Overview
Records of the Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company and its predecessors.
Dates
- Creation: 1866-1968
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to most of this material.
Some materials in Box 17, Box 19, Box 22, Box 23, and Box 28, as well as Volumes 88, 214, 323, and 353 are all restricted for preservation as of January 2023. They will be reopened for access when preservation is completed.
Extent
55 linear feet (391 volumes and 30 boxes)Records of Houghton Mifflin and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business. Includes cost books, sales books, invoice books, sheet stock books and ledgers; letterbooks, containing copies of outgoing letters; scrapbooks; clippings; a few compositions and photographs; and diaries of Horace E. Scudder concerning his work as editor of the Riverside Magazine for Young People.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series (for detailed listings, see arrangement at beginning of each series below):
- MS Am 2030: I. Records of the publisher Houghton Mifflin Company and its precedessors
- MS Am 2030.1: II. Records of the printer H. O. Houghton and Company and its predecessors
- MS Am 2030.2: III. Records of the publisher Ticknor and Fields and related firms
- MS Am 2030.3: IV: Records of the publisher James R. Osgood and Company (1880-1885) and Ticknor and Company (1885-1893)
- MS Am 2030.4: V. Miscellaneous records deposited by Houghton Mifflin Company
- Appendix: VI. Concordance to earlier shelfmarks for these records
Physical Location
MS, f, b, HD
Immediate Source of Acquisition
43M-701; 47M-223F; 47M-224F; 47M-225F; 47M-226F; 47M-227F; 47M-228F; 47M-229F; 47M-230F; 47M-231F; 53M-12. Records deposited and later given by Houghton Mifflin Company, 2 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts: received 1943-1980; Gift 1992.
General note
In the following records "copyright" is used in the 19th century sense of royalty.
Processing Information
Processed by: Michael Winship
- Title
- Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Company records, 1866-1968: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou00004
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
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