Brander Matthews 1
Ms Coll
Matthews, B.
Brander Matthews
Papers, 1827-1967
20 linear feet (ca. 14,500 items in 41 boxes and 2 flatboxes)
Biography: James Brander Matthews was born in New Orleans on February 21, 1852 to Edward
and Virginia Brander Matthews. He received a baccalaureate from Columbia University in
1871 and a law degree in 1873. That year, he married Ada Smith an English actress. He
earned a Master of Arts in Literature at Columbia University in 1874 and turned to writing to
support his family. Matthews began by reviewing plays and eventually became a respected
author of novels, plays, short stories, poems, essays, and biographies. He was a frequent
contributor to periodicals. He began lecturing at Columbia University in the English
Department in 1892 and was appointed Professor of Dramatic Literature in 1900, the first
such professorship established in the United States. Matthews established the Brander
Matthews Dramatic Museum at Columbia in 1911, the first such museum in the United
States. He died at age seventy-five on March 31, 1929.
Summary: The Brander Matthews Collection spans the dates 1827 to 1927 with most of the material
dating from 1872 to 1924. It is divided into 5 series: Cataloged Correspondence, Writings,
Notes, Works by Others, and Personal files. The collection contains letters, manuscripts,
typescripts, clippings, articles, notes, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia. Some of
the material, especially the newspaper clippings, is very brittle and fragile.
Finding Aids: Contents list, 15 pages.
Restrictions on Access: Available for faculty, students, or researchers engaged in scholarly or
publication projects.
Restrictions on Use: Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Librarian
for Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Provenance: Gift of Brander Matthews, 1912-1928; Harold G. Henderson, 1951; and Jeanne
Welcher Kleinfield, 1978.
Processing History: Revised by G. Cannan, August 2000
Microfilm Information: A. P. Terhune, James Bryce and Royal Cortissoz cataloged correspondence
are on microfillm
Physical Loaction: In sequence
Related Manuscript Collections: Dramatic Museum; Columbia University. Brander Matthews
Dramatic Museum
RLIN ID: 89-A586
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I. Cataloged Correspondence, 1876-1926 10 linear ft.
Matthews was an influential figure in the literary and dramatic worlds of New York, Paris, and London
in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century. Among his correspondents represented in the
collection are William Archer, Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, Augustin Daly, Austin Dobson, Hamlin
Garland, Bronson Howard, William Dean Howells, Henry Cabot Lodge and other prominent figures
from the worlds of theater, literature, politics and society.
Box 1
Abbey, Edwin Austin
Abbey, Mary Gertrude (Mrs.E.A.)
Abdullah, Achmed
Abot, E
Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, Herbert
Ainger, Alfred
Alden, Henry Mills
Aldrich, Lilian Woodmsn (Mrs.T.B.)
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
Alexander, John W.
Ames, Winthrop
Amory, Mathilda
Anderson, Edward Pretot
Anglin, Margaret
Appleton, George J.
Appleton, William Worthen
Archer, Charles
Archer, William
Arliss, George
Box 2
Arliss, George (cont.)
Arrowsmith, J.W.
Ashby-Sterry, Joseph
Atherton, Gertrude
Aubert, Louis
Ayres, Harry Morgan
Bacheller, Irving
Baker, Franklin T.
Baker, George Pierce
Baldensperger, Fernand
Baldwin, Charles M.
Baldwin, Charles Sears
Balestier, Wolcott
Bangs, John Kendrick
Barnard,Charles
Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter
Barr, Amelia Edith
Barrett, Lawrence
Bashford, G. Fred
Bassett, John D.
Bates, Blanche
Beckett., Harry
Beckwith, Carol
Beer, Thomas
Beers, Henry Augustin
Belasco, David
Bell, Edward Hamilton
Belmont, August
Belmont, Eleanor Robson
Benrimo, Joseph Henry McAlpin
Benson, Sir Francis Robert
Bernard, E.G. (Mrs. Wm. Bayle)
Besant, Mary
Besant, Walter
Bigelow, John
Bikle', Lucy Leffingwell Cable (Mrs.
Henry Wolfe)
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin
Bishop, William Henry
Bispham, David
Blaikie, J.A.
Blashfield, Edwin Howland
Blinn, Holbrook
Bois, Jules
Bok, Edward W.
Booth, Agnes
Booth, Edwin
Bosworth, Hobart
Boucicault, Dion
Bourchier, Arthur
Boyeson, Hjalmar Hjorth
Box 3
Boyeson, Hjalmar Hjorth (cont.)
Bradford, Gamaliel
Bradley, Andrew Cecil
Brady, William A.
Brandes, George
Brewster, William Tenney
Bridges, Monica Waterhouse
(Mrs.Robert)
Bridgman, Walter R.
Brieux, Eugene
Briggs, Alanson Tuthill
Brinton, Daniel Garrison
Broadhurst, Thomas W.
Brookfield, Jane Octavia (Mrs. Elton)
Brooks, Joseph
Brown, Henry
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Brown, Henry Collins
Brownell, William Crarey
Brunetiere, Ferdinand
Brunner, Arnold W.
Bryce, James
Buel, Clarence Clough
Bunner, Henry Cuyler
See also 812M43S6,
Scrapbook of Letters from H.
C. Bunner
Burlinghame, Edward Livermore
Burroughs, John(1837-1921)
Burton, Richard
Butcher, Samuel Henry
Butler, Benjamin
Butler, Nicholas Murray
Cable,George Washington
Calkins, Ernest Elmo
Calvert, Louis
Canby, Henry Seidel
Carleton, Will
Carman, Bliss
Carnegie, Andrew
Carnegie, Mrs. Louis W.
Carr, Joseph William Comyns
Carvell, G.F.
Casey, Francis de Sales
Cawein, Madison
Chadwick, George Whitefield
Chambers, Sir Edmund Kerchever
Chambers, Raymond Wilson
Chandler, Frank Wadleigh
Copeaux, Jacques
Coquelin, Benoit Constant
Box 4
Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart Chatfield
Choate, Joseph H.
Church, William Conant
Churchill, Winston
Claretie, Jules
Clark, Joseph Ignatius Constantine
Claxton, Kate
Clemens., Olivia Langdon (Mrs.
Samuel L.)
Clemens, Samuel L.
Cobb, Irvin S.
Coburn, Charles
Coghlan, Charles Francis
Coleman, John
Coles, J. Ackermn
Colvin, Sidney
Conkling, Roscoe
Conway, Hart
Conway, Martin
Conway, Moncure D.
Coogan, James J.
Coombes, George J.
Box 6
Dobson, Augusta-Mary Rachel
Dobson, Frances Mary
Beardmore(Mrs. Austin)
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Dole, Nathan H.
Donnay, Maurice
Dow, David McKenzie
Drew, John
Drisler, Henry
Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple
Dyas, Ada
Eaton, Walter P.
Eddy, Frederick B.
Edson, C.L.
Edwards, Hy (Harry)
Egan, Maurice Francis
Eggleston, Edward
Eggleston, George Cary
Elliott, Maxine
English, Thomas Dunn
Ethel, Agnes
Faversham, William
Box 5
Corbin, John
Cortissoz, Royal
Cox, Kenyan
Coxon, Ethel
Crane, Ella Chloe Myers (Mrs.Wm.H.)
Crane, Stephen
Crane, William H.
Crawford, F. Marion
Crolly, C.C.
Crossman, Henrietta
Crothers, Samuel McChord
Curtis, Charles G.
Cushing, Charles P.
Dacre, Arthur
Daley, Augustin
Davenport, Eva
Davenport, Harry
Davis, Richard Harding
DeForest, John William
DeKay, Charles
deKoven, Reginald
DeMille, Anna George
DeMille, William C.
DeVinne, Theodore L.
Dickson, Frederick S.
Dillingham, Charles B
Dobson, Alban
Dobson, Austin
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Fawcett, Edgar
Felton, Cornelius Conway
Ferrar, John
Field, Eugene
Field, Kate
Field, Roswell Martin
Field, William B. Osgood
Box 7
Finch, Francis Miles
Fish, Stuyvesant
Fiske, Minnie Maddern
Fitch, Clyde
Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James
Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude
Forbes-Robertson, Ian
Forbes-Robertson, Johnston
Ford, James L.
Ford, Mary
Ford, Paul Leicester
Fox, John, Jr.
Frantzius, Fritz von
Frawley, T. Daniel
French, Daniel Chester
French, Lillie Hamilton
French, Samuel
Frohman, Daniel
Furness, Horace Howard, Jr.
Garland, Hamlin
Box 8
Garland, Hamlin (cont.)
Garrison, Ella
Gayley, Charles Mills
George, Grace
George, Robert
Giddings, Franklin H.
Gilbert, Cass
Gilder, Helena deKay (Mrs.Rochard
Watson)
Gilder, Jeannette L.
Gilder, Joseph B.
Gilder, Richard Watson
Giles, Peter
Gillette, William
Gilmare, Frank
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Stetson
Gilman, Daniel Coit
Godfrey, Walter H.
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence
Godwin, Edward William
Godwin, Harold
Goodell, Thomas D.
Goodman, Jules Eckert
Goodwin, Nathaniel Carl
Gosse, Edmund
Gottheil, Richard
Grant, Robert
Granville-Baker, Harley
Graves, Henry
Gray, Agnes E.
Greene, Francis V.
Greenslet, Ferris
Greet, Ben
Grein, James Thomas
Grismer, Joseph Rhode
Grundy, Sydney
Guild, Thatcher Howland
Guiterman, Arthur
Guthrie, Anstey
Habberton, John
Hackett, James K
Hadley, Arthur Twi@
Hagen, Claude L.
Haggard, Rider
Hake, Egmont A.
Hale, Edward Everett
Hall, Stanley G.
Hamilton, Clayton
Box 9
Hamilton, Clayton (cont.)
Hampden, Walter
Hankin, St. John
Hanlon, George
Hapgood, Norman
Harle, Hugh C.
Harper, Joseph Henry
Harrigan, Edward
Harrigan, Mrs. Edward
Harris, Joel Chandler
Hart, Albert Bushnell
Hartmann, Sadakichi
Harvey, George Brinton McClellan
Hastings, Thomas
Hazleton, George C.
Henley, William Ernest
Herfor, Oliver
Herrick, Robert
Hibbard, George
Hibben, John Grier
Higginson, Margaret W.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
Hinman, Russell
Hitchcock, Ripley
Holland, David B.
Holland, E.M.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Holt, Henry
Hood, William
Hooker, Brian
Houdini, Harry
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Box 10
Howard, Bronson
Howard, Sidney
Howe, Edgar Watson
Howe, Julia Ward
Howells, John Mead
Howells, Mildred
Hoyt, Charles
Howells, William Dean
Box 11
Howells, William Dean (cont.)
Hughes, Rupert
Humphreys, Alex C.
Huneker, James Gordon
Hunt, T.F.
Hunt, William
Huntington, Archer M.
Hutchinson, Thomas
Hutton, Eleanor V.
Hutton, Lawrence
Ingersoll, Ernest
Ingersoll, William
Ireland, Alexander
Ireland, Joseph N.
Irving, Henry
Irving, Lawrence
Irwin, Wallace
Irwin, Will
Jagemann, Hans Carl Gunter von
James, Henry
James, Louis L.
Janvier, Catharine A.
Jerome, William T.
Jesperson, Otto
Jessop, George H.
Jewett, Sara
Johnson, Robert Underwood
Johnson, Rossiter
Johnson, Willard D.
Jones, Henry Arthur
Box 12
Jones, Henry Arthur (cont.)
Jones, Richard
Jones, Robert Edmund
Jusserand, Jean Jules
Keep, Elizabeth
Keppel, Frederick P.
Kester., Paul
Kimball, Arthur R.
Kinnaird, Arthur Fitzgerald
Kipling, Caroline (Mrs. Rudyard)
Kipling, Elsie
Kipling, Rudyard
Box 13
Kirk, John Foster
Klaw, Marc
Klein, Charles
Kure, B.
LaFarge, John
LaFollette, Robert
Lampton, William J.
Lang, Andrew
Lanigan, George Thomas
Lanson, Gustave
Lathrop, George Parsons
Lawrence, William John
Lawrence, William Witherle
Learned, Walter
Lee, Sidney
Lefevre, Edwin
LeGallienne, Richard
LeMoyne, Sarah Cowell
Lewis, James
Locker-Lampson, Frederick
Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane
Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850-1924)
Box 14
Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850-1924)
(cont.)
Loftie, William John
Logan, Celia
Long, John L.
Longman, Charles James
Longmans, Green & Co.
Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford
Low, Seth
Box 15
Low, Seth (cont.)
Lowe, Robert A.
Lowell, A Lawrence
Lowell, Sydney
Ludemann, Alfred
Lummis, Charles F.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Macalister, Donald
McCutcheon, George Barr
McClellan, George Brinton
MacDowell, Edward
McDowell, Henry Barden
McIlvaine, Clarence W.
MacKay, Clarence H.
Mackay, Frank F.
MacKaye, Percy
McMahon, Una
McMaster, John B.
McVicker, J.H.
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Magnus, Julian
Magruder, Julia
Mahan, Alfred Thayer
Malevinsky, Moses L.
Malone, John T.
Manley, John M.
Mantle, Burns
Mantzius, Karl
Marbury, Elizabeth
Marks, Stacy H.
Marquis, Don
Marshall, Henry R.
Martin, Edward Sandford
Martin-Harvey, John
Massenet, Jules
Masson, Frederick
Masson, Thomas L.
Matthews, Ada S. (Mrs. Brander)
Matthews, Brander
Box 16
Matthews, Edith V. Brander
Maurice, Arthur Bartlett
Maxim, Hudson
Mayfield, John S.
Mayo, Frank
Meeks, Raymond
Mencken, Henry Louis
Merrill, Stuart
Merwin, Samuel
Meyer, Paul
Meynall, Percy
Middleton, George
Miller, Henry
Millet, Francis Davis
Mitchell, Grant
Mitchell, John Ames
Mitchell, Langdon E.
Mitchell, Silas Weir
Moderwell, Hiram Kelly
Modjeska, Helena
Monkhouse, Cosmo
Monval, Leon
Morange, Edward A.
Morazzoni, Giuseppe
More, Paul E.
Morford, Henry
Morley, Christopher
Morris, Lloyd R.
Morrison, Charlotte
Morrison, Lewis
Moses, Montrose J.
Mulholland, John
Munroe, Kirk
Munsey, Frank A.
Murray, Gilbert
Murray, John
Nakamura, Kichizo
Nast, Thomas
Neill, James
Nelson, (Miss) F. E.
Nelson, Henry Loomis
Neville, Henry Gartside
Newbolt, Henry
Newcomer, Alice K.
Nicholson, Meredith
Noguchi, Yone
Norcross, John E.
Norman, Henry
Olin, Reeves and Montgomery
Opper, Frederick Burr
Omonde, Eugene
Osgood, James Ripley
Owen, William F.
Owens, John E.
Ozawa Yoshikuni
Page, L.C. & Co.
Page, Thomas Nelson
Page, Walter
Paine, Albert Bigelow
Palmer, Albert Marshman
Palmer, Courtlandt
Palmer, Frederick
Parker, Gilbert
Parker Henry Taylor
Parker, Horatio
Parlow, Kathleen
Payne, John
Payne, Will
Peck, Harry Thurston
Penfield, Edward
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
Perry, Bliss
Phelps, William Lyon
Box 17
Phelps, William Lyon (cont.)
Pinero, Arthur Wing
Pinker, James B.
Polk, William Mecklenburg
Pollock, Channing
Pollock, Sir Francis
Pollock, Walter H.
Pool, Frank J.
Porter, Fitz John
Porter, Horace
Post, Louis F.
Potter, Henry Codman
Potter, Paul Meredith
Pound, Ezra
Presbrey, Eugene W.
Price, Thomas R.
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Putnam, George Haven
Putnam, Irving
Pyle, Howard
Radin, Herman G.
Rae, William Fraser
Randall, James Ryder
Raymond, John T.
Reed. Roland
Remington, Frederic
Rennert, Hugo A.
Repplier, Agnes
Rhodes, James F.
Rice, Cale Young
Rice, Wallace
Richards, Grant
Riggs, Arthur Stanley
Riggs, Mrs. Kate
Roberts, Morley
Robson, Stuart
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosenfeld, Sydney
Rosenthal, Ludwig
Royce, Joseph
Ruckstull, Fred Wallinton
Russell-Yorke, Annie
Russell, Sol Smith
Sadler, Sir Michael Ernest
Saintsbury, George
Saltus, Edgar
Saltus, Francis S.
Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth
Sarasate y Navasues, Pablo Martin
Melitonde
Sarcey, Francisque
Schauffler, Robert Haven
Schertz, Helen Pitkin
Box 18
Schoepel, Agnes
Scollard, Clinton
Scott, Fred Newton
Scribner, Charles
Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
Sedgwick, William T.
Seymour, William
Shackleford, John
Sheffauer Herman George
Sheridan Richard Brinsley (1809-88)
Sherman, Frank Dempster
Sherman, Stuart P.
Shipman, Louis
Shorey, Paul
Simms, Edward
Skinner, Otis
Sladen, Douglas
Sloane, William Milligan
Smith, C. Alphonso
Smith, Logan Pearsall
Smith, Munroe
Snyder, Frank M.
Sousa, John Philip
Spingarn, Joel Ellis
Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers
Stedman, Edmund Clarence
Stedman, Laura
Stimson, Frederick Jessop
Stockton, Francis Richard
Stoddard, Charles Warren
Stoddard, Francis Hovey
Stoker, Bram
Story, William Westmore
Stratton-Porter, Gene
Street, Julian
Sturges, Jonathan
Sturgis, Russell
Sutro, Alfred
Symons, Arthur
Taber, Robert
Tedder., Henry Richard
Terhune, Albert Payson
Terhune,, Mary Virginia (Hawes)
Thayer, William R.
Box 19
Thayer, William R. (cont.)
Thomas, A. E.
Thomas, Augustus
Thompson, Henry
Thorndike, Ashley Horace
Thorne, Charles R., Jr.
Ticknor, Benjamin H.
Tilley, Arthur
Titherington, Richard Handsfield
Tourgee, Aimee
Townsend, Horace
Towse, John Ranken
Tree, H. Beerbohm
Trent, William
Twichell, Joseph M.
Tyler, Moses Coit
Unwin, T. Fisher
Van Dyke, Henry
Van Dyke, John Charles
Vedder, Elihu
Vezin, Hermann
Viele, Herman Knickerbocker
Villard, Henry
Waddington, Samuel
Walker, Alfred
Walkley, Arthur Bingham
Wallack, Arthur
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Wallack, Lester
Ward, Adolphus William
Ward, Fannie Batchelder (Mrs. C.
Montagu)
Ware, Helen
Warfield, David
Warner, Charles Dudley
Warner, John E.
Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott
Welcker, Adair
Wells, Carolyn
Wendell, Barrett
Wendell, Evert Jansen
Westerfield, Paul
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide
Whiffen, Blanche
Whiffen, Thomas
White, Stanford
White, Stuart Edward
White, William Allen
Whitman, Walt
Whitridge, Lucy T.
Wilde, Percival
Willard, Edward Smith
Williams, James
Williams, Thomas H.
Wilson, Francis
Wilson, Woodrow
Wilstach, Frank Jenners
Wilstach, Paul
Winter, Jefferson
Winter, William
Wister, Owen
Woodberry, George E.
Worthington, John
Wright, Frederich Amaziah
Yamamoto, Kuzaburo
Zola, Emile
Box 20
White, Andrew D.
White, Gleason
White, J. William
Writings, 1871-1923 3. 5 linear feet
This series contains notes, typescripts, contracts, book reviews, articles and clippings. The material
is arranged chronologically within 9 subseries: Fiction, Plays, Verse, Biographies, Essays and
Critiques, Pamphlets, Books edited, Introductions, Articles and Lectures.
Box 20
Bibliography
--Fiction
Flatbox 233
Robert Bright, May 29, 1875 Scrapbook Vol. 1
Box 20
The Last Meeting (1885)
A Secret of the Sea (1886)
Box 21
File 1)
File 2)
File 3)
File 4)
File 5)
File 6)
File 7)
File 8)
File 9)
File 11)
File 12)
File 13)
File 14)
File 15)
A Family Tree (1889-1890) With My Friends (1891)
In the Vestibule Limited (1892) A Tale of Twenty Five Hours(1892),
written with George H. Jessop
Tom Spaulding (1892)
Story of a Story (1893)
Vignettes of Manhattan (1894, 1921-1923)
Royal Marine (1894) The Sin of the Father (1894)
Tales of Fantasy and Fact (1896)
His Father's Son (1896)
Outlines in Local Color (1897) File 10) A Confident Tomorrow
(1899)(See also X812M43/P)
Action and the Word (1900)
Vistas of New York (1912)
These Many Years (1917)
Copyrights assigned by Harper and Brothers (1921)
Notes for picaresque novel about New York
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--Plays
Box 21
File 16)
On Probation (1871)
See also X812M43/M, Plays in 4 vol.
Box 22
File 1)
File 2-3)
File 4)
File 5)
File 6-7)
File 8)
File 9)
File 10)
On Probation (1889)
Margery's Lovers (1884)
The Partnership (1884), written with H. L. Bunner
The Irish Brigade (1886)
A Gold Mine (1887)
This Picture and That (1887-1894)
The Decision of the Court (1893)
Notes for Nat Goodwin portrayal (May 19, 1898)
Box 23
File 1-2)
File 3)
File 4)
File 5)
File 6-12)
Peter Stuyvesant (1899)
The Selfish Mr. Selbourne (c.1904)
High Spirits (1905)
What Shall It Profit (1907)
Undated/unpublished plays
--Verse
Box 24
File 1)
Fugitives From Justice (1912), other verses
--Biographies
Box 24
File 2)
File 3)
Moliere: His Life and Works (1910)
Shakespeare as a Playwright (1916)
--Essays and Criticism
Box 24
File 4)
File 5)
File 6)
File 7)
File 8)
File 9)
File 10)
File 11)
File 12)
File 13)
The Theatres of Paris (1880)
French Dramatists (1881)
Home Library (1883) [under the name Arthur Penn]
Pen and Ink (1888)
Americanisms and Briticisms (1892)
Studies of the Stage (1894)
Bookbinding Old and New (1895)
Books and Playbooks (1895)
Aspects of Fiction (1896)
Introduction to American Literature (1893-1918)
Box 25
File 1)
File 2)
File 3)
File 4)
File 5)
File 6)
File 7)
File 8)
File 9)
File 10)
File 11)
File 12)
File 13)
File 14)
The Historical Novel; Parts of Speech (1901)
Development of the Drama (1903) (See also X812M43/P5)
Recreations of an Anthologist (1904)
Inquiries and Opinion (1907)
The American of the Future (1909)
A Study of the Drama (1910)
A Study of Versification (1911)
Gateways to Literature (1912-1913)
Book About the Theater (1916)
Principles of Playmaking (1919)
Essays on English (1921)
Playwrights on Playmaking (1923)
Tocsin of Revolt (1924)
Essays idea
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--Pamphlets
Box 25
The Philosophy of the Short Story (1901)
Notes on Speechmaking (1901)
American Characters (1906)
On Acting (1914)
Venetian Glass
--Books edited
Box 25
File 16)
File 17)
File 18)
Box 26
File 1)
File 2)
File 3)
Comedies for Amateur Acting (1879)
Poems of American Patriotism (1882)
Actors and Actresses (1886) written with Laurence Hutton
The Dramatic Essays of Charles Lamb (1892)
American Familiar Verse (1904)
The Short Story (1908)
See also X812M43/S62, An editorial correspondence:
Brander Matthews to Munro
Lope de Vega's The New Art of Writing Plays (1914)
Oxford Book of American Essays (1914)
Dramatic Museum, 2nd series (1915)
Dramatic Museum, 3rd series (1916)
Chief European Dramatists (1916)
Chief British Dramatists (1924)
Poems About Players (1915)
--Introductions
Box 26
File 4)
Chronological Outlines of American Literature (1894)
by S. L. Whitcomb
--Articles and Lectures
Box 26
File 5)
File 6)
File 7)
File 8)
File 9)
File 10)
Box 27
File 1-2)
"Memories of Edwin Booth" "Cleopatra's Nose"
"Critics and Creators" "Doctor Johnson as a Conversationalist" "The
Dunlap Society" (1914)
"Grolier Club" "Howlers"
"Negro Minstrelsy, The Decline and Fall of" "New York by a New
Yorker, Notes on" "President's English" "Punch and Judy"
"Sayings of a Philosopher" "Show Business" "Sky-Pilots" "Spelling"
"The Swift Passing of the Humorists" "Twain, Memories of Mark"
"Unanswerable Questions" "Variety Show" "What is Pure English?"
(1915) "Wine, Woman, and Money"
Magazine articles (1881-1903)
Magazine articles, 1904-1926 File 3-6) Lectures
Notes, 1872-1924 6 linear feet
This series is divided into three subseries: Author files, Subject files and Drama. It contains notes,
clippings and articles on subjects in which Matthews had an interest. The notes are often written on
small scraps of paper. Matthews would jot down any idea as soon as it occurred to him and throw it
into a drawer "where I keep all such stray thoughts." Eventually he would organize these scraps and
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file them in envelopes. He considered each envelope "a story, or an essay in process of hatching."
The files are arranged alphabetically within subseries.
--Author Files
Box 27
File 7)
Aeschylus
Box 28
File 1)
T. B. Aldrich
William Archer
Aristophanes
Emile Augier
Jane Austen
Balzac
Beaumarchais
Bjornson
Boccaccio
Bourget
Charlotte Bronte
Browning
William Cullen Bryant
Calderon
Cellini
Cervantes
James Fennimore Cooper
Corneille
George W. Curtis
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Daudet
Georges Daudin
Defoe
File 2)
File 3)
File 4)
File 5)
File 6)
Box 29
File 1)
File 8)
Dickens
Dryden
Dumas pere
Dumas fils
Echegaray
Maria Edgeworth
George Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Euripides
Octave Feuillet
Fielding
Stephen Foster
Anatole France
Benjamin Franklin
Goethe; Goldsmith
Fitz-Greene Halleck and Joseph Rodman Drake; Thomas Hardy;
Bret Harte; Gerhart Hauptmann; Hawthorne
Oliver Wendell Holmes
File 1)
File 2)
File 3)
File 4)
File 5)
William Dean Howells
Victor Hugo
Ibsen
Washington Irving
Henry James
File 2)
File 3)
File 4)
File 5)
File 6)
File 7)
Box 30
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File 6)
File 7)
File 8)
Box 31
File 1)
File 2)
File 3-5)
Box 32
File 1)
File 2)
File 3)
File 4)
File 5)
File 6)
File 7-8)
Box 33
File 1)
File 2)
File 3)
File 4)
Kotzebue; Madame de Lafayette
Le Sage; Lessing
Abraham Lincoln
Lope de Vega
Rudyard Kipling
Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
Maeterlinck
Marivaux
Philip Massinger
Maupassant
Melville
Meredith
Moliere
Francis Parkman
Stephen Phillips; Plautus
Edgar Allan Poe
Rabelais
Racine
Richardson
Reynard
Charles Reade
Edmond Rostand
Saint Pierre
Victorien Sardou
Walter Scott
Eugene Scribe
Seneca
George Bernard Shaw
Shakespeare
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Smollet
Sophocles
Herbert Spencer
Sterne; Robert
Louis Stevenson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Herman Sudermann
Swift; Terence
Thackeray
Thoreau
Tolstoi
Trollope
Turgenev
Voltaire
Wagner
Walpole
Daniel Webster
Whitman
Whittier
Zola
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--Subject Files
Includes articles, clippings, exams and notes
Box 33
File 5)
File 6-7)
File 8)
Advertising and Posers
American Literature
American/British Relations; Americans on Guard; Anecdotes
Box 34
File 1)
Books; Characterization; Colonial period; Comparative
literature; Criticism; De Senectute
Dialog writing
Essays; Figures of Speech; Gesta Romanorum; Historians; Idealism;
Inventions; Journalism
Lecturing; Literary Evolution; Longman's Publishing House; Magic;
Man elevator; Marie Antoinette; Masterpieces
Miscellaneous
Morality in Fiction and Drama; Names for characters; Negro minstrel
song; Niagara Falls; Non-Americans; Novel
File 2)
File 3)
File 4)
File 5)
File 6)
Box 35
File 1)
File 2-3)
File 4)
File 5)
File 6)
File 7)
Orators; Plagiarism; Poems; Puppets
Quotations
Revolutionary Period; Romances
Short Story
Spelling; Style; Titles; Transcendentalism; War
Writing
--Drama files
Box 35
File 8)
Drama
Box 36
File 1)
File 2)
File 3)
File 4)
File 5)
File 6)
File 7)
File 8-9)
File 10)
File 11)
American Drama
Acting; Actor's memories; Acts; Audience
Conventions
Criticism, Development of
Failures
Fiction; Folk theater; Greek Comedy
Greek Drama
Indexes [Very brittle, request assistance]
Italy
Medieval Theater
Box 37
File 1)
File 2)
File 3)
Morality plays File
Nineteenth Century Drama File
One-act play; Political play; Pantomime; Repertory
theater File 4) Renewal of Drama File
Roman Drama File
Spanish Drama File
Scene painting File
Stage design; Stage life; Stage management; Stroller and
farces; Survivals File
Words and phrases of the theater
File 5)
File 6)
File 7)
File 8)
File 9)
Flatbox 233
Scrapbook on playwrights, 1903-1910. 1 volume
Works by Others, 1879-1923 5 linear feet
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This series contains articles, manuscripts, poetry, essays, and autographs by other authors.
Box 38
File 2)
John Kendrick Bangs
Joseph M. Beatty
Edward Hamilton Bell
Robert Bridges
Henry Cuyler Bunner
File 3)
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Clemons (Mark Twain)
Thomas Stephens Collier
Austin Dobson
John Erskine
File 4)
Emile Faguet
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Richard Watson Gilder
Arthur Goodrich
Ferris Greenslett
James Ketelas Hackett
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
William Dean Howells
Philip Curtis Humphrey
Thomas Hutchinson
File 5)
George Henry Jessop
Henry Arthur Jones
Andrew Lang
File 6)
George Parsons Lathrop
George Henry Lewes
File 7)
Don Marquis
Flatbox 234
Box 39
Dobson, Austin. At the Sign of the Lyre. New York:
Henry Holt, 1885
1 Volume [Ms.]
File 1)
M. L. Mayer
Lillian Nordica
Thomas Buchanan Read
Robert Francis St. Clair Rosslyn
John William Rogers
Frank Dempster Sherman; Monroe Smith
Nichol Smith
Ashley Horace Thorndike
Personal files, 1827-1962 2 linear feet.
This series contains photographs, menus, ticket stubs, club rosters, scrapbooks, and other Matthews
memorabilia. It includes items Matthews used to refresh his memory when writing his autobiography
These Many Years. There are also research notes from a 1961-1962 study by Herbert Kleinfeld.
Box 39
File 2)
File 3)
Memorabilia used in These Many Years File
Bibliography; dedication of bust; eulogy in 1929 by
George Clinton Odell File
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File 4)
File 5)
File 7)
File 8)
File 9-10)
Box 40
File 1)
File 2)
File 3-5)
Box 41
Photographs and drawings of Brander Matthews File
Bookplate [see also Box 41: woodblock of bookplate] File 6)
Prints and pictures
Ada Smith Matthews [stage name Ada Harland],
photographs and playbill
Theater tickets, 1905-1910
Clubs: rosters and membership form from the
Atheneum Club and the Round Table Dining
Club; Dunlap Society membership letters
See also X812M43/P53, Diaries, 1871-1994. Diary
portions have been removed from 1871-1881; and
812M43/S, Journal begun December 21, 1928
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1910-1916
Menus, 1885-1907 and greeting cards
See also Scrapbooks X812M43/BS and X812M43/BC. Both
contain menus, letters, invitations, and autographs dating
from 1884-1907
Herbert Kleinfeld research notes
Mementos [n.d.]: 1 Loving cup and 1 woodblock of
bookplate
Scrapbooks
Flatbox 233
# 1: Robert Bright, May 29, 1875. 1 volume
Flatbox 233
# 2: Theatrical Notes. 1 volume
Flatbox 233
# 3: Scrapbook of newspaper clippings re. Brander Matthews, 1869-1926. 1
volume
Flatbox 234
# 4: Clippings scrapbook, obituaries and reminiscences, 1929
1 volume
Flatbox 234
# 5: Theater Scrapbook, 1923-1925. 1 volume
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