(PUBLISHING) Papers of author Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer and

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(PUBLISHING.) Papers of author Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer and her family, including correspondence with her Scribner cousins. More than 200 items (0.8 linear feet) in one box, including 65 literary or personal letters, 11 typescript works of various lengths, 66 clippings and press notices, 6 literary contracts and royalty statements, and other papers; condition generally strong. Vp, circa 1870-1941

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Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer (1846-1942) was a fiction writer and essayist with several books and numerous magazine articles to her credit. She was raised in Ithaca, NY. Her maternal uncle Charles Scribner was founder of the famous publishing house of the same name, and his firm often published her work. She married Charles Ashmead Schaeffer, a Cornell University chemistry professor from 1870 to 1887 and then president of the University of Iowa until his death in 1898. She then went to Washington, DC, and after 1919 spent her final years in Pasadena, CA.
She corresponded frequently with her cousins who ran the publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons. This collection includes 10 letters from Charles Scribner II dated 1900 and 1920-28; 2 from Arthur H. Scribner, 1925 and 1931; and 3 from Charles Scribner III dated 1933. Among her other correspondents represented here are British historian Goldwin Smith; Cornell professor James Morgan Hart; critic William Lyon Phelps; Scribner's magazine editors Robert Bridges and Alfred Dashiell; historian Carl Van Doren; and novelist Alice French, who praises Schaeffer's novel Fortune's Yellow at length in a 1925 Letter Signed. Among her typescript works included here are an unpublished draft novel, "She Would Be Loved"; a photocopy of her memoir, "From Sunrise to Sunset"; and an essay titled "The Founding of a University."
Also included are a small group of papers from her father George Washington Schuyler (1810-1888), a businessman and Cornell University trustee in Ithaca, NY, including papers relating to two antiquarian books he published through Scribner's. See also the papers of her uncle (lot 260) and brother (lots 11 and 88). Inventory available upon request.