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Summary Information
Access Restrictions
Biographical Note
Arrangement/Organization
Scope and Content Note
Indexing Terms
Administrative Information
Content List
Collection 1846-1962

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Appleton-Century mss

Summary Information

Repository:
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University

1200 E. Seventh St.

Bloomington, IN 47405-5500

Phone: 812-855-2452

Fax: 812-855-3143

Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
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Creator:
D. Appleton-Century Company.

Title:
Appleton-Century mss.,1846-1962  

Collection No.:
LMC 1023

Extent:
6,249 items

Language:
Materials are in English.

Abstract:
Consists of the office files of the publishing company, its two predecessors, D. Appleton & Co., and the Century Co., and to a small extent its successor, Appleton-Century Crofts, Inc. The papers in the collection consist of contracts with authors for the publication of their works, and for dramatizations, motion picture rights, foreign editions, and translations of books published by the firm; business correspondence with authors, executors of their estates, publishers and others; royalty statements; copies of the wills of some of the authors; and other business papers.