06108cpcaa2200961 a 4500 mm 78032839 DLC 20260227111625.0 cr ||||||||||| 780810|||||||||||| eng mm 78032839 ms 70000962 DLC dacs DLC DLC eng fre L lcmd Middleton, George, 1880-1967. George Middleton papers, 1872-1970 (bulk 1911-1958). 15,000 items. 85 containers plus 8 oversize. 36.6 linear feet. Arranged in 7 series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1872-1968; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1901-1967; Series 3: Business Correspondence, 1903-1967; Series 4: Subject File, 1901-1967; Series 5: Literary Manuscripts, 1874-1963; Series 6: Miscellany, 1898-1967; and Series 7: Addition, 1879-1970. Open to research. Correspondence, speeches, lectures, literary manuscripts including books and plays, articles, subject file, research material, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Middleton's career as a playwright, author, and copyright specialist at the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Subjects include the protection of foreign and domestic playwrights' monetary and literary rights in the publication and production of their works, Robert M. La Follette's 1924 presidential campaign, Middleton's marriage to Fola La Follette, and his relationships with members of the theatrical, literary, and political communities. Includes material pertaining to Middleton's collaborations with David Belasco and Guy Bolton and to his association with the Dramatists Guild, Dutch Treat Club, and the Players Club. Includes drafts of his autobiography, These Things Are Mine (1947), and correspondence of Fola La Follette and other La Follette and Middleton family members. Other correspondents include J.M. Barrie, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Cecil B. DeMille, John Dos Passos, Eleanora Duse, Anatole France, Felix Frankfurter, Hamlin Garland, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, Sinclair Lewis, David Eli Lilienthal, Percy MacKaye, Don Marquis, John Masefield, Edgar Lee Masters, H.L. Mencken, Gerald P. Nye, Clifford Odets, Eugene O'Neill, Richard Rodgers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bernard Shaw, Lincoln Steffens, Booth Tarkington, P.G. Wodehouse, and Peggy Wood. Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Playwright, author, and copyright specialist. Collection material in English, with French. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010268 Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937 Correspondence. Belasco, David, 1853-1931. Bolton, Guy, 1884-1979. Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 Correspondence. DeMille, Cecil B. (Cecil Blount), 1881-1959 Correspondence. Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 Correspondence. Duse, Eleonora, 1858-1924 Correspondence. France, Anatole, 1844-1924 Correspondence. Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 Correspondence. Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 Correspondence. Hart, Moss, 1904-1961 Correspondence. Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961 Correspondence. La Follette, Fola, 1882-1970. La Follette, Fola, 1882-1970 Correspondence. La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1855-1925. Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 Correspondence. Lilienthal, David Eli, 1899-1981 Correspondence. MacKaye, Percy, 1875-1956 Correspondence. Marquis, Don, 1878-1937 Correspondence. Masefield, John, 1878-1967 Correspondence. Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 Correspondence. Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 Correspondence. Nye, Gerald P. (Gerald Prentice), 1892-1971 Correspondence. Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963 Correspondence. O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 Correspondence. Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979 Correspondence. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 Correspondence. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Correspondence. Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 Correspondence. Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936 Correspondence. Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 Correspondence. Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975 Correspondence. Wood, Peggy, 1892-1978 Correspondence. La Follette family Correspondence. Middleton family Correspondence. Dramatists Guild. Dutch Treat Club. Players (Club) United States. Department of Justice. Copyright. Copyright Performing rights. Drama Societies, etc. Presidents United States Election 1924. Theater. United States Intellectual life 20th century. United States Politics and government 20th century. Authors. itoamc Copyright specialists. itoamc Dramatists. itoamc Middleton, George, 1880-1967. These things are mine. 1947. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010268 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010268.3 39966 39966