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Authors -- Letters and papers

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Melville Davisson Post (1871-1930) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1143
Scope and Contents

These are letters between Post and publishers Edward J. Clode and W. G. Chapman and are concerned with the serial rights to “The Corrector of Destinies.”

Dates: 1909-1926

Melville Davisson Post (1871-1930) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1635
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of writer Melville Davisson Post with Louis E. Schrader, a Wheeling court reporter who edited, typed, and often forwarded Post's manuscripts to the publisher. These letters are primarily instructions for Schrader and concern Post's legal writings as well as his detective stories.

Dates: 1897; 1909-1915

Melville Davisson Post Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0693
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts of short stories and essays of Melville D. Post, some of which were published between 1920 and 1929 in the Review of Reviews, Everybody’s, and the American Magazine. Collection also includes World War I poster texts and articles on various subjects by Melville D. Post; also, two letters. See processing notes for list of titles.

Dates: undated

Virgil Anson Lewis, Historian, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1507
Overview Published and unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and speeches of Virgil A. Lewis (1848-1912), the first state historian and archivist and a former state superintendent of schools. Subjects include the exploration, Indian wars, and settlement of Western Virginia; the Tory insurrection in the Valley of Lost River, 1781; the West Virginia new state movement; Masonry in West Virginia; Andrew S. Rowan; and various West Virginia authors. Correspondents include: George W. Atkinson, Waitman...
Dates: 1895-1912

Waitman T. Barbe (1864-1925) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0831
Overview Papers of the managing editor of the Parkersburg DAILY STATE JOURNAL, 1889-1895, editor of the WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL JOURNAL, and member of the English faculty of West Virginia University, 1895-1925. The collection includes manuscripts of Barbe's published poetry and unpublished short stories, correspondence, notes, speeches, class lectures, illustrations for short stories drawn by John Rettig, a scrapbook of clippings of reviews and correspondence relating to Barbe's book, GOING TO COLLEGE,...
Dates: 1884-1930