Newberry Library - Sherwood Anderson papers [box 00018], 1872-1992 [274788]

Title Sherwood Anderson papers [box 00018], 1872-1992 [274788]

Creator Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

Date Created 1872-1992

Summary Letters, literary manuscripts, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, publicity materials, financial records, artifacts, etc., of Sherwood Anderson. Includes Anderson's voluminous correspondence, as well as the correspondence of third wife Eleanor Anderson following Anderson's death. Major correspondents include Margaret C. Anderson, Charles J. Connick, Hart Crane, Floyd Dell, John Dos Passos, Arthur Dove, Theodore Dreiser, John Emerson, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Julia Collier Harris, Ben Hecht, Aldous Huxley, Ernest Hemingway, J.J. Lankes, Anita Loos, H. L. Mencken, Harriet Monroe, Georgia O'Keeffe, Maxwell Perkins, Paul Rosenfeld, Carl Sandburg, Ferdinand Schevill, Roger Sergel, Gertrude Stein, and Alfred Stieglitz. Also significant correspondence with Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, including "letter-a-day" letters by Anderson to his wife, written in the year before their marriage; manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, printed items, and reprints of Anderson's works; photographs, a tape recording, and videocassette of Anderson, his family, friends, homes, and works; and plaster busts of Winesburg characters sculpted by Anerson's second wife, the artist Tennessee Mitchell.

Biographical/Historical Note Midwestern writer best known for his work, Winesburg, Ohio (1919). Active member of the early 20th century realist movement commonly known as the Chicago Literary Renaissance.

Extent 61 cubic ft. (121 boxes and 3 oversize boxes)

Format Artifacts (Object genre), Correspondence

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Project Name IMLS Cares 2020

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Call Number Midwest MS Anderson

BibID 274788

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