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Dorothy Dow Papers

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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and friends, and a large collection of Dow’s works, which includes her vast output of poems, both published and mostly unpublished, some plays, short stories, a novel and several literary studies.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

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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

Sherwood Anderson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Anderson
Abstract

Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, audiovisual material, royalty statements, personal financial records, artifacts, miscellaneous ephemera, autographed works, and literary manuscripts (many unpublished; also fragments, notes, and tentative sketches for short stories) of Chicago Literary Renaissance novelist and poet best known for his 1919 novel, Winesburg, Ohio.

Dates: 1872-1992

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Names
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 3
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 2
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 2
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 2
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 2
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Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Babb, Sanora 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Boni & Liveright 1
Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Brand, Millen, 1906-1980 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 1
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Christopher Publishing House 1
Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
Conroy, Gladys 1
Crane, Hart, 1899-1932 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 1
Dove, Arthur Garfield, 1880-1946 1
Dow, Dorothy, 1903-1989 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Emerson, John, 1874-1956 1
Emmett, Burton, 1871-1935 1
Emmett, Mary 1
Esherick, Wharton 1
Fallon, Lawrence 1
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Funk, Charles 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979 1
Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978 1
Hagglund, Ben 1
Harris, Julia Collier, 1875-1967 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Hazlett, Carolee 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Horace Liveright, Inc. 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1
Johnson, Curt, 1928-2008 1
Johnson, Fridolf 1
Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960 1
Le Sueur, Meridel 1
Lewis, H. H., 1901- 1
Library of Congress 1
Lieber, Maxim, 1897-1993 1
Light, James F. 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Liveright, Horace Brisbin, 1886-1933 1
Liveright, Otto 1
Loos, Anita, 1893-1981 1
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 1
Morgan, Anna 1
Mosser, Charles 1
Nathan, George Jean 1
Newberry Library 1
Nicolson, J. U. (John Urban), 1885-1944 1
Norton, Charles Eliot 1
Norton, John Warner, 1876-1934 1
Orbaan, Albert 1
O’Keeffe, Georgia 1
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 1
Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947 1
Pond, Allen Bartlit, 1858-1929 1
Pond, Irving K. (Irving Kane), 1857-1939 1
Price, Emerson 1
Princeton University. Library 1
Rand McNally and Company 1
Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937 1
Rogers, John, 1907- 1
Rosenfeld, Paul, 1890-1946 1
Rowland, Neal 1
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
Schevill, Ferdinand, 1868-1954 1
Sergel, Roger L., 1894- 1
Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926 1
Smith, Fredrika Shumway 1
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 1
Snow, Walter, 1905-1973 1
Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974 1
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 1
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 1
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