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{"value"=>"3040", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 3040", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1860s-1970s", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1860/1979"}
{"value"=>"1870s-1930s", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1870/1939"}
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1860
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1979
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1860
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1860
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1979
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{"value"=>"Benjamin R. Tucker papers"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"27 linear feet (39 boxes and 40 v.)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1854-1939) was the publisher of the anarchist publication Liberty from 1881 to 1908, and The Radical Review, 1877 and 1878; owner of the Unique Bookshop in New York City; specialist in and translator of Pierre Joseph Proudhon; and publisher of works considered radical at the time, such as Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata, and Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol. After his bookstore was destroyed by fire in 1908, Tucker moved to France and lived there until his death. Collection consists of correspondence, business and personal records, manuscripts of Tucker's translations from Proudhon, scrapbooks, photographs, material concerning his relationship with Victoria Claflin Woodhull, and anarchist books, periodicals and pamphlets. Correspondence, some of which is in French, dates from ca. 1866 to 1950. Tucker's correspondents were friends, political colleagues, readers of Liberty, and representatives of journals, publishing houses, and various organizations. Miscellaneous papers, 1870s-1930s, include records of the Unique Bookshop, of Liberty and The Radical Review, and of Tucker's activities as a book publisher; photographs (chiefly cabinet card and carte de visite portraits) of radicals and others, notably major European cultural figures; biographical miscellany of a variety of political and cultural figures; manuscript of Tucker's autobiography; and autobiographical file with correspondence, notes, essays, and other personal papers. Scrapbooks, 1870s-1930s, contain clippings of articles on political, literary and other topics. Also, large group of anarchist books, periodicals and pamphlets, 1860s-1970s, in various languages; some engineering books; books and pamphlets published by Oriole Press; and books and other printed materials on medical matters."}
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{"value"=>"Some correspondence in French"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Benjamin R. Tucker papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson, 1854-1939", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Individualist Anarchist; author, editor, publisher, and translator.</p> <p>Tucker was the publisher of the influential Anarchist publication <em render=\"underline\">Liberty</em>, 1881-1908, and of the short-lived quarterly <em render=\"underline\">Radical Review</em>, 1877-1878; owner of the Unique Bookshop in New York; specialist in and translator of the French Anarchist philosopher Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865); and publisher of books considered radical in his day. These included <em render=\"underline\">Diary of a Chambermaid</em>, Octave Mirbeau; <em render=\"underline\">The Kreutzer Sonata</em>, Tolstoy; <em render=\"underline\">Leaves of Grass</em>, Walt Whitman; <em render=\"underline\">Ballad of Reading Gaol</em>, Oscar Wilde; <em render=\"underline\">The Ego and His Own</em>, Max Stirner; and works by Proudhon, George Bernard Shaw, and Emile Zola.</p> <p>Born in South Dartmouth, Mass., Tucker attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1870-1873. After a period in France, Tucker settled in Boston where he began his work as an editor and publisher while earning a living as a staff member of the <em render=\"underline\">Boston Globe</em>. Tucker moved to New York in 1892 and remained there until 1908 when a fire at the Unique Bookshop destroyed his entire operation. Soon after, Tucker, with his companion Pearl Johnson and their infant daughter Oriole Johnson Tucker (later Riché) moved to France. The family moved to Monaco in 1926, and Tucker died there in 1939.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Tucker's papers, the bulk of which date from the 1870s-1930s, consist of correspondence, fragmentary business and personal records, manuscripts of Tucker's translations from Proudhon, scrapbooks, photographs, material relating to his relationship with reformer Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927), and a large collection of Anarchist books, periodicals, and pamphlets in English, French, German, and a few other languages. <em render=\"underline\">The Inventory of the Benjamin R. Tucker Collection of Manuscripts, Books, and Pamphlets</em>, John D. Stinson, September, 1971, contains a detailed listing of the collection.</p> <p>The correspondence, some of which is in French, dates from circa 1866-1950. Letters to Pearl Johnson and Oriole J. Tucker are included. Tucker's correspondents were friends and political colleagues, readers of <em render=\"underline\">Liberty</em>, and representatives of journals, publishing houses, and various organizations. There are particularly large files of correspondence between Tucker and the Scottish-German poet and Anarchist John Henry Mackay covering the years 1905-1933, and with editor and author George Schumm, from 1885-1939. Other correspondents include: Stephen Pearl Andrews, William Bailie, Henry Bool, Steven T. Byington, Henry and Thyrza Cohen, English publisher Arthur C. Fifield, Morton Fullerton, William B. Greene, Joseph and Rose Freeman Ishill of the Oriole Press in Berkeley Heights New Jersey, Joseph and Laurance Labadie, George E. MacDonald, Sidney H. Morse, Lincoln Steffens, Clarence L. Swartz, Edward Tuck, Brand Whitlock, C. E. S. Wood, Victor Yarros, and others. Correspondence between Tucker and George Bernard Shaw and Shaw's wife Charlotte F. Shaw, with related papers, are now at the New York Public Library's Berg Collection. See pages 1-5 and 46-47 of the 1971 inventory for a complete listing of correspondents.</p> <p>Miscellaneous papers, include: fragmentary records of the Unique Bookshop (see the correspondence files, box 4, for correspondence between Pearl Johnson, then Tucker's assistant, and Tucker, in Europe, May-July, 1907, concerning business matters), of <em render=\"underline\">Liberty</em>, and of Tucker's activities as a book publisher.</p> <p>Twenty-two scrapbooks contain numbered clippings, circa 1880s-1930s, of articles on political, literary, and other topics, from French and American papers, some with Tucker's notes. A card index to the scrapbooks is contained in boxes 10-12. An additional scrapbook, 1870s, has not been indexed, and a group of loose clippings are in box 15.</p> <p>Two boxes (13 and 14) contain photographs, chiefly in the form of cabinet card and carte de visite portraits, of radical figures (including many of Tucker's correspondents), and of a variety of statesmen, authors, artists, actresses, and other public figures. Ezra Heywood, Jo Labadie, Victoria Claflin Woodhull, Albert Parsons, August Spies, Elisee Reclus, and Emile Zola are among the many pictured. There are only a few photographs of Tucker and Pearl Johnson.</p> <p>A group of files contains biographical miscellany (letters, photographs, printed items), presumably gathered by Tucker, on a variety of political and cultural figures. These include Emery A. Andrews, E. L. Augustus (a phrenological report), Sarah Bernhardt, Ezra Heywood, John Henry Mackay, Lysander Spooner, Josiah Warren (including examples of his \"labor notes\", the form of currency he promoted), and Walt Whitman (a signed photograph, 1882).</p> <p>Papers relating to Tucker's personal life include the manuscript of an autobiography, <em render=\"underline\">The life of Benjamin R. Tucker as disclosed by himself in the principality of Monaco at the age of 74</em>, and a file labeled (as it was originally) \"autobiographical\". This autobiographical file contains correspondence, 1920s-1930s, between Tucker and Charles Almy, Emile Armand, Dr. Bertha Johnson (Pearl Johnson's sister, a physician), George Schumm, and others, containing descriptions (as recorded either by Tucker or these correspondents) of Tucker's personal history, temperament, state of health in later years, and political beliefs. Notes written by Tucker as reminders to himself or to Pearl Johnson, and some autobiographical essays are included. Additional personal papers consist of: affidavits containing Tucker's requests to be excused from jury duty, 1897 and 1907; passports; a photograph of Tucker, 1931; notebooks containing accounts, autographs, and memoranda, and engineering drawings done by Tucker while a student at MIT.</p> <p>Tucker knew the controversial reformer Victoria Claflin Woodhull when he was young, and the collection contains his correspondence with Emanie Sachs, her biographer (<em render=\"underline\">The Terrible Siren</em>, Harper and Bros., 1928). Included is a forty-five page letter from Tucker to Sachs in which he describes his relationship with Woodhull. A typescript of the chapter in Sachs' book that incorporates this material is also included.</p> <p>Finally, the collection contains a large group of Anarchist books, periodicals, and pamphlets, 1860s-1970s (chiefly late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries) in English, French, and German with some in Italian, Russian, and Spanish. There are books and pamphlets published by Tucker and complete runs of <em render=\"underline\">Liberty</em>, 1881-1908, and the <em render=\"underline\">Radical Review</em>; significant groups of books by or about Georges Clemenceau, John Henry Mackay, and Pierre Joseph Proudhon; a small group of engineering books; and books and pamphlets published by the Oriole Press. A sizeable group of books on health and sexuality, and printed materials on medical matters that belonged to Dr. Bertha Johnson are also included.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Benjamin R. Tucker papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3040#c1081398'>I. Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>(alphabetical listing incl. a few letters of Pearl Johnson Tucker (wife) and Oriole Tucker Riche (daughter)).</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3040#c1081547'>Scrapbooks & Miscellaneous Papers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3040#c1081604'>IV. Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Liberty and The Radical Review, both published by Tucker, have been bound and are not included in box 21 with the other periodicals in English. The 1971 inventory has a complete listing.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3040#c1082255'>Addenda (71M68)</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Four series: Correspondence; Miscellaneous Papers; Scrapbooks; Books, Pamphlets and Periodicals</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>1971, Received from Oriole Tucker Riché</p>"}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>jds, September 1971</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by JM, October 227, 1988</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Correspondence with John Henry Mackay available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Joseph Labadie folder available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Correspondence with Sidney Morse available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Tucker's autobiography available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}
- note
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{"type"=>"did", "value"=>"Correspondence between Tucker and George Bernard Shaw and Charlotte F. Shaw with related papers are held in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library"}
- extent_statement
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27 linear feet (39 boxes and 40 v.)
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1870
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1939