Box 3

Scope and Contents In Man's Estate / The World and I, by Edwin Emerson. Typewritten, carbon on thin orange paper, 108 pages, with numerous corrections and additions by Emerson in pencil and ball point pen. Contained in an Acco Press binder. This story relates to Emerson's criminal court reporting in New York City during the 1890s, and particularly to a case of a stolen Stradivarius violin. With a one-page autograph letter signed by Emerson to Ames W. Williams, Thanksgiving, 1950, referring to this story and to...

Scope and Contents In Man's Estate / Rumbles of War, by Edwin Emerson. Typewritten, carbon on thin orange paper, 90 (unnumbered) pages, with numerous corrections and additions by Emerson throughout. Contained in an Acco Press binder. Rumbles of War, by Edwin Emerson. Original manuscript, written by Emerson in a blank book, 182 pages, in pencil and pen. Autobiographical, mentions Stephen Crane, Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst, etc. In Man's Estate, by Edwin Emerson. Original manuscript, written...

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Footloose, by Edwin Emerson. Typewritten, carbon on thin blue paper, pages numbered 461 - 655, with handwritten corrections and additions by Emerson throughout. Evidently a part of an autobiographical project entitled: Happy-Go-Lucky. Contained in a Prong Fastener Binder.

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Cuba's Cauldron, by Edwin Emerson. Typewritten, carbon on thin orange paper with many positive photostats of text inserted, 246 pages plus, with copious pencil and pen corrections and additions throughout by Emerson. This is a part of Emerson's project entitled: Happy-Go-Lucky. Contained in a Prong Fastener Binder. Includes unusually important account of Emerson's relations with Col. Theodore Roosevelt during Spanish-American War in Cuba.

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An Old College Town, by Edwin Emerson. Typewritten, carbon on thin orange paper, pages numbered 353-692, with corrections and additions throughout by Emerson. Part of Emerson's project entitled: Happy-Go-Lucky. The College Town was Oxford, Ohio, where Emerson attended Miami University. Contained in a Prong Fastener Binder.

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Courting a Scandal, by Edwin Emerson. Typewritten, carbon on thin orange paper, with many ink corrections and revisions by Emerson, pages numbered 300a-300hh. Part of Emerson's project entitled: Happy-Go-Lucky. Contained in a Prong Fastener Binder. Laid in: Autograph letter signed by Emerson, 1 June 1950, to Ames W. Williams, relating to this typescript. "This story of me masquerading as a girl possibly may divert many." See item 15.

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Happy-Go-Lucky, by Edwin Emerson. Typewritten, third carbon copy on thin orange paper, 349 pages, with numerous corrections in pencil by Emerson. First chapter: "Childhood". Autobiographical. Enclosed in folder, with annotations by Emerson.

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With German Armies 1914-15, by Edwin Emerson. Typewritten, 340 pages, with copious changes and additions throughout by Emerson in pencil and pen, a few pages consisting of newspaper clippings of Emerson's interview with General von Moltke. A part of Emerson's project entitled: Happy-Go-Lucky. Contained in an Acco Press Binder.

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Out West, by Edwin Emerson. Typewritten, pages numbered a-b and 1-560, thin orange paper, handwritten changes by Emerson throughout. Part of Emerson's project entitled: Happy-Go-Lucky. Contained in an Acco Press Binder.

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The Call to arms, by Edwin Emerson. Typewritten, thin yellow paper, 86 pages, with corrections and changes in ink by Emerson. Part of Emerson's project entitled: Happy-Go-Lucky. Emerson's entrance into the Spanish-American War as a war correspondent, with a carte blanche letter from Assistan secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt. Contained in a limp yellow Acco Binder. See item 30, also item 32.

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The Call to Arms, by Edwin Emerson. Typewritten, on thin orange sheets, 10 pages, numbered 8a-8j, with corrections and additions in pencil by Emerson, to be inserted after page 8 in Emerson's The Call to Arms. Attached to page 8a is an undated autograph note signed by Emerson to Ames W. Williams relating to "this screed". See item 20.

Scope and Contents The Call to Arms, by Edwin Emerson. Typewritten, 18 pages, white and yellow paper, numbered 1-8 and 8a-8i, heavily corrected by Emerson. This is the corrected introduction to The Call to Arms, and part of Emerson's project entitled: Happy-Go-Lucky. Attached to page 1 is an autograph note signed by Emerson to Ames W. Williams, 8 July 1952, relating to these 18 pages. See item 20. Included is an autograph letter signed by Emerson to Ames W. Williams, New York City, 26 November 1948, sending...