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Creator:
Abell, Alexander G.
Inclusive Dates:
1843-1867
Abstract:
American author, biographer; correspondence received by Abell in response to his mail canvassing for subscribers to his Life of John Tyler (1843)
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Authors.
Biographers.
Biography
Politics, government and public administration
Biographers -- United States.
Booksellers and bookselling.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Baldwin, Hanson Weightman, 1903-1991.
Inclusive Dates:
1945-1968
Abstract:
Correspondence of the American author and military historian, related to his unpublished biography of Major General John Shirley Wood.
Type of Material:
Manuscripts for publication.
Correspondence.
Research notes.
Subject:
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.
Authors.
Military historians.
Biography
Military history
World War, 1939-1945 -- Cavalry operations.

Creator:
Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934-
Inclusive Dates:
1963-1971
Abstract:
Collection of research material amassed by Lynn Z. Bloom for and during the writing of her 1972 biography of Dr. Spock.
Type of Material:
Research notes.
Manuscripts for publication.
Audiotapes.
Photographs.
Subject:
Biographers.
Biography
Activism and social reform
Science and medicine
Pediatricians -- United States.

Creator:
Bowden, Edwin T.
Inclusive Dates:
1936-1990
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Essays.
Poems.
Printed materials (object genre)
Dust jackets.
Reviews (documents)
Subject:
Biographers.
Biography
Literature -- American Fiction
American fiction.
American wit and humor.

5.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Chadourne, Marc, 1895-
Inclusive Dates:
1928-1956
Abstract:
Papers of the French author, novelist. Includes manuscripts in French of novels and Chadourne's biography of Restif de la Bretonne.
Type of Material:
Drafts (documents)
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Authors.
Novelists.
Literature -- French
Biography
Authors, French.
French literature, 20th century.
Novelists, French.

Creator:
Claire, William F.
Inclusive Dates:
1942-1990
Abstract:
Two copies of Publishing in the West: Alan Swallow, edited by William Claire, along with a collection of material pertaining to the creation and production of the book, including correspondence, manuscripts, galleys, reviews, notes, clippings, etc.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Essays.
Galley proofs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Poems.
Subject:
Publishing in the West : Alan Swallow : some letters and commentaries / edited, with an introd. by William F. Claire.
Authors.
Biographers.
Biography
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
American literature -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Poets, American.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.

7.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Coit, Margaret L.
Inclusive Dates:
1957-1957
Abstract:
Manuscript of Margaret Coit's biography of Bernard Baruch entitled Mr. Baruch.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Mr. Baruch.
Biographers.
Historians.
Biography
Historians
Women Authors
Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.
Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.

Creator:
Ferrara, Susan.
Inclusive Dates:
1950-1985
Abstract:
Correspondence and printed material related to children's author L. Frank Baum
Type of Material:
Black-and-white photographs.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Doctoral dissertations.
Microfilms.
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Research notes.
Subject:
Authors.
Biographers.
Biography
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- Children's
Children's literature, American.

9.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Gilkes, Lillian B. (Lillian Barnard), 1902-1977.
Inclusive Dates:
1900-1976
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Notes (documents)
Photographs.
Subject:
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Soviet Union -- Description and travel.
Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
United States -- Exiles.
Authors.
Biographers.
Women Authors
Biography
Radicalism
American literature -- 20th century.
Anti-fascist movements -- United States.
Authors, American.
Authors and publishers.
Biographers -- United States.
Peace movements -- United States.
Political letter-writing -- United States.
Political oratory -- United States.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Teachers as authors -- United States.
Women authors, American.
World politics -- 20th century.

10.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Goldberg, Vicki.
Inclusive Dates:
1992-1992
Abstract:
Research files on American photography and photographers, including Margaret Bourke-White.
Type of Material:
Audiocassettes.
Research notes.
Sound recordings.
Subject:
Biographers.
Biography
Photography
Photographers -- United States.
Photographic critics -- United States.
Photography -- United States.

11.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Green, Norma Kidd.
Inclusive Dates:
1844-1980
Abstract:
Collection includes correspondence and writings of the American author, including Iron Eye's Family and A Forgotten Chapter in American Education, as well as her childhood books and books by early American educator Jane Andrews.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Manuscripts for publication.
Memorabilia.
Research notes.
Subject:
Biographers.
Biography
Women Authors
Children's literature -- 19th century.
Children's literature, American -- Bio-bibliography.
Women authors, American.

12.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964
Inclusive Dates:
1904-1962
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Photographs.
Poems.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Authors.
Poets.
Biographers.
Literature -- American Poetry
Biography
American literature -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Biography, Authorship.
Poets, American.

13.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982
Inclusive Dates:
1906-1980
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Diaries.
Lectures.
Manuscripts for publication.
Pamphlets.
Periodicals.
Subject:
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
New leader (New York, N.Y.)
New masses.
Saturday review.
Biographers.
Critics.
Novelists.
Radicalism
Biography
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Authors, American.
Biographers -- Authorship.
City and town life -- United States.
Communism -- United States.
Communism and education.
Communism and intellectuals.
Community life.
Critics -- United States
Literary historians.
Literary quarrels.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Marxist criticism.
Novelists, American.
Publishers and publishing.
Radicalism -- United States.

Creator:
Hughes, David L., 1873-1935.
Inclusive Dates:
1925-1929
Abstract:
Correspondence relating to Teddy Roosevelt's "Rough Riders." Hughes served in the regiment.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Biography
Military history
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Regimental histories.

15.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
Inclusive Dates:
1831-1832
Abstract:
Papers of the American author. Holograph manuscript of 26 leaves from Irving's Life of George Washington (New York : Putnam, 1857. Vol. 4, chap. 37, p. [500]-515), mounted and bound in one volume; 2 letters.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Authors.
Biographers.
Biography
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American.
Biographers -- United States.

16.

Collection Title:
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:
Lemke, Antje Bultmann.
Inclusive Dates:
1907-2003
Abstract:
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
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Manuscripts (document genre)
Posters.
Portraits.
Research notes.
Subject:
Out of my life and thought: an autobiography.
The Albert Schweitzer-Helene Bresslau letters 1902-1912.
Archivists.
Librarians.
Biographers.
Biography
Science and medicine
Religion and philosophy
Missionaries, Medical.

18.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Martin, Robert Bernard.
Inclusive Dates:
1984-1984
Abstract:
Papers of the American author, biographer of Edward FitzGerald. Consists of undated typescript manuscript copy of With Friends Possessed: a Life of Edward FitzGerald, including extensive holograph annotations and revisions.
Type of Material:
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Biographers.
Literature -- British
Biography
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Biographers -- United States.

Creator:
Mayfield, John S., 1904-1983.
Inclusive Dates:
1924-1961
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Drafts (documents)
Galley proofs.
Page proofs.
Programs (documents)
Subject:
Biographers.
Authors.
Biography
Literature -- American Fiction
Dramatists, American -- 20th century.

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Collection Title:
Creator:
Remey, Charles Mason, 1874-1974.
Inclusive Dates:
1912-1958
Abstract:
American architect. Collection includes manuscripts and published material.
Type of Material:
Diaries.
Manuscripts (document genre)
Memoirs.
Photographs.
Subject:
Europe -- Description and travel.
Latin America -- Description and travel.
Architects
Biography
Religion and philosophy
Admirals -- United States.
Architects -- United States.
Architecture -- United States.
Bahai Faith -- History.
Bahai Faith -- Study and teaching.
Bahai temples.
Judges -- Iowa.