Series I: Correspondence and related documents

This series includes business and personal correspondence as well as newspaper clippings, and is organized into four subseries.

Subseries I.1, General correspondence, includes correspondence of and between Frank Munsey and William Dewart on personal and business matters. Other correspondents include Erman J. Ridgeway, Richard H. Titherington, Thomas W. Lamont, and Dewart's sons, William Dewart, Jr. and Thomas Dewart. This subseries also includes various news clippings.

Subseries I.2, Political correspondence, includes letters between Frank Munsey and "bull-moose" candidate Theodore Roosevelt during the 1912 presidential campaign, along with articles and pamphlets in support of Roosevelt's campaign. Also included is correspondence with Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover.

Subseries I.3, Correspondence relating to special publications, consists primarily of letters (many from prominent figures) acknowledging receipt of various special issues and publications. This subseries also includes loose newspaper clippings relating to special publications.

Subseries I.4, Correspondence relating to Frank Munsey's illness and death, includes condolence telegrams and letters, and reminiscences solicited by William Dewart from Frank Munsey's associates and friends (arranged alphabetically by the sender's last name). Among the many prominent correspondents are Jules Bache, David Belasco, Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Calvin Coolidge, Chauncey DePew, Thomas Edison, Andrew Mellon, J.P. Morgan, Adolph Ochs, Elihu Root, Charles Schwab, Alfred E. Smith, and numerous others. Also included are notes of interviews with some of Munsey's childhood friends, and biographical newspaper clippings.