Wesley Winans Stout papers
Contributors: Lorimer, George Horace, 1869-1937
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
Subjects: Correspondence; Saturday evening post; American periodicals
Description: Chiefly editorial correspondence of Stout and his predecessor, George Horace Lorimer, and other members of the Saturday Evening Post editorial staff including Thomas B. Costain and Francis Churchill "Churchie" Williams.  Correspondence pertains primarily to proposals, assignments, submission, acceptance, or rejection of articles and fiction for the magazine.  Includes papers concerning Stout's activities after leaving the Post.  Correspondents include Joseph Alsop, Arthur "Bugs" Baer, Thomas Beer, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, William Jennings Bryan, William Faulkner, Edna Ferber, Joseph Hergesheimer, De Wolf Hopper, Ring Lardner, John P. Marquand, Will Rogers and family, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pierre Salinger, Robert W. Service, Julian Street, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Betty Stout Johnson, 1972.

Editor.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012079