Scope & content
The collection contains correspondence, a diary, scrapbooks, pamphlets, broadsides, reprints, invitations, announcements, newspaper clippings, photographs, drafts of articles, and first day cover postage stamps. The following list of notable correspondents includes the year(s) of their correspondence (correspondence is arranged chronologically):
- Samuel Hopkins Adams (1943-1946, 1953)
- Elmer Adler (1959-1960)
- Sherwood Anderson (1928)
- Nancy Astor (1926)
- Irving Bacheller (1939)
- Hilaire Belloc (1920)
- John Black (1963)
- Richard E. Byrd (1927, 1933)
- James Branch Cabell (1926)
- Erskine Caldwell (1927)
- Bennett Cerf (1936, 1942, 1944, 1951)
- John Ciardi (1954)
- George M. Cohan (1933)
- Russell Crouse (1954)
- Richard Henry Dana (1930)
- Walter de la Mare (1948)
- John Dos Passos (undated)
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1926)
- John Drinkwater (1926)
- Dunsany (1925)
- Thomas A. Edison (1924)
- Charles W. Eliot (1924)
- Hermann Hagedorn (1960-1962)
- Joseph Mills Hanson (1954, 1959)
- Warren G. Harding (1921-1922)
- Jean Herscholt (1939, 1941, 1946, 1948)
- John Hersey (1953)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Justice) (1926)
- Felix Holt (1951-1952)
- Charles Evans Hughes (1922, 1924)
- Rupert Hughes (1938, 1947, undated)
- Stephen Leacock (1920)
- Richard Le Gallienne (1923)
- Sinclair Lewis (1929)
- Howard Lindsay (1952)
- George Marshall (1940-1941)
- Christopher Morley (1940, 1947)
- Allan Nevins (1937, 1948, 1950-1951)
- A. E. Newton (1924-1940)
- Robert P. Patterson (Sec. of War) (1947)
- John J. Pershing (1920, 1923, 1943)
- Poincaré (1924)
- Ezra Pound (signed E. P.)
- Elmer Rice (1952-1953)
- Franklin Roosevelt (Signed photo inscribed to JTW)
- H. W. Ross (1926-1927, 1929, 1936, 1938, 1940-1948, undated)
- William Shirer (1953)
- Upton Sinclair (1924)
- Allen H. Smith (1956)
- Vincent Starrett (1927, 1930, 1948-1951, 1956)
- Burton Stevenson (1932, 1939-1943)
- William Howard Taft (1924, 1926)
- Booth Tarkington (1921, 1924)
- Deems Taylor (1925)
- Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1952)
- Carl Van Doren (1926)
- A. A. Wallgren (1939, 1945-1948)
- Carolyn Wells (1930, 1935, 1940)
- George F. Whicher (1952-1953)
- William Allen White (1924)
- Herman Wouk (1952, 1956)
- Alexander Woolcott (1920, 1937, 1939-1940, 1942)
- Philip Wylie (1944)