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".