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American periodicals.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Frederick Briggs letters : to James Russell Lowell

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 4625
Scope and content

Letters on literary, political, cultural, personal, and family matters. Includes substantial discussion especially of the publication of Lowell's poems in Briggs's journal, but also of the slavery question and other political issues of the day. Also discussed are recently published poems and novels, recent paintings, the activities of portrait painter William Page (a friend of Briggs and Lowell), and the character of Edgar Allan Poe, who contributed to the Broadway Journal.

Dates: 1843-1860.

F. Scott Fitzgerald miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4632
Scope and content Photographs, clippings from newspapers and magazines, typewritten manuscripts, and magazine issues containing articles and stories by or about F. Scott Fitzgerald. Includes typewritten manuscripts of Fitzgerald's stories "Outside the House," "The Intimate Strangers," "Finishing School," "[illegible] Esquimo," and "Last Kiss"; many of Fitzgerald's stories as first published in magazines; typewritten manuscript of Arthur Mizener's introduction to a collection of Fitzgerald's stories, Afternoon...
Dates: [ca. 1898]-1976-(bulk 1915-1940)

Frank Sullivan collection

 Collection
Identifier: 4618
Abstract

Correspondence and other papers of Frank Sullivan, an American journalist, humorist and author who was long associated with the New Yorker magazine.

Dates: 1910-1972.

George Jean Nathan collection

 Collection
Identifier: 4615
Abstract Manuscripts, correspondence, printed newspaper articles, clippings, and photographs by, to, or about Nathan, documenting his career as theater critic, author, and editor of the literary newspaper The American Spectator. Includes manuscripts for books and articles by Nathan; extensive correspondence concerning dealings with publishers, authors, and producers; letters from readers and fellow writers commenting on Nathan's work, including letters on the American Mercury and the American...
Dates: 1913-1958.

John S. Hart letters

 Collection
Identifier: 4637
Scope and content Consists mainly of letters to Hart from a variety of correspondents, including school and college teachers and administrators, clergymen, and authors. Many letters provide biographical and bibliographical information on authors, including authors of religious works, for a book Hart was compiling on American literature, probably his Manual of American Literature (Philadelphia, 1873). Also included is considerable correspondence from fellow editors evaluating poems submitted to Sartain's Union...
Dates: 1834-1877.

Theodore Dreiser collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4604
Abstract

Consists mainly of letters by, to, or about Theodore Dreiser, as well as printed material, photographs, interviews and speeches of Dreiser and research notes of Dreiser scholar Robert Elias.

Dates: 1897 - 1983