Creative writing

Scope and Contents This article is entitled: "Freak Legilsation Enacted in Earnest with Fifty National, State, Territorial, and Colonial Lawmaking Bodies Active, It Is No Wonder the Output Is Peculiar." The headings include: "Getting After Long Hat Pins," "Penalizing the Hobble-Skirt," "Gossip and Flirting Tabooed," "Good Bills Which Sound Foolish," "A Fine for the Newly-Weds," and "His Sanity Was Questioned" (Brooklyn Congressman introduced a bill to completely reorganize the U.S. government). The printed...

Scope and Contents This collection includes 27 pages of typed and handwritten poetry from Edna Lee Plowman in Indiana ranging from 1922 to 1957 regarding her impressions of life in Indiana.

Scope and Contents This collection includes a notebook from Flora Wright in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1916 to 1926 regarding miscellaneous items.

Scope and Contents This collection includes a newspaper clipping from John Wynn in Indiana regarding his own writing.

Scope and Contents This collection includes a typed manuscript, with handwritten edits, entitled "Echoes" by Oscar Schmidt in Spencer, Indiana regarding a story about narrator Dick Wheeler, who along with several friends, visits the estate home of Mrs. Ellen Gilbert in southern Indiana, presumably in New Harmony. The story provides a detailed narrative of the immigration of George Rapp and his followers from Germany to western Pennsylvania in 1803, and their move to Harmony, Indiana in 1814.

Scope and Contents This collection includes materials from and about Wilhelmina Seegmiller in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1895 to 1913. Items comprise brief biographical information, obituaries, a review of one of her textbooks and several examples of her creative writing.

Scope and Contents This collection includes William H. Wade’s correspondence, writing drafts, speeches, photographs, publications, clippings, news releases, and other research documentation during his time at the Anderson Herald, ranging from 1949 to 1971. Also included is correspondence and writing drafts from his son, David L. Wade during 1953-1969. The bulk of the collection consists of Wade’s source material for his “Folklore” column, as well as other writing interests and...