Horace Traubel and Anne Montgomerie Traubel papers
Contributors: Traubel, Anne Montgomerie, 1864-1954; Traubel, Gertrude; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Correspondence; Publishing; American literature; Periodicals; Experimental Literature; Arts and crafts movement; Socialism; American periodicals; American poetry; Intellectual life; Authors and publishers; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Ethical culture movement; Reformers; Social reformers
Description: Extensive correspondence of both Horace and Anne Montgomerie Traubel, including letters exchanged between them; diary notes and journals (1873-1917) kept by Horace Traubel, including daily record (1888-1892) of his visits and conversations with Walt Whitman published as With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906); literary files containing prose, poetry, criticism and miscellaneous writings by the Traubels and other authors; correspondence, literary mss., publishing and financial records, proofs, and printed matter comprising the files of The Conservator, a magazine expressing socialist views edited and published by Horace Traubel; personal financial and legal records; and scrapbooks.  The collection reflects the Traubels' support of the literary and artistic avant-garde, the arts and crafts and ethical culture movements, and social and political reform.  Also includes the papers of their daughter, Gertrude Traubel.

Correspondents include Leonard D. Abbott, Frank Bain, León Bazalgette, Albert Boni, Charles Boni, Richard Maurice Bucke, John Burroughs, Ellen M. O'Conner Calder, Helen Campbell, Edward Carpenter, Charles W. Chesnutt, John H. Clifford, James C. Craven, Homer Davenport, Eugene V. Debs, Theodore Debs, Archie Edington, Elsie Edington, Peter Eglinton, Edgar Fawcett, Charles E. Feinberg, Joseph Fels, Mary Fels, Alexis J. Fournier, Paul Fournier, Clifton Joseph Furness, William F. Gable, Richard Watson Gilder, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Arthur C. Goodwin, Rosalie Goodyear, Thomas B. Harned, Edmund Marsden Hartley, Herne (Hearn) family, Carrie Rand and George D. Herron, Elbert Hubbard, B. W. Huebsch, Robert G. Ingersoll, William T. Innes, John Johnston, John H. Johnston, David and Rose Karsner, William Sloane Kennedy, Mitchell Kennerly, Courtenay Lemon, Oscar Lion, Daniel Longaker, Julia Marlowe, Laurens Maynard, M. Hawley McLanahan, Lillian and Nathan Mendelssohn, Sidney H. Morse, Thomas B. Mosher, Shigetaka Naganuma, Carleton Eldredge Noyes, Isaac Hull Platt, William M. Salter, Frederic J. Shollar, Charles Sixsmith, Herbert Small, Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Warren Stoddard, James G. P. and Rose Pastor Stokes, James W. Wallace, Samuel Burns Weston, and Gustave Percival Wiksell.
Notes: Open to research.

Horace Traubel's daily record of visits with Whitman published as: With Walt Whitman in Camden (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906- , volume 1- ).

Gift, Gertrude Traubel and Charles E. Feinberg, 1955-1987.

Other gift, 1956-2003.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division and the general collections.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

transferred to National Portrait Gallery.

Poet, critic, and friend and biographer of Walt Whitman; full name Horace Logo Traubel; married Anne Montgomerie in 1891.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003074