Paul R. Reynolds records, 1899-1980

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1065
Bib ID:
4079583 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Reynolds, Paul R. (Paul Revere), 1864-1944; Reynolds, Paul R (Paul Revere), 1904-1988
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
122.5 linear feet ( 294 boxes)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 1-270. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Description

Summary

Records of literary agents Paul Revere Reynolds, founder of Paul R. Reynolds agency, and his son, Paul Revere Reynolds, Jr. The records consist of correspondence, contracts, scripts, and financial records. The files are rich in correspondence between authors and agents and provide important information about some of the most significant works published in the last seventy years.

Arrangement

Materials are arranged into three series. Correspondence (both cataloged and uncataloged) is arranged alphabetically by the correspondent's last name and then chronologically. Financial records are arranged chronologically.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 1-270. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Readers must use microfilm of material specified above.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Paul R. Reynolds records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Alternate Form Available

Willa Cather letters are on: microfilm.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Paul R. Reynolds, Jr., 1972, 1982 & 1984.

Gift of Robbin Reynolds, 1988.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Records: Source of acquisition--Reynolds, Paul Revere, Jr. and Robin Reynolds. Method of acquisition--Gift.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Records Entered in AMC 11/28/90

Boxes of cataloged correspondence were not originally numbered. Box numbers were assigned on March 12, 2018, to facilitate user request and retrieval.

Revision Description

2012-03-12 xml document instance created by Carrie Hintz

2018-03-12 Box numbers for cataloged correspondence (Boxes 271-294) added by Celeste Brewer

2018-03-26 xml document instance updated by Catherine C. Ricciardi

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical / Historical

Paul Revere Reynolds (1864-1944) founded the first literary agency in America when he established the Paul R. Reynolds agency in New York in 1893. Together with his son, Paul Revere Reynolds, Jr. (1904-1988), he handled some of the most prominent British and American authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The son joined his father in 1923 and later became president of the agency.

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form
Account books CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Contracts CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Financial records CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scripts (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Asquith, H. H (Herbert Henry), 1852-1928 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Auchincloss, Louis CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Beer, Thomas CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Benchley, Robert, 1889-1945 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bolton, Guy, 1884-1979 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bridges, Robert, 1858-1941 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Burnett, Whit, 1899-1973 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Costain, Thomas B (Thomas Bertram), 1885-1965 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cousins, Norman CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Edel, Leon, 1907-1997 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fast, Howard, 1914-2003 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Goldberg, Rube, 1883-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Harris, Frank, 1856-1931 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hassall, Christopher, 1912-1963 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hillary, Edmund, 1919-2008 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Keppel, Frederick P (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kreymborg, Alfred, 1883-1966 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
London, Jack, 1876-1916 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Loveman, Amy CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mailer, Norman CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Masefield, John, 1878-1967 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Middleton, Drew, 1913-1990 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Moore, George, 1852-1933 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Post, Emily, 1873-1960 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Reynolds, Paul R (Paul Revere), 1904-1988 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Reynolds, Paul R. (Paul Revere), 1864-1944 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Rohmer, Sax, 1883-1959 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Searle, Ronald, 1920-2011 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Suckow, Ruth, 1892-1960 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Thomas, Lowell, 1892-1981 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Trench, Herbert, 1865-1923 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Tyler, Parker CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Vonnegut, Kurt CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wallace, Irving, 1916-1990 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Webb, Sidney, 1859-1947 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wodehouse, P. G (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Authors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Authors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Authors and publishers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Book proposals CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Copyright CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Literary agents CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Literature publishing CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Novelists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID