Isabel McLennan McMeekin papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Isabel McLennan McMeekin papers
- Date
- circa 1850-1940 (inclusive)
- 1940-1950 (bulk)
- Extent
- 0.9 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Authors, American -- Kentucky.
- Drafts.
- Women authors.
- Arrangement
- The collection is arranged by subject and format into three series: Isabel McLennan McMeekin, Clark McMeekin, and Photographs.
- Preferred Citation
- 46m72: [identification of item], Isabel McLennan McMeekin papers, circa 1850s-1950, bulk 1940-1950, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Author Isabel McLennan McMeekin (1895-1973) was born in Louisville and educated at Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut, and the University of Chicago. In 1921, she married Samuel H. McMeekin. Isabel wrote historical fiction with co-author Dorothy Park Clark under the pseudonym Clark McMeekin between 1940 and 1961. Their joint works include Show me a Land and City of the Flages. However, they both wrote under their own names; Isabel produced a variety of literary work, including mysteries, short stories, poetry, and children's literature during her lifetime.
- Scope and Content
- The Isabel McLennan McMeekin papers (dated 1850s-1950s, bulk 1940-1950; 0.9 cubic feet; 4 boxes) consist of manuscripts, photographs, a civil war scrapbook, and a book jacket, which document McMeekin's work as an author. The collection contains an unbound author's copy and a book jacket for Kentucky Derby Winner by McMeekin as well as a manuscript transcript of a Civil War scrapbook entitled A Civil War Scrap-book Lost and Found. The collection also contains the original scrapbook the edited scrapbook is based on. Additionally, the collection includes a draft of City of the Flags, written under the pseudonym Clark McMeekin, with substantial handwritten revision. The photographs consist of headshots of McMeekin and her co-author Dorothy Park Clark as well as images of them at a book signing for Show Me a Land at Morris Bookshop in Lexington, Kentucky.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Isabel McLennan McMeekin, circa 1850s-1949, undated
Clark McMeekin, circa 1950
Photographs, 1940
Isabel McLennan McMeekin signed headshot, 1940
Dorothy Park Clark signed headshot, 1940
Isabel McLennan McMeekin and Dorothy Park Clark, 1940 February
Dorothy Park Clark and Isabel McLennan McMeekin at Morris Book Shop signing for Show me a Land, 1940 February
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