Readers' Reports

This section offers page images of the readers' reports created by Houghton Mifflin in response to submissions by Chesnutt. The reports were evaluations of the literary merits and commercial prospects of submissions. Chesnutt submitted fiction to the Boston publishing firm for forty years (1891–1931) and these reports, now held at the Houghton library, Harvard University, provide a window into how Chesnutt's fiction was read by the firm. For now we provide only page images and select metadata, but in the future we hope to be able to provide full transcriptions.

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Houghton Mifflin readers' reports for Rena Walden and other Stories

  • Date:
    • September 11, 1891–November 11, 1891
  • Creator(s):
    • Scudder, Horace E.
  • Format:
    • report

Houghton Mifflin readers' reports for Mandy Oxendine

  • Date:
    • March 12, 1897–March 26, 1897
  • Creator(s):
    • Scudder, Horace E.
  • Format:
    • report

Houghton Mifflin readers' reports for untitled collection of short stories

  • Date:
    • October 25, 1897–March 31, 1898
  • Creator(s):
    • Page, Walter Hines
  • Format:
    • report

Houghton Mifflin readers' reports for A Business Career

  • Date:
    • February 26, 1898–March 31, 1898
  • Creator(s):
    • Page, Walter Hines
  • Format:
    • report

Houghton Mifflin readers' reports for "conjure" stories

  • Date:
    • May 21, 1898–November 19, 1898
  • Creator(s):
    • Page, Walter Hines
  • Format:
    • report

Houghton Mifflin readers' reports for The House Behind the Cedars

  • Date:
    • December 28, 1898–August 3, 1900
  • Creator(s):
    • Scudder, Horace E.
  • Format:
    • report

Houghton Mifflin readers' report for The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of Race Life

  • Date:
    • August 3, 1899–August 30, 1899
  • Creator(s):
    • Page, Walter Hines
  • Format:
    • report

Houghton Mifflin readers' reports for The Rainbow Chasers

  • Date:
    • March 7, 1900–March 23, 1900
  • Creator(s):
    • Gibbs, Herbert R.
  • Format:
    • report

Houghton Mifflin readers' reports for The Marrow of Tradition

  • Date:
    • July 29, 1900–Aug 16, 1900
  • Creator(s):
    • Garrison, Francis J.
  • Format:
    • report

Houghton Mifflin readers' reports for Evelyn's Husband

  • Date:
    • October 13, 1903–October 26, 1903
  • Creator(s):
    • Gibbs, Herbert R.
  • Format:
    • report

Houghton Mifflin readers' reports for The Colonel's Dream

  • Date:
    • April 26, 1904–May 12, 1904
  • Creator(s):
    • Gibbs, Herbert R.
  • Format:
    • report

Houghton Mifflin readers' reports for Paul Marchand F.M.C.

  • Date:
    • October 10, 1921–October 24, 1921
  • Creator(s):
    • Greenslet, Ferris
  • Format:
    • report

Houghton Mifflin readers' reports for Sick-Room Stories

  • Date:
    • October 17, 1930–November 19, 1930
  • Creator(s):
    • Greenslet, Ferris
  • Format:
    • report

Houghton Mifflin readers' reports for The Quarry

  • Date:
    • December 31, 1930–January 30, 1931
  • Creator(s):
    • Greenslet, Ferris
  • Format:
    • report

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