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Kantor, MacKinlay, 1904-1977. Letters, 1934-1973.

Title: Letters, 1934-1973.

Concerning his many works at various stages of production from the manuscript to the published version; mentioning the writing of others, including that of fellow Iowans Ruth Suckow and Jay Sigmund; discussing travel plans.

ArchivalResource: 86 items (102 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233121203 View

Sigmund, Jay G., 1885-1937. Letter to The Century. [s.l.]. 1924 Jan. 3.

Title: Letter to The Century. [s.l.]. 1924 Jan. 3.

Congratulating the Century for the publication of Country People by Miss Suckow and commenting on Miss Suckow's writing.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

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Sigmund, Jay G., 1885-1937. Letters to John T. Frederick. Cedar Rapids, IA. 1922-1923.

Title: Letters to John T. Frederick. Cedar Rapids, IA. 1922-1923.

1) Wishing Mr. Frederick success with his novel. 1922 Jan. 12. ALS. 2) Giving Mr. Frederick his reactions and comments on Druida, mentioning the Chicago Post's review. 1923 Feb. 7. TLS.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233099423 View

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. Papers, 1897-1930

Title: William Stanley Braithwaite papers, 1897-1930

Papers of the African-American poet, literary critic, and editor William Stanley Braithwaite.

ArchivalResource: 31 boxes (10.5 linear ft.)

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Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. Papers of William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite [manuscript] 1904-1935 (1958).

Title: Papers of William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite [manuscript] 1904-1935 (1958).

The collection contains manuscripts and some proofs for many of Braithwaite's anthologies: The book of Elizabethan verse, 1906, The book of Georgian verse, 1908, The book of Restoration verse, 1909, Anthologies of magazine verse, 1913-20, 1925-17, & the 1958 issue dedicated to him, The book of modern British verse, 1919, The story of the great war, The great war, 1919, Bay state book of verse: 1630-1930, Our Lady's choir, 1931, and Victory, 1919 together with book reviews, essays, articles and poems. Many of the contracts signed by Braithwaite or Virginia Jackson as presidents of the B.J. Brimmer Co., Boston, a Brimmer Co. ledger, and papers from poetry contests Braithwaite judged are also present. In his professional correspondence Braithwaite discusses his editorial duties for the Brimmer Co., the compilation of his anthologies, and poetry offered him for anthology consideration. Manuscripts offered to him are frequently included with the correspondence. Correspondents include Katherine Lee Bates, Lucius Morris Beebe, Morris Abel Beer, Henry Bellamann, Henry Adams Bellows, William Rose Benet, Ralph Wilhelm Bergengren, John Black, Benjamin Brawley, Herschell Brickell, Robert Bridges, Stanley Burnshaw, Amelia Josephine Burr, Richard Burton, Thomas Caldecott Chubb, Thomas Curtis Clark, Catherine (Cate) Coblentz, Grant Hyde Code, Padraic Celum, Isabel (Fiske) Cenant, Howard Williard Cook, Charles Townsend Copeland, James Gould Cozzens, Nelson Antrim Crawford, Thomas Augustine Daly, Olive (Tilford) Dargan, Julia (Johnson) Davis, Miriam Allen DeFord, Frank Courtenay Dodd, Glen Ward Dresbach, William Edward Burghardt DuBois, Edwin Francis Edgett, Joseph Berg Esenwein, John Chipman Farrar, James Waldo Fawcett, Sarah Bard Field, Mahlon Leonard Fisher, Dudley Eaton Fitts, Clifford Franklin Gessler, Charles Hammond Gibson, Caroline Giltinan, Louis Ginsberg, Vere Goldthwaite, Armistead Churchill Gordon, Herbert Sherman Gorman, Herman Hagedorn, Molly Anderson Haley, Anne Hamilton, Alfred Harcourt, George Wheaton Harrington, Robert Preston Harriss, Henry Harrison, Sara Henderson Hay, Frank Ernest Hill, Robert Hillyer, Charles Beecher Hogan, Helen Hoyt, Eugene Joseph Vincent Huiginn, Arthur Crewe Inman, Oliver Jenkins, Robert Underwood Johnson, Thomas T. Johnston, Thomas Samuel Jones, Burton Kline, Alfred Kreymborg, Oliver La Farge, Vivian (Yeiser) Laramore, Harold Strong Latham, Louis Vernon Ledeux, Lawrence Lee, Sinclair Lewis, Elias Lieberman, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, William Lindsey, Joseph Wharton Lippincott, Alain Leroy Locke, Percy McKaye, Norman MacLeod, John Macrae, Charles Edward Mann, Dorothea Lawrance Mann, Rosa (Zagnoni) Marineni, Jeanette Augustus Marks, Earl Bowman Marlatt, Joseph Corson Miller, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, Roselle Mercier Montgomery, Merrill Moore, Brookes More, Christopher Darlington Morley, Thomas Bird Mosher, Louise (Chandler) Moulton, Karl Earl Mundt, Benjamin Franklin Musser, Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien, Seumus O'Brien, John Myers O'Hara, David O'Neil, Curtis Hidden Page, Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Bliss Perry, William Lyon Phelps, Marie Tello Phillips, Frances Dickinson Pinder, Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer, Louise Crenshaw Ray, Cale Young Rice, Belle McDiarmid Ritchey, Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, Corrine (Roosevelt) Robinson, Donald Fay Robinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, E. Merrill Root, Carolyn Ernestine (Hale) Russ, Charles Edward Russell, Winifred (Brent) Russell, Mary Farley Sanborn, Eugene Francis Saxton, Howard George Schmitt, Jay G. Sigmund, Chard Powers Smith, Lillian (White) Spencer, Leenora (von Stesch) Speyer, Charles Wharton Stork, Muriel Strede, Edith Tatum, Paul Tietjens, Elizabeth Weston Timlow, William G. Tinckom-Fernandez, Frederic Ridgeley Terrence, Albert Edmund Trembly, Carl Van Doren, Nixon Waterman, Tessa (Sweasy) Webb, Amos Russel Wells, James Whaler, John Hall Wheelock, Viola Chittenden White, Mary Brent Whiteside, Marguerite Ogden (Bigelow) Wilkinson, James Southall Wilson, Kathryn Worth, and Willard Huntington Wright.

ArchivalResource: 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647936821 View

Sigmund, Jay G., 1885-1937. Papers of Jay Sigmund, 1911-1975.

Title: Papers of Jay Sigmund, 1911-1975.

The papers of Jay Sigmund are made up of subject files documenting his literary career. There are early drafts of his published and unpublished plays and poetry. A draft of his unpublished novel is also included. There is correspondence from: Sherwood Anderson, Marcus Bach, Edmund Blunden, W.R. Boyd, William Braithwaite, Johnson Brigham, Witter Bynner, G.R. Elliston, Don Farran, Arthur Davison Ficke, Charles J. Finger, Norman Foerster, John T. Frederick, James Norman Hall, John Hammill, Harry Hansen, Robinson Jeffers, Raymond Kresensky, Alfred Kreymborg. Also William Ellery Leonard, Verne Marshall, H.L. Mencken, Frank Luther Mott, Lewis Mumford, Edward J. O'Brien, Julia Peterkin, Edwin Ford Piper, Herbert Quick, Opie Read, Edward Rowan, George Russell, Carl Sandburg, Lew Sarett, Wilbur Schramm, Betty Smith, Henry Justin Smith, George Sterling, Jesse Stuart, Ruth Suckow, Louis Untermeyer, and Carl Van Vechten.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft. (4 boxes)

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Sigmund, Jay G., 1885-1937. Letters to Frank Luther Mott. Cedar Rapids, IA. 1935-1936.

Title: Letters to Frank Luther Mott. Cedar Rapids, IA. 1935-1936.

1) Concerning the Iowa Literary Caucus. 1935 Apr. 12. 2) Concerning topics discussed at the caucus; mentioning his feelings about poetry he learned in school. 1935 Apr. 29. 3) Concerning the treasury of the Iowa Authors' Club. 1936 Oct. 8.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (4 p.)

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Sigmund, Jay G., 1885-1937. Letter to Paul Engle. Cedar Rapids, IA. 1937 Oct. 8.

Title: Letter to Paul Engle. Cedar Rapids, IA. 1937 Oct. 8.

Naming Engle his "literary executor."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233099426 View

Sigmund, Jay G., 1885-1937. Letter to Paul Engle. Cedar Rapids, IA. 1934 Oct. 1.

Title: Letter to Paul Engle. Cedar Rapids, IA. 1934 Oct. 1.

Concerning the reaction and review of Mr. Engle's book; giving Iowa crop conditions; telling of visiting lecturers at the University.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

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Frederick, John T. (John Towner), 1893-1975. Papers of John Towner Frederick, 1908-1975.

Title: Papers of John Towner Frederick, 1908-1975.

The papers of John T. Frederick are made up of subject files which document his many faceted career. There are copies of lectures, research, and other course related material concerning his teaching. As founder and editor of The Midland, he kept records including an account book, correspondence, subscribers lists, and a nearly complete run of the journal. Frederick's writing is represented with manuscript material including early drafts and galley proofs of his novels. There are over seven boxes of general correspondence, plus numerous other correspondence folders devoted to specific subjects or people. Some of the correspondents include: Sherwood Anderson, Clarence A. Andrews, C.F. Ansley, Arna Bontemps, OM Brack, Sargent Bush, Bennett Cerf, Marquis Childs, Carroll Coleman, Paul Corey, Hardin Craig, Clarence Darrow, Donald Davidson, Owen Dodson, Iduna Bertel Field, John Gerber, Evelyn Harter, James Hearst, Percival Hunt. Leedice Kissane, Alfred A. Knopf, Haniel Long, Savoie Lottinville, Thomas Mann, Julie Jensen McDonald, H.L. Mencken, Harriet Monroe, Dow Mossman. Frank Luther Mott, Walter J. Muilenburg, Donald R. Murphy, Robert Nathan, Ferner Nuhn, Edward J. O'Brien, William J. Petersen, Ernest Sandeen, Ross Santee, John Selby, Jay Sigmund, Hartzell Spence, Wallace Stegner, Ruth Suckow, Leo R. Ward, and Mildred Wedel.

ArchivalResource: 26.5 linear ft. (54 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233105040 View

Sigmund, Jay G., 1885-1937. Letter to Elizabeth Wherry. Waubeek, IA. 1935 July 10.

Title: Letter to Elizabeth Wherry. Waubeek, IA. 1935 July 10.

Concerning an article about Grant Wood that she would like to do.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

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Sigmund, Jay G., 1885-1937. Letter to Dr. Charles Keyes. Cedar Rapids, IA. 1931 July 21.

Title: Letter to Dr. Charles Keyes. Cedar Rapids, IA. 1931 July 21.

Sending a copy of his books, the Ridge Road.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233099417 View

Sigmund, Jay G., 1885-1937. Papers, 1911-1975.

Title: Papers, 1911-1975.

Correspondence, mss. of plays, poetry, short stories, and an unpublished novel, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks, relating to Sigmund's literary career. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, Marcus Bach, Edmund Blunden, William Robert Boyd, William Stanley Braithwaite, Johnson Brigham, Witter Bynner, Miss George Elliston, Don Farran, Arthur Davison Ficke, Charles J. Finger, Norman Foerster, John T. Frederick, James Norman Hall, John Hammill, Harry Hansen, Robinson Jeffers, Raymond Joseph Kresensky, Alfred Kreymborg, William Ellery Leonard, Verne Marshall, H.L. Mencken, Frank Luther Mott, Lewis Mumford, Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien, Julia Mood Peterkin, Edwin Ford Piper, John Herbert Quick, Opie Percival Read, Edward Beatty Rowan, George William Russell, Carl Sandburg, Lew R. Sarett, Wilbur Lang Schramm, Betty (Wehner) Smith, Henry Justin Smith, George Sterling, Jesse Hilton Stuart, Ruth Suckow, Louis Untermeyer, and Carl Van Vechten.

ArchivalResource: 4 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28410559 View