Inventory of the Jack Conroy Papers, 1924-1991


The Newberry Library
Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections
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Chicago, Illinois 60610-7324
USA
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Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Alison Hinderliter, 2003.

©2003.


Descriptive Summary of the Collection

Creator

Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Title

Jack Conroy Papers

Dates

1924-1991

Extent

43 cubic ft. (98 boxes and 5 oversize boxes)

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.

Language

Materials are in English.

Repository

Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections

Collection Call Number

Midwest MS Conroy

Collection Stack Location

3a 24 9-12


Administrative Information

Cite As

Jack Conroy Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.

Provenance

Gift, Jack Conroy, 1989.

Processed by

Diana Haskell, 1992; Martha Briggs, Alison Hinderliter, Pamela Olson, and Monica Petraglia, 2003.

Acknowledgements

This inventory was created with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this inventory do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Access

The Jack Conroy Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 5 folders at a time maximum (Priority II).

Ownership and Literary Rights

The Jack Conroy Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.


Biography of Jack Conroy

John Wesley Conroy was born Dec. 5, 1898 to Irish immigrants in Monkey Nest, a coal mining camp in Missouri. From age 13 he labored in various train car factories, steel mills, and auto factories. Conroy drew upon these experiences to write his first novel, The Disinherited. Widely reviewed, The Disinherited propelled its impoverished author, then 34, into public attention both in the U.S. and abroad and firmly established his reputation as an authentic worker-writer of the proletarian literary movement.

While editor of literary "little magazines" such as The Rebel Poet, The Anvil, and The New Anvil, Conroy helped launch writers like Richard Wright, Erskine Caldwell, and Nelson Algren. In 1938 Conroy came to Chicago, on Algren's suggestions, to work on the Illinois Writer's Project. Along with recording folktales and industrial folklore, Conroy was assigned to the black history portion of the IWP, and collaborated with Arna Bontemps, producing the pioneering black studies works They Seek A City (1945) and Anyplace But Here (1965), both about African-American migration from the South to the North. Conroy and Bontemps also collaborated on several successful juvenile books based on folktales, including The Fast Sooner Hound (1942) and Slappy Hooper, The Wonderful Sign Painter (1946)

In 1965, Conroy moved from Chicago back to Moberly, Missouri, where he lived until his death in 1990. He continued to write into his 80's, publishing The Weed King and Other Stories in 1985. Over the course of his career, Conroy was also a teacher and lecturer, and a mentor to younger radical writers.


Scope and Content of the Collection

Correspondence, works, scrapbooks, subject files, magazines, journal submissions, photographs, and ephemera documenting the life and literary output of Jack Conroy.

The bulk of the collection is correspondence to Jack from friends, relatives, coworkers, colleagues, and admirers. Prominent and frequent correspondents include Nelson Algren, Sanora Babb, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Malcolm Cowley, Lawrence "Bud" Fallon, Lou Gilbert, Curt Johnson, H.H. Lewis, James Light, Frank Mead, H.L. Mencken, Charlie Miller, Emerson Price, John C. "Jack" Rogers, and W.W. "Wallie" Wharton. Conroy's works are primarily typescript, and include entire novels as well as assorted lecture notes, poems, and sketches for his proposed autobiography, which he never completed. There are also copies of reviews and articles published in various newspapers. His subject files include newsclippings of people he knew and/or admired, biographical information, and reviews and promotional material for his works. He collected a vast amount of "little magazines" which illuminate the radical ideas and philosophies from the 1930's to the 1950's. His scrapbooks are also newsclippings, kept together by subject.

Conroy kept some originals of submissions he received for publication, as well as short works by friends or colleagues. He started to compile press about himself and his books, as well as articles on various topics, into seven scrapbooks. The collection is rounded out with an assortment of photographs and ephemera, including Conroy's various membership cards and some audiocassette tapes of Conroy reading from The Disinherited. Family and personal papers include cards and letters to and from various family members of Conroy's, with some financial and miscellaneous other personal documents.

Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.


Papers are organized in the following series:

Series 1: Incoming Correspondence, 1926-1990. Box(es) 1-38

Letters to Jack Conroy plus material accompanying the letters, such as clippings, short works by the correspondent, and other ephemera. Topics of letters vary from travel postcards, Christmas cards, and other friendly notes to letters relating to the business of Conroy's literary output. After the alphabetical run of correspondents there are several folders of letters grouped by similar subject, such as requests to have Conroy speak at various functions, fan mail, and solicitations from aspiring authors and others. There are also a few letters to Conroy's co-editors Hugh Hanley (a.k.a. Emerson Price) and to Nelson Algren, as well as letters written to Carolee Hazlett, who acted as Conroy's mouthpiece after his stroke in 1988.

Includes some oversize material, as indicated. See box +93 for Correspondence - Oversize.

Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, with correspondence by subject filed alphabetically afterwards.

Series 2: Outgoing Correspondence, 1929-1990. Box(es) 39

Letters from Jack Conroy, and, after 1988, from Carolee Hazlett speaking for Jack Conroy. Undated and unidentified correspondence is at the end of the series.

Arranged alphabetically by addressee.

Series 3: Works, 1933-1986. Box(es) 40-44

Originals (mostly typescript), photocopies, and printed versions of the literary works of Jack Conroy. This series includes novels, articles, drafts, book reviews, short stories, essays, lectures, teaching notes, plays, poems, and fragments or sketches.

Includes some oversize material, as indicated. See box +93 for Works - Oversize.

Arranged alphabetically by title or subject of work

Series 4: Subject Files, 1933-1982. Box(es) 45-+52

Compilations of clippings, correspondence, and other printed material based on an individual, a topic, or a literary work of Conroy's. Includes materials on people Conroy knew and/or admired (such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Studs Terkel, and Tennessee Williams); on topics which interested Conroy (such as Doggies and Incidental Arthurs [Authors], both folder titles which were coined by Conroy); and on the promotion, reviews, feedback, correspondence, and ephemera about the publication of his works.

Arranged alphabetically by subject title.

Series 5: Personal Magazine Collection, 1864-1987. Box(es) 53-89

Jack Conroy’s personal collection of magazines consists of numerous leftist, labor, and literary magazines, some only in a few issues, dating mainly from the 1930’s and 1940’s. Most focus on the issues of political injustice, labor movements, discrimination and racism. Accumulated by Conroy over the years, titles with numerous issues include the Berkeley Barb, Common Sense, International Literature, New Masses, Health and Hygiene, In Fact, Modern Monthly, Pacific Weekly, Partisan Review, Poetry Northwest, The Tramp, Windsor Quarterly, and Wormwood Review. The collection also includes literary magazines that Conroy edited, such as The Anvil, The Rebel Poet and The New Anvil. This list also notes missing issues and the presence of works by and about Conroy.

Titles in the collection that duplicate Newberry Library holdings have been removed if they do not contain material by or about Conroy. See the Conroy Accession File for details.

Arranged by size and then alphabetically by journal title and chronologically by publication date.

Series 6: Submissions, ca. 1930-1986. Box(es) 90-91

Poems, essays, plays, and stories, solicited and unsolicited, by writers other than Conroy. Some works were submitted specifically for publication in one of the little magazines or anthologies edited by Conroy, such as the New Anvil, Rebel Poet, and Unrest. Others appear to be works given to Jack from his friends and colleagues for his informal review, or entertainment. Some of the poems and shorter pieces may have been collected by Conroy himself. Included are works by James F. Light (writing about Nathanael West) and Neal Rowland.

Arranged alphabetically by author, with miscellaneous at the end.

Series 7: Photographs, ca. 1930-1984 . Box(es) 92-+93

Prints and occasional negatives of Jack Conroy, his family, his friends, and his hometown of Moberly, Missouri. Included are some photographs of Gladys Conroy, and of Nelson Algren.

Arranged alphabetically by subjects of photograph: Jack Conroy, alone, and with family members, friends and colleagues (and arranged chronologically therein); then photographs of friends and family members by themselves; and of Moberly, Missouri, and miscellaneous.

At the end of this series is listed a box of oversize material from the Correspondence, Works, and Photographs Series.

Series 8: Scrapbooks, ca. 1929-1950’s. Box(es) 94-95

Scrapbooks compiled by Jack Conroy, dating primarily from the 1930’s and 1940’s and consisting mainly of newspaper and periodical clippings either by or about the author, his books and activities, and topics that interested him. Four of the seven scrapbooks are autobiographical, and contain articles written about Conroy and reviews of his works, particularly The Disinherited and They Seek a City, which he wrote with Arna Bontemps. There are articles about Unrest, a compilation of the Rebel Poets edited by Conroy, and The Anvil and The New Anvil. A few reviews of his children’s books as well as articles about the leftist and proletarian literary scene are also included. The final three scrapbooks are topical. One contains a collection of the column, “Friendly Fighters,” which Conroy wrote anonymously for a World War II civilian defense newsletter; another contains articles on mining; and the final volume includes clippings on post World War II living conditions, politics, and labor relations.

Arranged by topic and chronologically therein.

Series 9: Ephemera, 1931-1991. Box(es) 96

Cards, blank stationery, posters, sketches and artwork, lists, and audiocassettes collected by, given to, or about Jack Conroy. Two of the audiocassettes are a recording of a program by the American Audio Prose Library in Columbia Missouri; it is of Jack Conroy being interviewed by Robert Thompson in 1981 about Conroy’s career as editor of Rebel Poet, The Anvil, and The New Anvil; as well as Conroy’s telling of The Partisan magazine takeover of The Anvil. The interview also includes Conroy reading excerpts from The Disinherited.

Arranged alphabetically by type of material.

Series 10: Family and Personal Papers, 1924-1988. Box(es) 97-99

Correspondence, incoming and outgoing, clippings and works, by and about members of Jack Conroy’s immediate and extended family. Where known, the relationship to Conroy is noted on the outside of the folder. Also contains some financial and personal papers of Conroy, including tax information, travel itineraries, and insurance information.

Arranged alphabetically by name of relative.


Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.

Names

Subjects


Container List

Series 1: Incoming Correspondence, 1926-1990

Letters to Jack Conroy plus material accompanying the letters, such as clippings, short works by the correspondent, and other ephemera. Topics of letters vary from travel postcards, Christmas cards, and other friendly notes to letters relating to the business of Conroy's literary output. After the alphabetical run of correspondents there are several folders of letters grouped by similar subject, such as requests to have Conroy speak at various functions, fan mail, and solicitations from aspiring authors and others. There are also a few letters to Conroy's co-editors Hugh Hanley (a.k.a. Emerson Price) and to Nelson Algren, as well as letters written to Carolee Hazlett, who acted as Conroy's mouthpiece after his stroke in 1988.
Includes some oversize material, as indicated. See box +93 for Correspondence - Oversize.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, with correspondence by subject filed alphabetically afterwards.

Box Folder Contents
1 1 A., Katie, ca. 1950
1 1a A. A. Wyn, Inc., re: Midland Humor, 1947-1947
1 2 A. M. Heath & Company, Ltd. (authors' agents, London), 1934
1 3 Aaron, A. J., 1989
1 4 Aaron, Abe, 1934-1935, 1951
1 5 Aaron, Chester, 1965-1977
1 6 Aaron , Dan, n. d., 1959, 1968-1984
1 7 Aaron, Jan, 1955
1 8 Aarstad, Jean, 1970-1972
1 9 Abernathy, Milton, n. d., ca. 1935
1 10 Abrams, Al, 1964-1977
1 11 Abril, Xavier, 1933
1 12 Ackerson, John, (Jack); see Jarrboe, George
1 13 Acklund, Carol (also photographs), 1974-1984
1 14 Adamic, Louis, 1934-1935
1 15 Adams, James Taylor, 1932-1936
1 16 Adams, James (Jim), n. d., 1976-1983
1 17 Adamson, Martha, 1934
1 18 Addis, William, 1945
1 19 Adler, Betty, n. d., 1963-1969
1 20 Adult Education Council of Greater Chicago, 1965
1 21 Afro-American Pageant, 1934
1 22 Agnew, Jim, 1978
1 23 Ahrens, Robert, 1959-1960
1 24 Al Fresco Advertising Co., 1945-1946
1 25 Albertini, Virgil, 1968, 1975
1 26 Albins, William A., 1934
1 27 Alexander, Firnist J. and Margaret Walker, 1975
1 28 Alexandroff, Mirron, (Mike), n. d., 1962-1966
1 28a Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. - Borzoi Books, 1947
1 29 Algren, Amanda, 1973
1 30 Algren, Nelson, (also to Algren, to Otto Preminger, works) 1935-1956, 1973
1 31 Allard, Gerry, 1956-1957
1 32 Allard, Irene, n. d., 1965-1969
1 33 Allen, Esther, 1934
1 34 Alphran, Blanche, 1967
1 35 Alroy, Jack, 1934
1 36 Alsberg, Henry G. (Director, WPA Federal Writers' Projects), 1935
1 37 American Association of University Women, 1946-1947
1 38 American Broadcasting Company, 1962
1 39 Ameringer, Siegfried, 1932
1 40 Ames, Jean and Russell, 1950-1987
1 41 Ancell, Stan, (City of Moberly), 1975
1 42 Anderson, David D., n. d., 1973-1980
1 43 Anderson, M. Margaret, 1945-1947
1 44 Anderson, Sherwood, 1931
1 45 Andler, Kathlyn, n. d.
1 46 Andreas, Miriam, 1965
1 47 Angoff, Allan, 1962-1968
1 48 Angoff, Charles, 1962-1968
1 49 Ankenbrand, Frank, Jr., n. d.
1 50 Antonio, Don ("Mad Anthony"), n. d., 1955-1964
1 51 Appel, Benjamin, n. d., 1939-1970
1 52 Appel, David (Philadelphia Inquirer), 1943-1948
1 53 Aray, Langston, to The Chicago Defender, 1946
1 54 Arensman, Betts, ca. 1950
1 55 Arentz, Bob, 1942
1 56 Armstrong, George and Gerry, 1964-1971
1 57 Arnold, Lucy, 1946
1 58 Arnold, Ned, 1970
1 59 Arnold, Russell (Rus), 1966
1 60 Arthur, Chester A. Jr., 1933, 1968
1 61 Arvin, Newton, 1934
1 62 Asbell, Bernard (Bernie), 1955
1 63 Asch, Yanna, 1965-1968
1 64 Ascoli, Max , 1949
1 65 Asenjo, Antonio, 1932
2 66 Aucoin, Jim, 1974
2 67 Audience Group, The, 1947
2 68 Authors Club - Carnegie Fund, 1939
2 69 Ayres, Homer, 1939
2 70 Babb, Sanora (also works, photographs), n. d., 1971-1988
2 71 Back, Charles, 1975
2 72 Backes, Clair, n. d., 1973
2 73 Baker, Keith G., 1968
2 74 Baker, King, 1938
2 75 Baker, Leslie, 1963
2 76 Baker, Orville, 1953
2 77 Baker, Rainald V., 1964
2 78 Balch, Jack, n. d., 1934-1949
2 79 Balchowsky, Ed, n. d., 1955
2 80 Baldwin, Roger N., 1932
2 81 Ballard, Tom, 1961, 1988
2 82 Banks, Ann, 1978-1980
2 83 Barba, Harry, 1969
2 84 Barber, Solon R., 1931-1932
2 85 Barnard, Harry, n. d., 1961-1971
2 86 Barnard, Ruth, 1983
2 87 Barnes, Jim, 1976-1977
2 88 Barrett, Bob, 1973, 1980
2 89 Barry, Ken, 1976
2 90 Bartfield, Lou, ca. 1950
2 91 Bartlett, Elizabeth, 1964-1980
2 92 Bartlett, Paul, 1960-1982
2 93 Barzun, Isabel, 1973
2 94 Basinski, Michael D. (Mike) n. d., 1978-1979
2 95 Batts, Jim, 1965
2 96 Bauder, Alice, 1967-1973
2 97 Baum, Inez, 1971
2 98 Baumgartner, Alden (Al), 1951-1988
2 99 Baumgartner, Robert, 1973
2 100 Baxter, Jerry, 1947-1978
2 101 Beard, Pat, 1966
2 102 Beattie, Herbert W., 1954
2 103 Beauchamp, William E., 1964
2 104 Becher, Paul, 1972
2 105 Beck, Emily Morison, 1973-1974
2 106 Becker, Barbara, 1977
2 107 Beckham, Rexford, 1965
2 108 Beckner, Dwight, 1963
2 109 Bedrosian, Arsha-Louise, 1953
2 110 Beggs, Berenice B., n. d., 1954-1969
2 111 Bell, Eva, 1962-1973
2 112 Bell, Mary, 1988, 1989
2 113 Benchly, Alex Jane, 1966-1975
2 114 Bender, Eleanor M., 1971-1972
2 115 Bennett, Alfred Gordon, to Noah F. Whitaker (editor, Pegasus), n.d.
2 116 Benson, Flynn C., 1958
2 117 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1945-1946
2 118 Berg, Paul, 1978,
2 119 Bergman, Rose, n. d., 1954
2 120 Bernstein, Harry, n. d., 1980-1981
2 121 Bewley, Betty, 1967-1968
2 122 Biggs, Ellinger, ("Edith"), n. d.
2 123 Biggs, Robert Oldham, (photograph of W. Wharton and Biggs) n. d., 1967, 1978
2 124 Birch, George J., 1935
2 125 Bishop, E. M., (Ed), (also works), 1982
2 126 Bitner, R. Frank, 1969
3 127 Blair, Walter, 1933-1948
3 128 Blake, Fay M., 1973
3 129-131 Blake, James, (letters from prison to Conroy and Algren), n. d., 1946-1959
3 132 Blakely, Gwendolyn; see Brooks, Gwendolyn
3 133 Blakely, Henry and Kathleen, n. d.
3 134 Blankenship, Reuben, 1953
3 135 Blassingame, Lurton, 1947
3 136 Bliven, Bruce, (The New Republic), 1933
3 137 Blockson, Charles L., 1973-1974
3 138 Bloomfield, Gary, 1964
3 139 Blue, Jesse, n. d., 1941-1950
3 140 Blum, Irving D. , 1956
3 140a Bobbs Merrill Company, Publishers, 1947
3 131 Bodenheim, Maxwell, (also works), n. d., 1954, 1967
3 142 Bofman, A., 1973-1976
3 143 Bogan, Jim, n. d., 1977-1984
3 144 Bolster, Eleanor, 1964
3 145 Bonell, Edwin (Ed), 1969
3 146 Bonetti, Kay, 1980-1985
3 147 Bonino, Louise, 1962
3 148 Bonis, Henry S., 1974
3 149 Bonner, Leighton, 1932
3 150 Bonosky, Phillip (Phil), n. d., 1961-1983
3 151-155 Bontemps, Arna, (also to Bontemps) n. d., 1936-1978
4 156 Boorstin, Daniel, 1963
4 157 Borgida, Lee, n. d., 1946
4 158 Boring, Rand, n. d.
4 159 Borisov, B., 1932
4 160 Botkin, Ben A., n. d., 1932-1979
4 161 Bougere, Joe and Lu, 1952-1975
4 162 Bowen, Merlin and Ruth, n. d., 1950-1986
4 163 Bower, Philip (Mrs.), 1953
4 164 Bowker, Betrenia (Trina), n.d. 1944-1984
4 165 Bradbury, Walter I., 1946-1971
4 166 Bradley, Van Allen, n. d., 1952, 1975
4 167 Bradsher, Mary E., 1940
4 168 Brady, Kristin and Fenson, Avrum, n. d., 1983
4 169 Bragg, M., 1938
4 170 Bragin, Moe; see Field, Ben
4 171 Braiterman, Meyer, 1964
4 172 Branch, Douglas, 1934-1948
4 173 Branch, Edgar M., 1975
4 174 Brand, Millen, 1939-1975
4 174a Brandt & Brandt, 1947
4 175 Brathovde, John Sr. and Mary Rose, 1968-1985
4 176 Braverman, Harry, 1956
4 177 Breihan, Carl W., 1951-1952
4 178 Breman, Paul, 1964
4 179 Brennan, Madeline, 1951
4 180 Brent, Claire, n. d.
4 181 Brent, Jennie and Stuart, 1948
4 182 Brewster, Dorothy, 1935-1966
4 183 Bricker, Harry, n. d., 1967-1982
4 184 Brill, Ernest, n. d., 1974-1980
4 185 Bristow, Kenneth and Sanka, n. d., 1956-1988
4 186 Brittain, Vera, 1964
4 187 Brookhauser, Frank, 1946
4 188 Brooks, Ernest, 1951
4 189 Brooks, Gwendolyn, (also photocopy of one poem) n. d., 1945-1983
4 190 Brow, Bob, n. d.
4 191 Brown, (?), 1935
4 192 Brown, Andreas L., n. d., 1964
4 193 Brown, Bob, n. d.
4 194 Brown, Dave, 1934-1939
4 195 Brown, Dee, 1950-1977
4 196 Brown, Dorothy Moulding, 1947
4 197 Brown, Emil, (Charlie), n. d.
4 198 Brown, Frank, 1934
4 199 Brown, Lester E., 1947
4 200 Brown, Lloyd L., 1948
4 201 Brown, Paul, n. d.
4 202 Browne, Ray, 1973-1974
4 203 Browning, Alice, n. d., 1946-1974
4 204 Bruccoli, Matthew, 1968-1977
4 205 Bruder Mildred, 1950-1974
4 206 Bruell, Carol, Edwin, and Eleanor, 1963-1985
4 207 Brundage, M. R., ("Slim"), (regarding College of Complexes) 1952-1983
4 208 Bruner, Sylvan, 1934-1935
4 209 Bryan, Horace, 1941
4 210 Bryan, Sharon Kelly, 1969
4 211 Bryant, Jerry, 1964
4 212 Buchanan, Mildred and Samuel, 1977
4 213 Buchanan, Anna and W. C., 1966
4 214 Buck, Ashley, (also to Peggy Werkley, works) n. d., 1939-1980
4 215 Buck, Virginia, 1980-1983
4 216 Buckman, Gertrude, 1963
4 217 Buckmaster, Henrietta, n. d.
4 218 Buehler, A. A., 1934
5 219 Buhle, Paul, 1976
5 220 Bukowski, Charles, n. d., 1964, 1976
5 221 Bulosan, Carlos, 1946
5 222 Bunning, Kenneth, 1977
5 223 Burgess, Ray, 1973
5 224 Burke, John Gordon, (American Libraries Bulletin) 1968-1974
5 225 Burman, Marie, 1949
5 226 Burn, Barbara, 1971
5 227 Burns, Ben, 1947-1951
5 228 Burnshaw, Stanley, 1934-1948
5 229 Burroughs, Charles and Margaret, (also art print by M. Burroughs; see also: subject file: DuSable Museum of African-American History), n. d., 1950-1987
5 230 Bushman, Betty and John, n. d., 1945-1984
5 231 Buttitta, A. J., 1933
5 232 Cahill, Paul, 1962-1963
5 233 Caldwell, Erskine and Virginia, (also to Tom Conroy) 1933-1984
5 234 Callahan, Larry, 1956-1965
5 235 Calmer, Alan, 1935
5 236 Calverton, Victor Francis, (V. F.), (The Modern Quarterly/Monthly), 1932-1933
5 237 Cameron, Angus, 1969-1972
5 238 Camp, William M., 1945
5 239 Campbell, Betty, 1973
5 240 Campbell, Effie, 1948-1950
5 241 Cantwell, Robert (Bob), 1932-1933
5 242 Caplan, Alfred, 1933-1937
5 243 Cappon, Alex, (University of Missouri), 1969
5 244 Cardwell, Russ, n. d., ca. 1986
5 245 Carlbom, Art, n. d., 1954-1969
5 246 Carlisle, Harry, 1965
5 247 Carlson, Don J., (postcard photo of Clarence Darrow) 1975
5 248 Carlson, Eric W., (University of Connecticut), 1975
5 249 Carlson, Maurice Irwin, 1934
5 250 Carmichael, M. Christopher, (The Black Bard), 1932
5 251 Carmon, Walt, (New Masses, also to H. H. Lewis) n. d., 1929-1962
5 252 Carruth, Hayden, (to Walt), 1973
5 253 Carter, Mary, 1974
5 254 Carter, Tim, (to Jerry Swartz ?), n. d.
5 255 Casciato, Art, 1982
5 256 Case, Richard G. (Dick), 1968
5 257 Castilio, Jose Guillermo, (Center for Inter-American Relations), 1971
5 258 Cerf, Bennett, 1950
5 259 Chambers, Mary Susan, (also works), 1951-1954
5 260 Chambers, Whittaker, (New Masses), 1932
5 261 Chamier, Richard J., n. d., 1967-1982
5 262 Channing-Renton, E. M., 1929-1934
5 263 Chantin, Henry, (Rutgers), 1973
5 264 Chaplin, Rudolph ("Boots"), 1938-1939
5 265 Charles, Howard, (H. J. or "Skip"), (Robert Bentley, Inc.), 1978-1979
5 266 Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1970-1973
5 266a Charles Scribner's Sons, Publishers, 1947
5 267 Charmchi, Maryam, 1988
5 268 Charters, Sandy, 1958
5 269 Chaunt, P., (to Joe), 1934
6 270 Chenneviere, Andre and Suzanne (later Suzanne Lehmann), and Henri Lehmann, (also poems), n. d., 1945-1984
6 271 Chernus, Judith, (Viking Press), 1964
6 272 Cheyney, Ralph, n. d., 1930-1931
6 273 Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 1964-1965
6 273a Chicago Daily News, 1947
6 274 Chicago Defender (also strike poster), 1946-1947
6 275 Chicago Schools Journal, 1950
6 276 Chomyk, Mike, 1988
6 277 Christian, Henry A., 1970-1988
6 278 Christiansen, Richard, 1966
6 279 Church, Arthur, n. d., 1952
6 280 Cianciolo, Pauline A., (American Library Association), 1970
6 281 Citadel Press, The, 1948
6 282 City Bank and Trust Co., 1966
6 283 Clair, Jay H., n. d.
6 284 Clark, Bennett Champ, (U. S. Senate), 1933
6 285 Clark, June, n. d.
6 286 Clemens, Cyril, (Mark Twain Journal) 1967-1971
6 287 Clements, Albert Edward, 1931-1938
6 288 Clifford, Arthur (Art), 1938-1939
6 289 Clift, David H., (American Library Association), 1967
6 290 Close, David, 1978
6 291 Clugston, W. G., 1947
6 292 Clyne, Barbara, n. d.
6 293 Coapman, Dave, 1957, 1969
6 294 Coates, Grace Stone, n.d., 1931-1933
6 295 Code, Grant, 1953-1973
6 296 Coe, Katherine Hunter, 1932
6 297 Coffield, J. Robert, (Bob), n. d.
6 298 Cohen, Abbott S., 1934
6 299 Cohen, Alfred, 1933-1934
6 300 Cohen, Florence, n. d., 1961-1974
6 301 Cohen, Sara, n. d., 1948
6 302 Collins, William, 1963
6 302a Columbia University Press, 1947
6 303 Comerchero, Victor, 1965
6 304 Condon, Jack, n. d., 1963
6 305 Connell, Virginia, (Carnegie Public Library, Moberly), 1948, 1951
6 306 Conrad, Earl, n. d., 1947-1976
6 307 Conroy, Bette, (also works) n. d., 1967-1973
6 308 Conroy, Jack (illustrator; no relation to Conroy), 1958
6 309 Conroy, Thomas P. (Tom) and Muriel, (also photographs), n. d., 1950-1981
6 310 Cook, Fannie, n. d., 1939-1949
6 311 Cooksley, S. Bert, 1932
6 312 Copeland, Josephine, n. d.
6 313 Corey, Paul, 1933-1986
6 314 Corey, Ruth Lechlitner, 1939, 1973
6 315 Corrie, Joe, 1931
6 316 Coryn, Julie F., 1969-1970
6 317 Cosgrave, Mary Silva, 1951-1957
6 318 Covici, Friede Inc. Publishers, 1933-1936
6 319 Covici, Pascal (Viking Press), 1941-1964
6 320 Covin, Kelly, 1970-1971
6 321 Cowley, Malcolm, (also to H. H. Lewis), n. d., 1931-1973
6 322 Cramer, Rebecca, 1982
6 323 Crandall, Gordon, 1967-1986
6 324 Crandall, Norma, n. d., 1958-1965
6 325 Crandall, Richard, 1979
6 326 Crank, Arnold B. ("A. B. C."), n. d., 1969-1979
6 327 Crawford, Bruce, n. d.
6 328 Crawford, John, 1977-1982
6 329 Crawford, Nelson Antrim, 1947-1955
6 330 Creamer, Joseph, n. d.
6 331 Creed, Howard H., n. d., 1950-1985
6 332 Creed, Roscoe, 1982
6 333 Crews, Judson C., (also works) n. d., 1939
7 334 Crighton, Florence, 1974
7 335 Crocker, Joseph (Joe), 1934
7 336 Cromie, Robert (Bob) and Alice Hamilton, (also works), n. d., 1946-1979
7 337 Cross, Hollace, 1968
7 338 Crossley, Wallace, 1934
7 339 Crown Publishers, 1962
7 340 Croy, Homer, 1939-1964
7 341 Cruden, Janet and Robert (Bob), 1933-1989
7 342 Cumberland, David, 1984
7 343 Cummings, Ralph, 1956
7 344 Cunningham, Bill, n. d.
7 345 Cunningham, Virginia, (Avant Garde Magazine) 1965-1969
7 346 Curry, David, (Apple Magazine), 1969
7 347 Curtis, Carol and Clyde, 1982
7 348 Cuthbert, Clifton, 1937
7 349 Cutler, L. G., to Hugh Hanley (Emerson Price), 1932
7 350 Dahlberg, Edward, 1934-1970
7 351 Daily Worker, 1932
7 352 Daly, R.W., (Bill), 1966
7 353 Danco, Walter, 1962-1966
7 354 Danley, F. W., 1934
7 355 Daves, Maureen, 1964
7 356 Davey, Thomas K., n. d.
7 357 Davidson, Donald, (Lawrence Hill Publishers), 1982
7 358 Davis, Harry, n. d.
7 359 Davis, Helen, Frank, Mark, Lynn, and Bonnie, 1950
7 360 Dawson, Louise M., n. d.
7 361 Day, Dorothy, (St. Joseph's House), 1968-1974
7 362 De Armand, Marjorie, (New Masses), 1944
7 363 De Jong, David C., 1931
7 363a De Vries, Peter (Pete) (New Yorker) 1947
7 364 Decker Press, 1949
7 365 Dedmon, Emmett, (Chicago Sun Times), 1947-1973
7 366 DeFord, Miriam Allen, 1932-1963
7 367 DeLanney, Gene C., 1970
7 368 Dell Publishing Co., 1932
7 369 Dellinger, Harold L., (Foolkiller), (also works), n. d., 1955-1987
7 370 DeLoach, Alice, 1981
7 371 Demby, Betty J., n. d., 1966-1967
7 372 Derleth, August, n. d., 1969
7 373 Dero, Gertrude Don, n. d.
7 374 Derrickson, Howard, n. d., 1966-1968
7 375 Diamond, Alan, 1954
7 376 Diamond, Edwin, 1951
7 377 Diamond, Esta, (also works), 1949
7 378 Dickerson, Herbert L., 1935
7 379 Dickinson, Donald C., (University of Missouri Library), n. d. 1967-1969
7 380-383 Diggles, Joseph Cavanaugh (Joe), (also photograph), n. d., 1939-1973
7 384 Diggles, Mary, (also Mary Diggles Forsmark) n. d., 1976-1985
7 385 Dilliard, Irving, 1961-1964
7 386 Dime Novel Club, 1945-1946
7 387 Dinamov, Sergei, (Intl. Union of Revolutionary Writers), 1933-1935
7 388 Dixon, Ray, (The Workers Theatre), 1934
8 389 Dobie, J. Frank, 1962-1963
8 390 Dochtermann, Wolfram J., (Columbia College), 1965
8 390a Dodd, Mead & Company, 1947
8 391 Dolowy, Merry Ann and Gus, (also photographs and drawing), 1964-1968
8 392 Donahey, Mary D., 1946
8 393 Donovan, Dianne, (Chicago Tribune), n. d.
8 394 Donnen, Leon, 1932
8 395 Doray, Leon, 1934
8 396 Dorinson, Amos ("Dorry") and Zena, n. d., 1949-1989
8 397 Dorrell, Betty, 1975
8 398 Dorson, Richard M., 1939-1966
8 399 Dos Passos, John, n. d.
8 400 Doubleday and Company, 1947, 1957
8 401 Dover, Maureen, 1965
8 402 Dowling, Dave, 1972
8 403 Dowling, Edward and Anna, 1959
8 404 Downey, Doug, n. d., 1963
8 405 Dreis, Hazel (to Ralph Cheyney), n. d.
8 406 Dreiser, Elizabeth, 1964
8 407 Drenner, Don V. R., n. d., 1966-1976
8 4048 Drew, Bettina, 1984
8 409 Driskell, Jo, n. d.
8 410 Drummond, Don, (University of Missouri), 1963
8 411 Dubkin, Leonard, n. d., 1969-1972
8 412 Du Breuil, Paul and Janet, 1964
8 413 Dunlap, Franklin, n. d., 1963-1982
8 414 Dunn, John A. (Jack), 1963
8 415 Dunne, Thomas and Anne, n. d.
8 416 Duster, Alfreda, 1947-1954
8 417 E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1947, 1964
8 418 Eagleton, Thomas F., (U. S. Senate), 1969-1973
8 419 Eby, Cecil D., 1968-1969
8 420 Editions Sociales, (to Michel Fabre), 1966
8 421 Edmunds, Murrell, 1950-1974
8 422 Edson, C. L., 1947
8 423 Ehrlich, Sophia K., 1949
8 424 Eiseley, Loren, 1969-1975
8 425 Eisenschiml, Otto, 1946
8 426 Eilshemius, Louis M., to Hugh Hanley (Emerson Price), 1929
8 427 Ek, Charles M., 1929-1943
8 428 Elistratova, Anne, 1934
8 429 Elitzik, Paul, 1980-1984
8 430 Ellinger, Rory, 1973
8 431 Ely-Estorick, Eric, n. d., 1934
8 432 Embree, Charles (C. B.), 1974-1980
8 433 Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1959
8 433a Encyclopedia Britannica, 1969
8 434 Engels, Bernice, 1950
8 435 England, Robert, 1934
8 436 Engler, G. B., n. d.
8 437 English, Maurice, n. d., 1953-1974
8 438 Ensis, E. Manuel, 1972
8 439 Enters, Angna, 1963
8 440 Erickson, Conroy, 1964
8 441 Eriksson, Paul S., 1973
8 442 Erisman, Robert O. (Bob), n. d., 1948-1959
8 443 Eskew, Garnett L., n. d.
8 443a Esquire, 1947
8 444 Ettinger, Alice, n. d.
8 445 Ettinger, Andrew, (Trident Press), 1965
8 446 Euston, Jake H., (The Westerners), 1958
8 447 Evans, Hundo J., 1932
8 448 Evers, William, 1932
8 448a F. S. Crofts & Co., 1947
8 449 Fabre, Michel and Genevieve, (also photographs, works), n. d., 1963-1988
8 450 Fagin, Nathan Bryllion, (also publications, clippings) 1931-1970
8 451 Falk, Hans-Joachim, (German Embassy), 1965
8 452 Falkowski, Edward J., (Ed), 1931-1982
9 453-456a Fallon, Lawrence ("Bud"), (also to Nelson Algren, Jesse Blue, and Martha Blankenship), n. d., 1937-1971
9 457 Falzone, Clifford, 1970
9 458 Farmers Weekly, 1934
9 459 Farnham, Rebecca, (International Bookshop), 1934
9 460 Farnsworth, Robert M. (Bob), 1971-1975
9 461 Farrar, John, (Publisher), 1933-1947, 1973
9 462 Farrell, James (Jim), (also to Nelson Algren), 1949-1971
9 463 Feikema, Feike (Fred) (See also Manfred, Frederick Feikema), 1947-1951
9 464 Feinberg, Leonard, 1941, 1950
9 465 Feldman, Abe, 1949, 1969
9 466 Feldman, Eugene (see also: subject file: The DuSable Museum of African-American History), 1957
9 467 Felson, Hank, to Chicago Sun, n. d.
9 468 Fennelly, Orienne, n. d., 1960-1964
9 469 Fenson, Avrum; see Brady, Kristin and Fenson, Avrum
9 470 Ferguson, Hazel R., (Friends of Literature), 1948-1958
9 471 Ferguson, Irene, n. d., 1976-1986
9 472 Ferguson, J. E. (Jim), 1938
9 473 Ferrini, Vincent, 1978-1980
9 474 Fetzer, Tony, (also works), n. d., 1947-1969
10 475 Field, Ben (Moe Bragin), 1932-1982
10 476 Field, Carolyn W., 1974
10 477 Filler, Louis, 1964
10 478 Finch, Marge and Russell (Russ), 1959-1970
10 479 Fink, Janice, n. d., 1943-1950
10 480 Finnan-Haddie, Alexander, 1970
10 481 First Congress of Soviet Writers, 1934, 1946
10 482 Fischer, Hanns, 1966
10 483 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1945-1956
10 484 Fisher, Vardis, 1963-1964
10 485 Fisk, Calvin Rogers (Cal), 1949-1973
10 486 Flanagan, T., 1964
10 487 Flerlage, Luise and Ray, (Kinnara Distributors), 1971
10 488 Fles, Barthold, 1970
10 489 Flint, Mary G., 1963
10 490 Flintan, Douglas, (also works), n. d.
10 491 Flintoff, Corey, 1974
10 492 Flory, Ishmael, (to John V. Garvick), 1974
10 493 Folsom, Franklin, (League of American Writers), (also photographs and to Nelson Algren), 1939-1952
10 494 Folsom, Michael, n. d., 1966-1977
10 495 Forbes and Company Book Publishers, 1947
10 496 Forsmark, Mary Diggles; see Diggles, Mary
10 497 Foster, Mary, n. d., 1945-1987
10 498 Francisco, Pastor R., (to Donald C. Bowden), 1945
10 499 Franklin, John Hope, 1966
10 500 Franklin, Robert, 1935
10 501 Franklin, Thomas R., (Burt Franklin and Co., Inc.), 1975-1979
10 502 Frazier, Forrest, n. d., 1951-1968
10 503 Frederick, John T. (Federal Writer's Project), 1938, 1947
10 504 Freedman, Bunill, 1956
10 505 Freeman, Joseph, (New Masses), 1933
10 506 French, Warren G., 1967
10 507 Fried, Emanuel (Manny), 1977-1986
10 508 Fried, Lewis (Lew), (also works), n.d., 1969-1978
10 509 Friedman, Irving F. (Irv), n. d., 1967-1981
10 510 Friedman, Lillian ("La Belle"), n. d., 1946-1969
10 511 Friend, Joseph H., to I. Margolis, 1943
10 512 Fudge, W. K. (Bill), 1965-1968
10 513 Fujio, Masaki, 1932-1933
10 514 Fujiwara, Sakae, 1969
10 515 Fulbright, J. W., (U. S. Senate), 1954
10 516 Funaroff, S., n. d., 1933
10 517 Furey, Charlie and Marie L., 1963-1966
10 518 Furman, Leonard (Len) and Shirley, n. d., 1966-1974
10 519 Furr, Georgiana, 1985-1990
10 520 Fury, Bill, ca. 1950
10 521 Gadd, Sam, n. d., 1962-1972
10 522 Gaer, Joseph, (Boni and Gaer, Inc.), 1931-1946
10 523 Gallagher, Jack, 1948
10 524 Gannon, Joe, n. d., 1975-1983
10 525 Gannon, Tom, n. d., 1969-1974
10 526 Garlin, Sender, (Progressive Weekly), 1939
10 527 Garrett, Molly, 1978
10 528 Gartner, Dennis, 1969-1970
10 529 Garvey, A. Jacques (Mrs.), 1964
10 530 Garvey, Flo, n. d.