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COLLECTIONS OF CORRESPONDENCE AND MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS NAME OF COLLECTION: George A. PLIMPTON Papers and Miscellaneous Manuscript Collections SOURCE: Gift of George A. Plimpton, 1936 and of Mrs Francis T.P. Plimpton, 198^ 1985, 19&lj SUBJECT: ^00^ collecting; Slavery; Presidential autographs; Ginn & Company; Christian Education; New England history, Calligraphy, Orthography, Writing books; Copy books DATES COVERED: Ca. l600 ~ 1936 - c*. mno NUMBER OF ITEMS: ca. 21,700 STATUS: (check appropriate description) Cataloged: j Listed: x Arranged: x Not organized: CONDITION: (give number of vols., boxes, or shelves) Bound: Boxed: A^g l(& Stored: 2 map case drawers Cl3-^-l; 13-^-2) ' **" '* '^" ' oversized. Presidential letters & doc, collected are in Stack I.QCATION: (Library)Rare ^o^W & Manuscript CALL-NUMBER Ms Coll/Plimpton ^vault RESTRICTIONS ON USE None DESCRIPTION: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, account books, photographs, and printed materials of George Arthur Plimpton, 1855-1936, collector, publisher, trustee, and philanthropist Plimpton collected manuscripts and early books of an educational nature, Italian literature, and Americana. There is much correspondence about his collection and his gifts to Columbia University, Wellesley College, Amherst, and to other schools. Plimpton was a member of Ginn & Company, Publishers from l88l and its chairman from 191^ until 1931. There are accounts, notes for a history of the firm, and correspondence about publishing and with the other partners. He was also a trustee of Barnard College, Amkerst, Union Theological Seminary, Constantinople Woman's College, Doshisha University in Kyoto, The Phillips Exeter Academy, and the World Peace Foundation, and was active in many organizations including The Academy of Political Science. There are also correspondence and notes for his lectures and publications, about his business activities, his extensive real estate holdings in New York and Walpole, MA, and many charities. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Andrew Carnegie, John Dewey, William Dean Howells, Sir Henry Irving, C.S, Peirce, as well as several presidents. SEE OVER FOR THE COLLECTION, he Plimpton Papers also include: II. Autographs of Presidents: Letters and documents bearing the signatures of 18 President, of the United States, ranging in date from 1812 to 1918. 26 items. (cataloged) III. Calligraphy and Orthography Collection: Exercises, specimens, calligraphic ornamental flourishes, tracings of figures, certificates, etc. The largest portion of the D3(178)M collection is the 101 mounted manuscript specimens of American handwriting, ca. 1860-1875. There are also some sketches^ of scenes and figures. (SEE OVERSIZED Map Case 13-5-1 & 2) This also includes the Alfred Manson correspondence: Letters written by W.M. Scribner of Potter, Ainsworth & Company of New York to Alfred S. Manson in Boston concerning the publication of writing books and copy books by that firm; as well as working copies of Payson, Dunton and Scribner's National System of Penmanship; and three of Manson's account and letter books. ca. 300 items (Arranged) IV. Slavery Collection: Letters, documents, broadsides and pamphlets on slavery which range in date from 165O to 1869. The majority of the material relates to the Southern United States in the 19-th century although there are items bearing on slavery in 17th and l8th century England. Included are four manuscript articles by Elihu Burritt, 1810-1879, President.Lincoln's Proclamation-of 22 Sept 1862 freeing the slaves in the rebellious states (broadside), the clearance paper for the brig Hope in 1805 which is signed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (cataloged & shelves with autographs of Presidents), bills of sale, deeds of gifts, bills of transfer, etc. There is a group of 38 typed transcriptions of items from this collection. _ . .153 items . (Arranged) (SEE OVERSIZED Map Case 13-^-2) '.V. Historical Collection: Letters, documents, manuscripts, and photographs of many noted American and European historical and literary ^figures. 12*+ items (Cataloged: see p. 8 of attached list) The Plimpton Educational Library of l6,.3.OO volumes is. housed in the Rare Book Department. • ••'• :. • HR ~ 5/8U ,.. ... •,••• , • : . • (BRC/RE - 1/77) Rev. HR - 12/85 . •••••, .Rev. HR - 10/87 ••'"• ' ' .'.. Rev. HR - 1/8&. - ' ? -••• Rev. HR - VI. Plimpton Western Medieval Manuscripts: bwilfeft" containing collations by Samuel A. Ives (ca. 1940?) of variant readings of texts contained in ^T Plimpton medieval.manuscripts; corrected proof sheets for S. De Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (1935) pp. 1753-1808 [= Plimpton Collection]; 2 copies of draft of revised De Ricci descriptions later published in reduced form by W.H. Bond and C.U. Faye, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (NY 1962) for the Plimpton Collection, ca. J^f items " ;>- (Arranged) CD/HR - 4/94 GEORGE A. PLIMPTON Papers Box 1-7 ua-caxoged correspondents: Abbott, Wilbur Cortez /Abbott, Lawrence Fraser Bridges, Robert, 1858-19^1 N^bbott, Lyman Brigham, Mary Ann Brooks, Arthur Adams, Charles Francis Brown, Carleton Adams, Herbert Brown, Elmer Ellsworth Adler, Felix Alderman, Edwin Brown, Helen Dawes Adler, Mortimer Jerome Anderson 'Anderson, Elizabeth Milbank (Mrs A,A.) Brownell, Silas B. Appleton, William Worthen Brownell, William Crary Armstrong, Hamilton Fish Bryce, James, Viscount Bryce Armstrong, Samuel Chapman Buel, Clarence Clough Arnold, Augusta Foote Burdett-Coutts, Angelina Georgina Burdett- Arnold, Edward Augustus Coutts, Baroness Arnold-Forster, Hugh Qskeley Burdett-Coutts, William Lehman Ashmead Asser, Sir John Bartlett Avery, Samuel Putnam Burgess, Edward Sandford Aydelotte, Frank Burgess, John William ^-Baskerville, Charles Burgess, Ruth Payne Jewett (Mrs John W.) /rBattle, George Gordon Burlingham, Charles Culp Babbott, Frank Lusk Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 Bacheller, Irving Burt, Mary Elizabeth Baker, Arthur Latham Butler, Nicholas Murray Baldensperger, Philippe Jules Fernand Baldwin, Charles Sears rCecil, Lady Florence Mary Gascoyne- Baldwin, Elbert Francis ^ Cable, George Washington Bancroft, Cecil Franklin Patch Cable, Louise S. Bartlett (Mrs George W.) Bannard, Otto Tremont Cable, Margaret Bardeen, Charles William Canfield, Cass Barnard, Henry Canfield, James Hulme vBarton, Bruce Carnegie, Andrew 'Bateman, Newton Carnegie, Louise Whitfield Bates, Katharine Lee Carpenter, William Henry /Bennett, Charles Edwin Cattell, James McKeen Beresford, Lord Charles William de la ^Cecil, Lord William Gascoyne- Poer, Baron Beresford Chamberlain, Leander Trowbridge Bertram, James Choate, Caroline Dutcher Sterling (Mrs J.) Betts, Lillian W. Choate, Joseph Hodges Bianchi, Martha Gilbert Dickinson Clark, Francis Edward Bigelow, Poultney Cleland, Thomas Maitland Bikle, Lucy Leffingwell Cable (.Mrs H.W,)Cleveland, Grover Black, Hugh Coffin, Henry Sloane Cobden-Sanderson, T.J. Blackie, John Stuart Cole, Frank Nelson Blackwell, Robert Emory Coolidge, Calvin Boas, Franz Crawford, Francis Marion Borah, William Edgar . Custer, Elizabeth Bacon (Mrs George A.) Bortolotti, Ettore ^-Clarke, Sir Caspar Purdon Bowker, Richard Rogers JDavis, William Morris Bowman, Isaiah VDavis, John William 'Branson, Eugene Cunningham Dawes, Henry Laurens Brasch, Frederick Edward Dean, Bashford Breasted, James Henry Dennis, Mary Boardman Cable (Mrs Alfred L.) Brewster, William Tenney De Vinne, Theodore Low .en, Arthur Clarke GEORGE.A, PLIMPTON Papers Cataloged correspondents (cont.): Dewey, Annie R. Godfrey (Mrs Melvil) Grosvenor, William Mercer Dewey, Davis Rich Gulick, Luther Halsey Dewey, John Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley Dewey, Melvil De Wold, John Dickey, James Edward Hadley, Arthur Twining Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes Hale, Edward Everett Dickinson, Willoughby Hyatt Hall, Charles Cuthbert Dodge, Cleveland Hoadley Hall, Granville Stanley Dodge, Grace Hoadley Hamilton, Edith Dolliver, Jonathan Prentiss Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster Donald, E. Winchester Hammond, William Churchill Duggan, Stephen Pierce Harding,. Warren Gamaliel Harris, George Hart, Albert Bushnell Eames, Wilberforce Haskell, Henry S. Earle, Alice Morse Hazard, Caroline Earle, Mortimer Lamson Hazard, Rowland Gibson Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Heath, Daniel Collamore Eggleston, Edward Hewitt, Eleanor G. Eliot, Charles William Hibben, John Grier Ely, Robert Erskine Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Hill, David Jayne Thomas FitzRoy Phillipps Hirst, Francis W. [ Farnam, Henry Walcott Hitchcock, Edward VFaunce, William Herbert Perry Hitchcock, Ripley Fine, Henry Burchard Hitchcock, Roswell Dwight Finley, John Huston Hoar, George Frisbie Fish, Stuyvesant \Hoar, Sherman Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens Hodges, Nathaniel Dana Carlile Fiske, Martha Thomas (Mrs Edmund W.) Hoffman, Frank Sargent Flexner, Simon Holland, Josiah Gilbert Ford, Paul Leicester Holt, George Chandler Ford, Worthington Chauncey Holt, Hamilton Fox, DiLxon Ryan Holt, Henry French, Daniel Chester House, Edward Mandell Howells, William Dean Hughes, Charles Evans Garrison, William Lloyd ^Hyde, William DeWitt Gavit, John Palmer Mlobhouse, Walter Gerard, James Watson Gifford, Robert Swain Iddings, Lewis Morris Gilder, Richard Watson Irving, Sir Henry Gill, Laura Drake Irwin, Agnes Gillett, Frederick Huntington Ishii, Kikujiro, Viscount Godwin, Harold Godwin, Parke Goodspeed, Charles Eliot Jackson, Henry Goodwin, James Junius James, Arthur Curtiss Goodwin, Maud Wilder Janvier, Thomas Alibone Gould, Elgin