Description: Papers of R. Bruce Weirick (1887-1982), professor of English (1924-55), including Illini Poetry (1918-23) (1923), "Carl Sandburg's Poetry" (1953), a memorial to Harold Hillebrand, a report on the Carl Sandburg Library (1953), a paper on the English Poetry Prize (1958), a letter about foreign students (1958) and related material. Prof. Weirick contributed an article on Carl Sandburg in the Winter 1952 issue of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society and an article on the "Golden Age" at Illinois in the Champaign-Urbana Courier, February 26, 1967; pp. A-2, 4-8 (RS 0/0/1-7).