Lorch, Fred W. (Frederick William) (1893-1967)

Papers

1857-1967, undated

6.3 linear ft. (15 document boxes)

RS 13/10/54

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

Open for research

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

Fred W. (Frederick William) Lorch Papers, RS 13/10/54, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

Correspondence: David E. Archie

1960

1

2

Correspondence: Walter G. Barr

1927-1931

1

3

Correspondence: Walter Blair

1939-1941

1

4

Correspondence: John E. Briggs

1929

1

5

Correspondence: George H. Brownell

1929-1950

1

6

Correspondence: John Carpenter

1927-1942

1

7

Correspondence: Mary Ellen

1945

1

8

Correspondence: Harry H. Clark

1934-1942

1

9

Correspondence: Cyril Clemens

1929-1962

1

10

Correspondence: Bernard De Voto

undated

1

11

Correspondence: Paul Fatout and Jay B. Hubbell

1953-1954

1

12

Correspondence: Clara Sammosaud Gabrilowitsch

1927

1

13

Correspondence: Hal Holbrook

1959-1960

1

14

Correspondence: Ernest C. Leisy

1938-1950

1

15

Correspondence: Franklin Meine

1931-1949

1

16

Correspondence: Miscellaneous

1926-1966

1

17

Correspondence: Willard S. Morse

1930

1

18

Correspondence: Frank Luther

1939-1941

1

19

Correspondence: Albert Bigelow Paine

1927

1

20

Correspondence: Ella Quick

1928

1

21

Correspondence: George R. Stewart

1961

1

22

Correspondence: Dixon Wecter

1946-1949

1

23

Correspondence: Samuel C. and Doris Webster

1945-1952

2

1

Lecture notes: Sherwood Anderson

undated

2

2

Lecture notes: Edward Bellamy

1962-1964, undated

2

3

Lecture notes: William Bradford

1960, undated

2

4

Lecture notes: Anne Bradstreet

undated

2

5

Lecture notes: William Cullen Bryant

undated

2

6

Lecture notes: Richard Evelyn Byrd

undated

2

7

Lecture notes: Willa Cather

1947-1958, undated

2

8

Lecture notes: George Washington Carver

1896-1964, undated

2

9

Lecture notes: James Fenimore Cooper

1956, undated

2

10

Lecture notes: Stephen Crane

undated

2

11

Lecture notes: Crevecoeur and His Times

undated

2

12

Lecture notes: censorship

undated

2

13

Lecture notes: Darwinism

undated

2

14

Lecture notes: Deism

undated

2

15

Lecture notes: Moby Dick

undated

2

16

Lecture notes: Emily Dickinson

1960, undated

2

17

Lecture notes: Theodore Dreiser

1910-1965, undated

2

18

Lecture notes: Jonathan Edwards

undated

2

19

Lecture notes: Ralph Waldo Emerson

1940, undated

2

20

Lecture notes: English Department (Austin, TX)

1966, undated

2

21

Lecture notes: exams and tests

1954-1957, undated

2

22

Lecture notes: William Faulkner

1955, undated

2

23

Lecture notes: Huckleberry Finn

1955-1964, undated

2

24

Lecture notes: F. Scott Fitzgerald

1956, undated

2

25

Lecture notes: Robert Frost

1954-1964, undated

2

26

Lecture notes: Hamlin Garland

1928-1938, undated

2

27

Lecture notes: William Lloyd Garrison

undated

2

28

Lecture notes: Nathaniel Hawthorne

1930-1964, undated

3

1

Lecture notes: Ernest Hemingway

1952-1966, undated

3

2

Lecture notes: Oliver Wendell Holmes

undated

3

3

Lecture notes: William Dean Howells

1938, undated

3

4

Lecture notes: Washington Irving

undated

3

5

Lecture notes: Henry James

undated

3

6

Lecture notes: Robinson Jeffers

undated

3

7

Lecture notes: Thomas Jefferson

1944-1963, undated

3

8

Lecture notes: Sinclair Lewis

1942-1961. undated

3

9

Lecture notes: Abraham Lincoln

1963-1965, undated

3

10

Lecture notes: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

undated

3

11

Lecture notes: Herman Melville

1954-1964, undated

3

12

Lecture notes: Joaquin Miller

1929-1930, undated

3

13

Lecture notes: Frank Norris

undated

3

14

Lecture notes: Eugene O'Neill

1953-1958, undated

3

15

Lecture notes: Thomas Paine

1933, undated

3

16

Lecture notes: Edgar Allen Poe

1949-1963, undated

3

17

Lecture notes: Katherine Ann Porter

undated

3

18

Lecture notes: Puritan doctrine

undated

3

19

Lecture notes: realism in literature

undated

3

20

Lecture notes: receipts for research work

1951-1958, undated

3

21

Lecture notes: Edwin Arlington Robinson

1952, undated

3

22

Lecture notes: romanticism

undated

3

23

Lecture notes: Carl Sandburg

1957-1965, undated

3

24

Lecture notes: satire

undated

4

1

Lecture notes: Samuel Sewall

undated

4

2

Lecture notes: John Steinbeck

undated

4

3

Lecture notes: Henry D. Thoreau

1936-1962, undated

4

4

Lecture notes: Thoreau's attitude towards war

1938, undated

4

5

Lecture notes: Tolstoy and Gandhi

undated

4

6

Lecture notes: the Western film

undated

4

7

Lecture notes: Walt Whitman

1937-1965, undated

4

8

Lecture notes: John Greenlead Whittier

undated

5

1

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Mississippi lecture on river at St. Louis

1857

5

2

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
"The Pennsylvania Disaster"

1858

5

3

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Mark Twain and Virginia City (3 letters to Claggett)

1862

5

4

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Chronology of Twain lecture trips

undated

5

5

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Struggles for gentility

undated

5

6

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Interior notes

1866

5

7

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
The Tour of 1866/The Jubilant Tour

undated

5

8

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
First San Francisco lecture

1866

5

9

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Lecture tour

1866-1867

5

10

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
The Making of Innocence Abroad

1867

5

11

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Quaker City passengers

undated

5

12

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Quaker City letter to the New York Herald

1867

5

13

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Julia Newell and the Holy Land Excursion

undated

5

14

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Lectures in the Midwest

1867

5

15

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Lectures in New York and Brooklyn

1867

6

1

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Lectures in Washington, D.C.

1868-1869

6

2

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Chicago Republican letters

1868

6

3

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
California and Nevada tour

1868

6

4

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
The American Vandal Abroad

1868-1869

6

5

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Early platform manners and techniques

1868-1869

6

6

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Audience reaction

1868-1869

6

7

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Life on early tours

1869

6

8

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
The Sandwich Island lectures

1869-1870

7

1

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Lecture reviews

1870

7

2

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
"The American Lyceum"

1871

7

3

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Lyceums

undated

7

4

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
"Roughing It" lecture tour

1871-1872

7

5

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Manuscript for tour

1871-1872

7

6

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
The Artemus Ward lecture

1871-1872

7

7

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Lectures in London and America

1873-1874

8

1

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Reasons for retiring from the platform

undated

8

2

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Mark Twain's river trip

1882

8

3

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
George Washington Cable reading tour with Twain

1884-1885

8

4

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Burlington Gazette report of Mark Twain and the Governor of Michigan

1885

8

5

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Minneapolis and St. Paul lectures

1886

8

6

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Repertoire of stories

1895-1896

8

7

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Correspondence about world tour

1895

8

8

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Itinerary (American phase)

1895

8

9

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Australian itinerary

1895

8

10

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
World tour

1895

8

11

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
The Morals lecture

1895

8

12

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Correspondence to libraries and newspapers requesting reports of Morals lecture

1895

8

13

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Mark Twain's court appearance about his debts

1895

8

14

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Mark Twain in Australia

1895

8

15

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Mark Twain in Tasmania

1895

8

16

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
South African newspaper reports on Twain

1896

8

17

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Twitchell's review in Harper's

1896

8

18

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
The World Tour

undated

8

19

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
Mark Twain in India

1896

9

1

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
"The Mysterious Stranger"

1898

9

2

Research notes: articles/Trouble Begins at Eight
1902 trip to Hannibal

1945, undated

9

3

Notes: Frank Fuller, NYTimes on Twain

1911, undated

9

4

Notes: Advertising the lectures

1958, undated

9

5

Notes: Biographical dictionary

undated

9

6

Notes: British criticism of lectures

undated

9

7

Notes: Captain Duncan

undated

9

8

Notes: Causes of Twain's pessimism

1962, undated

9

9

Notes: Chapter materials with inserts

1868-1951, undated

9

10

Notes: Criticism of lectures

1869-1951, undated

9

11

Notes: Criticism of lectures by Dr. Holland

undated

9

12

Notes: William W. Ellsworth and C.C. Goodwin

undated

9

13

Notes: Gaps in Mark Twain's notebooks

undated

9

14

Notes: Archibald Henderson on Twain

undated

9

15

Notes: Humor by others

undated

9

16

Notes: Humorist contemporaries

1867-1951, undated

9

17

Notes: Letters from the Earth

1962, undated

9

18

Notes: The Literary Executors—Albert Bigelow Paine, Bernard Augustus De Voto, Dixon Wecter and Henry Nash Smith

undated

9

19

Notes: Madame Caprell letter

1861-1960, undated

9

20

Notes: Mark Twain

1856-1963, undated

9

21

Notes: Mark Twain and censors

1935-1952, undated

9

22

Notes: Mark Twain and fortune telling and spiritualism

1961, undated

9

23

Notes: Mark Twain's humor

undated

9

24

Notes: Mark Twain and Howell's letters

1960, undated

10

1

Notes: Mark Twain's letters to Mary

undated

10

2

Notes: Mark Twain on onanism

undated

10

3

Notes: Mark Twain as pilot

1945-1951, undated

10

4

Notes: Mark Twain and reporters

undated

10

5

Notes: Mark Twain seminar

1942-1962, undated

10

6

Notes: Mark Twain as speaker and artist

undated

10

7

Notes: Mark Twain on unionism

undated

10

8

Notes: Miscellaneous, including Rachel M. Varble correspondence about Jane Clemens

1943-1963, undated

10

9

Notes: Mark Twain items

1945, undated

10

10

Notes: Mississippi River

1956-1962, undated

10

11

Notes: Orion and Henry

undated

10

12

Notes: platform v book version

undated

10

13

Notes: Pond's lectures and lecturers

undated

10

14

Notes: printer and reporter

undated

10

15

Notes: The Snodgrass Letters

1963, undated

10

16

Notes: table of contents of Mark Twain's speeches

undated

10

17

Notes: theory of the lecture notes

1951, undated

10

18

Notes: Tom Blankenship

undated

10

19

Notes: Will Clemens, Mark Twain, The Story of His Life and Work

undated

11

Research material on microfilm

undated

12

1

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Outline plans

undated

12

2

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Preface

undated

12

3

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Parallel Career

undated

12

4

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Apprenticeship

undated

12

5

The Trouble Begins at Eight: First Public Lecture

undated

12

6

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Tour of 1871-1872 (the Jubilant Tour)

undated

12

7

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Tour of 1871-1872 (the Jubilant Tour)

undated

12

8

The Trouble Begins at Eight: On Home Ground

undated

12

9

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Lectures in New York and Brooklyn

1958, undated

12

10

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Return to the Far West

undated

12

11

The Trouble Begins at Eight: The Lyceum Circuit

undated

12

12

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Under Redpath Management

1874-1969, undated

12

13

The Trouble Begins at Eight: The Most Detestable Campaign

1871-1951, undated

12

14

The Trouble Begins at Eight: The Most Detestable Campaign and two reprint articles

1941, undated

12

15

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Lectures in England

undated

12

16

The Trouble Begins at Eight: The Art of Reading

undated

13

1

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Reading Tour with Cable (includes notes and longhand article)

1884-1963, undated

13

2

The Trouble Begins at Eight: The World Tour, 1895-1896 (lecture)

1896, undated

13

3

The Trouble Begins at Eight: More World Tour with outline of topics and notes

undated

13

4

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Platform Manners and Techniques

1869, undated

13

5

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Public Reception

undated

13

6

The Trouble Begins at Eight: On Audiences

undated

13

7

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Profits from the Alternate Career

1951, undated

13

8

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Retirement from Tour Lecturing

undated

14

1

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Text of Tour Lectures: Sandwich Islands, American Vandal Abroad, Artemus Ward, Roughing It, and Morals Lecture

undated

14

2

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Bibliography

undated

14

3

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Bibliography

undated

14

4

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Footnotes

undated

14

5

The Trouble Begins at Eight: Appendix and itineraries

undated

14

6

"A Note on Mark Twain's Lecture on the Far West"
(reprint, American Literature)

1952

14

7

"Hawaiian Feudalism and Mark Twain's a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
(reprint, American Literature)

1958

14

8

Articles by Professor Lorch
"A Note on Joaquin Miller" (1931)
"Thoreau and the Organic Principles in Poetry" (1938)
"Mark Twain's Trip to Humboldt in 1861" (1938)
"A Note on Tom Blankenship (Huckleberry Finn)" (1940)
"Mark Twain and the Campaign that Failed" (1941)
"A Reply to Mr. Clemens" (1944)
"'Doesticks' and Innocents Abroad" (1949)
"Mark Twain's Lecture from Roughing It" (1950)
"Cable and his Reading Tour with Mark Twain in 1884-1885" (1952)
"Mark Twain's 'Artemus Ward' Lecture on the Tour of 1871-1872" (1952)
"Mark Twain's Sandwich Islands Lecture and the Failure at Jamestown, New York in 1869" (1953)
"Mark Twain's Lecture Tour of 1868-1869, The American Vandal Abroad" (1955)
"Mark Twain's 'Morals Lecture' During the American Phase of his Wolrd Tour in 1895-1896" (1954)
"Julia Newall and Mark Twain on the Quaker City Holy Land Excursion" (1956)

1931-1956

14

9

Reviews written by Professor Lorch: Mark Twain of the Enterprise

undated

14

10

Reviews written by Professor Lorch: Mark Twain on the Lecture Circuit

undated

14

11

Speech: "Spokesman for Democracy"

undated

15

1

Sketch by Kemble of Huckleberry Finn
Samuel Clemens signature

undated

15

2

Printed material and newspaper clippings

1958-1966

15

3

Souvenir book-Mark Twain's 70th birthday
Photographs of Professor Lorch (undated)
Articles about Mark Twain (undated)

1905

15

4

Mark Twain memorial shrine dedication

1960

15

5

Professor Lorch's burial service

1967

15

6

Iowa State College publications

1896-1905

15

7

"The 'Pigs is Pigs' Phenomena," The Iowan

1964