Collection ID: GEN MSS 1110

Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Johnson, Allen, 1870-1931
Date:
1907-1920, bulk 1916-1920
Abstract:
Correspondence of Allen Johnson concerning his editorship of the Chronicles of America Series, consisting of incoming typed and autograph letters, signed, and outgoing typescript carbons, 1916-1920. Correspondents include historians Max Ferrand, Yale University, and Nathaniel Stephenson, College of Charleston, and other authors of volumes in the Chronicles of America Series; United States Publishers' Association founders Robert Pollock Glasgow and Arthur H. Brook, Gerhard Richard Lomer, and other staff of the United States Publishers' Association; and George Parmly Day, president, and other staff of Yale University Press. Also present are memoranda and financial accounts concerning publication of the Chronicles of America Series; and correspondence about publication of Johnson's Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908), 1907-1916.
Extent:
6.68 Linear Feet
Language:
English

Background

Acquisition information:
Gift of Allen Johnson, 1925.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Scope and Content:

Correspondence of Allen Johnson concerning his editorship of the Chronicles of America Series, consisting of incoming typed and autograph letters, signed, and outgoing typescript carbons, 1916-1920. Correspondents include historians Max Farrand, Yale University, Nathaniel Stephenson, College of Charleston, and other authors of volumes in the Chronicles of America Series; United States Publishers' Association founders Robert Pollock Glasgow and Arthur H. Brook, Gerhard Richard Lomer, and other staff of the United States Publishers' Association; and George Parmly Day, president, and other staff of Yale University Press. Also present are memoranda and financial accounts concerning publication of the Chronicles of America Series; and correspondence about publication of Johnson's Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908), 1907-1916.

Biographical / Historical:

Allen Johnson (1870-1931), American historian; Yale University professor of history, 1910-1926; and editor of Dictionary of American Biography and the Chronicles of America Series. The Chronicles of America Series, a series of monographs on topics in American history, was published in fifty volumes by the United States Publishers' Association and Yale University Press, 1919-1921. Fifteen films based on monographs in the Series were produced by the Chronicles of America Picture Corporation, 1923-1924.

Processing information:

Former call number: MS Vault Johnson, A. Formerly restricted except by permission of Allen Johnson. In 2014, the collection received a baseline level of processing, and was reclassed under a new call number. Folder titles were based on information provided by the creator. Folder titles were not verified against contents.

Arrangement:

Organized into two series: I. Incoming Correspondence, 1907-1920. II. Outgoing Correspondence, 1916-1920.

Access

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
Beinecke Rare Book Library
121 Wall St
New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Link to repository site
CONTACT:
beinecke.library@yale.edu