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Identifier: Lit
This topic covers authors, essayists, playwrights, poets, literary critics, novelists, and literary clubs. It also includes those involved in the book trade, such as publishers and bookshop owners.

Found in 158 Collections and/or Records:

Mervin Block papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Block
Abstract

New York broadcast news writer and editor who worked earlier in his career as a newspaper writer and editor in Chicago. Includes letters from and materials about author James T. Farrell and Lyric Opera of Chicago press agent/impresario Danny Newman.

Dates: 1945-2005

Mia McCullough papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-McCullough
Abstract

Drafts and copies of plays by Chicago playwright Mia McCullough, who has written plays produced by Steppenwolf, Chicago Dramatists, American Theater Company, and Stage Left Theater in Chicago, as well as many other stages nationwide. Collection also includes promotional materials and some diaries.

Dates: 1992-2012

Michael Reid Maxwell Bodenheim Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bodenheim
Abstract Letters, documents, photographs, drawings, and works by and regarding the poet and novelist Maxwell Bodenheim, a literary figure in Chicago (where he befriended and collaborated with Ben Hecht) and in New York City's Greenwich Village. Includes Bodenheim's letters to Alfred Kreymborg, his wife Minna, and his son Solbert. Also other letters and condolence notes, clippings and police documents regarding Bodenheim's 1928 arrest, photographs, an original pencil portrait, the first issue of New...
Dates: 1928-1954

Michael Scot papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-174
Scope and Content of the Collection

Manuscript writings and poems, presumably by Irish writer Kathleen Goodfellow who wrote the pseudonym Michael Scot. Includes three manuscript poems titled “Verse Epistle,” “Ballad of the Queens of Bygone Time (Adaptation from the French of Francois Villon),” and “On losing her gage of a silver brooch.” Also includes one typescript titled “The Charwoman” with a few manuscript annotations and a photograph of a painting of Goodfellow. All materials are undated.

Dates: approximately 1915-approximately 1925

Miriam Gurko-Floyd Dell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gurko-Dell
Abstract

Correspondence between Floyd Dell and Miriam Gurko, concerning Edna St. Vincent Millay. Also, several short works by Dell, a few notes by Gurko and a draft of a book by Gurko entitled The Letters of Floyd Dell About Edna St. Vincent Millay, with a subject index file.

Dates: 1958-1968

Mitchell Dawson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawson
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of lawyer and poet Mitchell Dawson, and also papers, photographs and genealogical information of the Dawson, Manierre and Hahn families.

Dates: 1810-1988

Morris Philipson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Philipson
Abstract

Literary manuscripts, drafts, notes, and miscellaneous material from Chicago-based editor and writer Morris Philipson (1926-2011). Philipson was director of the University of Chicago Press from 1967 through 2000. He wrote and edited non-fiction works as well as a few novels.

Dates: approximately 1960s-1970s

Morton Dauwen Zabel papers

 Collection
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

Nelson Algren-Christine and Neal Rowland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Algren Rowland
Abstract

Nelson Algren was an American author and journalist known for his witty, humanistic depictions of postwar working-class urban life. He is most famous for his novel The Man with the Golden Arm (1949), which won the first National Book Award for fiction. Collection consists of correspondence from Algren to his friends Christine and Neal Rowland.

Dates: 1940-1989; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1951

Nelson Algren Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-152
Abstract

Includes three typescripts of Algren works (2 signed), and two articles about Algren when he permanently left Chicago in 1975.

Dates: 1960-1975

Nelson Algren-Stephen Deutch papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Algren-Deutch
Abstract

Correspondence, photographs, publicity, works, and miscellaneous material about author Nelson Algren and photographer Stephen Deutch. Collection shows the friendship between the men, and consists mainly of material Deutch collected from and about Algren. Also includes files kept by Deutch's daughter Katherine Deutch Tatlock regarding her attempts to fund and make a documentary film about Algren.

Dates: 1951-2014

Oliver Barrett-Carl Sandburg papers

 Collection
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

Oscar Wilde letter

 Item
Identifier: Modern-MS-43
Abstract

Signed, undated later from Oscar Wilde to Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, a Dutch journalist and literary critic. Teixeira married Lily Wilde, the widow of Oscar Wilde's older brother. The letter is written on stationery from Hotel Avondale, London.

Dates: between 1890 and 1900?

Ottilie von Goethe papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Modern-MS-Goethe
Abstract Papers of Ottilie von Goethe, German literary figure and daughter-in-law of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Includes her diaries, 1840-1867, kept while residing in Italy, Weimar, Berlin, and Dresden; correspondence with her mother, Henriette von Pogwisch, 1834-1839; and essays and poems. Also unpublished contributions to "Chaos" magazine, and correspondence and writings of other family members -- Alma von Goethe, August von Goethe, Wolfgang von Goethe, Henriette von Pogwisch, and Ulrike von...
Dates: 1811-1867

Paul Romaine papers

 Collection
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

Paul Scott Mowrer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mowrer P
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...
Dates: 1894-2007; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1971

Philip P. Bregstone papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bregstone
Abstract

Papers of Chicago lawyer, judge, writer, and public official Philip P. Bregstone, who was active in Chicago Jewish affairs and in promoting Zionist causes in the Midwest. The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence, writings, reviews, and memorabilia by and about Bregstone and the wartime activities of his wife, Anne Rosenberg Bregstone.

Dates: 1889-1951; Majority of material found within 1931-1933

Ralph Fletcher Seymour-Ezra Pound Papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Case-MS-fY 245 .P8656
Abstract Manuscript of Patria Mia by Ezra Pound, submitted by him to Ralph Fletcher Seymour in 1913, but which was not published until 1950. Consists of combination of Pound’s hand-written text with corrections and printed excerpts from periodical New Age, where the work was originally published in 1912. Also, letters: two from Pound to Seymour; two between Seymour and Dorothy Pound; and twelve between Seymour and T.S. Eliot in 1950,...
Dates: 1913-1960

Ralph Korngold papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Korngold
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and personal items relating to the life and work of Socialist journalist and historical biographer Ralph Korngold.

Dates: 1867-1994; Majority of material found within 1909 - 1964

Raven Ioor McDavid papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-McDavid
Abstract University of Chicago professor and leading expert on American language, who updated H.L. Mencken's The American Language in 1963, and served as editor of The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States and The Linguistic Atlas of the North Central States. McDavid's papers include correspondence, work files, manuscripts and page proofs for the Mencken work, the atlases, and McDavid's other projects. Also several files relating to Harold Allen's Linguistic Atlas of the Upper...
Dates: 1930-1960

Richard Realf Letters and Poems

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Realf
Abstract

Twenty-two letters of Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1864-1865. Also, two poems of Realf’s and a poem written by Marian Cramer.

Dates: 1864-1865

Ring Lardner papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lardner
Abstract

Correspondence and writings of journalist and humorist author Ring Lardner. Also estate papers, including royalty records through 2003, biographical materials, publicity and reviews, adaptations of writings, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1805-2003; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1987

Robert E. Terrill papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Terrill
Abstract

Research files, writings, and correspondence of Robert Terrill, professor at the University of Illinois.

Dates: approximately 1950-approximately 1990

Robert J. Casey papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Casey
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and personal materials of writer Robert J. Casey, who served in World War I and covered World War II for the Chicago Daily News. Casey was also a humor columnist, novelist, and nonfiction writer who traveled all over the world and wrote of his adventures in newspapers and in books.

Dates: 1894-1964

Root, Frank A. Letter to Byron Smith regarding Root's book "The Overland Stage to California."

 Item
Identifier: Midwest-MS-025
Abstract

Letter written by Frank A. Root of Topeka, Kansas to Byron Smith of Lake Forest, Illinois regarding an order for a copy of Root's book, "The Overland Stage to California." Root describes his relationship with co-author William Elsey Connelley.

Dates: September 30, 1904