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Papers, 1924-1959.
University Archives UPT 50 D578
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Dilley, Edgar Meck, 1874-1960.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- University of Pennsylvania--Songs and music.
- The Songs of the class of ninety-seven.
- Verses n' everything.
- Jade.
- Hail Pennsylvania.
- Popular music--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Writing and publishing.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts (for publication).
- Penn Provenance:
- Gift of Charles Erwin Ireland, 1988.
- Physical Description:
- 1 cu. ft.
- Place of Publication:
- 1924-1959.
- Biography/History:
- Edgar Meck Dilley, songwriter, journalist, farmer. Received A.B. from University of Pennsylvania, 1897. Best known for writing "Hail Pennsylvania." Author of Red Fox's Son (1911), The Forbidden Trail (1912), Verses n' Everything (1924), The Songs of the Class of Ninety-Seven (1943), and My American (1930). Newspaperman for: McClure Times, the New York Herald, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and other Philadelphia and Chicago papers. Spent a short time as business manager for Nash Importers of Philadelphia after which he purchased land in Florida and became a citrus fruit farmer.
- Summary:
- This small group of papers is limited to biographical information, typescripts, and printed versions of his works: The Songs of the Class of Ninety-Seven, Verses n' Everything, and Jade.
- Finding Aid/Index:
- Unpublished finding aid available from repository.
- OCLC:
- 1347714392
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