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Fanny Butcher papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Butcher
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the life and work of Chicago literary critic and author, Fanny Butcher.

Dates: 1830-1984; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1984

Jack Conroy papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Conroy
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of American novelist, folklorist, and editor Jack Conroy. Conroy's novel The Disinherited, published in 1933, is considered a classic in proletarian literature and depicted in gritty detail the realities of the Great Depression. Conroy also edited radical journals The Rebel Poet, The Anvil, and The New Anvil.

Dates: 1864-1991

James T. Farrell-Cleo Paturis papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Farrell-Paturis
Abstract Stories, articles, manuscript and photocopy drafts and notes by Farrell; a small collection of Farrell correspondence; miscellaneous material including reviews and appreciations of Farrell’s work; photographs of Farrell, Paturis, friends and occasions; and many audiocassettes of Farrell lectures, speeches and interviews. Paturis material includes several drafts of her unpublished memoir of her life with Farrell, a synopsis of his work, correspondence dating mainly after Farrell’s death in...
Dates: 1909-2006; Majority of material found within 1949-2006

John Drury-Marion Neville Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Drury-Neville
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, artwork, personal materials, and photographs of author and journalist John Drury, and his wife, journalist and painter Marion Neville.

Dates: 1860-1970

Malcolm Cowley papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cowley
Abstract

Collection of correspondence, working files, drafts of works, subject files, and personal information by and about author, poet, literary critic, and literary historian Malcolm Cowley.

Dates: approximately 1850-2004; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1985

Mike Royko papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Royko
Abstract Correspondence, columns, other works, and personal material of journalist, columnist, and author Mike Royko. Royko received his journalistic training by working for the Chicago City News Bureau (1956-1959) and went on to be a favorite columnist at the Chicago Daily News (1959-1978); The Chicago Sun-Times (1978-1984); and the Chicago Tribune (1984-1997). Royko is known for writing his...
Dates: 1934-1997; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1997

Oliver Barrett-Carl Sandburg papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Barrett-Sandburg
Abstract Correspondence between Oliver R. Barrett, lawyer and collector of Abraham Lincoln material and poet Carl Sandburg, primarily pertaining to the interest of both men in Lincoln, plus a few other letters of Oliver Barrett and his son Roger; numerous brief undated notes from Sandburg to Barrett and work notes on Lincoln's biography by both men; copies of several articles and numerous poems by Sandburg; miscellaneous printed items relating to Sandburg, his work and his public appearances; and...
Dates: approximately 1860-1966

Paul Romaine papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Romaine
Abstract

Correspondence and papers of Milwaukee and Chicago bookseller and bon vivant Paul Romaine. Also photographs, memorabilia, diaries, clippings, writings (of Romaine and others), plus items relating to theater, music, political events and persons who interested Romaine.

Dates: 1880-1986; Majority of material found within 1937-1983

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Ethnic neighborhoods -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
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Poems -- 1901-1950 1
Poems -- 1951-2000 1
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Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 2
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 2
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 2
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 2
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 2
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Abercrombie, Gertrude, 1909-1977 1
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 1
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters 1
American Writers' Congress 1
Aragon, 1897-1982 1
Asch, Nathan, 1902-1964 1
Babb, Sanora 1
Barrett, Oliver R. (Oliver Roger), 1873-1950 1
Barrett, Roger 1
Basso, Hamilton, 1904-1964 1
Best, Marshall, -1982 1
Bleamer family 1
Bliven, Bruce, 1889-1977 1
Blume, Peter, 1906-1992 1
Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 1
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 1
Brush, Albert 1
Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 1
Carlisle, Harry 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Cave, Eldon 1
Cheever, John 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Chicago Sun-Times 1
Clark, Herma, 1871-1959 1
College of Complexes (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Conroy, Gladys 1
Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 1
Davis, Frank Marshall, 1905-1987 1
De Granamour, A., 1915-1987 1
Derleth, August, 1909-1971 1
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 1
Draper, Louis H., 1935-2002 1
Drury, John, 1898-1972 1
E.P. Dutton (Firm) 1
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996 1
Ebert, Roger 1
Edgewater Beach Tennis Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Fallon, Lawrence 1
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Fertik, Irene 1
Field, Henry, 1902-1986 1
Frederick, John T. (John Towner), 1893-1975 1
Gibson, Paul, 1907- 1
Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978 1
Hagglund, Ben, 1908- 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Hazlett, Carolee 1
Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989 1
Ilma, Viola 1
Johnson, Curt, 1928-2008 1
Josephson, Matthew, 1899-1978 1
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 1
Krementz, Jill 1
Le Sueur, Meridel 1
Lerner, Leo A. (Leo Alfred), 1907-1965 1
Lewis, H. H., 1901- 1
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 1
Lieber, Maxim, 1897-1993 1
Light, James F. 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Lott, George 1
McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989 1
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
Meeker, Arthur, 1902-1971 1
Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 1
Mitgang, Herbert 1
Nash, Jay Robert 1
Neville, Marion, 1901-1967 1
New Theatre (New York, N.Y.) 1
Newberry Library 1
O'Brien, Howard Vincent, 1888-1947 1
Paturis, Cleo, -2010 1
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 1
Porter, Paul R. (Paul Robert), 1908-2002 1
Price, Emerson 1
Randolph, Vance, 1892-1980 1
Rogers, John, 1907- 1
Romaine, Paul, -1986 1
Roman family 1
Rowland, Neal 1
Royko, Mike, 1932-1997 1
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
Sargent, Elizabeth, 1920-2017 1
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007 1
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 1
Snow, Walter, 1905-1973 1
Spectorsky, A. C. (Auguste C.), 1910-1972 1
Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993 1
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