Joseph Pulitzer and The World

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Joseph Pulitzer

Draft manuscript letter, with autograph corrections, to Board of Trustees, New York Press Club

New York, April, 1886

Pulitzer Papers, Box 6

After resigning from the House of Representatives, Pulitzer donated his salary of $5,000 to endow a bed in Roosevelt Hospital for the use of sick or disabled newspaper workers. Beneficiaries were to be chosen by the President and Board of Trustees of the New York Press Club, or by Pulitzer himself.

Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

Joseph Pulitzer

Draft of manuscript letter, with corrections, to Alexander S. Webb

New York, November 26, 1886

Pulitzer Papers, Box 6

Pulitzer here donated $100 to the Sanitary Aid Society of New York, General Alexander S. Webb, Treasurer. The Society investigated violations of the city’s sanitary laws, prosecuted offending parties, and worked to educate the public on health issues.

Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

Booker T. Washington

Typed letter, signed, to Joseph Pulitzer

South Weymouth, Mass., August 23, 1902

Pulitzer Papers, Box 3

In this letter Booker T. Washington acknowledges Pulitzer’s on-going donations to the Tuskegee Institute, and mentions his recent visit to see Pulitzer at Chatwold in Bar Harbor.

Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

George Arthur Plimpton

Typed letter, signed, to Joseph Pulitzer

New York, January 13, 1903

Pulitzer Papers, Box 3

Following the death of his daughter Lucille in 1897, Pulitzer contacted text-book publisher George Arthur Plimpton, then also serving as Treasurer of Barnard College, offering to donate $10,000, changed here to $15,000, to set up two scholarships at Barnard as a memorial to her.

Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

Walter Damrosch

Typed letter, signed, to Joseph Pulitzer

New York, November 13, 1905

Pulitzer Papers, Box 1

In this letter conductor and composer Walter Damrosch acknowledges Pulitzer’s donation to the Philharmonic Society, now known as the New York Philharmonic.

Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr

Robert Weeks De Forest

Typed letter, signed, to Alfred Butes

New York, January 15, 1906

Pulitzer Papers, Box 2

This letter acknowledges Pulitzer’s donation of $1,000 for himself to become a Fellow for Life of the Metropolitan Museum. His additional donation of $300 allowed Miss Pulitzer, Ralph Pulitzer and Alfred Butes, an Englishman who had become Pulitzer’s secretary in 1896, to become Fellowship Members.

Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

 

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