Box 1

Letters from Frances Peck to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Peck (1895-1907; 18 items); letter from Isabel Doyle (her sister; April 25, 1940; 1 item); childhood poems and stories (5 items)

Related to Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Peck (parents), Helen Peck Treadwell (sister) and Patricia Jean Grover (stepdaughter)

This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Frances Peck Grover, whose career at the Chicago Tribune (1911-1945) was spent chiefly as movie critic (the first to write under the name "Mae Tinee"). This archive includes family correspondence and photographs, correspondence and pictures of movie stars of the 1920s, and scrapbooks of newspaper columns.

Writing by Frances Peck Grover as Frances Peck, Frances Peck Barnes, Frances Barnes, and Mae Tinee. Includes a tear sheet of "Front Page Fanny" from Liberty magazine, March 23, 1929.

Includes miscellaneous programs

Includes 2 copies of a Christmas card, with a design featuring the Tribune Tower