Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1948-1956.

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Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1948-1956.

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This correspondence primarily relates to the acquisition of the Sherwood Anderson papers by the Newberry Library.

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...