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Marylois Dunn, daughter of F. S. and Ruth Alice Hawkes Dunn, was born in Uvalde, Texas on August 18, 1930. Her family moved to Nacogdoches, Texas when she was eleven and she attended public schools there. After completing a Bachelor of Arts at Stephen F. Austin State University, she joined the library staff at Burbank Jr. High in Houston in 1951. She obtained a Master of Science in Library Science from Louisiana State University and became Librarian at Black Jr. High in Houston in 1957. She retired from Black Jr. High in 1981 but has worked part-time at the Ralph W. Steen Library since then.
Marylois has published poetry and short stories in periodicals, including Ellery Queen. Her first novel for young people, The Man in the Box: A Story from Vietnam (1968), received the Sequoyah Children's Book Award, based on the votes of young readers, in 1972. At the Pineywoods Writers Conference in 1968 she won First Place for a juvenile book-length manuscript, Timber Pirates. With Ardath Mayhar of Chireno, Texas she published The Absolutely Perfect Horse (originally titled Dogmeat) in 1983.
The collection consists of manuscripts; galley proofs; correspondence from editors, friends, and fans; reviews; newspaper clippings; and other memorabilia.
("Marylois Dunn Papers." East Texas Research Center. Ralph W. Steen Library. Stephen F. Austin State University).
Box 1
Folder 1: Black Jr. High student critiques of The Man in the Box manuscript [portion read in class, 1967]. Handwritten. 15 items.
Folder 2: Black Jr. High student critiques, cont., and note on titles for The Man in the Box manuscript, [1967]. Handwritten. 15 items.
Folder 3: The Man in the Box. Original manuscript with ending, 1967. Typescript. 1 item.
Folder 4: The Man in the Box. Manuscript as submitted to publisher, [1967]. Typescript carbon. 1 item.
Folder 5: The Man in the Box. Original ending, pp. 131-185, [1967]. Typescript. 1 item.
Folder 6: The Man in the Box. Photocopies of manuscript pages, marked for revisions, [1967]. 1 item.
Folder 7: The Man in the Box. Revised working copy, [1967]. Typescript carbon. 1 item.
Folder 8: The Man in the Box. Setting copy with editor's marks, [1967]. Typescript [original of typescript carbon in Folder 4]. 1 item.
Box 2
Folder 1: The Man in the Box. Galley proofs, unmarked, [1968]. 1 item.
Folder 2: The Man in the Box. Galley proofs with editor's marks, [1968]. 1 item.
Folder 3: The Man in the Box. Galley proofs with editor's marks, 1968. 1 item.
Folder 4: The Man in the Box. Book jackets [one laminated], 1968. 2 items.
Folder 5: The Man in the Box. McGraw-Hill royalty statements and other business papers, 1967-1968. Some photocopies. 5 items.
Folder 6: The Man in the Box. McGraw-Hill royalty statements and other business papers, 1969-1970. Some photocopies. 5 items.
Folder 7: McGraw-Hill newsletters, 1968; 1972-1973. Printed. 3 items.
Folder 8: McGraw-Hill catalogs, 1968-1969. Printed. 3 items.
Folder 9: McGraw-Hill advertisements and miscellaneous, 1968. Printed [with handwritten notes by Leigh Dean, editor]. 3 items.
Folder 10: H. R. Hunting catalog with ad for The Man in the Box, 1968. Printed. 1 item.
Box 3
Folder 1: Correspondence with McGraw-Hill re: The Man in the Box, May 1967. Typescript, carbon. 4 items.
Folder 2: Correspondence with McGraw-Hill, July-Sept. 1967. Typescript, carbon, photocopy. 4 items.
Folder 3: Correspondence with McGraw-Hill [mostly Leigh Dean, editor in the Junior Book Division], Oct. 4-24, 1967. Typescript, carbon, photocopy. 6 items.
Folder 4: Correspondence with Leigh Dean re: map for The Man in the Box, Oct. 26-29, 1967. Typescript, carbon, photocopy and hand-drawn maps. 5 items.
Folder 5: Correspondence with McGraw-Hill [mostly Leigh Dean; some re: Introduction to The Man in the Box], Nov. 3-13, 1967. Typescript, carbon, photocopy. 7 items.
Folder 6: Correspondence with McGraw-Hill [mostly Leigh Dean], Nov. 13-29, 1967. Typescript, carbon. 7 items.
Folder 7: Correspondence with Leigh Dean re: book jacket for The Man in the Box, Dec. 1-8, 1967. Typescript, carbon, photocopy. 4 items.
Folder 8: Correspondence with Leigh Dean re: The Man in the Box and The Timber Pirates, [ca. Dec. 10-18], 1967. Handwritten, typescript, carbon. 5 items.
Folder 9: Personal letter from Leigh Dean and copy of her short story, "Miss Hannah," Dec. 20, 1967. Handwritten, photocopy. 2 items.
Folder 10: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: map and movie rights for The Man in the Box; The Timber Pirates]. Jan. 1968. Typescript, carbon. 9 items.
Folder 11: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: map for The Man in the Box and The Timber Pirates], Feb. 1968. Handwritten, typescript, carbon. 7 items.
Folder 12: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: autograph tea], March 1968. Typescript, carbon, photocopy. 8 items.
Folder 13: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: autograph tea], April 8-17, 1968. Handwritten, typescript, carbon. 5 items.
Folder 14: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: autograph tea], April 21-29, 1968. Typescript, carbon, magazine picture of Leigh's cat. 5 items.
Folder 15: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: autograph tea], May 1968. Handwritten, typescript, carbon. 9 items.
Folder 16: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: reviews and book sales; prize for Timber Pirates], June-July 1968. Typescript, carbon. 8 items.
Folder 17: Correspondence from Leigh Dean with copies of reactions to The Man in the Box from British publishers, May-Aug. 1968. Typescript, photocopy. 7 items.
Folder 18: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: royalties and personal concerns], Aug.-Dec. 1968. Typescript, carbon. 9 items.
Folder 19: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: interracial books], Jan.-Feb. 1969. Handwritten, typescript, photocopy, printed. 5 items.
Folder 20: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: nomination of The Man in the Box for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award], May-June 9, 1969. Typescript, carbon, photocopy, printed. 8 items.
Folder 21: Letter from Leigh Dean with copy of her manuscript, Rufus Gideon Grant, June 10, 1969. Typescript, photocopy. 2 items.
Folder 22: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: Newbery Award nomination and problems with "Introduction" to The Man in the Box], June-July 1969. Typescript, carbon. 6 items.
Folder 23: Correspondence with Leigh Dean and McGraw-Hill [re: 2nd ed. of The Man in the Box, personal concerns, Christmas cards], Sept.-Dec 1969 Handwritten, typescript, carbon. 6 items.
Folder 24: Correspondence with Leigh Dean et al [re: Sequoyah Children's Book Award], Jan.-Feb. 1970. Typescript, carbon, handwritten, photocopy. 6 items.
Folder 25: Correspondence with Leigh Dean et al [re: income statement and Dogmeat], Mar.-Apr. 1970. Typescript, carbon, handwritten, photocopy. 6 items.
Folder 26: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: Dogmeat] May 1970. Typescript, carbon. 8 items.
Folder 27: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: Dogmeat; The Beaudean Pines], June-Oct. 1970. Typescript, carbon. 6 items.
Folder 28: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [re: Dogmeat; The Man in the Box review, Dean's Rufus Gideon Grant], Nov. 1970. Typescript, carbon, photocopy. 5 items.
Folder 29: Correspondence with Leigh Dean and Eleanor Nichols of McGraw-Hill [re: ALA Newbery-Caldecott Dinner], Jan.-Mar. 1971. Typescript, carbon. 8 items.
Folder 30: Correspondence with Leigh Dean and Eleanor Nichols [re: ALA Convention and Dogmeat], May-July 1971. Typescript, carbon. 4 items.
Folder 31: Correspondence with Leigh Dean, Oct. 1971. Handwritten, carbon, photocopy. 4 items.
Folder 32: Correspondence with Leigh Dean et al Ire: Georgia Children's Book Award and Sequoyah Children's Book Award], 1972. Handwritten, typescript, carbon, photocopy. 7 items.
Folder 33: Correspondence from Leigh Dean, 1973. [1st page only - rest is missing]. Typescript. 1 item.
Folder 34: Correspondence with Leigh Dean [includes book jacket from Dean's Lulu's Back in Town], n.d. Carbon, printed. 2 items.
Box 4
Folder 1: Fan letters from individuals, 1968-1969. Handwritten, typescript. 4 Items.
Folder 2: Fan letters from individuals and replies, 1970. Handwritten, carbon, photocopy. 9 items.
Folder 3: Fan letters from individuals and replies, 1971. Handwritten, carbon, photocopy. 6 items.
Folder 4: Fan letters from individuals and replies, 1972-1973. Handwritten, carbons [some on back of originals]. 6 items.
Folder 5: Fan letters from individuals and replies, 1974. Handwritten, typescript, carbon [some on backs of originals]. 9 items.
Folder 6: Fan letters from individuals and replies, 1975; n.d. Handwritten, photocopy. 4 items.
Folder 7: Fan letters from students at Roosevelt Elementary School, Pryor, Oklahoma, 1972. Handwritten. 12 items.
Folder 8: Fan letters from students at Washington Elementary School, Pryor, OK, and Final Chapter for The Man in the Box composed by the students, 1972. Handwritten, typescript. 7 items.
Folder 9: Fan letters from students at Jefferson Elementary School and unidentified schools, Pryor, OK, 1972. Handwritten. 14 items.
Folder 10: Fan letters from classes at Arthur E. Wright Middle School, Calabasas, California and Lakeview School, Oakland, CA, 1973. Handwritten, typescript, illustrations, carbon [replies on the backs of originals]. 5 items.
Folder 11: Fan letters from students in Meeker, OK, 1973. Handwritten with carbon of reply. 12 items.
Folder 12: Fan letters from students in Meeker, OK, 1973, cont. Handwritten. 13 items.
Folder 13: Correspondence and questionnaire from students at Walter P. Jones School, Macon, Georgia with reply, 1973-1974. Typescript, carbon. 6 items.
Folder 14: Fan letters from students at Marlow, OK, 1982. [Alphabetical A-B.] Handwritten. 13 items.
Folder 15: Fan letters from students at Marlow, OK, 1982. [Alphabetical C-D.] Handwritten. 15 items.
Folder 16: Fan letters from students at Marlow, OK, 1982. [Alphabetical E-G.] Handwritten. 10 items.
Folder 17: Fan letters from students at Marlow, OK, 1982. [Alphabetical H-L.] Handwritten. 14 items.
Folder 18: Fan letters from students at Marlow, OK, 1982. [Alphabetical M-O.] Handwritten. 12 items.
Folder 19: Fan letters from students at Marlow, OK, 1982. [Alphabetical P-R.] Handwritten. 10 items.
Folder 20: Fan letters from students at Marlow, OK, 1982. [Alphabetical S-T.] Handwritten. 10 items.
Folder 21: Fan letters from students at Marlow, OK, 1982. [Alphabetical U-Z.] Handwritten. 11 items.
Folder 22: Correspondence from PFC James C. Clapp and Capt. Shelly T. Raines, stationed in Vietnam, 1967. Handwritten. 3 items.
Folder 23: Book report on The Man in the Box by Claudia Taylor, Black Jr. High, Houston, 1968. Photocopy. 1 item.
Folder 24: Correspondence with Mary Kalijarvi [re: Kalijarvi's book review of The Man in the Box], 1969-1970. Typescript, carbon. 6 items.
Folder 25: Correspondence from Contemporary Authors. Form letter and blank biographical form, 1968. Printed. 2 items.
Folder 26: Correspondence from the Authors Guild. Invitation to join, brochure, newsletters, 1967-1968. Typescript, printed. 5 items.
Folder 27: Miscellaneous correspondence re: The Man in the Box [congratulatory letters], 1968-1969. Handwritten, typescript. 6 items.
Folder 28: Miscellaneous correspondence [re: agent, authors, luncheon, teaching job], 1967-1973. Handwritten, typescript, carbon. 10 items.
Folder 29: Letter and short story from Raymond D. White, San Antonio, n.d. Handwritten, carbon. 2 items.
Folder 30: Miscellaneous correspondence, n.d. Typescript, carbon, empty envelope. 4 items.
Box 5
Folder 1: Notes and clippings on horses, 1968-1970. Typescript, printed. 11 items.
Folder 2: Comments on Dogmeat by students at Black Jr. High, Houston, 1971. Handwritten. 10 items.
Folder 3: Comments on Dogmeat by students at Black Jr. High, Houston, 1971. Handwritten. 11 items.
Folder 4: Dogmeat. Original manuscript, [1970]. Typescript. 1 item.
Folder 5: Dogmeat. Manuscript. 1st rewrite with editor's green tags for suggested changes, [1970]. Typescript. 1 item.
Folder 6: Dogmeat. Manuscript. 2nd rewrite with editor's green tags, [1970-1971]. Typescript. 1 item.
Box 6
Folder 1: Dogmeat. Manuscript. 3rd [?] rewrite, [1971]. Typescript. 1 item
Folder 2: Dogmeat. Manuscript. Rewrite with Ardath Mayhar, 1982. Typescript. 1 item.
Folder 3: Dogmeat: The Absolutely Perfect Horse. Draft for jacket copy, [1982]. Typescript, carbon [with handwritten notes]. 7 items.
Folder 4: The Absolutely Perfect Horse [Dogmeat retitled]. Galley proofs, [1982]. 1 item.
Folder 5: Correspondence re: The Absolutely Perfect Horse [Dogmeat], 1982. Typescript, carbon. 4 items.
Box 7
Folder 1: Articles on the publication of The Man in the Box, 1968. Type script, newspaper clippings, mimeograph. 7 items.
Folder 2: Reception for The Man in the Box at Black Jr. High, Houston, 1968. Newspaper clippings, invitations, sign, guest and committee lists. Handwritten, mimeograph, printed. 6 items.
Folder 3: Sequoyah Children's Book Award, 1970-1972. Program, newspaper clippings, book list. Printed, photocopy. 5 items.
Folder 4: Cards and flier for The Man in the Box and National Children's Book Week lecture, 1968-1972. Printed, mimeograph. 5 items.
Folder 5: Writers conferences and meetings, 1968-1970. Newspaper clippings, awards list, program. Printed, mimeograph [includes material on Ardath Mayhar]. 4 items.
Folder 6: Photographs of Marylois Dunn and The Man in the Box book and painting at Black Jr. High, 1968. 2 items.
Folder 7: Reviews of The Man in the Box, 1968-1972. Newspaper clipping, photocopy, mimeograph. 11 items.
Folder 8: New York Times Book Review containing review of The Man in the Box, 1968 [p. 48]. Printed. 1 item.
Folder 9: Reviews of The Absolutely Perfect Horse, 1983. Newspaper clippings, printed, photocopy. 3 items.
Folder 10: Biographical sketch on Marylois Dunn from Something About the Author, [ca. 1972]. Photocopy. 1 item.
Folder 11: Miscellaneous - school related, 1972-1974; n.d. Newspaper clippings and meeting notice. Printed, mimeograph. 4 items.
Folder 12: Miscellaneous - Beta Phi Mu [Library Science Society] and bibliographies of Newbery Medal Books and Southwestern Children's Books, 1968. Printed. 3 items.
Folder 13: Miscellaneous - cartoons and humor, n.d. Carbon, photocopy, printed. 5 items.
Folder 14: Leon Hale columns from The Houston Post, 1968. Newspaper clippings. 4 items.
Folder 15: Ardath Mayhar. Poem, letter, and newspaper clipping, 1968; n.d. Handwritten, typescript, printed. 3 items.
Folder 16: George W. Hawkes [former editor of The Daily Sentinel] and family. Newspaper clippings, n.d. Printed. 2 items.
Folder 17: Miscellaneous re: writing, 1969; n.d. Handwritten, typescript, printed, mimeograph, photocopy. 5 items.
Folder 18: Miscellaneous, 1976; n.d. Handwritten, printed. 9 items.
Box 8
Folder 1: The Absolutely Perfect Horse. Manuscript, cat 1982. Typescript with editor's suggestions and corrections. 1 volume.
Folder 2: The Absolutely Perfect Horse. Drafts and galleys for jacket, title page, and copyright page, 1982-1983. Typescript, handwritten, printed. 5 items.
Folder 3: The Absolutely Perfect Horse. Author's first proof, Oct. 1982. Printed, handwritten corrections. 1 volume.
Folder 4: The Absolutely Perfect Horse. Author's first proof, Nov. 1982. Printed. 1 vol.
Bundle 1
Scrapbook on The Man in the Box and the Sequoyah Children's Book Award, 1972. Includes correspondence, photographs of Marylois and of Leigh Dean, newspaper clippings, programs, other printed matter.
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