Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Chiefly letters to Chalkley J. Hambleton, 1928-1956, together with a few poems, a photograph and other miscellany. Chalkley J. Hambleton, a Harvard classmate and Chicagoan who was trustee of the Newberry Library, 1928-1956, preserved the letters and gave them to the Newberry Library in 1956. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1904 to 1915, and includes descriptions of Ficke's youthful travels, experiences as a law student, literary comments and opinions, as well as reports...