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.