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Stephen Crane Collection

An inventory of the collection at Syracuse University

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900.
Title: Stephen Crane Collection
Inclusive Dates: 1871-1980
Quantity: 19.5 linear ft.
Abstract: Papers of the American novelist, journalist, poet, war correspondent. Collection includes correspondence, writings, and memorabilia of the American author and his wife, Cora Crane, and includes the research materials from a number of literary scholars and private collectors. The Stephen Crane Collection Photographs and the Lillian Gilkes Papers unrelated to Crane are inventoried and housed separately. In addition, many published Crane works and reference materials are located in Special Collections.
Language: English
Repository: Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
222 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center

Biographical History

Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist. Crane's mother, Mary Helen Peck, was the daughter of George Peck, an American Methodist Episcopal clergyman, author, and President of Cazenovia Seminary in Madison County, New York. Crane attended but did not graduate from Lafayette College and Syracuse University before moving to New York City where he worked as a freelance journalist and writer. His first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, was published in 1893, followed in 1895 by the novel for which he is best known, The Red Badge of Courage. The latter, about a young soldier's initiation into the horrors and ironies of war set during the American Civil War, won great acclaim for its vividness and psychological depth.

Crane and Cora Stewart-Taylor, who would become his wife, moved to Sussex, England in 1897. The two worked together as war correspondents during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, novelized in Crane's Active Service (1899) whose central character is a journalist covering the war. Crane died at age 28 of tuberculosis in Badenweiler, Baden, Germany.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Stephen Crane Collection comprises correspondence, writings, and memorabilia of the American author and his wife, Cora Crane, as well as the research materials of a number of literary scholars and private collectors. There are also a few recordings of indeterminate provenance.

Spanning the years 1889 to 1910, Correspondence is divided into incoming and outgoing Stephen Crane letters, incoming and outgoing Cora Crane letters, and third-party correspondence, and further delineated by sender or recipient; citation numbers in parentheses (e.g., "no. 123") refer to letters in The Correspondence of Stephen Crane, Wertheim and Sorrentino, ed. (Columbia University Press, 1988). Stephen Crane's correspondence encompasses family members (Edmund and William Crane); friends (Armistead Borland, Lucius L. Button, Nellie Crouse, Clara and Moreton Frewen, Louis Senger, Post Wheeler); and publishers and literary agents (Copeland and Day, James B. Pinker, Paul Revere Reynolds). Cora Crane's correspondence consists primarily of letters she wrote for Crane to literary agent James B. Pinker and several letters to Crane's friends (Mr. and Mrs. Frewen, Corwin Knapp Linson, Louis Senger) after his death. Third-Party correspondence refers to Stephen Crane or his work.

Writings (Box 5) includes thirteen holograph manuscripts, five typescripts, and two published versions of Crane's prose and verse.

Memorabilia (Box 6) comprises family papers, legal materials, and miscellany, and includes writings by Stephen Crane's sister, Agnes, Crane's death certificate, an affidavit of M. Helen Crane, autograph albums with Crane inscriptions, and artifacts (a baseball used by Crane, calling cards, and stationery sheets with Crane's name among those on the letterhead).

In addition, the Stephen Crane Collection includes the research files of eight Crane authors and/or collectors:

The Lillian Gilkes Research Files (Boxes 7-10) comprises correspondence-subject files, writings, and memorabilia. Author of Cora Crane: a Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane, Gilkes amassed files which contain correspondence with the Crane and Howorth families and their contemporaries, publishers, editors, and other literary scholars and researchers, as well as copies of Cora and Stephen Crane's correspondence, writings, legal papers and drawings. Writings consist of articles, book reviews, books, and miscellaneous notes by Gilkes on Cora and/or Stephen Crane. Memorabilia include photographs, printed material, writings by others, and miscellany (a brass button, and Cora Crane's calling cards).
The Cyrus Day Research Files (Box 11) contains correspondence, writings, and memorabilia concerning the 1897 shipwreck of the Commodore, on which Crane was bound for Cuba.
The Mansfield J. French Research Files (Box 11) and the Frank W. Noxon Research Files (Box 11) consist of correspondence and reminiscences about Crane by his former Syracuse University classmates.
The Vincent Starrett Research Files (Box 11) are composed of the author's correspondence with Crane's contemporaries and publishers, as well as others associated with Crane.
Corwin Knapp Linson Writings (Box 12) comprises several manuscript versions of the American artist's book about his friend, My Stephen Crane. (Linson's photographs of Crane are among the Stephen Crane Collection Photographs which is arranged and stored separately.)
Constituting the bulk of the collection, the Melvin H. Schoberlin Research Files (Boxes 13-23) encompasses correspondence-subject files, writings, and memorabilia. Correspondence-subject files comprise Schoberlin's incoming and outgoing letters of Crane's family and contemporaries and their descendants, as well as Crane scholars and researchers. Categorized as books and notes, writings include an unpublished book manuscript for a Crane biography, production records for Sullivan County Sketches and a book unrelated to Crane, and extensive research material on Crane. Clippings (relating to Crane or Schoberlin), photographs, illustrations, photostats with Crane associations, writings by others (on Crane and his work), and miscellany (Spanish moss from Cora's grave, stationery sheets with Crane's name among those on the letterhead) constitute memorabilia.
The Ames Williams Research Files (Box 24) consists of correspondence-subject files, writings, and memorabilia relating to Crane. Correspondence-subject files include Williams's incoming and outgoing letters of Stephen and Cora Crane's contemporaries and friends as well as some photocopies of their correspondence with literary agents. A paper on Crane by Williams and a copy of a photograph of one of Crane's romantic interests, Lily Brandon, complete the collection.
Recordings contains five recordings of various scholars discussing Crane, including Lillian Gilkes and Professor Walter Sutton. How these came into the collection is unknown, but they were likely part of Lillian Gilkes' research files.

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Arrangement of the Collection

Correspondence of Stephen and Cora Crane are subdivided into incoming and outgoing, and then arranged chronologically; third-party correspondence is arranged alphabetically. Writings are arranged alphabetically by type and then by title. Memorabilia is arranged alphabetically by type.

Researcher's files are subdivided into correspondence, writings, and memorabilia, in that order; correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent, while writings and memorabilia are arranged alphabetically by type of material.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.

Use Restrictions

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

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Related Material

See also the Stephen Crane Collection Photographs and the Lillian B. Gilkes Papers (unrelated to Crane). In addition, Special Collections Research Center has many published Crane works and reference materials in its Rare Books holdings; please refer to Libraries Search for a complete listing. Special Collections Research Center is also the repository of the papers of George Peck, Crane's maternal grandfather.

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Subject Headings

Persons

Borland, Armistead.
Button, Lucius L.
Crane family.
Crane, Agnes Elizabeth, 1856-1884.
Crane, Cora, 1865 or 6-1910.
Crane, Edmund, 1886-1957
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900.
Crane, William.
Crouse, Nellie.
Day, Cyrus Lawrence, 1900-1968.
DuMond, Frank Vincent, 1865-1951.
French, Mansfield Joseph, 1872-
Frewen, Clara, 1851-1935.
Frewen, Moreton, 1853-1924.
Gilkes, Lillian Barnard, 1902-
Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.
Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937.
Linson, Corwin Knapp, b. 1864.
Mayfield, John S., 1904-1983.
Noxon, Frank W.
Pinker, James B.
Reynolds, Paul R. (Paul Revere), 1904-1988.
Schoberlin, Melvin H., 1912-
Senger, Louis.
Stallman, R. W. (Robert Wooster), 1911-1982.
Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974.
Wheeler, Post, 1869-1956.
Williams, Ames W. (Ames William)

Corporate Bodies

Copeland and Day.

Subjects

American literature -- 19th century.
American poetry -- 19th century.
Authors and publishers.
Authors, American.
Greco-Turkish War, 1897 -- Journalists.
Journalists -- United States.
Novelists, American.
Poets, American.
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Campaigns -- Cuba -- Journalists.
War correspondents.

Genres and Forms

Articles.
Audiotapes.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Illustrations.
Notes (documents)
Photographs.
Poems.
Sound recordings.
Video recordings.
Videotapes.

Occupations

Authors.
Journalists.
Novelists.
Poets.
War correspondents.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Stephen Crane Collection
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Gifts and purchases, 1950-1965.

Finding Aid Information

Created by: SEH
Date: Jul 1993
Revision history: 28 Nov 2007 - converted to EAD (MRC); 3 Aug 2012 - added Ames Williams dates + 1 item (MRC); 7 Jan 2014 - added Peck connection (MRC); 8 Oct 2014 - added letter, 2/15/1896 (MRC); 27 Jul 2016 - bioghist correction (MRC); 30 Mar2018 - recordings added (MRC)

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Inventory

Correspondence
Stephen Crane
Box 1 Outgoing 1889
Ap 4 Armistead Borland (no. 3)
Box 1 Outgoing 1890
Mr 10 Armistead Borland (no. 4)
N? Claverack schoolmate (no. 7
Box 1 Outgoing 1891
Ja 9 Odell Hathaway (no. 8)
Box 1 Outgoing 1892
F 16 Armistead Borland (no. 10)
D 14 Lucius L. Button (no. 13)
Box 1 Outgoing 1894
F 20 Lucius L. Button (no. 29)
D 22 Post Wheeler (no. 57)
D 22? Copeland and Day (no. 58)
late Post Wheeler (no. 60)
late Post Wheeler (no. 61)
late Post Wheeler (no. 62)
Box 1 Outgoing 1895
Ja 2 Copeland and Day (no. 64)
Ja 30 Louis Senger (no. 71)
F 19 Corwin Knapp Linson (no. 76)
Ag 3 Karl Knortz (no. 99)
O 24 Willis Brooks Hawkins (no. 115)
N 5 Post Wheeler (no. 124)
N 23 Louis Senger (no. 143)
D 10 Louis Senger (no. 150)
D 31 Nellie Crouse (no. 166)
Box 1 Outgoing 1896
Ja 6 Nellie Crouse (no. 173)
Ja 7 Louis Senger (no. 176)
Ja 11 Louis Senger (no. 179)
Ja 11 (4) Louis Senger (no. 180-3)
Ja 12 Nellie Crouse (no. 184)
Ja 26 Nellie Crouse (no. 186)
F 5 Nellie Crouse (no. 200)
F 11 Nellie Crouse (no. 204)
F 15 Editor of The Critic (foldered separately)
Mr 1 Nellie Crouse (no. 209)
Mr 24 Dewitt Miller (no. 219)
Mr 24 Louis Senger (no. 220)
late Ap Viola Allen (no. 235)
[May 1896+] Lucius L. Button (no. 242)
My 10 Charles J. Pike (no. 243)
Ag 3 E.S. Goodhue, M.D. (no. 262)
N 3 Lucius L. Button (no. 281)
Box 1 Outgoing 1897
Ja 4 copy Lillian Barrett
Ja 8 Charles Pope (no. 307)
S 9 Edmund B. Crane (no. 328)
N 8 Louis Senger (no. 336)
D 20 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 346)
[1897] book Louis Senger
late 1897? Elbert Hubbard (no. 351)
Box 2 Outgoing 1898
Ja 31 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 360)
F 8 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 365)
Mr 1 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 372)
Mr 13 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 374)
Mr 17 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 378)
early My Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 384)
My 8 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 385)
My 30 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 387)
Je 8 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 388)
early S Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 396)
S 14 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 397)
S 27 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 402)
O 21 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 410)
O 24 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 411)
O 25-28? Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 412)
N 1 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 414)
N 24 book J.G. Widrig (no. 423)
Box 2 Outgoing 1899
Ja 19 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 448)
Ja 31 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 454)
F 1 James B. Pinker (no. 455)
F 4 James B. Pinker (no. 457)
F 9 James B. Pinker (no. 463)
F 10 "Dear Sir" (no. 464)
F 13 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 466)
F 20 Clara Frewen (no. 471)
F 21 James B. Pinker (no. 472)
late F Pocket Magazine (no. 477)
Mr 2 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 480)
Mr 12 Moreton Frewen (no. 485)
Mr 16 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 488)
Mr 17 James B. Pinker (no. 490)
Mr 25 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 493)
Mr 30 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 498)
Mr 31 Paul Revere Reynolds (no. 499)
Ap 10 Moreton Frewen (no. 500)
My 1 James B. Pinker (no. 513)
My 15 Moreton Frewen (no. 517)
Je 8 Camilla Ingalls (no. 524)
Jl 21 James B. Pinker (no. 528)
Ag 1? James B. Pinker (no. 530)
Ag 4 James B. Pinker (no. 531)
Ag 6? James B. Pinker (no. 533)
Ag 10 William Howe Crane (no. 536)
Ag 13? Henry Sanford Bennett (no. 537)
Ag 13? James B. Pinker (no. 538)
Ag 15? John [Scott-Stokes?] (no. 543)
Ag 29 Henry Sanford Bennett (no. 547)
S 10? George Wyndham (no. 554)
S 22 James B. Pinker (no. 558)
S 26 Moreton Frewen (no. 562)
S 28? James B. Pinker (no. 563)
S 30? James B. Pinker (no. 565)
S 31 James B. Pinker (no. 568)
O 23? James B. Pinker (no. 578)
N 4 James B. Pinker (no. 583)
Box 2 Outgoing 1900
Ja 31 S. Crane's namesake (no. 636)
F 5 James B. Pinker (no. 643)
F 5 James B. Pinker (no. 644)
Mr 8 James B. Pinker (no. 657)
Mr 10 James B. Pinker (no. 658)
Mr 24 James B. Pinker (no. 661)
Mr 31 James B. Pinker (no. 666)
My 23 Henry Sanford Bennett (no. 718)
Box 2 Incoming 1893-1896
Mr 22 1893 Barry, John D. (no. 18)
Ap 1 1896 Black, William
O 31 1894 Copeland and Day (no. 49)
My 1 1895 copy Copeland and Day (no. 84)
S 5 1899 Stokes, Frederick A. (no. 552)
S 23 1899 Stokes, Frederick A. Stephen Crane (no. 561)
[Ap 1896?] copy Verdi, P. (no. 239)
Cora Crane
Box 3 Outgoing 1899-1906
F 13 1899 Margery Pease (no. 468)
Mr 6 1899 James B. Pinker (no. 482)
Ap 25 1899 James B. Pinker (no. 508)
Ag 31 1899 James B. Pinker (no. 548)
S 30? 1899 James B. Pinker (no. 567)
O 8 1899 James B. Pinker (no. 571)
O 21 1899 James B. Pinker (no. 576)
O 26 1899 James B. Pinker (no. 581)
O 30 1899 James B. Pinker (no. 582)
D 7 1899 James B. Pinker (no. 599)
D 12 1899 James B. Pinker (no. 600)
D 18 1899 James B. Pinker (no. 601)
Ja 2 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 612)
Ja 6 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 620)
Ja 7 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 621)
Ja 9 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 626)
Ja 10 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 627)
Ja 24 1900 Post Wheeler (no. 633)
F 14 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 651)
F 20 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 654)
mid-Mr 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 659)
Mr 29 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 664)
Ap 6 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 670)
Ap 8 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 673)
Ap 11 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 676)
Ap 15? 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 680)
Ap 16 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 681)
Ap 17 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 682)
Ap 23 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 688)
Ap 24 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 689)
My 5 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 700)
My 8? 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 706)
My 20 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 714)
My 23 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 719)
My 29 1900 James B. Pinker (no. 722)
Ag 15 1900 James B. Pinker
Ag 28 1900 "Dear Sir"
S 28 1900 Corwin Knapp Linson
O 18 1900 Corwin Knapp Linson
O? 1900 James B. Pinker
O 22 1900 Louis Senger
O 26 1900 G.H. Perris
Ag 25 1904 G.H. Perris
D 1906 The Moreton Frewens
Box 3 Incoming 1910
F 10 [Budd, Ernest] Edward
Third-party correspondence
Box 4 Third-party correspondence 1894-1903
Crane, William to Nellie [ ] Je 21 1900
Dumond, Frank Vincent to Mr. Noble Ap? 1900
Dumond, Frank Vincent to Mr. Noble Ap 12 1900
Dumond, Frank Vincent to Mr. Noble My? 1900
Dumond, Frank Vincent to Mr. Noble Je 10 1900
Hubbard, Elbert to Mr. Day Ap 16 1896
Ingalls, Camilla to Margery Pease Je 21 1900
Linson, Corwin Knapp to Louis Senger D 4 1894
Linson, Corwin Knapp to Louis Senger Ja 10 1895
Linson, Corwin Knapp to Louis Senger Ja 1899
Linson, Corwin Knapp to Louis Senger My 27 1899
Reynolds, Paul Revere R.W.[sic] Johnson to D 22 1896
Stokes, Frederick A. to James B. Pinker Je 6 1900
Stokes, Frederick A. to James B. Pinker N 11 1902
Stokes, Frederick A. to James B. Pinker Je 26 1903
[ ] to Louis Senger D 4 1896
Writings
Prose
Box 5 "Across the Covered Pit" - typescript ms.
Box 5 "The Angel-child" - autographed holograph ms.
Box 5 "A Desertion" - holograph ms.
Box 5 "A Detail" - holograph draft
Box 5 "An Explosion of Seven Babies" - typescript ms.
Box 5 "Great Bugs in Onondaga" New-York Tribune June 1, 1891
See also "Huge Electric Light Bugs" and "The Syracuse Bugs"
Box 5 "Greed rampant" - typescript ms.
Box 5 "Huge Electric Light Bugs," Syracuse, New York Standard, p. 6 June 1, 1891
See also "Great Bugs in Onondaga" and "The Syracuse Bugs"
Box 5 "Jack" - holograph ms.
Box 5 "The King's Favor" - typescript ms.
Box 5 "Ol' Bennet & the Indians" - autographed holograph ms.
Box 5 "Prologue" - autographed holograph ms.
Box 5 "The Syracuse Bugs," New-York Daily Tribune June 2, 1801
See also "Great Bugs in Onondaga" and "Huge Electric Light Bugs"
Verse
Box 5 "I'd rather have-" - holograph ms.
Box 5 "Lines" - typescript ms.
Box 5 Untitled - "Fast rode the knight" - autographed holograph ms.
Box 5 Untitled - "I looked here / I looked there" - holograph ms.
Box 5 Untitled - "In a large vaulted hall" - holograph ms.
Box 5 Untitled - "In heaven, / Some little blades of grass . . ." - holograph ms.
Box 5 Untitled - "Should the wide world roll away" - holograph ms.
Box 5 Untitled - "What? You define me God with these trinkets" - holograph ms.
Memorabilia
Family
Box 6 Agnes Crane's diary (fragment) pp. 53-60 1874-1875
Box 6 Agnes Crane's "Memory book " 4/23/1875 - leaf about J. Townley Crane
Box 6 Agnes Crane's "The Cipher Dispatches" 1878 - holograph prose ms.
Legal
Box 6 Death certificate of Stephen Crane - "Badenweiler " 6/11/1900
Box 6 M. Helen Crane - affidavit as executrix of J. Townley Crane's estate Mar. 1880
Box 6 Will of Stephen Crane (copy) 1900
Miscellany
Box 6 Autograph albums of Armistead Borland containing Stephen Crane's inscriptions 4/4/1889, 3/10/1890 (2 volumes)
Box 6 Baseball used by Crane at Geneva, N.Y. in game with Hobart College May 23, 1891
Box 6 Calling cards (2)
Box 6 Claverack Academy and Hudson River Institute - 1 illustration and advertisements (with copy photographs and negatives)
Box 6 Stationery sheet with letterhead: "Crane's New Jersey Coast News Bureau, Sandy Hook to Barnegat Bay, Asbury Park, N.J., J. Townley Crane, Manager, Stephen Crane, Secretary, Edgar C. Snyder, Treasurer" 1891-1892
Lillian Gilkes research files
Correspondence-subject files
Box 7 B
Box 7 Barr, Philip 1959
Box 7 Barrett, Clifton Waller 1959
Box 7 Barrett, Richmond 1934-1963
Box 7 Bassan, Maurice 1963-1969
Box 7 Beer, Alice 1956-1959
Box 7 Beer, Thomas
See Crane Family - from Thomas Beer files
Box 7 Berryman, John 1954-1956
Box 7 Bohnenberger, Elizabeth and Carl 1943
Box 7 Bower, Warren 1960
Box 7 Bowers, Fredson 1968-1972
Box 7 Brede Place undated
Box 7 Broward, Audrey 1954-1960
Box 7 Brown, Spencer Curtis 1954-1959
Box 7 Budd, Louis 1970
Box 7 C
Box 7 Cady, Edwin H. 1964-1973
Box 7 Columbia University 1954-1959
Box 7 Colvert, James 1969
Box 7 Corcoran, Marguerite 1955
Box 7 Cordell, Richard A. 1955-1956
Box 7 Cornell University Press 1971
Crane, Cora
Box 7 Drawings, negative
Oversize 1 Drawings, oversize
Box 7 Frewens correspondence 1898-1900 - photocopies of letters (most from the Library of Congress)
Box 7 Legal papers
Box 7 Photocopies of letters 1898-1901
Box 7 Writings 1901
Crane, Stephen
Box 7 Legal papers
Box 7 Photocopies of letters 1888-1900
Box 7 Writings - photocopies of articles and clippings
Crane Family
Box 7 [Miscellaneous] 1948-1962
Box 7 From Thomas Beer files 1921-1934
Box 7 D
Box 7 Daniel, Richard P. 1959
Box 7 Day, Cyrus L. 1959
Box 7 Dent & Sons, Ltd. 1959
Box 7 E
Box 7 F
Forman, Barry
See Harold Frederic Family
Box 7 Franchere, Hoyt C. 1958-1961
Box 7 Harold Frederic family 1958-1961, undated
Box 7 Frewen, Roger 1955-1961
Box 7 Frewen, Roger/Kipling, Rudyard 1900 - photocopies of letters from the Library of Congress
Box 7 Garner, Stanton 1973-1974
Box 7 Gullason, Tom 1970
Box 8 H
Box 8 Hallam, George W. 1964-1967
Harold Frederic Edition
See Garner, Stanton
Box 8 Hathaway, Odell S. 1961-1962
Box 8 Hicks, Granville 1969
Box 8 Hoffman, Daniel 1954-1960
Box 8 Hoskins, Frank L. 1964-1972
Box 8 Howorth Family (Cora Crane's family) 1954-1958
Box 8 Indiana University Press 1959-1968
Box 8 Jones, Edith Richie 1954
Box 8 K
Box 8 Kantor, James Roland Kristofer 1960
Box 8 Kazin, Alfred 1969
Box 8 Keller, Dean H. 1968-1970
Box 8 King, Robert T. 1969
Box 8 Koster, Donald N. 1968-1972
Box 8 Kyles, Gillian 1970-1971
Box 8 L
Box 8 Leary, Lewis 1968-1969
Box 8 Leslie, Shane 1955
Box 8 Levenson, Jack C. 1970
Box 8 Lohf, Kenneth A. 1969
Box 8 The London Times 1962-1963
Box 8 McCready, Ernest W. 1934 - photocopies of letters
Box 8 May, Philip 1948-1960
Box 8 Mayfield, John S. 1954-1977
Box 8 Monteiro, George 1969-1971
Box 8 N
Box 8 New York Public Library 1955-1959
Box 8 Nottinghamshire Guardian 1956
Box 8 O
Box 8 Osborn, Scott C. 1956-1969
Box 8 Paine, Ralph D. 1954-1956
Box 8 Mark Patterson & Co. Limited 1959
Box 8 Pease, Muriel 1955-1961
Box 8 "Permission to Publish" letters 1958-1959
Box 8 Powell, Anthony 1962
Box 8 Roeder, Ralph 1954
Box 8 S
Box 8 Schoberlin, Melvin H. 1948-1961
Sheridan, Clare
See Williams, Ames
Box 8 Smillie, Lily Brandon Monroe (and family) 1955
Box 8 Solomon, Eric 1971
Box 8 Stallman, Robert W. 1953-1956
Box 8 Stewart family (Cora Crane's 2nd husband) 1901, 1959
Box 8 Stronks, James 1961-1972
Box 9 T
Box 9 Turner, Arlin 1970-1972
Box 9 U
Box 9 Ward, Lynd 1959
Box 9 Wells, Lester G. 1954-1960
Box 9 Wheeler, Harry F. 1956
Box 9 Williams, Ames 1945-1955
Box 9 Woodward, Robert H. 1962-1970
Box 9 Y
Writings
Articles
Box 9 "Egg-Walking in Biography" - typescript draft
Box 9 "More on 'How Crane Got to Greece': a Moot Question" 1972 - typescript ms.
Box 9 "Not at Columbia: Postcards to Cora Crane" / Lillian Gilkes and Joseph Katz Columbia Library Columns, Feb. 1974
Box 9 "Stephen and Cora Crane: Some Corrections, and a 'Millionaire' Named Sharefe" - typescript ms.
Box 9 "Stephen Crane and the Biographical Fallacy: The Cora Influence" - Modern Fiction Studies, Winter 1970-71 - typescripts and a reprint
Box 9 "The Stephen Crane Collection Before Its Acquisition by Columbia: a Memoir" Columbia Library Columns, Nov. 1973
Box 9 "Stephen Crane, John Hay, and Dr. Nathan E. Boyd" - typescript with corrections
Box 9 "Stephen Crane's Burial Place: Some Inconsequential Ghost Laying" - typescript
Book reviews
Box 9 "Corrections of R.W. Stallman's Stephen Crane: a Biography" - Stephen Crane Newsletter, Spring 1969
Box 9 "A Recent Book About Stephen Crane", review of Stephen Crane: a Biography / R.W. Stallman - The Courier, Spring 1969 - typescript, author's proofs
Box 9 "Some Omissions" - Saturday Review Aug. 31, 1968
Box 9 Stephen Crane / John Berryman - unpublished typescript
Box 9 "Stephen Crane: Ecrivain-journaliste, 1871-1900" (1969) / Jean Cazemajou American Literature, Jan. 1971
Books
Cora Crane: a Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane
Box 9 Typescript ms. (3 folders)
Box 10 Production records - author's proof with corrections
Box 10 Production records - cover design, advertising pamphlet, illustrations list
Box 10 Stephen Crane: Letters / R.W. Stallman and Lillian Gilkes, editors 1960 - production records - advertisements
Box 10 Miscellany
Memorabilia
Photographs
Oversize 1 "The Luncheon given by the Society of American Women in London, Victoria Hall, Hotel Cecil, London" July 3rd, 1899 - 1 mounted original and 1 copy
Box 10 Negatives, miscellaneous
Box 10 Photographs, miscellaneous
Printed material
Box 10 Clippings, miscellaneous
Writings by others
Box 10 Experiment in Autobiography / H.G. Wells - - typescript passage from book
Box 10 "George Gissing on Frederic: a Correction" / Robert H. Woodward - The Frederic Herald, Jan. 1969
Box 10 "How Stephen Crane Got to Crete" / R.W. Stallman - American Literature undated
Box 10 "Jacksonville's Most Famous Madam" / Peggy Friedman - Jacksonville, May/June 1980
Box 10 Joseph Conrad and His Circle / Jessie Conrad 1935 - typescript notes from book
Box 10 More Lives Than One / Claude Bragdon - excerpts
Box 10 "Stallman's Crane" / Thomas A. Gullason - The CEA Critic, May 1969
Box 10 "Stephen Crane - a Biography by R.W. Stallman" American Literature, May 1969 - publicity
Miscellany
Box 10 Brass button given by Cora Taylor (Crane) to Henry W. Walters
Box 10 Calling cards of Cora Crane and her companion, Mrs. Ruedy
Cyrus Day research files
Box 11 Correspondence 1957-1962 - concerning the Jan 3, 1897 wreck of the ship Commodore
Box 11 Notes on the Commodore wreck and Stephen Crane
Memorabilia
Box 11 Clippings of articles (copies) about the Commodore wreck, some by Stephen Crane Jan. 3, 1897-Jan. 7, 1897
Box 11 Photographs and illustrations related to the Commodore wreck, Stephen Crane, and correspondents in Florida during the Spanish-American War
Mansfield J. French research files
Correspondence
Box 11 Esmond, Burton D. 1930
Box 11 Lafayette College 1930
Box 11 Robinson, Christian 1932
Box 11 Schoberlin, Melvin H. 1947-1948
Box 11 Travis, A. Lincoln 1930
Writings
Box 11 "Stephen Crane, Ball Player" - holograph
Frank W. Noxon research files
Files consist entirely of correspondence.
Box 11 Esmond, Burton D. 1930
Box 11 French, M. J. 1934
Box 11 Herzberg, Max J. 1926-1927
Box 11 Linson, Corwin Knapp 1930
Box 11 Perry, William H. 1926
Box 11 Robinson, Christian 1931
Box 11 Taber, Harry P. 1929
Vincent Starrett research files
Files consist entirely of correspondence.
Box 11 Bacheller, Irving 1927
Box 11 Cary, Henry N. 1922
Box 11 Conrad, Joseph 1919, undated
Box 11 Dulau and Company, Ltd. 1927
Box 11 Emerson, Edwin 1928
Box 11 Esmond, Burton 1930
Box 11 Frewen, Moreton 1922
Box 11 Harriman, Karl E. 1934
Box 11 Linson, Corwin Knapp 1931
Box 11 Mayfield, John S. 1943
Box 11 Somerville, Peter F. 1928-1933
Box 11 Vielbe-Griffin, Francis 1929
Box 11 A-Z (miscellaneous)
Corwin Knapp Linson writings
Box 12 My Stephen Crane, third revision (working title: "Stephen Crane Memories and Appreciation") - holograph
Box 12 My Stephen Crane, third revision (working title: "Stephen Crane Memories and Appreciation) - holograph manuscript, bound
Box 12 My Stephen Crane (working title: "Stephen Crane A Personal Record) - typescript, includes photos and death certificate
Box 12 My Stephen Crane, typescript photocopy - pp. 1-88 (2 folders)
Box 12 My Stephen Crane, printer's typescript copy 1958
Melvin H. Schoberlin research files
Correspondence-subject files
Box 13 A
Box 13 Abramson, Ben 1949-1950
Box 13 Adams, George Matthew 1946-1950
Box 13 Allen, Francis H. 1941
Box 13 Allen, Frederick L. 1941
Box 13 Allen, Gardner Weld 1941
Box 13 B
Box 13 Barrett, Clifton Waller 1958-1968
Box 13 Beer, Alice 1948-1956
Box 13 Beer, Thomas
See also Beer, Alice; Herzberg, Max J.; Starrett, Vincent.
Box 13 Bowers, Fredson 1967-1974
Box 13 Bruccoli, Matthew J. 1966-1971
Box 13 Lucius L. Button Family 1948
Box 13 C
Box 13 Clemens, Cyril 1947-1949
Box 13 Collamore, H. B. 1946-1950
Box 13 Crane, Edith and Crane Family 1922-1962
Box 13 Nellie Crouse Family 1948
Box 13 D
Box 13 E
Box 13 Edel, Leon 1948-1949
Box 13 F
Box 13 Fretwell, Elizabeth and Mark 1947-1948
Box 13 G
Box 14 Ghodes, Clarence 1951
Box 14 Gibson, Donald B. 1967
Box 14 Gilkes, Lillian 1954-1973, undated
Box 14 Goodwin, Clarence N. 1948-1949
Box 14 Greene, Nelson 1944-1949
Box 14 H
Box 14 Hathaway, Odell 1948-1950
Box 14 Herzberg, Max J. 1936-1949
Box 14 I
Box 14 K
Box 14 Katz, Joseph 1963-1970
Box 14 Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated 1946-1950
Box 14 L
Box 14 Lawrence, Frederic M. 1948-1949
Box 14 Linson, Corwin Knapp 1946-1954
Box 14 M
Box 14 N
Box 14 Norris, Kathleen Thompson 1948
Box 14 O
Box 14 P
Box 14 Pease, Michael and Nicolas 1948-1955
Box 15 R
Box 15 Rosenbach Company 1946-1948
Box 15 S
Box 15 Lewis Senger Family 1948-1949
Box 15 Snyder, Edgar C. 1949-1952
Box 15 Stallman, Robert Wooster 1951-1957
Box 15 Starrett, Vincent 1922-1948
Box 15 Syracuse University Press 1948-1968
Box 15 T
Box 15 U
Box 15 V
Box 15 W
Box 15 Wheeler, Post 1947-1952
Box 15 Williams, Ames W. 1946-1950
Box 15 Y
Writings
Books
Flagon of Despair (unpublished)
Box 15 Book proposal, Guggenheim Fellowship application
Box 15 Master copy (Book I, 167pp; Book II 159pp; Book III 130 pp.) (3 folders)
Box 16 "Original rough" [draft] (2 folders)
Box 16 "Copy II" (2 folders)
Box 16 Chapter XI
Box 16 Chapter XV - draft and notes
Box 17 Criticisms and suggestions
Box 17 Notes
Box 17 Production records - cover ideas, preface
Box 17 Production records - photographs (3 folders)
Box 17 From Candles to Footlights - production records - advertisements
Box 17 Sullivan County Sketches of Stephen Crane - production records - book covers, advertisements, illustration work
Notes
Box 17 America 1800-1900
Box 17 Bibliographies of Crane material
Box 18 Bohnenberger, Carl - inventory of Crane material
Box 18 Book dealers
Box 18 Brandon, Lily (Mrs. Smillie) 1895-1949
Chronological Crane history index
See Indexes: Index file #3 (Box 25)
Box 18 Colour notebook
Box 18 Conrad, Joseph - letters to and about S. Crane (copies)
Box 18 Copeland and Day publications checklist 1893-1899
Box 18 Crane, Agnes - writings
Box 18 Crane, Cora - background, America
Box 18 Crane, Cora - background, England
Box 18 Cora Crane correspondence 1897-1910 - copies
Box 18 Cora Crane writings 1901 - copies
Box 18 Crane, Jonathan Townley - writings (copies)
Box 18 Crane, Mary Helen - writings (copies)
Crane, Stephen
Box 19 Background 1871-1898 (25 folders)
Box 20 Background 1899-1900 (2 folders)
Box 20 Biographical materials
Box 20 Correspondence, incoming (copies) 1893-1900, undated
Box 20 Correspondence, outgoing 1886-1900, undated - copies (3 folders)
Box 20 Crouse, Nellie 1895-1896 - correspondence (typescript copies)
Box 20 Eulogies
Box 20 Genealogy
Box 20 Legends
Box 20 Letters about Crane 1896-1930, undated - copies
Box 20 Newark, N.J. tablet dedication 1921
Box 20 Portraits and postage stamp design
Writings
Box 20 Chronology
Criticism and background
Box 20 Active Service
Box 20 The Black Riders
Box 20 "Blood of the Martyr"
Box 20 Dan Emmonds
Box 20 George's Mother
Box 20 Great Battles of the World
Box 21 Last Words
Box 21 The Little Regiment
Box 21 Maggie
Box 21 Men, Women, and Boats
Box 21 The Monster
Box 21 "Ol' Bennet & the Indians"
Box 21 The Open Boat
Box 21 The O'Ruddy
Box 21 The Red Badge of Courage
Box 21 The Third Violet
Box 21 War is Kind
Box 21 Whilomville Stories
Box 21 Wounds in the Rain
Box 21 Criticism by Crane
Box 21 Greek-Turkish War 1897
Box 21 Philosophy of Crane
Box 21 Press articles 1894-1900
Box 21 Spanish American War 1898, undated
Box 21 Views on literature
Box 21 Miscellany 1880-1898
See also Index file #3 and Index file #4 in Box 25)
Box 21 Crane contemporaries, American
Box 22 Crane contemporaries, British
Box 22 Criticism of Crane, general
Box 22 Cuba War and background
Box 22 Frederic, Harold
Box 22 Garland, Hamlin
Hawkins, Willis B.
See Leslie, Amy / Hawkins, Willis B.
Box 22 Herzberg, Max - correspondence about Crane
Index, Chronological Crane history
See Indexes: Index file #3 (Box 25)
Index, Name - Researchers, Sources, Crane contemporaries
See Indexes: Index file #2 (Box 25)
Index, Original Manuscripts
See Indexes: Index file #3 (Box 25)
Index, Periodicals
See Indexes: Index file #1 (Box 25)
Index, Writings by or about Crane - noting published locations and Schoberlin's sources
See Indexes: Index file #3 and Index file #4 (Box 25)
Box 22 Legal papers, Crane
Box 22 Leslie, Amy / Hawkins, Willis B. 1896-1897 - correspondence (copies)
Oversize 2 Leslie, Amy / Hawkins, Willis B. 1896-1926 - clippings
Box 22 Little magazines
See also Indexes: Index file #1 (Box 25)
Box 22 Parodies of Crane
Box 22 Peck, George 1860 - writings
Box 23 Peck, Harry Thurston - writings
Box 23 U.S. Marine Corps - correspondence about Crane
Box 23 Miscellaneous
Memorabilia
Printed material
Box 23 Book, Asbury Park Directory 1885
Clippings
Box 23 About Stephen Crane 1896-1948
Oversize 2 Asbury Park newspapers 1879, 1886
Box 23 From Candles to Footlights / M. Schoberlin - reviews and notices
Box 23 Stephen Crane articles 1891-1900
Oversize 2 Stephen Crane articles 1892-1900 - copies
Box 23 Sullivan County Sketches / Schoberlin, M., ed. - reviews
Box 23 Miscellaneous
Photographs and illustrations
Box 23 Brede Place
Box 23 Crane, Cora 1892
Crane, Stephen
Box 23 British locations Crane may have visited
Box 23 Portraits (copy photographs and negatives, illustrations, caricatures)
See also Oversize package 2
Box 23 U.S. locations Crane may have visited
Box 23 Writings (photographs and negatives)
See also Oversize package 2
Box 23 Cranes' (Stephen and Cora) grave sites
Box 23 Pennsylvania and Lafayette College
Box 23 Schoberlin, Melvin - portraits
Oversize 2 Miscellaneous oversize
Writings by others
Box 23 "Mr. Stephen Crane: an Appreciation" / Edward Garnett
Box 23 "The Red Badge of Courage and the Civil War tradition in Fiction: 1861-1895" / Joseph Ridgely 1947
Box 23 "Stephen Crane and His Work" / Edward Garnett
Box 23 "Stephen Crane's Revisions of Maggie: a Girl of the Streets" / Robert Wooster Stallman 1955
Box 23 "Study of the Criticisms on Stephen Crane" / Benedict Wolf 1928
Miscellany
Box 23 Crane, Cora - spanish moss from above her grave
Box 23 Stationery sheet with heading, "Crane's New Jersey Coast News Bureau, Sandy Hook to Barnegat Bay, Asbury Park, N.J. Townley Crane, Manager, Stephen Crane, Secretary, Edgar C. Snyder, Treasurer" 1891-1892
Indexes
Box 25 Index File #1 - Periodicals
Box 25 Index File #2 - Researchers, sources, Crane contemporaries
Box 25 Index File #3 - Original manuscripts; Chronological Crane history; Writings by or about Crane
Box 25 Index File #4 - Writings by or about Crane; Miscellany
Ames Williams research files
Correspondence-subject files
Box 24 Arms, George 1944
Box 24 B
Box 24 Bacheller, Irving 1941
Box 24 Boston Public Library 1942
Box 24 British Museum 1942
Box 24 Collamore, H. B. 1941-1942
Box 24 Crane, Cora / Pinker, J. - typescript copies of corresp.
Box 24 Crane, S. / Pinker, J. - typescript copies of corresp.
Box 24 Crane, S. / Reynolds, P. R. - typescript copies of corresp.
Box 24 D 1942
Box 24 E 1955
Box 24 French, Mansfield 1934-1951
Box 24 Funk & Wagnalls Company 1941
Box 24 G 1940-1942
Box 24 Gaines, Charles Kelsey 1942
Box 24 H 1942
Box 24 Harper Brothers 1942
Box 24 Hearst, William Randolph 1941
Box 24 William Heinemann, Ltd. 1942-1945
Box 24 Hill, Eldon 1942
Box 24 J 1941-1945
Box 24 L 1941-1942
Box 24 Linson, Corwin Knapp 1941-1944
Box 24 Little, Charles G. 1941
Box 24 M 1941
Box 24 Mason, A. E. W. 1946
Box 24 Mott, Howard 1943
Box 24 N 1941-1942
Box 24 P 1941-1942
Pinker, James
See Crane, Cora / Pinker, James and Crane, Stephen / Pinker, James (Box 24)
Box 24 R 1941-1942
Reynolds, Paul Revere
See Crane, S. / Reynolds, P. R. (Box 24)
Box 24 S 1941-1942
Box 24 Sheridan, Clare 1945
Box 24 Syracuse University 1941-1961
Box 24 T 1941
Box 24 U 1941-1942
Box 24 W 1941-1945
Box 24 Wheeler, Post 1942
Writings
Box 24 "Alexandria, Virginia, Christmas 1954" Mar. 26, 1961 - private printing of Stephen Crane article "Fire!" with description by Ames Williams
Box 24 "On Collecting Stephen Crane" Mar. 26, 1961 - typescript of paper presented before the Manuscript Society
Memorabilia
Box 24 Photograph, Lily Brandon - copy photo
Recordings
Box 26 Charles Kuralt interview with Prof. Walter Sutton in CBS series: Exploring America - discussion of Stephen Crane Thanksgiving week, 1979 - Written on the back of the box: "Not for broadcast purposes". (1/4 inch audio tape) (ID#: crane_s_002)
Box 26 A Conversation Between Linda Davis and John Conway - Stephen Crane - Note on the back of the cassette case: "Produced by the Sullivan County Historical Society, this 30 minute video is a conversation between Linda Davis, author of Badge of Courage, A Biography of Stephen Crene, and Sullivan Historian John Conway. Together they explore the writings and life of Stephen Crane. (1/2 inch videotape; running time 30:00) (ID#: crane_s_004)
Box 26 Program by Virginia Wren, with guest: Lillian Gilkes, author of Cora Crane and co-author of Stephen Crane, Letters (1/4 inch audio tape) (ID#: crane_s_001)
Box 26 The Readers’ Almanac: guest Lillian Gilkes, author of Cora Crane Nov. 1, 1960 - Note on the back of the box reads: "Not continuity, intro and Interview only". Copy of the label is in the box. (1/4 inch audio tape; running time 23:26) (ID#: crane_s_003)
Box 26 SU Library Associates Lecture - Stephen Crane: One Biographer's Journey by Linda Davis 9/9/99 (1/2 inch videotape) (ID#: crane_s_005)

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