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LaVyrle Spencer Papers
105 · Colección · 1980-1997

The papers of LaVyrle Spencer contain various drafts of nearly all of her published books. Published books with papers contained in this collection include The Endearment (1982), Hummingbird (1983), A Promise to Cherish (1983), The Hellion (1984), Sweet Memories (1984), Twice Loved (1984), Separate Beds (1985), Spring Fancy (1985), The Gamble (1987), Years (1987), Vows (1988), Morning Glory (1989), Bitter Sweet (1990), Forgiving (1991), Bygones (1992), November of the Heart (1993), Family Blessings (1994), Home Song (1995), That Camden Summer (1996), Then Came Heaven (1997), and Small Town Girl (1997).

The papers show the evolution of the writing of the books, demonstrating how Spencer created, crafted, and revised the stories over time.

Series 1: Miscellaneous

This series contains a small amount of material related to Spencer’s life as well as fan mail.

Series 2: Published Works

The series contains drafts of many of Spencer’s published books. Many of the books, especially those early in Spencer’s writing career, have more than one draft. These include original typescripts with handwritten revisions and other corrections, copy-edited manuscripts, and, often times, author galleys.

Series 3: Foreign Language Books

Contained in this series are foreign language translations of many of Spencer’s novels. Languages include Spanish, Polish, and German. These are not accessible through the online catalog.

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Sinclair Lewis Letters to Fred Lewis
222 · Colección · 1915-1960

Color copies of letters written by Sinclair Lewis to his oldest brother Fred Lewis.

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Hubert Irey Gibson, 1954
149 · Unidad documental simple · 1954
Parte de Hubert Irey Gibson Collection of Sinclair Lewis
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  • Hubert Gibson was the personal secretary of the author Sinclair Lewis in the fall of 1933, when Lewis collaborated with Lloyd Lewis (no relation) on the play/novel The Jayhawker.
  • Dimensions: 16.9 x 12.6 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Hubert Gibson Collection of Sinclair Lewis. Hubert Gibson. Photographs and Newsclippings
Sinclair Lewis
934 · Unidad documental simple · 1930-1939
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
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  • Dimensions: 10.3 x 5.8 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis, 1880s-1940s
Edwin Lewis
938 · Unidad documental simple · 1900-1920
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
  • 00938.jpg
  • Dimensions: 20.9 x 15.9 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Edwin Lewis and family
Claude B. Lewis, 1930
861 · Unidad documental simple · 1930
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
  • 00861.jpg
  • Claude was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
  • Dimensions: 22.4 x 17.1 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Claude Lewis family
1415 · Unidad documental simple · 1914-1915?
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
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  • Mary Lewis, first wife of Claude Lewis, older brother of author Sinclair, and two of her children, Virginia and Freeman.
  • Dimensions: 12.3 x 19.9 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Claude Lewis family
Claude B. Lewis and family
911 · Unidad documental simple · 1930-1939
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
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  • Claude was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
  • Dimensions: 24 x 18.9 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Claude Lewis family
Sinclair Lewis and Grace Hegger Lewis
14378 · Unidad documental simple · 1916
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
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  • Dimensions: 6.6 x 10.5 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: laude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. With Grace Hegger Lewis and Wells Lewis, 1910s-1920s
Claude Lewis Family Papers
98 · Colección · 1870-1996

The Claude Family Lewis Papers are mostly materials related to Claude Lewis and his family: first wife (and mother of his children) Mary, second wife Helen, and his surviving children - Freeman, Virginia, and Isabel. These materials include letters and other papers from his younger brother, Harry Sinclair Lewis, who, as an author, rose to worldwide fame.

When possible, people, especially those with a connection to the Lewis family, are identified to provide context to the materials.

Series 1: Correspondence

This series contains correspondence between members of the Claude Lewis family, others outside of Claude Lewis's family, and with those outside of the family. The letters are organized in sub-series by those who sent them.

Sub-Series 1: Claude and Mary Lewis

This subseries contains mostly letters that Claude wrote to his wife Mary and children Freeman, Virginia, and Isable. Significant are the letters that he wrote while vacationing in Alaska with wife Mary that chronicles their experiences.

Sub-Series 2: Edwin Lewis

This series contains a few letters written to Claude and Mary Lewis regarding life in Sauk Centre.

Sub-Series 3: Freeman Lewis

These letters were written by Freeman Lewis to his parents Claude and Mary from 1933 through 1940 about living in New York, his new family, including wife Judy Jennison Lewis, and the effects of the Great Depression.

Sub-Series 4: Grace Hegger Lewis

Written to various Lewis family members, mostly in the 1920s, Grace describes life living and traveling with her husband Sinclair Lewis. Especially noteworthy are the letters sent to Mary Lewis, often detailing the trials and tribualations of life in Europe.

Sub-Series 5: Helen Lewis

Written mostly after the death of Claude Lewis in 1957, this sub-series includes a single letter written by Michael Lewis.

Sub-Series 6: Judy Jennison Lewis

These letters were written by Freeman Lewis's new wife, Judy Jennison Lewis, to Mary Lewis, Freeman's mother. These describe life during the Great Depression in New York City.

Sub-Series 7: Sinclair Lewis

The letters are organized by receipent, then listed individually by date. The place from where the letters were written are also listed. Most of the letters here that he wrote went to members of the Claude Lewis family and his father.

In these letters, Sinclair discussed his recent travels and what he did during those travels, especially those to his father. Sinclair did inquire about Claude's family, often asking his older brother to travel with him. He also asked about the well-being of Freeman, Virginia, and Isabel - he offered advice about schooling (especially regarding Freeman), as well as career choices.

Sinclair did write of his work, including Mantrap, Dodsworth on Broadway as a play, Jayhawker, and It Can't Happen Here.

Sub-Series 8: Virginia Lewis

The letters in this sub-series were mostly written from the 1950s and on, though there are a few items dated before then. Many deal with the legacy of Sinclair Lewis especially about the records held by the Claude Lewis famliy. Especially noteworthy are the letters from Michael Lewis, as well as those from Marcella Powers.

Sub-Series 9: Dorothy Thompson

Only a small numbers of item in this sub-series, the correspondence is from Dorothy Thompson, Sinclair Lewis's second wife. Interesting items include a postcard with the likeness of Adolph Hitler, which was sent to Sinclair Lewis in the mid-1930s, as well as correspondence with Claude Lewis's second wife, Helen, regarding the decision to bury Sinclair Lewis's ashes in Sauk Centre after his 1951 death.

Sub-Series 10: Other Correspondence

This sub-series contains other correspondence received by the Lewis family.

Sub-Series 11: Acquistion of the Claude Lewis Family Papers

These records document the appraisal of value and the purchase of the bulk of the Claude Lewis Family to St. Cloud State by Freeman, Viriginia, and Isabel Lewis.

Series 2: Isabel Lewis Agrell subject files

These records contain mostly correspondence between Isabel Lewis and her family and other outsiders, almost exclusiverly dated after 1950. Notable correspondents include Ida and Charles Compton, Minnesota author John Koblas (who wrote several books about Sinclair Lewis), Lesley Lewis, and Marcella Powers.

Most notable are the letters from Lewis family members. Kay Cardew, grandmother of Lesley Lewis, wrote Isabel encouraging her to be in contact with Lesley, since her mother and father were deceased. Lesley Lewis wrote Isabel about her life and early career, while Jennifer Lewis Newsome reported on the health and, later, death of Michael Lewis. Marcella Powers, though not a Lewis family member, wrote of her life after her friendship with Sinclair Lewis ended. Mary Branham would write Isabel reporting on the death of Marcella, her close friend, in March 1985.

Isabel and her sister Virignia also organized a reception at St. Cloud State in August 1986 in which they gifted a 24 volume set of Sinclair Lewis works, edited by Japanese professor Hiroshige Yoshida. Included here are the correspondence regarding this reception, brochures from the event, the guestbook signed, and the audio recorded. The reception was held in the Lewis House (then known as the Alumni House), the former home of Claude Lewis and his family.

Series 3: Travel Journals and Related Material

This series contains materials related to the travels of Claude Lewis, who traveled with his first wife Mary and his second wife Helen, as well as his younger brother Sinclair. Material after 1957 were created by Helen when she traveled after the death of Claude.

Material here, organized by date of trip, are varied. These mostly contain typescript accounts that appeared in Claude's journal. There are some handwritten travel journals that were transcribed and are here also.

Most notable are the two trips that Claude took with his brother Sinclair - Saskatchewan in 1924 and Europe in 1949. The Saskatchewan trip contains a typescript of Claude's journal, which appeared twice in published form - Sinclair Lewis & Mantrap: The Saskatchewan Trip, edited by John Koblas and Dave Page in 1985, and Treaty Trip, which appeared in 1959. Sinclair used information from this trip for his 1926 book Mantrap. A photo album, which includes images of Sinclair, is included here, too.

After the death of his first wife Mary in 1949, Claude traveled to Europe with his brother Sinclair in 1949. A typescript of Claude's travel journal details life on the road with his famous younger brother. Claude would never see his brother alive again - Sinclair Lewis died in Rome in January 1951.

Series 4: Images

Material in this series are images of Claude Lewis and his extended family, including brother Sinclair and father Edwin, as well as early images of the sons of Sinclair, Wells and Michael. Images are organized by subject.

Photos are numerous for Claude Lewis and his family, including several formal portraits, though it does not include son Freeman.

Other notable images include Edwin and his second wife Isabel, Winnie Lewis, wife of Fred Lewis, Claude and Sinclair's oldest brother, and Sinclair's first wife Grace Hegger Lewis visiting Sauk Centre, MN. There are several images of Sinclair with Marcella Powers, including an autographed portrait of Sinclair that he gave Marcella in September 1939 and photos of them performing together in the play Shadow and Substance. There are images of Sinclair at his home in Duluth in the mid-1940s, as well as an image of Sinclair as a baby and portraits of him while attending Yale University.

People who were identified were included in the notes field for specific folders.

Series 5: Other Personal Papers

This series contains a wife variety of material related to the Claude Lewis family, as well as items from or related to Sinclair Lewis.

There are many items here, including account books calculating the cost of the higher education of Freeman, Virginia, and Isabel Lewis, a journal describing life at a lake cabin, wedding announcements, obituaries, and two semi-published works by Isabel Lewis Agrell and Mary Agrrell Stroeing about Sinclair Lewis and Viriginia Lewis.

Particularily significant is a typescript of a play, Angela is Twenty-Two, written by Sinclair Lewis and actress Fay Wray. Other significant items include the bill for the funeral of older brother Fred Lewis in 1946, program for Sinclair Lewis's memorial service in January 1951 in Sauk Centre, MN, shortly after his death, and a silk scarf given by Grace Hegger Lewis to Mary Lewis in the 1920s.

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John Fischer Papers
103 · Colección · 1985-1987

The papers of John Fischer contain various drafts of two published books. The books are Harold Robbins Presents: High Stakes (1986) and Harold Robbins Presents: Station Break (1987).

The papers show the evolution of the writing of the books, demonstrating how Fluke and Fischmann created, crafted, and revised the stories over time.

Series 1: Harold Robbins Presents: High Stakes (1986)

The series contains three drafts and other material related to the writing of Harold Robbins Presents: High Stakes.

Series 2: Harold Robbins Presents: Station Break (1987)

The series contains three drafts and other material related to the writing of Harold Robbins Presents: Station Break.

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Sinclair Lewis
917 · Unidad documental simple · 1885
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
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  • Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.3 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis, 1880s-1940s
Sinclair Lewis and friend
915 · Unidad documental simple · 1920-1929
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
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  • Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.7 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis, 1880s-1940s
Virginia Lewis
223 · Unidad documental simple · 1930
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
  • 00223.jpg
  • Virginia was the daughter of Claude Lewis, older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
  • Dimensions: 22.7 x 17.4 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Claude Lewis family
Claude Lewis
221 · Unidad documental simple · 1900-1910?
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
  • 00221.jpg
  • Claude was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
  • Dimensions: 16.6 x 11.5 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Claude Lewis family
Claude Lewis
222 · Unidad documental simple · 1920-1929
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
  • 00222.jpg
  • Claude was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
  • Dimensions: 25 x 18.9 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Claude Lewis family
Claude B. Lewis and family
912 · Unidad documental simple · 1930-1939
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
  • 00912.jpg
  • Claude was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
  • Dimensions: 18.4 x 23.5 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Claude Lewis family
Sinclair Lewis and Marcella Powers
14379 · Unidad documental simple · 1940
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
  • 14379.jpg
  • Dimensions: 8.4 x 8.7 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. With Marcella Powers and Kathryn Powers
Sinclair Lewis and Marcella Powers
1572 · Unidad documental simple · 1939?
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
  • 01572.jpg
  • Dimensions: 15.1 x 20 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. With Marcella Powers and Kathryn Powers
Wells Lewis
918 · Unidad documental simple · 1920-1925
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
  • 00918.jpg
  • Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.5 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. With Grace Hegger Lewis and Wells Lewis
Sinclair Lewis Writings
99 · Colección · 1904-1966

This collection contains photocopies of articles, poetry, and other writings other than books by author Sinclair Lewis. The material was gathered by St. Cloud State University librarian Dwight Burlingame in the early 1970s.

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Sinclair Lewis
116 · Unidad documental simple · 1949
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
  • 00116.jpg
  • Dimensions: 21.5 x 17.2 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis, 1880s-1940s
Sinclair Lewis
14368 · Unidad documental simple · 1900-1910
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
  • 14368.jpg
  • Dimensions: 7.4 x 4.4 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis, 1880s-1940s
Sinclair Lewis
916 · Unidad documental simple · 1907?
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
  • 00916.jpg
  • Dimensions: 5.6 x 3.4 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis, 1880s-1940s
Sinclair Lewis talks to a guide
914 · Unidad documental simple · 1920-1929
Parte de Claude Lewis Family Papers
  • 00914.jpg
  • Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.6 cm
  • Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
  • Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis, 1880s-1940s