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Theodore Dreiser papers
1943-1953

Manuscripts

1943-1953

Description: The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts and newspaper clippings relating to Theodore Dreiser and his friends and associates. Most of the correspondence is between Dreiser and his intimate friend and secretary, Elizabeth Kearney Coakley. The collection's manuscripts consist of writings by Dreiser, his wife Helen Patges Dreiser, Elizabeth Kearney Coakley, and Thelma Cudlipp. Subjects addressed within the manuscripts include Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Sherwood Anderson and the death of Theodore Dreiser. All newspaper clippings in the collection relate to Dreiser and his circle of friends. Issues addressed within the collection include Dreiser's writing and the writing of other authors of the period, politics (especially communism), and the attempts made by Dreiser to market his talent, and his novels, to film studios and producers. Correspondents include Jacques Chambrun, Elizabeth Kearney Coakley, Thelma Cudlipp, André de Lattre, Helen Patges Dreiser, Patrick Kearney, William Charles Lengel, Henry Louis Mencken, Ginger Rogers, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jacques Léon Sylvan, Walter Winchell, the Finnish Relief Fund, the Theatre Arts Committee and the magazine Common Sense.
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Production date

1917-1953.

Call number

mssHM 36236-36335

Creator

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Purchased from Elizabeth Kearney Coakley Hicks Gore, February 1958.

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Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Associated people

Chambrun, Jacques, (-1955,)

Coakley, Elizabeth Kearney, (1894-1933,)

Lattre, André de, (1888-1965)

Dreiser, Helen Patges, (1880-1956.)

Grosvenor, Thelma Cudlipp, (1911-1995,)

Kearney, Patrick, (1882-1945,)

Lengel, William C. (1898-2006,)

Mencken, H. L. (1897-1972.)

Rogers, Ginger,

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Salvan, Jacques L.

Winchell, Walter,

Associated organizations

Finnish Relief Fund,

Theatre Arts Committee,

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