Iowa Authors Manuscripts Collection
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Scope and Contents
Multiple manuscripts for numerous Iowa authors are collected here. Abbe, George Aldrich, Bess Andreas, Osborn Argow, Waldemar Aurner, Nellie Baker, Laura Nelson Baker, Richard Terrill Bissell, Bess Brown, Charles Brown, Lewis H. Buxbaum, Katherine Calhoun, Mary Huiskamp Carlson, Esther Carver, Thomas Nixon Cassill, R. Verlin Clark, Glenn Colby, Anthony Crary, Margaret Darling, Frederick Donovan, Josephine Berry Duncan, Actea Carolyn Young Eastman, Harold Lloyd Elston, Hattie Phinnette Gard, Wayne Gavitt, Benjamin H. Gearhart, Susan Merriam Gingerich, Melvin Gould (Charles) Bruce Hale, Arlene Hall, Lynn Hoeltje, Hubert Hoffman, Mathias Martin Humphrey, James Hunn, L.E. "Jack" Jorgenson, George and Nora Kauffman, Ray Franklin Kemp, Charles F. Kramer, Dale Lafferty, R.A. LeSueur, Meridel Loeser, Katinka McClurg, William H. McHale, Tom McInerney, Carl Moeller, Dorothy Murphy, Thomas Dowler Nelson Evelyn and Violet O'Connor, Rose Agnes Olson, Eugene Olson, Harry Ferdinand Painter, Eleanor Paluka, Frank Perrin, Joyce Petersen, William John Peterson, Virgil W. Porter, Ella Williams Prange, Gordon W. Quick, Herbert Randolph, Colonel Charles D Reed, Warren A. Rosheim, David L Rowan, Edward Beatty Saunders, William Irving Schell, James Peery Schoonover, Lawrence Seagrave, Sadie Fuller Sheets, George March Sherman, Richard Shultz, Gladys Denny Simpson, Frank B. Smith, Grace Noll Smith, Lewis Worthington Stevenson, Neal Taylor, James C Trueblood, D. Elton Van Etten, Mrs. Winifred Ver Duft, Lee Wallace, Zella Wandrey, Ralph H. Ward, The Reverend Leo Richard Weir, Ruth Cromer Wilbur, Ray Lyman Williams, Maude Newell Winchell, Mary Edna Wormhoudt, Arthur Zaffiras, George
Dates
- Creation: 1888-1990
Creator
- Iowa Author's (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions may apply; please consult Special Collections staff for further information.
Extent
16.00 Linear Feet (Photographs throughout.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Includes manuscripts, galley proofs, page proofs, dust jackets, and other miscellany associated with publications of many Iowa Authors.
Method of Acquisition
Various sources at different times. This is an aggregate collection.
Subject
- Carlson, Esther Elizabeth (Person)
- Saunders, William Irving (Person)
- Ver Duft, Lee, 1910- (Person)
- Brown, Lewis H. (Lewis Herold), 1894- (Person)
- Smith, Lewis Worthington, 1866-1947 (Person)
- Elston, Hattie Phinnette, 1900- (Person)
- Crary, Margaret (Person)
- Johns-Manville, Incorporated (Organization)
- Radio Corporation of America (Organization)
- Smith, Grace Noll, 1878-1974 (Person)
- Rosheim, David L. (Person)
- Simpson, Frank B. (Person)
- Bissell, Bess G., 1908-1970 (Person)
- Zaffiras, George John, 1917- (Person)
- Clark, Glenn, 1882-1956 (Person)
- University of Iowa (Organization)
- Colby, Anthony Owen (Person)
- Ward, Leo R. (Leo Richard), 1893- (Person)
- Drake University (Organization)
- Cassill, R. V. (Ronald Verlin), 1919-2002 (Person)
- Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946 (Person)
- Eastman, Harold Lloyd (Person)
Genre / Form
- Annual reports
- Archives (groupings)
- Articles
- Biographies
- Clippings (Information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Drafts (Documents)
- First drafts
- Galley proofs
- Holographs (Autographs)
- Instructions (Document genre)
- Layouts (Printer matter)
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Manuscripts for publication
- Novels
- Obituaries
- Photocopies
- Photographs
- Poems
- Press releases
- Printers' proofs
- Promotional materials
- Proofs (Printed matter)
- Questionnaires
- Research (documents)
- Scores
- Sheet music
- Short stories
- Songs
- Sound recordings
- Speeches
- Typescripts
Geographic
Occupation
- Authors
- Business economists
- Clergy
- Directors of corporations
- Engineers
- Novelists
- Physicians
- Poets
- Poets
Temporal
Topical
- Acoustical engineering
- Alumni and alumnae
- American literature
- American literature
- American prose literature
- Authors, American
- Children's literature
- Civil service
- English literature
- Fiction
- Fiction -- Authorship
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Legends
- Missions
- Newspapers
- Poetry
- Poets, American
- Presbyterian Church
- Women authors
- Women authors, American
- Women in the humanities
- Writers Archive at Iowa
Uniform Title
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City IA 52242 IaU
319-335-5921
319-335-5900 (Fax)
lib-spec@uiowa.edu