American Heritage Dictionary, Contributor Correspondence, Davis-Peterson, 1965-1966

The Publications series contains all of Taylor's published works apart from Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening. Interesting here is the transition from his scientific to his popular work through a series of articles he wrote under the pseudonym, "The Naturalist" for the New York Evening Post. Also here is material from the two dictionaries which he served as botanical editor and the series of articles he wrote for the Encyclopedia Britannica. Of interest are the working files, filled with clippings and notes which found their way into his various texts and editions. Correspondence with publishers, including his financial negotiations is found with the work to which it is connected. Other correspondence is found in Series 10: Correspondence. Contracts for his publications are found in Series 7: Contracts. Taylor's unpublished work is found in Series 8: Unpublished Work. Taylor's lectures and notes are found in Series 9: Lecture Notes and Lantern Slides. A scrapbook commemorating the publication of the 4th edition, 1961 is found in Box 14. Also in Box 14 is a scrapbook containing Taylor's research on nature publications as part of his consulting editorship with G.P. Putnam's Sons.