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Ben Hecht papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hecht
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Ben Hecht, and also papers of his wife Rose Caylor Hecht (novelist) and daughter Jenny Hecht (actress).

Dates: 1879-1983

Benjamin D. Hitz-Willa Cather Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hitz-Cather
Abstract

Chiefly correspondence of Benjamin D. Hitz with librarians, booksellers and experts, relating to his search for first editions of Willa Cather; together with notes for studies on her biography, bibliographies and criticism. Also, a small collection of incoming and outgoing Willa Cather correspondence, including twelve original Cather letters and a few copies, plus several relating to Cather.

Dates: 1913-1949

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and friends, and a large collection of Dow’s works, which includes her vast output of poems, both published and mostly unpublished, some plays, short stories, a novel and several literary studies.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

Henry Justin Smith Papers

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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

Henry Kitchell Webster papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Webster
Abstract Correspondence and drafts and typescripts of works of Illinois novelist and short story writer, Henry Kitchell Webster, an Evanston native who had a highly successful literary career in the early decades of the twentieth century. Includes examples of the range of Webster’s published writings as well as extensive correspondence with literary agents and publishers, family, friends, fans, businesses and organizations. Also, miscellaneous documents and memorabilia, and one box of genealogical...
Dates: 1880-1932; Majority of material found within 1900-1932

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

James T. Farrell-Cleo Paturis papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Farrell-Paturis
Abstract Stories, articles, manuscript and photocopy drafts and notes by Farrell; a small collection of Farrell correspondence; miscellaneous material including reviews and appreciations of Farrell’s work; photographs of Farrell, Paturis, friends and occasions; and many audiocassettes of Farrell lectures, speeches and interviews. Paturis material includes several drafts of her unpublished memoir of her life with Farrell, a synopsis of his work, correspondence dating mainly after Farrell’s death in...
Dates: 1909-2006; Majority of material found within 1949-2006

Leander Troy-James T. Farrell papers

 Collection
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

 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

Sherwood Anderson papers

 Collection
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

Willa Cather - Irene Miner Weisz papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cather-Weisz
Abstract

Correspondence of Willa Cather, the bulk to Irene Miner Weisz; also two miscellaneous letters relating to Cather and a folder of clippings.

Dates: 1912-1958

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Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Adams, Frederick B. (Frederick Baldwin), 1910-2001 1
Agnew, Frances, 1891-1967 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Allen, A. Hylton 1
American Committee for Devastated France 1
Ames, Winthrop, 1870-1937, 1870-1937 1
Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985 1
Antheil, George, 1900-1959 1
Authors' League of America 1
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Baker, Russell, 1925-2019 1
Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992 1
Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956 1
Blanck, Jacob, 1906-1974 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Boni & Liveright 1
Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 1
Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941 1
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Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Brand, Millen, 1906-1980 1
Brent, Stuart 1
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 1
Brown, E. K. (Edward Killoran), 1905-1951 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
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Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951 1
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 1
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Casey, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1890-1962 1
Cave, Eldon 1
Caylor, Rose 1
Chicago Daily Journal 1
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 1
Collinge, Patricia, 1894-1974 1
Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
Conroy, Gladys 1
Crane, Hart, 1899-1932 1
Creighton, Mary Miner, 1873-1968 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 1
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1
Dove, Arthur Garfield, 1880-1946 1
Dow, Dorothy, 1903-1989 1
Draper, Louis H., 1935-2002 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Duschnes, Philip C. 1
Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 1
Emerson, John, 1874-1956 1
Emmett, Burton, 1871-1935 1
Emmett, Mary 1
Esherick, Wharton 1
Essipoff, Marie Armstrong, 1892- 1
Fallon, Lawrence 1
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Fertik, Irene 1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
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Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
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Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979 1
Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978 1
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Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.) 1
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Harris, Julia Collier, 1875-1967 1
Hart, Moss, 1904-1961 1
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Hecht family 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Hitz, Benjamin D. 1
Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989 1
Horace Liveright, Inc. 1
Howland, Hewitt H. (Hewitt Hanson), 1863-1944 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968 1
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1
Irgun tseva'i le'umi 1
Jackson, William A. (William Alexander), 1905-1964 1
Jessel, George, 1898-1981 1
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