Corey, Herbert, 1872-1954.

Herbert Corey papers, 1847-1954 (bulk 1880-1954). - 8,700 items. 24 containers. 9.6 linear feet. - Arranged in 6 series. Series 1: Diaries and Datebooks, 1919-1952; Series 2: Correspondence, 1847-1954; Series 3: Scrapbooks and Notebooks, circa 1914-1919; Series 4: Literary File; Series 5: Clippings, circa 1900-1950; and Series 6: Miscellany.

Open to research.

Correspondence, diaries, datebooks, literary manuscripts, notebooks, family Bible, clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Corey's activities as an author and as a journalist in Europe during World War I. Also documents his work as a contributing editor of the Nation's Business, cowboy, sheepherder, and stage driver. Includes material pertaining to Corey's books, Truth about Hoover (1932) and Submarine: The Autobiography of Simon Lake as Told to Herbert Corey (1938), and to the Corey family.


Some photographs
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
transferred to


Journalist and author.


Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011096

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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
Lake, Simon, 1866-1945.
Corey family.


Nation's business.


Cowboys--West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)
Journalism.
American literature.
Sheepherding--West (U.S.)
Stagecoaches--West (U.S.)
Submarines (Ships)
World War, 1914-1918--Journalists.


Authors.
Journalists.