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Ben Hecht papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hecht
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Ben Hecht, and also papers of his wife Rose Caylor Hecht (novelist) and daughter Jenny Hecht (actress).

Dates: 1879-1983

Edith Franklin Wyatt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wyatt
Abstract

Correspondence of Chicago writer and social activist Edith Franklin Wyatt, plus drafts of works, contracts, scrapbooks, clippings and mementos.

Dates: 1894-1968; Majority of material found within 1894 - 1955

Eunice Tietjens papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tietjens
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens, Chicago poet, novelist, lecturer and associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. The bulk of the correspondence is incoming.

Dates: 1898-1944

Eunice Tietjens papers - Additions

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tietjens2
Abstract

Correspondence, works, and miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens, Chicago poet, novelist, lecturer and associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Also material relating to the Hammond and Strong families, Eunice Tietjens' daughter, Janet Tietjens Hart, and Eunice Tietjens' first husband, Paul Tietjens; and three boxes of photographs.

Dates: 1847-1972

Fredrika Shumway Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-SmithFS
Abstract

Book drafts, illustrations, and publicity about the children's and young adult books, stories, and verse written by Fredrika Shumway Smith, wife of banker and Northern Trust president Solomon A. Smith.

Dates: 1941-1967

Henry Blake Fuller papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fuller
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Henry Blake Fuller, Chicago novelist, essayist, critic, and satirist. The bulk of the collection consists of Fuller's writings, both published and manuscript, and incoming correspondence.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1874 - 1929

Henry Justin Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-SmithHJ
Abstract

Manuscripts of works, correspondence, and mementos of Henry Justin Smith, author and Chicago Daily News reporter, city editor, news editor, and managing editor.

Dates: 1912-1980; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1935

Jack Conroy papers

 Collection
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

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Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 4
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 3
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 3
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 3
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 3
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Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 2
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 2
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 2
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 2
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 2
Head, Cloyd 2
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 2
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 2
Poetry (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 2
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 2
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 2
Tietjens, Paul 2
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 2
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 1
Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 1
Aldis, Mary, 1872-1949 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959 1
Antheil, George, 1900-1959 1
Babb, Sanora 1
Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992 1
Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Brent, Stuart 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 1
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 1
Carr, Michael Carmichael, 1881-1929 1
Caylor, Rose 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Daily Journal 1
Christopher Publishing House 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 1
Conroy, Gladys 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 1
Currey, Margery 1
Daland, Katharine 1
De Vries, Peter, 1910-1993 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Essipoff, Marie Armstrong, 1892- 1
Fairbank, Janet Ayer, 1878-1951 1
Fallon, Lawrence 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Filsinger, Ernst B. (Ernst Balthasar), 1880-1937 1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
Forrest, Hamilton, 1901-1963 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958 1
Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978 1
Hagglund, Ben, 1908- 1
Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988 1
Hammond family 1
Hammond, Idea 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Hart, Janet Tietjens 1
Hart, Moss, 1904-1961 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Hazlett, Carolee 1
Hecht family 1
Henderson, Alice Corbin, 1881-1949 1
Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938 1
Howells, Mildred, 1872-1966 1
Irgun tseva'i le'umi 1
Jessel, George, 1898-1981 1
Johnson, Curt, 1928-2008 1
Johnson, Fridolf 1
Kogan, Herman 1
Kook, Hillel, 1915-2001 1
Kroch, Adolph, 1882- 1
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 1
Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947 1
Le Sueur, Meridel 1
Lenya, Lotte 1
Lewis, H. H., 1901- 1
Lieber, Maxim, 1897-1993 1
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