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Irvin S. Cobb Collection

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Collection Overview

Title: Irvin S. Cobb Collection, 1901-1944Add to your cart.

Predominant Dates:1910-1933

Primary Creator: Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) (1876-1944)

Extent: 0.44 Cubic Feet

Date Acquired: 02/10/2004

Subjects: Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury), 1876-1944.

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection is largely composed of published short stories by Irvin S. Cobb. These stories have been clipped from the magazines in which they appeared, including The Red Book Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Field and Stream, Cosmopolitan and McClure's. There are also numerous articles about Cobb and two letters from Cobb to Edward J. Work. Although the provenance of this collection is unknown, many of the articles are signed by Cobb.

Biographical Note

Irvin S. Cobb, in full, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (born June 23, 1876, Paducah, Kentucky, U.S. -- died March 10, 1944, New York City, New York), American journalist and humorist best known for his colloquial handling of familiar situations with ironical, penetrating humor.

At 19 Cobb became managing editor of the Paducah Daily News, and in 1904 he went to New York City, where he became a staff writer for the Evening World and Sunday World. First through syndicated newspaper features and later in magazines, he became widely known for such articles as "Speaking of Operations," which in book form sold more than 500,000 copies, and for short stories, of which he wrote more than 300.

Cobb's stories about a shrewd and kindly Kentucky judge, Judge Priest, first brought him fame. Some of them were collected in Back Home (1912) and Old Judge Priest (1916). He wrote more than 60 books and thousands of columns for journals and traveled throughout the country as a lecturer and after-dinner speaker. He also wrote plays, and, with the filming of the Judge Priest stories, he went to California, where he wrote scenarios and acted in motion pictures.

Subject/Index Terms

Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury), 1876-1944.

Administrative Information

Repository: Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives

Related Materials:

John Wilson Townsend Papers

Books by Irvin S. Cobb


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[Box 1],
[Folder OS 1: Newspapers, 1923, 1929],
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Box 1Add to your cart.
Barcode: 31234014045072
Folder 1: Association Against Prohibition, 1929Add to your cart.
A press release which includes the names of organization members (Cobb was president) and a statement about the organization's purpose.
Folder 2: Correspondence, undatedAdd to your cart.
Two undated letters to Edward J. Work of Chicago discussing Cobb's health, Work's writing and their family connections.
Folder 3: Ephemera, 1915-1944Add to your cart.
A program for a talk by Cobb and a booklet titled Cobbiana.
Folder 4: News Articles by Cobb, 1901-1917Add to your cart.
An early poem by Cobb, a series of articles about the 1917 World Series and an incomplete series of short stories about Judge Priest.
Folder 5: News Clippings about Cobb, 1913-1939Add to your cart.
News and magazine clippings about Cobb, many of which were written by Fred G. Neuman of Paducah. These clippings also include book and movie reviews.
Folder 6: Short Stories, 1909-1916Add to your cart.
Item 1: Tale of the Hard Luck Guy, 1908Add to your cart.
Item 2: The Trail of the Lonesome Laugh, Apr, 1911Add to your cart.
Item 3: Who's Who at the Zoo, Oct, 1911Add to your cart.
Item 4: An Open Season for Ancestors, 07 Oct 1911Add to your cart.
Item 5: In the Haunt of the Deadly a La, 14 Oct 1911Add to your cart.
Item 6: The Decline and Fall of North American Food, 23 Dec 1911Add to your cart.
Item 7: Drama a League From Broadway, 03 Feb 1912Add to your cart.
Item 8: On Main Street: The Bogus Badness of New York, 09 Mar 1912Add to your cart.
Item 9: On Main Street: Looking Both Ways from Sewickley, Pennsylvania, 20 Apr 1912Add to your cart.
Item 10: On Main Street: Press Errantry, 04 May 1912Add to your cart.
Item 11: The New Community Skyscraper, 20 Jul 1912Add to your cart.
Item 12: On Main Street: A Decline in a Noble Industry, 20 Jul 1912Add to your cart.
Item 13: On Main Street: A Midsummer Night's Scream, 27 Jul 1912Add to your cart.
Item 14: The Adventures of Anastasius: The Man of the Hour, 17 Aug 1912Add to your cart.
Item 15: Duds, 17 Aug 1912Add to your cart.
Item 16: The Adventures of Anastasius: What Happened to Wangas, 31 Aug 1912Add to your cart.
Item 17: Literature, 31 Aug 1912Add to your cart.
Item 18: The Decay of the American Parent, 14 Sep 1912Add to your cart.
Item 19: Language, 14 Sep 1912Add to your cart.
Item 20: On Main Street: Old Friends That Linger With Us, 21 Sep 1912Add to your cart.
Item 21: On Main Street: The Gold Bonds of Matrimony, 12 Oct 1912Add to your cart.
Item 22: Arnold Bennett, Nov, 1912Add to your cart.
Item 23: Law, 07 Dec 1912Add to your cart.
Item 24: Holidays, 21 Dec 1912Add to your cart.
Item 25: The Island of Adventure: The Adventure of the Want Ad Signed "Confidence", 28 Dec 1912Add to your cart.
Item 26: Fishhead: The Rejected Story, 11 Jan 1913Add to your cart.
Item 27: Trade, 18 Jan 1913Add to your cart.
Item 28: Travel, 22 Feb 1913Add to your cart.
Item 29: The Island of Adventure: The Adventure of Mr. Pandora, 15 Mar 1913Add to your cart.
Item 30: The Island of Adventure: The Adventure of the Street with Three Ends, 03 May 1913Add to your cart.
Item 31: Breaking into New York: The Primary Stages, 10 May 1913Add to your cart.
Item 32: Breaking into New York: The Secondary Stages, 17 May 1913Add to your cart.
Item 33: Breaking into New York: The Final Stages, 24 May 1913Add to your cart.
Item 34: The Smart Set, Table of Contents, May, 1913Add to your cart.
Item 35: The Broken, Sep, 1913Add to your cart.
Item 36: Shakespeare's Seven Ages and Mine, 01 Nov 1913Add to your cart.
Item 37: Shakespeare's Seven Ages and Mine: And Then the Lover, 06 Dec 1913Add to your cart.
Item 38: Shakespeare's Seven Ages and Mine: And Then the Justice, 10 Jan 1914Add to your cart.
Item 39: Shakespeare's Seven Ages and Mine: Last Scene of All, 01 Jan 1914Add to your cart.
Item 40: Books, Feb, 1914Add to your cart.
Item 41: Kipling at Home, Feb, 1914Add to your cart.
Item 42: An American Vandal: As Done in London, 23 May 1914Add to your cart.
Item 43: An American Vandal: Being Guyed and Guided, 06 Jun 1914Add to your cart.
Item 44: An American Vandal: Old Masters and Other Ruins, 27 Jun 1914Add to your cart.
Item 45: An American Vandal: Be it Ever So Humble, 04 Jul 1914Add to your cart.
Item 46: That Piker Hercules, 12 Sep 1914Add to your cart.
Item 47: The Valley of Plenty, Jan, 1915Add to your cart.
Item 48: The Undoing of Stonewall Jackson Bugg, Sep, 1915Add to your cart.
Item 49: The Simple Tourist, 16 Oct 1915Add to your cart.
Item 50: Big Moments of Big Trials, Nov, 1915Add to your cart.
Item 51: Christmas Presents: Those We Give and Those We Get, 11 Dec 1915Add to your cart.
Item 52: The Gold Brick Twins, Dec, 1915Add to your cart.
Item 53: Unaccustomed As I Am, 25 Mar 1916Add to your cart.
Item 54: The Glory of the States: Kentucky, May, 1916Add to your cart.
Item 55: Mr. Felsburg Gets Even, 09 Sep 1916Add to your cart.
Item 56: And There Was Light, 23 Sep 1916Add to your cart.
Item 57: The Cure for Lonesomeness, 04 Nov 1916Add to your cart.
Item 58: Under Sentence, 30 Mar 1905Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Short Stories, 1917Add to your cart.
Item 1: The Garb of Men, 20 Jan 1917Add to your cart.
Item 2: A Witch As Was A Witch, Mar, 1917Add to your cart.
Item 3: A Kiss for Kindness, 07 Apr 1917Add to your cart.
Item 4: Hark! From The Tombs, 14 Apr 1917Add to your cart.
Item 5: Thrice Is He Armed, 21 Apr 1917Add to your cart.
Item 6: The Prussian Paranoia, 05 May 1917Add to your cart.
Item 7: Saturday Evening Post, Front Cover, 19 May 1917Add to your cart.
Item 8: Looking Both Ways From 40, 01 May 1917Add to your cart.
Item 9: Twixt the Bluff and the Sound: Life Among the Limelight Lovers, 26 May 1917Add to your cart.
Item 10: Twixt the Bluff and the Sound: Homeless People of New York, 02 Jun 1917Add to your cart.
Item 11: Cinnamon Seed and Sandy Bottom, 09 Jun 1917Add to your cart.
Item 12: Ex-Fightin' Billy, 01 Jun 1917Add to your cart.
Item 13: Twixt the Bluff and the Sound: Leading the Simpler Life, 07 Jul 1917Add to your cart.
Item 14: Twixt the Bluff and the Sound: Improbable People of an Impossible Land, 28 Jul 1917Add to your cart.
Item 15: Twixt the Bluff and the Sound: Rates Eight Dollars a Day and Up, 11 Aug 1917Add to your cart.
Item 16: Is He James Whitcomb Riley's Successor?, Aug, 1917Add to your cart.
Item 17: Twixt the Bluff and the Sound: By Their Bluffs Shall Ye Know Them, 01 Sep 1917Add to your cart.
Item 18: The Bull Called Emily, Oct, 1917Add to your cart.
Item 19: Quality Folks, 24 Nov 1917Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Short Stories, 1918-1919Add to your cart.
Item 1: The Luck Piece, 02 Feb 1918Add to your cart.
Item 2: Humane Treatment- German style, 27 Apr 1918Add to your cart.
Item 3: All American, 18 May 1918Add to your cart.
Item 4: On the Threshold of the Battle of Battles, 25 May 1918Add to your cart.
Item 5: At the Front of the Front, 01 Jun 1918Add to your cart.
Item 6: Happy Landings, 15 Jun 1918Add to your cart.
Item 7: Wanted: A Foolproof War, 22 Jun 1918Add to your cart.
Item 8: Being Bombed and Seeing it Done, 29 Jun 1918Add to your cart.
Item 9: Trench Essence, 20 Jul 1918Add to your cart.
Item 10: The Advantages of Being Homely, Jul, 1918Add to your cart.
Item 11: Young Black Joe, 24 Aug 1918Add to your cart.
Item 12: The Tail of the Snake, 31 Aug 1918Add to your cart.
Item 13: War as it Frequently Isn't, 07 Sep 1918Add to your cart.
Item 14: From My Overseas Notebook, 23 Nov 1918Add to your cart.
Item 15: Hoodwinked, 19 Jul 1919Add to your cart.
Item 16: John J. Coincidence, 09 Aug 1919Add to your cart.
Item 17: An Outrage or Two, 23 Aug 1919Add to your cart.
Item 18: I Admit I Am a Good Reporter, Aug, 1919Add to your cart.
Item 19: And Sold To, 11 Oct 1919Add to your cart.
Item 20: Life Among Us Landed Proprietors, 25 Oct 1919Add to your cart.
Item 21: When August the Second Was April the First, 01 Nov 1919Add to your cart.
Item 22: It Could Happen Again To-Morrow, 06 Dec 1919Add to your cart.
Item 23: Oh, Well, You Know, Oct, 1919Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Short Stories, 1920-1933Add to your cart.
Item 1: Why Mr. Lobel Had Apoplexy, 17 Jan 1920Add to your cart.
Item 2: The Ravelin' Wolf, 21 Feb 1920Add to your cart.
Item 3: Miste-er Chairma-an!, 05 Jun 1920Add to your cart.
Item 4: Whither are We Thrifting?, 12 Jun 1920Add to your cart.
Item 5: Inside Stories, 10 Jul 1920Add to your cart.
Item 6: The Story That Ends Twice, 04 Sep 1920Add to your cart.
Item 7: Answering Mr. F. S. Key, Sep, 1920Add to your cart.
Item 8: A Short Natural History, 09 Oct 1920Add to your cart.
Item 9: The Greatest Thrill I Ever Had, Dec, 1920Add to your cart.
Item 10: The Nature of a Preliminary Announcement, 08 Jan 1921Add to your cart.
Item 11: The Plural of Moose is Mise, Jan, 1921Add to your cart.
Item 12: The Dearest Word, Apr, 1921Add to your cart.
Item 13: One- Third Off, 23 Jul 1921Add to your cart.
Item 14: Darkness, 20 Aug 1921Add to your cart.
Item 15: The Generation That's Next, 17 Sep 1921Add to your cart.
Item 16: The Cater- Cornered Sex, 24 Sep 1921Add to your cart.
Item 17: Alas, The Poor Whiffletit!, Mar, 1922Add to your cart.
Item 18: That Shall He Also Reap, 15 Jul 1922Add to your cart.
Item 19: Old Ben Alibi, Sep, 1922Add to your cart.
Item 20: Snake Doctor, Nov, 1922Add to your cart.
Item 21: A Real Newspaper Story, Dec, 1922Add to your cart.
Item 22: The Nearest I Ever Came to Death, Dec, 1922Add to your cart.
Item 23: A Story of a Girl from Back Home, Jan, 1923Add to your cart.
Item 24: But I Kept My Teeth, Jan, 1923Add to your cart.
Item 25: The Thirteenth Degree, Feb, 1923Add to your cart.
Item 26: The Hunch- Player, May, 1923Add to your cart.
Item 27: Red Handed, Jun, 1923Add to your cart.
Item 28: The Chocolate Hyena, Jul, 1923Add to your cart.
Item 29: The Value of a Good Name, Aug, 1923Add to your cart.
Item 30: My Guyed Book, Aug, 1923Add to your cart.
Item 31: The Unbroken Chain, Sep, 1923Add to your cart.
Item 32: The Proud State of Kentucy, Oct, 1923Add to your cart.
Item 33: A Letter to a Relative, Nov, 1923Add to your cart.
Item 34: Cover of Hearsts International and Cosmopolitan, Mar, 1924Add to your cart.
Item 35: He Who Last Laughs, Feb, 1926Add to your cart.
Item 36: Carry Me Back to Old Virginia, Aug, 1926Add to your cart.
Item 37: A Big Little Man, Jan, 1927Add to your cart.
Item 38: I'm the Man that Broke, Feb, 1927Add to your cart.
Item 39: Can't We make Golf Safe for Democracy?, Aug, 1929Add to your cart.
Item 40: We have Go- Getters Next Door, Dec, 1929Add to your cart.
Item 41: On the Bounding Red Ink, Sep, 1930Add to your cart.
Item 42: Ole Miss, Dec, 1930Add to your cart.
Item 43: Br'er Rabbit, He Lay Low, May, 1931Add to your cart.
Item 44: An Incident of the Noble Experiment, Oct, 1931Add to your cart.
Item 45: The Stewed Kidneys of an Angel, 02 Dec 1933Add to your cart.

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