Collection Guide
This document describes a Manuscript Collection held by the
Special Collections DepartmentUniversity of Iowa Libraries
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Guide Contents
Biographical and Historical Information
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Administrative Information
Access and
Restrictions:
Biographical Note
Warren Lovel Van Dine was born on November 25, 1902 in Fountain Green Township, Illinois. He was born on his grandfather's farm in the same bedroom that his mother, Flora Ellen Salisbury, was born. Warren Van Dine grew up in Burnside, Illinois in the house built by his father, Herbert R. Van Dine. After graduating from the State University of Iowa (the University of Iowa) in 1924 with a B.A. from the Liberal Arts College, Van Dine devoted himself to the Mormon church and to the Sons of the American Revolution. He also worked as an editor for two poetry journals; Much Ado in the early 1930's and Upward in the late 1930's. Unchanging Gold, a book of poems by Van Dine, was published in 1938. Van DIne authored several short stories and newspaper articles. He also wrote extensively about unusual weather in Hancock County, Illinois and about Hancock County history. For a large part of his life Van Dine was a member of the Revolutionary Graves Registry Committee and compiled lists of grave markers in county cemeteries for use by historians and genealogists. Van Dine remained a proud alumnus of the University of Iowa and appeared to be enamored with the state. He attended Alumni Weekend in Iowa City every year from 1959 and considered Iowa his home. He took great pride in representing Iowa in the 1925 publication of Poets of the Future with his sonnet, "Pioneers." Van Dine lived and wrote in Burnside, Illinois and Hamilton, Illinois until his death on September 25, 1983.
A. Neville, September 2005
Scope and
Contents
Photographs:
The papers of Warren L. Van Dine consist of audio recordings, bigraphical information, correspondence, and materials relating to Mr. Van Dine's editorial positions with Much Ado and Upward. Also included in this collection are several manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, and short stories as well as Mr. Van Dine's memories of his time spent as a student at the State University of Iowa in the 1920s. The files of correspondence are arranged chronologically except for the Much Ado submission manuscripts, which are arranged alphabetically.
Acquisition and Processing Information
These papers
were given to the University of Iowa Libraries by
Guide posted
to Internet:
Box 1
"Unchanging Gold"
Interview with Jerry Nutt, Jr. about the University of Iowa, 5 June 1970
Warren Van Dine on Pilot Grove history
Karen Nelson recites Van Dine
Correspondence, 1919 -- 1962
FOLDER 1
To Warren Van Dine from
Josephine Simmons, 27 January 1919
Bickel, 7 November 1923
John T. Frederick, 10 November 1923
Mrs. C. B. Chandler, 28 January 1924
Edward J. H. O'Brien
27 August 1924
8 November 1924 (with newspaper clipping dated 1941)
26 November 1924 (telegram)
J. T. F. (John T. Frederick) (The Midland), 25 September 1924
Henry T. Schmittkind (The Stratford Company), 14 September 1925
Thomas Dunn, Jr., May 1926
C. B. Nelson (The Midland), 7 January 1927
Charlton G. Laird, 19 May 1929
Henry T. Schmittkind (The Stratford Company), 31 August 1931
Leonard Lea (Vision), 6 November 1931
Loren W. Van Dorn, 20 December 1931
Henry T. Schmittkind (The Stratford Company), 19 January 1932
Henry Harrison (Poetry World and Contemporary Vision) 28 July 1932
Mary Hull Martin, 7 August 1932
Joe Maynard Reynolds (Much Ado), 10 September 1932
Jack Conroy (The Rebel Poet), 20 September 1932
Clarence L Haynie (Southern Literary Review), 12 October 1932
Edgar A Guest (Detroit Free Press), 17 October 1932
Paul Frederick Corey, 23 October 1932
George F. Milton (The Chatanooga News), 27 October 1932
Lucia Trent
29 October 1932
26 November 1932
16 December 1932
Kenneth W. Porter, 21 December 1932
Edwin Ford Piper, 22 December 1932
Walter Coates, 26 December 1932
Ralph Cheyney (George Henry Kay)
14 January 1933
28 March 1933
Loren Eiseley (The Prairie Schooner), 18 February 1933
Richard Merton Petty (Southern Literary Review), 5 April 1933
Ada ?, 25 April 1933
Frances Davidson (Nebraska Writers' Guild), 9 May 1933
Hap Perrill (Much Ado), 17 May 1933
Inez Sheldon Tyler, 27 June 1933
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Long, 29 August 1933 (birth announcement)
Marie Tello Phillips (Bookfellows Library Guild), 24 October 1933
Olive Scott Stainsby (The Melting Pot), 31 October 1933
George F. Milton (The Chattanooga News), 7 December 1933
FOLDER 2
Leonard Lea (Herald Publishing House)
22 January 1935
28 January 1935
Roberta Lewis, 23 June 1938
R. W. McLellan, 9 July 1938
Eva L. Swain, 12 July 1938
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Cox, 15 July 1938
Ernest Noble Brown (Kansas City Quill Club), 20 July 1938
Susan M. Davidson, 29 July 1938
Margery Graham, 2 September 1938 (originally sent to James A. Decker)
Josephine Simmons, 25 September 1938
F. M. Smith
21 October 1938
4 November 1938
Elbert A. Smith, 3 July 1939
M.A.S., 3 August 1939
Irby Mundy, 1 April 1940
I. A. Smith, 23 May 1940
Agnes A. Fisher, 15 March 1943
Albert Salisbury, 12 November 1945
G. D. Jones, 9 January 1948
The Hagmeier's, 14 December 1950
Paul Findley, 17 April 1960
Anne Einselen, 7 March 1962
Fred Lape, undated
Virginia Marzolf, Monday
Virginia Marzolf, undated
Mabelle Nagel, undated
FOLDER 3
From Warren Van Dine to
Mrs. Ralph Cheyney (Lucia Trent), 1 November 1932
Editor, The Saints' Herald
21 January 1962 (4 pages)
20 March 1962 (2 pages)
Editor, Hancock County Journal, 1 March 1962 (9 pages)
Editor, Nauvoo Independent, 23 April 1962 (4 pages)
Mary Kelly Mullane, 14 June 1962 (3 pages)
State University of Iowa Special Collections, 18 June 1962 (with rough drafts)
Kinnikinnick, Much Ado, and Upward materials
Kinnikinnick, collection of poems including works by Warren Van Dine, Charlton Grant Laird, Paul Frederick Corey, and Edwin Ford Piper; undated though circa 1922--1924
Much Ado - biographical notes
Josephine Craven Chandler, 24 October 1932
Elizabeth Greene Streator, 28 October 1932
Maud E. Uschold, 29 October 1932
Eloise Cooper Mackey
9 November 1932
14 December 1932
Virginia Semler, 17 December 1932
Lucia Trent, 21 December 1932
Ralph Cheyney, 27 December 1932
Margaret Lathrop Law, 5 January 1933
Helen Rosemary Cole, 19 January 1933
Adelaide Love, 21 January 1933
Thomas Vaughan, 4 February 1933
Catharine E. Berry, 21 April (no year)
J. Graydon Jeffries, undated
Mary Owen Lewis, undated
Much Ado - copyright permissions
George Jarrboe, 21 October 1932 (?)
Fred Lape, 24 October 1932
Ted Olson, 24 October 1932
Margaret Forst, 27 October 1932
H. Raynesford Mulder, 14 November 1932
John Edward Calhoun, 15 December 1932
Harold Vinal, 31 December 1932
Richard Zeydel, 31 December 1932 (?)
Stanton A. Coblentz, 4 January 1933
Caroline Giltinan, 3 February 1933
Daniel Whitehead Hicky, 7 February 1933
Stanton A. Coblentz, 7 April 1933
S.D. Mayer, 7 April 1933
Inez Taylor, 7 April 1933
Cardinal LeGros, 8 April 1933
George Steele Seymour, 10 April 1933 (?)
Marie Tello Phillips, 10 April 1933 (?)
J. Corson Miller, 14 April 1933
Benjamin Musser, 25 April 1933
Harold Vinal, 26 April 1933
William A. Martin, 27 April 1933
Carl John Bostelman, 28 April 1933
Irl Morse, 28 April 1933
Constance Deming Lewis, 30 April 1933
Frances Davis Adams, 2 May 1933
Mary Carolyn Davies, 3 May 1933
Fitzgerald Flournoy, 7 May 1933
James Neill Northe, 5 September 1933
M.L. Marshall, 6 September 1933
Much Ado - general correspondence (2 items)
Much Ado - essay describing W. Van Dine's work with Much Ado
Much Ado - submission manuscripts
Baker, Anna R.; "Fire On The Hearth"
Chandler, Josephine Craven; "Eagle at Galena"
Cheyney, Ralph; "The Shoal Planted By The Gods"
Cole, Helen Rosemary; "Dark Road House"
Finney, Harry A.; "Passing"
Fletcher, W. H. and G. E. McMinimy; "Synapothanumenes (Inseparable In Death)"
Law, Margaret Lathrop; "Venetian Glass"
Le Gros, Cardinal; "This Hunger"
Lewis, Constance Deming; "Nirvana"
Lewis, Mary Owen; "Ruins of Chateau de Beaufort"
Semler, Virginia; "The Vacant Chair"
Simmons, Josephine; "Old Johann Seelinger"
Trent, Lucia; " When West Meets East"
Uschold, Maude E.; "Hills"
Much Ado and Upward miscellany
Upward - copyright permissions
Publisher, The Atlantic Monthly, 2 May 1938
Louise Brockway, 4 May 1938
The Editors, Ladies' Home Journal, 4 May 1938
Brick Johns, 10 May 1938
The Editors, Harper's Magazine, 10 May 1938
? Stuart, 12 May 1938 (written to James A. Decker)
Edward Weismiller, 12 May 1938
Myrtle Vorst Sheppard, 14 May 1938
Robert Nathan, 21 July 1938
Louise Brockway, 27 July 1938
Harlan Logan, 27 July 1938
Ted Malone, 27 July 1938
Marion Hoyle, 30 July 1938
Strickland Gillilan, 7 August 1938
Marjorie Allen Seiffert, 12 August 1938
Archibald Rutledge, 16 August 1938
Josephine Jacobsen, 17 August 1938
The Editors, The Saturday Evening Post, 19 August 1938
Edward F. Healy, 19 August 1938
Ted Malone , 21 October 1938
Publisher, The Atlantic Monthly, 24 October 1938
The Editors, Ladies' Home Journal, 27 October 1938
Paula S. Vogelsang, 28 October 1938
Sara Henderson Hay, 29 October 1938
David McCord, 10 January 1939
Grace Noll Crowell, 12 January 1938
The Editors, Ladies' Home Journal, 12 January 1939
Publisher, The Atlantic Monthly, 12 January 1939
Ted Malone, 9 February, 1939
Carmen Judson, 13 February 1939 (misdated as 1938)
Upward: A Quarterly Magazine of Worth-While Verse
Autumn, 1938
Summer, 1938
Winter, 1938-39
Upward - general correspondence (5 items)
Photographs with essay by Warren Van Dine
Flora Ellen Salisbury, mother of Warren Lovel Van Dine, ca. 1900
Warren L. Van Dine, 1903
Warren L. Van Dine, Carthage, IL High School, class of 1920
Warren L. Van Dine, 1922 (2 copies)
Warren L. Van Dine, Nauvoo, IL, 1938
Warren L. Van Dine, 1953 (3 copies)
Warren L. Van Dine, 1959 (3 copies)
Warren L. Van Dine, Nauvoo, IL, 1961
Subject files
Biographical and genealogical information by W. Van Dine, includes obituary from Hancock Co. Journal-Pilot
Map of Nauvoo, IL with written explanation by Warren Van Dine
Miscellaneous
Newspaper clippings, 1937 -- 1984
Reunion, Carthage High School Class of 1920, press releases, letters, and class member information
Box 2
Writings
"About Joseph Smith, Candidate for President in 1844" by Warren Van Dine; typescript, additional information
"The Gift of God." The Literary Digest 112. 2 (1932): 26.
"The Organ." The Saints' Herald 82. 5 (1935).
"At the Grave of Joseph Smith." Illinois Quest 1. 5 (1938): 20.
"Pioneers." Illinois Quest 1. 5 (1938): 40.
"A Woman," by Warren Van Dine; manuscript with corrections
"My Memories of Some of the Literati at Iowa in the 1920's (The Great and the Near Great)" by Warren Van Dine; typescripts, rough drafts, and additional information
News release issued by Warren Van Dine
Title pages
Branch, Douglas E.
Carver, George
Childs, Marquis
Corey, Paul Frederick
Frederick, John T. and Esther Paulus
Laird, Charlton Grant
Mott, Frank Luther
Muilenburg, Walter J.
Piper, Edwin Ford
Van den Bark, Melvin
Miscellaneous
Poems
"Daguerreotype"
"The First Day in the White House"
"Soldiers of Fortune"
"The House"
"Someday"
"Clouds of Evening"
"The Poet"
"Ships"
"Babylon"
"The Sea"
"The Tabernacle"
"The Four Carpenters"
"Some Corner of a Foreign Field"
"Vinitius Dreams of Lygia (Quo Vadis)"
"Napoleon at Lodi"
"Wolfe at Quebec"
"The Perfect Picture"
"New Orleans"
"The Old Capitol Building (The State University of Iowa)"
"Night in Illnois"
"Pioneers"
"At the Grave of Joseph Smith"
Reviews, essays, and letters authored by Warren Van Dine with written explanation by Van Dine
Handwritten explanations by Warren Van Dine
Review of Hugh Walpole's "The Fortress" by Warren Van Dine, ca. 1930
"Review of Novel" by Warren Van Dine, ca. 1930
"Paragraphs" by Warren Van Dine for for freshman English class, 1921
Letter to Plain Talk concerning the death of G. D. Eaton, July 14, 1930
"Obituary of the Class of 1919," by Warren Van Dine, 1919
"Life," essay by Warren Van Dine, 1917 -- 1918
Biographical data compiled by Warren Van Dine, 1952
Letters to (2) The Quincy Herald-Whig, December 2 and 7, 1931
Essay concerning the life and career of Archibald MacLeish by Warren Van Dine, 1944
Essay concerning narrative poetry by Warren Van Dine, 1945
Review of Louis Bromfield's "A Good Woman," 1933
"A Great Religious Masterpiece," by Warren Van Dine concerning John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," 1944
Essay, "The Marriage of Joseph Smith," by Warren Van Dine, 1956
Miscellaneous reviews and editorials
Box 3
Self- authored obituary, 1973
Short stories
"The Artist" (with manuscript and corrections)
"The Poet"
"The Prophet"
"Short and Simple Annals"
Speeches
WCAZ Carthage, IL broadcast transcript; January 27, 1968
Memorial Day ceremony, Moss Ridge Cemetery; May 30, 1970
Prayer, Smith Family Reunion, Nauvoo, IL; August 1972
Address to the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints, Nauvoo, IL; undated
Translation of Virgil's "The Story of the Aenaeid" by Warren Van Dine, 1919 -- 1920. Includes additional information from Van Dine dated September 1, 1929 and January 1, 1949.
