William L. Bauhan Publishing Papers

Collection number: MC 368 [Offsite storage]
Size: (18 boxes) (16.0 cu.ft.)

About the William L. Bauhan Publishing (originally Richard R. Smith, Inc.)

The future William L. Bauhan, Publishing was founded in 1929 in Manhattan, NYC, by Ray Long and Richard R. Smith. The name of the firm was "Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, Inc," which was shortened to "Richard R. Smith Publishing, Inc." between 1934 and 1940. Richard R Smith moved the company to his summer home in West Rindge, NH, from where William L. Bauhan bought the firm in 1959 from Smith’s widow. Bauhan moved the company to Noone House in Peterborough, NH. Bauhan narrowed the publishing focus to poetry and non-fiction works centered in New England.

After 1965 Bauhan changed the name to Noone House. In 1972, when the family and the company moved to Dublin, he changed the name to William L. Bauhan, Publishing. At least one book from 1971 was published by the Orchard Press (also Peterborough). Today, it is known simply as Bauhan Publishing and is back in Peterborough as of 2010, and is run by Bill’s daughter, Sarah Bauhan (UNH ’87).

About the Papers (1934-2003)

The William L. Bauhan Publishing Papers consists of organizational papers, correspondence, book materials, and a limited amount of printing plates. The first two boxes of the collection contain the history of the company, book lists, contracts, copyright information, royalties, financials, reviews, publicity, and business correspondence. Box 2 contains a single folder of W.L. Bauhan's political correspondence. Boxes 3-13 contain materials related to individual publications: correspondence, drafts, artwork, manufacturing information, and reviews. These boxes are arranged alphabetically by surname of author. Box 14 contains printing plates. Oversize boxes 1-4 contain printers proofs for a selection of publications which are once again alphabetical.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

This collection is open.

This collection is housed in the Library Storage Building; access requires 48 hours notice. Please contact the Special Collections staff prior to visiting the library.

Copyright Notice

Contents of this collection are governed by U.S. copyright law. For questions about publication or reproduction rights, contact Special Collections staff.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], [Folder number], [Box number], William L. Bauhan Publishing Papers, 1934-2003, MC 368, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.

Acquisitions Information

Donation of Sarah Bauhan, 2003

Collection Arrangement

• Arrangement is alphabetical by the surname of each work's author.

Collection Contents

Box 1
Box 1, Folder 1-5		Early history of Richard R. Smith Publishing, Title lists, Trade list annual 1934-1987
Box 1, Folder 6		William L. Bauhan Publishing business stationary, undated
Box 1, Folder 7-9		Book contracts, 1940-1974
Box 1, Folder 10-13		Copyright information, 1936-1984
Box 1, Folder 14-17		Royalties owed and paid, 1959-1991
Box 1, Folder 18-22		Reviews and Publicity, ca. 1964-1990
Box 2
Box 2, Folder 1-12		Financials, 1970-2001
Box 2, Folder 13-15		Prospects and rejected manuscripts, ca. 1959-1995
Box 2, Folder 16-23		Business and political correspondence, ca. 1959-1995
Box 2, Folder 24-32		Book jackets, alphabetical by author surname, ca. 1930 onwards
Box 3
		Book materials and drafts, 1961-1987 Abbalos, David T. The Practice of Political Transformation (date unknown) Abbe, George. The Larks / Collected Poems (1961) Allison, Elliott and Kathleen. Monadnock Sightings (1979) Alsop, Reese. Back Talk (1980) Bass, Rosaly Swann. Big Tall Man On Skis (1974) Blessington, Francis. Lantskip (1987) Brooks, Robert. Roman Epistle (1984) Brown, Erik. Seat In A Wild Place (1982) Buch, Polly Stone. Adopted Son of Salem (1971) Chapin, Henry. Haunt of Time (1981) Chapin, Henry. A Celebration (1974)
Box 4
		Book materials and drafts, 1963-1992 Chapin, Henry. To The End Of The West (1970) [continued] Charman, Robert B. At Risk (1992) Chase, Edith. Twigs From My Tree (1984) Chase, Heman. Reflections on the Susquehanna (Unknown) Chase, Heman. Of All I Survey (Unknown) Chase, Heman. More Than Land (1978) Chase, Heman. Beginning at Williams Monument (1981) Chase, Justine. Document of a Child (1980) Cole, A. & M.. Timothy Cole: Wood Engraver (unknown) Congdon, Herbert Wheaton. Early American Homes for Today (1963 )
Box 5
		Book materials and drafts, 1989-1995 Cook, Peter. John Folinsbee (1994) Coolidge, John. Gustave Doré's London : a study of the city in the age of confidence, 1848-1873 (1994) Cousens, Mildred. Time to Consider (1989) Dickey, Paul B.. "Fie! Fie! Fifi!" "Safty First" "The Evil Eye" ( 1960-1970) Dow, Christopher. Grand Metamorphosis of Rocks (1991) Driver, Phoebe Barnes. Gardner Cox: Sketches from Life (1995)
Box 6
		Book materials and drafts, 1971-2000 Dublin, Town of. History of Dublin (2000) Durlach, Hansi. Mexican Strata (1990) Earle, Virginia. Three Hours (1993) Earle, Virginia. The Cedar Tree in the Morning Sun (1994) Eaton, Leonard. Houses and Money (1988) Faulkner, Barry. Sketches From An Artist's Life (1973) Feldman, Ruth. To Whom It May Concern (1986) Field, A.E.. Stoddard Glass (1975) Garland, Joseph. Eastern Point (1971) Gillespie, Jane Baldwin. East Hampton (1995)
Box 7
		Book materials and drafts, 1950-2000 Gillespie, Jane Baldwin. Making Memory (unknown) Gillespie, Patrick. Open - The White Book (2000) Gillmore, Robert. Liberalism and the Politics of Plunder (1987 ) Goodman, Ryah. Suddenly It's Evening (1977) Goodman, Ryah. New And Selected Poems (1985) Gordon, Beverly. The First Year Alone (1986) Harkness, Marjory Gane. The Fishbasket Papers (1963) Hinsale, Harriet. Confederate Gray (1963) Horne, Berry. Stenotype Stenograph Reporting (1952) Hunt, Elmer Muson. New Hampshire Town Names (1970) Jackson, Esther. John Mason: Founder of New Hampshire (1950-1960 ) Jackson, Esther. Washington (1959) Jackson, Esther. Art of the Anglo Saxon Age (1964)
Box 8
		Book materials and drafts, 1964 Jackson, Esther. Art of the Anglo Saxon Age (1964)
Box 9
		Book materials and drafts, 1962-1999 Jackson, Esther. Art of the Anglo Saxon Age (1964) Jennison, Keith. New Hampshire (1962) Kelly, Louise Shonk. My Trip Abroad (1991) Kleinbauer, Gene. Saint Sophia (1999) Kunhardt, Joan. My Three Countries (1984) Lamont, Corliss. Lover's Credo (1972) Latham, Charles Jr. Dublin School (1987) Laufman, Dudley. An Orchard and a Garden (1975) Lineaweaver, M.. The Self Taught Poet (1969) Link, William R.. Agamemnon by Aeschylus (1981) Link, William R.. A Fatherless Country (1979) Linton, Virginia. Heading Out (1981)
Box 10
		Book materials and drafts, 1965-2000 Martha's Vineyard poets (Lineaweaver, Marion; Barbara Bradley, Dionis Coffin Riggs, Robert T. Hyde). Martha's Vineyard (1965) Marx, Anne. Love in Late Season / Poems (1993) Marx, Anne. A Further Semester (1985) McClenahan, Sallie. Touchstones (1982) McCormick, T.. Ruins As Architecture (1999) McDermott, William. A Surgeon in Combat (1997) McDermott, William. Doctors Afield (2000) McGoldrick, Linda Clark. Nora S. Unwin (1990)
Box 11
		Book materials and drafts, 1961-2000 McGoldrick, Linda Clark. Nora S. Unwin (1990) Melcher, Harold. The Way To Greece (1984) Millon, Judy. St. Pauls Within These Walls / St. Paul's Within The Walls of Rome (1982) Moffatt, Dorothy Hilliard. Too Many Apples (1995) Morgan, William. Louisville (1979) Newman, P.B.. House on the Saco (1977) Ohannessian, Griselda. Once: As It Was (2001) Perez-Galdos, Benito. Tristana (1961) (R. Selden Rose, translator ) Pritchard, Doris Walker. Monmouth Court (1981) Rabb, Antonia Phillips. Encounters With Love (1979) Reaveley, Mabel E.. Weathervane Secrets (1984) Richards, Helen. An Endangered Species: Grandma (1980) Richardson, Dorothy Lee. The Invisible Giant (1986) Riggs, Dionis. Turkish Poems & Correspondence (1990) Roger Williams U. School of Architecture. Archipelago (1999) Rowe, Carter. Lest We Forget (1996) Sarton, May. As Does New Hampshire (1967)
Box 12
		Book materials and drafts, 1967-1998 Shute, Henry A.. Brite and Fair (1968) Shute, Henry A.. Real Diary of a Real Boy (1967) Singer, Sarah. Of Love and Shoes (1987) Singer, Sarah. Poems (1975) Sisson, Andrew. Applehood and Motherpie (1971) Sternlicht, Sanford. U.S.F. Constellation : "Yankee Racehorse" (1981 ) Straub, William. Classics on the Street (1998) Sweeney, Marian. Maxfield Parrish Prints (1975)
Box 13
		Book materials and drafts, 1961-2003 Tamilio, John. Blind Painting (2003) Temple, Town of. History of Temple (1978) Tolman, Francis. Mosquitobush (1963) Tolman, Newt. Quick Tunes and Good Times (1972) Tolman, Newt. North of Monadnock (1961) Van Vleck, Sarita. Growing Wings (1980) Vinton, Eleanor. On the Contoocook (1974) White, John. Chronicles of the Episcopal High School in Virginia (1989) White, Nelson. Abbott H. Thayer, Painter (1967) Whitman, Cedric. Chocorua (1983) Worth, Douglas. Once Around Bullough's Pond (1987) Worth, Douglas. Of Earth (1974) Worth, Douglas. Some Sense of Transcendence (1999) Yates, Elizabeth. The Delighted Heart (1974) Yates, Elizabeth. Is There A Doctor In The Barn? (1966)
Box 14
		Printing Plates, 1952-1986 Goodman, Ryah. New And Selected Poems (1985) Horne, Berry. Stenotype Stenograph Reporting (1952) Hunt, Elmer Muson. New Hampshire Town Names (1970) Jennison, Keith. New Hampshire (1962) Richardson, Dorothy Lee. The Invisible Giant (1986)
Oversize Box 1
		Proofs, 1977-1982 Allison, Elliott and Kathleen. Monadnock Sightings (1979) Brown, Erik. Seat In A Wild Place (1982) Chapin, Henry. Countdown at Eighty (1977) Chase, Heman. Beginning at Williams Monument (1981)
Oversize Box 2
		Proofs, 1982-1987 and undated Gillespie, Jane Baldwin. Making Memory (unknown) Gillespie, Jane Baldwin. Susurrus (1987) Gordon, Beverly. The First Year Alone (1986) Marx, Anne. A Further Semester (1985) Millon, Judy. St. Pauls Within These Walls / St. Paul's Within The Walls of Rome (1982)
Oversize Box 3
		Proofs, 1979-1987 Morgan, William. Louisville (1979) Latham, Charles Jr. Dublin School (1987) Link, William R. A Fatherless Country (1979) Linton, Virginia. Heading Out (1981)
Oversize Box 4
		Proofs, 1980-1984 Kunhardt, Joan. My Three Countries (1984) Pritchard, Doris Walker. Monmouth Court (1981) Richards, Helen. An Endangered Species: Grandma (1980) Whitman, Cedric. Chocorua (1983)