Series I B: Notebooks, loose notes, lists, manuscripts, photos, Victoriana, printed material.
Scope and Contents note
Extensive notes on the history of dime novels; lists of dime novel titles, authors, pseudonyms, and publishers; printed material and other ephemera related to Adimari's research; Adimari's biography of William J. Benners in Dime Novel Round-up.
Notes, undated
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A collection of loose notes on Dime Novel authors.
Notebook, undated
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Marble composition book "I" contains bibliographical lists and notes on various publications.
Notes, undated
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A collection of notes transcribed "from the William James Benners Jr. collection owned by Ralph F. Cummings."
Notebook, "Cushing -- Pseudonyms + More Notes", undated
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Composition book contains notes on William Cushing's Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises.
Notebook, "Dime Novel Notes", undated
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Memorandum book contains notes on Dime Novels and authors, arranged alphabetically.
Notebook, "Literary Notes + Alger Notes", undated
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Notebook contains author and pseudonym lists, notes by William Benners, and other research.
Notebook and loose notes, undated
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Marble composition book "II" contains notes on various publications, especially the New York Dramatic Mirrorand notes labeled "Miscellaneous." Two newspaper clippings are pasted in the book. Loose pages include notes on the Mirror"continued from composition book," various publication checklists, and other research.
Non-Dime Novel Notes, undated
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A collection of loose notes.
Notebook, undated
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"Penmark" marble composition book labeled "Ledger Serials" contains miscellaneous notes on serials and authors.
Notebook, undated
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"Giant" composition book contains notes on various publications.
Notebook, undated
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"Penmark" marble composition book labeled "Book Reviews."
Loose notes, undated
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A collection of notes labeled "Dime Novel Notes + Boys' Serials."
Notebook, undated
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Memo book labeled "First Notes" on one cover, and "Miscellaneous" on the other.
Notebook, undated
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Memo book labeled "Miscellany / Not Dime Novel" contains miscellaneous notes.
Manuscripts, undated
Photographs, undated
Victoriana, undated
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Calling cards, Christmas cards, etc.
Notes, undated
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Miscellaneous notes, some on legal-size paper.
Lists, undated
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Type- and handwritten lists of: William Benners's correspondents; Benners's works; publications; pseudonym identifications.
Newspaper clippings, 1922-1962
General note
Photocopies of newspaper clippings re: authors A-K, including Benners.
Newspaper clippings, 1926-1962
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Photocopies of newspaper clippings re: authors L-Z.
Newspaper clippings, 1963, n.d.
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Newspaper clippings, including lists of the Pinkerton Detective Series (Laird and Lee), Ten- and Twenty-Cent Novelettes, Threepenny Novels, and Beadle's Dime Library.
Printed materials, undated
General note
Three pieces of printed material: (1) flyer for upcoming serials in National Farmer and Home Magazine; (2) flyer for Mrs. George Sheldon Downs' "Love and Beauty, or, the Heiress of Dunleigh," published by William Benners for his Constance Library imprint, including blurbs by Benners; (3) folder for Dime Novel Club facsimile reprint no. 6A, 1945.
Printed material: Dime Novel Round-Up, Vol. 26, No. 9, 1958
General note
Features Adimari's biography of William J. Benners.
