Beard, Daniel Carter 1850-1941 creator mixed material monographic eng 72,000 261 2 105 Correspondence, diaries, speeches, articles, research material, family papers, printed matter, sketch books, illustrations, photographs, and other papers relating to Beard's career as an author and illustrator and to his leading role in the Boy Scouts of America. Documents his activities with the Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind.; the Dan Beard Outdoor School, Pike County, Pa.; and the Sons of Daniel Boone. Includes a manuscript of Beard's autobiography, Hardly a Man Is Now Alive: the Autobiography of Dan Beard (1939), articles devoted to outdoor life, and other writings. Also includes correspondence with Samuel Langhorne Clemens pertaining to Beard's illustrations for the first illustrated editions of Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Family papers include correspondence, writings, and illustrations by members of the Beard family, in particular Beard's father, James Henry Beard, and his brother, Frank Beard. Correspondents include Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell; Gutzon Borglum; Belmore Browne; Howard Chandler Christy; Samuel Langhorne Clemens; George J. Fisher; Hamlin Garland; Charles Dana Gibson; Zane Grey; Walter W. Head; William Dean Howells; Edwin Markham; Edward Sandford Martin; H.L. Mencken; Albert Bigelow Paine; Maxwell E. Perkins; Gifford Pinchot; Henry C. Pitz; Augustus Post; George D. Pratt; Frank Presbrey; Frederic Remington; Norman Rockwell; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Ernest Thompson Seton; Upton Sinclair; Frederic Dorr Steele; A.J. Stone; Isaac Sutton; Lorado Taft; Hendrik Willem Van Loon; Frederick K. Vreeland; John Quincy Adams Ward; James E. West, Owen Wister; S.J. Woolf; N.C. Wyeth; Boy's Life magazine; and the publishing firms, Charles Scribner's Sons and J.B. Lippincott Company. Also includes correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt; his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt; their son, Theodore Roosevelt (1887-1944); and other Roosevelt family members. Open to research. Pictorial items including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Artist, author, editor, and cofounder of the Boy Scouts of America. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013036 Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell 1857-1941 Correspondence Borglum, Gutzon 1867-1941 Correspondence Browne, Belmore 1880-1954 Correspondence Christy, Howard Chandler 1873-1952 Correspondence Clemens, Samuel Langhorne 1835-1910 Correspondence Fisher, George J -1960 Correspondence Garland, Hamlin 1860-1940 Correspondence Gibson, Charles Dana 1867-1944 Correspondence Grey, Zane 1872-1939 Correspondence Head, Walter W Correspondence Howells, William Dean 1837-1920 Correspondence Markham, Edwin 1852-1940 Correspondence Martin, Edward Sandford 1856-1939 Correspondence Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) 1880-1956 Correspondence Paine, Albert Bigelow 1861-1937 Correspondence Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts) 1884-1947 Correspondence Pinchot, Gifford 1865-1946 Correspondence Pitz, Henry C. (Henry Clarence) 1895-1976 Correspondence Post, Augustus 1873-1952 Correspondence Pratt, George D. (George Dupont) 1869-1935 Correspondence Presbrey, Frank 1855-1936 Correspondence Remington, Frederic 1861-1909 Correspondence Rockwell, Norman 1894-1978 Correspondence Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow 1861-1948 Correspondence Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Correspondence Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 Correspondence Roosevelt, Theodore 1887-1944 Correspondence Seton, Ernest Thompson 1860-1946 Correspondence Sinclair, Upton 1878-1968 Correspondence Steele, Frederic Dorr 1873-1944 Correspondence Stone, A. J. (Andrew Jackson) 1859- Correspondence Taft, Lorado 1860-1936 Correspondence Van Loon, Hendrik Willem 1882-1944 Correspondence Vreeland, Frederick K. (Frederick King) 1874- Correspondence Ward, John Quincy Adams 1830-1910 Correspondence West, James E. (James Edward) 1876-1948 Correspondence Wister, Owen 1860-1938 Correspondence Woolf, S. J. (Samuel Johnson) 1880-1948 Correspondence Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers) 1882-1945 Correspondence Beard family Beard family Correspondence Roosevelt family Correspondence Boy Scouts of America. Charles Scribner's Sons Correspondence Culver Military Academy. Dan Beard Outdoor School for Boys (Pike County, Pa.) J.B. Lippincott Company Correspondence Sons of Daniel Boone. Correspondence Boy Scouts Periodicals Boy Scouts United States Boys United States Societies and clubs Camps Pennsylvania Pike County Military education United States Private schools Indiana Culver Youth United States Societies, etc Artists Authors Boy Scout leaders Editors Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 Beard, Frank, 1842-1905 Beard, James Henry, 1812-1893 mm 78012161 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms013036 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms013036.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013036 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013036.3 Open to research. DLC 781211 20260227111621.0 mm 78012161 eng