Research Catalog
Masters-Davis collection
- Title
- Masters-Davis collection, 1928, 1930-1977, bulk (1936-1944).
- Author
- Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | MssCol 1907 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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- Description
- 2 linear feet (2 boxes).
- Summary
- Collection consists of correspondence, poetry, an extensive journal of Alice Davis's, snapshots, and miscellaneous printed material documenting the relationship between Alice E. Davis (later Tibbetts) and Edgar Lee Masters while they both lived in the Chelsea Hotel.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Diaries.
- Photographs.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Source (note)
- Tibbetts, Alice Davis
- Biography (note)
- Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950), poet, novelist, and biographer, was born in Kansas and raised in Illinois.
- Processing Action (note)
- Accessioned
- Cataloging updated
- Call Number
- MssCol 1907
- Author
- Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950.
- Title
- Masters-Davis collection, 1928, 1930-1977, bulk (1936-1944).
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950), poet, novelist, and biographer, was born in Kansas and raised in Illinois. He was admitted to the bar in 1891 and practiced law for many years in Chicago, including a stint with Clarence Darrow, 1903-1911. However, his true vocation was writing; over a period of nearly thirty years he produced more than forty books of poetry and prose, including biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Vachel Lindsey, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain. His most famous work was Spoon River Anthology (1915), first published the previous year as a series of 244 epitaphs in free verse in Reedy's Mirror of St. Louis under the pseudonym Webster Ford. He was married twice, to Helen Jenkins in 1898 and to Ellen Frances Coyne in 1923, and had four children. However, from 1931 to 1944 he lived alone in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City where he became acquainted with Alice Davis (later Tibbetts). Masters died in 1950 in Melrose, Pennsylvania.
- Finding Aids
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Authors.Poets.
- Added Author
- Butturff, Dorothy Dow, 1904-Davis, Alice E.Derleth, August, 1909-1971.Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.Nichols, Dudley, 1895-1960.Peale, Norman Vincent, 1898-1993.Quarles, Louis.Tibbetts, Alice Davis.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 1907