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Theodore Dreiser collection

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

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Call Number:
SC.030
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
.1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (3 folders.))
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Theodore Dreiser Papers, 1912-1925.
Date:
1912-1925 (inclusive)
Creator:
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 and Cheyney, Mabel
Abstract:
This collection includes Theodore Dreiser's letters to Mabel Cheyney, printed documents concerning the suppression of Dreiser's The Genius, and several printed pamphlets and previews regarding Dreiser's work. Mabel Cheney was probably the daughter of George S. and Mary Wilson Price Cheyney, Quakers from Thornbury Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

Theodore Dreiser, born in 1871, was an influential American novelist. His Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1926) were his best known works, painting a bleak picture of industrial America at the turn of the century. Though Dreiser was not a religious man, he had great affection and sympathy for members of the Society of Friends. His novel, The Bulwark, tells the story of a Philadelphia Quaker. Theodore Dreiser died in 1945.

Given to the library as part of the papers of Philip Marshall Hicks, Swarthmore College '05. The balance of the collection is contained in RG6, Series 10.

Source of acquisition-- Gift of Philip Marshall Hicks.

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