TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Scope and Content of the Collection
Series 1: Outgoing Correspondence, 1922-1956
Series 2: Incoming Correspondence, 1919-1956
Series 3: Works by Dawson, 1919-ca. 1956
Series 4: Works by Literary Associates, ca. 1910-1967
Series 5: Subject Files, ca.1920-1956
Series 6: Law Office Files, 1919-1954
Series 8: Family Papers, 1810-1988
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Inventory of the Mitchell Dawson Papers, 1810-1988
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2005. ©2005. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Dawson, Mitchell |
| Title | Mitchell Dawson Papers |
| Dates | 1810-1988 |
| Extent | 39 cubic ft. (68 boxes, 1 oversize box and 17 rolled posters) |
| Abstract | Works, correspondence, and papers of lawyer and poet Mitchell Dawson, and also papers, photographs and genealogical information of the Dawson, Manierre and Hahn families. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Dawson |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 24 4-5 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Mitchell Dawson Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift of Hilary Beckett Schlessiger, Jill Metzger, and Gregory Dawson, 1988.
Processed by
Wendell Link, 2003; Lisa Janssen, 2005.
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 Mitchell Dawson Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 5 folders at a time maximum (Priority II).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Mitchell Dawson 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.
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Biography of Mitchell Dawson
Chicago lawyer, poet, and author.
Mitchell Dawson was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 13, 1890. He was the son of George Ellis Dawson, a prominent area lawyer, and Eva Manierre Dawson. The Dawson household was filled with music and creative endeavor. His parents met as members of a Beethoven society and his father George kept extensive diaries. His brother Manierre Dawson became an abstract painter of note.
Dawson graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1913. He eventually joined his father's successful law firm and continued to practice law until two years before his death in 1956.
Alongside his legal work, Dawson pursued a career in writing, in which he achieved varying levels of success. It was during a stint in the Army Intelligence Corps during World War I while living on the East Coast that Dawson made the acquaintance of such literary figures as William Carlos Williams and Alfred Kreymborg. He wrote poetry during his twenties and published in many of the important journals of the time including Poetry,The Little Review, and Alfred Kreymborg's Others. In addition, he coedited a short lived journal called TNT with Man Ray and Adolph Wolff. Back in Chicago he became involved in the Chicago Literary Renaissance and befriended many writers and publishers, including Maxwell Bodenheim, Harriet Monroe and Margaret Anderson.
Starting in the 1920s, Dawson began writing an amusing legal advice column called "Advice of Counsel" which appeared in the Chicago Daily News from 1926-1931. He continued to write feature articles on legal issues which were published in such journals as the Saturday Evening Post, Esquire and The New Yorker. This writing is characterized by a wry wit and a clear, simple style. He published only one book in his lifetime, The Magic Firecrackers, in 1949. This highly regarded children's novel grew out of the bedtime stories he told his son Gregory as a child.
Dawson married Rose Hahn in 1921. Rose's sister Emily "Mickey" Hahn became a successful writer during the 1930s due in some small part to Mitchell submitting a few of her letters to The New Yorker.
Mitchell and Rose had three children: Hilary (later Hilary Beckett Schlessiger), Jill (later Jill Metzger), and Gregory. Mitchell Dawson succumbed to Parkinson's Disease in 1956.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
This collection contains correspondence, literary works, research materials and personal papers of Chicago lawyer, poet and author Mitchell Dawson; and materials created by his family and his wife Rose Hahn Dawson's families.
Included are poems by Dawson himself as well as by several of his literary colleagues; correspondence to and from these colleagues including Maxwell Bodenheim, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Alfred Kreymborg, Yvor Winters and Emanuel Carnevali; drafts and research for feature articles on the legal profession; and correspondence from his time in Military Intelligence during World War I. There is a small series of law office files and personal papers including publicity for his book The Magic Firecrackers.
Mitchell Dawson's parents George Ellis and Eva Manierre Dawson were prominent Chicago citizens. George Ellis Dawson was a successful lawyer, and Eva Manierre the daughter of one of Chicago's "Old Settlers," Edward Manierre. Correspondence, diaries, genealogical materials, scrapbooks and photographs from both the Dawson and Manierre families vividly reflect life in Illinois and the Midwest at the turn of the century.
Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.
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Organization
Papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 1: Outgoing Correspondence, 1922-1956. Box(es) 1 - 3
- Series 2: Incoming Correspondence, 1919-1956 . Box(es) 4 - 7
- Series 3: Works by Dawson, 1919-ca. 1956. Box(es) 8 - 20
- Series 4: Works by Literary Associates, ca. 1910-1967. Box(es) 21 - 23
- Series 5: Subject Files, ca.1920-1956. Box(es) 24 - 27
- Series 6: Law Office Files, 1919-1954. Box(es) 28 - 29
- Series 7: Personal, 1919-1956. Box(es) 30 - 32
- Series 8: Family Papers, 1810-1988. Box(es) 33 - 52
- Series 9: Photographs, ca. 1850-ca.1980. Box(es) 53 - 63
- Series 10: Scrapbooks and Memorabilia, 1851-1951. Box(es) 64 -
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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
- Anderson, Margaret, 1890-1973
- Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.)
- Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954
- Carnevali, Emanuel
- Dawson family
- Dawson, George Ellis
- Dawson, Julia Meacham
- Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969
- Gould, Wallace
- Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997
- Integral Phalanx (Sangamon County, Ill.)
- Kreymborg, Alfred
- Manierre, Edward
- McAlmon, Robert, 1896-1956
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963
- Winters, Yvor, 1900-1968
Subjects
- Authors, American -- 20th Century -- Sources
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th Century
- Collective settlements -- Illinois -- Sangamon County
- Correspondence
- Diaries -- 1861-1935
- Fourierism -- Illinois -- Sangamon County
- Imposters and imposture -- Illinois - Chicago -- History -- 20th Century -- Sources
- Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Manuscripts, American--Illinois--Chicago
- Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th Century -- Sources
- Photographs -- Albums
- Photographs -- Michigan -- Ludington -- 1900-1980
- Poems -- 1910-1930
- Poets, American -- 20th Century -- Sources
- Scrapbooks -- 1851-1951
- Utopian socialism -- Illinois -- Sangamon County
- Women journalists -- United States -- History -- 20th Century -- Sources
- Women travelers -- United States -- History -- 20th Century -- Sources
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Military intelligence -- United States
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Container List
Series 1: Outgoing Correspondence, 1922-1956 |
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| Letters from Mitchell Dawson written to friends, legal and literary associates, and publishers regarding writing submissions. Literary figures include H. L. Mencken, Robert McAlmon, Carl Sandburg, and Maxwell Bodenheim. Additional correspondence from Mitchell Dawson to wife Rose Hahn Dawson and other family members may be found in Series 8: Family Papers. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by recipient followed by folders containing research requests and replies to readers of his published writing. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | A. A. Wyn, Publisher, 1945 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | A. N. Marquis Company, 1945 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Ackerman, Carl W., 1932 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Adventure Magazine (re: Carl Sandburg), 1926 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Albers, Mrs., 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Allyn, Judge Thomas, 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | American Bar Association, 1934-1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | American Family Magazine, 1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | American Judicature Society (includes the Journal of the American Judicature Society), 1932-1934 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | American Magazine, 1932-1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | American Mercury, 1932-1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | American Spectator, 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | American Writer, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | American Red Cross, 1945 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Anderson, Margaret, 1930 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Aswell, Edward, C., 1937-1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Atlantic Monthly, 1932-1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | The Author and Journalist, 1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Authors Guild, 1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Barthell, Edward E., 1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Beighley, K. C., 1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Bell Syndicate, 1930 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Bernard, Edgar, 1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1919 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Bonifacic, Frank, 1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Bowman, George A., 1939 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Brady, James R., 1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Brandt & Brandt, 1936-1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Brownell, Frederick G., 1951-1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Cargill, Frank V., 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | Chafee, Z. Jr., 1931 | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | Charles, 1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | Chen, Dr. Chang Lok, 1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., 1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Chicago Bar Association, 1940-1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | Chicago Bar Record (correspondence regarding), 1941 | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | Chicago Committee to Win the Peace, 1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | Chicago Daily News, 1926-1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 | Chicago Daily Tribune, 1932 | |||||||||
| 1 | 40 | Chicago Herald & Examiner, 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | Chicago Sun, 1941 | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | Childs, Mrs. Henry (Putnam County Librarian), 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 43 | Coakley, J. F., 1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 44 | Chopnick, Max, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 45 | Collier's (including editor Herbert Asbury), 1931-1944, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 46 | Commerce, 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 47 | Commerce Clearing House, Inc., 1930-1931 | |||||||||
| 1 | 48 | Cordes, A. A., 1937-1938 | |||||||||
| 1 | 49 | Coronet, 1947-1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 50 | Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 51 | Court and Commercial Newspaper Syndicate, 1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 52 | Crandall, Irene J. (see also Law Office Files), 1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 53 | Crowninshield, Frank W., 1930 | |||||||||
| 1 | 54 | Daily Law Building, 1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 55 | Darrow, Karl K., 1944 | |||||||||
| 1 | 56 | David, Sigmund, 1945 | |||||||||
| 1 | 57 | Davis, Lambert, 1947 | |||||||||
| 1 | 58 | Dawson, Joe. M., 1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 59 | Dawson, Reed, 1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 60 | Dell Publishing, Inc., 1932 | |||||||||
| 1 | 61 | Demma Family, 1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 62 | Detective Fiction Weekly, 1932 | |||||||||
| 1 | 63 | Detective Story Magazine, 1932 | |||||||||
| 1 | 64 | Docket, The, 1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 65 | Douglas, Paul H., 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 66 | Drake, William A., 1922 | |||||||||
| 1 | 67 | Drury, John, 1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 68 | Duell, Sloan & Pierce (including Erskine Caldwell), 1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 69 | Dunham, June, 1931-1932 | |||||||||
| 1 | 70 | Dwiggins, Don, 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 71 | Emmerich, Herbert, 1933-1942 | |||||||||
| 1 | 72 | Encyclopedia Britannica, 1940-1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 73 | Ernst, Morris L., 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 74 | Esquire, 1947-1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 75 | Everywoman, 1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 76 | Facts, 1942 | |||||||||
| 1 | 77 | Farmer, Fyke, 1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 78 | Filson Club, 1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 79 | Fontainbleau Fine Arts & Music School Association, Inc., 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 80 | Forbes, 1932-1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 81 | Forum, The, 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 82 | Fox, Jacob Logan, 1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 83 | Frank, Jerome N., 1934-1942 | |||||||||
| 1 | 84 | Frank, Waldo, 1922 | |||||||||
| 1 | 85 | Ganymede's Restaurant, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 86 | Gorman, Robert J., 1958 | |||||||||
| 1 | 87 | Gray, Earl Q., 1938-1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 88 | Grimball, William H., 1938 | |||||||||
| 1 | 89 | Grinnell, Frederick W., 1938 | |||||||||
| 1 | 90 | Gunther, John, 1927 | |||||||||
| 2 | 91 | Haldeman-Julius E., 1932 | |||||||||
| 2 | 92 | Harcourt, Alfred, 1930-1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 93 | Harno, Albert J., 1929 | |||||||||
| 2 | 94 | Harper's Magazine, 1931-1949 | |||||||||
| 2 | 95 | Hart, Louis E., 1932 | |||||||||
| 2 | 96 | Heilman, Paul M., 1932 | |||||||||
| 2 | 97 | Hertz, Dr. Richard, 1939 | |||||||||
| 2 | 98 | Hinkle, Philip, 1938 | |||||||||
| 2 | 99 | History, 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 100 | Hoar, Roger Sherman, 1948 | |||||||||
| 2 | 101 | Holloway, Mark, 1951 | |||||||||
| 2 | 102 | Holmes Company, Inc., 1956 | |||||||||
| 2 | 103 | Holt, Guy, 1931 | |||||||||
| 2 | 104 | Horn Book, Inc., 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 105 | Howe, Frederick C. (Department of Agriculture), 1933-1934 | |||||||||
| 2 | 106 | Howe, Irving, 1949 | |||||||||
| 2 | 107 | Huse, Howard E., 1956 | |||||||||
| 2 | 108 | Hutchins, Robert M. (President, University of Chicago), 1937 | |||||||||
| 2 | 109 | Illinois Law Review, 1935-1937 | |||||||||
| 2 | 110 | Illinois State Bar Association, 1947-1951 | |||||||||
| 2 | 111 | Ives, Irving M., 1951 | |||||||||
| 2 | 112 | Kassner, Minna F., 1934-1935 | |||||||||
| 2 | 113 | King, Willard L., 1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 114 | Knopf, Alfred A., 1930-1939 | |||||||||
| 2 | 115 | Knox, Frank, 1937 | |||||||||
| 2 | 116 | Krautter, L. Martin, 1951 | |||||||||
| 2 | 117 | Kreymborg, Alfred, 1949 | |||||||||
| 2 | 118 | Ladies Home Journal, 1946-1948 | |||||||||
| 2 | 119 | Lawyers Co-Operative Publishing Co., 1937-1956 | |||||||||
| 2 | 120 | Legal Intelligencer, 1937 | |||||||||
| 2 | 121 | Lepawsky, Albert, 1933-1938 | |||||||||
| 2 | 122 | Liang, Hubert, 1946 | |||||||||
| 2 | 123 | Liberty Magazine, 1934-1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 124 | Life, 1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 125 | Little, Earl (re: Carl Sandburg property), 1948 | |||||||||
| 2 | 126 | Liveright, Otto, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 127 | Lloyd, Glen A., 1951 | |||||||||
| 2 | 128 | Mandel Brothers, 1947 | |||||||||
| 2 | 129 | Mann, Heathcoat, 1933 | |||||||||
| 2 | 130 | Manton, Martin T. (Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals), 1931 | |||||||||
| 2 | 131 | Martindale-Hubbel, Inc., 1943-1948 | |||||||||
| 2 | 132 | Matthew Bender & Co., Inc., 1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 133 | May Brothers, 1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 134 | McAlmon, Robert, 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 135 | McCalls Magazine, 1947 | |||||||||
| 2 | 136 | McClure's Newspaper Syndicate, 1929 | |||||||||
| 2 | 137 | McCulloch, Frank W., 1949 | |||||||||
| 2 | 138 | Mencken, H. L., 1929-1933 | |||||||||
| 2 | 139 | Mercantile Library, 1949 | |||||||||
| 2 | 140 | Merritt, Jesse, 1937 | |||||||||
| 2 | 141 | Michigan Public Service, 1936 | |||||||||
| 2 | 142 | Morris, George M. (Morris, KixMiller & Baar), 1946 | |||||||||
| 2 | 143 | Mudge, Mrs., 1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 144 | Murrow, Edward R., 1949 | |||||||||
| 2 | 145 | Nation, The, 1944 | |||||||||
| 2 | 146 | National Conference of Bar Examiners, 1948 | |||||||||
| 2 | 147 | Nation's Business, 1927-1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 148 | New Morning Newspaper, 1941 | |||||||||
| 2 | 149 | New Outlook, 1934 | |||||||||
| 2 | 150 | New Republic, 1935-1947 | |||||||||
| 2 | 151 | New York Herald Tribune, 1937 | |||||||||
| 2 | 152 | New York Rubber Company, 1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 153 | New Yorker, 1937-1951 | |||||||||
| 2 | 154 | Newberry Library, 1948-1953 | |||||||||
| 2 | 155 | Newspaper Enterprise Association, 1928 | |||||||||
| 2 | 156 | Newspaper Feature Service, 1928 | |||||||||
| 2 | 157 | Nice, Harry W., 1931 | |||||||||
| 2 | 158 | Northern Trust Company, 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 159 | O'Dunne, Eugene, 1932 | |||||||||
| 2 | 160 | Office of the U.S. Courts, 1947 | |||||||||
| 2 | 161 | Oursler, Fulton, 1937 | |||||||||
| 2 | 162 | Paschen, Herbert C., 1951 | |||||||||
| 2 | 163 | Pell, John H., 1935 | |||||||||
| 2 | 164 | Pictorial Review, 1931 | |||||||||
| 2 | 165 | Pittsburgh Legal Journal, 1934 | |||||||||
| 2 | 166 | Prentice Hall, Inc., 1942-1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 167 | Pusateri, Vincent J., 1949 | |||||||||
| 2 | 168 | Reader's Digest, 1932-1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 169 | Real Detective, 1932 | |||||||||
| 2 | 170 | Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, 1930-1948 | |||||||||
| 2 | 171 | Reilly & Lee, 1933 | |||||||||
| 2 | 172 | Reitz, Hj (Kort en Goed), 1939 | |||||||||
| 2 | 173 | Richberg, Donald (NRA Council), 1933 | |||||||||
| 2 | 174 | Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1949 | |||||||||
| 2 | 175 | Roberts, Charles W., 1941 | |||||||||
| 2 | 176 | Rohr, Charles D., 1935 | |||||||||
| 2 | 177 | Rotarian, 1932-1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 178 | Russell, Robert E., 1939 | |||||||||
| 2 | 179 | Rutherford, M. Louise, 1938 | |||||||||
| 2 | 180 | Saga, 1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 181 | Sampson, Flem D., 1946 | |||||||||
| 2 | 182 | Sandburg, Carl, 1932 | |||||||||
| 2 | 183 | Sandburg, Lilian Paula, 1946-1948 | |||||||||
| 2 | 184 | Saturday Evening Post, 1931-1951 | |||||||||
| 2 | 185 | Saturday Review, 1930 | |||||||||
| 2 | 186 | Saturday Review of Literature, 1939-1949 | |||||||||
| 3 | 187 | Schaefer, Walter V., 1949-1951 | |||||||||
| 3 | 188 | Schaffer, John, 1950 | |||||||||
| 3 | 189 | Scribner's Magazine, 1930-1933 | |||||||||
| 3 | 190 | Searle, John Clinton, 1949 | |||||||||
| 3 | 191 | Sellner, Joseph H., 1936 | |||||||||
| 3 | 192 | Shafroth, Will (includes reply written on original), 1939 | |||||||||
| 3 | 193 | Shera, Jesse H., 1950 | |||||||||
| 3 | 194 | Sherriff, Andrew F., 1932 | |||||||||
| 3 | 195 | Short, George, 1926 | |||||||||
| 3 | 196 | Sifton, Mr. & Mrs. Paul, 1949 | |||||||||
| 3 | 197 | Skane, Thomas J., 1937 | |||||||||
| 3 | 198 | Smeeton, Beryl, 1947 | |||||||||
| 3 | 199 | Solicitors' Journal, 1931 | |||||||||
| 3 | 200 | Station WMAQ, 1933 | |||||||||
| 3 | 201 | Stevenson, Adlai S., 1951 | |||||||||
| 3 | 202 | Survey Graphic, 1948 | |||||||||
| 3 | 203 | Swidler, Joseph P. (Department of the Interior), 1933 | |||||||||
| 3 | 204 | Terkel, Studs, 1947 | |||||||||
| 3 | 205 | This Week, 1935-1950 | |||||||||
| 3 | 206 | Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1942 | |||||||||
| 3 | 207 | Tigrett, John B., 1942-1943 | |||||||||
| 3 | 208 | Time, 1951 | |||||||||
| 3 | 209 | Today, 1933 | |||||||||
| 3 | 210 | Today's Woman, 1947 | |||||||||
| 3 | 211 | Train, Arthur, 1937 | |||||||||
| 3 | 212 | Triebel, Paul G., 1950 | |||||||||
| 3 | 213 | Truman, President Harry, 1950 | |||||||||
| 3 | 214 | Ueland, Brenda, 1953 | |||||||||
| 3 | 215 | Union Press, 1937 | |||||||||
| 3 | 216 | United Features Syndicate, 1937 | |||||||||
| 3 | 217 | United National Association of Greater Chicago, 1951 | |||||||||
| 3 | 218 | University of Chicago Alumni Council, 1932-1935 | |||||||||
| 3 | 219 | University of Chicago Press, 1933 | |||||||||
| 3 | 220 | Utley, Freda, 1938 | |||||||||
| 3 | 221 | Vail, Charles W. (Clerk of the Supreme Court, Springfield, IL), 1931 | |||||||||
| 3 | 222 | Viking Press, Inc., 1956 | |||||||||
| 3 | 223 | Waite, H. M. (Public Works Administration), 1933 | |||||||||
| 3 | 224 | Washburne, Carleton, 1951 | |||||||||
| 3 | 225 | Watts, Harvey M., 1932 | |||||||||
| 3 | 226 | Weir, William E., 1942 | |||||||||
| 3 | 227 | Wham, Benjamin, 1943 | |||||||||
| 3 | 228 | Willard Hotel, 1933 | |||||||||
| 3 | 229 | Williams, Juliette, 1935 | |||||||||
| 3 | 230 | Willis Music Company, 1949 | |||||||||
| 3 | 231 | Wilson, Edmund, 1922 | |||||||||
| 3 | 232 | Wing, Willis K., 1934 | |||||||||
| 3 | 233 | Winnetka Post Office, 1949 | |||||||||
| 3 | 234 | Winters, Glenn R., 1950 | |||||||||
| 3 | 235 | Women's Day, 1950-1952 | |||||||||
| 3 | 236 | Women's Home Companion, 1932-1950 | |||||||||
| 3 | 237 | Your Life, 1950 | |||||||||
| 3 | 238 | Zimmerman, M. D., 1933 | |||||||||
| 3 | 239 | Various - Information Requests, 1924-1952 | |||||||||
| 3 | 240 | Various - Responses to Readers' Letters, 1927-1952 | |||||||||
Series 2: Incoming Correspondence, 1919-1956 |
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| Letters from friends, legal and literary associates and other correspondents. Of particular interest are letters from Dawson's poet friends such as Carl Sandburg, William Carlos Williams, Alfred Kreymborg, Robert McAlmon, and Italian poet Emanuel Carnevali. Dawson was involved together and separately with these writers in various literary journals during 1918-1920. There are also letters written between many of these writers at the end of the series. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by correspondent followed by folders of replies to information requests, rejection letters, and correspondence not to or from Mitchell Dawson. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 4 | 241 | A. A. Wyn, Publisher, 1945 | |||||||||
| 4 | 242 | Adventure (re: Carl Sandburg), 1926 | |||||||||
| 4 | 243 | Advocates' Chronicle, 1931 | |||||||||
| 4 | 244 | Affeld, William C., 1955 | |||||||||
| 4 | 244a | Aiken, Conrad, 1919 | |||||||||
| 4 | 245 | Alumni Council of the University of Chicago, 1932-1935 | |||||||||
| 4 | 246 | American & Foreign Claims Bureau, 1928 | |||||||||
| 4 | 247 | American Bar Association, 1934-1948 | |||||||||
| 4 | 248 | American Judicature Society, 1940, 1950 | |||||||||
| 4 | 249 | American Lawyer, 1937 | |||||||||
| 4 | 250 | American Mercury (see also Mencken, H. L.), 1929-1950 | |||||||||
| 4 | 251 | American Red Cross, 1945 | |||||||||
| 4 | 252 | Anderson, Lois (married name Card), 1930, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 253 | Anderson, Margaret, n.d., 1930 | |||||||||
| 4 | 254 | Anderson, Sherwood, n.d., 1920 | |||||||||
| 4 | 255 | Appenheim, Mabel, 1932 | |||||||||
| 4 | 256 | Aswell, Edward C., 1937 | |||||||||
| 4 | 257 | Atlantic Monthly, 1932-1939 | |||||||||
| 4 | 258 | Atwater, Richard, 1930 | |||||||||
| 4 | 259 | Author and Journalist, 1948 | |||||||||
| 4 | 260 | Authors Guild, 1949-1955 | |||||||||
| 4 | 261 | Balk, Robert, 1930-1950 | |||||||||
| 4 | 262 | Bariker, Geo. W., 1933 | |||||||||
| 4 | 263 | Barthell, Edward E., 1951 | |||||||||
| 4 | 264 | Beacon, 1937 | |||||||||
| 4 | 265 | Beaman, Henry A., 1930 | |||||||||
| 4 | 266 | Bodenheim, Maxwell, n.d., 1915-1919 | |||||||||
| 4 | 267 | Brandt & Brandt, 1936-1943 | |||||||||
| 4 | 268 | Branner, George, 1923-1945 | |||||||||
| 4 | 269 | Brownell, Frederick G., 1951 | |||||||||
| 4 | 270 | Brown, Scott & Dawson, 1951 | |||||||||
| 4 | 271 | Buckley, John L., 1938 | |||||||||
| 4 | 272 | Caldwell, Erskine, 1951 | |||||||||
| 4 | 273 | Carnevali, Emanuel, 1919-1924 | |||||||||
| 4 | 274 | Chafee Jr., Z., n.d., 1931 | |||||||||
| 4 | 275 | Chicago Bar Association, 1947 | |||||||||
| 4 | 276 | Chicago Bar Record, 1932-1946 | |||||||||
| 4 | 277 | Chicago Herald Examiner, 1933 | |||||||||
| 4 | 278 | Chicago Committee to Win the Peace, 1946 | |||||||||
| 4 | 279 | Chicago Daily News, n.d., 1930-1938 | |||||||||
| 4 | 280 | Chicago Law Institute, 1955 | |||||||||
| 4 | 281 | Childs, Mrs. Henry Olive, 1950 | |||||||||
| 4 | 282 | Chopnick, Max, 1954 | |||||||||
| 4 | 283 | City Club of Chicago, 1955 | |||||||||
| 4 | 284 | City Housing Corporation (New York), 1933 | |||||||||
| 4 | 285 | Collier's (including editor and brother-in-law Herbert Asbury), n.d., 1931-1944 | |||||||||
| 4 | 286 | Commerce Clearing House, Inc., 1931 | |||||||||
| 4 | 287 | Cook, Paul W., 1931 | |||||||||
| 4 | 288 | Corbett, Brian & Sylvia, 1943 | |||||||||
| 4 | 289 | Court and Commercial Newspaper Syndicate, 1937-1938 | |||||||||
| 4 | 290 | Darrow, Karl K. (includes one letter from Helen K. Darrow), 1912-1955 | |||||||||
| 4 | 291 | Dr. Thomas Walker Memorial Association, 1949 | |||||||||
| 4 | 292 | Double Dealer, 1921-1922 | |||||||||
| 4 | 293 | Douglas, Paul H., 1933 | |||||||||
| 4 | 294 | Drake, William A., 1922 | |||||||||
| 4 | 295 | Dreiser, Theodore, (includes one letter to Fanny Butcher), n.d., 1926 | |||||||||
| 4 | 296 | Drury, John, 1949 | |||||||||
| 4 | 297 | Duchamp, Marcel, 1927 | |||||||||
| 4 | 298 | Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc., 1951 | |||||||||
| 4 | 299 | Dunham, June, 1932 | |||||||||
| 5 | 300 | Earle Ludgin, Inc., 1933 | |||||||||
| 5 | 301 | Encyclopedia Britannica, 1940-1956 | |||||||||
| 5 | 302 | Ernst, Morris, 1933-1934 | |||||||||
| 5 | 303 | Esquire, 1945-1950 | |||||||||
| 5 | 304 | Ferguson, I. E., 1937 | |||||||||
| 5 | 305 | Field, Marshall (Chicago Sun & Times Company), 1941-1948 | |||||||||
| 5 | 306 | Flaccus, Kimball, 1955 | |||||||||
| 5 | 307 | Fontainbleau Fine Arts & Music Schools Association, Inc., n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 308 | Forbes, 1932-1933 | |||||||||
| 5 | 309 | Fox, Jacob Logan, 1949 | |||||||||
| 5 | 310 | Frank, Waldo, 1922 | |||||||||
| 5 | 311 | Freyburger, Walter D., 1931 | |||||||||
| 5 | 312 | Friedman, Lee M., 1938 | |||||||||
| 5 | 313 | Frost, Robert, 1919 | |||||||||
| 5 | 314 | Gaines, Samuel Moore, 1937 | |||||||||
| 5 | 315 | Gardiner, Phyllis H., 1952 | |||||||||
| 5 | 316 | General Council of the Bar, 1948 | |||||||||
| 5 | 317 | Getknecht, John, 1952 | |||||||||
| 5 | 318 | Gould, Wallace, (includes one poem typed on back of letter), n.d., 1920-1922 | |||||||||
| 5 | 319 | Grant, Dudley H., 1919-1929 | |||||||||
| 5 | 320 | Greene, Wilfred, 1941 | |||||||||
| 5 | 321 | Gray, Earl Q., 1949-1954 | |||||||||
| 5 | 322 | Greenwood, Helen E., 1951 | |||||||||
| 5 | 323 | Grimball, Wm. H., 1938 | |||||||||
| 5 | 324 | Grover, Betty, 1925 | |||||||||
| 5 | 325 | Grudin, Lou, 1919 | |||||||||
| 5 | 326 | Harcourt, Alfred (including Harcourt, Brace & Co., Inc.), 1930-1954 | |||||||||
| 5 | 327 | Harpers Magazine (including Harper & Brothers), 1931-1949 | |||||||||
| 5 | 328 | Hays, James S., 1930 | |||||||||
| 5 | 329 | Heap, Jane, n.d., 1918 | |||||||||
| 5 | 330 | Heilman, Paul M., 1932 | |||||||||
| 5 | 331 | Helitoen, Joe, 1948 | |||||||||
| 5 | 332 | Henry, Gifford H., 1931 | |||||||||
| 5 | 333 | Henry, Irene, 1944 | |||||||||
| 5 | 334 | Hertz, Richard, n.d., 1939 | |||||||||
| 5 | 335 | Hinkle, Phillip, 1938 | |||||||||
| 5 | 336 | Hinrichsen, Steen, 1925 | |||||||||
| 5 | 337 | History: A Periodical in Book Form, 1952 | |||||||||
| 5 | 338 | Hoar, Roger Sherman, 1948 | |||||||||
| 5 | 339 | Holloway, Mark, 1951 | |||||||||
| 5 | 340 | Hopkins, Robert H., 1934 | |||||||||
| 5 | 341 | Howe, Irving, 1949 | |||||||||
| 5 | 342 | Hoyt, Helen, 1924 | |||||||||
| 5 | 343 | Huebsch, B. W., 1919 | |||||||||
| 5 | 344 | Huebenthal, F. B., 1934 | |||||||||
| 5 | 345 | Huse, Howard R., n.d., 1921-1955 | |||||||||
| 5 | 346 | Illinois Bar Journal, 1938 | |||||||||
| 5 | 347 | Illinois Law Review, 1934-1937 | |||||||||
| 5 | 348 | Illinois State Bar Association, 1926-1934 | |||||||||
| 5 | 349 | Illinois Writer's Project, 1940-1941 | |||||||||
| 5 | 350 | John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1925 | |||||||||
| 5 | 351 | Johns, Orrick, 1919 | |||||||||
| 5 | 352 | Johnson, Svenbjorn, 1929 | |||||||||
| 5 | 353 | Jones, Ralph W., 1933 | |||||||||
| 5 | 354 | Kartman, Ben, 1951 | |||||||||
| 5 | 355 | Kassner, Minna F., 1934-1935 | |||||||||
| 5 | 356 | Kimlock, Bertha, 1946 | |||||||||
| 5 | 357 | Knopf, Alfred A., 1930 | |||||||||
| 5 | 358 | Knudsen, Bee, 1937 | |||||||||
| 5 | 359 | Kort en Goed, 1939 | |||||||||
| 5 | 360 | Kreymborg, Alfred (see also oversize for poster designed and with note by William Saphier), 1919-1949 | |||||||||
| 5 | 361 | Lawyer, 1938 | |||||||||
| 5 | 362 | Lawyers Co-Operative Publishing Company, 1937-1938 | |||||||||
| 5 | 363 | Legal Intelligencer, 1937 | |||||||||
| 5 | 364 | Legal Secretaries Association of Chicago, 1951 | |||||||||
| 5 | 365 | Lepawsky, Albert, 1933-1938 | |||||||||
| 5 | 366 | Liang, Hubert S., 1944-1949 | |||||||||
| 5 | 367 | Liberty Magazine Inc., 1934-1950 | |||||||||
| 5 | 368 | Library of Congress Copyright Office, 1932-1948 | |||||||||
| 5 | 369 | Life, 1950 | |||||||||
| 5 | 370 | Liveright, Dee, 1922 | |||||||||
| 5 | 371 | Liveright, Otto, 1922-1923 | |||||||||
| 5 | 372 | Luxton, John, 1933 | |||||||||
| 6 | 373 | MacCoy, Brittain, Evans, and Lewis Law Office, 1946 | |||||||||
| 6 | 374 | Maguire, F. F., 1941 | |||||||||
| 6 | 375 | Martindale-Hubbel, Inc., 1943 | |||||||||
| 6 | 376 | May Brothers, 1950 | |||||||||
| 6 | 377 | McAlmon, Robert, n.d., 1921-1952 | |||||||||
| 6 | 378 | Mencken, H. L. (see also American Mercury), n.d., 1930-1933 | |||||||||
| 6 | 379 | The Midland, n.d., 1924-1931 | |||||||||
| 6 | 380 | Morris, George Maurice, 1946 | |||||||||
| 6 | 381 | Murphy, Mignon, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 382 | The Nation, 1932, 1944 | |||||||||
| 6 | 383 | National Association of Women Lawyers, 1940 | |||||||||
| 6 | 384 | National Broadcasting Company, Inc., 1933 | |||||||||
| 6 | 385 | National Conference of Bar Examiners, 1948 | |||||||||
| 6 | 386 | National Geographic Society, 1943 | |||||||||
| 6 | 387 | Nation's Business, 1932, 1950 | |||||||||
| 6 | 388 | New Republic, 1935-1947 | |||||||||
| 6 | 389 | New Trier Democratic Organization, 1951 | |||||||||
| 6 | 390 | New Yorker, 1937-1951 | |||||||||
| 6 | 391 | New York University Law Quarterly Review, 1931 | |||||||||
| 6 | 392 | Newberry Library, 1948-1953 | |||||||||
| 6 | 393 | Nice, Harry W., 1931 | |||||||||
| 6 | 394 | Northwestern University School of Law, 1935 | |||||||||
| 6 | 395 | Office of Censorship, District Postal Center, 1943 | |||||||||
| 6 | 396 | Pach, Walter, 1945 | |||||||||
| 6 | 397 | Peters, Fritz, 1938 | |||||||||
| 6 | 398 | Phillips, William L., 1952 | |||||||||
| 6 | 399 | Pittsburgh Legal Journal, 1934 | |||||||||
| 6 | 400 | Prentice Hall Inc., 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 6 | 401 | Randall, Harris K., n.d., 1936 | |||||||||
| 6 | 402 | Reader's Digest, 1932-1950 | |||||||||
| 6 | 403 | Reilly & Lee Co., 1933 | |||||||||
| 6 | 404 | Ridge, Lola, 1919-1927 | |||||||||
| 6 | 405 | Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1949 | |||||||||
| 6 | 406 | Rosenthal, Hamill & Wormser, 1936 | |||||||||
| 6 | 407 | Ross, Arthur Leonard, 1930 | |||||||||
| 6 | 408 | The Rotarian, 1931-1950 | |||||||||
| 6 | 409 | Rothschild, Isaac S., 1934 | |||||||||
| 6 | 410 | Rutheford, M. Louise, 1938 | |||||||||
| 6 | 411 | Saga, 1950 | |||||||||
| 6 | 412 | Sampson, Flem D., 1946 | |||||||||
| 6 | 413 | Sandburg, Carl (includes sketches), 1922-1946 | |||||||||
| 6 | 414 | Sandburg, Helga (later Toman), 1946-1947 | |||||||||
| 6 | 415 | Sandburg, Lillian Paula, 1928-1948 | |||||||||
| 6 | 416 | Saphier, William, (includes proofs of illustrations with handwritten captions) 1919-1921 | |||||||||
| 6 | 417 | Saturday Evening Post, 1931-1951 | |||||||||