Colonel George Harvey correspondence, 1906-1912.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, 1864-1928.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.

Howells, William Dean.

Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919.

Alden, Henry Mills.

Genre:

Manuscripts, American.

Penn Provenance:

Donated by Herbert Banta to Linden Public Library (Linden, New Jersey).

Transferred by Linden Public Library to University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2013.

Physical Description:

1 box

Place of Publication:

1906-1912.

Biography/History:

At age 18 Harvey became a reporter on the Springfield (Mass.) Republican and later on the New York World. From 1891 to 1894 he was managing editor of the World. He accumulated great wealth through his work in the construction of electric railways and the organization of a syndicate in 1898 to acquire the lines in Havana, Cuba. In 1899 Harvey purchased the North American Review; in 1901 he purchased Harper's Weekly, which he edited until 1913; in 1903 he purchased the Metropolitan Magazine. He also served as U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1921 to 1923.

Summary:

The material comprises responses from a large group of luminaries who were invited to a seventieth birthday celebration for Henry Mills Alden in 1906 and/or to a seventieth-fifth birthday celebration for William Dean Howells in 1912. The latter was attended by the sitting U.S. president, William Howard Taft. Alden was an editor at Harper's Magazine for thirty-seven years. Invited guests to the Alden event included George Ade, Edward Bok, William Dean Howells, Edwin Markham, Mary Mears, and Owen Wister. William Dean Howells was a author, editor, and literary critic, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters"; he championed realism in literature. Invited guests to the Howells event include George Ade, Henry Mills Alden, Edward Bok, James B. Cabell, Winston Churchill, Archer M. and Helen Huntington, Will Irwin, Henry James, George Barr McCutcheon, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Edwin Markham, Jacob Riis, James Whitcomb Riley, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Edwin A. Robinson, Booth Tarkington, and William Winter.

OCLC:

855537157