Lilly Library Manuscript Collections

LUDLOW MSS.

Inventory

I. Correspondence

  • The correspondence is arranged in chronological order.
    Consult the Manuscripts Index in the Library for dates of letters of individual correspondents.

Boxes 1-8

  • Box 1: 1898 - 1935, May
  • Box 2: 1935, June - 1937, Mar.
  • Box 3: 1937, Apr. - 1937, Oct. 27
  • Box 4: 1937, Oct. 28 - 1938, Jan. 10
  • Box 5: 1938, Jan. 11 - 1939, Apr.
  • Box 6: 1939, May - 1940, Apr.
  • Box 7: 1940, May - 1940, Dec.
  • Box 8: 1941 - 1948

II. Printed

Box 8
  • Hell or Heaven, by Lewis Ludlow. Stratford, 1937 (1 folder)
  • A Comparison of the Political and Civil Rights of Men and Women in the United States. USGPO, 1936 (1 folder)
  • Miscellaneous unbound clippings (6 folders)

III. Scrapbooks

Numbered scrapbooks

  • Box 9: Vols. 1-5 (p. 1-874)
  • Box 10: Vols. 6-10 (p. 875-1750)
  • Box 11: Vols. 11-15 (p. 1751-2523)
  • Box 12: Vols. 16-20 (p. 2524-3224)
  • Box 13: Vols. 21-25 (p. 3225-4100)
  • Box 14L: Vols. 26-30 (p. 4101-4874)
  • Box 15: Vol. 31 (p. 4875-end)
  • Box 15: Index (2 vols.)

Unnumbered scrapbooks

Box 15
  • 1901, Nov. 18 - 1902, Nov. 1
  • 1902, Nov. 21 - 1903, Mar. 27
  • 1913, Jan. 4 - 1913, July 31
Oversize 10
  • ca. 1924 - 1926
Oversize 11
  • 1927 - 1928

War referendum scrapbooks (Oversized items)

  • Oversize 1: 1924 - 1937, Feb.
  • Oversize 2: 1937, Jan. 5 - Nov. 26
  • Oversize 3: 1937, Nov. 26 - Dec. 22
  • Oversize 4: 1937, Dec. 22 - 1938, Jan. 10
  • Oversize 5: 1938, Jan. 10 - 16
  • Oversize 6: 1938, Jan. 16 - Sept. 25
  • Oversize 7: 1938, Oct. 3 - 1939, May 24
  • Oversize 8: 1939, June - 1948, July
  • Oversize 9: Index

Scrapbook card indexes (Boxes 16-23)

  • Box 16: Subject index: A - Ludlow, office help
  • Box 17: Subject index: Ludlow, Patronage - Politics, 2nd campaign, 1930
  • Box 18: Subject index: Prohibition - Z
  •              Title index: A - Ce
  • Box 19: Title index: Ch - Ludlow attacks
  • Box 20: Title index: Ludlow opens - Sp
  • Box 21: Title index: Sp - Z
  •              Newspaper name index: A - E
  • Box 22: Newspaper name index: F - Indianapolis Star
  • Box 23: Newspaper name index: Indianapolis West Side Messenger -Z

IV. Writings

Oversize 12
  • In the Heart of the Hoosier Land. 1924. Bound typescript, with corrections.
  • Hell or Heaven. 1936. Bound typescript, 2 vols., with corrections

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