Papers, 1919-1947.

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Papers, 1919-1947.

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Papers of a poet and collector of American folk songs. Two volumes contain Rickaby's journal of a ballad-collecting trip he made in the summer of 1919 from Charlevoix, Michigan, to Grand Forks, North Dakota, through northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. Among the biographical materials accompanying the journal are Vachel Lindsay's recollections of his friendship with Rickaby since their high school days in Springfield, Illinois, and a letter written by Lindsay in 1929.

0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) and.1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Rickaby, Franz, 1889-1925

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Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, IL. He studied in Ohio, Chicago, and New York and acquired a reputation as a poet and lecturer. Lindsay became famous for his walk from Springfield, IL to New Mexico in 1912, and for an unusual method of writing poetry. In 1924 he arrived in Spokane where he worked as a columnist for the "Spokesman-Review". He returned to Springfield in 1929, and at the time of his death was a major figure in American poetry. From the description of Co...