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Preliminary Guide to the Richard Howells Watkins Collection
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Box 1

Aviation, ca. 1910s-1920

Scope and Content Note

Includes photographs (b/w) of WWI aces, early airplanes (Curtis, Martin, Le Perce-Packard, Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation, and others), and images apparently shot from them, incl. Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and other New York views; various air fields around the country.
Box 2

Biographical/Personal

Scope and Content Note

Includes certificate of baptism, Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, New York City, June 16 1895 (noting birth date of May 26, 1895) and passport, with photo of Watkins.
Box 2

Book Reviews, ca. late 1920s-early 1930s

 

Correspondence

Box 2

Incoming (also including some receipts and documents re travels), ca. 1925-1936

Box 2

1940s – incl. J. H. [Jimmy] Doolittle (aviation pioneer)

 

Outgoing – and some incoming; most relating to writing/publishing

 

General / Personal

Box 2

ca. 1913, 1928-1932

Box 2

ca. 1931-1955

Box 2

ca. 1942-1946, re Coast Guard service and other

Box 2

1947-1951

Box 3

1954-1955

Box 3

Abbot, Mary Squire

Box 3

Adventure Magazine, 1926-1943

Box 3

Blue Book, ca. 1930-1947

Box 3-4

Brandt, Carl, 1935-1960

Box 4

Business and Personal, ca. 1953-1955

Box 4

Detective Story Magazine, 1919

Box 5

Meyerhoff, Arthur, 1945

Box 5

Munsey Co., 1926-1937

Box 5

Service for Authors, Inc., 1930-1935

Box 5

Short Stories (magazine), ca. 1945-1949

 

Diaries - work/travel schedule, incl. notes on how many pages written per day

Box 5

1925-1933

Box 6

1934-1958

 

Writings - print copies of stories appearing in various magazines

Box 7

Ace-High Magazine, 1922

Box 7

Adventure, 1927-1949

Box 7

All-American Fiction, 1938

Box 7

American Boy, 1929-1930

Box 7

American Legion Magazine, 1942

Box 7

American Magazine, 1940

Box 7

Argosy, 1922-1951

Box 8

Blue Book, 1925-1950

Box 8

Britannia and Eve, 1935

Box 8

Cassell’s Magazine, n.d.

Box 8

Chicago Daily News, 1929

Box 8

Chicago Sunday Tribune, 1932

Box 8

Clues, 1930, 1933

Box 8

Collier’s, 1936-1943

Box 8

Complete Stories, 1927-1937

Box 8

Country Home Magazine, 1938

Box 9

Detective Fiction Weekly, ca. 1928-1934

Box 9

Detective Story Magazine, 1920

Box 9

Elks Magazine, 1939

Box 9

Esquire, 1949

Box 9

Fiction Parade, 1935

Box 9

Flying Stories, 1929

Box 9

The Grand Magazine, 1928, 1934

Box 9

High Spot Magazine, 1931

Box 9

The Illustrated Detective Magazine, 1930

Box 9

The Illustrated Love Magazine, 1932

Box 9

Liberty, 1943-1947

Box 9

Live Stories, 1921, 1923

Box 9

Macleans, 1937-1947

Box 9

Munsey, 1926-1928

Box 10

Mystery Magazine, 1926-1927

Box 10

Mystery Stories, 1926-1927

Box 10

The Open Road for Boys, 1932

Box 10

Pocket Detective Magazine, 1936

Box 10

Popular Magazine, 1926, 1929

Box 10

Saturday Evening Post, 1927-1954

Box 10

Short Stories, 1926-1939

Box 10

This Week, 1940

 

Miscellany - incl. research files

Box 11

Auto Racing

Box 11

Bloomfield, Howard – book collaboration, 1943

Box 11

Desert Rat Scrapbook (serial)

 

Screenplays

Box 11

“Death Chute”

Box 11

“Full Throttle”

Box 11

Travel Photos – incl. West Indies (Antigua, Barbados, Trinidad), and England

Box 11

World War II Mementos