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Authors -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:

Charlie May Simon Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2339
Scope and Content Note

Letter from writer Charlie May Hogue Simon to Miss Long's fourth grade students in Morrilton, Arkansas, in response to their letters. The class had read Simon's All Men Are Brothers and Secret on the Congo. She answers their questions on topics like her travels to Africa, her name, and her writings.

Dates: 1962
Found in: Special Collections Department

Charlie May Hogue Simon Letters

 Collection — Box Small Manuscript Collections Box 7: [Barcode: 35129217141049]
Identifier: MC 1134
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of twelve letters written by Simon to donor, Earle Leighton Rudolph, pertaining mostly to the John Gould Fletcher literary works and the plans to donate her husband's manuscripts and personal papers to the Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Dates: 1967-1976
Found in: Special Collections Department

Alice Upham Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1176
Scope and Content Note These papers include three notebooks which Mrs. Smith compiled. One contains her resume and photographs of her landscape designs, as well as photographs of other landscape designs. A second contains articles which she wrote, published in various magazines dating from 1939 to 1987. A third contains materials pertaining to her book Trees in a Winter Landscape. Also included is the plaque she received which names her a Fellow of the Garden Writers Association of America. A folder containing...
Dates: 1932-1987
Found in: Special Collections Department

Maggie Aldridge Smith Collection Addendum

 Collection
Identifier: MC 6b
Scope and Content Note Materials include poetry, articles, and books written by Maggie Smith. Also included is correspondence by Smith and her extended family, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Smith and topics of interest. Genealogical materials pertain to relations of Smith, including the Aldridge, Chastain, and Sager families, as well as efforts to preserve the Simon Sager cabin. Other genealogical materials relate primarily to families from Benton County, Arkansas, including the diary and photo album of...
Dates: 1828-2006
Found in: Special Collections Department

South by Southwest Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 971
Scope and Content Note Letters, diaries, ledgers, legal documents, and printed items dealing with a wide variety of Arkansas subjects and people. In addition, fragile ledgers may be viewed on 2 reels of microfilm. Included are nine letters, written from 1866 to 1876 from Fort Smith (Sebastian County), Fayetteville (Washington County), Little Rock (Pulaski County), and Washington, D.C., by James E. Trott, George William Sellers, Charles Whiting Walker, Elias C. Boudinot, Margaret Waterson, James M....
Dates: 1828-1992
Found in: Special Collections Department

Marion A. Steele, M.D., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 717
Scope and Content Note The collection consists primarily of literary manuscripts and related materials for fiction, nonfiction, and theatrical works and is arranged in 16 series. Each series consists of a single work by Steele and includes, when applicable, his final draft, research notes, and related correspondence with publishers and collaborators. Some of Steele's dramatic works were produced on stage or television, and materials pertaining to the productions have also been retained with the appropriate...
Dates: circa 1969-1983
Found in: Special Collections Department

Latane Temple Correspondence with John Gould Fletcher

 Collection
Identifier: MS T247 356
Scope and Content Note Eleven ALSs and 2 APSs from Fletcher to Temple, one ALS from Charlie May Fletcher to Temple and one to Lat ane and Josephine Temple, carbon copy of 2 TLs from Temple to Fletcher and of one TL from Fletcher and Robert L. Morris to Temple, one TP from Ozark Folklore Society to Temple, and typewritten text of one poem by Fletcher. Correspondence pertains to Ozark Folklore Society and to personal and familial relationships between Fletcher (and wife) and Temple, owner of Temple Cotton Oil Co. in...
Dates: 1948-1949
Found in: Special Collections Department

Larry Vonalt Papers Related to Donald Harington

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1654
Scope and Contents The collection contains papers of literature scholar and professor Larry Vonalt that relate to his friendship with Donald Harington and to his study of Harington's writings. Collection materials include correspondence, interviews, writings, research notes and materials, teaching materials, and photographs. Among the materials included are a typescript copy of Harington's unpublished novel, A Work of Fiction; recordings of two interviews of Donald Harington...
Dates: circa 1931-2005
Found in: Special Collections Department

Constance Wagner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 838a
Scope and Content Note Materials include correspondence between from Vance Randolph, assorted poetry by Vance and Glenn Ward Randolph, an unfinished short story by Belschnickel, KarlKarl Belschnickel, and a Supplement to a Constance Cassady/Wagner Reader by ...
Dates: 1940-1980, 2013
Found in: Special Collections Department

Constance Wagner Tapes

 Collection
Identifier: MC 838
Scope and Content Note

Three audio cassette recordings of an interview of Eureka Springs novelist Constance Wagner, conducted by Ellen Shipley in November 1977; interview notes and bibliography cards; 1 audio cassette recording of Constance Wagner's comments to the November 1977 Women's Literature at the Regional Level class at the University of Arkansas.

Dates: 1977
Found in: Special Collections Department

Edward Tatum Wallace Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1760
Scope and Content Note

The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, copies of his books, manuscript drafts, handwritten notes, drafts of short stories, quizzes, New York World Telegram strike material, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Dates: 1924-1992
Found in: Special Collections Department

James Whitehead Joiner Typescript

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2298
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of an annotated typescript of James Whitehead's novel, Joiner, which focuses on a Southern NFL star. Annotations include both content additions and editorial revisions, and appear to have been made by at least two individuals.

Dates: circa 1970
Found in: Special Collections Department

John Edward Williams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 716
Scope and Content Note The Williams collection contains personal and official correspondence; notes and manuscripts of all Williams' novels; drafts of the majority of poems; classroom material; official documents; photocopies of newspaper clippings; printed material; essays on John Williams; interviews; photographs; a scrapbook; and other materials. Acronyms Used in Finding Aid to Designate Certain of John Williams's Works (including working titles and unpublished works):...
Dates: circa 1922-2014
Found in: Special Collections Department

Charles Morrow Wilson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS W692 311
Scope and Content Note The papers in this collection reflect the personal and professional life of Charles Morrow Wilson, a man who made his living as a writer from the early 1920's to his death in 1977. Besides his free-lance career in several genres, he was employed by institutions, governments, and corporations, almost always in the capacity of interpreting those entities in print. His life's work, therefore, produced extensive records, primarily of a literary nature, with litle documentation of his corporate...
Dates: 1877-1977
Found in: Special Collections Department

Thyra Samter Winslow Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2331
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of four photographs of Arkansas writer Thyra Samter Winslow and her first husband, Seymour Winslow, as well as newspaper clippings of Thyra Samter Winslow's obituary.

Dates: ca 1921-1961
Found in: Special Collections Department

Thyra Samter Winslow Miscellaneous Material

 Collection
Identifier: MS W73
Scope and Content Note 76 items. Letters, clippings, and academic transcript pertaining to writer Thyra Samter Winslow, Arkansas-born novelist, short story writer, and scenarist. Materials were collected by Richard Clarence Winegard in preparation of his doctoral dissertation, "Thyra Samter Winslow: A Critical Assessment" (University of Arkansas, 1971). Most of the letters in Series 1, Correspondence, represent correspondence between Winegard and the several former associates of Mrs. Winslow from whom...
Dates: 1900-1970
Found in: Special Collections Department

C. D. Wright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2303
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of poetry broadsides, posters, publications, and other representations of poet C. D. Wright's literary career, as well as some personal materials, such as a birth announcement for her son.

Dates: 1982-2016
Found in: Special Collections Department

Richard and Judy Dockrey Young Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1891
Scope and Content Note

Materials in this collection includes books, audio cassettes, contracts, research materials, copyright information, and literary reviews.

Dates: 1988-2009
Found in: Special Collections Department

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