Writings
Among Putnam's writings are scholarly and historical publications, but he also wrote children's books such as The Artificial Mother (1894) and The Little Gingerbread Man (1910). Other published works:
- Authors and Publishers (1882) (co-authored with brother, John Bishop Putnam)
- Anecdotes of Luther and the Reformation (1883)
- Books and Their Makers during the Middle Ages (2 vol. – 1896 & 1897)
- Washington Irving, his life and work (1903)
- Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature, Part 1 (1906)
- Abraham Lincoln (1909) (Project Gutenberg)
- A Prisoner of War in Virginia (1912)
- Memories of My Youth (1914)
- Memories of a Publisher (1915)
- Some Memories of the Civil War (1924)
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