Contents


Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Organization of the Collection

Search Terms

SERIES I. GENERAL

SERIES II. COUNTRIES

SERIES III. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS

SERIES IV. POETRY

Books on Shelf

Authors Collection, 1845-1986

Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Katie Kowinski.

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

2004

Collection Overview

Title:Authors Collection
Dates: 1845-1986
Abstract: The Authors Collection contains small amounts of material on a number of women writers from the U.S. and abroad. Types of materials include biographical writings, articles, reviews, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials. There are also some letters, manuscripts and photographs. A large portion of the collection relates to author Margaret Mitchell, and her book and the movie, Gone With the Wind. Other authors represented include Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Cather, Doris Lilly, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Tillie Olsen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Virginia Woolf.
Extent: 12 boxes; 4 volumes(4.75 linear ft.)
Language: English.
Identification: MS 443

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Gertrude Stein, ca. 1900

The Authors Collection is comprised of bibliographies of women writers, both from the U.S. and abroad; general files on women authors by country; and files on individual authors and poets. In a few cases there are typescripts of an author's works, photographs, biographical information, newspaper clippings, and some reviews. The collection dates approximately from 1845 to 1976. Individual authors represented include Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Cather, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Tillie Olsen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Virginia Woolf, among others. There is one complete manuscript, How to Make Love to a Man in Five Languages, by Doris Lilly. A substantial section on Margaret Mitchell includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and correspondence about Mitchell, the publication of Gone With the Wind, the release of the movie, and efforts of the Atlanta Smith Club to raise money for Margaret Mitchell scholarships to send Georgia women to Smith. Correspondence includes letters from Mitchell to Julia Collier Harris and her husband Julian Harris (circa 1936-47), both newspaper editors who, together, received the Pulitzer Prize in journalism for their editorials in the Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer-Sun against the Ku Klux Klan.

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Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into four series:

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SERIES I. GENERAL



Bibliographies

Box
Folder
11
"Women Writers"

2
"Neglected American Women Writers"

3
"Women and Literature"

4
Digging Out: Lost Voice of New England Women Writers (New England Women Writers Project) 1978


Miscellaneous articles and fliers on women authors

SERIES II. COUNTRIES


Box
Folder
15
General: clippings

Box
Folder
1a1
Canada


England

Box
Folder
1a2
General

3
Berners, Dame Juliana

4
Carroll, Lewis: "The Real Alice"


France

Box
Folder
1a5
Beauvoir, Simone de

6
de Staël, Madame

7
Collette, Sidonie Gabrielle

8
Sand, George

9
Germany

10
Italy

11
Netherlands

12
Japan

13
Norway

14
Portugal: Margarida Ofelia Avelar de Carvalho

15
Spain

16
Sweden: Selma Lagerlöf

SERIES III. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS


Box
Folder
21
Adams, Hannah


Alcott, Louisa May

2
General


Louisa M. Alcott, Her Life, Letters and Journals, edited by Ednah D. Cheney

3
Alexander, Francesca

4
Allinson, Anne C.E.

5
Baldwin, Faith

6
Barr, Amelia E.

7
Bates, Katherine Lee

8
Bottome, Phyllis

9
Bowen, Catherine Drinker

10
Brachen, Peg

11
Bradstreet, Anne

12
Brontë;, Charlotte and family

13
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett and Penini (son)

14
Buck, Pearl S.

15
Burnett, Constance Buell

Box
Folder
2a1
Cary, Alice and Phoebe


Cather, Willa S.

Box
Folder
2a2
General and photograph

2a
Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletters 1962-76

3
Cheney, Ednah Dow

4
Child, Lydia Maria: correspondence, clippings, and Letters from New York 1845

5
Cleghorn, Sarah N.

6
Converse, Florence

6a
Creevey, Caroline Althea

Box
Folder
31
d'Arona, Florence Roosevelt: photograph

2
De la Ramée, Louisa

3-4
Dickinson, Emily


Diver, Maud

Box
Folder
35
Bibliography

6
Letters

7
Illustration for Royal India

8
Dodge, Mary Mapes

9
Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley

10
Elliot, George

11
Evans, Anne

12
Fairfield, Genevra

13
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

14
Fry, Anne

15
Fuller, Carol: typed copy of Vestal Flame

16
Fuller, Margaret

17
Gale, Zona

18
Gardener, Helen Hamilton (Alice Chenowith Day)

19
Gardner, Isabella Stewart

20
Genlis, Felicite Ducrest Contesse de

21
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell

22
Hall, Evelyn Beatrice

23
Hamilton, Edith

24
Harper, Frances E.W.

25
Hobart, Alice Tisdale

Box
Folder
41
Lilly, Doris: How to Make Love in Five Different Languages (manuscript)

Box
Folder
51
Jackson, Helen Hunt

2
Jewett, Sarah Orne


Larcom, Lucy

Box
Folder
53
General

3a
A New England Girlhood 1890

4
Lazarus, Emma

5
Leitch, Mary Sinton

6
Lerner, Gerda

7
Levertov, Denise


Lilly, Doris


Lorde, Audre

Box
Folder
58
Lowell, Amy

9
Macaulay, Catharine

10
Macaulay, Rose: letter to M. Nicolson

11
Martineau, Harriet

12
Millay, Edna St. Vincent


Mitchell, Margaret

Box
Folder
513
Mitchison, Naomi

14
Mitford, Mary Russel

15
Moore, Julia A.

16
Norris, Kathleen

17
O'Conner, Flannery

18
Olsen, Tillie

19
Ostenso, Martha

20
Prairie Bird, pseud.

21
Pratt, Annies

22
Rand, Ayn

23
Randall, Margaret

24
Resse, Elizabeth Phelps, Countess

25
Richards, Laura

Box
Folder
61
Sachs, Emanie

2
Sampter, Jessie E.

3
Sayers, Dorothy L.: letter to M. Nicolson

4
Schreiner, Olive

5
Sitwell, Edith

6
Stein, Gertrude

7
Stephens, Ann Sophia

8
Sterling, Dorothy

9
Stern, G.B.: letter to M. Nicolson

Box
Folder
71
Stowe, Harriet Beecher

2
Susann, Jacqueline: Every Night, Josephine

3
Swenson, May

4
Teasdale, Sara

5
Todd, Mabel Loomis

6
Todd, Mary Ives

7
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart

8
Wells, Carolyn: verse

9
Wharton, Edith Newbold

10
Wheatley, Phillis

11
Whitman, Walt: letter to Mary (Smith) Costelloe Berenson (photostat)

12
Wiggin, Kate Douglas

13
Woolf, Virginia

14
Zangwill, Israel

15
Ziegler, Marianne

SERIES IV. POETRY


Box
Folder
81-4
General; poetry reviews


Margaret Mitchell


General

Box
Folder
91
University of Georgia Libraries: information on Mitchell collection


Letter from Mildred Thompson to Margaret Storrs Grierson


Smith College Libraries Annual Report: description of Mitchell Collection

2
Clippings about Gone With the Wind

3
Clippings about Margaret Mitchell

4
Gone With the Wind: articles and pamphlets

5
Smith College Scholarship Fund

6
Photographs: Smith College, publicity, and miscellaneous


Correspondence (to and from Margaret Mitchell)

Box
Folder
97
Clark, Annetta and Mary 1936, 1939

8
Dick, Jackson P. (including review of Gone With The Wind) 1937

9-10
Draper, Jesse: letters written during WWII to friend, describing life in wartime Atlanta 1941-45

11
Dunn, Harris A. 1936

12
Grierson, Margaret Storrs 1942

13
Harris, Julia Collier 1936, 1947

14
Harris, Julian 1936-37

15
Thompson, Mildred 1937-38

16
Plattner, Gladys (Lee) 1936, 1940

17
Hill, Edith (Editor of Smith Alumnae Quarterly) 1936

18
Neely, Rachel S. 1907

19
Hungarian movie magazine circa 1937

20
Rachel Schlesinger Neely to her daughter Rachel Neely Parker about Margaret Mitchell 1939


Gone With the Wind (Motion Picture Edition) 1939

Box


10
Lorde, Audre: conversation between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin (orginally recorded for Essence magazine, December 1984 issue): audio recording, transcript, correspondence, and notes 1983

Books on Shelf



Anne Evans, Poems and Music 1880


Sarah Josepha Hale, Biography of Distinguished Women; Or, Woman's Record, From the Creation to A.D. 1869 1876


Margaret Mitchell Commemorative Stamps (US Post Office) 1986