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Dorothy Dow Papers

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and friends, and a large collection of Dow’s works, which includes her vast output of poems, both published and mostly unpublished, some plays, short stories, a novel and several literary studies.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

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

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

Henry Justin Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-SmithHJ
Abstract

Manuscripts of works, correspondence, and mementos of Henry Justin Smith, author and Chicago Daily News reporter, city editor, news editor, and managing editor.

Dates: 1912-1980; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1935

Howard Vincent O'Brien papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-O'Brien
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, publicity materials, and personal papers of newspaper columnist and novelist Howard Vincent O'Brien.

Dates: 1894-1948

Jack Conroy papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Conroy
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of American novelist, folklorist, and editor Jack Conroy. Conroy's novel The Disinherited, published in 1933, is considered a classic in proletarian literature and depicted in gritty detail the realities of the Great Depression. Conroy also edited radical journals The Rebel Poet, The Anvil, and The New Anvil.

Dates: 1864-1991

Joseph Kirkland Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kirkland
Abstract

Correspondence, mainly written by Chicago lawyer and author Joseph Kirkland to and from members of his family, and copies of letters he wrote to Hamlin Garland. Also, a few of Kirkland's works, and some miscellaneous material including biographical, genealogical and social information regarding Kirkland, his family and his literary career.

Dates: 1842-1939

Leander Troy-James T. Farrell papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Troy-Farr
Abstract

Materials by and about James T. Farrell, collected by his friend, Rev. Leander Troy, including published and unpublished articles, columns, reviews and stories, together with copies of letters to Farrell from such individuals as Russell Baker, Pearl S. Buck, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson and Adlai E. Stevenson, plus notes, obituaries and other memorabilia.

Dates: 1932-2004

Robert J. Casey papers

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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

Sherwood Anderson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Anderson
Abstract

Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, audiovisual material, royalty statements, personal financial records, artifacts, miscellaneous ephemera, autographed works, and literary manuscripts (many unpublished; also fragments, notes, and tentative sketches for short stories) of Chicago Literary Renaissance novelist and poet best known for his 1919 novel, Winesburg, Ohio.

Dates: 1872-1992

William Horne-Ernest Hemingway papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Horne-Hemingway
Abstract

Correspondence, works, articles, clippings and memorabilia relating to Ernest Hemingway and William Horne.

Dates: 1913-1985

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Monroe, Harriet 3
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 2
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 2
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 2
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 2
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Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 2
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 2
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 2
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 2
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
American National Red Cross 1
Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Babb, Sanora 1
Baker, Russell, 1925-2019 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Bobbs-Merrill Company 1
Boni & Liveright 1
Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 1
Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941 1
Borglum, Mary Montgomery, 1874-1955 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Brand, Millen, 1906-1980 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 1
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 1
Capone, Al, 1899-1947 1
Casey, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1890-1962 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Christopher Publishing House 1
Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
Conroy, Gladys 1
Crane, Hart, 1899-1932 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 1
Dove, Arthur Garfield, 1880-1946 1
Dow, Dorothy, 1903-1989 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Emerson, John, 1874-1956 1
Emmett, Burton, 1871-1935 1
Emmett, Mary 1
Esherick, Wharton 1
Fallon, Lawrence 1
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 1
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Funk, Charles 1
Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979 1
Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978 1
Griffin, Peter 1
Hagglund, Ben 1
Harris, Julia Collier, 1875-1967 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Hazlett, Carolee 1
Horace Liveright, Inc. 1
Horne, William D., 1892-1986 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1
Johnson, Curt, 1928-2008 1
Johnson, Fridolf 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Kirkland family 1
Kirkland, Joseph 1
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944 1
Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960 1
Le Sueur, Meridel 1
Lewis, H. H., 1901- 1
Library of Congress 1
Lieber, Maxim, 1897-1993 1
Light, James F. 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Liveright, Horace Brisbin, 1886-1933 1
Liveright, Otto 1
Loos, Anita, 1893-1981 1
MacDonald, Hazel Christie 1
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 1
Morgan, Anna 1
Mosser, Charles 1
Mowrer, Hadley Hemingway 1
Nathan, George Jean 1
Newberry Library 1
Nicolson, J. U. (John Urban), 1885-1944 1
Norton, Charles Eliot 1
Norton, John Warner, 1876-1934 1
Norton, P. D. (Perry D.) 1
O'Brien, Howard Vincent 1
Orbaan, Albert 1
O’Keeffe, Georgia 1
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