MsC
275
Manuscript Register
THE
PAPERS OF JOSEPH E. EVANS
Collection Dates:
(Bulk Dates: 1950 to 1971)
.5 linear ft.
This document describes a collection of materials held
by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Posted to Internet: June 2002
Acquisitions Note: These papers were given to the University by Mrs. J. E. Evans in 1973.
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Photographs:Box 1
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Biographical
Note
After serving in the Army during W.W.II, Evans began writing for The Wall Street Journal in 1946. One of his first assignments was as a foreign correspondent covering Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. In 1950 he was appointed foreign editor and two years later he took over as chief of the Journal 's Washington bureau. By 1953 he was an associate editor, and in 1965 he was named the Journal's Senior Associate Editor. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he made extensive reporting tours of places such as the Soviet Union, India, Africa, and South America. Evans became the editor of the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal in 1970.
Joseph E. Evans was honored with many awards during his career. While still in college, he was awarded the Irving Babbitt Memorial Prize for literary criticism. He later received the Silurian Society Award for editorial writing five times, the Freedom Foundations Award three times, and the Distinguished Service Award of the American Artists Professional League.
Box
List
Reviews of Arthur Settel, This is Germany: A Report on Post War Germany by 21 Newspaper Correspondents. New York: William Sloane Associates, 1950. Joseph E. Evans contributed one of the reports.
1959 stories on India
1962 stories on South America
Collection of award-winning editorials, 1969 -- 1970
1971 editorials plus 2 editorials published posthumously in 1972
Draft of a letter -- last piece of writing of Joseph E. Evans
The Wall Street Journal on the death of Joseph E. Evans
Eulogy for J. E. Evans given by Vermont C. Royster at Memorial services held at Huguenot Memorial Church, Pelham, New York, and Memorial service prayer
Fortune magazine (Aug. 1971) story on The Wall Street Journal
Biographical sketch of J. E. Evans, 1 p. typewritten
Photographs
Personal letters of J. E. Evans, 1935 -- 1954. Many of the letters from the period 1940 -- 1942 deal with the English Department at the University of Iowa (references to Professor Wilbur Schramm, Norman Foerster, John McGalliard, Baldwin Maxwell, and Seymour Pitcher). Also, correspondence, 1943 -- 1945, concerning personal involvement in the World War.
Business Correspondence, 1961 -- 1971
Letters about
J. E. Evans on his death
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