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The Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) collection was assembled by Hugh C. Atkinson, former UIUC University Librarian. It includes 223 first editions, along with later editions and variant issues, of Dreiser's publications. Included in the collection is one of only twelve original copies of [i]Tragic America[/i] (1936). The collection was donated by ...

The Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) collection was assembled by Hugh C. Atkinson, former UIUC University Librarian. It includes 223 first editions, along with later editions and variant issues, of Dreiser's publications. Included in the collection is one of only twelve original copies of [i]Tragic America[/i] (1936). The collection was donated by ...

Letters, account books, and receipts concerning Hacienda De Xochimanga.

The Churchill collection was assembled by London bookseller Harold Mortlake, and consists of editions of virtually everything which Churchill wrote from 1898 till his death in 1965. It was purchased in 1970 and contains many presentation copies, autograph and typed letters, and recordings, as well as biographical works on Churchill, ...

The Churchill collection was assembled by London bookseller Harold Mortlake, and consists of editions of virtually everything which Churchill wrote from 1898 till his death in 1965. It was purchased in 1970 and contains many presentation copies, autograph and typed letters, and recordings, as well as biographical works on Churchill, ...

Richard Harwell is a prolific author and editor of literature on the Civil War and the Reconstruction periods. His collection of 1200 Confederate imprints and 900 Civil War publications contains documents of the Confederate Congress, as well as other publications of the period.

Papers of Sir Robert Heath consists of letters, documents, commonplace book, and a diary relating to London legal life, Parliament, the royal prerogative, prosecution of recusants, Star-Chamber prosecutions, Puritanism, English Civil War, personal and family matters and English agriculture. Correspondents include Arthur Parfey, Richard Lour, Mary Morley, Lucy Heath, John ...

Provenance: Given by Hecht's wife, Rose Caylor, to Robert L. Carringer, 1976 -- Given to the University of Illinois Library for the Ben Hecht Collection by Robert L. Carringer, Dec. 12, 1977 -- Two carbon copies of typescripts given to the University of Illinois Library for the Ben Hecht Collection ...

3 A.L.S from writer, Ben Hecht. 1) To Eugene Brewster January 22, 1925. 2) To Oscar Borron August 31, 1954. 3) To Charles R. Condon December 14, 1959.

Collection of architectural drawings and set designs by Edward Held, who worked on the design of Disneyland Theme Park and on the sets of numerous films from the 1930s through the 1950s. See [u][b]Administrative/Biographical History[/b][/u] for more information.

Throughout her life, Sarah Gofseyeff Heller advocated for the Zionist movement, American Jewish women, the establishment of a Jewish immigrant community in the United States, and the State of Israel. The Gofseyeff family were Polish Jews from a shtetl that was destroyed during the Holocaust. The Sarah G. Heller Materials ...

Papers of George Hendrick, emeritus professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Also contains documents and correspondence collected by George Hendrick of various individuals such as Carl Sandburg and Samel Arthur Jones.

A.L.S from "Mariano Herrera" to Harrison S. Kerrick dated Jan 16, 1926. Col. Harrison Summers Kerrick created the code of conduct on how to properly handle and display the U.S. flag which was adopted by the United States Congress.

A.L.S from Frances Trollop to the penal reformer Matthew Davenport Hill, expressing unequivocal support for his daughters in making their way in the world as writers. Dated 5th Sept. 1856

The collection consists of publications by classical economists as Adam Smith, Malthus, Thornton, J. B. Sayl, Lord Lauderdale, James and John Stuart Mill, Robert Torrens and David Ricardo, almost completely included in first editions.

This collection contains 155 manuscripts from the Jacob H. Hollander collection. The manuscripts are predominantly letters discussing 18th- and 19th-century theories of political economics in Europe. Other topics of correspondence include the publication of economic monographs, discussions about social engagements, and letters of introduction. Several of the later letters in ...

Henry C. Hutchins of Yale University was a scholar and bibliographer of Defoe. His collection contains works by Defoe and his contemporary polemicists, among other eighteenth century works, especially travel literature and translations from the French.