Ellsworth, Charles
Scope and Contents
From 1945 until her retirement in 1969, Amy Wood Nyholm served as cataloguer and research librarian for the Newberry's Modern Manuscripts, later Midwest Manuscripts Collection. Nyholm was hired in 1945 to catalogue manuscript collections newly acquired for the Library by Lloyd Lewis as a result of Librarian Stanley Pargellis' decision to collect personal papers and archives complementing the Library's research strengths (particularly those relating to Chicago and the Midwest). Quickly, Nyholm enlarged her position to include donor relations, reader assistance, and other administrative duties related to the collections.
Amy Wood Nyholm's incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding the Modern Manuscripts Collection (later Midwest Manuscripts Collection), includes requests for information about and access to manuscript collections, correspondence with donors and other authors represented in the collections, and some notes from Newberry staff and trustees. Correspondents include Nelson Algren, Ray Billington, Stanley Morison, Katherine Anne Porter, and George Thomas Tanselle.
Creator
- From the Collection: Newberry Library (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The Newberry Library Archives are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Unprocessed records are available by appointment only. Advance notice is necessary, particularly for administrative files, so that files may be screened for personnel records that are removed when records are processed.
Files containing personal or confidential information about individuals (including individual files on members of the Board of Trustees, individual donor files and records reporting the donations of an individual, personnel records, payroll records, and individual accepted fellows files) are closed for 30 years.
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org