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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence, 1883-1911, 1947
Series II: Chronological Files, 1883-1936
Series III: Albert & Walter Pulitzer Memoirs

Joseph Pulitzer papers, 1883-1947, bulk 1885-1912

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence, 1883-1911, 1947


Box 1 Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste, 1886-1903

Box 1 Belmont, August (1816-1890), 1885-1887, undated

Box 1 Belmont, August (1853-1924), 1884-1911, undated

Box 1 Belmont, Perry, 1885-1904

Box 1 Bigelow, John (1817-1911), 1886-1887

Box 1 Bloomingdale, Emanuel, 1900

Box 1 Boas, Franz, 1907

Box 1 Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth, 1903-1905

Box 1 Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1904-1911

Box 1 Chambers, Julius, 1885-1903

Box 1 Cockran, Bourke, 1904

Box 1 Coler, Bird S., 1902

Box 1 Conkling, Roscoe, 1883-1888

Box 1 Conried, Heinrich, 1904-1905

Box 1 Corcoran, William Wilson, 1887

Box 1 Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa, 1905-1906

Box 1 Cravath, Paul D., 1909


Box 2 Damrosch, Walter, 1904-1905

Box 2 Davis, Varina Anne, 1886-1887

Box 2 Davis, Varina Howell (Mrs. Jefferson), 1887-1906

Box 2 De Forest, Robert Weeks, 1906-1909

Box 2 De Koven, Reginald, 1907

Box 2 Depew, Chauncey Mitcehll, 1886-1905

Box 2 Depew, May Palmer (Mrs. Chauncey), 1902

Box 2 Drew, Mary Gladstone (Mrs. Harry), 1908

Box 2 Dudley, Rachel Gurney Ward, Countess of, 1903

Box 2 Dunning, William, 1907

Box 2 Eggleston, George Cary, 1903-1904

Box 2 Eliot, Charles William, 1907-1911

Box 2 Evarts, William Maxwell, 1885-1886

Box 2 Field, Cyrus West, 1886-1887

Box 2 Field, Kate, 1885

Box 2 Fish, Stuyvesant (1851-1923), 1905-1908

Box 2 Flagler, Harry, 1907

Box 2 Frewen, Moreton, 1900

Box 2 Gerry, Elbridge Thomas, 1887

Box 2 Gibson, Preston, 1884

Box 2 Gladstone, Herbert John Gladstone, Viscount, 1887

Box 2 Glennon, John Joseph, 1904

Box 2 Godwin, Parke, 1886

Box 2 Gould, Jay, 1886, undated

Box 2 Greet, Sir Philip Barling "Ben", 1907

Box 2 Gregory, Eliot, 1906

Box 2 Hawthorne, Julian, 1904

Box 2 Hewitt, Abram, 1886-1887

Box 2 Hill, David Bennett, 1886-1888

Box 2 Hitchcock, Ripley, 1907

Box 2 Huntington, Daniel, 1886-1887

Box 2 Hyde, James Hazen, undated

Box 2 Jay, John (1817-1894), 1885-1887

Box 2 Jerome, Leonard, 1886-1887, undated

Box 2 Lee, Sidney, 1904

Box 2 Lipton, Thomas Johnstone, Sir, 1902

Box 2 Low, Seth, 1899

Box 2 McAllister, Ward, 1886

Box 2 McCarthy, Justin, 1887

Box 2 McKelway, St. Clair (1845-1915), 1886-1911

Box 2 McKim, Charles, 1900

Box 2 MacVeagh, Wayne, 1887

Box 2 Marble, Manton, 1886-1888

Box 2 Mason, Alfred Bishop, 1909-1911


Box 3 Mead, William Rutherford, 1900-1902

Box 3 Mitchell, S. Weir, 1891

Box 3 Morris, Stuyvesant, 1885

Box 3 Morton, Levi Parsons, 1886

Box 3 Muir, William, Sir, 1903

Box 3 Munsey, Frank A., 1907

Box 3 Noble, Edmund, 1886

Box 3 Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount, 1900-1904

Box 3 Northcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Milner Harmsworth, Viscountess, 1901-1905, undated

Box 3 O'Connor, Thomas Power, 1899-1903

Box 3 Ogden, Rollo, 1907

Box 3 Page, Thomas Nelson, 1903

Box 3 Page, Walter Hine, 1904

Box 3 Pène du Bois, Henri, 1885

Box 3 Pinchot, Gifford, 1904

Box 3 Plimpton, George A., 1903

Box 3 Potter, Henry Codman, 1900

Box 3 Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1887

Box 3 Pruyn, John V. L., 1885

Box 3 Pulitzer, Joseph, 1947

Commemorative postage stamps. Signed by Albert Goldman, Joseph John Lawler, Robert Porter Patterson, and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. With related items.

Box 3 Putnam, George Haven, 1885

Box 3 Reid, Whitelaw, 1887-1901

Box 3 Ritz, César, 1902

Box 3 Rodin, Auguste, 1907

Box 3 Sargent, John Singer, 1903-1905

Box 3 Schieffelin, William Jay, 1907-1911

Box 3 Schiff, Jacob Henry, 1905

Box 3 Schurz, Carl, 1886

Box 3 Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1910

Box 3 Tarbell, Ida Minerva, 1906

Box 3 Thwing, Charles Franklin, 1904

Box 3 Vanderbilt, Frederick William, 1906

Box 3 Washington, Booker T., 1901-1908

Box 3 White, Andrew Dickson, 1905

Box 3 White, Horace, 1907-1908

Box 3 White, Stanford, 1891-1903

Box 3 Whitney, Flora Payne (Mrs. William C.), 1886

Box 3 Whitney, William C., 1887-1902, undated

Box 3 Worth, Frédéric, 1900-1901

Box 3 Wyndham, Mary Moore, Lady, 1904

Series II: Chronological Files, 1883-1936


Box 4 Undated Items, Undated


Box 5 1883-1885


Box 6 1886


Box 7 1887-1888


Box 8 1889-1898


Box 9 1899


Box 10 1900 January -March, 1900


Box 11 1900 April -August, 1900


Box 12 1900 September -December, 1900


Box 13 1900--Bills and Receipts


Box 14 1900--Bills and Receipts


Box 15 1901 January -May, 1901


Box 16 1901 June -December, 1901


Box 17 1901 Bills and Receipts, 1901


Box 18 1902 Bills and Receipts, 1902


Box 19 1902 January -June 15, 1902


Box 20 1902 June 16-September, 1902


Box 21 1902 October -December, 1902


Box 22 1903 Bills and Receipts, 1903


Box 23 1903 January -March, 1903


Box 24 1903April -June


Box 25 1903 July -September 12, 1903


Box 26 1903 September 13-December, 1903


Box 27 1904--Bills and Receipts


Box 28 1904 January -February, 1904


Box 29 1904 March-May, 1904


Box 30 1904 June -August, 1904


Box 31 1904 September -December, 1904


Box 32 1905 January -February, 1905


Box 33 1905 March-April, 1905


Box 34 1905 May -August, 1905


Box 35 1905 September -December, 1905


Box 36 1905--Bills and Receipts


Box 37 1906--Bills and Receipts


Box 38 1906 January -April, 1906


Box 39 1906 May -July, 1906


Box 40 1906 August -December, 1906


Box 41 1907 January -February15, 1907


Box 42 1907 February16-April, 1907


Box 43 1907 May -September, 1907


Box 44 1907 October -December, 1907

Box 44 Bills and Receipts


Box 45 1908--Bills and receipts


Box 46 1908--Bills and receipts


Box 47 1908 January -April, 1908


Box 48 1908 May -December, 1908


Box 49 1908-1911--Account Books of the yacht Liberty


Box 50 1909


Box 51 1909 Bills and Receipts, 1909


Box 52 1910 Bills and Receipts, 1910


Box 53 1910


Box 54 1911 Bills and Receipts, 1911


Box 55 1911 January -August 19, 1911


Box 56 1911 August 20-December, 1911

Box 56 Account Book


Box 57 1912-1916


Box 58 1917


Box 59 1918-1936

Printed Materials:


Box 64 Folder 12 The World Vol. XXVII, No/ 1,386, Wednesday, March 30, 1887


Box 60 Miscellaneous Printed Materials

James G. Blaine:


Box 64 Folder 1 Central Independent Republican Club of Wisconsin [Broadside], 8 October 1884

Box 64 Folder 2 James Gillespie Blaine: Biographical Sketch of the Great Commoner [Pamphlet], 7 June 1884

(Compiled from the Chicago Tribune)

Box 64 Folder 3 Blaine, the Friend of Railroads {Pamphlet]

Box 64 Folder 4 James G. Blaine: An Ultra Prohibitionist [Broadside]

Box 64 Folder 5 Speech of Hon. Joseph Pulitzer, at the German-American Mass meeting in the Academy of Music, New York [Pamphlet], 29 September 1884

Box 64 Folder 6 Central Independent Republican Club of Wisconsin to Republicans in the State of Wisconsin [Pamphlet]

(Re. voting for Blaine)

Box 64 Folder 7 An Appeal to Earnest Citizens [Pamphlet], 16 October 1884

(An appeal not to vote for James G. Blaine)

Box 64 Folder 8 Speech of Hon. Carl Schurz, Delivered in Brooklyn, N.Y. [Pamphlet], 6 August 1884

(An appeal not to support George G. Blaine)


Box 63 Undated material, Undated

Box 63 Joseph Pulitzer's watch fob

(with his initials on one face, the logo ofThe Worldon the reverse and a miniature of his mother inside)

Series III: Albert & Walter Pulitzer Memoirs


Box 64 Folder 10 & 11 Photocopy of typescript of Memoirs

In the course of his research, James McGrath Morris discovered the unpublished memoir of Walter Pulitzer, the son of Albert and nephew of Joseph Pulitzer, still held by family members. Within it is contained the memoirs, also unpublished, that Albert completed in the spring of 1909, shortly before committing suicide. Morris was able to acquire photocopies for his use and to add to the Pulitzer Papers in RBML.

Gift of James McGrath Morris, 2008

Box 64 Folder 9 Albert Pulitzer signature on card

Box 64 Folder 13 Photographs (11) loaned by James McGrath Morris to the Library of Congress and subsequently donated by Morris to the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.