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Cone, Benjamin, 1899-1982. Benjamin Cone papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1929-1982.

Title: Benjamin Cone papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1929-1982.

The collection contains correspondence, printed material, clippings, and other items chiefly relating to Benjamin Cone and Thomas Wolfe. Included is correspondence between Cone and others about Wolfe. Among the correspondents are Wolfe's literary agent and first biographer Elizabeth Nowell and Wolfe biographer Andrew Turnbull. Also included are photocopies of Wolfe's letters to Benjamin Cone, recollections of Wolfe by Albert Coates and Madeleine Boyd, an article about Cone and Wolfe, clippings related to Wolfe, and other materials.

ArchivalResource: About 100 items (0.5 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/676822592 View

Terry, John Skally, 1894-1953. John Skally Terry papers on Thomas Wolfe and other materials, 1917-1953.

Title: John Skally Terry papers on Thomas Wolfe and other materials, 1917-1953.

The collection chiefly contains material compiled by John Skally Terry during the years he was working on a biography of Thomas Wolfe. Original correspondence is primarily between Terry and Wolfe's friends, relatives, and acquaintances from whom Terry solicited anecdotes and reminiscences. There are a few postcards from Thomas Wolfe to Terry and one autograph letter written from London in 1935 from Wolfe to Terry. On a trip to the western United States in 1940, Terry interviewed doctors who had cared for Wolfe in 1938, and Terry reported on those interviews in letters to his sister. Also included are typed copies and photocopies of letters to and from Thomas Wolfe and of correspondence among other members of the Wolfe family; 15 typed responses by Maxwell Perkins to Terry's questions about Wolfe and his work; a few notes by Julia E. Wolfe and some notes about her; and transcripts of Terry's interviews with Julia E. Wolfe, which were recorded on a dictaphone machine (tapes not accessible). Terry founded the Thomas Wolfe Biography Club of New York University, and minutes of the Club's meetings are included here. Minutes mention Kathleen and Clayton Hoagland, Belinda Jelliffe, Melville Cane, John Hall Wheelock, Murdoch Dooher, and Madeleine Boyd, among others. Terry also had his New York University students search out and interview Wolfe's former students, and correspondence and interviews with these students are in the collection. There are also materials relating to Wolfe's student days at the University of North Carolina; scholarly works about Wolfe; note cards Terry kept for the Wolfe biography; clippings; and other items.

ArchivalResource: About 1200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/676809572 View

Weinberger, Harry, 1888-. Case files regarding plagiarism, 1920-1935.

Title: Case files regarding plagiarism, 1920-1935.

Contains correspondence, legal materials, notes, clippings, and research materials relating to legal cases brought against Madeleine Boyd, James Hagan, Eugene O'Neill, and Channing Pollock regarding plagiarism.

ArchivalResource: 0.80 linear ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702161226 View

Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. Papers of Theodore Dreiser, 1898-1945.

Title: Papers of Theodore Dreiser, 1898-1945.

The collection contains 83 manuscripts of works by Dreiser including his novel "Jennie Gerhardt"; short essays, chiefly biographical sketches; poems; stories; interviews; miscellaneous pieces; and galley proofs of "An American Tragedy." Essay topics include William Archer, Philip Armour, Katherine Bloodgood, John Burroughs, Joseph H. Choate, H. Barringer Cox, Louise Cox, Edward Croarkin, Chauncey Depew, William De Morgan, Frank E. Elwell, Louis Fagan, Frank Fowler, Gilbert Gane, Frank Wakely Gunsaulus, Moses Handy, William Dean Howells, John LaFarage, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lillian Nordica, Horace Pingree, Maria Louise Pool, George M. Pullman, Thomas B. Reed, Bayard Taylor, the University of Chicago, J.Q.A. Ward, modern business men, the University of Chicago, The American Museum of Natural History, Armour Institute, American women composers, artists, dramatists, and poets, Brandywine, Cedermere, Cramp Ship Yards, and lynching. Correspondence discusses his writing, publication efforts, critical reaction, censorship, legal suits with publishers, (John Lane Company) and his personal life including friendships, romances and travel. Specific topics include early editorial work, the publication of "Sister Carrie," "The Titan," and "The Genius" in an era of censorship; suppression of "The Genius"; copyright problems; a possible dramatization of "Sister Carrie"; a French translation and a film version of "An American Tragedy"; a hiking trip from Georgia to New Jersey; African-Americans in Savannah; Walt Whitman and Mark Twain; religious views; role of the Author's League of America; dislike of film version of "An American Tragedy"; Norman Duncan; the Fortean Society; respect for Lenin and Trotsky; Caldwell's "Tobacco Road." Miscellaneous material includes the Anti-Vice Commission report on "The Genius"; promotional pamphlets; and clippings pertaining to Dreiser.

ArchivalResource: 350 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50722338 View

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Papers, 1909-1956.

Title: Papers, 1909-1956.

Correspondence, 1909-1956, with colleagues and acquaintances. Includes correspondence pertaining to his dispute with the American Civil Liberties Union in 1938. Holographs and typescripts of many of his essays written for the Baltimore Sun and the American Mercury. Also includes drafts, carbons and proofs of several of his books, including Notes on democracy, Treatise on right and wrong, Newspaper days, Happy days, Heathen days, The American language, Supplement one, The new dictionary of quotations, My life as author and editor, and Thirty-five years of newspaper work.

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear ft. (41 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/238403288 View

Weinberger, Harry, 1888-. Case files regarding plagiarism, 1920-1935.

Title: Case files regarding plagiarism, 1920-1935.

Contains correspondence, legal materials, notes, clippings, and research materials relating to legal cases brought against Madeleine Boyd, James Hagan, Eugene O'Neill, and Channing Pollock regarding plagiarism.

ArchivalResource: 0.80 linear ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81336384 View

Boyd, Madeleine Elise Reynier. Letter to Montgomery Evans [manuscript], n.d.

Title: Letter to Montgomery Evans [manuscript], n.d.

Boyd writes Evans offering to send an Aleister Crowley manuscript and mentioning that many revisions will be necessary for the book to be published. She also relates the difficulties she has encountered with publication of the book.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647816345 View