Daniel Carter Beard Papers A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2012 Contact information: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.contact Additional search options available at: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013036 LC Online Catalog record: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm78012161 Prepared by Grover Batts with the assistance of Thelma Queen Collection Summary Title: Daniel Carter Beard Papers Span Dates: 1798-1941 Bulk Dates: (bulk 1931-1935) ID No.: MSS12161 Creator: Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 Extent: 72,000 items ; 261 containers plus 2 oversize ; 105 linear feet Language: Collection material in English Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Summary: Artist, author, editor, and cofounder of the Boy Scouts of America. Correspondence, diaries, family papers, speeches, articles, collected source material for writings and speeches, school composition books, address books, sketch books, illustrations, photographs, memorabilia, and printed matter relating chiefly to Beard's activities at the Culver Military Academy, Dan Beard Outdoor School, and with the Boy Scouts of America. Selected Search Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein. People Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron, 1857-1941--Correspondence. Beard family--Correspondence. Beard family. Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941. Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941. Hardly a man Is now alive; the autobiography of Dan Beard. 1939. Beard, Frank, 1842-1905. Frank Beard papers. Beard, James Henry, 1812-1893. James Henry Beard papers. Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941--Correspondence. Browne, Belmore, 1880-1954--Correspondence. Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952--Correspondence. Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910--Correspondence. Fisher, George J., -1960--Correspondence. Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940--Correspondence. Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944--Correspondence. Grey, Zane, 1872-1939--Correspondence. Head, Walter W.--Correspondence. Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920--Correspondence. Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940--Correspondence. Martin, Edward Sandford, 1856-1939--Correspondence. Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Correspondence. Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937--Correspondence. Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947--Correspondence. Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946--Correspondence. Pitz, Henry C. (Henry Clarence), 1895-1976--Correspondence. Post, Augustus, 1873-1952--Correspondence. Pratt, George D. (George Dupont), 1869-1935--Correspondence. Presbrey, Frank, 1855-1936--Correspondence. Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909--Correspondence. Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978--Correspondence. Roosevelt family--Correspondence. Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948--Correspondence. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Correspondence. Daniel Carter Beard Papers 2 Roosevelt, Theodore, 1887-1944--Correspondence. Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946--Correspondence. Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968--Correspondence. Steele, Frederic Dorr, 1873-1944--Correspondence. Stone, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1859- --Correspondence. Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936--Correspondence. Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944--Correspondence. Vreeland, Frederick K. (Frederick King), 1874- --Correspondence. Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910--Correspondence. West, James E. (James Edward), 1876-1948--Correspondence. Wister, Owen, 1860-1938--Correspondence. Woolf, S. J. (Samuel Johnson), 1880-1948--Correspondence. Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945--Correspondence. Organizations Boy Scouts of America. Charles Scribner's Sons--Correspondence. Culver Military Academy. Dan Beard Outdoor School for Boys (Pike County, Pa.) J.B. Lippincott Company--Correspondence. Sons of Daniel Boone. Subjects Boy Scouts--Periodicals. Boy Scouts--United States. Boys--United States--Societies and clubs. Camps--Pennsylvania--Pike County. Military education--United States. Private schools--Indiana--Culver. Youth--United States--Societies, etc. Titles Boys' life--Correspondence. Boys' life. Occupations Artists. Authors. Boy Scout leaders. Editors. 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 2012. Transfers Pictorial items including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and photographs have been transferred to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of these papers. Daniel Carter Beard Papers 3 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.). Access and Restrictions The papers of Daniel Carter Beard are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use. 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. Biographical Note Date Event 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, New York School of Applied Design for Woman, New York, N.Y. 1894 Married Beatrice Alice Jackson 1905 Founded 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. Scope and Content Note The papers of Daniel Carter Beard (1850-1941) span the years 1798-1941, with the bulk of the material dated between 1915 and 1935. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, family papers, speeches, articles, collected source material for writings and speeches, school composition books, address books, sketch books, illustrations, photographs, memorabilia, and printed matter relating to Beard's activities at the Culver Military Academy, Dan Beard Outdoor School, and with the Daniel Carter Beard Papers 4 Boy Scouts of America. The papers are organized into nine series: Diaries ; Family Correspondence ; Family Papers ; General Correspondence ; Special Correspondence ; Subject File ; Speech, Article, and Book File ; Miscellany ; and Oversize . 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 and composition books containing essays and lessons prepared during his student years. Beard furnished pictures for the first illustrated editions of Samuel Langhorne Clemens's 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 Beard's wedding. Correspondents from the art world include Gutzon Borglum, Howard Chandler Christy, Henry C. Pitz, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, Frederic Dorr Steele, Lorado Taft, John Quiincy Adams Ward, S. J. Woolf, and N. C. Wyeth. Daniel Beard came from an artistic background. His father, James Henry 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. The Family Correspondence and Family Papers series in these papers contain many manuscripts of both Frank Beard and James Henry Beard, including a draft 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 that 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 Company and Charles Scribner's Sons, which printed most of the twenty-seven books written by Beard. Among his correspondents in the field of literature are Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Hamlin Garland, Zane Grey, William Dean Howells, Edwin Markham, H. L. Mencken, Albert Bigelow Paine, Maxwell Perkins, Upton Sinclair, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, and Owen Wister. The third and most bountiful phase of the