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Booth Tarkington Papers

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Boxes                Series
 
I. Writings
1-67 A. Novels/Novellas
68-78 B. Serials
79-93 C. Short Stories
94-97 D. Short Story Collections
98-131 E. Plays
132-135 F. Film Scenarios
136-138 G. Radio Scripts
139 H. Poems/Songs/Verses
140 I. Operatta
142-147 J. Non-Fiction Books
148-157 K. Articles
158 L. Speeches
159 M. Art Notes
160 N. Juvenilia
161-163 O. Miscellaneous Works
164-165 P. Fragments/Notes/Unfinished/Untitled/Unidentified
166-167 II. Drawings
168-214 III. Correspondence
215 IV. Documents
V. Photographs
216 A. Tarkington: Early Years
217 B. Tarkington: Later Years
218 C. Family/Friends
219 D. Miscellaneous
220 E. Unidentified
221 VI. Memorabilia
222-252 VII. Printed Material/Magazines
253-255 VIII. Lists
256-270 IX. Papers of Other Persons
I. Writings
A. Novels/Novellas
Alice Adams
1 1 Magazine galleys/proofs, Pictorial Review, 1st installment, February 1921
2 Magazine galleys/proofs, Pictorial Review, 2nd installment, March 1921
3 Magazine galleys/proofs, Pictorial review, 3rd installment, April 1921
4 Magazine galleys/proofs, Pictorial Review, 4th (final) installment, May 1921
2 AMs, chapters 1-6 (pp. 1-129)
2 AMs, chapters 7-12 (pp. 130-273)
3 AMs, chapters 8-19 (pp. 131-409)
4 AMs, chapters 20-24 (pp. 410-538)
5 TMs (carbon with holograph corrections), chapters 1-13 (pp. 1-141)
6 TMs (carbon), chapters 14-25 (pp. 142-280)
7 Ms [in Elizabeth Trotter's hand] and TMs, description of novel
3 1 Bailey Fount: TMs (carbon), 1st draft from magazine novelette into book [no date]
4 1 Beasley and the Hunchbergs: AMs, pp. 1-34, Cosmopolitan, Dec. 1905
2-5 Beasley's Christmas Party: AMs and TMs
5 1 The Beautiful Lady: Ms, 1904
Cherry
6 1 bound copy from Harper's Magazine, with holograph corrections (1901)
2 AMs and TMs, chapters 1
3 AMs and TMs, chapters 1-3
4 AMs, chapters 1-7 (except chapter 4)
5 AMs, chapters 8-15 (end)
6 TMs, chapters 5-15 and 14-15
7 TMs, chapters 1-15
8 AMs and TMs, chapters 5-15
9 AMs and TMs, miscellaneous pages
10 AMs (notes on writing Cherry)
7 1 Claire Ambler: TMs and photostat of Raona section (1927)
2-7 Conquest of Cancan: magazine galleys, fragments, AMs, TMs, and TMs of preface
8 1 "Fame at Fifteen": TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 2/19/1938 (later expanded to The Fighting Littles)
2 "The Jabjam Moto Trip": Ms, TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 12/3/1939 (later expanded to The Fighting Littles)
3-10 The Fighting Littles: Ms, TMs
9 1 "Now, Ripley, Please": Ms, TMs (later revised to become chapters 1-3 for The Fighting Littles)
2 "Almost a What?": Ms, TMs (later revised to become chapters 5-8 in The Fighting Littles) Saturday Evening Post, 6/26/37
3 "Peppah, More Peppah!": AMs notes, Ms notes, TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 10/30/37 (Later revised to become chapters 9-14 in The Fighting Littles)
4 "Sinful Dadda Little": Ms, TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 7/22/39 [later revised to become 25-27 (part) and 28 (part) in The Fighting Littles]
5 "Fame at Fifteen": Ms, Saturday Evening Post, 2/19/38 (later revised to become chapters 19-22 (part) of The Fighting Littles)
The Fighting Littles
10 1-7 TMs
11 1-2 galleys
The Flirt
12 1 AMs, notes (1913)
2 AMs, chapters 1-12
3 AMs, chapters 13-24
4 TMs, chapters 1-6
5 TMs, chapters 1-14
13 1-2 TMs
3-4 galleys
Gentle Julia
14 1-3 AMs (1922)
4 Ms
5-6 TMs
The Gentleman from Indiana (1899)
15 1 galleys, McClure's
2 AMs (first draft)
3 AMs notes
4 AMs fragment, "The Poet in love"
5 AMs (one page)
6-8 AMs, TMs
16 1-6 AMs, TMs
17 1-3 The Guest of Quesnay: AMs (1904-05)
18 1-5 The Heritage of Thatcher Ade: Ms
6-7 "The Man of the Family": AMs, Ms, TMs, published Nov.-Dec. 21, 1941 in the Saturday Evening Post (later published as the novel The Heritage of Thatcher Ade)
19 1-2 TMs
The Heritage of Thatcher Ade
3-9 AMs, Ms, TMs
20 1-6 AMs
21 1 galleys
2 page proofs
22 1-4 His Own People: TMs, AMs notes (1907)
23 1 His Word of Honor: TMs, Proofs (unpublished, 1905)
Image of Josephine
24 1-2 AMs, Ms, TMs (1945)
3-5 "The Lovely Hellion": published in The American Magazine (later published as the book Image of Josephine)
25 1-2 "The Lovely Hellion": TMs
3-6 AMs, TMs
26 1-6 AMs, TMs
27 1 AMs, TMs
2 galleys
3 TMs (on the Literary Guide's selection of Image of Josephine)
4 TMs, "Why `Image of Josephine'?" published in Wings, 1945 
28 1-7 The Hardest Wife to Be: TMs, Ladies Home Journal, June to September 1942 (later expanded to the novel Kate Fennigate)
Kate Fennigate
29 1-10 TMs
30 1-10 TMs (1943)
11 TMs, jacket blurb
12 AMs, notes
13 printed material
14 TMs on the book (not witten by Tarkington)
Little Orvie
31 1 "The Terrible Shyness of Orvie Stone": Ms, TMs, in the Saturday Evening Post, 6/24/1933
2 "Little Marie from Kansas City": Ms, TMs, in the Saturday Evening Post, 6/24/1933
3 "Little Orvie's New Dog Ralph": Ms, TMs, in the Saturday Evening Post, 9/30/1933
4 "Little Orvie's Grandma's Error": Ms, TMs, in the Saturday Evening Post, 10/28/1933
5 "Little Orvie's and Big Birdie": Ms, TMs, in the Saturday Evening Post, 10/28/1933
6 "Little Orvie's Fixation": Ms, TMs, in the Saturday Evening Post, 2/17/1934
7 "Little Orvie and Boydie Boy": Ms, TMs, in the Saturday Evening Post, 4/21/1934
32 1 "Here Comes The Page!": Ms, TMs, in Saturday Evening Post, 5/19/1934
2 "Love's Almost Very First Dawn": Ms, TMs, in the Saturday Evenig Post, 7/28/1934
3 "Little Orvie's Little Girl": Ms, TMs, in Saturday Evening Post, 9/15/1934
4 "Blue Milk": TMs, Ms, in Saturday Evening Post, 10/20/1934
5 "The Lovingest Cousin": Ms, TMs, in Saturday Evening Post, 11/3/1934
6 Notes, AMs, Ms
33 1 TMs 
The Lorenzo Bunch
34 1-10 TMs (1936)
35 1-7 TMS
Mary's Neck
36 1 TMs notes (1932)
2 "Longansville and Mary's Neck": Ms, Saturday Evening Post, 2/23/1929
3 "Hour of Peril": Ms, Hearst's International, 7/30
4 "Importance at the Neck": Ms, Saturday Evening Post, 3/9/1929
5 "Mr. Massey and Modernism": TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 4/13/29
6-7 "Being Chairman at the Neck": TMs, The American Magazine, March 1930
8 "The Neck and Bush Thing": Ms, Saturday Evening Post, 3/23/1929
9 "Talk at Mary's Neck": Ms, The American Magazine, April 1930
10 "The Distinguished Visitor": Ms, Good Housekeeping, September 1930
11 "In a Silver Frame": Ms
37 1-3 TMs (1932)
The Magnificent Ambersons
38 1-5 AMs (1918)
39 1-7 TMs (1918)
8 loose page (p. 224)
9 galleys
40 1-3 galleys
The Midlander
41 1-4 AMs (1924)
5-6 TMs (1924)
42 1-2 Mirthful Haven: galleys (1930)
Monsieur Beaucaire
43 1-2 AMs (1896, published 1900)
3 Ms
4 TMs
5 galley proof
Penrod
44 1-9 AMs (1914)
10 Ms
11 (mag. clippings with corrections, creating novel from stories)
12-13 galley
45 1-9 TMs
10 Onki Rupe Collins: TMs
Penrod and Sam
46 1-4 AMsS (1916)
5-9 TMs
Penrod Jashber
47 1-3 AMs (1929)
4-6 TMs 
48 1-4 The Plutocrat: TMs (1927)
Custom Boxes:   AMs (1926)
Presenting Lily Mars
49 1-5 Ms (1933)
6-7 TMs
50 1-3 TMs
4 Ms, TMs
Ramsey Milholland
51 1 TMs (1919)
2 galleys
Rumbin Galleries
52 1-3 Ms(1937)
4-6 Ms, TMs
53 1-5 Ms, TMs
54 1-2 TMs
3 galleys
4 "Genesis of Rumbin Galleries": Ms, TMs
Seventeen
55 1 AMs (1916)
2 galleys
3-6 AMs
7-9 TMs
10 TMs (introduction to 1932 edition)
11 Ms, foreword
The Show Piece
56 1-8 Ms (1947)
57 1-8 TMs
9 galleys
10 introduction by Mrs. Susannah Tarkington (published posthumously)
58 1 Walterson in Three Selected Short Novels (1947): AMs, TMs, Ms
2-4 Ms
5-9 TMs
59 1-3 Uncertain Molly Collicut in Three Selected Short Novels: Ms
4 Uncertain Molly Collicut in Three Selected Short Novels: TMs
60 1-3 "O Woman! Uncertain Mrs. Collicut": TMs, Pictorial Review, December 1938
61 1-3 Rennie Peddigoe in Three Selected Short Novels: Ms
4-6 Rennie Peddigoe in Three Selected Short Novels: Ms
7 Rennie Peddigoe in Three Selected Short Novels: galleys, Proofs
62 1-5 The Turmoil: TMs (1915)
The Two Vanrevels
63 1 galleys from serial in McClure's (1902)
2 AMsS
3 notes of criticism by Tarkington's father
4 AMs
5-7 Ms
8-12 AMs
64 1-4 TMs
Wanton Molly
65 1-3 Ms (1932)
4 galley proofs
Women
66 1-10 AMs (1925)
11-13 TMs
Young Mrs. Greeley
67 1 AMs (1929)
2 Ms
B. Serials
As I Seem to Me
68 1-4 TMs and AMs, notes, in the Saturday Evening Post, 1941
69 1-4 Ms, TMs
5 miscellaneous
6 galleys
7 photographs
The Divine Evade
70 1-4 Ms (1933-34, Good Housekeeping)
5-7 TMs
High Summer
71 1-3 Ms (1931)
4-5 TMsS
Otherwise Kitty Swift
72 1-5 Ms (1938)
73 1-4 TMs
5 TMs with Letter to Brandt
6-7 TMs
Pretty Twenty
74 1-3 Ms (1932)
4-6 TMs
75 1 Some People Have All the Luck: TMs (1946)
This Boy Joe
76 1-4 Ms (1935)
5-7 TMs
77 1-5 TMs
78 1 "A Vatican Sermon": AMs, outline (1904)
2 "Outline Sketch For Consideration"
3 "Cassandra Binch" or "Sandy": Ms, never published
4 "Lydia" or "Elsie": TMs, Ms, outline for serials never published
C. Short Stories
79 1 "Beasley and the Hunchbergers": AMs, TMs, Cosmopolitan, 1905
2 "The Birth of Thought": TMs, unpublished
3 "Captain Schlotterwerz": AMs, TMs
4 "Clytie's Look": TMs and galleys, Ladies Home Journal, 1926
5 "Constance and Constance": TMs, Ladies Home Journal, 1927
6 "Dance Music": AMs, 1896
7 "The Dishonarable Dolls": AMsS, TMs, Metropolitan, 1920 
8 "The Fair Unfair": AMs, TMs, Chicago Tribune, 1926
9 "The Fair Coronet": AMs, TMs
10 "The Street of Bad Children" (Fascinating Stranger Stories): AMs, TMs, The Red Book Magazine, 1921
11 Fascinating Stranger Stories: AMs and TMs
12 "Filmer's Fascinating Face": TMs (unpublished)
13 "For the Sake of His Own Hide": TMs, American Legion Magazine, 1943
80 1 "For Terrier or Something": TMs, Country Life in America, 1914
2 "Francing" TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1925
3 "Girl! Girl! Girl!": AMs, TMs, from "Seventeen Series", Metropolitan, 1919
4 "Laurence and Roger", "Fascinating Stranger" story: The Red Book Magazine, 1921 
5 "Maud and Bill": AMs, TMs, galley proofs, "Fascinating Stranger" story, Everybody's Magazine, 1916
6 "Penrod Stories: "The Empty House": TMs and AMs, Metropolitan, 1914
7 Penrod Stories: "Sam's Beau": AMs, TMs Cosmopolitan, 1917
8 Penrod Stories: "Wednesday Madness"(?), Cosmopolitan, 1917
9 "Mr. Brooke": Appleton's Booklovers Magazine, 1905 (AMs)
10 "The Parasite": AMs and TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1926
11 "The Power of the Press": TMs, McCall's Magazine, 1924
12 "The Property-Man": AMs and TMs, McClure's Magazine, 1905
81 1 "Saida Viole": TMs, AMs, galleys, Ladies Home Journal, 1926
2 "The Serious Moment": AMs, The Flower Mission Magazine, 1899
3 "The Serious Moment": TMsS and TMs
4 "Shanty": AMs, TMs, and proof sheets, Chicago Tribune, 1924
5 "The Song of the Bead": AMsS, AMs, TMsS, TMs
6 "Stella Crozier": AMs, TMs, galleys, Ladies Home Journal, 1925
7 "Thea Zell": AMs, TMs, The Red Book Magazine, 1925
8 "Young Siblow": AMs, TMs (unpublished)
9 "The World is Mine": The American Magazine, 1944
10 Untitled
82 1 "As the Egg Unlaid": Ms and TMs, Saturday Evening Posty, 1943
2 Belinda Dale Stories:
"Pansy Dale and Patsy" and "Belina Mores": Ms, TMs, Ladies Home Journal, 1929
3 "Omer's Wife": Ms, TMs, Ladies Home Journal, 1929
4 "Miss Dale Learns to Laugh": Ms, TMs, Ladies Home Journal, 1929
83 1 "Belinda Interferes" and Belinda's Importance" TMs, Ms, Ladies Home Journal, 1929, 1930
Captain Valentine Stories
2 "Instrument of Providence": Colliers 1932 (TMs)
3 "Perilous Strands": TMs, Ms. Colliers 1932
4 "The Bravo" Ms. TMs. Colliers 1932
5 "Partly A Woman - hater": Ms, TMs. Red Book Magazine 1933
6 "Nearest Married": TMs, Ms. Red Book Magazine, 1934
84 1 "The Giddabiddy" TMs, Ms. Red Book Magazine 1934
2 "Hoop-Te-Do!" TMs, Ms, Red Book Magazine, 1933
3 "Carola's Causes" TMs, Ms. Hearst's Inernational and Cosmopolitan, 1930
4 "Cider if Normandy": Ms, TMs
85 1 "The Coincidence": AMs, TMs. McCall's Magazine
2 "Filmer's Fascinating Face": Ms, TMs
Fascinating Stranger Stories
3 "Two Hearts That Beat as One": AMs, TMs, Red Book Magazine, 1922.
4 "Renfrew and the New Generation": AMs Red Book Magazine, 1922.
5 "Young Love and Younger Crimer": AMs Red Book Magazine 1922
6 "What Chance Has a Man?": AMs, TMs, Red Book Magazine, 1922
7 "Here Comes the Pridegroom": AMs, Red Book Magazine, 1923
8 "Fifteen": Ms, TMs, Hearst's International and Cosmopolitan, 1931
86 1 "Geraldine": AMs, TMs, Red Book Magazine, 1925
2 "The Hazelberg Twister": Ms, TMs, Hearst's International and Cosmopolitan, 1949
3 "Henhouse and Calamus": Ms, TMs (unpublished)
4 "Heary The Great": Ms, TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1936
5 "Home Town Christmas": AMs, Ms, TMs
87 1 "Instrument of Providence": Ms, Colliers, 1932
2 "Mitzi Still Lives": Ms and TMs, Ladies Home Journal, 1934
3 "Mothuh": TMs and Ms, Hearst's Internatinal and Cosmopolitan, 1931
4 "Musckickodee": TMs, Ms, Saturday Evening Post, 1929
5 "My Heart": AMs and TMs, Ladies Home Journal, 1924
88 1 "Oh, Button Your Coat!": Ms, TMs, Ladies Home Journal, 1934
2 "Other People's Children" Ms and TMs, American Magazine, 1930 
3 "The Price of Peace": Ms, TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1936
4 "Probably Mrs. Brown": Ms, TMs. Saturday Evening Post 1936
5 "The Rabble Rouser": AMs, TMs, McCall's Magazine, 1924
6-7 "Riplet, Try to be Nice!": Ms, TMs
Mr. Rumbin Stories
89 1 "Mr. Rumbin's Personal Romance": Ms, TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1936
2 "El-mechun!": TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1936
3 "What Price Goyor?": TMs, Ms, Saturday Evening Post, 1937
4 "Whose Copley?": Ms. TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1937
5 "A little Deal in Irony": Ms, TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1938
90 1 "Pat for Pit": Ms, TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1938
2 "Connoisseuries": Ms, TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1939
3 "Don't Sell It, Mr. Rumbin": Ms, TMs, Saturday Evening Post
4 "Mr. Rumbin's Dix Chunior": Ms, TMs, Saturday Evening Post
5 "Mr. Rumbin's Blessed Misforture": Ms, TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1945
6 "The Fascinating Side of a Business": Ms
Susie Stories
91 1 "Susie's Little Play": Ms, TMs, Ladies Home Journal, 1935
2 "Partly Thirty-Five Years Old": Ms, TMs, Ladies Home Journal, 1935
3 "Goodness, Badness!": Ms, TMs, Ladies Home Journal
4 "Little Woman": Ms, TMs
92 1 "The Best Little Girl in the World": Ms, TMs, Ladies Home Journal, 1936
2 "Susie's Papaer's Old Sweetheart": Ms, TMs, Ladies Home Journal, 1936
3 "Susie the Big Little G-Man": Ms, TMs, Ladies Home Journal, 1937
93 1 "She was Right Once": Ms, TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1931
2 "Stein Solitaire": Ms, TMs (unpublished)
3 "Some People Have All the Luck": Ms, TMs, Liberty, 1946
4 "What the Lady Said to the Policeman": Ms, TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1933
5 "When Youth is Beautiful": Ms, TMs, Woman's Home Companion, 1933
6 "The World is Mine": Ms, TMs, The American Magazine, 1944
D. Short Story Collections
The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories
94 1 "The Fascinating Strangers": AMs, McCall's Magazine, 1922 
2 "The Party": AMs, TMs, Red Book Magazine, 1921
3 "The One-Hundred Dollar Bill": AMs, TMs, galley, McCall's Magazine, 1923
4 "Jeanette": AMs, TMs, Red Book Magazine, 1921
5 "The Spring Concert": AMs, TMsS, TMs, Red Book Magazine, 1921
6 "Willamilla": AMs, TMs, Red Book Magazine, 1921
7 "The Only Child": AMs, TMs, Everybody's Magazine, 1917
8 "Ladies' Ways": AMs, TMs, Red Book Magazine, 1927
9 "Maytime in Marlow": AMs, TMs, Everybody's Magazine, 1916
10 "You": AMs, TMs, Red Book Magazine, 1922
11 "Us": AMs, TMs
12 "The Tiger": AMs, TMs, Red Book Magazine, 1921
In the Arena
95 1 "Boss Gorgett": AMs, TMs, Everybody's Magazine, 1903
2 "The Aliens": TMs, McClure's Magazine, 1904
3 "The Need of Money": Ms, McClure's Magazine, 1904
4 "Great Men's Sons": AMs, TMss, Everybody's Magazine, 1901
Looking Forward and Others
5 "Looking Forward to the Great Adventure": AMs, TMs, American Magazine, 1925
6 "Nipskillions": American Magazine, 1917
7 "The Hopeful Pressimist": AMs, TMsS, Cincinatti Enquires, 1924
8 "Stars in the Dust-Heap": AMs, TMs, Metropolitan, 1917
9 "The Golden Age": AMs, TMs, American Magazine, 1926
10 "Happiness Now": AMs, American Magazine, 1925
Mr. White, The Red Barn, Hell and Bridewater
96 1 "Mr. White": AMs, TMss, 1935
2 Preface: AMs, TMss
3 "The Red Barn": Ms, TMs
4 "Hell": TMs, Saturday Evening Post, 1927
5 "Bridewater": Ms
6 "Bridewater": TMs
7 blurb, AMs
The Works of Booth Tarkington (Autograph Edition)
97 1 Vol. VIII, AMsS, introduction to "Harlequin & Columbine," 1918
2 Vol. VIII, AMsS, "Mary Smith"
3 Vol. VIII, AMsS, "Truth is Stranger Than Fiction"
4 Vol. VIII, TMs, "Truth is Stranger Than Fiction"
5 Vol. VIII, AMs, TMs, "Marjorie Jone's Picnic"
6 Vol. VIII, AMs, TMs, "Penrod - Zoologist"
7 Vol. VIII, AMs, TMs, "The Second Name"
8 Vol. VIII, AMs, TMs, "Brudie's Pickle"
9 Vol. IX, AMs, TMs, "Mr. Brooke"
10 Vol. IX, AMs, TMs, "Lord Jerningham"
E. Plays
Aromatic Aaron Burr
98 1-7 TMs, prologue, acting script, and reading script (1938)
1-12 TMs, the different scripts for each character
13 photographs of Garrick Players Company production in Kennebunkport, Maine, 1938
100 1 Beauty and the Horse Doctor: TMsS, script
2-5 Beauty and the Jacobin: AMs, TMs, galleys, scripts
6 Bill the Brute: AMs, TMs, script
7 Bimbo the Pirate: TMs, script
101 1-7 Cameo Kirby: TMs, TMsS, scripts for Act I-IV
102 1-2 Cinderella of Tomkins Square: TMs, TMsS, Acts I-IV
3-4 Clarence: AMs, TMs, scripts for all acts of the play
103 1-7 Colonel Satan: AMs, Ms, TMs, scripts for all acts of the play
104 1-10 Colonel Satan: Ms, TMs, scripts for all acts of the play, notes
105 1-7 The Country Cousin: AMs, TMs
106 1-6 Foreign Exchange (i.e. The Other Side: Nancy Baxter): AMs, Ms, TMs
107 1-5 The Gentleman from Indiana: AMs, Ms, TMs
108 1 The Ghost Story: AMs, TMs (1922)
2-7 The Gibson Upright: AMs, TMs, TMss, galleys
109 1-4 His Word of Honor: TMs
The Honorable Julius Caesar
110 1 programs (1893, 1894, 1919)
2-3 TMs
4-7 Hoosier's Abroad: AMs, Ms, TMs
8-9 How's Your Health: TMs (1929)
111 1 In the Borderland: AMs, photestat
2 In the Chimney Corner: TMs (incomplete)
3-8 The Intimate Strangers: AMs, TMs (1921)
9-12 Karabish: TMs, programs (1939)
112 1-2 The Kisses of Marjone: AMs, TMs, autographed photostat (first published in John-a-Dreams, Dec. 1986)
113 1 Madam Sunshine: AMs (Act I)
114 1-10 Magnolia (Kunnel Blake): AMs, TMs (1923)
115 1-7 The Man from Home (The Guardian): AMs, TMs, photostat (1907)
116 1-9 The Man on Horseback: AMs, TMs (1901)
117 1-14 Monsieur Beaucaire: AMs, TMs (1901)
118 1 Mr. Antonio: AMs, Ms, TMs (1916)
119 1-10 Mrs. Jim's Romance (If I Had Money, Getting a Polish): AMs, TMs
120 1-5 The Ohio Lady: TMs (1916)
121 1-8 Polderkin: AMs, TMs (1895)
122 1-6 The Prodigals: AMs, TMs (1895)
123 1 Queen Elizabeth and the Countess of Nottingham: TMs (unpublished)
2-8 Rose Briar: AMs, TMs (1922)
9 "Love and the Moon" lyrics from Rose Briar: TMs
124 1-4 The Rose: AMs, AMsS, Ms, TMs (unpublished)
125 1-4 The Rose: TMs
126 1-4 Springtime: AMs, TMs (1909)
5-7 Station YYYY: AMs, TMs, galley proofs (1926)
8 Summer Covers: AMs, TMs (incomplete)
9-12 The Travellers: AMs, TMs, galley proofs (1925)
127 1-6 The Trysting Place: AMs, TMs (1922)
128 1-6 Tweedlers: AMs, TMs (1923)
129 1 Up from Nowhere: AM, TMs (1919)
2-3 The Wren: AMs (1921)
Your Humble Servant
130 1-8 TMs, 1908
131 1-4 AMs, TMs
5 Unidentified plays
6 Unidentified plays
F. Film Scenarios
132 1 Beaucaire: AMs, TMs (1921, unproduced)
Edgar Scenarios
2 Edgar and the Teacher's Pet: AMsS, TMs (1920)
3 Edgar Camps Out: AMsS, TMs (1920)
4 Edgar Takes the Cake: AMsS, TMs (1920)
5 Edgar the Detective: TMs (1921)
6 Edgar the Explorer: AMs, TMs (1921)
7 Edgar's Country Cousin, AMsS, TMs (1921)
8 Edgar Feast Day: AMsS
9 Edgar's Hamlet: AMsS, TMs (1926)
10 Edgar's Jonah Day: AMsS, TMs (1926)
11 Edgar's Little Sare: TMs (1926)
12 Edgar's Sunday Courtship: AMs
13 Get Rich Quick Edgar: AMsS, TMs (1920)
14 Edgar's Black Magic: TMs (not produced)
15 Edgar's New Gog: AMs (not produced)
133 1 Edgar Went Swimming: TMs (not produced)
2 Edgar's Wonderful Father: TMs (not produced)
3 Edgar's Surprise Package: AMs, TMs (not produced)
4 Good Ole Snow: AMs, TMs (not produced)
5 Edgar the Anti-Suffragist: AMs (not produced)
6 untitled
7 untitled
8 Edgar Makes a Movie: TMs, outline, not complete, and not produced
8 Edgar Goes West: TMs, outline not complete, and not produced
9 notes insertions, letter to Mr. Buchanan, AMs
134 1-2 A Great Man's Career: TMs (unproduced)
Hardy Family Scenario
135 1 TMs, TL (1944)
2 Ms, TMs (not produced)
3 Ms (1944, not produced)
4 Jackass Smith: Ms, TMs (not produced)
5 Jennie Grant: AMs (not produced)
The Millionaire
6 TMsS, Ms (1931)
7 TMs
8 Personality Plus or Prize Girl: TMs, Ms (1937, unproduced)
9 Pied Piper Malone: AMs, TMs (1924)
10 The Wondering Jew: AMs (unproduced)
11 Will Rogers Sketch: TMs, Ms (never produced)
G. Radio Scripts
136 1-5 Maud and Cousin Bill (shows 1-40): TMs (1932-33)
137 1-7 Maud and Cousin Bill (shows 41-100) TMs (1932-33)
138 1 On Blindness for the Better Vision Institute: TMs (1939)
2 On Conscription in Peacetime, (1945)
3 "Cows are Like Money" (for the Treasury Dept.): TMs (1945)
4 "Facing the Year 1946": TMs, studio copy (1945)
5 "Fools Will Burn": AMs, TMs, studio copy (1945)
6 for The Indiana Committee for Victory: TMs (1943)
7 "The Help Each Other Club": Ms, TMs (1933)
8-11 "Lady Hamilton and Her Nelson": Ms, TMs, proofs (1940)
12 "Let's Look Before We Leap": TMs (1945)
13 On Maine: TMs (1944)
14 "The New England Story I Like Best": AMs, TMs (1937)
15 Obituary Tribute to Franklin D. Roosevelt: Ms, TMs (1945)
16 Remarks Upon a Program of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Broadcast on the NBC Radio Network: TMs (1939)
17 Announcement for the Treasury Dept. 7th War Loan
18 "Two choices" (script supporting War Bonds): Ms, TLs (1942)
19 for the 6th War Loan Drive: TMs (1944)
20 "Young Americans" (script for Office of Civilian Defense): Ms, TMs (1942)
H. Poems/Songs/Verses
139 1 "Apart": lyrics, 1903
2 "The Assembly Coquette": TMs
3 "The Barons" (copy): TMs, 1897
3 "Chrismas, 1941": AMs, TMs
3 "The Clemantis Garden": AMs, TMs
3 "Coast Artillery": AMs, Ms, TMs (1943)
4 Easter Thanks Offering: AMs
5 "Fidelity": AMs
6 "Just Because I'm Rich and Grand": AMs, copy
7 "Lady Mehitabel (A Ballad in Four Colors)": AMs
7 "A Letter of Regrets": AMs, TMs, galley, photostats in John-a-Dreams, Sept. 1896
7 "Love on the Skull": Ms
7 "Lives Depending for this Meaning Upon Mr. Henry Parson's Remaining Seated": AMs, TMs
8 "Mary Neal and Other Poems": AMs
8 "Materialism": AMs, TMs, proof sheet
8-9 "My Lady With the Blue Dress On": TMs
10 "Quiatanon": TMs
10 "O, Lady, Scorn Me!" AMs
11 "Pink Statin": AMs, TMs, proof sheet
11 "Princeton Days": AMs (Carmins Princetonia, The University Song Book, 1894)
11 "The Proud Lover": TMs, A November Leaf, 1896
12 "The School Child": AMs
12 "The Sleeping Duenna": AMs
13 "Valentine": Ms
14 "A Wolintine": AMs
15 "The Mandolin," "The August Night," "Firefly," "The Frog" (published under Broad Ripple in The Indianapolis Journal, August 1, 1897): AMs, TMs, photocopy of newspaper
15 Untitled verses printed in The Indianapolis Journal, 1896-1897, under nom de plume "John Coberton"
16 Miscellaneous writings and drawings (untitled): AMs, TMs
I. Operatta
140 1 "The Songs Of Rappetin": AMs
J. Non-Fiction Books
The Collector's Whatnot
141 1 AMs, 1923
2 drawings
On Plays, Playwights and Playgoers
142 1-5 TMs, galleys, page proofs, Princeton University Library publication (collection of letters to and from Booth Tarkington, 1959)
6 miscellaneous
Some Old Portraits
143 1-6 Ms, TMs (1939)
144 1-7 Ms, TMs
145 1-8 Ms, TMs
146 1-6 TMs, galleys, page proofs
147 1-7 The World Does Move: AMs, TMS, Ms (1928)
8 Your Amiable Uncle: revised page proofs
K. Articles
148 1-63 A-D
149 1-62 E-I
150 1-54 J-P
151 1-58 R-T
152 1-36 U-W
153 1-12 untitled
154 1-44 A-H, oversize
155 1-28 I-N, oversize
156 1-25 Q-V, oversize
157 1-10 W - untitled, oversize
158 1-23 L. Speeches
M. Art Notes
159 1 catalogue of Tarkington's paintings and some photos of same
2-3 condensed catalogue of some of the Seawood picture
159 4 art notes: AMs, Ms, TMs
N. Juvenilia
160 1 miscellaneous: AMs
2 drawings: Haverly-Tidd reincarnation comedy; "Memory" poem; outline of a play; 2 untitled verses, AMs, TMs
3 Cass's Posthumous letter to `59: AMs
4 pages from a chemistry notebook: AMs
5 diary: AMs, TMs
6 diary: AMs, TMs
7 diary insert: AMs
8 essay on Emerson for Exeter, AMs
9 fragmant (probably from a letter)
10 "Little Portia" (short story): AMs, TMs (incomplete)
11 math problems: AMs
12 piece written for John-a-Dreams: AMs
13 school copybook: AMs
14 school copybook with unfinished story: AMs, TMs
15 "The Squire's Trip": AMs, TMs
16 theme on Indian (grade school): AMs
17 theme on "reading": AMsS
18 things written while at Purdue college: AMs
O. Miscellaneous
161 1 notes: AMs
2 "In the Chinmney Corner" (play) incomplete, AMs, TMs
3 "What Is It?" (play) incomplete: AMs
4 poems and drawings: Ams
5 poems: TMs
6 "The Trees": AMsS, AMs
7 poetry and verse: AMs
8 works of unconfirmed origin
162 Miscellaneous bound works
163 Miscellaneous bound works
P. Fragments/Notes/Unfinished/Untitled/Unidentified
164 1 essay on friendship (fragment), AMs
2 "Except Ye Become As Little Children": AMs
3 "The Great American": TMs, AMs
5-7 "Henry the Great": Ms
8 "Paradise Children" (fragment) AMs, TMs
9 "The Superior Tom": AMs (unfinifshed)
165 1-22 fragment, notes, untitled short stories, unidentified works: AMs, Ms, TMs
III. Correspondence
A. From Tarkington
168 1 A
2 B
3 Brandt, Carl, of Brandt & Brandt 1932-1937
4 Brandt, Carl 1938
5 Brandt, Carl 1939
6 Brandt, Carl 1940
7 Brandt, Carl 1941-1942
8 Brandt, Carl 1943-1943
9 Brandt, Carl 1945-46 & undated
169 1 C
2 Calkins, Dan 1983-1944
3 Costain
4 Currie, Barton 1921-1924
5 Currie, Barton 1925-1927
6 Currie, Barton 1928-45 & undated
7 D
8 Daniels, Harrison (Dan)
9 Doubleday, Russell & Doubleday, Nelson
Doran & Co.
170 1 E
2 F
3 Farr, Dan 1935-45
4 Fleisher, Sidney R. 1939-41
5 Freedman, Harold
6 G
7 Gordon, Ruth 1926-1945
8 H
9 Hale, Robert
10 Hanson, D. P. 1932-42 & undated
11 Hawkins, Gaylord 1910-1917
12 I
13 J
14 Jackson, Basil R. 1943-1945
15 Jackson, Malcolm 1939-1944
171 1 Jameson, Booth (nephew)
2 Jameson, John T. (nephew) 1899-1934
3 Jameson, John T. 1937
4 Jameson, John T. 1938
5 Jameson, John T. 1939
6 Jameson, John T. 1940
7 Jameson, John T. 1941
8 Jameson, John T. 1942
172 1 Jameson, John T. 1943
2 Jameson, John T. 1944
3 Jameson, John T. 1945 & undated
4 Jameson, John T., Donald B., & Booth T. (nephews)
Letters from Europe 1903-1906
5 Jameson, John T. Jr. 1938-1945
6 Jameson, Mrs. Ovid Butler (Haute) (sister) 1887-1899
173 1 Jameson, Mrs. Ovid Butler 1902-1909
2 Jameson, Mrs. Ovid Butler 1902-1909
3 Jameson, Mrs. Ovid Butler 1917-1922
4 Jameson, Mrs. Ovid Butler 1923-1928
5 Jameson, Mrs. Ovid Butler 1931-1933
6 Jameson, Mrs. Ovid Butler 1934-36 & undated
174 1 K
2 Kahler, Hugh MacNair 1919-1924
3 Kahler, Hugh MacNair 1925-1929
4 Kahler, Hugh MacNair 1930-1937
5 Kahler, Hugh MacNair 1938-1942
6 Kahler, Hugh MacNair 1943-1946
7 Kelly, Gregory 1921-23
175 1 Kelly, Fred 1923-1937
2 Kelly, Fred 1939
3 Kelly, Fred 1940
4 Kelly, Fred 1941
5 Kelly, Fred 1942
6 Kelly, Fred 1943
7 Kelly, Fred 1944
8 Kelly, Fred 1945
9 Kelly, Fred undated
176 1 L
2 Ludlow, Louis (House of Rep.) 1933-1945 & undated
3 M
4 McCulloch, Dr. Carl 1911-1925
5 McCulloch, Dr. Carl 1926-1937
6 McCulloch, Dr. Carl 1938
7 McCulloch, Dr. Carl 1939
8 McCulloch, Dr. Carl 1940
177 1 McCulloch, Dr. Carl 1941-1943
2 McCulloch, Dr. Carl 1944
3 McCulloch, Dr. Carl 1945-1946 & undated
4 Murchison, Mrs. Kenneth 1911-1912
5 Murray, H. G. ("Big") 1903-1942 & undated
6 N
7 Neal, Adelaide 1938-1939
8 Neall, Adelaide 1940-1942 & undated
9 O
178 1 P
2 Panofsky, Dr. Erwin 1938-1946
3 R
4 Kenneth, Roberts
5 S
6 Silberman, David 1933
7 Silberman, David 1934
8 Silberman, David 1935
9 Silberman, David 1936
10 Silberman, David 1937
179 1 Silberman, David 1938
2 Silberman, David 1939
3 Silberman, David 1940
4 Silberman, David 1940 Cont.
5 Silberman, David 1941
6 Silberman, David 1942
180 1 Silberman, David 1943
2 Silberman, David 1944
3 Silberman, David 1945 & undated
4 Smith, Henry Pratt 1940-1946
5 Street, Julian Sr. 1914
6 Street, Julian Sr. 1915
7 Street, Julian Sr. 1906-1913
181 1 Street, Julian Sr. 1916
2 Street, Julian Sr. 1917
3 Street, Julian Sr. 1918
4 Street, Julian Sr. 1919
5 Street, Julian Sr. 1920
6 Street, Julian Sr. 1921
7 Street, Julian Sr. 1922
8 Street, Julian Sr. 1923
182 1 Street, Julian Sr. 1924-1929
2 Street, Julian Sr. 1930-1934
3 Street, Julian Sr. 1935-1936
4 Street, Julian Sr. 1937-1939
5 Street, Julian Sr. 1940
6 Street, Julian Sr. 1941
7 Street, Julian Sr. 1942
8 Street, Julian Sr. 1943
183 1 Street, Julian Sr. 1944
2 Street, Julian Sr. 1945
3 Street, Julian Sr. 1946, undated, and fragments
4 Street, Margot (Mrs. Julian Street, Sr.)
5 Street, Julian, Jr. (Pete) 1935-1946
6 Street, Amanda (Pete Street's daughter)
185 1 T
2 Taggart, Lucy 1922-1943
3 Taggart, Lucy