Hayden Carruth papers

id
2605
origination
Carruth, Hayden, 1862-1932
date statement
1853-1961 [bulk 1881-1931]
key date
1853
identifier (local_mss)
479
org unit
Manuscripts and Archives Division
call number
MssCol 479
b-number
b12353181
total components
238
total series
9
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:04:31 UTC
updated
2026-06-26 18:17:08 UTC
status note
(missing)
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unitid
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unittitle
{"value"=>"Hayden Carruth papers"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"1853-1961", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1853/1961"}
{"value"=>"1881-1931", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1881/1931"}
physdesc
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date_inclusive_start
1853
date_inclusive_end
1961
origination
{"value"=>"Carruth, Hayden, 1862-1932", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Hayden Carruth (originally Fred Hayden Carruth) (1862-1932) was an American newspaper publisher, journalist, humorist, and author of juvenile fiction. After working for various weekly newspapers in the Midwest, he moved to New York City where he was an editor at the New York Tribune, Harper's Magazine and the Woman's Home Companion.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
arrangement
{"value"=>"Eight series: I. General Correspondence, 1883-1961; II. Alphabetical Correspondence, 1882-1934; III. Woman's Home Companion Material, ca. 1905-1932; IV. Early Career Material, 1872-1892; V. Writings, Various Writings, 1898-1921; VI. Various Papers, ca. 1889-1957; VII. Diaries and Notebooks, 1858-1885; VIII. Scrapbooks", "supress_display"=>true}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>Collection consists of correspondence, writings, account books, and other papers covering Carruth's career. Early papers concern his student years at the University of Minnesota and work on weekly newspapers in South Dakota. Later materials relate to his career in New York City as an editor and as a contributor to many newspapers and magazines. Also, manuscripts of his narrative fiction.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Hayden Carruth papers are arranged in nine series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/479#c1102927'>General Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>General Correspondence begins with letters from Carruth's days at the Minneapolis Spectator, and with letters concerned with the establishment of Estelline Bell. The correspondence continues through the years Carruth worked as a newspaper publisher and editor, and as a free-lance writer. There are letters between Carruth and various periodicals which he contributed to, and letters from other periodicals in the Midwest and East. Sane letters are from advertisers, and some, addressed to Carruth in his capacity as an editor, are from writers. At the end of this series are letters, 1956-1961, of Gorton Carruth and Hayden Carruth (b. 1921) to Alfred Baker, the grandson of the artist Peter Newell (1862-1924).</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/479#c1102973'>Alphabetical Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Alphabetical Correspondence includes among letters of many notable people those of Peter Newell, with whom Carruth collaborated; here is also correspondence, 1906, of Jack London (1876-1916), correspondence with Robert Loveman (1864-1923) the poet, and with Whipple O. Parrott and Samuel T. Clover, Carruth's publishing partners at the Estelline Bell and Dakota Bell respectively. Various correspondence at the end of this series includes letters along with writings from Carruth's period at Harper's Magazine, and finally letters regarding the death of Hayden Carruth, and the end of his column in the Woman's Home Companion, \"The Postscript\".</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/479#c1102993'>Woman's Home Companion Material</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series Woman's Home Companion Material contains material, mostly manuscripts, in connection with Carruth's \"Postscript\" column. Earlier material includes correspondence to Carruth, interoffice memoranda, and verses written by Carruth for the entertainment of the staff. Correspondents include Gertrude B. Lane, editor of the Woman's Home Companion.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/479#c1103016'>Early Career Material</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Early Career Material contains pre-career material such as 1872 sketches, and later material such as notebooks of ideas and early writings.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/479#c1103028'>Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Published Writings include both the original manuscripts for book publication and the revised versions for magazine publication of the popular works of juvenile fiction, Track's End and In Frontenac Cave. Among other writings is the long short story, \"Shorty\", the first serious piece of narrative fiction to be published by a leading magazine.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/479#c1103069'>Various Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Various Writings contain both published and unpublished works, and both prose and verse.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/479#c1103084'>Various Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Various Papers includes notes and ideas for writings, various certificates, and invitations, menus and memoranda of organizations with which Carruth was associated. There are also several photographs of Carruth, spanning his career.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/479#c1103099'>Diaries Notebooks</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>There are four sets of diary groups. One set (1858-1885) is Carruth's diaries, incorporating copies of early family notes also; one set (1853-1875) is diaries of Mary Veeder, Carruth's mother; one set (1859-1867) is diaries of Louise Veeder, his grandmother; the final set (1878-1879) is diaries of Helen Kimball, a friend of Carruth's parents and a correspondent in the collection.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/479#c1103125'>Scrapbooks</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>In addition to the various Scrapbook series of clippings of Carruth's work, there is a Scrapbook of Various Clippings, Notes, etc. which contains source material for his writings, and Scrapbooks of Clippings about Hayden Carruth and his Writings, which includes material about the Estelline Bell and the Dakota Bell.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
acqinfo
{"accession_number"=>"MSS 58M95"}
{"date"=>"1958", "source"=>"Carruth, Gorton V", "method"=>"Gift", "value"=>"Gift, Carruth, Gorton V, 1958"}
keydate
1853
prefercite
{"value"=>"Hayden Carruth papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}
extent_statement
13 linear feet (30 boxes)
abstract
{"value"=>"Hayden Carruth (originally Fred Hayden Carruth) (1862-1932) was an American newspaper publisher, journalist, humorist, and author of juvenile fiction. After working for various weekly newspapers in the Midwest, he moved to New York City where he was an editor at the New York Tribune, Harper's Magazine and the Woman's Home Companion. Collection consists of correspondence, writings, account books, and other papers covering Carruth's career. Early papers concern his student years at the University of Minnesota and work on weekly newspapers in South Dakota. Later materials relate to his career in New York City as an editor and as a contributor to many newspapers and magazines. Also, manuscripts of his narrative fiction.", "generated"=>true}
date_start
1853
date_end
1961
date_bulk_start
1881
date_bulk_end
1931

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