Clara C.T. (Darragh) Aldrich Manuscripts
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains manuscripts of plays, short stories, and a novel.
Dates
- Creation: undated
Creator
- Aldrich, Darragh, 1884-1967 (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Restrictions on Access
The collection is open and available for use by researchers in the Andersen Library Reading Room.
Restrictions on Use
Copyright may have been retained by the Aldrich estate.
Biographical Note
Author and radio commentator Clara Chapline Thomas Aldrich was born in Richmond, Indiana in 1884. She attended the University of Minnesota where she was an editor of The Gopher and wrote occasional articles for The Minnesota Daily. After graduation in 1900, Aldrich taught classics for three years and then became a reporter and columnist for the Minneapolis Tribune and a radio commentator for WCCO in Minneapolis. She wrote numerous novels, short stories, and articles. Her novel Enchanted Hearts, was adapted for Broadway under the title A Prince There Was, and was later made into a movie of the same title. Aldrich died in 1967 in Minneapolis.
Extent
.25 Cubic Feet
Abstract
The collection contains manuscripts of plays, short stories, and a novel.
Physical Location
Mezzanine
Acquisition
Donated to the University by the Aldrich Estate in 1969.
- Title
- Clara C.T. (Darragh) Aldrich Manuscripts
- Author
- Leslie Czechowski
- Date
- November 2004
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Upper Midwest Literary Archives Collecting Area
