Consisting of 19 minute books, 1913-1917, 1919-1926, 1932-2006; two retrospective scrapbooks compiled ca. 2003; newspaper articles re the club's ninetieth anniversary; and correspondence and miscellaneous related items documenting activities of the club and its members. Includes biographical and/or promotional information re writers Samuel Hopkins Adams, Elizabeth Bibesco, Johan Bojer, B.M. Bower, Winston Churchill, Irvin S. Cobb, Marie Corelli, James Oliver Curwood, Maria Thompson Daviess, Holman Francis Day, Elizabeth Dejeans, Maud Diver, Edna Ferber, Knut Hamsun, Henry Sydnor Harrison, Owen Johnson, William Andrew Johnston, and Reginald Wright Kauffman. Other authors whose biographical or promotional materials appear in the collection include Henry Herbert Knibbs, Peter Bernard Kyne, John Gilbert Bohun Lynch, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, Honore Willsie [Morrow], Marie Conway Oemler, Gilbert Parker, Julia Peterkin, Grace Smith Richmond, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Rafael Sabatini, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Arthur Cheney Train, Mrs. Humphry Ward, and Edith Wharton. Authors represented by specimen letters are: Katharine Boyd, wife of James Boyd (7 Feb. [1926]); Elizabeth Cooper (26 Jan. 19uu); James Oliver Curwood (25 Feb. 1920); Coningsby Dawson (12 Jan. [19]22); Elizabeth Dejeans (17 Oct. 1922); Maud Diver (8 Jan. 1924); Pleasant Daniel Gold (9 Feb. 1932); William Andrew Johnston (3 Apr. 1919); Reginald Wright Kauffman (24 Mar. 1920); Basil King (6 Nov. 1920); and Henry Herbert Knibbs (8 Apr. 19uu). Additional specimen letters from authors include: Edison Marshall (15 Nov. 1921); Honore Willsie [Morrow] (6 Feb. 1922); Mellona D. Nash, aunt of Frank Nash Westcott (13 Jan. 1916); Julia Peterkin (26 Jan. 1926); and Frank Hamilton Spearman (8 Nov. 1916); also includes photographs of writers Grace Livingston Hill, Mary Johnson, Reginald Wright Kauffman, and Helen Reimensnyder Martin. Promotional and biographical materials produced by publishers for various authors included in this collection are listed in USCAN using AUTHOR search for "Estill Book Club collection."
