ROSE WILDER LANE PAPERS
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Rose Wilder Lane, author, journalist, world traveler, and
Libertarian spokeswoman, reflect the events and activities in her full and varied
life. They were donated, in 1980, to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library by
Roger Lea Macbride.
Rose was born, on December 5, 1886, in a homesteader's cabin near DeSmet,
Dakota Territory (later South Dakota) where her parents, Almanzo and Laura Wilder,
were engaged in the difficult task of wresting a living from the harsh Dakota land.
After this effort failed, in the summer of 1894 the family packed their belongings
into a covered wagon and drove to Mansfield, Missouri where they settled on Rocky
Ridge Farm. Laura kept a diary of the trip from DeSmet to Mansfield, and in 1962
Rose published it under the title, On the Way Home. Rose wrote the foreword and
afterword, contributing her memories of the events preceding and following the trip.
Laura's original diary is at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum in Mansfield,
Missouri, but the manuscript of Rose's foreword and afterword are in her papers.
Rose began school in DeSmet and continued her education in Mansfield, more or..
less completing eighth grade. More or less, because she was often mad at the teacher
and refused to go to school. In Item #4 of the Diary and Notes Series of her papers,
written in 1920, Rose gives an interesting account of her Mansfield school days.
Rose then lived with an aunt in Crowley, Louisiana where she attended one year of
high school. Her formal education ended when she completed the ninth grade in 1904.
After high school, Rose joined the growing ranks of "bachelor" working girls.
Having learned how to operate a telegraph, she went to Kansas City and worked one
shift a day in the Western Union office and one shift in the telegraph office of
one of the city's hotels. She eventually worked in several midwestern communities
and by 1907 was manager of the Western Union office in Mount Vernon, Indiana. In
1908 she went to California and a year later married Gillette Lane. From the
indications in her letters home, it is evident that she and Gillette traveled
extensively around the country. They eventually returned to California and became
involved in selling California farm land, a venture that ended with the outbreak
of World War I.
When Laura visited Rose and Gillette in 1915 in San Francisco, Rose was
writing for the San Francisco Bulletin. Laura's letters to Almanzo during her
San Francisco visit are preserved in the Laura Ingalls Wilder series of Rose's
papers. These documents provide a glimpse of Rose's life and activities during
that time in addition to Laura's impressions of San Francisco. These letters were
published in 1974 under the title West From Home.
In 1918, at the age of thirty-two, Rose divorced Gillette Lane, moved from
San Francisco to Sausilito and quit her job on the Bulletin to become a full time
free lance writer. In 1917 her book, Henry Ford's Own Story, was published as
well as a Sunset serial, Life and Jack London. In 1918 she wrote an autobio-
graphical, novel, Diverging Roads, which was published as a serial in Sunset and
also in book form. Of all these works, her papers contain manuscript materials of
only the second part of the Jack London serial.
Rose's diary for 1918 ends in September when she was offered a publicity job
with the American Red Cross and was asked to come to Washington, D.C. This diary
is the earliest extant example of a series of 84 notebooks in which Rose recorded
her activities, thoughts, budgets, and story ideas. The last diary entry was
recorded in 1967, although the entries from 1936 to 1967 become increasingly sparse.
For the years 1918-1935 the diaries and notebooks are a rich source of documentation
of Rose's life and thoughts.
Rose went to Washington, D.C. and worked for the Red Cross for a month,
and then resigned when the Armistice was signed. She then went to New York City
with a friend from San Francisco, Berta Hoerner (later Hader). The two writers
took up residence at 31 Jones St. in December of 1918. During her stay in New York,
Rose became involved in radical politics, meeting John Reed, Max Eastman, and
Floyd Dell, editor of The Masses. Her involvement with radicals is only sparsely
documented in her papers as there is no diary for any of 1919. Her 1919-1920
correspondence with the Haders, after leaving New York City, provides the clearest
description of her thinking at that time. She wrote retrospectively of that
period in her life in a 1955 letter to Jasper Crane.
In the spring of 1919 Rose wrote White Shadows in the South Sea in colla-
boration with Frederick O'Brien who she later sued over the royalties of this
successful book. Although her papers do not contain the manuscript of this book,
fragments of it are found in the Berta Hader papers in the University of Oregon
Library. Electrostatic copies of that manuscript and correspondence from Rose to
the Haders have been obtained from the University of Oregon and placed with Rose's
papers.
Rose left New York in June of 1919 and by early 1920 was back in California
researching and writing The Making of Herbert Hoover. This biography, written in
collaboration with Charles K. Field, editor of Sunset magazine was serialized in
Sunset and published in book form in 1920. Except for brief notes in her 1920
diary, there are no materials in the Lane papers concerning the writing of the
Hoover biography. The Genealogy File of the Hoover Papers, however, contains a
Lane file which includes correspondence to Rose from Hoover relatives. Rose
apparently left this material with Charles K. Field who sent it to Herbert Hoover
in 1947. Rose defended Hoover in letters to friends during the 1928 campaign,
even though she had heard rumors that Hoover had attempted to suppress her 1920
biography because he objected to the dialogue that she had interspersed in the
story.
During the Hoover Presidency Rose was living on her parents farm in Missouri.
While there she lost the money she had invested in the stock market and experienced
the effects of the Depression and drought. Her diaries and letters of this time
provide interesting and readable accounts of rural life in the midwest during the
Depression. In the late 1930's Rose and Hoover renewed their acquaintance and a
friendship developed between them. By this time they shared a similar political
philosophy. Rose's papers contain little Hoover correspondence, but the Hoover
Post-Presidential Individual series contains a file of Lane correspondence from
1936-1963.
In May of 1920, while still writing the Hoover biography, Rose sailed for
Paris where she worked as a publicist for the American Red Cross. In this
capacity she travelled to Geneva, Vienna, Prague, and Warsaw observing Red Cross
post-war activities and writing about them. Her papers contain little of her
writing from this year, although her diaries yield detailed accounts of her travels
and life in Paris. She continued travelling and writing in 1921, visiting Albania,
Yugoslavia, and Italy, and wrote many articles that year which were published in
the Red Cross Bulletin.
By 1922 Rose had severed her connections with the Red Cross and spent much
of the year travelling in Eastern Europe. She visited Albania for the second
time, witnessing a revolution in March and taking a trip to the high mountains in
June and July. Her book, The Peaks of Shala, describes her first mountain trip
in 1921, and the 1922 revolution. She also wrote of the revolution and a concurrent
marriage proposal by King Zog in a letter to her parents in March of 1922. Rose
continued her travels in 1923, visiting the Middle East before returning to Paris
and then to the United States. She wrote several articles for travel magazines;
--the manuscripts for many of which are in her papers.
Rose spent most of 1924 and 1925 on her parents farm in Missouri. There
she wrote Hill Billy (published in 1926) and several "Green Valley" Ozark
stories, most of which were published in Country Gentleman. Manuscripts for two
"Hill Billy" stories and several "Green Valley" stories are found in her papers.
In 1926 Rose left the United States with a friend, Helen Boylston (usually
referred to as Troub), for Paris and then Albania. Rose had dreamed of living in
Albania since her first visit there in 1921. In Paris she and Troub studied
languages until August, when they set off for Albania in a Model T Ford they had
christened, "Zenobia." They kept a joint diary of their trip which is in the
collection in its handwritten form and in two slightly differing typed versions.
While in Albania, Rose kept a typewritten journal and also kept carbons of her
letters to friends which described her life there. These were filed together and
titled, "Albanian Garden". Apparently assembled for a second book that was not
written, this material provides substantive information on the political situation
in Albania, it's customs and the social mores of the country.
The Albanian file in Rose's papers, which runs from 1929-1967, reflects her
continued interest in the country after she left it in 1928. She used an Albanian
setting for several of her stories written during the 1930's, and had a personal
interest in the country because of her relationship with Rexh Meta, a young Albanian
boy she met in 1921. Rose helped him obtain schooling in Albania and in 1927 he
entered Cambridge University with the support of the Albanian government and Rose.
After his graduation he returned to Albania, married, and had a daughter named
Bora Rose. Rose's direct contact with the family was cut off when World War II
began, and in 1945 she appealed to Herbert Hoover for help in getting Rexh's
family out of Albania. Although unsuccessful in this attempt, she eventually
received news of the family's welfare.
When Rose left Albania in 1928,she went back to Rocky Ridge farm and stayed
until 1935. She had a modern stone cottage built for her parents, and then
remodeled and electrified the old farm house for herself. Troub lived on the
farm with her until late 1931. Rose maintained contact through letters with
literary friends such as Clarence Day, Floyd Dell, Fremont Older, Berta and
Elmer Hader, and Dorothy Thompson. She corresponded regularly with her agents,
Carl Brandt (until 1930) and George T. Bye. Several of her author-friends,
including Catherine Brody, Genevive Parkhurst, and Mary Margaret MacBride, visited
her for varying lengths of time.
Although her diaries show Rose to be troubled and depressed in the early
1930's, she did some of her most successful writing during this period. Her
stories appeared regularly in Harper's, The Ladies Home Journal, Country Gentleman,
Good Housekeeping, and beginning in 1932, the Saturday Evening Post. She continued
to write stories set in the Ozarks, used pioneer settings for many, and wrote a
series of stories featuring a young girl named Ernestine. These described the
activities of assorted characters in a small American town and were gathered into
a book, Old Home Town, and published in 1935. The manuscripts for most of the
stories Rose wrote during the early 1930's are in her papers.
In addition to her own writing, Rose and her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder,
began a tense but fruitful collaboration in 1930. Evidence of Rose's urging her
mother to write can be seen in the letters from Rose that are now in the Laura
Ingalls Wilder Series of Rose's papers. Rose sat down with her mother's manuscript
in the summer of 1930, typed it and sent it to her agent, Carl Brandt. This
manuscript, titled Pioneer Girl, is in the papers. Rose later aided in rewriting
the story and her drafts of the revision, and a final copy of the rewritten
manuscript sent to George T. Bye, Rose's new agent, are also in the papers along
with several pages of additions and inserts in Laura Ingalls Wilder's handwriting.
Pioneer Girl was originally written as a factual, straightforward auto-
biography for adult readers. When the manuscript languished in the hands of
agents and publishers, Laura and Rose took a different approach and a shorter
manuscript, When Grandma Was a Little Girl, was submitted to publishers. Knopf
showed interest but asked that the story be expanded. The papers contain only
the first short manuscript, thus it is not evident how the revision was done.
There is, however, correspondence about the book's publication including the
change of publishers from Knopf to Harpers. In its final form, the book was
published in 1932 as The Little House in the Big Woods.
Rose's diaries indicate that she worked on Farmer Boy in 1932 and 1933,
Little House on the Prairie in 1934, and On the Banks of Plum Creek in 1936.
Her papers contain a 226 page typed manuscript for Farmer Boy and correspondence
relating to its publication. The Lane papers provide the most insight into the
mother-daughter collaboration in writing By the Shores of Silver Lake. By this
time, 1938 and 1939, Rose was living in New York and consultations had to be done
by letter. Disagreements over the lead to the story, plot structure, and tone
of Silver Lake had to be resolved by correspondence. Laura acquiesed to Rose's
suggestion for the lead, but other points she felt were vital remained as she
had written. The papers contain none of the original manuscript for Silver Lake
or for any of the subsequent Little House books published during Laura's lifetime.
The papers do contain Laura's outline for Prairie Girl which essentially outlines
Little Town on the Prairie and These Happy Golden Years. The papers also contain
the manuscript for a children's bookweek speech that Laura gave in 1937 in which
she describes her conception of "a seven volume historical novel for children
covering every aspect of the American frontier."
Most of the Laura Ingalls Wilder correspondence and manuscripts in the papers
were in Rose's possession at the time of her death. After inheriting Rose's
papers, Roger Lea MacBride, gathered additional materials pertinent to the
"Little House Books" and added them to the Wilder Series of the Lane papers.
Mr. MacBride was responsible for the publication in 1973 of The First Four Years,
the story of Almanzo and Laura's attempt to homestead and Rose's birth and early
childhood. The manuscript for this book was in Rose's possession and had evidently
been written by her mother in the 1930's and then set aside. Both the original
manuscript and the typewritten printer's manuscript are in the papers.
During her lifetime, Laura Ingalls Wilder sent the handwritten manuscripts of
The Long Winter and These Happy Golden Years to the Detroit Public Library, and
the Little Town on the Prairie to the Pomona, California public library. Laura's
pencilled manuscripts of Pioneer Girl and the remaining "Little House" books are
at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum in Mansfield, Missouri. A microfilm
edition of the Mansfield collection has been published by the University of Missouri
at Columbia, and a copy is available for study at the Hoover Presidential Library.
Rose left Mansfield in 1935 and moved to Columbia, Missouri where she researched
and wrote a book about Missouri history. Her papers include notes, outlines, drafts,
and two different manuscripts. The correspondence concerning the book indicates
that two publishers expressed an interest, but the work was never published.
While in Mansfield in 1933, Rose had taken in a young man, John Turner, who
knocked at her door one evening asking for food. She provided him with a home,
and he attended high school in Mansfield. In 1936 she sent him to the New Mexico
Military Institute and in the summer of 1937 to Europe. John remained in Europe
for a year with Charles Clark, a college student Rose engaged to serve as his
mentor and tutor. John entered Lehigh University when he returned from Europe,
but stayed only one semester. In 1939 he and Rose had a final falling out,
he left, and she did not hear from him again. His correspondence file provides
some insight into their relationship as do Rose's diaries. Rose maintained a
friendship with Charles Clark and his wife, Joan, for the rest of her life.
After seeing John off for Europe in 1937, Rose stayed in New York and finished
writing Free Land. This book about homesteading in South Dakota was serialized in
the Saturday Evening Post in March and April of 1938, and became a best-seller in
book form. Her papers do not contain the manuscript for Free Land, other than a
few fragments and an outline. Rose researched the book by making a questionnaire
on the early days in South Dakota which her father completed. His answers give
many insights into his experiences in South Dakota and his feelings about his life.
Rose also discussed various aspects of the book in letters to her parents in 1937-1938.
Assistance in responding to reader criticism of her dates and chronologies of events
was also provided by her parents. Some of the letters she received in response to
Free Land are filed in the Correspondence and Subject Series: "Saturday Evening Post--
Pioneer Stories Response Mail." Additional insights into Almanzo Wilder can be
found in the Manuscript Series: "Son of the Soil" file. Rose evidently considered
writing a book about her father and collected some of his anecdotes and made an
outline for the book.
With the money earned from Free Land, Rose set about looking for a permanent
home. She was a compulsive nest builder, always remodelling and rearranging her
living quarters. In March of 1938 she bought a modest older house on King Street
in Danbury, Connecticut which provided her ample opportunities for remodelling. She
shared these experiences in articles for Woman's Day in 1939, 1942, and 1960.
As the 1930's ended, Rose's life and writings took a new turn. She did not
write any published fiction after Free Land, and her energies and ideas were being
increasingly drawn into the areas of politics and history. The one serial she began
in 1939, "Forgotten Man," had a decided anti-New Deal theme and was rejected by
the Saturday Evening Post as being too political. Her article, "Credo," published
by the Saturday Evening Post in 1936 had an overwhelming response, and was reprinted
in booklet form as Give Me Liberty.
By decade's end Rose was writing only nonfiction pieces for Woman's Day and
occasional articles for other magazines. Her primary themes were individual liberty,
and needlework. Even some of her needlework articles had political content in that
she emphasized the freedom found in the United States as an important factor in
the wide variety of types and originality of American needlework. After writing
an article in 1945 against peacetime conscription, Rose did no more writing for
Woman's Day until 1961 when the magazine asked her to do another series on American
needlework. This series with its patriotic theme was published as a book in 1964.
Many of the manuscripts for her late 1930's and early 1940's articles are in her
papers, as are portions of the manuscript for the needlework series. Rose's papers
also contain numerous needlework patterns that she collected over the years.
By the early 1940's,Rose's primary concern was the infringement of individual
rights by governments. In her book, The Discovery of Freedom, published in 1943,
she traces the history of freedom, and points to the United States as the leader
of the revolution of freedom. She not only wrote about freedom, but acted when
she felt the government was infringing on her rights. She resisted World War II
rationing by growing and canning her own fruits and vegetables. In 1945-46, she
led an effort to prevent the zoning of Danbury which she viewed as an inexcusable
infringement by government on the rights of property owners. Her efforts in this
fight are documented by a series of newspaper clippings in the Danbury file of her
papers. She also described one of her public speeches during this controversy in
a letter to Herbert Hoover.
In 1945 Rose began editing the monthly Review of Books for the National
Economic Council, and wrote two or three lengthy reviews for each issue. Her papers
contain a complete set of the Review while it was under her editorship, and these
writings provide many insights into her attitudes and thinking. She quit editing
the Review in 1950 when confronted with the prospect of having to pay Social
Security tax. She was violentl opposed to the concept of Social Security and
vowed to have no income that required her to pay that deduction.
During the 1940's and 1950's, Rose's correspondents changed from literary
figures, agents, and editors, to professors and writers who were championing
political and economic freedom. Unfortunately, Rose did not save much of her
-correspondence from this period. After her death, Roger Lea MacBride realized that
her papers contained significant omissions and attempted to rectify the situation
by contacting persons Rose had corresponded with requesting copies of the originals
of their exchanges. Her correspondence with Frank S. Meyer, Merwin Hart,
Leonard Read, and Jasper Crane were all obtained in this way. The exchange with
Crane is particularly noteworthy in that it runs from 1945-1968 and both Rose and
Crane express their thoughts and opinions on many issues. Much of this corres-
pondence was published in 1973 by Roger Lea MacBride in The Lady and the Tycoon.
Rose's correspondence with Herbert Hoover and Felix Morley is available in the
Hoover and Morley papers at the Hoover Presidential Library.
During the 1950's Rose continued to support conservative causes while she
worked on a revision of The Discovery of Freedom, the notes for which are in her
papers. She attended a two week summer session at Freedom School (later Ramparts
College) in 1958 and from that point was one of its enthusiastic supporters. In
addition to her correspondence with Robert LeFevre, the school's founder, the papers
contain a talk Rose gave to a Freedom School group in which she uses her experiences in
Baku in 1922 to illustrate the dangers of rampant inflation.
Rose also supported and encouraged Dr. Orval Watts, a conservative college
economics professor. He and Rose corresponded regularly and exchanged ideas and
manuscripts. It is evident from the Jasper Crane correspondence that Rose was
instrumental in raising some financial support for Dr. Watts' work. Another cause
Rose supported was the move to start a libertarian graduate school proposed by
Hans Sennholz. She wrote to both Jasper Crane and Herbert Hoover regarding this
project.
The best record of Rose's activities in the 1950's and 1960's is found in
the Roger Lea MacBride file. Rose met Roger when he was an undergraduate, and
after his graduation from Harvard Law School he became her agent. They also had a
warm personal relationship, with Rose designating Roger as her adopted grandson.
Roger and his wife, Susan, kept in close contact with Rose and they corresponded
about a wide variety of topics including recipes, Roger's political career,
Harper's handling of "The Little House" books, Rose's library which Roger was
cataloguing, and many other matters.
In 1965 Rose bought a winter home in Harlingen, Texas. That same year,
Woman's Day asked her to go to Viet Nam to report on the war. The fact that she was
78 years old did not intimidate or hinder her, and her article, "August in Vietnam"
was published in December of 1965. That and another unpublished article, "The
Background of Vietnam" are in Rose's papers.
Rose Wilder Lane died in 1968 just before her scheduled departure on a three
year round-the-world trip. Her papers document her full and interesting life and
provide insights into other areas for potential research. These include American
writers of the 1920's and 1930's; social and political conditions in Europe; the
writing of the "Little House" books; and especially Albania, during the 1920's;
and conservative and libertarian thought in the United States in the 1940's-1960's.
Correspondence and Subject Series
Box Contents
1
Albania
Correspondence, 1922-68
Map, 1915
Albanian Garden
Correspondence, 1926-27
Journal, 1926-27
Alexander, Charles, 1923
America, Frank, 1923
Anderson, Blanche, 1965, 1968
Anderson, Sherwood, 1928
Beatty, Bessie, 1920
Brandt, Carl, 1928-37 and undated
Brody, Catherine, 1933
Browning, Norma Lee
See: Ogg, Norma Lee Browning
Bye, George T.
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1939-40
2
Clark, Charles and Joan, 1943-68
Clark, Fred G.
See: Manuscript Series, Discovery of Freedom
Clippings
Miscellaneous
1922
1923
1924
1925-28
1938-39 and undated
Literary, 1933
Politics and Economics, 1933
Cooking
Better Homes & Gardens Cook Book, 1934-46
Recipes, undated
(1)
(2)
Cornuelle, Richard C.
See: Manuscript Series, Discovery of Freedom
3
Correspondence
General, 1907-68
Crane, Jasper
1945-46
1947
1948
1949-51
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
4
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
March--July
August--December
1964
1965
1966
1967-68
5
Danbury, Connecticut
Undated, House Plan
1945-46, Zoning Controversy
1955, Flood
1966-67, Christmas Card
Day, Clarence, 1927-28
Dell, Floyd, 1926-34
DeVoto, Bernard, 1939
Dobie, Charles C., 1917-18
Economic Council Review of Books, 1943-45
See Also: Manuscript Series
Edmonds, Walter
See: Manuscript Series, Discovery of Freedom
Evans, Ernestine, 1953
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Rose Wilder Lane Investigation, 1943
Freedom Newspapers
See: Manuscript Series, Discovery of Freedom
Freedom School
1958--May, 1963
1963, June--1964
Garrod, R.V., 1962
Garrett, Garet
1936-37 and undated
1953
Hader, Berta and Elmer, 1919-1930 and undated
Hamilius, Jean-Pierre, 1959-68
Hart, Merwin, 1956-62
Hervier, Paul Lewis, 1926-34
Hoover, Herbert, 1920-60
Jackson, Major D.R.H., 1930 and undated
6
Jackson, Elsie
1930-31 and undated
1965-68
Keeley, Mrs. James H., 1926
Kessler, Howard E.
See: Manuscript Series, Discovery of Freedom
Lane, Rose Wilder
Articles About, 1925-82
Autobiographical Sketch, 1935
Bequests, 1968-69
Birth Affidavit, 1968
Calling Cards and Bookplate
Death, 1968
Estate--Property and Stock
Financial and Legal Documents
Passport, 1923
Tax Returns 1932, 1934-37, 1940, 1967
Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association, 1964-67
LeFevre, Robert
See: Manuscript Series, Discovery of Freedom
Little House Songbook, 1967-68
McBride, Mary Margaret, 1929-30 and undated
MacBride, Roger, 1953-60
MacBride, Roger and Susan
1961
1962
1963
January--June
September--December
1964
January--February
7
March
April--December
1965
January--April
May--July
August--December
1966
January--June
July--December
1967
January—March
April--June
8
July--December
1968
January--July
August--October
Undated
Mack, Captain O. Fred, 1940
Malcolmson, David, undated
Manuscript Material, General
Maps ca. 1920-39
Meta, Rexh
1927-28
1929
January--March
May--December
1930
1931
1932-35
9
1936-37
1938-40
1945
Meta, Rexh and Pertef, 1965-66
Meyer, Frank
1953-55
1956-63
Monarchi, Francesco, 1926-27
Moyston, Guy
1919-23
1924
January--July
August--December
1925
March--April
May--July
August--December
1926
January--June
July--December
1927
January--June
10
July--1928
Mundy, Talbot and Dawn, 1934-35
Munson, Lyle, 1967
Ogg, Norma Lee Browning, 1946-86 (includes partial manuscript)
Ohanian, Armen, 1940
Older, Fremont
1928
1929-36
Parkhurst, Genevieve, 1925-32
Paterson, Isabel, 1933-45
Pew, J. Howard
See: Manuscript Series, Discovery of Freedom
Plain Talk
See: Manuscript Series, Discovery of Freedom, National
Education Council Memo
Poetry, Miscellaneous
Printed Material, General
Read, Leonard
1944-45
1946
Reitama-Bakker, Simone, 1966-67
Roscoe, Burton, 1938
Ripley, Clements, 1937-38
Rocky Ridge
1928, House Construction Correspondence and Receipts
1928-81, Miscellaneous Writings and Drawings
1981, Farm Then And Now
San Francisco Press Club, 1915
11
Saturday Evening Post, Pioneer Stories, Response Mail
1937--March, 1938
1938, April--August
Sennholz, Hans, 1959-63
Smith, Art, ca.1916
Society of Women Geographers, 1929-42
Songs
Stillman, Louis, 1920
Sullivan, Mark, 1938
Telephone Messages, 1938
Thompson, Dorothy
1921-29
1930-60
Thornton__, 1964
See: Manuscript Series, Discovery of Freedom
Turner, Al 1935-38
Turner, John
Correspondence
1934-37
1938-39 and undated
New Mexico Military Institute,1936-38
Vietnam Trip, 1965
Vietnamese Correspondents, 1965-67
Watts, Orval
Correspondence
1956
1961
12
1962
February--June
July--August
September--December
1963
January--May
June--December
Manuscripts
Money and Banking
Chapters
1-3
4-6
7-9
10-12
Can Government Keep You Prosperous?
When Will The Prices Stop Rising?
Untitled, Chapters 1-2
Westbrook, Ira Ed
See: Manuscript Series, Discovery of Freedom
White, William Allen, 1938
Wilbur, Crane, 1935
Wilder Genealogy, 1934
Williams, Blanche Colton, 1928
Laura Ingalls Wilder Series
Box Contents
13
Correspondence
1908--ca.1914
1915
August--September 4
September 7--October
1919-23
1924
1925
1926-30
1931
1932
January--July
September--November
1933-35
1937
1938
1939-40
1952 - Laura to RWL,
See: Manuscripts, Estate
See Also:
HHPL General Accessions, Laura
Ingalls Wilder Papers, Correspondence from
Microfilm (This may not be reproduced without
permission of the University of Missouri)
DeSmet Cemetery Association, 1943-54
Detroit Book Week Speech, 1937
The Horn Book Magazine, Laura Ingalls Wilder Issue, 1953
14
Ingalls, Charles P. Homestead, 1880-86
Ingalls, Mary