Scope and Content Note
The papers of Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1859-1915) span the years 1880-1914. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, humor notes and clippings supplying the raw material for Wilder's performances, notebooks containing lists of theatrical agents and performers, scrapbooks of playbills and theatrical broadsides, and photographs. The collection is organized in General Correspondence , Alphabetical File , Miscellany , and Oversize series.
Correspondents include Henry Ward Beecher, Grover Cleveland, Buffalo Bill, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Elbert Hubbard, Henry Irving, Sadie Martinot, Bill Nye, Cora U. Potter, Theodore Roosevelt, William T. Sherman, William Terriss, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox.