Finding Aid to the Helen Gentry and David Greenhood Papers, 1748-1988 (bulk 1930-1980)

Series 1: Helen Gentry Papers. 1748, 1926-1988, undated

Physical Description: Cartons 1-2; Carton 3, folders 1-27

Subseries 1.1: Correspondence. 1926-1988, undated

Physical Description: Carton 1

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

carton 1, folder 1

Adler, Elmer. 1930-1937

carton 1, folder 2

American Institute of Graphic Arts. 1931-1961

carton 1, folder 3

Anderson, Gregg. 1931-1940

carton 1, folder 4

A - General. 1930-1970

carton 1, folder 5

Barnard, Mary. 1934-1985, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes copies of letters to David Greenhood, poems by Mary Barnard.

carton 1, folder 6

Baumann, Ann and Gustave. 1947, 1960-1982

carton 1, folder 7

Beilenson, Edna. 1949, 1974

carton 1, folder 8

Bennett, P.A. 1932-1939, 1951-1960

Scope and Content Note

The Linotype News.

carton 1, folder 9

Bentley, Wilder and Ellen. 1932-1940, 1971-1987

carton 1, folder 10

Blumenthal, Ann and Joe. 1969-1984, undated

carton 1, folder 11

Briggs, John. 1965-1985

Scope and Content Note

Includes photograph of Vernon Ives and Glen Rounds, Helen Gentry's reminiscences of Holiday House.

carton 1, folder 12

B - General. 1934-1986, undated

carton 1, folder 13

Cary, Melbert B. 1932-1934

carton 1, folder 14

Conklin, Gladys. 1960-1981, undated

carton 1, folder 15

C - General. 1930-1976, undated

carton 1, folder 16

Declan X. McMullen Company. 1946-1948

Scope and Content Note

Includes dummy of Three Little Shepherds at Play.

carton 1, folder 17

D - General. 1933-1984

carton 1, folder 18

Elmtree Press. 1934-1935

Scope and Content Note

Includes letter from Porter Garnett.

carton 1, folder 19

Evans, Margaret. 1957, 1967, undated

carton 1, folder 20

E - General. 1930-1946, undated

carton 1, folder 21

Ferris, Helen. 1934

carton 1, folder 22

Foster, Joseph. 1931-1932, 1951, 1986, undated

Scope and Content Note

Also includes photocopies of correspondence dated 1930-1937.

carton 1, folder 23

F - General. 1930-1974

carton 1, folder 24

Garnett, Porter. 1926-1935

carton 1, folder 25-26

Glick, Evelyn Harter. 1967-1988, undated

carton 1, folder 27

Grabhorn Press. 1941-1942, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes photographs and other documents, correspondence with others re: Grabhorn Press.

carton 1, folder 28

Gross, Sarah Chokla. 1964-1966

carton 1, folder 29

G - General. 1931-1974

carton 1, folder 30

Hawk, Lowell. 1973-1985, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes photocopy of 1932 letter, poems by Hawk.

carton 1, folder 31

Holiday House staff - General. 1950-1962

carton 1, folder 32

The Horn Book. 1934-1935, 1957-1958

carton 1, folder 33

Hoyem, Andrew. 1974-1984, undated

carton 1, folder 34

H - General. 1930-1968, undated

carton 1, folder 35-38

Ives, Vernon. 1931-1984

carton 1, folder 39

J-K - General. 1930-1961

carton 1, folder 40

Leuba, Walter. 1930-1978

carton 1, folder 41

Libraries - General. 1930-1983

carton 1, folder 42

Library of Congress. 1931-1986, undated

carton 1, folder 43-44

Lowman, Al. 1973-1986, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes Lowman's correspondence with Bruce Gentry.

carton 1, folder 45

L - General. 1930-1987

carton 1, folder 46

Merrill, Charles E., Jr. 1930-1934

carton 1, folder 47

Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1938

carton 1, folder 48

Moore, Mary. 1933-1934

carton 1, folder 49

M - General. 1930-1975, undated

carton 1, folder 50

New York Public Library. 1976-1985

carton 1, folder 51

Noble and Noble. 1946

carton 1, folder 52

Nodland Yolkmann, Cynthia. 1981-1984

carton 1, folder 53

N-O-P - General. 1931-1983, undated

carton 1, folder 54-56

Rounds, Glen. 1936-1984

Scope and Content Note

Includes clippings, art, and photographs.

carton 1, folder 57

Rudge Long, Joanna. 1966-1985, undated

carton 1, folder 58

R - General. 1930-1983

carton 1, folder 59

Scheer, George F. 1951-1978

carton 1, folder 60

Standard, Paul. 1933-1936, 1974

Additional Note

Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

carton 1, folder 61

Stoddard, Carol Cannon. 1953, undated

carton 1, folder 62

Stone, Wilbur Macey. 1930-1934

carton 1, folder 63

S - General. 1930-1984, undated

carton 1, folder 64

Thompson, Vivian L. 1961-1975

carton 1, folder 65

T - General. 1951-1983, undated

carton 1, folder 66

Unicorn Press. 1970-1987

Scope and Content Note

Includes catalogs.

carton 1, folder 67

University of New Mexico Press. 1944-1951,

carton 1, folder 68

University of Utah. 1948-1949

Scope and Content Note

Harold W. Bentley.

carton 1, folder 69

U-V - General. 1928-1971, undated

carton 1, folder 70

Wolfe, Leona. 1977-1981

Scope and Content Note

Includes Singing Doctor: Portrait of a Humanist (Ernst Wolff).

carton 1, folder 71

W - General. 1930-1984

carton 1, folder 72

Zeitlin Books. 1933-1934

carton 1, folder 73

General - Children's correspondence and drawings. 1931-1936, 1951-1952, undated

carton 1, folder 74

General - Unidentified. 1953-1971, undated

Subseries 1.2: Projects. 1930-1975, undated

Physical Description: Carton 2, folders 1-44

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by project name.

Scope/Content

Includes correspondence, notes, and mock-ups for printing and design projects.

carton 2, folder 1

Aeneid. 1947-1968, undated

carton 2, folder 2

Aesop. 1945-1946

carton 2, folder 3

Alice in Wonderland. undated

Additional Note

For Lippincott, never completed.

carton 2, folder 4

Black Beauty. 1946-1950, undated

carton 2, folder 5

Colorado Associated University Press catalog. 1970-1971

carton 2, folder 6

D.H. Lawrence bibliography. 1947-1948

Scope and Content Note

May also include materials for Sun in Your Eyes.

carton 2, folder 7

Grimm's Fairy Tales. 1945-1948, undated

Additional Note

For Lippincott, never completed.

carton 2, folder 8

Hawaiian myths. 1964-1965

carton 2, folder 9

Heidi. 1946-1950, undated

carton 2, folder 10

Hotep and the Nile Cat. 1957-1964, undated

Scope and Content Note

May also include materials related to Picture Skin.

carton 2, folder 11

If I Were a Bird. 1964

carton 2, folder 12

Indian Painters and White Patrons. 1971, undated

carton 2, folder 13

Johnny Appleseed. 1949-1950, undated

carton 2, folder 14

King Arthur. 1946-1947, undated

carton 2, folder 15

Lippincott Lifetime Library. 1945-1947

Scope and Content Note

Includes various titles.

carton 2, folder 16-18

Little House books (Laura Ingalls Wilder). 1948-1953, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence with Garth Williams (illustrator), correspondence with Harper (publisher), dummies, and original pencil art by Williams.

carton 2, folder 19

Music and Man. 1947, undated

carton 2, folder 20

New Mexico Artists. 1951-1952

carton 2, folder 21

New Mexico Missions. 1951, undated

carton 2, folder 22-25

New Mexico Quarterly Review. 1948-1954

carton 2, folder 26

New Mexico Village Arts. 1947-1949, undated

carton 2, folder 27

Perpetua broadside. 1947-1948

carton 2, folder 28

Pinocchio. 1946-1948, undated

carton 2, folder 29-30

Publishers Weekly. 1948-1949

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence, dummies, and notes.

carton 2, folder 31

Rain Makes Applesauce. 1963-1964

cartion 2, folder 32

Robin Hood. 1946-1947, undated

carton 2, folder 33

Robinson Crusoe. 1945-1947, undated

carton 2, folder 34

Tom Sawyer. 1945-1946, undated

carton 2, folder 35

Treasure Island. 1946-1947, undated

carton 2, folder 36

University of New Mexico - Analysis of Printing Production. 1951-1952

carton 2, folder 37

University of New Mexico - Graduate Bulletin. 1951-1952, undated

Scope and Content Note

May also include materials related to UNM General Bulletin.

carton 2, folder 38

University of New Mexico - Historical Review and Publications Series. 1951, undated

carton 2, folder 39

The Viking Voyage. 1960

carton 2, folder 40

White Churches of the Plains. 1969-1970

carton 2, folder 41

The Wonder Book/ Tanglewood Tales. 1945-1947

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence, dummies, and notes. For Lippincott, not completed.

carton 2, folder 43

A Word or Two with Henry James. 1930-1935, 1975, undated

Additional Note

Unpublished.

carton 2, folder 44

General - Other. 1931-1971, undated

Subseries 1.3: Holiday House. 1935-1985, undated

Physical Description: Carton 2, folders 45-58

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by topic. Related correspondence is located in Correspondence series.

carton 2, folder 45

Analysis of organizational structure. 1959, undated

carton 2, folder 46

Editorial planning meeting memoranda. 1960-1963

carton 2, folder 47

Financial - Accounts for editing and design. 1960-1964

carton 2, folder 48

Financial - Annual statements. 1953-1961

carton 2, folder 49

Financial - Balance sheets. 1947-1951

carton 2, folder 50

Financial - Illustrated invoice from Peter Wells. 1955

carton 2, folder 51

Financial - Profit sharing and retirement benefits. 1950-1964, undated

carton 2, folder 52

Photographs. undated

carton 2, folder 53

Printed matter. 1935-1942, 1985, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes catalogs.

carton 2, folder 54

Promotion calendar. 1947

carton 2, folder 55

Sales conferences. 1957-1965, undated

carton 2, folder 56

Sales statistics. 1951-1963

carton 2, folder 57

Time records for Helen Gentry. 1960-1962, undated

carton 2, folder 58

Title lists and statistics. 1942-1962, undated

Subseries 1.4: Writings. 1935-1951, undated

Physical Description: Carton 2, folders 59-65

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by title.

carton 2, folder 59

Design and Production Problems of Workmanship, Typography, Printing, Reproduction Processes, and Materials in Children's Books. 1938-1939

carton 2, folder 60

Designing a Book. 1941, undated

carton 2, folder 61

Fine Children's Books. 1938

carton 2, folder 62

Graphic Processes in Children's Books. 1945-1947

carton 2, folder 63

Integrating the Illustrated Book - Speech. 1948-1949

carton 2, folder 64

General - Articles. 1935-1951, undated

carton 2, folder 65

General - Speeches. 1938-1942, undated

Subseries 1.5: General. 1748, 1928-1986, undated

Physical Description: Carton 3, folders 1-27

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by topic.

Scope/Content

Includes materials related to the Helen Gentry Press.

carton 3, folder 1

American Institute of Graphic Arts - The Fifty Books of the Year, 1923-1938. 1938

carton 3, folder 2

American Institute of Graphic Arts - Magazine Show. 1950, 1952

carton 3, folder 3

American Institute of Graphic Arts - Printing for Commerce. 1931, 1953-1954

carton 3, folder 4

American Institute of Graphic Arts - Sampler of Book Illustration Processes. 1939

carton 3, folder 5

Las Artes del Libro en los Estados Unidos, 1931-1941. 1942

carton 3, folder 6

Awards. 1936, 1968-1972

carton 3, folder 7

Biography. 1931-1963

carton 3, folder 8

Book covers. undated

Scope and Content Note

From scrapbook. Includes books published by Holiday House. May include items designed by Helen Gentry.

carton 3, folder 9

Book reviews and clippings. 1931-1959, undated

Drawings and prints. 1748, 1949, undated

carton 3, folder 13

Eichenberg, Fritz. 1937-1943, undated

carton 3, folder 14

Exhibitions and events. 1931-1946, undated

carton 3, folder 15

Guggenheim fellowship application. 1932

carton 3, folder 16

Helen Gentry Press - Advertisements and small printing projects. 1928-1933, 1969, undated

carton 3, folder 17

Helen Gentry Press - Ephemera. 1932-1934, undated

carton 3, folder 18

Helen Gentry Press - Metropolitan Museum of Art calendar. 1939

carton 3, folder 19

Notes. 1949-1968, undated

carton 3, folder 20

Photographs. circa 1930s, 1966-1978, undated

carton 3, folder 21

Press specimens - Boston Bookbuilders Workshop. 1949

carton 3, folder 22

Press specimens - New York Chappel. 1960

carton 3, folder 23

Press specimens - Scripps College. undated

carton 3, folder 24

Press specimens - General. 1934-1986, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes general fine printing ephemera.

carton 3, folder 25

Spiral Press. 1962-1970

carton 3, folder 26

University of California, Berkeley Library - Christmas Exhibition. 1976

carton 3, folder 27

Ward Ritchie, Printer: A Seventy-fifth Birthday Salute. 1980, 1984

Scope and Content Note

Includes related event announcement.

Series 2: David Greenhood Papers. 1894-1986, undated

Physical Description: Carton 3, folders 28-48; Cartons 4-6; Carton 7, folders 1-27

Subseries 2.1: Correspondence. 1920-1979, undated

Physical Description: Carton 3, folders 28-48; Carton 4, folders 1-12

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Scope/Content

Includes correspondence with Holiday House authors.

carton 3, folder 28

Bird, Grace. 1946-1973, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes print of Porter Garnett's bookplate.

carton 3, folder 29

Chalfin, Mrs. Bruce. 1961, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes research materials relating to herbs.

carton 3, folder 30-33

Garnett, Porter. 1920-1953

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence with Garnett's relatives after his death.

carton 3, folder 34-46

Glick, Evelyn Harter. 1948-1979, undated

carton 3, folder 47

Henig, Susan. 1964-1976

carton 3, folder 48

Holiday House authors - General. 1952-1960, undated

carton 4, folder 1-8

Leuba, Walter. 1923-1977

Scope and Content Note

Includes Leuba's correspondence with Bruce Gentry and Henrietta Greenhood.

carton 4, folder 9

Milgrom, Harry. 1955-1956

carton 4, folder 10

Nason, Thelma. 1954-1958

carton 4, folder 11

Roth, Henry. 1965-1974

carton 4, folder 12

A-Z - General. 1942-1977, undated

Subseries 2.2: Writings. 1918-1986, undated

Physical Description: Carton 4, folders 13-37; Cartons 5-6; Carton 7, 1-2

Arrangement

Arranged by genre.

2.2.1: Fiction. 1933-1985, undated

Physical Description: Carton 4, folders 13-37; Carton 5, folders 1-6

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by title.

carton 4, folder 13

And the Type Distributed. 1983, undated

carton 4, folder 14-22

Collected Stories. 1985, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes 4 separate sets of drafts, plus extra copies and a retyped version.

carton 4, folder 23-26

Laura Brendon. 1938-1940, undated

carton 4, folder 27

A Little Crime Against Neglect. 1950-1951, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence.

carton 4, folder 28-37

Mural of a Small Family. 1933-1936, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes 2 different drafts, additional materials for revision, and correspondence.

carton 5, folder 1-2

Playgirl. undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes materials for expansion and revision.

carton 5, folder 3

The Visit. undated

carton 5, folder 4

Untitled manuscript. undated

carton 5, folder 5-5a

General - Short stories. 1975, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence.

carton 5, folder 6

General - Revisions. 1940, undated

2.2.2: Nonfiction. 1922-1980, undated

Physical Description: Carton 5, folders 7-36; Carton 6, folders 1-15

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by title.

carton 5, folder 7

As I Understand Bergler undated

carton 5, folder 8

Chaucer. 1967, undated

carton 5, folder 9

Contenders and Communicants: A Scrapbook of Remarks about Civil Discourse. 1967-1974, undated

carton 5, folder 10-16

Continuance. 1980, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes 3 drafts and correspondence.

carton 5, folder 17

Down to Earth: Mapping for Everybody. undated

carton 5, folder 18

Fairy Tales and Other Fantasies. undated

carton 5, folder 19

The First Graphic Art. undated

carton 5, folder 20

Notes on History/ Notes on the Writing of History. undated

carton 5, folder 21

The Image, Its Intrinsicality and Powers. undated

carton 5, folder 22

Learnedness. 1938

carton 5, folder 23

Letters to a Working Writer. undated

Additional Note

Based on letters to Evelyn Harter Glick.

carton 5, folder 24-36, carton 6

Living Through It. undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes 3 drafts, additional annotated copies and early drafts with notes by Ben Belitt and others, discarded version, manuscript report, and correspondence.

carton 6, folder 2-5

Nescience. undated

carton 6, folder 6

Old Gravestone Lettering in and around New York. 1940, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes photographs and rubbings.

carton 6, folder 7

Ox-House-Camel: An Abecedary. undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes essay written as Mark Sawyer.

carton 6, folder 8

Performance. 1952, undated

carton 6, folder 9-10

Private Rhetoric. undated

Additional Note

With comments by Evelyn Harter Glick and Helen Gentry.

carton 6, folder 11

The Reader on His Own/ The Engaged Reader. 1976, undated

carton 6, folder 12

Selfhood. 1938-1971

carton 6, folder 13-15

General - Essays. 1922 1949, undated

2.2.3: For children, as Mark Sawyer. 1935-1955, undated

Physical Description: Carton 6, folders 16-20

Arrangement

Arranged by material type.

Scope/Content

Includes fiction, nonfiction, and miscellaneous works written for children under the pseudonym Mark Sawyer.

carton 6, folder 16-17

Manuscripts - The Lore of the Crafts. undated

carton 6, folder 18

Manuscripts - Essays, some published. 1936-1940, undated

carton 6, folder 19

Manuscripts - Essays, stories, filler. 1938-1940, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence (rejection letters).

carton 6, folder 20

Printed copies of published works. 1935-1955

Scope and Content Note

Includes full issues of Target.

2.2.4: Poetry. 1918-1986, undated

Physical Description: Carton 6, folders 21-36; Carton 7, folders 1-2

Arrangement

Arranged by collection, per original arrangement.

carton 6, folder 21

List I - Earliest Poems. 1918-1922

carton 6, folder 22

List II - First and Last Communion. 1920

carton 6, folder 23

List III - Poems, et cetera. 1918-1934

Scope and Content Note

Published 1934.

carton 6, folder 24

List IV - Animal Mystery on Display. 1931-1947

carton 6, folder 25-26

List V - All Poems Not in Previous Lists and Those of Later Dates. 1920-1972

carton 6, folder 27-34

Holiday of Grief. circa 1970-1986, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes poems written 1918-1969. Several drafts, front matter, and notes are present. Ben Belitt selected and annotated some poems. Front matter includes biography of Greenhood.

carton 6, folder 35

General - Old/rejected versions of poems. undated

carton 6, folder 36

General - Omitted poems. 1939, undated

Additional Note

Not sent to Ben Belitt.

carton 7, folder 1

General - Rejected poems. 1985

Additional Note

Submitted to Southwest Review.

carton 7, folder 2

General - Notes. undated

Scope and Content Note

"Research in letters."

Subseries 2.3: General. 1894-1976, undated

Physical Description: Carton 7, folders 3-27

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by topic.

Scope/Content

Includes papers from Porter Garnett and W. W. Lyman.

carton 7, folder 3

Book reviews for A Book to Do Battle With 1973

carton 7, folder 4

Curiosities. undated

carton 7, folder 5

Everyday Greek (revision proposal). 1964, undated

carton 7, folder 6

Garnett, Porter - Christmas cards. 1918-1948

carton 7, folder 7

Garnett, Porter - Images. 1894-1950, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes photographs.

carton 7, folder 8

Garnett, Porter - Memorials and tributes. 1951-1963

carton 7, folder 9

Garnett, Porter - General. undated

carton 7, folder 10-12

Lyman papers. 1964-1975

Scope and Content Note

Includes autobiographical essays of W.W. Lyman.

carton 7, folder 13

Limericks. 1967

carton 7, folder 14-19

Notebooks. undated

Physical Description: 10 notebooks, index

carton 7, folder 20

Notes on writing. undated

carton 7, folder 21

The Other People - Critical notes. undated

carton 7, folder 22

Transcripts of taped interviews with Henry Roth. 1976

carton 7, folder 23-24

Writing for children - Clippings and articles. 1936-1964, undated

carton 7, folder 25

Writing for children - Critical responses to Holiday House authors. 1953-1958, undated

carton 7, folder 26-27

Writing for children - Notes. 1953-1957, undated

Additional Note

Related to Holiday House.

Series 3: Collaborative Projects. 1930-1937, 1971-1984, undated

Physical Description: Carton 7, folders 28-36

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by title.

carton 7, folder 28-31

Anthology of American Lyrics. undated

Additional Note

Edited by Helen Gentry and David Greenhood.

carton 7, folder 32

Chronology of Books and Printing - Correspondence. 1933-1937, 1975, undated

Additional Note

Written by Helen Gentry and David Greenhood.

carton 7, folder 33

Chronology of Books and Printing - Reviews. 1933-1936, undated

Additional Note

Written by Helen Gentry and David Greenhood.

carton 7, folder 34

Love in Dishevelment. undated

Additional Note

Written by David Greenhood and designed by Helen Gentry.

carton 7, folder 35

On the Birth of a Nephew. 1938, 1984, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence.

Additional Note

Written by David Greenhood, designed and printed by Helen Gentry.

carton 7, folder 36

The Writer on His Own. 1971, undated

Additional Note

Written by David Greenhood and designed by Helen Gentry.

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