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Henry Kitchell Webster Papers
Collection
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
Jefferson Davis letter to James C. Derby
File
Identifier: Midwest-MS-215
Abstract
A letter to book publisher James C. Derby from Jefferson Davis, dated Febuary 1, 1881. A typed transcription of the letter is also included.
Dates:
1881
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