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Katherine Mansfield Papers - Additions

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mansfield2
Abstract Correspondence, works, and miscellaneous items relating to Katherine Mansfield, British short story writer and critic.
Dates: 1910-1938

Kay Ashton-Stevens papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-StevensK
Abstract Correspondence, personal and career related materials, photographs, and audiovisual materials of Chicago actress, television and radio personality, and wife of critic Ashton Stevens, Kay Ashton-Stevens.
Dates: 1905-1978

Keep the Home Fires Burning Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Home Fires
Abstract Club formed in Chicago during World War II, the purpose of which was to "cheer folks at home and keep up morale." The club often sent care packages of food or candy to servicemen overseas. Includes letters from servicemen, a few photographs, club minutes, and membership and dues lists.
Dates: 1943-1946

Keith Preston Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Preston
Abstract Small collection of correspondence and works from Chicago poet, columnist, and literary critic, Keith Preston.
Dates: 1915-1942

L. S. Willard Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Willard
Abstract First Lieutenant in the 11th Illinois Cavalry, Company G, who later served as major and aide-de-camp to General James Birdseye McPherson. Includes letters home to family from Brimfield, Peoria County, Illinois, from Camp Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Tennessee, and Louisiana, 1862-1864.
Dates: 1862-1864

Lambert Tree papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tree
Abstract Correspondence, speeches, drafts, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Lambert Tree, Cook County lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and U.S. diplomat in Belgium and Russia. The collection contains some Tree family material, commentary on the state of the Democratic Party under Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, and numerous items related to Tree's social, political, philanthropic, and diplomatic activities.
Dates: 1821-1948; Majority of material found within 1821-1933

Leander Troy-James T. Farrell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Troy-Farr
Abstract Materials by and about James T. Farrell, collected by his friend, Rev. Leander Troy, including published and unpublished articles, columns, reviews and stories, together with copies of letters to Farrell from such individuals as Russell Baker, Pearl S. Buck, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson and Adlai E. Stevenson, plus notes, obituaries and other memorabilia.
Dates: 1932-2004

Letter Arts Review records

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-LAR
Abstract Correspondence, calligraphic samples, advertising and press releases, magazine issues, publications, catalogs, and photographs documenting the publication of Letter Arts Review (formerly Calligraphy Idea Exchange and Calligraphy Review), a quarterly magazine devoted to contemporary and historical lettering, calligraphy, typography, and text-based art.
Dates: 1969-2003; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1998

Letter to Charles Alexander Eastman

 Item
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-3248
Abstract Letter (5 pages ; 18 cm) and envelope written by Sybil Judge to Eastman when she called at the Connaught Club in London where he was staying. She offers to loan him a book The simple way or The path to virtue by Laotze. She asks that after Eastman returns to New York and is done with the book, he give it to Oskenonton to return to her. She previously loaned the book to Oskenonton and others, but they did not "see it all." She is confident that Eastman will see its value.
Dates: Apr. 5, 1928

Letterhead and stationery collection

 Collection
Identifier: Case Wing folio-NC1002-.L47-L48
Abstract This is a growing collection of letterheads, envelopes, and stationery sheets. Geographic coverage includes the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The bulk of materials come from Illinois, particularly the Chicago region. Most items were issued between approximately 1900 and approximately 1925.
Dates: approximately 1900-ongoing; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1925

Letters between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

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Identifier: VAULT-Case-MS-F8340.905
Abstract A series of nine communications exchanged between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee during April 7-9, 1865 negotiating Lee's surrender; transcribed in the hand of Ely Samuel Parker, Grant's military secretary, and accompanied by his notes.
Dates: 1865

Lewis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-LewisF
Abstract Correspondence, documents, personal materials, genealogical research, and photographs of the Lewis and related families collected by Louise Lewis, sister of Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis.
Dates: 1775-1977; Majority of material found within 1850-1950

Lloyd Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lewis
Abstract Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, personal materials, and photographs of Chicago journalist and historian Lloyd Lewis.
Dates: 1886-1985; Majority of material found within 1905-1949

Loren L. Williams journals

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Identifier: VAULT-folio-Graff-4683
Abstract The journal covers the Loren L. Williams's activities as an officer during the Civil War, active in the West, and subsequent activities as a pioneer in the development of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Details of wars with the Western Indians are also included.
Dates: 1851-1880

Loren M. Knowles family papers

 Collection — Box: AV USB 1
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Knowles Family
Abstract Correspondence and transcriptions thereof, account and estate documents, government records (such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, documents, and letters), news clippings, genealogical research material, photographs, and compilation of information concerning the Knowles family and the related Adgate, Balzhäuser, Brewster, Christian, Cokenhour, Helvig, Hoyal, Hyde, Jackson, Kauffman, Klauder, Lamson, Michell, Oliger, Weigand, and other extended families, located primarily in New York,...
Dates: 1784-2015; Majority of material found within 1811-1961

Lotten Augusta Lenander Decormis letters

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Identifier: Modern-MS-Decormis
Abstract Family letters in Swedish to Lotten Augusta Lenander (1884-1968) who emigrated from Sweden to Boston, Massachusetts in 1910, and married Redington Decormis in 1944. Variously identified as a physician, an electrotherapist, and a physiotherapist, Lotten received letters from her Swedish family throughout her life.
Dates: 1906-1967; Majority of material found within 1909 - 1967

Louis McLane Hamilton collection

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Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-356
Abstract Correspondence, extracts of reports, printed obituaries and resolutions, newspaper clippings, 1867-1867, possibly collected by Benson John Lossing, concerning the life of Capt. Louis McLane Hamilton and his death at the Battle of Washita. Includes correspondence of Philip Hamilton (father) to Lossing, and Robert Mayhew West (forwarding copy of 7th Cavalry resolution on Hamilton's death to the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle); ms. extracts from Custer's July 6, 1867, order praising Hamilton's actions;...
Dates: 1867-1869

Louis S. Bauer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bauer L
Abstract Letters written to Louis S. Bauer while serving in the army during World War I at Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. Correspondence is primarily from his siblings, with some from other family and friends. Letters document life for the Bauer family in Chicago during World War I. Includes approximately 50 postcards, most produced in Germany, a few of which have messages sent to Louis while in Europe. Also contains physical and digital photographs.
Dates: 1911-1919; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918

Lutz-Chamberlin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lutz-Chamberlin
Abstract Correspondence, writings, business and legal documents, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, and postcard collection of members of the Chamberlin and Lutz families, ranging from the 1850’s to the 1990’s. The Chamberlin correspondence consists of George E. Chamberlin’s letters written when he was a student at Dartmouth and subsequently as an officer in the Civil War, plus letters of other Chamberlin family members, mostly through the 1860's. The Lutz correspondence consists of...
Dates: 1844-1992

M. M. Liberman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-138
Abstract Correspondence between scholar M.M. Liberman and author Katherine Anne Porter and her lawyer regarding Liberman’s access to Porter’s papers and the short-lived designation of Liberman as Porter’s literary executor. Also, one short letter from Allen Tate and three from Malcolm Cowley, plus three off-prints of Liberman’s articles on Porter and a copy of Porter’s early cancelled will.
Dates: 1953-1974

Malcolm Cowley papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cowley
Abstract Collection of correspondence, working files, drafts of works, subject files, and personal information by and about author, poet, literary critic, and literary historian Malcolm Cowley.
Dates: approximately 1850-2004; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1985

Malone-Finnerty Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-190
Abstract Malone and Finnerty family correspondence and documents pertaining to deaths from 1862 to 1941. Early correspondence from the Civil War is from James W. Finnerty, a soldier, to his mother and sister. The Civil War letters describe Finnerty's experience traveling with troops through St. Louis, where rebels captured two steamboats in Duck River Bend. Also includes funerals directors’ invoices and correspondence about headstones.
Dates: 1862-1941

Margaret Hampton Steele Letters

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele
Abstract Letters of Margaret “Maggie” Hampton Steele to her cousin and future husband Silas W. Hampton, primarily from 1859 and 1860. They are written from Terre Haute, Indiana, where she attended the Female College (1859), and from her family's residences in Grandview, Illinois, and later Topeka, Kansas. Steele’s minister father moved his family to Kansas in support of the free-state faction, settling in Topeka as minister of the First Presbyterian Church. Letters discuss her courtship with Silas, her...
Dates: 1859-1864

Marion Cummings papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cummings
Abstract Papers of Marion Cummings (1876-1926), a teacher, philosopher, and poet, which include both her works and a collection of letters and works of American poet Sara Teasdale.
Dates: 1895-1956; Majority of material found within 1909-1917

Marsh-Roberts-Mack Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-MarshRM
Abstract Papers of the Marsh, Roberts, and Mack families, many members of whom were wealthy Chicago residents. Materials include correspondence, travel and personal diaries, business, property, and estate documents, genealogical materials, photographs, and other personal ephemera. Also contains materials from related families including letters and estate litigation of early Chicago pioneer Daniel Elston, who was related to the Marsh family via the marriage of Sarah Clark to George B. Marsh, as well as...
Dates: 1706-1984; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1950

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World War, 1914-1918 17
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Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 16
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 15
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American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago 11
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 11
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 10
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Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 8
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Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 8
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Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 7
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 7
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Europe -- Description and travel 6
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 6
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 6
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago 6
Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 6
Poets, American -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 6
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 6
Sisters -- Correspondence 6
Tintypes (prints) 6
Women poets, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 6
World War, 1939-1945 6
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 -- Personal narratives 5
Authors, American 5
Contracts 5
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 5
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Periodical editors -- Illinois -- Chicago 5
Photograph albums 5
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 5
Programs 5
Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion 5
Soldiers -- Tennessee -- Correspondence 5
Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 5
Art museums -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
Audiocassettes 4
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Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 31
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Chicago Daily News, Inc. 12
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Garland, Hamlin 8
Masters, Edgar Lee 8
Newberry Library 8
Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (Newberry Library) 7
Lindsay, Vachel 7
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) 7
Sandburg, Carl 7
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 7
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 6
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 6
Darrow, Clarence 6
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 6
Field, Eugene 6
Fuller, Henry Blake 6
Howells, William Dean 6
Lincoln, Abraham 6
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney) 6
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 6
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 6
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 6
Tietjens, Eunice 6
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 5
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 5
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 5
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 5
Dennis, Charles Henry 5
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas) 5
Ficke, Arthur Davison 5
Hansen, Harry 5
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 5
Henley, David 5
Mowrer, Paul Scott 5
Page, Ruth 5
Pound, Ezra 5
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 5
Ade, George, 1866-1944 4
American Red Cross 4
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Bryan, William Jennings 4
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 4
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 4
Charles H. Kerr Company 4
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 4
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 4
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 4
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4
Industrial Workers of the World 4
Lawson, Victor Freemont 4
Lewis, Lloyd 4
Rand McNally and Company 4
Rice, Wallace 4
Shaw family 4
Society of Typographic Arts (Chicago, Ill.) 4
Stock, Frederick 4
Teasdale, Sara 4
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 4
Wilder, Thornton 4
Wright, Frank Lloyd 4
American National Red Cross 3
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 3
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 3
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 3
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 3
Borroff, Edith, 1925-2019 3
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 3
Chicago Historical Society 3
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 3
Chicago sun-times 3
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 3
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 3
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir 3
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 3
Cooper, Oswald Bruce 3
DaBoll, Raymond F. 3
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 3
Dreiser, Theodore 3
Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison) 3
Fairbank, Alfred J. 3
Ferber, Edna 3
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield 3
Frost, Robert 3
Grainger, Percy 3
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) 3
Head, Cloyd 3
Johnson, William 3
Judson, Clay, 1892-1960 3
Judson, William V. (William Voorhees) 3
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) 3
Lewis, Sinclair 3
Limited Editions Club 3
Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 3
Millay, Edna St. Vincent 3
Moore, Marianne 3
Newberry Library. John M. Wing Foundation 3
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