William Allen White papers, 1859-1944 (bulk 1899-1944).
- 136,800 items. 537 containers. 198 linear feet.
- Arranged in 6 series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1909-1944; Series 2: Letterbooks, 1899-1920; Series 3: General Correspondence, 1897-1944; Series 4: Special Correspondence, 1916-1943; Series 5: Miscellany, 1859-1944; and Series 6: Addition, 1922-1940.
Open to research.
Chiefly corrrespondence relating to White's career as a newspaper editor, politician, and author; and to his personal life. Documents his work as editor of the Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Kansas; judge with the Book-of-the-Month Club; and regent of Kansas State University. Also documents his activities with the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Subjects include Kansas state and national politics, Theodore Roosevelt's campaign as Progressive Party nominee in the 1912 presidential campaign, White's campaign for governor of Kansas in 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan. Family correspondents included White's wife, Sallie White, and their son, William Lindsay White. Other correspondents include Jane Addams, Henry Justin Allen, Roy F. Bailey, William Rose Benét, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, William Edgar Borah, Joseph Little Bristow, Henry Seidel Canby, Arthur Capper, Frank Carlson, Calvin Coolidge, Edward Prentiss Costigan, William Smith Culbertson, Josephus Daniels, Jay N. Darling, Oscar K. Davis, J.N. Dolley, Clifton Fadiman, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, James Rudolph Garfield, Hamlin Garland, Robert K. Haas, Warren G. Harding, Henry Joseph Haskell, Will H. Hays, Edward Wallis Hoch, George H. Hodges, Hamilton Holt, Herbert Hoover, Harold L. Ickes, David Starr Jordan, Harry Kemp, Alfred M. Landon, Robert Lansing, Walter Lippmann, William Loeb, George Horace Lorimer, Amy Loveman, Medill McCormick, H.L. Mencken, Karl A. Menninger, Christopher Morley, Victor Murdock, George William Norris, Benjamin Sanford Paulen, Drew Pearson, Amos Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot, Payne Harry Ratner, Clyde Martin Reed, Edward H. Rees, Roy A. Roberts, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Harry Scherman, Upton Sinclair, Walter Roscoe Stubbs, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, William H. Taft, Ida M. Tarbell, Joseph P. Tumulty, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry A. Wallace, Walter Francis White, Roy Wilkins, Woodrow Wilson, Stephen S. Wise, Meredith Wood, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Associated Press.
Newspaper editor.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011067 Index to the General Correspondence series available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/ms011067.appx.pdf
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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 --Correspondence. Allen, Henry Justin, 1868-1950 --Correspondence. Bailey, Roy F., 1883-1971 --Correspondence. Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950 --Correspondence. Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, 1862-1927 --Correspondence. Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940 --Correspondence. Bristow, Joseph Little, 1861-1944 --Correspondence. Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961 --Correspondence. Capper, Arthur, 1865-1951 --Correspondence. Carlson, Frank, 1893-1987 --Correspondence. Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 --Correspondence. Costigan, Edward Prentiss, 1874-1939 --Correspondence. Culbertson, William Smith, 1884-1966 --Correspondence. Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948 --Correspondence. Darling, Jay N. 1876-1962 --Correspondence. Davis, Oscar K. 1866-1932 --Correspondence. Dolley, J. N.--Correspondence. Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999 --Correspondence. Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 --Correspondence. Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 --Correspondence. Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950 --Correspondence. Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 --Correspondence. Haas, Robert K., 1890-1964 --Correspondence. Harding, Warren G. 1865-1923 --Correspondence. Haskell, Henry Joseph, 1874-1952 --Correspondence. Hays, Will H. 1879-1954 --Correspondence. Hoch, Edward Wallis, 1849-1925 --Correspondence. Hodges, George H. 1866-1947 --Correspondence. Holt, Hamilton, 1872-1951 --Correspondence. Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 --Correspondence. Ickes, Harold L. 1874-1952 --Correspondence. Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 --Correspondence. Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 --Correspondence. Landon, Alfred M. 1887-1987 --Correspondence. Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928 --Correspondence. Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974 --Correspondence. Loeb, William, 1866-1937 --Correspondence. Lorimer, George Horace, 1868-1937 --Correspondence. Loveman, Amy--Correspondence. McCormick, Medill, 1877-1925 --Correspondence. Mencken, H. L. 1880-1956 --Correspondence. Menninger, Karl A. 1893-1990 --Correspondence. Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 --Correspondence. Murdock, Victor--Correspondence. Norris, George William, 1861-1944 --Correspondence. Paulen, Benjamin Sanford, 1869-1961 --Correspondence. Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969 --Correspondence. Pinchot, Amos, 1873-1944 --Correspondence. Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946 --Correspondence. Ratner, Payne Harry, 1896-1974 --Correspondence. Reed, Clyde Martin, 1871-1949 --Correspondence. Rees, Edward H. 1886-1969 --Correspondence. Roberts, Roy A. 1887-1967 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 --Correspondence. Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 --Correspondence. Scherman, Harry, 1887- --Correspondence. Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 --Correspondence. Stubbs, Walter Roscoe, 1858-1929 --Correspondence. Sullivan, Mark, 1874-1952 --Correspondence. Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 1891-1968 --Correspondence. Taft, William H. 1857-1930 --Correspondence. Tarbell, Ida M. 1857-1944 --Correspondence. Tumulty, Joseph P. 1879-1954 --Correspondence. Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 --Correspondence. Wallace, Henry A. 1888-1965 --Correspondence. White, Sallie 1869-1950 --Correspondence. White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955 --Correspondence. White, William Lindsay, 1900-1973 --Correspondence. Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981 --Correspondence. Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 --Correspondence. Wise, Stephen S. 1874-1949 --Correspondence. Wood, Meredith, 1895-1974 --Correspondence. Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 --Correspondence.
American Society of Newspaper Editors. Associated Press--Correspondence. Book-of-the-Month Club. Kansas State University. Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) Progressive Party (1912) Republican Party (Kan.)
Emporia gazette.
American literature. American newspapers--Kansas. Book clubs (Bookselling)--United States. Books--Reviews.--United States Journalism--Kansas. Presidents--Election--United States--1912. Progressivism (United States politics) Universities and colleges--Kansas.
Kansas--Politics and government--1865-1950. United States--Politics and government--1865-1933. United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.