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- ARCHIVES: Library of Congress "Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection" Letter to Helen Boudin, 08-NOV-1926. Collection Name: Butler, Ellis Parker, . (1869-1937.) Repository Name: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington DC LC Reference: mm97006376 Type: Letter of Ellis Parker Butler. Collection Dates: 1926. Extent: 1. Description: TLS (8 Nov. 1926; Flushing, N.Y.) signed Ellis Parker Butler "Pigs is Pigs" (from the title of Butler's book, Pigs is Pigs, published in 1906), to Helen Boudin, New York, N.Y., concerning Butler's writings. Author. Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection. Index Terms: NUCMC [HARPER, WEB]
- ARCHIVES: New York Public Library "Ellis Parker Butler Papers" Three boxes donated to the library by Mrs. Ida A. Butler. [NYPL]
- ARCHIVES: Special Collections, Tufts University Authors digest : the world's greatest stories in brief, prepared by a staff of literary experts, with the assistance of many living novelists. Loose leaf extension / Volume [3] selected and edited by William Griffith, in association with the ... committee of the Authors Club of New York: Ellis Parker Butler ... [et al.]./ Supplement to: Authors digest / edited by Rossiter Johnson. 1927. Selected and edited by the ... committee of the Authors Club of New York, John Erskine, Chairman ; George S. Hellman, Montrose J. Moses, Harold Pulsifer. [WORLDCAT]
- ARCHIVES: Special Collections, University of Iowa, Iowa City "Ellis Parker Butler Papers" Six hundred and thirty-five Authors' League and personal letter and other manuscripts, 1897-1937. See WEB. [HARPER, WEB]
- ARCHIVES: Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville "Ellis Parker Butler Papers" Approximately 20 miscellaneous papers. [HARPER, WORLDCAT]
- ARCHIVES: State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City "Ellis Parker Butler Papers" Autograph collection. One folder. [HARPER]
1902
- OTHER: Crossed Wires: A Comedy in One Act (1902) A play. By Ellis Parker Butler and Lawrence Butler. Copyrighted but unpublished(?). [HARPER]
1903
- Leslie's Monthly (September, 1903) "The Heart of a Man" A story. With drawings by Emilie Benson Knipe. The phrase "The Heart of a Man -- Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 417-424. [HARPER]
1906
- Ainslee's (August, 1906) "Our Lease"
A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 131-135. [HARPER]
- American Magazine (September, 1906) "The Family Album" A series of drawings made to resemble a photo album. "Reproduced by Angie Breakspear with 'Remarks' by Ellis Parker Butler." With one drawing per page, Butler wrote a running commentary on the album and its characters. [RGTPL]
- New York Times (September 22, 1906) "Methods of Some Popular Writers" An article. "A Budget of New Gossip About Authors -- Some Experiences of Robert Hichens, Will N. Harben, Ellis Parker Butler, and Rex E. Beach." p BR582. [NYTIMES]
- Judge (November 3, 1906) "Ellis Parker Butler, Author and Humorist -- An Autobiography" [HARPER]
1907
- Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (March, 1907) "Pat Cronin and the Foretellin' Lady"
A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [RGTPL]
- New York Herald Magazine (March 3, 1907) "After Dinner With the Literary Chaps" About the Dutch Treat Club. Illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. Includes a sketch of Ellis Parker Butler titled "Butlers Is Butlers." p 4. [NYPL]
- Washington Post (June 23, 1907) "Wolves in Iowa" An article. "Iowa is a queer mixture of up-to-date Downeastness and genuine Wildwestness. It produces people like ex-Secretary Shaw and Tama Jim Wilson and also Ellis Parker Butler, the 'pigs is pigs' man." pg. MS1, 1 pgs. [WASHPOST]
1909
- New York Times (May 16, 1909) "The Man Who Made Pigs and Pups Famous Tells How He Did It" By Walter Alden Dyer. "Ellis Parker Butler Gives Receipts for Humor and Various Other Things." Includes a caricature of the author, from a sketch made in Paris by Leo Mielziner (b. 1869, d. 1935). p SM9. [NYTIMES]
- Book News Monthly (October, 1909) "Portrait" Includes a photograph of Ellis Parker Butler with the caption "One of our most entertaining humorists" on page 101. There may be more, but the copy in EPBLIB is missing pages 99 and 100. Also, there's an ad that includes "Kilo" on page 23. [EPBLIB]
- Country Life in America (November, 1909) "The Speckled Hen" "The Adventures of a Suburbanite." Part two of seven. Illustrated with photographs by A. B. Phelan. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 45-47. [RGTPL]
- Century Magazine (December, 1909) "The Cut Finger" A poem. p 318. Also, on page 275 is a full-color reproduction of a painting of Ellis Parker Butler and his wife (Ida) and first child (Elsie). The portrait was made by Ernest L. Blumenschein. [RGTPL]
1910
- Country Life in America (January, 1910) "The Equine Palace" "The Adventures of a Suburbanite." Part four of seven. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [RGTPL]
- _____ (February, 1910) "My Domesticated Automobile" "The Adventures of a Suburbanite." Part five of seven. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [RGTPL]
- Washington Post (October 20, 1910) "Pigs is Pigs is Cited" An article. "'Pigs is pigs,' a humorous story by Ellis Parker Butler, that convulsed the nation some years ago, was referred to yesterday in the United States Supreme Court by the government as an "authority" for its argument in defense of the constitutionality of the so-called 'Carmack amendment' to the Hepburn rate law." pg. 2, 1 pgs [WASHPOST]
- ADAPTATION: Mike Larritz, Way-Station Agent (1910) A monologue. By Elizabeth R. Fraser. Copyrighted but unpublished(?). Based on a Mike Flannery story by Ellis Parker Butler. [HARPER]
1911
- New York Times (March 29, 1911) ""Yawp"" A letter to the editor. "Ellis Parker Butler Identifies the Lampton with the Telephonic Variety." The third of four letters in a series. p 12. [NYTIMES]
- ANTHOLOGY: Caricature (1911) "Caricature: The Wit and Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song and Story, Illustrated by America's greatest artists." Short stories by Ellis Parker Butler: "Mr. Sonderby Hurries", "John Smith". 8th edition. Leslie-Judge Company. [EPBLIB]
- ANTHOLOGY: Caricature (1911) "Caricature: The Wit and Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song and Story, Illustrated by America's greatest artists." Short stories by Ellis Parker Butler: "The Enthusiastic Motorist" and "Uncle Ashdod and the B. B. S. Club." 13th edition. Leslie-Judge Company. OCLC 22973870. [HARPER]
1912
- Red Book (February, 1912) "The Skedaddle" A story. One of the "Built-by-Speculator" series. "The Fannings desert the suburbs." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 661-65. [HARPER]
- Bookman (May, 1912) "Portrait" Photo of Ellis Parker Butler and Don Marquis together with Mrs. Marquis. Other than the caption, there is no comment or article about either man. p 226. donmarquis.org has this caption for this picture: "Don, his first wife Reina, and author Ellis Parker Butler in 1912 at the New York City Public Library upon the occasion of the publication of Danny's Own Story" [EPBLIB]
- Red Book (September, 1912) "The Lady with the Broken Leg" A story. "The cupid who drove the car." Illustrated by Rea Irvin. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 885-894. [EPBLIB]
1913
- Ladies' World (July, 1913) "Lady-Love's Birthday"
A story. Illustrations by Blanche Greer. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p5+. [EPBLIB]
- New York Times (October 2, 1913) "Down with Poison Ivy!" An article. "Ellis Parker Butler Organizes a League to Suppress It." p 5. [NYTIMES]
- Grit (Story Section) (December 14, 1913) "Uncle Ephum Takes The Wheel" A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Illustrated. "Because he is suspicious of the demonstrator" p 11-13, 23. [EPBLIB]
1914
- Blue Book (September, 1914) "The Last Man"
A novelette. The phrase "The most unusual story ever published 'The Last Man' by Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "Fate choose a commonplace book-keeper and a society belle to be the last people left on earth: their surprising adventures and their strange romance." p 929-949. [EPBLIB]
- Red Book (October, 1914) "The Missing Mister Master" A Philo Gubb story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 1210-19. [HARPER]
- _____ (December, 1914) "The Anonymous Wiggle" A Philo Gubb story. "Philo Gubb takes the trail and finds himself in an affair of the heart." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 351-360. [EPBLIB]
1915
- Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (January, 1915) "Miss Kimpton's Bones"
A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 77-85. [RGTPL]
- People's Home Journal (April, 1915) "Ellis Parker Butler"
Autobiographical piece. Includes a picture of the author. p 3. [EPBLIB]
- Red Book (June, 1915) "One Hundred Dollars Reward"
A Philo Gubb story. The only Red Book issue with a Butler story indexed in PULP. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [HARPER, PULP]
- American Magazine (July, 1915) "A Letter to Ellis Parker Butler" "From the real father in 'The Son and Father Movement.'" Volume 80. Number 1. [EPBLIB]
- Ladies' World (November, 1915) "The Worries of Wilma"
A film story. Illustrations by George Brehm. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Also printed in Pearson's Magazine. [HARPER]
- Blue Book (December, 1915) "No. 40 Elm Avenue"
A story. "Benny the Book-agent tumbles into one of the most exciting adventures of his gay career." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 275-283. [EPBLIB]
- MOTION PICTURE: Lena (1915) Edison. Director: Charles M. Seay. Screenwriter: Ellis Parker Butler. Performers: Miriam Nesbitt, Dan Mason, Viola Dana. See IMDB. [HARPER, IMDB]
- MOTION PICTURE: The Shadow and the Shade (1915) Selig. Director: Edward J. LeSaint. Screenwriter: Ellis Parker Butler. Performers: Stella Razeto, Lamar Johnstone. [HARPER]
1916
- Blue Book (January, 1916) "Jabez Bunker"
Reprinted later as "The First Gold Brick." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [HARPER]
- Ladies' Home Journal (April, 1916) "Dominie Dean" Part one. "'Thusia Fragg Whirls Him Into the Vortex of Riverbank Scandal." Illustrations by F. R. Gruger. By Ellis Parker Butler and James B. Dare. Volume 33, Number 4. p 16, 98-100. [RGTPL]
- Green Book (May, 1916) "Ellis Parker Butler, Flushing's Foremost Citizen" [HARPER]
- Ladies' Home Journal (May, 1916) "Dominie Dean" Part two. By Ellis Parker Butler and James B. Dare. One illustration by F. R. Gruger. p 24, 93-5. [RGTPL]
- _____ (June, 1916) "Dominie Dean" Part three. "Although he won without losing, yet he won by losing" By Ellis Parker Butler and James B. Dare. One illustration by F. R. Gruger. p 24, 76-7. [RGTPL]
- Blue Book (July, 1916) "Saturday Afternoon"
A Jabez Bunker story. One illustration. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "Jabez Bunker, the amateur bunco-steerer from Iowa who comes East to take in the Wise Men of Gotham, evolves a Machiavellian plot and engineers his coup with subtle artistry." Volume XXIII. Number 3. [EPBLIB, FICTIONMAGS, PULP]
- Red Book (July, 1916) "The Needle, Watson" A Philo Gubb story. "Introducing a new character in the stories of Philo Gubb, the correspondence-school deteckative." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 607-16. [HARPER]
- Blue Book (August, 1916) "T. Jebberson" A Jabez Bunker story. "Jabez Bunker invades the lair of a professional stock-promoter and comes away with three thousand dollars shorn from the shearer." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 761-69. [EPBLIB]
- _____ (September, 1916) "Much Mentioned Men"
The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [HARPER, PULP]
- _____ (October, 1916) "Putting the Con in Connoisseur" A Jabez Bunker story. "Jabez Bunker with all his might a neat little bit of bunco-work which he found to do." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 1262-69. [HARPER, PULP]
- Pleiades Club Year Book (1916) "A Specimen of Prose Libre" Satire. "Invented by Ellis Parker Butler" Illustrated by Jo Lemon. Book is dated 1915-1916. Printed by Howard A. Dudley Company, New York. p 84-85. [HARPER]
- MOTION PICTURE: The Model Cook (1916) Metro/Drew. Director: Sidney Drew. Screenwriter: Ellis Parker Butler. Performers: Sidney Drew, Lucille McVey (Mrs. Sidney Drew). See IMDB. [HARPER, IMDB]
1917
- American Magazine (July, 1917) "Markley's 'Size-Up' of Dix" A stort. "The story of a $2,000 man who had a price mark put on him by an expert accountant." Illustrations by Paul Stahr. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [RGTPL]
- Blue Book (July, 1917) "Dear Uncle 'Lije"
A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Not indexed in PULP. [EBAY, HARPER]
- Writer's Monthly (July, 1917) "A Snapshot of Ellis Parker Butler" By Harry M. East, Jr. p 3-5. [HARPER]
- American Magazine (August, 1917) "The Temporary Receiver" "The story of a crisis in the life of a $60-a-week man." Two illustrations by Paul Stahr. Page 34 is a photographic "portrait in Alco Gravure" of Butler and his son, Ellis Olmstead Butler. The photograph is copyright by Norman Butler, New York (relation?). This publication also includes a short "tribute" to Butler from Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins (Canadian-born American journalist, novelist. b. 1876, d. 1929). The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [RGTPL]
- BOOK: Dominie Dean (1917) A novel. A fictional account of a minister in Muscatine. Serialized in Ladies' Home Journal in April, May and June 1916 where it was credited to Ellis Parker Butler and James B. Dare. According to HARPER, Dare did not compose any of the text, but served as inspiration and a resource. Frontispiece and additional illustrations by Victor Sermon Perard. New York, Chicago, Toronto, London, Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company. [NYPL]
- ANTHOLOGY: Harper Centennial (1917) "Dear House of Harper" "A Few of the Greetings and Congratulations." A congratulatory letter from Ellis Parker Butler to the editors and publishers at Harper. "Twelve hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed from type by Harper & brothers for private distribution among their friends." p 38 [GOOGLE BOOKS]
- VIGILANTES: Robinson Crusoe and Thrift Stamps (1917)
The byline reads: "Ellis Parker Butler (Of the Vigilantes)." World War I literature to promote the purchase of Thrift Stamps. Eight pages in a basic saddle-stitched booklet. The book is undated but there is an internal reference to the year "1697, 220 years ago" placing the writing, at least, at 1917. HARPER dates this booklet as being printed in 1919. Newark, NJ: National War Savings Committee for New Jersey. [HARPER]
1918
- Popular Magazine (January 7, 1918) "Up Liberty Hill"
A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "For a change, the humorist sacrifices your smile to a serious reflection, and brings to your notice the Debt Doctor, a man with a new and creative idea for common use. We know that Liberty Bonds are a tremendous incentive to thrift, and it is enough to say that the Liberty Hill Plan of the Debt Doctor is a complement thereto." p 120-27. [HARPER, LOCKE]
- Milestones (February, 1918) "Casey Goes Through"
A story. Illustrated by Norman Rockwell. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "Published monthly by The Milestones Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio. Walter Kellogg Towers, Editor." Volume 1. Number 9. p 1-3, 14. [EPBLIB]
- _____ (May, 1918) "Casey Puts One Over"
A story. Illustrated by Norman Rockwell. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "Published monthly by The Milestones Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio. Walter Kellogg Towers, Editor." Volume 1. Number 12. p 1-3. [EPBLIB]
- New York Times (September 22, 1918) "The Chewing Gum Issue" A letter to the editor. "Ellis Parker Butler Replies to Gertrude Atherton." p III-2. [NYTIMES]
- ANTHOLOGY: America in the War (1918) "Restitution and Reparation" An article. Edited by Louis Raemaekers (b.1869, d.1956). "Each cartoon faced with a page of comment by a distinguished America, the text forming an anthology of patriotic opinion." John Philip Sousa, John Kendrick Bangs, Cabot Lodge, John Burroughs, Ellis Parker Butler, Albert Bigelow Paine, Palmer Cox, Alice Hegan Rice, Admiral Peary. Hardback. Good. Oversized. New York: The Century Company. p 60. From Questia. [WEB]
- Pleiades Club Year Book (1918) "War Stuff" Book is dated 1917-1918. "Edition-de-luxe." 500 copies printed. Contains contributions by Ellis Parker Butler, Harry Kemp, Amy Lowell, and others. p 42. Bound in tan paper boards; printed in blue; tan endpapers. New York: Pleiades Club. [HARPER, WORLDCAT]
1919
- American Magazine (January, 1919) "I Gather Too Many Goat-Feathers - Do You?" This is the same essay as Goat-Feathers with a different (if similar) title. Includes a full-page photo of the author. "Twelve years ago Ellis Parker Butler set the whole country laughing over "Pigs is Pigs." He followed that shot out of his locker with "The Incubator Baby," "The Great American Pie Company," "Water Goats," and other wonderful yarns. He was born forty-nine years ago in Muscatine, Iowa, is married, and now lives in Flushing, a suburb of Brooklyn. He has four children, one of whom is shown here." Volume 87. Number 1. [RGTPL]
- Judge (January 25, 1919) "Was Patagonia Neutral?"
A story. Illustrations by Wilfred Jones. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "But all might still have been well had we not run aginst th' question iv th' loyalty iv th' Republic iv Patagonia." [EPBLIB]
- Everybody's Magazine (October, 1919) "Economic Waste"
A story. "The story of a hard-hit conscience." Illustrated by Edward M. Ashe. The name Ellis Parker Butler appears on the cover. p 46+ [RGTPL]
- American Magazine (December, 1919) "Poor Old Ellis Parker Butler is 50 This Month" "And glad of it! Here is his own story of how he feels at the half-century mark." An essay. Includes a photo of the author and his family, credited to L. L. Butler (relation?), Chicago, Ill. [RGTPL]
1919?
- MOTION PICTURE: An Author at Work (1919?) Authors' League of America, ca 1919. Based on Goat-Feathers. Screenwriter and performer: Ellis Parker Butler. No copies seem to have survived. [HARPER]
1920
- Red Cross Magazine (February, 1920) "Billy Brad's Bank Book"
A Billy Brad story. Illustrated by J. R. Shaver. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Also reprinted as a promotional booklet by the Malden Savings Bank. p 53-56. [HARPER]
- Judge (February 28, 1920) "The Log of a Lost Soul"
A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" and the title of the story appear on the cover. "Found in a Whisky Bottle Floating Outside the Three Mile Limit on January 16th Last." p 5-7. [EPBLIB]
- _____ (April 17, 1920) "The Man from '20"
A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [HARPER]
- Red Cross Magazine (May, 1920) "Billy Brad Meets Rent and Taxes"
A Billy Brad story. "Ellis Parker Butler knows children and has a rare faculty of making things simple. He has made these Billy Brad stories so amusing and yet so instructive that they are being used in the schools. We are fortunate to have such a writer among our contributors." Illustrated by J. R. Shaver. p 59-61. [HARPER]
- Judge (May 15, 1920) "Uncle Rodney's Moonshine Tobacco"
A story. The phrase "Another Ellis Parker Butler Story" appears on the cover. p 5-7. [HARPER]
- Washington Post (June 20, 1920) "Movies Is Movies" "A few days ago, writes Ellis Parker Butler, the author of 'Pigs Is Pigs,' in the July Photoplay, a producer bought the motion picture rights of one of my novels -- the one called 'The Jack Knife Man' -- and paid $13,000 for it, all in real money. pg. 5, 1 pgs. [WASHPOST]
- Photoplay Magazine (July, 1920) "Movies Is Movies"
An essay. Illustrations by R. F. James. "A brilliant satire on motion pictures." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 56-7, 122. [HARPER]
- Judge (August 14, 1920) "The Role of the Doldrums"
A story. The phrase "The Role of the Doldrums by Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 5-7. [HARPER, MISC]
- Photoplay Magazine (November, 1920) "Ten Rules for Humor"
An article with an Ellis Parker Butler byline, written almost exclusively with quotes from Butler, but written with Butler in the third person. This article is a rewrite/reprint of the similarly named article in the Los Angeles Evening Herald. p 107, 123. [EPBLIB]
- Judge (November 6, 1920) "A Miserable Business"
A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p5-6. [EPBLIB]
1921
- BOOK: My Maiden Effort (1921) "Ellis Parker Butler"
An essay. This book is subtitled "The Personal Confessions of Well Known American Authors. Collected by the Authors' League of America" There's a one-page essay where Butler recalls his first published works saying "I've been a hard-working hack. I've earned what I got." Edited by Gelett Burgess. Garden City N. Y. and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Company. Page 34. [EPBLIB]
1922
- Washington Post (December 10, 1922) "Ellis Parker Butler Head of Authors' Clan" A notice. p 67. [WASHPOST]
- Our American Humorists (1922) "Ellis Parker Butler" By Thomas Lansing Masson. Masson was one of three editors who urged Butler to move to NYC. Masson was literary and managing editor of "Life" starting in 1893. Chapter 6. p 73-90. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. [HARPER]
1923
- Radio News (January, 1923) "Mr. Murchison's Radio Party"
A story. "We are pleased to announce that, beginning with this issue and for the year to come, Mr. Ellis Parker Butler will write radio stories exclusively for RADIO NEWS." One illustration by Frank R. Paul (b. 1884, d. 1963). Includes a photo of the author. p 1268-69, 1384-86. [EPBLIB]
- New York Times (March 4, 1923) "Lighter Side of an Author's Life Seen by Men Who Write Our Yarns" An article with an extensive section on Ellis Parker Butler. [EPBLIB]
- Blue Book (May, 1923) "The Throw Down"
A story. One illustration. Not listed in HARPER. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "The sprightly story of a clever detective's adventures with a group of crooks who had a few brains themselves." p 55-60. [PULPGEN]
- Saturday Evening Post (June 23, 1923) "Into Each Life" A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Cover by Norman Rockwell "Summer Vacation." [RGTPL]
- Blue Book (August, 1923) "Hemburn's Wife"
A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Page 41. Not listed in HARPER or PULP. [EPBLIB]
- Radio News (September, 1923) "The McNoodle Brothers' Radio Mystery" A Philo Gubb story. "Philo Gubb, the famous correspondent school 'deteckative,' has come back this month. No doubt you have read Mr. Ellis Parker Butler's amusing stories of Philo Gubb. Here he is back in all his past glory. This month he has managed to get mixed up in a radio and bootlegging mystery which cannot fail to hold your interest. It is one of the best from Mr. Butler's pen. We promise you an interesting twenty minutes." [EPBLIB]
- Delineator (October, 1923) "Behind Legs of the 'Orse" A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [RGTPL]
- Woman's Home Companion (November, 1923) "The Miltod Election"
A story. Illustrations by Herbert Paus. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [RGTPL]
- Success Magazine (December, 1923) "Beloved Humans: It's Going to Be a Great Life"
An essay. Illustrated by Arthur G. Dove. "Ellis Parker Butler's Great Story for Success." p 24-27, 83, 90. [HARPER]
- Sunset Magazine (December, 1923) "Do You Still Believe in Fairies?"
An essay. "Author of: The Cave Men, etc." Two illustrations. Cover calls this article "Pep" alongside the name "Ellis Parker Butler." p 12-13, 80-82. [RGTPL]
1924
- Rotarian (May, 1924) "What's This Success Thing?"
An essay. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 7-9,62. Short bio on page 6. [EPBLIB]
- Designer (July, 1924) "Tomorrow's Dawn" A story. Illustrated by Grattan Condon. This publication's full title is "The Designer and the Woman's Magazine." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "Ellis Parker Butler, humorist, tells how to torture the man you love." This story was later reprinted in the British magazine Gaiety. p 12-13, 54. [HARPER]
- Rotarian (July, 1924) "The Little Tin Godlets"
An essay. "Some statues found in their niches in the Pantheon of Peculiarities." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 13-14, 43-46. [EPBLIB]
- Saturday Evening Post (July 19, 1924) "Green Paint"
A story. Illustrated by Walter De Maris. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 14, 52, 54. [RGTPL]
- Rotarian (November, 1924) "Who's Your Friend?" An essay. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Illustrations by Garrett Price. p 13-15, 69-72. Short bio on page 4. Also, letters written in the contest started in the July 1924 issue "Little Tin Godlets" are printed p 30,46-53. [EPBLIB]
- BOOK: The Talmadge Sisters (1924) "Introduction" This book is subtitled "Norma Constance Natalie An Intimate Story of the World's Most Famous Screen Family By Their Mother." Introduction by Ellis Parker Butler. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company. p 5-8. [EPBLIB]
1925
- Saturday Evening Post (January 24, 1925) "The Memoir Aristocratic"
Story subtitled "As Done by the English Upper Classes (Typed by Ellis Parker Butler)". Printed in the "Short Turns and Encores" section. p 26, 51. [HARPER]
- College Humor (February, 1925) "The Great Yarvard Mystery"
A story. "Romance of Youth and Love." Illustrated by Russell Patterson. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. This issue is labeled both "The Winter Number" and February 1925. Volume 4. Number 1. p7-8, 114-17. [EPBLIB]
- Daily Princetonian (March 27, 1925) "Ellis Parker Butler Sermonizes Delightfully on Princeton Spirit" [HARPER]
- Author & Journalist (May, 1925) "More Laughs in Literature, Please!"
"Some Observations of Ellis Parker Butler, Including the Sad History of Oleander P. Collik." As reported by Justine Mansfield. [HARPER, LOCKE]
- Vanity Fair (June, 1925) "We Nominate for the Hall of Fame" By Robert H. Davis. Includes a photo of Butler. Ad/promotional item includes by name Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, H.I. Phillips, Ellis Parker Butler, James J. Montague. [EPBLIB]
- College Humor (August, 1925) "Bull Hyde and Little Peewee" The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [HARPER]
- Laughter (October, 1925) "Here Comes the Groom"
The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 6-15. [HARPER]
- Delineator (December, 1925) "Where Is My Father?" A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "A story you will never forget." "Christmas brings the answer to a nameless child." Illustrations by Joseph M. Clement. p 6-7,81-82. [RGTPL]
- ANTHOLOGY: Tom Masson's Annual; Third of Series (1925) "The Memoir Aristocratic" A story. Story is subtitled "As Done by the English Upper Classes, Typed by Ellis Parker Butler." Book is subtitled "Ye Comically Inclined People's Vade Mecum." Edited by Thomas L. Masson. Country Life Press. Doubleday, Page and Company. Garden City, New York. [EPBLIB]
1926
- Boston Evening Transcript (May 1, 1926) "Ellis Parker Butler Emerges from the West" By Louise Hubert Guyol. A biographical study. "Out of Muscatine Eastward Came the American Humorist as He Valiantly Climbed the Ladder of Fame." Includes a photo of the author by Robert H. Davis. Also reprinted in the Muscatine Journal. [HARPER]
- America's Humor (Summer, 1926) "Chris Marie Meeker" A profile of one of the magazine's artists written by Butler. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 31. [HARPER]
- Amazing Stories (June, 1926) "An Experiment in Gyro-Hats"
A story. This science fiction magazine was published by Hugo Gernsback (b. 1884, d. 1967). One illustration by Frank R. Paul. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Volume 1, Number 3. [PULP]
- Seng Book (July, 1926) "Playing the Game"
An essay. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Published by The Seng Company, World's Largest Makers of Furniture Hardware, 1450 Dayton Street, Chicago, Illinois. Illustrated by John Fullin (sp?). Vol. 1 No. 2. p 9-11, 35-37. [EPBLIB]
- Woman's Home Companion (August, 1926) "Kennel and the Cat Coop" A story. Illustrations by Frederick Chapman. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 24-25, 94-97. [RGTPL]
- American Magazine (December, 1926) The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover, but there is no Butler story in this issue. [EPBLIB]
- New York Times (December 3, 1926) "Verse Means to Get About Queens" A verse from Ellis Parker Butler makes the news. [NYTIMES]
1927
- Famous Story Magazine (January, 1927) "The Cave Men"
A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [EPBLIB]
- Dearborn Independent (June 11, 1927) "Breaking Into Literary Game"
by Thomas L. Masson. This article about succeeding as a writer starts with a long anecdote about Ellis Parker Butler's arrival in New York City. p 6-7, 20-21. [EPBLIB]
- American Girl (September, 1927) "Jo Ann and the Princess"
A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Illustrations by John Held, Jr. p 16-18, 33-34. [HARPER]
- Outdoor America (September, 1927) "Josephus and the Jet Hackle"
A story. Drawings by John Held, Jr. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [HARPER]
1928
- Midland Schools (January, 1928) "Ellis Parker Butler" By Frank Luther Mott. p 163-65. [HARPER]
- Country Gentleman (April, 1928) "Mamie"
The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Illustrated by R. M. Brinkerhoff. p 14, 110-112. [EPBLIB]
- Theatre Magazine (September, 1928) "The Theatre, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"
An essay. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Includes a photo of the author by Culver. [CORNYN]
1929
- American Magazine (February, 1929) "The Gnat"
A story. Illustrated by Victor C. Anderson. "The story of a strange conflict between a town's richest man and its poorest." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Also appears in The Des Moines Sunday Register 27-JUL-1930. [RGTPL]
- Best Detective Magazine (December, 1929) "Chicken Bait"
A Bryson Brace story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Not illustrated. p 38-45. [COOK+MILLER]
1930
- Outdoor America (May, 1930) "Something Unusual"
A story. Drawings by Donald Hough. "In which an English Duke Lands a Rainbow Trout in an Extraordinary Manner and Observes American Fishing Customs." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 5-7, 60. [EPBLIB]
- College Humor (October, 1930) "Say Wen"
A story. "I consider it decidedly undignified for a dean of a co-educational college to hold a professor of Higher Mathematics on her lap." Illustrated by Ray Rohn. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 30-31, 114-116. [EPBLIB]
- Holiday (October, 1930) "Step Right Inside!" A story. "Custom cannot stale the infinite variety of the County Fair." The phrase "'Let's Go To the Fair! by Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 27, 62. [HARPER]
- Saturday Evening Post (October 25, 1930) "Being Happy with Walter"
A story. Illustrated by Henrietta McCaig Starrett. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 14-15, 50, 52. [RGTPL]
- A Book of Iowa Authors By Iowa Authors (1930) "Ellis Parker Butler" By Frank Luther Mott. Reprinted from JAN-1928(?). The book is edited by Johnson Brigham (State Librarian) in cooperation with Charles F. Pye and F. A. Welch. Des Moines: Iowa State Teachers Association. Includes a photo of the author. p 33-42. [EPBLIB]
- Dutch Treat Club Year Book (1930) "Bloody Tuesday Is Coming!"
This article is election rhetoric for the Dutch Treat Club. Ellis Parker Butler was a founding member (along with Thomas Lansing Masson and Robert S. Yard). The club, still in existence (see the Dutch Treat Club's web site), is a society established to discuss and promote the arts. This is the Twenty Fifth Anniversary Year Book. Private printing; 94 pages; 1,000 copies. Includes membership roster with addresses: a veritable Who's Who of authors, editors and illustrators. p 10-11. [EPBLIB]
1931
- Christian Herald (June, 1931) "First Aid"
A short short story. One illustration by Dieden Medter. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 19. [HARPER]
1932
- Western Home Monthly (February, 1932)
The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [EBAY]
- American Girl (April, 1932) "Jo Ann Cleans House"
A story. Illustrated by Garrett Price. "It was Easter vacation and as the taxicab came to a stop before Jo Ann's house she threw her arms around Julia Wickham and gave her a big hug." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 18-20, 31-32. [HARPER]
- _____ (April, 1932) "Who's Who In This Issue" A short biography of the author, with a photograph. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 54. [EPBLIB]
- Best Detective Magazine (April, 1932) "Green Eyes"
A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 85-92. [COOK+MILLER]
- Bookman (June and July, 1932) "Method In Their Madness" By Edward Weeks. "Sidelights on the Writing Habits of Authors -- Part Two." There's a brief reference to Ellis Parker Butler on page 228. p 225-232. [EPBLIB]
- Writer's Digest (November, 1932) "Selling 'Second Rights'"
An essay. The phrase "Ellis Parker Butler tells how to sell a story again and again" appears on the cover. p 41-3. [HARPER]
1933
- St. Nicholas Magazine (April, 1933) "Tom Betts' Dog"
A story. Illustrations by R. M. Brinkerhoff. "This is the story of a dog who was big enough, and strong enough, but who had a good deal of trouble with his tail." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 286-88, 311-12. [RGTPL]
- Muscatine Journal (June 24, 1933) "Ellis Parker Butler Praises 'Home Town'" "Noted Author, Native of City, Remembers Old Friends." [HARPER]
- Short Stories (November 25, 1933) "Tug of War"
A story. Illustrated. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "Hard-boiled Riverboat Rivalry, and If You Can't Pull -- Push." p 91-97. [HARPER]
- ANTHOLOGY: Humor By Vote (1933) "The Great American Pie Company" "The voters being George Ade, Ellis Parker Butler, Irvin S. Cobb ... and others." H. H. Howland, editor. Butler's story was selected by Chic Sale who starred in the 1935 movie version of the story. Also, Butler selected a poem by Robert J. Burdette ("The Romance of the Carpet"). New York: The Laugh Club. p 222-238. [EPBLIB]
1934
- American Girl (September, 1934) "The Flat-Tire Mystery"
A Betty Bliss story. Illustrations by Leslie Turner. "The boys always laughed at the 'Tenth Street Yard Detective Club,' but when Superintendent Betty Bliss found a real crime, they did their best to help." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 20-22, 44-45. [HARPER]
- Grand Magazine (October, 1934) 192 pages, complete mystery by Agatha Christie, other stories by Warwick Deeping, Storm Jameson, Gilbert Frankau, S.Jepson, Ellis Parker Butler, poetry etc, plus ads, story by A. Christie is titled "The Rajah's Emerald". [WEB]
1935
- This Week (May 5, 1935) "Detour" The copy in EPBLIB is from the Sunday Star, Washington D.C. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [EPBLIB]
- Writer's Digest (June, 1935) "Ellis Parker Butler Talks on Humor" By Henry Harrison. "Interviews With Notable Authors". p 11-13. [LOCKE]
- Complete Western Book (August, 1935) "Cowpuncher's Paradise"
A story. "In which a couple of punchers find a Utopian range -- no dudes -- no woman -- no cattle." One illustration. Same as "Bruce of the Bar-None". The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 89-94. [PULPGEN]
- McCall's (December, 1935) "The Misses Meekins" A story. "Ellis Parker Butler tells a merry story of the Misses Meekins who raise the roof fund in a most peculiar way." Illustrated by F. R. Gruger. As a side note, there is an unrelated "Pigs is Pigs" article in the March 1944 issue of McCall's. [EPBLIB]
1936
- Family Circle (August 14, 1936) "Remember the Can-opener!"
A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Illustrated by Bill Holman. p 4-5, 22. [EPBLIB]
1937
- Muscatine Journal (September 13, 1937) "Ellis Parker Butler, Once Resident Here, Goes in Death at 67" Obituary. [HARPER]
- Washington Post (September 14, 1937) "Butler, Author of "Pigs Is Pigs," Expires at 67" "Butler, Author Of 'Pigs Is Pigs,' Expires at 67; Convulsed Nation in 1906 With Funny Story of Freight Agent." Obituary. "Housatonic, Mass., Sept. 13. -- Ellis Parker Butler, who wrote 'Pigs Is Pigs,' the story of the prolific guinea pigs which has kept America laughing for 31 years, died today at his summer home." p 3. [WASHPOST]
- _____ (September 14, 1937) "Pigs Is Pigs" An article. "It is no reflection on the twenty-odd books written by Ellis Parker Butler to say that 'Pigs Is Pigs' is the one which will always come to mind when his name is mentioned. The fact that he added two dozen others to American book shelves after his famous story of the prolific qualities of guinea pigs is proof that it was no mere flash in ..." pg. 8, 1 pgs. [WASHPOST]
- Kansas City Star (September 16, 1937) "A Gentle and Wise Philosophy in Ellis Parker Butler's Humor" Obituary. [HARPER]
- New York Times (September 16, 1937) "Writers Among 200 at Butler Funeral" A notice of the funeral of Ellis Parker Butler. [NYTIMES]
- Authors' League Bulletin (October, 1937) "Ellis Parker Butler" Obituary. By Will Irwin. p 4-5. [HARPER]
1938
- Judge (January, 1938) "Appropriate Telephone Numbers" Humor. Reprinted from March 4, 1911 in a 12-page feature "THE JUDGE ALBUM 188l-1938" featuring the previously published work of James Montgomery Flagg, Carolyn Wells, Mark Twain, Ellis Parker Butler. p 32. [EPBLIB]
- Texas Rangers (January, 1938) "Crowbait's Christmas Gift"
A story. Vol. 5 No. 2. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. [HARPER, PULP]
- Maclean's (January 15, 1938) "Too Many Runs"
A story. "A comedy by that master of humorous fiction, the late Ellis Parker Butler." Illustrated by Charles Overman. p 10-11, 31-33. [EPBLIB]
- Author & Journalist (February, 1938) "Literary Lessons from Ellis Parker Butler" by Harry M. East. Includes an extensive quote from Butler. p 14-15. [LOCKE]
- American Girl (March, 1938) "The Locked Drawer Mystery"
A story. "Betty Bliss and her fellow detectives solve their last case -- an announcement that causes the Editors of The American Girl sorrow and regret, for the death, last September, of Ellis Parker Butler will be a real and continuing loss to all readers of the magazine." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 6-13, 24-31. [HARPER]
- Dutch Treat Club Year Book (1938) "In Memoriam"
Ellis Parker Butler's name appears on a page listing those members who had died during the year since the last year book: Robert S. Ament, Arthur McKeogh, Vivian Burnett, Robert Lyman, Ellis Parker Butler, Robert Winsmore, Don Marquis, William H. Walker, Arthur H. Samuels. [EPBLIB]
1939
- My Day in Court (1939) "The Authors' League" By Arthur Train. About the founding of the Authors' League in 1911 and later. Ellis Parker Butler is credited as being elected Secretary and Treasurer pro tem and as having signed the incorporation papers filed in Albany on December 18, 1912. Chapter 27. p 308-313. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. [HARPER]
1940
- Muscatine Journal (May 31, 1940) "High Acclaim Given Native Sons" An article. "Ellis Parker Butler, Humorist, Started Writing Career in City" p 4. [NPA]
1941
- Sure-Fire Detective (August, 1941) "Fenderton Roper, Hero"
A story. The name Ellis Parker Butler appears on the cover. Thanks to Richard Hall who spotted this issue in an eBay auction. Canadian pulp. Volume 1. Number 3. [EBAY]
1942
- BOOK: Twentieth Century Authors (1942) "Ellis Parker Butler" "A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature" Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz. Includes an extended autobiography written by Butler just before his death. Includes a photo of the author. New York: H. W. Wilson Company. [HARPER]
1945
- ANTHOLOGY: Laugh Your Head Off! (1945) "Philo Gubb, The Correspondence School Detective" Printed in Philo Gubb as "The Hard-Boiled Egg." This is a miniature book, only 3x4.5 inches. Royce Publishers. Chicago. Originally came attached to a Get-Well card. Outside of card shows a dog in bed reading a book called "Funny Stories." The card says "This card will help you feel better!" Inside the dog is holding the book that contains complete stories by Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner, O. Henry, Roarke Bradford, Edward Streeter and, of course, Ellis Parker Butler. [EPBLIB]
1947
- Historic Midwest Houses (1947) "Beside the Mississippi"
"Ellis Parker Butler House, Muscatine, Built in 1860's." Includes a black and white photograph of the home at 607 Third Street in Muscatine, Iowa. University of Minnesota. Bonanza Books. Crown Publishers. New York. Pages 133-134. Reprinted in 1975. [EPBLIB]
1954
- Muscatine Journal (August 19, 1954) "Diary of Ellis Parker Butler Is Found at Jensen Residence" [HARPER]
1959
- Handwriting Analysis (1959) "Ellis Parker Butler"
This book contains a brief analysis of Butler's character from a sample of his handwriting. "The Art and Science of Reading Character" by M. N. Bunker, founder, International Grapho Analysis Society. Chicago: Nelson-Hall Company, Publishers. Pages 27-29. [EPBLIB]
1967
- Iowa Authors (1967) "Ellis Parker Butler"
By Frank Paluka. "A Bio-bibliography of Sixty Native Writers" Iowa City, Iowa: Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, paperback issue, green wraps, 244pp. p 18-21. [EPBLIB]
1979
- Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin (June, 1979) "Folk Humor in the Stories of Ellis Parker Butler" By Jeffrey J. Folks. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 45, No. 11 (June 1979). p 79-84. Tennessee Folklore Society. [CHAPIN]
1982
- Books at Iowa 37 (November, 1982) "Lighting Out for the Territory Back East: Ellis Parker Butler, American Humorist" By Henry B. Chapin. [WEB]
- Western Illinois Regional Studies (1982) "Ellis Parker Butler: Popular Humorist at the Turn of the Century" By Jeffrey J. Folks. Includes a photograph of Ellis Parker Butler. Volume 5.1. p 38-53. [HARPER]
1986
- Journals of the Butler Society (1986) "Ellis Parker Butler: American Humorist" By Henry B. Chapin. Volume 3:1 (1986-1987). p 90-93. [HARPER]
1987
- BOOK: American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals (1987) David E. E. Sloane, editor. An overview and history of many Americn publications. Included are remarks about Ellis Parker Butler being published in "America's Humor" (p 333); "Laughter" (p 420); "Judges' Library" and "Sis Hopkin's Own Book" and "Magazine of Fun" published from 1912 to 1915 (later becoming "Film Fun") (p 426); "Up to Date" which was subtitled "Everybody's Magazine" (p 480-1); and "The Yellow Kid" and "The Yellow Book" published from March 20, 1897 and July 17, 1897 respectively (p 496-7). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. LOC: 86-27155. ISBN: 0-313-23956-8. [HARPER]
1988
- King Vidor (1988) "The Jack-Knife Man" An extended oral history of King Vidor who directed the film made from Ellis Parker Butler's book The Jack-Knife Man. Interviewed by Nancy Dowd and David Shepard. Metuchen NJ and London: The Directors Guild of America and The Scarecrow Press. p 21-25. ISBN 0-8108-2161-3. [EPBLIB]
1997
- Yellowback Library (October, 1997) "Ellis Parker Butler and Jibby Jones" By Gil O'Gara. Number 160. p 12-16. Informed commentary on the Jibby Jones stories, especially when viewed as collectables along with "serial books, dime novels and related literature." [EPBLIB]
2001
- Dictionary of Midwestern Literature (2001) "Ellis Parker Butler"
Edited by Philip A. Greasley. "Volume One: The Authors" Indiana University Press. May 1, 2001. Hardcover. ISBN 0253336090. p 90-91. [GOOGLE BOOKS]
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