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,...

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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.