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Dorothy Dow Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dow
Abstract Correspondence to Illinois poet and writer Dorothy Dow from poet Edgar Lee Masters, muralist John Warner Norton and other writers and friends, and a large collection of Dow’s works, which includes her vast output of poems, both published and mostly unpublished, some plays, short stories, a novel and several literary studies. Also, an informal autobiography and parts of an early episodic diary, a few photographs, scrapbooks and notebooks containing clippings, drafts and notes relating to her...
Dates: 1920-1993

Floyd Dell papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dell
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Floyd Dell, novelist, poet, playwright, newspaperman, literary editor and social and political critic.

Dates: 1908-1969

Fredrika Shumway Smith Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-SmithFS
Abstract

Book drafts, illustrations, and publicity about the children's and young adult books, stories, and verse written by Fredrika Shumway Smith, wife of banker and Northern Trust president Solomon A. Smith.

Dates: 1941-1967

Henry Blake Fuller papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fuller
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Henry Blake Fuller, Chicago novelist, essayist, critic, and satirist. The bulk of the collection consists of Fuller's writings, both published and manuscript, and incoming correspondence.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1874 - 1929

Henry Justin Smith Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-SmithHJ
Abstract

Manuscripts of works, correspondence, and mementos of Henry Justin Smith, author and Chicago Daily News reporter, city editor, news editor, and managing editor.

Dates: 1912-1980; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1935

Henry Kitchell Webster papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Webster
Abstract Correspondence and drafts and typescripts of works of Illinois novelist and short story writer, Henry Kitchell Webster, an Evanston native who had a highly successful literary career in the early decades of the twentieth century. Includes examples of the range of Webster’s published writings as well as extensive correspondence with literary agents and publishers, family, friends, fans, businesses and organizations. Also, miscellaneous documents and memorabilia, and one box of genealogical...
Dates: 1880-1932; Majority of material found within 1900-1932

Jack Conroy papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Conroy
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of American novelist, folklorist, and editor Jack Conroy. Conroy's novel The Disinherited, published in 1933, is considered a classic in proletarian literature and depicted in gritty detail the realities of the Great Depression. Conroy also edited radical journals The Rebel Poet, The Anvil, and The New Anvil.

Dates: 1864-1991

Leander Troy-James T. Farrell papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Troy-Farr
Abstract

Materials by and about James T. Farrell, collected by his friend, Rev. Leander Troy, including published and unpublished articles, columns, reviews and stories, together with copies of letters to Farrell from such individuals as Russell Baker, Pearl S. Buck, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson and Adlai E. Stevenson, plus notes, obituaries and other memorabilia.

Dates: 1932-2004

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Names
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 2
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 2
Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 2
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 2
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 2
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Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 2
Agnew, Frances, 1891-1967 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Allen, A. Hylton 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
American Committee for Devastated France 1
Ames, Winthrop, 1870-1937, 1870-1937 1
Austin, Mary 1
Authors' League of America 1
Babb, Sanora 1
Baker, Russell, 1925-2019 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bobbs-Merrill Company 1
Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951 1
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 1
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Christopher Publishing House 1
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 1
Collinge, Patricia, 1894-1974 1
Conroy, Gladys 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Cook, George Cram, 1873-1924 1
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 1
Currey, Margery 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Dow, Dorothy, 1903-1989 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Fallon, Lawrence 1
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Freeman, Joseph, 1897-1965 1
Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978 1
Hagglund, Ben, 1908- 1
Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.) 1
Hard, William, 1878-1962 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Hazlett, Carolee 1
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Howland, Hewitt H. (Hewitt Hanson), 1863-1944 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 1
Jewett, Rutger B. 1
Johnson, Curt, 1928-2008 1
Johnson, Fridolf 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Kauser, Alice, 1872-1945 1
Lancaster, Elizabeth 1
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 1
Le Sueur, Meridel 1
Leonard family 1
Lewis, H. H., 1901- 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 1
Lieber, Maxim, 1897-1993 1
Light, James F. 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Marbury, Elisabeth, 1856-1933 1
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 1
Meredyth, Bess 1
Merwin, Samuel, 1874-1936 1
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 1
Modotti, Tina, 1896-1942 1
Morgan, Anna, 1851-1936 1
Mosser, Charles 1
Nicolson, J. U. (John Urban), 1885-1944 1
North Shore Country Day School (Winnetka, Ill.) 1
Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 1
Norton, John Warner, 1876-1934 1
Orbaan, Albert 1
Pargellis, Stanley, 1898-1968 1
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 1
Pond, Allen Bartlit, 1858-1929 1
Pond, Irving K. (Irving Kane), 1857-1939 1
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 1
Price, Emerson 1
Rand McNally and Company 1
Reed, John, 1887-1920 1
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