TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Scope and Content of the Collection
Series 1: Eunice Tietjens Correspondence and Miscellaneous, ca. 1898-1961
Series 2: Eunice Tietjens Works, ca. 1913-1944
Series 3: Family Papers, ca. 1847-1936
Series 4: Paul Tietjens Material, 1897-1942
Series 5: Janet Tietjens Hart Material, ca. 1911-1943
 |
Inventory of the Eunice Tietjens Papers - Additions, 1847-1972
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2003. ©2000. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
|
| Creator | Tietjens, Eunice, b. 1884 |
| Title | Eunice Tietjens Papers - Additions |
| Dates | 1847-1972 |
| Extent | 5.5 cubic ft. (10 boxes and 1 oversize box) |
| Abstract | Correspondence, works, and miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens, Chicago poet, novelist, lecturer and associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Also material relating to the Hammond and Strong families, Eunice Tietjens' daughter, Janet Tietjens Hart, and Eunice Tietjens' first husband, Paul Tietjens; and three boxes of photographs. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Tietjens 2 |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 43 2 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Eunice Tietjens Papers-Additions, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift of Jennifer Hart Dougall (granddaughter of Eunice Tietjens), 1990.
Processed by
Virginia H. Smith, 2000
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 Eunice Tietjens Papers-Additions are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 5 folders at a time maximum (Priority II).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Eunice Tietjens Papers-Additions 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.
Return to the Table of Contents
Biography of Eunice Tietjens
American poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor.
Eunice Tietjens was born Eunice Strong Hammond in Chicago in 1884, and she died in Chicago in 1944. Mainly educated in Europe, all her life she was a constant traveler and lived for short periods of time in Florida, New York, Japan, China, the South Seas and Tunisia. She married the composer Paul Tietjens in 1904, divorced him in 1914 and in 1920 married Cloyd Head, playwright and theatrical director. She had two children, Janet T. Hart and Marshall Head.
Tietjens was a World War I correspondent for the Chicago Daily News in France, 1917-1918, and for more than twenty-five years she was on the staff of Harriet Monroe's publication, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Her published work is varied, consisting of four volumes of poetry, a novel, numerous articles, travel books, books for children, an anthology of Oriental poetry, translations from Spanish and French literature, and her memoirs entitled The World at My Shoulder, 1938.
Although Eunice Tietjens' role as a Chicago literary figure is interesting, her reputation rests less on her own work and more on the relationships she maintained and the influence she had as friend, critic and editor of some important writers of the early twentieth-century, including Edgar Lee Masters and Sara Teasdale.
Return to the Table of Contents
Scope and Content of the Collection
The Eunice Tietjens Papers-Additions consists of a few pieces of incoming correspondence, including one letter and one poem from Edgar Lee Masters and two letters from Sara Teasdale, a small number of mementos and miscellaneous items and several boxes of Tietjens' work, both manuscript and published, as well as material relating to Tietjens' forebears, the Hammonds and the Strongs, her daughter, Janet Tietjens Head, and her first husband, Paul Tietjens. There are three boxes of photographs of Eunice Tietjens and her family, including her mother, Idea Hammond, her sisters Elizabeth and Louise, her brother Laurens, and her daughter Janet, as well as a number of images of well-known people such as Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, Harriet Monroe and Mark Twain.
Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.
Return to the Table of Contents
Organization
Papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 1: Eunice Tietjens Correspondence and Miscellaneous, ca. 1898-1961. Box(es) 1
- Series 2: Eunice Tietjens Works, ca. 1913-1944. Box(es) 2-4
- Series 3: Family Papers, ca. 1847-1936. Box(es) 5
- Series 4: Paul Tietjens Material, 1897-1942. Box(es) 6
- Series 5: Janet Tietjens Hart Material, ca. 1911-1943. Box(es) 7
- Series 6: Photographs, ca. 1860-1955. Box(es) 8-10
- Series 7: Oversize. Box(es) 11
Return to the Table of Contents
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
- Aldis, Mary, b. 1872--Portraits
- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910--Portraits
- Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1946--Portraits
- Forrest, Hamilton, b.1902--Portraits
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963--Portraits
- Hammond Family
- Hart, Janet Tietjens
- Head, Cloyd
- Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931--Portraits
- Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950--Correspondence
- Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950--Portraits
- Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936--Portraits
- Strong Family
- Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933--Correspondence
- Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933--Portraits
- Tietjens Family
- Tietjens, Eunice, b. 1884
- Tietjens, Paul
- Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1931--Portraits
Subjects
- American literature--Illinois--Chicago
- Chicago (Ill.)--Intellectual life--20th century
- Correspondence--United States--1911-1944
- Manuscripts, American--Illinois
- Musicians--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century--Sources
- Novelists, American--Illinois--Chicago
- Periodical editors--Illinois--Chicago
- Photographs--1860-1955
- Poets, American--History--20th century--Sources
- Women poets, American--Illinois--Chicago
Return to the Table of Contents
Container List
Series 1: Eunice Tietjens Correspondence and Miscellaneous, ca. 1898-1961 |
|||||||||||
| Incoming correspondence is primarily from McIntosh & Otis, Inc., a manuscript service used by Tietjens, with a few letters from Edgar Lee Masters and Sara Teasdale. The miscellaneous material consists of drawings, clippings, an early scrapbook, sewing samples, picture cards of European opera singers, etc. | |||||||||||
| Arranged by type of material. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence, Incoming - McIntosh & Otis, Inc. | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence, Incoming - Masters, Edgar Lee | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence, Incoming - Sara Teasdale | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence, Incoming - Miscellaneous, n.d.-1942 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence, Miscellaneous - Cloyd Head | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Correspondence, Outgoing - Janet Tietjens | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Miscellaneous - "Brocken," Sketch | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Miscellaneous - Clippings | |||||||||
| 1 | 9-11 | Miscellaneous - Drawings, Memorabilia (See also Oversize) | |||||||||
| 1 | 11a | Miscellaneous - Linoleum blocks (26) (See Oversize) | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Miscellaneous - Photographs of European Opera Singers | |||||||||
| 1 | 12a | Miscellaneous - Picture Frames (2) | |||||||||
| 1 | 12b | Miscellaneous - Postcards of the Canyon of the Rito de los Frijoles, New Mexico (with handwritten note) | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Miscellaneous - Publicity Brochure | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Miscellaneous - "Racketty-Packetty" Play Program | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Miscellaneous - Scrapbook, 1899-1900 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Miscellaneous - Sewing Samples, ca. 1898 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16a | Miscellaneous - White Star Line: S. S. "Pittsburgh": Souvenir Menu | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Miscellaneous - World's Fair Poetry Building Committee List, n.d. | |||||||||
Series 2: Eunice Tietjens Works, ca. 1913-1944 |
|||||||||||
| Mainly manuscript copies of poetry, stories and rough drafts of writing projects. Also, seven notebooks of original verse, nine copies of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (1923-1928) containing published Tietjens poems, a few articles, music, and a small diary, 1913-1918. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by content and title. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 2 | 18 | Anthology of Poetry for Children (mss.) | |||||||||
| 2 | 19 | Anthology of Poetry for Teenagers (mss.) | |||||||||
| 2 | 20 | "Caribbean" (mss.) - pp. 1-126 | |||||||||
| 2 | 21 | "Caribbean" (mss.) - pp. 127-277 | |||||||||
| 2 | 22 | "Caribbean" - Notes and Misc. Pages | |||||||||
| 2 | 23 | "Chronicles of the New Calendar" (mss.) | |||||||||
| 2 | 24 | Diary, 1913-1918 | |||||||||
| 2 | 25 | "An End to Ezra Pound" (article) | |||||||||
| 2 | 26 | "Great Men Learn by Example" (mss.) | |||||||||
| 2 | 27 | "The Hamman of Delirious Delights" (mss.) | |||||||||
| 2 | 28 | "Hand Sinister" (mss.) | |||||||||
| 2 | 29 | "Harvest of Silence" and Other Poems (mss.) | |||||||||
| 3 | 30 | "An Impudent History of the World Before Man" (mss.) | |||||||||
| 3 | 31 | "It was the heat that did it..." (untitled mss.) | |||||||||
| 3 | 32 | "The Jaw-breaker's Alphabet of Prehistoric Times" (mss.) | |||||||||
| 3 | 33 | "The Life of Pilgrim" (mss.) | |||||||||
| 3 | 34 | Miscellaneous - Manuscript Notes | |||||||||
| 3 | 35 | Musical Pieces (See also Oversize) | |||||||||
| 3 | 36 | Notebook, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 37 | Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Miscellaneous Copies, 1923-1928 | |||||||||
| 3 | 38 | Poetry - Miscellaneous Poems of Eunice Tietjens | |||||||||
| 3 | 39 | Poetry - Miscellaneous Poets | |||||||||
| 4 | 40 | Poetry Notebook #1 | |||||||||
| 4 | 41 | Poetry Notebook #2 | |||||||||
| 4 | 42 | Poetry Notebook #3 | |||||||||
| 4 | 43 | Poetry Notebook #4 | |||||||||
| 4 | 44 | Poetry Notebook #5 | |||||||||
| 4 | 45 | Poetry Notebook #6 | |||||||||
| 4 | 46 | Poetry Notebook #7 | |||||||||
| 4 | 47 | "Present Day Europe" (Articles 1 & 2) | |||||||||
| 4 | 48 | "Profiles from China" - Advertisement | |||||||||
| 4 | 49 | "Pursuit of Patricia" - Published Story | |||||||||
| 4 | 50 | "Spring Laughing" (mss. original copy) | |||||||||
| 4 | 51 | "Spring Laughing" (mss. carbon copy) | |||||||||
| 4 | 52 | "Stentarello Gets Nobody" (mss.) | |||||||||
| 4 | 53 | "The Two Flames" (published in The Forum) | |||||||||
| 4 | 54 | University of Miami Student Poetry | |||||||||
Series 3: Family Papers, ca. 1847-1936 |
|||||||||||
| Miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens' family: her grandmother Eunice Brigham, mother Idea Strong Hammond, brother Laurens Hammond, sisters Louise Hammond and Elizabeth Hammond Shepard, cousin Walter Strong and daughter Idea Tietjens. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by name. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 5 | 55 | Brigham, Eunice - Miscellaneous Notes and Drawings, ca. 1847 | |||||||||
| 5 | 56 | Hammond, Idea Strong - Birthday Book, 1916 | |||||||||
| 5 | 57 | Hammond, Idea Strong - Correspondence to Father, 1929 | |||||||||
| 5 | 58 | Hammond, Idea Strong - Hankies | |||||||||
| 5 | 59 | Hammond, Idea Strong - Miscellaneous | |||||||||
| 5 | 60 | Hammond, Idea Strong - Obituary and Estate Record | |||||||||
| 5 | 61 | Hammond, Idea Strong - Permissions to Copy in European Galleries | |||||||||
| 5 | 62 | Hammond, Idea Strong - Play (mss.) | |||||||||
| 5 | 63 | Hammond, Idea Strong - Saturday Evening Post Correspondence | |||||||||
| 5 | 64 | Hammond, Idea Strong - School Catalogue, 1857-1858 | |||||||||
| 5 | 65 | Hammond, Laurens - Clipping and Program | |||||||||
| 5 | 66 | Hammond Family - Artwork | |||||||||
| 5 | 67 | Hammond Family - Passport | |||||||||
| 5 | 68 | Shephard, Elizabeth Hammond - Correspondence and Clipping | |||||||||
| 5 | 69 | Shephard, Elizabeth Hammond - Plays | |||||||||
| 5 | 70 | Strong, Walter A. - Obituary Article | |||||||||
| 5 | 71 | Tietjens, Idea - Miscellaneous | |||||||||
Series 4: Paul Tietjens Material, 1897-1942 |
|||||||||||
| Paul Tietjens, Eunice Tietjens first husband, was a pianist and composer. His musical career was spent in New York City, where he was an accompanist and arranger and a teacher of piano and harmony. Among his compositions was the score for a Broadway production of "The Wizard of Oz" (1902) and many songs and piano pieces. He was the father of Eunice Tietjens' daughter Janet. The Paul Tietjens Material consists of an article about "The Wizard of Oz," a copy of a letter from L. Frank Baum, numerous diaries, 1901-1942, music (mss. and published), a story and a scrapbook. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by type of material. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 6 | 72 | Clipping - "How the Wizard of Oz Was Written" | |||||||||
| 6 | 73 | Correspondence, Incoming - L. Frank Baum (copy) | |||||||||
| 6 | 74 | Music Programs | |||||||||
| 6 | 75 | Works - Compositions List | |||||||||
| 6 | 76 | Works - Diary, 1901-1904 | |||||||||
| 6 | 77 | Works - Diaries, 1928; 1929-1930 | |||||||||
| 6 | 78 | Works - Diaries, 1930-1932; 1932-1933 | |||||||||
| 6 | 79 | Works - Diaries, 1936-1938; 1938-1940 | |||||||||
| 6 | 80 | Works - Diaries, 1940-1941; 1941-1942 | |||||||||
| 6 | 81 | Works - Musical Pieces, Manuscript (See Oversize) | |||||||||
| 6 | 82 | Works - Musical Pieces, Published (See also Oversize) | |||||||||
| 6 | 83 | Works - Scrapbook, 1897-1909 | |||||||||
| 6 | 84 | Works - Story, "Oogelygoo" | |||||||||
Series 5: Janet Tietjens Hart Material, ca. 1911-1943 |
|||||||||||
| Janet Tietjens, daughter of Eunice and Paul Tietjens, graduated from the University of Wisconsin, married Chester Hart, and had one daughter, Jennifer Hart (Dougall). The family settled in Oak Park, Illinois, and Janet T. Hart then pursued a career as a photographer, in which she exhibited, taught, judged and wrote about photography. | |||||||||||
| The Janet Tietjens Hart Material is mainly outgoing correspondence from Janet Tietjens Hart to her mother, Eunice Tietjens, ca. 1911-1943. Also incoming correspondence and miscellaneous material concerning Hart's photographic career. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by type of material. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 7 | 85-93 | Correspondence, Outgoing - to Eunice Tietjens | |||||||||
| 7 | 94 | Correspondence, Incoming | |||||||||
| 7 | 95 | Drawing Book | |||||||||
| 7 | 96 | Drawings | |||||||||
| 7 | 97 | Photography - Awards | |||||||||
| 7 | 98-100 | Photography - Miscellaneous | |||||||||
| 7 | 101 | School Miscellaneous | |||||||||
| 7 | 102 | Travel Itineraries | |||||||||
| 7 | 103 | Writings | |||||||||
Series 6: Photographs, ca. 1860-1955 |
|||||||||||
| Mainly photographs of Eunice Tietjens, her siblings, her mother and her daughter Janet, but also a collection of images of other individuals, some of them well-known such as Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Harriet Monroe, Edgar Lee Masters, Sara Teasdale and Mark Twain. . | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by name, except for the miscellaneous material which is arranged by subject matter at the end of Box 10 | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 8 | 104 | Aldis, Mary | |||||||||
| 8 | 105 | Beethoven, Ludwig van | |||||||||
| 8 | 106 | Cornoyer, Paul | |||||||||
| 8 | 107 | Davis, Clara (dr.) | |||||||||
| 8 | 108 | Denslow, W.W. | |||||||||
| 8 | 109 | Ficke, Arthur Davison | |||||||||
| 8 | 110 | Forrest, Hamilton | |||||||||
| 8 | 111 | Frost, Robert | |||||||||
| 8 | 112 | Hammond, Elizabeth | |||||||||
| 8 | 113 | Hammond, Idea Strong | |||||||||
| 8 | 114 | Hammond, Laurens (See also Oversize) | |||||||||
| 8 | 115 | Hammond, Louise | |||||||||
| 8 | 116 | Hammond Family - Idea Hammond and children | |||||||||
| 8 | 117 | Hammond Family - Ancestors | |||||||||
| 8 | 118 | Hart, Chester (See Oversize) | |||||||||
| 8 | 119-120 | Hart, Janet Tietjens (See also Oversize) | |||||||||
| 8 | 121 | Hart, Jennifer | |||||||||
| 8 | 122 | Head, Cloyd - "A Little Clay Cart" | |||||||||
| 8 | 123 | Head, Marshall | |||||||||
| 8 | 124 | Hollingsworth, William | |||||||||
| 8 | 125 | LeBerger, Carie | |||||||||
| 8 | 126 | Lindsay, Vachel | |||||||||
| 9 | 127 | McCreery, Ada | |||||||||
| 9 | 128 | Masters, Edgar Lee | |||||||||
| 9 | 129 | Monroe, Harriet | |||||||||
| 9 | 130 | Mowrer, Paul Scott | |||||||||
| 9 | 131 | Peets, Orville | |||||||||
| 9 | 131a | Smith, William Jones (See Oversize) | |||||||||
| 9 | 132 | Strong Family (See also Oversize) | |||||||||
| 9 | 133 | Strong Family Album | |||||||||
| 9 | 134 | Tagore, Rabindranath | |||||||||
| 9 | 135 | Tauner, H.O. | |||||||||
| 9 | 136 | Teasdale, Sara | |||||||||
| 9 | 137-142 | Tietjens, Eunice | |||||||||
| 9 | 143 | Tietjens, Idea | |||||||||
| 9 | 144 | Tietjens, Paul | |||||||||
| 10 | 145-146 | Tietjens Family Albums | |||||||||
| 10 | 147 | Twain, Mark | |||||||||
| 10 | 148 | Webster, Henry Kitchell | |||||||||
| 10 | 149 | Weil, Elsie | |||||||||
| 10 | 150 | White, Clarence H. II | |||||||||
| 10 | 151 | Wilkinson, Marguerite | |||||||||
| 10 | 152 | Miscellaneous - Art | |||||||||
| 10 | 153 | Miscellaneous - Buildings (See also Oversize) | |||||||||
| 10 | 154 | Miscellaneous - Children, Unidentified (See also Oversize) | |||||||||
| 10 | 155 | Miscellaneous - Groups, Identified | |||||||||
| 10 | 156 | Miscellaneous - Groups, Unidentified | |||||||||
| 10 | 157 | Miscellaneous - People, Identified | |||||||||
| 10 | 158 | Miscellaneous - People, Unidentified | |||||||||
| 10 | 159 | Miscellaneous - Tietjens, Photos for "Caribbean" | |||||||||
| 10 | 160 | Miscellaneous - Tietjens, Photos of China | |||||||||
| 10 | 161 | Miscellaneous - Tietjens, Photos for "The World at my Shoulder" | |||||||||
| 10 | 162 | Miscellaneous - Travel | |||||||||
Series 7: Oversize |
|||||||||||
| The following items have been removed from their respective series due to their size. The folder numbers refer to the folders from which the oversize items were taken. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 11 | 9 | Eunice Tietjens: Miscellaneous drawings, prints, photographs | |||||||||
| 11 | 11a | Miscellaneous - Linoleum blocks (26) | |||||||||
| 11 | 35 | Eunice Tietjens: Musical Pieces | |||||||||
| 11 | 81 | Paul Tietjens: Musical Pieces, Manuscript | |||||||||
| 11 | 82 | Paul Tietjens: Musical Pieces, Published | |||||||||
| 11 | 114 | Photographs: Laurens Hammond | |||||||||
| 11 | 118 | Photographs: Chester Hart | |||||||||
| 11 | 119-120 | Photographs: Janet Hart | |||||||||
| 11 | 131a | Photographs: Smith, William Jones | |||||||||
| 11 | 132 | Photographs: Strong Family | |||||||||
| 11 | 156 | Photographs: Miscellaneous Buildings | |||||||||
| 11 | 161 | Photographs: Miscellaneous People, Unidentified | |||||||||