Summary Information

Title: Fred L. Holmes Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1864, 1904-1946

Creator:

• Holmes, Fred L., 1883-1946

Call Number: Wis Mss OC

Quantity: 3.2 c.f. (9 archives boxes and 3 flat boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Fred L. Holmes, a Madison, Wisconsin, writer and lawyer, founder of the Holmes News Service, and business manager or managing editor of the La Follette Weekly. As a newspaperman he wrote various authors for biographical material and photographs. Correspondence, 1904-1946, includes letters from Wisconsin political figures and well-known writers such as Zona Gale, Ray Stannard Baker, Hamlin Garland, and William Allen White. A large portion of the correspondence concerns the publication of Holmes' book The Voice of Trappist Silence (New York, 1941) and contains information on Trappist monasteries. Also present is correspondence, source materials, and manuscripts used by Holmes in writing Old World Wisconsin; radio speeches, mainly concerning his books; articles on local and state history written by Holmes; notes collected on Shaker communities; and clippings and congratulatory letters on Holmes' books.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000oc

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