Scope and Content Note

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.

Scope and Content Note

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.

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 ...