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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"15 linear ft. (39 boxes)"}
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{"value"=>"MssCol 1043", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"1043", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1869-1902", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1869/1902"}
{"value"=>"1885-1895", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1885/1895"}
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1869
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1902
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1869
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{"value"=>"Paul Leicester Ford papers"}
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{"value"=>"The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Paul Leicester Ford (1865-1902) was a historian, novelist and playwright. The bulk of the collection consists of general and family correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of Ford's writings."}
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{"value"=>"<p> Paul Leicester Ford Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Paul Leicester Ford (1862-1902) was born at Brooklyn, New York, the seventh child and third son of Gordon Lester Ford (1823-91) and Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford (1826-93). On his mother's side he was a great grandson of Noah Webster. As a child Ford suffered a spinal injury which gravely stunted his growth. Born into a bookish family and surrounded by his father's vast library of Americana, he acquired at an early age a taste for learning and scholarship.</p> <p>From his first publication, (1876) a Webster genealogy printed on his own printing press, Ford went on to edit or publish a large oeuvre of scholarly and bibliographical publications in the field of Americana including editions of the writings of John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson, bibliographies of Hamilton and Jefferson, and biographical studies of Washington and Franklin. Many of his works were privately printed by the Historical Printing Club of Brooklyn which he formed in association with his brother, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858-1941).</p> <p>In his late `twenties Ford turned to fiction where he achieved considerable popularity as a novelist especially for his novel <span class=\"emph\">The Honorable Peter Stirling</span>(1894) which dealt with the political morés in New York during the Cleveland era. Ford also wrote several plays one of which was produced on the stage.</p> <p>For many years Ford was associated with Richard Rogers Bowker in the editing of <span class=\"emph\">The Library Journal.</span>In 1900 he married Grace Kidder of a socially prominent Brooklyn family. His life was ended tragically when his brother Malcom, in a fit of insane jealousy, shot him dead in his study before taking his own life.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence and writings. There are also papers relating to the Historical Printing Club, miscellaneous papers and press clippings. The correspondence is arranged into general and family correspondence (in chronological order) and is mainly letters received although there are scattered drafts or copies of outgoing correspondence. The general correspondence (1870-1902) is with scholars, historians, librarians, publishers, editors, printers, officials of historical societies, friends and associates. The correspondence relates mainly to Ford's historical researches and to the publication of his books, bibliographies and historical writings. There is some correspondence relative to the dramatization of his novels and the production of his plays, correspondence relative to his editorship of <span class=\"title\">The Library Journal,</span>and to his compiliation of a bibliography of the writings of members of the <span class=\"corpname\">American Historical Association</span>. His personal and social liife is also represented although to a lesser degree. Correspondents include <span class=\"persname\">Herbert B. Adams</span>, <span class=\"persname\">John Bigelow</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Clarence W. Bowen</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Richard Rogers Bowker</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Thomas F. Clark</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Augustin Daly</span>, <span class=\"corpname\">Dodd, Mead & Co.</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Wilberforce Eames</span>, <span class=\"corpname\">Harper & Brothers</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Albert Bushnell Hart</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Ripley Hitchcock</span>,<span class=\"persname\">Henry Holt</span>, <span class=\"corpname\">Lippincott's Monthly Magazine</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Beatrice Cameron Mansfield</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Richard Mansfield</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Charles Nordhoff</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Walter Hines Page</span>, <span class=\"corpname\">G.P. Putnam's Sons</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Theodore Roosevelt</span>, <span class=\"corpname\">Charles Scribner's Sons</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Horace Elisha Scudder</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Lindsay Swift</span>, and <span class=\"persname\"> Edith Thomas</span>.</p> <p>The family correspondence (1879-1893) which is only partially sorted consists of letters from his brother, Worthington, and from his sisters, Emily, Rosalie, and Kathleen. The letters from Worthington concern editorial and publishing matters as well as personal and family affairs.</p> <p>The writings are arranged in to fictional and non-fictional writings and include manuscript and typescript drafts of his novels, plays, historical and bibliographical writings. Some of the manuscript drafts are incomplete. Included also are miscellaneous writings consisting (in part) of articles describing Ford's journey (1877) to the West Indies and a manuscript copy and galley proofs of a shipboard newspaper (“The Occaisional Barracoutean”) edited by Ford during the trip. There are also drafts of editorials and reviews published in <span class=\"title\">The Library Journal.</span>The papers relating to the <span class=\"corpname\">Historical Printing Club</span> consist of copies of publications of the Club printed in limited edition from original documents in the Ford family's collection of Americana. Each copy is numbered as being one of a set. Included also are unsorted printed ephemera, a few manuscript drafts of advertisements, and page and galley proofs of <span class=\"title\">The Press of North Carolina in the Eighhteenth Century,</span>by Stephen B. Weeks (HPC, 1891).</p> <p>The miscellaneous papers include a childhood photograph of Ford, bills & receipts, cards and invitations, membership certificates, and obituaries.</p> <p>The press clippings are loose clippings of reviews of Ford's published writings arranged by title of the work. There are also two boxes of unsorted papers.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Paul Leicester Ford papers are arranged in eight series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1043#c155256'>General Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1043#c155265'>Family Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1043#c155266'>Writings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1043#c155298'>Historical Printing Club</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1043#c155299'>Miscellaneous Papers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1043#c155300'>Press Clippings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1043#c155301'>Unsorted papers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1043#c155302'>Addenda</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the Ford family.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"English"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>John Stinson; machine readable finding aid created by APEX data services and revised by Chatham Ewing.</p>"}
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1869
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1902
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1885
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1895