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Gridley-Hitchcock Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hitchcock
Abstract Copies of letters, diaries, and photographs of Ruth Daube Gridley (diaries from 1917-1950) and daughter Marion Gridley Hitchcock (diary from 1951-1958). Also copies of letters to Marion by her father, William Whiting Gridley, after the death of his wife that concern his life as sole caretaker for Marion's sister, who was treated for mental illness. Collection also contains a large set of original correspondence from Marion's great-aunt, Josephine Wheat Gridley, primarily concerning family...
Dates: 1860-2007; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1970

H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken Letters

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-140
Abstract

Correspondence from Baltimore journalist, critic, essayist and author H.L. Mencken, largely concerning supplements to his book The American Language. Eighty short letters are mainly addressed to Raven McDavid and several other linguists, while the last twenty, written after his stroke in November 1948, are written by his secretary.

Dates: 1938-1955

Hambleton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-022
Abstract

Three letters by Emma Lander Hambleton, wife of Chalkley Jay Hambleton. Also one letter by Vera S. Wolfe, daughter of conductor Frederick Stock to Peggy Hambleton Murphy.

Dates: 1871-1932

Hamilton Bogart Dox papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-257
Abstract Muster rolls, vouchers, special orders, discharge papers, and letters, dated from Jan. 4, 1864-Nov. 10, 1905, concerning the military service of Gen. Hamilton B. Dox during the Civil War. Muster-in rolls indicate his enlistment in Chicago as major in the 12th Ill. Cavalry on Jan. 4, 1864, and his promotion to lt. col. on Oct. 29, 1864. Two vouchers, dated April 30 and June 6 of 1866 document his military pay and clothing and travel expenses. Also included are special orders of May 16, 1866,...
Dates: 1864-1905

Hamilton Forrest papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Forrest
Abstract

Correspondence, music and lyrics (including scripts with stage directions), newspaper clippings, photographs, and programs pertaining to Hamilton Forrest, a 20th-century composer known for his arrangements of American folksongs, most notably “He’s Got the Whole Word in His Hands.”

Dates: 1940-1951

Hannah Hayden Letters

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-136
Abstract

Correspondence written in the early nineteenth century by Hannah Hayden from Hartwick and Springfield, Otsego County, New York, to her parents and sisters in Windsor, Connecticut, plus a few other family letters. Seventy-six items, the bulk of which are written by Hannah, detail her everyday life with her husband, and the births, lives and deaths of some of their twelve children.

Dates: 1806-1866; Majority of material found within 1806 - 1823

Harlow N. Higinbotham Letters

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Higinbotham
Abstract

Collection of 49 letters primarily to Chicago merchant and businessman Harlow Niles Higinbotham from friends, family, and associates during the Civil War.

Dates: 1861-1865

Harold John Hartlieb Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hartlieb
Abstract

Correspondence and military documents from Harold John Hartlieb’s service during World War II.

Dates: approximately 1945

Harris-MacLean family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris-MacLean
Abstract Letters, diaries, photographs, daybooks, ledgers, writings, genealogical material, and memorabilia detailing the life and travels of several wealthy Chicago families, mainly during the first three decades of the 20th century. The Harris family side is Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Bank of Chicago, and his wife, Emma Gale Harris from New Hampshire, and their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. Other major related families represented include Gale, Bent, Lane, and...
Dates: 1784-1980; Majority of material found within 1880-1940

Harry Hansen papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hansen
Abstract

Correspondence, subject files, photographs and artwork of newspaper writer and editor Harry Hansen.

Dates: 1900-1974

Harvey family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harvey
Abstract

Collection of letters, photographs, diaries, writings, business records, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago native and longtime Rand McNally employee Bennet B. Harvey, his wife Dorothy Wegener Harvey, their son Bennet B. Harvey, Jr., and their ancestors, many of whom were early Chicago settlers and involved in the development of the city. Families represented include Botsford, Chapin, Fisk, Gehrke, Harvey, and Wegener.

Dates: 1800-2007; Majority of material found within 1851 - 1984

Hayden Carruth Letters and Poem

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Carruth
Abstract

Letters and poem written by American poet and literary critic Hayden Carruth, primarily to Chicago Daily News reporter Van Allen Bradley.

Dates: 1949-1970

Head family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-HeadFH
Abstract

Family papers from multiple generations of the Head family. Includes letters from the 1860s-1870s from the Utah Territory from Franklin Harvey Head, later a trustee of Newberry Library. Also includes Francis M. Knight letters from WWI. Thomas C. Fischer letters from WWII. and materials about the Perkins and Durkee families.

Dates: 1860-1957

Helen Ainslie Smith papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Smith
Abstract

Helen Ainslie Smith was the author of books on the ancient world and colonial American history. The papers contain correspondence with family and friends, family photographs, work notes, and other materials.

Dates: 1744-1950; Majority of material found within 1880-1890

Helen Balfour Morrison papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Morrison
Abstract

Personal and professional papers of American photographer and artist Helen Balfour Morrison. Born in Evanston, Illinois in 1900, Morrison undertook several artistic photography projects that were exhibited throughout the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. Her longtime collaboration with dancer Sybil Shearer involved further artistic endeavors through stage lighting designs and filmmaking.

Dates: 1906-2001; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1984

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 Clay Letters

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Clay
Abstract

Letters of Henry Clay, prominent statesman and orator, during his career as US Senator, concerning political topics which include the election of Jackson, secession, the temperance movement, and slavery.

Dates: 1825-1851

Henry J. Aten Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Aten
Abstract

Letters from Nicholas Harris to Henry J. Aten of Hiawatha, Kansas, clippings, notes pertaining to the Aten family genealogy, and a photocopy of the family history initiated by Aten and continued by other relatives.

Dates: 1896-approximately 1920

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

Henry Kisor papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kisor
Abstract

Henry Kisor is a journalist and author. Born in 1940, Henry became deaf at the age of three. He is known for his decades long (1965-2006) journalism career at Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun Times as well as his published fiction and nonfiction books. As a journalist, he mainly worked as a book editor and was a 1981 finalist for a Pulitzer Price for Criticism.

Dates: 1904-2014; Majority of material found within 1980-2000

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

Henry Lewis Bullen papers

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Identifier: VAULT folio-Wing-MS-49
Abstract

Letters, postcards, drafts of essays; all concerning the origin of the American point system invented by Nelson Crocker Hawks, on Hawks' career as an early California type founder, and on such other early California printing industry figures as W.F. Shattuck, Andrew Foreman, William Faulkner, and others.

Dates: 1908-1912

Henry Patterson and James Patterson papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Patterson
Abstract

Correspondence of brothers Henry Patterson and James Patterson, both privates in the 19th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Company I, during the Civil War. Also includes muster rolls for Henry and his brother James as well as James’ death certificate.

Dates: 1862-1863

Henry Perry letters

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Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-709
Abstract Letters (Jan. 24, 1849-May 28, 1850) written from New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Sacramento by Henry Perry to his Bridgeport family (parents Mr. and Mrs. David Perry, sister Emmeline, and brothers Alf, Tom, and Frederick), regarding his experiences en route to San Francisco, his return voyage from Hawaii, and economic and living conditions in gold rush San Francisco and Sacramento. Of particular interest are accounts of robberies in Sacramento, and pen drawings...
Dates: 1849-1850

Henry Rice Letters

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rice H
Abstract

Six letters, Sept. 14-Oct. 15, 1862, from Camp Peoria in Peoria, Ill., from Henry Rice of the 103rd Illinois Infantry to family in Lewistown, Ill., describing military life in the camp. Included with the letters is an envelope addressed to "Mrs. Amory Rice, Lewistown, Fulton County, Illinois," illustrated in red and blue with the seal and motto of the United States

Dates: 1862

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Art museums -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
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Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 31
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Chicago Daily News, Inc. 12
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 12
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Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 8
Newberry Library 8
Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (Newberry Library) 7
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 7
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 7
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 7
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 7
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 6
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 6
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 6
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 6
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 6
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 6
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 6
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 6
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 6
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 6
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 6
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 6
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 6
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 5
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 5
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 5
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 5
Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 5
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 5
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 5
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 5
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 5
Henley, David, 1749-1823 5
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1887-1971 5
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 5
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 5
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 5
Ade, George, 1866-1944 4
American Red Cross 4
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 4
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 4
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 4
Charles H. Kerr Company 4
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 4
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 4
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 4
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4
Industrial Workers of the World 4
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 4
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 4
Rand McNally and Company 4
Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939 4
Shaw family 4
Society of Typographic Arts (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Stock, Frederick, 1872-1942 4
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 4
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 4
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 4
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 4
American National Red Cross 3
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 3
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 3
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 3
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 3
Borroff, Edith, 1925-2019 3
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 3
Chicago Historical Society 3
Chicago Sun-Times 3
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 3
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 3
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 3
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 3
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 3
Cooper, Oswald Bruce, 1879-1940 3
DaBoll, Raymond F. 3
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 3
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 3
Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956 3
Fairbank, Alfred J. 3
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 3
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 3
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 3
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 3
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 3
Head, Cloyd 3
Johnson, William, 1715-1774 3
Judson, Clay, 1892-1960 3
Judson, William V. (William Voorhees), 1865-1923 3
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 3
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 3
Limited Editions Club 3
Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 3
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 3
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 3
Newberry Library. John M. Wing Foundation 3
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