Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation
Dorothy Dudley Harvey papers
Harvey, Dorothy Dudley, 1884-1962
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935
Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
A.H34
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2 box(es)
1917-1953
English
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Biographical/Historical note
Dorothy (Dudley) Harvey was born in Chicago in 1884. After graduating from Bryn Mawr in 1905 she returned to the Midwest. She and her sister Helen Dudley were part of the literary set around Harriet Monroe and Mrs. Harvey published poems and reviews in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse beginning in 1915 and throughout the twenties. It was during this period that Mrs. Harvey became acquainted with many of the correspondents represented in the collection: Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters and Sherwood Anderson. Other periodicals in which work by Mrs. Harvey appeared were Dial, American Magazine of Art and Nation. In 1932 she published a biography of Theodore Dreiser, Forgotten Frontiers: Dreiser and the Land of the Free. Many of the letters in this collection contain the reactions of Mrs. Harvey's correspondents to her book. For many years Mrs. Harvey lived in France with her husband (Henry Blodgett Harvey) and two children. She died in Paris in 1962.
Scope and Contents
The largest segment of the correspondence is from Theodore Dreiser consisting of 19 letters written between 1917 and 1942. Also included are typescripts of four Dreiser poems. The Carl Sandburg material consists of 9 letters, 11 typescripts (9 poems, 2 childrens' stories), one manuscript poem, and a signed printed broadside. Other groups of correspondence include those from Alfred Stieglitz (5 letters), Sherwood Anderson (6 letters), Edgar Lee Masters (5 letters), and Harriet Monroe (4 letters). All the letters have been indexed.
Related Archival Materials note
See also Carl Sandburg Papers.
Access
The Dorothy Dudley Harvey Papers is open for research use. Researchers are advised to contact the Rare Collections & Preservation Department prior to visiting. Upon arrival, researchers will also be asked to fill out a registration form and provide photo identification.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Emily Driscoll, August 27, 1969. Wilson Fund.
Use
In consultation with a curator, reproductions may be made upon request. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from a curator. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
Preferred Citation
[Item title, item date], Dorothy Dudley Harvey Papers, A.H34, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Authors, American
Correspondence
Harvey, Dorothy Dudley, 1884-1962
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935
Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
Correspondence, Dated/repositories/2/archival_objects/1637251917/repositories/2/archival_objects/163727February 12: Edgar Lee Masters to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163769February 23: Edgar Lee Masters to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163770September 21: Edgar Lee Masters to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163771December 25: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1637721918/repositories/2/archival_objects/163728February 9: Edgar Lee Masters to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163773April: Edgar Lee Master to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163774November 22: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1637751924/repositories/2/archival_objects/163729May 21: Edwin Arlington Robinson to Harriet Monroe/repositories/2/archival_objects/163776May 23: Edwin Arlington Robinson to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1637771925/repositories/2/archival_objects/163730August 7: Marianne Moore to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1637781926/repositories/2/archival_objects/163731November 9: Marianne Moore to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163779November 26: Marianne Moore to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163780December 4: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1637811927/repositories/2/archival_objects/163732May 28: Langston Hughes to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163782November 26: Bertrand Russell to Schofield Thayer/repositories/2/archival_objects/163783December 13: Marianne Moore to Bertrand Russell/repositories/2/archival_objects/1637841928/repositories/2/archival_objects/163733June 5: Clarence Darrow to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163785December 1: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1637861929/repositories/2/archival_objects/163734April 7: William Carlos Williams to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1637871930/repositories/2/archival_objects/163735July 28: Dorothy Thompson to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1637881931/repositories/2/archival_objects/163736June 29: H.L. Mencken to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1637891932/repositories/2/archival_objects/163737April 7: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163790June 7: Ezra Pound to Harrison Smith, Inc./repositories/2/archival_objects/163791October 4: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163792October 29: Paul Morand to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163793November 3: André Siefried to ___________ ___________/repositories/2/archival_objects/163794December 3: John Cowper Powys to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163795December 5: Lewis Mumford to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163796December 5: Alfred Stieglitz to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163797December 5: Alfred Stieglitz to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163798December 9: John Cowper Powys to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163799December 13: Kay Boyle to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163800December 19: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163801December 26: William Aspenwall Bradley to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163802December: Kay Boyle to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163803? Anthony Bates to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163804? Mrs. Helen (Patges) Dreiser/repositories/2/archival_objects/163805? David Garnett/repositories/2/archival_objects/163806? Henry Miller/repositories/2/archival_objects/163807? Gertrude Stein/repositories/2/archival_objects/1638081933/repositories/2/archival_objects/163738January 12: Magaret Ayer Barnes to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163809January 17: Alfred Stieglitz to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163810January 19: Harriet Monroe to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163811January 22: John Cowper Powys to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163812February 2: Max Eastman to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163813March 10: John Dos Passos to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163814April 3: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163815April 21: Virginia Woolf to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163816May 8: Sherwood Anderson to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163817May 18: Ford Madox Ford to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163818May 23: Francis Hackett to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163819[May?]: Sherwood Anderson to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163820June 7: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163821June 10: Sherwood Anderson to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163822June 19: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163823July 21: Ring Lardner to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163824July 29: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163825September 8: Harriet Monroe to Miss Bonino (?)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163826September 27: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163827October 2: Lincoln Kirstein to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163828October 16: Harriet Monroe to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163829October 19: Grant Rlchards to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163830October 30: Max Eastman to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163831November 9: Alfred Stieglitz to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163832November 30: Grant Richards to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163833December 1: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163834? Sherwood Anderson to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163835? Sherwood Anderson to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163836? Sherwood Anderson to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1638371934/repositories/2/archival_objects/163739March 16: Henri Matisse to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1638381935/repositories/2/archival_objects/163740February 22: Carl Sandburg to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163839July 20: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1638401937/repositories/2/archival_objects/163741July 8: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163841October 11: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163842December 24: Carl Sandburg to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1638431939/repositories/2/archival_objects/163742February 15: Jack Conroy to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1638441940/repositories/2/archival_objects/163743January 9: Theodore Dreiser to Fred Smith/repositories/2/archival_objects/163845July 26: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1638461942/repositories/2/archival_objects/163744June 8: Wendell Willkie to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163847July 9: Wendell Willkie to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163848November 12: Theodore Dreiser to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1638491947/repositories/2/archival_objects/163745October 20: Frank Lloyd Wright to Harry B. Harvey/repositories/2/archival_objects/1638501948/repositories/2/archival_objects/163746April 1: Alexander Calder to Harry B. Harvey/repositories/2/archival_objects/1638511949/repositories/2/archival_objects/163747September 22: Carl Sandburg to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163852December 25: Alice B. Toklas to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/1638531950/repositories/2/archival_objects/163748January 4: Francis Otto Matthieson/repositories/2/archival_objects/1638541953/repositories/2/archival_objects/163749March 23: Alice B. Toklas/repositories/2/archival_objects/163855Correspondence, Undated/repositories/2/archival_objects/163726n.d. Henri Matisse to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163750March 14, n.y. H.L. Mencken to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163751May 19, n.y. H.L. Mencken to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163752July 9, n.y. H.L. Mencken to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163753September 16, n.y. H.L. Mencken to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163754August 18, n.y. Carl Sandburg to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163755October 26, n.y. Carl Sandburg to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163756November 22, n.y. Carl Sandburg to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163757n.d. Carl Sandburg to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163758n.d. Carl Sandburg to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163759n.d. Carl Sandburg to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163760n.d. Alfred Stieglitz to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163761n.d. Gertrude Stein to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163762n.d. Gertrude Stein to DDH/repositories/2/archival_objects/163763MANUSCRIPTS/repositories/2/archival_objects/163764Theodore Dreiser: Four poems/repositories/2/archival_objects/163856The sailor (1p. Typescript.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163868The Hopeless lover (1p. Typescript.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163869In a country graveyard (1p. Typescript.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163870A wine of bitterness (2p. Typescript.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163871Langston Hughes: Poem [Never look too long on beauty] (1p. A.Ms.S.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163765Carl Sandburg: Poems/repositories/2/archival_objects/163766[Beat at the bars] (1p. Typescript signed.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163857Moist moon people (1p. Typescript.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163858Monkey of stars (1p. Typescript.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163859________ Po and Lao Tse come to Nebraska (1p. Typescript.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163860Smokestacks on the west coast (1p. Typescript.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163861Sweet sunshine (1p. Typescript.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163862[The wind blows] (2p. A.Ms.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163863Written for the farewell of Sell and Don Levine to Chicago (1p. Typescript.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163864Carl Sandburg: Short stories/repositories/2/archival_objects/163865Egypt, Jesse James and Spanish Onions look at three kings (2p. Typescript.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163866Egypt, Jesse James and Spanish Onions look at three queens (2p. Typescript.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163867Carl Sandburg: Broadside Ever normal turmoil (1p.) Printed at the Peregrine Press, 1950. Written on bottom in Sandburg's hand: "For Dorothy Dudley - Carl Sandburg"/repositories/2/archival_objects/163767Carl Sandburg: Inscription written on back of a post card commenting on the picture of Lonesome Pine in Rocky Mountain National Park. (1p. A.Ms.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/163768