Scope and Contents Hooker was a bullwhacker, plainsman, journalist, and author; spent most of his newspaper career in Wisconsin; well known also in Wyoming and New York City. Additional biographical information is available in Box 5, Folder 17. A gathering of literary manuscripts, correspondence, and newsclippings received from Fred Rosenstock and added to the Ellison papers after the main body of the collection had been organized and described. To enhance patron use photocopies of 12 items or packets of...

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"So You Can't Take It", by Earl H. Emmons about W.F. Hooker, pp. 7-8 in The Composing Room, a pamphlet published monthly by the Monotype Typographic Group, New York, Vol. 10, No. 7, January 1933, with transmittal note from Hooker to RSE, Feb. 2, 1933.

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Promotional flier from the World Book Company, Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York, for The Bullwhacker. Adventures of a Frontier Freighter.

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Miscellaneous newsclippings about Hooker, 1929-1936, 10 items.

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Introductory pages of three of Hooker's books filed here by the processing archivist because they contain biographical information about Hooker. The titles are: The Bullwhacker, The Prairie Schooner, and Glimpses of An Earlier Milwaukee.

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List of Hooker's publications from The National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints. Copies of all the books are available in the Harold B. Lee Library except Bill Hooker's Old-time Milwaukee.... Copies of the manuscripts and articles are preserved in the Ellison Papers except for "True tales of pioneer life on the old American frontier;...", the manuscript of which (carbon typescript) is preserved in the Ellison Collection of Indiana University's Lilly Library.

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Correspondence with Ellison, Nov. 15, 1924 - May 17, 1926. Mostly incoming letters written to RSE. 23 letters with occasional enclosures.

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Correspondence with Ellison, May 20, 1926 - Sept. 24, 1929. Mostly incoming letters. Letters from Charles King and A. B. Ostrander to Hooker included. 24 letters with occasional enclosures.

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Correspondence with Art Hall, Oct.-Nov., 1925, from Hooker's residence at "Interpines" in Goshen, New York, a combination retirement home and care center for the elderly. Seven letters are pencil or ink holographs to Hall, and one letter is a TLS with enclosures from Hall to RSE sending him a copy of a book inscription written by Hooker.

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"The Interpines." Handwritten, comical newspaper compiled by Hooker and sent to Art Hall and his wife in lieu of a letter. Three issues. Nov. 1925.