Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other materials created by and regarding Arkansas writer Bernie Babcock and her family.

When noted, collection materials are photocopies rather than originals, and are likely to have been made from originals now held by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Center for Arkansas History and Culture.

Scope and Content Note

"The Life of Archibald Yell", Intro by Frederick W. Allsop. Unpublished manuscript.

Impressionistic account of Yell's life with a description of his two burial ceremonies. Includes poetry by Albert Pike, John Greenleaf Whittier and George Smoote. Also includes a long prose essay on the Mexican War by Anna Robinson Watson.

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, postcards, printed material, a broadside, and a scrapbook complete this collection. Significant correspondents include: Fred W. Allsopp Bernie Babcock Doak S. Campbell J.H. Carmichael Fadjo Cravens S.C. Dellinger L.S. Dunaway Jim G. Ferguson ...

Scope and Content Note MS, TS, TS Copy, Proc TS, PR, Photo. Correspondence, reports, minutes of proceedings, lists, scrapbooks, photographs, broadsides and other printed materials, mostly dated 1896-1933, pertaining to the activities of the Republican party in Arkansas. Correspondents from whom or to whom one or more letters are received or addressed include: Bernie Smade Babcock, Milton Drew Bowers, Charles Hillman Brough, William Morgan Butler, Gordon Hensley Campbell Thaddeus Horatius...

Scope and Content Note The collection consists of materials collected and produced by scholar Diane Rowland, primarily as part of her research and writing on Arkansas writer Bernie Babcock. These materials include drafts and publications by Rowland regarding Babcock; writings by others on Babcock; correspondence to and from Babcock, including with politicians and with other writers; copies of Babcock's diaries and transcriptions; copies of writings by Babcock; newspaper clippings about Babcock; and...