Glenn Ward Dresbach papers, 1907-1968.

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Glenn Ward Dresbach papers, 1907-1968.

Correspondence, literary manuscripts, newspapers, magazines, clippings, scrapbooks, advertisements, announcements, certificates, commission, greeting cards, invitations, lists, memoranda, military orders, notes, notices, photographs, programs, remittance advices, reports and other documents pertaining primarily to Dresbach's literary career but also to his personal, familial, business social, civic, military, and other affairs, and to Beverley Githens Dresbach. Included are the literary manuscripts and the first publication of many prize-winning poems which later appeared in the several volumes of Dresbach's collected works, in numerous anthologies of American and British poetry, and in textbooks of English literature used in college and high school courses. Correspondents include: Marjorie Barrows, Harvey Chalmers II, Herbert P. Finger, Edsel Ford, Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, and Frank Alden Russell. Places with which the material is associated include: Madison, Wis.; Panama Canal Zone; Knoxville and Norris, Tenn.; Washington, D.C.; and especially Tyrone, N.M., Lanark and Chicago, Ill., and Eureka Springs, Ark.

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Finger, Herbert P.

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Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

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