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Agnes Lee-Edgar Lee Masters Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lee
Abstract

35 letters from Edgar Lee Masters to Agnes Lee (Mrs. Otto Freer), one typed poem and one galley sheet.

Dates: 1919-1933

Alice Gerstenberg Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gerstenberg
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material reflecting Gerstenberg's activities in Chicago's social and cultural life in the first half of the 20th century, in particular her involvement with local theater.

Dates: 1903-1971

Charles L. Hutchinson Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hutchinson
Abstract Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks and miscellany related to Charles L. Hutchinson, Chicago financier, trustee, and philanthropist, particularly regarding Hutchinson’s relationship with the Art Institute of Chicago. Correspondence is solely incoming, mostly to Hutchinson, but also to Mrs. Hutchinson and a few others. Group of writings consists of speeches and diary notebooks. The several scrapbooks hold numerous receipts of art purchases, articles, clippings, a few letters and notes. The...
Dates: 1868-1934

Cloyd Head papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Head
Abstract

Writings and correspondence, souvenirs and miscellany of Cloyd Head, Chicago playwright, theatrical director, business manager of the Goodman Theatre and husband of the poet Eunice Tietjens.

Dates: 1881-1968

Dorothy Dow Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dow
Abstract Correspondence to Illinois poet and writer Dorothy Dow from poet Edgar Lee Masters, muralist John Warner Norton and other writers and friends, and a large collection of Dow’s works, which includes her vast output of poems, both published and mostly unpublished, some plays, short stories, a novel and several literary studies. Also, an informal autobiography and parts of an early episodic diary, a few photographs, scrapbooks and notebooks containing clippings, drafts and notes relating to her...
Dates: 1920-1993

Eunice Tietjens papers

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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

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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

Henry Blake Fuller papers

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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

Monroe family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Monroe-Family
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia from the Monroe family of Chicago. Correspondence is primarily from Henry Stanton Monroe (Chicago attorney), his daughters Harriet Monroe, Dora Monroe Root (and her architect husband John Wellborn Root), and Lucy Monroe Calhoun, and their children. Topics include the births of children, travel, Poetry Magazine, and life in Chicago including Oscar Wilde's 1882 Chicago visit. Also contains World War II and post-war correspondence between William...
Dates: 1868-1949

Morton Dauwen Zabel papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Zabel
Abstract

Correspondence, works, personal materials, and photographs of literary critic, editor, scholar, and educator Morton Dauwen Zabel.

Dates: 1861-1964; Majority of material found within 1930-1960

W. Irving Way papers

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Identifier: VAULT-Wing-MS-141
Abstract

Chicago author and publisher. Way was founding partner of the firm of Way & Williams, and was responsible for much of its editorial policy. Correspondence with authors, collectors, and publishers, newspaper clippings, sample sheets, and notes, dated between 1885 and 1931.

Dates: 1885-1931, bulk 1892-1900; Majority of material found within 1892 - 1900

Wallace Rice Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rice
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1779-1939; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1935

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Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 5
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 4
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 4
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 3
Head, Cloyd 3
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Art Institute of Chicago 2
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 2
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 2
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 2
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 2
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 2
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 2
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 2
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 2
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 2
Root, John Wellborn, 1850-1891 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 2
Tietjens, Paul 2
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 2
Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932 2
Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 1
Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 1
Aldis, Mary, 1872-1949 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
American Federation of Arts 1
Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904 1
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 1
Bacon, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1856-1940 1
Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950 1
Bispham, David, 1857-1921 1
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 1
Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913 1
Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955 1
Browne, Maurice, 1884-1961 1
Bryn Mawr College 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Butler, Edward Burgess, 1853-1928 1
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 1
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 1
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 1
Carr, Michael Carmichael, 1881-1929 1
Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980 1
Chicago Little Theatre Company 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 1
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 1
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 1
Currey, Margery 1
De Vinne Press 1
De Vries, Peter, 1910-1993 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Donahey, William, 1883-1970 1
Dow, Dorothy, 1903-1989 1
Draper, Ruth, 1884-1956 1
Dunne, Finley Peter, 1867-1936 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Edel, Leon, 1907-1997 1
Fay, Charles Norman, 1848- 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Ferguson, Milton J. (Milton James), 1879-1954 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
Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 1
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924 1
Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958 1
Gerstenberg, Alice 1
Gilder, Joseph Benson, 1858-1936 1
Gillette, William, 1853-1937 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 1
Gregory, Horace, 1898-1982 1
Gunsaulus, Frank W. (Frank Wakeley), 1856-1921 1
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 1
Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988 1
Hammond family 1
Hammond, Idea 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Hart, Janet Tietjens 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Hazelton, George Cochrane, 1868-1921 1
Henderson, Alice Corbin, 1881-1949 1
Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938 1
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