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Ben Hecht papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hecht
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Ben Hecht, and also papers of his wife Rose Caylor Hecht (novelist) and daughter Jenny Hecht (actress).

Dates: 1879-1983

Henry Kitchell Webster papers

 Collection
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

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American literature -- Illinois -- Evanston 1
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Authors, American -- 20th century 1
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Names
Agnew, Frances, 1891-1967 1
Allen, A. Hylton 1
American Committee for Devastated France 1
Ames, Winthrop, 1870-1937, 1870-1937 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Antheil, George, 1900-1959 1
Authors' League of America 1
Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992 1
Bobbs-Merrill Company 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Brent, Stuart 1
Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951 1
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Caylor, Rose 1
Chicago Daily Journal 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 1
Collinge, Patricia, 1894-1974 1
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1
Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 1
Essipoff, Marie Armstrong, 1892- 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.) 1
Hard, William, 1878-1962 1
Hart, Moss, 1904-1961 1
Hecht family 1
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 1
Howland, Hewitt H. (Hewitt Hanson), 1863-1944 1
Irgun tseva'i le'umi 1
Jessel, George, 1898-1981 1
Jewett, Rutger B. 1
Kauser, Alice, 1872-1945 1
Kogan, Herman 1
Kook, Hillel, 1915-2001 1
Kroch, Adolph, 1882- 1
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 1
Lenya, Lotte 1
Leonard family 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 1
MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956 1
Mankiewicz, Herman J. (Herman Jacob), 1897-1953 1
Marbury, Elisabeth, 1856-1933 1
Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964 1
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 1
Meredyth, Bess 1
Merwin, Samuel, 1874-1936 1
North Shore Country Day School (Winnetka, Ill.) 1
Reynolds, Paul R. (Paul Revere), 1864-1944 1
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 1
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
Sedgwick, Ellery, 1872-1960 1
Simon and Schuster, Inc. 1
Steel Wings Company 1
Taliaferro, Mabel, 1889-1979 1
Wallace, Mike, 1918-2012 1
Webster Electric Company 1
Webster family 1
Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932 1
Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1906- 1
Webster, Mary Ward Orth 1
Webster, Stokely 1
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950 1
White, William Allen, 1868-1944 1
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