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Agnes Lee-Edgar Lee Masters Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lee
Abstract

35 letters from Edgar Lee Masters to Agnes Lee (Mrs. Otto Freer), one typed poem and one galley sheet.

Dates: 1919-1933

Alice Gerstenberg Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gerstenberg
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material reflecting Gerstenberg's activities in Chicago's social and cultural life in the first half of the 20th century, in particular her involvement with local theater.

Dates: 1903-1971

Charles L. Hutchinson Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hutchinson
Abstract Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks and miscellany related to Charles L. Hutchinson, Chicago financier, trustee, and philanthropist, particularly regarding Hutchinson’s relationship with the Art Institute of Chicago. Correspondence is solely incoming, mostly to Hutchinson, but also to Mrs. Hutchinson and a few others. Group of writings consists of speeches and diary notebooks. The several scrapbooks hold numerous receipts of art purchases, articles, clippings, a few letters and notes. The...
Dates: 1868-1934

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: 1881-1968

Eunice Tietjens papers

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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

Frederic Grant Gleason papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gleason
Abstract Composer, musician, music critic for the Chicago Tribune (1887-1891) and other newspapers, and director of Chicago Auditorium concerts. Papers include correspondence, diaries, sketch books, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, literary manuscripts, photographs, and other memorabilia, providing a valuable portrait of Chicago's late-19th-century musical world. Correspondents include Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Jules Massenet, Johann Strauss, Giuseppe...
Dates: 1852-1908

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

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

Monroe family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Monroe-Family
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia from the Monroe family of Chicago. Correspondence is primarily from Henry Stanton Monroe (Chicago attorney), his daughters Harriet Monroe, Dora Monroe Root (and her architect husband John Wellborn Root), and Lucy Monroe Calhoun, and their children. Topics include the births of children, travel, Poetry Magazine, and life in Chicago including Oscar Wilde's 1882 Chicago visit. Also contains World War II and post-war correspondence between William...
Dates: 1868-1949

Wallace Rice Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rice
Abstract

Correspondence, almost all addressed to Chicago author, anthologist and lecturer Wallace Rice with a few outgoing letters; also many examples of his works, and a miscellany of associated material including a small collection of photographs.

Dates: 1779-1939; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1935

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Names
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 5
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 4
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 4
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 4
Head, Cloyd 3
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Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 3
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 3
Art Institute of Chicago 2
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 2
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 2
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 2
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 2
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 2
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 2
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 2
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 2
Root, John Wellborn, 1850-1891 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 2
Tietjens, Paul 2
Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932 2
Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 1
Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 1
Aldis, Mary, 1872-1949 1
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
American Federation of Arts 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.). Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art 1
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 1
Bacon, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1856-1940 1
Beach, Amy, 1867-1944 1
Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950 1
Bispham, David, 1857-1921 1
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie, 1863-1927 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913 1
Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955 1
Browne, Maurice, 1884-1961 1
Bryn Mawr College 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Butler, Edward Burgess, 1853-1928 1
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 1
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 1
Carr, Michael Carmichael, 1881-1929 1
Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980 1
Chicago Allied Arts, Inc. 1
Chicago Little Theatre Company 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 1
Currey, Margery 1
De Vries, Peter, 1910-1993 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Donahey, William, 1883-1970 1
Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861 1
Dunham, Katherine 1
Dunne, Finley Peter, 1867-1936 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Fay, Charles Norman, 1848- 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Filsinger, Ernst B. (Ernst Balthasar), 1880-1937 1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
Floersheim, Otto, 1853-1917 1
Forrest, Hamilton, 1901-1963 1
Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 1
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924 1
Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958 1
Gerstenberg, Alice 1
Gillette, William, 1853-1937 1
Gleason, Frederic Grant, 1848-1903 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893 1
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 1
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 1
Gunsaulus, Frank W. (Frank Wakeley), 1856-1921 1
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949 1
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 1
Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988 1
Hammond family 1
Hammond, Idea 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Hart, Janet Tietjens 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Hazelton, George Cochrane, 1868-1921 1
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