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Authors -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:

Cora Anne Stroud Jenkins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 729
Scope and Content Note Contained are the personal papers pertaining to Cora Anne Stroud Jenkins' life; her literary works including poetry, short stories, song lyrics, autobiography and a manuscript of an unpublished book Our American Vernacular; genealogy material of Stroud, Hill, Carlock, and Cline families and the correspondence generated as a result of the research; personal papers of her parents, John Walter Stroud and Mary Jane Hill Stroud and the grandparents, James Thomas Stroud and Margaret Ann Carlock...
Dates: 1850-1984

John Park Cravens Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 3
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 ...
Dates: 1881-1967

Ben F. Johnson III Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1170
Scope and Content Note

The collection contains three audiocassettes of oral history interviews conducted by Ben F. Johnson III while engaged in researching a biography of Arkansas poet John Gould Fletcher. Subjects interviewed included Mary Fletcher Worthen, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Terry, Mrs. George Rose Smith, and Dr. Woodbridge Morris.

Dates: 1988

Douglas C. Jones Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1619
Scope and Content Note

Materials include correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, paintings, and photographs.

Dates: 1926-1998

James Keddie Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1281
Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, and photographs.

Dates: 1928-1941

Clara B. Kennan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 962
Scope and Contents

Materials related to Arkansas history and Arkansas writers, as collected by Clara B. Kennan, as well as a promotional flier for a book by Kennan.

Dates: 1937-1969

Lida W. Pyles Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 722
Scope and Content Note In addition to a photocopy of Sense and Nonsense in Verse and her newspaper articles, the collection also contains two newspaper items pertaining to Pyles, an article about her husband, Elba Pyles, papers concerning the Ozark Writers and Artists Guild, materials about the Ozark Creative Writers, Inc., and a collection of photographs of Pyles, Cora Pinkley Call of Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas, the Ozark Writers and Artists Guild, in which both...
Dates: 1948-1986

Lighton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 779
Scope and Content Note The papers pertain primarily to William Rheem Lighton (1866- 1923), his wife Laura McMaken Lighton (1869-1948) and their children, Dorothy (1893-1967), Louis Duryea (1895-1963), Suzanne Chalfant (1905-1978), and Betty (b. 1912). Most of the papers were collected and saved by daughters Suzanne and Betty. Included are materials pertaining to their extended family, in particular, Dorothy Lighton's children and grandchildren and Laura McMaken's father, Andrew Campbell McMaken. These...
Dates: 1828-1987

The Lost Roads Project

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1391
Scope and Content Note

The Lost Roads Project: A Walk-in Book of Arkansas. Providence : Lost Roads Project, Brown University, 1994. "Printed by Walter Feldman for the Lost Roads Project in an edition of [18] numbered and signed copies of which this is number [15]"

The collection consists of 1 copy of the portfolio (21 broadsides), containing the following texts. Each sheet (56 x 48 cm.) is printed in black, red, and/or blue on cream paper, with the same illustration printed in various colors.

Dates: 1994-1996

Teresa Irwin Luneau "A Critical Biography of Charlie May Simon" Typescript

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2362
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of a photocopy of a partial typescript of Teresa Irwin Luneau's unpublished biography of Arkansas children's writer Charlie May Simon. Included are a title page, outline, and chapters one ("Her Life") and four ("Her Autobiographies").

Dates: ca 1981-1982

James McNally Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1722
Scope and Content Note

The collection includes 13 booklets and 1 typescript prepared and authored by McNally. The booklets include short stories, family and local Arkansas histories, anecdotal accounts of his personal relationships, and descriptions of his experiences leading up to service in the United States Army.

Dates: 1997-2023

Thomas Perkins Morgan Scrapbook and Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: q MS M82
Scope and Content Note

Scrapbooks and Manuscripts (116 Items)

Literary manuscripts of the Rogers, Arkansas humorist who wrote under the pseudonyms J. Fuller Gloom and Tennyson J. Daft, consisting mostly of his unpublished plays, short stories, and sketches, together with ten scrapbooks of mounted material, mostly clippings from his daily column and other works published in the Kansas City Star and various periodicals.

Dates: 1887-1928; 1955-1956

Robert Morris and Elizabeth Morris Walker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1436
Scope and Content Note

The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, albums, and physical artifacts pertaining to the lives of Robert Morris and Elizabeth Morris Walker.

Dates: 1922 - 1995

Robert Lee Morris Rackinsack Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS M83
Scope and Content Note

Rackinsack, a mountain play; On the tale and tune of the Arkansas Traveler and three reels of magnetic tape recordings, tape speed 7.5 IPS.

Dates: 1957

Margaret J. Mullen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1129
Scope and Content Note

The papers consist of literary manuscripts and printed material, including the preliminary draft of her book An Arkansas Childhood. A monograph Second Harvest, 1987, containing Mullen's short story "Dixon Street" was removed from the collection and placed in the library's holdings. All the manuscripts are typewritten with the exception of No. 1, which is in longhand.

Dates: 1968-1985

Oda Mulloy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1663
Scope and Content Note

Materials include nine booklets and three compact discs.

Dates: ca. 1993-ca. 2008

National League of American Pen Women, Northwest Arkansas Branch Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1655
Scope and Content Note

The collection includes various documents pertaining to the group's functions, in addition to materials from exhibitions, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings and publications from the national branch.

Dates: 1952-2007

Radine Trees Nehring Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1877
Scope and Contents

The collection contains writings and other materials related to the career of Arkansas writer Radine Trees Nehring; the bulk of collection materials relate to Nehring's first book, Dear Earth: A Love Letter from Spring Hollow (1995). Materials include book proposals, typescript drafts, proofs, a press packet, promotional materials, and publisher correspondence.

Dates: circa 1988-2008

Rebecca Newth “Arkansas Voices” Oral History Interview Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1266
Scope and Content Note “Arkansas Voices” was a series of interviews conducted by Newth for Fayetteville radio station KUAF between 1991 and 1998. Subjects were generally people who were visiting Fayetteville to lecture, perform, or exhibit their works. Other interviews with local academics concerned books they had published or other research or creative activity in which they were engaged. Newth herself was interviewed by Kyle Kellams of the KUAF staff. The collection consists of Newth's audiocassette...
Dates: 1991-1998; 2020

Ruth Polk Patterson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 903
Scope and Content Note The collection contains manuscript versions of her articles and book and other related material such as grant applications, research notes, and correspondence; papers pertaining to professional organizations and activities such as the Arkansas Commemorative Commission, the Arkansas Sesquicentennial Commission, and the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History; papers pertaining to a lawsuit filed against the Little Rock School District concerning discriminatory employment...
Dates: 1954-1988

Ruth Polk Patterson Papers Addendum

 Collection
Identifier: MC 903A
Scope and Content Note

Materials in this collection are various draft manuscripts of Ruth Polk Patterson’s books about her grandfather’s life and work as a slave in Arkansas. Spencer Polk, Patterson’s grandfather, was born to an enslaved woman, Sally, and her enslaver Taylor Polk. Unusually, Spencer and his siblings by Sally were raised along with Taylor Polk's white children.

Dates: 1971-1986

Lily Peter Interview

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1158
Scope and Content Note

Lily Peter (1891-1991), interviewee. Ms. Peter was an Arkansas poet, farmer, and philanthropist. Oral history interview conducted by Pamela Carmell at the Peter home in Marvell (Phillips County), Arkansas, July 19-20, 1986.

Dates: 1986

Florence Price Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2618
Content Description

The collection contains materials, primarily published and unpublished sheet music, created and collected by composer Florence Price. Also included are a memo book, course notes, and a course notebook that belonged to Price; thirteen family photographs; and a manuscript draft of a novel, Maudelle: A Novel Founded on Facts Gathered from Living Witnesses, written by Price's father, James H. Smith.

Dates: circa 1895-1955

Diane Rowland Research Materials on Bernie Babcock

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2293
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...
Dates: 1843-2018

Elizabeth F. Shores Research Materials on Charles Finger

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2452
Abstract

Research materials compiled by Elizabeth Findley Shores as part of her work on a biography of Arkansas writer Charles J. Finger.

Dates: 2020