Donald C. Brace Papers, 1839-1991, bulk 1901-1955

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Series I: Correspondence, 1920-1955

This series includes Donald Brace's correspondence with authors, professional associates, and family members and friends.


Subseries I.1: Author Correspondence, 1925-1953

This subseries includes letters from many prominent American writers, but includes no correspondence with the firm's British authors. Correspondence is most extensive with Paul de Kruif, Christopher Morley, Lewis Mumford, and Katherine Anne Porter. Because Brace was intimately acquainted with some of the authors he published, this subseries includes letters and telegrams that bear on personal and professional matters.



Box 1 Folder 1 Van Wyck Brooks, 1942


Box 1 Folder 1 James Gould Cozzens, 1951


Box 1 Folder 1 Paul de Kruif, 1931-1948


Box 1 Folder 1 Martha Dodd, 1945-1950


Box 1 Folder 1 Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1936-1953


Box 1 Folder 1 Ellen Glasgow, 1940-1944


Box 1 Folder 1 Rockwell Kent, 1936-1953


Box 1 Folder 1 Lloyd Lewis, 1945


Box 1 Folder 1 Ruth McKenney, 1948-1953


Box 1 Folder 1 Merrill Moore, 1950


Box 1 Folder 1 Christopher Morley, 1925-1952


Box 1 Folder 1 Lewis Mumford, 1940-1952


Box 1 Folder 1 Katherine Ann Porter, 1943-1953


Box 1 Folder 1 Henry Morton Robinson, 1940-1944


Box 1 Folder 1 Wilbert Snow, probably, 1949


Box 1 Folder 1 Jean Stafford, 1953


Box 1 Folder 1 Louis Untermeyer, 1938


Box 1 Folder 1 Hendrik Willem van Loon, 1940


Subseries I.2: Professional Correspondence, 1920-1954

This subseries includes letters with fellow officers of Harcourt Brace, other figures in the New York publishing industry, and other non-author business correspondents.


Box 1 Folder 2 Professional Correspondence, 1920-1954


Box 1 Folder 3 Professional Correspondence, 1933, 1936 (Conservation Job # 17095), 1933, 1936


Subseries I.3: Personal Correspondence, 1921-1955

This subseries includes letters from Brace's family, including his brother Ernest and father Frank, and friends who were not Harcourt Brace authors. It also includes correspondence regarding community organizations and several New York and Connecticut clubs of which Brace was a member (including the Century Club), notes of condolence on the passing of his father, correspondence regarding his guardianship of Jonathan Cape's children during World War II, and letters of recommendation or introduction.


Box 1 Folder 4 Personal Correspondence, 1921-1955