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

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Series V: Publications, 1910-1958

This series includes privately printed or limited-edition works, mostly published by friends of Donald Brace with the exception of "Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years" by Carl Sandburg, which Harcourt Brace published as a promotional addition to Sandburg's biography. Other miscellaneous items include a chapbook by Humbert Wolfe and a book on Henry Winthrop Sargent by J. E. Spingarn. The series also includes a set of Troutbeck Press Leaflets, published by J. E. Spingarn, which include works by Lewis Mumford and W. E. B. Du Bois.



Box 4 Folder 2 Miscellaneous Publications, 1910-1927


Box 4 Folder 3 Miscellaneous Publications, 1931-1958


Troutbeck Press, 1924-1931


Troutbeck Leaflets, 1924-1926


Box 4 Folder 4 1. Six Poems by J. E. Spingarn


Box 4 Folder 4 2. Criticism: An Unpublished Essay by Walt Whitman


Box 4 Folder 4 3. Aesthetics: A Dialogue by Lewis Mumford


Box 4 Folder 4 4. The Younger Generation: A New Manifesto by J. E. Spingarn


Box 4 Folder 4 5. Thoreau's Last Letter, with a Note on His Correspondent, Myron B. Benton, by Edwin Arlington Robinson


Box 4 Folder 4 6. Four Days on the Webutuck River, by Charles E. Benton, with an Introduction by Sinclair Lewis


Box 4 Folder 4 7. New Houses: Twelve Poems by Amy Spingarn


Box 4 Folder 4 8. The Amenia Conference: An Historic Negro Gathering by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois


Box 4 Folder 4 9. A Troutbeck Letter-Book (1861-1867): Being Unpublished Letters to Myron B. Benton From Emerson, Sophia Thoreau, Moncure Conway, and Others, with an Introduction by George Edward Woodberry


Box 4 Folder 4 10. John Burroughs at Troutbeck: Being Extracts From His Writings Published and Unpublished, with an Introduction by Vachel Lindsay


Box 4 Folder 4 A Scholars Testament: Two Letters from George Edward Woodberry to J. E. Spingarn, with an Introduction by Lewis Mumford, 1931