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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.