Scope and Contents This collection contains the personal papers of Charles T. Robb relating to his time as a member of the Handy Writers’ Colony and his life after leaving the colony. It contains correspondence with colony leader Lowney Handy and member Charles Wright, notes about the colony leaders, journal entries, and poetry written by Robb. It is arranged alphabetically.A 1951 edition of From Here to Eternity was separated from the collection and placed in Special Collections with the call...

Scope and Contents This collection contains the records of the Handy Writer’s Colony of Robinson, Illinois. It includes: by-laws, minutes, correspondence, membership, and financial records of the colony regarding its founding, organization, finances, philosophy, and teaching methods; approximately two thousand letters written by Lowney Handy, Harry Handy, James Jones, colony members, relatives, publishers, editors, and friends; military records, and other personal papers of James Jones; commonplace books,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of student letters and audio tapes and digital media relating to Jackson’s radio shows, as well as a small amount of correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and related material from Jackson’s time at Sangamon State University. Series I: Radio Show Documents, (1970-1992), primarily contains letters written by students for Jackson’s radio programs ‘The Author is You’ and ‘Reading, Writing, and Radio.’ Also included are yearly programs for ‘Reading,...

Scope and Contents This collection relates primarily to Knoepfle’s literary career, with a portion focusing on his military career, family, and activism. Largely documents, the collection also includes a small amount of photographs relating to Knoepfle’s family and media, including open reel audio tapes, floppy disks, cassettes, DVCAMs, VHS, CDs, and DVDs. The collection is divided into nine series: Poetry, Prose, Colloquies, Peoria-Miami Tales and Freeform Poems, Press and Reviews, Work Files,...

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This collection contains the personal papers of Kenneth Snedeker relating to his time as a member of the Handy Writer’s Colony. It contains writing feedback from Lowney Handy addressed to multiple individuals and writing advice, notes, draft pages, and feedback that were stored in two binders.