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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and friends, and a large collection of Dow’s works, which includes her vast output of poems, both published and mostly unpublished, some plays, short stories, a novel and several literary studies.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
Fredrika Shumway Smith Papers
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Jack Conroy papers
Collection
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
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