Finding aid for the Clara Edmunds-Hemingway Papers at Chicago History Museum

Main entry: Edmunds-Hemingway, Clara

Title: Clara Edmunds-Hemingway papers

A&M accession number: 1985.0028

Biographical information about Clara Edmunds-Hemingway

Clara Edmunds-Hemingway’s poems, essays, and short stories were published in numerous book-length anthologies and in about 134 poetry journals, magazines, and newspapers. Apparently fewer songs were published, but her best known song, “Taps,” won first prize in a 1937 Chicago Tribune contest and was frequently performed on radio programs in the United States and on overseas radio programs broadcast by the U.S. armed forces during World War II.

She appeared frequently on Chicago radio programs and spoke before women’s clubs and other organizations where she read her own poems and performed her own songs. She received prizes from organizations such as the National League of American Pen Women. Further biographical information and excerpts from reviews praising her work are found in Box 1.

Description of the collection

The author's handwritten and typed manuscripts generally include a note on the date of composition in the upper right corner; and if the work was published, a note in the upper left corner specifies the name of the publication.

Box 1

Biographical sketches

Scrapbooks

Box 2

Lists of publications

Correspondence

Diaries

Box 3

Musical compositions, mostly songs.

Box 4

Musical compositions, mostly songs.

Box 5

Musical compositions, mostly songs.

Box 6

Musical compositions, published

Songs collected by C.E-H

Box 7

Poems

Box 8

Poems

Bound volumes

Box 10

Poems

(Holograph Mss, typescript)

Printed versions clipped from publications

Box 11

Poems

In bound vols.

Box 12

Poems (published collections in which her poems appeared)

Box 14

Essays and short stories

Typescripts

Box 15

Essays and short stories

Plays

Reviews

Programs

Misc.