Modern Manuscripts & Archives at the Newberry

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The outgoing correspondence is primarily to friends and acquaintances, among them Witter Bynner and Margery Currey; her editor at MacMillan, James Putnam, concerning changes to her book The World at My Shoulder; and over 90 photostats of letters to Harriet Monroe copied from the Harriet Monroe Collection at the University of Chicago Library.

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The outgoing correspondence is primarily to friends and acquaintances, among them Witter Bynner and Margery Currey; her editor at MacMillan, James Putnam, concerning changes to her book The World at My Shoulder; and over 90 photostats of letters to Harriet Monroe copied from the Harriet Monroe Collection at the University of Chicago Library.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Large collection of letters, manuscripts and printed items from members of Tietjens' family; her wide circle of friends from around the world; her publishers; and literary associates and prominent writers, especially in regard to her work as an editor at the magazine Poetry. Some of the well-known names represented are: Maxwell Anderson (2), Pearl Buck (3), Floyd Dell (5), Robert Frost (4), D.H. Lawrence (2), Vachel Lindsay (14), Amy Lowell (6), Edgar Lee...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Large collection of letters, manuscripts and printed items from members of Tietjens' family; her wide circle of friends from around the world; her publishers; and literary associates and prominent writers, especially in regard to her work as an editor at the magazine Poetry. Some of the well-known names represented are: Maxwell Anderson (2), Pearl Buck (3), Floyd Dell (5), Robert Frost (4), D.H. Lawrence (2), Vachel Lindsay (14), Amy Lowell (6), Edgar Lee...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Large collection of letters, manuscripts and printed items from members of Tietjens' family; her wide circle of friends from around the world; her publishers; and literary associates and prominent writers, especially in regard to her work as an editor at the magazine Poetry. Some of the well-known names represented are: Maxwell Anderson (2), Pearl Buck (3), Floyd Dell (5), Robert Frost (4), D.H. Lawrence (2), Vachel Lindsay (14), Amy Lowell (6), Edgar Lee...

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Mainly photographs of Eunice Tietjens, her siblings, her mother and her daughter Janet, but also a collection of images of other individuals, some of them well-known such as Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Harriet Monroe, Edgar Lee Masters, Sara Teasdale and Mark Twain. .

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Mainly photographs of Eunice Tietjens, her siblings, her mother and her daughter Janet, but also a collection of images of other individuals, some of them well-known such as Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Harriet Monroe, Edgar Lee Masters, Sara Teasdale and Mark Twain. .

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Mainly photographs of Eunice Tietjens, her siblings, her mother and her daughter Janet, but also a collection of images of other individuals, some of them well-known such as Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Harriet Monroe, Edgar Lee Masters, Sara Teasdale and Mark Twain. .

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Typewritten copies of letters written or dictated by Webster to friends, fans, actors, agents, editors, writers, and organizations. Includes series of correspondence to editors at Bobbs-Merrill (mostly to Hewitt H. Howland) and to his agent, Paul R. Reynolds.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Letters, almost all to Wallace Rice, from fans, friends, authors and editors, mostly concerned with Rice's professional life as a writer and anthologist, and social and personal notes. Among the correspondents are Franklin P. Adams, Jane Addams, George Ade, Francis Fisher Browne, Bliss Carman, Mary H. Catherwood, Clarence Darrow, Finley Peter Dunne, Henry B. Fuller, Hamlin Garland, Edward Everett Hale, Alfred E. Housman, William Dean Howells, Julian Huxley, Ring Lardner, H.L. Mencken,...

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Letters from friends, fans, agents, authors, editors, publishers (primarily Bobbs-Merrill), actors and organizations.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Letters, and some extra material from Dell's wide circle of friends and literary associates. Some well-known names represented are: Sherwood Anderson, Mary Austin, George Cram Cook, Margery Currey, Theodore Dreiser, Max Eastman, Arthur Davison Ficke, Joseph Freeman, Julian Huxley, Elizabeth Lancaster, Vachel Lindsay, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound, Upton Sinclair, H.G. Wells and Edmund Wilson. There is extensive correspondence between Dell and Joseph Freeman, American poet, editor and...

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Contains extensive files on authors and other literary subjects that Butcher kept for her work.

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Correspondence, agreements, financial papers, wills, etc., documenting gifts to the Library of collections and money. Included are papers regarding the donation and endowed support of the Ayer, Wing, and Greenlee collections, and the Oakley fund for music. There are also donor files for personal papers (e.g., Willa Cather, Floyd Dell, Eunice Tietjens, Francis Fischer Browne, Henry Blake Fuller), railroad archives (Burlington, Illinois Central), and paintings (George P. A. Healy).

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, mostly pertaining to theatre, family business and Cloyd Head’s travels throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Central America. The correspondence includes letters to and from Cloyd Head’s wife, Eunice Tietjens; poet Maxwell Bodenheim; Poetry magazine editor Harriet Monroe; Theatre Arts Magazine editor Sheldon Cheney; Chicago Little Theater founder Maurice Browne; Goodman Theater...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Snapshots of Cloyd Head, Eunice Tietjens, Head’s second wife, Shirley Haycraft. Also includes snapshots and professional photographs of stage settings and productions (including the Raymond Jonson designed set for the Chicago Little Theatre production of The Grotesques); professional photographs of actors and other people at the Goodman Theater and with the Miami Players. See also Scrapbooks (disbound) for more photographs and negative sets of productions....

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This portion of the Tietjens papers contains such items as a passport, draft of her will, drawings, photographs, printed materials concerning Poetry magazine, and materials documenting Tietjens' friendship with Edgar Lee Masters, including manuscript copies of Masters' poems.

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This portion of the Tietjens papers contains such items as a passport, draft of her will, drawings, photographs, printed materials concerning Poetry magazine, and materials documenting Tietjens' friendship with Edgar Lee Masters, including manuscript copies of Masters' poems.

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This portion of the Tietjens papers contains such items as a passport, draft of her will, drawings, photographs, printed materials concerning Poetry magazine, and materials documenting Tietjens' friendship with Edgar Lee Masters, including manuscript copies of Masters' poems.

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Miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens' family: her grandmother Eunice Brigham, mother Idea Strong Hammond, brother Laurens Hammond, sisters Louise Hammond and Elizabeth Hammond Shepard, cousin Walter Strong and daughter Idea Tietjens.

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Mainly photographs of Eunice Tietjens, her siblings, her mother and her daughter Janet, but also a collection of images of other individuals, some of them well-known such as Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Harriet Monroe, Edgar Lee Masters, Sara Teasdale and Mark Twain. .

Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: The collection is made up primarily of correspondence from fellow journalists, novelists, historians, and poets such as Ben Hecht and Hendrik Willem Van Loon. Correspondents also include journalists Charles Dennis, Paul Scott Mowrer, Henry Justin Smith, John Gunther, Walter Allen White, and Vincent Starrett, as well as Van Wyck Brooks, Burton Rascoe, Alfred A. Knopf, Bennett Cerf, Jack Conroy, Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, Eunice Tietjens, and many others. These letters date mostly from...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Family items, including birth announcements, diplomas and army papers; notes and correspondence related to the founding of Cloyd Head’s Miami Players; programs, clippings, correspondence and souvenirs from productions by the Miami Players and others; programs and souvenirs from theater productions, museum exhibitions and other cultural events; souvenirs, maps and correspondence from trips to Europe, the Middle East, Central America and Africa; other miscellaneous material collected by Cloyd...

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The following items have been removed from their respective series due to their size. The folder numbers refer to the folders from which the oversize items were taken.

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Incoming correspondence is primarily from McIntosh & Otis, Inc., a manuscript service used by Tietjens, with a few letters from Edgar Lee Masters and Sara Teasdale. The miscellaneous material consists of drawings, clippings, an early scrapbook, sewing samples, picture cards of European opera singers, etc.