Edith Wyatt papers, 1894-1968 (bulk 1894-1955) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence, primarily incoming, manuscript copies and excerpts of Wyatt's writings, a few examples of published articles and mementos, numerous newspaper clippings and reviews, and scrapbooks reflecting her interests and work. The few outgoing letters addressed to friends, editors and publishers are mainly about Wyatt's work. The more voluminous incoming correspondence, mostly from admirers and other writers, includes letters from Jane Addams, Janet Ayer Fairbank, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Henry B. Fuller, Mildred Howells, William Dean Howells, Vachel Lindsay, John T. McCutcheon, Edgar Lee Masters, Theodore Roosevelt, Karl Sharpiro, Ida Tarbell, Booth Tarkington, and Edmund Wilson. Of particular interest is a 1912 Roosevelt letter which outlines his views on prostitution