Collection ID: LMC 1445
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Summary

Abstract:
The Haldeman mss. II, 1908-1951, consists of correspondence of writers and editors, including Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, 1889-1951, who were connected to Haldeman-Julius Publications.
Extent:
1 Box (1 standard)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Item], Haldeman mss. II, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

In 1915, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, 1889-1951, started reporting for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, based in Girard, Kansas. In 1921, he bought the newspaper, changed the name to Haldeman-Julius Weekly, and developed Haldeman-Julius Publications, which published new and classic books, including the Little Blue Book series of classics in Western thought and literature.

Maud Helena Davis, 1868-1925, was the wife of political activist and cartoonist Ryan Walker, 1870-1932, who published several cartoons in Appeal to Reason.

Sarah Alice (Addams) Haldeman, 1853-1915, philanthropist and banker, was the sister of social activist Jane Addams, 1860-1935, and the mother of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' wife, Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1887-1941.

Louis Kopelin (a.k.a. Lewis Copeland), 1887-1949, editor, worked at Appeal to Reason from 1913 to 1921.

Frank P. O'Hare, 1877-1960, political activist, journalist, and newspaper editor, studied at the International School of Socialist Economy, which was connected to Appeal to Reason, in 1901.

Upton Beall Sinclair, 1878-1968, novelist, had a long relationship with Appeal to Reason, as his novel The Jungle was first published serially in the newspaper in 1905. Sinclair became good friends with Haldeman-Julius and went on to publish several novels with Haldeman-Julius Publications.

Fred D. Warren, 1872-1959, worked for Appeal to Reason from 1900 to 1913. As managing editor, he commissioned Upton Sinclair to write about the Chicago meatpacking industry in 1904; this work became Sinclair's novel The Jungle.

Walter H. Wayland, 1884-1980, was the son of Julius A. Wayland, 1854-1912, who founded Appeal to Reason in 1895. He ran the newspaper briefly after his father's death in 1912.

Scope and Content:

The Haldeman mss. II, 1908-1951, consists of correspondence of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius and others, including Sarah Alice (Addams) Haldeman (Mrs. Henry Winfield Haldeman); Anna Marcet (Haldeman) Haldeman-Julius (Mrs. Emanuel Haldeman-Julius); Louis Kopelin; Frank P. O'Hare; Upton Beall Sinclair; Maud Helena Davis (Mrs. Ryan Walker); Fred D. Warren; and Walter Wayland.

Letters to Emanuel Haldeman-Julius relate to his publications, articles submitted to him for publication, book reviews, the sale of books and his writings. There is an undated statement on the "Haldeman-Julius Hip Pocket Library" by Carl Sandburg, and a statement in praise of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius by Ryan Walker.

Other letters in the collection are concerned with politics, the presidential campaign of 1912, the Socialist party in the United States, the imprisonments of Fred D. Warren and Kate (Richards) O'Hare (Mrs. Frank P. O'Hare).

Correspondents represented in this collection include Leonard Dalton Abbott, Newton Diehl Baker, Konrad Bercovici, Hubert Seely Bigelow, George Cram Cook, Jacob Sechler Coxey, Clarence Seward Darrow, Eugene Victor Debs, Mrs. Margaret Wade (Campbell) Deland, Shaw Desmond, Mrs. Marion Olive (Hansen) Donnelly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Fels, William James Ghent, Mrs. Charlotte (Perkins) Gilman, Susan Glaspell, Isaac Goldberg, Emma Goldman, Emanuel Haldeman- Julius, Frank Harris, Mrs. Mary (Harris) Jones, Frances Ann Kemble, Charles Rann Kennedy, Louis Kopelin, William Ellery Leonard, Horace Brisbin Liveright, William Mailly, Edwin Markham, Michael Monahan, Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien, Amos Richards Eno Pinchot, William Marion Reedy, William Josephus Robinson, Charles Edward Russell, Ellery Sedgwick, Upton Beall Sinclair, John Spargo, Joseph Lincoln Steffens, James Graham Phelps Stokes, Ida Minerva Tarbell, Samuel Untermyer, William English Walling, William Allen White, Henry Gaylord Wilshire, and Clement Wood.

Acquisition information:
Purchase: 1964
Arrangement:

This collection is arranged following original order.

Physical location:
Lilly - Stacks

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Haldeman mss. II, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
(812) 855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu