A REGISTER OF HIS PAPERS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Prepared by
Grover Batts and Thelma Queen
Manuscript Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C.
2007 Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page ii
Collection Summary
Title: Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Span Dates: 1798-1941 ID No: MSS12161 Creator: Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 Size: 72,000 items; 262 container plus 1 oversize; 105 linear feet Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Abstract: Artist, author, editor, and cofounder of the Boy Scouts of America.. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, articles, collected source material for further articles and speeches, school composition books, address books, sketch books, illustrations, photos, memorabilia, and other printed matter relating to Beard's activities at the Culver Military Academy, Dan Beard Outdoor School, and with the Boy Scouts. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 1
Administrative Information
Provenance: The papers of Daniel Carter Beard, artist, author, editor and cofounder of the Boy Scouts of America, were given to the Library of Congress by his estate in 1941.
Processing History: The Beard Papers were processed in 1977. The finding aid was revised in 2007.
Transfers: Pictorial items including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and photographs that were received with the Beard Papers have been transferred to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of these papers.
Copyright Status: The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Daniel Carter Beard is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
Preferred Citation: Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Daniel Carter Beard Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 2
Biographical Note
1850, 21 June Born, Cincinnati, Ohio
1880-1884 Student, Art Students League, New York, N.Y.
1882 Published What To Do and How To Do It. The American Boys Handy Book. New York: C. Scribner's Sons
1889 Illustrated first edition of Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1893-1900 Taught, Woman's School of Applied Design
1894 Married Beatrice Alice Jackson
1905 Founded the Boy Pioneers, Sons of Daniel Boone
1905-1906 Editor, Recreation magazine
1910 Cofounder, Boy Scouts of America
1910-1941 National scout commissioner and member of the Executive Board, Boy Scouts of America
1911-1915 Organized and directed Department of Woodcraft, Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind.
1915 Established Dan Beard Outdoor School for Boys
1939 Published Hardly a Man Is Now Alive. New York: Doubleday, Doran
1941, 11 June Died, Suffern, N.Y. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 3
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Daniel Carter Beard span the years 1798-1941, with the bulk dated between 1915 and 1935.
The three major phases of Beard’s career as illustrator, author, and guiding spirit of the American Boy Scout movement are amply documented. Items relating to his life as an artist include numerous early sketch books (from 1865) and composition books containing essays and lessons prepared during his student years. Beard furnished pictures for the first illustrated editions of Samuel L. Clemens' Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Tom Sawyer Abroad, and the papers contain his correspondence with Clemens concerning this work. There is a great deal of correspondence with Charles Dana Gibson, who served as best man at Dan Beard's wedding; and among other figures in the art world here represented are Gutzon Borglum, Howard Chandler Christy, Henry Pitz, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, Frederic Dorr Steele, Lorado Taft, J. Q. A. Ward, S. J. Woolf, and N. C. Wyeth.
Daniel Beard came from an artistic background. His father, James H. Beard, was a well- known portrait painter, among whose sitters were Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and Benjamin Harrison. His brother, Frank Beard, originated the once popular "chalk talks," which were lectures illustrated by the speaker with crayon sketches drawn during the course of the lecture. These papers contain in the Family Correspondence and Family Papers series, many manuscripts of both Frank Beard and James H. Beard, including the holograph manuscript of the latter's autobiography.
Daniel Beard's career as an author is represented with the original manuscript of his autobiography, Hardly a Man Is Now Alive (1939) and an extensive collection of articles devoted to outdoor life which range in subject matter from the making of "Billy Bow-Leg Moccasins" to instructions for tying a "Real Sour-Dough Diamond Hitch." Most of the articles were prepared for publication in the magazine Boy's Life, to which Beard was a regular monthly contributor. There is also a great deal of correspondence with the publishing firms of J. B. Lippincott and Charles Scribner's Sons, which printed most of the 27 books written by Mr. Beard. Among his correspondents in the field of literature are Samuel L. Clemens, Hamlin Garland, Zane Grey, William Dean Howells, Edwin Markham, Henry L. Mencken, Albert Bigelow Paine, Maxwell Perkins, Upton Sinclair, Henrik Van Loon, and Owen Wister.
The third and most bountiful phase of the collection concerns Beard's efforts to create and develop the Boy Scout movement in the United States. There are papers relating to the Roy Pioneers (Sons of Daniel Boone), the organization Beard established in 1905 which was a Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 4 forerunner of the Boy Scouts of America. In addition to the manuscripts detailing the origin of the Boy Scouts in 1910, there is important correspondence with other leaders of the scouting movement both in this country and abroad. Perhaps the most important of these are Robert Baden-Powell, the British soldier who was the founder of the original Boy Scout movement in 1908 and Ernest Thompson Seton, author of the classic nature study, Wild Animals I Have Known, and organizer of yet another woodlore group, the Woodcraft Indians (1902). Among the major figures initially associated with the Boy Scout organization who are represented in these papers are George J. Fisher, James E. West, Walter P. Head, E. S. Martin, Augustus Post, George D. Pratt, Frank Presbrey, Isaac Sutton, and Fred Vreeland.
President Theodore Roosevelt's dictum regarding the strenuous life strongly appealed to Daniel Beard, and following the President's death he instituted annual pilgrimages to the grave at Oyster Bay, Long Island. The papers contain Beard's correspondence with President Theodore Roosevelt, his widow, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and other members of the family.
There are three groups of special correspondence relating to the Dan Beard School, the Boy Scouts, and the Sons of Daniel Boone. The latter two groups consist of letters received by Beard from children who were members of these organizations. The Dan Beard School correspondence concerns the summer camp which he established in 1915 at Hawley, Pa., and operated until the mid-1930s. The letters are inquiries from parents concerning the camp and the progress of their children and purely internal correspondence relating to the financial and logistical operations of the camp. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 5
Description of Series
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1 Diaries, 1875-1900, n.d. Diaries arranged chronologically.
2-7 Family Correspondence, 1814-1938 Arranged alphabetically by name of family member and therein by name of correspondent.
8-18 Family Papers, ca. 1798-1933 Mostly arranged alphabetically by name of family member. Some material organized by type.
19-147 General Correspondence, ca. 1865-1941 Letters arranged alphabetically by name of the correspondent.
148-208 Special Correspondence, 1915-1940 Dan Beard School correspondence arranged by year from 1915 through 1940, with the letters from 1915 through 1924 arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. Letters relating to Boy Scouts and Sons of Daniel Boone unarranged.
209-221 Subject File Arranged according to subject matter.
222-244 Speech, Article, and Book File, 1890-1940 Speeches and articles arranged by title or by date when they are untitled and book manuscripts arranged alphabetically by title.
245-261 Miscellany Miscellaneous papers grouped by type of material. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 6
Container List
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DIARIES, 1875-1900, n.d.
1 1875-1900, n.d.
FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE, 1814-1938
2 Bartlett, Rowena Cox, Flovita, and Julia E. C. Robinson Beard, Adelia Beard, Alice Beard, Frank Beard, Thomas Carter F-V miscellaneous Beard, Alice Beard, Barbara Beard, Daniel C. Beard, Lina Family A-V Unidentified Beard, Barbara Beard, Daniel C. Beard, James Carter (grandfather) Beard, James Carter (uncle) Cleaver, Robert S. Unidentified Beard, Beatrice A. Walford & Co. and Woman’s Club of Suffern, N.Y. Beard, Betty Beard, Daniel C. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 7
FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE, 1814-1938 (Continued)
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2 Beard, Caroline Beard, Daniel C. Beard, Dedie Beard, Frank Beard, James Carter Beard, James H. Beard, Lina Carter, Adelia Carter, Tom Diamond, J. M. Disney, Caroline Disney, Cornelia Neville, C. M. Ramping, Cornelia Ware, Angie With unidentified Beard, Daniel Bartlett Beard, Lina Unidentified
3 Beard, Daniel C. Beard, Alice (niece) Beard, Alice (wife) Beard, Annie R. Beard, Augustus F. Beard, Barbara Beard, Betty Beard, Carrie Beard, Chester Fellows Beard, Daniel (nephew) Beard, Daniel Bartlett Beard, Dedie Beard, Douglas and Roger Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 8
FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE, 1814-1938 (Continued)
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4 Beard, Daniel C. Beard, Edward Chester Beard, Frank Beard, George H. Beard, Gladys Beard, Harry Beard, James H. (father) Beard, James H. (Jamie, nephew) Beard, Laura
5 Beard, Lina Beard, Mary Beard, Morris Beard, Nellie Beard, Wheeler Beard, William C. Beard, Mrs. William C. Beard, William S. Blair, Etta Blair, Florence Blair, Katherine Callahan, J. S. Neville (Mrs.) Carter, Daniel B. Carter, Jessie B. Carter, Mary L. Carter, Thomas Carter, Thomas P. Champian, Belle Cox, S. B. Densmore, Florence Densmore, Margaretta Freehan, Maude Hamilton Jackman, Violette Rhodes Kendall, Cora Carter Loupy, Louise M. Moore, Frances C. Wingate, Carl Unidentified Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 9
FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE, 1814-1938 (Continued)
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5 (cont.) Beard, Edward Beard, Daniel C. Unidentified Beard, Frank Beard, Daniel C. Beard, James Carter Beard, Nellie Rosecrans, William S. Rosseau, L. H.
6 Beard, Harry Beard, Daniel C. Beard, Dedie Beard, Frank Beard, James Carter Beard, James H. Beard, Jimey Beard, Lina and Dedie A-W miscellaneous Unidentified Beard, James Carter Howe, J. F. Grandmother Beard, James Henry Beard, Caroline Beard, Frank Beard, Harriet Beard, Harry Beard, Harry W. Beard, James Carter Carter, Thomas P. Hayes, Rutherford B. Sherman, William T. Spofford, Ainsworth Rand Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 10
FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE, 1814-1938 (Continued)
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7 Beard, James Henry A-W miscellaneous Beard, Lina Beard, Alice Beard, Barbara Beard, Carrie Beard, Daniel C. Beard, Dedie Beard, Frank Beard, Gladys Beard, James Beard, James H. Carter, James B. Scribner, Arthur H. A-W miscelleous Unidentified Beard, Morris Wack, Henry Wellington Beard, Nellie Berad, Frank Beard, Lina D, T miscellaneous Beard, Thomas Beard, James H. Beard, William H. Beard, Frank Carter, Deborah Denison, William Denison, Pollie C. Carter, Thomas P. Unidentified
FAMILY PAPERS, ca. 1798-1933
8 Beard, Adelia Miscellany Printed matter Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 11
FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE, 1814-1938 (Continued)
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8 (cont.) Beard, Alice Article Biographical papers Diary Beard, Daniel Bartlett Writing Beard, Frank Articles Biographical papers Chalk talks
9 Obituaries Original drawings Photographs Printed matter Writings
10 Writings Beard, Harry Debate Diaries Financial papers Military papers
11 Military papers
12 Military papers
12A Drawings Sketch book Stories
13 Miscellany
14 Miscellany Photographs Printed matter Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 12
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15 Beard, James H. Autobiography
16 Biographical papers Engraving Financial papers Miscellany Printed matter
17 Beard, Lina Biographical papers Miscellany Obituaries Beard, Nellie Miscellany Beard, William H. Address Carter, Thomas (family) Miscellany Calling cards Copper plates Drawings Miscellany
18 Miscellany Photographs Printed matter
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, ca. 1865-1941
19 Abbott, Lyman Abercrombie, David Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Adams, James Truslow Adams, Samuel Hopkins Adler, Cyrus Adler, Felix Aldine Club Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 13
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19 (cont.) Alexander, William V. Alford, Floyd Allen, George E. Allen, Mary Jester Alpaugh, H. R.
20 American Blue Book Publishers American Book Co. American Boy American Forestry Association American Indian, Museum of the American Lithographic Co. American Museum of Natural History American School of the Air
21 Anderson, Algernon A. Anderson, Mary. See Fuller, G. Andrews, Roy Chapman Angell, James Rowland Appleton (D.) & Co. Arts and Sciences, Society of Ashley, William B. See Boys' Life
22 Atkinson, Will Aures, Victor Authors Club Author's League of America "A-Alw" miscellaneous
23 "Ama-Ay" miscellaneous
24 Bacheller, Irving Baden-Powell, Robert Baird, Spencer F. Bakeless, John Baker, Newton D. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 14
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24 (cont.) Barclay, Lorne W. Barrett, Daisy Barton, Bruce Beach, William N. See also Camp-Fire Club Beard, Charles A. Beckman, Earl W. Beebe, William Belknap, Reginald Bell, J. Benson, Oscar H. Bernhardt, Carl
25 Bierstadt, Albert Big Brother Movement Bigelow, Edward F. Bigelow, Pultney Bigelow, W. F. Birchard (C.C.) & Co. Bispham, Charles P. Blackman Co. Blanchard, Lina R. Boardman, John R. Bogan, Samuel Bogart, William S. See Camp-Fire Club Bogert, Henry L. Bogert, Marston T. Bok, Edward Bok, William J. Bolton, Theodore Booth, Edwin. See Fuller, G. Booth, Evangeline Borglum, Gutzon Boswell, M. G. Bowes, Major Edward Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 15
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25 (cont.) Boy Scouts of America See also Baden-Powell, Robert Fisher, George J. Head, Walter W. Martin, E. S. Post, Augustus Pratt, George D. Presbrey, Frank Seton, Ernest Thompson Sutton, Isaac Vreeland, Frederick K. West, James E. Boyer, James R.
26 Boys' Life Ashley, William B. Carroll, V. E. Cave, Edward Clymer, H. M. Coffin, B. P. Colver, Frederic L. Crampton, C. Ward Crump, Irving Daniels, Hawthorne Demorest, William Green Bar Bill Mathiews, Franklin K. Mathiews, Norman T. O'Connor, Evelyn
27 O'Connor, Evelyn Patten, F. J. Rigney, Francis J. Stearns, Myron M. Willson, Paul W. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 16
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27 (cont.) Boys Magazine Brainard, David Legge Branch, Les Brandt, Albert Brant, Irving Breckinridge, Curry Desha Brinton, J. H. Brisbane, Arthur Brockway, James E. Brooks, Emerson Books, Harlow Broome, Bertram Brown, Curtis Brown, Ethel Zaring Brown, James H. Brown, James R. Brown, K. L. Brown, Lathrop
28 Browne, Belmore Brundage, W. Bryan, William Jennings Buchanan, Louis L. Buchanan, S. Edwin Buck, Frank Bucknam, A. J. Bull, Arthur Bull, Charles Livingston Bull, Mrs. Charles Livingston Bull, George R. Burdett, John L. Burdick, Frederick E. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 17
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28 (cont.) Burleigh, George W. Burnham, John B. Burroughs, John Burroughs (John) Association Burton, Harold Butler, George M. Butler, Nicholas Murray Butler, Pierce Butler, William Mill Butler, Ovid Butler, Ellis Parker Byrd, Richard E.
29-32 "B-By" miscellaneous
33 Cadmus Book Shop Camp Directors Association Camp-Fire Club Beach, William N. Bogart, William S. Coffin, William Edward Couzens, John C. Frazer, John F. Greeley, William B. Hoisington, Fred Jelliffe, W. R. Möller, J. A. L. Pratt, George Dupont Rice, Arthur F. Seymour, Edmund Spence, Bernard L. Syms, Parker Camp Fire Girls Carmichael, Leonard Carroll, V. E. See Boys' Life Carter, Boake Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 18
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33 (cont.) Cave, Edward. See Boys' Life Century Association Century Publications Century Syndicate Chabrun, Jacques Chapman, Charles S. Chapman, Frank M.
34 Charles Scribner's Sons Chase, Linwood Christian Science Monitor Christy, Howard Chandler Circle Magazine Clark, Agnes Elizabeth Clark (Arthur H.) Co. Clark, James L. Clarke, James M. Clay, Cassius
35 Clemens, Cyril Clemens, Samuel L. See Force, C. W. Clymer, H. M. See Boys' Life Cleveland, Grover Cobb, F. C. Cody, William Coffin, B. P. See Boys' Life Coffin, William Edward See also Camp-Fire Club Coit, James O. Cleaver, Robert S. Collier, Barron G. Collier's Columbia Broadcasting System Colver, Frederic L. See Boys' Life Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 19
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36 Combs, Reese Conant, James B. Conlon, Ernest L. Connolly, Maurice E. Coogan, Jackie Cooke, Frederick N. Coolidge, Calvin Copeland, Royal S. Cornucopia Lodge Cornwell & Stevens Cortissoz, Royal Cosmopolitan Cotting, C. E. Country Gentleman Couzens, John F. See Camp-Fire Club Covey, Frank Howard
37 Crampton, C. Ward. See Boys' Life Crawford, Jack Crosby, Richard T. Crowell, Robert L. Crowell (Thomas Y.) Co. Crowninshield, Frank Crump, Irving See Boys' Life Crump, Walter Culver Military Academy Curtis, Anna L. Curtis, Carlton C. Curtis, Cyrus H. K. Custer, Elizabeth "C-Can" miscellaneous
38-40 "Cap-Cy" miscellaneous Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 20
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41 Daniel Boone Memorial Daniels, Hawthorne See also Boys' Life Dannenberg, Arthur Darlington, George A. Darrell, Alfred W. Dartmouth College Dauber & Pine Bookshops Davenport, Homer Davey, George Sennett Davidson, Frank E. Davie, Fred G. Davis, Elmer Davis, Milton F. See also New York Military Academy Davis and Sanford Dawley, George A. Dawson, Benjamin B. DeGraffenried, Thomas P. Delaware, Mme. A. deMille, Anna George Deming, Edwin Willard Demorest, William. See Boys' Life deSherbinin, Michael J.
42 Dewey, George Dewey, Thomas E. Dickerson, John S. Diehl, Karl F. Digges, William J. Dimitrieff, Nickolai V. Dimock, Anthony W. Dix, John A. Dixon, Benjamin S. Doan, John K. Dodd, Edward B. Dodd, Edward H. Dodge, Henry Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 21
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43 (cont.) Dodge, Wendell Phillips Doubleday, Russell Doubleday, Doran & Co. Doubleday, Page & Co. Douglas, Archibald Douglas, Henry S. DuPont, Eugene Durieux, A. H. Dutton (E. P.) & Co. "D-Dam" miscellaneous
43-44 "Dan-Dy" miscellaneous
45 Earhart, Amelia Early, Stephen East River Savings Bank Eddy, H. Laurance Edison, Thomas A. Edson, Carroll A. Ehler, George W. Eisner, J. Lester Elliott, Margaret R. Ellis, Griffith O. Emery, F. J. Emerson, Joe Encyclopaedia Britannica Engler, Henry R. Evans, S. Keith
46 Evans Curio Store Everitt, Charles P. Explorers Club "E-Ely" miscellaneous
47 "Ema-Ey" miscellaneous
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48 Fager, Volta Fairchild, George Winfield Farley, James A. Faucett, Henry M. Fazzini, Lillian Fechheimer Bros. Co. Feyl, Harold V. Fiala, Anthony Field, Marshall Field and Stream Finkelstein, Lillian Finley, John H. Finn, Jonathan Fisher, E. A. Fisher, George J.
49 Fisher, George J. Fisher, Mitchell S. Fisher, William A. Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild Fitch, Ezra
50 Fitch, James P. Fitch, Joseph Fleming, Henry S. Fleming, Joseph S. Flemming, Arthur S. Flushing Peace Society Folger, B. W. Forbus, Arthur R. Force, C. W. Ford, Henry Forest Lake Club Fosdick, Harry Emerson Fowler, Kenneth Fox, Charles Edwin Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 23
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, ca. 1865-1941 (Continued)
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50 (cont.) Fox, J. Chester Frank, Glenn Frazer, John F. See Camp-Fire Club Frederick, Karl T. Freeman, Judson P. Freeman, Martin B.
51 Freeman, Martin B. French, George W. Fretwell, Elbert Friends of Children, Inc. The Frontier Frost, William Goodell Frothingham, Robert Fuertes, Louis Robert Fuller, G. "Fag-Fal" miscellaneous
52-53 "Fam-Fur" miscellaneous
54 Gammons, Charles A. Gannon, John E. Gardner, Raymond E. Garfield, James R. Garland, Hamlin Garner, John Nance Gary, Rex I. Gaskin, J. A. Gates, Don S. Gawtry, Lewis Gearhart, E. M. Gendall, Gilbert H. General Feather Trading Co. George, Henry George, Henry, Jr. Gibbons, Floyd Gibson, Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. Charles Dana Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 24
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55 Gibson, Langdon Gignilliat, L. R. See Culver Military Academy Gilbert, Alfred C. Gilder, Robert W. Gilder, Rodman Gill, Emlyn M. Gipsy Trail Camp Gles, J. S. Glynn, Martin Good Housekeeping Goodhue, Bertram Grovenor Goodman, R. G. Gordon, Harvey A. Gosden, Freeman Gratz, Homer Graves, Henry S. Gray, Frank Grayson, Cary T.
56 Greeley, William B. See Camp-Fire Club Green, Carl R. Green, Forrest Green, George E. Greenhawk, Frank A. Gregor, Elmer R. Grey, Lina Elise Grey, Zane Grier, Walter L. Griffith, Ernest S. Grinnell, George Bird Griswold, Lester Grolier Society Grosset & Dunlap Grosvenor, Gilbert Guards of Washington Guest, Edgar A. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 25
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56 (cont.) Guggenheimer, Milton C. Guiterman, Arthur Guiterman, Leo Gulick, Donald "G-Garr" miscellaneous
57-58 "Gart-Gw" miscellaneous
59 Haddock, Arthur H. Hagedorn, Hermann Hall, Bolton Hammond, John Hays Harlan, Esther Harper, Horatio Harper & Brothers Hart, William S. Haskell, William S. Hastings, George T. Hays, Will H. Head, Walter W.
60 Head, Walter W. Heath, Albert G. Heath (D.C.) & Co.
61 Heatter, Gabriel Heistand, Charles M. Hemingray, Ralph Henry George School of Social Science Hession, John W. Heye, George G. See Museum of the American Indian Hitchcock, Frederick H. Hodgson, Casper Hoisington, Fred. See Camp-Fire Club Holcombe, Alexander Holcombe, Willis B. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 26
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61 (cont.) Holland, Leicester B. Hoover, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hornaday, William T. Hornbeck, Louis A.
62 Houghton, Augustus S. Houston, Herbert S. Howard, Clarence Howard, Roy W. Howells, William Dean Hubbard, A. G. Hubbard, William S. Hubbell, George L. Hughes, Allene G. Hughes, Charles Evans Hughes, Howard Hughes, Howard R. Hulse, Mina M. Edison Hungerford, Herbert Hurt, Huber William Hutchins, Robert M.
63-67 "H-Hy" miscellaneous
68 Ickes, Harold L. Illustrators, Society of Indian Association of America Invitations Ivory, Lindsay C. "Id-Iz" miscellaneous
69 J. B. Lippincott Co. 1911-24
70 1925-39 Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 27
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70 (cont.) Jefferson, Joseph. See Fuller, G. Jelliffe, W. R. See Camp-Fire Club Johnson, Bruce Johnson, James W. Johnson, Robert Underwood Jones, Howard Mumford Joseph, Nannine
71 J-Johnson, L.
72 Johnson, M.-Ju Keane, Thomas J. Keller, Helen Kelly, Luther S. Kent, H. W. Kerr, John C. Kettering, Charles F. Kight, H. O. Kindig, Joe Klinck, Jacob C. Knickerbocker, William S. Knight, Harry C. Knox, Taber Krishna menon, V. K. Kunitz, Stanley J. Kyle, Paul
73-74 "K-Ky" miscellaneous
75 Ladies Home Journal Laffoon, Ruby La Guardia, Fiorello H. Lamb, Charles R. Lamb, Peter O. Lane, Franklin K. Lasky, Jesse L. Lawes, Lewis E. Lawrence, D. W. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 28
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75 (cont.) Lawrence, Robert Lawrence, Townsend Lawyer, George A. Leach, Henry Goddard League of Nations Lee, Jack Leggett, Thomas H. Lehman, Eugene H. Lehman, Herbert H. Le Master, B. W. LeMessurier, Albert M. Library of Congress See also Holland, Leicester Lindbergh, Charles A. Lindsay, Benjamin
76 Lippincott, J. B. Lippincott (J. B.) Co. See J. B. Lippincott Co. Lippincott, Joseph W. Littlejohn, C. H. Livingston, Colin H. Loeb, William Lombardi, Remo M. Longworth, Nicholas Looker, Earle Loomis, Edward E. Loomis, Ormond E. Loughran, Robert L. Lounsberry, Harry Lovett, Fremont L. Low, Raymond F. Lowerre, M. V.
77-78 "L-Ly" miscellaneous
79 McAdoo, William Gibbs McAdoo, Mrs. William Gibbs McDonald, L. L. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 29
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79 (cont.) McEwen, John D. McGuire, Walter P. Mack, Connie McKelway, St. Clair McLean, Marshall
80 McLean, Marshall McLean, W. A. See Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild MacLeish, Archibald Macmillan, William McNally, Fred L. MacNeil, Herman A. McVey, Frank Manhattan Single Tax Club Mark Twain Memorial Foundation Markham, Edwin Markham, Virgil
81-84 Martin, E. S.
85 Marquis (A. N.) Co. Martin, Hubert Martin-New York Tent and Duck Co. Masson, Thomas L. Mathiews, Franklin K. See also Boys' Life Mathiews, Norman T. See Boys' Life Medalists, Society of Mellon, Andrew W. Mencken, Henry L. Menninger, Karl Menninger, William C. Merriam, C. Hart Merrill, Haydon O. Metzger, Sol Millar, J. H. Miller, A. J. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 30
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85 (cont.) Miller, Joaquin Miller, Warren H. See Field and Stream Millikan, Robert A. Mills, Fred C. Mitchel, John P. Mitchell, J. A. Mitchell, J. van Beuren
86 Möller, J. A. L. See Camp-Fire Club Moffat, Samuel A. Moffat, W. D. Moffat, Yard & Co. Monahan, Mike Mook, Delo E. Mooney, James E. Moore, John Bassett Morris, Ernest J. Morris, Robert T. Morse, Frank T. Morse, Perley Muir, John Murray, William D.
87-91 "M-My" miscellaneous
92 National Board of Review National Georgraphic Magazine National Motion Picture League National Nut Tree Planting Project Neill, Wallace L. Ness, Eliot New York Public Library New York Military Academy New York Times New York Zoological Society Nichols, Mary A. Nicol, James W. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 31
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93 North, Sterling Northrup, Carl F. "N-New" miscellaneous
94 "New-Ny" miscellaneous Oakley, George W. Ochs, Adolph S. O'Connor, Evelyn. See Boys' Life Ogden, Rollo Olmsted, George C. Olson, A. C.
95 Osborn, Henry Fairfield Oursler, Fulton Outdoor Recreation, National Conference on The Outing The Outlook "O-Oz" miscellaneous
96 Page, Walter Hines Paine, Albert Bigelow Paris, Mrs. John W. Parker, Grace Parsons, John E. Parsons, Reginald Partridge, Jesse D. Pathé Exchange Patrick, Luther Patterson, Henry S. Patten, F. J. See Boys' Life Patton, J. Woodbridge Paul, G. Hurst Penfield, Edward Perelson, A. E. Perkins, Maxwell Perry, Armstrong Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 32
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96 (cont.) Perry, William A. Pershing, John J. Phelps, William Lyon Philadephia Sesquicentennial International Exposition Phillips, Frank Phillips, John M. Philo, Ralph M.
97 Pi Gamma Mu Pictorial Review Pinchot, Gifford Pine, Charles Pitz, Henry The Players Plessis, Albert L. Plimpton, George L.
98 Poey, Joseph Poling, Daniel A. Pollock, Channing Popular Mechanics Popular Science Monthly Porter, George D. Porter, Helen Talbot Post, Augustus Post, Louis F. Powlison, Ernest K. Pratt, George Dupont
99 Pratt, George Dupont See also Camp-Fire Club Pratt, Horace C. Presbrey, Charles Presbrey, Frank
100 Presbrey, Frank Prettyman, Ida Presley Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 33
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100 (cont.) Prevatil, James Price, Robroy Proctor, Arthur W. Pulsifer, William E. Putnam, George Palmer Putnam, Herbert Putnam, J. B. Putnam's (G. P.) Sons "P-Pay" miscellaneous
101-102 "Pea-Py" miscellaneous
103 Queens Council Camp Committee Queens County Savings Bank Quetico-, Superior Council "Qua-Qui" miscellaneous Ransdell, Mrs. Joseph E. Rasmussen, D. Rathgeber, Emile E. Reader's Digest Recreation Redbook Reed, Robert. See Country Gentleman Remington, Frederic Rhead, Louis Rice, Arthur F. See also Camp-Fire Club Rice, Charles E. Rice, Ralston Rice, Sidney L.
104 Rich, G. Barrett Rich, George H. Rich, J. Hampton Ridgway, Roy D. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 34
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104 (cont.) Rigney, Francis J. Rinehart, Stanley M. Ripley, George S. Ripley, Robert L. Risley, George E. Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Roberts, Arthur E. Robinson, Frank N. Rockefeller, John D. Rockland Light and Power Co. Rockwell, Norman Rogers, George T. Rogers, Mary Cochrane Rogers, Will Rogers Peet Co. Roosevelt, Archie Roosevelt, Edith K. Roosevelt, Eleanor
105 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Grace Green Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Roosevelt, Theodore, III Roosevelt Memorial Association Roosevelt Memorial Association, Woman's
106 Root, Elihu Root, Joseph E. Roselius, Ludwig Rosenbach, A. S. W. Rosenzweig, Jacob Rosenzweig, Jack Ross, Lanny Rotary Club Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 35
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106 (cont.) Rowe, L. S. Royal Arcanum (Flushing Council) Russell, C. M. Russell, Walter "R-Rey" miscellaneous
107 "Rh-Ruc" miscellaneous
108 "Rud-Ry" miscellaneous Sackett, Milton B. Saint Nicholas Saltiel, William David Sampson, Fleming D.
109 Sampson, Lewis D. Sanborn, D. A. Sanborn, Edwin W. Sanford, Clay Sanford, Daniel S. Saunders, DeWitt Saunders, Dorothy Saunders, W. Lawrence Sawtelle, Alvin C. Sayre, Joel Schiff, John M. Schiff, Mortimer Schuck, Arthur A. Schuler, Loring. See Country Gentlemen Schutt, Peter Schwab, Charles M. Schuyler, Remington Scribner, Arthur H.
110 Scribner, Charles Scribner's (Charles) Sons. See Charles Scribner's Sons Seaman, Frank Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 36
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110 (cont.) Seton, Ernest Thompson Sewell, Walter Seymour, Edmund See also Camp-Fire Club Seymour, Julius Seymour, Roy F. Seymour, Walter B. Seymour, William W.
111 Sharpe, O. D. Shaw, Albert Sherburne, Joe Shields, Amos R. S'hiuhushu, Barnabas Shriner, Clarence E. Sibley, Carroll Sigmund, Eisner Sikes, George R. Simpson, Benjamin L. Sinclair, H. W. Sinclair, Upton Skier, A. M. Skier (A. M.) Agency Smeltzer, Robert E. Smith, Alfred E. Smith, Benjamin A. Smith, Bolton
Smith, George Albert Smith, J. F. Smith, Kate Smith, William H. Smith, William Lord Smith, William Parker Smithsonian Institution Sniffen, Robert P. Society of Friends Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 37
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112 Soules, William B. Southern New England Telephone Co. Southworth, Irving F. Sparrow, Thomas Spence, Bernard L. See also Camp-Fire Club Spencer, Lorrilard Spiegle, Frederick M. Spivak, Lawrence Spivey, A. G. Stahlnecker, P. S. Stayton, B. W. Stearns, Myron M. See Boys' Life Steele, Frederic Dorr Stefansson, Wilhjalmer Stern, Alfred Whital Stetson, Sereno Stiles, John A. Stockwell, John Wesley Stokes, John A. Stone, Andrew J. Stone, Ezra Stone, William M. Storrow, James J. Stoutenburgh, Abram S. Stoutenburgh, Sara Straight, Willard Stratton, Leslie
113 Suffern National Bank Sutton, Isaac Swan, Joseph Syms, Parker See also Camp-Fire Club "S-Sai" miscellaneous
114-117 "Sak-Stri" miscellaneous Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 38
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118 "Stro-Sz" miscellaneous Taft, Helen H. Taft, Lorado Taft, William Howard Tarbell, Ida Tatham, Charles Taylor, Albert S. Thomas, Lowell Thomassen, Henry S. Tisch, Julius Tompkins, William Towers, Walter K. See American Boy Town Hall Club Toy, Charles Trees, Clyde C. Tressler, Charles C. Trexler, Albert E. Trotta, Lamar Trumbull, John H. Tucker, John F. Twilight Club
119-120 "T-Ty" miscellaneous
121 Underwood and Underwood Unger, Peter J. United Daughters of the Confederacy U.S. Department of Agriculture U.S. Department of the Interior University Club Upton, Louis "Uh-Ut" miscellaneous Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 39
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121 (cont.) Vance, Arthur See also Pictorial Review and Woman's Home Companion Van Doren, Irita Van Dyke, Henry Van Inwegen, Ethel
122 Van Loon, Hendrik Van Norden, Ottomar H. Victory Hall Association Vilas, Royal L. Vitalius, E. H.
123-124 Vitalius, E. H.
125 Vitalius, E. H. Vreeland, Frederick K.
126 Vreeland, Frederick K. "Vag-Vie" miscellaneous
127 "Vig-Vu" miscellaneous Wack, Henry Wellington Wadsworth, James A. Walcott, W. C. Wallace, DeWitt Wallace, Dillon Wallace, John Wallace, Lew Wallschlaeger, F. O. Walters, Sara Wanamaker, Rodman Ward, J. Q. A. Waring, Fred Warner, John D. Washington, Booker T. Washington, E. Davidson Watling, John W. Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 40
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127 (cont.) Watres, Louis A. Watson, Thomas J. Watson, William H. Weaver, Charles Webb, Charles H. Webster, Charles Webster, Fred Webster, H. T. Weeks, John W. Weiler, Jack Weir, John E. Welch, William A. Wells, Clarence R. Wenner, Richard Wertheim, Edward L. Wessell, William C.
128-137 West, James E.
138 Westhoff, Gisela Whalen, Grover Wheat, R. M. Wheeler, Burton K. White, William Allen Whitney, Caspar Whitson, Abraham U. Wilbur, Ray Lyman Williams, Allen S. Willison, J. C. Willson, Paul W. See Boys' Life Wilson, Charles N. Wilson, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Thomas E. Wilson, Woodrow Windsor, Edward Duke of Winninger, Charles Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 41
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138 (cont.) Wintress, James E. Wise, Steven S. Wister, Owen Woman's Home Companion Wood, Charles E. Wood, John W. Wood, Leonard Woodard, Adele F. See National Motion Picture League Woodruff, Jack B. Woolf, S. J. Worden, C. A.
139 Worden, C. A. Wozencraft, Frank W. Wright, Frank W. Wright, Herman E. Wright, Orville Wyeth, N. C. Wyland, Ray O. Wynn, Ed W-Was
140-142 Wate-Worr
143 Wort-Wyo Young, Owen D. The Youth's Companion "Ya-Yu" miscellaneous Zaner, Ray F. Za-Unidentified
144-146 Greeting cards
147 Greeting cards Greeting card list Collected autograph letters Letters sent and received from persons other than Beard Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 42
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148-150 Boy Scouts of America
151 Dan Beard School 1915 1916-19 A-B
152 B
153 B-C
154 C-F
155 F-G
156 G-J
157 J-L
158 L-M
159 M-R
160 R Seymour, Edmund (1 folder)
161 (1 folder) Seymour, Julius (1 folder)
162 (1 folder) Sutton, Isaac
163 S
164 S-V
165 V-Z Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 43
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166 Dan Beard School 1920-21 A-B
167 C-G
168 H-K
169 L-R
170 Seymour, Edmund S
171 T Applications for employment, 1919-22
172 1922-24 A-D
173 D-G
174 G-M
175 M-Q
176 R-S
177 S-Z 1925
178 1925
179 1925-26
180 1926 Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 44
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181 Dan Beard School 1926 McPheters, Abner Seymour, Edmund Sutton, Isaac Board of Directors Camp diaries 1927
182-183 1927
184 1927 Seymour, Edmund Sutton, Isaac President's report Board of Directors Applications for employment 1928
185 1928
186 President's report Board of Directors 1929
187 1929
188 1929-30
189 1930 Seymour, Edmund Sutton, Isaac Board of Directors 1931
190 1931
191 1931-32 Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 45
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192 Dan Beard School 1932
193 1932 Seymour, Edmund Sutton, Isaac 1933
194 1933 Rich, George 1934
195 1934 Sutton, Isaac 1935
196 1935 Rich, George Seymour, Edmund Sutton, Isaac 1936
197-198 1936
199 1936 Rich, George Seymour, Edmund
200 Sutton, Isaac 1937
201 1937 Rich, George Seymour, Edmund Sutton, Isaac 1938 Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 46
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202 Dan Beard School 1938 Rich, George Sutton, Isaac 1939
203 1939 Rich, George Seymour, Edmund Sutton, Isaac 1940 Abercrombie, Robert Loughran, Robert Post, Augustus Board of Directors and stockholders Boy Scouts of America
204 Miscellaneous Financial papers Insurance Merit badge awards
205 Merit badge awards President's reports Applications for employment Form letters Advertisements (correspondence)
206-208 Sons of Daniel Boone
209 Boys Pioneers Boy Scouts of America (origin)
210-211 Boy Scouts of America
212 Printed matter Boys' Life Questions and answers column Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 47
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213-215 Questions and answers column
216 Questions and answers column Buckskin Men of America Camp Directors Association Camp-Fire Club of America Minutes
217 Camp Fire of America "Dan Beard Rifle" (Dickey air rifle) Dan Beard School advertisements
218 Dan Beard School advertisements "The Powder Horn"
219-220 National Court of Honor
221 National Court of Honor Sons of Daniel Boone (membership lists) Theodore Roosevelt pilgrimages
SPEECH, ARTICLE, AND BOOK FILE, 1890-1940
222 Speeches "Cruelty and Brutality" "Trees and Boys" 3 Sept. 1890-22 May 1936
223 24 Oct. 1936-40 Untitled, n.d. Interview
224 Articles "Abraham Lincoln", "Come, Come, Let Us Be Merry!" Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 48
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225 Articles "Com-pa-ny At-ten-shum", "Funeral of Henry George"
226 "Geological Hikes by Request", "Hawking"
227 "The Heart Must Ring the Christmas Bells", "How To Make Billy Bow- Leg Moccasins"
228 "How To Make Blue Cloud Buckskin Leggins", "Life Begins at Eighty" "Lincoln's Boy Scout Month", "Putting the Sun Back in the Sky"
230 "A Rattling Good Time", "Surveying"
231 "Swine Herding Time", "A Young George Washington"
232 13 Dec. 1914-Apr. 1937 Untitled, n.d.
233 Untitled, n.d. Printed articles Short stories "Four Boats, Two Shoes, and a Foot Store" "Love Conquers Everything" Introduction to Warpath and Cattle Trail Review of Buffalo Days, by Homer W. Wheeler Poems Printed reviews of books by Daniel C. Beard
234 Books The American Boys' Book of Birds and Brownies of the Woods Preface The American Boys' Handy Book Contents Royalty Statements Bugs, Butterflies and Beetles Introduction Papers of Daniel Carter Beard Page 49
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234 Books Hardly a Man Is Now Alive Typescript
235-240 Final Draft
241 Hardly a Man Is Nos Alive Mystery of the Blue Goose
242 Mystery of the Blue Goose
243-244 Fragments
MISCELLANY
245 Address books Bills and receipts Biographical papers
246 Biographical papers
247 Composition books
248-254 Engagement calendars 1917-39
255 1940 Financial papers Photographs
256-259 General miscellany
260 Printed matter
261 (oversize) Nature scrapbook