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Macmillan Company records

Title: Macmillan Company records, 1889-1960.
Author: Macmillan Company
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Genre/Form

Photoprints.

Access (note)

Restricted access;
readers must use microfilm.

Additional Formats (note)

available on microfilm;

Source (note)

Macmillan Company

Biography (note)

The Macmillan Company was founded in 1869 as a branch in New York City of the British firm of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. of London. The company became autonomous in 1896 but the British firm maintained close ties and a strong financial interest in the company. The Macmillan Company attracted major American authors and published a wide variety of fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, reference works, and children's books. George Platt Brett, Jr. who became Macmillan's president in 1931, arranged for the publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. Macmillan Company merged with Crowell-Collier Publishing Company in 1960 as a subsidiary and in 1973 the name was changed to Macmillan Publishing Company.

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Call Number

MssCol 1830

OCLC

NYPW92-A278

Author

Macmillan Company.

Title

Macmillan Company records, 1889-1960.

Description

91 linear feet (130 boxes).

Henry James files: 1 microfilm reel.

Margaret Mitchell files: 8 microfilm reels.

Emile Zola manuscripts: 1 microfilm reel.

Additional Formats

Selected materials available on microfilm; New York Public Library.

Summary

Collection consists of correspondence and author files of the Macmillan Company. General correspondence, 1892-1914, contains letters from authors, publishers, booksellers, paper manufacturers, literary agents, as well as internal correspondence from editors, agents, field representatives, and academic book reviewers. Much of the correspondence deals with the publication of scholarly works and textbooks in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and religion. Foreign correspondence, 1898-1914, includes letters to and from publishers and literary agents, mostly in Great Britain. Correspondence with Macmillan & Co. in London, 1891-1915, concerns publishing plans, negotiations for British and American editions of various works, copyright matters, etc. George Platt Brett, Sr.'s letterbooks consist of his outgoing letters from 1889 to 1907. Other letterbooks are of Kate Stephens, Children's Dept., 1898-1900, and the Subscription Dept., 1901-1902. Author files, 1894-1960, contain personal and business correspondence of Macmillan's major authors, their literary agents, legal counsel, and families with the Bretts and Macmillan editors. In addition to letters, the files often include memoranda, contracts, typescripts, press releases and publicity materials, legal records, press clippings, or photographs. The most extensive files in this series concern the publication of works such as Gone With the Wind, Forever Amber and the Cyclopedia of American Agriculture.

Other records consist of letters, 1892-1959, from prominent persons and pamphlets and poems, 1912-1930, printed for copyright purposes.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Access

Margaret Mitchell author files: readers must use microfilm.

Biography

The Macmillan Company was founded in 1869 as a branch in New York City of the British firm of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. of London. The company became autonomous in 1896 but the British firm maintained close ties and a strong financial interest in the company. The Macmillan Company attracted major American authors and published a wide variety of fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, reference works, and children's books. George Platt Brett, Jr. who became Macmillan's president in 1931, arranged for the publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. Macmillan Company merged with Crowell-Collier Publishing Company in 1960 as a subsidiary and in 1973 the name was changed to Macmillan Publishing Company.

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Occupation

Publishers.

Added Author

Adams, George Burton, 1851-1925.

Adams, Herbert B. (Herbert Baxter), 1850-1901.

Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910.

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.

Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.

Brett, George Platt.

Brett, George Platt, 1859-1936.

Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970.

Channing, Edward, 1856-1931.

Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947.

Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943.

Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938.

Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937.

London, Jack, 1876-1916.

Macmillan, Frederick.

MacMillan, George.

Masefield, John, 1878-1967.

Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949.

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.

Stephens, Kate, 1853-1938.

Titchener, George.

Winsor, Kathleen.

Wister, Owen, 1860-1938.

A. & C. Black.

American Publishers' Association.

Cambridge University Press.

George Bell & Sons.

J.M. Dent & Sons.

James Macklehose & Sons.

Macmillan & Co.

Methuen & Co.

Research Call Number

MssCol 1830

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