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Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) A Guide to the Microfilm Edition Pro uesf Start here. This volume is a finding aid to a ProQuest Research Collection in Microform. To learn more visit: www.proquest.com or call (800) 521-0600 About ProQuest: ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious research, the company has forged a 70-year reputation as a gateway to the world's knowledge-from dissertations to governmental and cultural archives to news, in all its forms. Its role is essential to libraries and other organizations whose missions depend on the delivery of complete, trustworthy information. 789 E. Eisenhower Parkw~y • P.O Box 1346 • Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 • USA •Tel: 734.461.4700 • Toll-free 800-521-0600 • www.proquest.com The Papers of Eugene V. Debs 1834-1945 A Guide to the Microfilm Edition J. Robert Constantine Gail Malmgreen Editor Associate Editor ~ Microfilming Corporation of America A New York Times Company 1983 Cover Design by Dianne Scoggins No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, xerography, or any other means, or incorporated into any information retrieval system, electronic or mechanical, without the written permission of the copyright owner. Copyright© 1983, MICROFILMING CORPORATION OF AMERICA ISBN 0-667-00699-0 Table of Contents Acknowledgments ............................................................................ v Note to the Researcher .................................................................... vii Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) ......................................................... l Chronology ................................................................................... 1 Biographical Sketch ....................................................................... 4 Selected Bibliography ................................................................... 34 The Microfilm Edition ..................................................................... 39 Series I. Correspondence, 1834-1945, and "Debs Remembered" ........................................................... 39 Series II. Published Writings and Speeches, 1877-1926 .................................................................. 45 Series III. Scrapbooks, 1884-1938 .................................................. .4 7 Reel List .......................................................................................... 49 Description of Index to Correspondence in Series 1. ........................................................................................ 50 Index to Correspondence in Series 1. ................................................. 51 Description of Checklist of Published Writings and Speeches in Series II ................................................ 122 Checklist of Published Writings and Speeches in Series II .................................................................... 123 Acknowledgments It is the nature of "papers projects" to be highly cooperative enterprises from their inception to their conclusion. This was particularly true in the case of the Debs papers, which were located in private holdings, government archives, and public and university libraries in this country and abroad. It becomes nearly im­ possible to list all of the people, organizations, and institutions whose cooperation and support have made possible the completion of the microfilm edition of Debs' works, but it is nonetheless necessary to recognize the most important of them. The Eugene V. Debs Foundation of Terre Haute, Indiana, made available to the project the large collection of Debs' printed works, correspondence, and memorabilia housed in the Debs Home in Terre Haute. Similarly, the Cunningham Memorial Library of Indiana State University, also in Terre Haute, granted permis­ sion to reproduce the large Debs collection of correspondence and printed works housed in its Special Collections Division. We are particularly grateful for the help given by Dr. Ronald Leach, director of the Cunningham Library, by Mr. Robert Carter and Dr. Robert O'Neill of the library's Special Collections Division, by Mrs. Karen Chittick Stabler and Mrs. Mary Ann Phillips of the Interlibrary Loan Divi­ sion, and Miss G. Eileen Tryon of the Special Services Division. Our colleagues throughout Indiana State University were equally cooperative and supportive. Grants from the university's research committee and from Dean Effie Hunt of the College of Arts and Sciences helped cover the sizeable photocopying expenses involved in reproducing Debs' letters and printed works. Mr. Robert Christiansen and others in the university's Computer Center were generous with their help in the preparation of the computerized index to Debs' correspondence. The project would have been impossible, of course, without the encouragement in the form of released time, secretarial help, student assistance, office space, supplies and equipment, and so on provided by Dr. Herbert Rissler, chairman of the History Department, Dr. Richard Clokey, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, and Dr. Richard Landini, President of Indiana State University. The project has had similar encouragement and cooperation from a number of men and women from all parts of the country and many walks of life. Dr. Leo Solt, Dean of the Graduate School at Indiana University; Dr. David Shannon, Professor of History at the University of Virginia; and Dr. Paul Glad, Merrick Pro­ fessor of History at the University of Oklahoma, encouraged the editor in the in­ itial search for funding and provided valuable help and guidance in the preparation of grant applications. Extremely valuable bibliographical information and leads to the location of Debs correspondence and printed materials were generously given to the project by Dr. Bernard Brommel of Northeastern Illinois State University; by Dr. Nick Salvatore of Cornell University; by Dr. Arthur Lipow, of the Political Science Department at Leeds University in England; by Dr. James D. Young, of the History Department at Stirling University in Scotland; and by Mr. Neil Basen, of the School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin. Among scores of libraries in the United States and a number from abroad we must mention particularly the valuable cooperation we have received from the staffs v at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library in Madison, the Missouri State Historical Society in Columbia, the Tamiment Library at New York University, the Pittsburg State University Library in Pittsburg, Kansas, and the Lilly Library and the Indiana University Library in Bloomington. Beginning in 1979 major grants to the Debs Papers Project from the National En­ dowment for the Humanities and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission greatly accelerated the completion of the microfilm edition of Debs' works. We are particularly indebted to Mr. Roger Bruns of the NHPRC for his ad­ vice and counsel and to NHPRC staff members at the National Archives-Ms. Mary Giunta, Ms. Anne Harris Henry and Dr. Sarah Dunlap Jackson-for their important discoveries of Debs-related material in government archives. We are especially grateful to Ms. Dorothy Swanson, director of the Tamiment Library at New York University, who agreed to allow us to micropublish thirteen reels of microfilm owned by the Tamiment Library. These reels contain a large col­ lection of scrapbooks compiled by Eugene and Theodore Debs and are reproduced as Series III in this edition. In preparing the material for the microfilm edition the project has benefited great­ ly from the experience and skill of Mr. Jack Ericson and his associates at the Microfilming Corporation of America. The program for our computerized index to the correspondence, which should be of value to papers projects in the future, was created by Mr. Emil Pocock of Indiana University. Many people generously contributed original Debs manuscript material for inclu­ sion in this edition. We must note our special gratitude to Naomi Lang of Los Angeles and to Marguerite Debs Cooper of Terre Haute, Eugene Debs' niece. Ms. Lang gave to the project a collection of letters written by Eugene Debs to her mother, Lucy Robins Lang, during and after Debs' imprisonment following World War I. Debs scholars will be forever indebted to Mrs. Cooper, whose gift of some 3,000 Debs letters to Indiana State University and whose permission to publish the Debs-Mabel Dunlap Curry correspondence were of major importance in the com­ pletion of the microfilm edition. Other donors of original manuscript material are Mr. W.B. Kilpatrick, Jr., Warren, OH; Mrs. Eleanor Lowenthal, Kensington, MD; Mrs. Wrisley B. Oleson, Sarasota, FL; and Miss Gertrude Traube!, Philadephia, PA. Finally we want to acknowledge our gratitude to Velva Hoffman Constantine for her countless hours of volunteer work in typing and filing for the project. J. Robert Constantine Editor Gail Malmgreen Associate Editor vi Note to the Researcher This book is the guide to the microfilm edition of The Papers of Eugene V. Debs, 1834-1945, part of a publications program sponsored jointly by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Indiana State University. Researchers who wish to quote for publication or to make further full or partial reproduction of any documents in this microfilm edition have the responsibility for securing permission of the owner of the original document and any copyright holder. Each document on the microfilm is accompanied by a target card that gives a bibliographic description
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