Records, 1881-1994.

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Records, 1881-1994.

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Correspondence, minutes, reports, programs, diaries, pamphlets, poems, grant proposals and financial material. Records include the working records of the Vachel Lindsay Association. Topics include support for Dennis Camp's biography of Lindsay, the upkeep of the Lindsay Home, programs for various anniversaries, film project and Elizabeth Graham's activities as curator of the Lindsay Home. Research materials donated to the Association include letters from Vachel Lindsay to various family and friends, poems, travel diaries for Lindsay and other family members. Letters and poems written by Lindsay for specific people or occasions are a substantial part of the collection.

5.21 linear feet 6.5 boxes + 2 oversize manuscripts.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Lindsay, Elizabeth Conner, 1901-1954

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Lindsay, Catherine Anne

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Vachel Lindsay Association

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Founded in 1946 in Springfield, Illinois to perpetuate interest in Lindsay's poetry and ideals. Elizabeth Graham was a founding member and curator of the Lindsay Home from 1958-1978. Although the home was transferred to the state of Illinois as a historic site in 1990, the Vachel Lindsay Association continues to promote his poetry and ideals through public programming and publications. From the description of Records, 1881-1994. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record...

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...