Dear expert colleagues, I am trying to find the records of two former New York publishing companies. Each of these companies published works by my research subject, the Rev. WDP Bliss, in the late 19th century--so what I'm hoping to find is any existing correspondence between him and his publishers. The companies are: 1) Humboldt Publishing Company, which published a Social Science Library in the 1890s that included several books edited by Rev. Bliss. Humboldt also published a series call the Humboldt Library of Popular Science. Its location in 1891 was 28 Lafayette Place. 2) The famous Funk & Wagnalls (no jokes, please), which published Bliss's best-known (relatively speaking) work, the _Encyclopedia of Social Reform_ (1897), and revised versions of that invaluable volume in 1908 and 1910. I can't find a trace of Humboldt Publishing, and Funk & Wagnalls seems to have been bought a couple of times in the past century, so I was hoping for suggestions as to where the records of these companies might be. I have done some searching, but am probably overlooking something glaringly obvious to someone who knows corporate archives or the publishing biz or New York better than I do. Answers off-list will be fine, since I can't imagine that many people are interested. Thank you! Janet Olson Assistant University Archivist and Fellow, Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities Northwestern University 1970 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208 (847) 491-3136 A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>