Guide to the Marjorie Henderson and Ruth Plumly Thompson archive M2024
Glynn Edwards
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Marjorie Henderson and Ruth Plumly Thompson archive
creator:
Thompson, Ruth Plumly, 1893-1976
creator:
Marge, 1904-1993
Identifier/Call Number: M2024
Physical Description:
2 Linear Feet
3 flat boxes, 1 manuscript box, 1 small map folder
Date (inclusive): circa 1915-1940
Abstract: The archive consists largely of Marjorie Henderson's drawings and illustrated letters to her friend and collaborator, Ruth
Plumly Thompson. Also included are photographs, ink drawings, and approximately 300 tear sheets of a cartoon "Forgetiquette"
on which they collaborated.
Biography
Marjorie Henderson (popularly known as Marge) was a talented cartoonist, who by 19 years of age, was already a regular contributor
to the Saturday Evening Post among other publications. She grew up on the Main Line of Philadelphia. When she was eleven years
old, she began a correspondence with the editor of the children's page at the Philadelphia Public Ledger, another writer,
Ruth Plumly Thompson. They began a life long friendship and collaboration.
Related Materials
Marge Papers, 1856-1994 (MC 554). Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Scope and Contents
The archive consists largely of Marjorie Henderson's drawings and illustrated letters to her friend and collaborator, Ruth
Plumly Thompson. Included are photographs, ink drawings - some with watercolor, pen and ink margettes for a daily newspaper
with verses by Ruth Thompson, and approximately 300 printed daily tear sheets of a cartoon "Forgetiquette" on which they collaborated.
Her letters document daily life and events on the Main Line in Philadelphia, family vacations, local gossip, collaborative
projects, and eventually marriage and children.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], Marjorie Henderson and Ruth Plumly Thompson archive (M2024). Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was purchased by Stanford University Libraries in 2014.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Artists as authors -- United States
Caricatures and cartoons -- United States
Women cartoonists -- United States
Comic books, strips, etc.
Thompson, Ruth Plumly, 1893-1976
Marge, 1904-1993
box 1, folder 1
Photographs of Marge, 1920s-1930s
box 1, folder 2
Cartoon: The Parade of the Younger Generation (printed)
box 1, folder 3
Booklet, 1916, entitled: My Brownbrook Quartette Book" (pencil sketches, pen and ink with watercolor)
box 1, folder 4-5
Greeting cards (pen and ink with watercolors), undated
box 1, folder 6
Pen and ink drawings by Marge
box 1, folder 7
Letter from Stuart Rose, editor of Little, Brown, & Co., to Marge, 1933
box 1, folder 8
Envelopes (empty), from Marge to Thompson, 1929-1934
box 1, folder 9
Ruth Thompson, "Didja Evers" (typescripts)
box 1, folder 10
Thompson's letters to various editors, 1920-1927; includes essays about Marge by Ruth Thompson.
box 1, folder 11
Forgetiquette mock ups (pen and ink)
box 1, folder 12-15
Forgetiquette tear sheets (printed), 1924
flat-boxes 2, folder 1
Drawings by Marge (pen and ink)
flat-boxes 2, folder 2
Drawings by Marge (pen and ink with watercolor)
flat-boxes 2, folder 3-5
Fairy princess and elf subjects, circa 1917 (pen and ink with watercolor)
flat-boxes 3, folder 1-9
Letters from Marge to Ruth Thompson, most undated (handwritten with pen and ink drawings, with watercolor)
flat-boxes 4, folder 1-10
Letters from Marge to Ruth Thompson, most undated (handwritten with pen and ink drawings, and watercolors)
flat-boxes 3, folder 10
Booklet by Marge after visit with Ruth Thompson in Stone Harbor (pen and ink with watercolor)
map-folder 5
Spreads from the Ledger Syndicate (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), circa 1920s: "The Boy Friend" (2) and "Steaming Youth" (1),
both by Marjorie Henderson
