Collection of Booth Tarkington Materials
Collection Summary
This collection consists of correspondence, 1910-1945 and undated; manuscript items, undated; memorabilia etc. 1923-1942; photographs, undated; clippings (reviews, interviews, et al) 1926-1948.
Dates
- 1910 - 1949
Creator
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Materials to be used on site during regular Special Collections hours or by appointment. Photocopying or scanning may be possible at discretion of staff for nominal fee. Materials may be protected by copyright.
Biographical/Historical Note
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was a writer from Indiana, well known for his novels of life in the midwest. Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to him for The Magnificent Ambersons and for Alice Adams. He attended Purdue University and Princeton, where he was a well-known literary and social figure. In later life he divided his time between Indiana and his estate, Seawood, in Kennebunkport, Maine, where he became friends with neighbor Kenneth Roberts.
Extent
2.0 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials relating to the life and work of Booth Tarkington, a writer from Indiana who was well known for his novels of life in the midwest, and who later lived in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Arrangement
Materials arranged in five series: Correspondence, Manuscripts and First Appearances, Memorabilia, Photographs, and Clippings.
Provenance
Gifts of Mrs. Oscar Cox, Colby Library Associates, Richard Hallet, Paul C. Richards, Mrs. Ben Ames Williams.
- Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951
- Marx, Groucho, 1891-1977
- Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957
- Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973
- Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis),1892-1944
- Acheson, Cornell W., 1918- (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 1871-1958 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Ames, Winthrop, 1870-1937 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Annenberg, Walter H., 1908-2002 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Arliss, George, 1868-1946 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Bacon, Josephine Daskam, 1876-1961 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Benet, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943
- Blythe, Samuel G. (Samuel George), 1868-1947 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Brann, Louis J. (Louis Jefferson), 1876-1948 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Brewster, Owen, 1888-1961 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Briggs, William Harlowe, 1876-1952 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Burton, Richard, 1861-1940 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 (Correspondent)
- Crockett, Albert Stevens, 1873-1969 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Forman, Henry James, 1879-1966 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Guptill, Arthur L. (Arthur Leighton), 1891-1956 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Hallet, Richard Matthews, b.1887 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Kennebunkport (Me.)
- Letters
- Manuscripts
- Moore, Anne Carroll, 1871-1961 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Newspaper clippings
- Photographic prints
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
- Van Wyck Brooks, 1886-1963 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Williams, Ben Ames, 1889-1953 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Collection of Booth Tarkington Materials
- Author
- Colby College Special Collections, Waterville, Maine
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English
Repository Details
Part of the Colby College Special Collections Repository
