DREISER MSS. II
The Dreiser mss. II, 1896-1910, consist of correspondence, pictures, and printed material of Theodore Dreiser, 1871- 1945, novelist, which was preserved by Sara Osborne (White) Dreiser, (Mrs. Theodore Dreiser), -1942, and came to the Lilly Library from her niece, Mrs. Leo J. Vogt.
The correspondence consists in the main of two groups:
[1] Letters, 1896-1898, from Theodore Dreiser to Sara Osborne (White) Dreiser.
[2] Correspondence, 1907-1910, of Dreiser as editor of the Delineator.
Included also are a letter to Mrs. Dreiser from J.E. Kelly, dated September 18, 1900, and a birthday card from Mrs. Dreiser, August 27, 1904.
Correspondents represented in the collection include Charles Wayland Bryan; William Jennings Bryan; John O'Hara Cosgrave; Charles Samuel Deneen; George W. Donaghey; Bert Manfred Fernald; Homer Folks; Elmer Gates; John Mark Glenn; Charles Archibald Goodwin; Louise (Closser) Hale; Clara Morris Harriott; Hastings Hornell Hart; Leonard Keene Hirshberg; William Martin Johnson; James Edward Kelly; Mary Holland (McNeish) Kinkaid; William Walton Kitchen; Clare Rodman (Beecher) Kummer; Robert Todd Lincoln; Benjamin Barr Lindsey; William John Locke; Jack London; Harris Merton Lyon; Charles Thomas Agnew MacLean; Seumas MacManus; Thomas Riley Marshall; Edwin Lee Norris; Mary Eleanor O'Donnell; William Church Osborn; John M. Oskison; Frederick Palmer; Grant Richards; Theodore Roosevelt; Hannah (Kent) Schoff; John Franklin Shafroth; James Edward West; Ella (Wheeler) Wilcox; George Warren Wilder; Augustus Everett Willson; Louis N. Wilson; Woodrow Wilson; Charles Erskine Scott Wood; and Eugene Wood.
Pictures in the collection consist of pen and pencil sketches of Dreiser signed by James Edward Kelly, Edward Martin Taber, and Maud Stumm; a pen sketch of Edmund Clarence Stedman by Kelly; two pencil sketches of William Louis Sonntag by himself; and photographs of Dreiser, Sara Osborne (White) Dreiser; John Paul Dreiser, father of Theodore Dreiser, and others.
The printed material is composed of clippings of poems and articles by or relating to Dreiser from newspapers and periodicals.
Collection size: 196 items
Related links: Dreiser mss., Dreiser mss. III, Dreiser mss. IV