Burton Jesse Hendrick papers, 1880-1970, bulk 1917-1949

Summary

Creator:
Hendrick, Burton J. (Burton Jesse), 1870-1949 and Rusnak, Martha H., Ms.
Abstract:
The Burton Jesse Hendrick papers consist of research materials, manuscript drafts, and correspondence related to books later published; news clippings and personal materials consisting of biographical files, estate files, and Yale related materials, 1880-1970.
Extent:
21.5 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Burton Jesse Hendrick Papers (MS 1980). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

Background

Scope and content:

The Burton Jesse Hendrick papers consist of research materials, manuscript drafts, and correspondence related to books later published; news clippings and personal materials consisting of biographical files, estate files, and Yale related materials, 1880-1970.

Biographical / historical:

Burton Jesse Hendrick (1870–1949) was born in New Haven, Connecticut. While attending Yale University, Hendrick was editor of both The Yale Courant and The Yale Literary Magazine. He received his BA in 1895 and his master's in 1897 from Yale. After completing his degree work, Hendrick became editor of the New Haven Morning News. In 1905, after writing for The New York Evening Post and The New York Sun. Hendrick left newspapers and became a "muckraker" writing forMcClure's Magazine. His "The Story of Life-Insurance" expose appeared in McClure's in 1906. Following his career at McClure's, Hendrick went to work in 1913 at Walter Hines Page's World's Work magazine as an associate editor. In 1919, Hendrick began writing biographies, when he was the ghostwriter of Ambassador Morgenthau's Story for Henry Morgenthau, Sr.

He won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for The Victory at Sea which he co-authored with William Sowden Sims, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page and again in 1929 for The Training of An American. Hendrick wrote the Age of Big Business in 1919, using a series of individual biographies, as an enthusiastic look at the foundation of the corporation in America and the rapid rise of the United States as a world power. After completing the commissioned biography of Andrew Carnegie, Mr. Hendrick turned to writing "group biographies". There is an obvious gap in the later works published by Mr. Hendrick between 1940 and 1946 which is explained by his work on a biography on Andrew Mellon, which was commissioned by the Mellon family, but never published.

At the time of his death, Burton J. Hendrick was working on a biography of Louise Whitfield Carnegie, the wife of Andrew Carnegie.

Custodial history:

Gift of Mrs. Martha H. Rusnak, 2012.

Arrangement:

The Burton Jesse Hendrick papers are arranged in two series: I. Personal Papers, 1895-1970. II. Professional Files, 1880-1963.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The materials are open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has been transferred to Yale University for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection whether such works are at Yale or physically located elsewhere in the world. Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Preferred citation:

Burton Jesse Hendrick Papers (MS 1980). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

Location of this collection:
Sterling Memorial Library
Yale Campus
New Haven, CT
Contact:
mssa.assist@yale.edu
(203) 432-1735
http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/