- 01527.jpg
- Dimensions: 18.2 x 23.9 cm
- Physical Format: Black and white photograph
- Local Identifier: Chronicle, September 27, 1983
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- Claude was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
- Dimensions: 11.2 x 16.5 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Claude Lewis family
- 01415.jpg
- 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
- 01412.jpg
- Helen was the second wife of Claude Lewis, who was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
- Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.5 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Claude Lewis family
- 01404.jpg
- Claude was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 13.4 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. With Claude Lewis in Europe, 1949
- 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
- 00937.jpg
- Dimensions: 7.5 x 9.3 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. Europe, 1921-1922
- 00936.jpg
- Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.3 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. Europe, 1921-1922
- 00935.jpg
- Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.4 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. With Grace Hegger Lewis and Wells Lewis
- 00934.jpg
- Dimensions: 10.3 x 5.8 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis, 1880s-1940s
The 19 letters were written by Sinclair Lewis to Joan McQuary between 1942 and 1945. In the fall of 1942, McQuary met Lewis as a student in his creative writing class at the University of Minnesota. When the class finished in December, Lewis moved to New York City. During his time in Minneapolis, April to December 1942, Lewis nearly completed his novel Gideon Planish.
In these letters, Lewis discussed a wide variety of topics, giving a sense of his life while living in New York City. Lewis elaborated on his search for and described his new apartment at 300 Central Park West. Despite moving to New York City, Lewis longed for his University of Minnesota pupils and Minnesota, urging Joan to visit him in New York City, possibly working for him as a secretary. Lewis often mentioned spending the coming summer in Minnesota.
While in New York City, Lewis finished his novel, Gideon Planish. It was published that spring. Lewis was aware of the reviews he received for his book, noting to McQuary that the “furious attack” by literary critic Mumford Jones “is to be answered by yet more furious letters full of literary sniffing and thumbings of the philological nose…” He also mentioned on several occasions that he was sick of writing. After completing short stories for Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan in the spring of 1943, Lewis said the only writing he wanted to do was checks and luggage labels.
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- Dimensions: 7.4 x 10 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. Sinclair Lewis. Sinclair Lewis. With Dorothy Thompson and Michael Lewis
- 00919.jpg
- Dimensions: 11 x 7.5 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. With Grace Hegger Lewis and Wells Lewis
- 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
- 00917.jpg
- Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.3 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis, 1880s-1940s
- 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
- 00915.jpg
- Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.7 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis, 1880s-1940s
- 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
- 00913.jpg
- Dimensions: 11.1 x 16.3 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis, 1880s-1940s
- 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
- 00911.jpg
- 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
- 00910.jpg
- Claude was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
- Dimensions: 22.2 x 17 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. Sinclair Lewis. Sinclair Lewis. Claude Lewis family
- 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
- 00804.jpg
- Claude was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 12.6 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. Sinclair Lewis. Sinclair Lewis. With Claude Lewis in Europe, 1949
- 00608.jpg
- Claude was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
- Dimensions: 10.1 x 14.4 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. With Claude Lewis in Europe, 1949
- 00607.jpg
- Claude was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
- Dimensions: 17 x 23.1 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. With Claude Lewis in Europe, 1949
- 00606.jpg
- Mary was the first wife of Claude Lewis, who was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
- Dimensions: 22.8 x 17.4 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Claude Lewis family
- 00544.jpg
- Isabel was the daughter of Claude Lewis, older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
- Dimensions: 24.3 x 19 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Claude Lewis family
- 00486.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
- 00230.jpg
- Dimensions: 23.9 x 17.9 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Claude Lewis Family Papers. Images. Sinclair Lewis. With Claude Lewis in Europe, 1949
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 00217.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
- 00149.jpg
- 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
- 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
- 16818.jpg
- Dimensions: 3.4 x 2.3 cm
- Physical Format: Negatives (photographic)
- Local Identifier: Chronicle, May 13, 1975
- 17465.jpg
- Dimensions: 2.3 x 3.5 cm
- Physical Format: Negatives (photographic)
- Local Identifier: Chronicle, September 27, 1983
- 17464.jpg
- Dimensions: 3.4 x 2.3 cm
- Physical Format: Negatives (photographic)
- Local Identifier: Chronicle, September 27, 1983
- 17463.jpg
- Dimensions: 2.2 x 3.4 cm
- Physical Format: Negatives (photographic)
- Local Identifier: Chronicle, September 27, 1983
- 05794.jpg
- Dimensions:ᅠ 42.9 x 27.8 cm
- Physical Format: Document
- Local Identifier: A12-004 UPB records
- 03417.jpg
- Dimensions: 2.3 x 3.3 cm
- Physical Format: Negative (photographic)
- Local Identifier: University Photographer, 00-285
- 03418.jpg
- Dimensions: 2.3 x 3.4 cm
- Physical Format: Negative (photographic)
- Local Identifier: University Photographer, 00-285
- 03424.jpg
- Dimensions: 2.3 x 3.4 cm
- Physical Format: Negative (photographic)
- Local Identifier: University Photographer, 90-465
- 03425.jpg
- Dimensions: 2.3 x 3.4 cm
- Physical Format: Negative (photographic)
- Local Identifier: University Photographer, 90-465
- 08599.jpg
- Dimensions: 2.3 x 3.4 cm
- Physical Format: Negative (photographic)
- Local Identifier: University Photographer, 79-278
- 06103.jpg
- Dimensions: 2.2 x 3.4 cm
- Physical Format: Negative (photographic)
- Local Identifier: University Photographer, 79-269
- 07360.jpg
- Dimensions: 16.2 x 11.3 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Chronicle, February 12, 1985
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- Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.3 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Chronicle, February 22, 1983
The 262 letters and 1 poem included in this collection were written by Sinclair Lewis to Marcella Powers between 1939 and 1947. Lewis met Powers in August 1939 when they were both acting in Eugene O’Neill’s play Ah Wilderness! at the Provincetown Theater in Cape Cod. Lewis and Powers began a relationship despite the 36 year age difference between them.
In these letters, Lewis discusses a wide variety of topics - his career, his writing, and his feelings for Powers. During the time of their relationship, Lewis traveled quite a bit throughout the United States giving lectures. He also spent time working in Los Angeles in the motion picture industry and lived in Excelsior and Duluth in Minnesota where he spent much time writing. Lewis also wrote about his social life, including the people that he met, the games of chess that he played, and the books that he read. Many of the letters are very long while others are quite short, with some including cartoons drawn by Lewis.
The letters end in September 1947, shortly after Powers marriage to Michael Amrine. Lewis tells Powers that she will no longer receive an allowance from him, but that if she were ever in need of help that he would be there for her. When Lewis passed away in 1951, Powers was listed in his will.
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