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Harrison Griswold Dwight [1] (1875–1959) began his career in the consular service. In 1918 he worked as a translator with the American section of the Supreme War Council at Versailles and later was secretary to Trasker Bliss at the Paris Peace Conference. His papers represent his later career as an author. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, taking 10 of 16 boxes. Dwight corresponded with many well-known individuals. Those included are both political and literary figures.
Repository: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Collection Name: Harrison Griswold Dwight Papers.
Constantinople and Stamboul Nights by Harrison Griswold Dwight .Downloadable files in PDF for both Griswold books are available. [1] Harrison Griswold Dwight, author, was born in Constantinople, Turkey in 1875. His father was Harrison Gray Otis Dwight (1803–1862) an American Congregational missionary, born at Conway, Massachusetts. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1825 and went on to study theology in Andover. He was sent to assist in the Armenian missions. He wrote: Christianity Revived in the East (1850).
Harrison Griswold prepared for Amherst College at the preparatory school of Robert College, Constantinople, with which his father was connected, and St. Johnsbury, Vermont Academy. After graduation from Amherst, he entered the consular service. In 1918 he was translator with the American Section of the Supreme War Council at Versailles. In 1919 he was secretary to General Tasker Bliss at the peace Conference in Paris.
For several years he was assistant drafting officer in the State Department, Washington, DC. Later he joined the protocol division. He was assistant director of the Frick Collection in New York from 1935 to 1947.
His published works include four volumes of short stories: Constantinople, Old and New, 1913; Stamboul Nights, 1916; Persian Miniatures, 1917; The Emperor of Elam and Other Stories, 1930; and numerous magazine articles in Harper's Monthly, The Atlantic Monthly, and National Geographic. One of his stories, "In the Pasha's Garden," was the subject of an opera produced by the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1934. His reviews of books and poems appeared regularly in magazines and newspapers.
Dwight died in Holyoke, Mass., on March 24, 1959.
Archives: Dwight Papers, 1890-1959 |16 archives boxes (8 linear ft.)
Note: Redhouse Turkish-English dictionary (1st edition edited by Dr. Henry O. Dwight, father of HGD)
Source: Missionary Herald, Volume 87 1891 - Indians of North America
Rev. Dwight, then returning from missionary labor in Mosul, now at Rochester, New York, gives the following graphic description of the parting at Smyrna, and the voyage home: "In the Gulf of Smyrna, with steam on, the 'Yaporo' was chafing at her anchors, ready to bear Mr. Schneider[1] and his little Eddie back to Syria. In Smyrna he had just parted from Susan, Eliza, James, and William, and their mother. He asked me into his state-room, gave a few last charges and prayerful commendations, stretched out the parting hand, then turned and gave way to not unmanly tears. I had been in his family at Aintab, also in missionary conference at Beirut, had brought Susan and Eliza from Constantinople, and now, under God, he had connnitted them to me for the Mediterranean and the Atlantic voyage. I had reason to feel a solenm responsibility."
Susan E. Schneider married Rev. James Harrison Dwight (son of Harrison Gray Otis Dwight)and Elizabeth "Eliza" H. Schneider married William Buck Dwight (son of Harrison Gray Otis Dwight)
Obituary February 14, 1860, Wednesday.
BLISS, Mary Abigail b: 19 Oct 1844 Trebizond later Trabzon, Turkey buried: 16 Nov 1872 Ferikoy-Istanbul, Turkey
DWIGHT, Henry Otis b: 03 Jun 1843 Constantinople, Turkey married: 28 Mar 1867
BLISS, Isabella Stoddard b: 11 Aug 1858 Yenikapi-Constantinople, Turkey d: 09 Apr 1894 RumeliHisari, Constantinople, Turkey
DWIGHT, Henry Otis b: 03 Jun 1843 Constantinople, Turkey
married: 18 Feb 1887 Lee, Berkshire, MA
[1]Letters from Broosa, Asia Minor (1846) by Eliza Cheney Abbott, 1809-1856 and Schneider, Benjamin, 1807-1877. Download PDF
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