Creator:
Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973.
Inclusive Dates:
1927- 1968
Abstract:
Correspondence, manuscript plays, stories, songs, speeches, and book manuscripts and galley proofs.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Galley proofs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Scripts (documents)
Songs (document genre)
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
United States -- Civilization -- African American influences.
United States -- Race relations.
Authors.
Librarians.
Playwrights.
Poets.
Radicalism
Literature -- Children's
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
African Americans
African-American arts.
African American dramatists.
African American librarians.
African American intellectuals.
African American novelists.
African American poets.
African American Seventh-Day Adventists.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Music.
African Americans in the performing arts.
American literature -- African American authors.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Children's literature -- Authorship.
Harlem Renaissance -- Archival resources.
Creator:
Ciardi, John, 1916-1986.
Inclusive Dates:
1957- 1957
Abstract:
American poet and author. Collection contains correspondence,
subject files and published material.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Subject:
Authors.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Poets, American -- 20th century.
Translators.
Creator:
Clemens, Cyril, 1902-1999.
Inclusive Dates:
1927- 1982
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings and memorabilia of the American author and Twain biographer.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Essays.
Galley proofs.
Manuscripts (document genre)
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Authors.
Biographers.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Authors, American -- 19th century.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Authors, British -- 20th century.
Biographers -- United States.
Biography -- 20th century.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Family.
Creator:
Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury), 1876-1944.
Inclusive Dates:
1928- 1928
Abstract:
Handwritten letter from author Irvin S. Cobb to Mrs. Frederick Fuhrer, informing her that he is not accepting speaking engagements.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Gloversville (N.Y.) -- History.
Authors.
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Creator:
Hazlitt, Henry, 1894-1993.
Inclusive Dates:
1920- 1958
Abstract:
Papers of the American journalist, editor, and author, specializing in economic subjects. Collection includes
correspondence (1945-1958); book manuscripts, articles, editorials, reviews, speeches, and scrapbooks of
clippings about Hazlitt.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Editorials.
Manuscripts for publication.
Reviews (documents)
Scrapbooks.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Authors.
Editors.
Journalists.
Journalism
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Editors -- United States.
Journalism, Commercial.
Journalists -- United States.
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910.
Inclusive Dates:
1902- 1902
Abstract:
Letter from American author O. Henry to George Gilwan Hall, editor of Ainslee's Magazine.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Ainslee's magazine.
Authors.
Editors.
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Creator:
Hillyer, Robert, 1895-1961.
Inclusive Dates:
1906- 1962
Abstract:
Papers of the American author, poet, educator. General, literary, and family correspondence; writings (essays, poems, poetry, reviews, speeches, manuscripts, galley proofs); memorabilia (photographs, clippings, genealogies, daguerreotypes. family Bibles, miniatures, hymnals). Notable correspondents include William Rose Benét, Millicent Todd Bingham, Ben Lucien Burman, Frederick Chamberlin, James Gould Cozzens, Max Eastman, Kimball Flaccus, Horace Gregory, Ralph Hodgson, Robert Huff, Amy Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, James B. Munn, Robert Nathan, John Neihardt, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Bliss Perry, Lizette Reese, Lennox Robinson, Paul Rosenfeld, Mark Schorer, Walter Magnes Teller, Mark Van Doren, and Edward Weeks.
Type of Material:
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Drafts (documents)
Essays.
Genealogies (histories)
Lectures.
Manuscripts for publication.
Musical scores.
Photographs.
Poems.
Songs (document genre)
Subject:
Authors.
Critics.
Educators.
Poets.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
American literature -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Criticism -- 20th century.
Critics -- United States.
Poets, American -- 20th century.
Creator:
Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters), 1882-1959.
Inclusive Dates:
1867- 1966
Abstract:
Papers of the American humorist, journalist, author. Collections contains
correspondence, 1892-1959; typescript mss. of articles, books, poems,
speeches, and stories; notebooks; photographs; and memorabilia, including
clippings, drawings, genealogical material, reviews, a scrapbook, and a
subject file relating to Orville and Wilbur Wright, of whom Kelly wrote a
number of articles and books. Correspondents include, among others, George Ade, Sherwood
Anderson, Norman Angell, Newton D. Baker, Nicholas Biddle, Margaret Bourke-White,
Bruce Catton, Winston Churchill, Irvin S. Cobb, Homer Croy, Warren G. Harding, Arthur
Hosking, John T. McCutcheon, André Maurois, H.L. Mencken, William Sydney Porter (O. Henry), J. B. Priestley, Clarence Rook, Theodore Roosevelt,
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Ida Tarbell, Booth
and Susanah Tarkington, Albert Payson Terhune, Harry S. Truman,
Wendell Willkie, P.G. Wodehouse, Orville
Wright, and Art Young.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Juvenilia.
Manuscripts for publication.
Notebooks.
Photographs.
Photoprints.
Reviews (documents)
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Authors.
Humorists.
Journalists.
Biography
Journalism
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Humorists, American.
Journalists -- United States.
Creator:
Klitgaard, Kaj
Inclusive Dates:
1914- 1966
Abstract:
Correspondence (1914-1966); photographs, sketchbooks, and published material, including articles and clippings.
Correspondents include Egmont Arens, Peggy Bacon, Rockwell Kent, Alfred Kreymborg, Harry E. Maule, William McFee, Ogden Nash, John Crowe Ransom, Henry Morton Robinson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles Allen Smart, and Lowell Thomas. Additional letters of many of the correspondents can be found in a scrapbook.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Sketchbooks.
Sketches.
Subject:
Artists.
Authors.
Novelists.
Painters.
Art -- Painters
Art, American.
Art, American -- 20th century.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Danish Americans.
Novelists, American.
Painters -- United States.
Painting, American -- 20th century.
Creator:
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.
Inclusive Dates:
1913- 1954
Abstract:
American author. Collection consists of correspondence, one manuscript and photographs; all letters are photopies, no originals.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Authors.
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Creator:
London, Jack, 1876-1916.
Inclusive Dates:
1904- 1931
Abstract:
Correspondence from American author Jack London and (after his death) his wife Charmian, to various recipients
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Creator:
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
Inclusive Dates:
Abstract:
Pulitzer prize-winning American author. Collection consists of a single large photograph of Porter, undated (circa 1955?).
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Subject:
Authors.
Journalism
Literature -- American Fiction
Women Authors
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Creator:
Roscoe, Theodore.
Inclusive Dates:
1871- 1992
Abstract:
Papers of the American author of adventure and mystery stories and U.S. Navy historian (1906-1992). Collection includes correspondence, writings, and memorabilia. Correspondence (1926-1992) with editors, publishers, colleagues, fans, and the U.S. Department of the Navy. Writings -- fiction, non-fiction, notebooks, reviews, and scripts -- contains manuscript drafts, manuscripts, and published material, including examples of adventure and mystery stories written for pulp magazines and material relating to the history of the U.S. Navy. Memorabilia comprises financial material, printed material, and scrapbooks. Printed material consists of books owned by Roscoe, clippings about Roscoe or those which contained story ideas, publicity, and reviews. Many of the scrapbooks pertain to his writings on naval history.
Type of Material:
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Galley proofs.
Histories.
Manuscripts for publication.
Notebooks.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Scripts (documents)
Subject:
Authors.
Historians.
Historians
Military history
Popular culture
Literature -- American Fiction
Adventure and adventurers in literature.
Adventure stories, American -- 20th century.
American fiction -- 20th century.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Detective and mystery stories, American -- 20th century.
Fiction -- Male authors -- United States -- 20th century.
Historians -- United States -- 20th century.
Naval history -- United States.
Naval history, Modern -- United States -- 20th century.
Popular literature -- United States.
War and literature -- United States -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- Submarine.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- American.
Creator:
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
Inclusive Dates:
1924- 1954
Abstract:
Three items of outgoing correspondence and a manuscript of the American author
and poet.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Authors.
Poets.
Biography
Literature -- American Poetry
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Poets, American -- 20th century.
Creator:
Saul, George Brandon, 1901-
Inclusive Dates:
1912- 1969
Abstract:
Papers of the American educator, author, poet, composer.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Musical scores.
Notebooks.
Poems.
Photographs.
Reviews (documents)
Textbooks.
Subject:
Authors.
Composers.
Dramatists.
Educators.
Musicians.
Novelists.
Poets.
Music
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century.
American literature -- Book reviews.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Books -- Reviews.
Composers -- United States.
Dramatists, American -- 20th century.
Educators -- United States.
Irish-American literature -- 20th century.
Irish Americans.
Music -- 20th century.
Music -- Poetry.
Musicians -- United States.
Novelists, American -- 20th century.
Plays-in-progress.
Poets, American -- 20th century.
Short stories, American -- 20th century.
Creator:
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.
Inclusive Dates:
1939- 1951
Abstract:
Letters from American author Upton Sinclair to Melville Kress.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Authors.
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Creator:
Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974.
Inclusive Dates:
1923- 1926
Abstract:
Outgoing correspondence of the American writer and newspaperman.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Authors.
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Creator:
Stone, George Frederick.
Inclusive Dates:
1908- 1908
Abstract:
American businessman, secretary of the Chicago Board of
Trade for more than 25 years. Collection contains one outgoing letter, about a book.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Authors.
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Creator:
Whiffen, Edwin Thomas, b. 1874.
Inclusive Dates:
1957- 1957
Abstract:
Papers of the American author. Collection consists of manuscripts of plays, poems, and a
translation of a Greek play.
Type of Material:
Manuscripts (document genre)
Subject:
Authors.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Dramatists, American.
Poets, American -- 20th century.