Collection Summary
Kenneth Lewis Roberts Papers 1919-1956
1919-1956
MSS37994
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis,
1885-1957
9,400 items
38 containers
12.1 linear feet
English
Collection material in English
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Novelist. Mainly drafts, galleys,
notebooks, outlines, and other items pertaining to novels and other writings by Roberts,
including for Life and the Saturday Evening
Post.
Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
People
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957, Moreau de St. Méry's American journey, 1793-1798. 1947.
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957.
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957. Boon Island. 1956.
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957. For authors only. 1935.
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957. I wanted to write. 1949.
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957. Lydia Bailey. 1947.
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957. Oliver Wiswell. 1940.
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957. Seventh sense. 1953.
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957. Trending into Maine. 1938.
Stetson, Harlan True, 1885-1964--Correspondence.
Subjects
American literature--20th century.
American periodicals.
Historical fiction.
Literature.
Places
United States--Description and travel.
Titles
Life.
Saturday evening post.
Occupations
Authors.
Novelists.
Provenance
The papers of Kenneth Lewis Roberts were given to the Library of Congress by Roberts
from 1955 to 1957. Additions were given by his estate in 1958 and by Lehigh
University Library, Bethlehem, Pa., in 1965.
Processing History
The Kenneth Lewis Roberts Papers were processed in 1960. The finding aid was revised
in 2012.
Additional Guides
Notes concerning the Roberts Papers appeared in the following
issues of the Library's
Information Bulletin
: vol. 14, no. 46
(November 14, 155: 1; vol. 15, no. 22 (May 28, 1956): 271; vol. 16, no. 25 (June 24,
1957): 298; and vol. 17, no. 39 (September 29, 1958): 547.
Copyright Status
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Kenneth Lewis Roberts in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
Access and Restrictions
The papers of Kenneth Lewis Roberts are open to research. Researchers are advised to
contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored
off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information:
Container number, Kenneth Lewis Roberts Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C.
Biographical Note
Date
Event
1885, Dec. 8
Born, Kennebunk, Maine
1908
A.B., Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1909
1917
Reporter,
Boston Post
1915
1918
On staff of
Life
1916
1917
On staff of
Puck
1918
1919
Captain, Intelligence Section, Siberian Expeditionary Force
1919
1929
European and Washington correspondent,
Saturday Evening
Post
1929
1957
Novelist and free-lance writer
1957, July
Died, Kennebunkport, Maine
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1885-1957) span the years 1919-1957 and consist
mainly of holograph and typescript drafts, galley and final proofs, notes and notebooks,
tear sheets from the
Saturday Evening Post
, and material relating to his
articles, novels, and other works. Included are a few letters, most of them between
Roberts and Harlan T. Stetson regarding the latter's article on dowsing.
The bulk of the collection pertains to articles written by Roberts while serving as
correspondent for the
Saturday Evening Post
, including notebooks
captioned by topic. Additional writing materials stem from his work for
Life
and other popular publications. Among the historical novels and
books represented are
For Authors Only; Trending Into Maine; Oliver Wiswell;
Lydia Bailey; Moreau de St. Méry's American Journey, 1793-1798
;
I
Wanted to Write; The Seventh Sense; and Boon Island.
Arrangement of the Papers
The papers are in a general chronological arrangement, except for a biographical file of
interviews and miscellaneous items at the end of the collection. The material is
organized and described largely as received from the author.
Container List
Container
Contents
1
1920-1936
Notebooks, and typed transcriptions, kept by Roberts while
correspondent for the
Saturday Evening Post
and containing
information on the following topics:
"1st Immigration," "Monte Carlo," "Paris Immigrants," "Aviation
Interviews," "Maisch Dress Interviews," "Paris Russians," "Mussolini,"
"Spain-Gibraltar," "Dalmatia," "Jugoslavia," "Movies," "London," "Paris,"
"Vienna," "Czechoslovakia," "Berlin," "Warsaw," "Scotland," "Madam Ubinoff,"
"Germany 1934"
2
"England," "Scattered Notes 1921," "Chapira (Paris)," "Antwerp,"
"Rotterdam Danzig," "Kaluszyn," "Warsaw," "Paris Hats," "Mexican
Immigration," "Mexican Border Patrol," "Norway," "Sweden," "Denmark,"
"Finland," "Germany," "France," "Czechoslovakia," "Russia," "Pressburg,"
"Hungry," "Rome"
3
"Aroostock County," "Archery at Philips Lake Maine," "Billboards,"
"Cornell," "Chicago," "Crime Commission," "Florida," "London-Paris," "New
Mexico," "Governor Haggerman," "New York," "Mormons," "San Francisco," "Los
Angeles," "University of Michigan," "University of Illinois," "Washington
Interview with Hoover," "Hiram Bingham," "Young Teddy Roosevelt," "Taxation
and Senator Cousins," "Palm Beach," "Senator Pepper"
4
1917
Literary manuscripts
"A Little Letter Is a Dangerous Thing" (longhand and
typescript)
"Dicky Lion-Heart" (typescript; short story)
"Good Will and Almond Shells" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"With Neatness and Despatch" (longhand, typescript; published in
Saturday Evening Post)
1918
Literary manuscripts
"Improbably but Plausible" (longhand)
1919
Folder 1
"Clothes" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
"Drifting Leaves" (
Harper's
tear sheet;
typescript)
"Oriental Irritants" (
Cosmopolitan
tear
sheet)
"The Random Notes of an Amerikansky" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
Folder 2
Notebook No. 1 contains in longhand:
"Bringing Chaos Out of Order, Part I"
"Corona Advertisement"
"Random Notes of an Amerikansky"
Notebook No. 2 contains in longhand:
"The Super-Boobs" (published in
Saturday Evening
Post
)
"Bringing Chaos Out of Order, Part II" (published in
Saturday Evening Post
)
"A Republican Asset" (published in
Life
)
"The German Psychologists Again"
"Sloppy Business" (published in
Life
)
"A Giddy Jumble" (published in
Life
)
"A Difficult Combination"
"A Fantasie in A-Flat" (published in
Life
)
"A New Source of Evil" (published in
Life
)
"A Terrible Blunder" (published in
Life
)
"News from an Approaching Era" (published in
Life
)
"If a Wire-Haired Terrier Could Speak" (published in
Life
)
"If Men Did Things As Women Do" (published in
Judge
)
"A Tragedy of the Future" (published in
Life
)
"An Absolute Necessity" (published in
Life
)
Notebook No. 2 also contains a two-page autobiography
sketch
Notebook No. 3 contains in longhand:
"Clothes"
"Food for Thought" (published in
Saturday Evening
Post
)
"Bolshevism and Sun Spots" (published in
Life
)
"Theory and Common Sense" (published in
Life
)
"Gloomy Retrospects" (published in
Life
)
"The Possessor of a Wonderful Talent"
"Another Testimonial for Advertising" (published in
Life
)
"The Disclosure of a Secret"
"Universal Signal-Cards" (published in
Life
)
"Refined Socialism"
"In the Museum, 2019 A.D., the Nickel" (published in
Life
)
"A Great Idea" (published in
Life
)
"A Tragedy of the Sea" (published in
Judge
)
"Further Information Wanted" (published in
Life
)
"Dear Brothers in Alpha Psi"
"How to Tell a Girl from a Miss" (published in
Life
)
"The Sad Fate of Lampson Ditheridge" (published in
Judge
)
"The Cause of High Prices" (published in
Life
)
"The Solution" (published in
Life
)
"Degenerates Repeat Themselves" (published in
Life
)
"The Parlor Bolshevik, A.D."
"Two Costly Jewels" (published in
Life
)
"Luxuries" (published in
Life
)
"A Word of Advice for Rockland" (published in
Life
)
"A Tremendous Relief" (published in
Life
)
"What Free Verse Is"
"Unbeaten Germany and Green Cheese Moons" (published in
Life
)
"Where Mr. Gallivan Slipped"
"The 23rd Psalm Rewritten for Mr. Fords Bible"
"The Children's Age"
"The Spirit of the Dog Sneaks"
"If Prices Keep on Rising"
"What We May Come To" (published in
Life
)
"An Explanation and a Warning"
"Wanted, a Pioneer" (published in
Life
)
"Kolchak and Advisers; Jobs" (published in
Life
)
"The Modern Child" (published in
Life
)
"Archimedes"
5
Notebook No. 4 contains in longhand:
"The Wild Waves"
"Golf" (published in
Saturday Evening
Post
)
1920
Folder 1
"Almost Sunny Italy" (longhand)
"A Bit of the Balkans" (longhand and typescript)
"Edges of the World" (typescript)
"How Cousin John's Getting Along" (typescript)
"Husks" (Typescript)
"Italian Immigration" (longhand and typescript; published in
Saturday Evening Post
)
Folder 2
"Poland for Patriotism" (typescript)
"Schieber Land" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
"The Rising Irish Tide" (typescript;
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"The String on the German Exodus" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"That Dear Paris" (typescript)
"Trial by Travel" (longhand and typescript)
Folder 3
Vienna notebook contains in longhand:
"Handing It Back (also typescript)
"Nem! Nem! Soha!" (also typescript)
"Wanted: Jobs for Five Million Germans"
1921
Folder 1
Vienna notebook
"The Constantinople Refugees" (longhand and typescript; published
in
Saturday Evening Post
)
"Eating Through Europe" (typescript)
"The Existence of an Emergency" (longhand)
Folder 2
"Flying Made Easy" (typescript; published in
Saturday Evening
Post
)
"Italy from a Dirigible Window" (longhand and
typescript)
"Paris and So Forth" (typescript)
Folder 3
"Ports of Embarkation" (longhand; published in
Saturday
Evening Post
)
"They Sometimes Come Back" (longhand)
"Various Things about Paris" (longhand)
"What's Coming to America" (typescript forward; published in
Saturday Evening Post
)
Folder 4
Notebook No. 5 contains in longhand:
"The Beer-Worshippers" (published in
Saturday Evening
Post
)
"Sheep to the Shearer" (title changed to "Gambling Made Easy";
published in
Saturday Evening Post
manuscript,
incomplete
Notebook No. 6
"Plain Remarks for Plain Americans" (published in
Saturday
Evening Post
)
"Scotland for Scotch" (published in
Saturday Evening
Post
)
"Sheep to the Shearer" (title changed to "Gambling Made
Easy")
"The Rim of the Yugoslavs"
6
1922
Folder 1
"Adventures in Budgeting" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"An Emphatic Participant" (
Saturday Evening Post
editorial clipping)
"Back to Toryism" (title changed to "Constitution Busters";
longhand; published in
Saturday Evening Post
"Balkan Jottings" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
"Before Enlarging the Quotas" (longhand; and editorial)
"Canada Bars The Gates" (typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Committee Land" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
Folder 2
"The Hooving of Hoover" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
"Jellyfish and Others" (longhand; published in as an
editorial)
"The Notes of an Antique Weevil" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Peeper" (typescript)
"Shutting the Sea Gates" (typescript; published in
Saturday
Evening Post
)
"Scraps from a Wanderer's Notebook"
(Saturday Evening
Post
)
"The Submerged Congressman" (typescript and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"Another Argument Gone Wrong" (
Saturday Evening Post
editorial tear sheet)
"The Tribulations of the Senate" (typescript and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"The Troubles of the House" (typescript and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"Washington Madnessess" (typescript of title page only)
"Why Battleships Go Up" (typescript)
"The Worth of Citizenship" (typescript and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
1923
Folder 1
"A Wanderer's Notebook" (typescript)
"The Ambush of Italy (longhand; letter signed Arnaldo S.
Cortesi)
"As Simple As Black And White" (longhand and typescript)
"Done in the District Of Columbia" (longhand and
typescript)
"Filibusters" (longhand and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
Folder 2
"Four-Minute Men" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"The Inarticulate Conservatives" (longhand)
"Irregular and Peculiar" (typescript and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"Lest We Forget" (longhand and typescript; immigration
article
"A Mystery of the Air" (title changed to "Our Too-Free Air;
(longhand and
Saturday Evening Post
editorial tear
sheet)
"Other People's Troubles" (typescript and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"The Progressives. What They Stand For and Want." (Typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
)
7
Folder 3
"Retrogressives and Others, Being a Further Record of the Musings of
David Augustus Flack." (Longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet
"Senators and What Not" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Slow Poison" (longhand and typescript)
"Suds" (typescript)
"Swedish Punch" (typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Three Black Cows, Being a Few Notes on David Augustus Flack and
Other Matters" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
1924
Folder 1
"And West Is West" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Concentrated New England" (longhand and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"East Is East" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
Folder 2
"Florida Loafing" (longhand)
"German Sports" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"Hot Air and Nitrates" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
Folder 3
"The Patient Pimas" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Red Trim"(longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Small Change" (longhand and typescript)
Folder 4
"Souse West by West," Book I, "Navaho Land" (longhand, typescript,
and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Souse West by West," Book II, "Flaming Hollywood" (typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
Folder 5
"Souse West by West," Book III, "Souse-West" (longhand, typescript,
and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Souse West by West," Book IV, "Fruits of the Desert" (longhand,
typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Souse West by West," Book V, "The First Families of America"
(typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
Folder 6
"The Stern and Clam-Bound Coast" (longhand and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Why Correspondents Develop Nerves: The Annoying Case of the Grand
Duchess Tatiana" (typescript)
8
1925
Folder 1
"The Circumspect Seventies" (longhand and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"Cockatoos and Others" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"The Dirt Farmer Complex" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Disciples of Realism" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
Folder 2
"The Dull Season" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"The Great Commission Metropolis" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Laws" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"The Mysterious Island" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
Folder 3
"The New Immigration" (typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"The Old Cure" (longhand and typescript; never
published)
"Some Wonders of Washington" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Unfinished Business"(longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
1926
Folder 1
"A Tour of the Battlefields" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"California Diversions" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"California Change" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
9
Folder 2
"The California Ray" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"California's War on Ugliness" (typescript and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Florida Diversions" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
"In the Wake of a Hurricane" (typescript and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"Mail-Order Legislation" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
"Mormons and What Not" (typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
Folder 3
"Movie Mad" (longhand and typescript)
"A Sesqui Day" (typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"The Trail of the Lonesome Trout" (typescript and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"The Voice of the People" (typescript)
1927
Folder 1
"The Charm City" (typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Everybody's Capital" (longhand and typescript)
"Hardships of New Mexico" (typescript and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"The House with the Blue Roof" (typescript and
Country Life
tear sheet)
Folder 2
"New Orleans Diversions" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"New Orleans Notes" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Nobody's Capital" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
Folder 3
"Sport in Italy" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"Watchdogs of Crime" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
10
1922-1926
"Who's Who-And Why" containing the following:
"A Patient Waiter," William Walter Husband (longhand and
typescript)
"A Conscientious Digger," Brigadier General Herbert M. Lord
(longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
"The Little Father of the Consuls," Wilbur J. Carr (longhand,
typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"The Welder of the Parks," Stephen T. Mather (longhand, typescript,
and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"The Alarm-Clock of the Farm," Senator Arthur Capper (longhand,
typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"The Alarm-Clock Senator," Feb. 24, 1923
"A Pleasing Irritant," George Higgins Moses (longhand
typescript)
"The Last of the Old School," John Sharp Williams (longhand,
typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet, "A Senator
of the Old School")
"One Who Must Be Shown," Albert Johnson (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Senator Reed Smoot" (longhand and typescript)
"A Beloved Enemy," Senator Pat Harrison (longhand and
typescript)
"The Scab Millionaire," Senator James Couzens (longhand, typescript,
and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"The Log-Cabin Senator," Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart (longhand,
typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"A Mild Fighter," Colonel E. Lester Jones (typescript)
"A Stoic in the Right Place," Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas
(longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
"A Good Reproduction," Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (longhand,
typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"The Nadir of Wildness," William J. Donovan (longhand and
typescript)
"Grand Duke Horace of Yellowstone," Horace M. Albright (typescript
and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Adventurous Blood," Hiram Bingham (typescript and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"A Hopeless Case," John Garibaldi Sargent (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Bill the Newsboy," William B. Hibbs (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet, "Bill The
Scout")
"The Boy Who Didn't Like Goats," Joseph H. Dyer (typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"A Slightly Handicapped New Englander," Harry Chandler (typescript
and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet, "An Effectively
Transplanted New Englander")
"The Bravest of the Blovalators," Senator J. Thomas Heflin
(typescript)
"A Naughty, Naughty Boy," Senator William Cabell Bruce
(typescript)
11
1929
Folder 1
"Antiques Go Boom" (typescript)
"The Bull Market in Antiques" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Far Above Cayuga's Waters" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Harvard: Fair and Cooler" (longhand and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"Pests" (typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
Folder 2
"Revolt in Billboardia" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Roads of Remembrance" (longhand and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Smoldering Illini"2 (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
12
1930
Folder 1
"Billboard-Dammerung" (longhand and typescript)
"France and The Scenery-Wreckers" (longhand and
typescript)
"England's War on Ugliness" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
Folder 2
"The Stolen Thunder" (title later changed to "The Great Billboard
Crusade"; typescript; three drafts)
1931
Folder 2
"An Inquiry into Diets" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
"Evenings Grow Gamier" (typescript and revised galley
proofs)
"For Author's Only" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
1934
"An American Looks at Oxford" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"England Turns the Corner" (typescript)
"Hitler Youth" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet; in two
installments)
"Murmuring Michigan" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
1935
For Author's Only
(galley proofs, with author's
revisions; two reviews)
1936
It Must Be Your Tonsils (typescript)
"Quoddy" (typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
"Rogers Rangers" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheets;in
seven installments)
"Too Much Service" (typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
1937
"Wanted: Peace Risk Insurance" (typescript)
13
1938
"Down East Ambrosia" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
Trending Into Maine
Longhand, typescript, and final proofs, with author's
revisions
14
1944 edition, with author's revisions
15
1939
"Turkeys, Dreams and Mr. Williams" (forward to Ben Ames Williams's
The Happy End
, 1939)
1940
"John Pierce: Journal by the Advance Surveyor with Colonel Arnold on
the March to Quebec" (typescript, with author's revisions; two
drafts)
Oliver Wiswell
(galley proofs, with author's
revisions)
16
1942
"We Need More Rogers' Rangers" (typescript)
1943
"That's Hay, That Is" (
Country Gentlemen
tear
sheet)
1945
Abridgement of
The Kenneth Roberts Reader
as published
in
Omnibook
(tear sheet)
"Mystery of the Forked Twig," published in
The Kenneth
Reader
as "Experience with a Forked Twig" (longhand and
typescript)
1947
Lydia Bailey
Typescript, with author's revisions; first draft
17
Setting copy
18
Setting copy continued; final proofs
19
Final proofs
20
Moreau de St. Méry's American Journey,
1793-1798
Reader's proof, final proof, with author's corrections; notes and
corrected pages
21
Typescript and reader's proof, with author's corrections
22
Introduction and index
"Don't Say That about Maine" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"What's the Matter with the Maine Highway Commission"
(longhand)
1949
I Wanted To Write
Setting copy, with author's revisions; (typescript, pages
1-500)
23
Setting copy continued; pages 500-675; index; typescript draft, with
author's revisions
24
Typescript continued
25
Corrected pages and reader's proofs
26
Reader's proofs; two sets
27
1957
Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod
Final proofs
28
Final proofs continued; setting copy
29
1951
"Gamblers Delight" (typescript, with author's revisions)
"The Great Lice Age (typescript)
1953
Review of Ben Ames Williams's
The
Unconquered
30
The Seventh Sense
(typescript, with author's
revisions)
31
Continuation of typescript
32
Galley proofs and final proofs, with author's revisions
33
1956
Boon Island
Typescript, early draft with author's revisions
34
Typescript, final draft
"Langman's Narrative" (typescript)
35
Boon Island
(galley proofs and final proofs)
36
1954
"The Importance of Our Birthright" (longhand; copy of
A
Challenge to All Citizens of the Bay State, with Some Convictions by Kenneth
Roberts
"A Glimpse of Oxford" (typescript)
"Leonardo Was Right" (typescript)
1955
"Benedict Arnold" (typescript and Massachusetts newspaper
clipping)
"Developments in Water Dowsing" (typescript)
"Home from the Sea" (typescript)
"Roger's Rules for Fighting" (typescript)
1956
Introduction to vol. 1 edition of John Marquand's
Wickford
Point, The Late George Apley
, and
H. M. Pulham,
Esqre
. (Notes; longhand and typescript drafts)
1957
"Dissertation on Marrow Bones" (a part of
Foods Of Old New
England
by Majorie Mosser; longhand and typescript)
"Harlan T. Stetson on Dowsing: His Essay Mangled by Professor J. B.
Rhine" (typescript of Professor Stetson's articles and correspondence between
himself and Roberts)
Plays-Folder 1
"The Brotherhood of Man" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet; co-authored with Robert Garland)]
"The Great Cheese Investigation" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Hands Across the Sea" (longhand, typescript, and
Saturday
Evening Post
tear sheet)
"Inside Information, a Tragedy" (
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"The March of Progress" (typescript; 1929 and 1951
drafts)
"Money Talks, a Play in Four Acts" (typescript; co-authored with Ben
Ames Williams)
"Nootes Ambrosiae" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheets)
Plays-Folder 2
"Precedence: A Near Tragedy" (longhand and
Saturday Evening
Post
tear sheet)
"Protectors Of the Poor, a Drama in the Manner of the Moscow Art
Theater" (typescript and
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
"Some Party" (
Saturday Evening Post
tear
sheet)
"The Stricken Rich, a Tragedy in One Act" (typescript)
"The Tin Can Generation" (typescript)
"Travel Is So Broadening, a Mystery Play" (longhand and
Saturday Evening Post
tear sheet)
Undated
"Dictaphone Records from Darkest Berlin, the Substitute Victory"
(longhand)
"A Not Improbably Interview" (longhand)
"Nothing of a Personal Nature" (longhand)
"A Riot in Spirit-Land" (longhand)
"A Word to the Farmer" (typescript)
1957
Water Unlimited
(setting copy; final proofs)
38
Biographical
"Interview with Kenneth Roberts by Alton Hall Blackington in the
Lecture Hall of Boston Public Library, Thursday Evening, November 29,
1945"
Radio interview dated July 1937 and appearing to have been prepared by
Roberts
Miscellaneous
"Revised Check List, 400 Songs for the Boys in the
Backroom"
Letter to Lawrence Martin, Dec. 19, 1939