Thomas Perkins Morgan Scrapbook and Manuscripts

Collection

Identifier: q MS M82

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Scope and Content Note

Scrapbooks and Manuscripts (116 Items)

Literary manuscripts of the Rogers, Arkansas humorist who wrote under the pseudonyms J. Fuller Gloom and Tennyson J. Daft, consisting mostly of his unpublished plays, short stories, and sketches, together with ten scrapbooks of mounted material, mostly clippings from his daily column and other works published in the Kansas City Star and various periodicals.

Dates

Creation: 1887-1928
Creation: 1955-1956

Creator

Morgan, Thomas Perkins, 1864-1928 (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

Morgan was well known as a writer of jokes, puns, comments, clippings, stories and serials in a number of publications during his lifetime. He wrote under several names, including those of J. Fuller Gloom and Tennyson J. Daft.

(Copied from a clipping in the Northwest Arkansas Times. 8-3-1955.)

Morgan, Tom P., humorist; b. East Lyme, Conn., Dec. 1, 1864; s. Joseph P. and Mary Ann M.; at school about 3 yrs. in Conn., about 7 in Kan.; unmarried. Republican. Has contributed to leading publs. using humor. Regular contrbr. to Curtis publications; contributing daily humorous column to Kansas City Star. Home: Rogers, ark. Died July 7, 1928.

Extent

2 Linear Feet (3 Boxes, 10 Volumes)

Additional Description

Arrangement of the Papers

Materials are arranged and described in two series.

Series 1. Scrapbooks
Series 2. Manuscripts

Acquisition Information

Scrapbooks belonging to the late Tom P. Morgan, who died more than twenty-five years ago in Rogers, have been given to the University by Vance Randolph and Miss Vera Key of Rogers, the nurse who tended Morgan during his last illness. Manuscripts of Morgan left unpublished at his death also are new acquisitions of the University.

(Copied from a clipping in the Northwest Arkansas Times. 8-3-1955)