Edward William Bok papers, 1880-1926 (bulk 1920-1925).
- 20 items. 3 containers. 1.2 linear feet.
Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Correspondence; autograph albums (1880-1889) featuring prominent American literary, military, and political figures; and writings by Bok. Includes a draft of Bok's autobiographical works The Americanization of Edward Bok (1920) and A Man from Maine (1923), and a biography of his father-in-law, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, head of the Curtis Publishing Company, titled Twice Thirty : Some Short and Simple Annals of the Road (1925). Includes letters to Bok as editor of the Ladies' Home Journal and a manuscript by Jessie Benton Frémont relating to the death of her husband, John Charles Frémont.
Author, editor, reformer, and philanthropist.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007067
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Curtis, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar, 1850-1933. Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902. Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890.