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INDIANA LITERATURE-RELATED COLLECTIONS
This list gives the collection name, date range and number of items in a collection followed by a very brief description of the contents of the collection. All of these collections are related to Indiana literature.
ADAMS MSS.- DATE RANGE: 1912-1981
- ITEM COUNT: 97 items
- Letters, photographs, and writings by and about Indianapolis author Booth Tarkington collected by Reily Gibson Adams.
- DATE RANGE: 1968-
- ITEM COUNT: 169 items
- Poems of poet Aliki Dora Barnstone. Includes letters from editors and poets.
- DATE RANGE: 1941-1942
- ITEM COUNT: 8 items
- Letters from author Ross Franklin Lockridge to educator Donald Frederic Blankertz.
- DATE RANGE: 1885-1957
- ITEM COUNT: 131,056 items
- Papers of the Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. of Indianapolis, Indiana. This company dealt with many Indiana authors.
- DATE RANGE: 1907-1922
- ITEM COUNT: 46 items
- Correspondence of author Meredith Nicholson with Robert Bridges, editor of Scribner's magazine.
- DATE RANGE: 1937-1961
- ITEM COUNT: 114 items
- Letters from Indiana authors collected by Broad Ripple High School, Indianapolis, Indiana, for its Indiana Nook. The responses of the authors range from simple statements of contribution to reminiscences of Broad Ripple High.
- DATE RANGE: 1947-1949
- ITEM COUNT: 11 items
- Letters to Glenn Cantrell by and about author Ross Franklin Lockridge. Also included are magazine articles and two photographs pertaining to the movie Raintree County.
- DATE RANGE: 1880-1902
- ITEM COUNT: 79 items
- Letters of writer Mary Hartwell Catherwood to Mary Elizabeth Riley Payne. The letters occasionally mention Catherwood's works.
- DATE RANGE: 1913-1922 and 1933
- ITEM COUNT: 382 items
- Correspondence with and relating to Indiana author Charles Edmonds Walk from the office file of William Gerard Chapman, president of the International press bureau, Chicago, Illinois.
- DATE RANGE: 1909-1957
- ITEM COUNT: 761 items
- Letters to author, editor and publisher, Thomas Curtis Clark. Also includes poems, hymns, and prose, written by him and poems written by other authors.
- ITEM COUNT: 173 items
- Manuscripts of Bernard Clayton, author and Indiana University News Bureau writer.
- DATE RANGE: 1894-1951
- ITEM COUNT: 279 items
- Correspondence, pictures, photographs, drafts and notes for articles and stories, and printed material by and about Theodore Dreiser. Also includes three drafts of Dawn.
- DATE RANGE: 1899-1926
- ITEM COUNT: 4 items
- Letters to author Max Ehrmann.
- DATE RANGE: 1875-1897
- ITEM COUNT: 40 items
- The letters of American author Edgar Fawcett, 1847-1904, to James Maurice Thompson, 1844-1901, Hoosier poet, novelist and essayist.
- DATE RANGE: 1861-1962
- ITEM COUNT: 48 items
- Papers of Emma Cecelia Flanagan. They consist primarily of correspondence with the Dreiser and Rose families dealing with personal matters.
- DATE RANGE: 1942-1990
- ITEM COUNT: 19 items
- Letters and clippings from and relating to author Ross Franklin Lockridge.
- DATE RANGE: 1906-1959
- ITEM COUNT: 76 items
- Papers of novelist Elizabeth Jane Miller. Includes biographical material, correspondence, writings, and speeches.
- DATE RANGE: 1972-1979
- ITEM COUNT: 1,116 items
- Writings and related correspondence of Joe L. Hensley, author and Indiana 5th circuit court judge.
- DATE RANGE: 1948-1969
- ITEM COUNT: 20,126 items
- Office and correspondence files relating to the publications of books and the manuscript of one book published by the Press.
- DATE RANGE: 1948-1973
- ITEM COUNT: 564 items
- Papers of author Margaret Weymouth Jackson. Includes some of her writings as well as correspondence with editors and literary agents.
- DATE RANGE: 1947-1959
- ITEM COUNT: 14 items
- Letters from novelist Phyllis Wynn Jackson to Grace Elizabeth Mitchell Collins.
- DATE RANGE: 1875-1931
- ITEM COUNT: 21 items
- Letters to author Booth Tarkington or to his sister, Mary Booth Tarkington Jameson.
- DATE RANGE: 19th and 20th century
- ITEM COUNT: 17 items
- Poems and articles by Mary Hannah Krout, feminist and journalist of Crawfordsville, Indiana.
- DATE RANGE: 1941-1947
- Letters and writings of author Ross Franklin Lockridge. They include the manuscripts of The Dream of the Flesh of Iron and Raintree County.
- DATE RANGE: 1914-1948
- Letters from author Ross Franklin Lockridge, 1914-1948, to various people, and was acquired to complement the manuscript files for Lockridge's book, Raintree County in Lockridge mss. I.
- DATE RANGE: 1837-2000
- ITEM COUNT: 75,000 items
- Correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, photos, papers, and audio tapes pertaining to the life and work of Ross Lockridge, Jr. and the Lockridge family.
- DATE RANGE: 1909-1956
- ITEM COUNT: 117 items
- Correspondence of Samuel Duff McCoy, journalist and author, with David Laurence Chambers, president of Bobbs-Merrill Company, publishers of Indianapolis, Indiana.
- DATE RANGE: 1894-1921
- Writings of George Barr McCutcheon. Among the manuscripts are The City of Masks, Shot with Crimson, Viola Gwyn, and Wired End.
- DATE RANGE: 1920-1973
- ITEM COUNT: 18 items
- Correspondence and writings of John Calvin Mellett, author and journalist.
- DATE RANGE: 1915-
- ITEM COUNT: 936 items
- Papers of poet Virginia Scott Miner. The materials include correspondence, diaries, poems, notebooks and scrapbooks.
- DATE RANGE: 1926-1974
- ITEM COUNT: 6,536 items
- Papers of Jeannette Covert Nolan, author of children's stories, adult novels, and non-fiction works.
- DATE RANGE: 1978-1982
- ITEM COUNT: 15 items
- Letters of poet Virginia Scott Miner to Kenneth Wood Phifer, minister and former student of Miner's. Topics discussed in the letters include Miner's literary interests.
- DATE RANGE: 1960-1990
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 7,500 items
- Correspondence and papers of poet Michael Joseph Phillips.
- DATE RANGE: 1911-1942
- ITEM COUNT: 323 items
- Letters from English and American authors to Josephine Ketcham Piercy, teacher of English at Indiana University. The letters were used for Piercy's publication, Modern Writers At Work. Some of the letters are from Indiana authors.
- DATE RANGE: 1889-1940
- ITEM COUNT: 26 items
- Letters and papers of writer Joseph William Piercy. Most of the correspondence is with journals regarding submission of stories for publication.
- DATE RANGE: 1921-1953
- ITEM COUNT: 537 items
- Letters from and to journalist Ernest Taylor Pyle written mostly when Pyle was a war correspondent working abroad. Much of the correspondence between Pyle's wife and his family is personal in nature.
- DATE RANGE: 1858-1944
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 13,300 items
- Correspondence and papers of James Whitcomb Riley. Includes writings consisting mostly of manuscripts of poems, but also some speeches, lectures and other prose. Correspondence is mainly amongst friends, but there is some family letters and business letters. There is a separate file of letters from children to Riley. Also included is a file of transcripts of Riley letters assembled by author John Marcus Dickey. (Dickey was at one time the secretary of Riley.) The purpose of assembling the transcripts was to produce a volume of correspondence approved by Riley during his lifetime. Approximately 3,000 transcripts of letters were accumulated but the volume of correspondence was never published. Miscellaneous items include drawings, wooden patent medicine signs painted by Riley as a young man, photographs of Riley and his homes and three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and mimeographed correspondence.
- A full list of manuscript collections related to the life and work of James Whitcomb Riley.
- DATE RANGE: 1895-1930
- ITEM COUNT: 47 items
- Letters from author Booth Tarkington to Herbert Milton Rogers, former classmate of Tarkington at Princeton University.
- DATE RANGE: ca. 1973-2010
- ITEM COUNT: 3,500 items
- Correspondence and papers of best-selling author James Alexander Thom (b. 1933).
- DATE RANGE: 1873-1900
- ITEM COUNT: 84 items
- Correspondence and manuscripts of writings of author James Maurice Thompson. The Thompson, J.M. mss. II, 1874-1899, are additional letters and manuscripts of Thompson.
- DATE RANGE: 1981
- ITEM COUNT: 5 items
- Materials relating to the founding and publication of the first issue of Veridian, July 1981, published in Bloomington, Indiana.
- DATE RANGE: 1950-2004
- ITEM COUNT: 21,500 items
- Papers of Hoosier novelist, journalist and screenwriter Dan Wakefield (b. 1932).
- DATE RANGE: 1847-1949
- ITEM COUNT: 3,106 items
- Correspondence and manuscripts of the writings of author Lewis Wallace, commonly known as Lew Wallace. He is perhaps best known as author of Ben Hur. The Wallace mss. II, 1847-1938, are additional literary papers of Wallace.
- DATE RANGE: 20th Century
- ITEM COUNT: 3 items
- Three unpublished novels by Indiana author Ethel Traugh Wolverton, 1890- .
- DATE RANGE: 1946-1948, 1969-1974, and 1989-1991
- ITEM COUNT: 48 items
- Letters from author Ross Franklin Lockridge to journalist Francis Ernest Wylie. Also included are some writings relating to Raintree County.