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 Collection Overview Dwight, Harrison Griswold, 1875- Dwight Papers 1890-1959 16 archives boxes (8 linear ft.) Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Correspondence, printed articles, manuscripts, notebooks, diaries, family photographs, and notes covering the life of Harrison Griswold Dwight, author and Amherst graduate. The bulk of the collection is made up of letters to Dwight from friends and publishers covering a period from 1897 to 1959. These include a number of letters from well-know persons ranging from Willa Cather to Eleanor Roosevelt. English. Biographical Note

Harrison Griswold Dwight, author, was born in Constantinople, Turkey in 1875. He prepared for Amherst College at the preparatory school of Robert College, Constantinople, with which his father was connected, and St. Johnsbury, Vermont Academy. After graduation from Amherst, he entered the consular service. In 1918 he was translator with the American Section of the Supreme War Council at Versailles. In 1919 he was secretary to General Tasker Bliss at the peace Conference in Paris.

For several years he was assistant drafting officer in the State Department, Washington, DC. Later he joined the protocol division. He was assistant director of the Frick Collection in New York from 1935 to 1947.

His published works include four volumes of short stories: Constantinople, Old and New, 1913; Stamboul Nights, 1916; Persian Miniatures, 1917; The Emperor of Elam and Other Stories, 1930; and numerous magazine articles in Harper's Monthly, The Atlantic Monthly, and National Geographic. One of his stories, "In the Pasha's Garden," was the subject of an opera produced by the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1934. His reviews of books and poems appeared regularly in magazines and newspapers.

Dwight died in Holyoke, Mass., on March 24, 1959.

 Scope and Contents of the Collection

The collection contains a sizable body of letters to Dwight from friends and publishers, as well as a group of letters from Dwight to several other friends. Also there are manuscripts of some of the articles he wrote for magazines and one of the projected books he worked on about L'Enfant, the planner of the city of Washington, DC. There is a miscellaneous section that contains various items of interest, such as family photographs, notes, etc.

Well known persons included in the correspondence (letters to Dwight) include John Dos Passos (4 letters), Gilbert Grosvenor, Willa Cather (13), Stark Young, Arnold Toynbee (5), Alice B. Toklas (3), Otis Skinner, Harold J. Laski (1), Archibald MacLeish (1), Edith Wharton (3), William Dean Howells (2), President Calvin Coolidge (1), President Herbert Hoover (1), Eleanor Roosevelt (1), Wendell Wilkie (1), Hugh Wiley (5), Talcott Williams (4), and Willa Cather to Mary Willard (2) (December 25, 1941 and Jan. 10, 1942, in letters to Dwight). Other correspondents are much more prolific, having as many as twenty to thirty letters in some cases.

 Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into five series:

1. Correspondence, 1893-1959 2. Printed articles, 1925-1940 3. Manuscripts, 1890-1926 4. Notebooks and Diaries, 1897-1959 5. Miscellaneous, 1898-1958 Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

In general, there is no restriction on access to the Harrison Griswold Dwight Papers for research use.

Requests for permission to publish should be directed to the Amherst College Archives and Special Collections.

 Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

[Identification of item], in Harrison Griswold Dwight (AC 1898) Papers [Box #, folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library

 History of the Collection 1997 Carol Trabulsi, Senior Archives Associate Search Terms Dwight, Harrison Griswold, 1875- Authors, American--20th century. World War, 1914-1918--Peace. Diaries. Notebooks. Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954. Carter, Morris, 1877- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Clapp, Frederick Mortimer, b. 1879. Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Morgenthau, Henry, 1856-1946. Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1874-1960. Saxton, Martha. Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 1889-1975. Young, Stark, 1881-1963. Amherst College. Class of 1989. Dwight. Series 1 - Correspondence Subseries a: Letters to Dwight 1 1 Letters with illegible or unidentified signatures 1919-58 1 2 Letters with illegible or unidentified signatures 1934-42 1 3 Letters with illegible or unidentified signatures 1917-41 1 4 Adams - Ahearn 1918-33 1 5 Ainslee's Magazine 1904-06 1 6 Allen, F. Mansfield 1897-1901 1 7 D. Appleton & Co. - Amherst 1904-1957 1 8 Associated Sunday Magazine 1904 1 9 Atlantic Monthly Magazine 1911-46 1 10 Bacon, Leonard 1933-53 1 11 Baker - Beeley 1926-50 1 12 Belin, F. Lammot ("Mott") 1926-54 1 13 Belin, F. Lammot; Belin, Peter 1938-57 2 1 Benson 1903-07 2 2 Bibb - Bullard 1917-51 2 3 C - Carter, Morris 1925-43 2 4 Carter, Morris 1944-58 2 5 Cather, Willa 1906-c. 1920 2 6 Cenn - Century Magazine 1905-17 2 7 Chapman - Churchill 1903-57 2 8 Clapp, F.M. 1904-06 2 9 Clapp, F.M. 1911-35 3 1 Ede, Maud (married F.M. Clapp in 1908) 1902-1903 3 2 Ede, Maud 1904 3 3 Ede, Maud 1905 3 4 Ede, Maud 1906 3 5 Clapp, Maud 1911 3 6 Clapp, Maud 1915 3 7 Clapp, Maud 1916 3 8 Clapp, Maud 1917 4 1 Clark - Cross 1902-51 4 2 D - George H. Doran Co. 1920-53 4 3 Dos Passos, John 1921-41 4 4 Doubleday, Page & Co. (Eugene F. Saxton, editor) 1915-31 4 5 Dommar - Dyer 1916-57 4 6 E - Edwards, Cecil 1926-31 4 6 Ede, Maud

see CLAPP, MAUD

4 7 Edwards, Cecil 1932-51 4 8 Edwards, G.W. - Evans 1910-50 5 1 Farley, James A. 1940 5 2 Farwell - Frick 1917-57 5 3 G 1916-57 5 4 H - Harper & Brothers, (Fred L. Allen, publisher) 1911-27 5 5 Harper & Brothers 1928-49 5 6 Harrison - Howe 1920-58 5 7 Howells, W.D. 1906 5 8 Howland 1928 5 9 Hughes. C.E. 1917-37 5 10 Humphries - Huntington 1926-57 5 11 Ingersoll, Ralph McA. 1929 5 12 J 1916-23 5 13 K 1917-54 5 14 L - Leslie's Monthly Magazine (Ellery Sedgwick, ed.) 1904-41 5 15 Lewis - Luce 1930-52 6 1 M - McClure's Magazine 1905-55 6 2 McCullaugh - Mears 1927-58 6 3 Mencken, H.L. 1916-23 6 4 Merrill - Moore 1930-57 6 5 Morgenthau, Henry 1922-26 6 6 Morley, Christopher 1917 6 7 Mott - Museum of Modern Art 1932-39 6 8 National Geographic Magazine - New International Encyclopedia 1903-28 6 9 O - O'Brien 1916-17 6 10 O'Keefe, Georgia (Christmas card) 1950 6 11 Olds - Outlook Magazine 1906-55 6 12 P - Phenix, Evelyn and Spencer 1927-54 6 13 Philip, Hoffman - G.P. Putnam's Sons 1906-54 6 14 Q 1934-50 6 15 R - Ritter 1903-57 6 16 Rockefeller, John D. Jr. 1935-59 6 17 Rockhill, E. 1917 6 18 Roosevelt, Theodore to E. Rockhill Feb. 1917 6 19 Roosevelt, Eleanor Dec 6, 1943 6 20 Ross - Ruhl 1910-48 7 1 S - Saxton, Eugene, Sandy and Mark 1923-51 7 2 Saxton, Martha 1933-52 7 3 Saxton, Martha 1953-58 7 4 Scott, Evelina and Harold 1933-58 7 5 Charles Scribner's Sons 1903-16 7 6 Seymour - Sullivan 1903-55 8 1 T - Thomnatoff 1915-29 8 2 Toklas, Alice B. 1933-55 8 3 Tompkins 1924 8 4 Toynbee, Arnold J. 1925-33 8 5 Tracy - Turlington 1908-58 8 6 Unpopular Review - Utley 1916-36 8 7 V 1930-55 8 8 W - Westermann 1920-57 8 9 Wharton, Edith 1904-05 8 10 Wickwane - The World Today Magazine 1902-36 8 11 The World's Week Magazine - Wright 1915-28 8 12 The Yale Review 1926-32 8 13 Young, Stark 1921-36 Subseries b: Letters from Dwight 9 1 Carter, Morris 1922-45 9 2 Carter, Morris 1946-58 9 3 Guest, Grace 1929-34 9 4 Hartman, Lee 1936 9 5 Hughes, Charles Evans n.d. 9 6 Saxton, Eugene F. 1918-23 9 7 Saxton, Eugene F. 1924-31 9 8 Saxton, Eugene F. 1932-43 10 1 Willard, Elise and Mary 1904-31 10 2 Willard, Elise and Mary 1932-36 10 3 Willard, Elise and Mary 1937-39 10 4 Willard, Elise and Mary 1940-44 10 5 Miscellaneous letters from Dwight: F. Lamont Belin, Roscoe Drummond, Col. Frederick Palmer, Ellery Sedgwick, Mary Sullivan, Miss Wilson, Eugene S. Wilson 1935-45 Other correspondence 10 6 to the Authors' Club from various people (some letters to HGD) 1905-06 10 7 to Mr. Hudson from Mrs. Edward McDowell 1928 10 8 Transcript of Harrison Gray Otis Dwight's (father of H.G. Dwight) letters of 1830 to William I. Buck 1953 10 9 Letters from HGO Dwight from Constantinople concerning uprisings there 1893-96 Series 2 - Printed Articles 11 1 Articles, (bulk printed in Harper's Monthly Magazine) 1925-40 11 1 "Under the Cast-Iron Dome" 11 1 "Shoulder Straps" 11 1 "The Mason-Dixon Line" 11 2 Book reviews by Dwight on Arabia Felix by Bertram Thomas and A Persian Journey by Fred Richards in the Yale Review ; 1925-[40] 11 2 "South of the Potomac" 11 2 "The Horrors of Washington" 11 2 "The Cut of the Job" 11 2 "Jeffersonian Simplicity" 11 2 "The Official Returns" 11 2 "The Campaign in Western Asia" 11 2 Book reviews from the Saturday Review and the Yale Review Series 3 - Manuscripts 11 3 Two notebooks and one typewritten copy of poems 1890-1915 11 4 Typewritten manuscripts: n.d. 11 4 a. "The Synthetic Gentleman" n.d. 11 4 b. "The American Calendar" n.d. 11 4 c. "Floral Turpitude" n.d. 11 4 d. "Impatience on a Monument" n.d. 11 4 e. "Extension of Remarks" n.d. 11 4 f. miscellaneous notes n.d. 11 4 g. "Potomac Packet I. Floral Turpitude" (revision of c.) n.d. 11 4 h. "The Literary Remains of a Prig" n.d. 11 4 i. "Pulling Radishes" n.d. 11 4 j. "Contessa" n.d. 11 4 k. "Remarks at the Opening of the George Washington Bridge" [?] Oct 31 11 5 l. "Report on the Activities of the Dept. of State in connection with the Yorktown Sesquicentennial, October 16-19, 1931" [?] Oct 31 11 5 m."After Reading John Barleycorn" [?] Apr 20 11 5 n. "The Lion's Club" n.d. 11 5 o. "Concerning Servants" n.d. 11 5 p. "The Lake" n.d. 11 5 q. "Shoulder Straps" 1926 11 5 r. "The Horrors of Washington" 1926 11 5 s. "Jeffersonian Simplicity" n.d. 11 5 t. "The Secretary of Peace" [?] Sep 25 11 5 u. "The Washington Express" [?] Feb 25 11 5 v. "The Frick Collection" - article for 40th anniversary of Art News [1942] Series 4 - Notebooks and Diaries 11 6 Three notebooks: 1929-1930 12 Seven notebooks about L'Enfant [1920-1950] 12 1 Miscellaneous notes on L'Enfant n.d. 12 2 Letters from Dwight to William Hindley in reference to life of L'Enfant 1933 13 2 small notebooks and diaries 1897-1959 Series 5 - Miscellaneous 14 1 Background for "Potomac Packet" 1943-46 14 2 Chapters of a story, "Shadow Play" by Halide Edib, and related correspondence to Dwight 1902-32 14 3 Catalogue Raisonné - background for article on 40th anniversary of Art News 1937-43 14 4 Dictionary of American Biography - correspondence 1926-30 14 5 State Department - notes and correspondence (official) 1917-32 14 6 Notes on death of father of Charles Harrison Dwight (HGD's cousin) 1948-56 14 7 Cambridge Historical Society printed article by Mrs. A. Kingsley Porter on Elmwood [1950] 14 8 New York Herald Tribune - issue devoted to Franklin D. Roosevelt 1945 Apr 13 14 9 Notes on "Notebook of a Nobody" 1934 14 10 Notes on Williamsburg, VA; on Redhouse Turkish-English dictionary (1st edition edited by Dr. Henry O. Dwight, father of HGD) n.d. 15 1 Family photographs [1890-1950] 15 2 Notes and correspondence re controvery over Theodore Roosevelt memorial 1925-26 15 3 Notes and correspondence re opera of "In the Pasha's Garden" 1926-35 15 4 L'Enfant notes and miscellaneous (from desk) n.d. 15 5 L'Enfant notes and miscellaneous (from desk) 1931-42 16 1 Miscellaneous notes n.d. 16 2 Edward Juknavorian papers 1921-34 16 3 "The Automaton Theory" by F. Mansfield Allan 1898-1903 16 4 Miscellaneous small notes n.d. 16 5 Letters to an editor (newspaper clippings) and Dwight's 1958 passport 1958 16 6 Contract for Henry O. Dwight's book, A Muslim Sir Galahad 1913 16 7 Miscellaneous items of special interest and memorabilia various