Debs Collection
Corrections & Additions to Index of Correspondence:
The Papers of Eugene V. Debs, 1834-1945: A Guide

The Papers of Eugene V. Debs, 1834-1945: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition (MCI, 1983), edited by J. Robert Constantine and Gail Malmgreen, serves as the published guide to the microfilm edition of Debs correspondence; published writings and speeches; a group of scrapbooks; and "Debs Remembered," a group of more than 30 essays recounting Debs's importance. The microfilm set contains three series on 21 reels. The index to Series I, or the correspondence, provides access to microfilmed documents held by both public and private collections.

In recent years, the collection was the subject of a project designed to abstract the locally held correspondence. During the course of the project, a handful of omissions and errors were discovered in the published index to Series I. The two tables below list letters omitted from Constantine and Malmgreen's original index and entries found to be incorrect. As Constantine's work explains, "letters have been indexed by the name of the correspondent, with the exception of Eugene and Theodore Debs; under their own names only the brothers' letters to each other have been listed . . . . In the index entry for each correspondent, incoming and outgoing letters are grouped separately, and listed chronologically by year, month and day. Researchers should note that enclosures have been filed and indexed under the date of their covering letter" (p. 50).

OMITTED LETTERS

Bogart, Guy
From TD: 1915 Dec 7

Bowers, Florence W.
From TD: 1936 Dec 23

Cherdron, Eliza T.
To EVD: 1920 July 27

Clark, John F.
To TD: 1921 Dec 4

Clenenger, Belle
To Gertrude Debs: 1909 Jan 26

Cook, Edmund Vance
To TD: 1920 Feb 14

Debs, Katherine M.
From EVD: 1915 June 9

Ehrmann, Max
To TD: 1911 Aug 8

Gerber, Julius
From EVD: 1919 Feb 27

Germer, Adolf
From TD: 1912 Jan 30

Henry, William H.
From TD: 1929 Feb 11

Hillquit, Vera
To TD and Family: 1933 Oct 16

Hoan, Daniel W.
From EVD: 1916 Nov 7, 24

Leonard, William E.
To EVD: 1926 Oct 21

McAuley, Mary Ethel
To TD: 1920 Nov 5

Michel, Louise Debs
To Marguerite Debs Cooper: 1908 Sept 1

Oneal, Oliver Shreiner
To EVD: 1920 Dec 28

Pankhurst, E. Sylvia
To TD: 1919 Aug 14

Reilly, James M.
From EVD: 1913 June 20

Sebree, Shubert
From TD: 1919 March 20

Simons, Algie M.
From TD: 1911 April 19

Stanford, Mrs. Jane Lathrop
To EVD: 1894 July 1

Strickland, F. G.
To TD: 1920 Dec 9

Tappan, William
To EVD: 1920 Oct 5

Tucker, Irwin St. John
From EVD: 1922 Jan 21, 1922 June 14, 1922 Sept 9

Twining, Luella
To EVD: 1915 Dec 25

Twining, Luella
To EVD: 1919-1920

Watson, Blanche
To TD: 1927 March 8

White, J. B.
To TD: 1920 Nov 6

Workmen's Circle (NY)
To Debs Family: 1926 Oct 21

CORRECTED ENTRIES

The list of errors below were discovered during the process of abstracting the letters. The column on the right shows how the entry originally appeared in the index published by Microfilming Corporation of America, while the column on the left indicates the corrected entry.

Corrected Entry Entry in Published MCA Index

Cohen, George N.
        To TD: 1912 July 1 Cohen, George N.
        To EVD: 1912 July 1

Cohen, Joseph E.
        From TD: 1935 March 13 Cohen, Joseph E.
        From TD: 1935 March 12

Cooper, Marguerite D.
        To TD: 1926 Oct 20 Cooper, Marguerite D.
        To TD: 1926 Oct 10

Curry, Mabel Dunlap
        To Witter Bynner: 1921 Aug 12 Curry, Mabel Dunlap
        To Witter Bynner: 1921 Aug 10

Curry, Mabel Dunlap
        From EVD: 1925 April 28 Curry, Mabel Dunlap
        From EVD: 1925 April 29

de ford Shipley, Miriam
        To TD: 1934 July 10 de ford Shipley, Miriam
        To TD: 1934 July 18

Debs, Katherine M.
        From EVD: 1918 Jan 13 Debs, Katherine M.
        From EVD: 1918 Jan 12

Debs, Marguerite B.
        From EVD: 1905 March 17 Debs, Marguerite B.
        From EVD: 1905 March 7

Germer, Adolf
        From EVD: 1905 April 11 Germer, Adolf
        From EVD: 1905 April 13

Holl, Frank X.
        From EVD: 1894 Nov 28 Holl, Frank X.
        From EVD: 1894 Oct 28

Holl, Frank X.
        From EVD: 1905 April 14 Holl, Frank X.
        From EVD: 1905 April 16

Hurt, Walter
        To EVD: 1921 June 18 Hurt, Walter
        To EVD: 1921 June 17

Karsner, Esther
        To TD: 1941 Oct 17 Karsner, Esther
        To TD: 1941 Oct 27

Keller, Helen
        From EVD: 1919 May 30 Keller, Helen
        From EVD: 1919 May 28

Laidler, Herry W.
        To EVD: 1918 Jan 29 Laidler, Herry W.
        To EVD: 1918 Jan 28

Putnam, Frank
        To EVD: 1925 April 24 Putnam, Frank
        To EVD: 1925 April 23

Royce, Clarence A.
        To EVD: 1917 May 21 Royce, Clarence A.
        To EVD: 1917 May 31

Stedman, Seymour
        To TD: 1944 July 14 Stedman, Seymour
        To TD: 1944 July 1

Townshend, J. S.
        To TD: 1888 May 24 Townshend, J. S.
        To TD: 1888 May 4

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Debs Collection Corrections & Additions to Index of Correspondence: The Papers of Eugene V. Debs, 1834-1945: A Guide

Debs Collection
Corrections & Additions to Index of Correspondence:
The Papers of Eugene V. Debs, 1834-1945: A Guide