Accessions *67M-150, 150A

Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich New York		Company offices 757 Third Avenue, New York [Ash 1696]

Harper New York		Princeton University nd, 14 boxes [NUCMC 61-969]

Harper & Bros Boston		Columbia University contract files & financial records 19th century, 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 mf] 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. New York		Princeton University 1859+, 300 v., 75 cartons, large writers' file 1900+ [NUCMC 61-831 (Roland Holt, V-P) University of NC, Chapel Hill 1883-1956, 3,000 items [NUCMC 83-1744]

Houghton, Mifflin Boston (and Riverside Press Cambridge)		Houghton Library, Harvard 1850-1958, 85,000 items f/a [NUCMC 82-628 - Harvard NIDS]

Benjamin Huebsch Viking		Library of Congress 1893-1964, 17ft [NUCMC 66-1421:NIDS 2.1.387]

Alfred A. Knopf Inc. New York (merged with Random House 1960)		HRC University of Texas-Austin New York Public Library 1930-1961, 28 boxes, f/a [NUCMC 69-892] (Alfred A. Knopf, publisher) New York Public Library 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 editor) Columbia University Oral History Collection

Lee & Shepard Boston		American Antiquarian Society 1861-1942, 12 boxes, calendar with collection [NUCMC 62-3059]

J.B. Lippincott Philadelphia		Trinity College, Hartford 1860-1896, 65 items corresp. [NUCMC 71-497] (Ernestine Evans, editor) Columbia University 1939-1950, 350 items [NUCMC 70-112] (family papers, including business papers of Walter Lippincott, partner) Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1775-1950, 5,000 items [NUCMC 65-829]

Little, Brown Boston		(M.J. Moses, reader) Duke University 1789-1960, 22,079 items, 408 v. [NUCMC 75-1963] (Angus Cameron, editor) Columbia University (1938-1951) Oral History collection

A.C. MacClurg & Co. Chicago		Newberry Library 1878-1967, 5,100 items, f/a [NUCMC 69-434]

Macmillan (Canada)		McMaster University 150+ lin ft.

Macmillan (US)		New York Public Library 1889-1960, 91ft [RLIN]

S.S. McClure		Indiana University 21,000 items RLIN

Merrymount Press Boston		Huntington Library 1893-1948, 214,729 items, f/a [NUCMC 77-330]

Methuen London		Lilly Library, Indiana University 1899-1944, 12 v stock ledgers [Ash 1695]

Modern American Library, New York (Random House)		See Random House, Columbia University

Thomas Nelson & Sons (US)		Temple University [Ash 1696] (John Buchan, editor) Brown University 1898-1976, 150 items, f/a [NUCMC 78-81] (John Buchan - with literary agent Colles) Dartmouth College 1898-1925, 313 items, includes corresp. with J.B. Pinker, card catalog [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, publisher) Columbia University 1916-1960, 2,500 items [NUCMC 77-108]

W.W. Norton New York		Columbia University 1923-1967, 14,700 items, corresp, mss & proofs [NUCMC 70-135] (Columbia Guide: 165,000 in 453 boxes)

Pantheon Books		Columbia University 1944-1967, 12,500 items corresp. [NUCMC 77-116]

Putnam New York		(Samuel Putnam, editor) Princeton University 1927-1933, 1,500 items [NUCMC 60-1397] [recent earlier acquisition - JW]

Random House New York		(Bennet Cerf, founder) Columbia University 1925-1971, 400,000 items [NUCMC 78-667]

Grant Richards London		Georgetown University 1872-1948 2.5 linear feet [Ash 1695] [Chadwyck-Healey mf] University of Illinois 1897-1936, 20,000 items [NUCMC 61-2210] Princeton University 1906-1923, 1 box corresp. RLIN

Roberts Bros. Boston		Columbia University 1843-1932, 3 boxes [NUCMC 61-3355]

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York		Princeton University 1878-1960, 200ft, f/a [NUCMC 72-598]

Secker		(Martin Secker) Lilly Library, Indiana University 1930-1944, 200 items [Ash 1695] (Martin Secker) University of Tulsa [Ash 1696] University of Illinois 2.8 cu ft. 1910-1931 [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+ linear feet

Ticknor & Fields Boston		Houghton Library, Harvard 1832-1901, 120 v, 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] University of NC, Chapel Hill (papers, bib, 1989, 213)

Way & Williams Chicago		(Chauncy Williams, publisher) University of NC, Greensboro corresp, scrapbooks [Ash 1696]

Weybright & Talley Signet/Penguin/Mentor		(Victor Weybright, publ.) University of Wyoming 1920-1974, 8ft [NUCMC 75-2105]

JOURNAL ARCHIVES
American Quarterly		(W.V. O'Connor, editor) Syracuse University 1943-1967, f/a [NUCMC 68-1747, 70-715 : NIDS 4.78.25]

Antipodes		(Robert Ross, editor) PSU

Atlantic Monthly		Houghton Library, Harvard 85,000 items, unbound corresp. 1850-1958, [bMS An 1925] [NUCMC 82-628] (Bliss Perry, editor) Houghton Library, Harvard 1892-1942, 600 items (bMS Am 1343) f/a [NUCMC 82-658] (Thomas B. Aldrich, editor) Houghton Library, Harvard 1855-1925, 5,400 items, f/a [NUCMC 81-401]

Briarcliff Quarterly (formerly Maryland Q.)		(Norman MacLeod, editor) Princeton University .45 cu ft, unpublished autobiography RLIN

Century Magazine (orig. Scribner's)		Huntington Library 1885-1914, 760 items [Hinding 1,410] New York Public Library 1870-1917 (incl. Scribner's) 207 boxes [NUCMC 69-810] AAA, Detroit mf of letters on illus.

Chicago Tribune New York News Fiction Dept.		University of Oregon 1919-1969, 78ft, 7,700 items f/a [NUCMC 74-823]

Contemporary Poetry 1941-1944, Poetry Forum Baltimore		(Mary Owings Miller, editor) University of Baltimore, Maryland 1918-1974, 2.5 ft, RLIN

The Delineator		(Marie Meloney, editor) Columbia University 1915-1943, 4,730 items, f/a [Hinding 12,044]

Famous Story Magazine		(G.T. Delacorte, editor) Columbia University 1925-1927, 26 items [NUCMC 78-676]

Fiction House (pulp magazines)		(Malcolm Reiss, editor) University of Oregon 1922-1975, 1.5ft, f/a [NUCMC 89-1571 : NIDS 4.109.75, no.2]

Galaxy, NY (Merged with Atlantic Monthly)		(W.C. Church, editor) New York Public Library 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) New York Public Library 1859-1953, 171 boxes, 29 v, 5 pkgs [Hinding 12, 395]

Harper's Monthly New York		(Edward S. Martin, editor) Houghton Library, Harvard 1874-1939, 14,000 items, 35ff, f/a [NUCMC 81-598] (John Fischer, editor) State Historical Soc. of Wisconsin 1945-1963, 3ft, f/a [NUCMC 64-1604] Archives of American Art, Detroit 1946-1965, illus, letters, biography, 1150 items, mf [NUCMC 67-1070]

Interim, Seattle, 1944+		Will Stevens/Eliz. Dewey Stevens

Kenyon Review, 1939+ J. C. Ransom		Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio

Ladies Home Journal		Haverford College 1900-1964, 28ft & 530 items f/a [NUCMC 89-663 - last of 4 entries] (Christopher Morley, editor) University of Virginia 1915-1953, 160 items [NUCMC 77-1239]

Literary World		(Edward Abbott, editor) 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 University of Texas-Austin John Lehmann, ed.

Masses, New Masses 1917+ The Liberator		(Stanley Burnshaw) HRC University of Texas-Austin (Charles Humboldt, editor) Yale University 1935-1963, 4ft, register with collection [NUCMC 76-1433]

Nation		(Freda Kirchwey, editor/publisher) Schlesinger Library 1910-1958, 9 cartons, 2.5 boxes, 1 o/size folder [Hinding 6,694] (Wm. C. Brownell, editor) Amherst College 1871-1928, 5.5ft [Hinding 5,861] (Irita Van Doren, literary editor) Library of Congress 1920-1966, 4,360 items, f/a [NUCMC 69-2055 : NIDS US 2.1.708] New York Public Library records 1873-1906, 5vols, 1 box [Hinding 12,572]

New Directions Norfolk, CT: 1936+ James Laughlin 1v		Houghton Library, Harvard 1937-1974, 365 items, f/a, some . restrictions [NUCMC 81-614]

New Republic		(Willard Straight, founder) Cornell University 1857-1922, 90 ft [Hinding 11,720] (Robert Littell, assistant editor) University of Oregon 1901-1963, 8ft, f/a [Hinding, 14,411]

New Review Paris, 1931-1932		(Sam. Putnam, editor) Princeton University 1927-1933, 1,500 items [NUCMC 60-1397]

New York Evening Post		(John Thompson, literary editor) 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 corresp, f/a [NUCMC 84-605]

Reality		(Raphael Soyer, editor) Cornell University 1949-1954, 288 items [NUCMC 70-1128]

Rocky Mountain Review Utah, 1937+		(Ray B. West, editor) Utah State University, Logan 30 linear feet, 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 (modern poets) [NUCMC 89-2017]

Southern Humanities Review		(Eugene Current-Garcia, editor) Auburn University 1934-1978, 3ft [NUCMC 83-136]

Time-Life, Inc.		(Henry R. Luce, editor) Library of Congress 1917-1967, 35,000 items, f/a [NUCMC 77-1545 : NIDS US 2.1.451]

Woman's Journal		(Mary Livermore, editor) Princeton University 1846-1905, 7 boxes, f/a [Hinding, 11,167]

X: A Quarterly Review London		Lilly Library, Indiana University 1959-1963, 334 items, calendar with collection [NUCMC 83-1297]

LITERARY AGENTS
Lurton Blassingame		University of Oregon 1965-1966, 5ft, corresp. [NUCMC 70-1775]

Brandt & Brandt		Harvard Guide to Mss. Accession # *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 Author's Syndicate		Columbia University 1800 items [NUCMC 78-670] Rochester University 1 box [NIDS 4.21.58] HRC University of Texas-Austin [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		New York Public Library 1926-1931, 57 items [NUCMC 72-1024]

Nathan Goldstone (film)		University of Oregon ?-1966, 1 box [NUCMC 72-378]

Greenburger Literary Agency		University of Oregon 1903-1971, 33ft (20000 letters) [NUCMC 78-1126]

Lenniger Literary 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 1900-1934, 50,000 items [NUCMC 60-2951] Southern Illinois University 1929-1934, 200 items corresp. with Aldington, f/a [NUCMC 77-527] HRC University of Texas-Austin [JW] New York Public Library 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 1948-1959, 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 1906-1940, 1194 items, 4ft, corresp. 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 1941-1948, US OWI, 500 items [NUCMC 84-644]

A.P. Watt & Son		New York Public Library Berg Collection

Annie Laurie Williams		Columbia University 1922-1971, 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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