Finding aid prepared by Archives staff under the direction of Kate Black
Harriette Simpson Arnow papers
1907-2004
University of Kentucky Special Collections
Arranged into nine series by subject or format: Biographical Materials, Correspondence, Creative Works, Nonfiction, Critical Works, Promotional Materials, Subject Files, Photographs, and Harold B. Arnow.
Collection is open to researchers by appointment. Box 136 in the Harold B. Arnow Series is restricted.
81M2: [identification of item], Harriette Simpson Arnow papers, 1907-2004, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
54.71 Cubic feet
148 boxes
Born in Wayne County, Kentucky, Harriette Simpson Arnow (1908-1986) grew up in the rugged foothills of the Appalachians, where the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River emerges from the East Kentucky Coalfield. Arnow’s parents, Mollie Jane Denney and Elias Thomas Simpson, were schoolteachers before having their six children. After attending Berea College, Arnow became a teacher herself, at a one-room school in Pulaski County, Kentucky. In 1931, she earned a BS in education from the University of Louisville and taught until she moved to Cincinnati in 1934. In Cincinnati, as Arnow was writing her first novel, Mountain Path, she also worked as a waitress and typist and, eventually, as a writer for the Works Progress Administration, where she met journalist Harold Arnow. They married in 1939 and moved to Keno, Kentucky, to write and farm. During World War II, they moved to Detroit where Harold took a job at the Detroit Times and Harriette finished Hunter’s Horn. The Arnows had two children, Marcella and Thomas. Arnow's parents and grandparents were storytellers, inspiring Harriette to become a writer. She published short stories, five novels, and three works of non-fiction from the 1930s to 1977. Her acclaimed and best-selling novels, Hunter’s Horn (1949) and The Dollmaker (1954), are part of a Kentucky trilogy that includes Mountain Path (1936). In these works of fiction, Arnow explores how the social and economic fabric of rural Kentucky hill communities in the first half of the 20th century was changed by the coming of roads, electricity, and the World Wars. Arnow also completed two social histories, Seedtime on the Cumberland (1960) and Flowering of the Cumberland (1963), which examine the settlement of the Cumberland River Valley at the end of the 18th century, as well as a memoir, Old Burnside (1977), that focuses on her childhood in Pulaski County, Kentucky. Two final novels, Weedkiller’s Daughter and The Kentucky Trace: A Novel of the American Revolution were published in the early 1970s. She died in Michigan in 1986. A collection of short stories and a novel, Between the Flowers, were released posthumously.
The Harriette Simpson Arnow papers (54.71 cubic feet, dated 1907-2004) provide a broad look at a writer’s life and work. Included are materials that document her writing process, from first-draft manuscripts on dime store tablets, through various iterations and drafts, to printer page proofs. Also included are correspondence with family, editors, publishers (especially Alfred A. Knopf and Macmillan Company), and literary agents such as Russell and Volkening, Inc. Researchers will find mail from readers, photographs, speeches, and materials documenting Arnow’s political interests such as McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee, the Vietnam War, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Book reviews, scholarly articles, and dissertations written about Arnow’s work are also featured in the papers.
1960 is in black ink; 1961 is in blue ink; DD is frequently mentioned [DD is a character in an unpublished manuscript, originally titled A Journey for Lucinda, but later changed to To You No Place]
Contains some notes about Belle.
Wall calendar and pocket calendar, in which HSA notes that Harold Arnow died on February 20, 1985
HSA was a member of the Literature and Cultural Committee
HSA died on March 22, 1986.
Includes induction pin, program, certificate, and Gurney Norman's introduction for HSA.
Award named in HSA’s honor
HSA is designated by the number 25 on the map
Assignments 1-5, 7; includes a note from HSA about this experience
Assignments 8-11, 13, 17 and 18; on assignment 17-18 page or pages are missing between 13 and [13.1]
Includes biographical materials, notes to receive rations, and a curriculum vita.
These files, arranged chronologically, include copies of correspondence (originals were placed with General Correspondence), clippings, programs, agendas, and promotional materials concerning Arnow’s readings and speaking engagements. In some cases, the location was not determined.
In 1969, Arnow helped establish the Cranbrook Writers' Conference housed at the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She was a member of the Writers' Conference board as well as a lecturer and teacher. In addition to organizational records, included are an incomplete manuscript on the history of Cranbrook Foundation and the emergence of the Cranbrook Writers' Conference penned by Arnow for an unknown purpose.
Incomplete. Manuscript pages are placed in running narrative order with page numbers penciled in right upper corner to indicate this order, p. 1-81a.
Presentation copy of original poetry from the Fifth Annual Cranbrook Writers' Conference. Inscribed To: Mrs. Harriette Arnow with appreciation and respect for your kind encouragement.
These materials include numerous essays and articles that Elizabeth Simpson, Harriette Arnow's older sister, wrote for the Wayne County Outlook and possibly other publications, such as the Overview. Elizabeth Simpson was the editor of Overview, the newsletter of the Wayne County Historical Society, of which she was Vice President.
These materials include bank statements, household bills, vehicle expenses, hospital service bills, statement of insurance premiums, statement of security investments, and income tax returns.
Part I
Part II
The letters are addressed to Family because they were meant to be read by all three other family members (Harriette, Harold, and Tom).
Letter examines mother’s mental health and relationship with children.
The Publisher Correspondence Series contains both incoming (to Arnow) and outgoing (from Arnow) mail from various publishers and editors. The names and titles of these publishers and editors and their relationship to Arnow follows.
Harold Strauss, Arnow's editor for Mountain Path at Covici Friede, tried unsuccessfully to find a publisher for her second novel after Covici folded. He eventually became editor at Knopf and later edited Arnow's books The Weedkiller’s Daughter and The Kentucky Trace: A Novel of the American Revolution under that publisher.
Charles Cunningham was Macmillan’s Editor-in-Chief during the publication of The Dollmaker. Cecil Scott, Editor for Macmillan, edited Hunter’s Horn and the first part of The Dollmaker before falling out with Arnow. The break between Arnow and Scott came in a letter to Cunningham, October 26. 1952. Scott eventually became Editor-in-Chief for Macmillan. Susan Prink, worked for the editorial department during the publication of The Dollmaker. Virginia Patterson was the Publicity Director for Macmillan for more than a decade and continued her correspondence with Arnow during and after working for Macmillan.
A.J. Hart was Editor-in-Chief during the publication of Seedtime on the Cumberland and was fired in January, 1964, just short of retirement. Ada Shearon was Manufacturing Editor for Seedtime on the Cumberland. J.P.R Budlong was the Director of the Trade Department at Macmillan and was a reader of Seedtime on the Cumberland. Budlong was replaced by R.L. De Wilton in February, 1959. Mary Heathcote, an admirer of Arnow's, was editor after Hart left (February 1964-August 1967.) Heathcote was replaced by Diane F. Harris. J. Randall Williams, was Vice President at Macmillan during the publication of The Dollmaker. Williams left for Little, Brown, and Company. HSA helped push Harry Caudill's Night Comes to the Cumberlands for them. Helen Taylor was with Sloane, then went to Viking. Al Hart was a Senior Editor for McGraw-Hill. Robert Penn Warren was a managing editor of The Southern Review. Granville Hicks worked for Macmillan as a freelance editor and an author. Hicks read and helped edit Hunter’s Horn and The Dollmaker when Arnow no longer wanted Scott.
Country Beautiful magazine bought a Christmas story from Arnow, and then only paid $50 of the $300 owed her, due to their own financial difficulties. Arnow wrote several letters demanding payment. The article was submitted August 1, 1963. Arnow still had not been fully paid as of July 5, 1965.
For Harold Strauss, see also Knopf files.
Contains correspondence from or to: Elizabeth Nowell, the original agent for Mountain Path; Galina Hopkins, the second and final agent for Mountain Path; Russell and Volkening, Inc. the agents for The Dollmaker; Edith Jackson, agent for much of the screen and dramatic rights for Arnow’s works, including Mountain Path, Hunter’s Horn, and The Dollmaker; and miscellaneous agents.
Incomplete/Parts of Letters
Fragments
Multiple entities (publishing companies, literary agencies, and artists) have attempted or succeeded getting the dramatic rights to a number of Arnow’s works.
This series includes both incoming (to Arnow) and outgoing (from Arnow) letters of a general nature--i.e., not to/from immediate family members or professional (publisher) colleagues. Also held separately (See Box 43) are those incoming letters deemed to be Reader's Mail, which satisfy the criteria of being an initial contact from an otherwise unknown or unaffiliated individual (often praising a book or requesting a book or an autograph). The folder-level descriptions that follow are not exhaustive but, rather, representative. An attempt has been made to establish chronological context, and to identify significant letters or correspondents; but not all letters in each folder have been listed. Scattered throughout the General Correspondence are handwritten notes by Arnow often mere phrases, names, titles, or calculations that may appear in margins or on the backs of unrelated letters. Moreover, Arnow apparently often used the backs of previous typescripts (or any other available sheet of paper) for her carbon copies, and these are usually reproduced showing both sides, though many of these copies of carbons represent only a first page of a longer letter; correspondence consistently includes invitations to speak or appear, as well as inquiries about genealogical matters, and requests for advice from unpublished writers. In the case of new correspondents, initial letters from strangers to Arnow may be found in the Reader's Mail folders for the appropriate years, although Arnow often would reply, beginning a regular exchange. Most of the Arnow-authored letters (outgoing) are copies. The fragile originals have been preserved in separate envelopes and are stored, together, in Box 40.
Correspondence includes: a 1918 postcard from a WWI Army inductee, for whom a 10-year-old Harriette Simpson apparently mailed a letter; two 1921 summertime letters from a former classmate at the Stanton Academy; several letters from the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs concerning student loans to Simpson during her studies at the University of Louisville.
Correspondence includes: a receipt for payment on HS's student loan; correspondence from a Cincinnati literary club, and one from fellow member (Leslie Dressler) who moved to California and sought to advise and represent HS; and a postcard from what appears to be a correspondence course in writing.
Includes student loan correspondence from the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs and notes from Louisville friend Mrs. R.E. Hill. It also includes reactions to the publication of Mountain Path from both friends and strangers, some asking for advice, and thanks from those to whom HS sent autographed copies, including E.J. Weekes, HS's English professor at Berea College. Correspondence from Leslie Dressler who offers to sell the story in Hollywood and from Albert I. Mayer, Jr., children's book author, who discusses writing.
Correspondence includes: an invitation to join the League of American Writers (on the back of which HS has penciled a snippet of a prose description concerning a man's hat); reaction to Mountain Path; letters from HAS to W.F. Munnikhuysen concerning Mountain Path; gossip from Cincinnati department store co-workers; news from home, i.e., Pulaski County, Kentucky; and a dunning letter from the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs.
Correspondence includes: a January 6 letter from the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs confirming that HS's student loan is paid in full; letters from Albert I. Mayer; family news from Aunt Dovie Kenney in Delta, Kentucky; two letters from E.J. Weekes, back from a semester at the University of London; letter from a distant cousin (Florence Hurt Clawson) in North Dakota; a request from the University of Kentucky for historical information about the Stanton Academy; letter from Robert Pittman Reid, recommending the works of Jesse Stuart; an invitation from the London, Kentucky Women's Club to speak, and confirmation of HS's acceptance; an invitation from Sue Bennett College to also appear (the college was in London); and a notice from the Ohio State Employment Service.
Correspondence includes: a reply from the Kentucky Department of Mines and Minerals pertaining to available geological maps; a note from the registrar of Sue Bennett College (London, Kentucky); an April 19 letter from Mabel French Taylor concerning HSA's plans to purchase land near Burnside, Kentucky (Harriette and Harold were married March 22, and moved to Keno, Kentucky); and a December letter from Ohio friends to Harriette and Harold, responding to the news that the Arnows' son ( Denny) had been still-born.
Correspondence includes: a 1940 reply from a University of Cincinnati botanist agreeing to help HSA identify plants found in and around Keno, Kentucky; correspondence from friends, old and new; a letter from a Somerset, Kentucky attorney (W.R. Jones) who says he's shocked at conditions being imposed upon the Arnows (the context is unstated); a response from U.S. Senator Alben Barkley (Kentucky) transmitting federal agricultural yearbooks, the reverse side of which has been used for part of a typescript of Hunter's Horn; a 1943 V-Mail; news from home (Burnside, Kentucky), that Jim Bill Simpson (HSA's brother) is missing in Germany (May, 1944); a neighbor's description (April, 1945) of the Arnows' Keno, Kentucky homestead, flowers blooming, an upstairs window broken, after the couple moved to Detroit; letter from friends asking whether Jim Bill (HSA's brother) has been liberated yet (May, 1945); letter from a Keno neighbor (Richmond Casada) apologizing for his son breaking windows at the Arnows' Keno homestead with his slingshot; letter from R. Casada asking if he may graze mules on the Arnows' land; and an October 1945 letter fragment from Harriette, apparently at Keno, writing to Harold in Detroit.
Correspondence includes: several letters from Keno, Kentucky, one from neighbor Richmond Casada asking if the Arnows want to sell their Keno farm, or sell some of the timber on it; a note from editor/author Granville Hicks; a letter from Mary E. Garrett, a Kentucky teacher campaigning to be assigned to the Casada School; and a reply from J. Donald Adams of The New York Times Book Review (October 1948).
Correspondence includes: a letter from HSA to the editors of the Saturday Review of Literature, chastising author Taylor Caldwell for statements made in a previous issue; a letter from HSA to a Mr. Hare in reply, apparently, to his response to her SRL letter; news from Keno neighbors; letter from Mary E. Garrett, teaching in Cincinnati; letter from Mildred Schulze, friend and colleague of sister, Elizabeth Simpson, explaining her enthusiasm for Hunter’s Horn; a letter from Francis Hutchins, the president of Berea College, providing his father's (Dr. William Hutchins, St. Louis) address and acknowledging news of the publication of Hunter's Horn; an invitation from the Detroit Women Writers' Club in honor of HSA's first novel ( Mountain Path had been published in 1936); praise for Hunter's Horn from Marcellus Frost of Nashville, Tennessee, beginning what will become a steady correspondence in which Frost advises HSA about hounds, horses, and history; invitations to appear at literary clubs in Cincinnati and Somerset; from Keno neighbor Lillian Dobbs and mother Ollie, pertaining to the Arnows' offer to help Lillian with college expenses; an invitation from the Pen and Brush Club of New York, upon which HSA has penciled notes for a brochure about Berea College; a note from Berea College, acknowledging receipt of the finished version of HSA's What Berea Meant To Me; a note from Granville Hicks; and a note from John Wilson Townsend, Lexington, Kentucky author and bookseller.
Correspondence includes: a letter from HSA in Ann Arbor, Michigan to Lexington, Kentucky author and bookseller John Wilson Townsend in which she praises his work, describes working on manuscripts that will become The Dollmaker and Seedtime on the Cumberland, and reveals her lasting disappointment that the literary element in Kentucky did not support her early works; typewritten cards back to HSA from John Wilson Townsend; a letter from the University of Kentucky library seeking permission to microfilm the Library of Congress's copy of Mountain Path because it was unavailable elsewhere; a number of thank you notes from persons HSA sent copies of her book; details of personal appearances; and continuing news from Keno, Kentucky.
Correspondence includes: greetings from William Hutchins (father of Berea College president) in St. Louis; a fragment of the reply from HSA to Lena Wells Voiers of Vanceburg, Kentucky (who had questioned HSA's seemingly unflattering review of Jesse Stuart's Clearing in the Sky) explaining some of the differences between HSA's realistic hill people and the characters in Jesse Stuart's work; instructions from Mary S. Wait in Pikeville, Kentucky on how HSA can qualify for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution; a polite reply from Mrs. Voiers in Vanceburg, Kentucky saying she's proud of both Stuart and Arnow; a thank you note from Burnside's Bernice Mitchell for HSA's very, very nice check to benefit the Girl Scouts; several letters from Margaret Frye, genealogist, pertaining to HSA's Daughters of the American Revolution application; word from Keno that Lillian Dobbs has joined the Air Force; and thank-you notes for book copies, including one from missionary Flora E. Dodson in Hong Kong.
Correspondence includes: an invitation to join the Detroit Women Writers' Club; a letter from Cairo, Egypt from a translator of Hunter's Horn into French; a request from HSA to the Veterans' Action Committee of Syracuse, New York for information about its anticommunist activities, and a response from the Committee announcing her addition to their mailing list (subsequent mailings from the group are filed in Clippings--Anticommunist); very similar letters from HSA to Ford Motor Company and General Electric asking for historical information about the companies' activities in Russia during the early days of the Soviet regime; news from Keno, Burnside, and Somerset; and a reply from Sears, Roebuck and Company suggesting HSA contact Senator Joseph McCarthy's office for copies of his speeches.
Correspondence includes: a letter from J.W. Wells of Ribbon, Kentucky announcing the close-out sale of his History of Cumberland County; a reply from the Smithsonian Institution pertaining to archeological sites in the Cumberland area; several typed postcards from Lexington author and bookseller John Wilson Townsend; an exchange with the Ann Arbor Trust Company concerning a construction loan; a letter of transmittal from the Army Corps of Engineers referencing the enclosure (not present) of maps, folders, and brochures about the Cumberland; a letter from HSA to the Kerner Insurance Agency, describing an automobile accident that was certainly not her fault; news of Burnside, Kentucky from Bernice [Mitchell]; a letter from Helen Wolfert, poet and wife of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, Ira Wolfert.
Correspondence includes: an inquiring letter from HSA to Michigan Senator Charles E. Potter concerning his cooperation with Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Un-American Activities Committee; a letter from HSA's Berea English professor, E.J. Weekes, who had moved to California and lived around the corner from writer Ruth Suckow; an appreciative reply from Arkansas Senator J.W. Fulbright concerning HSA's endorsement of his views about the McCarthy appropriation; from HSA to U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell claiming she was amazed and appalled to hear Senator McCarthy declare the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) subversive; two drafts of a sharply critical letter (one ten pages and another 17 pages)to the Superintendent of Washtenaw County Schools reviewing problems HSA's children had while enrolled at the rural Hagen elementary; from HSA to Mrs. Viola Hart, seeking name of radio commentator who had remembered Hunter's Horn so HSA could send a free copy of The Dollmaker; congratulations on reviews of the new book, The Dollmaker, from back home (Bernice Mitchell, Margaret Frye, Mary Wait); information from Marcellus Frost about corn, whiskey, and mules; a reply from the Attorney General's office with an attached list of designated (i.e., subversive) organizations, which does not include the ACLU.
Correspondence includes: several thank you notes for free copies of The Dollmaker (one from the Burnside Girl Scout Council for its 10 copies); the first page of a longer letter from HSA to Marcellus Frost; a letter from HSA to Robert Penn Warren; a letter from HSA to the Chicago Tribune praising an illustration used to represent The Dollmaker; a letter from HSA declining to submit a Drama in Real Life story for the Reader's Digest; a letter from University of Kentucky librarian Lawrence Thompson noting the death of Kentucky author Felix Holt; a letter from HSA to Louis Wallace at the Tennessee Department of Agriculture concerning her research for the Cumberland book; a thank you letter from Mildred Schulze; an exchange confirming a speaking engagement in East Lansing; a letter from HSA to a University of Kentucky--and then to the National Museum--anthropologist concerning copper artifacts found in Wayne County; and exchanges with Margaret Frye and Mary Wait.
Correspondence includes: an appreciative letter from J.C. Burton of Monticello, Kentucky, owner of the copper pieces HSA has been trying to identify; news from Keno, Kentucky and Ollie [Dobbs]; a congratulatory note from fellow Macmillan author, Hilda Sidney Krech; numerous invitations to speak to local organizations; a sympathetic review of HSA's publishing troubles from Lost Generation author, Malcolm Cowley; a letter from Mildred Schulze about local response to The Dollmaker; pages of research done in the Cumberland area by HSA correspondent Margaret Frye; an offer from Keno, Kentucky to acquire mineral rights to the Arnow lands; a letter from HSA to Gerald Griffin of the Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal newspaper concerning his story about human remains found in the Cumberland area; and a letter and partial repayment from Lillian (Dobbs) Tetzloff, whom the Arnows loaned money for school in 1949.
Correspondence includes: a contract cover letter from John Jarmer in Keno, Kentucky proposing arrangements to strip-mine coal from the Arnow land there; two notes from Ollie Dobbs in Keno, Kentucky urging the Arnows to decline 10 cents a ton for their coal and to hold out for twenty-five cents a ton; exchanges with Wayne University (Detroit) concerning HSA's agreement to judge its literary awards; a note from Ollie Dobbs announcing she has, in fact, leased her own rights for twenty-five cents a ton; a letter from Louisville attorney Guy Shearer listing HSA's Wayne County ancestry among the Shearers; a letter from University of Kentucky Director of Libraries Lawrence Thompson estimating the value of her The Dollmaker manuscript at $500; from HSA to a reader, Mrs. Martin, railing against the literature establishment (the Saturday Review had given The Dollmaker a poor review); several letters offering invitations and awards; a letter from Louis Wallace (Tennessee Department of Agriculture) concerning sorghum molasses; a letter from University of Kentucky historian Thomas D. Clark concerning early explorations of the Cumberland, and another concerning the early making of corn whiskey; a response from New York theater impresario and author, Howard Otway (1922-1994); a letter from Marcellus Frost about arrangements to ship a cupboard to the Arnows; a reply from Headquarters First Army (New York, New York) saying the pamphlet, How to Spot a Communist was no longer available, and returning HSA's handwritten check for $1.00 (check is attached); an appreciative thank you note from author Shirley Ann Grau (1929- ) for HSA's praise of Grau's first published collection, The Black Prince and Other Stories; a letter from the Wisconsin State Historical Society concerning HSA's interest in the Draper Manuscript Collection and early Tennessee newspapers; a letter from the National Archives concerning HSA's request for early customs records, and another transmitting two Reference Service Reports about 18th century Army whiskey rations; a letter from Vanderbilt University historian H.L. Swint; from Margaret Frye about HSA's dues payment to the Somerset, Kentucky chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.); a letter from Mildred Schulze about Arnow being mentioned at the ALA meeting in Cleveland; and a letter from fledgling Michigan author Daniel D. Nern (1926- ).
Correspondence includes: responses to HSA's annual Christmas cards; letter from the wife of the Hartford, Kentucky postmaster to the Ann Arbor, Michigan postmaster seeking help in finding HSA; invitations to speak in Kentucky and in Michigan; news of home from Margaret Frye; advice on changing publishers from Helen Wolfert, poet and wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ira Wolfert; reactions to HSA's appearance in Woman's Home Companion; a letter from Tennessee State Library and the University of Pittsburgh Library concerning microfilming research materials; invitations to join and to speak, including an invitation to appear on Detroit public television; a letter from the Tennessee State Library (Gertrude Parsley) about 18th century land surveying methods; transmittal for maps of the Cumberland River from the Corps of Engineers; congratulatory letter from Mildred Schulze; letter from scholar and author James McConkey informing HSA of his imminent departure from Morehead State College (Morehead, Kentucky) to join the faculty of Cornell University; and a personal letter from Gertrude Parsley.
Correspondence includes: a personal letter from Louis Wallace (Tennessee Department of Agriculture); a letter from Lillian (Dobbs) Tetzloff in Oslo, Norway, sending along her last $50 repayment of the Arnows' 1949 loan for her (unfinished) college study; an offer from Theodore Casada to purchase the Arnows' Pulaski County, Kentucky farm; and notes from Vanderbilt University historian H.L. Swint to whom HSA sent part of the manuscript for Seedtime on the Cumberland for his review.
Correspondence includes: a letter from Vanderbilt University historian H.L. Swint concerning the Cumberland manuscript and delays in his reading of it; an invitation to appear at the Holland, Michigan Public Library; an apology from Michigan author Daniel D. Nern for a misunderstanding resulting in an attempt to quote HSA on the dust jacket of his new novel, Black as Night; notes from the Friends of the Detroit Public Library concerning an article HSA prepared for its quarterly journal, Among Friends; permission from the Wisconsin State Historical Society to use material from the Draper Collection; a letter from Madeline Kneberg, University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology, after reading the manuscript for Seedtime on the Cumberland; a letter from Marcellus Frost, one transmitting two items (not present); numerous letters throughout the year from individuals and institutions concerning permissions for materials used or consulted in the preparation of Seedtime on the Cumberland, including many of HSA's detailed and specific letters requesting same; a request from the Bourbon Institute for information about the history and folklore of whiskey; from HSA to son Tommy's teacher asking for leave to take him to the dentist; news from Ollie Dobbs in Keno, Kentucky with a request for confirmation that daughter Lillian had finished paying the Arnows; and a thank-you note from Grace M. Mayer for HSA's positive comments about Mayer's 1958 Once Upon A City: New York from 1980 to 1910.
Correspondence includes: a note from Mrs. William Cleveland lamenting the disappearance of Burnside, Kentucky (HSA's childhood home) beneath the waters of man-made Cumberland Lake; numerous letters throughout the year from individuals and institutions concerning permissions for materials used or consulted in the preparation of Seedtime on the Cumberland, including many of HSA's detailed and specific letters requesting same; from HSA to Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams complaining of his newly dug fallout shelter and his Public Service Commission's raising of telephone rates; HSA's acceptance of a request to speak in Washington, D.C. in June; news from Ollie Dobbs; from HSA to University of Kentucky Libraries Director Lawrence Thompson concerning the origins of the word bourbon; from Cratis Williams confirming HSA's intended July appearance in Boone, North Carolina and HSA's thank-you to the Williamses afterward; a warm exchange between HSA and John Wilson Townsend, Lexington, Kentucky author and bookseller; HSA's resignation from the Somerset, Kentucky Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.); and news from Mary Casada of a mess in the inheritance of Casada properties in Keno, Kentucky.
Correspondence includes: a note from Ollie Dobbs in Keno, Kentucky sending the hundred dollars I owe you; from HSA to John Leggett on dehumanizing the humanities; a letter from HSA to Michigan Senator Pat McNamara concerning communism and fascism, and the senator's reply to Mrs. Arnos [sic]; from HSA to the Internal Revenue Service concerning social security tax for a part-time cleaning woman; from Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal reporter/columnist Allan Trout sending gourd seeds and a copy of his book; from HSA to the Michigan Public Service Commission complaining about her telephone service; from HSA to Michigan Senator [Philip] Hart in response to a radio appearance of his; from HSA to Air Force Secretary Dudley C. Sharp complaining of maneuvers over Detroit; from HSA to the House Un-American Activities Committee requesting information; from Bruce Brown [Pikeville, Kentucky] sending an article on Kentucky author James Still (not attached); from the Pikeville, Kentucky public librarian saying their purchase for $32.50 from HSA correspondent John Wilson Townsend ended a ten-year search for a copy of Mountain Path; from the Ann Arbor Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy seeking support; from Mary Casada (Alpine, Kentucky) concerning flowers for the Arnow childrens' graves in Keno; from Gertrude Parsley at Tennesee Library and Archives with a correction for Seedtime on the Cumberland; document order form ( Selected Government Publications Relating to Un-American Activities) returned from the U.S. Government Printing Office with a refund in the form of coupons; thank-you note from Detroit Public Library for HSA's appearance on public TV; thank-you from Edward McColgin of Detroit for HSA's visit to his ailing wife, Helen; an offer of an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Berea College (Berea, Kentucky); from Hensley C. Woodbridge, Murray State College (Murray, Kentucky) librarian and Jesse Stuart bibliographer; from HSA to Robert McCahon asking for the return of dramatic rights for Hunter's Horn; from HSA to President Dwight Eisenhower complaining of spy flights over USSR; several exchanges concerning an HSA appearance in Berea and a potential interview of her by Southern Appalachia Studies; from HSA to Carol Ludington, delegate-at-large to the 1960 Democratic national convention, urging the nomination of Adlai Stevenson for president; from Mildred Schulze announcing the publication date for Seedtime on the Cumberland; several from HSA heralding complimentary copies of Seedtime on the Cumberland to be officially published August 29; a thank-you from HSA to historian Allan Nevins, whose original, anonymous assessment for Macmillan of the Seedtime on the Cumberland manuscript had been positive; and from Indiana author Ruby Dell Baugher seeking help finding an agent for The Long Bridge; and many thank-yous for complimentary copies of Seedtime on the Cumberland.
Correspondence includes: reactions to and thank-yous for complimentary copies of Seedtime on the Cumberland; a note from Edward McColgin of Detroit announcing the death of his wife, Helen; an exchange with Georgia novelist and journalist Vinnie Williams about HSA's review of Williams' Walk Egypt; a request from the Tennessee Historical Quarterly for submission of any leftover sections cut from Seedtime on the Cumberland, with HSA's annotation: Sent Crops, Education & Profess[ions]; an exchange with Mary Stahlman Douglas, the Nashville Banner reviewer; several exchanges concerning a possible HSA appearance in North Carolina in 1961; from historian at Columbia University, Allan Nevins, praising HSA’s new book; HSA to a Mrs. Edwards in which HSA quotes her mother's specific description of where in Wayne County HSA was born; from HSA to a gift shop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina attempting to purchase a coffee table from there; from HSA accepting speaking engagements in Nashville, Tennessee and Greensboro, North Carolina; a note from Forsythe Junior High School concerning son Tom's performance, with HSA's response; in a reply to reader Mrs. E.H. Watson of Cookeville, Tennessee, HSA reviews the reviews of Seedtime on the Cumberland; from HSA to Cratis Williams; a scathing letter-to-the-editor from HSA concerning the Ann Arbor school bus system; from HSA to University of Kentucky librarian Lawrence Thompson changing her mind and choosing to donate the manuscript for Seedtime on the Cumberland during the 1960 tax year; and an exchange with California journalist and author Paul Jordan-Smith.
Correspondence includes: a letter from sculptor Puryear Mims asking for advice in fashioning his statue of Cumberland pioneers James Robertson and John Donelson, which now stands in Nashville's Bicentennial Park; an exchange with Georgia author Vinnie Williams; from HSA to her U.S. Senators complaining of the taxes on Harold's severance pay; from HSA to Mary Stahlman Douglas, the Nashville Banner reviewer; exchange with novelist and critic David Madden, then at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky; copy of page 1 of the February Michigan English Teacher announcing an April HSA appearance and featuring a photo of her, along with several later follow-ups and thank-yous for it; several responses from HSA to readers who wrote to praise the book; several concerning plans for HSA's April visit to and appearances in Knox County, Tennessee during National Library Week, including a request to publish her remarks in The Tennessee Librarian; HSA's copy of University of Kentucky librarian Lawrence Thompson's request to Philip Cloutier for an appraisal of the Seedtime on the Cumberland manuscript; exchanges with Greensboro, North Carolina organizers (Mattie Straughan and Clara Booth Byrd) of an HSA appearance there in October; a response from Michigan U.S. Senator Pat McNamara to HSA's suggestion that he help with the rough deal given to former employees of the failed Detroit Times (Harold Arnow was one); a letter from James Still; news from Cassie in Bedford, Indiana that Grandpa Denney was ill in the Somerset, Kentucky hospital; an exchange with Helen Wolfert, poet and wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ira Wolfert of New York; a thank-you for HSA's appearance at a University of Michigan journalism class; from William Alderson, editor, about HSA's article for the Tennessee Historical Quarterly; from producer/director/writer Robert McCahon relinquishing his hold on dramatic rights to Hunter's Horn; transmittal of the $100 award HSA won with The Pioneer Framer and His Crops for the Tennessee Historical Quarterly; and confirmation of HSA's scheduled appearance at the Wayne, Michigan Ladies Literary Club in November.
Correspondence includes: HSA answering eight questions about writing posed by a high school junior; from Mildred Schulze regarding Elizabeth’s leaving Ohio and response; from the Council of the Southern Mountains in Berea, Kentucky concerning its intent to republish Mountain Path; from HSA to Jack Jacobs, negotiating dramatic rights to Hunter's Horn; multiple letters from Albert F. Stewart, poet, Writer’s Workshop director at Morehead State College, and founding editor of Appalachian Heritage magazine, concerning HSA upcoming appearance at workshop; from HSA to Gussie Davis, following a July visit to Wayne County, Kentucky; from HSA to Albert Stewart at the Morehead, Kentucky, Writer's Workshop confirming her attendance in August; an HSA polemic addressed to The National Committee for an Effective Congress; an HSA letter to the editor questioning the survivability of fallout shelters; a note from Georgetown, Kentucky newspaperman Archie Frye (son of frequent HSA correspondent Margaret Frye) saying book dealer Philip Cloutier was advertising a copy of Mountain Path for sale, and HSA's appreciative response; an exchange with Georgia writer Vinnie Williams; from and to author Josephine Benton; from Cleveland (WERE) disc jockey Bill Randle concerning recordings made of HSA reading from The Dollmaker and Mountain Path; continuing plans for HSA's October visit to North Carolina; from Loyal Jones, Associate Executive Secretary of the Council of the Southern Mountains; from Tennessee historian Louis D. Wallace; from North Carolina professor and author Walter Spearman; a response from California U.S. Representative James Roosevelt, quoting part of his own remarks in opposition to funding the House Committee on Un-American Activities; from Caroline Arnold relating that her husband, Madisonville, Kentucky newspaperman Edgar Arnold, presented President John F. Kennedy with a copy of Seedtime on the Cumberland during a September visit; an exchange with Gene Caesar, author of the 1961 biography of Jim Bridger, King of the Mountain Men; from HSA to historian Allan Nevins on receiving a copy of his positive assessment for Macmillan of her Seedtime on the Cumberland sequel manuscript; an exchange with P.F. Ayer, Council of the Southern Mountains, concerning the contract for the reprinting of Mountain Path; from HSA to James Still, confirming that she will speak at the dedication of the James Still Room at Morehead (Kentucky) State College, but another saying she can't meet him at his home in Hindman, Kentucky beforehand; from Albert F. Stewart, Morehead (Kentucky) State College, confirming HSA's attendance at the dedication of the college library's James Still Room; follow-up from HSA's Morehead visit from Masterplots editor Dayton Kohler, and her response to him; constituent mailing about Detroit Times employee tax relief from Michigan U.S. Senator Pat McNamara; from Murray (Kentucky) State College professor and Jesse Stuart bibliographer Hensley C. Woodbridge; a congratulatory letter from HSA to William L. Shirer, for his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; from Elsie Ravenell, mother of Marcella Arnow's Swarthmore roommate, concerning some of Marcella's possessions (Marcella having transferred to University of Michigan), and HSA's response; HSA's account of a traffic accident, addressed to the Ann Arbor Police; from Burke Davis, author of the Revolutionary War novel, The Ragged Ones, along with HSA's reply praising that work; from HSA to President [John F.] Kennedy, chastising him for putting the welfare of Germany above his own country; a complaint to writer and Saturday Review columnist Niccolo Tucci, concerning fascism and propagandism and his lengthy response; and protests from HSA to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and the Federal Highway Administrator, prompted by a controversy over development near Pennsylvania's Swarthmore College.
Correspondence includes: part of an encouraging letter from HSA to Mary Stahlman Douglas, the Nashville Banner reviewer, as well as her reply; to and from Roy Cassell, a writer in Cadiz, Ohio; from librarian and author Dean Cadle soliciting an essay for his book on James Still and HSA's reply, declining; from the theatre program at University of Michigan concerning a possible stage production of The Dollmaker, along with HSA's reply; from historian Allan Nevins concerning impact upbringing has on authors later work; from HSA to President [John F.] Kennedy concerning militarism, another about nuclear testing, and another about Cuba; another request for the essay from Dean Cadle; a series of exchanges seeking William Randle, and requesting that he return borrowed manuscript materials; from HSA to the editor of The [Ann Arbor] News decrying the despoiling of the Ann Arbor landscape by developers and highwaymen; from HSA to Georgia author Vinnie Williams; Kentucky news from Gussie Davis, and Bonnie and Ollie Dobbs; an exchange with P.F. Ayer at the Council of the Southern Mountains over premature announcement of the reprinting of Mountain Path; a letter from HSA to Lorraine Jackson about the sixteen-volume Braille edition of The Dollmaker; from Tennessee historian and collaborator Louis Wallace telling of the death of his wife and his own imminent departure for a trip to Russia; arrangements for HSA to appear before the Kentucky Library Association in October; and exchanges with Gussie Davis in Kentucky concerning her family's move and accommodations for HSA's mother.
Correspondence includes: permissions requests (notably to Tennessee librarian Gertrude Parsley) for what is to become Flowering of the Cumberland; a request from Ish Richey, author of Kentucky Literature, (1963) for a biographical sketch to be included in that work; to Wilma Dykeman, praising The Tall Woman; a letter of praise to poet and etymologist, John Ciardi; a thank-you for HSA's contribution to the Tom Payne for Congress Committee; from Hensley C. Woodbridge, Murray (Kentucky) State College librarian; and from HSA to Whitesburg, Kentucky author and environmentalist Harry M. Caudill, in praise of his Atlantic magazine piece, The Rape of the Appalachians.
Correspondence includes: letters from Georgia author, Vinnie Williams; a letter HSA wrote to Whitesburg, Kentucky author and environmentalist Harry M. Caudill, after reading pre-publication galleys of Night Comes to the Cumberlands, along with responses from Caudill and from his wife, Anne; letters from Loyal Jones, director of the Workshop on Urban Adjustment of Southern Appalachian Migrants in Berea, Kentucky concerning HSA's possible participation and the reprinting of Mountain Path; from U.S. Senator Pat McNamara, in reply to HSA's opposition to the military draft; Kentucky news from Ollie Dobbs of Keno and Elma [Ross] of Pine Knot; daughter Marcella's graduation announcement from University of Michigan; from an ailing E.J. Weekes in Claremont, California, HSA's former English professor at Berea College; from the ACLU of Michigan, in response to HSA's criticism; from HSA to Loyal Jones, declining the Berea Workshop invitation due to son Tom's heart surgery; an exchange with Mrs. Caroline Arnold of Madisonville, Kentucky; from HSA to Little, Brown and Company, publishers of Night Comes to the Cumberlands, with suggestions to promote sales of the book; from the American Friends Service Committee, concerning a visit from India's Bela Bannerjee; from HSA to Albert Stewart, concerning her possible appearance in Kentucky Writing; from Robert McCahon expressing renewed interest in film rights to Hunter's Horn; and a transmittal from Louis Cochran of Santa Monica, California, of his Raccoon John Smith.
Correspondence includes: a note from Al Stewart, Morehead (Kentucky) State College Writers' Workshop, saying HSA's short story, The Washer Woman's Day, would be included in Kentucky Writing; from Margaret Frye of Somerset, Kentucky; congratulatory notes for the completion of Flowering of the Cumberland from Louis D. Wallace, Marcellus Frost, Cratis Williams; HSA's response to Robert McCahon concerning dramatic rights to Hunter's Horn; exchanges with Mrs. Caroline Arnold of Madisonville, Kentucky; from Nashville Banner reviewer Mary Stahlman Douglas; from Roy G. Lillard, Benton, Tennessee, county historian; thank-you notes for complimentary copies of Flowering of the Cumberland from Fran Murray, Thurman Sensing, Bernice Mitchell, John Wilson Townsend, William L. Shirer, the Detroit Public Library, the historical societies of Wisconsin, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, The Filson Club of Louisville, Kentucky, and others; a warm letter from R.L. DeWilton, recently retired from Macmillan; from Michigan Governor George Romney appointing HSA to the state's Council for the Arts; and from HSA to E.J. Weekes, HSA's former English professor at Berea College.
Correspondence includes: a proposal from Quentin D. Allen for an Appalachian newspaper, soliciting HSA's participation; from HSA to Short Way bus lines, complaining of being stranded in Toledo at night; from the president of the Junior Class at Burnside (Kentucky) High School; from Mary Stahlman Douglas, the Nashville Banner reviewer; a reply from Michigan Senator Philip A. Hart; a book order to the Council of the Southern Mountains, and thank-you from them for HSA's contribution to their addressograph fund; an invitation to speak to Eastern Michigan University's 1964 Book Fair, along with HSA's acceptance; from author Josephine Benton; to Jack Jacobs, who was pitching Hunter's Horn to filmmakers; from Albert Stewart, Writers' Workshop at Morehead (Kentucky) State College, inviting HSA to appear, and her note agreeing to do so; from Louis D. Wallace, of Nashville; from HSA to Michigan State Senator Bilbert Bursley, complaining of increased property taxes; from HSA to the Washtenaw County Road Commissioner's Office, complaining that weed killer had been sprayed on her roadside shrubs; to Ish Rickey [Ish Richey], author of Kentucky Literature (1963), concerning permission to use portions of her work; a request to the Wayne County Clerk for a copy of son Thomas Louis Arnow's birth certificate; to A.L. Hart, formerly with Macmillan and now with McGraw-Hill Book Company; an exchange with Loyal Jones at the Council of the Southern Mountains; an exchange with Caroline [Mrs. Edgar] Arnold of Madisonville, Kentucky; from HSA to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, asking for a copy of The Uniform Crime Rate Reports for the United States; to President Lyndon Johnson and to Michigan Senator Philip A. Hart, complaining of the bombing of North Vietnam, and to Oregon Senator Wayne Morse applauding his opposition to it; to the Washtenaw County Clerk and to the Sheriff, seeking to be excused from jury duty during September, the time of a planned trip to take son Tom to school in Montreal, then by ship to England to visit daughter Marcella; requests for information from historian and author F. van Wyck Mason; and three letters from aspiring author and Joliet, Illinois, prison inmate Willie C. Toler.
Correspondence includes: two letters from Joliet, Illinois prison inmate Willie C. Toler, one asking for, and another thanking HSA for, help with his (unsuccessful) parole petition; a letter from Albert Stewart; two notes from historian and author F. van Wyck Mason; an exchange with author and environmentalist Harry Caudill; a note from R.L. DeWilton; and an exchange with George M. Clark, chairman of the board of the Pioneer Bank of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Correspondence includes: a letter from Vanderbilt University historian H.L. Swint; from the Communications Workers of America confirming HSA's appearance at a dinner seminar; a letter from James Still; a proposal to establish a Harriette Simpson Arnow Collection at the University of Michigan; and a holiday note to University of Kentucky librarian Lawrence Thompson.
Correspondence includes: a letter to Garnet Walker in which HSA reminisces about the Keno experience; a thank you from University of Michigan Hospital surgeon Edgar A. Kahn for books received with a wish that HSA continue to improve; a printed invitation from the Cranbrook Foundation to meet poet Robert Francis and a personal reply from Francis to HSA alluding to HSA's illness; from Al Stewart about HSA’s upcoming visit; a form letter from University of Michigan Hospital confirming an August 11 admission reservation; and from Bernice [Mitchell] of Burnside sending news and asking, Does your head feel better since the operations?
Corrsepondence includes: a note from Jack Pickering; a letter from HSA to President Lyndon Johnson and a form-letter reply from the Department of State; personal letters from U.S. Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) following up on a Cincinnati conversation suggesting HSA write a novel based on the population explosion, and referring to their shared concern about Vietnam; from writer Evelyn [S. Stewart] in Big Sur, California reflecting on Robert F. Kennedy's assassination; from Mary Stahlman Douglas, of the Nashville Banner; and to Cranbrook School professor Carl Wonnberger concerning activities of the Michigan Arts Council on which they both served.
Includes a form letter apparently to members of the Michigan Council to Repeal the Draft and a thank you from University of Michigan Hospital surgeon Edgar A. Kahn for HSA's participation in an interview program.
Correspondence includes: a letter from Jack Pickering; a note from Kentucky author Jesse Stuart expressing his pleasure that HSA will be Murray (Kentucky) State University in the summer; from HSA to the postmaster at Mayfield, Kentucky enlisting his aid in getting payment to chairmaker Colley Acree for chairs purchased while HSA was at Murray writers' workshop; and a thank you note from author Mary Penick Motley in reply to HSA's praise of Motley's new book ( Africa: Its Empire, Nations and People).
Correspondence includes: a letter from novelist and critic David Madden, then at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, telling of a forthcoming New York Times essay on The Dollmaker by Joyce Carol Oates and revisiting a debate between Madden and HSA that occurred previously in Pikeville, Kentucky; from Tennessee author/illustrator Jack Knox; from Jack Pickering; a follow-up from L.J. Hortin, director of Journalism at Murray (Kentucky) State University, for an appearance there by HSA; a reservation confirmation for a cottage in Nova Scotia for September; a letter from Kentucky author Jesse Stuart, pursuant to the Murray workshop and reflecting on the burdens of fame; and from Michigan professor and writer Albert Drake, pursuant to an HSA appearance at Cranbrook School.
Correspondence includes: a letter from Ralph Deitrick; from William Broughton, a student from HSA's Murray, Kentucky workshop; a printed political circular by Josephine Gomon; from L.J. Hortin of Murray (Kentucky) State University, concerning the 1972 writers' workshop; from author Aleda Renken; and from Albert Stewart enlisting HSA's support of Appalachian Heritage magazine.
Correspondence includes: a copy of a letter from Kentucky Author Jesse Stuart to L.J. Hortin of Murray (Kentucky) State University, declining to participate in the 1973 writers' workshop; a postcard from writer James Still; a letter from the Army Corps of Engineers concerning the size and depth of Kentucky's man-made Lake Cumberland; from Al Stewart concerning description of betty wood tree; an explanation of income apparently addressed to Social Security administrators; to Mary Stahlman Douglas.
Correspondence includes: a receipt from Skip M. Brittenham, of a California law firm; a letter from writer Jesse George Murray; from Al Stewart and Cratis Williams; from Jack Pickering; from Gertrude Parsley; from Georgia attorney and writer Milton K. Wallace; several letters with news (and memories) of Burnside from Bernice [Mitchell]; and from the Pulaski County (Kentucky) Historical Society, sending pictures of old Burnside; a holiday note from Ollie Dobbs.
Correspondence includes: news of Burnside, Kentucky, from Bernice [Mitchell]; from Glenda Hobbs, Boston College, inquiring whether HSA is interested in a writer-in-residency position; a postcard from writer James Still; from HSA granting operatic production rights to Carol Schoenhard of the Westminster College (Pennsylvania) Department of Music; from Mildred Schulze about The Kentucky Trace: A Novel of the American Revolution; from HSA to WJBK-TV of Southfield, Michigan, disagreeing with criticism of sex education; confirmation of HSA's appearance before the Detroit Women Writers; and a note from Margaret Wait.
Correspondence includes: news of Burnside, Kentucky from Bernice [Mitchell]; from Ross Kreamer, criticizing the Corps of Engineers; from Glenda Hobbs at Boston College, asking permission to photocopy the HSA manuscript material at the University of Kentucky Library as well as to visit Ann Arbor; a thank you from Mimi Conway, following up an oral history interview with HSA; a copy of recollections and questions about Old Burnside sent by Bernice Mitchell to her brother; and from Murray (Kentucky) writers' workshop participant Roland D. Carter.
Correspondence includes: a letter from Cora (Mrs. Marvin) Lucas of Louisville; from Fay Arnow; from the Tennessee Historical Commission concerning HSA's request for historical books; a postcard from Kentucky author James Still; from a Minneapolis junior high school librarian asking for information about Appalachian foods; from Alexis Levitin, Denison University, concerning HSA's planned appearance there; from Albert Stewart about Writers' Workshop, and with copies of pieces from a letter-writing campaign trying to save historic structures on the Cumberland Plateau; a card from Ross Kreamer asking about The Kentucky Trace: A Novel of the American Revolution ; from oral historian and author of Rise Gonna Rise: A Portrait of Southern Textile Workers, 1979, Mimi Conway; from HSA to George Rasmussen of Kentucky Educational TV, concerning an interview she gave as well as rights to The Dollmaker and Hunter's Horn; from Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet Lee Pennington; a cover letter from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation asking for a recommendation of an unspecified candidate; reaction to Old Burnside from Bernice [Mitchell]; from Writers' Workshop participant Kathy Culbert; from former Burnside resident Robert Taylor; and from Mary [Stahlman] (Mrs. Byrd) Douglas of Nashville.
Correspondence includes: letters from Boston College instructor and HSA biographer Glenda Hobbs; from Jerry Mitchell, Bernice's brother; from Kentucky historian and editor James C. Klotter concerning an HSA review for the Historical Society's Register; from HSA to the University Press of Kentucky concerning a mixed-up book order; from Cora (Mrs. Marvin) Lucas of Louisville; from Reuben Powell of Springfield, Ohio; from Watson E. Wordsworth, concerning the Hindman Settlement School; from E. Ray Gaskin of Wartburg, Tennessee with attached poems; from Susan Williams at the Southern Appalachian Writers' Co-op; from Claire Badaracco; from Al Stewart; from Kentucky teacher and Writers' Workshop participant Kathy Culbert; an announcement of the publication of David Madden's novel, The Suicide's Wife; a card from Kentucky writer Lillie D. Chaffin requesting a submission to an anthology (eventually published as God's Plenty: Modern Kentucky Writers); and a holiday note, with printed photo card, from Kentucky writer James Still.
Correspondence includes: letters from Boston College instructor and HSA biographer Glenda Hobbs, both before and after Hobbs left Boston for Los Angeles, California; from Mary [Stahlman] (Mrs. Byrd) Douglas of Nashville; from Reuben Powell of Springfield, Ohio; from Albert Stewart, editor of Appalachian Heritage; from Bob McCahon; from Transylvania University (Lexington, Kentucky) confirming HSA's attendance at Commencement and the bestowal of an honorary Doctor of Literature upon her; and from Transylvania University President William W. Kelly, thanking HSA for her participation.
Correspondence includes: a letter from Reuben Powell of Springfield, Ohio; from Transylvania University (Lexington, Kentucky) concerning plans for a meeting of the Founders Board (HSA a member); from former librarian and collaborator Gertrude Parsley of Nashville; a postcard from writer James Still; an invitation to a meeting of the Timothy Demonbreun Heritage Society in Nashville, Tennessee, along with a newspaper clipping; from Nashville historian and author Sarah F. Kelley, concerning the city's historical record; from E[leanor?] Denney; from Cora Lucas of Louisville; from Elizabeth Rains Webb in Springfield, Tennessee concerning Captain John Rains' origin; from Frieda Mullins, following the Hindman Settlement School writers' workshop; from Bernice [Mitchell]; and from Opal Gaskin Smith, sister of the late E. R. Gaskin.
Correspondence includes: a letter from from Kentucky teacher and Writers' Workshop participant Kathy Culbert; a copy of a letter by David C. Smith, friend and former editor at the Detroit Free Press, pitching his book to HSA's publisher Knopf, as well as a note telling HSA of Knopf's rejection; from Mark Morrow, photographer, concerning plans for his 1985 work Images of the Southern Writer; a note from Paul Willis, director of libraries at the University of Kentucky; from Mrs. John Ricca of Bristow, Virginia; a letter and manuscript from Somerset, Kentucky, writer and Hindman workshop participant John D. Douglass; a letter from writer James Still; two letters from HSA to critic and conference director William H. Slavick concerning her appearance at the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Centenary Conference in Springfield, Kentucky; news of Keno, Kentucky, from Ollie Dobbs; a follow-up note from Roberts Conference participant Ronald Butler of Henderson, Kentucky; news of Kentucky from Burnside resident Bernice [Mitchell] and from Opal Gaskin Smith, sister of the late E. R. Gaskin; part of a note from Kentucky teacher and Writers' Workshop participant Kathy Culbert, writing to Sin, the Arnow dog; and from writer and HSA biographer Glenda Hobbs, now in Los Angeles, California.
Letters from students at Coral Gables High School; some are undated.
Correspondence includes: several letters from then-Ph.D. candidate Danny L. Miller (d.2008 critic, author, and chair of the Department of Literature and Language at Northern Kentucky University), concerning an interview with HSA in Ann Arbor; a report from the Library of Congress's Copyright Office showing the 1954 copyright on The Dollmaker had not, as of February, been renewed, and then a copy of the renew certificate; a proposal from East Tennessee State University for HSA to participate in a conference there; a letter from Kentucky teacher Kathy Culbert; from Al Stewart; two letters from HSA to Mr. Colley Acree of Mayfield, Kentucky covering the purchase and shipping of chairs as a gift for daughter Marcella in Brooklyn, New York; several from Michigan friends, Beatrice and Hugh Henshaw; an invitation and request for materials to be included in a special library collection at the University of North Carolina at Asheville (now known as the Dean Cadle collection), on the back of which HSA has hand-written part of a statement on her approach to writing; a birthday card and note from Detroit teacher and author Sandra P. Aldrich; a letter from Kentucky author Garry Barker, then working at the Council of Southern Mountains bookstore in Berea, Kentucky; a note from Opal Smith, sister of the late E. R. Gaskin; a letter and questionnaire from Ohio State graduate student Susan Lucarelli-Caudill, with HSA's two pages of answers; a letter from Ross Kreamer describing a Civil War-era photograph he has of Burnside; and a note from Louisville Courier-Journal reporter Shirley Williams, with an attached copy of a letter to her from Jane Fonda.
Correspondence includes: a letter from Patricia L. Hudson of Knoxville, Tennessee offering to host the Arnows if they want to come see location filming for The Dollmaker (in Sevier County, Tennessee); news of Burnside and Kentucky from Bernice Mitchell; from Loyal Jones, at Berea College's Appalachian Center; two letters from Appalshop filmmaker Herb Smith, documenting HSA's visit to Whitesburg, Kentucky; a note from Ruth Martin (Robinson) in Santa Monica, California written on the back of a photocopy of a two-and-a-half-page letter written to her by HSA in 1955; a remembrance of the funeral of Samuel J. Denny, dead in Kentucky at 98; from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln concerning her appearance there; from Marcella (Mrs. John) Ricca in Bristol, Virginia; from Knoxville writer and Hindman Workshop participant Patricia Shirley; an exchange with then-student (later professor and author) Kristina K. Groover; birthday notes from prolific children's book author, Ann Tompert, and Detroit teacher and author Sandra P. Aldrich; a note from Kathryn (Mrs. Clifton L.) Thompson relating the death of Margaret Wait in Burnside, Kentucky; a follow-up to the Hindman Settlement School's Appalachian Writers' Workshop from director Mike Mullins; letters from Kenneth Cherry, director of the University Press of Kentucky, confirming the reissue of Seedtime on the Cumberland and Flowering of the Cumberland; from nephew Ben, proprietor of Hart Brothers publisher; from the Sign of the Unicorn bookstore in Danville, Kentucky concerning HSA's planned appearance there during Centre College's Kentucky Writers' Conference; and from writer Alex Kotlowitz, requesting an interview on behalf of National Public Radio.
Correspondence includes: a letter from Kentucky author Garry Barker, then working as Communications Coordinator at Morehead (Kentucky) State University's Appalachian Development Center, concerning HSA's appearances at the Hindman and Morehead writers' workshops; news from Burnside, Kentucky, from Bernice Mitchell; letters from University of Michigan professor emeritus and Arnow friend Carlton F. Wells; an invitation from the Henderson, Kentucky, Arts Council for an appearance; a request for assistance from High Point (North Carolina) College professor and bibliographer Edward J. Piacentino (apparently unanswered); from Mike Mullins concerning the Hindman Settlement School's Appalachian Writers' Workshop; a request for an interview from Wayne State University student Ann Matheson; follow-ups to HSA's appearance at Western Kentucky University for a screening of the film version of The Dollmaker, from Appalachian poet and scholar Jim Wayne Miller and from WKU President Donald Zacharias; from Carlton [F. Wells]; from Beatrice Henshaw, a copy of her letter-to-the-editor about the upcoming airing of Jane Fonda's The Dollmaker along with a copy of a newspaper article covering the death (in a residential fire) of Victor Sturm of Conway, Michigan; a request for an interview from Kristina K. Groover of Dickinson College; a follow-up from Michigan State University Professor Pauline Adams to HSA's appearance to accept an award, along with a transcript of Adams's remarks at the ceremony; and reactions to The Dollmaker airing from Marcella Ricca, Roland D. Carter, Opal Gaskin Smith, Kathy Culbert (who included photos of her cow, Harriette), Mildred Schulze, and novelist Jack Cady.
Correspondence includes: a letter from Appalachian writer Wilma Dykeman; notes from James Hougland and Robert Morris Dills at the Appalachian Center at the University of Kentucky; a follow-up to her visit with HSA from Dickinson College's Kristina Groover; a note from Amy Garza, one of HSA's students at the Hindman Settlement School Appalachian Writers' Workshop; Burnside, Kentucky news from Bernice Mitchell; copies of The Dollmaker movie reviews from former Workshop participant Jean Cogan in Cucamonga, California; from writer Alex Kotlowitz; from HSA to the American Civil Liberties Union, questioning a bill for dues; from Richard Abel concerning HSA's planned appearance at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa; from Robert Taylor, formerly of Burnside, Kentucky; and a thank you from Steve Pett of Iowa State University for HSA's appearance in Ames.
Correspondence includes: Kentucky news from Ollie Dobbs and Bernice Mitchell; from Kentucky author Garry Barker, then Communications Coordinator at Kentucky's Morehead State University's Appalachian Development Center concerning HSA's appearance at the Morehead writers' workshop in June; condolences on Harold's death from Henry Scripps Booth (Cranbrook Foundation), Robert Taylor, Willis Weatherford, Beatrice and Hugh Henshaw, Albert Stewart, Ollie Dobbs, Kristina K. Groover, and many others; a Sustaining Membership card to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, courtesy of daughter Marcella; an inquiry from Alice Lloyd College (Pippa Passes, Kentucky) history professor Charles E. Martin about a modified form of phonetic transcription supposedly devised by HSA; and from HSA to the University of Washington, confirming her later appearance there.
Correspondence includes: a letter from HSA biographer Sandra Ballard; from HSA to Garry Barker, Communications Coordinator at Morehead (Kentucky) State University's Appalachian Development Center, concerning expenses for HSA's appearance; condolence letters from Al Stewart; an exchange with Ollie Dobbs of Burnside, thanking her for attending the Somerset service for Harold; from HSA to University of Washington, following her appearance there; from HSA to Mike Mullins at the Hindman Settlement School confirming her plan to come to the Appalachian Writers' Workshop despite husband Harold's death; an invitation to an August lunch at the Boone Tavern in Berea, Kentucky from Berea President John B. Stephenson; from Beatrice Henshaw; from editor and friend David Smith, agreeing to purchase HSA's 1983 Ford Aries car; from Bernice Mitchell to HSA, apparently hospitalized in Lexington, Kentucky; from David Smith concerning the automobile sale and referencing HSA's bout with pneumonia; a letter from University of Kentucky Libraries' Anne Campbell, with a newspaper clipping about HSA's Lexington hospitalization; and exchanges with Hindman Settlement School director Mike Mullins, concerning HSA's illness, its effect on the workshop, and the bill for the ambulance.
Correspondence includes: a letter from Jim and Sue Galbraith; a postcard from Beatrice and Hugh [Henshaw]; a postcad from Kentucky writer James Still; several letters from Beatrice [Henshaw]; a letter from Hindman Settlement School director Mike Mullins, in anticipation of HSA's appearance at the 1986 Appalachian Writers Workshop; and a March 24 sympathy card addressed to Mr. Arnow and Family on the death of Mrs. Arnow from the former director of the Murray (Kentucky) State University journalism department.
Harriette Arnow and Michael Bickhoff were pen pals. Aside from letters, the pair sent one another gifts, including stamps, sea shells, maps, and a boomerang. Their correspondence began in 1957 when Bickhoff wrote a short letter (see August 12, 1957 letter) to Arnow saying he enjoyed reading the condensed version of her book in Reader’s Digest and hoped to read more of her work in the future. Bickhoff is a cowboy and groom who worked in various places during the course of the correspondence. Letters are conversational but formal. Most of the early letters discuss farming, gardening, and the weather. Later letters discuss family events, politics, the Vietnam War, and other major world events. Includes newspaper articles, discussion of sheep, animal diseases, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Cuban crisis, doctors, Apollo 13, Richard Nixon, Watergate, Labour Government, Cambodia, Aborigines, Angola, Ronald Reagan, 1984 Olympics, AIDS, rising costs, and whether the Arnows want to continue country life.
Includes newspaper articles, blank postcards, and event programs.
Josephine Gomon was the Executive Secretary to Detroit Mayor Frank Murphy from 1930-1933. She also served as Chairwoman of Mayor’s Unemployment Committee, Director of Detroit Housing Commission, Director of Women’s Personnel at Willow Run Bomber Plant during World War II, and Director of Detroit Atheist Society. Gomon was a founding member of Planned Parenthood and both national and Detroit chapters of the ACLU. While there is no evidence from the letters as to how their friendship began, it is likely Arnow and Josephine met while working at the Willow Run Bomber Plant. The Arnows and Gomon lived relatively close to one another, and Marcella Arnow seems to be a frequent visitor to Gomon’s apartment.
Includes religious debates (especially Catholicism), immediate family, trips, housing, both women’s writing and poetry, deteriorating health, Frank Murphy, presidents, other officials (including McCarthy and Romney), Jacqueline Kennedy’s trip to India, Willow Run, The Dollmaker, vacations, ACLU activities, the press, and family stories earlier in their lives.
Includes family updates, Peach demonstrations, Greek politics, George Edwards, Henry Sedmak, ACLU, health, weather, Kennedy and Johnson (both of whom Gomon comes to dislike) Vietnam, and Wayne State.
Kids appears to be a term used to by Josephine Gomon when writing to various, multiple members of the Arnow family. Part of the reasoning behind this conclusion is that Josephine signs the letters alternately using Gram, Mom, Mother, and Jo. Josephine writes mostly about family events and matters, including how her children and grandchildren are doing. Includes discussions on Vietnam, McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Wayne State University, ACLU, Dissenting Democrats, Paris Peace Negotiations, and Nasser’s death.
Josephine Gomon is mostly writing in protest of something, like funding private schools with public monies, Vietnam War, treatment of Vietnamese, and racial inequality. Mentions: China, Chiang Kai-Shek, foreign policy, Catholics, Abe Fortas, Commission on Children and Youth, Henry Ford, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, and Romney.
Mostly editorial in nature. Includes discussion of the welfare state, tax cuts, living wages, de Gaulle, China, separation of church and state, communism, Eugene McCarthy, women for peace, Catholics, fall-out shelters, John Birch Society, Arthur Holmes, federal aid to private schools, judicial criticism, ACLU, and Vietnam.
Includes discussion of Chris’s birth, family events, Democratic Party, integrated bussing, and Josephine’s health.
Bill and Olga reside in Florida for the bulk of the correspondence. The correspondence is mostly about past or contemporary personal events. Includes discussion of John F. Kennedy's assassination, Vietnam, CIA, Wayne State University, James Thurber, ACLU, Giffels suit, Josephine’s health, family events, Frank Murphy, prison changes, Goddard School, Bill of Rights, and the Peace March.
Includes discussion of Gomon’s trip to Australia, family events, Harriette Arnow, Press Club, Wayne State University, and Frank Murphy biography.
Includes discussion of drug trial laws, John F. Kennedy, editorial discretion, ADA, Gomon’s housing complex, Howard Gomon (Josephine’s son killed in WWII), Flowering of the Cumberland, China, politics, Vietnam, Leonard Lanson Cline, Murphy book, Wayne State University, Cardinal Spellman, Lyndon Johnson, Federal Aid to Education Bill, Americans in Chinese business, friends with money, John Boyne, and family events.
Arnow received a number of letters from fans and critics, even before the publication of her first novel, Mountain Path. While the majority of letters only comment on Arnow’s works, some letters include requests for autographs and inquiries for sources of genealogical information from the nonfiction pieces (particularly Seedtime on the Cumberland and Flowering of the Cumberland). Some of the inquiries regarding genealogical or other historical information are detailed and specific; no notice is given as to whether or not Arnow personally responded to the research questions.
Unpublished; Belle is a Civil War novel Arnow worked on toward the end of her career. Like its unpublished counterpart, To You No Place, Belle is a decidedly unfinished work with physical evidence of heavy reworking and large gaps in the narrative. Unlike To You No Place, though, we lack a complete, coherent set of manuscripts to help us gauge Arnow's creative process. As a result, Belle's method of composition and ultimate direction are not self-evident. While notebooks, pieces of drafts and a working version exist for Belle, none of these are complete in the conventional sense; the reader is left to work through the gaps in the collection and accept that Belle was left a work-in-progress at the time of Arnow's death.
Following HSA's standard compositional procedure, Belle began as a series of notebooks, in which HSA would write, in longhand, entire episodes. In the margins or end pages of these notebooks she would often list or revise characters' names, make note of historical references or books to look up, or make personal notes and reminders. Though numerous, these notebooks do not reflect the whole of the Belle typescript, nor do they have much correspondence with the typescript. Only about one-third of the Belle typescript can be traced back to the notebooks in this collection and only then in significantly altered form. Whether HSA changed her method and composed on a typewriter, whether notebooks have been destroyed or misplaced or whether other notebooks exist is unknown. In any case, the notebooks in this collection have no continuity between them and serve mainly to represent the embryonic stages of the novel. The notebooks arranged here are in three categories: Very Early drafts, Early drafts and Later drafts (these distinctions were not made by HSA herself). The Very Early drafts are those that have only the vaguest resemblance to the typescript; sometimes the mention of the Civil War is the only indication we have that these drafts are related to the larger work. Early notebooks are closer to the typescript but differ in major respects. The biggest hint as to the relative date of the Early and Later notebook are the characters' names. Victoria, Jean Paul, Dave, and Akhim in the Later draft and most typescript drafts were Beulah, Dave, Dwight and Achen in the Early notebooks and the earliest typescript drafts. To avoid confusion, one should make note of the two different characters alternately named Dave. In the early stages of the manuscript HSA apparently had not arrived at names for some of her minor characters; they are either dubbed Name or signified by two dashes.
Belle character named Phoebe, Jean Paul character named Dave.
Page 115 dated May 11, 1976, with fragment of personal diary.
Page 98 of first notebook flows into page 17 of second notebook. Page 13 of first notebook corresponds to typescript fragment dated May 23, 1977 in Box 4, Folder 16. Pages 1-12 of the first notebook and p. 9-16 of the second notebook have been removed and placed with materials from Old Burnside (Box 108, Folder 1). Pages 1-8 of the second notebook have been removed and placed with Notebooks and fragments, personal notes (Box 126, Folder 13).
Rough correspondence to Chapter IV.
Rough correspondence to Chapter VIII.
Rough correspondence in part to Chapter X. Page 270 dated December 27, 1977.
Page 39 dated Sunday February 8 1978 and page 41 dated February 12, both containing fragments of personal diary. Photocopy of last page of notebook in Box 44, Folder 6, flows into this notebook.
Inside cover has notes on Civil War household goods and clothing. Early pages roughly correspond to Chapters XVIII, XIX and XXI. Pages 142-145 titled Christmas has rough correspondence to Chapter X.
Page 1 dated Sunday April 16th, p. 41 dated Saturday April 22nd and p.154 dated July 10, 1978, all containing fragments of personal diary. Writing continues onto both sides of the back cover. Rough correspondence to Chapters XIII and XIV.
Roughly corresponds to Chapter XIV.
Page 63 dated Sunday morning May 16, 1978, containing fragment of personal diary. Original notebook from which these photocopies were made is in Notebooks, Fiction (Box 125, Folder 2).
Roughly corresponds to Chapter XXIII.
Roughly corresponds to Chapter XIV (Continuation of notebook in Box 1, Folder 9). Back cover contains personal notes.
Roughly corresponds to Chapter XXV.
Bottom half of p. 7 is missing, Belle draft is on p. 1-7, 11-20, 53-59, 61-272. Page 7A-8, notes about libraries, p. 21-52 personal family history unrelated to Belle. Rough correspondence to Chapter XXVII of Belle, starting around p. 97. Page 194 dated October 8, 1982.
Roughly corresponds to Chapter IV. Includes unrelated page that was at end of notebook after many blank pages; correspondence unknown.
Rough correspondence to Chapters XXI and XXII.
Includes notes used in a writing workshop, interspersed with Belle text. Rough correspondence with Chapter XIII.
Pages 1-50 have rough correspondence with Chapter XXVII (end). Page 99 contains personal notes, p. 115 contains fragment from personal diary dated Friday, March 30, 1984. Page 117 is a listing of Belle character names.
Pages 1-256 of the same notebook have been removed and placed in Notebooks, Fiction (Box 125, Folder 1).
The condition of the drafts and cut-and-paste sections of Belle is much like that of the notebooks. What is represented here is incomplete and far from polished. As noted before, it is conceivable (likely, perhaps) that an intermediate typescript draft exists that was either lost, destroyed, not donated to Special Collections, or parceled out by HSA in cut-and-paste versions. The reader is left to deal with surviving fragments that suggest, rather than make evident, HSA's intentions. Like the notebooks, typescript drafts are categorized by Special Collections into Earlier, Early and Later Drafts. This categorization is done for the sake of convenience; the reader is cautioned, however, that: 1) each category probably contains the remainder of several drafts, given the fact that HSA did not revise the entire work (or an entire chapter) every time she made revisions, but wrote and edited in sections. The large gaps between sections make subcategorizing impossible; 2) HSA made numerous, heavy revisions to some episodes, while some episodes appear largely unchanged from the initial typescript. For this reason, there may be three Later versions of one episode or chapter and only one of the next chapter; and 3) The distinction between Early and Later Drafts is an arbitrary one made for the sake of this collection. The dividing line is the point in which the Beulah and Dave characters of the notebooks have their names changed to Victoria and Dave, respectively. This change not only occurs at a convenient midway point in the novel's composition, but also signals a shift in tone and direction that is reflected in the Typescript Version.
The following sections are typescripts that reflect the early stages of Belle's composition both in characterization and direction. HSA's own edits, both typed and handwritten, emphasize that these are working drafts.
Pages 37-53, titled Chapter Following Achen, includes fragment of personal diary, lightly edited; early draft.
Pages 65-66, 70, 85-86, 89, titled This and that; a mixture of events during 1861, '62, lightly edited.
Pages 110 and 112, titled Christmas, probably related to draft in Folder 2, heavily edited on p. 112.
Page 84, Springpole character of Later draft named Turniptop in this draft. Roughly corresponds to p. 104-105 in Chapter IV of Typescript Version, moderately edited. Pages 91-94, plus one attached, handwritten page, titled IV Still School with Zion and Turniptop, probably related to p. 84, above. Roughly corresponds to p. 110-112 in Chapter IV of Typescript Version, moderately edited.
Pages 227, 229-230, 233, lightly edited
The following are noncontinuous typescript fragments from the Earlier and Early Drafts. While these fragments may have similarity in passing to sections of the Later draft or the Typescript Version, they mostly represent rejected plot developments or episodes later superseded by the Later draft. There is no correspondence between the numbering of these drafts and the numbering in the Typescript Version; in the case of a page that HSA renumbered by hand, the later, handwritten page number is referred to below. Because these fragments are brief and provide few clues as to their interrelation, they have all been arranged in numerical order. It should be stressed that these fragments do not come from the same drafts but are the only surviving remains of heavy authorial revision.
Page 6, titled Jean Paul, Belle character is named Phoebe and Jean Paul character is named Dave.
Page 1, titled Chapter, moderately edited; p.1-4 and 13, dated May 23, 1977 and titled Visit of Keziah and her mother or grandmother, moderately edited; p. 4, titled Nameless; p. 13, Barstow character is named Arthur; p. 20, titled Hominy; p. 21, titled Achen; p. 25, titled Ms., heavily edited; p. 98, titled IV, moderately edited; p. 120, titled Jean Paul Gaudais, probably from a draft of Chapter V; p.127, lightly edited; p. 129, titled Feeding the Tenants, probably from same draft as p. 127 above; p.140; p. 142, marked End of Chapter IV, probably from same draft as p. 140 above; p. 144, with unmarked, handwritten page; p. 149, lightly edited; p.157, lightly edited; p.162, moderately edited; p.176 and 177, titled Chapter -- Andrew brings three wounded soldiers and letters, lightly edited with authorial note to change a line in line 12 of p. 177; p.183, titled Chapter -- The Evil Man Comes, lightly edited; p. 256, titled Chapter -- Another soldier is brought not wounded but sick to his death; p. 449, titled Chapter XII or XIII, second paragraph has some correspondence with p. 436 in Typescript Version, heavily edited, early draft; p. 543, with list of names on reverse; three unnumbered fragments, no interrelation to one another, lightly edited, early draft; and three handwritten fragments (one unnumbered page, one numbered p. 5 and one numbered p. 10), no known interrelation.
The following variants come from the Later draft; some sections may have been cuts from the Typescript Version. Correspondence to the Typescript Version, when known, is listed below.
Pages 57-58, with alternate p. 58, probably a variant of p. 57-58.
Page 103, corresponds to p. 112-113.
Page 116, probably a variant of p. 116 of Chapter V.
Page one unnumbered page, first page corresponds to p. 128, second paragraph corresponds to p. 132; p. 129-130, corresponds to p. 128-131; p. 139, corresponds to p. 139-140.
Pages 142-144 and 148, with writing on reverse, corresponds to p. 142-146; moderately edited.
Pages 150-153, includes fragment of personal diary, corresponds roughly to events in Chapter VIII, heavily edited.
Pages 197-200, corresponds roughly to events in Chapter IX.
Page 344, probably a variant of p. 344; p. 348, probably a variant of p. 348.
Page 584, probably a variant of p. 548.
Pages 749-750, probably a variant of p. 749-750, moderately edited.
Pages 1-2, titled Chapter XVI. There is no Chapter XIV in the Typescript Version. No correspondence to any other chapter; heavily edited.
This series of Later typescript variants differ from those in Box 45, Folders 17-27 in that they are lengthy, often complete episodes that do not strictly correspond to the Typescript Version. When a correspondence can be inferred, it is noted below. The lack of page numbering and presence of alternate beginnings in some cases suggests that these were run-throughs of pivotal episodes.
Ten unnumbered pages, with four pages of alternate beginnings. No link between any of the four beginnings and the fifth page or any link between the seventh and eighth page. Some correspondence to p. 97-98 in Chapter III; lightly edited, with margin notes by HSA regarding edits.
Thirteen unnumbered pages, titled Jean Paul's visit. Last page probably follows p. 127 in Typescript Version. Some correspondence with Chapter V; moderately edited.
Seventeen unnumbered pages. Some correspondence to Chapter VI; moderately edited.
These sections are the largest sections of the typed Later draft, sometimes encompassing entire chapters. Several subsections are cut-and-paste, which HSA incorporated into the typescript. This method led to many renumberings; when a typed number and a later, handwritten number appear, the handwritten number is indicated below.
Page 93, corresponds to p. 93 in Typescript Version; p. 99-100, corresponds to p. 99-100 in Typescript Version; p. 1, corresponds to p. 102 in Typescript Version.
Pages 6-7 corresponds to p. 106-108 in Typescript Version; p. 95 corresponds to p. 108 in Typescript Version; markings in black pen by Marcella Arnow; two unnumbered pages, correspond to p. 111 in Typescript Version.
Page 12, corresponds to p. 112-113 of Chapter IV in Typescript Version; one page of handwritten inserts; p. 14 corresponds to p. 114-115 of Chapter IV in Typescript Version; p. 14 corresponds to p. 115 of Chapter IV in Typescript Version; two unnumbered pages of typed inserts correspond to p. 115-116 of Chapter IV in Typescript Version; p. 16 corresponds to p. 116-117 of Chapter IV in Typescript Version; p. 18 corresponds to p. 118-119 of Chapter IV in Typescript Version; p. 21 corresponds to p. 122-123 of Chapter IV in Typescript Version. Heavily edited with cut-and-paste sections.
Page 23 corresponds to p. 124-125 of Chapter IV in Typescript Version; p. 24 corresponds to p. 125-126 of Chapter IV in Typescript Version. Fragment from Chapter II on reverse; p. 26-27 corresponds to p. 127-129 of Chapter IV in Typescript Version; p. 29-30, with one unnumbered page of inserts, corresponds to p. 130-132 of Chapter IV in Typescript Version; p. 36-37, with one unnumbered page of inserts, corresponds to p. 138-140 of Chapter IV in Typescript Version.
Pages 338-341 and 344-351, correspond to p. 338-350 in Typescript Version. Gap in numbering due to incomplete renumbering.
Pages 1-24, corresponds to p. 536-579 in Typescript Version. Heavily edited, with cut-and-paste sections.
Pages 2-24 corresponds to p. 582-603 in Typescript Version. Heavily edited, with cut-and-paste sections.
Pages 601-604 corresponds to 601-604 in Typescript Version. Lightly edited on p. 601.
Pages 3-41 with several unnumbered inserts, corresponds to p. 623-656 in Typescript Version.
Page 676, corresponds to p. 676 in Typescript Version; p. 695 corresponds to p. 695 in Typescript Version. Moderately edited, with cut-and-paste sections.
Pages 6-26, corresponds to p. 695-713 in Typescript Version. Heavily edited, with cut-and-paste sections.
Pages 700-717 corresponds to p. 695-712 in Typescript Version; retyped copy of corrections made in Folder 10; p. 719, with two unnumbered handwritten pages, corresponds to p. 713-714 in Typescript Version.
Pages 700-733, with typed fragments on reverse of p. 709, 720, 728 and 732; fragment on reverse of p. 720 indicates that this is written post-1983; two alternates of p. 731, corresponds to p. 695-729 of Typescript Version; p. 739-740, with typed fragment on reverse of p. 740, corresponds to p. 732-735 in Typescript Version. Heavily edited, with cut-and-paste sections.
Pages 17-38, with one unnumbered typed fragment, corresponds to p. 750-773 in Typescript Version. Heavily edited, with cut-and-paste sections.
Pages 782-783, corresponds to p. 782-783 in Typescript Version. Moderately edited.
Pages 2-8, with one unnumbered typed fragment, corresponds to p. 801-808 in Typescript Version, heavily edited; p. 12, with unnumbered fragment on reverse, corresponds to p. 866-867 (end) in Typescript Version, heavily edited, with cut-and-paste sections.
Apart from a brief section published in Adena (Spring 1980) issue, this Typescript Version is the closest we have to a realization of Belle and the only draft with a beginning, middle and end. No conclusion can be made as to whether this typescript reflected HSA's final intentions or was ready to be offered in whole to a publisher. Judging solely from a textual standpoint -- taking into consideration the numerous editorial marks, page misnumberings, chapter misnumberings or omissions and several loose pages -- this does not appear to be a finished work. To present a legible version, original carbons co-mingle with photocopies. Rather than correct obvious mistakes in page and chapter numberings through renumbering, such discrepancies are noted below for the reader's information. In chapter numbering, HSA mixed Roman and Arabic numerals. For the sake of consistency with the final typescript, Roman numerals have been adopted in the following inventory. It appears that Belle never underwent editing beyond the expected authorial revision. However, it appears that HSA's daughter Marcella attempted to work on the Typescript Version after her mother's death. This attempt can result in some confusion. In Chapter IX, for instance, there is a glut of corrections made in pen using signs (such as question marks) that HSA never used in revising her own work. We have no indication that HSA dictated these changes nor would they seem to follow any editorial rationale. In addition, Marcella Arnow photocopied pages of the typescript. In the process, she wrote OBS (short for obsolete) in pen on pages she believed were merely carbons, superfluous to the Typescript Version. Unfortunately, several of those pages were not carbons but pages that filled gaps in the typescript. Several other marked pages were far clearer than the photocopies, necessitating their use in the Typescript Draft or Typescript Version boxes. Simply put, the reader should not misinterpret OBS as a directive or note by HSA.
Writing in blue ink in Chapter IV by Marcella Arnow. Pages 73 through 75A and 93 through 95A probably later inserts.
Writing in blue ink in Chapter V by Marcella Arnow. Note discrepancy in page numbering between Chapters IV and V. Three different pages numbered 138, all out of context to varying degrees. Page 144 has an extra line at the bottom of the page that seems out of context.
Fragment of alternate beginning on reverse of p. 157. Chapter VII is entirely original carbons. Chapter VII is mostly original carbons, with exception to p. 184, 195, and 192.
Corrections in black pen in Chapter IX by Marcella Arnow. Two variant p. 279.
Two variant p. 384.
Two variant p. 436. There is no Chapter XVI; consistent page numbering suggests this is the result of misnumbering, rather than omission.
Missing p. 489; context suggests this is the result of misnumbering, rather than omission.
There is no Chapter XIX; consistent page numbering suggests this is the result of misnumbering, rather than omission. Includes typed note at the end of Chapter XX in regard to corrections; probably made by HSA.
There is no p. 682; context suggests that this is the result of misnumbering, rather than omission.
Two alternate p. 754As, one lightly edited.
Photograph of HSA and James Still on p. 17. This excerpt from Belle is probably an earlier version of Chapter IV in the Typescript Version.
Arnow sent the third draft of this work to her publisher Harold Strauss at Covici-Friede circa September 1936 according to correspondence, making it her second known novel; however, Between the Flowers was not published until 1999 through the work of editor Frederic Svoboda. The typescripts are undated, but correspondence with Harold Strauss suggests that she sent the drafts for editing in late 1936 and early 1937. Arnow almost discontinued work on the novel after frustrations with criticisms from Mr. Strauss according to a letter dated circa early August 1937 (Box 30, Folder 1). In October 1938, Mr. Strauss left Covici-Friede and forwarded Between the Flowers to Alfred Knopf, for whom later Mr. Strauss would work and HSA would publish. In December 1938 (Box 30, Folder 1), Mr. Strauss wrote to Arnow, informing her that Mr. Knopf had declined to publish Between the Flowers. One of Arnow’s friends offered to publish the novel through his small, independent publishing company (Box 30, Folder 1); Mr. Strauss requested that she avoid this route, and he continued to send her manuscript to several publishers over the next few years, to no avail.
This is the original, partial typescript as submitted to Harold Strauss according to correspondence circa September 1939 (Box 30, Folder 1). The pages are ordered exactly as they were found in the original folder kept by HSA. On the backs of the pages are hand-written notes regarding Between the Flowers, but it is difficult to tell if it is a new draft.
Includes p. 39-76 with handwritten notes on back. Also includes page one of the introductory letter to Mr. Strauss.
Includes p. 39-76 with handwritten notes on back. Page 67 is misnumbered as p. 77.
Includes p. 77-125 with handwritten notes on back.
Includes a nine-page letter with handwritten notes on back (plus one page of handwritten notes). The letter explains her vision for the novel. Pages 5-7 are missing. Mr. Strauss mentions in a letter dated October 20, 1936 (Box 30, Folder 1) that he never received these pages, so it is likely that HSA did not include them in her submission packet.
The readers’ reports do not refer to the shorter draft in the collection, the partial draft sent to Mr. Strauss in late 1936. In the earlier, shorter draft, HSA refers to the male lead character as Wash, yet the readers’ reports refer to Marsh, a change noted in the longer draft of this collection. However, the reports do not refer to the longer, later draft, either; the page references do not match with the longer draft of this collection. It is unclear how many intermediary drafts HSA undertook, so it is impossible to determine which of those drafts the readers’ reports reference. Letters to and from Mr. Strauss, dated October 1937 (Box 30, Folder 1), mention the readers’ reports.
This draft is a full-length typescript, as opposed to the partial, earlier draft. The typescript is split into two parts: Part I (Chapters I-XV) and Part II (Chapters XVI-XXVIII). The 1999 published version closely follows the typescript, except for some work on the ending.
Includes p.1-79.
Includes p. 80-158.
Includes p.159-225.
Includes p. 226-319, 241A. Missing p. 290. Duplicate p. 316. Although there is no p.320, it is unclear if the last page of Chapter XX is missing or if it was skipped due to misnumbering of Chapter XXI.
Includes p.321-410, 363A, 377A, and 377B.
Includes p. 411-470 (end).
Chapter I (p. 1-15).
Chapter II (p. 16-35).
Chapter III (p. 36-53).
Chapter IV (p. 54-68).
Chapter V (p. 69-79).
Chapter VI (p. 80-99).
Chapter VII (p. 100-119).
Chapter VIII (p. 120-130).
Chapter IX (p. 131-147).
Chapter X (p. 148-158).
Chapter XI (p. 159-168).
Chapter XII (p. 169-181).
Chapter XIII (p. 182-198).
Chapter XIV (p. 199-213).
Chapter XV (p. 214-225).
Chapter XVI (p. 226-241).
Chapter XVII (p. 241A-264).
Chapter XVIII (p. 265-284).
Chapter XIX (p. 285-302).
Chapter XX (p. 303-319).
Chapter XXI (p. 321-342).
Chapter XXII (p. 343-362).
Chapter XXIII (p. 363A-377A).
Chapter XXIV (p. 377B-394).
Chapter XV (p. 395-410).
Chapter XVI (p. 411-432).
Chapter XVII (p. 433-445).
Chapter XVIII (p. 446-470).
In an attempt to make The Dollmaker manuscripts accessible, they were grouped into four different versions. This arrangement does not necessarily represent Arnow's own order or sequence, and she certainly did not refer to them as Version 1, Version 2, etc. Some versions represent only a small portion of the novel. Where possible, an indication of the rough correspondence between the versions and the published first edition has been noted. Both Version 1 and Version 2 correspond roughly to Chapters 1-18 in published first edition. Version 1 is longer and appears to have been written first. Version 2 corresponds to the published version more closely that Version 1 in most cases. Of the four versions, Version 3 corresponds most closely to the published version. Version 4 appears to be part of an earlier version submitted to Cecil Scott, Arnow's editor at Macmillan, and some correspondence to the published version is apparent.
Some character names change from the earlier versions to the published version. Most notably, the Murphys become the Dalys and Mr. Hoard becomes Mr. Flint. Also included are the publisher's page proofs, pre-publication review copy, and galley sheets. Arnow worked on the manuscript for several years. In a letter to Charles Cunningham (Editor-in-Chief of the Trade Department, Macmillan) dated October 26, 1952, Arnow stated that she had been working on this manuscript for about four years (since before Hunter's Horn was published) and that she had thought about parts of it for twenty years. Arnow's struggles with this manuscript were compounded by the efforts of Cecil Scott. Between the revisions written by Scott and his suggested cuts, little of Arnow's original manuscript remained. Arnow finally finished the manuscript with the help of Granville Hicks, her editor for Hunter's Horn. Correspondence between Hicks and Arnow deals with the editing and revision of the manuscript, as well as the situation involving Scott. These letters include corrections suggested by Hicks and corrections submitted by Arnow as well as their personal anecdotes (See Box 31, Folder 5). It appears that Arnow often referred to the manuscript as The doll and Gertie. Roman numeral chapter numbers were given by Arnow.
There are four boxes of notebooks related to The Dollmaker. Most notebooks correspond, at least in part, to the published first edition. Box 54 also includes notebooks relating to Dollmaker's Children and the [cat on roof story]. The word done in pencil on the cover of various notebooks appears to be Harold Arnow's indication that he had typed the notebook. There is child's scribbling throughout notebooks. The Roman numerals on the notebooks were given by HSA. Some notebooks are missing according to the Roman numerals, so they have been renumbered in brackets to provide uniformity. When a photocopy has been provided, the original should not be used due to its delicate condition.
Notebooks corresponding to Chapters 1-8 in the published version. Some of the notebooks also contain incidents not included in the published version.
No correspondence to published version. The material in this notebook takes place before the beginning of the book.
Corresponds to Chapter 1. Includes partial outline.
Corresponds to Chapter 1. List of names of actual people (not characters) on last page. First quarter of notebook contains a first-person piece, likely autobiographical, discussing the narrator's parents.
Corresponds to Chapters 1 and 2. List of names on last page. This notebook was washed and deacidified on May 27, 1992.
Corresponds to Chapter 2. Last few pages contain very short outline, a few notes, and list of states with numbers.
Corresponds to Chapters 3 and 4. Last four pages contain genealogy or historical material. Prose poem beginning He didn't love his wife or the virgin about five pages from end of notebook.
Corresponds to Chapter 4. A few lines about having a union and not needing God on last page.
Corresponds to Chapter 4. Half of last page appears to be notes for something else, perhaps related prose poem.
Corresponds to Chapter 4. Last page outlines next part of book.
Follows end of Notebook XI. No correspondence to published version.
Corresponds to Chapter 5.
Corresponds to Chapter 5.
Corresponds to Chapters 5 and 6. Next to last page includes notes on scenes from the earlier part of the book, and the last page contains list of books and authors.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 6. Last page has diagram of house layout. Also contains prose poem To the Christ of the Sweat...
Corresponds to Chapter 6. Notebook includes approximately five pages of notes for speech about hill people.
Corresponds to Chapters 6 and 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 7. Includes historical notes and a crossed out section about interview with Berea businessman, Carter B. Robinson.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 8.
Notebooks corresponding to Chapters 9-20 in the published version. Some of the notebooks also contain incidents not included in the published version.
Corresponds to Chapters 8 and 9.
Corresponds to Chapters 9 and 10. Page 34 and 35 are missing in Arnow's numbering sequence, but nothing appears to be missing narratively. Last page appears to be list of citations from the Bible.
Corresponds to Chapters 10 and 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 11. Notebook begins with what appears to be a speech about Berea College and its president, Dr. Frost. One section corresponds to typed draft of Dollmaker's Children. Notebook includes calculations for household expenses, writing supplies, and research trips.
Corresponds to Chapter 11. Last page includes list of characters and scenes.
Corresponds to Chapters 11 and 12. Near end of notebook is poem beginning Out of ovens.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapters 12 and 13. Last page itemizes Nevel family's expenses.
Corresponds to Chapter 13. Last three pages include lists, computations, and reference to Corinthians.
Corresponds to Chapters 13 and 14. Includes brief notes on later portions of the book. Poem Git over Hyar at end of notebook.
Corresponds to Chapters 14 and 17.
Corresponds to Chapters 14, 16, and 17.
Corresponds to Chapter 15. Poem My child adjusted/ to the formula.... at end of notebook.
Corresponds to Chapter 15.
Corresponds to Chapter 15.
Corresponds to Chapters 16, 20, and 21. Last page outlines much of the remainder of the book.
Corresponds to Chapters 17 and 20. Notebook appears to have been shared by Marcella and contains some of Marcella's schoolwork and a page with three, addressed envelopes drawn onto it.
Notebooks corresponding to Chapters 17-35 in the published version. Some of the notebooks also contain incidents not included in the published version.
Corresponds to Chapter 17. List on inside back cover outlines the rest of the book.
Corresponds to Chapter 18.
Corresponds to Chapters 18 and 19.
Corresponds to Chapters 19 and 21.
Corresponds to Chapter 21.
Corresponds to Chapters 20 and 21.
Corresponds to Chapters 22 and 24. Includes short list of events on last page. Poem beginning "Warm me oh Lord" on last three and a half pages.
Corresponds to Chapters 22 and 23.
Corresponds to Chapters 23 and 24.
Corresponds to Chapters 24 and 25.
Corresponds to Chapter 25 and 26.
Corresponds to Chapters 26 and 27.
Corresponds to Chapters 27 and 28.
Corresponds to Chapter 28.
Corresponds to Chapters 28 and 29.
Corresponds to Chapter 29.
Corresponds to Chapters 29 and 30.
Corresponds to Chapter 30.
Corresponds to Chapters 30 and 31.
Corresponds to Chapter 31.
Corresponds to Chapters 31 and 32. Includes section marked insert.
Corresponds to Chapter 32.
Corresponds to Chapters 32 and 33.
Corresponds to Chapters 33 and 34.
Corresponds to Chapters 34 and 35.
Notebooks corresponding to Chapters 35-39 of published version. Some notebooks also contain incidents not included in the published version. Notebook containing Dollmaker's Children and four notebooks containing [cat on roof story].
Corresponds to Chapters 35 and 36. Next to last page has short list of items with numbers (dollars?).
Corresponds to Chapters 36 and 38.
Corresponds to Chapters 38 and 39.
Corresponds to p. 2-12 of typed draft. This notebook is continued by Notebook XXIIIV which corresponds to p. 11-13 of draft. Since XXIIIV also contains section corresponding to first edition of The Dollmaker p. 138-141, it is in the proper order with the other notebooks used in the book. XXIIIV has pages that might correspond to p. 14-16 of The Dollmaker's Children, but we have no typed draft of those pages. Typed draft of The Dollmaker's Children with corrections (p. 1-11, 11 two p. 11s, 13, 17). No actual title on draft, but it appears to be an earlier version judging from two page draft by that title.
Corresponds to typed p. 1-10 (included). Last two pages includes list of doctors. Typed version has call the police written on top, p. 1-2, 4-10 (missing p.3). Also includes two p.1s and unnumbered page. Handwritten revisions on back of p. 1,2, 4,5, one of the extra p. 1s, and the unnumbered page. Notes appear to be reworking of beginning.
Corresponds to p. 10-15 of typed version (p. 11-15 included).
Relates to [cat on roof story]. Back of notebook seems to be a review of Jesse Stuart's Beyond Dark Hills dealing with life in Kentucky mountains. Also includes photocopy of p. 21 of [cat on roof story] and photocopy of unnumbered page that appears to be p. 22 because it continues the flow of the story. Original is with first section of [cat on roof story] because there are handwritten notes on back.
Corresponds to p. 15-21, but p. 15 is with preceding notebook. [cat on roof story]. Typescript version p. 16-21 is included.
Version 1 includes p. 1-359 (some pages missing). This version corresponds roughly to Chapters 1-18 in the published first edition. When a photocopy has been provided, the original should not be used due to its delicate condition. Roman numeral chapter references were given by Arnow.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 2.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Little correspondence to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 5.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Some correspondence to Chapters 7, 8 and 9.
Corresponds to Chapter 10. Both p. 174 and p. 184 are labeled Chapter XI.
Some correspondence to Chapter 11. Both p. 174 and p. 184 are labeled Chapter XI.
Some correspondence to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapter 13.
Corresponds to Chapters 14, 15 and 16.
Corresponds to Chapter 17.
Corresponds to Chapter 18.
Version 2 includes the preliminaries and p. 2-314 (some pages are missing). This version includes some double numbering. Notes concerning pages that have been renumbered are referred to by their original number. This version corresponds roughly to Chapters 1-18 of the published first edition. Editing appears to be by Arnow and by Granville Hicks. The letters between these two is helpful [See letters in Box 31, Folder 7. When a photocopy has been provided, the original should not be used due to its delicate condition. Roman numeral chapter references were given by Arnow.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 2.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 5.
Some correspondence to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 8.
Corresponds to Chapter 9. A sheet numbered p. 2 containing handwritten notes follows p. 145 and appears to continue the storyline.
Corresponds to Chapter 10.
Corresponds to Chapter 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Note on p. 212 about a Senator Ferguson, Senate Office Bldg, Wash., D.C. and Rep. Velde, House of Representatives. Corresponds to Chapter 13.
Corresponds to Chapter 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 15.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
Corresponds to Chapter 17.
Corresponds to Chapter 18.
Version 3 includes p. 1-644 (some pages missing). This appears to be the carbon of the version sent to the typesetter. Some pages are marked to indicate correspondence to a galley (e.g., p. 7 marked galley 3). This version corresponds closely to published first edition. However, there are a few minor differences (e.g., p. 24 paragraph 7 in manuscript and p. 20 paragraph 7 in published version). Pages 40 and 452 are missing, but there is no break in the text. Two variants of p. 478, 506, 525, 534, and 542 are included. When a photocopy has been provided, the original should not be used due to its delicate condition. Roman numeral chapter references were given by Arnow.
Corresponds to Chapter 1. Note on p. 10A: insert.
Corresponds to Chapter 2.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 5.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 8.
Corresponds to Chapter 9.
Corresponds to Chapter 10.
Corresponds to Chapter 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapter 13.
Corresponds to Chapter 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 15.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
Corresponds to Chapter 17.
Corresponds to Chapter 18.
Corresponds to Chapter 19.
Corresponds to Chapter 20.
Corresponds to Chapter 21.
Corresponds to Chapter 23.
Corresponds to Chapter 24.
Corresponds to Chapter 25.
Corresponds to Chapter 26.
Corresponds to Chapter 27.
Corresponds to Chapter 28.
Corresponds to Chapter 29.
Corresponds to Chapter 30.
Corresponds to Chapter 31.
Corresponds to Chapter 32.
Corresponds to Chapter 33.
Corresponds to Chapter 34.
Corresponds to Chapter 35.
Corresponds to Chapter 36.
Corresponds to Chapter 37.
Corresponds to Chapter 38.
Corresponds to Chapter 39.
Includes pages 12, 14, 16, 17, 50, 57, 59-60, 238-239, 798, and unnumbered.
This version appears to represent an early version of the manuscript submitted to Scott and possibly Hicks as well. Editing appears to be primarily by Scott [pencil]. Editing of Scott's editing also apparent--possibly by Hicks. Notes in what appears to be Arnow's hand on back of p. 183. Some correspondence to published version.
Contains a cover letter to an unknown typescript copy of The Dollmaker.
Missing pages 94, 141, 191, and 198
Includes pages through part of Chapter 39. Missing parts of galleys 1,2,57, and 64. Duplicate galleys 162,163, and 169 on white paper. Notes and marks on galleys 57,64,162, and 169 (white paper). Includes galley fragment with no top and no number.
Includes hand-drawn image, two book jackets, two color prints of the front cover and side of book jacket, photostat and copy of the front cover and side of book jacket, a promotional item, and one large painting used for a promotional item.
The Dollmaker was adapted into a variety of formats, including the popular film starring Jane Fonda.
Includes newspaper and magazine clippings related to The Dollmaker adaptations, particularly the film starring Jane Fonda, and a letter from Barbara Smith dated May 17, 1984.
Contains original artwork on first page by unknown painter. Includes articles from around the world related to the novel.
The many versions and variants of Hunter's Horn arrived at the University of Kentucky in complete disarray. With a few exceptions, pages were not in sequential order, and different versions and different formats (original typescript and carbon) were mixed together. Although certain pages apparently followed in sequence, it was not always clear with which version a fragment belonged. Moreover, many pages were missing. Arnow often used the reverse side of apparently discarded manuscripts to type something else. In some of her later works such as Weedkiller's Daughter, these discarded pages were from an earlier manuscript. However, in Hunter's Horn the discarded pages are, for the most part, from earlier versions of the same manuscript making the task of processing extremely difficult. It was not always clear which version came first. An attempt was made to place both versions within the logical progression of the manuscript. When the later version could be determined, the original was placed there and a photocopy of the earlier version was placed in an appropriate place. When it could not be determined which came first, the original was placed within the sequence of the most complete version and a photocopy was placed with the other version.
In an attempt to make the many fragments of the manuscript more accessible, the fragments were grouped as Early Drafts, Middle Drafts, and Later Drafts. These drafts were then sorted into versions. It must be emphasized that this arrangement into versions does not necessarily represent Arnow's own order or sequence. Rather the parts were pieced together by an educated guess as to what the original and appropriate order might have been. Some versions represent only a chapter or small portion of the novel because a definite link to another sequence could not be determined. It is quite probable that Arnow did not view these sequences as integral versions but rather as reworkings of particular parts of the manuscript. Where possible, an indication of the rough correspondence between the fragmented versions and the published first edition has been given. Also included are versions of chapters with headers that include Arnow's name and address. It is possible that these chapters were submitted as short stories or excerpts from the novel. Arnow worked on the manuscript for many years. Over the course of these years, Arnow changed the order and direction of the story several times. Although many of the incidents in the Early and Middle Drafts also occur in the Later Draft, the sequence of events is different. Therefore, it was very difficult to arrange the manuscript in a logical order.
Macmillan accepted the manuscript for publication in 1946, but the book was not published until 1949 after extensive revisions and other problems. Correspondence between Arnow, her editor Granville Hicks, and Macmillan reveals several quarrels over the length of the book, its title, and the lack of definitive action by Macmillan to publish the book. Only after Arnow, encouraged by Hicks, pursued a contract with another publisher did Macmillan finalize the deal. Cecil Scott, an editor at Macmillan, was also involved with this manuscript (See The Dollmaker). Although parts of the story first appear in the Early and Middle Drafts, it is not until the Later Draft versions that the novel has assumed a general shape close to the published version. Arnow was particularly upset by Macmillan's decision to rename the manuscript. The original title End of the Gravel was considered too vague and regional to have mass appeal. Other possible titles included King Devil and The Hills Remain. The title Hunter's Horn was never satisfactory to Arnow because she felt it gave the impression of English-style fox hunting which is nothing like fox hunting in the hills of Kentucky. In later years, Arnow referred to the novel as the horn. In a note found with the manuscript, Arnow states that the original manuscript sent to Macmillan was destroyed, but she does not elaborate. There is some confusion over a missing chapter of Hunter's Horn. Upon surveying the four copies of the novel in Special Collections, discrepancies were found. The original version which was used to write this inventory [New York : Macmillan, 1949 (1st printing)] contains 38 chapters. Another version published later (New York : Macmillan, c1949) contains only 37 chapters. A version published in Great Britain (c1950) contains all 38 chapters. A 1986 edition by the University Press of Kentucky is a reprint of the c1949 version with only 37 chapters. The controversial Chapter 30 concerns the illnesses of Lureenie and her children due to starvation. No apparent reason for the omission was determined from the books or from the correspondence. Also included with this manuscript are fragments that could not be placed within a version, summaries of the story, notes, and a hand-drawn map of the Ballew area. Some pages contain typescript on back. When this appears to be only typing mistakes or false starts, it was not noted. A child's scribbling appears throughout the manuscript. Roman numeral and quoted chapter headings were given by Arnow.
There are four boxes of notebooks related to Hunter's Horn. Since Arnow did not number the notebooks, we have no way of knowing the order in which the story was written. Therefore, the notebooks have been arranged according to their correspondence with the published first edition. This arrangement is based on the correspondence of the beginning of the notebook to the published first edition. It must be stressed that this was not Arnow's ordering and almost certainly does not represent the order in which the story was written. Box 68 contains 4 notebooks relating to the story, but which contain no real correspondence to the published first edition. Page numbers and notebook numbers in brackets represent our numbering not Arnow's. When a photocopy has been provided, the original should not be used due to its delicate condition.
Notebooks corresponding to published version. Some of the notebooks also contain incidents not included in the published version. Many of the notebooks contain miscellaneous notes.
Corresponds to Chapter 2.
Corresponds to Chapter 3. Includes notes, partial outline of story, and list of famous people.
Corresponds to Chapters 5, 7, and 10. Includes partial outline.
Corresponds to Chapters 7 and 13.
Corresponds to Chapters 7 and 13.
Corresponds to Chapters 13, 29, 8, 2, and 9. See Folder 6 for photocopy.
Corresponds to Chapters 9, 10, and 29. Includes mention of the Nevels [ The Dollmaker] on [p. 17].
Corresponds to Chapter 11.
Corresponds to Chapters 11, and 12.
Notebooks corresponding to published version. Some of the notebooks also contain incidents not included in the published version.
Corresponds to Chapters 14, 34, and 36. Includes poem [I clatter over bumpy ways...] and partial outline.
Corresponds to Chapters 15, and 16. Includes partial outlines.
Corresponds to Chapter 16. See Folder 4 for photocopy.
Corresponds to Chapters 16, 17, and 18.
Corresponds to Chapters 18, and 19.
Corresponds to Chapters 19, 20, 21, and 22.
Corresponds to Chapter 22.
Notebooks corresponding to the published version. Some of the notebooks also contain incidents not included in the published version.
Corresponds to Chapters 22, 23, and 24.
Some correspondence to Chapter 25.
Some correspondence to Chapters 25 and 26. Includes partial outline.
Corresponds to Chapters 26 and 27.
Some correspondence to Chapter 27.
Corresponds to Chapters 27 and 28.
Corresponds to Chapters 28 and 29.
Corresponds to Chapters 29 and 30.
Corresponds to Chapters 30 and 31. Includes poems on [p. 110-120].
Corresponds to Chapters 31 and 32.
Corresponds to Chapter 33.
Notebooks corresponding to published version. Some of the notebooks contain incidents not included in the published version. Also contains notebooks that do not correspond to published version.
Corresponds to Chapters 33, 34, and 35.
Corresponds to Chapter 35.
Corresponds to Chapters 35 and 36. Includes drawing on [p. 123] and partial outline.
Corresponds to Chapters 37 and 38.
Corresponds to Chapter 38.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
Early Draft, Version A.1, B.1, C.1, C.2, D.1, D.2, D.3, D.4, E.1 and E.2 contain variants of Chapters 1-3 in the published version. Early Draft, Version D.4 appears to be a handwritten draft of Early Draft, Version D.3. Early Draft, Version F.1, F.2, F.3, G.1, and G.2 include versions of early chapters that were not included in the published version. Early Draft, Version G.2 appears to be a handwritten draft of Early Draft, Version G.1. Early Draft, Versions H.1 and I.1 appear to be handwritten drafts of book Chapters 34 and 12, respectively. Early Draft, Version J.1 (p. 50-408) appears to be the earliest, relatively complete version of the manuscript. It has little correspondence to the published version. Early Draft, Version K.1 includes a version of book Chapter 9 that appears to have been written between Early Draft, Versions J.1 and L.1. Early Draft, Version L.1 (p. 1-403) has more correspondence to published version than Early Draft, Version J.1. Early Draft, Version M.1 (p. 1-408) could possibly be the carbon of Early Draft, Version L.1. However, the first page of every chapter is different. Many pages have been renumbered, sometimes more than once. Many pages contain handwritten notes on back of page. Child's scribbling is also common throughout the manuscript. When a photocopy has been provided, the original should not be used due to its delicate condition. Roman numeral and quoted chapter headings were given by Arnow.
Early Drafts: Versions A.1 - I.1
Some correspondence to Chapter 3. Note at top p. 8: The fall III.
Some correspondence to Chapter 2.
Some correspondence to Chapter 3.
No correspondence to published edition.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 2.
Corresponds to Chapter 1. All pages except the last page are photocopies. The originals are with other versions of Hunter's Horn.
Some correspondence to Chapter 2.
Some correspondence to Chapter 2.
Little correspondence to Chapter 2.
Little correspondence to Chapter 2.
Some correspondence to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 3. Note at top p. 31: Chapter III.
No correspondence to published edition.
No correspondence to published edition.
No correspondence to published edition. This version appears to be one in which Arnow used to cut and paste another due to its fragmented condition.
No correspondence to published edition.
No correspondence to published edition.
This version appears to be part of the first draft of Early Draft, Version G.1.
Little correspondence to Chapter 34.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
No correspondence to published version.
Some correspondence to Chapter 2.
No correspondence to published version.
Some correspondence to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 5. Includes typescript poem back p. 133.
Early Draft, Version J.1-L.1
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 7. Pages 4-12 are handwritten and continue storyline from handwritten notes on back p. 158, 161-162.
Little correspondence to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 13. Includes typescript verse on back p. 184.
Some correspondence to Chapter 8. Typescript on back p. 228 continues storyline.
Corresponds to Chapter 9.
Some correspondence to Chapter 29.
Some correspondence to Chapter 30.
Some correspondence to Chapters 30, 31, and 32.
Some correspondence to Chapter 14.
Little correspondence to Chapter 34.
Some correspondence to Chapters 11, 12, and 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 9.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Little correspondence to Chapter 2.
No correspondence to published version.
Some correspondence to Chapter 2.
Some correspondence to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 5.
Early Draft, Versions L.1 - M.1
Corresponds to Chapter 6. Note that this version contains two pages numbered 138. They are not duplicates.
Little correspondence to Chapter 7.
Some correspondence to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 8.
Corresponds to Chapter 9.
Corresponds to Chapter 13. Chapter XIV begins on p. 245.
Corresponds to end Chapter 29.
Corresponds to Chapter 30.
Corresponds to Chapter 31.
Corresponds to Chapter 32.
Some correspondence to Chapter 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 34.
No correspondence to published version.
Some correspondence to Chapter 14.
Corresponds to Chapters 11-12.
Corresponds to Chapter 1. Includes "Chap XX" note on front p. 1 and "1st fall Chap. 39" on back p. 1.
Little correspondence to Chapter 2. Includes Chap. III notation at bottom p. 25.
No correspondence to published version.
Some correspondence to Chapter 2.
Some correspondence to Chapter 3. Includes notes on back p. 98 that appear to be partial outline.
Corresponds to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 5. Includes notes on back of p. 139 that appear to be partial outline.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Little correspondence to Chapter 7. Includes notes on back of p. 165 that appear to be partial outline.
Some correspondence to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 8.
Corresponds to Chapter 9.
Corresponds to Chapter 13.
Corresponds to Chapter 29.
Corresponds to Chapter 30.
Corresponds to Chapter 31.
Corresponds to Chapter 32. Includes handwritten chapter headings death and Chap. 36 at top of p. 306.
Corresponds to Chapter 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 34. Three handwritten pages inserted between p. 339-340.
No correspondence to published version. Handwritten draft of what appears to be a letter to the publishers on back p. 363-364.
Some correspondence to Chapter 14.
Corresponds to Chapters 11 and 12.
Middle Draft, Versions A.1, A.2, A.3, B.1, B.2, and B.3 are variants of Chapter 3. Middle Draft, Version A.2 is a more complete carbon of Middle Draft, Version A.1. Middle Draft, Version A.3 corresponds to parts of Middle Draft, Versions A.1 and A.2, but was cut from the final version. Middle Draft, Version B.2 appears to be handwritten draft of Middle Draft, Version B.1. Middle Draft, Version C.1 corresponds to parts of Chapters 5 and 7 in published version. Middle Draft, Version D.1 corresponds to Chapter 33. Middle Draft, Version E.1 contains handwritten drafts of several chapters that appear to have been written after the Early Draft versions and before the Later Draft versions. Middle Draft, Version F.1 corresponds to Chapters 15-29, 33-38 of published version and many pages have been cut and pasted. Many pages have been renumbered, sometimes more than once. Many pages contain handwritten notes on back of page. Child's scribbling is also common throughout the manuscript. When a photocopy has been provided, the original should not be used due to its delicate condition. Roman numeral and quoted chapter headings were given by Arnow.
Middle Draft, Versions A.1 - F.1
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
No correspondence to published version.
Corresponds to Chapter 3. Includes photocopy of p. 57.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 3. This appears to be a handwritten version of Middle Draft, Version B.1.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 5.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 33.
Corresponds to Chapter 22.
Corresponds to Chapter 24.
Corresponds to Chapter 26.
Corresponds to Chapter 27.
Corresponds to Chapter 29.
Corresponds to Chapter 33.
Corresponds to Chapter 15.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
Corresponds to Chapters 17-18.
Corresponds to Chapter 19.
Corresponds to Chapter 20.
Corresponds to Chapter 21.
Corresponds to Chapter 22.
Corresponds to Chapter 23.
Corresponds to Chapter 24.
Corresponds to Chapter 25.
Corresponds to Chapter 26.
Corresponds to Chapter 27.
Corresponds to Chapter 28.
Corresponds to Chapter 29. Page 11 labeled Insert 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 33.
Corresponds to Chapter 34. Note at top p. [1] The Fire. Note at bottom p.4 Fire follows.
Corresponds to Chapter 35.
Corresponds to Chapter 36-37.
Corresponds to Chapter 38.
Later Draft, Version A.1 includes variant of Chapter 5. Later Draft, Versions B.1 and B.2 include two variants of Chapter 7. Later Draft, Version C.1 includes variants of Chapters 10 and 15. Later Draft, Versions D.1 and D.2 include two variants of Chapter 25. Later Draft, Version E.1 includes variant of Chapter 29. Later Draft, Version F.1 includes variants of Chapters 31 and 38. Later Draft, Versions G.1 and G.2 includes two variants of Chapter 34. Later Draft, Version H.1 (p. 34-334 [scattered]) appears to be edited typescript of Later Draft, Version I.1. According to Arnow, Later Draft, Version I.1 (p. 1-733) is carbon typescript of the version sent to Macmillan for final editing. It is the most complete manuscript version in this collection and it corresponds closely to the published version. It contains several chapters that were cut from the final version. Later Draft, Version J.1 includes revisions of Later Draft, Version I.1. Some pages have been renumbered and some contain handwritten notes on back of page. Child's scribbling is common throughout the manuscript. When a photocopy has been provided, the original should not be used due to its delicate condition. Roman numeral and quoted chapter headings were given by Arnow.
Corresponds to Chapter 5.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 10.
Corresponds to Chapter 15.
Corresponds to Chapter 25.
Corresponds to Chapter 25.
Corresponds to Chapter 29.
Corresponds to Chapter 31.
Corresponds to Chapter 38.
Corresponds to Chapter 34.
Corresponds to Chapter 34. This appears to be carbon of Later Draft, Version G.1.
Corresponds to Chapters 2, 5, 7, 9-13, 16-18.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 2.
No correspondence to published version.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 5.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 8.
Corresponds to Chapter 9. Note that p. 188 has a duplicate part of page on back.
Corresponds to Chapter 10.
Corresponds to Chapter 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 12. Note that p. 223-226 have beginnings of other pages on back.
Corresponds to Chapter 13.
Corresponds to Chapter 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 15.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
Corresponds to Chapter 17.
Corresponds to Chapter 18.
Corresponds to Chapter 19.
Corresponds to Chapter 20.
Corresponds to Chapter 21.
Corresponds to Chapter 22.
Corresponds to Chapter 23.
Corresponds to Chapter 24.
Corresponds to Chapter 25.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
Corresponds to Chapter 26.
Corresponds to Chapter 27.
Corresponds to Chapter 28.
Corresponds to Chapter 29.
Corresponds to Chapter 30.
Corresponds to Chapter 31.
Corresponds to Chapter 32. Note the p. 608 is also labeled Chapter XXXVI.
Corresponds to Chapter 33.
Corresponds to Chapter 34.
Corresponds to Chapter 35.
Corresponds to Chapter 36.
Corresponds to Chapter 37.
Corresponds to Chapter 38.
Corresponds to Chapter 17.
Corresponds to Chapter 25.
No correspondence to published version.
Corresponds to Chapter 26.
Corresponds to Chapter 28.
Corresponds to Chapter 29.
Some correspondence to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 1, except this version mentions Nunn buying food for the pups, not Zing.
Some correspondence to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 1. Handwritten notes the paper and the vaccinations at top p. [1].
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 7. Handwritten III at top p. [1].
Corresponds to Chapter 9.
This folder contains various fragmented pieces of manuscript that could not be placed within a particular version. In most cases, these fragments appear to represent places where Arnow rewrote and/or retyped the manuscript. In almost every case, the material found in these fragments is also found in the more complete versions.
This folder contains two summaries of the story. The longer summary [p. 2-9] includes more detail than the published version.
This folder contains a hand-drawn map of the Ballew area to be included in the published first edition. In a letter dated December 6, 1948, Cecil Scott requested a sketch showing the countryside, the position of Nunn's house... to be used as the model for an endpaper map in the published version. This appears to be an artist's rough sketch sent to Arnow for approval.
This folder contains various pages of notes that Arnow used to write the novel. Includes partial outlines of the story, lists of characters' names and place names, and Biblical quotes. Also includes two cardboard notebook backs with notes. Two pages are photocopied due to their delicate condition.
Includes book jacket and mockup of pages.
Use photocopies instead of fragile scrapbook (Item 75).
Fragile Originals; use photocopies (Box 74, Folder 33). Includes one attached telegram on page 69 to the drama editor of The Detroit Times regarding the sale of rights for Hunter's Horn (January 13, 1950). Loose pieces that were clearly intended to be pasted into the scrapbook have been attached on pages 70-72.Between pages 48 and 49, multiple loose items were placed into the scrapbook. These loose pieces have been removed and replaced into other appropriate areas of the collection: Advance News of Books from the Macmillan Company, July 16, 1949 (Box 130, Folder 4); press release to 140 Kentucky newspapers, May 31, 1949 (Box 130, Folder 4); Macmillan Books, Spring, 1949 (Box 130, Folder 4); pamphlet of suggested summer book reading, including Hunter's Horn (Box 130, Folder 4); book jacket and incorrectly-numbered page mockup (Box 74, Folder 32); Wife of Times Reporter Pens Novel of Hill Country, May 26, 1949, The Detroit Times (Box 2, Folder 2); Book Review, December 16, 1945 (Box 131, Folder 26); Detroit is the of the Welfare Wanderers,undated; Security Versus Suppression, June 17, 1949 (Box 131, Folder 28); The Guild Memo, August 1949 (Box 139, Folder 22); Auto Agencies, Officers Deny Federal Charge by Harold Arnow, undated (Box 139, Folder 23); Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library Association, January 1947 (Box 133, Folder 8); letter from Henry Volkening, circa December 10, 1952 (Box 133, Folder 3); telegram from Cecil Scott, June 28, 1948 (Box 30, Folder 2); letter from a reader, May 29, 1950 (Box 43, Folder 3); letter from reader, May 15, 1951 (Box 43, Folder 3); letter from reader, April 3, 1950 (Box 43, Folder 3); letter from an acquaintance, April 16, 1950 (Box 34, Folder 10); and a letter from Anne G. Campbell, Appalachian Librarian, April 2, 1981 (Box 37, Folder 18).
Unpublished [Character names: DD, Johalia, Mollie, Maggie, MU] The manuscript for the unpublished novel To You No Place (as Arnow entitles it in the last draft of the manuscript) is preserved here in all its known versions. The novel grew out of the unpublished short story A Journey for Lucinda, though the lack of a date on the manuscript prevents one from knowing when the novel was commenced or how soon the novel followed the short story ( Lucinda was submitted to Arnow's literary agent, Henry Volkening in January 1954, Box 33, Folder 3). In keeping with her usual work habits, Arnow often used the back of personal letters, early drafts and typescript notes to both Seedtime on the Cumberland and Flowering of the Cumberland in the composition of the To You No Place typescript. In these cases, the original was photocopied, then the photocopy placed within the To You No Place typescript, while the photocopy of a letter was placed within the appropriate correspondence box, photocopies of drafts were placed with fellow drafts and so on.
The last known typescript of To You No Place (known here as Version A) was given to Special Collections preserved in a cardboard box, complete and in order. All other drafts of the novel and short story arrived at Special Collections unsorted, with pages of separate drafts commingling. Because Arnow numbers each page, though, it was possible to piece together a running order for all drafts. In addition to the two latest workings of the novel (Versions A and B), there is an earlier version dating from around 1961, referred to here as Version C. In a self-deprecating letter to the author and editor John Leggett on October 19, 1961, Arnow describes her submission of this version to Macmillan, who, she says, rejected it with vehement speed. Though she goes on to say in the letter that she cannot say it would have merit, it appears from this submission to Leggett and her two subsequent reworkings of the novel that she did have some publication hopes for this novel. Both A Journey for Lucinda and To You No Place are resolutely works-in-progress.
The manuscript of A Journey for Lucinda includes three distinct beginnings (plus a fragment with a fourth beginning) as well as three distinct endings. An educated guess was made in surmising the causal link between the three drafts: handwritten emendations to the first draft (draft A) became part of draft B and draft B's emendations find their way onto draft C's typescript. One should not assume, however, that draft C was Arnow's intended final version or that it is the version she submitted to Henry Volkening. As for the novel, its genesis probably lies in Box 76, Folder 5, which has fragments of A Journey for Lucinda. The numbers in parentheses in the typescript are Arnow's own references to the corresponding manuscript page. Where a correspondence, even a rough one, between manuscript and typescript can be established, it is noted below. For reasons unknown, the final typescript of the novel (Version A) lacks a corresponding set of drafts and notes, while only fragments of Version C have been retrieved from the backs of her everyday correspondence. With the exception of Versions A and C of To You No Place, both the story and novel are composed on very cheap, fragile paper: either a coarse, newspaper-type paper or a brittle, tissue-thin paper. Unfortunately, due to prohibitive cost, all of these pages cannot be photocopied for use in these collections. Therefore, appropriate care must be taken when perusing and handling these materials.
Complete manuscripts and typescripts of A Journey for Lucinda. To You No Place manuscript pages.
Page 12 is misnumbered as page 13.
Much had been cut from this draft for use in To You No Place's rough drafts. Corresponds to Version C.
Edited typescript p. 1-3 of a rejected beginning with notes on the back.
Roughly corresponds with the novel's Version B, p. 1-2.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 16-37.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 97-113.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 113-133.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 133-155.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 156-192.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 192-224.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 225-258.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 258-288.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 289-319.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 319-357.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 357-381. Notes to both Cumberland books are on the backs of some of these pages, in no set order.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 381-390. Notes to both Cumberland books are on the backs of some of these pages, in no set order.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 390-403.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 403-416.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 416-444.
Roughly corresponds to Version B, p. 42.
Roughly corresponds to Version B, p. 46-47.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 61-62.
Corresponds to Version B, p. 68 and 72-81.
Corresponds to Version B.
Includes Arnow's handwritten notes, corrections and dialogue run-throughs for To You No Place.
Missing multiple pages; duplicate pp. 10 and 104; page 11 misnumbered as LL.
Missing multiple pages; duplicate p. 302
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. The many versions and variants of The Kentucky Trace arrived at the University of Kentucky in disarray. With a few exceptions, pages were not in sequential order, and different versions and different formats (original typescript and carbon) were mixed together. Although certain pages apparently follow in sequence, it was not always clear with which version a fragment belonged. Moreover, many pages were missing. Arnow often used the reverse side of apparently discarded pages from one work to type something else. For example, some pages of The Kentucky Trace were typed on the backs of correspondence and drafts of essays, and vice versa. In these cases, the original was photocopied and kept with the material where it was found, and the photocopy was placed in the appropriate file.
In an attempt to make the many fragments of the novel more accessible, they were grouped as Early Drafts, Middle Draft, Late Draft, and Final Draft. The Early Drafts have been sorted into versions, an arrangement which does not necessarily represent Arnow's own order of sequence; she certainly did not designate her drafts by using these terms. The parts were pieced together by an educated guess at what their original and appropriate order may have been. Arnow quite possibly did not think of some of the sequences as integral versions but rather as reworkings of a particular part of the novel. Precisely when Arnow began working on the novel is unclear. In a letter dated July 23, 1971, Harold Strauss queried her, asking Are you . . . working on a book now? If so, what is it, and when do you expect to finish it? In a letter from Arnow to Strauss dated September 12, 1972, she apologizes for the time she's taken to finish the manuscript, which, she says, still does not have a suitable name. Six months later, on March 7, 1973, Arnow wrote to Strauss to tell him that a draft of about 105,000 words will be on its way to him shortly (the Middle Draft likely represents this draft). Strauss's assistant at Knopf acknowledged receipt of the manuscript on March 28, 1973. After extensively revising portions of the novel during the next several months (see the Knopf correspondence file, Box 32, Folder 2, for discussion between author and editor/s), the novel appeared in publication in June 1974. Much of the revision between the first submission and the final typescript centered on the initial and especially the closing chapters of the novel. The many revision attempts of various pages and sections comprise the Late Draft, which is not, in itself, a whole draft. The Final Draft is composed of the extant pages, mostly carbons, that closely match the published version.
Version A consists of seven extant notebooks and an incomplete typescript of these notebooks, which together represent Arnow's initial attempt at the first working draft of The Kentucky Trace. Following her usual drafting process, Arnow wrote this first draft in notebooks and then typed them (or perhaps had her husband or someone else type them), sometimes making slight revisions or commentary in the running text during the transcription. Some notebooks and portions of the typescript of Version A are missing. Plot events are similar to the published version, but some names are different (most notably, Watson in this version is Leslie in subsequent versions).
Contains first chapter and probably beyond (no chapter divisions are indicated). Original notebook (Big 25 Pencil Tablet) is in The Weedkiller's Daughter files. Page numbers written on photocopies (105-196) indicate sequence of pages within notebook; the numbers are not Arnow's. The working typescript of these pages is missing.
Contains draft that corresponds to text of pages 112 through 126 of initial working typescript.
Contains draft that corresponds to text of p.146-184 of initial working typescript.
Contains draft that corresponds to text of p.184-235 of initial working typescript.
Continues Notebook 4, with only the initial page appearing in typescript form (p.235).
Appears to be a continuation of Notebook 5. No typescript is available. Notebook 6 also contains, in p.1-52, nonfiction material on Southern Appalachians and coal companies, which have been photocopied and placed in nonfiction notebooks (Box 126, Folder 2). Novel material begins in middle of p.52 and continues through p. 104, the end of the notebook. Page numbers are not Arnow's.
Appears to be a continuation of Notebook 6. No typescript is available. Pages are numbered 1-108; numbers are not Arnow's.
First extant attempt at whole-novel typescript. Lightly to heavily edited.
Both pages are titled Third Revision, which may indicate that other drafts occurred between Versions A and B.
The numeral V is marked in pencil at the top of p.84, probably by Arnow; chapter pagination places it as Chapter 4
Corresponds roughly to Chapter 6 in published version of novel.
Also contains variant of page 119.
Corresponds roughly to Chapter 9 in published version of novel.
Some page numbers are non-sequential, though the narrative appears sequential; others have been marked through and changed, sometimes twice. Pages include 216-223, which have been changed to 195-202; 218, 219, 220, 220A, and 221, which are renumbered twice as 224-228 and 203-207; and 229-254, which are renumbered as 209-234 (with some of these pages renumbered yet again, ending the chapter with three different numbers: 254 and 234 and 237).
Typescript is lightly edited.
Corresponds roughly to Chapter 9 of published version.
Likely represents the initial version submitted to Knopf in March 1973. Much of this version was found in a box labeled in Arnow's handwriting, Last Revision Before Submission. Typescript exists mostly in carbon-copy form with no editing.
Typescript is mostly unedited; some pages are lightly edited. Appears to be directly preparatory to Final Draft, with much of it addressing Knopf's advice to revise the first and last chapters (see letters from Harold Strauss of Knopf filed in correspondence with editors and publishers).
Pages and portions of Final Draft, that closely match published version. Version exists mostly in carbon-copy typescript with no editing.
Two copies: a photocopy apparently made by Arnow and a carbon copy of the typescript.
Two copies: a photocopy apparently made by Arnow and a carbon copy of the typescript.
Mountain Path was Arnow's first novel. She first submitted the typescript to Macmillan, who rejected it. She submitted the same draft to Harold Strauss at Covici Friede, where it was subsequently published. Mr. Strauss initially warned Arnow that the draft in its then-current form would meet opposition, calling it another hillbilly novel somewhat melodramatic in nature in a letter dated March 12, 1936, and encouraged revisions (Box 30, Folder 1). Arnow’s first literary agent, Elizabeth Nowell, submitted the draft to a contest by Houghton Mifflin publishers after Covici Friede’s initial hesitance to publish, a move which nearly wrecked [HSA’s] chance of publication, according to a letter by Galena Hopkins on April 14, 1936 (Box 33, Folder 2). Arnow terminated her contract with Ms. Nowell in April 1936 and requested to withdraw the book from Houghton Mifflin. Arnow began working with Galena Hopkins in April 1936.
Note from Arnow to the University of Kentucky upon the typescript’s arrival to the collection, explaining the reason for not having the manuscript and the details of this typescript.
Outlines Chapters I through XXII of Mountain Path.
According to Arnow in the introduction (Box 85, Folder 1), this typescript was the copy she sent to Macmillan, who subsequently rejected it, and to Harold Strauss at Covici Friede. Also in the note, she suggests that Mr. Strauss made the editorial notes in the margins of the typescript. All of the chapters in this typescript correspond roughly to the same chapters in the published version, with exception to the second Chapter XX as noted in its description (Box 85, Folder 23).
Includes partial second copy (pp. 154-162) with editorial marks.
Includes two copies with different editorial notes.
Likely misnumbered as XX instead of XXI because it closely corresponds to Chapter XXI in the published version. Unclear why the numbering begins renumbering with 1 rather than continuing with 258.
Includes press releases, book reviews, and letters regarding the publication.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. The many versions and variants of The Weedkiller's Daughter arrived at the University of Kentucky in complete disarray. With a few exceptions, pages were not in sequential order, and different versions and different formats (original typescript, carbon, and photocopies) were mixed together. Although certain pages apparently follow in sequence, it was not always clear with which version a fragment belonged. Moreover, many pages were missing. Arnow often used the reverse side of apparently discarded pages from one work to type something else. For example, the reverse sides of pages from The Weedkiller's Daughter were used to type parts of Kentucky Trace, A Tumor Tale, and various correspondences. In these cases, the original was photocopied, and the photocopy was put with the appropriate part of The Weedkiller's Daughter, and the original was left with the material where it was found.
In an attempt to make the many fragments of the novel more accessible, the manuscript fragments were grouped as Early Drafts, Middle Drafts, Later Drafts, and Typesetters Drafts. These drafts were then sorted into versions. It must be emphasized that the arrangement into versions does not necessarily represent Arnow's own order or sequence, and she certainly did not call the versions Early Draft, Middle Draft, etc. Rather the parts were pieced together by an educated guess at what their original and appropriate order might have been. In cases where one sequence of pages might follow another sequence but the thread between the parts could not be established clearly, the sequences were kept separate, but a note was made about their probable link. It is quite possible that Arnow did not think of these sequences as integral versions but rather as reworkings of a particular part of the novel. Some versions represent only a chapter or small portion of the novel because a definite link to another sequence could not be determined. Where possible, an indication of the rough correspondence between the fragmented versions and the published version has been given. Arnow worked on the manuscript over many years. Early Version B.1, p. 55 has the following note: begun writing Dec. 5 here, 1963--typed Feb. 19, 64 [sic]. Harold Strauss formally accepted the manuscript for publication by Alfred A. Knopf in his letter of July 7, 1967, but it was not until November 13, 1969 after the manuscript had undergone extensive revision that he was able to send Arnow the first copy of The Weedkiller's Daughter to come off the press. The Knopf correspondence deals with the editing and revision of the novel (See Box 31, Folders 8-9, and Box 32, Folder 1). An indication of the extent of the revisions is the fact that one of the early typed versions (Early Draft, Version E.2) has pages numbered to 1073, but the typesetter's version contains 614 pages. In his letter of March 28, 1968, written after he received the last 300 pages of the novel, Strauss asks Arnow to submit again an earlier version of the manuscript. His letter of April 19, 1968 indicates that the editors are reading the two versions of the novel. It appears that the editors decided on the shorter version. In the Middle Draft versions, the novel has assumed a general shape close to the published version. It appears from some of the file folders in which the manuscript was kept that Arnow at some point called the manuscript Ter and Light My Fire. Roman numeral chapter numbers were given by Arnow.
There are two boxes of notebooks related to The Weedkiller's Daughter. The notebooks in the first box correspond at least in part to the published version. The notebooks in the second box contain material not used in the published version. Page numbers and notebook numbers in square brackets [ ] represent our numbering not Arnow's. When a photocopy has been provided, the original should not be used due to its delicate condition.
Notebooks corresponding to published version. Some of the notebooks also contain incidents not included in the published version.
Corresponds to Chapters 3 and 4. Includes speech to Colonial Dames and outline of story. Also includes some correspondence to Chapter 1, The Kentucky Trace.
Corresponds to Chapters 9 and 14.
Corresponds to Chapters 10 and 14.
Corresponds to chapters 15 and 16. Includes brief summary of novel on p. 175-179 and a few autobiographical notes.
These notebooks do not correspond to the published version. Incidents in these notebooks carry the story beyond the published version. Early Draft, Version E.2 appears to have been typed from these notebooks. Arnow occasionally notes the date when or place where the notebook was written.
Includes notes on Hines Cave.
Short autobiographical note on p.2.
Short autobiographical note on p.1. This notebook corresponds to Early Draft, Version E.2, p. 1043-1073.
Early Draft, Version A.1 includes p. 1-170 (including chapters III, V, VI, and VII). Some of the pages in this draft have been renumbered or numbered twice, and it is not always clear which numbering sequence should be followed. Because of the ambiguity of this double numbering, a fragment which originally may have been part of the Version A.1 sequence has been designated Early Draft, Version B.1 (p. 49-72, 75-87). There are text and notes on the reverse side of some pages in the early drafts. Early Draft, Version C.1 includes p. 99-124, 175-256 (chapters IV and VI). Early Draft, Version D.1 (p. 1-51, 64-107, with p. 64-91 renumbered 40-66; including chapter II) incorporates some changes from Early Draft, Version A.1. Early Draft, Version E.1 includes p. 216-370 (chapters X-XIII). Early Draft, Version E.2 (381-721, 735-861, 935, 1028-1073) appears to follow Version E.1. Most of Version E.2 was not used in the published version. Some pages in E.2 have notes indicating where and when the page was written. Version E.2 contains a few photocopies of hand written pages that were found with but do not fit into this sequence. Because of the renumbered pages and because it is not clear where Early Draft, Version F.1 and Early Draft, Version G.1 should fit in the sequence of Early Drafts, these two fragments have been kept separate. Early Draft, Version F.1 (p.6-26) is dated June 17, 1964 on p. 26. A note on p. 33 of Early Draft, Version G.1 (p. 37-63 renumbered p. 12-39) dates that fragment on Aug. 4. Early Draft Fragments Folder 19 contains numbered and unnumbered pages that belong with the early drafts but do not clearly fit into a particular sequence. One reason for the difficulty in linking pages was that there are many pages missing. Correspondence between some but not all of these fragments and the published version have been established. Correspondence between the various Early Draft versions and chapters in the published version have been noted. When a photocopy has been provided, the original should not be used due to its delicate condition. Roman numeral chapter numbers were given by Arnow.
This may be the first typed version. Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Chapter III [originally Chapter II]. Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 5.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Gertie Nevels appears in this section as the Primitive. Although this section does not correspond to the Published version, Gertie Nevels does appear in chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 9.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapters 10 and 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Original typescript is with the Tumor Tale. Corresponds to Chapter 2.
Corresponds to Chapters 7 and 8.
Corresponds to Chapters 10 and 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapters 13 and 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
No correspondence to published version. Handwritten page after p. 383 appears to be part of another sequence.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version. Includes photocopy of handwritten page not part of this sequence.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version. Includes photocopy of handwritten page not part of this sequence.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
Original typescript is with "Tumor Tale." Corresponds to Chapter 2.
Corresponds to Chapter 6. Short autobiographical note on p.33 (dated August 4).
These fragments are from different versions. When fragment pages that belong to early drafts of The Weedkiller's Daughter were found with other manuscripts or with correspondence, these pages were photocopied for inclusion here. Page 111, 114 correspond to p. 189, 193 (chapter 9); p. 144 corresponds to p.258-9 (chapter 12); p. 188 corresponds to p. 176 (chapter 9); p. 281-2 corresponds to p. 251-2 (chapter 12). There was insufficient time to determine other correspondences.
Middle Draft Versions A.1, A.2, A.3, and A.4 are very close in text. Middle Draft Version A.2 is the carbon of Middle Draft Version A.1. Middle Draft Version A.4 is the carbon of Middle Draft Version A.3. Middle Draft Version A.1 appears to have been written before Middle Draft Version A.3. Corresponding pages in Versions A.1 and A.3 often begin and/or end with the same word. Version A.3 is the most complete version. Versions A.1 and A.2 are fragmented with numerous pages missing. Chapter divisions in the Middle Draft versions correspond to the published version in many but not all cases. Roman numerals refer to Arnow's chapter numbers in the draft. Correspondence between the various Middle Draft versions and chapters in the published version have been noted. Middle Draft, Version A.1 (p. 1-376, scattered) includes variants of several pages (p. 8.84, 180, 188, 308, 310, 375). Middle Draft, Version A.2 (p. 2-376, scattered), the unedited carbon of Version A.1 includes variants of p. 118, 375. Middle Draft, Version A.3, is the edited typescript of chapters 1-15, p. 1-377. Editing in blue and red ink and green pencil is probably by Arnow. A few notes in red and pencil queries may be by an editor. Middle Draft, Version A.4, the carbon typescript of Middle Draft, Version A.3 is an unedited, fragmented version. There are computations and text on the reverse of a few pages.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 2.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 5.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 8.
Corresponds to Chapter 9.
Corresponds to Chapters 10 and 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapters 13 and 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 2. Original carbons are in Knopf correspondence file.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 8. Original carbons are with The Kentucky Trace.
Corresponds to Chapters 10 and 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapters 13 and 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 2.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 5.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 8.
Corresponds to Chapter 9. Numbers on p. 193 probably refer to the Early Draft, Version E.2.
Corresponds to Chapters 10 and 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapters 13 and 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 8.
Corresponds to Chapter 8. Original carbons are with The Kentucky Trace.
Corresponds to Chapters 10 and 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapters 13 and 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
No correspondence to the published version.
No correspondence to the published version.
Later Draft, Version A.1 (p. 1-755 [scattered], 800-4, 825-6) is an edited, fragmented version. Editing appears to have been done primarily by Arnow. Some parts are cut and pasted. Later Draft, Version A.2 (p. 3-37) appears to follow p. 826 in Later Draft, Version A.1. Because of the possible confusion resulting from the page numbering, A.2 has been made a separate version. Later Draft, Version A.3 (p. 38, 81, 194, 432-577 [scattered], 685-757, 800-845 [scattered]) is a very fragmented carbon copy of Later Draft, Version A.1. However, parts of Version A.3 are substantially different from A.l because A.1 is an edited and, in part, cut and pasted version. Later Draft, Version A.4 (p. 6-485 [very scattered], 800-4), is a very fragmented photocopy of Later Draft, A.1. Later Drafts, Version A.5, A.6, and A.7 are all reworkings of the first chapter. Version A.5, a fragment of unedited typescript (p. 1-5) and carbon (p. 2,3,5,6), has slight variations from the beginning of the first chapter in A.1. Version A.5 does not incorporate changes made on Version A.l. Later Draft, Version A.6, edited typescript (p. 1-19 [scattered]) and unedited carbon (p. 1-19 [scattered]), is similar to Versions A.1 and A.5 but is slightly more colloquial in diction. A note on Later Draft, Version A.7 indicates that it is a retype of p. 1-5 inclusive of manuscript originally sent to Mr. Strauss. Later Draft, Version A.8 consists of seven variants of p. 81-84. Not all variants include all pages in this sequence. Later Draft, Version B.1 (p. 6-483 [scattered]) incorporates changes from Later Draft, Version A.1. Later Draft, Version B.2(p. 1-364 [scattered]) is the unedited carbon of Later Draft, Version B.1. Later Drafts, Versions B.3 (p. 1-27) and B.4 (p. 1-295 [very scattered], 432-65 [scattered]) are photocopy versions of B.1. A few pages have text on the reverse side. Later Draft, Version C.1 (p. 357-855 [scattered] almost appears to be a continuation of Later Draft, Version B.1. However, some pages overlap with different page variants in the B.1 version. Version C.1 appears to have been written after the B.1 version. The pages of Later Draft, Version C.1 were one of the few parts of the novel that were found together in relative order in a box and definitely appear to belong together as a coherent version. Later Draft, Version C.2 (p. 42-855 [scattered] is the carbon of Later Draft, Version C.1. Later Draft, Version C.3 (p. 90-853 [very scattered]) is the photocopy of Later Draft, Version C.1. Later Draft, Version D.1 (p. 109-145 [scattered], 204-607 [scattered]) probably was written after Later Drafts, Version A.1, B.1, and C.1, but this is not certain. It is more compressed than some of the earlier versions. Later Draft, Version D.2 (p. 204-607 [scattered]) is the carbon of Later Draft D.1. Later Draft D.3 (p. 614-635) is a photocopy that contains editing by Arnow and by someone else, possibly an editor. Later Draft, Fragments E.1 and E.2 are fragments that appear to be part of the Later Draft. Because of missing pages, it was not possible to fit these fragments into the various drafts.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 2.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 5.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 8.
Corresponds to Chapter 9.
Corresponds to Chapter 10. Insert that was taped to p. 357 appears to belong after p. 372.
Corresponds to Chapter 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapter 13.
Corresponds to Chapter 13. Includes some yellow sheets with corrections.
Corresponds to Chapter 14.
No correspondence to published version.
Corresponds to Chapter 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 14.
Corresponds to Chapters 10 and 15.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to the published version.
Corresponds to Chapters 3 and 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapter 13.
Corresponds to Chapter 13.
Corresponds to Chapter 14.
No correspondence to published version.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
Some correspondence to published version.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 1. This version is similar to Later Drafts, Versions A.1 and A.5 but is slightly more colloquial in diction.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Originals of duplexed photocopies are with Tumor Tale.
Corresponds to Chapter 1.
Corresponds to Chapter 2. Note on back of p. 72 re: Arthur Miller.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapters 4 and 5.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapter 7.
Corresponds to Chapter 8.
Corresponds to Chapter 10.
Corresponds to Chapter 1. This photocopy has a distinctive appearance (different from other photocopies of the novel). Extensive pencil notes [perhaps by an editor] and notes in another hand [possibly Arnow's].
Original photocopies were used to type carbons of letters on the reverse side and are in the Knopf correspondence files re: The Weedkiller's Daughter.
Corresponds to Chapter 10. Original p. 42 is with "Tumor Tale" file.
Corresponds to Chapter 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapter 13. Editing appears to be by Arnow and someone else [perhaps an editor].
Corresponds to Chapter 13. Editing appears to have been done by Arnow and someone else [perhaps an editor].
Corresponds to Chapter 14. Sequence moves from p. 567 to p. 574.
Corresponds to Chapter 14. Sequence moves from p. 599 to 603.
Corresponds to Chapter 14. Sequence moves from p. 654 to 663.
Corresponds to Chapter 15.
No correspondence to published version. Sequence moves from p. 735 to 752.
Corresponds to Chapter 16. Sequence moves from p. 809 to 825.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapter 13.
Corresponds to Chapter 13. Page of "Description of manuscript" on reverse of p. 539.
Corresponds to Chapter 14.
No correspondence to published version.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
No correspondence to published version.
Corresponds to Chapter 3.
Corresponds to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapters 7 and 8.
Corresponds to Chapters 9 and 10.
Corresponds to Chapter 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapter 13.
Corresponds to Chapter 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 15.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
The note and p. 513A-513B correspond to Chapter 16.
Corresponds Chapters 1 and 2.
Corresponds to Chapter 2.
Corresponds to Chapter 4.
Corresponds to Chapter 6.
Corresponds to Chapters 7 and 8.
Corresponds to Chapter 9.
Corresponds to Chapter 10. Some pages marked A or B.
Corresponds to Chapter 11.
Corresponds to Chapter 12.
Corresponds to Chapter 13.
Corresponds to Chapter 14.
Corresponds to Chapter 15.
Corresponds to Chapter 16.
No correspondence to published version.
No correspondence to published version.
Includes a few proposed inserts.
The originals are in the correspondence files.
Typesetter's Draft, Version A.1 is the draft sent to the typesetter. It includes blue slips and tabs from copy editors' queries and was edited and marked for the typesetter by copy editors. Typesetter's Draft, Version A.2 is the carbon typescript of Typesetter's Draft, Version A.1. Typesetter's Draft, Version A.3 is the photocopy of Typesetter's Draft, Version A.1. Typesetter's Draft, Version A.4 is a photocopy edited with Arnow's corrections which were transferred to Typesetter's Draft, Version A.1.
Sequence moves from p. 40 to p. 42. Chapter 1.
Sequence moves from p. 202 to 204 and from p. 210 to 215.
Sequence moves from p. 285 to 288.
Corresponds to Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8. Original carbons of p. 161-62, 164-67 are with "Tumor Tale." or "1966 Decrepitude."
Corresponds to Chapter 11. Does not include 373A and 373B which were sent to typesetters to replace 374-76.
Sequence moves from p. 472 to p. 476.
Sequence moves from p. 40 to p. 42.
This version includes p. 211-214 which were not used in actual typesetter's copy (Version A.1).
Sequence moves from p. 285 to 288.
Sequence moves from p. 210 to p. 215.
Sequence moves from p. 285 to p. 288.
All extant versions of Arnow's short stories are kept in this collection. Stories are arranged alphabetically; where a story undergoes a title change in revision, it is cross-referenced to its counterpart. While there are no exact dates of composition for these stories, there are some clues as to the general chronological order of the stories, as most drafts have a return address in the upper left-hand corner.
The breakdown is as follows: Burnside (c. 1920s): Dreams Come True, The Goat Who Was Cow, Winky Creek's New Song.
Cincinnati (c. early 1930s): Blessed--Blessed (later draft), An Episode In The Life of Ezekial Whitmore (later draft), Home Coming, Ketchup Making Saturday (later draft), No Lady, Sugar Tree Holler, Tin Cup, White Collar Woman.
Covington (c. 1930s): Almost Two Thousand Years, The First Ride, Fra Lippi and Me, The Hunters (a.k.a. The Two Hunters), Zekie the Hill-Billy Mouse. Keno (c. 1939-1944): The Gift, Jamboree (both later changed to Detroit on typescript), The Lesson.
Detroit (c. mid-1940s): King Devil's Bargain.
While these stories probably were not written in this order, sorting them by this method at least gives some hint as to their date of completion and submission to periodicals. Further information can be gleaned from the log Arnow kept in the 1930s, tracking the completion and submission of various stories (see Box 2, Folder 42). An interesting side note is the existence of the H. Simpson responsible for An Episode In the Life..., The Hunter and The Two Hunters. The stories themselves are certainly Harriette Arnow's work, dating back to her writing at Burnside, but The Hunter and The Two Hunters were published under pen names. Esquire published The Two Hunters in July 1942, a reprint of Harriette Simpson's The Hunters, with credit on the author page going to H.L Simpson, pictured and described as a man, with no mention of Harriette (while she jokingly refers to this incident in her letters with editor Harold Strauss, there is no mention of who the man in the picture is; Esquire thought they were printing a story by a man. The story was republished in the Fall 1979 Appalachian Heritage and credited to Harriette Arnow. The Hunter, in the Atlantic Monthly, November 1944, is credited to H. Arnow (the pen name of a husband-and wife-collaboration) (p. 79).
Whether this collaboration was a true writing and editing team or a compromise to the publishing industry is unknown. This collection houses 34 complete stories and two lengthy fragments. Of these 34, 18 are stories never published in any form (plus, obviously, the two fragments), 6 are unpublished drafts excerpted from longer works that were published later and the remaining 10 are published. In addition to these stories, several drafts of a story entitled The Lamb Money are in the Hunter's Horn series. It is known that she submitted a draft of this story to The Atlantic Monthly. However, due to missing pages, it is unclear which, if any, of these drafts were intended to be published as a short story; therefore, that story is not included here.
The publishing history of those stories is as follows: 1934: Marigolds and Mules ( Kosmos, August/September). 1935: A Mess of Pork ( The New Talent, October-December). 1936: The Washerwoman's Day ( Southern Review, 1). 1942: The Two Hunters ( Esquire, July). 1944: The Hunter ( Atlantic Monthly, November). 1963: The Washerwoman's Day (reprint) ( Deep Summer - Kentucky Writing, Number 4). 1971: Love? ( Twigs, Fall). 1973: The Washerwoman's Day (reprint) ( Appalachian Heritage, Fall). 1979: Fra Lippi and Me ( Georgia Review, Winter); The Two Hunters (reprint) ( Appalachian Heritage, Fall). 1980: Interruptions to School at Home ( Adena, Spring). 1981: The Washerwoman's Day (reprint) ( I Have A Place, an anthology published by Alice Lloyd College). 1986: Fra Lippi and Me (reprint) ( Georgia Review, 40th Anniversary Fiction Retrospective, Spring). 1988: Blessed--Blessed ( Appalachian Heritage, Spring/Summer). 1989: The First Ride ( Appalachian Heritage, Fall). Unfortunately, it appears that the final drafts of the stories published early in Arnow's career, like The Washerwoman's Day and A Mess of Pork, were kept by their respective publisher.
All photocopies of published stories are from the original magazine, except where noted. As for the untitled stories below, no information is given by Arnow in the margins or in a heading as to their date of composition. In these cases, each story's first line and cast of characters are given to aid the reader.
Includes four versions. Version 1 (p. 1-13) closely corresponds to published version with slightly different ending; Version 2 (p. 1-12, complete) is a corrected carbon of an earlier draft; Version 3 (p. 2-8) is probably the earliest; and Version 4 as published in Appalachian Heritage.
Includes two versions: Version 1 (p. 1-7, complete), early draft of Zekie the Country Mouse, credited to H. Simpson; Version 2 An Episode In the Life of Ezekial Whitmore--A Person of Small Learning but Great Wisdom (p. 1-7, complete), earliest draft of Zekie.
Includes two versions: Version 1 (p. 1-6, complete); Version 2 as published in Appalachian Heritage
Includes two versions: Version 1 (p. 1-10, complete); Version 2 as published in The Georgia Review 40th Anniversary Fiction Retrospective. Includes congratulatory letter from Georgia Review editor Stanley Lindberg and publishing agreement for the reprint.
Corresponds to Chapter 9 (p. 106-118) of Hunter's Horn, first edition.
Includes two versions: Version 1 (p. 1-6, complete, with addendum by Arnow, This story has been submitted to and ; Version 2 (p. 1-4, incomplete, slightly different draft).
Corresponds to Hunter's Horn. Original in Hunter's Horn series.
Draft of story published as The Two Hunters in Esquire. No relation to The Hunter.
Includes introduction and picture of Arnow at The Celebration of Kentucky Writing.
Corresponds to Chapter 6 (p. 69-79) of Hunter's Horn, first edition. Original in Hunter's Horn series.
Third of four drafts, see manuscript box of Arnow's To You No Place for other drafts.
Includes two versions: Version 1 (p. 1-11, complete); Version 2 (p. 4-12 of an earlier draft).
See Hunter's Horn and The Hunter.
Includes two versions: Version 1 (p. 1-13 complete); Version 2 (p. 2-11), earlier draft. Though credited to Harold Arnow, both the story’s content and HSA’s experience with Esquire’s all-male writers policy strongly suggest this is her story.
Corresponds to Chapter 7 (p. 80-92) of Hunter's Horn, first edition. Original in Hunter's Horn series.
Corresponds to notebook with draft of Love?(Box 125, Folder 5).
Includes two versions: Version 1 as published in the Southern Review reprint series; Version 1 as published in Deep Summer: Kentucky Writing
Includes two version: Version 1 as published in Appalachian Heritage; Version 2 as published in I Have A Place, an anthology published by Alice Lloyd College
Includes two parts: First part (p. 1-14, complete, with an alternate beginning). First line, version one: The sun came in a long slant through the door and the clock ticked.... First line, version two: He dropped the stick of maple wood.... Characters: Mr. Allison, Old Sil, Aunt Marthie.; Second part (p. 17-39), page 18 roughly corresponds to p. 13 in the draft found in Folder 14, Box 2. Features the same characters as the story in Folder 14, though it is unknown whether this is part of a revised draft of that story or a portion of a longer work.
Heavily edited. First line: It was some seconds before he awakened. Still sleeping, his head jerked upward, and he sat a moment, rigid.... Characters: High Pockets Copenhaver, Sil, Marthie. Unknown whether this story relates, if at all, to the untitled sections in Folders 35 and 36.
First line: The east lay pale and faintly gold in the promise of a sunrise.... Characters: Blunder.
Some correspondence to short story fragment Box 103, Folder 3
Page 18 roughly corresponds to page 13 of short story in Box 102, Folder 11
Characters: John and Kitty
Pagination is questionable. Includes several handwritten pages.
Characters: Jerrie, Lurie, High Pockets. While these names appear in some other Arnow works, true correspondence to other works has not been found.
Pagination not continuous but pages flow together narratively. Unnumbered first page, p. 1-15, 30-33, and 36. Missing p. 34-35. Two pages, unnumbered, clipped separately, are part of the piece and possibly could be its beginning. Narrative has characteristics similar to The Dollmaker: tensions and differences between hillbillies and others living in the alley in likely Detroit during World War II figure prominently in this story. Characters include Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Lawson, Mrs. Shopinsky (?), and the Prossers.
Includes photocopied rejection slips from various publishers and magazines concerning Arnow’s short stories and poetry in the early stages of her writing career. Marcella Arnow’s handwriting in blue ink on each of the photocopies indicates that she provided the photocopies while retaining the originals, which are not part of this collection. While many of the notices are the standard form letters, several notices include constructive criticism, indicating that Arnow’s work was being read by publishers. Especially notable is the March 1934 rejection slip from Hal Roach Studios (then a major Hollywood Studio) for a work entitled Calf Money. Because there is no draft of that work, it is unknown whether this was Arnow’s own screenplay, an idea for a screenplay, or possibly connected to her short story The Lamb Money. Also, there are three brief rejection notices from Southern Review (subsequent to her publication of The Washerwoman’s Day in that magazine) from editor Robert Penn Warren. These notices are arranged alphabetically by magazine and include the following: American Prefaces, The Anvil, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Frontier and Midland, Kosmos, Manuscript, The New Talent/Advance Guard Quarterly, Hal Roach Studios, Southern Review, and Sweetheart Stories/Dell Publishing. Marcella Arnow also provided photocopies of form rejection letters from The Frank A. Munsey Company, L ove Novels Magazine, The Farmer’s Wife, Street and Smith Publications, McFadden Publications ( Liberty), Story, Munsey Publications, and The Saturday Evening Post.
Includes notebook with the words Memorandum Book on the front cover. In addition to the rejection slips and letters from editors, Arnow kept a logbook of her various submissions early in her writing career. The contents are mostly self-evident (submitted stories are itemized by their dates of submission and return, then listed separately in a sort of inventory; addresses are given for magazines and literary contacts). Several stories apparently submitted to major magazines are not found in our collection. These include Please the Guests (submitted to Author's Exchange), Crazy Blanket (Curtis Publications and Writer's Digest), Madame Butterfly ( Liberty and College Humor). Other stories with unfamiliar titles are: Algebra is Simple, Two of a Kind, Mountain Woman, She Hated Him, Chick Girl, Secretary. Mistake in Heaven, Teacher Story, Eyes in the Twilight, Against the Wind, I Went To the Store, Girl Marriage, Chicken Story, The Last Snow, Pie Supper, and London Copy. Some may exist under other titles or correspond to later novels (as The Hunter corresponds to Hunter's Horn). In the margins, Arnow made notations like pulp alongside the stories Mountain Woman and She Hated Him and juvenile alongside Pie Supper. Pages containing addresses have been photocopied and placed with Addresses in Personal Notes folder (Box 126, Folder 14).
Arnow wrote a few pieces of poetry, but she did not have great success. It is unclear if she attempted to publish many pieces on her own. The two known published pieces in this collection, To Know the Rain and Ode to a Purple Aluminum Christmas Tree, are listed as found poems by Ronald W. Butler, suggesting that they were originally published elsewhere. A rejection slip from Kosmos mentions Logic as being amusing (Box 103, Folder 7). Because most of the rejection slips are form letters, it is difficult to assess which are for short fiction and which are for poetry.
Includes To Know the Rain and Ode to a Purple Aluminum Christmas Tree as published in Pegasus.
Includes Transplanted,(carbon) Detroit Housing Project Hill Wife, Logic, Midnight, Transplanted,untitled (begins I shall go out to see the woods…,) and untitled (begins I’m the devil on a mule…)
This unpublished manuscript is entitled Early Days at Keno because the folder in which it was contained upon arrival at Special Collections was so labeled. It is unpublished except for two short excerpts (see Box 105, Folder 14). By all indications, the manuscript was written starting at the end of the summer of 1939. At this time Arnow and her husband Harold had recently purchased and moved onto an abandoned farm on Little Indian Creek on the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River in Pulaski County, Kentucky. This autobiographical essay, 179 pages in length and written in a journal style, describes, in colorful, personal imagery, the pleasures and trials of living in close association with the land and its seasons, and sharing with neighbors the challenges and amusements of day-to-day rural life. The first entry is dated August 31, the last entry September 1 [1940]. This appears to be an original manuscript, although pages 1-3 are probably carbons. Most of the manuscript is in very fragile condition; each folder contains a photocopy, which is the user copy. Special Collections holds only one version of this manuscript and as far as is known no subsequent versions exist.
Includes a note that accompanied the original folder. There is some light editing and notes that look as though they were written by Arnow. The last line of page 3 has a cut off appearance and is not entirely readable; page 3 appears to have been a carbon copy, as do pages 1 and 2.
Page 7 has an insert to the script in longhand.
Page 85 of original has typescript on front and back.
Very lightly edited.
Two pages labeled by author as page 95. Arnow's pagination starting at page 95-0 does not make sense. The page has been rearranged so that the error will not confuse future readers. The corrected pagination goes as follows: Follow Arnow's pagination through page 96. At that point what Arnow labeled page 99-1 becomes page [96-1]; what was the backside of 99-1 becomes [96-2]; Arnow's page 95-0 becomes [97-1]; the backside of 95-0 becomes [97-2]; what Arnow called 97-1 becomes [98-1]; what was the backside of 97-1 becomes [98-2]. What Arnow labeled 98-1 becomes [99-1], and what was the backside of 98-1 becomes [99-2]. From there the pagination returns to Arnow's page 100-1. Arnow's entry of March 30 seems to be a typo and was probably intended to be March 3.
Pages 102, 103, 105 of originals have typescript on front and back.
Pages 106 and 109 have script on front and back.
Very lightly edited. Pages 111 and 115 have text on front and back.
The original script was typed on New York Life Insurance Company stationery, using back of page. Pages 117-136 were also paginated, in Arnow's longhand, as pages 2 through 21.
Some light editing. Pages 137-157 of the originals were written on the back of New York Life Insurance Company stationery. Pages 137-151 were also paginated, in the author's longhand, as p. 22-36. Pages 152-157 also paginated as p.1-6.
Lightly edited script. Editing marks do not appear to be in author's longhand. Pages 158-169 also paginated as 7-18.
Lightly edited. Editing marks do not appear to be in author's longhand. Pages 170-174 also paginated as 19-23.
Lightly edited. Also paginated, in upper left, as pages 24-28.
A page seems to be missing between pages 4 and 5, despite the fact that the pagination is continual. The missing page corresponds to p.4 of the primary manuscript. The last page ends abruptly mid-sentence at the bottom of the page, as if this were part of a larger whole.
The original contains light editing marks that do not appear in the carbon contained herein.
Three short autobiographical essays, never published, were also written while Arnow was residing in Pulaski County. These essays were written in an informal, personal style. Unlike Early Days at Keno, however, they were not written as a journal.
Ten page original with photocopy. Some light editing. In this 10 page autobiographical essay Arnow discusses her impressions of living simply in Pulaski County, noting that, while she and Harold had found many joys in the rustic life, they had found little of the simplicity. The various demands of attending to a household and farm are discussed, as are county politics, relations with neighbors, local gossip, and the Works Progress Administration. The essay is in fragile condition; a photocopy is provided as a user copy.
Twelve page original with photocopy. Some light editing. Page six is missing. This 12 page essay focuses on the efforts that Arnow and Harold took to protect their health while living on their Pulaski County farm. She compares their health while living in town with that of country living, discusses local health services, describes the steps that she and Harold took to maintain bodily comfort, and discusses their diet in considerable detail. Her biggest consternation was a fear of accidents, since the nearest hospital, she explained, was about 110 miles away. The manuscript is in fragile condition; a photocopy is provided as a user copy.
Twelve-page original with photocopy. This 12 page essay, written 18 months after Arnow and Harold arrived at the farm, takes stock of their experiences up to that time. The title conveys the basic theme of the essay, which is that their expectations and plans regarding country living had to be modified and made more realistic. Apparently one of the reasons they moved to the country was to have more time to write, but the demands of farm and household resulted at best in their writing no more than they did when living in town. Arnow describes the various chores that she and Harold had to do, and reflects on the differences between country and city living, particularly as they affect what Arnow calls their standard of living, although she uses the term to apply to more than simply income. The manuscript is in fragile condition; a photocopy is provided as a user copy.
Mostly dating from the late 1960s, this is a series of autobiographical essays concerning Arnow's health and lifestyle in that time period. The piece as a whole does not have a collective title; folders containing some fragments of the work have titles like Biography of a Bodyand A Tumor Tale written on their outside, but there is no evidence that these titles are Arnow's own or were ever considered as titles. The version collected in Box 106, Folders 2 and 3, appears to be the version that Arnow worked on last.
According to the letter from Arnow to her physician Dr. Kahn on November 18, 1969 (Box 106, Folder 1), the composition of this piece was designed to be therapeutic. Apparently Dr. Kahn read this version of 173 pages and made suggestions for cuts (implying that a secondary purpose of this piece was eventual publication in a magazine or journal). The last of these three letters to Dr. Kahn, dated April 14, 1970, has Arnow mentioning her latest series of edits (cutting 107 pages roughly in half) and her hope that the thing [presumably this piece] will earn some money for the [medical] department. In the April 14th letter, the penciled-in brackets represent proposed cuts, probably by Arnow. In addition there are many interrogatives on the margins, presumably to get Dr. Kahn's input on what to cut or keep. This collaborative effort presents the most polished version of this autobiography, though then UK graduate student Martha Billips, who was the first to review this manuscript in 1986, believed it was less revealing as a result.
Marcella Arnow labeled the version in Folders 2 and 3 Version 1 in blue ink on the typescript, but it is certainly not the first version written. Because the revisions seem to have occurred months apart, each version offers a new slant on Arnow's life in the late 1960s, a period marked not only by illnesses (a pituitary tumor, a bladder infection, an ulcer, several vision problems and a marked slide into depression) but by her children leaving home and endless revisions of The Weedkiller's Daughter. Following this argument, it stands to reason that the earlier versions offer a more immediate, fuller depiction of her life. For this reason, all attempts have been made to piece together complete versions of each section and present each version as a separate, unique entity, rather than a rejected draft. Because of large gaps in some versions, it was necessary to piece together carbons and originals within a version in order to present a narrative whole. It may be possible that some pages of this piece are on the back sides of other manuscripts, just as drafts of The Weedkiller's Daughter,original correspondence and notes for speeches (all of which have been photocopied) appear in these drafts.
The raw materials of this autobiography have been rearranged in reverse chronological order; the reader can work backwards, from the 1970 version commissioned by Dr. Kahn, through its various (and varying) editions, to the initial journal, which recounts events dating back to 1960. Before Dr. Kahn's input, however, Arnow apparently had a design in mind as far as presentation of this autobiography. The piece moves chronologically through four sections. Only the versions in Folders 2 and 3 and Folders 4 and 5 are presented together as a whole, since they are the only drafts where all four sections were found together. Where a correspondence between sections can be inferred in other versions, it is mentioned below. For this reason, all versions of Section I (save the Dr. Kahn versions) are collected together, in reverse chronological order, then Section II, and so on. Roughly speaking, Section I, titled Old Age in later drafts, is a retrospective, self-penned medical history up to about 1964, with descriptions of her health before and after the births of her children. Section II, Decrepitude, seems to be a contemporaneous account of her condition between March 1966 and January 1967, after leaving the hospital for treatment of her vision problems (an early symptom of her tumor). Two interesting anomalies in this collection relate to this section. First, an early draft titled 1966 exists, which may have been written before the four-section schema of this piece was formulated. Second, the piece found in Box 107, Folder 9, relates the same experiences as Decrepitude but in a more detached style, without specific names and places, suggesting strongly that Arnow may have contemplated turning this experience into a short story. Metempsychosis, Section III, is a contemporaneous account of her surgery and recovery from a pituitary tumor. Its earlier versions also offer some of the most unflinching portrayals of her mental condition at the time; perhaps for this reason, it is one of the more heavily reworked sections. Though no drafts name any names, Martha Billips believes the early drafts recount a trip Arnow made to a writer's workshop at Morehead State University in the company of James Still. Arnow moves this episode to Section II in her last version. Section IV is alternately titled Temporary Backsets and Temporary Backset; whether this subtle change was intentional or erroneous is unknown.
As with the other three sections, various undated versions exist, without any clear indications as to their origins and order. Some strong hints exist, however: because the handwritten emendations to the draft in Box 107, Folder 7 show up in the typescript in Folder 6, for example, we can make an educated guess that the Folder 7 version was written first. Also notable is the shift of narrative tone: one need only to compare the final paragraphs of the two aforementioned versions to trace the decline from optimism to undisguised despair, finally resolving in the benign, resigned tone of the Box 106, Folder 3, version. Much of this anxiety regarding her surroundings and the state of the nation circa 1969-70 also found its way into Arnow's fiction at this time-- The Weedkiller's Daughter and the unpublished To You No Place.
Probably the last draft. Lightly edited, with penciled brackets, presumably by Arnow, to show proposed cuts. Blue felt-tip pen markings by Marcella Arnow.
Probably the last draft. Lightly edited, with penciled brackets, presumably by Arnow, to show proposed cuts. Blue felt-tip pen markings by Marcella Arnow. Change in Section IV's title is probably not Arnow's.
Because of Arnow's inconsistent system of numbering and renumbering over the course of revision, the materials in this folder have been arranged by context, rather than page numbers, which often conflict. Heavily edited, with several cut-and-paste sections and comments by an outside reader, usually pertaining to medical issues (presumably Dr. Kahn). Draft includes four handwritten pages, probably unconnected to each other, of preliminary drafts. Draft of Section II, titled Part II Decrepitude, p. 1-47, missing p. 3 and 5. Self-edited, with many cuts suggested in pencil.
Pages 1- 58, complete, heavily self-edited in red pen and pencil. Editorial comments in another hand (p. 39, et al.) are presumably Dr. Kahn's. Draft of IV, titled Temporary Backsets, p. 1-26, complete. Self-edited, with many cuts suggested in pencil. Ending is significantly different than that in Folder 3.
Lightly edited with significantly different version of p. 21 on the reverse side of that page.
Moderately edited with an alternate p. 5 at the end.
Due to misnumbering, there is no p. 12. Most pages correspond to the draft in Folder 8, but not all pages necessarily come from that version. Significantly different p. 6.
Heavily edited, perhaps the earliest draft.
Cut-and-paste section with several margin notes by Arnow. Probably a companion piece to Folder 4's Section I.
(1) Carbon of p. 1, Section II, Folder 2. (2) Corresponds to p. 1, Section II, Folder 2. (3) Continuation of (2). (4) Carbon of p. 2, Section II, Folder 2. (5) Carbon of p. 5 and 6, Section II, Folder 2. (6) Carbon of p. 7, Section II, Folder 2 (labeled p. 8). (7) Carbon of p. 9, Section II, Folder 2. (8) Carbon of p. 15, Section II, Folder 2. (9) Carbon of p. 15, Section II, Folder 2. (10) Continuation of (9). (11) Carbon of p. 16, Section II, Folder 2. (12) Carbon of p. 20, Section II, Folder 2. (13) Carbon of p. 3, Section II, Folder 15. (14) Roughly corresponds to p. 12-13, Section I, Folder 7 and events of Section II in the final draft. (15) Draft of p. 20, Section II, Folder 13.
Moderately edited in black and red pen, with some preliminary notes on the reverse sides of some pages and one unnumbered page of notes at the end.
Lightly edited in pen and in pencil, with some editorial marks, presumably by Arnow (p. 7 and 11, et al.).
Pages 3 and 4 are mislabeled Section II. Probably an edited version of Folder 3's draft.
Few editorial marks.
Includes draft of p. 35, Section III, Box 107, Folder 1; carbons of p. 2 and 9, Section III, Box 107, Folder 3; drafts of p. 15 and 16, Section III, Folder 3; carbons of p. 20, 25, 45, 52, 57, Section III, Box 107, Folder 3; and carbons of p. 2 and 45, Section III.
Few editorial marks. Probably a companion piece to Folder 2's Section III.
Lightly edited typescript. Significantly different ending than earlier drafts.
Includes carbons of p. 1, 3, 7, 8, 14, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, Section IV, Box 106, Folder 5; carbons of p. 1, 3, 7, 8, 14, 22, Section IV, Box 107, Folder 8; and drafts of p. 22 and 25, Section IV, Box 106, Folder 5.
Events depicted correspond with most drafts of Section II.
Heavily edited. Context makes this unclear as to whether this is a rough draft of the events of Section II and III, a lengthy typed journal entry or a rough draft for an autobiographical short story.
Sorted into three groupings: June 14-26, p. 1-19; July 2-24, p. 1-8; and July 31-September 12, p.1-14
Brief entries as to days' events with emphasis on weather and the health of herself and her family. Some correspondence with Section I.
Brief entries as to days' events with emphasis on health of herself and her family. Includes two page handwritten log.
Corresponds to travel episodes in some drafts of section III.
Old Burnside was commissioned and published (1977) by the University Press of Kentucky for its Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf series. The slender volume (less than 150 pages in its first edition) is both a history of Burnside and a series of Arnow's recollections of her childhood in the Pulaski County town. Like so many of her other works, Old Burnside saw many changes over the course of its composition, often due to author-publisher disputes. Invited by the publisher to expand the historical background in the book, Arnow, after undertaking extensive research and revision of the original typescript, produced a work reminiscent of her Cumberland social histories and more in-depth than her publishers intended. After some sharply worded letters from Arnow and an unfinished attempt at condensing the history, the final typescript and the published version isolated the historical material to Chapters 1 and 2. The personal history that makes up the remainder of the work was also edited down. As a result, the published version seems to be a compromise between author and publisher, with the publisher winning out.
The materials in this collection offer a glimpse of Arnow's original intentions for Old Burnside. Due to the aforementioned incomplete versions of the book and a cut-and-paste version (Box 109, Folders 2-12) in which the unused remnants were likely discarded, the collection for Old Burnside has more fragments and loose pages than most of Arnow's other works. While it is possible that interstitial pages connecting the fragments may be found in the unprocessed pages of this collection, it is more likely that these fragments are a lasting result of several drastic revisions and reworkings. Also, it should be noted that Arnow used a mixture of Roman and Arabic numerals to number the chapters over the course of composition. For the sake of consistency, this inventory, in accordance with the published work, uses Arabic numerals.
A number of letters in the publisher correspondence, Box 32, Folder 4, detail Arnow’s experience with the University Press of Kentucky in writing this novel. William Jerome Crouch (signing his name as Wm. Jerome Crouch in correspondence) first approached Arnow with the proposal to write a Burnside memoir for the bicentennial bookshelf series in 1972. After a few years of tense letters, Arnow comments in early 1975 the best thing to be done is forget . Later in the year (September 8, 1975), Bruce Denbo explains that the UPK cannot enter into a contract until after the board has approved her manuscript. The next year (June 15, 1976), Mr. Denbo asks that Arnow condense the historical section of her work to only twelve pages, a request which leaves Arnow grieved and shocked and comments that she would prefer a rejection (June 30, 1976). Mr. Denbo and Arnow arrived at a compromise wherein she would remove the political and military history but leave the rest.
1 page, note on Dr. Stigall (town physician) and drug store. Handwritten note on the back reads Very important. 1 page, Allen Ballou obituary. 1 page, interview questions and notes. 2 pages of notes from History of Banking in Pulaski County. Transcription of newspapers, interview notes, and miscellaneous notes. 1 page of insert notes. 2 packets of handwritten drafts, found in Belle Notebooks. Postcard: For Aircraft, Poplar Veneer, Manufactured by Burnside Veneer Co. Notebooks, pages 9-14 and 1-12.
Includes article Southern Opens New Railroad Bridge in Ties: The Southern Railway System Magazine; article The New Burnside by Joe Creason in Courier-Journal Magazine; article Burnside, Ky, Home of Boy Scouts in The West Virginia Engineer; brochure Burnside Kentucky: Home of the First American Boy Scout Troop; brochure from Seven Gables Hotel, Burnside Ky; postcard of Burnside; program from Raccoon John Smith Homecoming and Dedication Service. Includes note by Elizabeth [likely Simpson]; program from dedication of Pulaski County Bridges March 31, 1951; Burnside business area, March 4, 1951; General Burnside Island State Park, September 18, 1964; article from The Somerset Journal, August 3, 1950; Operation Burnside – Moving a City to Make Way for Lake Cumberland – Is Finally Completed from The Somerset Journal, February 11, 1954; Stagecoach kept shining and bright at Monticello as relic of distant past from The Wayne County Outlook, April 8, 1971; and D earth of tourism bothers Burnside from The Courier-Journal, December 27, 1971
None of the early drafts for Old Burnside constitute an entire manuscript.
These five chapters are the closest to having a complete early draft. Because many of the pages in the later drafts contain pages with chapter numbers including and above Early Draft Chapter VI, it is possible that those pages were removed from this early draft for the cut-and-paste pages of the later drafts.
Includes original with variant p. 24, 27, 33-34, and 37 and carbon (p. 21-45) with variant p. 40-45 in relation to the original.
Includes original and carbon with variant p. 56 in relation to the original.
Includes original and carbon with variant p. 62, 65, and 69-71, missing p. 66, and duplicate p. 71.
Includes original and carbon (p. 81-105) with variant p. 100-105 in relation to the original. Comment from Arnow on p. 104 of original stating Note to editor: there is no page 105.
Includes original with variant p. 106 and carbon with variant p. 117 and variant p. 108, 110-113, 115-120, and 123-125 in relation to the original.
Includes four discrete drafts of an early Chapter I: Draft 1 (original) includes p. 1-10, 12, and variant p. 1; Draft 2 (carbon) includes p. 6-8, 11-13, and 15-17; Draft 3 (carbon) includes p. 14-18 and 20-25 and is missing p. 19 due to misnumbering; and Draft 4 (carbon) includes p. 3-11 and variant p. 5, 9, and 11.
Includes variant p. 27-29, 31, and 36
Includes fragments of indeterminate early drafts of Chapter I.
Includes fragments of indeterminate early drafts of Chapter II.
Includes fragments of indeterminate early drafts of Chapter III.
Includes fragments of indeterminate early draft of Chapter V.
The middle draft chapters do not constitute a solitary draft.
Includes original with missing p. 5 due to misnumbering and variant p. 1-2 and 16 and carbon (p. 2, 4, 8, 12-13, 16-21) with variant p. 16 and 17 and variant p. 20-21 in relation to the original.
Includes variant p. 50-59 and 62. Corresponds to Chapter 5 of the published version.
Includes variant p. 72, 76-78, 80, 82, and 84. Corresponds to Chapter 5 of the published version.
Includes variant p.93, 111, and 117-125. Missing p. 126. Corresponds to Chapter 7 of the published version.
Includes fragments of indeterminate middle drafts of Chapter I.
Includes fragment of indeterminate middle draft of Chapters I and II.
These drafts include mostly cut-and-paste pages. The content and organization of the later draft chapters are similar to the published version. Due to frequent and somewhat haphazard misnumberings, the chapters do not necessarily align in terms of pagination.
Includes carbons of p. iv, v, vi, and viii and variant p. v and vii. Lightly edited.
Includes p. 2A and variant p. 1. Moderately edited.
Missing p. 12. Heavily edited.
Includes p. 36A. Missing p. 39-43. Moderately edited.
Includes duplicate p. 26 due to misnumbering and variant p.39. Missing p. 42. Moderately edited.
Includes variant p. 70-77 and unnumbered carbon (scattered pages). Moderately edited.
Includes unnumbered carbons of original p. 71-80. Moderately edited.
Includes variant p. 86 unnumbered carbon (scattered pages). Moderately edited.
Includes duplicate p. 115-123 (making an actual chapter length of 24 pages rather than only 16 as the pagination would imply) and unnumbered carbon (scattered pages). Moderately edited.
Includes carbons (p. 120, 122, 125, 126, and 129). Heavily edited.
Includes duplicate pages 148-150 due to misnumbering and carbons (p. 149-150). Missing p. 138. Heavily edited.
Heavily edited.
Moderately edited.
Includes fragments of indeterminate later drafts.
Includes pages that appear to have been removed from the later drafts.
Includes cut and paste pages as well as portion of pages from indeterminate drafts.
Includes intact, numbered and unnumbered pages from indeterminate drafts.
Typesetting notations in blue and red ink, proofreader's notations in black ink and pencil. Missing p. 002.
First page reads Proofread copy 5/25/77 with typesetting notations in green ink and pencil and proofreader's notations in pencil.
Page 1 reads Author's copy. Lightly edited.
With some duplicate pages at the end. Typesetter's notations in black ink.
The social histories of the Cumberland area ( Seedtime on the Cumberland and Flowering of the Cumberland) are peculiar in that both manuscripts are largely incomplete. While other manuscripts from Harriette Arnow may contain chapters fragments (see Old Burnside), these fragments are difficult, if not impossible, to place. Furthermore, because the books rely on the same resource materials as explained below, the fragments were often difficult to differentiate between manuscripts (both between versions of the same manuscript and between Seedtime and Flowering). The sections of this part of the collection can be broken into three main categories: Research Materials, Seedtime on the Cumberland manuscript, and Flowering of the Cumberland manuscript. With the other manuscripts, if any research materials existed, they were placed with only that manuscript. For the social histories, the research material has been combined. The reasoning behind this is that the resources for the books often overlap, as Arnow commented. On June 6, 1962, Harriette Arnow sent a letter to Mrs. [Gertrude] Parsley for the official business of requesting permission for materials (General Correspondence). You have no doubt been made awre [sic] many times through the years that I am working on a manuscript concerned with pioneer days on the Cumberland, a part of which was published in 1960 under the title . I am now in the final stages of preparing another, tentatively titled, for possible publication in late 1963. Later in the letter Arnow continues, "This second manuscript is more in the nature of a companion piece to Seedtime than a squel [sic], and thus makes use of much the same sources." Arnow did not intend for the research materials for the books to be separated.
In the mid 1950s, Arnow received correspondence from Mrs. A. S. Frye regarding research for the Cumberland books. Letters from Mrs. A. S. Frye have been placed in the General Correspondence (Box 34, Folders 15-16) in 1954 with the dates of May 2, August 5, August 6, August 23, August 26, September 12, October 3, October 27, November 28, and November 30 and in General Correspondence (Box 35, Folder 1) in 1955 with the dates of February 24 and March 16. It is interesting to note that this research was completed six years before publication of Seedtime and nine before publication of Flowering.
Photocopies and photostats of historical documents, registers, and letters
Birthplace of Nathan Bedford Forrest, The General’s Mount, Home of Sam Davis – Boy, Hen-Peck Mill, Old Church at Dover, Tenn., The Old Fashioned Christmas Eve, Sorghum Mill, Stone Bridge at Goodlettsville, Sweep Pole Well, Wash Day, and untitled illustrations
Agricultural Trends in Tennessee, Pictorial Souvenir, and unknown title
Thomas Hughes Library, Rugby, Tennessee; Appraisal of the Archeological Resources of the Center Hill Reservoir, Tennessee; A Short History of Cumberland County by the Kiwanis Club of Crab Orchard Tennessee; and Water Resources Development by The Corps of Engineers in Tennessee
Burton Historical Collection Leaflet; Sam Davis, Tennessee’s Boy Hero of the Sixties; The Northwest Territory Celebration, issued by the Northwest Territory Celebration Commission of Ohio; Kentucky Geological Survey; The Family Group in a Kentucky Mountain Farming Community by James S. Brown; Ford Times; Travellers’ [sic] Rest by Henry Lee Swint; Mill Springs Mill; and See the Governor William Blount Mansion
Negative Photostat: Ancestry of the Kentucky Rifle, Positive Photostat: Ancestry of the Kentucky Rifle, Negative Photostat: Dillin Collection, Positive Photostat: Dillin Collection (top portion), Positive Photostat: Dillin Collection (bottom portion), Negative Photostat: Three Periods in Flint-locks, Negative Photostat: Colonial Period Weapons
Includes information used in various chapters pertaining to Benjamin Price and answers from an unknown author to Arnow’s questions
One large, composition notebook
Six small notebooks: one University of Michigan blue book, one blue Whitefield Big 10 composition notebook, two brown Collegiate composition notebooks, and two Big 10 composition notebooks (including notes on geology and agriculture).
At least three of the maps in this box (Maps 1, 5, and 13) were used in both Seedtime on the Cumberland and Flowering of the Cumberland. This observation further illustrates the overlap of sources and resources for both social histories.
This map was used in Seedtime on the Cumberland (p.14) and Flowering of the Cumberland (p. 43).
Maps 2, 3, and 4 have been bundled because of the relationship between the maps. This version of the map was considered for Chapter One and was even included in the latest draft of Seedtime before the page proofs. Map 1 was used instead.
Removed from undetermined publication
Maps 5, 6, and 7 have been grouped because they are identical maps. This map was used in Seedtime of the Cumberland, Chapter IX, p. 242, and in Flowering of the Cumberland as the front endpaper.
Maps 8, 9, and 10 have been grouped because of their relationship. All are reproductions or enhancements of the 1804 Abraham Bradley, Jr. Map.
Intended for use as front endpaper for Seedtime on the Cumberland but was replaced
Maps 11 and 12 have been grouped because they are both copies of the same map by S. A. Moye, Sr.
Maps 13 and 14 have been grouped because they were used to inspire the creation of the map on pages 64-65 of Seedtime on the Cumberland and also on pages 100-101 of Flowering of the Cumberland.
Includes two miscellaneous maps and a typed note regarding an indeterminate map.
Seedtime on the Cumberland has been broken into early, middle, and late drafts for ease of perusal. Arnow did not use these distinctions, but it makes the collection more accessible. The early drafts are separated into Early Draft 1, Early Draft 2, and Early Draft 3. Early Draft 3 contains the only complete chapters for the early drafts of Seedtime on the Cumberland. The middle drafts are separated into Middle Draft 1 and Middle Draft 2. The late drafts are separated into Late Draft 1 and Late Draft 2.
Early Draft 1: Handwritten fragments, Early Draft 2: Cut and taped fragments, possibly some pages from Early Draft 1, and Early Draft 3: Typescript fragments
Middle Draft 1: Cut-and-tape fragments, and Middle Draft 2: Typescript fragments
Late Draft 1: Typescript fragments; close to final draft, yet still a variation away and Late Draft 2: Typescript fragments; chapters align with publication; most footnotes match publication
Page numbers do not match publication
Includes p. 103a. Moderately edited.
Moderately edited.
Moderately edited.
Moderately edited.
Includes drawing on p. 461
The six mostly intact chapters in the early drafts (Folders 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9) have been roughly matched to corresponding chapters in the final publication. However, parts of the chapters may have been moved and used in other chapters, as well. Because it is difficult to determine when pieces are definitively of the same draft, with exception to Folders 4-9, it should not be assumed that all fragments in a folder are of one contiguous draft.
Roughly corresponds to Chapter Four – The Makeup of Society. Lightly edited.
Roughly corresponds to published Chapter Six – Intellectual Background and Education. Lightly edited.
Roughly corresponds to published Chapter Eleven – The Professions and Chapter Twelve – The Business World. Lightly edited.
Roughly corresponds to published Chapter Ten – Industry. Lightly edited.
Roughly corresponds to published Chapter Two – The Underpinning. Lightly edited.
Original draft, carbon copy of original draft (missing pp. 780-781, 783, 786, and 788), and corrected copy of original draft (missing pp. 779-780). Lightly edited.
Middle Draft 1 Fragments (largely cut and tape) and Middle Draft 2 Fragments (typescript).
This document was mailed to Arnow at her home in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There are typesetter’s notations in blue and red pencil. These page proofs also denote the change from Roman numerals to words for the chapter headings. Most of the editorial notes in the page proofs are not in Arnow’s handwriting.
Includes notes for each chapter. Note on cover denotes editor’s typescript and shows that this typescript was sent directly to Arnow. Moderately edited.
Includes notes for each chapter. Moderately edited.
Includes notes for each chapter. Moderately edited.
Includes notes for each chapter. Moderately edited.
Moderately edited.
The printer’s proofs have what appear to be markings for the start of an index. Proper nouns (largely place names and names of individuals) have been underlined through this copy. Arnow supplied the index for Flowering of the Cumberland (as well as Seedtime on the Cumberland), as noted in correspondence with employees of the Macmillan Company between May and June of 1963 (Box 31, Folder 4).
This is the first of three volumes published by Cincinnati Public Schools in honor of Cincinnati’s Sesquicentennial.
This is the third of three volumes published by Cincinnati Public Schools in honor of Cincinnati’s Sesquicentennial.
Includes rejection notice from Nancy Ruzicka. Submitted to and subsequently rejected by the New York Times.
Moderately edited.
1949-10-01T00:00:00
Erroneously credited to Harrell S. Arnow, author of The Doll Maker and Other Best Sellers
Includes letter to literary agent Henry Volkening from Reader’s Digest with notes on how to enhance an early draft for publication, research on mules, three versions of Outline of a Proposed Article on The Mule and two drafts of The Mule. Loosely related to Flowering of the Cumberland, Chapter Seven The Horse.
Includes Arnow’s article torn from the ALA Bulletin booklet and one intact booklet.
Corresponds to Flowering of the Cumberland Chapter Nine The Farmer and his Crops.
Corresponds roughly to Flowering of the Cumberland Chapter Six Intellectual Background and Education and Chapter Eleven The Professions.
Includes three copies each of a rejection letter to HSA from The Atlantic Monthly Press and the article. Corresponds to Flowering of the Cumberland Chapter Five The Sounds of Humankind.
Includes three copies of the publication. Paper was originally presented as speech and printed by the Historical Society of Michigan.
Includes original and photocopy of a manuscript to The Nation. Also includes a rejection notice from Carey McWilliams.
Includes rejection letter from Carey McWilliams of The Nation and note from James about Arnow as an author.
Part of the Special Issue: Feminine Sensibility.
Originally printed by The Nation in 1971
Includes rejection notice from Blair Clark of The Nation.
Includes a transcript published by Alice Lloyd College of a speech given by Arnow before an Appalshop Writer’s Workshop.
Includes alternate beginning (one page).
Later published in Country Beautiful magazine.
Includes three copies of the story and p. 1 of an earlier draft.
Includes two copies: first copy has original vault in Marcella’s hand, and the second copy has file in Marcella’s hand.
Includes three copies of the first page of the article.
Includes two drafts of the story.
Includes a Reader’s Viewpoint (Likes School System, But Oh, Those Buses!), Choice for Christmas as published in the Chicago Sunday Tribune (with note from E & B about her being published in the same paper as Edna [Arnow]), and Appalachian Heritage
Arnow was frequently invited to give speeches to various regional and national organizations, as well as acceptance speeches for awards such organizations offered her.
Includes one complete and two incomplete drafts of HSA’s speech for the dedication and the folder in which the speech was kept.
Includes multiple drafts of the speech.
Missing p. 1, 5-6, and 15.
Missing p. 2; missing p. 10 due to misnumbering.
Includes several variant pages.
Includes a complete speech of 10 sections on fives pages.
Includes several drafts and fragments.
Missing p. 5-8.
Includes fragments of drafts on language.
Includes fragments of various speeches.
Arnow used note cards (usually typed) for many of her speeches. Speech topics include Appalachia, American history, education, reading, and writing. The bundles in Folder 6 include cards that were already packaged together by rubber bands, suggesting that each bundle was used for a particular speech. The bundles in Folder 7 include fragments of speeches that have been bound only to prevent shuffling.
Arnow reviewed several books. The pieces in this section are ordered alphabetically first by the book author’s last name and then, in cases of multiple book reviews for one author, by title. Unless noted specifically, it is difficult to determine whether or not all the book reviews by HSA were published.
Includes review as published in the New York Times Book Review.
Includes typescript, review as published in Playgirl, and a copy of the intact Playgirl in which the review is published.
Includes incomplete typescript and a copy of The Register in which the review was published.
Missing p. 3, 6, and 11.
Unlike the other book reviews, this piece, known commonly as a reader’s report, is a review of a manuscript. If the book was published, it must have been done so under a different title.
Includes two incomplete drafts.
Includes review essay of Rhine Maidens by Carolyn See [Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; 1981], Warlock by Jim Harrison [Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence; 1981], and Angel of Light by Joyce Carol Oates [E. P. Dutton; 1981].
Includes a copy of the intact Mountain Life and Work magazine in which the review was published.
Numeration in brackets was not original to the notebooks and only serves as a reference for pages. Notebooks cannot be accurately dated, even if diary entries contain specific dates. Arnow often returned to notebooks over multiple years, so the year range could be wider than the diary entries might suggest.
Includes an 10.5 inch by 8 inch spiral notebook. Notebook contains diary entries (dated April 16, April 19, April 20, and May 18, 1971) and fragments of a modern-day, possibly Appalachian, story with the following characters: Lulu, Noble, Jim, Mrs. Colyer, Joyce and Jade, Lonnie, Mr. Atkins, Joe Ann, Jackie, Jimmy, and Jasper. Notebook includes Chapters with numbering VII or VIII, IX or X, X or XI, VII or VIII, and IX or X. Pages 257-304 of the same notebook have been removed and placed in Belle notebooks (Box 45, Folder 8).
Notebooks appear to be related as part of a lengthy manuscript, which takes place in an urban setting with mentions of street cars as well as a tuberculosis hospital. Smaller notebook contains a brief journal entry dated May 16, 1979. Pages 63-72 of the smaller notebook have been photocopied and placed in Belle notebooks (Box 44, Folder 11).
Also includes a folder with notes about a fictional work.
Includes autobiographical fragment about experiences in guest lecturing (p. 1-17), autobiographical fragment that corresponds with untitled autobiography (p. 19-32), short story called Love? (p. 33-57), short story labeled Chapter 2 or 3 detailing a woman who travels up a mountain to see a doctor because she does not want to become pregnant (p. 57-112), and a letter to Harold Strauss regarding the Weedkiller’s Daughter (p. 113-114).
Includes Old Burnside research and fragments (p. 1-13, 17-33, and 69-130), fiction fragment with characters named Kate, Louise, Beard, Miss Beulah Ballou, and Lulu Ballou (p. 14-16 and 34-68), and fiction fragment with character named Maggie (p. 131-142).
Includes Notes on Old Burnside (p. 1-18), notes from Somerset Herald, August 5, 1915 (p. 19-24), notes from Somerset Journal, March 3, 1907 (p. 25-28), notes on poet Lee Pennington (p. 29-34), what appear to be notes on student manuscripts (p. 42-47), journal entry dated April 2, 1979 (p. 48-49), fiction fragment (p. 53), list of prices from a 1908 Sears Roebuck catalog (p. 59-61), and notes on Cherokee culture and language (p. 63-94).
Includes possible early beginning of To You No Place (p. 1-2, and 4-18), beginning of a speech (p. 3), book review of Jesse Stuart (p. 18-21), autobiographical fragment about walking home from high school (p. 22-35), and discussion of a work titled Patterns in the Fog (earlier title for Seedtime) and critical reception of Seedtime on the Cumberland (p. 35-51).
Includes handwritten draft of Witch Hazel Blooms in November (p. 3-40, 43-108, and 112-13), copy of letter to Jack Jacobs, dated September 16, about screen options to an unnamed script (p. 41-42), journal entries from trip to Nova Scotia (p. 109-11 and 114-127), and miscellaneous notes, including recipes (p. 128-end).
Includes statistics on population, education, income, birth, and death of Michigan, Tennessee, and Kentucky from 1930-1950 and notes on The Dollmaker and Seedtime on the Cumberland.
Includes discussion of farmland in Ann Arbor, Michigan; disappearance of schools and wildflowers; high taxes; HSA’s dream of a farm house living museum, and several journal entries, including one dated September 12, 1968.
Includes discussion of the prehistoric Cumberland River/Appalachia (geology, animal life, etc.).
Note at the top of the front cover reads #32. Includes autobiographical fragments, note dated 1966 (p. 177), references to Vietnam (p. 180), women in literature including depictions by Hemingway and Christopher Morley (p. 1-19), thoughts on writing and publishing (p. 20-41), courtship with Harold and early married life including pregnancies and plans to move to Keno (p. 42-89), and autobiographical fragment that corresponds with untitled autobiography (p. 90-309).
Includes material on southern Appalachia and coal companies. Photocopies are taken from a longer notebook (p. 1-104) which contained a draft of The Kentucky Trace and is housed with The Kentucky Trace notebooks (Box 80, Folder 6).
Includes a discussion of farm life without electricity and a smell of kerosene on hands (p. 1-4), discussion of experience working as a waitress in Cincinnati as well as labor and class issues in Cincinnati (p. 4-20), discussion and critique of Berea (p. 21-26 and 51-60), notes on Arnow’s time at a boarding school and town life (p. 27-51), discussion of experiences teaching in several schools and the poverty and attitudes of students and their families (p. 60-82), and a discussion of experiences as a student at the University of Louisville (p. 83-92).
Includes speech to the Colonial Dames. Unclear where the speech ends and book reviews begin. Photocopy taken from The Weedkiller’s Daughter notebook (Box 86, Folder 1).
Includes addresses, speech notes, and financial notes.
Includes mostly expense accounts.
Includes financial information, possibly roster of writing students at Hindman Writers Workshop, and notes for a story.
Includes date of June 23, 1969, addresses, recipes, accounts/budgets, diary entries, notes for an untitled review, and fiction fragment of a man making coffee and cakes.
Includes income calculations for 1965, 1966, and 1967, expense listings, addresses, and diary entries.
Includes expense accounts and appointment reminders.
Includes loose notebook pages.
Includes notebooks as well as loose notebook pages.
Includes addresses and appointment reminders.
Includes two copies of a typescript by Ronald Butler with HSA’s notes in the margin and the article as published in Appalachian Heritage, No. 3, p. 67-78.
Includes a letter from Jack Cady of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and several essays written by Mr. Cady’s students on The Dollmaker.
Includes a note inside the front cover from Ms. Griffin to HSA. Photograph found between pages 142 and 143 has been removed and placed with audiovisual materials (Box 148, Item 298).
Includes only a photocopy of the work.
Includes only a photocopy of the work.
Includes only a photocopy of the work.
Includes only a photocopy of the work.
Includes only a photocopy of the work.
Includes only a photocopy of the work.
Includes 16 reviews, with one by Granville Hicks.
Includes 15 reviews.
Includes 8 reviews, with one by Joyce Carol Oates.
Includes 21 reviews.
Includes 25 reviews and a letter from Ann Close, former Appalachian Librarian of the University of Kentucky, to HSA.
Includes 6 reviews.
Includes 26 reviews, with a letter from Jim Dance.
Includes 3 reviews.
Includes circa 60 reviews, with an intact copy of Tennessee Historical Quarterly.
Includes circa 30 reviews, with an intact copy of The North Carolina Historical Review.
Includes 12 reviews.
Includes circa 40 reviews, with one intact copy of The Filson Club History Quarterly
Includes 11 reviews.
Includes 1 review.
Includes published promotional materials and mockups for publication.
Includes a mailing envelope for the first chapter reprints, four copies of the American print, and one copy of the British print. The reprints were sent to libraries, book reviewers, bookstores, and college professors for promotional purposes.
Includes a letter from Betty Mastin, Marketing Manager of the University Press of Kentucky, and photocopies of the review list.
Includes a copy of Macmillan Books, Advances News of Books, and press releases.
Includes a description by HSA with the title “Asked for Description of Book.”
Includes a mockup of a full page advertisement for the New York Times Book Review and a photocopy of the published advertisement.
Includes published promotional materials, advertising schedules, two copies of Publisher’s Weekly, and two placards from a promotional event.
Includes articles, research materials, and a map.
Includes museum and gallery programs.
Includes articles, essays, and research materials by and about several authors, such as creative writers and psychologists.
Includes works by Lee Pennington and a limited edition (99 of 100) with an image of Mr. Pennington and four poems on high quality matte paper.
Includes reviews possibly related to the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Centenary Conference (Box 9, Folder 10), at which Arnow was a panelist and speaker.
Includes three booklets on historical landmarks in Great Britain.
Includes various pamphlets and small booklets about Michigan, particularly Detroit.
Includes pamphlets and small booklets regarding political, religious, and other aspects of Middle Eastern culture.
Includes two thick booklets of published transcripts on these investigations.
undated
1959-1976
1943 to March 1980
The Photographs Series contains 337 images from the 1930s-1980s. It consists of prints, negatives, slides and postcards. Comprised in the series are family snapshots, publicity head shots, photographs from writing workshops and occasions when Arnow won awards, photographs collected by Arnow for research purposes for Seedtime on the Cumberland and Flowering of th