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Borland's typewritten reminiscence, 1935, together with related clipping and memorandum, 1884 and 1922, pertaining to gamblers and gambling in Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1878-1900, and especially to the "Flynn-Doran feud" and the shooting of Frank Flynn in 1884.

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Paper-bound hymnals, pertaining to 19th- and 20th-century Southern evangelical Christianity.

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Manuscript materials, sheet music, and Arkansiana, mostly pertaining to Hot Springs and Garland County.

Manuscripts, pictures, and printed items were collected and maintained by Hudgins in her home, mainly as research material for her free-lance writing. The collection also includes material assembled by other people similarly engaged, as well as manuscripts and printed articles written by Hudgins and others.

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, largely from authors and composers, to Ms. Hudgins, pertaining primarily to her interests in Arkansas-related music and literature, together with a few documents, largely of a historical nature, relating principally to James Henderson Berry, Charles Hillman Brough, William Jennings Bryan, John Joseph Pershing, and Albert Pike. File 1 contains correspondence concerning books by or about Raymond Franklin Da Boll, including reviews of Recollections of...

Scope and Content Note 5 printed scores, 1847-1905, of tune "Arkansas Traveller" (or Traveler), some with traditional related dialogue; 1 printed pamphlet containing Mose Case version of tune and dialogue, 1864; 1 unpublished score of "Hymn of Arkansas," with words by Hudgins, 1971; 1 mimeographed concert program, 1971. (For descriptive commentary relating to the history of published "Arkansas Traveller" scores, see Hudgins article, "Arkansas Traveler: A Multi-Parented...

Scope and Content Note Twenty-seven files of correspondence, clippings, literary manuscripts, notes, music scores and other published or unpublished materials created, received, or collected by researcher Hudgins, pertaining to shaped note singing and to 19th- and 20th-century Southern evangelical hymnody, especially as regards composers, lyricists, and publishers born in or resident in Arkansas and specifically as regards the National Gospel Singing Convention in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1971; together with 155...

Content Description The collection consists of two scrapbooks, compiled by Mary Hudgins, containing materials relating to her work as a greeting card writer, as well as two items that had been stored at the back of one scrapbook (a postcard of the Arkansas State Capitol and an Award of Distinguished Service certificate granted to Hudgins by the Arkansas Historical Association). Additional materials pertain to Hudgins' estate planning and funeral, and also include a photocopy of a clipping regarding Mary Hudgins...

Scope and Content Note Correspondence; literary manuscripts; notes; musical scores; lists and bibliographies; newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other printed material; photographs; scrapbooks; and other materials principally collected but in part created by Hudgins and pertaining or relating to her interests in: Arkansas-related music, literature, composers, writers, and performing artists, especially Laurence Powell, Scott Joplin, Charles Joseph Finger and Fay Templeton; Charles Cutter's ...

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Facsimile edition, ca 1944, of Joplin's opera Treemonisha (originally published in New York, 1911); together with related clippings, articles, and other material. 17 items.

Scope and Content Note Principally letters from Vance Randolph, dated at Eureka Springs and Fayetteville, Arkansas, to Mary Dengler Hudgins, Hot Springs, Arkansas, regarding their research and publication in areas of Arkansas history and folklore. Fourteen signed, typed letters from Vance Randolph to Mary Dengler Hudgins (two with author's notes); one signed, typed letter from Vance Randolph to "Mrs. Thompson," one typed; initialed letter from Hudgins to Randolph; and two signed, autograph letters from...

Scope and Content Note Letters and notes, largely of a personal nature, to Clara B[ernice] Kennan and Mary D[engler] Hudgins pertaining primarily to educational television programs related to the music of WGS and articles written by CBK and MDH about the composer, donation of the Still Papers to the University of Arkansas Library, and WGS's honorary degree from the University in the spring of 1971. Correspondence also refers to Arkansans John [Rowland] Cowell, Margaret Bean Jasper, [John] [Little] McClellan,...