Ade, George, 1866-1944. Papers, 1865-1971.
6 cubic ft.
Correspondence, works, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, miscellaneous pictorial items and memorabilia documenting the literary and personal life of George Ade, Midwestern journalist, humorist and playwright, best known for his Chicago Record column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," and for his Fables in Slang.
Subjects: Literature; Family; Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Ade (formerly Ad)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Algren, Nelson, 1909-. Papers, 1951-1971.
7 items.
Chicago writer. Includes three mss. (typescripts signed) by Algren, printing plates for Chicago: City on the Make, and two articles about Algren and the sale of his manuscripts.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS 152
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941. Papers, 1872-1992.
61 cubic ft.
Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, audiovisual material, royalty statements, personal financial records, artifacts, miscellaneous ephemera, autographed works, and literary manuscripts (many unpublished; also fragments, notes, and tentative sketches for short stories) of Chicago Literary Renaissance novelist and poet best known for his 1919 novel, Winesburg, Ohio.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Anderson (formerly An)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 2-5; 3a 44 11; Vault 49 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Atwater, Adeline Lobdell. Papers, 1932-1956.
1 cubic foot (2 boxes)
Literary manuscripts, autobiography and diary of Adeline Lobdell Atwater, Chicago writer. In her autobiography, Atwater writes about the Iroquois Theater Fire, birth control, divorce and her children’s education in the Montessori Method. She also writes about her ten years in New York working at art galleries.
Subjects: Literature; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Atwater (formerly At)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Barnes, Edward A. Papers, 1865-1893.
0.5 cubic ft.
Journals from 1865 to 1895 kept by amateur Chicago poet, Edward A. Barnes. Also, a large group of printed poetry and music.
Subjects: Family; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Barnes E
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Barrett, Oliver R. (Oliver Roger), 1873-1950. Oliver Barrett-Carl Sandburg papers, ca. 1860-1966.
6 cubic ft.
Correspondence and notes of Oliver R. Barrett, lawyer and collector of Abraham Lincoln material, and poet Carl Sandburg, primarily pertaining to the interest of both men in Abraham Lincoln. Also poems by Sandburg, photographs of Sandburg and Barrett, and a large collection of stereographs (scenes of the American Civil War, world views and many slides of Chicago before and after the fire of 1871), and cabinet and carte de visite portraits.
Subjects: Literature; Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS Barrett-Sandburg (formerlyBar)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Midwest MS information file available.
Bellow, Saul. Newspaper clippings, 1944-1970.
0.5 cubic ft.
Clippings of American and English book reviews of Bellow's works.
Subjects: Literature
Call number: Midwest MS Bellow (formerly Blw)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 10
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Bowe, Augustine Joseph, 1892-1966. Papers, 1903-1966.
15 cubic ft.
Personal and literary papers (correspondence, writings, photographs, and scrapbooks) of Chicago lawyer, jurist, civic leader and poet Augustine Bowe, documenting his active involvement with Poetry: A Magazine of Verse and Loyola University, and the family and philanthropic activities of Bowe and his wife, Julia.
Subjects: Family; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Bowe (formerly Bo)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 3-4
Finding Aids:
Catalog cards for selected correspondents: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913. Papers, ca. 1860-1949, bulk 1873-1915.
4.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, literary manuscripts, memorabilia, clippings, photos and material relating to Francis Fisher Browne and the publication of several Chicago literary periodicals, primarily The Dial, of which Francis Fisher Browne was the founder and editor, 1880-1913.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Browne (formerly Br)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Brundage, Slim, 1903-1990. Papers, 1955-1991, bulk 1964-1972.
5.5 cubic ft.
Writings and correspondence of Slim Brundage, founder of the College of Complexes, which operated on and off out of several locations on Chicago’s Near North Side during the 1950's-1960's as a forum where speakers and the audience debated controversial topics and read poetry. Also a variety of documents relating to the College of Complexes itself, such as correspondence, press releases, speaker solicitations, and poetry written by the College’s “students.”
Subjects: Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Brundage
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987. Papers, 1830-1984, bulk 1910-1984.
25 cubic ft. (56 boxes)
Chief literary editor of the Chicago Tribune, writer of a widely-read column, "The Literary Spotlight," and bookstore owner. Butcher's papers include letters and photographs of numerous literary figures including H.L. Mencken, Carl Sandburg, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, James Thurber, and Willa Cather, and a significant amount of correspondence with Arthur Meeker. Also notes for and clippings of her reviews and articles, and other memorabilia.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Butcher (formerly Bu and Bk)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 5-6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Casey, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1890-1962. Papers, 1907-1964.
15 cubic ft.
Manuscripts of the works and diaries, along with correspondence, photographs, and other memorabilia, of Robert J. Casey, Chicago Daily News reporter and prolific author. Casey served in World War I, was one of the great correspondents of World War II, and wrote a popular front-page feature based on his worldwide travels. His works include travel accounts, historical romances, detective and adventure stories, and poetry.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Casey (formerly C-)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1; 3a 38 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Cather, Willa - SEE Hitz, Benjamin D. Benjamin D. Hitz - Willa Cather papers, 1913-1949.
Cather, Willa - SEE Weisz, Irene Miner. Willa Cather - Irene Miner Weisz papers, 1912-1958.
Catherwood, Mary Hartwell, 1847-1902. Papers, 1865-1945.
1 cubic ft.
Midwestern writer of romantic historical novels and short stories. Catherwood's papers include mostly out-going correspondence, manuscript and published writings, diaries, notebooks, notes for stories, clippings, photographs and some miscellaneous material relating her life and career.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Catherwood (formerly Ca)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Chicago Literary Club. Records, 1874-1960.
36 cubic ft.
Chicago voluntary association founded in 1874 of men and women interested in writing original essays on topics of their own choosing and in listening to other members present their essays. Prominent members include Lorado Taft, Edgar Lee Masters, Irving Kane Pond, William Rainey Harper, and Thomas Elliott Donnelly. Primarily weekly papers read by over 250 members, but also correspondence, minutes, a visitors' register, cashbook, and scrapbooks.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Literary Club (formerly Ch)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 2-4; 3a 35 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog .
Summary and inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990. Papers, 1924-1991.
43 cubic ft.
Works, correspondence, and papers of the American novelist, folklorist, and editor who wrote The Disinherited (1933), a classic of proletarian literature, and edited radical journals: The Rebel Poet, The Anvil, and The New Anvil. Also Conroy's personal magazine collection consisting of numerous leftist, labor, and literary magazines, some only in a few issues, dating mainly from the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Conroy
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 7-10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Inventory: Online.
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989. Papers, ca. 1850-2004, bulk 1898-1985.
82 cubic ft.
Author, poet, translator, literary critic and historian who was editor of the Greenwich Village avant-garde magazine, Broom, and literary editor of the New Republic, and who wrote Exile's Return, chronicling literary life between the two World Wars. Cowley's papers include correspondence with and materials about 20th century literary figures and reflect Cowley's long involvement with Yaddo and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Also numerous project files including Cowley's writings and related correspondence and research materials; photographs; and family correspondence.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Cowley (formerly Co)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 5-9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 - SEE ALSO Nuzum, Ruth. Ruth Nuzum - Malcolm Cowley Research Collection, ca. 1930s-1990s.
Cummings, Marion, 1876-1926. Papers, 1900-1956.
1.5 cubic ft.
Papers of Marion Cummings, teacher, philosopher and poet, which include both her works and a collection of letters and works of American poet Sara Teasdale.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cummings (formerly Cu)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956. Papers, 1810-1988.
39 cubic ft.
Illinois attorney, journalist, literary agent, poet, and patron to Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Theodore Dreiser, Marcel Duchamp, William Carlos Williams, Maxwell Bodenheim, and Robert McAlmon. Dawson's papers include his works and correspondence, as well as diaries, correspondence, photographs, memoirs, etc., of George E. Dawson, and other members of the Dawson, Manierre, and Hahn families.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Dawson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 4-5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969. Papers, 1908-1969.
11 cubic ft.
Poet, novelist, playwright, newspaperman, and literary editor, who was a central figure in the Chicago Literary Renaissance and editor of the Friday Literary Review, and who later edited The Masses, The Liberator, and The New Masses after moving to Greenwich Village and Croton on Hudson, New York. Dell's papers include correspondence with a number of important literary figures, manuscript and printed works, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Dell (formerly De)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10-11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Articles: Newberry Library Bulletin, 2nd Ser. No. 5 (December 1950), p. 146-157.
Dill Pickle Club (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1906-1941, bulk 1915-1935.
2.5 cubic ft.
Chicago social club founded in 1916 (chartered in 1917) by Jack Jones to provide an unconventional meeting-place for the uninhibited and free-thinking. Originally housed in two scrapbooks presumably kept by Jones, the records include a small amount of correspondence, plus poetry, clippings, photographs, publicity items for readings, lectures and plays, artwork and memorabilia.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Dill Pickle (formerly Di)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dilworth, Hiram Powers, 1878-1974. Papers, 1904-1959.
1 cubic ft.
Poet and pianist, who graduated from the Cincinnati College of Music, attended Antioch College in Ohio, and began working at the Art Institute in 1904 as a guard, retiring in 1959. Dilworth's papers include poetry manuscripts, most written on versos of Art Institute Weekly Bulletins, and a few copyright certificates for his publications.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Dilworth
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Dow, Dorothy, 1897-1989. Dorothy Dow – Edgar Lee Masters papers, 1920-1950.
112 items.
Chicago poet who in 1920 began a lifelong friendship with Edgar Lee Masters, the Illinois-born poet, novelist, and biographer best known for his Spoon River Anthology. Dow’s papers consist almost entirely of Masters' letters to her, 1920-1947, interfiled with typescripts of poems by Masters and newspaper clippings; also a long reminiscence of Masters by Dow, and copies of two portraits.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Dow
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Fairbank, Janet Ayer, 1878-1951. Scrapbooks, 1913-1935.
3 cubic ft. (3 oversize boxes)
Six scrapbooks of Chicago novelist, suffragette, and socialite Janet Ayer Fairbank, containing mainly newspaper clippings regarding three charity balls, 1913-1915, for the Chicago Lying-In Hospital, and reviews, publicity notices, and bookjackets for Fairbanks’ novels, 1922-1935. Also a few letters, photographs, and programs.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Fairbank
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979. Papers, ca. 1949-1967.
8 items in 7 folders.
Novelist best known for his Chicago-based Studs Lonigan trilogy and one of the writers of the American left who emerged during the 1930s and 1940s. Farrell's papers include letters to Robert H. Andrews and "Louis," several mss. by Farrell commenting on his writings, and two photographs.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS 156
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979. James T. Farrell – Cleo Paturis papers, 1912-2006, bulk 1949-2004.
2 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
Novelist best known for his Chicago-based Studs Lonigan trilogy, and one of the writers of the American left who emerged during the 1930s and 1940s. This small body of Farrell's papers, a gift of Cleo Paturis, is mainly comprised of Farrell's later short stories and essays, but also includes letters, 1979-1994, and materials relating to Farrell's death and funeral. Recent additions include photographs, some taken by Jill Krementz, and cassette tapes of Farrell lectures and speeches.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Farrell
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979. SEE ALSO Troy, Leander. Leander Troy - James T. Farrell papers, 1932-2004.
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945. Arthur Davison Ficke - C.J. Hambleton papers, 1904-1945.
0.5 cubic ft.
Davenport, Iowa, and New York City poet and writer who was trained as a lawyer, served in World War I, and was a friend and collaborator of Witter Bynner. Ficke's papers consist mainly of letters to C. J. Hambleton, a Harvard classmate and lifelong friend, a few letters from Hambleton and other correspondents, several works, and an obituary.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Ficke (formerly Fic-Ham)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 14
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Fisher, Vardis, 1895-1968. Papers, 1955-1969.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box)
Letters articles and memorabilia of Idaho writer Vardis Fisher, best known as the author of Children of God.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Fisher V
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Flacks, Aaron, 1902-1959. Papers, 1930-1956.
1 cubic ft.
Notes and files assembled for a proposed bibliography of the works of Eugene Field.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Flacks (formerly Fa)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 11
Finding Aids:
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Fornell, Grace, 1904-1982. Papers, 1931-1982.
1.5 cubic ft. (3 boxes, 1 volume)
Wisconsin-born editor and writer, mainly of plays, who attended Yaddo twice on scholarships, and the script writers’ workshop of the American Theatre Wing. Includes correspondence with writer Mark Schorer, Princeton University Press editor Datus Smith, many playscripts, a study of her Wisconsin Swedish immigrant ancestor, Nils Fornell, and a few photographs.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Fornell.
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 4
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
French, Alice - SEE Thanet, Octave, 1850-1934. Alice French papers, 1871-1934.
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929. Papers, 1868-2000, bulk 1874-1929.
10 cubic ft.
Chicago novelist, essayist, critic, and satirist, whose writing encompassed realistic depictions of the Midwest, such as the The Cliff-Dwellers, and fanciful travel romances. Fuller was active in Chicago's Little Room and aided Harriet Monroe with Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. His papers include some outgoing correspondence, but consist primarily of incoming correspondence, and manuscript and published copies of his works, 1874-1929. Also diaries and travel journals, mementos, sketches and photographs, musical scores, theater programs, clippings, and articles about Fuller.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Fuller (formerly Fu)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Fuller, Jack, 1946-. Papers, 1954-2005.
22 cubic ft.
Chicago journalist and novelist, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and was the President of the Tribune Publishing Company from 1997 to 2004. Papers include literary and journalistic works, correspondence, and personal documents. Fuller wrote mainly for the Chicago Tribune, but also wrote for the Washington Post, and for the Pacific Stars and Stripes while serving in Vietnam. Also included are newspaper articles written by Fuller's father, Ernest Fuller, former financial reporter for the Chicago Tribune.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS FullerJ
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 6-7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Gurko, Miriam. Miriam Gurko - Floyd Dell papers, 1958-1968.
2 cubic ft.
Independent researcher and author of biographies and histories, who met and became friends with Floyd Dell while researching for a biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Papers are comprised mainly of letters from Dell to Gurko, 1960-1968, concerning Millay. Also Dell's recollections of Millay, and Gurko's research notes and drafts.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Gurko-Dell
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hansen, Harry, 1884-. Papers, 1900-1970.
3 cubic ft.
Mainly incoming correspondence of Harry Hansen, Chicago Daily News reporter, foreign correspondent, and literary editor, 1911-1926, and author of fourteen books. Correspondence is rich with letters from important novelists, poets, journalists, and historians of the time. Photographs and small collections of outgoing correspondence, memorabilia, and Hansen's works also present.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Hansen (formerly Han)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hart, John Edward, 1917-. John Hart - Floyd Dell papers, 1958-1985.
0.5 cubic ft.
Albion College English professor, 1954-1982, interested in American writers of the 1920's and 1930's, whose published works included a critical study of Floyd Dell. Mainly letters between Dell and Hart, 1958-1968, and also photographs and other miscellaneous material.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Hart-Dell
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Head, Cloyd S. Papers, 1895-1968.
4 cubic ft.
Writings and correspondence, souvenirs and miscellany of Cloyd S. Head, Chicago playwright, theatrical director, business manager of the Goodman Theatre and husband of the poet Eunice Tietjens.
Subjects: Literature; Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Head
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 16
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964. Papers, 1879-1983.
94 cubic ft.
Chicago Daily Record and Chicago Daily News journalist, and active participant in the Chicago Literary Renaissance. Hecht continued his career in New York and California as a journalist, novelist, and playwright, and was a prolific Hollywood screenwriter and Jewish activist. His papers consist of correspondence, works, subject files, legal and financial materials, photographs, scrapbooks, sound recordings, film, video, artifacts, and miscellaneous ephemera documenting his life and literary output, as well as the lives and careers of his wife Rose, and his actress daughter Jenny.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hecht (formerly He)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 1; 3a 40 1-5; 3a 59 13-14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Heflin, Wilson. Papers, 1830-1990.
11 cubic ft.
Professor of American literature at the U.S. Naval Academy and Melville scholar. Heflin's papers contain notes and correspondence relating to Heflin's lifelong work on a book concerning Melville's sea years, together with an almost complete manuscript of the book, which Heflin did not live to publish.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Heflin
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Hemingway, Ernest - SEE Horne, William D., 1892-1986. William Horne - Ernest Hemingway papers, 1913-1985.
Hemingway, Ernest - SEE Spiegel, Clara Gatzert, 1904-1997. Family Papers, 1939-1988.
Hemingway, Ernest - SEE Spiegel, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1898-1975. Frederick W. Spiegel - Ernest Hemingway papers, 1918-1973.
Hitz, Benjamin D. Benjamin D. Hitz - Willa Cather papers, 1913-1949.
0.5 cubic ft.
Indiana collector of books and manuscripts, particularly of explorations of the Middle West and the works of Mary Webb and Willa Cather. Chiefly correspondence of Benjamin D. Hitz with librarians, booksellers, experts, and friends of Willa Cather relating to Hitz's search for information about Willa Cather and for first editions of her work. Also a small collection of incoming and outgoing Willa Cather correspondence (including twelve original Cather letters) and biographical, bibliographical, and critical notes.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hitz-Cather (formerly C2)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Holton, Hugh. Papers, ca. 1994-2003.
7 cubic ft.
Chicago policeman and police fiction author. Holton's papers consist of his published and unpublished works, book production and promotional materials (including posters), awards and certificates, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and a full working police uniform.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Holton
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 5
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Horne, William D., 1892-1986. William Horne - Ernest Hemingway papers, 1913-1985.
2 cubic ft.
Chicago businessman and Princeton graduate who served with Ernest Hemingway in the American Red Cross volunteer ambulance service in Schio, Italy, during World War I, shared an apartment with him in 1920 in Chicago, and remained lifelong friend. Mainly correspondence relating to Ernest Hemingway, together with several essays by Horne about Hemingway and the ambulance service, a scrapbook with photographs of the ambulance service in Italy, and other miscellaneous material. Also letters from Hemingway to Horne.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Horne-Hemingway
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Iris, Scharmel, b. 1889. Papers, 1930-1960.
67 items in 3 folders.
English professor at Lewis College in Lockport, Illinois, poet, and poetry reviewer. Papers include incoming correspondence from Vincent Sheean, Adlai Stevenson, Vincent Starrett, Edith Wyatt, and others, Iris' own works, and photographs.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS 137
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
James T. Farrell Centenary Committee. Postcards, 2004.
1 folder
Postcard responses supporting James T. Farrell's recognitions by the City of Chicago on the centenary of his birth.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS 36
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
James T. Farrell Centennial Conference. Records, 2004.
1 folder
Programs and forms for the James T. Farrell Centennial Conference held at the American University of Paris in June of 2004.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS 52
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Kirkland, Joseph, 1830-1894. Papers, 1842-1939.
0.5 cubic ft.
Chicago businessman, lawyer, and writer associated with Hamlin Garland, who was part of the movement to develop realism in American fiction. Kirkland's papers consist mainly of his letters to his family, together with manuscripts of some of his works, and photographs. Also later family correspondence, and articles about Kirkland.
Subjects: Family; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Kirkland (formerly Ki)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 11
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Korngold, Ralph, 1882-1964. Papers, 1867-1994, bulk 1909-1964.
4 cubic ft.
Polish-born emigrant from Holland, Chicago Daily Socialist editor, businessman, and writer of fiction and historical biography. Korngold's papers consist of works, correspondence, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials. Collection also includes correspondence and other materials from Korngold’s wife Piri, who wrote an unpublished biography of Korngold.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Korngold
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Kramer, Dale. Papers, ca. 1930-1966.
13 cubic ft.
Journalist, biographer, and literary historian. Kramer's papers include correspondence, literary manuscripts, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, and five Chicago notebooks containing a record of his research and some correspondence of literary figures for his book Chicago Renaissance (1966), about the Chicago Literary Renaissance of the early 20th century.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Kramer (formerly Kr)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 11-12
Finding Aids:
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards for selected correspondents: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Selected authors of letters and documents: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933. Papers, 1885-1982.
6.5 cubic ft.
American journalist and humorist author of short stories, plays, and song lyrics, who began his career as a sports reporter and wrote for a number of Chicago newspapers. Lardner's papers include courtship correspondence, letters (1907-1910) from Lardner to his Niles, Mich., friend, Wilma A. Johnson, and letters to the Lardner children and Abbott family members. Also correspondence from magazine editors and friends, copies of published short stories; typescripts of plays, song lyrics, and unpublished musical comedies, photographs, and newsclippings.
Subjects: Literature; Journalism; Music; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Lardner (formerly Lar)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 12-13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lederer, William L. Papers, 1959-2006.
3.5 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
Chicago playwright and nephew of Studs Cunningham, upon whom James T. Farrell based the main character of his Studs Lonigan trilogy. Included are Lederer’s original plays, screenplays, novel, novella, and poetry. Also eight letters from James T. Farrell to Lederer, 1972-1973, and one letters from Marshall Brooks, 2004.
Subjects: Literature; Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Lederer
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Lee, Agnes, 1868-1939. Agnes Lee - Edgar Lee Masters papers, 1919-1933.
37 items (1 box)
Published and prize-winning Chicago poet associated with Harriet Monroe and Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Mainly letters from Edgar Lee Masters to Lee, discussing Harriet Monroe, Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, Clarence Darrow, and Vachel Lindsay, and the possibilities for literature in Chicago. Also two poems.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Lee
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. Clipping collection, 1929-1967, bulk 1919-1953.
2 cubic ft.
American author of Babbitt, Main Street, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth. Clipping file beginning with the publication of Dodsworth (1929) and with the exception of a few clippings, ending two years after Lewis' death. Contains no obituaries.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Lewis S (formerly LeC)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 11
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Liberman, M. M. (Myron M.). Papers, 1953-1974.
0.1 cubic ft.
Grinnell College Katherine Anne Porter scholar. Liberman's papers consist of correspondence from Malcolm Cowley and Katherine Anne Porter re access to a Porter letter to Cowley, together with letters between Liberman, Porter, and Porter's attorneys regarding Porter's brief designation of Liberman as her literary executor.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Modern MS 138
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
MacAdams, William. Ben Hecht research papers, ca. 1925-1990.
4 cubic ft.
Research materials gathered by William MacAdams in writing a biography of Ben Hecht, entitled: Ben Hecht: The Man Behind the Legend (1990). Includes photographs, correspondence with Hecht family members and acquaintances, programs, periodical issues, interview cassette tapes, etc. Also includes typescripts of the work.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS MacAdams
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Madlener, Elaine. Papers, 1944-1965.
1.5 cubic ft.
Research materials for a biography of Herbert von Karajan and material on autograph collecting gathered by Elaine Madlener, Chicago philanthropist and socialite. Madlener (nee Wetmore), wife of Otto Madlener, was instrumental in bringing von Karajan’s Berlin Philharmonic to Chicago for concerts benefiting Grant Hospital in 1955 and 1965. She was also an enthusiastic collector of autographs and books and manuscripts of the British novelist Charles Morgan. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, autographs, and manuscript and printed works (both of Madlener and of Charles Morgan). Correspondents include von Karajan, Roger Dettmer, Andre Mittoni, Adlai Stevenson, and many authors and notable personalities.
Subjects: Literature; Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Madlener (formerly Mad)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Catalog cards for selected items: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923. Papers, 1903-1942.
3.5 cubic ft.
British short story writer and critic. Mansfield's papers include manuscripts of her works and her letters, the bulk to Dorothy Brett and Lady Ottoline Morrell.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Mansfield (formerly Man)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923. Papers - Additions, 1910-1938.
0.5 cubic ft.
British short story writer and critic. Additions to Mansfield's papers consist mainly of correspondence, 1921-1934, concerning the handling of her literary estate; also two manuscript works, the poem, To Stanislaw Wyspianski, and a collection of poems, The Earth Child.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Mansfield 2
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 - SEE Dow, Dorothy, 1897-1989. Dorothy Dow - Edgar Lee Masters papers, 1920-1950.
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 - SEE Lee, Agnes, 1868-1939. Agnes Lee - Edgar Lee Masters papers, 1919-1933.
McDavid, Raven Ioor. Papers, 1930-1960.
23 cubic ft.
University of Chicago professor and leading expert on American language, who updated H.L. Mencken's The American Language in 1963, and served as editor of The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States and The Linguistic Atlas of the North Central States. McDavid's papers include correspondence, work files, manuscripts and page proofs for the Mencken work, the atlases, and McDavid's other projects. Also several files relating to Harold Allen's Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS McDavid
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 7-9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
McNickle, D’Arcy, 1904-1977. Papers, 1913-1986, bulk 1924-1977.
14 cubic ft. (34 boxes, 1 oversize box).
Literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, and other materials of D'Arcy McNickle, American Indian author, government employee, community organizer, anthropologist, and historian. Records cover McNickle's work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, American Indian Development, Inc., the University of Saskatchewan, and the Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Literature; Newberry Library
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS McNickle
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 1-2
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Meeker, Arthur, 1902-. Papers, ca. 1850-1972, bulk 1920-1945.
5 cubic ft.
Chicago writer of an economically and socially prominent Chicago family. Meeker's papers consist mainly of family correspondence documenting life on Chicago's Prairie Avenue at the beginning of the 20th century and Meeker's own background and literary career. There are fifty-five letters from English writer E.M. Delafield, and one from Chicago poet George Dillon, as well as personal materials, notes, and photographs.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Meeker
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Meine, Franklin Julius, 1896-1968. Papers, 1797-1965.
2 cubic ft.
Chicago writer, editor, and book collector whose collections were donated to the University of Illinois campuses in Urbana and Chicago. Meine's papers relate to his preparation for a 50th anniversary talk to the Society of Midland Authors, and include materials by and about Edith Wyatt, John Stahl, and Mary Dickerson Donahey. Also a few 18th and 19th century letters collected by Meine.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Meine (formerly Me)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 4
Finding Aids:
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Letters, 1938-1955.
100 items
Baltimore journalist, critic, essayist, and author of The American Language. Correspondence addressed mainly to Raven McDavid, largely concerning the supplements to The American Language.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS 140
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-. Papers, 1894-1988, bulk 1912-1971.
3 cubic ft.
Journalist with the Chicago Daily News, 1910-1944, and first poet laureate of New Hampshire. During his long career at the Daily News, he held the positions of Paris correspondent, head of European service, associate editor, and editor-in-chief. Also the author of numerous books on international political issues and ten volumes of poetry and several plays, some of them produced in New York. Papers are mainly comprised of Mowrer's works, together with letters (some with poets and literary editors), six diaries, scrapbooks, notes, souvenirs, and clippings. Some of the material deals with Mowrer's work as a journalist during the two World Wars.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Mowrer P
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Nieminski, John, 1929-1986. Papers, 1900-1995.
26 cubic ft.
Editor of Baker Street Miscellanea, and author and editor of several works regarding Arthur Conan Doyle, Vincent Starrett, and mystery magazines. Nieminski's papers consist of notes, clippings, magazines, etc., relating to the topics of his works.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Nieminski
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 6-8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Niffenegger, Audrey. Papers, 1990-
1 cubic ft.
Chicago book artist and novelist. Typescript drafts of The Time Traveller’s Wife and other works; related sketches, drawings, correspondence, and ephemera; press clips and other biographical information.
Subjects: Literature; Printing History and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Niffenegger
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Norris, Hoke. Papers, 1934-1977, bulk 1956-1977.
9 cubic ft.
Journalist for the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Daily News, and author of novels and short stories, who focused on the Civil Rights Movement, adoption records, feminism, and the protests and marches in Chicago and the South during the 1960's. Norris' papers consist of his works and newspaper columns, correspondence, two scrapbooks, and a few other personal papers.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Norris (formerly No)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Nuzum, Ruth. Ruth Nuzum - Malcolm Cowley Research Collection, ca. 1930s-1990s.
9 cubic ft.
Ruth Nuzum was a book collector from Boulder, Colorado. She began corresponding with Malcolm Cowley in 1979, and through the mail became friends with him and his wife Muriel. Collection is primarily photocopies of articles, letters, reviews, and other material by or related to Malcolm Cowley.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Nuzum
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 9
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
O'Brien, Howard Vincent, 1888-1947. Papers, 1894-1948.
8 cubic ft.
Author and Chicago Daily News literary editor and columnist, best known for the popular column "All Things Considered" and his World War I diary, Wine, Women and the War, published anonymously. Collection includes his works in manuscript, newspaper columns, correspondence (some with Al Capone, Clarence Darrow, Edna Ferber, Frank Knox, George Barr McCutcheon, H.G. Wells, and other notables), photographs, scrapbooks, and other mementoes.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS O’Brien (formerly Ob)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
O'Connor, William Van. William Faulkner collection, 1925-1953.
58 items (6 folders)
Mainly newspaper and magazine clippings concerning William Faulkner and John Faulkner assembled by Professor William Van O'Connor of the University of Minnesota and the Oxford Eagle of Oxford, Mississippi, plus a few letters written by Faulkner associates to O'Connor.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS 141
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
O'Hara, John Myers, 1870-1944. Papers, 1908-1943.
1 cubic ft.
Chicago lawyer and stockbroker, and notably a writer of poetry, prose, and literary translations. O'Hara's papers consist of incoming correspondence, 1910-1942, mainly from poet Sara Teasdale, 1908-1914 (263 letters), and manuscript copies of his own works, 1935-1943.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS O'Hara (formerly Oh)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Onderdonk, William Holmes. Autograph letter collection, 1839-1885.
18 items (1 vol.)
Autograph letters of eminent Americans, including literary figures (James Fenimore Cooper, James Russell Lowell, C. W. Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bret Harte, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, Samuel Clemens, etc.).
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Vault Case MS Y228.05
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de,1952-1921. Papers, 1886-1942.
0.2 cubic ft.
Material by and relating to Spanish novelist Emilia Pardo Bazán, collected by William Kingery in the course of his research. Includes 7 letters from the condesa to Manual Maria Peralta, autobiographical notes, a bibliography, study-related correspondence, and essays concerning Pardo Bazán. Much of the material is in Spanish.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Pardo Bazán
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 13
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Paretsky, Sara, 1947-. Papers, 1966-1993.
16 cubic ft.
Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, clippings, publicity, and published books of the author of Chicago-based detective novels featuring V. I. Warshawski, a female private investigator.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Paretsky
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 3-4
Finding Aids:
Summary and partial preliminary inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Payne, William Morton, 1858-1919. Papers, ca. 1850-1920.
9 cubic ft.
Papers of Chicago literary critic and associate editor of The Dial for twenty-three years, including correspondence, manuscripts, pamphlets, postcards, mementos, and clippings.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Payne (formerly Pa)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 1
Finding Aids:
Article: Newberry Library Bulletin, 2nd Ser. No. 7 (October 1951), p. 193-212.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Petrakis, Harry Mark. Papers, ca. 1963-2003.
3 cubic ft.
Correspondence, manuscript drafts, manuscripts ,and awards of Chicago novelist Harry Mark Petrakis. Also letters and memorabilia from Mrs. Stella Petrakis.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Petrakis
Collection Stack Location: 3a 26 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Porter, Katherine Ann - SEE Liberman, M. M. (Myron M.). Papers, 1953-1974.
Realf, Richard, 1834-1878, Letters and Poems, 1864-1865.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Twenty-two letters of Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1864-1865. Also, two poems of Realf’s and a poem written by Marian Cramer.
Subjects: Civil War; Literature
Call Number: Case MS 10034
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Regnery, Henry, 1912-1996? Papers, 1952-1965.
0.5 cubic ft.
Founder and chairman of the board of the Henry Regnery Co., close friend of the South African poet, Roy Campbell, and publisher of the American editions of several of Campbell's works. Regnery's papers contain correspondence with Campbell, a few of Campbell's works, lecture promotional material, a photograph of Campbell, and reviews.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Regnery
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 1
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939. Papers, 1779-1939, bulk 1885-1935.
5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, almost all addressed to Chicago author, anthologist and lecturer Wallace Rice, with a few outgoing letters; also many examples of his works, and a miscellany of associated material including a small collection of photographs.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Rice (formerly Ri)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Roberts, Dorothy James, 1903-1990. Papers, 1925-1990.
6 cubic ft.
Novelist best known for her retelling of ancient Arthurian, Irish and Icelandic myths in historical romances. Roberts' papers include manuscripts of her works, published novels, notes, correspondence, reviews, etc.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Roberts
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Romaine, Paul. Papers, 1940-1980.
16 cubic ft.
Longtime Chicago bookdealer, participant in Paris expatriate society in 1927, and a friend of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Romaine's papers include correspondence, news clippings, diaries, financial and legal material, diaries, and works. Also one box of materials about Ernest Hemingway.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Romaine
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 1-2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Rothensteiner, John E. (John Ernest), 1860-1936. Papers, 1880-1940.
8 cubic ft.
Notebooks, literary manuscripts, clippings, correspondence, greeting cards and other printed ephemera. Includes material concerning John E. Rothensteiner, a Catholic parish priest in Missouri, poet, essayist and journalist. Some published works and correspondence in German are provided with translations by Sister Callista Campion, author of a dissertation on Rothensteiner and curator of his papers in the 1940's. The correspondence sequence includes significant exchanges with the Catholic poets H.A. Rattermann, Franz Joseph Zlatnik and Anton Müller (Bruder Willram), and with Sigismund Cardinal Waitz, archbishop of Salzburg, and literary critic Friedrich Bruns.
Subjects: Literature; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Roth
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Smith, Helen Ainslie. Papers, 1875-1895.
1 cubic ft.
Author of books on the ancient world and colonial American history. Smith's papers contain correspondence with family and friends, family photographs, work notes, and other materials.
Subjects: Family; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Smith
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936. Papers, 1912-1980, bulk 1912-1935.
2 cubic ft.
Manuscripts of works, some incoming correspondence, photographs, and mementoes of Henry Justin Smith, Chicago Daily News reporter and editor. Smith mentored talented writers like Ben Hecht, Carl Sandburg, and Vincent Starrett, and wrote many books of his own, including a well-regarded history of Chicago. Correspondence includes letters from Sherwood Anderson, Hecht, Starrett, Carroll Binder and others.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Smith HJ (formerly Sm)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Smith-Dewey family. Papers, 1870-1990.
79 cubic ft.
Genealogies, publications, photographs, armories, letters, and documents pertaining to the family histories and forebears of Edward Byron Smith, former chairman of the Northern Trust Corporation of Chicago, and of his wife, Louise Dewey Smith. Papers also include documents pertaining to Northern Trust’s founding by Smith’s grandfather, Byron Laflin Smith, and the family’s ongoing relationship to the corporation. There is also considerable correspondence and other material of the author Frederika Shumway Smith, and Admiral Dewey.
Subjects: Business; Family; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Smith-Dewey
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 13-16; 3a 30 13-16
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Society of the Fifth Line. Records, 1962-1978.
0.2 cubic ft.
Proceedings, minutes, menus, etc. of a Chicago group devoted to off-color limericks and like endeavors.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Fifth Line
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 4
Finding Aids:
Catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Spiegel, Clara Gatzert, 1904-1997. Family Papers, 1939-1988.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Letters and cards written to author Clara G. Spiegel from Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Mary Welsh Hemingway and Patrick Hemingway, plus one letter from game ranger Denis Zaphiro. Also, a small photograph of Hemingway and a typescript of a friend's eulogy written by Hemingway in 1939.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Spiegel-Hemingway C
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 4
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Spiegel, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1898-1975. Frederick W. Spiegel - Ernest Hemingway papers, 1918-1973.
0.2 cubic ft.
Collection relating to Ernest Hemingway assembled by his friend Frederick Spiegel. Contains miscellaneous correspondence including four original letters and several photostats of letters written by Hemingway; numerous clippings and articles relating to Hemingway's life and letters; miscellaneous items about the American Red Cross ambulance service in World War I. Also, a photostat of Hemingway's will written in 1961.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Spiegel-Hemingway
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974. Papers, 1918-1986.
3 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
Chicago biographer, bibliographer, essayist, collector, literary critic, and journalist, as well as a devotee of Sherlock Holmes, who worked at the Chicago Daily News and Chicago Tribune from 1906 until 1967. Includes copies of Starrett's Tribune "Books Alive" column, 1942-1967, together with correspondence from Harry Hansen, Basil Rathbone and others, and other articles and essays. This collection is entirely composed of photocopies, largely made from the Vincent Starrett collection at the University of Minnesota.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Starrett
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 4
Finding Aids:
Preliminary Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Stein, Kurt M. Papers, 1818-1973.
0.2 cubic ft.
Chicago author of German-American humor books, journalist, and active member of the Cliff Dwellers. Stein's papers include manuscript and printed works, including a substantial number of plays and sonnets for the Cliff Dwellers, and correspondence from friends and admirers.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Stein
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Storrs family. Papers, 1787-1960, bulk 1900-1960.
7.5 cubic ft.
Letters, memorabilia, journals, clippings, and photographs pertaining to John H. B. Storrs (1885-1956), a Chicago-based Cubist painter and sculptor most famous for the statue of Ceres atop the Chicago Board of Trade, and his wife Marguerite Deville Chabrol Storrs (1881-1959), a successful fiction and non-fiction writer who used the pseudonym “Marc Debrol.” Also included is a folio manuscript dating to the French Revolution, detailing people alive at the time, possibly related to the Deville Chabrol family.
Subjects: Arts; Family; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Storrs (formerly Stj)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 8
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Tallmadge, Abby Louise. Papers, 1860-1952.
1 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Evanston, Illinois sister of Chicago architect Thomas Eddy Tallmadge, who spent much of her life researching and writing about Jane Austen. Abby Tallmadge’s papers include correspondence from fellow Austen scholars, a few manuscript copies of her scholarly work, a family scrapbook and printed material relating to the architectural work of her brother, Thomas Eddy Tallmadge.
Subjects: Arts; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Tallmadge (formerly T)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Thanet, Octave, 1850-1934. Alice French papers, 1871-1934.
2.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, diaries, literary manuscripts, clippings and other miscellaneous material relating to Alice French, the author of short stories, novels and essays who wrote under the pseudonym Octave Thanet.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Thanet (formerly Fr)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Tia Chucha Press. Records, 1982-1999.
8 cubic ft.
Records of the Tia Chucha Press, founded by author/poet/lecturer Luis Rodriguez, and absorbed in the late 1990's by the Guild Complex, a local funding agency for alternative arts programs. Records include book manuscripts, contracts, galley proofs, etc.
Subjects: Business; Literature; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Midwest MS Tia Chucha
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Tietjens, Eunice, b. 1884. Papers, 1898-1944.
8.6 cubic ft.
Correspondence, works, a few photographs, and miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens, Chicago poet, novelist, lecturer, associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, and active figure in the Chicago Literary Renaissance. The bulk of the correspondence is incoming.
Subjects: Journalism; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Tietjens (formerly Ti)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 2-3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Article: Newberry Library Bulletin, 2nd Ser. No. 5 (December 1950), p. 146-157.
Tietjens, Eunice, b. 1884. Papers - Additions, 1847-1972.
5.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, works, a few photographs, and miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens, Chicago poet, novelist, lecturer, associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, and active figure in the Chicago Literary Renaissance. 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 of family members and literary associates (Mary Aldis, Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsay, Harriet Monroe, Sara Teasdale, etc.).
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Tietjens 2
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Troy, Leander. Leander Troy - James T. Farrell papers, 1932-2004.
1 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Materials by and about James T. Farrell, collected by his friend, Rev. Leander Troy, including published and unpublished articles, columns, reviews and stories, together with copies of letters to Farrell from such individuals as Russell Baker, Pearl S. Buck, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson and Adlai E. Stevenson, plus notes, obituaries and other memorabilia.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Troy-Farrell
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-. Papers, 1911-1985.
2 cubic ft.
Material relating to the life and career of dancer, poet and painter Mark Turbyfill, including three copies of his unpublished autobiography and many copies of published and unpublished poems. Also, articles and reviews by and about Turbyfill, a few pieces of correspondence, clippings, dance programs, photographs, a cassette tape of him reading, and a published genealogy of the Turbyfill family.
Subjects: Dance; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Turbyfill
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Ullmann, Margaret. Writings, 1894-1956.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Typewritten essays presented at meetings of the Winnetka Fortnightly, 1930's-1950's, an essay presented to the Mary Noble Club in Kenwood, ca. 1905, plus a scrapbook of childhood poetry and a literary newspaper dating from 1894, some collected early poetry (collected in 1914), volumes of verse written during the 1920's, copies of her poetry published in the Chicago Daily News and the Ladies' Home Journal.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Ullmann
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Walden, Selma, 1884-1951. Papers, 1890-1979, bulk 1928-1951.
3.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, photographs, and mementos of a Chicago working woman and poet, Selma Walden, who was involved with the Dill Pickle Club and the Seven Arts Club.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Walden
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Walsh, Chad, 1914-. Papers, 1930-1970.
13 cubic ft.
Wisconsin poet, college professor, and ordained Episcopal priest. Author of six books of poetry, and of studies of C.S. Lewis and dystopian fiction. Walsh's papers include poetry manuscripts and other works, a diary kept during his young adulthood, and correspondence.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Walsh
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 9-10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932. Papers, 1911-1932.
7.5 cubic ft.
Illinois novelist best known for his romantic portrayals of captains of industry written together with Samuel Merwin. Webster's papers contain correspondence (including agents' correspondence), publishers' royalty statements, correspondence, bills, and clippings.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Webster (formerly We)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 1
Finding Aids:
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Weisz, Irene Miner. Willa Cather - Irene Miner Weisz papers, 1912-1958.
0.5 cubic ft.
Letters of Willa Cather, the bulk to childhood friend Irene Miner Weisz; also two miscellaneous letters relating to Cather, and a folder of clippings.
Subjects: Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cather-Weisz (formerly C)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
White, William Allen, 1868-1944. Letters, 1896-1898.
1 vol.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Emporia, Kansas, newspaper editor and author. Includes letters first to Mr. Way and later to Chauncey Williams, of Chicago publisher Way and Williams, regarding the publication and sale of White's The Real Issue: A Book of Kansas Stories.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Case f E5.W58213
Collection Stack Location: 3a 11 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wyatt, Edith, 1873-1958. Papers, 1894-1968, bulk 1894-1955.
1.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence of Chicago writer and social activist Edith Franklin Wyatt, plus drafts of works, contracts, scrapbooks, clippings and mementos.
Subjects: Literature; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Wyatt (formerly Wy)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Selected authors of letters and documents: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Inventory: Online.
Yates, Dora Esther, b. 1879. Correspondence, 1856-1951, bulk 1936-1946.
.5 cubic ft.
Primarily letters of University of Liverpool librarian and secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora E. Yates, to Alfred E. Hamill of Lake Forest, Illinois, 1936-1946. Also a few snapshots of Yates and Gypsy caravans, and other miscellany.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Yates (formerly Ya)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 1901-1964. Papers, 1901-1964.
60 cubic ft.
American literary critic and scholar, who served as associate editor and editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, and taught American literature for two years in Brazil, and after 1946 at the University of Chicago. Zabel's papers include extensive correspondence with 20th century literary figures including Louise Bogan, Cleanth Brooks, Malcolm Cowley, Leon Edel, E. M. Forster, Robert Lovett, Marianne Moore, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, Allen Tate, Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, etc. Also literary manuscripts.
Subjects: Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Zabel (formerly Za)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 4-7
Finding Aids:
List of outgoing correspondents: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters and documents: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.
Checklist for Modern Manuscript Collections, 1700-present - Publications about Newberry Collections