TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Biography of Howard Vincent O'Brien
Scope and Content of the Collection
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Inventory of the Howard Vincent O'Brien Papers, 1894-1948
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2007. ©2007. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | O'Brien, Howard Vincent, 1888-1947 |
| Title | Howard Vincent O'Brien Papers |
| Dates | 1894-1948 |
| Extent | 8 cubic ft. (18 boxes) |
| Abstract | Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, publicity materials, and personal papers of newspaper columnist and novelist Howard Vincent O'Brien. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS O'Brien |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 41 2 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Howard Vincent O'Brien Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift, Louise O'Brien, 1949.
Processed by
Lisa Janssen & Shannon Yule, 2007.
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 Howard Vincent O'Brien Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Howard Vincent O'Brien 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 Howard Vincent O'Brien
Newspaper columnist, critic, and novelist.
Howard Vincent O'Brien was born on the North Side of Chicago in 1888 to William Vincent and Mary Ellen O'Brien. He received a BA from Yale University in 1910 and always displayed an interest in the arts. He began his writing career on the editorial staff of Printers Ink magazine, and later founded and edited a magazine titled Art, published with the backing of his grandfather's art gallery, M. O'Brien and Son. He also briefly ran his own firm called H. V. Advertising. During World War I he served as first lieutenant of artillery attached to intelligence. He wrote several novels in the 1910s and 1920s including An Abandoned Woman, Trodden Gold, and the anonymously penned memoir Wine, Women, and War.
He joined the staff of the Chicago Daily News as literary editor in 1928, where he oversaw the book pages, wrote book reviews, and wrote a regular literary column titled "Footnotes." His most well known column, "All Things Considered," had its origin in Europe where O'Brien was sent due to ill health in 1932. His original assignment was to send back sketches of literary figures, but found himself, "sick of egomaniac authors." He wrote instead about trivial things that amused him. Chicago Daily News publisher Col. Frank Knox liked the work so much that he suggested O'Brien become a full-time columnist. O'Brien continued to write "All Things Considered" for the rest of his life.
O'Brien married wife Louise in 1912. They had three children, sons Bayne and Donel, and daughter Jean. In his most famous column, "So Long, Son," O'Brien tells of seeing his son Donel off to World War II, where Donel was later killed in action. Howard Vincent O'Brien died September 30, 1947 after a long struggle with cancer.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
The bulk of the collection is made up of works: typed manuscripts, published magazine articles, and scrapbooks of O'Brien's Chicago Daily News columns. Correspondence is primarily from professional colleagues such as Henry Justin Smith, Walter Strong, Colonel Frank Knox, and other magazine editors and publishers, although there is also one letter from the infamous gangster Al Capone. Personal materials include financial receipts, military documents, and publicity for O'Brien's novels.
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: Correspondence, 1894-1934. Box(es) 1-2
- Series 2: Works, 1904-1947. Box(es) 3-16
- Series 3: Personal, 1914-1948. Box(es) 17-18
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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
- Capone, Alphonse, 1899-1947
- Chicago daily news
- Chicago Daily News, Inc. -- Employees
- Knox, Frank, 1874-1944
- O'Brien, Howard Vincent, 1888-1947
- Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936
Subjects
- Clippings -- 1928-1947
- Critics -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Journalism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Manuscripts, American--Illinois--Chicago
- Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Reviews
- Novelists, American
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Container List
Series 1: Correspondence, 1894-1934 |
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| Correspondence is incoming unless otherwise noted, coming from primarily professional colleagues, publishers, magazines, and editors. Notable correspondents include Clarence Darrow, Henry Justin Smith, Walter Strong, and one letter written by Al Capone authorizing O'Brien exclusive rights to his autobiography. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Abbott, Richard, 1924, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Adler, Katherine Keith, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | A. C. McClurg & Co., 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Ballard, Ernest and Betty, 1925, 1930 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Barret, Emile, 1918-1925 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Bayne-Jones, Dr. Stanhope, Feb. 18, 1929 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Bell, Laird, 1918, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Bishop, Donald E., Jun. 12, 1944 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Blakey, Arthur (includes astrological chart), 1941 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Bliven, Bruce, Jul. 26, 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Bonner, Helen, Feb. 24, 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Bosworth, Thomas J., Jun. 3, 1914 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Bourland, Philip D., Sept. 17, 1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Brandt & Brandt (previously Brandt & Kirkpatrick) (incoming and outgoing), 1923-1934 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Breed, Frederick S., May 19, 1941 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Bucher, Herman, Jun. 1914 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Buck, Glen, Jun. 23, 1914 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Build for Peace (Harriet Welling), n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Butcher, Fanny, Mar. 9, 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20a | Capone, Alphonse [1 letter located in Vault 49 4], | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Carpenter, Florence Annan, Jan. 30, 1934 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Cates, Dudley, 1934, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Chicago Council of American Soviet Friendship, Apr. 6, 1945 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Chicago Daily News / Walter Strong (incoming and outgoing), 1933, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Clark, Laura M., 1924 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Clifford, William G., 1922-1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Collier's (incoming and outgoing), 1915-1931, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Coronet Magazine, 1945-1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Coy, E. H., Dec. 3, 1915 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Crawford, Cora E., Apr. 7, 1931 | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | Curtis, Addie, Feb. 15, 1914 | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | Danielson, R. E., n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | Darrow, Clarence, Feb. 10, 1932 | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | Derby, Elizabeth, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Drier, Thomas, 1914 | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | Dodd, Mead and Company, 1915-1917 | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | Donovan, Frances (Chicago Temple Bookstore), 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930-1932 | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 | Drysdale, C. V., n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 40 | Eames, Henry Purmort, 1915, 1917 | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | Eaton, Waller, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | Elmslie, George G., 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 43 | Erwin, C. F., 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 44 | Eskridge, Ammaroy, 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 45 | Esquire, Nov. 1, 1945 | |||||||||
| 1 | 46 | Fairbanks, J. A., n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 47 | Free America (magazine), 1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 48 | Friends of American Writers, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 49 | Ferber, Edna, 1931 | |||||||||
| 1 | 50 | Gesellschafts-und Wirtschaftsmuseum, Sept. 5, 1932 | |||||||||
| 1 | 51 | Gormer, J. N., Jan. 22, 1934 | |||||||||
| 1 | 52 | Gibbs, A. H., n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 53 | Greene, Elsa L., Aug. 3, 1914 | |||||||||
| 1 | 54 | Hardy, Robert Thomas, Mar. 5, 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 55 | Harper & Brothers, 1916 | |||||||||
| 1 | 56 | Harper's Bazaar, 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 57 | Harriman, Karl Edwin, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 58 | Harvey, Helen D., n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 59 | Hauck, Louise Platt, Dec. 7, 1925 | |||||||||
| 1 | 60 | Herzbrun, Walter, 1932-1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 61 | Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., Nov. 4, 1929 | |||||||||
| 1 | 62 | Hutchins, Bob, May 6, 1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 63 | The Independent, Aug. 30, 1911 | |||||||||
| 1 | 64 | International Magazine Company, Mar. 12, 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 65 | Kehler, James Howard, 1914 | |||||||||
| 1 | 66 | Kennedy, Fred, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 67 | Kennerley, Mitchell (The Forum), 1913-1914 | |||||||||
| 1 | 68 | Keirnon, Harry B., Oct. 15, 1916 | |||||||||
| 1 | 69 | "Kent," 1920-1924 | |||||||||
| 1 | 70 | Knopf, Alfred A., 1916, 1929, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 71 | Knowlton, J. W. (Wabash Veterans Association), Sept. 29, 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 72 | Knox, Frank, 1933-1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 73 | Kroch's Bookstore, Feb. 27, 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 74 | Louis Carrier & Co. (D. M. deC. Legate) (incoming and outgoing), 1929 | |||||||||
| 1 | 75 | Ladies Home Journal (see also Karl E. Harriman) (incoming and outgoing), 1915-1929 | |||||||||
| 1 | 76 | Lewis, E. H., 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 77 | Lewis, Grace (Mrs. Sinclair), ca. 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 78 | Little Brown & Company, 1923-1924 | |||||||||
| 1 | 79 | Luce, Helen P., ca. 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 80 | Military Service (correspondence regarding - all outgoing), 1916-1918 | |||||||||
| 1 | 81 | Mohr, Edward, Dec. 27, 1915 | |||||||||
| 1 | 82 | Myers, Richard, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 83 | Mack, Anne B., 1923-1924 | |||||||||
| 1 | 84 | Mack, Mary, Mar. 15, 1932 | |||||||||
| 1 | 85 | MacKenzie, Alexander C., Jul. 12, 1914 | |||||||||
| 1 | 86 | MacMillan, Katherine, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 87 | Mann, William A., Dec. 21, 1944 | |||||||||
| 1 | 88 | Mason, Fred, Aug. 25, 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 89 | McCormick, Nelson, Mar. 7, 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 90 | McCutcheon, George Barr, 1914 | |||||||||
| 1 | 91 | Mercer, Kate A., Mar. 21, 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 92 | Merz, Charles Andrew, Jan. 22, 1915 | |||||||||
| 1 | 93 | The Nation, Feb. 7, 1924 | |||||||||
| 1 | 94 | O'Brien, Bayne (son), Father's Day poem, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 95 | O'Brien, Louise Waller (wife) (incoming, outgoing and clippings), 1923-1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 96 | O'Brien, Mary Ellen (mother) (incoming and outgoing), 1913-1926 | |||||||||
| 1 | 97 | O'Brien, William Vincent (father) (incoming and outgoing), 1894-1934 | |||||||||
| 1 | 98 | O'Donnell, Terry, 1919, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 99 | Open letters from H. V. Advertising, Art Magazine, and All Things Considered, 1912, 1934 | |||||||||
| 1 | 100 | Overton, Grant, 1923-1924 | |||||||||
| 2 | 101 | Pageant (Vernon Pope), 1945-1946 | |||||||||
| 2 | 102 | Patterson, E. C., Feb. 5, 1922 | |||||||||
| 2 | 103 | Patterson, Isabel, Dec. 19, 1923 | |||||||||
| 2 | 104 | Pauling, Frederick, 1925, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 105 | Pelton, Charles J., Oct. 31, 1930 | |||||||||
| 2 | 106 | Phelps, William Lyon, 1915, 1923 | |||||||||
| 2 | 107 | Poole, Ernest, May. 7, 1915 | |||||||||
| 2 | 108 | Poole Brothers, Inc., Apr. 11, 1945 | |||||||||
| 2 | 109 | Popular Magazine (Charles Agnew Maclean), 1922-1928 | |||||||||
| 2 | 110 | Popular Mechanics Magazine (incoming and outgoing), 1929 | |||||||||
| 2 | 111 | Powers, M. K., 1914, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 112 | Putnam, Elisabeth C., n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 113 | Randolph, Robert, Dec. 1, 1925 | |||||||||
| 2 | 114 | Reader's Digest, 1946 | |||||||||
| 2 | 115 | Real America (magazine), May 16, 1933 | |||||||||
| 2 | 116 | Red Book Magazine, 1915-1923 | |||||||||
| 2 | 117 | Rich, Elmer A., Jul. 28, 1914 | |||||||||
| 2 | 118 | Richardson, George (outgoing), Mar. 31, 1924 | |||||||||
| 2 | 119 | Ridgeway, Sarah E., Mar. 20, 1931 | |||||||||
| 2 | 120 | Ripley, Katharine Ball, Nov. 16, 1931 | |||||||||
| 2 | 121 | Rogers, Edward S., Jan. 14, 1929 | |||||||||
| 2 | 122 | Rotarian, 1930 | |||||||||
| 2 | 123 | Rotary Club of Chicago (addressed to Frank Knox), Jan. 8, 1932 | |||||||||
| 2 | 124 | Scott, Charles, Mar. 9, 1924 | |||||||||
| 2 | 125 | Sheriff, Andrew R., 1915 | |||||||||
| 2 | 126 | Siegel, Max, 1923 | |||||||||
| 2 | 127 | Sinclair, Bertrand W., Mar. 10, 1923 | |||||||||
| 2 | 128 | Smeltzer, Robert, 1916 | |||||||||
| 2 | 129 | Smith, Douglas T., 1914 | |||||||||
| 2 | 130 | Smith, Henry Justin, 1932-1933, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 131 | Storm, Colton, Jan. 7, 1934 | |||||||||
| 2 | 132 | System (magazine), Oct. 13, 1914 | |||||||||
| 2 | 133 | The Trimmed Lamp (incoming and outgoing), 1914-1916 | |||||||||
| 2 | 134 | Underwood, John Curtis, 1915 | |||||||||
| 2 | 135 | United Feature Syndicate, May 10, 1933 | |||||||||
| 2 | 136 | Vincent, S. B., Aug. 28, 1923 | |||||||||
| 2 | 137 | Wallace, H. A., Oct. 8, 1940 | |||||||||
| 2 | 138 | Welland, Robert E., Jan. 26, 1935 | |||||||||
| 2 | 139 | Wells, H. G., 1926 | |||||||||
| 2 | 140 | Whitlock, Brand, 1929-1930 | |||||||||
| 2 | 141 | Willard, Maria M., n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 142 | Williams, Joan Chalmers, 1914-1915 | |||||||||
| 2 | 143 | Williams, Valentine, Jun. 20, 1933 | |||||||||
| 2 | 144 | Winston, Farwell, Feb. 24, 1923 | |||||||||
| 2 | 145 | Yale Alumni Weekly (all outgoing), 1916-1917 | |||||||||
| 2 | 146 | Yale University Press, Jun. 16, 1915 | |||||||||
| 2 | 147 | Fan Mail, 1915-1945 | |||||||||
| 2 | 148 | Unidentified - Incoming, 1914-1927 | |||||||||
| 2 | 149 | Unidentified - Outgoing, 1916-1942 | |||||||||
Series 2: Works, 1904-1947 |
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| Works are primarily typescripts unless otherwise noted. Most manuscripts appear to be essays and stories submitted to magazines. Also included in this series are issues from the three small magazines O'Brien published and edited through his father's art gallery, Art, The Eaglet, and The Observer, which covered cultural and aesthetic topics. In addition, there are several book-length manuscripts, book outlines and notes, materials for a book-keeping system that O'Brien had patented called Budget Books, and scrapbooks containing clippings of O'Brien's Chicago Daily News columns, "Footnotes" and "All Things Considered." | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by title followed by scrapbooks arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 3 | 150 | An Abandoned Woman - excerpts, outlines, 1928 | |||||||||
| 3 | 151 | An Age of Specialization, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 152-153 | All Things Considered (book), ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 3 | 154 | All Things Considered (book), contents, introductions by Lloyd Lewis and Hal O'Flaherty, 1948 | |||||||||
| 3 | 155 | All Things Considered (column), manuscripts (see also scrapbooks), 1943, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 156 | All Things Considered - speech published in the Chicago Purchaser, Oct. 1944 | |||||||||
| 3 | 157 | Alterations Gratis, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 158 | And Where the Romance Might Be, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 159 | Answering a Maiden's Prayer, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 160 | An Ante Room to Education, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 161 | The Apologetic Detective Story, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 162 | Are We Also to Vanish? n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 163 | Art (magazine), 4 issues and ad rate card, 1912-1913 | |||||||||
| 3 | 164 | Auction Golf - A Game of Pitfalls, published in Chicago Golfer, Nov. 1921 | |||||||||
| 3 | 165 | Autobiography, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 166 | Beauty & Business, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 167 | Behind the Literary Scene, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 168 | The Best Known American (2 drafts), n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 169 | The Best of the Best Sellers, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 170 | Blood - outline, notes, 1919 | |||||||||
| 3 | 171 | Blowing Your Own Horn, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 172 | The Book Club Racket - published in the Chicago Daily News, 1929 | |||||||||
| 3 | 173 | Book Reviewing for a Great Newspaper, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 174 | Boredom - drafts, quotes, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 175 | Budget Books bookkeeping system - mock-up, notes, patent certificate, 1926 | |||||||||
| 3 | 176 | Bullets for Ballots (2 drafts), n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 177-178 | A Cake Not Turned - book-length manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 179 | The Casting of Pearls - published in the Yale Literary Magazine, Jan. 1909 | |||||||||
| 4 | 180 | Captain Courageous - published in Real America, Aug. 1933 | |||||||||
| 4 | 181 | Casanova, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 182 | C'est La Vie - poem, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 183 | Cheaters, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 184 | Chesterton Quotation, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 185 | Chicago - notes for a book, ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 4 | 186 | The City of Enlightenment, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 187 | Clipping the Wick (2 drafts), n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 188 | Coated with Chocolate - play script, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 4 | 189 | Colors, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 190 | The Complete Flop, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 4 | 191 | Confessions of an Ex-Advertiser, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 192 | Cordon, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 193 | The Crawl District, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 194 | The Curse of the Steam Table, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 195 | Dead Men Grow No Hair, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 4 | 196 | Dementia Radioso, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 197 | The Denial, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 198 | Desire Shall Fail - book outline, character sketches, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 199 | Discussed But Not Read, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 200 | The Disease of Prejudice, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 201 | The Eaglet - 3 issues, 1904 | |||||||||
| 4 | 202 | The Enchanted Niblic, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 203 | The Extra Trick, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 4 | 204 | Fighters All, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 205 | Forty-All n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 206 | Folio (magazine), various short pieces, ca. 1910s | |||||||||
| 4 | 207 | From a Columnists Castle, ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 4 | 208 | From an Old Fogy's Inglenook, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 209 | Frozen Capital, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 210 | Gentlemen in Armor, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 211 | Glamor - outline, notes, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 212 | Glass Houses, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 213 | A Good Game, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 214 | Headman's Holiday, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 215 | Hewers of Wood, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 216 | His Gift, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 217 | How to Motor on Nothing at All, ca. 1930s | |||||||||
| 5 | 218 | How You May Win a Job by Letter - printed, publication unknown, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 5 | 219 | Human Interest, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 220 | I Speak Up for Chicago, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 221 | The Inefficiency of Language, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 222 | An Inexpensive European Tour - printed, publication, Nov. 1909 | |||||||||
| 5 | 223 | Introducing General Eaton, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 224 | It's Great to be a Radio Maniac - published in Collier's, Sept. 13, 1924 | |||||||||
| 5 | 225 | The Joy of Working - book length bound manuscript & outline (later published as the New Men for Old), ca. 1910s | |||||||||
| 5 | 226 | Keeping Pegasus a Plug, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 227 | Kelly Makes a Sale, 1914 | |||||||||
| 5 | 228 | The King of the Beats, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 229 | Light Wines & Beer, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 230 | A Little Lie or Two, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 5 | 231 | Looking Backward, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 232 | The Low 80s - Golf for the Average Player - illustrated manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 233 | Lyon and Healy, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 234 | Magnificent Ninny, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 235 | Mary Bennett, Agent - published in Collier's, Feb. 13, 1926 | |||||||||
| 5 | 236 | The Metamorphosis of J. Cavendish Sykes, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 237 | The Middle Kingdom, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 238 | The Mobilization of the Guard by One of the Ranks, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 239 | The Modern Anteaus, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 240 | Money in the Bank - book-length manuscript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 6 | 241 | Moonbeams and Cucumbers, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 242 | Mortmain - play script, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 243 | Movie Stuff (2 drafts), ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 6 | 244 | The Movies Doing Their Bit - published in Collier's (also includes manuscript), Jun. 1917 | |||||||||
| 6 | 245 | Must We Scorn the Businessman? Published in Plain Talk, ca. 1930s | |||||||||
| 6 | 246 | Mystery of the Vanishing Bookcase, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 247 | New Classics for Old, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 248 | No Man's Land of Personality, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 6 | 249 | Nocturne, ca. 1910s | |||||||||
| 6 | 250 | Novels are Textbooks, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 251 | Number Six in Number Four, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 252 | The Observer (magazine), 3 issues, 1904-1905 | |||||||||
| 6 | 253 | Obtaining Readers Under False Pretenses, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 254 | Omar's Revenge, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 255 | On Reading Bartlett, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 256 | On the Desert Air - published in Everybody's Magazine (also includes manuscript), Aug. 1923 | |||||||||
| 6 | 257 | On the Road to Damascus, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 258 | On the Strict Q. T., n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 259 | On Respecting One's Wife, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 260 | The Original Melting Pot, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 261 | Pearls, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 262 | Peccari! Published in the Rotarian, Aug. 1927 | |||||||||
| 6 | 263 | The Perfect Gift, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 264 | The Phantom Caravan - excerpts published in Everybody's Magazine, Jan.-Feb. 1925 | |||||||||
| 6 | 265 | Physical Appearance, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 266 | Planning in Advance, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 267 | Pleasure & Profits in Books, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 268 | The Plummer - play script, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 269 | Poison / For External Use Only, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 270 | Pokesby, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 271 | The Pot and the Kettle, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 272 | Progress, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 273 | The Proof of the Pudding, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 274 | Printer's Ink - short articles, 1912, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 275 | The Purple Testament - book-length manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 276 | Radio - NBC Thesaurus Radio Transcriptions, ca. 1930s | |||||||||
| 7 | 277-278 | Radio scripts from WBBM & WMAQ broadcasts, 1939-1945 | |||||||||
| 7 | 279 | Radio - various drafts, notes, fragments regarding, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 280 | Real and Fictitious Values, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 281 | The Recognition of Failure - published in the Yale Literary Magazine, Dec. 1909 | |||||||||
| 7 | 282 | Recollections of a Cryptographic - speech given at the Chicago Literary Club, Nov. 19, 1945 | |||||||||
| 7 | 283 | The Remains of Private War - published in the Independent, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 7 | 284 | Rule 19 - published in The Blue Book Magazine, Sept. 1917 | |||||||||
| 7 | 285 | Reserved for Emergencies, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 286 | R is for Raspberry (2 drafts), ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 7 | 287 | Rope, Sword, Ring, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 288 | Samurai - outline, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 289 | The Scarab Returns, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 290 | Science and Art - published in the Yale Literary Magazine, Feb. 1909 | |||||||||
| 7 | 291 | The Shame of Being in Business, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 292 | The Social Significance of Advertising - outline, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 293 | So Long, Son - Chicago Daily News pamphlet and manuscript, 1942 | |||||||||
| 7 | 294 | Solution of Crime Problem, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 295 | Sounding Bass, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 296 | The Spectric Hoax, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 297 | Squiffy, ca. 1930s-1940s | |||||||||
| 7 | 299 | S. S. Merion - typed diary entries, 1908 | |||||||||
| 7 | 300 | Steam Roller and Harp - published in the New York Herald Tribune, Dec. 9, 1928 | |||||||||
| 7 | 301 | Still in the Red, 1928 | |||||||||
| 7 | 302 | The Sting of the Scorpion - story outline, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 303 | A Substitute for College, ca. 1930 | |||||||||
| 7 | 304 | Suspect - published in the American Legion Monthly, Sept. 1928 | |||||||||
| 7 | 305 | Synthetic Nectar and Fictional Narcotics, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 306 | Talks on Sex - speech, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 307 | That Blankety-Blanked Thing, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 308 | The Thing in 24, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 309 | Thirty - book synopsis, excerpt, ca. 1915 | |||||||||
| 7 | 310 | Thornton Wilder, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 311 | The Three Lord Effinghams, A Comedy in Three Acts - play script, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 312 | Tinkling Brass and Hammered Copper (2 drafts), n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 313 | To a Worried Mother, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 314 | Trodden Gold - outline, play script, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 315 | The Truth About Writing, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 316 | A Twenty Percent Cut - published in the Rotarian (also includes manuscript), Jan. 1933 | |||||||||
| 8 | 317 | Two Pages Facing, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 318 | Under the Hat, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 319 | Uneasy Americans - published in the Bookman, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 320 | The Unspeakable Turpitude of Giocomo Casanova, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 321 | A Victory of Peace, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 322 | The Vision Feminine, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 323 | The Vocabulary of Criticism, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 324 | Watchman, What of the Night? n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 325 | Weak in Arithmetic - published in Collier's (also includes manuscript), Apr. 10, 1926 | |||||||||
| 8 | 326 | What a Book Can Do, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 327 | What Europe Thinks of Us, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 328 | What Every Dressmaker Knows, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 329 | What I Learned in Building a House, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 330 | What Should Children Read? n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 331 | What's Wrong with the Schools, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 332 | Whitman Speech, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 333 | Who Thinks He Can, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 334 | Why English Novels are Better, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 335 | Why French Literature is Better Than Ours, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 336 | Why I Gave Up Golf - published in Collier's, Jan. 10, 1925 | |||||||||
| 8 | 337 | Wither Bound? n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 338 | Writers of Legend and Fact, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 339 | Write What You Like - published in The Editor, Oct. 6, 1928 | |||||||||
| 8 | 340 | Yale Spirit, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 341 | The Young Realists, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 342 | Your Young Men Shall See Visions, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 343 | Fragments, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 344 | Miscellaneous clippings and proofs, 1929, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 345 | Story ideas, outlines, notes, ca. 1920s-1940s | |||||||||
| 8 | 346 | Untitled essays and stories, ca. 1920s-1930s | |||||||||
| 8 | 347 | Untitled manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 348-349 | Untitled speeches, 1931-1936, n.d. | |||||||||
| 9 | 350 | Scrapbook - Book Reviews & Footnotes, Dec. 5, 1928-Mar. 25, 1930 | |||||||||
| 9 | 351 | Scrapbook - Book Reviews & Footnotes, Mar. 26, 1930-May 23, 1931 | |||||||||
| 10 | 352 | Scrapbook - Book Reviews & Footnotes, May 25, 1931-Apr. 30, 1932 | |||||||||
| 10 | 353 | Scrapbook - Footnotes (Europe), Summer, 1932 | |||||||||
| 11 | 354 | Scrapbook - Footnotes, Book Reviews, All Things Considered, May 2-Dec. 1932 | |||||||||
| 11 | 355 | Scrapbook - All Things Considered, Jan. 3-Jun. 17, 1933 | |||||||||
| 12 | 356 | Scrapbook - All Things Considered, Jun. 19, 1933-Jun. 21, 1934 | |||||||||
| 12 | 357 | Scrapbook - All Things Considered, Jun. 22, 1934-Jun. 15, 1934 | |||||||||
| 13 | 358 | Scrapbook - All Things Considered, Jun. 17, 1935-Jul. 8, 1936 | |||||||||
| 13 | 359 | Scrapbook - All Things Considered, Jul. 8, 1936-May 2, 1937 | |||||||||
| 14 | 360 | Scrapbook - All Things Considered, May 10, 1937-Dec. 2, 1938 | |||||||||
| 14 | 361 | Scrapbook - All Things Considered, Dec. 3, 1938-May 31, 1940 | |||||||||
| 15 | 362 | Scrapbook - Amateur Photography column (written under the name Clyde Perrin), Jun. 18, 1938-Jan. 13, 1940 | |||||||||
| 15 | 363 | Scrapbook - All Things Considered, Jan. 3, 1940-Feb. 6, 1942 | |||||||||
| 15 | 364 | Scrapbook - All Things Considered, Feb. 9, 1942-Nov. 10, 1943 | |||||||||
| 16 | 365 | Scrapbook - All Things Considered, Nov. 11, 1943-Jul. 23, 1945 | |||||||||
| 16 | 366 | Scrapbook - All Things Considered, Jul. 24, 1945-Jul. 22, 1947 | |||||||||
Series 3: Personal, 1914-1948 |
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| Financial receipts, military documents, obituaries and publicity for O'Brien's several novels. Also includes three photographs: two portraits of O'Brien, and one unidentified child. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 17 | 367 | Financial - receipts and invoices, 1914-1933 | |||||||||
| 17 | 368 | Military Service Documents - correspondence, orders, memorabilia, 1916-1919 | |||||||||
| 17 | 369-370 | Obituaries, 1947 | |||||||||
| 17 | 371 | O'Brien, William Vincent (father), autobiography (manuscript), n.d. | |||||||||
| 17 | 372 | Photographs - 2 portraits, 1 unidentified child, 1923, 1947, n.d. | |||||||||
| 17 | 373 | Publicity - biographical and critical notices, 1914-1939 | |||||||||
| 17 | 374 | Publicity - Reviews, All Things Considered (book), 1948 | |||||||||
| 17 | 375 | Publicity - Reviews, An Abandoned Woman, 1930 | |||||||||
| 17 | 376 | Publicity - Reviews, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, 1928-1929 | |||||||||
| 17 | 377 | Publicity - Reviews, The Green Scarf, 1924 | |||||||||
| 17 | 378 | Publicity - Reviews, New Men for Old, 1914 | |||||||||
| 17 | 379 | Publicity - Reviews, The Terms of Conquest, 1924 | |||||||||
| 17 | 380 | Publicity - Reviews, Thirty, 1915 | |||||||||
| 18 | 381 | Publicity - Reviews, Thunderbolt, 1923 | |||||||||
| 18 | 382-383 | Publicity - Reviews, Trodden Gold, 1923-1924 | |||||||||
| 18 | 384 | Publicity - Reviews, What a Man Wants, 1925 | |||||||||
| 18 | 385 | Publicity - Reviews, Wine, Women, and War, 1926-1927 | |||||||||