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Series 2: George Ade-Charles Fernald Material, 1921-1948

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Scope and Contents note

Material relating to the friendship between George Ade and Charles Fernald, collected by Monroe Cockrell and originally presented to the Union Club of Chicago, which in turn was given to the Newberry Library in 1972. Fernald and Cockrell were officers of the Continental Bank in Chicago, where Charles Fernald handled Ade's financial affairs. Cockrell sifted through (and discarded much) of the Ade-Fernald material that the bank held, arranged it as he saw fit in two (now disbanded) notebooks and deposited it at the Union League Club in 1960. The order of the items, left as Cockrell put them, is not strictly chronological and includes correspondence (mostly from Ade), articles and clippings about Ade, newsletters written by Ade, other miscellaneous Ade-related material, plus some extraneous pieces added when Cockrell gave the papers to the Union League Club. Also includes materials relating to Ade's participation in the Committee of One Hundred and the Mark Twain Society of Chicago.

Dates

  • Creation: 1921-1948

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The George Ade papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 5 folders at a time maximum (Priority II).

Arrangement note

Arranged by Monroe Cockrell.

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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