This document describes a Manuscript Collection held by the
Special Collections DepartmentUniversity of Iowa Libraries
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Series II: Box 1
Appearances
in periodicals; books; material in Grinnell College publications; stories,
essays and poems. (Materials assembled by Leedice Kissane?)
"Abundance" [short story]. Incomplete typescript drafts with outlines
and notes
"Ada and Jay: A
Ballad of 1906" [short story?]. Typescript draft with corrections
and revisions
"The Age of Hamlet" [lecture]. Holograph
and typescript drafts
"An Almost Lost American Classic." Typescript drafts with revisions, including correspondence, 1953
"American Pieces" [short story]. Incomplete typescript drafts
"Anatomy of Magic" [short story]
Typescript draft (titled "Anatomy of a Love Affair")
Incomplete typescript with miscellaneous pages (titled "Magic")
Typescript draft (titled "Magic")
"Another Word About Uncle Tom" [article]. Typescript
"Anthology of the Roads." A selection of poetry by other authors, chosen by Ruth Suckow and Amy Buchanan. With a foreword by Buchanan. Copy with holographic page number.
"At a Vanished Number" [short story]. Typescript drafts
"At the End" [short story]. Holograph notes for a story idea together with a typescript draft
"At the Local Level" [short story?]. Typescript draft with corrections and revisions. Including a note by Ferner Nuhn
"Auntie Bissel" [short story]. Scribner's, vol. 98, no. 2 (August 1935) pp. 84 -- 92
"The Balance of Power" [short story]. Holograph draft
"Beauty in Iowa" [article]. Various drafts with revisions, some edited and compiled by Ferner Nuhn
Series II: Box 2
"Beekeeping Times." Typescript of an idea for an article
"Bees" [article]. Typescript draft
"Before the Tryout"
"Behold the Fisherman!" [poem]. Typescript
"Bessie Blanchard Smith" [short story]. Various incomplete typescript drafts
"Best of the Lot" [short story]
Typescript draft
Typescript carbon
The Smart Set, vol. 69, no. 3 (November 1922) pp. 5 -- 36
Photocopy
"Between Two Worlds" [short story]. Holograph notes for a story idea
"The Bible and I." Motive, vol. 12, no. 8 (May 1952) pp. 28 -- 29
The Bonney Family. Early holograph version
"Bouquets
for Mencken." The
Nation, vol. 77, no. 11 (September 12, 1953) p. 213
"The Bramble Bush"
Various drafts of miscellaneous pages
Series II: Box 3
"The Bramble Bush," cont.
Incomplete typescript draft with corrections and revisions (2 folders)
"The Broken Wing" [short story].Typescript of a story idea with holograph notes
"The Brontes: the Final Phase" [article]. Holograph draft
"The Buck in the Snow." Review of book of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The Tanager , n.d., n.p., pp. 150 -- 152
"The Budding Actor." Typescript draft of a play
"By Hill and Dale" Poetry, vol. 18, no. 3 (June 1921) pp. 142 -- 143
"Charlotte'd Marriage." Photocopy from The Country Home, Vol/54:No.6 (June 1930), pp 18 -- 19, 48+. In oversized Box 1
Children and Older People. Typescript carbon of final draft
"Christine" [short story]. Various drafts with notes and revisions
"The Christmas Message" [article]. Typescript
"Church and School in Algona" [article]. Typescripts edited by Ferner Nuhn. Includes "First Grade Memories"
"Claremont Sights" [article]. Typescript notes and ideas
"The Concern for Miss Fielder" [short story]
Miscellaneous pages of an early draft
Typescript drafts with corrections and revisions
Country People
Part I. The Century Magazine, vol. 107, no. 3 (January 1924) pp. 406 -- 420
Series II: Box 4
Country People, cont.
Part III. The Century Magazine, vol. 107, no. 5 (March 1924) pp. 731 -- 747
ReviewsSuckow's comments on Country People in 1936
"Cousin Caroline" [short story]. Various incomplete holograph and typescript drafts with corrections and revisions
"The Crick" [short story]
Holograph draft
Typescript drafts
Typescript drafts with three photocopies and a note by Ferner Nuhn, 1968
"A Cycle of the Seasons in Iowa." The unpublished diary of Ruth Suckow
Typescripts with correspondence organized by Ferner Nuhn for The Iowan, 1960 -- 1961
Part II. The Iowan, vol. 8, no. 7 (October -- November, 1960), pp. 30 -- 35
Part II. The Iowan, vol. 9, no. 2 (December 6, 1960) pp. 20 -- 29
Part III. The Iowan, vol. 9, no. 3 (February 7, 1961) pp. 20 -- 27
Part IV. The Iowan, vol. 9, no. 4 (April 6, 1961) pp. 8 -- 15Bound set containing all four issues
Sesries II: Box 5
"The Daughter." The Smart Set, vol. 68, no. 1 (May 1922) pp. 21 -- 27
"The Development of a Story" [lecture]. Typescript draft with holograph corrections and revisions
"A Displaced Person." Typescript draft
"The Doctor and Susan" [short story]. Typescript draft
"Dr. Russell and Mrs. Ball." Various incomplete typescript drafts. In oversized Box 1
"Dora Palmer" [short story]. Typescript draft
"The Dream." [poem] Typescript
Dust jacket for "Cora"
"An Early Idyll" [short story]. Various typescript drafts
"Early in the Morning" [short story]. Typescript notes for a story
"An Early Spring" [short story]. Typescript drafts with corrections and revisions
"Ed Van Sickle's Place" [short story]. Typescript draft with corrections and revisions
"An Elegy for Alma's Aunt Amy" [short story]
Typescript draft
Typescript carbon
Harper's Magazine, no. 984 (May 1932) pp. 653 -- 664
"Emily Dickinson" [lecture]. Typescript draft with holograph corrections and revisions.
"Entanglement" [short story]. Holograph notes for a story
"The Extra Cup of Tea." Typescript draft on an essay about poetry
"The Fairest" [short
story]. Holograph and typescript drafts with corrections and revisions
"The Falling of the Rose" [short story]. Incomplete typescript drafts
with corrections and revisions
"Few Words
About Iowa" [lecture]. Holograph draft
"First Grade Memories." Midland Schools, December 1953. Published copy together with draft
"The Folk Idea in American Life" [essay]
Scribner's, vol. 88, no. 3 (September 1930) pp. 245 -- 255. Forerunner of Suckow's novel The Folks
Offprint bound in yellow paper
The Folks
Holograph notes together with "Middlewest in Literature"
Series II: Box 6
The Folks, cont.
Holograph notebook with an incomplete early draft
Miscellaneous pages of typescript
Portion of typescript with notes
Incomplete typescript draft, pp. 1 -- 114
Incomplete typescript draft, pp. 7 -- 211
Incomplete typescript draft, pp. 27 -- 211
Series II: Box 7
The Folks, cont.
Incomplete typescript draft, pp. 249 -- 292
Typescript of Part 4, "The Other Girl" pp. 1 -- 198 with miscellaneous pages (2 folders)
Typescript of Part 4, "The Other Girl. 2. Basement Apartment" with revisions
Typescript of Part 4, "The Other Girl. 4. After the End of the Story" with notes and revisions
Printer's copy with corrections
Series II: Box 8
The Folks, cont.
Printer's copy with corrections
Radio script, 1948. Mimeographed copy with correspondence, broadcast from the University of Minnesota
"For Whose Sake" [short story]. Holograph draft
"Frank Merriwell and the Girls or Tiptop Weekly Girls" [article?]. Typescript draft with corrections and revisions
"Friends and Fiction"
Early draft with revisions
Friends Intelligencer, vol. 112, no. 7 (second month 12, 1955) pp. 90 -- 92
"Golden Wedding" [short story]. Typescript draft
"Good Friday" [short story]. Various incomplete typescript drafts with notes and revisions
"Grandma Beal" [short story]. Incomplete holograph draft
"Great Days" [poem]. Typescript carbon of a poem, 1920
"Grinnell" [short story]. Holograph draft of a story idea
"Growth of a Story" [lecture]. Typescripts
"Gwen's Room" [short story]
Incomplete typescript drafts
Typescript draft with corrections and revisions
"The Handclasp" [short
story]. Incomplete typescript drafts with revisions
"Hawarden Remembered
and Revisited"
Typescript of reminiscences, programs, correspondence, etc., 1957 and 1968
Early typescripts compiled by Ferner Nuhn
"Her
Things" [poem]. Typescript drafts of a poem
"The Heroine of Fiction" [article?]. Various incomplete drafts with notes
and sketches
"History of Amanda" [short story]. Various incomplete typescript drafts with notes
Series II: Box 9
"Hollywood Gods and Goddesses" Harper's, no. 1034 (July 1936) pp. 189 -- 200
"Home-Coming." Good Housekeeping, vol. 89, no. 2 (August 1929) pp. 54 -- 57, 149 -- 155
"A Homecoming. The Smart Set, vol. 66, no. 3 (November 1921) pp. 39 -- 48
"The How and the What of Fiction" [lecture]. Typescript draft with holograph corrections and revisions
"How Old Santa Made
the Rounds" [short story]. Holograph draft
"How to Write Fiction" [lecture]. Typescript
"If I Were Sixteen Again." Claremont Church. A paragraph among other responses to this heading. Copy. In oversized Box 1
"In Its Latter Days" [short story]. Typescript draft with photocopy
"Inspiration" [short story]. Incomplete typescript draft
"Iowa."Photocopy from The American Mercury. In oversized Box 1
"The Iowa Woods" [article?]. Typescript
The John
Wood Case
Holograph notes
Excerpt. Typescript outline of Philip Sidney Norris
Original draft with revisions (2 folders)
Typescript draft (titled: Love Story)
Series II: Box 10
The John Wood Case, cont.
Typescript drafts with revisions (titled: Love Story) (2 folders)
Later typescript draft with corrections (2 folders)
Superseded typescript pages 24 -- 51
Fragments of various drafts both holograph and typescripts
Series II: Box 11
The John Wood Case, cont.
Final revision--carbon
Reviews, 1959
Review. The Ethical Outlook, vol. 45, no. 5 (September -- October 1959) p. 178
"The Joke"
"The Kramer Girls." Good Housekeeping, vol. 89, no. 2 (December 1929) pp. 16 --19, 263, 265 -- 266, 269 -- 270, 272, 275 -- 276, 279
"The Last of the Early Settlers" [short story]. Incomplete typescript draft
"The Last of the Passionate Pilgrims" [essay?]. Typescript draft
"The Last One After the Last" [short story]. Typescript carbon of a draft with a photocopy
"Let None Think of Me" [short story]. Typescript of a story idea with notes
"Literature and Rural Organizations" [article]. Revised typescript of an article written for Wallaces' Farmer
"The Little Girl from Town." Harper's Magazine, no. 927 (August 1927) pp. 327 -- 337
"Little Girl on Lake Boat" [short story]. Incomplete typescript carbon
"Little Girls in Opera House" [short story]. Typescript draft
"A Long Way From Home." Notes on characters for a story or novel
"Love in Strawberry" [short story]. Various incomplete typescript drafts
"Love of Places, " A Little Girl's World [short story]. Typescript draft with notes and correspondence by Ferner Nuhn, 1960
"The Lowest Form of Life" [essay]. Typescript draft
"The Maiden in the Tower" [short story]. Typescript of a story idea
"Mary and Eulalie" [short story]. Typescript draft with outline and notes
"Mary Jane" [short story]. Typescript draft of a story idea
Series II: Box 12
"Meditation on Two Flags." Typescript draft
"Melinda" [short story]. Typescript draft with photocopy
"Merrill and Mae" [short story?]. Various incomplete typescript drafts
"Merrittsville," Foothills, vol. 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1947) pp. 11 -- 18
"Middlewestern Literature" [article]. Typescript with revisions
Miscellaneous manuscript pages
"Miss Haines" [short story]. Various typescript and holograph drafts
"Miss Henderson's Mother" [short story]. Incomplete typescript draft with holograph notes
"Miss Warrington's Burgler." The Unit, 1942, pp. 269 -- 275
"The Mister" [short story]
Typescript draft with photocopy
"Modern Figures of Destiny: D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Lawrence." Offprint. With introduction by Ferner Nuhn
"More to Say" [short story]. Various incomplete typescript drafts with revisions
"Mrs. Humphrey Ward: Robert Elsmere," The Georgia Review, vol. 9, no. 3 (Fall 1955) pp. 344 -- 348. Book review together with typescript draft
"Mrs. Vogel and Ollie." Expressions, No.16 (1993 -- 1994) (A publication of the Des Moines Ares Community College?) The volume also contains an article about Suckow by Clarence Andrews, a photograph of Suckow, and an excerpt of a poem that appeared in By Hill and Dale by Suckow.
"Natives" [short story]. Various typescript drafts
"New England Novels of Harriett Beecher Stowe" [article?]. Holograph draft with revisions
New Hope
Preliminary character sketches
Incomplete typescript draft
Typescript draft of a section, with notes
Reprint of the minister's prayer
Series II: Box 13
"A New Song" [short story]. Miscellaneous pages of an incomplete typescript draft
"Not in Fiction" [essay?]. Various incomplete typescript drafts with revisions
"Not in the Headlines" [short story]. Typescript draft
Notebooks
"The Brontes"
"The Brontes"and "The Hard Way"
"The Heroines of the Story" and an untitled notebook with a holographic story
Names
Notes for reviews
Notes on a story by Koestler and religious poets and poetry. Written in a diary which also contains addresses
Poetry
Series II: Box 14
Notebooks, cont.
Poetry
Quotations and extracts from books written by others
Short story notes, various
Short story notes, including notes for a story called "The Visit Home"
Short story notes and texts, including "Just His Luck"
Story ideas for various stories, including notes for Some Boundless Thing. Written in a date book for 1911
U. S. Grant (notes)
Untitled
Series II: Box 15
Notes about Charlotte Bronte
The Odyssey of a Nice Girl. Typescript draft with revisions (2 folders)
"Of Men and Books." Radio broadcast with Ruth Suckow. Northwestern University, 1942
"An Old Fashioned Church Supper" [short story?]. Photocopy and typescript
"Old Friends" [short
story?]. Various typescripts and typescript carbons
"The Old Place" [short story]. Holograph draft
"An Old Woman in a Garden" [poem]
"The Oldest Settler" [short story]. Holograph draft of a story idea
"The Only White Child" [short story]. Typescript drafts with corrections, revisions, and miscellaneous pages
"Opportunities for Fiction in America." [article]. Typescript draft
Series II: Box 16
“Other People's Ambitions” [novella]
The Smart Set, vol. 70, no. 3 (March 1923) pp. 5 -- 38
Photocopy of the above
"Our Home Association" [essay?]. Various drafts
"A Part of the Institution" [short story]
Typescript carbon
The Smart Set, vol. 72, no. 2 (October 1923) pp. 11 -- 53
"Paul as a Person" [essay]. Holograph draft
"A Perfectly Suitable Match" [short story]. Holograph and typescript drafts
"Personality and Impersonality in Fiction" [lecture]. Typescript draft with holograph corrections and revisions
"Pet Woodward" [short story]. Various incomplete typescripts
"Picture Mythology" [essay?]. Typescript draft
"A Pilgrim and a Stranger" [short story]
Incomplete holograph draft
The Smart Set, vol. 67, no. 1 (January 1922) pp. 111 -- 119
"Pilgrim Pastor's Daughter" [essay?]. Holograph draft
"Place in the Scheme of Things" [short story?]. Typescript draft with photocopy
Poetry
"The Poetry of the Middle West" [essay?]. Holograph draft
"Prairie Woods and Wild Flowers" [article]
Typescripts
Series II: Box 17
"Prairie Woods and Wild Flowers" [article], cont.
American Heritage, vol. 16, no. 3 (April 1965) pp. 36 -- 42
"The Princess with Golden Hair" [short story?]. Holograph and typescript drafts. (Titled: "Cinderella and the Queen")
"Problems of Writing" [lecture]. Typescript
draft with holograph notes and revisions
"Questions
People Ask" [lecture]. Typescript draft with corrections and revisions
Recipe book with
history notes interspersed
"Reminiscence of Bees" [essay?]. Incomplete typescript draft with corrections
and revisions
"Renters" The Century Magazine, vol. 106, no. 4 (August 1923) pp. 599 -- 613
"The Resurrection" [short story]. Typescript draft taken "from Iowa Interiors and Carry-Over"
"Retired," The Midland, vol. 7, no. 4 (April 1921) pp. 150 -- 159
"Room to Look Around" [article]. Typescript with corrections and revisions
"Roy Stebbins" [short story]. Earlier title: "Roy Schreiner"
Holograph notes and incomplete early draft
Various incomplete typescript drafts with corrections and revisions
"The Rut" [short story]. Holograph draft written in a 1905 Cash Book for the First Congregational Church of Manchester, Iowa
"Ruth's Cook Book." Arranged by Georgeanna [Washburn DaFoe Nuhn], 1924
"Sarah Atkinson and Annie Purcell" [short story]. Incomplete holograph draft
"Satellite" [short story]. Incomplete typescript drafts
"The Savour of Life" [short story]. Typescript draft with photocopy
Short story list
"The Small End" [short story], also titled "The Little End". Typescript draft with notes
"Some American Notes; Vermont and Yaddo." Typescript drafts
Some Boundless Thing
Early holograph notes
Series II: Box 18
Some Boundless Thing, cont.
Fragments of an early draft with holograph notes by Ferner Nuhn
Photocopy of an incomplete typescript with notes
Photocopy of an incomplete typescript
Typescripts of"A9 and 10"
"A11" together with a holograph draft
"A12" with revisions
"A13-19" with revisions
"A20 The Heroine of the Story" with revisions
"A21-27"
"A28-29 The Heroine of the Story" with revisions
"A31-33" with revisions together with a holograph draft of the beginning
“A36" with revisions
"A37 38" with revisions
"A39" with notes together with a holograph draft
"A40-42" with revisions
Series II: Box 19
Typescripts of, cont.
"A43" with revisions
"A47 Justin and Nanne Quarrel"
"A48" with revisions together with various sections with many discarded pages
"A51" with revisions
Typescript with revisions of "College Version - Justin Barr"
Typescripts with revisions of the sections concerning "The Heroine" -- Chapter 4
Typescripts with revisions of the sections concerning "Justin's relation to his family" -- Part II, Chapters 6 and 7
Typescript with revisions of "High School Versions," pp. 131 -- 145
Typescript with revisions of "A New Voice" section
Typescript of "Spring Dance" -- Part 2
Typescript of "Willard College" section
Typescript of "A New Voice." Photocopy with an introduction by Ferner Nuhn together with correspondence, 1982
Typescript of pp. 1 -- 124 together with miscellaneous pages at end (primarily "discarded portions and old versions and bits")
Partial typescript draft with corrections and revisions ("Green ribbon copy")
Incomplete typescript with introduction by Ferner Nuhn
Series II: Box 20
Photocopy of typescript with corrections and revisions. (6 folders)
Series II: Box 21
"Some Comments on Short Stories" [lecture]. Typescript draft
"Some Impressions of Civilian Public Service" [essay]. Various incomplete typescript drafts
Some Others and Myself. Seven Stories and a Memoir
"A Memoir""An Elegy for Alma's Aunt Amy." Typescript draftVarious early typescript drafts
Early draft with corrections
Early draft with corrections and notes
"Eltha." Final typescript carbon
"One of Three Others." Typescripts including carbons of the final draft
Final typescript carbon (2 folders)
Series II: Box 22
"The Son" [short story]. Holograph notes for a story idea
"Song in October" The Midland, vol. 4, nos. 9 -- 10 (September -- October 1918) p. 216
"Squires Hollow: New Style" [short story]. Various incomplete typescript drafts and sketches
"A Start in Life." [short story]. Goldfinch, Vol. 8: No.4 (April 1987), pp. 15 -- 19
Stories Suckow wrote as a child -- photocopies
"A Story that Ought to be Written" [short story]. Typescript draft
"Strains in American Literature" [essay?]. Incomplete typescript drafts
"The Surprising Anthony Trollope" [article]
Typescripts with corrections and revisions together with two holograph pages
The Georgia Review, vol. 12, no. 4 (Winter 1958) pp. 388 -- 395
"Survival" [short story]. Incomplete typescript draft
"Susan and the Doctor" [short story]
Typescript draft
Final typescript draft
"To Close the Door" [short story]. Holograph notes for a story idea
"The Tommy Story" [short story]. Various typescript drafts together with a rejection letter from K.S. White of the New Yorker, 1953
"The Top of the Ladder," The Smart Set, vol. 66, no. 4 (December 1921) pp. 35 -- 41. Also included in this issue is "Mame" pp. 107 -- 118.
Travel diaries
Travel sketches. Typescript drafts with notes by Ferner Nuhn
"Travelers" [short story]. Typescript draft
"The Unknown Soldier." Photocopy
of an article in The Tanager, 1926
Untitled lectures about writing
"Uprooted." The Midland, vol. 7, no. 2 (February 1921) pp. 83 -- 109
"Useless Gifts" [short story]. Incomplete holograph draft
"Vermont: New Style" [short story]. Incomplete typescript draft
Series II: Box 23
"Victor" [short story]. Incomplete typescript draft with corrections and revisions
"View of Colesville" [short story]. Incomplete typescript draft with miscellaneous pages
"The Visit" [essay?]. Typescript draft
"Visiting" [short story]. Typescript draft together with a photocopy
"Wanderers." The Smart Set, vol. 69, no. 1 (September 1922) pp. 51 -- 62
"The Way" [short story]. Typescript draft with notes
"The Way Out" [short story]. Early drafts
"What Did Not Come to Pass--Something That Never Happened" [short story]. Holograph and typescript notes for a story idea
"What Have I?" Photocopy. [ From Harpers?]. In oversized Box 1
"What is a Story?" [lecture]. Typescript drafts with holograph corrections and revisions
"Why People Don't Go to Church" [essay]. Holograph draft
"Why Write?" [lecture]. Various typescript and holograph drafts
"The Wild White Bramble" [short story]. Holograph draft of a story idea
"Winter Scene" [short story]. Early drafts
Winterset: Sequel By Another Hand
Typescript outline and holograph of an incomplete rough draft
Typescript draft (2 folders)
Folder 1
Series II: Box 24
Winterset: Sequel By Another Hand, cont.
Typescript draft (2 folders), cont.
Folder 2
"Words and People"
Yellowstone Park Notes. Holograph notes by Ruth Suckow about campers
