Middleton, George 1880-1967 creator mixed material monographic eng fre 15,000 85 8 36.6 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. Open to research. 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 Copyright specialists Dramatists Middleton, George, 1880-1967 mm 78032839 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010268 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010268.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010268 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010268.3 Open to research. DLC 780810 20260227111625.0 mm 78032839