Wilson, Richard, 1920-1987

Correspondence, financial and legal material, memorabilia, fanzines, and writings including short stories, plays, novels, novellas, and miscellaneous items.

Davis, Robert H. (Robert Hobart), 1869-1942.

Incoming correspondence from literary figures (Zane Grey, Edgar Lee Masters, H.L. Mencken, Mary Roberts Rinehart); politicians (Fred O’Connor, James Phelan); artists (Frederick MacMonnies, Frank O. Salisbury, Herb Roth), and various notables from the turn of the century through the 1930s, most of whom Davis photographed or wrote about in his New York Sun column. Two manuscript items: a typescript ’Synopsis of the Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss’ by E. Phillips Oppenheim, and typescript notes of a story to be called ’The Latchkey,’ attributed to A.E.W. Mason.

Sherrod, Robert Lee, 1909-1994.

Papers of the American journalist, editor, war correspondent. Correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1926-1963); typescript manuscripts for articles, books, interviews, press copy, radio scripts, and speeches; notebooks (1935-1950); photographs (1910-1963); scrapbooks; and printed material. Notable correspondents include James Agee, Claude Auchinleck, Hanson Baldwin, Omar Bradley, James F. Byrnes, Mark W. Clark, James Forrestal, Ford C. Frick, Martha Gellhorn, Raymond Henle, John F. Kennedy, Henry Luce, Joseph W. Martin, Mary Margaret McBride, William C. Menninger, Carl Mydans, Richard L. Neuberger, Chester W. Nimitz, Roger Pineau, Arthur W. Radford, Sam Rayburn, Haru M. Reischauer, James Roosevelt, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Eric Sevareid, David M. Shoup, Holland M. Smith, Time, Inc., Harry S. Truman, Frank W. Wead, and Walter Winchell.

Gilbert, Rodney, 1889-

American journalist, Far East expert. Collection includes correspondence, clippings, photographs, published material, notebooks, artifacts and other material.

Wolseley, Roland Edgar, 1904-

American journalist and journalism professor at Syracuse University, author of a survey of the black press. Collection includes correspondence, writings, clippings, published material, photographs, pamphlets, audio recordings, subject files, memorabilia, and much other material.

Drummond, Roscoe, 1902-1983.

Papers of the American newspaper columnist. Correspondence and writings, including newspaper columns (1967-1970), drafts, revisions, clippings.

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.

Papers of the British author, novelist, poet, journalist. Includes correspondence, writings, and memorabilia of Kipling himself, well as research material from a number of private collections. Kipling material consists of correspondence, totaling over 950 items (over 750 authored by Kipling); writings, including manuscript (handwritten and typed) and published versions of Kipling's prose, speeches, verse and dramatic works; memorabilia (legal material, photographs, portraits and caricatures); printed materials; writings by others; and miscellany. The private collections consist of Kipling material formerly owned by H.H. and S.S. McClure, E.W. Martindell, and Alan D. Wilson.