INVENTORY #150533
Ernest Thompson Seton collection
SETON, Ernest Thompson
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Grace T.S. was the author's first wife.Richard Watson Gilder (1844 1909) was editor of The Century Magazine from 1881 until his death. Under Gilder's editorship, The Century became one of the most esteemed periodicals in the country and Gilder himself became influential enough that his biographer Herbert Smith referred to the 1880s as "the Gilder Age." He published the works of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman. Clarence Clough Buel (1850 1933) joined the staff of Century Magazine in 1881. In 1883, in conjunction with Robert Underwood Johnson, he began the editing of the Century articles on the American Civil War. These articles were afterward expanded and compiled into the book Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (1887). He was associate editor of Century Magazine 1909-13, advisory editor until May 1914.Robert Underwood Johnson (1853 1937) was a proponent of the establishment of international copyright protections and one of the driving forces behind the creation of Yosemite National Park. Some letters are headed with Seton's residence, Wyndygoul in Cos Cob, Connecticut. It was at Wyndygoul that Seton recruited local schoolboys to explore the woodlands and study nature, establishing the Seton Woodcraft Indians, a precursor to the Boy Scouts of America. Eventually Seton sold his estate to Maurice Wertheim in 1913 for the then-astonishing sum of $250,000. Wertheim was the Secretary of the United Cigar Manufacturers Association and later the eponymous founder of Wertheim & Company, a New York City investment firm. He and his wife Alma Morgenthau retained Wyndygoul as a summer home and it eventually evolved into a family compound. It was at Wyndygoul that their daughter Barbara Tuchman wrote the The Guns of August, winning the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for her book about the run-up to the First World War.
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- Date Published: 1886-1943
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- Condition: Fine
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
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Contains: Signed letter from E.T.S., New York, to Prof. R. Pell, Sep. 14, 1886. Signed letter from E.T.S., 144 Fifth Ave., New York, to Richard Watson Gilder, Editor, "The Century", Jan. 7, 1899. Signed letter from E.T.S., 144 Fifth Ave., New York, to Mr. Gilder, Feb. 19, 1899. Signed letter from E.T.S., 144 Fifth Ave., New York, to Mr. Gilder, March 10, 1899. Signed letter from E.T.S., 144 Fifth Ave., New York, to Mr. Gilder, Sept. 1899. Signed letter from E.T.S., 144 Fifth Ave. New York, to Mr. Gilder, January 29, 1900. Signed letter from E.T.S., 144 Fifth Ave. New York, to Mr. Johnson, March 10, 1900. Signed letter from E.T.S., 144 Fifth Ave. New York, to R. U. Johnson, Century Co., March 23, 1900. Signed letter from E.T.S., 144 Fifth Ave. New York, to Mr. Johnson, March 30, 1900. Signed letter from E.T.S., 144 Fifth Ave. New York, to Mr. R. U. Johnson, Century Co., April 5, 1900. Signed letter from E.T.S., 80 West 40th St., New York to Mr. C. C. Buell, Editor, Century, Aug. 22, 1901. Signed letter from E.T.S. to Mr. Gilder on March 26, 1902. Signed letter from E.T.S., Wyndygoul, Cos Cob, CT to Mr. Musson, July 28, 1903. Signed letter from E.T.S., Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, to Mr. Johnson Aug. 10, 1903. Signed letter from E.T.S., Wyndygoul, Cos Cob, CT to Mr. Gilder, October 4, 1903. Signed letter from E.T.S., 80 West Fortieth Street, New York, to Editor, 12 Oct.? 1903 Signed letter from E.T.S., 80 West Fortieth Street, New York, to Mr. Johnson on Dec. 21, 1903. Signed letter from E.T.S., Wyndygoul, Cos Cob, CT, R. W. Gilder, Century Co., 29 April, 1905 ? Signed letter from E.T.S., Cos Cob, CT, to Gilder, 27 March 1907. Signed letter from E.T.S., Wyndygoul, Cos Cob, CT to the Musson Book Co., Toronto, dated December 19, 1911. Christmas card signed by Grace Thompson Seton 1943. In envelope addressed to Jack Lord, Naturalist, Royal Botanical Garden, 1986 with card from Herman Kitchen. Most letters signed with paw print beside signature. Above letters were contained in folder entitled "Autographs of Seton-Thompson (Ernest) From the Collection of ?. The Anderson Galleries, New York. Transaction 14: The Prairie Chicken, by Ernest E. T. Seton, Carberry, Man. 22nd May, 1884. Pages 13-18 in Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society, Winnipeg, Season 1884. 4 p. 28 cm announcement of reissue of Seton's "Lives of Game Animals" published in Boston by Charles T. Branford Co. Two horizontal folds, thumbing. A List of the Mammals of Manitoba, by Ernest E. Thompson. Transactions of the Manitoba Scientific and Historical Society, No. 23, May 1886. 26 p. 22 cm. Stapled. Vertical fold. Inscribed by Thompson to Prof. Robt. Pell. 4 p. 28 cm announcement of Ernest Seton-Thompson and his Wild Animal Friends, 1900-1901 lecture series. To be held at Orme's Hall in the presence of the Governor-General and Countess of Minto. Horizontal fold. Small tears and one dark spot. Photo of Seton in 19 cm frame. Note on rear states copyright Underwood & Underwood, Washington, DC, Jan. 19, 1921. Short article states Seton and his wife believe clothing to be "unhealthy" and to carry germs. Record. Three Sioux Scouts (the Voices of the Night) Parts 1 & 2, read by Ernest Thompson Seton, Chief of Woodcraft League of America. An Indian Story with Bird and Animal Calls. Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, NJ. Record. Wild Animal Calls - The Death of the Old Lion. The Hunting Wolves. Columbia Graphophone Company. Record. Wild Animal Calls - The Elks' Battle. My First Meeting with a Lynx. Columbia Graphophone Company.In brown paper sleeve. Record. Scout Patrol Calls. Ernest Thompson Seton, Chief Scout, Boy Scouts of America. Columbia Phonograph Company. In brown paper sleeve. 50 cm folder contains the following: The Wild Animal Play The Youth's Companion Children's Page Dec. 13, 1900 The Youth's Companion Children's Page Nov. 1, 1900 The Youth's Companion Children's Page Nov. 6, 1900 The Youth's Companion Children's Page Aug. 2, 1900 The Youth's Companion Children's Page July 5, 1900 The Youth's Companion Children's Page June 7, 1900 The Youth's Companion Children's Page May 3, 1900 The Youth's Companion Children's Page April 5, 1900 The Youth's Companion Children's Page March 1, 1900 The Youth's Companion Children's Page Feb. 1, 1900 A Wild-animal Bedquilt The Slum Cat Little Warhorse: The Story of a Jack-Rabbit Snap, the Bull=Terrier: the Story of a Christmas Dog The Mother Teal and the Overland Route "What A Woman Saw at the 'Zoo'" by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson in Collier's Illustrated Weekly April 27, 1901 "Chink: The Development of a Pup" in The Youth's Companion January 17, 1901 "Organized Boyhood: The Boy Scout Movement, Its Purposes and Its Laws" in Success Magazine Dec. 1910 "Building a Log Cabin" in Country Life in America, May 1905