Bacheller, Irving, 1859-1950. Papers of Irving Bacheller [manuscript] 1900-1947.
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Papers of Irving Bacheller [manuscript] 1900-1947.
The collection contains several manuscripts, including the novel "The master of chaos," 1931; portions of the novel "The master, "1910; an early version of the novel "The prodigal village," 1920; essays, poems, fragments, and notebooks on Josephus and the origins of the Christian church. A few letters, 1907-1947, from Bacheller concern social engagements and planned articles. Letters, 1900-39, to Bacheller from prominent literary and political figures of the day praise his books, especially Eben Holden, 1900; and congratulate him on his eightieth birthday. The collection also contains a photograph, 1942, of Bacheller and a guess book in which the names of John Dewey, Hamlin Garland, Alice Hegan Rice, Jessie B. Rittenhouse, Max Rosen and Lewis Worthington Smith are inscribed. Correspondents, many of whom wrote regarding "Eben Holden" and "Coming up the road," or congratulating him on his 80th birthday, include John Kendrick Bangs, Amelia E. Barr, Albert J. Beveridge, Alexander Black, John Burroughs, S. Parkes Cadman, Andrew Carnegie, Cyril Clemens, Calvin Coolidge, Grace Coolidge, Marie Curie, Walter Damsrosch, Frank Nelson Doubleday, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frederick Duneka, John Erskine, Lyman Judson Gage, Zona Gale, and Hamlin Garland. Also Arthur Guiterman, Arthur T. Hadley, John Hay, James A. Herne, Herbert Hoover, E. W. Hornung, William Dean Howells, John Hay, Elbert Hubbard, Charles Evans Hughes, William deW. Hyde, Rossiter Johnson, Frank Billings Kellogg, Joseph C. Lincoln, Edwin Markham, A. W. Mellon, Walter H. Page, Frederick Palmer, William Lyon Phelps, John W. Platner, H. C. Potter, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Jessie B. Rittenhouse who includes a poem, and John D. Rockefeller, Also John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Kermit Roosevelt, Sara Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Clinton Scollard, Harriet Prescott Spofford, H. W. Taft, William Howard Taft, Albert Payson Terhune, Maurice Thompson, Gene Tunney, Henry Van Dyke, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, William Allen White, Mark Twain, Mary E. Wilkins, and Owen D. Young. Recipients included William Gerard Chapman, Frederick Duneka, Robert Frost, Vincent Starrett, and George A. Zabriskie.
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