Roe Richmond papers

The Roe Richmond papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, and published material. Richmond's correspondence is largely communication with Greg Tobin and Sam Tanenhaus, publishers at Tower Publications and Ace Books, respectively. Correspondence also includes exchanges between Richmond and Carlton F. Wells, an English professor at the University of Michigan. Their friendship developed from a common interest in writing. The small segment of correspondence is arranged chronologically.

Manuscripts comprise the builk of the papers, and include both book and short story lengths as well as a few poems. Richmond's autobiography, entitled Somewhere Back of the Sun, is part of this short story subseries.

Printed material consists of Richmond's work as published in a variety of magazines, mostly pulps. Most of the pulp stories are western or sport yarns, but there are also some in the detective and romance genres. For works published in Texas Rangers, Richmond used the pseudonym Jackson Cole. His first published story, "Way of a Champion," appeared in a 1934 issue of Jack Dempsey's Fight Magazine. The series is arranged alphabetically by story title.

The remainder of the collection includes some of Richmond's research materials and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings. Photographs in the collection include three portraits of the author, from the 1920s and the 1940s-1950s. Forty-one books are individually cataloged.