Abstract

This collection consists of a scrapbook created by Butler College (now Butler University) English professor Will D. Howe regarding the Butler production of “The Shoemaker’s Holiday,” an Elizabethan play by Thomas Dekker.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of several correspondences to Dr. Howe from political, literary, and artistic figures from the early twentieth century. These correspondences are either acceptance or rejection letters to Howe pertaining to lectures to be given at the Irvington Athenaeum between 1900 and 1906. The collection also includes letters from authors concerning writing articles to be published in the Reader’s Magazine. Howe had a feature in this magazine titled “The Readers Study,” which...