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and friends, and a large collection of Dow’s works, which includes her vast output of poems, both published and mostly unpublished, some plays, short stories, a novel and several literary studies.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

Finley Peter Dunne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dunne
Abstract

Chicago-based writer Finley Peter Dunne’s correspondence, essays, and memoirs. Collection also includes a photograph of Dunne, an etched stamp, and an adaptation of Dunne’s “Mr. Dooley” series for the stage, by his son, Hollywood screenwriter, film director and producer Philip Dunne.

Dates: 1925-1992

George Ade papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ade
Abstract

Correspondence, works, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, miscellaneous pictorial items and memorabilia documenting the literary and personal life of George Ade, Midwestern journalist, humorist and playwright, best known for his Chicago Record column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," and for his innumerable fables in slang.

Dates: 1865-1971

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

James T. Farrell Centenary Committee Records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Farrell-Centenary
Abstract

Correspondence, planning, publicity, photographs, and event materials from the James T. Farrell Centenary Committee, a group who organized support for the recognition of author James T. Farrell and activities celebrating the 2004 centennial of Farrell’s birth in Chicago.

Dates: 2004-2005

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

Nelson Algren Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-152
Abstract

Includes three typescripts of Algren works (2 signed), and two articles about Algren when he permanently left Chicago in 1975.

Dates: 1960-1975

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Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 3
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 2
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 2
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 2
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Ade family 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
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Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Allied Arts, Inc. 1
Chicago record 1
Cockrell, Monroe F. (Monroe Fulkerson), 1884-1972 1
Committee of One Hundred (Miami Beach, Fla.) 1
Davis, Elmer, 1890-1958 1
Dow, Dorothy, 1903-1989 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Dunham, Katherine 1
Dunne, Finley Peter, 1867-1936 1
Dunne, Margaret Ives Abbot 1
Dunne, Philip, 1908-1992 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 1
Fernald, Charles Edward, 1902- 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
George Ade Memorial Association 1
Gilman, Evelyn 1
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949 1
Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Holme, John Francis, 1868-1904 1
Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1
Indiana Society of Chicago 1
Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man 1
James T. Farrell Centenary Committee 1
Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters), 1882-1959 1
Kurfess, William F. 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 1
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949 1
Mark Twain Society of Chicago 1
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 1
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
Meine, Franklin J., 1896-1968 1
Morgan, Anna, 1851-1936 1
Nicolson, J. U. (John Urban), 1885-1944 1
Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 1
Norton, John Warner, 1876-1934 1
Offen, Ron 1
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 1
Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet 1
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 1
Pond, Allen Bartlit, 1858-1929 1
Pond, Irving K. (Irving Kane), 1857-1939 1
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Putnam, Samuel, 1892-1950 1
Rathbun, James D. 1
Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Sayers, Lionel 1
Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926 1
Sigma Chi Fraternity 1
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 1
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 1
Tobey, Mark 1
Union League Club of Chicago 1
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 1
Webster, Harold Tucker, 1885-1952 1
Whitechapel Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
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