SAW Sheed & Ward Records Guide University of Notre Dame Archives University of Notre Dame Archives 2011
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Description based on paper finding aids and inhouse database. English SAW Sheed & Ward Records 1933-1973 Sheed & Ward 37.5 linear feet 1.5 linear feet of photographs 3 linear feet of printed material University of Notre Dame Archives
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
English. Legal Status Private Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Sheed & Ward Records (SAW), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556

Scope and Content

Records of the New York office of Sheed & Ward. Although the earliest documents in the collection date from 1933, the thirties and forties are not as well represented as the fifties and sixties. The collection consists of files from the editorial department, files from the publicity department, photographs, and printed material.

The editorial department is represented by correspondence, 1948-1973; subject files, 1955-1973; rejection files, 1968-1970; foreign book files, 1958-1969; and published book files, 1950-1971. Correspondents include Daniel Berrigan, Christopher Dawson, John Tracy Ellis, Andrew M. Greeley, Samuel Hazo, Dan Herr, Hans Kung, Arnold Lunn, John Courtney Murray, Jaroslav Pelikan, Philip Scharper, Edward Schillebeeckx, and Gordon Zahn.

The publicity department is represented by biographical files, 1933-1967; publicity files, 1967-1970; advertising files, 1966-1969; copies of Sheed & Ward's Own Trumpet (the house newspaper), 1943-1969; and clippings of book reviews. Its files contain information on James Andrews, Dorothy Day, Leonard Feeney, Eric Gill, Charles A. Kern, Clare Boothe Luce, Sister Madeleva, Jacques Maritain, François Mauriac, and other Sheed & Ward authors.

Background

Francis J. Sheed and his wife Maisie Ward founded the London publishing firm of Sheed & Ward in 1926. In 1933 they founded a second publishing house, also called Sheed & Ward, in New York City. Philip Scharper served as editor-in-chief of Sheed & Ward (New York), 1957-1970.

This American corporation operated until 1973, when Universal Press Syndicate bought it and made it the basis of a new firm, Sheed, Andrews & McMeel (later Andrews & McMeel).

Sheed & Ward Andrews, James F. (James Frederick), 1936- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 Feeney, Leonard, 1897-1978 Gill, Eric, 1882-1940 Kern, Charles Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 M. Madeleva (Mary Madeleva), Sister, 1887-1964 Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973 Mauriac, François, 1885-1970 Berrigan, Daniel. Dawson, Christopher, 1889-1970 Ellis, John Tracy, 1905- Greeley, Andrew M., 1928- Hazo, Samuel John Herr, Daniel C. Kung, Hans, 1928- Lunn, Arnold Henry Moore, Sir, 1888-1974 Murray, John Courtney Pelikan, Jaroslav Jan, 1923- Scharper, Philip J. Schillebeeckx, Edward, 1914- Sheed, F. J. (Francis Joseph), 1897- Ward, Maisie, 1889- Zahn, Gordon Charles, 1918- Sheed & Ward's Own Trumpet Publishers and publishing Catholic literature Catholic Church -- Publishing Clippings. Letters. Related Material Philip J. Scharper Papers Sheed and Ward Family Papers CSAW Sheed & Ward: Manuscripts CSAW 1-24 Editorial Department 1948-1973 CSAW 1-06 Correspondence Files 1948-1973 CSAW 7-16 Subject Files 1955-1973 CSAW 16-17 Rejection Files 1968-1970 CSAW 17-19 Foreign Book Files 1958-1969 CSAW 25-32 Publicity Department 1937-1970 CSAW 25 Biographical Files 1937-1967 CSAW 26 Publicity Files 1967-1970 CSAW 27-31 Advertising Files 1966-1969 CSAW 31-32 Sheed & Ward's Own Trumpet 1943-1968 CSAW 33-34 Book Review Files 1937-1954 GSAW Sheed & Ward: Graphics PSAW Sheed & Ward: Printed Material