Sloane was the editor of A Life in Photography (Doubleday, 1963) by Edward Steichen. Detailed correspondence between Steichen and Sloane chronicling the production of the book is located in the Edward Steichen Archive (Series VI. Post-MoMA Exhibitions, Publications, and Anniversaries; Subseries VI.A. A Life in Photography; VI.A.2 "Correspondence with Doubleday etc." and the Grace M. Mayer Papers (Series III.E) of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.[18]
Asimov
Sloane initiated and was the editor of Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (Doubleday, 1964) by Isaac Asimov.[19][20][21][22][23] Asimov, in his second and third volumes of autobiography, In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978 (Avon Books & Doubleday, 1980) and I. Asimov: A Memoir (Doubleday, 1994), as well as in his Opus titles, describes the details of Sloane's idea for the book, the decision to put Asimov's name in the title and their excitement at the book's success.[21][22][24] Interestingly, Asimov's first published work of science fiction had been accepted by Amazing Stories, the magazine that Sloane's grandfather, Dr. T. O'Conor Sloane had once been the editor of.[25][14][15] Sloane and Asimov had a productive working relationship that spanned a decade, as detailed in In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978 (Avon Books & Doubleday, 1980),[21][26] although Sloane did ultimately decline to be the editor of Asimov's Guide to the Bible (Doubleday, 1968).[21][27]
Dalí
Sloane was the editor of Salvador Dalí's autobiographical Diary of a Genius (Doubleday, 1965),[28] which stands as one of the seminal texts of Surrealism, by the best-known artist of what is widely considered to be the 20th century's most influential art movement. As evidenced in part by a letter from Dalí to Sloane, dated July 22, 1965,[29] regarding the promotional efforts by Doubleday for Diary of a Genius, Dalí was not happy and in a subsequent luncheon with Sloane, Dalí threw potato chips in his face.[30]
Manley
Sloane was the editor of Long Island Discovery: An Adventure Into the History, Manners, and Mores of America's Front Porch (Doubleday, 1966) by Seon Manley.[31]
Untracht
Sloane edited books on metal craft and jewelry with Finnish artist, Oppi Untracht, and his wife, Saara, such as Metal Techniques for Craftsmen : A Basic Manual for Craftsmen on the Methods of Forming and Decorating Metals (Doubleday, 1968)[32] and initiated Jewelry Concepts and Technology (Doubleday, 1982).[33]
Cousteau
Sloane was the editor of Jacques Cousteau's first two books with Doubleday: The Shark: Splendid Savage of the Sea (The Undersea Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau) (Doubleday, 1970) by Jacques and Philippe Cousteau[11] and Life and Death in a Coral Sea (Doubleday, 1971) by Jacques Cousteau and Philippe Diole.[10]
Heyerdahl
Sloane was the editor of The Art Of Easter Island (Doubleday, 1975) by Thor Heyerdahl.[34]
Sloane's editorial work ranged widely, titles included Designs for Craftsmen: textiles, graphics, ceramics, wood, glass, metal, leather, and many other crafts (Doubleday, 1962) by Walter Miles;[35] Georgetown University: First in the Nation's Capital (Doubleday, 1964) by Joseph T. Durkin;[36]Michigan (Doubleday, 1967) by John Calkins;[37]The Skin Diver's Bible (Doubleday, 1968) by Owen Lee;[38]The Boatbuilders of Bristol (Doubleday, 1970) by Samuel Carter III;[39]The Owls of North America (Doubleday, 1974) by Allan W. Eckert;[12]The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Crafts and How to Master Them (Doubleday, 1978) by Grace Berne Rose with drawings by Marta Cone[40] and a popular series of travel-inspired books of photography by Hans W. Hannau, titles included California (Doubleday, 1964),[41]Yosemite (Doubleday, 1967),[42]Martinique (Doubleday, 1967),[43]California in Color (Doubleday, 1969),[44]Bermuda in full color (Doubleday, 1970),[45]The Bahama Islands in full color (Doubleday, 1974);[46][47] and many more titles by various authors.
Additionally, Sloane facilitated the publication of the book Fabrics for Interiors: A Guide for Architects, Designers, and Consumers (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975) by Jack Lenor Larsen and Jeanne Weeks, by authorizing the release of drawings from Elements of Weaving (Doubleday, 1967) by Azalea Stuart Thorpe and Jack Larsen to the authors and their publishing house.[48]
Doubleday Dictionary
Sloane was involved in the development and publication of the first Doubleday dictionary.[49]
Before Doubleday
Sloane entered the publishing world in 1938, serving as an associate editor, then editor, with Liveright Publishing from 1938 to 1940, as associate editor at E. P. Dutton from 1940 to 1942 and again in 1946, Declan X. McMullen Co., from 1947 to 1948 and then as director and editor at the Devin-Adair Publishing Company from 1949 to 1960, when he joined Doubleday as a senior editor.[50][51][52][53] Doubleday had become the largest publishing house in the United States by 1947.
Sloane freelanced Desert Calling: The Story of Charles de Foucauld (Henry Holt, 1949) by Anne Fremantle.[54]
The Devin-Adair Publishing Company
Sloane served as director and editor at the Devin-Adair Publishing Company from 1949 to 1960,[50][51][55][56][57] a conservative publishing house located in NYC and later, Old Greenwich, Connecticut.
A partial list of editorial works at Devin-Adair
Authors and titles
Kavanagh
Sloane was the editor of The Story of the Abbey Theatre: From Its Origins in 1899 to the Present (Devin-Adair, 1950) by Peter Kavanagh,[58] which Sean O’Casey, reviewing for The New York Times, stated was "the best book written on the subject."[59][note 1]
Hughes
Sloane was the editor of Prejudice and the Press (Devin-Adair, 1950) by Frank Hughes.[60][55]
Oesterreicher
Sloane was the editor of Walls Are Crumbling: Seven Jewish Philosophers Discover Christ (Devin-Adair, 1952) by John M. Oesterreicher.[61][62]
Eggleston
Sloane was the editor of Tahiti, Voyage Through Paradise: The Story of a Small Boat Passage Through the Society Islands (Devin-Adair, 1953) by George Teeple Eggleston.[63]
Stanford
Sloane was the editor of Last Chukker (Devin-Adair, 1954) by JK Stanford.[64]
Plunkett
Sloane was the editor of The Sword of Welleran, and Other Tales of Enchantment (Devin-Adair, 1954) by Edward Plunkett,[65] with line drawings by Robert Barrell.[66][note 2]
Rodman
Sloane was the editor of two books by Selden Rodman, The Eye of Man: Form and Content in Western Painting (Devin-Adair, 1955) and Mexican Journal: The Conquerors Conquered (Devin-Adair, 1958).[67][68]
Wickenden
Sloane was the editor of Our Daily Poison (Devin-Adair, 1955) by chemist and organic farmer Leonard Wickenden. The book — published seven years before Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, which launched the modern environmental movement — proclaimed the dangers of the use of insecticides and other chemicals on human health and the environment.[69]
Tansill
Sloane was the editor of America and the Fight for Irish Freedom: 1866-1922 (Devin-Adair, 1957) by Charles C. Tansill.[70]
Pei
Devin-Adair published several of Italian-born American linguist Mario Pei's many books, with Sloane as the editor; including: One Language for the World and How To Achieve It (Devin-Adair, 1958), a copy of which was given to the leader of every nation in the world.[71]
Ganzhorn
Sloane was the editor of I've Killed Men: An Epic of Early Arizona (Devin-Adair, 1959) by John W. "Jack" Ganzhorn.[72][73][74][75]
Clarke
Sloane was the editor of work by Irish poet Austin Clarke, regarded as one of the leading poets in the generation after Yeats.[13][76]
Elizabeth Bentley, Devin-Adair and the FBI
While at Devin-Adair, Sloane was the editor of Out of Bondage: The Story of Elizabeth Bentley[77] (Devin-Adair, 1951) by Elizabeth Bentley, an AmericanCommunist and Sovietspy turned American spy and FBI informant. Sloane and Devin Garrity, the president of Devin-Adair, became embroiled in an FBI investigation involving possible contact at the Devin-Adair offices between Elizabeth Bentley, who visited the offices frequently and American Communist turned FBI informant Harvey Matusow who had visited the offices several times, meeting with Sloane in an attempt to interest Devin-Adair in publishing a book.[78]
Additionally, Kathryn S. Olmsted uses Civil Intelligence Report: T. O'Conor Sloane, III, January 22, 1951, Rauh Papers contained in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., as a resource for her book Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley (University of North Carolina Press, 2002).[79]
Catholic Poetry Society of America and other literary endeavors
From 1947 to 1952, Sloane was a director of the Catholic Poetry Society of America,[80][81][82][83] which was headquartered in New York City with chapters in many major cities across the United States and published Spirit, a magazine of poetry, as well as books of selected poetry from the magazine, such as From the Four Winds: Selected Poems from "Spirit" (Idlewild Press, 1939).[84][85][86] During this time, a fellow director was Joseph Tusiani who would eventually become the New York State Poet Laureate Emeritus.[87][88] A well-known president of the organization was A. M. Sullivan.[89] Sloane and Sullivan were also both members of The Craftsman Group for Poetry,[16][90] a New York City poetry society. Correspondence between Sloane and Sullivan is archived in the A. M. Sullivan Papers at Syracuse University.[91]
Book reviews, poetry reviews and literary criticism
Sloane wrote many book reviews for Commonweal, these included For All Mankind by Leon Blum, Wide Margins by George Palmer Putnam, Grey Eminence by Aldous Huxley and Return to the Future by Sigrid Undset; poetry reviews for the Catholic Poetry Society of America's SPIRIT magazine; and provided literary criticism for America: A Catholic Review of the Week.[92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99]
After retirement
In retirement, Sloane continued to read the occasional manuscript in preparation for publication, such as The Final Fortress: The Campaign for Vicksburg 1862-1863 (St. Martin's Press, 1980) by Samuel Carter III[100] and An American Experience of God: The Spirituality of Isaac Hecker (Paulist Press, 1981) by John Farina.[101] He was also known to be a ready source of entertaining anecdotes about the life of an editor, such as the story[note 3] about his friend Robert Giroux that appeared in The Literary Life and Other Curiosities (Viking Press, 1981) by Robert Hendrickson.[102][103][104]
Etymological work
Sloane was the etymologist for the International Dictionary of Medicine and Biology (Wiley, 1986)[105] which he worked on for approximately three years during the late 1970s to early 1980s after his retirement from Doubleday. The dictionary was a major project, one which the journal Annals of Internal Medicine referred to as being "a new medical dictionary on a scale and scope never seen before in English...."[106]
Sloane provided the etymologies for Churchill's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Churchill Livingstone, 1989).[107]
Teaching
Hunter College
Sloane joined the faculty of Hunter College in New York City in 1956 and taught book editing and publishing, copy editing and creative writing until his retirement in late 1977.[108][109][110][111]
Fairfield University
He also taught at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut[16] and was a member of the graduate advisory board of the Center for the Advancement of Human Communication, serving on the graduate advisory committee of the Graduate School of Corporate and Political Communication at Fairfield University well into his retirement years.[6][112][113][114][115][116]
Sloane met and married his future wife of 59 years, Ella Margaret Sloane, née Lunder of Canton, South Dakota[82][124] while stationed in England during World War II, she as a nurse with the American Red Cross and he, as an intelligence officer, a Captain in the United States Army Air Corps; they had three children, Thomas Lunder, Catherine Maria and Juliana Margaret.[82][124][16][125] Mrs. Sloane had graduated in the top of her class from St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minnesota, where she sang in the St. Olaf Choir.[125][126] She stood nearly as tall as her 6' husband, sang opera semi-professionally and hailed from a pioneer Norwegian-American farming family[125] involved in South Dakota politics; her brother, Lafe A. Lunder, was a four-term Republicanstate senator representing the 6th District in the 30th through 33rd sessions of the state Senate. Mrs. Sloane had taught high school English for several years before joining the Red Cross to assist in the war effort. In the late 1950s, she became director of the New Canaan Cooperative Nursery School and remained in that position for 20 years until her retirement.[125]
Military service after WWII
After the war, Sloane continued military service as a reservist,[127] achieving the rank of Lt. Colonel by the late 1950s and eventually retiring from the U.S. Air Force Reserve, he was buried with full military honors.[82][16][128]
^Interesting vignettes about Sloane, Kavanagh and Barrell can be found in Roger Kovach's June 2007 Good Stories blog piece, "Parties at the Janice Studios."
^Interesting vignettes about Sloane, Kavanagh and Barrell can be found in Roger Kovach's June 2007 Good Stories blog piece, "Parties at the Janice Studios."
^Ross, Ruth Lampland (15 March 1975). "Doubleday Editor Gives Interesting Profile on Job". The Bridgeport Post. Bridgeport, Connecticut. p. 6. Retrieved 22 October 2020. ...Westporter and Doubleday senior editor Thomas O'Conor Sloane, III. [...] Father J. M. Burke, S.J., Ph.D., dean of the school [Fairfield University Graduate School of Corporate and Political Communication], introduced Mr. Sloane, a member of the university's advisory board, and called him 'one of the great editors whose like does not exist anymore, like Maxwell Perkins, who brought us the work of the first Thomas Wolfe.' [...] In a quiet, seemingly unruffled voice, with a suave manner and witty comments, Mr. Sloane gave a profile of an editor as a participant in a drama whose action spans continents and fields cover the world.
^"Book by Westonite Guide for Craftsmen". Westport Town Crier. Westport, Connecticut. 6 January 1963. p. 6 [12]. Retrieved 22 October 2020. His [Walter (K.) Miles] friend, T. O'Conor Sloane III, of 8 Wakeman Place, Westport, Doubleday editor, edited the manuscript [Designs for Craftsmen] for publication.
^"In and Around OUR TOWN". The Bridgeport Post. No. Bridgeport Sunday Post. Bridgeport, Connecticut. 17 August 1975. p. 20 [B-1]. Retrieved 22 October 2020. Visiting in Westport from Napa Valley, California, is artist Thomas Lunder Sloane, son of the senior Doubleday editor, Thomas O'Conor Sloane, III, and his wife, Margaret, of 8 Wakeman Place.
^Asimov, Isaac (1964). The Rest of the Robots (1st ed.). Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Retrieved 17 October 2023. Dr Asimov prefaced this collection with "To Tim, Tom and Dick — my stalwart supporters at Doubleday". Tom refers to Tom Sloane, one of the editors at Doubleday and grandson of T. O'Conor Sloane, editor of Amazing Stories.
^"Publishers Look on Books as Vocation and Avocation". The Bridgeport Post. No. Sunday. Bridgeport, Connecticut. 17 December 1961. p. 52. Retrieved 30 November 2020. the fact that people are reading more and much of it of better quality is backed up by T. O'Conor Sloane, III, of Westport, an editor with Doubleday.
^"Doubleday editor will speak tonight for Fairfield U communications class". The Westport News. Westport, Connecticut. 12 March 1975. p. 15 [30]. Retrieved 20 October 2020. With Doubleday he has worked editorially with Jacques and Phillipe Cousteau, Thor Heyerdahl, Leon Uris, Edward Steichen, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, Bruce Catton, Marc Chagall and other writers, artists and photographers.
^Ross, Ruth Lampland (15 March 1975). "Doubleday Editor Gives Interesting Profile on Job". The Bridgeport Post. Bridgeport, Connecticut. p. 6. Retrieved 23 October 2020. Jacques-[Y]ves and Pierre Cousteau, Thor Heyerdahl, Bruce Catton, Salva[d]or Dali and General Eisenhower were just a few of the parade of authors who came alive in the intensely anecdotal talk on 'The Book as Communication' by Westporter and Doubleday senior editor Thomas O'Conor Sloane, III.
^ ab"In and Around OUR TOWN". The Bridgeport Post. No. Bridgeport Sunday Post. Bridgeport, Connecticut. 2 March 1975. p. 45 [D-13]. Retrieved 22 October 2020. One of the earliest registrants in the mushrooming Cousteau Society of Westport was Thomas O'Conor Sloane, III, Jacques Cousteau's first editor at Doubleday. Mr. Sloane edited his first two Doubleday books on his underwater adventures and the coral reefs.
^ abRoss, Ruth Lampland (15 March 1975). "Doubleday Editor Gives Interesting Profile on Job". The Bridgeport Post. Bridgeport, Connecticut. p. 6. Retrieved 22 October 2020. 'Jacques-Yves and Philippe Cousteau are totally committed to saving our planet, and I am completely desirous that they do everything they can in this direction,' Mr. Sloane said. ... The Cousteau's first book, The Shark, was inscribed to Mr. Sloane with affection from Jacques and Pierre [Philippe Pierre].
^ abAsimov, Isaac (1980). In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978. New York: Avon Books & Doubleday. pp. 242, 253, 261, 271, 301, 305–6, 369–70, 380, 382, 384–85, 388, 453, 478–79, 568, 793, 827. ISBN0-380-53025-2. Retrieved 2 December 2020. I had lunch the next day with T. O'Conor Sloane III, a Doubleday editor whom I had not met before but whose name was not unfamiliar to me. He was the grandson and namesake of the man who had been editor of Amazing [Stories] from 1929 to 1938. [p. 242]
^ abAsimov, Isaac (1995). I. Asimov: A Memoir (Bantam paperback [Doubleday hardcover 1994] ed.). New York: Bantam & Doubleday. p. 280. ISBN978-0-553-56997-1. Retrieved 19 April 2020. The subject of book titles came up after T. O'Conor Sloane of Doubleday (who was the grandson of the man who succeeded Hugo Gernsback as editor of Amazing [Stories]) suggested I prepare a book of short biographies...
^Manley, Seon (1966). Long Island Discovery: An Adventure Into the History, Manners, and Mores of America's Front Porch (First [hardcover] ed.). Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. p. 306. ISBN0911660194. Retrieved 14 November 2022. I am deeply grateful to the publishing staff of Doubleday and Company with whom I have worked over a period of time, particularly Mr. T. O'Conor Sloane III, whose editorial enthusiasm for the 'bay world' gave this book a distinct flavor . . . .
^ ab"MoMA Edward Steichen Archive in The Museum of Modern Art Archives". moma.org. Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 20 October 2020. VI.A.2 "Correspondence with Doubleday etc." GMM transmittance of ES's corrections to proofs of captions and chronology; photocopies and carbons to and from editor T. O'Conor Sloane III; other book-related correspondence July 1961-July 1963, 1964-1968
^Asimov, Isaac (1969). Opus 100 (Hardcover ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 126–128. ISBN0395073510. Retrieved 7 December 2020. The most elaborate historical account of science I have yet attempted arose out of a suggestion made to me in 1961 by T. O'Conor Sloane of Doubleday… [He] asked me to do 250 short biographies of the most important scientists in history, arranged chronologically.
^Asimov, Isaac (1982). Opus: A Selection From the First 200 Books. London: Grafton Books. pp. 125–127. ISBN0-586-05128-7. Retrieved 9 December 2020. The most elaborate historical account of science I have yet attempted arose out of a suggestion made to me in 1961 by T. O'Conor Sloane of Doubleday....Tom Sloane asked me to do 250 short biographies of the most important scientists in history, arranged chronologically.
^ abAsimov, Isaac (1995). I. Asimov: A Memoir (Bantam paperback [Doubleday hardcover 1994] ed.). New York: Bantam & Doubleday. p. 280. ISBN978-0-553-56997-1. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
^White, Michael (1994). Asimov: The Unauthorized Life (Hardcover ed.). London: Millennium / Orion. p. 173. ISBN1857981200. Retrieved 7 December 2020. As a scientific biographical text [Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology] remains unsurpassed, and is still used as a reference book in major libraries around the world.
^Asimov, Isaac (1982). Opus: A Selection From the First 200 Books. London: Grafton Books. p. 126. ISBN0-586-05128-7. Retrieved 9 December 2020. Then came the problem of naming the book....But neither Tom nor anyone else at Doubleday would listen, and it came out with my name in the title, bold as brass. And it did well, at that. Doubleday has since put my name at the head of the title of two more books...
^Asimov, Isaac (1982). Opus: A Selection From the First 200 Books. London: Grafton Books. p. 125. ISBN0-586-05128-7. Retrieved 9 December 2020. The most elaborate historical account of science I have yet attempted arose out of a suggestion made to me in 1961 by T. O'Conor Sloane of Doubleday. His letter aroused the liveliest interest in me because when I was a nine-year-old and picked up the August, 1929 issue of Amazing Stories, the very first science-fiction magazine I ever read, its editor had been T. O'Conor Sloane. That editor had been an aged man at the time and had since died, but surely there must be some connection. There was! T. O'Conor Sloane III was the grandson of the onetime editor. Could I refuse under those circumstances?
^Asimov, Isaac (1964). The Rest of the Robots (1st ed.). Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Retrieved 17 October 2023. Dr Asimov prefaced this collection with "To Tim, Tom and Dick — my stalwart supporters at Doubleday". Tom refers to Tom Sloane, one of the editors at Doubleday and grandson of T. O'Conor Sloane, editor of Amazing Stories.
^Ross, Ruth Lampland (15 March 1975). "Doubleday Editor Gives Interesting Profile on Job". The Bridgeport Post. Bridgeport, Connecticut. p. 6. Retrieved 22 October 2020. That 'sophisticated clown,' Salvador Dali, who once threw potato chips in Mr. Sloane's face because he thought the publisher had not promoted his 'Diary of a Genius' adequately, was brought up by Father Burke, an interested participant in the question-and-answer period after the talk [to the students of the Fairfield University Graduate School of Corporate and Political Communication].
^Manley, Seon (1966). Long Island Discovery: An Adventure Into the History, Manners, and Mores of America's Front Porch (First [hardcover] ed.). Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. p. 306. ISBN0911660194. Retrieved 14 November 2022. I am deeply grateful to the publishing staff of Doubleday and Company with whom I have worked over a period of time, particularly Mr. T. O'Conor Sloane III, whose editorial enthusiasm for the 'bay world' gave this book a distinct flavor . . . .
^Untracht, Oppi (1982). Jewelry Concepts and Technology (Hardcover ed.). New York City: Doubleday. ISBN978-0-307-78411-7. Retrieved 19 November 2020. Acknowledgments... Thomas O'Conor Sloane III who initiated this project.
^Ross, Ruth Lampland (15 March 1975). "Doubleday Editor Gives Interesting Profile on Job". The Bridgeport Post. Bridgeport, Connecticut. p. 6. Retrieved 22 October 2020. His [Sloane] contacts with Heyerdahl, whom he described as charming in person and a constant complainer in his letters, were spiced with illustrations of cables to the author...
^Durkin, Joseph (1964). Georgetown University: First in the Nation's Capital. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. p. XV. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Acknowledgments...Mr. T. O'Conor Sloane III, of Doubleday, who encouraged it...
^Calkins, John (1967). Michigan. [Munich] Garden City, NY: [Andermann Publishers] Doubleday. p. 51. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Acknowledgments...Also, in preparation of the manuscript and final selection of photographs, Messrs. T. O'Conor Sloane, III, and Wilhelm Andermann gave welcome guidance.
^Lee, Owen (1968). The Skin Diver's Bible. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. p. 8. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Acknowledgments...and of course my long-suffering editor, T. O'Conor Sloane III. To each my heartfelt thanks and best wishes.
^Hannau, Hans (1964). California. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. p. 64. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Acknowledgments...In setting up the copy of this book, I have to thank T. O'Conor Sloane III, Editor, Doubleday & Company, for a careful checkup...
^Hannau, Hans (1967). Yosemite. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. p. 52. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Acknowledgments...I received valuable editorial assistance from Curt Gentry, Mary Sheridan, and T. O'Conor Sloane III, Editor, Doubleday & Company, Inc. I am grateful to all.
^Hannau, Hans (1967). Martinique. Garden City, NY: [Andermann Publishers] Doubleday. p. 60. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Acknowledgment...For editorial assistance I am indebted to Mary Sheridan and T. O'Conor Sloane III, Editor, Doubleday & Company, Inc., who did the final checking of my manuscript.
^Hannau, Hans (1969). California in color. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. p. 127. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Acknowledgments...T. O'Conor Sloane III, the Doubleday editor of the book...
^Hannau, Hans (1970). Bermuda in full color. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. p. 125. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Acknowledgments...Jane Wood and Doubleday's T. O'Conor Sloane III edited the text. My deep appreciation goes to them all.
^Hannau, Hans (1974). The Bahama Islands in full color (Edition for 1971 published under title: Islands of the Bahamas in full color ed.). Garden City, NY: Doubleday. p. 124. ISBN0385008155. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Acknowledgments...My thanks go also to Jane Wood and to T. O'Conor Sloane III, editor, Doubleday and Company. My heartfelt thanks go to all...
^Larsen, Jack; Weeks, Jeanne (1975). Fabrics for Interiors: A Guide for Architects, Designers, and Consumers. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN0-442-24684-6. Retrieved 15 December 2020. Acknowledgments...Our thanks, too, to Tom O'Connor [sic] Sloane III of Doubleday, for his encouragement and for releasing to us a number of drawings from Elements of Weaving by Azalea Thorpe and Jack Larsen...
^ abThe American Catholic Who's Who (14th Biennial / Volume 14 ed.). Grosse Point, MI: Walter Romig. 1961. p. 428. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
^ ab"Doubleday editor will speak tonight for Fairfield U communications class". Westport, Connecticut: The Westport News. 12 March 1975. p. 15 [30]. Retrieved 20 October 2020. entering the book publishing field in 1938...editor Liveright Publishing...associate editor with EP Dutton...director and editor with the Devin-Adair Company before joining Doubleday and Company in 1960 as senior editor.
^"Publisher in Search of New Authors Tells How Wheels Go Round". Detroit Free Press. Detroit, Michigan. 22 June 1941. p. 25. Retrieved 13 November 2020. That is why E. P. Dutton & Co. has sent an associate editor, T. O'Conor Sloane, on a five-weeks' trip 'which will take him to Oregon, visiting universities, ...
^ ab"Miamian's Brother To Wed In New York". The Miami News. No. Monday. Miami, Florida. 10 March 1941. p. 6. Retrieved 20 November 2020. Mr. Sloane was graduated from Fordham University and is associated in New York with the editorial staff of E. P. Dutton and Co., Publishers.
^Kavanagh, Peter (1950). The Story of the Abbey Theatre, From Its Origins in 1899 to the Present. New York: The Devin-Adair Company. p. x. Retrieved 4 December 2020. Acknowledgments...I wish to give my special thanks to Mr. T. O'Conor Sloane III for the care with which he edited the manuscript for publication.
^O'Casey, S.: New York Times Book Review, 15 October 1950.
^Oesterreicher, John (1952). Walls Are Crumbling: Seven Jewish Philosophers Discover Christ. New York: The Devin-Adair Company. p. xi. Retrieved 7 December 2020. Acknowledgments...There are many, many friends who have helped me, more than I can name. But may I pay special recognition...to Thomas O'Conor Sloane III, of the Devin-Adair Company, for the care with which he saw it through publication...
^Oesterreicher, John (1967). Five in Search of Wisdom (First paperback ed.). Notre Dame/London: University of Notre Dame Press (by arrangement with Devin-Adair) [Abridged edition of Walls are Crumbling: Seven Jewish Philosophers Discover Christ, as a publication of The Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies, Seton Hall University]. p. xi. Retrieved 7 December 2020. Acknowledgments...There are many, many friends who have helped me, more than I can name. But may I pay special recognition...to Thomas O'Conor Sloane III, of the Devin-Adair Company, for the care with which he saw it through publication...
^Ganzhorn, John (1959). I've Killed Men: An Epic of Early Arizona. New York: Devin-Adair. Retrieved 19 December 2020. [The Devin-Adair illustrated western Americana series]
^Ganzhorn, Jack (2018). I've Killed Men: An Epic of Early Arizona (Paperback/Reprint ed.). State College, PA: Dead Authors Society. ISBN978-1773231648. This is the memoir of the "fastest man on the draw", who grew up in Tombstone, knew Wyatt Earp, worked as a gambler, scouted for General Funston in the Philippine Insurrection, acted in Hollywood, and worked undercover for Remington Arms!
^"Elizabeth T. Bentley". archive.org. Federal Bureau of Investigation [via Internet Archive]. pp. 2 [90] – 5 [93]. Retrieved 7 December 2020. In accordance with instructions set out in rebulet DEVIN GARRITY, President, and THOMAS O'Conor Sloane, III, Editor, Devin-Adair Publishing Company, 23 East 26th Street, NYC, were interviewed on 3/17/55 [regarding events on and around 10/3/52]. Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI file, Rosenberg Case Collection nsia-fbi-files; nationalsecurityarchive; additional_collections. FBI files: Elizabeth T. Bentley 15.pdf [each report of the investigation is provided as a .pdf]
^Filreis, Alan (2008). Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. pp. 33–34. ISBN978-0-8078-3162-5. Retrieved 21 October 2020. In the effort to refute the Soviet criticism of the superficiality of recent American poetry, T. O'Conor Sloane III, director of the Catholic Poetry Society of America, announced, 'If a few...poets are moved to lyricize for political purposes,' it 'has [no] bearing on the quality or value inherent in their work.'
^Waggoner, Walter (25 April 1976). "Poet Cited by Peers". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
^"Frederick C. and Birdsall Otis Edey Residence"(PDF). s-media.nyc.gov. New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. pp. 3, 7. Retrieved 15 December 2020. [This reference is being added to establish the existence of the Craftsman Group for Poetry because although the organization is referenced abundantly in various sources, there does not seem to be one stand-alone source available to reference this organization and quite a few variations of its name are to be found.]
^ ab"A. M. Sullivan Papers". library.syr.edu. Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
^Sloane III, T. O'Conor (27 September 1946). "Art of the Anthology (Review): For All Mankind, by Leon Blum (Review)". Commonweal: 578.
^Sloane III, T. O'Conor (15 May 1952). "Biography (Review): Wide Margins, by George Palmer Putnam". Commonweal: 89.
^Sloane III, T. O'Conor (24 October 1941). "Cardinal's Alter Ego (Review): Grey Eminence, by Aldous Huxley". Commonweal: 21–22.
^Gumbinger, Cuthbert (August 1942). "Aldous Huxley vs.Christocentric Mysticism". The Homiletic and Pastoral Review. 42 (11): 1011. Retrieved 14 November 2022. It has been reviewed, be it said, by various Catholics, notably (with fine insight and judgment) by Mr. T. O'Conor Sloane III in various issues of The Commonweal.
^Carter, Samuel (1980). The Final Fortress: The Campaign for Vicksburg 1862-1863. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. xi. ISBN0-312-83926-X. Retrieved 15 December 2020. Foreword and Acknowledgments...warm thanks are due to Thomas O'Connor [sic] Sloane III for his early suggestions and encouragement...
^Hendrickson, Robert (1981). The Literary Life and Other Curiosities (First ed.). New York: Viking Press. p. 174. ISBN0670430293. Retrieved 19 December 2020. 'Battle Lines' T. O'Conor Sloane III, long an editor at Doubleday, tells the following story: 'Many years ago, when Robert Giroux was editor-in-chief of Harcourt, Brace, he told me this little anecdote. He was expecting a visit from T.S. Eliot one day, and he knew that Carl Sandburg was going to be in the offices at the same time. Mr. Giroux made what arrangements he could to keep the two from meeting face to face, because he knew that the poets were not mutual admirers. When he returned to his office from lunch, to his horror he saw Sandburg and Eliot there, glaring at each other from opposite corners. 'Your face has deep lines,' Sandburg was saying to Eliot. I later told this little story to Melville Cane, the lawyer and poet. He said, 'If I had been Eliot, I would have said to Sandburg, 'I can't say the same for your poetry.'
^ abHendrickson, Robert (1982). The Literary Life and Other Curiosities (Reprint ed.). New York: Penguin Books. p. 174. ISBN0140063188. Retrieved 7 December 2020. 'Battle Lines' T. O'Conor Sloane III, long an editor at Doubleday, tells the following story: 'Many years ago, when Robert Giroux was editor-in-chief of Harcourt, Brace, he told me this little anecdote. He was expecting a visit from T.S. Eliot one day, and he knew that Carl Sandburg was going to be in the offices at the same time. Mr. Giroux made what arrangements he could to keep the two from meeting face to face, because he knew that the poets were not mutual admirers. When he returned to his office from lunch, to his horror he saw Sandburg and Eliot there, glaring at each other from opposite corners. 'Your face has deep lines,' Sandburg was saying to Eliot. I later told this little story to Melville Cane, the lawyer and poet. He said, 'If I had been Eliot, I would have said to Sandburg, 'I can't say the same for your poetry.'
^"Course in Publishing". Book Production. 67 (2): 64. February 1958. Retrieved 12 March 2021. A 15-day session adult-education evening course in book editing and publishing is being offered by the Hunter College School of General Studies, NYC. Thomas O'Conor Sloane III, editor, the Devin-Adair Co., is conducting the course.
^Ross, Ruth Lampland (15 March 1975). "Doubleday Editor Gives Interesting Profile on Job". The Bridgeport Post. Bridgeport, Connecticut. p. 6. Retrieved 22 October 2020. Mr. Sloane is also a teacher of editing at Hunter College, where he joined the faculty in 1956.
^"5 Advisors Named For Grad School". The Stag. Vol. 18, no. 14. Fairfield, Connecticut: Fairfield University. 8 February 1967. p. 7 [5]. Retrieved 22 October 2020. ...Mr. T. O'Conor Sloane III, of Westport, a senior editor at Doubleday & Company, Inc...
^Asimov, Isaac (1980). In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978. New York: Avon Books & Doubleday. pp. 242, 253, 261, 271, 301, 305–6, 369–70, 380, 382, 384–85, 388, 453, 478–79, 568, 793, 827. ISBN0-380-53025-2. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Tom Sloane, who had edited Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, had retired and Cathleen had taken over that portion of my Doubleday output. [p. 793]
^"Miamian's Brother To Wed In New York". The Miami News. No. Monday. Miami, Florida. 10 March 1941. p. 6. Retrieved 20 November 2020. Of interest to Miami and Havana society is the news of the engagement of Miss Carmen de Arango, New York and Havana, daughter of the late Francisco de Arango and the late Petronila del Valle, Marques and Marquesa de la Gratitud, and Thomas O'Conor Sloane, III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Conor Sloane, II, Westport, Conn.
^ ab"Social Activities". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. No. Friday. St. Louis, Missouri. 7 March 1941. p. 23. Retrieved 20 November 2020. The engagement of Miss Carmen de Arango to Thomas O'Conor Sloane III, great-great-grandson of Auguste Chouteau...
^ ab"Engagements and Wedding". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. No. Sunday. St. Louis, Missouri. 9 March 1941. p. 51. Retrieved 20 November 2020. Miss Carmen de Arango of New York, whose engagement to Thomas O'Conor Sloane III of Westport, Conn., a descendant of Auguste Chouteau, one of St. Louis' founders, has been announced by ...
^"Paid Notice: Deaths GIROUX, CARMEN DE ARANGO". The New York Times. 23 March 1999. p. 10. Retrieved 15 April 2021. Mar 23, 1999 — GIROUX-Carmen de Arango. Of Greenwich, CT, on March 19th, 1999. Former advisor to the Holy See Missions Delegation to the United Nations, reporting directly to the Vatican in Rome.
^ abJames, Eugenia (1967). The Learned Family in America 1630-1967. St. Louis: Setco Printing Co., Inc. p. 170. Retrieved 4 December 2020. Thomas O'Conor Sloane, iii b. 20 Nov. 1912; m. Margaret Lunder, Canton, S.D. Three Children.
^"milestones: deaths"(PDF). St. Olaf Magazine. 60 (1): 50. Winter 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2023. Margaret Lunder Sloane, of Bridgeport, Conn., died June 12, 2012. She was born Ella Margaret Lunder in Canton, S.D. on May 7, 1918, to Paul M. and Ellida Algarheim Lunder. The Lunders were pioneering Norwegian farmers of the great Dakota Territory. She attended St Olaf from which she graduated as class salutatorian. She majored in English and drama, and was a member of the world renowned St. Olaf Choir. She taught high school in Pipestone, Minn. for several years before joining the Red Cross and being deployed to England, via the Queen Mary, during World War II. Margaret met her future husband, Thomas O'Conor Sloane III, a member of the American Air Force, in the officer's club in Grosvenor Square, London, shortly after she arrived. They became engaged two weeks later on Jan. 1, 1944, and were married in the small village of East Hendred, outside London, on Aug. 5, 1944 by an American chaplain. After the war, Thomas and Margaret took up residence in Westport. With her glorious mezzo soprano singing voice, she was in demand as a soloist with the Fairfield County Chorale and area churches. She also served as music critic for the South Shore Music Club and the Silvermine Quartet. In the late 50s, Margaret became director of the New Canaan Cooperative Nursery School and remained in that position for 20 years until her retirement. She moved to a retirement community in December 2008. Margaret is survived by her son, Thomas Sloane, and two daughters, Juliana Sloane Fulbright, and Catherine Sloane, as well as seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
^"VART SQ Gives Public 'Trial'". Air Reserve Forces Review. U. S. Dept. of the Air Force: 10 [112 of compilation]. July 1950. Retrieved 9 December 2020. The mock trial was prepared by Capt Thomas O. Sloane III from the records of a real military case heard 'some months ago.'
^"The Book Market: Book Publishers". The Writer. 72 (7): 29. July 1959. Retrieved 14 November 2022. The Devin-Adair Company — 23 East 26th St., New York 10, N. Y. T. O'Conor Sloane, III, Editor. Serious non-fiction. Religious, political, Irish, farming, and nature. Always query first. Pays on royalty basis.
^Correspondence pertaining to the Rushton Seminar, 1953-1954. WorldCat. OCLC647986549. Retrieved 24 March 2021 – via worldcat.org. Abstract: Correspondence of Edward C. McAleer relating to the Rushton Seminar panel discussion on modern Irish literature. The collection contains letters from . . . T. O'Conor Sloane, III . . . .
^O'Donovan, John (1891). The O'Conors of Connaught: An Historical Memoir. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co. The O'Conor Don line in descent from Sir Hugh O'Conor, The O'Conor Don of Ballintubber Castle: [...] Charles O'Conor of Mount Allen (1736–1808) [...] Denis O'Conor [...] Thomas O'Conor (d.1865). Joined the United Irishmen. After the failure of this rebellion he fled Ireland to America, where he and his brother Denis bought an estate in upstate New York. Following this he became a noted writer and journalist. Through his daughter's marriage to Christian Shear Sloane, he is an ancestor of T. O'Conor Sloane and his sons, T. O'Conor Sloane, Jr. and John Eyre Sloane. [...] Charles O'Conor of New York (1801–1884). A Successful attorney in New York. He was the Bourbon Democrat nominee for the President of the United States of America.
^"If". SFE: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
^Brand, Millen (1975). Local Lives: Poems about the Pennsylvania Dutch. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. p. 512. ISBN0-517-51998-4. Retrieved 8 December 2020. Appreciation for Help Given...Thomas O'Conor Sloane III loaned me his grandfather's collection of early books on the Pennsylvania German dialect and people.
^"James Rorty papers". archives.yale.edu. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Scope and Contents Manuscripts, printed works, correspondence, and professional papers of the writer James Rorty. The Writings series includes Rorty's typescript and manuscript essays on social issues, civil rights, and political activism, two of his poems, and printed works. The Correspondence series includes three typed letters between Rorty's wife Winifred Rorty and Matthew Josephson; letters between Rorty and Jerré E. Tanner regarding Tanner's setting of Rorty's poem "A Spring Garland" to music, as well as the original sheet music; and one typed letter from Rorty to Ruth Aley and one typed letter from Rorty to Tom Sloane [confirmed by the Archives at Yale to be the Doubleday editor upon inspection of said letter]. The Professional Papers include Rorty's curriculum vitae. Arrangement Organized into three series: I. Writings, 1941-1965. II. Correspondence, 1965-1969. III. Professional Papers, 1970, undated.
^"Selden Rodman papers". archives.yale.edu. Yale University Library. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
^"Robert Payne Collection". Stony Brook University Special Collections and University Archives. Stony Brook University. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
^"Eastman mss., 1892-1968". Archives Online at Indiana University. Indiana University. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
^"Eastman, Max, 1883-1969". snaccooperative.org. SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context). Retrieved 4 December 2020.
^"Leah Brenner: An Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Center". hrc.utexas.edu. Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas. Retrieved 19 December 2020. The papers document Leah Brenner's writings on Mexican art and culture, including a children's book about and illustrated by Diego Rivera, and articles for Town & Country. Personal and family documents and correspondence are also present.
^"Publishers (Miscellaneous)., 03/23/1945-05/04/1969". findingaids.library.georgetown.edu. Georgetown University Library. Retrieved 30 November 2020. Container Summary: Correspondence to Harry Sylvester from various publishers and journal editors. Arranged by journal/publisher name, the file includes:...The Devin-Adair Company - T. O'Conor Sloane, III, associate editor, TLS 9/1/1949, re book proposal...
^"Chicago Tribune. Frank Hughes Papers". library.northwestern.edu. Northwestern University. Retrieved 19 December 2020. Book Manuscripts (1949-1957; boxes 24 to 31) There are four manuscripts of books by Hughes in the collection, only one of which was published. Prejudice and the Press (New York: Devin-Adair, 1950) was written in response to the Hutchins-Luce Committee report on freedom of the press released in 1947. Boxes 24 to 27 contain his notes, source materials, correspondence, memos, various drafts and rewrites -- the whole story of this Frank Hughes/Chicago Tribune venture....
^Correspondence pertaining to the Rushton Seminar, 1953-1954. WorldCat. OCLC647986549. Retrieved 24 March 2021 – via worldcat.org. Abstract: Correspondence of Edward C. McAleer relating to the Rushton Seminar panel discussion on modern Irish literature. The collection contains letters from . . . T. O'Conor Sloane, III . . . .
^Archival Material: Papers, 1936-1963. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. OCLC21204274.