Abell, Alexander G.

American author, biographer; correspondence received by Abell in response to his mail canvassing for subscribers to his Life of John Tyler (1843)

Terhune, Alfred McKinley, 1899-1975

Papers of the American professor, biographer. Correspondence, writings, notes, and FitzGerald memorabilia brought together by Terhune to support his ongoing research which culminated in the publication of the four-volume The Letters of Edward FitzGerald (1830-1883), an effort begun by Terhune and completed after his death by his wife Annabelle Burdick Terhune. In addition to FitzGerald, the collection is representative of the interests of a number of individuals (Henry B. Lister, Waldo Maas, Terhune) and organizations (most notably the Omar Khayyam Club), and spans nearly a century of collecting tastes and history. It is therefore also a resource for other notable 19th century British writers and scholars including Bernard Barton, Francis Capper Brooke, E.B. Cowell, George Crabbe, Joseph Fletcher, A.P. Moor, Bernard Quaritch, Alfred Tennyson, and William Makepeace Thackeray. It also provides much information about Suffolk, England and its environs as well as insights into the character of the Victorian period.

Lemke, Antje Bultmann.

Research material and memorabilia relating to Albert Schweitzer and his work, amassed by Schweitzer admirer and collector Antje Bultmann Lemke; also some original Helene Schweitzer material including journals and correspondence

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.

Three items of outgoing correspondence and a manuscript of the American author and poet.

Remey, Charles Mason, 1874-1974.

American architect. Collection includes manuscripts and published material.

Hughes, David L., 1873-1935.

Correspondence relating to Teddy Roosevelt's "Rough Riders." Hughes served in the regiment.

Bowden, Edwin T.

Bowden, American literary historian and biographer. Correspondence, a small amount of writing and memorabilia relating to his bibliography of De Vries, the comic novelist and New Yorker editor.

Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters), 1882-1959.

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.

Smyser, George H.

Papers of the Abraham Lincoln collector and scholar. Collection includes correspondence, 1905-1955, of Smyser and his wife; and numerous speeches, 1863-1943, about Abraham Lincoln.

Smith, Gilbert T.

Research files compiled by Gilbert T. Smith, relating to Methodist minister James Dempster. All modern photocopies, no original material.

Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982

Papers of the American author, lecturer, novelist, and literary critic. Correspondence, 1929-80, with Harriette Arnow, Newton Arvin, Van Wyck Brooks, Baker Bromell, Malcolm Cowley, Robert Cantwell, Robert Gorham Davis, Henry Christman, George Cole, James T. Farrell, Joseph Freeman, Herbert Gold, Corliss Lamont, Lucy Robbins Lang, John Lydenburg, Georgia McKinley, Fulmer Mood, Walter Ripton Morris, Wright Morris, Richard Rovere, Evelyn Scott, Lincoln Steffins, and Ella Winter, among others. Also correspondence and editorial reader's reports for Macmillan Publishing Company. Writings include articles, book manuscripts, a journal (1942-1973), lectures, as well as research notes, correspondence, and memorabilia relating to the production of Hicks' biography of John Reed. Large collection of printed material includes book reviews, clippings, and an assortment of Leftist pamphlets and periodicals from the 1930s.

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Book reviews and a flier relating to British author H. G. Wells

Baldwin, Hanson Weightman, 1903-1991.

Correspondence of the American author and military historian, related to his unpublished biography of Major General John Shirley Wood.

Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964

Papers of the American poet, novelist, biographer. Correspondence (1905-1962), with George Pierce Baker, Lucien Price, Alice Ehlers, Albert Schweitzer, Van Wyck Brooks, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jack London, and others; research files on subjects of his biographies: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Schweitzer; manuscripts of writings (1904-1958); and memorabilia (1907-1962), including clippings and photographs.

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Author and Marxian socialist. Collection contains correspondence with Konrad Bercovici and others, photographs, printed material and manuscripts.

Mayfield, John S., 1904-1983.

Most of the collection relates to John S. Mayfield's, "Eugene O'Neill and the Senator from Texas." Collection contains correspondence between Mayfield and others such as Carlotta O'Neill and O'Neill biographer Louis Sheaffer. Also in the collection are manuscripts, drafts and proofs of Mayfield's work, and printed material about O'Neill.

Taylor, Kendall, 1941-

Kendall Taylor was an American art historian and biographer of American Social Realist painter Philip Evergood. The collection contains original research material relating to Philip Evergood and the papers of Kendall Taylor, his biographer.

Gilkes, Lillian B. (Lillian Barnard), 1902-1977.

The Lillian B. Gilkes Papers comprises the correspondence, writings, research notes, and memorabilia of the American author, educator, and biographer of Cora Crane (b. 1902). The collection not only illuminates Gilkes' professional writings, but also reveals a personal life marked by political activity and connections with radical artists and writers of the early to mid-20th century.

Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934-

Collection of research material amassed by Lynn Z. Bloom for and during the writing of her 1972 biography of Dr. Spock.

Widdemer, Mabel Cleland.

American poet and children's author. Collection contains correspondence, printed material, clippings, subject files. Note that the entire collection consists of photocopies (no original items).