William Evarts Benjamin



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MS COLL/BENJAMIN, W.E.
MOST OF THIS COLLECTION IS SHELVED OFF-SITE

William Evarts Benjamin

Papers, 1817-1940

15 linear ft. (ca 4,000 items in 29 boxes and 1 flatbox)


Biography: William Evarts Benjamin (1859-1940) was a prominent publisher and collector.
Summary: The personal and business papers concern Benjamin's publishing and bookselling company, his numerous benefactions, the disposal of his collections and many printed catalogues for his company, 1833-1940. The two major correspondents are Charles Hnery Phelps and Edmund Clarence Stedman. Also included are the business and financial records for the printing, binding and extensive promotion through a network of agents of Stedman's A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time; new ed. (New York, W.E. Benjamin, 1894). There are also letters, manuscripts, documents and drawings of English literary figures collected by Benjamin; among these are 6 letters by George Eliot; 47 letters and 6 manuscripts by John Ruskin; and 3 letters and 1 manuscript of Joseph Mallord Turner, with 4 letters relating to the artist. In addition there are 10 drawings and watercolors by Ruskin.
1985 Addition: 37 letters and 1 manuscript were removed from Benjamin's copy of Robert Langton's The Childhood and Youth of Charles Dickens and cataloged for this collection. One letter from Langton and 32 from others were addressed to Charles Roach Smith, a well-known antiquary of London. Several letters concern numismatics (including 2 from John Stuart, Earl of Darnley, 1 each from William Henry Ashe, Baron Heytesbury, and Chas. Spence). Most of these letters relate to Charles Dickens: 3 letters from his son, Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, 6 from Henry Gardiner Adams, of the Mechanics' Institute of Chatham and Rochester, 1 each from Frederick William Fairholt and Charles Stewart Montgomerie Lockhart, manuscript notes by John Gough Nichols, a letter from John Brown Rowlands, one each from W.J. Taylor and Joseph Cotton Wigram, Bishop of Rochester, 2 from Humphrey Wood of the Mechanics' Institute, and of particular interest the two letters from Sampson Seaton, whose father was a friend of the father of the famous novelist. Many of these letters were written at the time of Dickens' death from people living in the area of Rochester and Chatham, his early childhood homes.
Finding Aids: Contents list, 8 pages
Restrictions on Access: Available for faculty, students, or researchers engaged in scholarly or publication projects.
Restrictions on Use: Permission to quote or publish must be obtained in writing from the Director of The Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Provenance: Gift of Beatrice Benjamin Cartwright & Henry Rogers Benjamin, 1943
Processing History: Processed by RBML staff; revised by BRC 11/74 and 11/81
Microfilm Information: Royal Cortisso & John Ruskin letters are on microfilm
Physical Location: Boxes 1-3 are on-site; boxes 4-29 are off-site.
RLIN ID: NYCR89-A65

ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPERS

PAGE:


I. CATALOGED CORRESPONDENCE 3
II. CATALOGUES 3
III. BUSINESS & PERSONAL PAPERS 3
IV. LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 3
V. SCRAPBOOKS 3
VI. PHOTOGRAPHS 3
VII. PRINTED MATERIALS 3

I. CATALOGED CORRESPONDENCE

BOX #

1 Abbott, Lyman

1 Adams, Henry Gardiner

1 Benjamin, William Evarts

1 Burke, John Bernard

1 Byron, Anne Isabella Noël

1 Campbell, Thomas

1 Carrington, Katherine S. Batts

1 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

1 Coles, Jonathan Ackerman

1 Cirtisso, Royal

Note: Above available on microfilm

1 Crockett, Samuel Rutherford

1 Cumberland, Richard

1 Darnley, John Stuart, 6th earl

1 Davis, Richard Harding

1 Dickens, Charles

1 Dickens, Dir Henry Fielding

1 Dix, Morgan

1 Dumas, Alexander, fils

1 Edgeworth, Maria

1 Eliot, George

1 Fairholt, Frederick William

1 Fawkes, Walter Ramsden

1 Gilbert, Thomas "Bishop of Shropshire"

1 Gilder, Jeannette L.

1 Goldwin, J. H.

1 Hale, Edward Everett

1 Hay, John

1 Heytesbury, William Henry Ashe, 2nd Baron

1 Homer, Winslow

1 Hubbard, Elbert

1 Hughes, Charles Evans

1 Ireland, Joseph N.

1 Jones, William Alfred

1 Kitton, Frederick George

1 Langton, Robert

1 Leigh, Oliver

1 Lockhart, Charles

1 Lockhart, Charles Stuart Montgomerie

1 Lubbock, Sir John, 1st Baron Avebury

1 Lupton, Thomas

1 Maas, Joseph

1 Mayer, Joseph

1 Mellon, Andrew W.

1 Mills, Ogden L.

1 Mitchell, Donald Grant

1 Moore, Thomas Sir

1 Nichols, John Gough

1 Overall, William Henry

1 Pearman, Augustus John

1 Phelps, Charles Henry

1 Purland, Theodosius

2 Rheade, Louis J.

2 Rockefeller, John D.

2 Rowlands, John Bowen

2 Ruskin, John



Note: Above available on microfilm

2 Seaton, Sampson

2 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

BOX #

2 Smith, Charles Roach

2 Spence, Chas.

3 Stedman, Edmund C.

3 Symons, Arthur

3 Taylor, W. J.

3 Turner, Joseph Mallord William

3 Vanderbilt, George W.

3 Walcott, Mackenzie Edward Charles

3 Wigram, Joseph Cotton, Bishop of Rochester

3 Wilson, Harriett

3 Wood, Humprey

3 Wright, Thomas

3 Miscellaneous


II. CATALOGUES
4 Duplicate File: Set No. 1

5 Duplicate File: Set No. 2



III. BUSINESS & PERSONAL PAPERS
6 American Antiquarian Society

Worcester, MA, 1927-1941


6 American Historical Association

1926/1927


6 The Book Lover

1888-1903


6 Bookplates
7 Eastern High School

Washington, DC, 1930


7 Engravings and illustrations
7 Government lists
7 Gutenberg Bible

1891-1929


7 Library of Congress

1926-1929


8 Library of Congress

1930-1935


8 Lyman Allyn Museum

New London, CT, 1935-1937


9

Murillo's Immaculate Conception

1926/1927
9 Murillo's Immaculate Conception - Pallavicini Catalogue

1927
BOX #

9 The New York Community Trust

1926-1931


9 The New York Historical Society

1937-1939


9 Photographs
9

Publishing business:


advertising
bills, receipts, etc.
James Mcdonald, Bookbinder
print catalogue
printed materials
stock lists
10 Rogers, H.H. - condolences re. his death

1909
10 S.S. "H.H. Rogers" - launching

1916
10 Speyer property dispute

1911-1913


10 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation

1927-1930


10 Thatcher, John B.

The Continent of America
10 Union College

1890-1935


11 Union College

1936-1940


11 University of Virginia

1928-1930


11 George Washington

1889-1930


11 Washington family

1927-1930


11 Miscellaneous:
memoranda
notebook
clippings
pamphlet
title pages


IV. LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
12 Accounts

1884-1903


BOX #

12 Accounts

1903-1910
12 Accounts – royalties
12 Advantages of the L.A.L.
12 Advertisements:
full page
1/2 & 1/4 page
retailo, printed copy
written copy
12 Advertising
12 Advertising, sets exchanged for
13 Agents

6 folders


13 Agents - printed materials
13 Benjamin, Charles R. [General Agent]
13 Binding
13 Boston orders
13 Braunworth & Co. [Bookbinders]

3 folders


13 Circulars
13 Colonial literature
14 Commendations

10 folders


14 Correspondence – miscellaneous
14 Courses of Reading

3 folders


14 Hovendon, John

Relating to E.C. Stedman


14 Illustrations
15 Improvements in manufacturing
15 Jenkins & McCowan

Printing
15 Legal matters


15 Macdonald, James

Bookbinder


15 Portraits
BOX #

15 Printed materials


15 Prospectus, etc.

3 folders


15 Specimin pages
15 Stedman, Edmond Charles

3 folders


15 Webster & Co.

2 folders


15 Miscellaneous
V. SCRAPBOOKS
17 Scrapbook of clippings

1884-1891

1 volume
FLATBOX 28 Scrapbook
VI. PHOTOGRAPHS
FLATBOX 28 Large photographs
VII. PRINTED MATERIALS

For related materials on Library of American Literature see E.C. Stedman Paper


16 Books from W.E. Benjamin's library
18 The Collector
19 The Collector
20 The Collector
21 Catalogs 1-10
21 Catalogs 11-29
22 Catalogs 30-42
22 Catalogs 43-53
23 Catalogs 77-95
23 Catalogs 13-66
24 Catalogs 54-67
24 Catalogs 68-76
25 The Book Lover
26 The Book Lover
27 The Book Lover
BOX #

28 The Book Lover


29 The Book Lover



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