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Theodore Dreiser Collection, Accession #6220-c, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Essay, with corrections.
Essay, with corrections.
Essay.
Essay, with typescript note; includes 3 pages of corrected proofs with clippings.
Essay.
Essay regarding the estate of the poet at Roslyn, Long Island.
Essay.
Essay
Essay
Essay regarding H. Barringer Cox, inventor.
Essay regarding a Philadelphia company that built ships for the United States Navy.
Ghost story about Theodore Dreiser's uncle.
Incomplete essay.
Essay regarding printing machines; includes 4 additional pages of notes.
Essay regarding the Armour Institute, Chicago.
Essay; includes 3 pages of magazine clippings with photos.
Notes for sketch of George Edwin Bissell, American sculptor.
Notes for a biographical sketch of Frank Fowler, American painter.
Notes on "Daniel Chester French, Sculptor."
Notes for a biographical sketch of Frank Wakely Gunsaulus, American clergyman.
Notes for an essay regarding an unidentified scientist's life history.
Description of a visit to Astoria and Long Island Beach, with corrections.
Sketches of American women artists Alice Barker Stevens, Jessie McDermot, and Curtis Smith; includes magazine clippings on artists Lois Knight and Noble Ives.
Sketches of Helen M. Hemotin, composers [Pietro] Mascagni and [Giacoma] Puccini, cellist Jean Gerandy, and soprano Emma Nevada.
Includes biographical and critical essays, an untitled prose poem, and an envelops addressed to Theodore Dreiser in New York City.
Includes addresses.
Includes a few addresses.
Lists of contributors, harpists, naturalists, readers, and society women of Philadelphia; includes some addresses.
Includes addresses.
Includes corrections.
Essay
Includes corrections.
Includes corrections.
Includes corrections.
Biographical sketch of an American attorney; includes corrections.
Writes two years before publication of his first book; discusses his connection with Ev'ry Month; recalls material submitted to the magazine, which he does not know if they used.
Includes 2 typed copies; writes about friends and family; plans to go to New York one day with a completed novel and ideas that will "shake the universe"; mentions Norman Duncan, Sister Carrie, and The Soul of the Street.
Offers $75 for "Farming DeLuxe" article; intends to use piece in The Designer, but cannot use it in The Delineator; believes Moorhead could write and interesting article on "Farming for Women."
Invites him to contribute to The Delineator or The New Idea, both of which Dreiser edits; writes that his publications have a circulation of 10,000; asks for suggestions for other contributors.
Thanks him for kind words regarding Sister Carrie; mentions Gathroyal Gardens, The Delineator, and Tourie; plans to bring [Jennie Gerhardt] out in England.
Expresses gratitude for dinner.
Autographs Jennie Gerhardt; thanks her for sincere appreciation; mentions "Old Neil House."
Intends to include suggested changes to [The Hand of the Potter] in the second edition;mentions his story in the October issue of Smart Set and a review by George Jean Nathan of The Hand of the Potter.
Thanks him for The Call; agrees with his article "If the Light Should Go Out"; complains about intellectuals; values Lenin and Trotzky greatly over Wells or Wallings.
Thanks him for letter written to Chicago Daily News on Dreiser's behalf.
Invites him to join [H. L.] Mencken, Sherwood Anderson, A. A. Bull and Tom Smith for a visit.
Mentions Dreiser's refusal to look at the work of a young writer, Dr. Abrams, Helen, and Llewellyn Powys.
Invites him to a "Beer drinking adventure" in Brooklyn, at the home of Kenneth Hayes Miller with Ed Smith, [H. L.] Mencken, de Sanchez and others.
Mentions reproductions of paintings and Moods.
Accepts invitation for following week; mentions carpentry on Mt. Kisco cabin; asks for directions.
Accepts invitation; discusses painful gathering of articles.
Requests that a copy of bibliography of his works be forwarded to Otto Kyllmann, president of Constable & Co., his publisher.
Plans to return to cabin on December 16; discusses improvements on cabin; mentions Phyllis and Valley Forge.
Thanks her for list; advises her to get someone to clarify her English before sending manuscript to publisher; plans to discuss her work in person; requests to copy of next revision.
Discusses [Charles Hoy] Fort's book; asks for Powys' opinion.
Mentions Fortean Society, Mr. Fort, and Powys' letter.
Believes he is finally cured of stomach ulcers.
Describes purpose of The American Spectator, a monthly edited by Dreiser and others; invites him to submit a piece, which will be printed as written for $.01 a word.
Likes his article very much; writes that there is no room for it in the current issue.
Writes that Boyd, Nathan, Cabell, and O'Neill would not accept his article; mentions The Spectator.
Expresses thanks.
Mentions Bye, John Wheeler, the Syndicate, book of 12 stories, and writing an introduction.
Asserts that 6 of the stories are okay and will go to Gingrich with Dreiser's endorsement; requests he send all of the stories.
Thanks him for forwarding Claude Bowers letter, which Dreiser has just answered.
Includes: article by Theodore Dreiser on Joseph Choate, 1 p., from Success, January, 1898; "A Talk with America's Leading Author, or What Success Means," 2 p. with illustration; articles on "The Great Harbor Improvement," New York Herald, 1881, July 25 and other dates, with discussion of Sandy Hook bar and deepening of ship channels; "The Evolution of the Typewriter," 8 page reprint from Bedford's, April, 1892; "The Sailor's Harbor" by Mrs. R. F. Woodward, 9 pages with photos.
Cover review from New York Times Book Review Magazine by Maxwell Geisman; review of The Letters of Theodore Dreiser, edited by Robert H. Elias with photos, from the University of Pennsylvania Library.
Folder includes: profile at middle age, 8"x10"; magazine photo from New York Library Picture Collection, Dreiser, head and shoulders, 4"x5"; painting, "An American Tragedy-Theodore Dreiser," caricature by William Cotton for Vanity Fair, 1931 volume 37, no. 2, head and shoulders, 8"x10".