This document describes a Manuscript Collection held by the
Special Collections DepartmentCorrespondence
Series
I: Box 2
General Correspondence
1887 -- 1925. Including letters from Floyd Dell, Paul Green, Alfred Harcourt, H.L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, Cael C. Van Doren, and Thyra S. Winslow
1926 -- 1931. Including letters from Dorothea Canfield Fisher, Alfred A. Knopf, H.L. Mencken, Otha Wearin, and Grant Wood
1932 -- 1935. Including letters from Rose Wilder Lane, Anne Parrish, Phyllis Playter, Dorothy M. Richardson, and Sigrid Undset
Series I: Box 3
1936 -- 1939. Including letters from Julian Street, Jr., Meridel LeSueur, Sarah N. Cleghorn, Ferner Nuhn, Jule Brousseau, Anne Parrish, Robert Hillyer, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and Grant Wood
1940 -- 1941. Including letters from Wilbur L. Schramm, Harvey Ingham, John T. Frederick, Luella M. Wright, Louis Adamic, and Ferner Nuhn
1941 -- 1943. Including letters from Luise Sillcox, Carl Carmer, H.L. Mencken, Joseph Wood Krutch, Sinclair Lewis, William Everson, and John Dewey
1944 -- 1945. Including letters from Guy M. Gillette, Rex Stout, Robert E. Sherwood, Christopher LaFarge, Rudolf Ganz, William Everson, and Ferner Nuhn
1946 -- 1947. Including letters from James Farrell, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, William Everson, Dorothy M. Richardson, and John Dewey
Series I: Box 4
1948 -- 1949. Including letters from Robert Downing, William Everson, John Selby, Henry A. Wallace, Dorothy M. Richardson, and John Dewey
1950. Including letters from Elizabeth Ames, John Selby, Henry A. Wallace, Dorothy M. Richardson, and John Dewey
January -- July 1951. Including letters from Dorothy M. RichardsonAugust -- December 1951. Including letters from James Hearst, John Selby, and Dorothy M. Richardson
January -- February 1952. Including letters from Elton Trueblood, Evelyn Scott, Harris Franklin Rall, James Hearst, John Selby, Phyllis Playter, and Van Wyck Brooks
March -- April 1952. Including letters from Elton Trueblood and Phyllis Playter
May -- December 1952. Including letters from Evelyn Scott, James Hearst, and John Selby
Series I: Box 5
1953. Including letters from Evelyn Scott, Edmund Wilson, and John Selby
1954. Including letters from John Selby, Elsie G. Jones, Ferner Nuhn, and Eric Sevareid
1955. Including letters from Clyde Kluckhohn, William J. Petersen, Marchette Chute, and John Selby
1956. Including a letter from John Selby
1957. Including letters from Hubert H. Humphrey, Jessamyn West, John Selby, George Shane, Clyde Kluckhohn, Ferner Nuhn, John Hall Wheelock, Phyllis Playter, and Howard Bowen
Series I: Box 6
1958. Including letters from James Hearst, Ferner Nuhn, and John Cowper Powys
January -- June 1959. Including letters from James Hearst and John Cowper Powys
July -- December 1959. Including a letter from Carl Sandburg
1960 -- 1966. Including letters from Ferner Nuhn, Leedice Kissane, Phyllis Player, and Abigail Ann Hamblin
1969.
Correspondence Robert Frost and his family. Includes letters to Ruth and Ferner Nuhn. 1931 --1936, 1969 -- 1986
Undated. Including letters from James Hearst and Dorothy M. Richardson
Series I: Box 7
Business Correspondence
1956 -- 1963, 1980 and undated
Civilian Public Service. Correspondence with Ruth Suckow
1943. Including a letter from William Everson
January -- April 1944. Including letters from James Hearst and William Everson
May -- December 1944. Including letters from William Everson
1945 -- 1946 and undated
Publishers' correspondence, royalties, contracts, etc., 1931 -- 1978
Typescript copies of Ruth's letters to Caroline Doxsee Woodhams, 1924 -- 1960
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