TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Biography of Paul Scott Mowrer
Scope and Content of the Collection
Series 1: Correspondence, 1894-1971, bulk 1949-1969
Series 4: Scrapbooks, 1913-1949
Series 5: Photographs, 1910-1924
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Inventory of the Paul Scott Mowrer Papers, 1894-1988, bulk 1912-1971
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Kelly Kress, 2007. ©2007. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1988 |
| Title | Paul Scott Mowrer Papers |
| Dates | 1894-1988 |
| Dates | bulk 1912-1971 |
| Extent | 6 linear feet (10 boxes, 1 oversize box, 7 recordings and 1 artifact) |
| Abstract | Correspondence, works, photographs and personal materials related to Paul Scott Mowrer, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, author, newspaper editor, and poet. Mowrer was Paris correspondent for the Chicago Daily News beginning in 1910, headed the foreign news service until 1934, and editor of the paper from 1935-1944. He was foreign editor of the New York Post from 1944-1947. An accomplished poet, Mowrer published nine books of poetry and was named first poet laureate of New Hampshire in 1967. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Mowrer P |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 41 4 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Paul Scott Mowrer Papers, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift of Paul Scott Mowrer, 1957, Additional gifts from Richard Scott Mowrer, 1989, 1991, 1992, 2005.
Processed by
Kelly Kress, 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 Paul Scott Mowrer Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Paul Scott Mowrer 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 Paul Scott Mowrer
Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, newspaper editor, and poet.
Paul Scott Mowrer was born in Bloomington, Illinois, on July 14, 1887, to Rufus and Nell Scott Mowrer. The family later moved to Chicago, where Mowrer attended Hyde Park High School. He began writing poetry at age 14, and also contributed to the school newspaper, The Spectator. After graduating in 1905, Mowrer worked briefly as a picture chaser for the Chicago Daily News before attending the University of Michigan. After a few years of college he returned to the Chicago Daily News in 1908 to work as a reporter.
In 1910, Mowrer was sent to Paris at the age of 22 as part of the Chicago Daily News' nascent foreign news service. He remained for twenty-four years, covering the the first Balkan War in 1912-1913, then directing the Daily News war service in France during World War I, and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. In 1924, Mowrer traveled to the Rif area of Morocco to report on the region's war with Spain. Mowrer published his first books during this time: the poetry volumes Hours Of France (1918) and The Good Comrade (1923), as well as the political analyses Balkanized Europe: A Study In Political Analysis And Reconstruction (1921) and Our Foreign Affairs: A Study In National Interest And The New Diplomacy (1924).
While overseas, Mowrer was awarded the French Légion d'honneur in 1918, and was promoted to Officer in 1933. In 1929, he also received the first Pulitzer Prize awarded for foreign reporting.
Mowrer was married to Winifred Adams from 1909-1932, and the couple had two children: Richard Scott, born in 1911 and David Adams, born in 1912. In 1933 Mowrer married Hadley Richardson Hemingway, previously the first wife of Ernest Hemingway.
The couple left Europe in 1934 for Chicago, where Mowrer became chief editorial writer of the Chicago Daily News, then editor from 1935-1944. In 1944, Mowrer accepted a position as the foreign editor of the New York Post in Paris, and also briefly established a Paris edition of the paper called the Paris Post. Mowrer also published a volume of poetry, Poems Between Wars, in 1942 as well as his autobiography, The House of Europe, in 1945.
In order to focus on his poetry, Mowrer retired from newspaper work in 1947 and the couple returned to the United States, relocating to Chocorua, New Hampshire in 1949. During this time Mowrer wrote numerous articles and published nine books of poetry: On Going To Live In New Hampshire, 1953; And Let The Glory Go, 1955; Twenty-one And Sixty-five, 1958; The Mothering Land, 1959, High Mountain Pond, 1962; School For Diplomats, 1964; This Teeming Earth, 1965; The Island Ireland, 1966; and The Poems of Paul Scott Mowrer 1918-1966, 1968. He also published two volumes for theater: Fifi; Or, Something Entirely New; A Comedy In One Act in 1956 and Six Plays in 1967.
In 1967, Mowrer was named the first poet laureate of New Hampshire, and in 1969 wrote the poem "New Hampshire Hills," which was set to music and later designated an honorary state song. Paul Scott Mowrer died in 1971, en route to New Hampshire from a vacation in South Carolina.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Correspondence, works, and personal materials related to Paul Scott Mowrer's life and career. Much of the correspondence deals with Mowrer's poetry, though there are a few letters from his time as a reporter. Works encompass the many directions he took as a writer, including newspaper clippings of his dispatches from Europe, excerpts from his published books, short stories, opinion columns for the New York Post, and poetry. In addition to writing verse, Mowrer also wrote numerous critical essays concerning poetic methods and traditions.
There is a series of photographs taken by Mowrer while he was traveling in the Balkans and Morocco, photos from the French front during World War I, and photos of Mowrer and his family. Also included are audio recordings of Mowrer reading his poetry.
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, 1894-1971, bulk 1949-1969. Box(es) 1-2
- Series 2: Works,1901-1988. Box(es) 3-4a
- Series 3: Personal, 1912-1979. Box(es) 5-6
- Series 4: Scrapbooks,1913-1949. Box(es) 7
- Series 5: Photographs, 1910-1924. Box(es) 8
- Series 6: Recordings,1952,1965. Box(es)
- Series 7: Artifact, ca. 1910. Box(es)
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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
- Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970
- Chicago Daily News, Inc.
- Ciardi, John, 1916-1986
- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910
- Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 1908-1986
- Hillyer, Robert, 1895-1961
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
- Légion d'honneur (France)
- Mowrer, Edgar Ansel, 1892-1977
- Mowrer, Hadley Richardson Hemingway, 1891-1979
- Mowrer, Lilian T. (Lilian Thomson), 1889-1990
- Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971
- New York Post
- Poetry Society of New Hampshire
- Sarton, May, 1912-1995
- Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977
- Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972
- Vildrac, Charles, 1882-1971
Subjects
- American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Balkan Peninsula
- Balkan Peninsula -- History --War of 1912-1913
- Clippings -- 1901-1950
- Clippings -- 1951-2000
- Fishing stories
- Foreign correspondents -- United States
- Foreign news
- Journalists
- London (England)
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
- New Hampshire -- Poetry
- Paris (France)
- Photographs -- 1901-1950
- Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Poets, American -- 20th century
- Pulitzer Prizes
- Rif Mountains (Morocco)
- Rif Revolt, 1921-1926
- Typewriters
- United States -- Foreign relations
- War correspondents
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Journalists
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Photography
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Container List
Series 1: Correspondence, 1894-1971, bulk 1949-1969 |
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| Mainly letters to Paul Scott Mowrer regarding his poetry, including correspondence from publishers, editors, other poets, and fans, with a small section of outgoing correspondence included at the end. Correspondents include Mary Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's fourth and last wife, as well as poets Louise Bogan, John Ciardi, Robert Hillyer, May Sarton, Louis Untermeyer, Mark Van Doren, and Charles Vildrac. Mowrer generally did not keep copies of letters he wrote, though many exist in the Edward Price Bell Papers, Carroll Binder Papers, and Victor Lawson Papers. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by correspondent. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Adams, Elmer C., July 10, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Adams, Phoebe-Lou (Atlantic Monthly) Dec. 16, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Amberg, Richard H. (St. Louis Globe-Democrat) June 2, 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | American Society of Newspaper Editors, Nov. 8, 1949 & Nov. 11, 1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Andrews, John Williams (Poet Lore), 1966-1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Angers, Randolph A., May 7, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Arcos, René (Éditions du Sablier), May 3, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Armstrong, Phyllis E. (Library of Congress), March 1, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Aull, Mrs. W.J. n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Avrett, Robert (University of Tennessee) 1958-1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Baker, Carlos (Princeton University), 1961-1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Baker, Sheridan (Michigan Quarterly Review), 1965 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Barney, Marian, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Bauhan, W.L. (Richard R. Smith Publishers), Jan. 16, 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Beach, Lucy (Mrs. John Parsons), n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Beecher, Carl, 1954-1958 & n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Begg, Dorothy Evelyn, April 27, 1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Beliard, Mrs. Jean Sept. 25, 1968 & n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Bell, Charles G., Sept. 11, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Bellham Clara McC., June 16, 1961 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Bellows, Mrs. Silence Buck (Christian Science Monitor), 1959-1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Bentley, Richard, May 2, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Benton, William Feb. 6, 1947 & Dec. 15, 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Bernhardt, Brooks, June 5, 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Beyer, William, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Bingham, Sylvester (University of New Hampshire), Dec. 10, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Bishop, Morris, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Bogan Louise, Dec. 13, 1958 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1950-1961 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29a | Bremble, Alfred Jr. (Dartmouth College) 1961 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Briggs, Ellis O., 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | Brooks, E.P., Sept. 17, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | Brower, John J., Nov. 26, 1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | Brownell, Baker, 1959-1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | Buckler, Helen, Nov. 25, 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Bullock, Marie (Academy of American Poets), May 31, 1963 | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | Burden, Jean (Yankee Magazine), Sept. 30, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | Bush, Douglas, July 28, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | Bynner, Witter, 1956-1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 | Callison, Charles H. (National Audubon Society), 1966-1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 40 | Canham, Erwin D. (Christian Science Monitor), 1953-1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | Cannon, LeGrand Jr., n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | Capouya, Emile (Macmillan Company), Dec. 3, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 43 | Carpenter, Margaret, 1959 & 1965 | |||||||||
| 1 | 44 | Caskie, Jeanne, June 8, 1965 | |||||||||
| 1 | 45 | Charles, Mary Grant (Mrs. Ralph S.), Jan. 7, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 46 | Child, Paul Cushing, Feb. 8, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 47 | Ciardi, John (Saturday Review), 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 48 | Clifton, C. Sterling, 1959-1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 49 | Coblentz, Stanton A., 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 50 | Colony, Horatio, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| 1 | 51 | Congdon, Kirby, April 29, 1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 52 | Corbally, John E. Jr. (Syracuse University), Sept. 4, 1970 | |||||||||
| 1 | 53 | Crewes, Frances, June 24, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 54 | Curtis, Edith Roelker, Feb. 20, 1966 | |||||||||
| 1 | 55 | Davidson, Gustav (Poetry Society of America), 1958, 1959 & 1966 | |||||||||
| 1 | 56 | Doll, Lena G., March 2, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 57 | Douglas, Paul H., Sept. 3, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 58 | Drake, Carlos, Sept. 30, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 59 | Dutton, Ronald R., Dec. 11, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 60 | Eaton, Dorothy Burnham, Feb. 6, 1964 & April 6, 1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 61 | Eberhart, Richard, March 31, 1966 | |||||||||
| 1 | 62 | Ernst, Morris L., March 5, 1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 63 | Erwin, Ray (Editor & Publisher), Nov. 6, 1961 | |||||||||
| 1 | 64 | D'Este, Katharine W., Aug. 20, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 65 | Finney, George J. (U.S. Information Agency), June 1, 1961 | |||||||||
| 1 | 66 | Gaui, Lu (Poetry Society of Southern California), n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 67 | Geauque, Edwin P. (Wake-Brook House Publishers), April 15, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 68 | Gehring, Dr. P. (George Washington Memorial Library, Stuttgart, Germany), 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 69 | Graham, Lee, Nov. 2, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 70 | Greenwood, Gertrude S., 1953-1965 | |||||||||
| 1 | 71 | Grew, Joseph C., 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 72 | Griener, Gene (The Springs Breeze), Dec. 12, 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 73 | Griswold, Whitney (Yale University), 1956-1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 74 | Haber, George, Nov. 14, 1965 | |||||||||
| 1 | 75 | Hall, Babette, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 76 | Hall, Donald, Jan. 16, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 77 | Harry Hansen, June 2, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 78 | Harkness, Marjory, 1965 & 1969 | |||||||||
| 1 | 79 | Hart, Miles, 1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 80 | Haydn, Hiram (The American Scholar) Aug. 3, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 81 | Hemingway, Mary, 1963-1967 & n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 82 | Henderson, Loy W., Sept. 24, 1963 | |||||||||
| 1 | 83 | Hennessy, W.G., Sept. 24, 1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 84 | Henning, Alison, Feb. 16, 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 85 | Highet, Gilbert, Nov. 29, 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 86 | Hillyer, Robert, 1955-1961 | |||||||||
| 1 | 87 | Hoffman, Phoebe W., June 2, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 88 | Hohenberg, John (Columbia University), Nov. 7, 1958 | |||||||||
| 1 | 89 | Holmes, John (New England Poetry Club), May 12, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 90 | Horan, T.J. (To Richard Mowrer), May 2, 1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 91 | Huntley, Melissa, March 19, 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 92 | James, Gillian, July 14, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 93 | Jeans, Marylu Terral, Oct. 3, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 94 | Johnson, A. (Mrs. Geoffrey), Oct. 1, 1966 | |||||||||
| 1 | 95 | Johnson, Geoffrey, 1959-1965 | |||||||||
| 1 | 96 | Johnson, U. Alexis (Deputy Undersecretary of State), June 4, 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 97 | Jones, A. Clifford, June 15, 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 98 | Jones, Judith B. (Alfred A. Knopf), Feb. 25, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 99 | Jordan, Ralph, Sept. 30, 1955 & Feb. 22, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 100 | Judson, Sylvia, May 11, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 101 | Keechs, Joan, Jan. 7, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 102 | Kelen, Emery, Nov. 24, 1963 | |||||||||
| 1 | 103 | Knox, Frank, Dec. 18, 1941 | |||||||||
| 1 | 104 | Labro, Philippe (France-Soir), May 12, 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 105 | Lake Forest Book Store, Lake Forest, Ill., May 3, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 106 | Land, Robert H. (Library of Congress), 1961-1965 | |||||||||
| 1 | 107 | Lasch, Robert (St. Louis Post Dispatch), June 1, 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 108 | Lashley, John H., June 4, 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 109 | Lawrence, David, Jan. 27, 1965 | |||||||||
| 1 | 110 | Leith, Clara Jean, May 3, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 111 | Loeb, William (Manchester Union Leader, Manchester, N.H.), April 20, 1966 | |||||||||
| 1 | 112 | Lord, E., June 25, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 113 | Lottinville, Savoie (University of Oklahoma Press), Nov. 21, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 114 | Lyons, Bill, Oct. 8, 1965 | |||||||||
| 2 | 115 | Margolis, Sylvia, 1958-1966 | |||||||||
| 2 | 116 | Marshall, George C., Jan. 22, 1947 | |||||||||
| 2 | 117 | McQuaid, B.J., (New Hampshire Sunday News), 1958-1960 | |||||||||
| 2 | 118 | Melanous, Claude (in French), July 23, 1963 | |||||||||
| 2 | 119 | Miller, Jim (to Clarence E. Parrar), May 25, 1968 | |||||||||
| 2 | 120 | Moller, Gertrude, May 30, 1961 | |||||||||
| 2 | 121 | Morganthau, Hans J. (University of Chicago), Jan. 8, 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 122 | Mortensen, Martin B., April 3, 1966 | |||||||||
| 2 | 123 | Moseley, Hardwick, Oct. 16, 1956 | |||||||||
| 2 | 124 | Moult, Thomas (The Poetry Society), Nov. 9, 1959 & Oct. 23, 1969 | |||||||||
| 2 | 125 | Mowrer, Edgar Ansel, March 3, 1968 | |||||||||
| 2 | 126 | Mowrer, Lilian T., n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 127 | Nelson, Paula, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 128 | Nicholson, Julie, March 20, 1955 | |||||||||
| 2 | 129 | North, Julie, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 130 | Nudd, Eleanor, Dec. 28, 1955 | |||||||||
| 2 | 131 | O'Kane, Walter, 1955-1956 & n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 132 | O'Meara, John J., n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 133 | Palmer, Martha E., Aug. 21, 1966 | |||||||||
| 2 | 134 | Patton, Captain George S., March 3, 1957 | |||||||||
| 2 | 135 | Parsons, Kitty, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 136 | Peterson, Walter, Feb. 2, 1970 | |||||||||
| 2 | 137 | Palmer, J.E. (Yale Review), Dec. 18, 1957 | |||||||||
| 2 | 138 | Peattie, Donald Culross, April 21, 1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 139 | Pell, Robert, 1969 | |||||||||
| 2 | 140 | Pershing, John J., July 30, 1933 | |||||||||
| 2 | 141 | Pinkham, Harold, Jan. 18, 1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 142 | Pond, Melora Hobbs, Nov. 14, 1963 & Jan. 16, 1964 | |||||||||
| 2 | 143 | Poulin, Clarence, 1966-1970 | |||||||||
| 2 | 144 | Prescott, Orville (New York Times), April 28, 1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 145 | Prince, Clara Catherine (Wisconsin Poetry Foundation), 1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 146 | Prince, Rev. Herbert W., Aug. 29, 1958 & Jan. 9, 1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 147 | Putnam, S., n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 148 | Queeny, Edgar Monsanto, June 4, 1964 | |||||||||
| 2 | 149 | Rinker, James H., June 9, 1965 | |||||||||
| 2 | 150 | Robbins, Victor E. (Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review), Dec. 10, 1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 151 | Robert, Ruby Alitzer (The Lyric), 1961 | |||||||||
| 2 | 152 | Rosenthal, M.L. (The Nation), Nov. 8, 1956 & Nov. 21, 1956 | |||||||||
| 2 | 153 | Rosenthal, Richard (Writer's Digest), 1960 | |||||||||
| 2 | 153a | Ruth Stephan Poetry Center, 1962 | |||||||||
| 2 | 154 | Sanders, Morris B., April 13, 1965 | |||||||||
| 2 | 155 | Sarton, May, 1956-1960 & n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 156 | Scott, Fred Newton (University of Michigan), Jan. 20, 1925 | |||||||||
| 2 | 157 | Seager, Ralph W., 1956 | |||||||||
| 2 | 158 | Shelmadine, Marguerite B., May 5, 1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 159 | Shepard Elsie T., April 8, 1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 160 | Shepard, O'Dell, 1959-1960 | |||||||||
| 2 | 161 | Shirer, William R., Dec. 5, 1961 | |||||||||
| 2 | 162 | Smith, Hazel Littlefield, Feb, 19, 1962 | |||||||||
| 2 | 163 | Sokoloff, Boris (Florida Southern College), Jan. 5, 1969 | |||||||||
| 2 | 164 | Squires, Catherine Tuttle, 1966 | |||||||||
| 2 | 165 | Stanger, Flossie & Hugo, 1956 | |||||||||
| 2 | 166 | Stark, Jack (includes poetry booklet: "Lotus Pools"), June 26, 1965 & n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 167 | Stevenson, Adlai, June 16, 1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 168 | Stevenson, Mrs. Borden, May 29, 1957 | |||||||||
| 2 | 169 | Stork, Charles Wharton, 1958 | |||||||||
| 2 | 170 | Stuart, Jesse, 1961 | |||||||||
| 2 | 171 | Swing, Raymond, 1953 & n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 172 | Taylor, Jeannie, July 12, 1960 | |||||||||
| 2 | 173 | Taylor, Kenneth, Feb. 13, 1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 174 | Thorndike, Joseph J. (Horizon Magazine), Feb. 20, 1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 175 | Truman, Harry, 1945 | |||||||||
| 2 | 176 | Untermeyer, Louis, 1956-1960 | |||||||||
| 2 | 177 | Van Doren, Mark, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| 2 | 178 | Velasco, Eloy, 1957-1960 | |||||||||
| 2 | 179 | Vildrac, Charles (in French), May 8, 1968 | |||||||||
| 2 | 180 | Villard, Henry S., n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 181 | Wagner, Mrs. Mary Boyd, July 19, 1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 182 | Wake Brook House Publishers, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 183 | Warshawsky, Buck, 1957-1958 | |||||||||
| 2 | 184 | Whitman, Ardis, Aug. 9, 1955 | |||||||||
| 2 | 185 | Whittenose, Elizabeth, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 186 | Widdemer, Margaret, Sept. 26, 1966 | |||||||||
| 2 | 187 | Williams, Loring (American Weave Magazine), n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 188 | Yuzon, Amado M., n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 189 | unidentified letters | |||||||||
| 2 | 190 | outgoing to Alden, Dec. 25, 1963 | |||||||||
| 2 | 191 | outgoing to American Scholar Magazine, July 3, 1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 192 | outgoing to Braithwaite, William Stanley, Oct. 5, 1960 | |||||||||
| 2 | 193 | outgoing to Chicago Daily News, June, 1966 | |||||||||
| 2 | 194 | outgoing to Ciardi, John, 1956-1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 195 | outgoing to Lawson, Victor, March 15, 1924 | |||||||||
| 2 | 196 | outgoing to Mowrer, Edgar Ansel, May 20, 1945 | |||||||||
| 2 | 197 | outgoing to Mowrer, Rufus, July 20, 1894 & Jan. 9, 1924 | |||||||||
| 2 | 198 | outgoing to Rosenthal, Nov. 10, 1956 | |||||||||
| 2 | 199 | outgoing to Smith, Hazel Littlefield, 1962 | |||||||||
| 2 | 200 | outgoing to Walsh, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 200a | Clemens, Samuel Langhorne to Albert J. Scott (Uncle of Paul Scott Mowrer), 1880s | |||||||||
| 2 | 200b | Holmes, Oliver Wendell to Albert J. Scott (Uncle of Paul Scott Mowrer), 1882 | |||||||||
Series 2: Works, 1901-1988 |
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| Articles, newspaper dispatches, book excerpts and poetry written by Paul Scott Mowrer, both published and unpublished. The collection includes Mowrer's extensive writings about poetry and poetics as well as his own poems. At the time of his death, Mowrer had hoped to publish his collected poetry writings in book form, and had written an outline for the volume. There are also copies of Mowrer's observations on Paris, London, and Morocco written for the Chicago Daily News, fishing stories for Saga Magazine, and copies of opinion columns for the New York Post. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by title. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 3 | 201 | "The Balance of Power," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 202 | Balkanized Europe, typescript excerpts, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 203 | "A Bird in the Hand," Christian Science Monitor, May 24, 1950 | |||||||||
| 3 | 204 | Book Reviews, 1950s | |||||||||
| 3 | 205 | "Bungling the News," Public Opinion Quarterly, Spring 1943 | |||||||||
| 3 | 206 | "Concerning Politics," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 207 | "A Fisherman's Memory Book," Saga: The Magazine Of True Adventure, May, 1951 | |||||||||
| 3 | 207a | Five Little Plays, ca. 1965 | |||||||||
| 3 | 208 | "His Wife's Cousin From France," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 209 | "I'm The Guide," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 210 | "Lake Marie," typescript n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 211 | London description, typescript, 1924 | |||||||||
| 3 | 212 | "The Making of a Soldier," typescript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 213 | "More Leaves From A Fisherman's Memory Book," Saga: The Magazine of True Adventure, June, 1951 | |||||||||
| 3 | 214 | Morocco: "Introduction," typescript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 215 | Morocco: "The Upper Classes," typescript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 216 | Morocco: "Black Magic," typescript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 217 | Morocco: "Abd el-Krim's Message to America," typescript ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 218 | Morocco: "The Moroccan Background," typescript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 219 | Morocco: "Camion Trails and Pioneers," typescript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 220 | Morocco: "France & Spain in Morocco," typescript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 221 | Morocco: "Practical Pan-Islamism," typescript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 222 | Morocco: "Cafe Terrace, Tangier," typescript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 223 | Morocco: "Meditation in El Araish," typescript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 224 | Morocco: "The Roofs of Marrakech," typescript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 225 | Morocco: "See Your Taleb," typescript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 226 | Morocco: "Fez El Bah," typescript, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 3 | 227 | The New Journalism: A Study in American Newspaper Method, notes & drafts, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 228 | "The New Tactics: How Battles Are Fought," Harper's, Feb. 1943 | |||||||||
| 3 | 229-230 | New York Post columns, 1948 | |||||||||
| 3 | 231 | "An Ocean Away," The Atlantic, July, 1950 | |||||||||
| 3 | 232 | "Old Mr. Bass, He's Watching," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 233 | "Old Towns in Flanders," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 234 | "On The Lessons of History," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 235 | Paris Metro, typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 236 | "Pike A La Heavenly Bliss," Saga: The Magazine of True Adventure, July, 1951 | |||||||||
| 3 | 237 | Poetry: "Aspects of Modern Poetry," Poet Lore, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 238 | Poetry: Book Reviews (written by Mowrer) 1959 & 1963 | |||||||||
| 3 | 239 | Poetry: "Diction," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 240 | Poetry: "For Fair Play in Poetry," Michigan Quarterly Review, Jan. 1962 | |||||||||
| 3 | 241 | Poetry: "For Fair Play in Poetry," drafts, ca. 1962 | |||||||||
| 3 | 242 | Poetry: "A Letter to a Friend," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 243 | Poetry: letters to the editor: New York Times Book Review, The Reporter, Writer's Digest, 1962 & 1966 | |||||||||
| 3a | 244 | Poetry: loose poems 1, ca. 1950s-1960s | |||||||||
| 3a | 244a | Poetry: loose poems 2, ca. 1950s-1960s | |||||||||
| 3a | 244b | Poetry: loose poems 3, ca. 1950s-1960s | |||||||||
| 3a | 244c | Poetry: loose poems 4, ca. 1950s-1960s | |||||||||
| 3a | 244d | Poetry: loose poems 5, ca. 1950s-1960s | |||||||||
| 3a | 244e | Poetry: loose poems 6, ca. 1950s-1960s | |||||||||
| 3a | 245 | Poetry: "The Marsh Wren" (written at age 14), 1901 | |||||||||
| 3a | 246 | Poetry: Metrics, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 247 | Poetry: miscellaneous writings & notes, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 248 | Poetry: modernism, ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 4 | 249 | Poetry: "My Mother Began It," n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 250 | Poetry: "New Hampshire Hills," (state song of New Hampshire, includes clippings & correspondence), 1969-1970 | |||||||||
| 4 | 251 | Poetry: "On Politics in Poetry," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 252 | Poetry: "On Prizes and Competition," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 253 | Poetry: On the Writing of Poems (unpublished book manuscript), ca. 1969 | |||||||||
| 4 | 254 | Poetry: On the Writing of Poems, notes, ca. 1969 | |||||||||
| 4 | 254a | The Poems of Paul Scott Mowrer (manuscript, pt. 1) ca. 1968 | |||||||||
| 4 | 254b | The Poems of Paul Scott Mowrer (manuscript, pt. 2) ca. 1968 | |||||||||
| 4 | 255 | Poetry: "Poet at Large," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 256 | Poetry: "Poetry and the Public," Writer's Digest, Oct. 1960 | |||||||||
| 4 | 257 | Poetry: "The Position in Poetry," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 258 | Poetry: "On the Practice of Poetry," notes, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 259 | Poetry: published poems (clippings), 1931-1968 and n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 260 | Poetry: "Random Notes on Poetry," notes, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 260a | Poetry: Recording transcript, Fassett Recording Studio, Boston, MA, 1965 | |||||||||
| 4 | 260b | Poetry: Recording transcript, Dartmouth Films, 1961 | |||||||||
| 4a | 261 | Poetry: The Region Sleep, unpublished manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4a | 262 | Poetry: Removals, unpublished manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4a | 263 | Poetry: scrapbook of early published poems, 1909-1917 | |||||||||
| 4a | 264 | Poetry: "There Is Some Poetry In Everyone, Else Life Would Be Unbearable," Touchstone, The Poetry Society of New Hampshire, 1987-1988 | |||||||||
| 4a | 265 | Poetry: "They May Look a Bit Rough But They're Poets at Heart," Chicago Daily News, ca. 1930s | |||||||||
| 4a | 266 | Poetry: "Thoughts About Poetry," Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review, Autumn, 1958 | |||||||||
| 4a | 267 | Poetry: "Twenty-One and Sixty-Five: A Fireside Dialogue," Michigan Alumnus Review, Dec. 8, 1956 | |||||||||
| 4a | 268 | Political writings: miscellaneous Foreign Affairs, typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4a | 269 | Press releases, 1945 | |||||||||
| 4a | 270 | "The Problem of Command," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4a | 271 | "Pursuit of Happiness," n.d. | |||||||||
| 4a | 272 | "The Roads of Spain," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4a | 273 | "Roosevelt & de Gaulle," notes, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4a | 274-276 | Seven Power World, typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4a | 277 | "The Smell of Old Ponds," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4a | 278 | "The Sources of Courage," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4a | 279 | Spectator, Hyde Park High School, Jan. - March 1904 | |||||||||
| 4a | 280 | "A Theory of International Relations," typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4a | 280a | Translations from the French, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4a | 281 | "Why The Mosquito?" typescript, n.d. | |||||||||
Series 3: Personal, 1912-1979 |
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| Clippings, book reviews, diaries, and other items related to Paul Scott Mowrer's life and career as a foreign correspondent and poet. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by subject. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 5 | 282 | Biographical - Chicago Daily News Publicity, 1924 & n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 283 | Biographical - Clippings (general), 1924-1962 | |||||||||
| 5 | 284 | Biographical - Clippings (journalism related), 1924-1966 and n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 285 | Biographical - Clippings (poetry related), 1959-1963 and n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 286 | Biographical - "The Editors Speak," NBC, Dec., 1942 | |||||||||
| 5 | 287 | Biographical - Interview by Alice Hunt Sokoloff (omitted from her book: Hadley, The First Mrs. Hemingway), 1971 | |||||||||
| 5 | 288 | Biographical - Interviews, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 289 | Biographical - Miscellaneous notes, lists. | |||||||||
| 5 | 290 | Biographical - "Paul Scott Mowrer, Poet," by F. Chapman, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 291 | Biographical - "Paul Scott Mowrer, Poet By Preference," by Robert Avrett. Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review, May 1960 | |||||||||
| 5 | 292 | Bureau of Information, Foreign Press (France), 1947 | |||||||||
| 5 | 293 | Collected Clippings - Ciardi, John, 1957-1957 | |||||||||
| 5 | 294 | Collected Clippings - Miscellaneous, 1964-1958 | |||||||||
| 5 | 295 | Collected Clippings - Mowrer, Lilian & Edgar Ansel, 1960 & n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 296 | Collected Clippings - Poetry & Writing, 1954-1967 | |||||||||
| 5 | 297 | Collected Quotations, | |||||||||
| 5 | 298 | Death-Clippings & Correspondence, 1971, 1979 | |||||||||
| 5 | 299 | Death-Memorial Service, 1971 | |||||||||
| 5 | 300 | Diary, 1912-1914 | |||||||||
| 5 | 301 | Diary, 1912-1915 | |||||||||
| 5 | 302 | Diary, 1944-1945 | |||||||||
| 5 | 303 | Diary, 1949-1954 | |||||||||
| 5 | 304 | Diary, 1950s? | |||||||||
| 5 | 305 | Honorary Degree, University of Michigan, 1941 | |||||||||
| 5 | 306 | Identity Card, French Army War Correspondent, 1918 | |||||||||
| 5 | 307 | Legion of Honor (Légion d' Honneur) 1918 and 1933 | |||||||||
| 6 | 308 | Map of Morocco, annotated, ca. 1924 | |||||||||
| 6 | 309 | Paris Post, 1945 | |||||||||
| 6 | 310 | Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, proclamation & clippings 1968-1969 | |||||||||
| 6 | 311 | Poetry Recordings - list and copyright information, ca. 1968 | |||||||||
| 6 | 312 | Poetry Society of New Hampshire, 1966-1970 | |||||||||
| 6 | 313 | Poetry Society of New Hampshire, clippings, 1964-1966 | |||||||||
| 6 | 314 | Publicity - And Let the Glory Go, 1955 | |||||||||
| 6 | 315 | Publicity - Balkanized Europe scrapbook, 1921 | |||||||||
| 6 | 316 | Publicity - Balkanized Europe, 1922 | |||||||||
| 6 | 317 | Publicity - Good Comrade & Fairies, 1923 | |||||||||
| 6 | 318 | Publicity - High Mountain Pond, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| 6 | 319 | Publicity - Hours of France, 1918 | |||||||||
| 6 | 320 | Publicity - The House of Europe (autobiography), 1945-1946 | |||||||||
| 6 | 321 | Publicity - Island Ireland, 1966 | |||||||||
| 6 | 322 | Publicity - Miscellaneous, 1970 & n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 323 | Publicity - The Mothering Land, 1960-1961 | |||||||||
| 6 | 324 | Publicity - On Going to Live in New Hampshire, 1953-1954 | |||||||||
| 6 | 325 | Publicity - Our Foreign Affairs, 1924 | |||||||||
| 6 | 325 | Publicity - The Poems of Paul Scott Mowrer, 1968 | |||||||||
| 6 | 326 | Publicity - School for Diplomats, 1964 | |||||||||
| 6 | 327 | Publicity - Six Plays, 1968-1969 | |||||||||
| 6 | 328 | Publicity - This Teeming Earth, 1965 | |||||||||
| 6 | 329 | Publicity - Twenty-One and Sixty-Five, 1958 | |||||||||
| 6 | 330 | Pulitzer Prize, 1929 | |||||||||
| 6 | 331 | Pulitzer Prize - Clippings, 1929 | |||||||||
| 6 | 332 | "This I Believe" radio program, 1954 | |||||||||
Series 4: Scrapbooks, 1913-1949 |
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| Clippings from Chicago Daily News, The New York Post, and other newspapers, consisting mainly of news stories Paul Scott Mowrer wrote while based in Paris. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 7 | 333 | Chicago Daily News clippings, April 1913-1914 | |||||||||
| 7 | 334 | Miscellaneous clippings & correspondence, 1923-1924 | |||||||||
| 7 | 335 | New York Post clippings, May 1945-April 1949 | |||||||||
Series 5: Photographs, 1910-1924 |
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| Photographs Mowrer took of the French front during World War I, various locations during the First Balkan War, and a few photos taken in Paris and Great Britain. There are also photographs of the Rif region of northern Morocco taken during Mowrer's time there, and family photographs of Mowrer, his wife Hadley, son David and grandson Bruce. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by subject. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 8 | 336 | Balkans - Adrianople (Edirne) Turkey under siege, Jan. 1913 | |||||||||
| 8 | 337 | Balkans - Bulgaria, miscellaneous, people, street scenes, ca. 1912-1913 | |||||||||
| 8 | 338 | Balkans - Bulgaria (?), people, soldiers, ca. 1912-1913 | |||||||||
| 8 | 339 | Balkans - Bulgars at Tchataldja (Caltalga), Turkey, ca. 1912-1913 | |||||||||
| 8 | 340 | Balkans - Elbasam, Albania, ca. 1912-1913 | |||||||||
| 8 | 341 | Balkans - miscellaneous, children animals, soldiers, ca. 1912-1913 | |||||||||
| 8 | 342 | Balkans - Ochrida (Ohrid), Macedonia, ca. 1912-1913 | |||||||||
| 8 | 343 | Balkans - refugees, ca. 1912-1913 | |||||||||
| 8 | 344 | Balkans - Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 1912 | |||||||||
| 8 | 345 | Balkans - Tchataldja (Catalga) Turkey, red cross, ca. 1912-1913 | |||||||||
| 8 | 346 | Mowrer, Hadley and Paul, ca. 1930s-1950s | |||||||||
| 8 | 347 | Mowrer, Hadley Hemingway, France, ca. 1920s-1930s | |||||||||
| 8 | 348 | Mowrer, Hadley Hemingway, ca. 1940s-1950s | |||||||||
| 8 | 349 | Mowrer, Paul, David, Bruce, ca. 1950s-1960s | |||||||||
| 8 | 350 | Mowrer, Paul, in uniform, ca. 1918 | |||||||||
| 8 | 351 | Mowrer, Paul, "The Editors Speak," publicity photo, 1942 | |||||||||
| 8 | 352 | Mowrer, Paul, NBC Studios, 1942 | |||||||||
| 8 | 353 | Mowrer, Paul, ca. 1950s-1960s | |||||||||
| 8 | 353a | Mowrer, Paul, ca.1960s | |||||||||
| 8 | 354 | Mowrer, Paul, ca. 1971 | |||||||||
| 8 | 355 | Miscellaneous from album-Balkan duplicates, Alaska, ca. 1912-1913 and n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 356 | Miscellaneous from album-England, ca. 1915 | |||||||||
| 8 | 357 | Miscellaneous from album-Paris flood, 1910 | |||||||||
| 8 | 358 | Rif War, Morocco - Abd el Krim, ca. 1924 | |||||||||
| 8 | 359 | Rif War, Morocco - Fez, people, Rif chieftains, ca. 1924 | |||||||||
| 8 | 360 | Rif War-Morocco - Spanish General Miguel Primo de Rivera, ca. 1924 | |||||||||
| 8 | 361 | World War I - Argonne, soldiers, camps, artillery, ca. 1915-1918 | |||||||||
| 8 | 362 | World War I - German prisoners, ca. 1915-1918 | |||||||||
| 8 | 363 | World War I - miscellaneous, zeppelin, Alan Seeger, soldiers, ca. 1915-1918 | |||||||||
| 8 | 364 | World War I - Soissons, trenches, soldiers, ca. 1915-1918 | |||||||||
Series 6: Recordings, 1952,1965 |
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| Recordings of Paul Scott Mowrer reading his poetry. The recording made at Dartmouth was given to the Library of Congress in 1961 for inclusion in the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. Transcripts for the 1961 and 1965 recordings are housed in folders 260a and 260b in the Works series. | |||||||||||
| Item | Contents | ||||||||||
| 1 | Paul Scott Mowrer poetry reading. Reel-to-reel tape, 7 1/2 ips, single track, Dec. 19, 1952 | ||||||||||
| 2-5 | Paul Scott Mowrer reading his poems with comment at the studio of Dartmouth College Films, Hanover, N.H. Four acetate discs, 33 1/3 rpm, 10 in., Nov. 20, 1961 | ||||||||||
| 6-7 | Paul Scott Mowrer: Reading his poems. Fassett Recording Studio, Boston, MA., 2 LPs, 33 1/3 rpm, 12in., Feb. 1965 | ||||||||||
Series 7: Artifact, ca. 1910 |
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| Portable typewriter used by Paul Scott Mowrer while a war correspondent during the First Balkan War and World War I. | |||||||||||
| Item | Contents | ||||||||||
| NL 1323 | Smith Corona portable typewriter ca. 1910 | ||||||||||