There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author’s Manuscript Collection, MsC0869.

Born in Clarion, Iowa, Spence graduated from the University of Iowa in 1930. From 1930 to 1941 he was the United Press bureau manager in Des Moines, and saw service during WW II in the Army Air Forces where he was the founder and first editor of Yank, the Army weekly newspaper. After the war, he worked as a free-lance writer, particularly noted for his reporting on religion. He also published several novels, wrote a comic strip (David Crane) and scripts for the weekly radio program, One Foot in Heaven, broadcast on the ABC network, 1944-1945. This collection consists of drafts for numerous articles and stories, including those for The Story of Religion in America, published in Look, 1957-1960.

Writer and friend of both Grant Wood and Marvin Cone. The collection contains research notes and manuscripts for the book, as well as clippings about Brown herself. Iowa Author Mss.

Historian, archivist, and author. Correspondence files; diaries; memorabilia; scrapbooks dealing with his early life, education, career in the State Department, and work for the Methodist Church.

There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author’s Manuscript Collection, MsC0869.

Includes manuscripts, galley proofs, page proofs, dust jackets, and other miscellany associated with publications of many Iowa Authors.

Papers of J. Clyde Ryan. Manuscript for A Skeptic Dude in Arizona. 2 folders. Iowa Author Mss.

Teacher, Methodist minister and writer on theological and educational subjects. Correspondence, course materials, sermons and speeches, with materials relating to his many books and articles.

There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author’s Manuscript Collection, MsC0869.

Historian. Correspondence and preliminary drafts of his writings. Iowa Author Mss.

Writer and biographer of writers. This collection contains manuscripts for two of the author's books, Ladies of Literature and The Stevensons: Louis and Fanny. Iowa Author Mss.

Coach, story writer and poet. Stories for his grand-children published as Adventures with Grandpa (1988); two unpublished typescripts. This collection has become part of the Iowa Authors Manuscript Collection, MsC869.

Religion professor and writer. Early typescript drafts of six of his books, including The Dream Gate and Report to Protestants.

Acclaimed British novelist and scholar. Research files, including administrative material, research materials, and corrected typescripts for her 1995 biography of novelist Sir Angus Wilson.

Research material compiled by Meade while writing the biography Buster Keaton Cut to the Case.

Manuscript for Home on the Bering Sea with correspondence and clippings. Iowa Author Mss.

Personal and business correspondence of this Dominican tertiary and editor, this collection also includes manuscripts for two of Evans' published works, as well as some unpublished manuscripts. Iowa Author.

There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author's Manuscript Collection, MsC0869.

Set designer, impresario, co-founder and manager of the Los Angeles Grand Opera Association, president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, art director of Look and Quick magazines, and book designer. Correspondence, typescripts of Accent on Life and George Gershwin: Man and Legend, and files on other projects.

There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author's Manuscript Collection, MsC0869.