Irita Taylor Van Doren papers
Contributors: Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944; Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944
Language: eng
Number of pages: 4000
Subjects: Correspondence; Literature; American newspapers; Poetry; Reviews; Books; Voyages around the world; World War, 1939-1945; New York herald tribune
Description: Correspondence; speeches, articles, poems, and book reviews by various authors; photographs; and other papers relating to Van Doren's work as editor of the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday book review section.  Includes a file of speeches and articles by Wendell L. Willkie, papers relating to his world tour during World War II, and drafts of his book, One World (1943).  Correspondents include Samuel Hopkins Adams, Stephen Vincent Benét, Van Wyck Brooks, Witter Bynner, James Branch Cabell, Willa Cather, Walter de la Mare, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, E.M. Forster, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Sinclair Lewis, W. Somerset Maugham, Erich Maria Remarque, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and E.B. White.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, estate of Irita Van Doren, 1968.

Converted to gift, 1970-1972.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Literary editor.

Collection material in English.

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