Scope and Content Note
The papers of Manton Malone Marble (1834-1917) span the years 1838-1916 with the bulk of the material dating from 1864-1898. The collection consists of bound correspondence and related matter, including letters, telegrams, articles, and drafts of Democratic Party policy statements organized in three series: General Correspondence , Miscellany , and Addition .
Most of the collection relates to Marble’s career as editor and owner of the New York World and to his role in New York state and national Democratic Party politics in the period between the beginning of the Civil War and the close of the nineteenth century. There are drafts of statements and papers on the presidential election of 1876, a draft of the “Peace Plank” of the Democratic platform in 1864, articles on bimetallism and the Silver Question, papers relating to Marble’s role as President Grover Cleveland’s representative in Europe in 1885 to consult with European governments on bimetallism, and documents relating to the shutdown of the New York World in 1864 by the Abraham Lincoln administration.
The Miscellany series includes drafts of articles from the New York World, material relating to the election of 1876, bimetallism, the Manhattan Club, and the national Democratic party in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Addition contains one calling card.
Correspondents include Samuel Greene Arnold, Samuel L. M. Barlow, Thomas F. Bayard, August Belmont, W. H. Bogart, Calvert Comstock, Samuel Sullivan Cox, David G. Croly, George Ticknor Curtis, Charles A. Dana, James R. Doolittle, John Fiske, William Henry Hurlbert, Reverdy Johnson, Michael C. Kerr, Joseph Medill, Fitz-John Porter, John Finley Rathbone, Horatio Seymour, Richard Henry Stoddard, Samuel J. Tilden, Clement L. Vallandigham, Henry Watterson, and Horace White.