Madison Literary Club Records, 1877-2009

Contents List

Container Title
Mss 879
Part 1 (Mss 879): Original Collection, 1877-1995
Physical Description: 5.8 c.f. (14 archives boxes and 2 card file boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Papers of the Madison Literary Club, a Madison, Wisconsin organization founded in 1877 by Dr. Joseph Hobbins, Professor Rasmus B. Anderson, and Miss Ella A. Giles, for “the cultivation of literature by bringing together persons of literary taste, and the promotion of social intercourse in this particular class.”
Organizational Records and History
Box   1
Folder   1
Member Directory, 1968
Box   1
Folder   2
“The Record of the Madison Literary Club..., 1877-1887”
Secretary's Book
Box   1
Folder   3
1877-1889
Box   1
Folder   4
1890-1903
Box   1
Folder   5
1948-1978
Box   1
Folder   6
Speeches by an unidentified president of the club, undated
Box   1
Folder   7
Treasurer's Reports, 1906, 1908, 1917, 1953
Box   1
Folder   8
Janet Ela's Research Notes on the Madison Literary Club, circa 1961
Box   2
Card file
Yearbooks and Special Events
Box   3
Folder   1
Tribute to Joseph Hobbins, M.D., 1894
Box   3
Folder   2
25th Anniversary, 1902
Box   3
Folder   3
50th Anniversary, 1927
Box   3
Folder   4
75th Anniversary, 1952
Box   3
Folder   5
100th Anniversary, 1977
Yearbooks
Box   3
Folder   6
1883-1885, 1887-1889
Box   3
Folder   7
1890, 1892, 1894-1899
Box   3
Folder   8
1902-1906
Box   3
Folder   9
1914, 1916-1919
Box   3
Folder   10
1920-1927, 1929
Box   3
Folder   11
1930-1939
Box   3
Folder   12
1940-1949
Box   4
Folder   1
1950-1959
Box   4
Folder   2
1960-1969
Box   4
Folder   3
1970-1979
Box   4
Folder   4
1980-1987, 1989
Box   4
Folder   5
1990-1992
Members' Presentations
Box   4
Folder   6-14
Undated, 1883-1921
Box   5
1923-1951
Box   6
1952-1957, April
Box   7
1957, May-1963, June
Box   8
1963, October-1968, March
Box   9
1968, April-1972, November
Box   10
1973, April-1976, November
Box   11
1976, December-1981, February
Box   12
1981, March-1984, April
Box   13
1984, May-1987, February
Box   14
1987, March-1990, May
Box   15
1990, July-1995, April
Box   16
Chronological index to all papers presented, 1877-1979
M2000-004
Part 2 (M2000-004): Additions, 1877-1999
Physical Description: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1877-1999, consisting of member correspondence, membership statutes and lists, minutes (1978-1990), papers presented to the club (1971-1999), and year books (1877-1995).
Box   1
Folder   1
Centennial Celebration, 1977
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   2
Executive Committee, 1989-1994
Members
Box   1
Folder   3
1952-1970
Box   1
Folder   4
1971-1980
Box   1
Folder   5
1982-1991
Box   1
Folder   6
Wisconsin State Historical Society, 1969-1993
Box   1
Folder   7
Finances
Membership
Box   1
Folder   8
Members in print
Box   1
Folder   9
Lists, 1931-1991
Box   1
Folder   10
Recommendations, 1955, 1976-1994
Box   2
Folder   1
Status, 1968-1988
Box   2
Folder   2
Surveys, 1994
Box   2
Folder   3
Memorials
Minutes
Box   2
Folder   4
1978-1984
Box   2
Folder   5
1985-1990
Box   2
Folder   6
Necrology
Box   2
Folder   7
Paper dates
Box   3
Folder   1
Presented papers, 1971-1995
Box   3
Folder   2
Secretary's duties
Box   3
Folder   3
University surveys, 1952
Year Books
Box   3
Folder   4
1877-1898
Box   3
Folder   5
1902
Box   3
Folder   6
1927-1939
Box   3
Folder   7
1940-1949
Box   3
Folder   8
1950-1959
Box   4
Folder   1
1960-1969
Box   4
Folder   2
1970-1979
Box   4
Folder   3
1980-1989
Box   4
Folder   4
1990-1995
M2000-141
Part 3 (M2000-141): Additions, 1962-1999, 2004-2005
Physical Description: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1962-1999, consisting of member correspondence (1983-1996), papers of the entertainment committee (1962-1995), meeting invitations (1993-1995), memorials (1995-1998), papers presented to the club (1994-1996), and yearbooks (1986-1996). Papers presented to the club in 2004-2005 have been added to box.
M2006-129
Part 4 (M2006-129): Additions, 1971-2009
Physical Description: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) and 1 tape recording 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1971-2009, consisting principally of papers presented to the club as well as some eulogies presented in memory of former members. Also included is a recorded interview with member Janet Ela whose husband and grandfather had also been members in which she gives an oral history of the club. 2007-2009 papers have been added to the box.