Manuscript Register
MILTON MONROE REIGELMAN:
COLLECTION ON THE MIDLAND
Collection Dates: 1917 -- 1973
.5 linear ft.
This document describes a collection of materials held
by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Posted to Internet: January 2003
Acquisition Note: This collection
was donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by Milton Reigelman in 1981.
Access
and Restrictions: This collection is open
for research.
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Scope
and Content
This collection primarily contains
correspondence and research material used by Reigelman in preparing his works,
A Study of the Midland Magazine: 1915 -- 1933 (1973) and The Midland:
A Venture in Literary Regionalism (1975)
Related Materials: The
John Towner Frederick papers --
MsC513
FOLDER 1
Letters
from Midland contributors to Reigelman
August
Derleth
John A. Beadle
R.W. Borst
Benjamin Appel (attached -- 2 xeroxed copies of letters from Frederick
to Appel)
Harry Hartwick
Howard M. Jones
Thomas Duncan
Paul Corey
Albert Halper
James Hearst
Irving Brant
Karen J. Bauman (archivist -- State Historical Society of Wisconsin)
Copy of letter from Reigelman to Derleth
Marquis W. Childs
James T. Farrell
Loren Eiseley
MacKinlay Kantor
James M. Smith (archivist -- State Historical Society of Wisconsin)
Henry Nash Smith
John G. Neihardt
Harold G. Merriam
FOLDER 2
Advertising
and other printed material from Midland: 19 pieces, with dates from
1917 -- 1932, others undated
FOLDER 3
Letters
of Walter J. Muilenburg and other of his family (5 original letters)
14 copies of newspaper and magazine articles
1 copy of a letter of Frederick to McCorison (original at University of Notre
Dame)
FOLDER
4
Correspondence
between Frederick -- Reigelman
7
letters -- 3 January 1971 -- 27 March 1973
( 5 letters from Frederick; 2 from Reigelman)
FOLDER
5
August
Derleth -- Frederick letters
46 letters -- 11 March 1931 -- 21 September 1935 (Originals
at Wisconsin State Historical Society)
FOLDER
6
Letters
from Frederick to
Donald Davidson -- 3 letters -- 1 February 1924 -- 4 April 1924 (originals
at Vanderbilt University)
Harriet Monroe -- 7 letters -- 29 March 1918 -- 3 November 1930 (originals
at University of Chicago)
Lowery C. Wimberly -- 6 letters -- 10 January 1930 -- 28 February 1940 (originals
in University of Nebraska)
1 original letter from Joseph G. Svoboda (University of Nebraska) to Reigelman
-- 23 May 1972
Midland
collection at Notre Dame (xeroxed
copies of letters, articles, etc.)
31 pieces, 20
November 1915 -- 16 November 1932
7 pieces undated
Jessup papers at
University of Iowa (xeroxed copies)
21 pieces, 24
October 1916 -- 2 November 1931
1 piece undated
H.L. Mencken --
Frederick letters (xeroxed copies -- 2 originals are Frederick's; rest are New
York Public Library's)
29 letters, 18
March 1919 -- 4 September 1942 (3 letters of Mencken's; 26 letters of Frederick's)
1 biography sheet on Frederick, up to ca. 1923
Letters of Sherwood
Anderson and Raymond Weeks -- Frederick (xeroxed copies -- original Anderson's
in Newberry Library -- original Week's at University of Missouri)
15 letters, 16
December 1918 -- 17 February 1944 (10 letters to Weeks; 5 letters to Anderson)
Frank Luther Mott's
papers (xeroxed copies -- originals owned by Mildred Mott Wedel)
7 letters -- 28
October 1917 -- April 1927
2 pieces undated
Frederick to John
Beadle letters (xeroxed copies -- originals owned by John Beadle)
24 letters --
26 December 1930 -- 6 October1936
H.G. Merriam --
Frederick letters (xeroxed copies -- originals at University of Montana)
43 letters, 9
March 1928 --19 January 1938
(27 letters of Frederick's; 14 letters of Merriam's; 2 Misc. letters)
Marie Gilchrist
-- Frederick letters (xeroxed copies -- originals owned by Marie Gilchrist)
22
letters, 25 February 1920 -- 3 February 1931( 21 letters from Frederick; 1
original letter [Gilchrist -- Reigelman] 24 June 1971
Father Leo Ward
-- Frederick letters (xeroxed copies -- originals at Notre Dame in Ward papers)
19 letters, 20
May 1930 -- 6 November 1932 (12 letters of Ward's; 7 letters of Frederick's)
