Harriette Simpson Arnow papers

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1960 is in black ink; 1961 is in blue ink; "DD" is frequently mentioned [DD is a character in an unpublished manuscript, originally titled A Journey for Lucinda, but later changed to To You No Place]

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Contains some notes about Belle.

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Wall calendar and pocket calendar, in which HSA notes that Harold Arnow died on February 20, 1985

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HSA was a member of the Literature and Cultural Committee

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Includes induction pin, program, certificate, and Gurney Norman's introduction for HSA.

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Award named in HSA’s honor

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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.

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Part I

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The letters are addressed to "Family" because they were meant to be read by all three other family members (Harriette, Harold, and Tom).

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Letter examines mother’s mental health and relationship with children.

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For Harold Strauss, see also Knopf files.

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Incomplete/Parts of Letters

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Fragments

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Multiple entities (publishing companies, literary agencies, and artists) have attempted or succeeded getting the dramatic rights to a number of Arnow’s works.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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- ).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

• Box 35, Folder 7

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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.

• Box 36, Folder 1

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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.

• Box 36, Folder 2

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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.

• Box 36, Folder 3

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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.

• Box 36, Folder 4

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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".

• Box 36, Folder 5

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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.

• Box 36, Folder 6

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 1

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 2

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 3

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 4

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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?"

• Box 37, Folder 5

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 6

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 7

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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).

• Box 37, Folder 8

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 9

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 10

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 11

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 12

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 13

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 14

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 15

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 16

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 17

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 18

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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.

• Box 37, Folder 19

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Letters from students at Coral Gables High School; some are undated.

• Box 38, Folder 1

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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.

• Box 38, Folder 2

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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.

• Box 38, Folder 3

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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.

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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.

• Box 38, Folder 5

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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.

• Box 38, Folder 6

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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.

• Box 38, Folder 7

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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.

• Box 38, Folder 8

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• Box 39, Folder 1

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• Box 44-48

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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.

• Box 49-50

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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.

• Box 54-59, 63, item 60-62, volume 64

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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.