Elbert Hubbard: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 Title: Elbert Hubbard Collection Dates: 1886-1988, undated Extent: 13 boxes (5.46 linear feet) Abstract: Manuscripts and correspondence by the American writer, publisher, editor, and philosopher Elbert Hubbard, who founded the Roycroft arts and crafts community in East Aurora, New York. Works represented include several volumes in his Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great, The Titanic, and others. Correspondents include many American politicians and business leaders, authors such as Jack London, educators like Booker T. Washington, several U.S. Presidents (Calvin Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson), and many others. Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-2048 Language: English Access: Open for research Administrative Information Processed by: Joan Sibley and Apryl Voskamp, 2016 Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions. Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 Manuscript Collection MS-2048 2 Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 Manuscript Collection MS-2048 Works: Untitled essay on culture, handwritten manuscript with emendations, 5 pages, 20 Container November 1888. 1.1 Untitled essay on education in America, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 13 pages, undated. Charles Melville Hays, world-maker, signed typescript with handwritten revisions, 21 pages, 1912. The cigarettist, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 47 pages bound, 1905. Container Bound with this: Death of a leading lady & her epitaph; Alfred Russell Wallace; 1.3 Neutral employees. Container Honest Ed Geers, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 23 pages, undated. 1.1 Job, signed handwritten manuscript with revisions, 78 pages bound, September Container 1896. 1.4 Justinian and Theodora (play), handwritten manuscript with revisions, 159 pages Container bound, 1906. 1.5 Justinian and Theodora (play): preface and dialogue, handwritten manuscript with Container revisions, 117 pages bound, 1906. 1.6 Law of diminishing returns, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 12 pages bound, Container 1906. Bound with this: Paragraphs; William Marion Reedy; The new employee. 2.1 Container The legacy, handwritten manuscript with revisions, approximately 730 pages, 1896. 2.2-3 The legacy: prologue and chapter 1, typescript with handwritten emendations, 6 Container pages, circa 1896. Included with this: 3 miscellaneous handwritten manuscript 2.4 pages. Little journey to the home of Aristotle, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 128 Container pages bound, 1904. 2.5 Little journey to the home of Dante and Beatrice, handwritten manuscript with Container revisions, 101 pages bound, 1906. 3.1 Little journey to the home of Edwin Landseer, signed handwritten manuscript with Container revisions, 53 pages bound, July 1899. 3.2 Little journey to the home of Gustave Doré, signed handwritten manuscript with Container revisions, 57 pages bound, September 1899. 3.3 3 Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 Manuscript Collection MS-2048 Little journey to the home of John Fiske, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 62 Container pages bound, 1905. 3.4 Little journey to the home of John Milton, signed handwritten manuscript with Container revisions, 63 pages bound, December 1899. 3.5 Little journey to the home of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, handwritten Container manuscript with revisions, 73 pages bound, 1906. 3.6 Little journey to the home of Joshua Reynolds, signed handwritten manuscript with Container revisions, 77 pages bound, June 1899. 3.7 Little journey to the home of Madame de Staël, handwritten manuscript with Container revisions, 52 pages, circa 1897. 4.1 Little journey to the home of Michael Angelo, handwritten manuscript with Container revisions, 80 pages, circa 1897. 4.2 Little journey to the home of Rembrandt, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 109 Container pages, circa 1897. 4.3 Little journey to the home of Robert Burns, signed handwritten, typed, and printed Container manuscript with handwritten revisions, 53 pages bound, December 1899. 4.4 Little journey to the home of Samuel Johnson, signed handwritten and typed Container manuscript with handwritten revisions, 70 pages bound, December 1899. 4.5 Little journey to the home of Thomas A. Edison, handwritten manuscript with Container revisions, 112 pages bound, undated. 4.6 Little journey to the home of William Morris, signed handwritten, typed, and printed Container manuscript with handwritten revisions, 69 pages bound, October 1899. 4.7 Container Little journeys to the homes of American authors, proof copy, 404 pages, 1907. 5.1 Container Little journeys to the homes of American statesmen, proof copy, 440 pages, 1907. 5.2 Container Little journeys to the homes of eminent painters, proof copy, 504 pages, 1907. 5.3 Container Little journeys to the homes of famous women, proof copy, 442 pages, 1907. 5.4 Container Little journeys to the homes of good men and great, proof copy, 382 pages, 1907. 6.1 4 Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 Manuscript Collection MS-2048 Little journeys to the homes of great business men, proof copy, 226 pages, 1909. Container Two sets. 6.2-3 Container Little journeys to the homes of great reformers, proof copy, 208 pages, 1907. 6.4 Container Little journeys to the homes of great reformers, proof copy, 180 pages, 1907. 6.5 Container Little journeys to the homes of great teachers, proof copy, 186 pages, 1908. 6.6 Little journeys to the homes of Rubens and Van Dyck, signed handwritten Container manuscript with revisions, 160 pages bound, October 1898. 7.1 Little journeys to the homes of Titian & Messonier, signed handwritten manuscript Container with revisions, 128 pages bound, November 1898. 7.2 The man of sorrows titled A little journey to the home of Jesus of Nazareth, signed Container handwritten and typed manuscript with revisions, 282 pages, 1904. Included with 7.3-4 this: typed note by Nancy Hubbard Brady. Container A message to Garcia, handwritten manuscript/ facsimile, 29 pages, 1926. 7.5 A new light, signed handwritten manuscript with revisions, 21 pages, undated. Container Included with this: typed note by Elbert Hubbard II. 1.1 Container A projected reform, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 14 pages, undated. 1.2 The sea, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 4 pages, undated. The Titanic, typescript/ first draft with handwritten revisions, 26 pages, 1912. Included with this: typed note by Elbert Hubbard II. The Titanic, handwritten manuscript/ second draft with handwritten revisions, 47 pages; typescript/ second draft with handwritten revisions, 16 pages; 1912. Included with handwritten manuscript: AL Hubbard to Alice Hubbard, 23 April 1912. The Titanic investigation, typescript with handwritten revisions, 4 pages, undated. Included with this: handwritten manuscript of related material, 3 pages. 5 Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 Manuscript Collection MS-2048 Letters: Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. TLS to unidentified recipient Professor, 18 April no Container year. 7.6 Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. TLS to editor, Boston Evening Transcript, 8 May 1899. Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. TLS to Chantland, 13 June 1904. Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. TLS to Cluett, J. W. Alfred, 12 May 1899. Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. TLS to Elliot, 1 February 1904. Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. FLS to Godfrey, 14 April 1915. Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. ALS to MacDonald, 18 July 1896. Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. 2 TLS to Macgowan, 15 February and 18 July 1904. Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. TLS, FLS to Stephenson, Grace Murray, 1 May 1905, 7 November 1906. Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. TLS to Young, 15 June 1905. 6 Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 Manuscript Collection MS-2048 Recipient: Unidentified author: ALS, AL to Elbert Hubbard, 15 March 1903, undated. Container 8.1 TL/ incomplete to Elbert Hubbard, 6 January 1903. AN with two caricatures to Elbert Hubbard, 21 January 1903. TLS to Elbert Hubbard, 23 May 1912. ALS to Elbert Hubbard, 20 August 1912. ALS, TLS to Elbert Hubbard, 14 March 1914, 26 January 1915. Possibly from Samuel P. Colt; TLS on letterhead of United States Rubber Company. Anonymous. AL to Elbert Hubbard, 20 May 1902. Anonymous. ALS "One of the flock" to Elbert Hubbard, 9 July 1902. Adams, Alva. ALS to Elbert Hubbard, 14 February 1906. Adams, Maude, 1872-1953. ALS to Elbert Hubbard, 26 September 1908. Albertson, Charles Carroll, 1865-. 7 ALS to Elbert Hubbard, 1908. Included with these: AL/ draft Hubbard to Albertson. Allmond, M. E. W. ALS to Elbert Hubbard, 17 January no year. Angle, William A. 2 TLS to Elbert Hubbard, 2 March and 22 May 1906. Archbold, John D. 8 TLS to Elbert Hubbard, 1908-1912. Included with these: TLS Archbold to Hubbard's secretary. Written on verso of one: TccL/ reply by Hubbard. Arena. ALS, 2 TLS to Elbert Hubbard, 1893-1902. Arliss, George, 1868-. ALS to Elbert Hubbard, 3 February 1909. Armour, Jonathan Ogden, 1863-1927. 4 TLS to Elbert Hubbard, 1908-1911. Ballinger, Richard Achilles, 1858-1922. 3 TLS to Elbert Hubbard, 1909. With Container enclosure. 8.2 Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922. 2 ALS to Elbert Hubbard, 25 April 1903, 12 August 1911. 7 Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 Manuscript Collection MS-2048 Barnabee, Henry Clay, 1833-1917. 2 ALS to Elbert Hubbard, 4 October 1901, 31 December 1902. Bartlett, Paul Wayland. 9 ALS to Elbert Hubbard, 1905-1910, undated. Included with these: photographs and printed items. Barton, Clara Harlowe, 1821-1912. ALS to Hubbard, Elbert, 10 April 1911. Included with this: 3 orders Barton to The Roycrofters; TccL Roycrofters to Barton. Bates, John Lewis, 1859-. TLS to Elbert Hubbard, 26 February 1903. Beck, James W. TLS to Elbert Hubbard, 4 August 1911. Beecher, Herbert F. 3 ALS to Elbert Hubbard, 1903-1905. Beeckman, Robert Livingston. TLS to Elbert Hubbard, 25 January 1915. Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, 1862-1927.