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Harold Dies papers relating to the Dreiser Trust

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Call Number:
Ms. Coll. 1369
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Extent:
9 linear feet (9 boxes)
Language:
English
Date:
1903-2013 (inclusive) and 1955-2012 (bulk)
Creator:
Dies, Harold
Form:
Family papers, Legal documents, Correspondence, Financial records, Agreements, Royalty statements, and Estate records
Abstract:
Harold Dies (1914-2012) was a trustee of the Dreiser Trust from its establishment following Helen Dreiser's death in 1955 to his own death in 2012. The Dreiser Trust managed the income and approved contracts for sale of Theodore Dreiser's published works. This collection documents Harold Dies' work with the Dreiser trust and includes financial information; agreements, copyright, correspondence, and royalty statements relating to the works of Helen Dreiser, Theodore Dreiser (bulk), and Paul Dresser; correspondence relating to the Trust and the estates of family members; legal and court records relating to estates of family members; some personal material of Harold Dies and members of the Dreiser family (including Gertrude A. Hopkins Dorn (niece of Theodore Dreiser), Helen Dreiser, Theodore Dreiser, Vera Dreiser, and Paul Dresser (brother of Theodore Dreiser)); and publications using Dreiser material or Dreiser-inspired content.

Harold Dies was a trustee of the Dreiser Trust from its establishment following Helen Dreiser's death in 1955 to his own death in 2012. The Dreiser Trust managed the income and approved contracts for sale of Theodore Dreiser's published works.

Harold Dies was born on October 20, 1914, the son of Carl and Josie Dies, and was raised in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from high school in 1933 and struggled to find employment in the midst of the Depression. During World War II, he served as a cargo security officer, transporting supplies and troops to the Pacific Theater of Operations. He eventually resigned his commission of active duty with the Army on December 16, 1947.

Theodore Dreiser died on December 28, 1945, and his wife, Helen, was cousin to Harold Dies. She asked him to help her with her autobiographical work, My Life With Dreiser, and Dies moved to Los Angeles, after leaving his service with the Army. In addition to working with Helen Dreiser, Dies took a course in music and worked to have some of his compositions published, as well as becoming an ordained minister with the Jehovah's Witnesses. When Helen died in 1955, Dies and Helen's sister, Myrtle Butcher, were joint executors of her estate. The Dreiser Trust was established and it controlled rights to all of Theodore Dreiser's published works throughout the world.

Harold Dies died on March 2, 2012, in New York, at the age of 97.

This collection, dating from 1903 to 2013, documents Harold Dies' work with the Dreiser trust and includes financial information; agreements, copyright, correspondence, and royalty statements relating to the works of Helen Dresier, Theodore Dreiser (bulk), and Paul Dresser; correspondence relating to the Trust and the estates of family members; legal and court records relating to estates of family members; some personal material of Harold Dies and members of the Dreiser family (including Gertrude A. Hopkins Dorn (niece of Theodore Dreiser), Helen Dreiser, Theodore Dreiser, Vera Dreiser, and Paul Dresser (brother of Theodore Dreiser)); and publications using Dreiser material or Dreiser-inspired content.

The collection is arranged in six series. For the most part, material relating to works of Theodore Dreiser are contained within Series II. Agreements, copyright, correspondence, and royalty statements, which is arranged alphabetically by title of work. However, researchers should be aware that all the material within the collection is very intertwined and it may be necessary to look at multiple series. For additional information, please see notes at the series level.

Gift of Harold Dies, 2012

At the University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Theodore Dreiser papers, circa 1890-1965 (bulk dates 1897-1955), Ms. Coll. 30

Vera Dreiser papers,1899-1961 (bulk: 1928-1952), Ms. Coll. 1216

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University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Finding Aid Author
Holly Mengel
Finding Aid Date
2018 November 8
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Scope and Contents

Series I. Financial records includes banking records and tax records for the Dreiser Trust. Within Banking records, researchers will find accounts, account banking books, deposit slips, check books, and statements from a number of banks that were used by the Trust from its establishment to 2012 when Dies died. Included in these records are materials relating to Gertrude Hopkins Dorn, niece to Theodore Dreiser, and some information related to Dies's trip to Yugoslavia, which blended both business for the Trust and his own work as a minister with the Jehovah's Witnesses. For letters relating to his work for the Jehovah's Witnesses on that trip as well as Dies's own financial records, please see Series V. Dies and Dreiser family personal material.

Tax records for the Dreiser trust are arranged chronologically by tax year and include both California and federal tax records as well as correspondence relating to taxes.

Accounts, 1945-1952.
Box 1 Folder 1
Accounts, 1957-2010.
Box 1 Folder 2
Brooklyn Savings Bank, account bank books, 1972-1977.
Box 1 Folder 3
Citi Bank, deposit slips and statements, 1985-2012.
Box 1 Folder 4-7
Dorn, Gertrude Hopkins, account bank books, 1961-1974.
Box 1 Folder 8
First National City Bank, statements, 1975-1977.
Box 1 Folder 9
Metropolitan Savings Bank, account bank books, 1981-1984.
Box 1 Folder 10
Portland Federal Savings, account bank book and check stub books, 1955-1957, 1960-1964.
Box 1 Folder 11
Security First National Bank, check stub books, 1957-1973.
Box 1 Folder 12-13
Trust income, expense, and disbursement statements, 1972-1974, 1995, 2010-2012.
Box 1 Folder 14
Yugoslavia trip, accounts and receipts, 1972.
Box 1 Folder 15
1955-1980.
Box 1 Folder 16
1981.
Box 1 Folder 17
1982.
Box 1 Folder 18
1983.
Box 1 Folder 19
1984.
Box 1 Folder 20
1985.
Box 1 Folder 21
1986.
Box 1 Folder 22
1987.
Box 1 Folder 23
1988.
Box 1 Folder 24
1989.
Box 1 Folder 25
1990.
Box 1 Folder 26
1991.
Box 1 Folder 27
1992.
Box 1 Folder 28
1993.
Box 1 Folder 29
1994.
Box 1 Folder 30
1995.
Box 1 Folder 31
1996.
Box 2 Folder 1
1997.
Box 2 Folder 2
1998.
Box 2 Folder 3
1999.
Box 2 Folder 4-5
2000.
Box 2 Folder 6
2001.
Box 2 Folder 7
2002.
Box 2 Folder 8
2003.
Box 2 Folder 9
2004.
Box 2 Folder 10
2005.
Box 2 Folder 11
2006.
Box 2 Folder 12
2007.
Box 2 Folder 13
2008.
Box 2 Folder 14
2009.
Box 2 Folder 15
2010-2012.
Box 2 Folder 16

Scope and Contents

Series II. Agreements, copyright, correspondence, and royalty statements comprises the bulk of this collection. This series is arranged alphabetically by title of Dreiser's works, and includes Helen Dreiser's autobiographical My Life with Dreiser, and information relating to works by Paul Dresser, Dreiser's brother who was a song writer.

For the most part, the correspondence is very business-focused, and in many cases, correspondents are requesting permission to use portions of Dreiser's works in their own works. There are also a number of letters relating to translating and publishing Dreiser's works in different languages. The material in this series is arranged first by work, and within each work, the material is generally, when applicable, arranged into folders for agreements, copyright, correspondence, and royalty statements. Actual documents are arranged alphabetically by the company/publisher for which the writer worked rather than alphabetically by the writer's name, unless the writer was not associated with a company. There are a large number of letters that were sent by the Translations Rights Department at Curtis Brown who acted on behalf of the many international publishers. Within this department, letters were frequently written by Elizabeth Mowat, Warren Bayless, and Maureen Waters. Researchers should be aware that the names of publishing companies frequently changed, and therefore during transition times, letters are filed, by the name on letterhead. Further, Ned Brown appears to have worked for multiple companies as well as independently, so material sent by him is in multiple places including under his own name, under MCA, and under General Artists Corporation. Finally, researchers interested in Trilogy of Desire should look under that title as well as Financier, Stoic, and Titan, the three works that make up the trilogy.

Many of the agreements, copyright documents, correspondence, and royalty statements refer to multiple works in one document. When this is the case, the documents are arranged in folders titled "Multiple works," and the contents are arranged alphabetically by the company/publisher for which the writer worked rather than alphabetically by the writer's name, unless the writer was not associated with a company.

America and the Artist, correspondence, 2000-2004.
Box 2 Folder 17
America is Worth Saving, copyright and correspondence, 1959, 1968.
Box 2 Folder 18
American Diaries, agreement, 1981.
Box 2 Folder 19
American Dream, royalty statement, 1985.
Box 2 Folder 19
An Amateur Laborer, agreement and correspondence, 1983, 1988.
Box 2 Folder 20
An American Tragedy, agreements, 1929-2012.
Box 2 Folder 21-24
An American Tragedy, correspondence, 1952-2012.
Box 3 Folder 1-7
An American Tragedy, copyright, 1979-1995.
Box 3 Folder 8
An American Tragedy, Paramount Pictures agreements, correspondence, and court records, 1930-2006.
Box 3 Folder 9-13
An American Tragedy, royalty statements, 1952-2013.
Box 3 Folder 14-19
An American Tragedy, royalty statements, volume arranged by language of translation, circa 1960s.
Box 4 Folder 1
As a Realist Sees It, correspondence, 2010.
Box 4 Folder 2
Aspirant, correspondence, 1969-1973, 2003-2004.
Box 4 Folder 3
A Start in Life, correspondence, 1962.
Box 4 Folder 4
Barcelona in August, correspondence, 1985.
Box 4 Folder 4
Best Short Stories, agreements, copyright, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1929-2004.
Box 4 Folder 5-8
Birth of Chicago, royalty statements, 1958.
Box 4 Folder 9
Blue Sphere, correspondence, 1969-1970.
Box 4 Folder 10
Book About Myself, correspondence, 1968.
Box 4 Folder 10
Bulwark, agreements and correspondence, 1946-1980.
Box 4 Folder 11-12
Bulwark, royalty statements, 1953-1985.
Box 4 Folder 9
Chains, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1952-1993.
Box 4 Folder 13-15
Christmas in the Tenements, correspondence, 2008.
Box 4 Folder 15
Color of a Great City, royalty statements, 1994-2013.
Box 4 Folder 14
Color of a Great City, agreements and correspondence, 1973-2004.
Box 4 Folder 16-17
Dawn, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1954-2000.
Box 4 Folder 18-20
Dreiser Looks at Russia, correspondence, 1956-1977.
Box 4 Folder 21
Dreiser Sees Error in Edward's Defense, correspondence, 2008.
Box 4 Folder 21
European Diaries, agreements, 1987.
Box 4 Folder 18
Ev'ry Month, correspondence, 1990.
Box 4 Folder 21
Dreiser Reader, royalty statements, 1963.
Box 4 Folder 22
Financier, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1954-2013.
Box 4 Folder 22-24
Free and Other Stories, correspondence and royalty statements, 1956-1998.
Box 4 Folder 25-26
Fulfillment and Other Tales of Women and Men, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1991-2009.
Box 4 Folder 26-28
Gallery of Women, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1957-1991.
Box 4 Folder 29-31
Genius, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1953-2012.
Box 4 Folder 31-33
Girl in the Coffin, correspondence, 1968-1970.
Box 4 Folder 34
Hand, royalty statements, 1964.
Box 4 Folder 34
Hand of the Potter, agreement and correspondence, 1958-1970.
Box 4 Folder 34
Heard in the Corridor, correspondence, 1987.
Box 4 Folder 35
Her Soil and Light, correspondence, 1970.
Box 4 Folder 35
Hey Rub-A-Dub-Dub, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1952-1976.
Box 4 Folder 36
History of Myself, royalty statements, 1968.
Box 4 Folder 37
Hoosier Holiday, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1965-1984.
Box 4 Folder 37
I Find the Real American Tragedy, correspondence, 1971.
Box 4 Folder 38
In the Trap, royalty statements, 1976.
Box 4 Folder 38
Jennie Gerhardt, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1933-2008.
Box 4 Folder 39-41
Life Cycles, correspondence, 1984.
Box 5 Folder 1
Little Keys, correspondence, 1981.
Box 5 Folder 1
Living Philosophies, correspondence, 1964.
Box 5 Folder 1
Lobster and the Squid, correspondence, 1961.
Box 5 Folder 1
Living Thoughts of Thoreau, correspondence and royalty statements, 1951-1967.
Box 5 Folder 2
Lost Phoebe, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1952-2010.
Box 5 Folder 3-5
Mark the Double Twain, correspondence, 1990.
Box 5 Folder 6
Marriage for One, correspondence, 1969, 1979.
Box 5 Folder 6
Mayor and His People, correspondence, 1992-2009.
Box 5 Folder 6
Moods, correspondence, 1956-1982.
Box 5 Folder 7
My Brother Paul, correspondence, 1950.
Box 5 Folder 8
My City, correspondence, 1975.
Box 5 Folder 8
My Creator, correspondence, 1962-1970.
Box 5 Folder 8
My Gal Sal and other works, by Paul Dresser (brother), correspondence, 1974-2000.
Box 5 Folder 9-11
My Gal Sal and other works, by Paul Dresser (brother), copyright, 1967.
Box 6 Folder 17
My Life with Dreiser, by Helen Dreiser (wife), copyright, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1953-2000.
Box 5 Folder 12-14
Newspaper Days, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1968-2012.
Box 5 Folder 15-17
Nigger Jeff, correspondence, 1965-1991.
Box 5 Folder 18
Notes on Life, correspondence, 1975.
Box 5 Folder 19
Old Rogaum and His Theresa, correspondence, 1994-1995.
Box 5 Folder 19
Phantom Gold, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1956-1980.
Box 5 Folder 20-22
Plays of the Natural and Supernatural, agreements, 1971.
Box 5 Folder 21
Plays of the Natural and Supernatural, correspondence, 1974.
Box 5 Folder 24
Prince Who was a Thief, agreements and correspondence, 1950-1982.
Box 5 Folder 23-24
Real Sins of Hollywood, correspondence, 2009.
Box 5 Folder 24
Revolt, agreements, 1962-1967.
Box 5 Folder 25
Sandhog, correspondence and royalty statements, 1952-1969.
Box 5 Folder 26
Second Choice, correspondence, 1973-1988.
Box 5 Folder 27
Shadow and Convention, correspondence, 1968.
Box 5 Folder 27
Selection of Short Stories, agreements, 1951-1971.
Box 5 Folder 28
Short Stories of Theodore Dreiser, royalty statements, 1956-1960.
Box 5 Folder 29
Sister Carrie, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1939-2012.
Box 5 Folder 30-35
St. Columbia and the River, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1954-1984.
Box 5 Folder 36
Stoic, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1954-2015.
Box 5 Folder 37
Theodore Dreiser Denounces Campaign Against Communists, correspondence, 1979, 2008.
Box 5 Folder 38
Theodore Dreiser papers (archival collection held at University of Pennsylvania), correspondence relating to the use of material from the collection, 1952-2007.
Box 6 Folder 11
Tippecanoe, correspondence, 2006.
Box 5 Folder 38
Titan, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1953-2012.
Box 5 Folder 39-41
Tithe of the Lord, correspondence, 1958, 1990.
Box 5 Folder 38
Tobacco Men, correspondence, 1965-1971.
Box 6 Folder 1
Tragic America, agreement and correspondence, 1953, 1962-1969.
Box 6 Folder 2
Traveler at Forty, correspondence, 1973, 1994.
Box 6 Folder 2
Trilogy of Desire, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1953-2002.
Box 6 Folder 3-5
True Art Speaks Plainly, correspondence, 1962, 1994.
Box 6 Folder 6
Twelve Men, agreement and royalty statements, 1945, 1967, 1992.
Box 6 Folder 6
Typhoon, royalty statements, 1968.
Box 6 Folder 7
Will You Walk Into My Parlor?, agreements and royalty statements, 1956-1962.
Box 6 Folder 8
With Eisenstein in Hollywood, agreements, correspondence, and royalty statements, 1967-1982.
Box 6 Folder 9
Women are Realists, correspondence, 1983.
Box 6 Folder 10
Multiple works, agreements, 1951-2005.
Box 6 Folder 12-13
Multiple works, copyright: renewals, general information, rules, blank forms, and lists of dates of expirations, 1952-1994.
Box 6 Folder 14-16
Multiple works, correspondence, 1947-2012.
Box 6 Folder 18-23
Multiple works, miscellaneous notes and phone messages, circa 1960s-2012.
Box 6 Folder 24
Multiple works, royalty statements: Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale-Oxford University Press, 1952-2012.
Box 6 Folder 25-27
Multiple works, royalty statements: Panther Books-Zsolnay, Paul, 1951-2015.
Box 7 Folder 1-7
Multiple works, royalty ledger, circa 1960s.
Box 7 Folder 8

Scope and Contents

Series III. General correspondence (not related to Dreiser family works) consists of correspondence largely relating to the Dreiser Trust, generally; the settling of the estates, largely relating to the estate of Helen Dreiser; and very general information from publishers relating to changes in company structure or personnel, notices, etc.

The series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent, with bulk of the letters coming from lawyers Donald Alderton and Earl J. Opsahl. For additional information relating to the legal aspect of the estates and the work of Alderton and Opsahl, please see Series IV. Estate records (correspondence, court records, and wills). There is also a significant group of letters relating to the Dreiser Trust's relationship with the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, to whom Dreiser left his significant archival collection.

Alderton, Donald (lawyer), largely related to the settling of Helen Dreiser's estate, 1956-1996.
Box 7 Folder 9-11
Bantam Books-Dreiser, Vera (includes correspondence with Myrtle Butcher and Helen Dreiser), 1952-1993.
Box 7 Folder 12
Drey, Raymond-Lippincott & Crowell, 1963-2009.
Box 7 Folder 13
Masters, Marcia Lee-Ohio University, 1957-2011.
Box 7 Folder 14
Opsahl, Earl J. (lawyer), largely related to settling Helen Dreiser's estate, 1952-1977.
Box 7 Folder 15-17
Panther Books-United Pacific Insurance Co., 1960-1977.
Box 7 Folder 18
University of Pennsylvania (includes Agreement of Compromise), 1949-2013.
Box 7 Folder 19-20
William H. Crawford and Company, 1952-1972.
Box 7 Folder 21
World Publishing Company, 1958-1973.
Box 7 Folder 18

Scope and Contents

Series IV. Estate records (correspondence, court records, and wills) includes material relating to family member's estates including Myrtle Butcher (sister of Helen Dreiser and co-executor with Dies of Helen's estate), Bertha R. Bulholzer Dies, Harold Dies, Gertrude A. Hopkins Dorn (niece of Theodore Dreiser), Helen Dreiser (cousin and wife of Theodore Dreiser), Vera Dreiser (niece of Theodore Dreiser), Paul Dresser (brother of Theodore Dreiser), and Ida Parks Patges (mother of Helen Dreiser). There is significant information documenting the relationship between the Fannie Wall Children's Home and Day Nursery, a charitable orphanage and daycare center constructed for African American children which was established in Oakland, California on November 20, 1918, and the Dreiser Trust, which provided funding.

Establishment of trust, 1958.
Box 8 Folder 1
Butcher, Myrtle R., 1975, 1996.
Box 8 Folder 2
Dies, Bertha R. Buholzer, 1992-1994.
Box 8 Folder 23
Dies, Harold, 2012.
Box 8 Folder 3
Dorn, Gertrude A. Hopkins, 1965-1977, 2006.
Box 8 Folder 4
Dreiser, Helen, 1955-1974.
Box 8 Folder 5-6
Dreiser, Theodore, 1956.
Box 8 Folder 7
Dreiser, Vera, 1998.
Box 8 Folder 8
Dresser, Paul, 1939-1990.
Box 8 Folder 9
Fannie Wall Children's Home and Day Nursery, 1958-1975.
Box 8 Folder 10-11
Patges, Ida Parks, will, 1948.
Box 8 Folder 12
Trust distribution, 1973.
Box 8 Folder 13

Scope and Contents

Series V. Dies and Dreiser family personal material includes material for Harold Dies, Gertrude A. Hopkins Dorn (niece of Theodore Dreiser), Helen Dreiser (cousin and wife of Theodore Dreiser), Theodore Dreiser, Vera Dreiser (niece of Theodore Dreiser), and Paul Dresser (brother of Theodore Dreiser). For the most part, this group of material focuses on Harold Dies's life, including the mundane aspects of day-to-day life with financial, insurance, and travel documents. Of particular interest, however, may be the genealogical material that he gathered on both the Dies and Dreiser families (and their connections); the material relating to his musical interests, including correspondence relating to publishing his own music; and the religious letters which document his deep relationship with the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

There are death certificates and memorabilia relating to Gertrude A. Hopkins Dorn, Helen Dreiser, Vera Dreiser, and Paul Dresser; as well as a letter to Theodore Dreiser and a copy of his writing, "Why I joined the Communist Party." The most personal documents in this series are the letters to Emma Dreiser Nelson, written by her brothers Theodore Dreiser and Paul Dresser. These letters are affectionate and also frequently address her children, Gertrude and George.

The bulk of the photographs are portraits of Theodore Dreiser, but there are a few other portraits of family members, as well as a number of photographs that are unidentified.

Dies, Harold: automobile information, 1981.
Box 8 Folder 14
Dies, Harold: banking records, 1942, 1996, 2009-2012.
Box 8 Folder 15
Dies, Harold: correspondence, 1967-1978.
Box 8 Folder 16
Dies, Harold: genealogy and family information, 1948-1996.
Box 8 Folder 17
Dies, Harold: insurance, 1951-1982.
Box 8 Folder 18
Dies, Harold: music, 1938-1950, 2008.
Box 8 Folder 19
Dies, Harold: passports and travel documents, 1930-1997.
Box 8 Folder 20
Dies, Harold: religious letters (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania), 1950-2011.
Box 8 Folder 21
Dies, Harold: tax records, 1950-1953, 1996, 2010-2011.
Box 8 Folder 22
Dorn, Gertrude A. Hopkins, death certificate, memorial information, insurance and social security cards, and notes, 1964-1973, 2007.
Box 8 Folder 24
Dorn, Gertrude A. Hopkins, letters to her from Myrtle Butcher, Harold Dies, Helen Dreiser, Paul Gormley, and others (includes one letter from her to her mother Emma), 1945-1964.
Box 8 Folder 25
Dorn, Gertrude A. Hopkins, letters to her and her mother, Emma Nelson, from Theodore Dreiser, 1904, 1919, 1930.
Box 8 Folder 26
Dorn, Gertrude A. Hopkins, letters to her and her mother, Emma Nelson, and her brother, George, from Paul Dresser, 1903-1909.
Box 8 Folder 27
Dorn, Gertrude A. Hopkins, certificate of marriage to Emil Dorn and death certificate of Emil, 1942-1957.
Box 8 Folder 28
Dreiser, Helen, memorabilia and notices of her death, 1951, 1955.
Box 8 Folder 29
Dreiser, Theodore, copy of "Why I joined the Communist Party", 1945.
Box 8 Folder 29
Dreiser, Theodore, letter to him from G.R. Gabriel, circa 1942.
Box 8 Folder 30
Dreiser, Vera, death certificate and program for memorial, 1998.
Box 8 Folder 29
Dresser, Paul, letters and clippings regarding, 1922, undated.
Box 8 Folder 31
Photographs of Harold Dies, Gertrude Hopkins Dorn, Helen and Theodore Dreiser, and Tedi Dreiser Godard, undated.
Box 8 Folder 32
Photographs of Theodore Dreiser (oversized), undated.
Drawer 106 Folder unknown container
Photographs, unidentified, 1936, undated.
Box 8 Folder 33

Scope and Contents

The final series, Series VI. Dreiser material or material inspired by Dreiser in publications, exhibits, etc. includes publications, drafts, play versions, and press relating to Dreiser, much of which was probably sent to Dies as a result of correspondence and negotiation for rights and permissions. This series is arranged alphabetically by title of work.

American Literary Naturalism Newsletter, circa 2007-2011.
Box 8 Folder 34
American Tragedy, play version written by Anthony Giardina, 1980.
Box 9 Folder 1-2
American Tragedy, play versions (unknown creators), undated.
Box 9 Folder 3
American Tragedy, tv version outline, by Walter Gorman, 1971.
Box 9 Folder 4
Dreiser Newsletter, 1970-1991.
Box 9 Folder 5-7
Dreiser Studies, 1987-2005.
Box 9 Folder 8-11
Dreiser, Theodore, articles and excerpts regarding him by Carringer, Gerber, Pizer, and Salzman, 1967-1976.
Box 9 Folder 12
Exhibit and event material, 1971-2000.
Box 9 Folder 13
H.L. Mencken, by Vincent Fitzpatrick, undated.
Box 9 Folder 14-15
International Dreiser Society, correspondence and drafts, 1992-2011.
Box 9 Folder 16
International Dreiser Society Newsletter, 1993-1997.
Box 9 Folder 17
Multiple works, newspaper clippings.
Box 9 Folder 21
Resources for American Literary Study, 1972.
Box 9 Folder 18
Sandhog, press, 1954.
Box 9 Folder 19
Sister Carrie, dramatization by Hy Kraft, 1965.
Box 9 Folder 20
Studies in American Naturalism, 2006-2009.
Box 8 Folder 35

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