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Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. Papers of Carl Sandburg [manuscript] 1940-1955.

Title: Papers of Carl Sandburg [manuscript] 1940-1955.

Collection consists chiefly of letters to Margaret Ligon concerning Carl Sandburg. There are several letters concerning Thomas Wolfe, a brief biography of Col. Daniel Smith and material on a stamp honoring Casey Jones.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647940461 View

Bjorkman, Lucy Wellender. Biographical sketch of Edwin A. Bjorkman, [ca. 1953] / [by Lucy Wellender Bjorkman].

Title: Biographical sketch of Edwin A. Bjorkman, [ca. 1953] / [by Lucy Wellender Bjorkman].

A typed biographical sketch of a Swedish American author, newspaperman, and editor of two Minnesota newspapers, the Minnesota Posten (1892-1894) and the Minneapolis Times (1894-1897). Includes a copy of a biographical sketch from Who's Who, 1936-1937.

ArchivalResource: 4 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122475666 View

Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955. Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

Title: Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

ArchivalResource: ca. 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68796446 View

Björkman, Edwin, 1866-1951. Letters, to [Maurice] Browne, 1912.

Title: Letters, to [Maurice] Browne, 1912.

Concern translations of Strindberg's plays to be considered for production.

ArchivalResource: 4 items. Holographs signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34365109 View

Björkman, Edwin, 1866-1951. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1911-1921.

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1911-1921.

ArchivalResource: 13 items (16 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173642568 View

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. Papers of Carl Sandburg [manuscript], 1940-1955.

Title: Papers of Carl Sandburg [manuscript], 1940-1955.

Collection consists chiefly of letters to Margaret Ligon concerning Carl Sandburg. There are several letters concerning Thomas Wolfe, a brief biography of Col. Daniel Smith and material on a stamp honoring Casey Jones.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647807805 View

Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955. Comments on Strindberg's Creditors, 1927.

Title: Comments on Strindberg's Creditors, 1927.

A brief historical and critical note on the Björkman translation and first English production by the Chicago Little Theatre.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. Holograph, with holograph revisions.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34365834 View

Björkman, Edwin, 1866-1951. Edwin Björkman papers, 1855-1954 (bulk 1907-1954) [manuscript].

Title: Edwin Björkman papers, 1855-1954 (bulk 1907-1954) [manuscript].

Literary, personal, and business correspondence, chiefly from 1907, writings and collected writings, of Edwin A. Bjorkman. His correspondence is divided into two series: Professional (literary), and Personal. The Professional series includes letters from many significant twentieth century authors, including Zoe Akins, Van Wyck Brooks, James Branch Cabell, Olive Tilford Dargan, John Galsworthy, Francis Grierson, Archibald Henderson, Henry Goddard Leach, William Lyon Phelps, Upton Sinclair, Freeman Tilden, and Allan Eugene Updegraff. Topics include Bjorkman's work as a translator of Swedish literature and drama, his World War I experiences in Sweden as an employee of the British Department of Information and the American Committee on Public Information, and his work in North Carolina as literary editor of the Asheville Times newspaper and, after 1935, as director of the North Carolina Federal Writers' Project. The Personal series consists of correspondence of and writings of Bjorkman's family, including his four wives. The bulk of the papers consists of Bjorkman's writings and collected manuscripts, clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous items.

ArchivalResource: 12,000 items (14.0 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25255408 View

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958. Papers of James Branch Cabell, 1919-1954.

Title: Papers of James Branch Cabell, 1919-1954.

The collection contains 46 letters from Joseph Hergesheimer to Cabell, two letters from Dorothy Hergesheimer, two obituaries of Joseph Hergesheimer, and two scrapbooks, 1922-1923, and 1927-1928 containing clippings about Cabell's books and letters from authors, publishers and admirers. The "Jurgen" obscenity trial is a topic. The collection also contains a sketch by cartoonist Ryan Walker. Correspondents include May Lamberton Becker, John Peale Bishop, Edwin Björkman, Franz Blei, Thomas Caldecot Chubb, Frank Crowinshield, Aleister Crowley, Benjamin De Casseres, Charles Judson Dutton, Lewis Galantiere, Glenn Garrard, Alfred F. Goldsmith, Emily Grant Hutchings, Edgar Jepson, George T. Keating, Sinclair Lewis, John Macy, Robert Medill McBride, Elizabeth McCausland, Virginia MacFayden, Isabel Paterson, Burton Rascoe, Ben Ray Redman, Joseph Twadell Shipley, Louis Untermeyer, Carl Van Doren, Harold Ward, A.L.S. Wood, and Ryan Walker.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54396331 View

Kilmer, Joyce, 1886-1918. Letters of Joyce Kilmer [manuscript] 1908-18.

Title: Letters of Joyce Kilmer [manuscript] 1908-18.

Kilmer writes to Edwin August Björkman about Gleams; to Eleanor Downing about her poems; to Dorothy Furman about autographing a book; to Mrs. G.D. Gilchrist about her lectures, her election to the Poetry Society of America, Francis Thompson and Carl Sandburg; to Alice Ives about her poems; to James B. Kenyon; and to Curtis Hidden Page about the best short poem in English. Other letters are from Aline Murray Kilmer to Mrs. Gilchrist; from Edwin Bell Davis to Page; and from Sister Mary Winefred of the Dolours to Elsa Barker all about Kilmer. Poems about Kilmer are: Superstition, William Redmond, Rouge bouquet, Aline's birthday, and The Hudson tunnels [5 items. holograph & typescript signed]--Cards, 1916-18, announcing the birth of Michael Barry Kilmer and a mass for Kilmer [2 items. printed].

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647950436 View

Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945. Letters of Arthur Davison Ficke [manuscript] 1913-40.

Title: Letters of Arthur Davison Ficke [manuscript] 1913-40.

Ficke discusses publication plans for his books Sonnets of a portrait painter, 1914, The secret and other poems, 1936, and Mrs. Morton of Mexico, 1939. He mentions Edgar Lee Masters and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Clipping, 1911 April 22 from the New York sun, a review of The breaking of bonds, 1910 [1 item. printed]. Correspondents include: Edwin August Björkman, William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite and Curtis Ridden Page.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647938623 View

Glaenzer, Richard Butler, 1876-1937. Papers of Richard B. Glaenzer [manuscript], 1885-1936.

Title: Papers of Richard B. Glaenzer [manuscript], 1885-1936.

The collection contains a manuscript, typescripts, and a galley for articles, introductions, and reviews by Glaenzer together with an article about Glaenzer [in the hand of William Lyon Phelps?], photographs and prints, and some miscellaneous items including "The art of James Branch Cabell" by Walpole and "James Branch Cabell" By H. L. Mencken. Correspondents include Achmed Abdullah, Franklin P. Adams, Hervey Allen, Robert Gordon Anderson, D. Appleton & Co., William Rose Benét, Edwin Björkman, Boston Evening Telegraph, Arthur Brisbane, Heywood Broun, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Ellis Parker Butler, S. Parkes Cadman, Bennett Cerf, Robert W. Chambers, Charles Chaplin, Irvin S. Cobb, Marc Connelly, Hamilton Cosmo, Charles B. Davis, Charles Scribner's Sons, Homer Croy, and Richard Harding Davis. Also Floyd Dell, John Dewey, Doubleday, Page & Company, Theodore Dreiser, John Erskine, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Hamlin Garland, Ellen Glasgow, Arthur Guiterman, Henry K. Hadley, Walter Hampden, Joseph Hergesheimer, Don Herold, Mary Alden Hopkins, Fannie Hurst, Will Irwin, and Robert Underwood Johnson. Also Otto Kahn, Alfred A. Knopt, Alfred Kreymborg, Robert M. LaFollette, Ring Lardner, Richard Le Gallienne, George B. Luks, Robert M. McBride, S. S. McClure, Don Marquis, Edgar Lee Masters, H. L. Mencken, Gouverneur Morris, Frank Papé, Maxfield Parrish, William Lyon Phelps, Will Rogers, and Charles M. Schwab. Also Gilbert Seldes, Otis Skinner, Otto Soglow, Donald Ogden Stewart, Julian Street, Tiffany Thayer, Dan Totheroh, Charles H. Towne, Carl Van Doren, Harriet Shaw Weaver, E. B. White, Robert R. Whiting, James Southall Wilson, and Florence Wyman.

ArchivalResource: 300 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647979263 View