Morris Robert Werner Correspondence

The correspondence consists of approximately 142 letters from book and magazine publisher and editors, and literary agents regarding books and articles by Morris. There is one copy of a letter by him to an editor protesting the reason for declining to publish one of his books. Principal correspondents include Cass Canfield (Harper and Brothers), Edward Aswell (Atlantic Monthly), M.A. DeWolfe Howe (Atlantic Monthly Press), and other individuals associated with Curtis Brown, ltd., Harcourt, Brace, Forum magazine, the New Republic, Liberty magazine, Doubleday Page Company, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Alfred A. Knopf, Jonathan Cape, and W.W. Norton.

Topics include all his books published during the date of the bulk of the letters, including Barnum (1925), Brigham Young (1925), Tammany Hall (1928), Bryan (1929), Orderly! (Morris's own memoirs of WWI), To Whom It May Concern: the Story of Victor Ilyitch Seroff (1931), Little Napoleons and Dummy Directors: Being the Narrative of the Bank of the United States (1933), and an apparently unpublished book on Japan (written about 1932), and numerous periodical articles.

Correspondence is arranged by name of company (publisher, magazine, or agent), or of individual correspondent.