Wallace McElroy Kelly papers, 1935-1957
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Wallace McElroy Kelly papers, 1935-1957
- Creator
- Kelly, Wallace McElroy, 1910-
- Extent
- .4 cubic ft.
- Subjects
- Kelly, Wallace McElroy, 1910-
- Shine, Frances Lathrop Dugan, 1903-1977.
- Manuscripts (for publication)
- Kentucky author
- Arrangement
- Letters (70M19) arranged chronologically.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Scope and Content
- This collection contains the manuscript of DAYS ARE AS GRASS and other writings and letters of Wallace McElroy Kelly. Besides the manuscript of the novel, the collection contains the original of the chapter Kelly submitted to the fellowship contest and a single page proof. Also included are some children's poems written by Kelly, and his 1941 letters to Frances Smith Dugan, a Lexington, Ky. bookseller, about promoting DAYS ARE AS GRASS.
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