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Pyle mss. VI, ca. 1923–1954

Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu

Creator
Pyle, Ernie, 1900-1945

Title
Pyle mss. VI,ca. 1923–1954

Collection No.
LMC 2676

Extent
130 items

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
The Pyle mss. VI, ca. 1923–1954, consist of papers concerning journalist Ernest Taylor Pyle, 1900–1945, Clarence E. Edmondson and Edna Hatfield Edmondson.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Ernest Taylor Pyle (1900-1945), also known as Ernie Pyle, was a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist. After attending Indiana University Bloomington, Pyle served as a newspaper correspondent and columnist who covered the lives of ordinary people as well as soldiers in World War II. Pyle was killed in battle at Ie Shima in the Pacific.

Scope and Content Note

The Pyle mss. VI, ca. 1923–1954, consist of papers concerning journalist Ernest Taylor Pyle, 1900–1945, Clarence E. Edmondson and Edna Hatfield Edmondson. Clarence E. Edmondson, Dean of Men at Indiana University, and his wife Edna were described by those who knew them as a second set of parents to Pyle. In a tribute to Dean Edmonson in the Indiana Alumni Magazine, Pyle notes "...outside of my own parents...Dean Edmonson did more to develop whatever alleged character I have than anybody else."

The collection contains a series of letters written by Pyle to the Edmondsons; an account of Clarence Edmondson's relationship with Pyle enclosed in a letter to Edmondson from E. Ross Bartley, May 12, 1944; documents, telegrams and letters related to the honorary degree conferred on Ernie Pyle in 1944; a copy of the Indiana Alumni magazine, January 1945 related to the death of C.E. Edmondson and miscellaneous documents concerning Dr. Edna Hatfield Edmondson; newspaper clippings about Pyle during the war years and beyond. Also present is a 1925 photograph of William Lowe Bryan, 10th President of Indiana University.

Related Material

Pyle mss., Pyle mss. II, Pyle mss. III, Pyle mss. IV, Pyle mss. V, and Pyle mss. VII also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Acquired: 2009
Usage Restrictions
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.

Preferred Citation
[Item], Pyle mss. VI, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Series: Box 1 I. Biographical

Edmondson, C.E. and Edna Hatfield

Series: Box 1 II. Correspondence

Edmondson, Edna to Pyle, Ernie. 1923 

Pyle, Ernie to Edmondsons. 1923-1944 

Bartley, E. Ross to Clarence Edmondson. Mar. 12, 1944 

Concerning honorary degree. 1944 

Wells, Herman B to Edmondson. C.E. 1954 

Series: Box 1 III. Photographs

Bryan, William Lowe. 1925 

Series: Box 1 IV. Clippings

1937-1945 

1943 

1944 

1945 

1948-1949 

1954 

Undated 

Series: Box 1 V. Miscellaneous

Programs, Pamphlets

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