Marshall P. Wilder papers, 1880-1914.
- 2,000 items. 8 1 oversize. containers plus 3 linear feet.
- Arranged in 4 series. Series 1: General Correspondence, 1881-1914; Series 2: Alphabetical File, 1886-1912; Series 3: Miscellany, 1880-1913; and Series 4: Oversize, 1893-1898.
Open to research.
Correspondence, diaries, humor notes and clippings supplying the raw material for Wilder's performances, notebooks containing lists of theatrical agents and performers, scrapbooks of playbills and theatrical broadsides, photographs, and other papers. Correspondents include Henry Ward Beecher, Buffalo Bill, Grover Cleveland, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Elbert Hubbard, Sir Henry Irving, Sadie Martinot, Bill Nye, Cora Urquhart Potter, Theodore Roosevelt, William T. Sherman, William Terriss, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Humorist and entertainer.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011011