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Arthur Davison Ficke Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ficke
Abstract

Mostly correspondence to poet Arthur D. Ficke from Newberry Library trustee and lifelong friend Chalkley J. Hambleton, plus several letters written by Hambleton. Also, a few works of Ficke's and pieces of memorabilia, an obituary clipping, a photograph of Ficke and photos of two portraits of Ficke by Bror J.O. Nordfeldt.

Dates: 1904-1945

Augustine J. Bowe papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bowe
Abstract

Correspondence, family and personal materials, works, photographs, and audiovisual materials of Chicago judge and poet Augustine J. Bowe.

Dates: approximately 1890-1966; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1966

Catherine Eddy Beveridge papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Beveridge
Abstract

Correspondence, papers, and diary of Catherine Eddy Beveridge, and also correspondence, papers, photographs and genealogical information collected by Catherine Eddy Beveridge related to her family.

Dates: 1703-2004; Majority of material found within 1870-1910

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: 1895-1968

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and friends, and a large collection of Dow’s works, which includes her vast output of poems, both published and mostly unpublished, some plays, short stories, a novel and several literary studies.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

 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

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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

Fredrika Shumway Smith Papers

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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

Hayden Carruth Letters and Poem

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Carruth
Abstract

Letters and poem written by American poet and literary critic Hayden Carruth, primarily to Chicago Daily News reporter Van Allen Bradley.

Dates: 1949-1970

Hiram Powers Dilworth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dilworth
Abstract The personal documents, poetry manuscripts, and poetry composition journals of pianist and poet Hiram Powers Dilworth. Dilworth graduated from both Antioch College and the Cincinnati College of Music in Ohio. He moved to Chicago where he worked as a guard at the Art Institute and continued concert performances. Personal material includes newspaper clippings about Dilworth and copyright certificates for his published work. His manuscripts and composition journals contain handwritten drafts of...
Dates: 1908-1974

Mark Turbyfill Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Turbyfill
Abstract

Material relating to the life and career of dancer, poet and painter Mark Turbyfill, including three copies of his unpublished autobiography and many copies of published and unpublished poems. Also, articles and reviews by and about Turbyfill, a few pieces of correspondence, clippings, dance programs, photographs, a cassette tape of him reading, and a published genealogy of the Turbyfill family.

Dates: 1911-1985

Mitchell Dawson papers

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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

Paul Scott Mowrer papers

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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

Scharmel Iris Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-137
Abstract

Small collection of material relating to minor Chicago poet. Iris proved to be a plagiarist and forger who engaged in a life-long campaign not only to have his verse published but also to be regarded as a colleague of more successful writers and poets. Consists of correspondence, poetry, and miscellaneous items such as clippings and photographs.

Dates: 1911-1964

Solomon Lewis Switzer papers

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Switzer
Abstract

Chicago-area poet and children’s book author. Documents concerning A Trolley Ride Through Story Land (1915); manuscripts of poems by Switzer.

Dates: 1911-1929

Tia Chucha Press records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tia Chucha
Abstract

Administrative and literary materials including correspondence, manuscripts, reports, and financial documents pertaining to the establishment and operation of publishing company Tia Chucha Press.

Dates: 1989-1999

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Monroe, Harriet 5
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 4
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 3
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 3
Head, Cloyd 3
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Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 3
Anderson, Margaret C. 2
Art Institute of Chicago 2
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 2
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 2
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 2
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 2
Lowell, Amy 2
Poetry (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 2
Tietjens, Paul 2
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 2
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 2
Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972 2
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 1
Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 1
Aldis, Mary, 1872-1949 1
Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- 1
Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902 1
Bartlett, Helen Birch, 1884-1925 1
Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950 1
Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949 1
Beveridge family 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Beveridge, Catherine Eddy, 1881-1970 1
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Boulton, Inez 1
Bowe, Augustine Joseph, 1892-1966 1
Bowe, Julia Lecour, 1900 or 1901-1986 1
Bradley, Van Allen, 1913-1984 1
Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 1
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 1
Carnevali, Emanuel 1
Carr, Michael Carmichael, 1881-1929 1
Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008 1
Chapin family 1
Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980 1
Chicago Allied Arts, Inc 1
Chicago Little Theatre Company 1
Christopher Publishing House 1
Ciardi, John, 1916-1986 1
Colton family 1
Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 1
Cornell family 1
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 1
Currey, Margery 1
Dawson, George Ellis 1
Dawson, Julia Meacham 1
Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969 1
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956 1
De Vries, Peter, 1910-1993 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Dillon, George, 1906-1968 1
Dilworth, Hiram Powers 1
Dow, Dorothy, 1903-1989 1
Dunham, Katherine 1
Eddy family 1
Elwell family 1
Field, Delia Caton, 1853-1937 1
Field, Marshall, 1834-1906 1
Filsinger, Ernst B. (Ernst Balthasar), 1880-1937 1
Forrest, Hamilton, 1901-1963 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958 1
Gifford family 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Gould, Wallace 1
Guild Complex (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949 1
Hahn, Emily 1
Hale, Nancy 1
Hambleton, Chalkley J., 1829- 1
Hammond family 1
Hammond, Idea 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Hart, Janet Tietjens 1
Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 1908-1986 1
Henderson, Alice Corbin, 1881-1949 1
Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938 1
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. 1
Hillyer, Robert, 1895-1961 1
Holder family 1
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 1
Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man 1
Integral Phalanx (Sangamon County, Ill.) 1
Iris, Scharmel, 1889-1967 1
J. C. Veeder Co 1
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