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Macropedia britannica3/6/2023 ![]() Letter: Bruce Felknor to Earnest Kafka, January 26, 1968.Philip Gove (Editor of the Merriam-Webster Third Edition) an answering critics note to Donald Stewart on transformational grammar, November 6, 1967- January 4, 1968 ![]() Correspondence: William Benton and Dr.Manuscript: “UNESCO: The Dream Comes of Age,” presented at UC, October 11, 1967.Memo: Bruce Felknor to Francis Nipp, July 20, 1967.Memo: John Robling to William Benton, June 5, 1967.Memo: William Benton to Donald Stewart, October 7, 1964.Clipping: “Observer of the Soviet,” New York Times, 1964.Clipping: “Education in Red China,” The Saturday Review, by William Benton, July 15, 1961.Clipping: “The Failure of the Business Schools,” Saturday Evening Post, by William Benton, undated reprint, 1961.Stewart re: Mortimer Adler’s death, undated. Letter: Unpublished letter to UC magazine, Donald E.Memo: Mortimer Adler, Don Stewart to Tom Goetz,” February 28, 1973.Memo: Mortimer Adler to Institute for Philosophical Research, September 14, 1972.Manuscript: “Editorial policy Encyclopædia Britannica: Plan B,” c.Summary: “Plan B and Its Alternatives,” outline for 15th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, December 1967.Report: Mortimer Adler to Board of Editors, Operation Table of Contents, October 1966.Clipping: “Name Mitchell and Adler to Board of Editors”, EB News, November 1961.Related Resourcesīrowse finding aids by topic. ![]() ![]() The final box in the collection contains the two artifacts, a medal which was crafted to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the company and a sample of brick from the building which housed the original offices of EB. Documents in the collection date from 1923 to 2001, but the bulk are from Stewart’s years at the Encyclopædia, from the 1950s into the 1970s. The collection follows the alphabetical subject and name organization established by Stewart, who grouped together original and copied materials documenting the work of individual Britannica editors, contributors, and staff. Stewart papers contain a wide range of material including internal memos, various correspondence, reports, articles, books, manuscripts, catalogues, oral history transcripts, magazine and newspaper clippings, and physical artifacts (such as a section of brick from the Mandel Building, the Britannica’s head offices). He died in his home in Evanston on June 8, 2005. He retired in 1981, but continued to perform freelance work and consulting for various publishing companies. In 1974, Stewart became the associate executive direction for publishing at the American Library Association. The effort received mixed reviews, but the overhaul to the Micro- and Macropedia format has endured. Following the philosophy of Britannica chairman, Mortimer Adler, Stewart and the rest of the editorial staff at Britannica sought to expand the reach of the work beyond a mere reference book to a systematic categorization of omne scibile (everything knowable). One of Stewart’s lasting contributions to the Encyclopædia was the reorganization from the traditional A-Z format to the current Micropedia and Macropedia. After moving to Evanston, Illinois, both Stewart and his wife became involved in the nuclear disarmament movement and protests against the Vietnam War.īy 1951, Stewart had been promoted to the editorial staff of the Britannica. The two married in 1955, and had two children, Judith and Jeanne. While at Britannica, Stewart met Barbara Fletcher. Within a few years, he was promoted to assistant to the managing editor. With his sights set on the editor-in-chief position of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Stewart applied for and was granted a position as an editorial assistant. While at the University, Stewart was a student of the Great Books program, officially created only a year prior in part by university president Robert Hutchins and Mortimer J. Prior to his entry into UC, Stewart had spent one year at Wright Junior College and one year in the Army as a teenager. With a well-developed interest in literature, he enrolled at the University in 1947. As a young boy, Stewart grew up listening to the University of Chicago’s radio-broadcast roundtable discussions on the Great Books. Papers,, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library Biographical Noteĭonald Edwin Stewart was born on August 26, 1927, in Chicago, Illinois, to Charles and Lillian Stewart. This collection, the preferred citation is: Stewart, Donald E. The collection contains letters, memos, photographs, publications, and news clippings pertaining to Encyclopædia Britannica and its staff, from 1923 to 2001 Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Centerĭonald Edwin Stewart (1927-2005) managing editor at Encyclopædia Britannica. © 2016 University of Chicago Library Descriptive Summary Title: University of Chicago Library Guide to the Donald E.
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