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Location on door: front, panel 2
RUTGER BLEECKER JEWETT
In 1899, after a decade of teaching classics in New York and New Jersey area schools, Rutger Bleecker Jewett (1867-1935) entered the world of publishing. He worked for J. F. Taylor & Co, John Lane Company, and, beginning in 1911, D. Appleton Company (later D. Appleton-Century Company), where he served as Editor-in-Chief and Vice-President. At Appleton, Jewett was Edith Wharton's editor, and he developed a close working relationship and a strong friendship with the novelist. Jewett also published Zona Gale's novella, Miss Lulu Bett (1920) which became a bestseller for Appleton. Miss Lulu Bett's sales rivaled the success of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street, which was published that same year by Harcourt Brace.
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Creator: Mackenzie, Compton, Sir, 1883-1972
Title: Two letters to Rutger Bleecker Jewett
Description: Handwritten corrections on first letter
Item Date: 4 July 1913; 2 September 1912
Material Type: Manuscript
ADA Caption: Two letters to Rutger Bleecker Jewett
Curatorial Department: Manuscripts Collection
Collection Name: Compton Mackenzie Papers
Stack Location: Letters: Jewett, Rutger
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Two letters from Sir Compton Mackenzie to Rutger Bleecker Jewett, 1912-1913
These two letters concern D. Appleton's publication of the English novelist Compton Mackenzie's two-volume novel Sinister Street. They offer insight into the early twentieth-century American publishing market. In England both of the book's volumes were published under the title Sinister Street (1913-1914), but for the U. S. market the publisher's preferred to have each volume appear under a separate title. As Mackenzie's letters reveal, the titles selected were Youth's Encounter (1913) and Sinister Street (1914).