Claude Stanley Wainwright papers
Abstract
Chicago author and publisher, Way was founding partner of the firm of Way & Williams, and responsible for much of its editorial policy. Correspondence with authors and collectors, clippings, proof sheets, and notes removed from a collection of books belonging to Claude Stanley Wainwright, collector and friend of W. Irving Way, consisting largely of books given to him by Way with various notes and association materials inserted. Most of the letters are addressed to Way in Chicago or in Los Angeles. Correspondents include: Wainwright, Walter E. Sawyer, Francis Wilson, A.L. Humphries, Leon Vincent, Charles G.D. Roberts, Henry Fuller, Thomas B. Mosher, Andrew Lang, and Beatrice Harraden.
Dates
- Creation: 1885-1929
Creator
- Wainwright, Claude Stanley (former owner., Person)
Biographical / Historical
Chicago author and publisher, Way was founding partner of the firm of Way & Williams, and responsible for much of its editorial policy.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (5 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Foldered according to the books from which removed.
General Note
An inventory of the Way/Wainwright collection is in the Special Collections Info. File.
Subject
- Way & Williams (Organization)
- Wilson, Francis, 1854-1935 (Person)
- Harraden, Beatrice, 1864-1936 (Person)
- Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 (Person)
- Mosher, Thomas Bird, 1852-1923 (Person)
- Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir, 1860-1943 (Person)
- Sawyer, Walter E. (Person)
- Vincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry), 1859-1941 (Person)
- Way, W. Irving (Washington Irving), 1853-1931 -- Correspondence (Person)
- Status
- Catalog Record Only
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
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