Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Clarence Darrow papers,

Title

• Clarence Darrow papers,

Summary

• Correspondence, writings, legal records, and other papers. The bulk of the papers are correspondence, notes and printed matter collected by Irving Stone while writing a biography of Darrow and relate primarily to Darrow's literary activities and to his Chicago law practice. Subjects include capital punishment, evolution, John Thomas Scopes evolution trial, Joseph Conrad, labor, prohibition, religion, and the U.S. Anthracite Coal Strike Commission (1902). Correspondents include Ruby Darrow, Lillian Gish, Bolton Hall, Frank Harris, John Haynes Holmes, Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Richard A. Loeb, James B. McNamara, W. Somerset Maugham, Donald R. Richberg, Charles Edward Russell, Walter Francis White, and Brand Whitlock.

Names

• Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.
• Stone, Irving, 1903-1989.

Headings

• -  Darrow, Ruby,--1869-1957--Correspondence
• -  Conrad, Joseph,--1857-1924
• -  Gish, Lillian,--1893-1993--Correspondence
• -  Hall, Bolton,--1854-1938--Correspondence
• -  Harris, Frank,--1856-1931--Correspondence
• -  Holmes, John Haynes,--1879-1964--Correspondence
• -  Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal,--1904-1971--Correspondence
• -  Loeb, Richard A.,--1905-1936--Correspondence
• -  McNamara, James B.--(James Barnabas),--1882-1941--Correspondence
• -  Maugham, W. Somerset--(William Somerset),--1874-1965--Correspondence
• -  Richberg, Donald R.--(Donald Randall),--1881-1960--Correspondence
• -  Russell, Charles Edward,--1860-1941--Correspondence
• -  Scopes, John Thomas--Trials, litigation, etc
• -  White, Walter,--1893-1955--Correspondence
• -  Whitlock, Brand,--1869-1934--Correspondence
• -  United States.--Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
• -  American literature
• -  Anthracite Coal Strike, Pa., 1902
• -  Capital punishment
• -  Evolution (Biology)
• -  Labor laws and legislation
• -  Practice of law--Illinois--Chicago
• -  Prohibition
• -  Religion
• -  Social problems
• -  Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining--Pennsylvania

Notes

• -  Arranged in eight series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1902-1938; Series 2: Subject File, 1900-1935; Series 3: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1898-1935; Series 4: Biography File, 1938-1941; Series 5: Printed Matter, 1894-1940; Series 6: Clippings, 1901-1941; Series 7: Miscellany, 1917-1934; and Series 8: Oversize, 1902-1936.
• -  Gift, Leo Cherne and others, 1946-1982.
• -  Author, lecturer, lawyer, and reformer.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008099

Medium

• 15,000 items.
• 25 containers plus 3 oversize.
• 10 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• mm77017756

Access Advisory

• Open to research.

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/mm77017756

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record