Summary Information

Title: Marquis William Childs Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1919-1959

Creator:

• Childs, Marquis William, 1903-

Call Number: U.S. Mss 20AF; Tape 275A; Tape 276A; Tape 412A

Quantity: 11.6 c.f. (29 archives boxes) and 4 tape recordings

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

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Abstract:

Papers of a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter and columnist who covered primarily national and world developments. Correspondence includes fan mail, exchanges with agents and publishers, and letters concerning interests in the Austen Riggs Center for psychological treatment and research, the Episcopal Church, and the Gridiron Club. General correspondents include many people of prominence. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Washington bureau files, 1932-1960, contain editorial correspondence, memos, dispatches, and some articles. Childs' writings are represented by free-lance articles; book reviews; speeches and addresses; book drafts and notes. There are also scripts for several ABC radio news programs. Documentation of his research methodology includes notes and memoranda; interviews with Winston S. Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Alfred M. Landon, and Franklin D. Roosevelt; and news dispatches from Poland and Russia.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0020af

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