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

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

Creator Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

Date 1872-1992

Place Illinois--Chicago

Language English

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, Photographs

Archival Collection Title Sherwood Anderson papers

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

Project Name IMLS Cares 2020

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Call Number Midwest MS Anderson

BibID 274788

Size 2428px × 3655px 50.82 MB

IIIF Resource ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

Filename 992747888805867_midwest_ms_anderson_box_00018_fl_00900_000016.tif

Unique Identifier NL110PWB

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