03345cpcaa2200589 a 4500 mm 79013219 DLC 20260227111654.0 cr ||||||||||| 791031|||||||||||| eng mm 79013219 ms 64001558 DLC DLC DLC dacs L lcmd Book-of-the-Month Club. Book-of-the-Month Club records, 1939-1967. 15,600 items. 61 containers. 24.4 linear feet. Arranged in 3 series. Series 1: General Correspondence, 1947-1950; Series 2: Preliminary Readers' Reports, 1939-1958; and Series 3: Addition, 1939-1966. Open to research. Editorial and publishers' correspondence and preliminary readers' reports consisting of book reviews and evaluations relating primarily to books that were submitted by publishing houses for consideration by the Book-of-the-Month Club but were not selected for distribution by the club. Preliminary readers include Graham Bates, Rosemary Benét, William Rose Benét, Basil Davenport, Elizabeth Wynne Easton, Gerald W. Johnson, Amy Loveman, Allan Nevins, and Ralph Thompson. Correspondents include William Rose Benét, John Mason Brown, Henry Seidel Canby, Basil Davenport, Clifton Fadiman, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Gilbert Highet, Amy Loveman, John P. Marquand, Christopher Morley, and William Allen White. The Book-of-the-Month Club, founded in 1926, is a United States mail-order business, customers of which are offered a new book each month. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009324 Bates, Graham. Benét, Rosemary, 1900-1962. Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950. Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950 Correspondence. Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969 Correspondence. Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961 Correspondence. Davenport, Basil, 1905-1966. Davenport, Basil, 1905-1966 Correspondence. Easton, Elizabeth Wynne. Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999 Correspondence. Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 Correspondence. Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978 Correspondence. Johnson, Gerald W. (Gerald White), 1890-1980. Loveman, Amy. Loveman, Amy Correspondence. Marquand, John P. (John Phillips), 1893-1960 Correspondence. Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 Correspondence. Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971. Thompson, Ralph, 1904- White, William Allen, 1868-1944 Correspondence. American literature. Book clubs (Bookselling) United States. Books United States Reviews. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009324 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009324.3 42131 42131