Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Lewisohn, Margaret Seligman
| title | Theodore Dreiser papers | repository | Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts |
| description | Contains 22 series, including correspondence (118 boxes); legal matters (7 boxes); writings (260 boxes), comprising books, essays, short stories, poems, plays, screenplays, radio scripts, addresses, lectures, interviews, introductions, and prefaces; journals edited by Dreiser (6 boxes); notes (9 boxes); diaries (5 boxes); biographical material (1 box); memorabilia (41 boxes), comprising scrapbooks, photographs (many of which are available online), art work, promotional material, postcards, and miscellanea; financial records (5 boxes); clippings (23 boxes); works by others (12 boxes); and oversize materials (2 boxes). Also includes materials regarding various family members: brother Paul Dresser (8 boxes of correspondence, sheet music and lyric sheets, clippings and memorabilia, and two plays written by Dresser); second wife Helen Dreiser (4 boxes of diaries and other writings); and niece Vera Dreiser (2 boxes of correspondence). |
| extent | 503 boxes |
| formats | Correspondence Business Papers Personal Papers Printed Materials Manuscript |
| access | Contact the repository for access and restrictions. |
| record link | https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_RBML_PUSP.MS.COLL.30 |
| record source | https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9913908323503681?hld_id=resource_link_0 |
| finding aid | Finding aid available online and at repository. |
| acquisition information | Gift of Theodore and Helen Dreiser with additional donations from Myrtle Butcher; Louise Campbell; Harold J. Dies; Ralph Fabri; Mrs. William White Gleason [Dreiser-E. H. Smith correspondence]; Hazel Mack Godwin; Paul D. Gormley; Marguerite Tjader Harris; R. Sturgis Ingersoll [manuscript for Jennie Gerhardt]; Los Angeles Public Library; F. O. Matthiessen; Vera Dreiser Scott; Lorna D. Smith; Robert Spiller [galleys for The Bulwark]; and Estelle Kubitz Williams plus purchased additions, 1942-1991. |
| updated | 04/15/2025 11:48:24 |
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