Wilbertine Teters Worden papers, 1859-1949

Wilbertine Teters Worden papers, 1859-1949

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1380
Bib ID:
4078529 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Worden, Wilbertine Teters, 1867-1949
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
14.5 linear feet (30 boxes)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection has no restrictions.

The following boxes are located off-site: 2-31. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

Description

Scope and Content

Personal, professional, and family papers of the journalist and writer Wilbertine Teters Worden (1866-1949). Some of the files concern her father, Colonel Wilbert Barton Teters (1836-1923) a Civil War veteran, his military reunions, and his gold mining interests in Colorado. Wilbertine Teters Worden's own manuscripts include both fiction (short stories and poetry) and non-fiction (she often wrote love stories from early American history). The collection also includes her diaries dating from 1885 through 1948. There does not appear to be much in the collection related to Worden's novel, The Snows of Yester-year" (Boston, Arena Publishing Company, 1895).

The cataloged correspondents are: Champ Clark (3), John Erskine (1), James A. Farley (1), Simon Guggenheim (1), and Charles Henry Hart (2).

Arrangement

Material is arranged into four series.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection has no restrictions.

The following boxes are located off-site: 2-31. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Wilbertine Teters Worden papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Related Archival Materials

Luellen Teters Bussenius papers: papers of Worden's sister, also a journalist and editor of The Delineator. At the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.

Helen Worden Erskine papers: papers of Wilbertine Teters Worden's daughter, the journalist, biographer, and advice columnist Helen Worden. At the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Linda Bradley Cranmer, 1986.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Cranmer, Linda Bradley. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--05/23/1986. Accession number--M-86-05-23.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Processed HR 04/05/1988.

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Biographical note

Wilbertine Nesselrode Teters Worden (1867-1949) was a journalist, writer, editor of J. G. Mitchell Trade Publications in New York City, and a contributor to many periodicals. Her short stories were published in Ainslie's, Everybody's, and McClure's magazines, as well as the New York Daily News. She also published a novel, Snows of Yester-year (1895).

Wilbertine Nesselrode Teters was born in 1866 in Caldwell, Ohio, to Colonel Wilbert Barton and Margaret Young Teters. Her father was a veteran of the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War who operated gold mines in Colorado, where the family moved during Wilbertine's childhood. She was a graduate of the University of Colorado and lived in Colorado and New York City as an adult.

Her first husband, Charles George Worden (1870-1897), a lawyer and publisher, died young. They had one daughter, Helen. Worden had a brief second marriage to Harry Leon Wilson (1867-1939), author and editor of Puck magazine, which ended in divorce in 1900. Her sister, Luellen Teters Bussenius, and her daughter Helen Worden were also both journalists. Wilbertine Teters Worden died in New York City on April 26, 1949.

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form
Clippings (Information Artifacts)
Correspondence
Diaries
Drafts (documents)
Manuscripts (documents)
Photographic prints
Name
Clark, Champ, 1850-1921
Erskine, John, 1879-1951
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976
Guggenheim, Simon
Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918
Teters, Wilbert Barton, 1836-1923
Place
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Gold mines and mining -- Colorado
Scrapbooks
Women journalists -- United States -- 20th century

Series I: Correspondence


Box 1

Clark, Champ, 1850-1921


Box 1

Erskine, John, 1879-1951


Box 1

Farley, James Aloysius, 1888-


Box 1

Guggenheim, Simon, 1867-1941


Box 1

Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918


Box 1

Worden, Charles George, 1870-1897


Box 1

Worden, Wilbertine Nesselrode Teters, 1867-1949


Box 2

Correspondence, A-H


Box 3

Erskine, Helen Worden


Box 4

Correspondence, J-S


Box 5

Correspondence, T-Z

Series II: Writings by Wilbertine Teters Worden


Subseries II.1: Fiction


Box 6

Little Patchwork Cottage

(Manuscripts, Drafts, and Correspondence)


Box 7

Little Patchwork Cottage

(Manuscripts, Drafts, and Correspondence)


Box 8

Little Patchwork Cottage

(Manuscripts, Drafts, and Correspondence)


Box 9

Plays

(Manuscripts and Drafts)


Box 10

Poetry

(Manuscripts and Drafts)


Box 11

Short Stories and Essays

(Manuscripts, drafts, notes, proofs, printed copies and related materials)


Box 12

Short Stories and Essays

(Manuscripts, drafts, notes, proofs, printed copies and related materials)


Box 13

Short Stories and Essays

(Manuscripts, drafts, notes, proofs, printed copies and related materials)


Box 14

Short Stories and Essays

(Manuscripts, drafts, notes, proofs, printed copies and related materials)


Box 15

Short Stories and Essays

(Manuscripts, drafts, notes, proofs, printed copies and related materials)


Subseries II.2: Non-Fiction


Box 16

Articles and essays

(Manuscripts, drafts, notes, proofs and other related items)


Box 17-19

Articles and essays: "Love Currents That Cross": a series, with other historical articles, published in the Park Avenue Social Review,, 1926-1932


Box 17-19

Tearsheets of columns on astrology and numerology not by W.T. Worden.


Box 20

Book notes: Planned book on Southeastern Ohio

(Notes, correspondence and clippings)


Box 21

Book notes: Planned books on Edward Livingston, Virginia Resorts, and Perfume Making

Series III: Diaries


Box 22

1885-1916


Box 23

1916-1924


Box 24

1921-1937


Box 25

1933-1937


Box 26

1937-1948

Series IV: Documents and Manuscripts


Box 27

Address books


Box 27

Bank books and check books


Box 27

Certificates, diplomas, deeds, and other documents


Box 27

Miscellaneous


Box 27

Miscellaneous-Arthur Morgan Langworthy


Box 28

Mining--Gold mines in Colorado


Box 28

Mining--Oil and gas wells in Ohio


Box 29

Photographs


Box 30

Paintings owned or sold by Wilbertine Teters Worden and sketches (by Wilbertine Teters Worden)


Box 30

Printed materials


Box 30

Printed Materials--clippings


Box 30

Receipts


Box 30

Scrapbooks-diets, recipes, etc.


Box 30

Smith, C. Harold


Box 31

Teters, Colonel Wilbert B. and Elizabeth Y.--Bankbooks and checkbooks


Box 31

Teters, Wilbert Barton--Civil War manuscripts, typescripts and printed materials


Box 31

Teters, Wilbert Barton--Manuscripts


Box 31

Teters-Young-Genealogical notes


Box 31

Worden, Charles George-Diary, 1895


Box Flat Box 537

Diplomas


Box Flat Box 537

Scrapbooks of Articles by Wilbertine Teters Worden, 1926-1932