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:
Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.
Inclusive Dates:
1916- 1962
Abstract:
Papers of the African-American poet, author, critic. Correspondence, and manuscripts by Braithwaite and others. Notable correspondents include Arna Bontemps, Louis Bromfield, Sterling Brown, Marie Bullock, Witter Bynner, Cass Canfield, Bliss Carman, Bennet Cerf, Katherine Chapin, James Cozzens, Countee Cullen, Gustav Davidson, W.E.B. DuBois, Kimball Flaccus, Robert Frost, Claire and Nina Gerbaulet, Louis Ginsberg, Hermann Hagedorn, Leigh Hanes, Robert Hillyer, John Holmes, Langston Hughes, Georgia Johnson, MacKinlay Kantor, Joseph Joel Keith, Florence Lennon, Benjamin Mays, David McCord, Marianne Moore, Maurice Peloubet, Bliss Perry, Minerva Perry, Helen Channing Pollock, Ruby Altizer Roberts, Paul Robeson, Angelo Schmuller, Lulu Schultz, George S. Schuyler, Delmore Schwartz, Eli Siegel, Jules Siegel, Noble Sissle, Chard Powers Smith, Vladimir Sokoloff, Arthur Spingarn, Jesse Stuart, A.M. Sullivan, May Swenson, Ridgely Torrence, Carl Van Vechten, George Sylvester Viereck, Harold Vinal, Booker T. Washington, Robert C. Weaver, John Hall Wheelock, Margaret Widdemer, William Carlos Williams, and Roscoe Wright.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Authors.
Poets.
African Americans
Literature -- American Poetry
African American poets.
African Americans -- Biography.
American literature -- 20th century.
American literature -- African American authors.
American poetry -- 20th century.
American poetry -- African American authors.
Authors, American.
Poets, American -- 20th century.