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Inventory of the Horatio Winslow Seymour Papers, 1867-1948, bulk 1903-1918
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2007. ©2007. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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Collector |
Jones, Louise Seymour |
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Title |
Horatio Winslow Seymour Papers |
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Dates |
1867-1948 |
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Dates |
bulk 1903-1918 |
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Extent |
2 cubic ft. (4 boxes) |
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Abstract |
Editorial columns, clippings, manuscripts, correspondence, three photographs, and family materials from publisher and editorial writer Horatio Winslow Seymour. |
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Language |
Materials are in English. |
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Repository |
Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
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Collection Call Number |
Midwest MS Seymour |
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Collection Stack Location |
3a 42 4 |
Horatio Winslow Seymour Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Gift of daughter Louise Seymour Jones, ca. 1948.
Lisa Janssen, 2007.
This inventory was created with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this inventory do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Horatio Winslow Seymour Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
The Horatio Winslow Seymour Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
Newspaper editorial writer and publisher.
Horatio Winslow Seymour, was born at Genoa, Cayuga County, New York on July 29, 1854. His parents were Andrew M. and Louisa M. Goodyear Seymour. His father died when he was nine years of age, at which time he was cared for by his uncle, H. G. Winslow, of Racine, Wisconsin.
Seymour’s first position in the newspaper business was in the printing department of the Racine Advocate. His experience at the Advocate would prove invaluable in the years to come when navigating union disputes as president of the Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association. In 1873 he became city editor of the Milwaukee News, and two years later took the position of telegraph editor of the Chicago Times. His thorough and capable work soon attracted the attention of the veteran editor, Wilbur F. Storey, and in 1879, was promoted to night managing editor.
In 1883 he left the Times and became an editorial writer on the Chicago Herald. There he developed into a highly respected columnist who wrote several influential pieces on tariff reform, labor, and government which were collected in the books Editorials that Won; Arguments that Live, and Government & Co., Ltd. Seymour left the Herald in 1895 when it was sold to James W. Scott and changed its editorial focus to support Republican issues. That same year, Seymour, along with investors Martin J. Russell and John R. Walsh, created the Chicago Chronicle to fill the void for Democrats in the Midwest.
The Chronicle was forced out of business in 1907 by the sudden closeout of its major financial backer, the Chicago National Bank. Seymour was quickly enlisted by Joseph Pulitzer to fill the position of editorial supervisor at the New York World. He spent virtually the rest of his career overseeing the editorial department and writing for the World. He left briefly during 1911 after the death of Joseph Pulitzer, and went to the St. Louis Republic, but was convinced to return by Pulitzer’s son Ralph after nine months.
Seymour was married to Annie Jones of Racine, Wisconsin in 1876. They had three daughters, Louise, Mary, and Anna. He suffered ill health starting in the early 1900s and wintered in Pasadena, California for his remaining years. He died of angina pectoris on December 17, 1920.
The collection contains primarily clipping scrapbooks of editorials from Seymour’s years as editorial manager at the New York World. The majority of incoming correspondence consists of readers’ letters regarding his editorial columns while in Chicago. Several prominent Chicago figures wrote to Seymour praising his editorials including John P. Altgeld, Marshall Field, Frank O. Lowden, George Pullman, John R. Walsh, and Booker T. Washington.
There is one personal scrapbook compiled by Seymour starting at age ten, and three photographs. There is also a small amount of outgoing correspondence to his daughters written while convalescing in Pasadena, a biographical manuscript written by daughter Louise, and materials collected from colleagues after his death also by his daughter Louise.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material followed by materials collected by daughter Louise, and lastly photographs and scrapbooks.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Container List |
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Outgoing Correspondence - Eddy, Allen, Sept. 22, 1920 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Outgoing Correspondence - Jones, Louise Seymour (2 letters also addressed to Louise and Mary), 1896-1918 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Outgoing Correspondence - Pulitzer, Joseph, ca. 1907 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Outgoing Correspondence - Seymour, Anna, 1900 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Incoming Correspondence - Altgeld, John P., Dec. 18, 1895 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Incoming Correspondence - A, 1895-1918 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Incoming Correspondence - B, 1903-1918 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Incoming Correspondence - C, 1903-1914 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Incoming Correspondence - D, 1903-1912 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Incoming Correspondence - E, 1902-1917 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Incoming Correspondence - Field, Marshall, May 23, 1903 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Incoming Correspondence - F, 1903-1918 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Incoming Correspondence - G, 1904-1912 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Incoming Correspondence - H, 1903-1919 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Incoming Correspondence - J, 1904, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Incoming Correspondence - K, 1903-1918, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Incoming Correspondence - Lowden, Frank O., Aug. 25, 1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Incoming Correspondence - L, 1904-1920 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Incoming Correspondence - M, 1903-1918 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Incoming Correspondence - N, 1903 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Incoming Correspondence - Pulitzer, Ralph, 1915, 1918 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Incoming Correspondence - Pullman, George M., Feb. 12, 1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Incoming Correspondence - P, 1897-1918 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Incoming Correspondence - O, 1904-1916 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Incoming Correspondence - R, 1903-1918 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Incoming Correspondence - Selfridge, Harry, 1903-1906 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Incoming Correspondence - S, 1903-1920 | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Incoming Correspondence - T, 1903-1918 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Incoming Correspondence - Walsh, John R. (includes letter to Victor Lawson), 1905, 1907 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Incoming Correspondence - Washington, Booker T., 1905, 1907 | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | Incoming Correspondence - Watterson, Henry, 1896-1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | Incoming Correspondence - W, 1903-1918, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | Miscellaneous - clippings regarding Seymour's various editorships and a typographical guidebook, 1906, 1912 | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | Works - The Class Idea in America (manuscript), ca. 1900 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Works - Clippings, ca. 1900-1915 | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | Works - Democratic Expansion, published in the North American Review, Jul. 1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | Works - Editorial proofs from the New York World, ca. 1907-1920 | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | Works - Editorials from the New York World, 1908, 1910 | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 | Works - Miscellaneous manuscripts - personal / memoir, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 40 | Works - Miscellaneous manuscripts - journalism, ca. 1900-1915 | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | Works - Not a Profession but a Business (manuscript), n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | Works - Notes, 1895-1915 | |||||||||
| 2 | 43 | Works - St. Louis Republic - circulation figures (clippings), 1912 | |||||||||
| 2 | 44 | Works - The Strong Arm - clippings with notes, ca. 1900 | |||||||||
| 2 | 45 | Works - To the Managing Editor, the Night Editor, the City Editor and All Copy Readers ( proof from the Chicago Chronicle), ca. 1900 | |||||||||
| 2 | 46 | Works - Women in Newspaper Work by a Retired Editor (manuscript), ca. 1920 | |||||||||
| 2 | 47 | Denslow, W. W. - print signed to H. W. Seymour, ca. 1899 | |||||||||
| 2 | 48 | Goodyear, C. B. (uncle) - obituary, correspondence, 1872-1875 | |||||||||
| 2 | 49 | Jones, Louise Seymour - biographical manuscript written about Horatio Seymour, 1948 | |||||||||
| 2 | 50 | Jones, Louise Seymour - incoming correspondence from Seymour's colleagues written to Jones, 1945-1947 | |||||||||
| 2 | 51 | Reunion Dinner in Honor of Horatio Winslow Seymour - program, draft of speech, letters to Herbert L. Jones, 1918 | |||||||||
| 2 | 52 | Photographs - Eddy, Allen (with portrait of H. W. Seymour in background), 1946 | |||||||||
| 2 | 53 | Photographs - Seymour, Horatio W. - portrait, ca. 1918 | |||||||||
| 2 | 54 | Photographs - Seymour, Horatio W. - group portrait with Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone Sr. and Jr., and Thomas Edison taken during one of the group's annual trips, Asheville, North Carolina, 1918 | |||||||||
| 2 | 55 | Scrapbook - personal - clippings and poems collected by Seymour with notation by daughter Louise Seymour, 1867-1937 | |||||||||
| 3 | 56 | Scrapbook - clippings - Oct. 1909-Jun. 1911 | |||||||||
| 3 | 57 | Scrapbook - clippings, Aug. 1911-Apr. 1912 | |||||||||
| 3 | 58 | Scrapbook - clippings, Jun. 1912-Feb. 1914 | |||||||||
| 3 | 59 | Scrapbook - clippings, Feb. 1914-Jun. 1915 | |||||||||
| 3 | 60 | Scrapbook - clippings, Jun. 1915-Jan. 1917 | |||||||||
| 4 | 61 | Scrapbook - clippings, Jan. 1917-May 1918 | |||||||||
| 4 | 62 | Scrapbook - Letters of condolence to Mrs. H. W. Seymour and obituaries from various newspapers, 1920 | |||||||||