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Karle Wilson Baker Papers: Boxes 1-30

 


Box 1


Folder 1:  Correspondence with Yale Review, ed. Wilbur Cross, re: poems, essays, 1914-1915.  Handwritten, typescript.  13 items.
Folder 2:  Correspondence with Yale Review, 1916-1917.  Typescript. 9 items.
Folder 3:  Correspondence with Yale Review, 1918. Typescript. 12 items.
Folder 4:  Correspondence with Yale Review, 1919-July 1920.  Includes Blue Smoke.  Typescript.  9 items.
Folder 5:  Correspondence with Yale Review, Sept. 1920-1923.  Includes "Birds of Tanglewood" essay.  Handwritten, typescript.  12 items.
Folder 6:  Correspondence with Yale Review, 1929-1937.  Includes check stub for royalty.  Handwritten, typescript.  11 items.
Folder 7:  Correspondence with Yale University Press re: book proposals, reprints, 1922-1949, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  14 items.
Folder 8:  Correspondence with Yale University Press re: remainders, royalties, reprints, 1944-1953, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  18 items.
Folder 9:  Blue Smoke.  Correspondence with Yale University Press, 1918. Includes Old Coins.  Handwritten, typescript.  8 items.
Folder 10:  Blue Smoke.  Correspondence with Yale University Press, 1919-1931.  Includes contract.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed.  11 items.
Folder 11:  Blue Smoke.  Correspondence with writers Hilton Ross Greer, Charles Sears Baldwin, William Maddux Tanner and wife, Raymond McDonald Alden, Witter Bynner, Katherine Lee Bates, 1919-1921.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  12 items.
Folder 12:  Blue Smoke.  Correspondence with friend Annie Z. Lichtenstein, 1919-1921, n.d.  Handwritten.  4 items.
Folder 13:  Blue Smoke.  Correspondence from childhood friend Ruth Tucker re: review, 1919.  Includes photograph of Ruth.  Handwritten, typescript.  5 items.
Folder 14Blue Smoke.  Correspondence from fans, 1919-1924.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  11 items.
Folder 15:  Blue Smoke.  Correspondence from fans and niece Floss Lewis, 1930-1940, n.d.  Includes letter re: Vachel Lindsay.  Handwritten, typescript.  7 items.
Folder 16:  Blue Smoke.  Correspondence re: programs for organizations, 1921-1922, 1936.  Includes draft of KWB letter stating poetic philosophy in depth.  Handwritten, typescript.  7 items.
Folder 17:  Blue Smoke.  Correspondence with aspiring writers, 1920.  Handwritten.  6 items.
Folder 18:  Blue Smoke.  Correspondence re: reprints, 1920-1922.  Handwritten, typescript.  3 items.
Folder 19:  Blue Smoke.  Reviews, 1920, n.d.  Includes original draft of Albert Edmond Trombly's review for The Texas Review.  Typescript, printed.  6 items.
Folder 20:  The Garden of the Plynck.  First draft, ca. 1920.  Handwritten.  1 vol.


Box 2


Folder 1:  The Garden of the Plynck.  Correspondence with Yale University Press, Apr. 1920, n.d.  KWB's defense of book, reader reactions, also OLD COINS.  Handwritten, typescript.  7 items.
Folder 2:  The Garden of the Plynck.  Correspondence from Yale University Press, May-June 1920.  Includes contract.  Typescript, carbon.  5 items.
Folder 3:  The Garden of the Plynck.  Correspondence from Yale University Press, Sept. 1920.  Includes assessment of her juvenile Union Forever.  Handwritten, typescript.  6 items.
Folder 4:  The Garden of the Plynck.  Correspondence with Yale University Press, Oct. 1920.  Sequel to GARDEN planned by KWB.  Handwritten, typescript.  4 items.
Folder 5:  The Garden of the Plynck.  Correspondence with Yale University Press, Nov.-Dec. 1920 re: publicity.  Handwritten, typescript.  5 items.
Folder 6: The Garden of the Plynck.  Correspondence from Yale University Press, 1921-1937.  Typescript.  6 items.
Folder 7: The Garden of the Plynck.  Correspondence with writers and their spouses, 1921-1926.  Includes Otto F. Babler of Czechoslovakia, Mrs. Hilton Ross Greer, and Angie Ousley Rosser with poetic tribute to KWB.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  3 items.
Folder 8: The Garden of the Plynck.  Correspondence with friends and fans, 1920-1944.  Includes one from Dominican Republic and Christmas card with illustration of Avrilla.  Handwritten.  7 items.
Folder 9: Burning Bush.  Manuscript in form of a scrapbook, ca. 1921.  Handwritten, typescript.  1 vol.
Folder 10: Burning Bush.  Correspondence with Yale University press, Oct. 1921-Feb. 1922.  Includes Old Coins.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  10 items.
Folder 11: Burning Bush.  Correspondence with Yale University Press, Mar.-Aug. 1922.  Includes contract and Old Coins.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed.  7 items.
Folder 12: Burning Bush.  Galley proofs, 1922.  Printed.  2 vol.
Folder 13: Burning Bush.  Correspondence from authors Katherine Lee Bates and Norreys Jephson O'Conor, and with lecturer Olive Lindsay Wakefield (sister of Vachel Lindsay), 1921-1944.  Handwritten, printed.  4 items.
Folder 14: Burning Bush.  Correspondence from friends and fans, 1929-1936, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  10 items.
Folder 15: Burning Bush.  Clippings of review and advertisement (1930).  Printed.  2 items.
Folder 16:  Old Coins.  Manuscript and notes, n.d. [Some selections from this work can be found in the Short Prose Works, Boxes 27-30].  Typescript. 1 vol.
Folder 17:  Old Coins.  Correspondence with The Dial and Touchstone magazines, 1919.  typescript.  2 items.
Folder 18:  Old Coins.  Correspondence with Yale University Press, Aug. 1919-Mar. 1920.  Includes contract and Blue Smoke.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed.  9 items.
Folder 19:  Old Coins.  Correspondence with Yale University Press, Nov. 1920-May 1922.  Includes Garden of the Plynck.  Handwritten, typescript.  13 items.
Folder 20:  Old Coins.  Correspondence with Yale University press, 1923-1938.  Typescript, carbon.  11 items.

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Box 3


Folder 1:  Old Coins.  Galley proof,  1922.  Printed, typescript. 1 vol.
Folder 2:  Old Coins.  Correspondence from writers Angie Rosser and Lyle Saxon, printer Arthur W. Rushmore, and editor Ernest E. Leisy, 1923-1933.  Handwritten, typescript.  5 items.
Folder 3:  Old Coins.  Correspondence with friends and fans, 1923-1938, n.d.  Handwritten.  4 items.  
Folder 4:  Old Coins.  Book reviews, 1923, n.d.  Includes carbon of cover letter and manuscript of review by Upshur Vincent.  Carbon, printed.  4 items. 
Folder 5:  Yale University Press royalty statements and check stubs for Blue Smoke, The Garden of the Plynck, Burning Bush, Old Coins, 1919-1925.  Typescript, printed.  22 items.
Folder 6:  Yale University Press royalty statements and check stubs for KBW books 1925-1934.  Typescript, printed, mimeograph.  22 items.
Folder 7:  Yale University Press royalty statements and check stubs for Burning Bush and Old Coins, 1934-1943.  Printed, typescript.  18 items.
Folder 8:  "Here and Now Primer-To Teachers."  Article on writing primers from New York City and Country School, 1923.  Carbon.  1 item.
Folder 9:  Texas Flag Primer.  Notes on writing primers and ideas for topics, n.d.  1 vol.
Folder 10:  Texas Flag Primer.  Correspondence with John E. Rosser of World Book Co., 1923.  Includes KWB's lengthy discussion of writing the primer.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  8 items.
Folder 11:  Texas Flag Primer.  Correspondence with Rosser, Jan.-Apr., 1924.  Includes contracts.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  9 items.
Folder 12:  Texas Flag Primer.  Correspondence with Rosser, May-Dec., 1924.  Typescript.  9 items.
Folder 13:  Texas Flag Primer.  Correspondence with Rosser, 1925.  Typescript, handwritten.  10 items
Folder 14:  Texas Flag Primer.  Correspondence with Rosser, 1926.  Includes promotional flier.  Typescript, printed.  6 items.
Folder 15:  Texas Flag Primer.  Correspondence with Rosser, 1929-1930, mostly re: textbook adoption.  Handwritten, typescript.  6 items.
Folder 16:  Texas Flag Primer.  Correspondence with Rosser, Jan.-Apr., 1931 re: revision of primer which evolved into Two Little Texans.  Typescript, carbon, mimeograph.  14 items.
Folder 17:  Texas Flag Primer.  Correspondence with Edith A. Winship of World Book, re: editing, 1924.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  11 items.
Folder 18:  Texas Flag Primer.  Correspondence with Edith A. Winship, 1925-1928, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed.  19 items.
Folder 19:  Texas Flag Primer.  Miscellaneous correspondence from World Book, 1924-1927, re: illustrations, publicity, royalties.  Typescript.  7 items.
Folder 20:  Texas Flag Primer.  Miscellaneous correspondence from World Book, 1931-1942, re: preferred stock and royalties.  Typescript, printed, mimeograph.  14 items.
Folder 21:  Texas Flag Primer.  Correspondence with World Book re: complimentary copies and textbook adoption, 1925-1926.  Typescript, carbon.  7 items.
Folder 22:  Texas Flag Primer.  Correspondence from niece Floy Lewis, re: criticisms, 1925; letter to Thomas E. Baker re: textbook adoption and Tilden Tilford's book, 1924.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  8 items.
Folder 23:  Texas Flag Primer.  Review, school board lists and materials, re: textbook adoption, 1924-1926.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed.  8 items.
Folder 24:  Texas Flag Primer.  Correspondence from fans and friends, 1926-1939.  Handwritten, typescript.  3 items.
Folder 25:  Texas Flag Primer.  Fan letters from First Grade, West End School, Nacogdoches, 1931.  Handwritten.  26 items.
Folder 26:  Texas Flag Primer.  Royalty statements from World Book, 1925-1931.  Typescript, printed.  9 items.
Folder 27:  Texas Flag Primer and Two Little Texans.  Royalty statements from World Book, 1932-1942.  Typescript, carbon, printed.  22 items.

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Box 4


Folder 1:  Two Little Texans  [also titled Today and Yesterday in Texas and Texas Reader].  Incomplete manuscript with notes and exercises; suggestions for revisions by unidentified teacher, n.d.  Handwritten.  4 items.
Folder 2:  Two Little Texans.  Incomplete manuscript, 1931.  Typescript, carbon.  1 vol.
Folder 3:  Two Little Texans .  Correspondence with John E. Rosser of World Book, May 1931.  typescript, carbon.  7 items. 
Folder 4:  Two Little Texans.  Correspondence with Rosser, June-July 1931.  Typescript, carbon.  8 items.
Folder 5:  Two Little Texans.  Correspondence with Rosser, Aug.-Sept. 1931.  Includes T. E. Baker.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  11 items.
Folder 6:  Two Little Texans.  Correspondence from Rosser, 1932.  Typescript.  6 items.
Folder 7:  Two Little Texans.  Correspondence with Rosser, 1933-1935, n.d.  Includes letter from Brownville Chamber of Commerce, 1934 re: South Texas supplement.  Typescript, carbon.  15 items.
Folder 8:  Two Little Texans.  Correspondence of Edith A. Winship of World Book, May 1931.  Typescript, Carbon.  13 items.
Folder 9:  Two Little Texans.  Correspondence of Winship, June 3-18, 1931.  Typescript, carbon.  17 items.
Folder 10:  Two Little Texans.  Correspondence with Winship, June 28-29, 1931.  Handwritten, typescript.  12 items.
Folder 11:  Two Little Texans.  Correspondence with Winship, July-Sept., 1931.  Handwritten, typescript.  12 items.
Folder 12:  Two Little Texans.  Correspondence of Winship, notes, 1934-1937, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  9 items.
Folder 13:  Two Little Texans.  Correspondence from World Book, closing out account, 1943.  Typescript.  2 items.
Folder 14:  Two Little Texans.  Dummy of proofs, ca. 1931.  Printed with colored illustrations.  1 vol.
Folder 15:  Two Little Texans.  Correspondence from fans, 1937-1942, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  5 items.
Folder 16:  Two Little Texans.  Correspondence and promotional materials re: textbook adoption, 1931.  Includes State Senator Margie E. Neal and scholar Leonidas Warren Payne, Jr.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  10 items.
Folder 17:  The Birds of Tanglewood.  Manuscript drafts, ca. 1929.  Handwritten.  1 volume.
Folder 18:  The Birds of Tanglewood.  Manuscript drafts, ca. 1929.  Typescript, carbon.  4 items.
Folder 19:  The Birds of Tanglewood.  Letter from Theodore Dreiser as editor of The Delineator asking KWB for story based on Tanglewood, 1910.  Typescript.  1 item.
Folder 20:  The Birds of Tanglewood.  Correspondence with poet Hilton Ross Greer and P. L. Turner et al of Southwest Press, 1929.  Handwritten, typescript.  10 items.
Folder 21:  The Birds of Tanglewood.  Correspondence with P. L. Turner et al of Southwest Press, 1930-1932.  Typescript.  11 items.
Folder 22:  The Birds of Tanglewood.  Bills for books from Southwest Press, 1930-1932.  Typescript, carbon, printed.  3 items.

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Box 5


Folder 1:  The Birds of Tanglewood.  Correspondence with biologist Harry C. Oberholser, 1935-1936.  Typescript.  5 items.
Folder 2:  The Birds of Tanglewood.  Correspondence with Texas writers Adoniram Judson Holt, Bertha McKee (Mrs. J. Frank) Dobie, Ernest Powell, Mary Daggett Lake, 1930-1931.  Handwritten, typescript.  4 items.
Folder 3:  The Birds of Tanglewood.  Correspondence with scholars Louis Untermeyer and Derrick N. Lehmer, 1930-1932.  Handwritten, typescript.  3 items.
Folder 4:  The Birds of Tanglewood.  Correspondence with friends and fans, 1930-1932.  Includes letter from Nice, France.  Handwritten, typescript.  10 items.
Folder 5:  The Birds of Tanglewood.  Correspondence with friends and fans, 1933-1939.  [Original letter from KWB to Harriet Fowler, received 4-12-84 from addressee]  Handwritten, typescript.  5 items.
Folder 6:  The Birds of Tanglewood.  Correspondence from friends and fans, 1940-1948, n.d.  Handwritten.  9 items.
Folder 7:  The Birds of Tanglewood.  Reviews and advertisements, 1931, n.d.  Printed.  7 items.
Folder 8:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence with Macmillan Company, 1929-1930.  Handwritten, typescript.  2 items.
Folder 9:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence with P. L. Turner et al of Southwest Press, 1930.  Includes The Birds of Tanglewood.  Typescript.  5 items.
Folder 10:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence with P. L. Turner et al of Southwest Press, 1931.  Typescript.  8 items.
Folder 11:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence with P. L. Turner et al of Southwest Press, 1931-1934.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  11 items.
Folder 12:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence with P. L. Turner et al of Southwest Press (later Turner Co.), 1935.  Typescript.  7 items.
Folder 13:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence with P. L. Turner of Turner Co., 1936-1937.  Typescript, carbon.  6 items.
Folder 14:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence with P. L. Turner of Turner Co., 1940-1955.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  10 items.
Folder 15:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Bills for books purchased from Southwest Press and Turner Co., 1931-1936.  Typescript, carbon, printed.  12 items.
Folder 16:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Royalty statements for reprint rights, 1934-1935.  Typescript, carbon, printed.  5 items.
Folder 17:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Galley proofs, 1931.  Printed.  1 vol.
Folder 18:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Catalogs and advertisements from Southwest Press, includes The Birds of Tanglewood, 1930-1931, n.d.  Printed.  4 items.
Folder 19:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence with writers and prominent people, 1931.  Includes Margaret Bell Houston, Dorothy Scarborough, Leonidas W. Payne, Jr.. Derrick N. Lehmer, Witter Bynner.  Handwritten, typescript.  7 items.
Folder 20:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence with writers and prominent people, 1932-1955.  Includes Margaret Deland, Jay B. Hubbell, Adina De Zavala, Walter R. Adams, Dee Walker, Faye Carr Adams.  Handwritten, typescript.  8 items.
Folder 21:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence from aspiring writers, 1935-1947.  Includes verse.  Handwritten, typescript.  12 items.
Folder 22:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence with friends, 1931-1934, n.d.  Includes letter re: nomination of Dreamers for Pulitzer Prize.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  7 items.
Folder 23:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence with fans and autograph collectors, 1931-1949.  Handwritten, typescript.  11 items.
Folder 24:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence with teachers, schools, 1931-1940.  Handwritten, typescript.  3 items.
Folder 25:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence with organizations re: programs, 1930-1940, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  11 items.
Folder 26:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Correspondence re: reprints, 1935-1958.  Handwritten, typescript.  9 items.
Folder 27:  Dreamers on Horseback.  Reviews and excerpts, 1931, n.d.  Printed.  13 items.
Folder 28:  Dreamers on HorsebackThe Texas Weekly magazine containing review, Apr. 4, 1931.  Printed.  1 item.

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Box 6


Folder 1:  Family Style.  Manuscript, ca. 1933.  Chapters 1-13.  Handwritten. 
Folder 2:  Family Style.  Manuscript, ca. 1933.  Chapters 14-25.  Handwritten.
Folder 3:  Family Style.  Manuscript, ca. 1933.  Chapters 1-4.  Incomplete draft with corrections. Carbon.
Folder 4:  Family Style.  Manuscript, ca. 1933.  Chapters 5-12.  Carbon.


Box 7


Folder 1:  Family Style.  Manuscript, ca. 1933.  Chapters 13-23.  Carbon.
Folder 2:  Family Style.  Manuscript, ca. 1933.  Chapters 24-31.  Carbon.
Folder 3:  Family Style.  Manuscript.  Incomplete draft, ca. 1933.  Ch. I-XII. Carbon.
Folder 4:  Family Style.  Manuscript.  Incomplete draft, ca. 1933.  Ch. XIII-XXIII. Carbon.
Folder 5:  Family Style.  Manuscript.  Incomplete draft, ca. 1933.  Ch. XXIV-XXXI. Carbon.
Folder 6:  Family Style.  Notes for revisions, word count estimates, fragments, and variations on typescripts for above manuscripts, ca. 1933.  Handwritten, carbon.  18 items.
Folder 7:  Family Style.  Letter from Nat Allen re: Wilson family in Arp, Texas made wealthy by oil strike [ca. 1931-1934].  Includes house plan.  Handwritten, typescript.  1 item.
Folder 8:  Family Style.  Correspondence re: marketing manuscript, 1932-1933.  Includes writers Stark Young, Margaret Bell Houston, daughter Charlotte, Dorothy Scarborough, and with editor of The Writer, Trentwell Mason White.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  6 items.
Folder 9:  Family Style.  Correspondence with scholar/writers re: marketing the manuscript, 1932-1933.  Includes Walter B. Pitkin and Ernest Erwin Leisy.  Handwritten, typescript.  3 items.


Box 8


Folder 1:  Family Style.  Correspondence with literary agent Robert Thomas Hardy, 1932-1933.  Typescript, carbon, printed.  8 items.
Folder 2:  Family Style.  Correspondence with literary agents Mathilde Weil and Paul R. Reynolds, 1934-1935.  Handwritten, typescript.  3 items.
Folder 3:  Family Style.  Correspondence with literary agent Blanche Gregory, 1935-1937.  Handwritten, typescript.  11 items.
Folder 4:  Family Style.  Correspondence and critiques from friends John E. and Angie Rosser, 1932-1933.  Handwritten, typescript.  10 items.
Folder 5:  Family Style.  Correspondence of John E. Rosser and H. S. Latham et al of Macmillan Co., 1933-1937.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  11 items.
Folder 6:  Family Style.  Correspondence with Hilton Ross Greer and Jessica Tower et al of D. Appleton-Century Co., 1934-1937.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  12 items.
Folder 7:  Family Style.  Correspondence with The John Day Co., 1935-1937.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  5 items.
Folder 8:  Family Style.  Correspondence with miscellaneous publishers, 1933-1937.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  8 items.
Folder 9:  Family Style.  Correspondence with miscellaneous publishers, notes on publishers, 1937.  Handwritten, typescript.  9 items.
Folder 10:  Family Style.  Correspondence with miscellaneous publishers, 1937.  9 items.
Folder 11:  Family Style.  Correspondence with Rose Dobbs and Thomas R. Coward of Coward-McCann, Mar.-Apr. 26, 1937.  Includes contract.  Handwritten, typescript.  8 items.
Folder 12:  Family Style.  Correspondence with Rose Dobbs et al of Coward-McCann, Apr. 27-30, 1937.  Includes autobiography with history of Family Style.  Handwritten, typescript.  8 items.
Folder 13:  Family Style.  Correspondence with Thomas R. Coward and Rose Dobbs of Coward-McCann and daughter Charlotte, May-July, 1937.  Includes background of novel and lists of people to send book announcements to, including detailed list of literary acquaintances.  Handwritten, typescript.  8 items.
Folder 14:  Family Style.  Correspondence with C. B. Boutell et al of Coward-McCann, Aug.-Oct., 1937 re: publicity and movie rights.  Handwritten, typescript.  11 items.
Folder 15:  Family Style.  Correspondence with Coward-McCann, 1938-1939.  Includes draft of latter from KWB to writer Elizabeth Goudge.  Handwritten, typescript.  13 items.
Folder 16:  Family Style.  Catalogs and newsletters from Coward-McCann listing publications, 1937.  Printed.  4 items.
Folder 17:  Family Style.  Galley proof, [1937].  Printed.  1 vol.

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Box 9


Folder 1:  Family Style.  Correspondence with bookstores, 1937.  Includes publicity materials.  Handwritten, typescript, printed, mimeograph.  11 items.
Folder 2:  Family Style.  Correspondence with literary agents re: movie rights, etc., 1937.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  6 items.
Folder 3:  Family Style.  Correspondence writers, 1937.  Includes Hilton Ross Greer, John O. Beaty, Stanley E. Babb.  Typescript.  5 items.
Folder 4:  Family Style.  Correspondence with writers, 1938-1939.  Includes Frances Alexander, Hubert Harrison, Laura Krey.  Handwritten, typescript.  3 items.
Folder 5:  Family Style.  Correspondence with scholar John H. McGinnis, 1937.  Includes long autobiographical letter of KWB with history of Family Style and McGinnis' review.  Handwritten, printed.  3 items.
Folder 6:  Family Style.  Correspondence with scholars, 1937-1938, n.d.  Includes Leonidas Warren Payne, Jr., Aureliea Henry Reinhardt, Jessie B. Rittenhouse, Blanche Colton Williams.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  6 items.
Folder 7:  Family Style.  Letter from Columbus Marvin "Dad" Joiner, East Texas Oil Field developer, 1937.  Typescript.  1 item.
Folder 8:  Family Style.  Correspondence with friends John E. and Annie Rosser re: reviews, publicity, 1937.  Typescript.  5 items.
Folder 9:  Family Style.  Correspondence with friend Anna (Mrs. Frank D.) Sheets, [1938?].  Handwritten.  3 items.
Folder 10:  Family Style.  Correspondence with friends, 1937.  Handwritten, typescript.  7 items.
Folder 11:  Family Style.  Correspondence with friends, 1938-1941, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  8 items.
Folder 12:  Family Style.  Correspondence with family, 1937, n.d. Handwritten.  3 items.
Folder 13:  Family Style.  Correspondence with organizations.  College Women's Club, Houston, Nov. 1937-Jan. 1938.  Includes clippings and newsletter.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  18 items.
Folder 14:  Family Style.  Correspondence with organizations.  Beaumont Branch, American Association of University Women, Mar.-May, 1938.  Includes program, clippings.  Handwritten, printed, mimeograph.  11 items.
Folder 15:  Family Style.  Correspondence with organizations re: programs, 1937.  Handwritten.  5 items.
Folder 16:  Family Style.  Correspondence with organizations re: programs, 1938-1939.  Includes clipping and KWB's notes on novel.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed.  12 items.
Folder 17:  Family Style.  Correspondence with fans, 1937-1943.  Handwritten, typescript.  8 items.
Folder 18:  Family Style.  Correspondence with libraries, 1937-1939.  Typescript.  6 items.
Folder 19:  Family Style.  Clippings of reviews, July-Sept., 1937.  Printed.  12 items.
Folder 20:  Family Style.  Clippings of reviews, Oct.-Nov., 1937.  Printed.  8 items.
Folder 21:  Family Style.  Clippings of reviews, Dec. 1937.  Printed.  7 items.
Folder 22:  Family Style.  Clippings of reviews, 1938, n.d.  Printed.  11 items.
Folder 23:  Family Style.  Clippings on personal appearances by KWB at women's clubs, 1938.  Printed.  2 items.

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Box 10


Folder 1:  Family Style.  "Views and Reviews" speech for College Women's Club, Junior League, Houston, Jan. 17, 1938.  Handwritten, typescript.  1 item.
Folder 2:  Family Style.  "Literary Wildcatting: The Background of Family Style" speech, 1938.  Handwritten, typescript.  4 items.
Folder 3:  Family Style.  Outlines for "Literary Wildcatting," 1938.  Handwritten.  4 items.
Folder 4:  Family Style.  Notes and outlines for speeches, ca. 1938.  Handwritten, typescript.  8 items.
Folder 5:  Family Style.  Miscellaneous. Includes bank statement, list of regional books, proofreader's symbols, form letter from clipping service, clippings on oil, 1935-1938, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript, printed, mimeograph.  7 items.
Folder 6:  Family Style.  Royalty statements from Coward-McCann, 1937-1942.  Typescript, printed.  10 items.
Folder 7:  Family Style and Star of the Wilderness.  Royalty statements from Coward-McCann, 1942-1945.  Typescript, printed.  19 items.
Folder 8:  Family Style and Star of the Wilderness.  Royalty statements from Coward-McCann, 1946-1954.  Typescripts, printed.  11 items.
Folder 9:  Star of the Wilderness.  Fragments of the first draft, synopsis, description of heroine, 1937, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  6 items.
Folder 10:  Star of the Wilderness.  Maps of Retiro Verde and journey from Mississippi river to East Texas, n.d.  Hand drawn.  2 items.
Folder 11:  Star of the Wilderness.  Manuscript, n.d.  Ch. I-XVII.  Handwritten, typescript. 
Folder 12:  Star of the Wilderness.  Manuscript, n.d.  Ch. XVIII-XXIV.  Handwritten.


Box 11


Folder 1:  Star of the Wilderness.  Manuscript, n.d.  Fragments, perhaps of Ch. XXV and XXVI.  Handwritten.
Folder 2:  Star of the Wilderness.  Manuscript, n.d.  Ch. XXVII-XXXV.  Handwritten.
Folder 3:  Star of the Wilderness.  Manuscript, n.d.  Ch. XXXVI-XLIII.  Handwritten.
Folder 4:  Star of the Wilderness.  Manuscript, n.d.  Ch. XLIV-LIII.  Handwritten.
Folder 5:  Star of the Wilderness.  Manuscript, n.d.  Ch. LIV-LXXI.  Handwritten.


Box 12


Folder 1:  Star of the Wilderness.  Manuscript, n.d.  Ch. LXIV-LXXI.  Handwritten
Folder 2:  Star of the Wilderness.  Manuscript, n.d.  Ch. LXXII-LXXVIII.  Handwritten
Folder 3:  Star of the Wilderness.  Manuscript, n.d.  Ch. LXXIX-LXXXVIII [missing LXXXVII].  Handwritten.
Folder 4:  Star of the Wilderness [originally titled A Letter From Jamie].  Original manuscript before cuts and revisions, [1941?].  Book I.  Carbon.   


Box 13


Folder 1:  Star of the Wilderness [originally titled A Letter From Jamie].  Original manuscript before cuts and revisions, [1941?].  Book II.  Ch. 1-5.  Carbon.   
Folder 2:  Star of the Wilderness [originally titled A Letter From Jamie].  Original manuscript before cuts and revisions, [1941?].  Book II.  Ch. 6-9.  Carbon.   
Folder 3:  Star of the Wilderness [originally titled A Letter From Jamie].  Original manuscript before cuts and revisions, [1941?].  Book III.  Carbon.   
Folder 4:  Star of the Wilderness [originally titled A Letter From Jamie].  Original manuscript before cuts and revisions, [1941?].  Book IV.  Ch. 1-5.  Carbon.   
Folder 5:  Star of the Wilderness [originally titled A Letter From Jamie].  Original manuscript before cuts and revisions, [1941?].  Book IV.  Ch. 6-8.  Carbon.   

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Box 14


Folder 1:  Star of the Wilderness [originally titled A Letter From Jamie].  Original manuscript before cuts and revisions, [1941?].  Book IV.  Ch. 9-12.  Carbon.   
Folder 2:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revision [1941?].  Book I.  Handwritten, typescript.
Folder 3:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revision [1941?].  Book II.  Handwritten, typescript.
Folder 4:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revision [1941?].  Book I, Ch. 1-6.  Handwritten, typescript.


Box 15


Folder 1:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revision [1941?].  Book II.  Handwritten, typescript. 
Folder 2:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revision [1941?].  Book III.  Handwritten, typescript.
Folder 3:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revision [1941?].  Books III and IV.  Handwritten, typescript.
Folder 4:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revision [1941?].  Book I.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.


Box 16


Folder 1:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revision [1941?].  Book II.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.
Folder 2:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revision [1941?].  Book III.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.
Folder 3:  Star of the Wilderness.  Draft, n.d.  Mostly of Book II.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  1 volume.


Box 17


Folder 1:  Star of the Wilderness.  Incomplete draft of Books III and IV, fragments.
Folder 2:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revisions [1941?].  Books III and IV, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  1 vol.
Folder 3:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revisions [1941?], incomplete Books II and II.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  1 vol.
Folder 4:  Star of the Wilderness.  Incomplete draft marked "old carbons," n.d.  Carbon.  1 vol.


Box 18


Folder 1:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revisions [1941?].  Incomplete manuscript, handwritten page numbers.  Carbon. 
Folder 2:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revisions [1941?], continued.  Incomplete manuscript, handwritten page numbers.  Carbon. 
Folder 3:  Star of the Wilderness.  Revisons [1941?].  Incomplete carbon with handwritten page numbers, beginning on page 367.  1 vol. 
Folder 4:  Star of the Wilderness.  Unsorted revisions and fragments, [1941?].  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.


Box 19


Folder 1:  Star of the Wilderness.  Unsorted revisions and fragments, [1941?].  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.
Folder 2:  Star of the Wilderness.  Unsorted revisions and fragments, [1941?].  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.
Folder 3:  Star of the Wilderness.  Unsorted revisions and fragments, [1941?].  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.
Folder 4:  Star of the Wilderness.  Unsorted revisions and fragments, [1941?].  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.

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Box 20


Folder 1:  Star of the Wilderness.  Unsorted revisions and fragments, [1941?].  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.
Folder 2:  Star of the Wilderness.  Unsorted revisions and fragments, [1941?].  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.
Folder 3:  Star of the Wilderness.  Historical notes for background of character Paul, n.d.  Handwritten.  1 vol.
Folder 4:  Star of the Wilderness.  "Brief Notes and Bibliography," cards and small notebook on historical background, n.d.  Handwritten.  2 vol.
Folder 5:  Star of the Wilderness.  Clippings and historical notes for background, 1932, n.d.  Handwritten, printed.  6 items.
Folder 6:  Star of the Wilderness.  Notes on chronology, [1682-1836].  Handwritten.  12 items.


Box 21


Folder 1:  Star of the Wilderness.  Historical notes from Gray's Diary, [1836].  Handwritten, typescript.  2 items.
Folder 2:  Star of the Wilderness.  Notes on Battle of Nacogdoches, [1832].  Handwritten.  2 items.
Folder 3:  Star of the Wilderness.  Notes on the New Orleans Greys and Siege of Bexar, [1835-1836].  Handwritten.  11 items.
Folder 4:  Star of the Wilderness.  Notes on chapters, revisions, n.d.  Handwritten.  16 items.
Folder 5:  Star of the Wilderness.  Notes, "Miscellaneous bits to be incorporated in text later," n.d.  1 vol.
Folder 6:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence and notes re: typing, 1940, n.d.  Handwritten 8 items.
Folder 7:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939-1940.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  8 items.
Folder 8:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with E. P. Dutton, 1939.  Typescript, carbon.  2 items.
Folder 9:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with literary agent Sydney A. Sanders, 1940.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  9 items.
Folder 10:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with Thomas R. Coward et al of Coward-McCann, Sept. 1939-1940.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  9 items.
Folder 11:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with Coward-McCann, Mar.-July 1941.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  12 items.
Folder 12:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with Coward-McCann, Nov.-Dec. 1941.  Includes biographical data and background of novel.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  8 items.
Folder 13:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with Coward-McCann, Feb.-Mar. 1942, n.d. re: revisions in galleys.  Handwritten, typescript.  8 items.
Folder 14:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with Coward-McCann, Apr. 1942.  Handwritten, typescript. Some replies on backs of telegrams.  15 items.
Folder 15:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with Coward-McCann, May 1942-July 1944.  Includes catalog.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  8 items.
Folder 16:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with Mildred Lively of Cokesbury Book Store, 1942.  Includes clippings.  Handwritten, typescript.  10 items.
Folder 17:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with book stores re: copies and autograph parties, 1942.  Includes clippings.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  9 items.

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Box 22


Folder 1:  Star of the Wilderness.  Galley proof with corrections, 1942.  Part 1.  Printed, handwritten.
Folder 2:  Star of the Wilderness.  Galley proof, 1942.  Part 2.  Printed, handwritten.
Folder 3:  Star of the Wilderness.  Galley proof, 1942.  Part 3.  Printed, handwritten.
Folder 4:  Star of the Wilderness.  Galley proof, 1942.  Part 4.  Printed, handwritten.
Folder 5:  Star of the WildernessThe Saturday Review of Literature and Book-of-the-Month Club News, containing reviews, May 1942.  Printed.  2 items.
Folder 6:  Star of the Wilderness.  Draft and clipping of review by Angie Ousley Rosser, Apr. 1942.  Carbon, printed.  2 items.
Folder 7:  Star of the Wilderness.  Reviews clipped from periodicals, Apr. 1942.  Printed.  10 items.
Folder 8:  Star of the Wilderness.  Reviews clipped from periodicals, Apr.-May 1942.  Printed.  16 items.
Folder 9:  Star of the Wilderness.  Reviews clipped from periodicals, May-June 1942.  Printed.  11 items.
Folder 10:  Star of the Wilderness.  Reviews clipped from periodicals, July-Aug. 1942, n.d.  Printed.  5 items.
Folder 11:  Star of the Wilderness.  Clippings and programs for club reviews and personal appearances, 1942-1943.  Printed, mimeograph.  10 items.
Folder 12:  Star of the Wilderness.  Advertisements, drawing for ad [by Charlotte Baker Montgomery?], sketch of "Family Tree of Honor," 1942.  Hand drawn, printed.  4 items.
Folder 13:  Star of the Wilderness.  Speeches on background of novel, n.d.  Handwritten, carbon.  3 items.


Box 23


Folder 1:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with Pauline Wilcox Burke, 1943.  Includes long letter of KWB with biographical data and background of novel.  Handwritten, typescript.  4 items.
Folder 2:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with writers, 1940-1945, n.d.  Includes Laura Krey, Frances Alexander, Dee Woods, Ruth Fouts Pochman, Anna Belle and Lynn W. Landrum.  Handwritten, typescript.  8 items.
Folder 3:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with historians and scholars, 1941-1951.  Includes Henry Nash Smith, Eugene C. Barker, Mabel Major, Louis W. Kemp.  Handwritten, typescript.  8 items.
Folder 4:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with prominent people, 1942.  Includes correspondence re: Wendell Wilkie and letter from Nelson A. Rockefeller.  Handwritten, typescript.  4 items.
Folder 5:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with journalist George B. Dealey, 1942.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  5 items.
Folder 6:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with friends Angie and John E. Rosser, 1942.  Handwritten, typescript.  5 items.
Folder 7:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with friends, [1941]-1944, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  7 items.
Folder 8:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with friends and organizations re: gift copies, 1942-1953, n.d.  Includes bibliography of KWB's books.  Handwritten, typescript.  10 items.
Folder 9:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence re: book reviews for periodicals, 1942.  Includes William H. Vann and Sam Acheson.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  6 items.
Folder 10:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with Genevieve J. Patterson re: program for women's organization, 1943, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  6 items.
Folder 11:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with literary and women's organizations and students re: book reviews and programs, 1942-1951.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  8 items.
Folder 12:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with libraries, 1942-1951.  Handwritten, typescript.  8 items.
Folder 13:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with family, n.d.  Handwritten.  2 items.
Folder 14:  Star of the Wilderness.  Correspondence with clipping service, typographical union, hotels, magazine editor, literary agency, 1942, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  7 items.
Folder 15:  The Story of Texas  [unpublished work].  Correspondence with Macmillan and scholar George Pierce Garrison.  Includes outlines and details on book proposal, 1907-1909.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  14 items.
Folder 16:  The Story of Texas.  Correspondence with Appleton-Century and Macmillan, 1933-1934.  Typescript, carbon.  5 items.
Folder 17:  The Reconstruction of Rebby and The Heaven of the Heart [unpublished works].  Criticism from author's advisor and agent Leslie D. Quirk, 1911.  Typescript.  1 item.
Folder 18:  The Little Carpet-Bagger [also titled Union Forever, unpublished juvenile].  Correspondence 1912-1934.  Includes book proposal.  Handwritten, typescript.  6 items.
Folder 19:  White Elephant [unpublished novel].  Correspondence with Southwest Press and literary agent Edith Burrows, 1931-1933.  Handwritten, typescript.  12 items.
Folder 20:  Gone to Texas.  Opening pages and outline, 1932 [Probably early draft of Star of the Wilderness].  Handwritten.  2 items.
Folder 21:  On the Trail of a Dream [unpublished work].  Correspondence re: book proposal with Macmillan Co., 1933.  Typescript, carbon.  3 items.
Folder 22:  The Reindeer's Shoe and Other Stories [unpublished juvenile].  Correspondence with fans re: reading at Houston library and with Coward-McCann, 1930-1937.  Handwritten, typescript.  5 items.
Folder 23:  The Reindeer's Shoe.  Correspondence with publishers and Western Union re: routing manuscript, [June]-Nov. 1937.  Handwritten, typescript.  9 items.
Folder 24:  The Reindeer's Shoe.  Correspondence with publishers, agent Sydney A. Sanders, Western Union, Feb.-Mar. 1938.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  9 items.
Folder 25:  The Reindeers' Shoe.  Correspondence with publishers, July 1938-1940.  Includes long letter on history of manuscript.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  8 items.
Folder 26:  The Horns of Elfland.  Correspondence and outline for proposed short story collection, 1937.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  4 items.
Folder 27:  It Blows From the Spanish Country [unpublished novel on Magee-Gutierrez Expedition].  Clipping and correspondence with Coward-McCann and SMU University Press, 1943-1949.  Includes writer George D. Bond.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  10 items.
Folder 28:  It Blows From the Spanish Country.  Fragments of manuscript, ca. 1947.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  1 vol.
Folder 29:  Unpublished manuscripts and book proposals.  Correspondence with publishers and friends, 1914-1941.  Handwritten, typescript.  7 items.

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Box 24


Folder 1:  Poetry.  Scrapbook, 1928-1927.  Includes printed poems and manuscripts, notes on submissions.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  1 vol.
Folder 2:  Poetry.  Copies of poems from KWB's printed volumes, 1922-1931.  Typescript.  4 items.
Folder 3:  Poetry.  Manuscripts, 1951-1956.  Handwritten, typescript.  9 items.
Folder 4:  Poetry.  Manuscripts, n.d.  Alphabetical by title, A-I.  Handwritten, typescript.  12 items. 
Folder 5:  Poetry.  Manuscripts and submission notes, 1936-1937, n.d.  Alphabetical by title, J-Z.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  13 items.
 
[Not in a folder]  Diaries with manuscript records, expenses, poems, class nottes, bird observations, 1906-1934.  Handwritten.  11 vol.


Box 25


Folder 1:  Poetry.  Publications and excerpts, 1914-1919.  Printed, photocopy.  9 items.
Folder 2:  Poetry.  Publications and excerpts, 1920-1927.  Printed.  9 items.
Folder 3:  Poetry.  Publications and excerpts, 1944-1957.  Printed.  4 items.
Folder 4:  Poetry.  Publications and excerpts, n.d.  Printed.  7 items.
Folder 5:  Poetry.  Radio script "The Texas Destiny" including KWB's "Song of the Forerunners," 1946.  Mimeograph.  1 item.
Folder 6:  Poetry.  Articles about individual poems and programs listing performances of poems, 1938-1940, n.d.  Printed, mimeograph.  5 items.
Folder 7:  Speeches.  "Poetry and People," n.d.  Typescript, carbon.  2 items.
Folder 8:  Speeches.  "Poetry and the Modern Spirit," n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  2 items.
Folder 9:  Speeches.  On poetry, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  4 items.
Folder 10:  Speeches.  "When a Poet Turns Novelist," 1938.  Handwritten.  1 item.
Folder 11:  Speeches.  "If You Want to Write," n.d.  typescript.  1 item.
Folder 12:  Speeches re: writing, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  5 items.
Folder 13:  Speeches re: Gertrude Stein, n.d.  Handwritten, printed.  2 items.
Folder 14:  Speech re: Emily Dickinson, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  1 item.
Folder 15: Speeches re: William Vaughn Moody and introductions for Max Eastman and John Middleton Murray, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  5 items.


Box 26


Folder 1:  Speeches re: Texas history, n.d.  Typescript, handwritten, printed.  3 items.
Folder 2:  Speeches re: education, n.d.  Includes Albert Einstein and Aureliea Henry Reinhardt.  Handwritten, typescript.  4 items.
Folder 3:  Speeches and fragments re: women and careers, [1906, 1938], n.d.  Handwritten, printed.  5 items.
Folder 4:  Speeches, fragments, n.d.  Handwritten.  3 items.
Folder 5:  Play.  The First Thousand [ca. 1930], re: oil speculating.  Typescript.  1 item.
Folder 6:  Play.  The Pan-Handle [ca. 1930].  Includes set sketches.  Handwritten.  1 item.
Folder 7:  Song. "The Pine Tree Hymn," 1923-1948.  Manuscript of lyrics, sheet music, history of song by Mildred Wyatt, program, notes.  Handwritten, typescript, printed, mimeograph.  7 items.
Folder 8:  Song.  "The Pine Tree Hymn."  Score, 1939, by Ernst Hoffman, Conductor of Houston Symphony Orchestra.  Handwritten.  1 vol.
Folder 9:  Song.  "Let Me Grow Lovely."  Correspondence, 1923-1939, from composers wishing to set poem to music.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  9 items.
Folder 10:  Song.  "Let Me Grow Lovely."  Correspondence, 1940-1955, re: composing and performing song.  Handwritten, typescript.  6 items.
Folder 11:  Song.  "Let Me Grow Lovely."  Correspondence, 1951-1957,  re: publication, sheet music, royalty statements, clipping re: composer Richard Hageman.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  10 items.
Folder 12:  Song.  "Captive Song" [also titled "Song," "Both Were Free," "Slave Song"].  Correspondence with composer Elmo Russ and Frances M. Lipp, 1934-1935.  Includes programs.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  8 items.
Folder 13:  Song.  "Captive Song."  Correspondence with Elmo Russ et al, 1936-1938.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed. 10 items.
Folder 14:  Song.  "Captive Song."  Correspondence with Elmo Russ et al, 1939-1940.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed.  11 items.
Folder 15:  Song.  "Captive Song."  Correspondence with Elmo Russ et al, 1941-1959, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed, mimeograph.  13 items.
Folder 16:  Songs.  Correspondence requesting permission to use poems as lyrics, 1918-1922.  handwritten.  7 items.
Folder 17:  Songs.  Correspondence requesting permission to use poems as lyrics, 1923-1934.  Includes program.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  8 items.
Folder 18:  Songs.  Correspondence requesting permission to use poems as lyrics, 1936-1951, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  11 items.


Box 27: Short prose works arranged alphabetically by title


Folder 1:  "AE: Practical Mystic," n.d.; "An Accidental Saint," Collier's, 1907.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon printed.  5 items.
Folder 2:  "The Anarchist and the Puritan," n.d.; "As To Which Ladies Should Dress Plainly," [Old Coins], 1923; "An Averted Catastrophe," The Smart Set, [1907].  Typescript, printed.  3 items.
Folder 3:  "The Barnhoff Account," n.d.; "Being True to the Ghosts," written for Daily Sentinel, ca. 1906; "Bella Against the elements," n.d.  Typescript, carbon.  3 items.
Folder 4:  "Bells," The Torchbearer, 1936.  Includes notes, drafts, illustration.  Handwritten, carbon, printed.  8 items.
Folder 5:  "Bread and Hyacinths," Woman's World, 1916; "Breaking into Society-of the Birds," n.d.  "The Bully," This Week, 1937; "The Busy Flower-Lover," Holland's Magazine, [1913].  Carbon, printed.  4 items.
Folder 6:  "The Car Door Slams," n.d.; "Carl Sandburg: Brother of Stars and Cinders," n.d.; "Charmed Days," The Texas Review, [1921].  Handwritten, carbon, printed.  4 items.
Folder 7:  "The Choicest Book in the World," The Portal, 1937.  Includes notes and correspondence re: Gutenberg bible, 1934.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed.  6 items.
Folder 8:  "The City of Magnificent Distances," [includes notes], 1935; "Colors," The Texas review, [1921]; "The Commonest Fault in a Guest," McCall's, 1915.  Handwritten, carbon, printed.  3 items.
Folder 9:  "Crepe Myrtles," n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  3 items.
Folder 10:  "The Crop," [ca. 1923].  Drafts and notes.  Handwritten, typescript.  5 items.
Folder 11:  "A Day on the Campus," n.d.; "Days" [Old Coins, 1923]; "Differing in Glory," drafts and notes, [1921].  Handwritten, typescript.  7 items.
Folder 12:  "Diversities of Gifts," The Red Book, [1907]; "The Dissolution of Miss Be," n.d.  Typescript, printed.  3 items.

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Box 28: Short prose works arranged alphabetically by title (cont.)


Folder 1:  "Galveston," n.d.; "A Good Shot," Everybody's, 1907; "Grammar School Days," n.d.  Typescript, carbon, printed.  3 items.
Folder 2:  "Gran'ma's," Everybody's, [1907]; "Grandma's," n.d.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  3 items.
Folder 3:  "Grandma's Marigolds," n.d.  Handwritten.  3 items.
Folder 4:  "A Great Neighbor," The Torchbearer, 1936; "Great Things with Small," n.d.  Includes notes and drafts.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed.  5 items.
Folder 5:  "His One Hunting Story," [1914'; "Homes of the Presidents," 1935; "Honey from the Thorn," n.d.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed.  5 items.
Folder 6:  "Horns of Elfland," [ca. 1921].  Drafts and notes.  Handwritten, typescript.  3 items.
Folder 7:  "How Padre Antonio Buried the Bells," Sunset, 1909; "How We Prepare for Christmas," Holland's Magazine, [1912].  Printed.  2 items.
Folder 8:  "Howdy, Stranger," Glove, 1937.  Includes draft and notes.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  3 items.
Folder 9:  "A Hundred Miles of Memories," 1934.  Includes correspondence with George L. Crocket, 1933, and notes.  Handwritten, typescript.  4 items.
Folder 10:  "I Face the New Year," [1916]; "In Texas," Motor Print, 1914; "Ineretaro," [notes only], 1936-1937.  Handwritten, printed.  3 items.
Folder 11:  "The Island of the Saints," The Classmate, 1936.  Includes notes and draft.  Handwritten, carbon, printed.  3 items.
Folder 12:  "It's Them," 1936.  Draft and notes.  Handwritten, carbon.  2 items.
Folder 13:  "The Kite Flies High," The Target, 1936.  Includes notes and drafts.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed.  7 items.
Folder 14:  "The Life of David Crockett," n.d.  Typescript.  1 item.
Folder 15:  "Lighting the Sea."  Correspondence re: lighthouses, 1934-1935.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed, mimeograph.  10 items.
Folder 16:  "Lighting the Sea."  Notes, newspaper clipping, drafts and illustrations, by daughter Charlotte, 1935.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon, printed.  12 items.


Box 29: Short prose works arranged alphabetically by title (cont.)


Folder 1:  "Listening," accepted by Nautilus, 1937; "Milking the Cow," n.d.' "A Modern Incompatability," Home Magazine, 1907.  Typescript, printed.  3 items.
Folder 2:  "The Moon-Moth," 1921.  Drafts and notes.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  4 items.
Folder 3:  "The Mother Prays After a Hard Day," [1913]; "Must One of Them Dominate?" [notes and draft], 1937.  Handwritten, carbon, printed.  3 items.
Folder 4:  "Nacogdoches-The Gateway of the Pioneers,"  Southwest Review, 1936.  Handwritten, typescript, photocopy.  3 items.
Folder 5:  "Nacogdoches-The Indian and Spanish Town," Southwest Review.  Includes newspaper clipping, n.d. and letter re: reprint, 1940.  Handwritten, typescript, photocopy.  4 items.
Folder 6:  "The Name Was Wainwright," [1945?]; "The New Religion and Woman's Problem," n.d.' "Nora and the Skating Poet," galley sheets [later in Old Coins, 1923], n.d.  Typescript, carbon, printed.  3 items.
Folder 7:  "Number Five," n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  3 items.
Folder 8:  "Of Leisure, " n.d.' "Of Stitches," n.d.; "On a Certain Condescension of Natives, [Scribner's], 1920.  Typescript, carbon, printed.  3 items.
Folder 9:  "On Accosting Strangers," n.d.; "On Being a Stream of Consciousness," n.d.; "On Communing with Boulders," n.d.  3 items.
Folder 10:  "On Writing for the Best Magazines," [Atlantic], 1906 [with rebuttal "Editing for the Best Magazines," unsigned]; "The One City," Scribner's, 1920.  Printed.  3 items.
Folder 11:  "The Oracle's Window-Seat," The Housekeeper, 1910; "The Paradoxical Profession," n.d.; "Playing Geography," Home Progress, [1914].  Typescript, printed.  3 items.
Folder 12:  "The Pneumatic Dollar," 1930.  Notes and drafts.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  5 items.
Folder 13:  "A Point of Honor," Century Magazine, 1908; "The Porch Swing," Century Magazine, [1920], includes draft and clipping about reprint.  Typescript, printed.  4 items.
Folder 14:  "Red Roads," The Southern Review, 1920; "The Redskin's Gift," n.d.  Carbon, printed.  2 items.
Folder 15:  "Robert Frost, Neighbor," n.d.  Drafts and fragments.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  8 items.
Folder 16:  "Rooms, Houses, Walls and Taverns," n.d.; "The Rubber-Tired Boy," The Century Magazine, [1907].  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  2 items.

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Box 30: Short prose works arranged alphabetically by title (cont.)


Folder 1:  "Sam Houston Steals the Show,"  n.d.; "Sand-Ugh," Motor Print, 1915; "See What I've Found!" n.d.  Typewritten, carbon printed.  3 items.
Folder 2:  "The Small Town Audience," Movie Pictorial, 1914; "So It Was When My Life Began," n.d.; "Still Sits the Schoolhouse By the Road," n.d.  Typescript, carbon, printed.  3 items.
Folder 3:  "The Story of the Roosevelt House,"  Correspondence, notes and draft, 1935-1937.  Handwritten, typescript.  6 items.
Folder 4:  "A Sturdy Oak," n.d.; "Sweet Are the Uses of Prosperity," n.d.  Typescript.  2 items.
Folder 5:  "The Talisman," n.d.' "A Taste of Gregariousness," n.d.; "Through the Back Gate," n.d.; "A Toast for June," The People's Home Journal, 1913. Handwritten, typescript, printed.  4 items.
Folder 6:  "Trailing the New Orleans Grays."  Manuscript with 2 pen and ink drawings by daughter Charlotte [1936].  Handwritten, typescript.  3 items.
Folder 7:  "Trailing the New Orleans Grays."  Notes and correspondence, newspaper clipping, 1935-1938.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  14 items.
Folder 8:  "Trailing the new Orleans Grays,"  Southwest Review vol. XXII No. 3  (Spring 1937).  Printed, 1 item.
Folder 9:  "Twenty Miles of Elm-Trees," n.d.; "Vachel Lindsay: A Voice of Youth and the Future," n.d.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  3 items.
Folder 10:  "A Villager Goes to Town" [also titled "Towns and Trees"].  Drafts and fragments, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript, carbon.  3 items.
Folder 11:  "Washington-An Arkansas town with a Texas Shrine," Dallas Morning News, 1935.  Correspondence, notes, drafts.  Includes black and white photographs of Bowie knife, tavern and historical marker.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  10 items.
Folder 12:  "Washington's Home Town,"  Lutheran Young Folks.  Includes notes, draft and pen and ink drawings by Charlotte, 1934-1936.  Handwritten, carbon, printed.  5 items.
Folder 13:  "William Alexander Percy's Notable Poetry," Dallas Morning News, 1943.  Review of The Collected Poems.  Includes draft and fragments.  Handwritten, carbon, printed.  3 items.
Folder 14:  "William Vaughn Moody-A Recollection,"  Boston Monitor, 1922; "Woman and Song," n.d.  Typescript, printed.  2 items.
Folder 15:  "A Writer's Camera," Photo Era, 1915; "Your First Camping Tour," Holland's Magazine, [1914].  Printed.  2 items.
Folder 16:  Untitled sketch with photographs on Mark Thrash, former slave and survivor of the Battle of Chicamauga, 1934.  Typescript.  6 items.
Folder 17:  Notes and draft of article on Lafayette and French history, n.d.  Handwritten.  5 items.
Folder 18:  Correspondence and notes for article on Columbus, 1935.  Handwritten, typescript, printed.  14 items.
Folder 19:  Untitled travel article on Texas, n.d. Typescript.  1 item.
Folder 20:  Untitled short story and fragments, n.d.  Handwritten, typescript.  4 items.

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