Selected Papers of Alfred S. Dashiell

The collection consists of papers of Dashiell (Princeton Class of 1923) related tohis editorial work at Scribner's and The Reader's Digest.There are several folders of Thomas Wolfe material, including letters,memorabilia, and four incomplete manuscripts, including one for "The Train and theCity." Other authors represented in the collection, generally by one or two letters,include Struthers Burt, Henry Seidel Canby, Robert Frost, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, H.L. Mencken, James Thurber, Franklin P. Adams, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, John Dewey, andCarl Sandburg. A brief disclaimer in the hand of Ernest Hemingway, which appearedwith the serialization of A Farewell to Arms, is alsoincluded.