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and friends, and a large collection of Dow’s works, which includes her vast output of poems, both published and mostly unpublished, some plays, short stories, a novel and several literary studies.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

Eunice Tietjens papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tietjens
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens, Chicago poet, novelist, lecturer and associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. The bulk of the correspondence is incoming.

Dates: 1898-1944

Eunice Tietjens papers - Additions

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tietjens2
Abstract

Correspondence, works, and miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens, Chicago poet, novelist, lecturer and associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Also material relating to the Hammond and Strong families, Eunice Tietjens' daughter, Janet Tietjens Hart, and Eunice Tietjens' first husband, Paul Tietjens; and three boxes of photographs.

Dates: 1847-1972

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

 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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Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 5
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 3
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 3
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 3
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 3
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Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 2
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 2
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 2
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 2
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 2
Head, Cloyd 2
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 2
Liveright, Horace Brisbin, 1886-1933 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 2
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 2
Tietjens, Paul 2
Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967 2
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 2
Young, Stark, 1881-1963 2
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 1
Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 1
Aldis, Mary, 1872-1949 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959 1
Babb, Sanora 1
Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 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
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 1
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 1
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 1
Carr, Michael Carmichael, 1881-1929 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Christopher Publishing House 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 1
Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
Conroy, Gladys 1
Crane, Hart, 1899-1932 1
Currey, Margery 1
De Vries, Peter, 1910-1993 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
Filsinger, Ernst B. (Ernst Balthasar), 1880-1937 1
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 1
Forrest, Hamilton, 1901-1963 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Funk, Charles 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958 1
Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979 1
Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978 1
Hagglund, Ben, 1908- 1
Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988 1
Hammond family 1
Hammond, Idea 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Harris, Julia Collier, 1875-1967 1
Hart, Janet Tietjens 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Hazlett, Carolee 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Henderson, Alice Corbin, 1881-1949 1
Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938 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
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 1
Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947 1
Le Sueur, Meridel 1
Lewis, H. H., 1901- 1
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