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Atkins attended West Virginia University, the Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William and Mary, and Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied education. She married Paul J. Atkins in 1943; the couple had a daughter, Anna Lee Atkins White. Atkins moved to Chesterfield, Virginia in 1950 and lived there for the rest of her life. She worked as a schoolteacher. She wrote poetry and prose and was also interested in genealogy and local history.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Anna Blanche Shue Atkins (4 October 1918-29 July 2010) was a native of Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Her parents were Emery E. and Pearl Williams Shue; Atkins was the oldest of nine siblings. Atkins attended West Virginia University, the Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William and Mary, and Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied education. She married Paul J. Atkins in 1943; the couple had a daughter, Anna Lee Atkins White. Atkins moved to Chesterfield, Virginia in 1950 and lived there for the rest of her life. She worked as a schoolteacher. She wrote poetry and prose and was also interested in genealogy and local history."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Anna Shue Atkins Papers, A\u0026amp;M 3984, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Anna Shue Atkins Papers, A\u0026M 3984, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of Anna Shue Atkins (1918-2010), a poet, writer, and schoolteacher who was born and spent her early life in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. 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Contains Atkins's poetry and autobiographical writings, as well as her genealogical research, legal documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other material.","This collection consists of three boxes. Highlights of the contents of these boxes are described below.","Box 1:","-two binders (green and blue) of poetry and prose by Atkins, labeled \"Bits and Pieces\"","-two binders (both dark blue) of Atkins's autobiographical writings regarding her childhood, education, and family members","-binder containing scrapbook of \"Joy of Farming\" newspaper articles","Box 2:","-family history and genealogy material regarding the Shue family and other families, including Atkins's notes, newspaper clippings, and correspondence","-legal documents, including birth, marriage, and death certificates; diplomas and other school records; property deeds; bank statements; and property surveys","-cookbook with notations and additions by Atkins","Box 3:","-copies of works by Atkins submitted for publication and associated rejection slips","-manuscript draft and notes for a work of fiction by Atkins titled \"Dorie\"","-poetry, prose, and academic papers written by Atkins","-notes from a workshop held by the Genealogical Research Institute of Virginia, as well as genealogical information collected by Atkins"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Breece Pancake had two short stories published in The Atlantic Monthly before he died of an apparent suicide on 8 April 1979. His only collection of stories, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously in 1983. Correspondence, writings, biographical and genealogical materials, and subject files document Breece Pancake's personal life and writing career from the mid-1960s to April 1979 as well as efforts made by his mother, Helen Pancake, and author John Casey to publish his stories after his death. Collection also contains subject files and oversize materials taken from Breece's office at the University of Virginia after he died. 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He was raised in Milton, West Virginia, a small town in the hills in the southwestern part of that state. Helen Frazier (b. 1922) and Bud Pancake (1917-1975) married in September 1939 and had two daughters, Charlotte and Donnetta, shortly thereafter. Bud began working for Union Carbide Chemical Company as a shipping clerk, and remained in the job for more than thirty years. He also served in an army field observation unit in Germany for almost two years during World War II. Helen Pancake became a librarian in the Milton Public Library in the 1970s.","Breece attended Milton High School and graduated in 1970. He wrote two stories during that time, \"Keeper of the Flame,\" which was published in the school paper in 1968, and \"Rat Boy,\" which was rejected in the early 1970s by several publications. Breece enrolled in school at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in the summer of 1970 and continued to study there into the fall.","When Bud Pancake was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Breece transferred to Marshall University in Huntington in order to be closer to home. The two men enjoyed a very close relationship, having spent many hours fishing, camping, hiking, and hunting during Breece's youth. However, after a broken engagement in December 1971, Pancake decided to leave West Virginia and visit his sister Donnetta in Phoenix, Arizona. He was there from January to April 1972, working odd jobs, traveling to Mexico and throughout the southwest. Breece returned to Marshall later that year and earned a BA in English in 1974 with plans to teach high school English. While there he began writing several stories, including \"Stuart,\" \"Fox Hunters,\" and \"The Honored Dead.\"","Breece spent the next two years teaching at military prep schools in Virginia. In the fall of 1974 he found a job at the Fork Union Military Academy. There he met fellow teacher Matthew Heard, who quickly became a close friend and travel companion. Breece spent the following year teaching at the Staunton Military Academy. He continued writing during this time, completing \"Fox Hunters\" in June 1975 and \"The Scrapper\" in September of that year. On 8 September 1975 Bud Pancake died of complications from multiple sclerosis. Less than three weeks later, Matthew Heard was killed in a car accident. Devastated by these deaths, Breece considered returning to West Virginia. However, he was committed to his teaching job and in November he moved instead into an apartment at the home of Sarah Nutt, who became a close friend and support, and poured himself into his writing.","By the end of 1975, Breece had written several new stories, including \"The Mark,\" and \"Cowboys and Girls,\" which became \"The Way It Has to Be\" when it was published in 1983. In early 1976 he started writing \"Salvation of Me,\" \"Will o' the Wisp,\" which became \"Trilobites,\" and \"Time and Again.\" That spring, the University of Virginia's literary magazine, Rivanna, published \"The Mark,\" and Breece decided to leave teaching and study creative writing in graduate school.","In the spring of 1975 Breece had met John Casey at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and shown him at least two of his stories. He also attended one of Casey's classes. Breece became a full-time student in the fall of 1976 and worked with distinguished writers John Casey, James Alan McPherson, Richard Jones, and Peter Taylor. He also taught composition and fiction writing as a graduate assistant on the Emily Clark Balch and Henry Hoyns fellowships and served as a fiction consultant to the editor of Virginia Review Quarterly.","The demands of graduate school exhausted Breece and did not leave him much time for his own writing. He spent most of his time polishing his earlier work and began to enjoy more literary success. Both \"Hollow\" and \"Cowboys and Girls\" were published in the university newspaper, The Declaration, during his first semester. The Atlantic Monthly accepted \"Trilobites\" for publication in March 1977 and \"In the Dry\" in early 1978. Breece also sold \"Time and Again\" to the magazine Nightwork and won the Jefferson Society Prize for fiction that year. It was during the publication of \"Trilobites\" in the spring of 1977 that a typesetter's error changed Breece's name from Breece D.J. Pancake to Breece D'J Pancake. (Breece had unofficially changed his middle name to David and then added John as a confirmation name in 1977 when he converted to Catholicism.) He decided to keep the new punctuation and adopt the name by which he is now known. Breece also began writing \"First Day of Winter,\" \"In the Dry,\" and \"A Room Forever\" while in Charlottesville.","Despite his early literary success, Breece had difficulties adjusting to graduate school and life in Charlottesville. He rented a small apartment in the manor home of Virginia Meade and her husband and struggled to feel at home at the university, where he was bothered by class consciousness and felt alienated from many of his fellow students. However, he did meet Emily Miller, a PhD student in English at U.Va., in the fall of 1977, and the two dated until Breece's death. By the spring of 1979, Breece was close to completing his master's degree and was applying for teaching positions for the following academic year.","Breece Pancake died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 8 April 1979 in Charlottesville and was buried in Milton, West Virginia. In the months and years after his death, Helen Pancake and John Casey worked to publish his stories. Atlantic Monthly published \"The Honored Dead\" in January 1981 and \"Hollow\" in October 1982, and Antaeus accepted \"A Room Forever\" for its December 1981 issue. A collection of Breece's work, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously through the efforts of Helen Pancake and Breece's literary executor, John Casey, in February 1983 by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Stories was reviewed by more than one hundred major newspapers and journals and received widespread critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reprinted the book as a paperback in 1984 and in 1986 Stories won the West Virginia Literary Award. Even after the book's publication, Helen Pancake continued to support her son's writing by answering the questions of those interested in understanding Breece's writing and youth in West Virginia. In 1998 Thomas E. Douglass published A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake. Much of this biographical information comes from that book.","In 1985 Helen Pancake sold the family home in Milton and moved to Spring Hills, Florida.","There are seven series in this collection:","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated\nSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1979-1994)\nSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated)\nSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993)\nSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated\nSeries 6. Addenda, 1978-1979 and 1999-2000\nSeries 7. Oversize","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated, contains approximately two hundred fifty letters chiefly written by Breece Pancake to his parents between 1966 and his death in April 1979. There are also several letters between Breece and his sisters, Donnetta and Charlotte; friends Matthew Heard and Mike Jennings; and Phoebe-Lou Adams at The Atlantic Monthly. Letters chiefly record Breece's work on his short stories and his daily activities at college in West Virginia in the early 1970s; while teaching at military academies in Virginia in the mid-1970s; and during his graduate studies in creative writing at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in Charlottesville in the late 1970s. Topics also include Breece's desire to better himself; his goals for life; his views on human beings and relationships; and his feelings about West Virginia and its people.","Approximately forty letters between Breece and his parents from 1970 to 1973 document Breece's studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and the family's life back in Milton. Helen and Bud share news from home and Breece shares stories about college life, including his classes, living in the dorm, difficulties at school and his desire to transfer to Marshall University. From January to April 1972 Breece writes from Arizona, where he is visiting his sister Doni and traveling out West. Topics include finding odd jobs; rappelling, horses, exploring the area; a Gordon Lightfoot concert; a trip to Mexico; his plans to return home; and plans for going back to school.","Almost eighty letters from the mid-1970s document the two years Pancake spent teaching at the Fork Union Military Academy (1974-1975) and the Staunton Military Academy (1975-1976) in Virginia. Fork Union letters primarily describe his teaching and social life. Topics include his classes and students; hiking on his own and with his students; his friendship with Matthew Heard; his finances and expenses; and his growing unhappiness in his position. Letters from the fall of 1975 relate to the death of his father that September and the death of Matthew Heard two weeks later. Pancake also writes about his teaching; his stories, including \"The Mark\" and \"The Hollow\"; his social life; moving into Sarah Nutt's apartment; his new car; family and friends; and his plans to attend the University of Virginia. Mixed within his news about daily activities are comments about his desire to keep getting better in life; not being satisfied with life; his desire to be himself; and on not understanding people.","Approximately 135 letters from the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1979 document Breece's life during his three years in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia. They describe his difficult adjustment to graduate school and life in Charlottesville as well as his success with writing and publishing his short stories. Topics related to his coursework, professors, and writing include the demands of graduate school; John Casey; Richard Jones; James McPherson; Mary Lee Settle; Peter Taylor; the progress of his writing; publishing his short stories in The Atlantic Monthly; his literary executorship; and searching for teaching jobs. Pancake also writes about his personal life, daily activities, and his surroundings. These topics include his finances; his social life, including girlfriend Emily Miller; visits to Sarah Nutt; his participation in the local Catholic Church; his landlady, Virginia Meade; and class consciousness in Charlottesville. Breece's letters from 1977 to 1979 also reveal his feelings of isolation and unease in Charlottesville and his homesickness for West Virginia. Also included are several letters received after Breece's death in April 1979.","Series 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1975-1994), consists of more than 700 letters written to and from Helen Pancake. With the exception of a few early letters, most of the correspondence begins after Breece's death in April 1979. Letters from 1979 and 1980 are largely sympathy notes containing explanations of how people knew Breece and what he meant to them. Primary topics in most of the letters are the publication of Breece's stories and book and projects related to Breece's work, including films, plays, and articles based on his stories. Scattered throughout are letters from people describing how Breece touched their lives. This series is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the correspondent. Folders also contain any other letters from that correspondent. For example, the John Casey folders include not only letters between Casey and Helen, but also letters between Casey and other people related to his role as Breece's literary executor. Letters from Helen Pancake are usually identified as copies; some are handwritten while others are photocopies.","Many of the correspondents can be grouped into the following categories: Breece's friends, (Kathleen Devereux, Matt Jennings, Matthew Heard, Sarah Nutt, John Shaffer, and Rick Wilson); people connected to Breece's life at the University of Virginia (John Casey, Richard Jones, James McPherson, girlfriend Emily Miller, landlady Virginia Meade, Raymond Nelson, Father Pat O'Connor, Charles Perdue, Peter Taylor, and Anthony Winner); Breece's former professors and students (including Michael Beasley, John Harrison, John McKernan, William Sullivan, and Albert Wilhelm); editors at The Atlantic Monthly and others associated with publishing Breece's stories (Phoebe-Lou Adams, Peter Davison, and Robert Manning and editors at Antaeus); people working on projects related to Breece's stories (Russ Barbour of WPBY-TV in West Virginia, filmmaker Jeffrey Davidson, biographer and historian Thomas Douglass, woodcut artist Richard Gerber, filmmaker and producer Mark Rance, and writer Topper Sherwood); people who wrote about Breece's life and work (Grace Toney Edwards, John Foster, Paul Hendrickson, Darla Radcliffe, and Robert Sumney); Helen Pancake's family and friends (Patricia Bins, Helen Heard, Matthew Heard, Charlotte Pancake, Donnetta Pancake, and Susan Maslowski); and other West Virginia authors (Pinckney Benedict, Mary Lee Settle, and Lee Maynard).","Letters from frequent correspondents such as John Casey, Peter Davison, Thomas Douglass, Richard Jones, James McPherson, and Emily Miller comment on additional subjects and provide greater insight into their relationships with Breece and Helen. John Casey was Breece's professor at U.Va., his godfather, and his literary executor. Letters between Casey and Helen date from 1977 to 1993. Early letters relate to Breece's death and his relationship with Casey. Letters from the early 1980s document Casey and Helen's efforts to publish Breece's stories and book and the publication process from their perspective. Later letters comment on projects related to Breece's work and mention Mark Rance, Russ Barbour, and Cynthia Kadohata. Casey also writes frequently of his family and writing, and the letters between him and Helen reveal a friendship that grew out of their mutual loss.","Peter Davison was the poetry editor at The Atlantic Monthly in the early 1980s and later the literary editor for Atlantic Monthly Press. These letters from 1980 to 1985 describe the process of sorting through Breece's stories and poetry for publication; publishing \"The Hollow\" and \"The Honored Dead\"; and publishing Stories in February 1983. Topics include the format of the book, contracts, the dust jacket, advertising, reviews, royalties, and the film rights.","Letters from Thomas Douglass between 1987 and 1994 chiefly chart his work on A Room Forever (1998), his biography of Breece, and Helen's assistance with the piece as she replied to his questions about Breece and the Pancake family. Additional topics include publishing \"Rat Boy,\" the Gulf War, pictures and a woodcut of Breece, and Douglass's family and writing. Also includes several letters between Douglass and John Casey and two folders of Douglass's research materials.","Letters from Richard Jones, Breece's professor at U.Va., are from 1979 to 1993 and describe Jones's reaction to Breece's death, his daily life in London, his family, his writing and teaching, projects related to Breece and his stories, and mutual friends and acquaintances, including John Casey, Mark Rance, and Mary Lee Settle. Jones also comments on meeting the daughter and granddaughter of Virginia Meade.","James Alan McPherson was one of Breece's professors at U.Va. and wrote the forward to Stories. Thirteen letters from 1979 to 1994, mostly from McPherson to Helen, chiefly detail McPherson's relationship with Breece. McPherson describes his reaction to Breece's death, the birth of his daughter that same night, and the difficulties that he and Breece had living in Charlottesville. He also comments on Breece's book and his own family affairs.","Emily Miller was Breece's girlfriend from September 1977 to April 1979 and a student at U.Va. Her letters from 1979 to 1982 primarily describe her response to Breece's death. She remembers Breece and his love of life and writes about his memorial service and Father Pat O'Connor, the pain of Breece's death, and things that remind of her Breece. She also tells Helen about her own teaching and writing and daily activities as a graduate student.","Series 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated), includes handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories, story fragments, the beginnings of novels and plays, and poetry as well as published stories, book reviews for The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, and copies of projects based on Breece's stories. Drafts of Breece's short stories include pieces that he had published or submitted for publication before his death as well as stories that were found among his belongings and published posthumously. Also included are drafts of a story about Mae Moore from the 1960s; partial drafts of two plays, \"Cousins\" and \"Rosary\"; the beginnings of two novels, \"Survivors\" and \"Water in a Sieve,\"; a paper for his Bible as Literature course at U.Va., \"Happy Are They Not Born in Jerusalem\"; and notes and a draft of a folklore paper he was working on at U.Va. Also included are book reviews of Stories that were compiled by Helen Pancake and drafts of the \"Hollow\" screenplay by Jeff Davidson (1991) and the \"Trilobites\" screenplay by Mark Rance (1993).","Writings are arranged in alphabetical order according to title. Some drafts are incomplete and some have handwritten annotations. Several stories are accompanied by related materials, such as copies of the folders that Pancake used to track his journal submissions and copies of the published story. Almost all drafts are undated. Note that the title of \"Cowboys and Girls\" was changed to \"The Way it Has to Be\" for Stories. The story has been filed under the latter title.","Series 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993), contains files compiled by both Breece and Helen Pancake that pertain to the education, family, personal life, and the death of Breece Pancake. Materials related to Breece's education and teaching include university transcripts, course notes and papers from Marshall University (1972-1974); a lesson plan and grade book from Fork Union Military Academy (1975-1976); an interview with Breece for the U.Va. newspaper in 1977; and job letters from the spring of 1979. Personal items include newspaper articles (1965-1993); Breece's 1979 pocket diary (with just a few brief entries); and a phone directory as well as various certificates and awards, including Breece's baptismal certificate in 1977 and a Virginia teaching certificate in 1979. Family materials include Clarence Pancake's 1975 obituary and clippings and photographs of his Aunt Julia Pancake Ward and her husband (1925-1968). Materials related to Breece's death include the items that were taken off the walls in his room in Charlottesville, notes related to his memorial services, his last list of things to do, and notes that Helen wrote about Breece. This series also contains five pieces written about Breece, including a transcript of the WPBY-TV program and articles written by Grace Toney Edwards, Albert Wilhelm, and Rick Wilson between 1983 and 1993.","Series 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated, chiefly contain clippings, photographs, and articles collected by either Breece Pancake or Helen Pancake. Topics include Appalachian culture, John Casey, Sam Harshbarger, Gordon Lightfoot, Milton, West Virginia, and O. Norman Simkins.","Series 6. Addenda, consists of additions made to the collection in 2000 and 2007. The first addenda includes two newspaper articles (1999, 2000) about Breece that were each sent to Helen Pancake. The accompanying letters are also included. The 2007 addition contains includes two photographs of Breece Pancake, his Bible (with his handwritten annotations), and his curriculum vita.","His copy of The Jerusalem Bible (published by Doubleday and Company, 1966) includes tabbed pages apparently indicating passages of interest to Pancake; many of these passages include his annotations. Tabbed passages include all of the following: Genesis 49:22-26 (p. 75); Judges 6:36-40 (p. 316); I Chronicles 16:30-33 (p. 516); Psalm 52:8 (p.835); Psalm 83 (p.867-868); Psalm 148:7-10 (p.929); Proverbs 11:30-31 (p.947); Song of Songs 2:3 (p. 994); Isaiah 4:2-3 (p.1148); Isaiah 22: 4-5 (p. 1175); Isaiah 40-43 (p. 1202-1212); Jeremiah 1-3, 17-20, 24 (p. 1249-1286, 1292-1293); Jeremiah 31:31-34 (p.1304); Jeremiah 32 (p. 1305-1308); Lamentations 4:8 (p.1350); Ezekiel 3-27 (p. 1362-1408); Daniel 4:16-22 (p.1432); Hosea 4-14 (p. 1455-1468); Habbakkuk 2:19 (p.1516); Zechariah 13:9-14 (p.1541); Matthew 10: 30-31 (p. 30); Mark 11:12-14 (p. 80); the Book of Luke (p.90-136); Galatians 4:25-31 (p. 326-327); I Peter 4:17-19 (p.405); and Revelation 6-11 (p. 436-439). The majority of verse annotations reference the natural environment, including: mountains, trees, fruit, and drought. Ezekiel, Chapters 20-21, are heavily annotated.","Series 7. Oversize, 1966-1985 and undated, contains a scrapbook; posters and flyers from Breece's office at Wilson Hall at U.Va.; his calendars and a sketchbook; and several oversize items compiled by Helen Pancake. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about Breece when he was a child, articles written by Breece for the Cabell Record in 1975, and articles about the writing program at U.Va. These articles include a piece on the professors in the writing program at U.Va., the 1977 Declaration interview with Breece, and a January 1979 article about Breece. Posters and flyers advertising concerts and lectures were apparently removed from Breece's office after his death. Also includes Breece's 1979 Sierra Club calendar with notations. Arranged according to format.","Original photograph to Photographs Collection, \"Portraits--Pancake, Breece\"","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Breece D'J Pancake (1952-1979) of Milton, West Virginia, noted short story writer who depicted the Appalachian experience of rural West Virginians. Breece Pancake had two short stories published in The Atlantic Monthly before he died of an apparent suicide on 8 April 1979. His only collection of stories, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously in 1983. Correspondence, writings, biographical and genealogical materials, and subject files document Breece Pancake's personal life and writing career from the mid-1960s to April 1979 as well as efforts made by his mother, Helen Pancake, and author John Casey to publish his stories after his death. Collection also contains subject files and oversize materials taken from Breece's office at the University of Virginia after he died. See scope and content note for details.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center","West Virginia and Regional History Center","University of Virginia. 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He was raised in Milton, West Virginia, a small town in the hills in the southwestern part of that state. Helen Frazier (b. 1922) and Bud Pancake (1917-1975) married in September 1939 and had two daughters, Charlotte and Donnetta, shortly thereafter. Bud began working for Union Carbide Chemical Company as a shipping clerk, and remained in the job for more than thirty years. He also served in an army field observation unit in Germany for almost two years during World War II. Helen Pancake became a librarian in the Milton Public Library in the 1970s. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nBreece attended Milton High School and graduated in 1970. He wrote two stories during that time, \"Keeper of the Flame,\" which was published in the school paper in 1968, and \"Rat Boy,\" which was rejected in the early 1970s by several publications. Breece enrolled in school at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in the summer of 1970 and continued to study there into the fall. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nWhen Bud Pancake was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Breece transferred to Marshall University in Huntington in order to be closer to home. The two men enjoyed a very close relationship, having spent many hours fishing, camping, hiking, and hunting during Breece's youth. However, after a broken engagement in December 1971, Pancake decided to leave West Virginia and visit his sister Donnetta in Phoenix, Arizona. He was there from January to April 1972, working odd jobs, traveling to Mexico and throughout the southwest. Breece returned to Marshall later that year and earned a BA in English in 1974 with plans to teach high school English. While there he began writing several stories, including \"Stuart,\" \"Fox Hunters,\" and \"The Honored Dead.\" \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nBreece spent the next two years teaching at military prep schools in Virginia. In the fall of 1974 he found a job at the Fork Union Military Academy. There he met fellow teacher Matthew Heard, who quickly became a close friend and travel companion. Breece spent the following year teaching at the Staunton Military Academy. He continued writing during this time, completing \"Fox Hunters\" in June 1975 and \"The Scrapper\" in September of that year. On 8 September 1975 Bud Pancake died of complications from multiple sclerosis. Less than three weeks later, Matthew Heard was killed in a car accident. Devastated by these deaths, Breece considered returning to West Virginia. However, he was committed to his teaching job and in November he moved instead into an apartment at the home of Sarah Nutt, who became a close friend and support, and poured himself into his writing. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nBy the end of 1975, Breece had written several new stories, including \"The Mark,\" and \"Cowboys and Girls,\" which became \"The Way It Has to Be\" when it was published in 1983. In early 1976 he started writing \"Salvation of Me,\" \"Will o' the Wisp,\" which became \"Trilobites,\" and \"Time and Again.\" That spring, the University of Virginia's literary magazine, Rivanna, published \"The Mark,\" and Breece decided to leave teaching and study creative writing in graduate school. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nIn the spring of 1975 Breece had met John Casey at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and shown him at least two of his stories. He also attended one of Casey's classes. Breece became a full-time student in the fall of 1976 and worked with distinguished writers John Casey, James Alan McPherson, Richard Jones, and Peter Taylor. He also taught composition and fiction writing as a graduate assistant on the Emily Clark Balch and Henry Hoyns fellowships and served as a fiction consultant to the editor of Virginia Review Quarterly. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe demands of graduate school exhausted Breece and did not leave him much time for his own writing. He spent most of his time polishing his earlier work and began to enjoy more literary success. Both \"Hollow\" and \"Cowboys and Girls\" were published in the university newspaper, The Declaration, during his first semester. The Atlantic Monthly accepted \"Trilobites\" for publication in March 1977 and \"In the Dry\" in early 1978. Breece also sold \"Time and Again\" to the magazine Nightwork and won the Jefferson Society Prize for fiction that year. It was during the publication of \"Trilobites\" in the spring of 1977 that a typesetter's error changed Breece's name from Breece D.J. Pancake to Breece D'J Pancake. (Breece had unofficially changed his middle name to David and then added John as a confirmation name in 1977 when he converted to Catholicism.) He decided to keep the new punctuation and adopt the name by which he is now known. Breece also began writing \"First Day of Winter,\" \"In the Dry,\" and \"A Room Forever\" while in Charlottesville. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nDespite his early literary success, Breece had difficulties adjusting to graduate school and life in Charlottesville. He rented a small apartment in the manor home of Virginia Meade and her husband and struggled to feel at home at the university, where he was bothered by class consciousness and felt alienated from many of his fellow students. However, he did meet Emily Miller, a PhD student in English at U.Va., in the fall of 1977, and the two dated until Breece's death. By the spring of 1979, Breece was close to completing his master's degree and was applying for teaching positions for the following academic year. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nBreece Pancake died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 8 April 1979 in Charlottesville and was buried in Milton, West Virginia. In the months and years after his death, Helen Pancake and John Casey worked to publish his stories. Atlantic Monthly published \"The Honored Dead\" in January 1981 and \"Hollow\" in October 1982, and Antaeus accepted \"A Room Forever\" for its December 1981 issue. A collection of Breece's work, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously through the efforts of Helen Pancake and Breece's literary executor, John Casey, in February 1983 by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Stories was reviewed by more than one hundred major newspapers and journals and received widespread critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reprinted the book as a paperback in 1984 and in 1986 Stories won the West Virginia Literary Award. Even after the book's publication, Helen Pancake continued to support her son's writing by answering the questions of those interested in understanding Breece's writing and youth in West Virginia. In 1998 Thomas E. Douglass published A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake. Much of this biographical information comes from that book. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nIn 1985 Helen Pancake sold the family home in Milton and moved to Spring Hills, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Breece D'J Pancake was born Breece Dexter Pancake on 29 June 1952 in Charleston, West Virginia, the son of Helen Frazier Pancake and Clarence \"Bud\" Pancake. He was raised in Milton, West Virginia, a small town in the hills in the southwestern part of that state. Helen Frazier (b. 1922) and Bud Pancake (1917-1975) married in September 1939 and had two daughters, Charlotte and Donnetta, shortly thereafter. Bud began working for Union Carbide Chemical Company as a shipping clerk, and remained in the job for more than thirty years. He also served in an army field observation unit in Germany for almost two years during World War II. Helen Pancake became a librarian in the Milton Public Library in the 1970s.","Breece attended Milton High School and graduated in 1970. He wrote two stories during that time, \"Keeper of the Flame,\" which was published in the school paper in 1968, and \"Rat Boy,\" which was rejected in the early 1970s by several publications. Breece enrolled in school at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in the summer of 1970 and continued to study there into the fall.","When Bud Pancake was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Breece transferred to Marshall University in Huntington in order to be closer to home. The two men enjoyed a very close relationship, having spent many hours fishing, camping, hiking, and hunting during Breece's youth. However, after a broken engagement in December 1971, Pancake decided to leave West Virginia and visit his sister Donnetta in Phoenix, Arizona. He was there from January to April 1972, working odd jobs, traveling to Mexico and throughout the southwest. Breece returned to Marshall later that year and earned a BA in English in 1974 with plans to teach high school English. While there he began writing several stories, including \"Stuart,\" \"Fox Hunters,\" and \"The Honored Dead.\"","Breece spent the next two years teaching at military prep schools in Virginia. In the fall of 1974 he found a job at the Fork Union Military Academy. There he met fellow teacher Matthew Heard, who quickly became a close friend and travel companion. Breece spent the following year teaching at the Staunton Military Academy. He continued writing during this time, completing \"Fox Hunters\" in June 1975 and \"The Scrapper\" in September of that year. On 8 September 1975 Bud Pancake died of complications from multiple sclerosis. Less than three weeks later, Matthew Heard was killed in a car accident. Devastated by these deaths, Breece considered returning to West Virginia. However, he was committed to his teaching job and in November he moved instead into an apartment at the home of Sarah Nutt, who became a close friend and support, and poured himself into his writing.","By the end of 1975, Breece had written several new stories, including \"The Mark,\" and \"Cowboys and Girls,\" which became \"The Way It Has to Be\" when it was published in 1983. In early 1976 he started writing \"Salvation of Me,\" \"Will o' the Wisp,\" which became \"Trilobites,\" and \"Time and Again.\" That spring, the University of Virginia's literary magazine, Rivanna, published \"The Mark,\" and Breece decided to leave teaching and study creative writing in graduate school.","In the spring of 1975 Breece had met John Casey at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and shown him at least two of his stories. He also attended one of Casey's classes. Breece became a full-time student in the fall of 1976 and worked with distinguished writers John Casey, James Alan McPherson, Richard Jones, and Peter Taylor. He also taught composition and fiction writing as a graduate assistant on the Emily Clark Balch and Henry Hoyns fellowships and served as a fiction consultant to the editor of Virginia Review Quarterly.","The demands of graduate school exhausted Breece and did not leave him much time for his own writing. He spent most of his time polishing his earlier work and began to enjoy more literary success. Both \"Hollow\" and \"Cowboys and Girls\" were published in the university newspaper, The Declaration, during his first semester. The Atlantic Monthly accepted \"Trilobites\" for publication in March 1977 and \"In the Dry\" in early 1978. Breece also sold \"Time and Again\" to the magazine Nightwork and won the Jefferson Society Prize for fiction that year. It was during the publication of \"Trilobites\" in the spring of 1977 that a typesetter's error changed Breece's name from Breece D.J. Pancake to Breece D'J Pancake. (Breece had unofficially changed his middle name to David and then added John as a confirmation name in 1977 when he converted to Catholicism.) He decided to keep the new punctuation and adopt the name by which he is now known. Breece also began writing \"First Day of Winter,\" \"In the Dry,\" and \"A Room Forever\" while in Charlottesville.","Despite his early literary success, Breece had difficulties adjusting to graduate school and life in Charlottesville. He rented a small apartment in the manor home of Virginia Meade and her husband and struggled to feel at home at the university, where he was bothered by class consciousness and felt alienated from many of his fellow students. However, he did meet Emily Miller, a PhD student in English at U.Va., in the fall of 1977, and the two dated until Breece's death. By the spring of 1979, Breece was close to completing his master's degree and was applying for teaching positions for the following academic year.","Breece Pancake died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 8 April 1979 in Charlottesville and was buried in Milton, West Virginia. In the months and years after his death, Helen Pancake and John Casey worked to publish his stories. Atlantic Monthly published \"The Honored Dead\" in January 1981 and \"Hollow\" in October 1982, and Antaeus accepted \"A Room Forever\" for its December 1981 issue. A collection of Breece's work, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously through the efforts of Helen Pancake and Breece's literary executor, John Casey, in February 1983 by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Stories was reviewed by more than one hundred major newspapers and journals and received widespread critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reprinted the book as a paperback in 1984 and in 1986 Stories won the West Virginia Literary Award. Even after the book's publication, Helen Pancake continued to support her son's writing by answering the questions of those interested in understanding Breece's writing and youth in West Virginia. In 1998 Thomas E. Douglass published A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake. Much of this biographical information comes from that book.","In 1985 Helen Pancake sold the family home in Milton and moved to Spring Hills, Florida."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Breece Pancake, Author, Papers, A\u0026amp;M 3306, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Breece Pancake, Author, Papers, A\u0026M 3306, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are seven series in this collection:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1979-1994)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Addenda, 1978-1979 and 1999-2000\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Oversize\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e, contains approximately two hundred fifty letters chiefly written by Breece Pancake to his parents between 1966 and his death in April 1979. There are also several letters between Breece and his sisters, Donnetta and Charlotte; friends Matthew Heard and Mike Jennings; and Phoebe-Lou Adams at The Atlantic Monthly. Letters chiefly record Breece's work on his short stories and his daily activities at college in West Virginia in the early 1970s; while teaching at military academies in Virginia in the mid-1970s; and during his graduate studies in creative writing at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in Charlottesville in the late 1970s. Topics also include Breece's desire to better himself; his goals for life; his views on human beings and relationships; and his feelings about West Virginia and its people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproximately forty letters between Breece and his parents from 1970 to 1973 document Breece's studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and the family's life back in Milton. Helen and Bud share news from home and Breece shares stories about college life, including his classes, living in the dorm, difficulties at school and his desire to transfer to Marshall University. From January to April 1972 Breece writes from Arizona, where he is visiting his sister Doni and traveling out West. Topics include finding odd jobs; rappelling, horses, exploring the area; a Gordon Lightfoot concert; a trip to Mexico; his plans to return home; and plans for going back to school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlmost eighty letters from the mid-1970s document the two years Pancake spent teaching at the Fork Union Military Academy (1974-1975) and the Staunton Military Academy (1975-1976) in Virginia. Fork Union letters primarily describe his teaching and social life. Topics include his classes and students; hiking on his own and with his students; his friendship with Matthew Heard; his finances and expenses; and his growing unhappiness in his position. Letters from the fall of 1975 relate to the death of his father that September and the death of Matthew Heard two weeks later. Pancake also writes about his teaching; his stories, including \"The Mark\" and \"The Hollow\"; his social life; moving into Sarah Nutt's apartment; his new car; family and friends; and his plans to attend the University of Virginia. Mixed within his news about daily activities are comments about his desire to keep getting better in life; not being satisfied with life; his desire to be himself; and on not understanding people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproximately 135 letters from the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1979 document Breece's life during his three years in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia. They describe his difficult adjustment to graduate school and life in Charlottesville as well as his success with writing and publishing his short stories. Topics related to his coursework, professors, and writing include the demands of graduate school; John Casey; Richard Jones; James McPherson; Mary Lee Settle; Peter Taylor; the progress of his writing; publishing his short stories in The Atlantic Monthly; his literary executorship; and searching for teaching jobs. Pancake also writes about his personal life, daily activities, and his surroundings. These topics include his finances; his social life, including girlfriend Emily Miller; visits to Sarah Nutt; his participation in the local Catholic Church; his landlady, Virginia Meade; and class consciousness in Charlottesville. Breece's letters from 1977 to 1979 also reveal his feelings of isolation and unease in Charlottesville and his homesickness for West Virginia. Also included are several letters received after Breece's death in April 1979.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1975-1994)\u003c/emph\u003e, consists of more than 700 letters written to and from Helen Pancake. With the exception of a few early letters, most of the correspondence begins after Breece's death in April 1979. Letters from 1979 and 1980 are largely sympathy notes containing explanations of how people knew Breece and what he meant to them. Primary topics in most of the letters are the publication of Breece's stories and book and projects related to Breece's work, including films, plays, and articles based on his stories. Scattered throughout are letters from people describing how Breece touched their lives. This series is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the correspondent. Folders also contain any other letters from that correspondent. For example, the John Casey folders include not only letters between Casey and Helen, but also letters between Casey and other people related to his role as Breece's literary executor. Letters from Helen Pancake are usually identified as copies; some are handwritten while others are photocopies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany of the correspondents can be grouped into the following categories: Breece's friends, (Kathleen Devereux, Matt Jennings, Matthew Heard, Sarah Nutt, John Shaffer, and Rick Wilson); people connected to Breece's life at the University of Virginia (John Casey, Richard Jones, James McPherson, girlfriend Emily Miller, landlady Virginia Meade, Raymond Nelson, Father Pat O'Connor, Charles Perdue, Peter Taylor, and Anthony Winner); Breece's former professors and students (including Michael Beasley, John Harrison, John McKernan, William Sullivan, and Albert Wilhelm); editors at The Atlantic Monthly and others associated with publishing Breece's stories (Phoebe-Lou Adams, Peter Davison, and Robert Manning and editors at Antaeus); people working on projects related to Breece's stories (Russ Barbour of WPBY-TV in West Virginia, filmmaker Jeffrey Davidson, biographer and historian Thomas Douglass, woodcut artist Richard Gerber, filmmaker and producer Mark Rance, and writer Topper Sherwood); people who wrote about Breece's life and work (Grace Toney Edwards, John Foster, Paul Hendrickson, Darla Radcliffe, and Robert Sumney); Helen Pancake's family and friends (Patricia Bins, Helen Heard, Matthew Heard, Charlotte Pancake, Donnetta Pancake, and Susan Maslowski); and other West Virginia authors (Pinckney Benedict, Mary Lee Settle, and Lee Maynard).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from frequent correspondents such as John Casey, Peter Davison, Thomas Douglass, Richard Jones, James McPherson, and Emily Miller comment on additional subjects and provide greater insight into their relationships with Breece and Helen. John Casey was Breece's professor at U.Va., his godfather, and his literary executor. Letters between Casey and Helen date from 1977 to 1993. Early letters relate to Breece's death and his relationship with Casey. Letters from the early 1980s document Casey and Helen's efforts to publish Breece's stories and book and the publication process from their perspective. Later letters comment on projects related to Breece's work and mention Mark Rance, Russ Barbour, and Cynthia Kadohata. Casey also writes frequently of his family and writing, and the letters between him and Helen reveal a friendship that grew out of their mutual loss.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeter Davison was the poetry editor at The Atlantic Monthly in the early 1980s and later the literary editor for Atlantic Monthly Press. These letters from 1980 to 1985 describe the process of sorting through Breece's stories and poetry for publication; publishing \"The Hollow\" and \"The Honored Dead\"; and publishing Stories in February 1983. Topics include the format of the book, contracts, the dust jacket, advertising, reviews, royalties, and the film rights.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Thomas Douglass between 1987 and 1994 chiefly chart his work on A Room Forever (1998), his biography of Breece, and Helen's assistance with the piece as she replied to his questions about Breece and the Pancake family. Additional topics include publishing \"Rat Boy,\" the Gulf War, pictures and a woodcut of Breece, and Douglass's family and writing. Also includes several letters between Douglass and John Casey and two folders of Douglass's research materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Richard Jones, Breece's professor at U.Va., are from 1979 to 1993 and describe Jones's reaction to Breece's death, his daily life in London, his family, his writing and teaching, projects related to Breece and his stories, and mutual friends and acquaintances, including John Casey, Mark Rance, and Mary Lee Settle. Jones also comments on meeting the daughter and granddaughter of Virginia Meade.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Alan McPherson was one of Breece's professors at U.Va. and wrote the forward to Stories. Thirteen letters from 1979 to 1994, mostly from McPherson to Helen, chiefly detail McPherson's relationship with Breece. McPherson describes his reaction to Breece's death, the birth of his daughter that same night, and the difficulties that he and Breece had living in Charlottesville. He also comments on Breece's book and his own family affairs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmily Miller was Breece's girlfriend from September 1977 to April 1979 and a student at U.Va. Her letters from 1979 to 1982 primarily describe her response to Breece's death. She remembers Breece and his love of life and writes about his memorial service and Father Pat O'Connor, the pain of Breece's death, and things that remind of her Breece. She also tells Helen about her own teaching and writing and daily activities as a graduate student.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated)\u003c/emph\u003e, includes handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories, story fragments, the beginnings of novels and plays, and poetry as well as published stories, book reviews for The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, and copies of projects based on Breece's stories. Drafts of Breece's short stories include pieces that he had published or submitted for publication before his death as well as stories that were found among his belongings and published posthumously. Also included are drafts of a story about Mae Moore from the 1960s; partial drafts of two plays, \"Cousins\" and \"Rosary\"; the beginnings of two novels, \"Survivors\" and \"Water in a Sieve,\"; a paper for his Bible as Literature course at U.Va., \"Happy Are They Not Born in Jerusalem\"; and notes and a draft of a folklore paper he was working on at U.Va. Also included are book reviews of Stories that were compiled by Helen Pancake and drafts of the \"Hollow\" screenplay by Jeff Davidson (1991) and the \"Trilobites\" screenplay by Mark Rance (1993).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritings are arranged in alphabetical order according to title. Some drafts are incomplete and some have handwritten annotations. Several stories are accompanied by related materials, such as copies of the folders that Pancake used to track his journal submissions and copies of the published story. Almost all drafts are undated. Note that the title of \"Cowboys and Girls\" was changed to \"The Way it Has to Be\" for Stories. The story has been filed under the latter title.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993)\u003c/emph\u003e, contains files compiled by both Breece and Helen Pancake that pertain to the education, family, personal life, and the death of Breece Pancake. Materials related to Breece's education and teaching include university transcripts, course notes and papers from Marshall University (1972-1974); a lesson plan and grade book from Fork Union Military Academy (1975-1976); an interview with Breece for the U.Va. newspaper in 1977; and job letters from the spring of 1979. Personal items include newspaper articles (1965-1993); Breece's 1979 pocket diary (with just a few brief entries); and a phone directory as well as various certificates and awards, including Breece's baptismal certificate in 1977 and a Virginia teaching certificate in 1979. Family materials include Clarence Pancake's 1975 obituary and clippings and photographs of his Aunt Julia Pancake Ward and her husband (1925-1968). Materials related to Breece's death include the items that were taken off the walls in his room in Charlottesville, notes related to his memorial services, his last list of things to do, and notes that Helen wrote about Breece. This series also contains five pieces written about Breece, including a transcript of the WPBY-TV program and articles written by Grace Toney Edwards, Albert Wilhelm, and Rick Wilson between 1983 and 1993.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e, chiefly contain clippings, photographs, and articles collected by either Breece Pancake or Helen Pancake. Topics include Appalachian culture, John Casey, Sam Harshbarger, Gordon Lightfoot, Milton, West Virginia, and O. Norman Simkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 6. Addenda\u003c/emph\u003e, consists of additions made to the collection in 2000 and 2007. The first addenda includes two newspaper articles (1999, 2000) about Breece that were each sent to Helen Pancake. The accompanying letters are also included. The 2007 addition contains includes two photographs of Breece Pancake, his Bible (with his handwritten annotations), and his curriculum vita.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis copy of The Jerusalem Bible (published by Doubleday and Company, 1966) includes tabbed pages apparently indicating passages of interest to Pancake; many of these passages include his annotations. Tabbed passages include all of the following: Genesis 49:22-26 (p. 75); Judges 6:36-40 (p. 316); I Chronicles 16:30-33 (p. 516); Psalm 52:8 (p.835); Psalm 83 (p.867-868); Psalm 148:7-10 (p.929); Proverbs 11:30-31 (p.947); Song of Songs 2:3 (p. 994); Isaiah 4:2-3 (p.1148); Isaiah 22: 4-5 (p. 1175); Isaiah 40-43 (p. 1202-1212); Jeremiah 1-3, 17-20, 24 (p. 1249-1286, 1292-1293); Jeremiah 31:31-34 (p.1304); Jeremiah 32 (p. 1305-1308); Lamentations 4:8 (p.1350); Ezekiel 3-27 (p. 1362-1408); Daniel 4:16-22 (p.1432); Hosea 4-14 (p. 1455-1468); Habbakkuk 2:19 (p.1516); Zechariah 13:9-14 (p.1541); Matthew 10: 30-31 (p. 30); Mark 11:12-14 (p. 80); the Book of Luke (p.90-136); Galatians 4:25-31 (p. 326-327); I Peter 4:17-19 (p.405); and Revelation 6-11 (p. 436-439). The majority of verse annotations reference the natural environment, including: mountains, trees, fruit, and drought. Ezekiel, Chapters 20-21, are heavily annotated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 7. Oversize, 1966-1985 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e, contains a scrapbook; posters and flyers from Breece's office at Wilson Hall at U.Va.; his calendars and a sketchbook; and several oversize items compiled by Helen Pancake. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about Breece when he was a child, articles written by Breece for the Cabell Record in 1975, and articles about the writing program at U.Va. These articles include a piece on the professors in the writing program at U.Va., the 1977 Declaration interview with Breece, and a January 1979 article about Breece. Posters and flyers advertising concerts and lectures were apparently removed from Breece's office after his death. Also includes Breece's 1979 Sierra Club calendar with notations. Arranged according to format.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["There are seven series in this collection:","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated\nSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1979-1994)\nSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated)\nSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993)\nSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated\nSeries 6. Addenda, 1978-1979 and 1999-2000\nSeries 7. Oversize","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated, contains approximately two hundred fifty letters chiefly written by Breece Pancake to his parents between 1966 and his death in April 1979. There are also several letters between Breece and his sisters, Donnetta and Charlotte; friends Matthew Heard and Mike Jennings; and Phoebe-Lou Adams at The Atlantic Monthly. Letters chiefly record Breece's work on his short stories and his daily activities at college in West Virginia in the early 1970s; while teaching at military academies in Virginia in the mid-1970s; and during his graduate studies in creative writing at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in Charlottesville in the late 1970s. Topics also include Breece's desire to better himself; his goals for life; his views on human beings and relationships; and his feelings about West Virginia and its people.","Approximately forty letters between Breece and his parents from 1970 to 1973 document Breece's studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and the family's life back in Milton. Helen and Bud share news from home and Breece shares stories about college life, including his classes, living in the dorm, difficulties at school and his desire to transfer to Marshall University. From January to April 1972 Breece writes from Arizona, where he is visiting his sister Doni and traveling out West. Topics include finding odd jobs; rappelling, horses, exploring the area; a Gordon Lightfoot concert; a trip to Mexico; his plans to return home; and plans for going back to school.","Almost eighty letters from the mid-1970s document the two years Pancake spent teaching at the Fork Union Military Academy (1974-1975) and the Staunton Military Academy (1975-1976) in Virginia. Fork Union letters primarily describe his teaching and social life. Topics include his classes and students; hiking on his own and with his students; his friendship with Matthew Heard; his finances and expenses; and his growing unhappiness in his position. Letters from the fall of 1975 relate to the death of his father that September and the death of Matthew Heard two weeks later. Pancake also writes about his teaching; his stories, including \"The Mark\" and \"The Hollow\"; his social life; moving into Sarah Nutt's apartment; his new car; family and friends; and his plans to attend the University of Virginia. Mixed within his news about daily activities are comments about his desire to keep getting better in life; not being satisfied with life; his desire to be himself; and on not understanding people.","Approximately 135 letters from the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1979 document Breece's life during his three years in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia. They describe his difficult adjustment to graduate school and life in Charlottesville as well as his success with writing and publishing his short stories. Topics related to his coursework, professors, and writing include the demands of graduate school; John Casey; Richard Jones; James McPherson; Mary Lee Settle; Peter Taylor; the progress of his writing; publishing his short stories in The Atlantic Monthly; his literary executorship; and searching for teaching jobs. Pancake also writes about his personal life, daily activities, and his surroundings. These topics include his finances; his social life, including girlfriend Emily Miller; visits to Sarah Nutt; his participation in the local Catholic Church; his landlady, Virginia Meade; and class consciousness in Charlottesville. Breece's letters from 1977 to 1979 also reveal his feelings of isolation and unease in Charlottesville and his homesickness for West Virginia. Also included are several letters received after Breece's death in April 1979.","Series 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1975-1994), consists of more than 700 letters written to and from Helen Pancake. With the exception of a few early letters, most of the correspondence begins after Breece's death in April 1979. Letters from 1979 and 1980 are largely sympathy notes containing explanations of how people knew Breece and what he meant to them. Primary topics in most of the letters are the publication of Breece's stories and book and projects related to Breece's work, including films, plays, and articles based on his stories. Scattered throughout are letters from people describing how Breece touched their lives. This series is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the correspondent. Folders also contain any other letters from that correspondent. For example, the John Casey folders include not only letters between Casey and Helen, but also letters between Casey and other people related to his role as Breece's literary executor. Letters from Helen Pancake are usually identified as copies; some are handwritten while others are photocopies.","Many of the correspondents can be grouped into the following categories: Breece's friends, (Kathleen Devereux, Matt Jennings, Matthew Heard, Sarah Nutt, John Shaffer, and Rick Wilson); people connected to Breece's life at the University of Virginia (John Casey, Richard Jones, James McPherson, girlfriend Emily Miller, landlady Virginia Meade, Raymond Nelson, Father Pat O'Connor, Charles Perdue, Peter Taylor, and Anthony Winner); Breece's former professors and students (including Michael Beasley, John Harrison, John McKernan, William Sullivan, and Albert Wilhelm); editors at The Atlantic Monthly and others associated with publishing Breece's stories (Phoebe-Lou Adams, Peter Davison, and Robert Manning and editors at Antaeus); people working on projects related to Breece's stories (Russ Barbour of WPBY-TV in West Virginia, filmmaker Jeffrey Davidson, biographer and historian Thomas Douglass, woodcut artist Richard Gerber, filmmaker and producer Mark Rance, and writer Topper Sherwood); people who wrote about Breece's life and work (Grace Toney Edwards, John Foster, Paul Hendrickson, Darla Radcliffe, and Robert Sumney); Helen Pancake's family and friends (Patricia Bins, Helen Heard, Matthew Heard, Charlotte Pancake, Donnetta Pancake, and Susan Maslowski); and other West Virginia authors (Pinckney Benedict, Mary Lee Settle, and Lee Maynard).","Letters from frequent correspondents such as John Casey, Peter Davison, Thomas Douglass, Richard Jones, James McPherson, and Emily Miller comment on additional subjects and provide greater insight into their relationships with Breece and Helen. John Casey was Breece's professor at U.Va., his godfather, and his literary executor. Letters between Casey and Helen date from 1977 to 1993. Early letters relate to Breece's death and his relationship with Casey. Letters from the early 1980s document Casey and Helen's efforts to publish Breece's stories and book and the publication process from their perspective. Later letters comment on projects related to Breece's work and mention Mark Rance, Russ Barbour, and Cynthia Kadohata. Casey also writes frequently of his family and writing, and the letters between him and Helen reveal a friendship that grew out of their mutual loss.","Peter Davison was the poetry editor at The Atlantic Monthly in the early 1980s and later the literary editor for Atlantic Monthly Press. These letters from 1980 to 1985 describe the process of sorting through Breece's stories and poetry for publication; publishing \"The Hollow\" and \"The Honored Dead\"; and publishing Stories in February 1983. Topics include the format of the book, contracts, the dust jacket, advertising, reviews, royalties, and the film rights.","Letters from Thomas Douglass between 1987 and 1994 chiefly chart his work on A Room Forever (1998), his biography of Breece, and Helen's assistance with the piece as she replied to his questions about Breece and the Pancake family. Additional topics include publishing \"Rat Boy,\" the Gulf War, pictures and a woodcut of Breece, and Douglass's family and writing. Also includes several letters between Douglass and John Casey and two folders of Douglass's research materials.","Letters from Richard Jones, Breece's professor at U.Va., are from 1979 to 1993 and describe Jones's reaction to Breece's death, his daily life in London, his family, his writing and teaching, projects related to Breece and his stories, and mutual friends and acquaintances, including John Casey, Mark Rance, and Mary Lee Settle. Jones also comments on meeting the daughter and granddaughter of Virginia Meade.","James Alan McPherson was one of Breece's professors at U.Va. and wrote the forward to Stories. Thirteen letters from 1979 to 1994, mostly from McPherson to Helen, chiefly detail McPherson's relationship with Breece. McPherson describes his reaction to Breece's death, the birth of his daughter that same night, and the difficulties that he and Breece had living in Charlottesville. He also comments on Breece's book and his own family affairs.","Emily Miller was Breece's girlfriend from September 1977 to April 1979 and a student at U.Va. Her letters from 1979 to 1982 primarily describe her response to Breece's death. She remembers Breece and his love of life and writes about his memorial service and Father Pat O'Connor, the pain of Breece's death, and things that remind of her Breece. She also tells Helen about her own teaching and writing and daily activities as a graduate student.","Series 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated), includes handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories, story fragments, the beginnings of novels and plays, and poetry as well as published stories, book reviews for The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, and copies of projects based on Breece's stories. Drafts of Breece's short stories include pieces that he had published or submitted for publication before his death as well as stories that were found among his belongings and published posthumously. Also included are drafts of a story about Mae Moore from the 1960s; partial drafts of two plays, \"Cousins\" and \"Rosary\"; the beginnings of two novels, \"Survivors\" and \"Water in a Sieve,\"; a paper for his Bible as Literature course at U.Va., \"Happy Are They Not Born in Jerusalem\"; and notes and a draft of a folklore paper he was working on at U.Va. Also included are book reviews of Stories that were compiled by Helen Pancake and drafts of the \"Hollow\" screenplay by Jeff Davidson (1991) and the \"Trilobites\" screenplay by Mark Rance (1993).","Writings are arranged in alphabetical order according to title. Some drafts are incomplete and some have handwritten annotations. Several stories are accompanied by related materials, such as copies of the folders that Pancake used to track his journal submissions and copies of the published story. Almost all drafts are undated. Note that the title of \"Cowboys and Girls\" was changed to \"The Way it Has to Be\" for Stories. The story has been filed under the latter title.","Series 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993), contains files compiled by both Breece and Helen Pancake that pertain to the education, family, personal life, and the death of Breece Pancake. Materials related to Breece's education and teaching include university transcripts, course notes and papers from Marshall University (1972-1974); a lesson plan and grade book from Fork Union Military Academy (1975-1976); an interview with Breece for the U.Va. newspaper in 1977; and job letters from the spring of 1979. Personal items include newspaper articles (1965-1993); Breece's 1979 pocket diary (with just a few brief entries); and a phone directory as well as various certificates and awards, including Breece's baptismal certificate in 1977 and a Virginia teaching certificate in 1979. Family materials include Clarence Pancake's 1975 obituary and clippings and photographs of his Aunt Julia Pancake Ward and her husband (1925-1968). Materials related to Breece's death include the items that were taken off the walls in his room in Charlottesville, notes related to his memorial services, his last list of things to do, and notes that Helen wrote about Breece. This series also contains five pieces written about Breece, including a transcript of the WPBY-TV program and articles written by Grace Toney Edwards, Albert Wilhelm, and Rick Wilson between 1983 and 1993.","Series 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated, chiefly contain clippings, photographs, and articles collected by either Breece Pancake or Helen Pancake. Topics include Appalachian culture, John Casey, Sam Harshbarger, Gordon Lightfoot, Milton, West Virginia, and O. Norman Simkins.","Series 6. Addenda, consists of additions made to the collection in 2000 and 2007. The first addenda includes two newspaper articles (1999, 2000) about Breece that were each sent to Helen Pancake. The accompanying letters are also included. The 2007 addition contains includes two photographs of Breece Pancake, his Bible (with his handwritten annotations), and his curriculum vita.","His copy of The Jerusalem Bible (published by Doubleday and Company, 1966) includes tabbed pages apparently indicating passages of interest to Pancake; many of these passages include his annotations. Tabbed passages include all of the following: Genesis 49:22-26 (p. 75); Judges 6:36-40 (p. 316); I Chronicles 16:30-33 (p. 516); Psalm 52:8 (p.835); Psalm 83 (p.867-868); Psalm 148:7-10 (p.929); Proverbs 11:30-31 (p.947); Song of Songs 2:3 (p. 994); Isaiah 4:2-3 (p.1148); Isaiah 22: 4-5 (p. 1175); Isaiah 40-43 (p. 1202-1212); Jeremiah 1-3, 17-20, 24 (p. 1249-1286, 1292-1293); Jeremiah 31:31-34 (p.1304); Jeremiah 32 (p. 1305-1308); Lamentations 4:8 (p.1350); Ezekiel 3-27 (p. 1362-1408); Daniel 4:16-22 (p.1432); Hosea 4-14 (p. 1455-1468); Habbakkuk 2:19 (p.1516); Zechariah 13:9-14 (p.1541); Matthew 10: 30-31 (p. 30); Mark 11:12-14 (p. 80); the Book of Luke (p.90-136); Galatians 4:25-31 (p. 326-327); I Peter 4:17-19 (p.405); and Revelation 6-11 (p. 436-439). The majority of verse annotations reference the natural environment, including: mountains, trees, fruit, and drought. Ezekiel, Chapters 20-21, are heavily annotated.","Series 7. Oversize, 1966-1985 and undated, contains a scrapbook; posters and flyers from Breece's office at Wilson Hall at U.Va.; his calendars and a sketchbook; and several oversize items compiled by Helen Pancake. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about Breece when he was a child, articles written by Breece for the Cabell Record in 1975, and articles about the writing program at U.Va. These articles include a piece on the professors in the writing program at U.Va., the 1977 Declaration interview with Breece, and a January 1979 article about Breece. Posters and flyers advertising concerts and lectures were apparently removed from Breece's office after his death. Also includes Breece's 1979 Sierra Club calendar with notations. Arranged according to format."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOriginal photograph to Photographs Collection, \"Portraits--Pancake, Breece\"\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Original photograph to Photographs Collection, \"Portraits--Pancake, Breece\""],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_6441c078b74f01a3d29ec19113cc435a\"\u003ePapers of Breece D'J Pancake (1952-1979) of Milton, West Virginia, noted short story writer who depicted the Appalachian experience of rural West Virginians. Breece Pancake had two short stories published in The Atlantic Monthly before he died of an apparent suicide on 8 April 1979. His only collection of stories, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously in 1983. Correspondence, writings, biographical and genealogical materials, and subject files document Breece Pancake's personal life and writing career from the mid-1960s to April 1979 as well as efforts made by his mother, Helen Pancake, and author John Casey to publish his stories after his death. Collection also contains subject files and oversize materials taken from Breece's office at the University of Virginia after he died. See scope and content note for details.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Breece D'J Pancake (1952-1979) of Milton, West Virginia, noted short story writer who depicted the Appalachian experience of rural West Virginians. Breece Pancake had two short stories published in The Atlantic Monthly before he died of an apparent suicide on 8 April 1979. His only collection of stories, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously in 1983. Correspondence, writings, biographical and genealogical materials, and subject files document Breece Pancake's personal life and writing career from the mid-1960s to April 1979 as well as efforts made by his mother, Helen Pancake, and author John Casey to publish his stories after his death. Collection also contains subject files and oversize materials taken from Breece's office at the University of Virginia after he died. See scope and content note for details."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_5c27276c7340d96926bef81bd8a0b4e6\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\"\u003eWest Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n    "],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center"],"corpname_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","University of Virginia. Department of English"],"names_coll_ssim":["University of Virginia. 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He was raised in Milton, West Virginia, a small town in the hills in the southwestern part of that state. Helen Frazier (b. 1922) and Bud Pancake (1917-1975) married in September 1939 and had two daughters, Charlotte and Donnetta, shortly thereafter. Bud began working for Union Carbide Chemical Company as a shipping clerk, and remained in the job for more than thirty years. He also served in an army field observation unit in Germany for almost two years during World War II. Helen Pancake became a librarian in the Milton Public Library in the 1970s.","Breece attended Milton High School and graduated in 1970. He wrote two stories during that time, \"Keeper of the Flame,\" which was published in the school paper in 1968, and \"Rat Boy,\" which was rejected in the early 1970s by several publications. Breece enrolled in school at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in the summer of 1970 and continued to study there into the fall.","When Bud Pancake was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Breece transferred to Marshall University in Huntington in order to be closer to home. The two men enjoyed a very close relationship, having spent many hours fishing, camping, hiking, and hunting during Breece's youth. However, after a broken engagement in December 1971, Pancake decided to leave West Virginia and visit his sister Donnetta in Phoenix, Arizona. He was there from January to April 1972, working odd jobs, traveling to Mexico and throughout the southwest. Breece returned to Marshall later that year and earned a BA in English in 1974 with plans to teach high school English. While there he began writing several stories, including \"Stuart,\" \"Fox Hunters,\" and \"The Honored Dead.\"","Breece spent the next two years teaching at military prep schools in Virginia. In the fall of 1974 he found a job at the Fork Union Military Academy. There he met fellow teacher Matthew Heard, who quickly became a close friend and travel companion. Breece spent the following year teaching at the Staunton Military Academy. He continued writing during this time, completing \"Fox Hunters\" in June 1975 and \"The Scrapper\" in September of that year. On 8 September 1975 Bud Pancake died of complications from multiple sclerosis. Less than three weeks later, Matthew Heard was killed in a car accident. Devastated by these deaths, Breece considered returning to West Virginia. However, he was committed to his teaching job and in November he moved instead into an apartment at the home of Sarah Nutt, who became a close friend and support, and poured himself into his writing.","By the end of 1975, Breece had written several new stories, including \"The Mark,\" and \"Cowboys and Girls,\" which became \"The Way It Has to Be\" when it was published in 1983. In early 1976 he started writing \"Salvation of Me,\" \"Will o' the Wisp,\" which became \"Trilobites,\" and \"Time and Again.\" That spring, the University of Virginia's literary magazine, Rivanna, published \"The Mark,\" and Breece decided to leave teaching and study creative writing in graduate school.","In the spring of 1975 Breece had met John Casey at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and shown him at least two of his stories. He also attended one of Casey's classes. Breece became a full-time student in the fall of 1976 and worked with distinguished writers John Casey, James Alan McPherson, Richard Jones, and Peter Taylor. He also taught composition and fiction writing as a graduate assistant on the Emily Clark Balch and Henry Hoyns fellowships and served as a fiction consultant to the editor of Virginia Review Quarterly.","The demands of graduate school exhausted Breece and did not leave him much time for his own writing. He spent most of his time polishing his earlier work and began to enjoy more literary success. Both \"Hollow\" and \"Cowboys and Girls\" were published in the university newspaper, The Declaration, during his first semester. The Atlantic Monthly accepted \"Trilobites\" for publication in March 1977 and \"In the Dry\" in early 1978. Breece also sold \"Time and Again\" to the magazine Nightwork and won the Jefferson Society Prize for fiction that year. It was during the publication of \"Trilobites\" in the spring of 1977 that a typesetter's error changed Breece's name from Breece D.J. Pancake to Breece D'J Pancake. (Breece had unofficially changed his middle name to David and then added John as a confirmation name in 1977 when he converted to Catholicism.) He decided to keep the new punctuation and adopt the name by which he is now known. Breece also began writing \"First Day of Winter,\" \"In the Dry,\" and \"A Room Forever\" while in Charlottesville.","Despite his early literary success, Breece had difficulties adjusting to graduate school and life in Charlottesville. He rented a small apartment in the manor home of Virginia Meade and her husband and struggled to feel at home at the university, where he was bothered by class consciousness and felt alienated from many of his fellow students. However, he did meet Emily Miller, a PhD student in English at U.Va., in the fall of 1977, and the two dated until Breece's death. By the spring of 1979, Breece was close to completing his master's degree and was applying for teaching positions for the following academic year.","Breece Pancake died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 8 April 1979 in Charlottesville and was buried in Milton, West Virginia. In the months and years after his death, Helen Pancake and John Casey worked to publish his stories. Atlantic Monthly published \"The Honored Dead\" in January 1981 and \"Hollow\" in October 1982, and Antaeus accepted \"A Room Forever\" for its December 1981 issue. A collection of Breece's work, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously through the efforts of Helen Pancake and Breece's literary executor, John Casey, in February 1983 by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Stories was reviewed by more than one hundred major newspapers and journals and received widespread critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reprinted the book as a paperback in 1984 and in 1986 Stories won the West Virginia Literary Award. Even after the book's publication, Helen Pancake continued to support her son's writing by answering the questions of those interested in understanding Breece's writing and youth in West Virginia. In 1998 Thomas E. Douglass published A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake. Much of this biographical information comes from that book.","In 1985 Helen Pancake sold the family home in Milton and moved to Spring Hills, Florida.","There are seven series in this collection:","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated\nSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1979-1994)\nSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated)\nSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993)\nSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated\nSeries 6. Addenda, 1978-1979 and 1999-2000\nSeries 7. Oversize","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated, contains approximately two hundred fifty letters chiefly written by Breece Pancake to his parents between 1966 and his death in April 1979. There are also several letters between Breece and his sisters, Donnetta and Charlotte; friends Matthew Heard and Mike Jennings; and Phoebe-Lou Adams at The Atlantic Monthly. Letters chiefly record Breece's work on his short stories and his daily activities at college in West Virginia in the early 1970s; while teaching at military academies in Virginia in the mid-1970s; and during his graduate studies in creative writing at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in Charlottesville in the late 1970s. Topics also include Breece's desire to better himself; his goals for life; his views on human beings and relationships; and his feelings about West Virginia and its people.","Approximately forty letters between Breece and his parents from 1970 to 1973 document Breece's studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and the family's life back in Milton. Helen and Bud share news from home and Breece shares stories about college life, including his classes, living in the dorm, difficulties at school and his desire to transfer to Marshall University. From January to April 1972 Breece writes from Arizona, where he is visiting his sister Doni and traveling out West. Topics include finding odd jobs; rappelling, horses, exploring the area; a Gordon Lightfoot concert; a trip to Mexico; his plans to return home; and plans for going back to school.","Almost eighty letters from the mid-1970s document the two years Pancake spent teaching at the Fork Union Military Academy (1974-1975) and the Staunton Military Academy (1975-1976) in Virginia. Fork Union letters primarily describe his teaching and social life. Topics include his classes and students; hiking on his own and with his students; his friendship with Matthew Heard; his finances and expenses; and his growing unhappiness in his position. Letters from the fall of 1975 relate to the death of his father that September and the death of Matthew Heard two weeks later. Pancake also writes about his teaching; his stories, including \"The Mark\" and \"The Hollow\"; his social life; moving into Sarah Nutt's apartment; his new car; family and friends; and his plans to attend the University of Virginia. Mixed within his news about daily activities are comments about his desire to keep getting better in life; not being satisfied with life; his desire to be himself; and on not understanding people.","Approximately 135 letters from the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1979 document Breece's life during his three years in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia. They describe his difficult adjustment to graduate school and life in Charlottesville as well as his success with writing and publishing his short stories. Topics related to his coursework, professors, and writing include the demands of graduate school; John Casey; Richard Jones; James McPherson; Mary Lee Settle; Peter Taylor; the progress of his writing; publishing his short stories in The Atlantic Monthly; his literary executorship; and searching for teaching jobs. Pancake also writes about his personal life, daily activities, and his surroundings. These topics include his finances; his social life, including girlfriend Emily Miller; visits to Sarah Nutt; his participation in the local Catholic Church; his landlady, Virginia Meade; and class consciousness in Charlottesville. Breece's letters from 1977 to 1979 also reveal his feelings of isolation and unease in Charlottesville and his homesickness for West Virginia. Also included are several letters received after Breece's death in April 1979.","Series 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1975-1994), consists of more than 700 letters written to and from Helen Pancake. With the exception of a few early letters, most of the correspondence begins after Breece's death in April 1979. Letters from 1979 and 1980 are largely sympathy notes containing explanations of how people knew Breece and what he meant to them. Primary topics in most of the letters are the publication of Breece's stories and book and projects related to Breece's work, including films, plays, and articles based on his stories. Scattered throughout are letters from people describing how Breece touched their lives. This series is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the correspondent. Folders also contain any other letters from that correspondent. For example, the John Casey folders include not only letters between Casey and Helen, but also letters between Casey and other people related to his role as Breece's literary executor. Letters from Helen Pancake are usually identified as copies; some are handwritten while others are photocopies.","Many of the correspondents can be grouped into the following categories: Breece's friends, (Kathleen Devereux, Matt Jennings, Matthew Heard, Sarah Nutt, John Shaffer, and Rick Wilson); people connected to Breece's life at the University of Virginia (John Casey, Richard Jones, James McPherson, girlfriend Emily Miller, landlady Virginia Meade, Raymond Nelson, Father Pat O'Connor, Charles Perdue, Peter Taylor, and Anthony Winner); Breece's former professors and students (including Michael Beasley, John Harrison, John McKernan, William Sullivan, and Albert Wilhelm); editors at The Atlantic Monthly and others associated with publishing Breece's stories (Phoebe-Lou Adams, Peter Davison, and Robert Manning and editors at Antaeus); people working on projects related to Breece's stories (Russ Barbour of WPBY-TV in West Virginia, filmmaker Jeffrey Davidson, biographer and historian Thomas Douglass, woodcut artist Richard Gerber, filmmaker and producer Mark Rance, and writer Topper Sherwood); people who wrote about Breece's life and work (Grace Toney Edwards, John Foster, Paul Hendrickson, Darla Radcliffe, and Robert Sumney); Helen Pancake's family and friends (Patricia Bins, Helen Heard, Matthew Heard, Charlotte Pancake, Donnetta Pancake, and Susan Maslowski); and other West Virginia authors (Pinckney Benedict, Mary Lee Settle, and Lee Maynard).","Letters from frequent correspondents such as John Casey, Peter Davison, Thomas Douglass, Richard Jones, James McPherson, and Emily Miller comment on additional subjects and provide greater insight into their relationships with Breece and Helen. John Casey was Breece's professor at U.Va., his godfather, and his literary executor. Letters between Casey and Helen date from 1977 to 1993. Early letters relate to Breece's death and his relationship with Casey. Letters from the early 1980s document Casey and Helen's efforts to publish Breece's stories and book and the publication process from their perspective. Later letters comment on projects related to Breece's work and mention Mark Rance, Russ Barbour, and Cynthia Kadohata. Casey also writes frequently of his family and writing, and the letters between him and Helen reveal a friendship that grew out of their mutual loss.","Peter Davison was the poetry editor at The Atlantic Monthly in the early 1980s and later the literary editor for Atlantic Monthly Press. These letters from 1980 to 1985 describe the process of sorting through Breece's stories and poetry for publication; publishing \"The Hollow\" and \"The Honored Dead\"; and publishing Stories in February 1983. Topics include the format of the book, contracts, the dust jacket, advertising, reviews, royalties, and the film rights.","Letters from Thomas Douglass between 1987 and 1994 chiefly chart his work on A Room Forever (1998), his biography of Breece, and Helen's assistance with the piece as she replied to his questions about Breece and the Pancake family. Additional topics include publishing \"Rat Boy,\" the Gulf War, pictures and a woodcut of Breece, and Douglass's family and writing. Also includes several letters between Douglass and John Casey and two folders of Douglass's research materials.","Letters from Richard Jones, Breece's professor at U.Va., are from 1979 to 1993 and describe Jones's reaction to Breece's death, his daily life in London, his family, his writing and teaching, projects related to Breece and his stories, and mutual friends and acquaintances, including John Casey, Mark Rance, and Mary Lee Settle. Jones also comments on meeting the daughter and granddaughter of Virginia Meade.","James Alan McPherson was one of Breece's professors at U.Va. and wrote the forward to Stories. Thirteen letters from 1979 to 1994, mostly from McPherson to Helen, chiefly detail McPherson's relationship with Breece. McPherson describes his reaction to Breece's death, the birth of his daughter that same night, and the difficulties that he and Breece had living in Charlottesville. He also comments on Breece's book and his own family affairs.","Emily Miller was Breece's girlfriend from September 1977 to April 1979 and a student at U.Va. Her letters from 1979 to 1982 primarily describe her response to Breece's death. She remembers Breece and his love of life and writes about his memorial service and Father Pat O'Connor, the pain of Breece's death, and things that remind of her Breece. She also tells Helen about her own teaching and writing and daily activities as a graduate student.","Series 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated), includes handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories, story fragments, the beginnings of novels and plays, and poetry as well as published stories, book reviews for The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, and copies of projects based on Breece's stories. Drafts of Breece's short stories include pieces that he had published or submitted for publication before his death as well as stories that were found among his belongings and published posthumously. Also included are drafts of a story about Mae Moore from the 1960s; partial drafts of two plays, \"Cousins\" and \"Rosary\"; the beginnings of two novels, \"Survivors\" and \"Water in a Sieve,\"; a paper for his Bible as Literature course at U.Va., \"Happy Are They Not Born in Jerusalem\"; and notes and a draft of a folklore paper he was working on at U.Va. Also included are book reviews of Stories that were compiled by Helen Pancake and drafts of the \"Hollow\" screenplay by Jeff Davidson (1991) and the \"Trilobites\" screenplay by Mark Rance (1993).","Writings are arranged in alphabetical order according to title. Some drafts are incomplete and some have handwritten annotations. Several stories are accompanied by related materials, such as copies of the folders that Pancake used to track his journal submissions and copies of the published story. Almost all drafts are undated. Note that the title of \"Cowboys and Girls\" was changed to \"The Way it Has to Be\" for Stories. The story has been filed under the latter title.","Series 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993), contains files compiled by both Breece and Helen Pancake that pertain to the education, family, personal life, and the death of Breece Pancake. Materials related to Breece's education and teaching include university transcripts, course notes and papers from Marshall University (1972-1974); a lesson plan and grade book from Fork Union Military Academy (1975-1976); an interview with Breece for the U.Va. newspaper in 1977; and job letters from the spring of 1979. Personal items include newspaper articles (1965-1993); Breece's 1979 pocket diary (with just a few brief entries); and a phone directory as well as various certificates and awards, including Breece's baptismal certificate in 1977 and a Virginia teaching certificate in 1979. Family materials include Clarence Pancake's 1975 obituary and clippings and photographs of his Aunt Julia Pancake Ward and her husband (1925-1968). Materials related to Breece's death include the items that were taken off the walls in his room in Charlottesville, notes related to his memorial services, his last list of things to do, and notes that Helen wrote about Breece. This series also contains five pieces written about Breece, including a transcript of the WPBY-TV program and articles written by Grace Toney Edwards, Albert Wilhelm, and Rick Wilson between 1983 and 1993.","Series 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated, chiefly contain clippings, photographs, and articles collected by either Breece Pancake or Helen Pancake. Topics include Appalachian culture, John Casey, Sam Harshbarger, Gordon Lightfoot, Milton, West Virginia, and O. Norman Simkins.","Series 6. Addenda, consists of additions made to the collection in 2000 and 2007. The first addenda includes two newspaper articles (1999, 2000) about Breece that were each sent to Helen Pancake. The accompanying letters are also included. The 2007 addition contains includes two photographs of Breece Pancake, his Bible (with his handwritten annotations), and his curriculum vita.","His copy of The Jerusalem Bible (published by Doubleday and Company, 1966) includes tabbed pages apparently indicating passages of interest to Pancake; many of these passages include his annotations. Tabbed passages include all of the following: Genesis 49:22-26 (p. 75); Judges 6:36-40 (p. 316); I Chronicles 16:30-33 (p. 516); Psalm 52:8 (p.835); Psalm 83 (p.867-868); Psalm 148:7-10 (p.929); Proverbs 11:30-31 (p.947); Song of Songs 2:3 (p. 994); Isaiah 4:2-3 (p.1148); Isaiah 22: 4-5 (p. 1175); Isaiah 40-43 (p. 1202-1212); Jeremiah 1-3, 17-20, 24 (p. 1249-1286, 1292-1293); Jeremiah 31:31-34 (p.1304); Jeremiah 32 (p. 1305-1308); Lamentations 4:8 (p.1350); Ezekiel 3-27 (p. 1362-1408); Daniel 4:16-22 (p.1432); Hosea 4-14 (p. 1455-1468); Habbakkuk 2:19 (p.1516); Zechariah 13:9-14 (p.1541); Matthew 10: 30-31 (p. 30); Mark 11:12-14 (p. 80); the Book of Luke (p.90-136); Galatians 4:25-31 (p. 326-327); I Peter 4:17-19 (p.405); and Revelation 6-11 (p. 436-439). The majority of verse annotations reference the natural environment, including: mountains, trees, fruit, and drought. Ezekiel, Chapters 20-21, are heavily annotated.","Series 7. Oversize, 1966-1985 and undated, contains a scrapbook; posters and flyers from Breece's office at Wilson Hall at U.Va.; his calendars and a sketchbook; and several oversize items compiled by Helen Pancake. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about Breece when he was a child, articles written by Breece for the Cabell Record in 1975, and articles about the writing program at U.Va. These articles include a piece on the professors in the writing program at U.Va., the 1977 Declaration interview with Breece, and a January 1979 article about Breece. Posters and flyers advertising concerts and lectures were apparently removed from Breece's office after his death. Also includes Breece's 1979 Sierra Club calendar with notations. Arranged according to format.","Original photograph to Photographs Collection, \"Portraits--Pancake, Breece\"","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Breece D'J Pancake (1952-1979) of Milton, West Virginia, noted short story writer who depicted the Appalachian experience of rural West Virginians. Breece Pancake had two short stories published in The Atlantic Monthly before he died of an apparent suicide on 8 April 1979. His only collection of stories, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously in 1983. Correspondence, writings, biographical and genealogical materials, and subject files document Breece Pancake's personal life and writing career from the mid-1960s to April 1979 as well as efforts made by his mother, Helen Pancake, and author John Casey to publish his stories after his death. Collection also contains subject files and oversize materials taken from Breece's office at the University of Virginia after he died. 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He was raised in Milton, West Virginia, a small town in the hills in the southwestern part of that state. Helen Frazier (b. 1922) and Bud Pancake (1917-1975) married in September 1939 and had two daughters, Charlotte and Donnetta, shortly thereafter. Bud began working for Union Carbide Chemical Company as a shipping clerk, and remained in the job for more than thirty years. He also served in an army field observation unit in Germany for almost two years during World War II. Helen Pancake became a librarian in the Milton Public Library in the 1970s. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nBreece attended Milton High School and graduated in 1970. He wrote two stories during that time, \"Keeper of the Flame,\" which was published in the school paper in 1968, and \"Rat Boy,\" which was rejected in the early 1970s by several publications. Breece enrolled in school at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in the summer of 1970 and continued to study there into the fall. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nWhen Bud Pancake was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Breece transferred to Marshall University in Huntington in order to be closer to home. The two men enjoyed a very close relationship, having spent many hours fishing, camping, hiking, and hunting during Breece's youth. However, after a broken engagement in December 1971, Pancake decided to leave West Virginia and visit his sister Donnetta in Phoenix, Arizona. He was there from January to April 1972, working odd jobs, traveling to Mexico and throughout the southwest. Breece returned to Marshall later that year and earned a BA in English in 1974 with plans to teach high school English. While there he began writing several stories, including \"Stuart,\" \"Fox Hunters,\" and \"The Honored Dead.\" \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nBreece spent the next two years teaching at military prep schools in Virginia. In the fall of 1974 he found a job at the Fork Union Military Academy. There he met fellow teacher Matthew Heard, who quickly became a close friend and travel companion. Breece spent the following year teaching at the Staunton Military Academy. He continued writing during this time, completing \"Fox Hunters\" in June 1975 and \"The Scrapper\" in September of that year. On 8 September 1975 Bud Pancake died of complications from multiple sclerosis. Less than three weeks later, Matthew Heard was killed in a car accident. Devastated by these deaths, Breece considered returning to West Virginia. However, he was committed to his teaching job and in November he moved instead into an apartment at the home of Sarah Nutt, who became a close friend and support, and poured himself into his writing. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nBy the end of 1975, Breece had written several new stories, including \"The Mark,\" and \"Cowboys and Girls,\" which became \"The Way It Has to Be\" when it was published in 1983. In early 1976 he started writing \"Salvation of Me,\" \"Will o' the Wisp,\" which became \"Trilobites,\" and \"Time and Again.\" That spring, the University of Virginia's literary magazine, Rivanna, published \"The Mark,\" and Breece decided to leave teaching and study creative writing in graduate school. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nIn the spring of 1975 Breece had met John Casey at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and shown him at least two of his stories. He also attended one of Casey's classes. Breece became a full-time student in the fall of 1976 and worked with distinguished writers John Casey, James Alan McPherson, Richard Jones, and Peter Taylor. He also taught composition and fiction writing as a graduate assistant on the Emily Clark Balch and Henry Hoyns fellowships and served as a fiction consultant to the editor of Virginia Review Quarterly. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe demands of graduate school exhausted Breece and did not leave him much time for his own writing. He spent most of his time polishing his earlier work and began to enjoy more literary success. Both \"Hollow\" and \"Cowboys and Girls\" were published in the university newspaper, The Declaration, during his first semester. The Atlantic Monthly accepted \"Trilobites\" for publication in March 1977 and \"In the Dry\" in early 1978. Breece also sold \"Time and Again\" to the magazine Nightwork and won the Jefferson Society Prize for fiction that year. It was during the publication of \"Trilobites\" in the spring of 1977 that a typesetter's error changed Breece's name from Breece D.J. Pancake to Breece D'J Pancake. (Breece had unofficially changed his middle name to David and then added John as a confirmation name in 1977 when he converted to Catholicism.) He decided to keep the new punctuation and adopt the name by which he is now known. Breece also began writing \"First Day of Winter,\" \"In the Dry,\" and \"A Room Forever\" while in Charlottesville. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nDespite his early literary success, Breece had difficulties adjusting to graduate school and life in Charlottesville. He rented a small apartment in the manor home of Virginia Meade and her husband and struggled to feel at home at the university, where he was bothered by class consciousness and felt alienated from many of his fellow students. However, he did meet Emily Miller, a PhD student in English at U.Va., in the fall of 1977, and the two dated until Breece's death. By the spring of 1979, Breece was close to completing his master's degree and was applying for teaching positions for the following academic year. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nBreece Pancake died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 8 April 1979 in Charlottesville and was buried in Milton, West Virginia. In the months and years after his death, Helen Pancake and John Casey worked to publish his stories. Atlantic Monthly published \"The Honored Dead\" in January 1981 and \"Hollow\" in October 1982, and Antaeus accepted \"A Room Forever\" for its December 1981 issue. A collection of Breece's work, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously through the efforts of Helen Pancake and Breece's literary executor, John Casey, in February 1983 by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Stories was reviewed by more than one hundred major newspapers and journals and received widespread critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reprinted the book as a paperback in 1984 and in 1986 Stories won the West Virginia Literary Award. Even after the book's publication, Helen Pancake continued to support her son's writing by answering the questions of those interested in understanding Breece's writing and youth in West Virginia. In 1998 Thomas E. Douglass published A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake. Much of this biographical information comes from that book. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nIn 1985 Helen Pancake sold the family home in Milton and moved to Spring Hills, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Breece D'J Pancake was born Breece Dexter Pancake on 29 June 1952 in Charleston, West Virginia, the son of Helen Frazier Pancake and Clarence \"Bud\" Pancake. He was raised in Milton, West Virginia, a small town in the hills in the southwestern part of that state. Helen Frazier (b. 1922) and Bud Pancake (1917-1975) married in September 1939 and had two daughters, Charlotte and Donnetta, shortly thereafter. Bud began working for Union Carbide Chemical Company as a shipping clerk, and remained in the job for more than thirty years. He also served in an army field observation unit in Germany for almost two years during World War II. Helen Pancake became a librarian in the Milton Public Library in the 1970s.","Breece attended Milton High School and graduated in 1970. He wrote two stories during that time, \"Keeper of the Flame,\" which was published in the school paper in 1968, and \"Rat Boy,\" which was rejected in the early 1970s by several publications. Breece enrolled in school at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in the summer of 1970 and continued to study there into the fall.","When Bud Pancake was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Breece transferred to Marshall University in Huntington in order to be closer to home. The two men enjoyed a very close relationship, having spent many hours fishing, camping, hiking, and hunting during Breece's youth. However, after a broken engagement in December 1971, Pancake decided to leave West Virginia and visit his sister Donnetta in Phoenix, Arizona. He was there from January to April 1972, working odd jobs, traveling to Mexico and throughout the southwest. Breece returned to Marshall later that year and earned a BA in English in 1974 with plans to teach high school English. While there he began writing several stories, including \"Stuart,\" \"Fox Hunters,\" and \"The Honored Dead.\"","Breece spent the next two years teaching at military prep schools in Virginia. In the fall of 1974 he found a job at the Fork Union Military Academy. There he met fellow teacher Matthew Heard, who quickly became a close friend and travel companion. Breece spent the following year teaching at the Staunton Military Academy. He continued writing during this time, completing \"Fox Hunters\" in June 1975 and \"The Scrapper\" in September of that year. On 8 September 1975 Bud Pancake died of complications from multiple sclerosis. Less than three weeks later, Matthew Heard was killed in a car accident. Devastated by these deaths, Breece considered returning to West Virginia. However, he was committed to his teaching job and in November he moved instead into an apartment at the home of Sarah Nutt, who became a close friend and support, and poured himself into his writing.","By the end of 1975, Breece had written several new stories, including \"The Mark,\" and \"Cowboys and Girls,\" which became \"The Way It Has to Be\" when it was published in 1983. In early 1976 he started writing \"Salvation of Me,\" \"Will o' the Wisp,\" which became \"Trilobites,\" and \"Time and Again.\" That spring, the University of Virginia's literary magazine, Rivanna, published \"The Mark,\" and Breece decided to leave teaching and study creative writing in graduate school.","In the spring of 1975 Breece had met John Casey at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and shown him at least two of his stories. He also attended one of Casey's classes. Breece became a full-time student in the fall of 1976 and worked with distinguished writers John Casey, James Alan McPherson, Richard Jones, and Peter Taylor. He also taught composition and fiction writing as a graduate assistant on the Emily Clark Balch and Henry Hoyns fellowships and served as a fiction consultant to the editor of Virginia Review Quarterly.","The demands of graduate school exhausted Breece and did not leave him much time for his own writing. He spent most of his time polishing his earlier work and began to enjoy more literary success. Both \"Hollow\" and \"Cowboys and Girls\" were published in the university newspaper, The Declaration, during his first semester. The Atlantic Monthly accepted \"Trilobites\" for publication in March 1977 and \"In the Dry\" in early 1978. Breece also sold \"Time and Again\" to the magazine Nightwork and won the Jefferson Society Prize for fiction that year. It was during the publication of \"Trilobites\" in the spring of 1977 that a typesetter's error changed Breece's name from Breece D.J. Pancake to Breece D'J Pancake. (Breece had unofficially changed his middle name to David and then added John as a confirmation name in 1977 when he converted to Catholicism.) He decided to keep the new punctuation and adopt the name by which he is now known. Breece also began writing \"First Day of Winter,\" \"In the Dry,\" and \"A Room Forever\" while in Charlottesville.","Despite his early literary success, Breece had difficulties adjusting to graduate school and life in Charlottesville. He rented a small apartment in the manor home of Virginia Meade and her husband and struggled to feel at home at the university, where he was bothered by class consciousness and felt alienated from many of his fellow students. However, he did meet Emily Miller, a PhD student in English at U.Va., in the fall of 1977, and the two dated until Breece's death. By the spring of 1979, Breece was close to completing his master's degree and was applying for teaching positions for the following academic year.","Breece Pancake died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 8 April 1979 in Charlottesville and was buried in Milton, West Virginia. In the months and years after his death, Helen Pancake and John Casey worked to publish his stories. Atlantic Monthly published \"The Honored Dead\" in January 1981 and \"Hollow\" in October 1982, and Antaeus accepted \"A Room Forever\" for its December 1981 issue. A collection of Breece's work, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously through the efforts of Helen Pancake and Breece's literary executor, John Casey, in February 1983 by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Stories was reviewed by more than one hundred major newspapers and journals and received widespread critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reprinted the book as a paperback in 1984 and in 1986 Stories won the West Virginia Literary Award. Even after the book's publication, Helen Pancake continued to support her son's writing by answering the questions of those interested in understanding Breece's writing and youth in West Virginia. In 1998 Thomas E. Douglass published A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake. Much of this biographical information comes from that book.","In 1985 Helen Pancake sold the family home in Milton and moved to Spring Hills, Florida."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Breece Pancake, Author, Papers, A\u0026amp;M 3306, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Breece Pancake, Author, Papers, A\u0026M 3306, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are seven series in this collection:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1979-1994)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Addenda, 1978-1979 and 1999-2000\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Oversize\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e, contains approximately two hundred fifty letters chiefly written by Breece Pancake to his parents between 1966 and his death in April 1979. There are also several letters between Breece and his sisters, Donnetta and Charlotte; friends Matthew Heard and Mike Jennings; and Phoebe-Lou Adams at The Atlantic Monthly. Letters chiefly record Breece's work on his short stories and his daily activities at college in West Virginia in the early 1970s; while teaching at military academies in Virginia in the mid-1970s; and during his graduate studies in creative writing at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in Charlottesville in the late 1970s. Topics also include Breece's desire to better himself; his goals for life; his views on human beings and relationships; and his feelings about West Virginia and its people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproximately forty letters between Breece and his parents from 1970 to 1973 document Breece's studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and the family's life back in Milton. Helen and Bud share news from home and Breece shares stories about college life, including his classes, living in the dorm, difficulties at school and his desire to transfer to Marshall University. From January to April 1972 Breece writes from Arizona, where he is visiting his sister Doni and traveling out West. Topics include finding odd jobs; rappelling, horses, exploring the area; a Gordon Lightfoot concert; a trip to Mexico; his plans to return home; and plans for going back to school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlmost eighty letters from the mid-1970s document the two years Pancake spent teaching at the Fork Union Military Academy (1974-1975) and the Staunton Military Academy (1975-1976) in Virginia. Fork Union letters primarily describe his teaching and social life. Topics include his classes and students; hiking on his own and with his students; his friendship with Matthew Heard; his finances and expenses; and his growing unhappiness in his position. Letters from the fall of 1975 relate to the death of his father that September and the death of Matthew Heard two weeks later. Pancake also writes about his teaching; his stories, including \"The Mark\" and \"The Hollow\"; his social life; moving into Sarah Nutt's apartment; his new car; family and friends; and his plans to attend the University of Virginia. Mixed within his news about daily activities are comments about his desire to keep getting better in life; not being satisfied with life; his desire to be himself; and on not understanding people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproximately 135 letters from the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1979 document Breece's life during his three years in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia. They describe his difficult adjustment to graduate school and life in Charlottesville as well as his success with writing and publishing his short stories. Topics related to his coursework, professors, and writing include the demands of graduate school; John Casey; Richard Jones; James McPherson; Mary Lee Settle; Peter Taylor; the progress of his writing; publishing his short stories in The Atlantic Monthly; his literary executorship; and searching for teaching jobs. Pancake also writes about his personal life, daily activities, and his surroundings. These topics include his finances; his social life, including girlfriend Emily Miller; visits to Sarah Nutt; his participation in the local Catholic Church; his landlady, Virginia Meade; and class consciousness in Charlottesville. Breece's letters from 1977 to 1979 also reveal his feelings of isolation and unease in Charlottesville and his homesickness for West Virginia. Also included are several letters received after Breece's death in April 1979.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1975-1994)\u003c/emph\u003e, consists of more than 700 letters written to and from Helen Pancake. With the exception of a few early letters, most of the correspondence begins after Breece's death in April 1979. Letters from 1979 and 1980 are largely sympathy notes containing explanations of how people knew Breece and what he meant to them. Primary topics in most of the letters are the publication of Breece's stories and book and projects related to Breece's work, including films, plays, and articles based on his stories. Scattered throughout are letters from people describing how Breece touched their lives. This series is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the correspondent. Folders also contain any other letters from that correspondent. For example, the John Casey folders include not only letters between Casey and Helen, but also letters between Casey and other people related to his role as Breece's literary executor. Letters from Helen Pancake are usually identified as copies; some are handwritten while others are photocopies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany of the correspondents can be grouped into the following categories: Breece's friends, (Kathleen Devereux, Matt Jennings, Matthew Heard, Sarah Nutt, John Shaffer, and Rick Wilson); people connected to Breece's life at the University of Virginia (John Casey, Richard Jones, James McPherson, girlfriend Emily Miller, landlady Virginia Meade, Raymond Nelson, Father Pat O'Connor, Charles Perdue, Peter Taylor, and Anthony Winner); Breece's former professors and students (including Michael Beasley, John Harrison, John McKernan, William Sullivan, and Albert Wilhelm); editors at The Atlantic Monthly and others associated with publishing Breece's stories (Phoebe-Lou Adams, Peter Davison, and Robert Manning and editors at Antaeus); people working on projects related to Breece's stories (Russ Barbour of WPBY-TV in West Virginia, filmmaker Jeffrey Davidson, biographer and historian Thomas Douglass, woodcut artist Richard Gerber, filmmaker and producer Mark Rance, and writer Topper Sherwood); people who wrote about Breece's life and work (Grace Toney Edwards, John Foster, Paul Hendrickson, Darla Radcliffe, and Robert Sumney); Helen Pancake's family and friends (Patricia Bins, Helen Heard, Matthew Heard, Charlotte Pancake, Donnetta Pancake, and Susan Maslowski); and other West Virginia authors (Pinckney Benedict, Mary Lee Settle, and Lee Maynard).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from frequent correspondents such as John Casey, Peter Davison, Thomas Douglass, Richard Jones, James McPherson, and Emily Miller comment on additional subjects and provide greater insight into their relationships with Breece and Helen. John Casey was Breece's professor at U.Va., his godfather, and his literary executor. Letters between Casey and Helen date from 1977 to 1993. Early letters relate to Breece's death and his relationship with Casey. Letters from the early 1980s document Casey and Helen's efforts to publish Breece's stories and book and the publication process from their perspective. Later letters comment on projects related to Breece's work and mention Mark Rance, Russ Barbour, and Cynthia Kadohata. Casey also writes frequently of his family and writing, and the letters between him and Helen reveal a friendship that grew out of their mutual loss.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeter Davison was the poetry editor at The Atlantic Monthly in the early 1980s and later the literary editor for Atlantic Monthly Press. These letters from 1980 to 1985 describe the process of sorting through Breece's stories and poetry for publication; publishing \"The Hollow\" and \"The Honored Dead\"; and publishing Stories in February 1983. Topics include the format of the book, contracts, the dust jacket, advertising, reviews, royalties, and the film rights.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Thomas Douglass between 1987 and 1994 chiefly chart his work on A Room Forever (1998), his biography of Breece, and Helen's assistance with the piece as she replied to his questions about Breece and the Pancake family. Additional topics include publishing \"Rat Boy,\" the Gulf War, pictures and a woodcut of Breece, and Douglass's family and writing. Also includes several letters between Douglass and John Casey and two folders of Douglass's research materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Richard Jones, Breece's professor at U.Va., are from 1979 to 1993 and describe Jones's reaction to Breece's death, his daily life in London, his family, his writing and teaching, projects related to Breece and his stories, and mutual friends and acquaintances, including John Casey, Mark Rance, and Mary Lee Settle. Jones also comments on meeting the daughter and granddaughter of Virginia Meade.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Alan McPherson was one of Breece's professors at U.Va. and wrote the forward to Stories. Thirteen letters from 1979 to 1994, mostly from McPherson to Helen, chiefly detail McPherson's relationship with Breece. McPherson describes his reaction to Breece's death, the birth of his daughter that same night, and the difficulties that he and Breece had living in Charlottesville. He also comments on Breece's book and his own family affairs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmily Miller was Breece's girlfriend from September 1977 to April 1979 and a student at U.Va. Her letters from 1979 to 1982 primarily describe her response to Breece's death. She remembers Breece and his love of life and writes about his memorial service and Father Pat O'Connor, the pain of Breece's death, and things that remind of her Breece. She also tells Helen about her own teaching and writing and daily activities as a graduate student.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated)\u003c/emph\u003e, includes handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories, story fragments, the beginnings of novels and plays, and poetry as well as published stories, book reviews for The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, and copies of projects based on Breece's stories. Drafts of Breece's short stories include pieces that he had published or submitted for publication before his death as well as stories that were found among his belongings and published posthumously. Also included are drafts of a story about Mae Moore from the 1960s; partial drafts of two plays, \"Cousins\" and \"Rosary\"; the beginnings of two novels, \"Survivors\" and \"Water in a Sieve,\"; a paper for his Bible as Literature course at U.Va., \"Happy Are They Not Born in Jerusalem\"; and notes and a draft of a folklore paper he was working on at U.Va. Also included are book reviews of Stories that were compiled by Helen Pancake and drafts of the \"Hollow\" screenplay by Jeff Davidson (1991) and the \"Trilobites\" screenplay by Mark Rance (1993).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritings are arranged in alphabetical order according to title. Some drafts are incomplete and some have handwritten annotations. Several stories are accompanied by related materials, such as copies of the folders that Pancake used to track his journal submissions and copies of the published story. Almost all drafts are undated. Note that the title of \"Cowboys and Girls\" was changed to \"The Way it Has to Be\" for Stories. The story has been filed under the latter title.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993)\u003c/emph\u003e, contains files compiled by both Breece and Helen Pancake that pertain to the education, family, personal life, and the death of Breece Pancake. Materials related to Breece's education and teaching include university transcripts, course notes and papers from Marshall University (1972-1974); a lesson plan and grade book from Fork Union Military Academy (1975-1976); an interview with Breece for the U.Va. newspaper in 1977; and job letters from the spring of 1979. Personal items include newspaper articles (1965-1993); Breece's 1979 pocket diary (with just a few brief entries); and a phone directory as well as various certificates and awards, including Breece's baptismal certificate in 1977 and a Virginia teaching certificate in 1979. Family materials include Clarence Pancake's 1975 obituary and clippings and photographs of his Aunt Julia Pancake Ward and her husband (1925-1968). Materials related to Breece's death include the items that were taken off the walls in his room in Charlottesville, notes related to his memorial services, his last list of things to do, and notes that Helen wrote about Breece. This series also contains five pieces written about Breece, including a transcript of the WPBY-TV program and articles written by Grace Toney Edwards, Albert Wilhelm, and Rick Wilson between 1983 and 1993.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e, chiefly contain clippings, photographs, and articles collected by either Breece Pancake or Helen Pancake. Topics include Appalachian culture, John Casey, Sam Harshbarger, Gordon Lightfoot, Milton, West Virginia, and O. Norman Simkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 6. Addenda\u003c/emph\u003e, consists of additions made to the collection in 2000 and 2007. The first addenda includes two newspaper articles (1999, 2000) about Breece that were each sent to Helen Pancake. The accompanying letters are also included. The 2007 addition contains includes two photographs of Breece Pancake, his Bible (with his handwritten annotations), and his curriculum vita.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis copy of The Jerusalem Bible (published by Doubleday and Company, 1966) includes tabbed pages apparently indicating passages of interest to Pancake; many of these passages include his annotations. Tabbed passages include all of the following: Genesis 49:22-26 (p. 75); Judges 6:36-40 (p. 316); I Chronicles 16:30-33 (p. 516); Psalm 52:8 (p.835); Psalm 83 (p.867-868); Psalm 148:7-10 (p.929); Proverbs 11:30-31 (p.947); Song of Songs 2:3 (p. 994); Isaiah 4:2-3 (p.1148); Isaiah 22: 4-5 (p. 1175); Isaiah 40-43 (p. 1202-1212); Jeremiah 1-3, 17-20, 24 (p. 1249-1286, 1292-1293); Jeremiah 31:31-34 (p.1304); Jeremiah 32 (p. 1305-1308); Lamentations 4:8 (p.1350); Ezekiel 3-27 (p. 1362-1408); Daniel 4:16-22 (p.1432); Hosea 4-14 (p. 1455-1468); Habbakkuk 2:19 (p.1516); Zechariah 13:9-14 (p.1541); Matthew 10: 30-31 (p. 30); Mark 11:12-14 (p. 80); the Book of Luke (p.90-136); Galatians 4:25-31 (p. 326-327); I Peter 4:17-19 (p.405); and Revelation 6-11 (p. 436-439). The majority of verse annotations reference the natural environment, including: mountains, trees, fruit, and drought. Ezekiel, Chapters 20-21, are heavily annotated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 7. Oversize, 1966-1985 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e, contains a scrapbook; posters and flyers from Breece's office at Wilson Hall at U.Va.; his calendars and a sketchbook; and several oversize items compiled by Helen Pancake. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about Breece when he was a child, articles written by Breece for the Cabell Record in 1975, and articles about the writing program at U.Va. These articles include a piece on the professors in the writing program at U.Va., the 1977 Declaration interview with Breece, and a January 1979 article about Breece. Posters and flyers advertising concerts and lectures were apparently removed from Breece's office after his death. Also includes Breece's 1979 Sierra Club calendar with notations. Arranged according to format.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["There are seven series in this collection:","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated\nSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1979-1994)\nSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated)\nSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993)\nSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated\nSeries 6. Addenda, 1978-1979 and 1999-2000\nSeries 7. Oversize","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated, contains approximately two hundred fifty letters chiefly written by Breece Pancake to his parents between 1966 and his death in April 1979. There are also several letters between Breece and his sisters, Donnetta and Charlotte; friends Matthew Heard and Mike Jennings; and Phoebe-Lou Adams at The Atlantic Monthly. Letters chiefly record Breece's work on his short stories and his daily activities at college in West Virginia in the early 1970s; while teaching at military academies in Virginia in the mid-1970s; and during his graduate studies in creative writing at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in Charlottesville in the late 1970s. Topics also include Breece's desire to better himself; his goals for life; his views on human beings and relationships; and his feelings about West Virginia and its people.","Approximately forty letters between Breece and his parents from 1970 to 1973 document Breece's studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and the family's life back in Milton. Helen and Bud share news from home and Breece shares stories about college life, including his classes, living in the dorm, difficulties at school and his desire to transfer to Marshall University. From January to April 1972 Breece writes from Arizona, where he is visiting his sister Doni and traveling out West. Topics include finding odd jobs; rappelling, horses, exploring the area; a Gordon Lightfoot concert; a trip to Mexico; his plans to return home; and plans for going back to school.","Almost eighty letters from the mid-1970s document the two years Pancake spent teaching at the Fork Union Military Academy (1974-1975) and the Staunton Military Academy (1975-1976) in Virginia. Fork Union letters primarily describe his teaching and social life. Topics include his classes and students; hiking on his own and with his students; his friendship with Matthew Heard; his finances and expenses; and his growing unhappiness in his position. Letters from the fall of 1975 relate to the death of his father that September and the death of Matthew Heard two weeks later. Pancake also writes about his teaching; his stories, including \"The Mark\" and \"The Hollow\"; his social life; moving into Sarah Nutt's apartment; his new car; family and friends; and his plans to attend the University of Virginia. Mixed within his news about daily activities are comments about his desire to keep getting better in life; not being satisfied with life; his desire to be himself; and on not understanding people.","Approximately 135 letters from the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1979 document Breece's life during his three years in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia. They describe his difficult adjustment to graduate school and life in Charlottesville as well as his success with writing and publishing his short stories. Topics related to his coursework, professors, and writing include the demands of graduate school; John Casey; Richard Jones; James McPherson; Mary Lee Settle; Peter Taylor; the progress of his writing; publishing his short stories in The Atlantic Monthly; his literary executorship; and searching for teaching jobs. Pancake also writes about his personal life, daily activities, and his surroundings. These topics include his finances; his social life, including girlfriend Emily Miller; visits to Sarah Nutt; his participation in the local Catholic Church; his landlady, Virginia Meade; and class consciousness in Charlottesville. Breece's letters from 1977 to 1979 also reveal his feelings of isolation and unease in Charlottesville and his homesickness for West Virginia. Also included are several letters received after Breece's death in April 1979.","Series 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1975-1994), consists of more than 700 letters written to and from Helen Pancake. With the exception of a few early letters, most of the correspondence begins after Breece's death in April 1979. Letters from 1979 and 1980 are largely sympathy notes containing explanations of how people knew Breece and what he meant to them. Primary topics in most of the letters are the publication of Breece's stories and book and projects related to Breece's work, including films, plays, and articles based on his stories. Scattered throughout are letters from people describing how Breece touched their lives. This series is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the correspondent. Folders also contain any other letters from that correspondent. For example, the John Casey folders include not only letters between Casey and Helen, but also letters between Casey and other people related to his role as Breece's literary executor. Letters from Helen Pancake are usually identified as copies; some are handwritten while others are photocopies.","Many of the correspondents can be grouped into the following categories: Breece's friends, (Kathleen Devereux, Matt Jennings, Matthew Heard, Sarah Nutt, John Shaffer, and Rick Wilson); people connected to Breece's life at the University of Virginia (John Casey, Richard Jones, James McPherson, girlfriend Emily Miller, landlady Virginia Meade, Raymond Nelson, Father Pat O'Connor, Charles Perdue, Peter Taylor, and Anthony Winner); Breece's former professors and students (including Michael Beasley, John Harrison, John McKernan, William Sullivan, and Albert Wilhelm); editors at The Atlantic Monthly and others associated with publishing Breece's stories (Phoebe-Lou Adams, Peter Davison, and Robert Manning and editors at Antaeus); people working on projects related to Breece's stories (Russ Barbour of WPBY-TV in West Virginia, filmmaker Jeffrey Davidson, biographer and historian Thomas Douglass, woodcut artist Richard Gerber, filmmaker and producer Mark Rance, and writer Topper Sherwood); people who wrote about Breece's life and work (Grace Toney Edwards, John Foster, Paul Hendrickson, Darla Radcliffe, and Robert Sumney); Helen Pancake's family and friends (Patricia Bins, Helen Heard, Matthew Heard, Charlotte Pancake, Donnetta Pancake, and Susan Maslowski); and other West Virginia authors (Pinckney Benedict, Mary Lee Settle, and Lee Maynard).","Letters from frequent correspondents such as John Casey, Peter Davison, Thomas Douglass, Richard Jones, James McPherson, and Emily Miller comment on additional subjects and provide greater insight into their relationships with Breece and Helen. John Casey was Breece's professor at U.Va., his godfather, and his literary executor. Letters between Casey and Helen date from 1977 to 1993. Early letters relate to Breece's death and his relationship with Casey. Letters from the early 1980s document Casey and Helen's efforts to publish Breece's stories and book and the publication process from their perspective. Later letters comment on projects related to Breece's work and mention Mark Rance, Russ Barbour, and Cynthia Kadohata. Casey also writes frequently of his family and writing, and the letters between him and Helen reveal a friendship that grew out of their mutual loss.","Peter Davison was the poetry editor at The Atlantic Monthly in the early 1980s and later the literary editor for Atlantic Monthly Press. These letters from 1980 to 1985 describe the process of sorting through Breece's stories and poetry for publication; publishing \"The Hollow\" and \"The Honored Dead\"; and publishing Stories in February 1983. Topics include the format of the book, contracts, the dust jacket, advertising, reviews, royalties, and the film rights.","Letters from Thomas Douglass between 1987 and 1994 chiefly chart his work on A Room Forever (1998), his biography of Breece, and Helen's assistance with the piece as she replied to his questions about Breece and the Pancake family. Additional topics include publishing \"Rat Boy,\" the Gulf War, pictures and a woodcut of Breece, and Douglass's family and writing. Also includes several letters between Douglass and John Casey and two folders of Douglass's research materials.","Letters from Richard Jones, Breece's professor at U.Va., are from 1979 to 1993 and describe Jones's reaction to Breece's death, his daily life in London, his family, his writing and teaching, projects related to Breece and his stories, and mutual friends and acquaintances, including John Casey, Mark Rance, and Mary Lee Settle. Jones also comments on meeting the daughter and granddaughter of Virginia Meade.","James Alan McPherson was one of Breece's professors at U.Va. and wrote the forward to Stories. Thirteen letters from 1979 to 1994, mostly from McPherson to Helen, chiefly detail McPherson's relationship with Breece. McPherson describes his reaction to Breece's death, the birth of his daughter that same night, and the difficulties that he and Breece had living in Charlottesville. He also comments on Breece's book and his own family affairs.","Emily Miller was Breece's girlfriend from September 1977 to April 1979 and a student at U.Va. Her letters from 1979 to 1982 primarily describe her response to Breece's death. She remembers Breece and his love of life and writes about his memorial service and Father Pat O'Connor, the pain of Breece's death, and things that remind of her Breece. She also tells Helen about her own teaching and writing and daily activities as a graduate student.","Series 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated), includes handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories, story fragments, the beginnings of novels and plays, and poetry as well as published stories, book reviews for The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, and copies of projects based on Breece's stories. Drafts of Breece's short stories include pieces that he had published or submitted for publication before his death as well as stories that were found among his belongings and published posthumously. Also included are drafts of a story about Mae Moore from the 1960s; partial drafts of two plays, \"Cousins\" and \"Rosary\"; the beginnings of two novels, \"Survivors\" and \"Water in a Sieve,\"; a paper for his Bible as Literature course at U.Va., \"Happy Are They Not Born in Jerusalem\"; and notes and a draft of a folklore paper he was working on at U.Va. Also included are book reviews of Stories that were compiled by Helen Pancake and drafts of the \"Hollow\" screenplay by Jeff Davidson (1991) and the \"Trilobites\" screenplay by Mark Rance (1993).","Writings are arranged in alphabetical order according to title. Some drafts are incomplete and some have handwritten annotations. Several stories are accompanied by related materials, such as copies of the folders that Pancake used to track his journal submissions and copies of the published story. Almost all drafts are undated. Note that the title of \"Cowboys and Girls\" was changed to \"The Way it Has to Be\" for Stories. The story has been filed under the latter title.","Series 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993), contains files compiled by both Breece and Helen Pancake that pertain to the education, family, personal life, and the death of Breece Pancake. Materials related to Breece's education and teaching include university transcripts, course notes and papers from Marshall University (1972-1974); a lesson plan and grade book from Fork Union Military Academy (1975-1976); an interview with Breece for the U.Va. newspaper in 1977; and job letters from the spring of 1979. Personal items include newspaper articles (1965-1993); Breece's 1979 pocket diary (with just a few brief entries); and a phone directory as well as various certificates and awards, including Breece's baptismal certificate in 1977 and a Virginia teaching certificate in 1979. Family materials include Clarence Pancake's 1975 obituary and clippings and photographs of his Aunt Julia Pancake Ward and her husband (1925-1968). Materials related to Breece's death include the items that were taken off the walls in his room in Charlottesville, notes related to his memorial services, his last list of things to do, and notes that Helen wrote about Breece. This series also contains five pieces written about Breece, including a transcript of the WPBY-TV program and articles written by Grace Toney Edwards, Albert Wilhelm, and Rick Wilson between 1983 and 1993.","Series 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated, chiefly contain clippings, photographs, and articles collected by either Breece Pancake or Helen Pancake. Topics include Appalachian culture, John Casey, Sam Harshbarger, Gordon Lightfoot, Milton, West Virginia, and O. Norman Simkins.","Series 6. Addenda, consists of additions made to the collection in 2000 and 2007. The first addenda includes two newspaper articles (1999, 2000) about Breece that were each sent to Helen Pancake. The accompanying letters are also included. The 2007 addition contains includes two photographs of Breece Pancake, his Bible (with his handwritten annotations), and his curriculum vita.","His copy of The Jerusalem Bible (published by Doubleday and Company, 1966) includes tabbed pages apparently indicating passages of interest to Pancake; many of these passages include his annotations. Tabbed passages include all of the following: Genesis 49:22-26 (p. 75); Judges 6:36-40 (p. 316); I Chronicles 16:30-33 (p. 516); Psalm 52:8 (p.835); Psalm 83 (p.867-868); Psalm 148:7-10 (p.929); Proverbs 11:30-31 (p.947); Song of Songs 2:3 (p. 994); Isaiah 4:2-3 (p.1148); Isaiah 22: 4-5 (p. 1175); Isaiah 40-43 (p. 1202-1212); Jeremiah 1-3, 17-20, 24 (p. 1249-1286, 1292-1293); Jeremiah 31:31-34 (p.1304); Jeremiah 32 (p. 1305-1308); Lamentations 4:8 (p.1350); Ezekiel 3-27 (p. 1362-1408); Daniel 4:16-22 (p.1432); Hosea 4-14 (p. 1455-1468); Habbakkuk 2:19 (p.1516); Zechariah 13:9-14 (p.1541); Matthew 10: 30-31 (p. 30); Mark 11:12-14 (p. 80); the Book of Luke (p.90-136); Galatians 4:25-31 (p. 326-327); I Peter 4:17-19 (p.405); and Revelation 6-11 (p. 436-439). The majority of verse annotations reference the natural environment, including: mountains, trees, fruit, and drought. Ezekiel, Chapters 20-21, are heavily annotated.","Series 7. Oversize, 1966-1985 and undated, contains a scrapbook; posters and flyers from Breece's office at Wilson Hall at U.Va.; his calendars and a sketchbook; and several oversize items compiled by Helen Pancake. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about Breece when he was a child, articles written by Breece for the Cabell Record in 1975, and articles about the writing program at U.Va. These articles include a piece on the professors in the writing program at U.Va., the 1977 Declaration interview with Breece, and a January 1979 article about Breece. Posters and flyers advertising concerts and lectures were apparently removed from Breece's office after his death. Also includes Breece's 1979 Sierra Club calendar with notations. 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Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of \u003cspan\u003eVirginia Illustrated\u003c/span\u003e (1857) and \u003cspan\u003eCharleston and its Resources\u003c/span\u003e (1878), his work as illustrator for \u003cspan\u003eBlackwater Chronicle\u003c/span\u003e (1853), service during the Civil War as a Union officer, stint as a newspaper editor, and Consul-Generalship to Mexico (1879-1885). According to Strother's biographer, Cecil D. Eby Jr., his writings linked the two traditions of literature in the south, \"the genteel romanticism of the sentimental novelists and the earthy realism of the frontier humorists.\" In 1872-1875 Strother wrote \u003cspan\u003eThe Mountains\u003c/span\u003e, which Eby considers the first important presentation of West Virginia in literature. The collection includes roughly 590 drawings and sketches, 44 volumes of journals, and several boxes of correspondence. An addendum of 2015/06/13 includes one drawing. An addendum of 2007/02/08 includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, announcements, and photographs regarding Strother and related families of the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia. An addendum of 2021/06/04 contains an abridged transcription by Cecil D. Eby Jr., of Strother's diary, 1879-1880, when Strother was General Consul to Mexico. For contents of the addenda and link to the digital collection: Drawings of David Hunter Strother, please see the Scope and Content Note.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_998#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_998","ead_ssi":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_998","_root_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_998","_nest_parent_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_998","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WVU/repositories_2_resources_998.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/209216","title_ssm":["David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers"],"title_tesim":["David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1744-1996","1833-1887"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1744-1996"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1833-1887"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1744/1996, bulk 1833/1887"],"normalized_title_ssm":["David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers, 1744/1996, bulk 1833/1887"],"text":["David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers, 1744/1996, bulk 1833/1887","A\u0026M 2894","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/998","Mexico","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","Art and artists","Authors -- Letters and papers","Special access restriction applies. We encourage researchers interested in the journals to use the microfilm copies when possible to preserve the integrity of the fragile originals.","Researchers may access born digital or digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, photographs, journals, drawings, and sketchbooks of a nineteenth century illustrator and writer for Harpers Magazine whose pseudonym, \"Porte Crayon\", was a household word. Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of Virginia Illustrated (1857) and Charleston and its Resources (1878), his work as illustrator for Blackwater Chronicle  (1853), service during the Civil War as a Union officer, stint as a newspaper editor, and Consul-Generalship to Mexico (1879-1885). According to Strother's biographer, Cecil D. Eby Jr., his writings linked the two traditions of literature in the south, \"the genteel romanticism of the sentimental novelists and the earthy realism of the frontier humorists.\" In 1872-1875 Strother wrote The Mountains, which Eby considers the first important presentation of West Virginia in literature. The collection includes roughly 590 drawings and sketches, 44 volumes of journals, and several boxes of correspondence.","This collection is organized into thirteen series, including:\nSeries 1. Journals; 1840-1888; boxes 1-6 and reels 1-4 \nSeries 2. Manuscripts and Correspondence; 1778-1925, undated; boxes 7-9 \nSeries 3. Oversize; 1798-1882, undated; box 10\nSeries 4. Sketchbooks; 1843-1887; undated; boxes 11, 13-15 \nSeries 5. Artwork by Others; 1858-1909; undated; box 12\nSeries 6. Artworks; 1833-1887, undated; undated; boxes 16-25\nSeries 7. Framed Original Artworks; 1844-1887, undated; boxes 26-41 and 3 framed items\nSeries 8. Framed Facsimiles; 1845-1859, undated; boxes 42-49\nSeries 9. Exhibit; ca. 1996; boxes 50-53\nSeries 10. Newspapers; 1795-1887; box 54 \nSeries 11. Addendum of 2015/06/13, undated \nSeries 12. Addendum of 2007/02/08, 1862-1970 \nSeries 13. Addendum of 2021/06/04, undated","This series includes 44 journals written by Strother which document his multifaceted career and cover the years 1840-1888. The journals chronicle his time in Europe as a young artist in the 1840s, his travels throughout the United States as a writer and illustrator for Harper's Magazine, his service as a topographer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War, his involvement in operating the Berkeley Springs Hotel, and his work as consul to Mexico from 1878-1885. Entries contain detailed accounts of Strother's daily life, as well as commentary on topics such as politics, art, languages, health, weather, and events of local and national interest. Many journals contain sketches, as well as poems, stories, and transcriptions of song lyrics. A highlight of this series is found in Journal 3, which contains Strother's notes on John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, WV in October 1859.","Strother's Civil War journals have been abridged by Cecil Eby and published as A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War: The Diaries of David Hunter Strother. His journals from his tenure as consul to Mexico have been edited by John Stealey and published as Porte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era.","An abridged transcription by Cecil Eby, Jr., of this journal is located in Series 13, Box 5, Folder 5.","This series contains the correspondence and papers of the Strother family covering the years 1778-1925 (bulk 1827-1888). Correspondence includes letters to and from friends, family, and business associates, as well as telegraphs from David Hunter Strother's service in the American Civil War. Topics discussed in correspondence include personal and family matters, business matters, the Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, the military as a profession, education, health, finances, politics, prohibition, art and illustration techniques, D. H. Strother's travels in Italy, John Brown's raid, the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, and D. H. Strother's work as consul to Mexico. Correspondents include various members of the Strother family, John Marshall (U.S. Chief Justice), Alexander Stephens (U.S. Congressman and Vice President of the Confederacy), Edmund P. Hunter (Virginia lawyer and politician), J. E. Heath (U.S. Commissioner of Pensions), Charles J. Faulkner (U.S. Congressman), George W. Mumford (Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia), Howard Sutherland (U.S. Senator), and William Ravenel (Administrative Assistant, Smithsonian Institution).","Personal papers include memoirs, notebooks, sections of diaries, essays, short stories, poems, song lyrics, enlistment documents, military commissions, legal documents (including a land grant and will), diplomas, receipts, account books, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and genealogies of the Strother family and their slaves. Subjects covered in these manuscript materials include religion, education, politics, the War of 1812, the United States Navy, the American Civil War, the Peekskill Military Academy, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and D. H. Strother's work as consul to Mexico.","This series contains oversize material including prints, drawings, sketches, manuscript materials, and a photograph taken of Strother in Mexico. The artwork is mostly from the 1880s and includes sketches of Strother's time in Mexico and American Civil War scenes. Manuscript material includes letters and a Strother family genealogy. Correspondents include David Hunter, Morgan Tate, John C. Calhoun (South Carolina congressman and U.S. Vice President), H. L. Tucker (Virginia House of Representatives), and Luther Martin (Attorney General of Maryland and delegate to the Constitutional Convention).","This series contains ten sketchbooks depicting the people and places Strother encountered as a correspondent for Harper's Magazine, hotel operator, traveling artist, and consul to Mexico.  Subjects of drawings include log cabins, barns, mills, wagons and coaches, railroad stations, trees, animals, and natural landscapes and features (Warm Springs Ridge, the Potomac River, the Alabama River, and the White Mountains). People rendered in sketches include fishermen, steamship passengers, railroad workers, newsboys, preachers, miners, and various prominent individuals, including Ambrose Burnside, Sitting Bull, John Brown, Shields Green, John Copeland, Aaron Dwight Stevens, and Edwin Coppock.  Places depicted include Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Harper's Ferry, West Virginia; Martinsburg, West Virginia; Charleston, West Virginia; Arlington, Virginia; Mexico; Jefferson County, West Virginia; Kanawha County, West Virginia; Morgan County, West Virginia; Hampshire County, West Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; Clarke County, Virginia; Yancey County, North Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Nantucket, Massachusetts.","A highlight of this series is found in Box 15, Folder 3, which includes sketches relating to John Brown's imprisonment, trial, and execution.","This series includes drawings, photographs, and commercial prints by artists other than David Hunter Strother. Artists whose work is included in the series are John Strother (D. H. Strother's son), Ruth Johnson, J. V. Kennedy, and other unidentified artists. Subjects represented in the artwork include structures such as log cabins, churches, bridges, and the Peekskill Military Academy; natural features including the Arno River in Florence, Italy and Blackwater Falls in West Virginia; battle scenes; classical statues; and sketches of men and women in various poses.","This series contains artwork including watercolors, pastels, sketches, and drawings, done by David Hunter Strother throughout his lifetime. Subjects of artwork include landscapes depicting mountains, rivers, oceans, lakes and caves; animals, including horses, cats, dogs, birds, fish, and pigs; structures, including houses, churches, schools, and bridges; ships and boats; the American Civil War; John Brown's raid, imprisonment, trial, and execution; the Mississippi River; the Potomac River; the Indian Head River; and landmarks in Italy, including the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, and the Villa Borghese in Rome.","People rendered in artwork include fishermen, soldiers, miners, sailors, farmers, train passengers, and Italian peasants. There are also various portraits of women and children. Prominent individuals depicted in artwork include John Brown and Emma Hardinge Britten.","Places depicted include West Virginia; Virginia; New York; Maryland; North Carolina; New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mexico City; and Florence, Venice, Rome, Bologna, and Vallombrosa, Italy.","This series consists of artwork by David Hunter Strother which has been framed for display. These artworks were selected to be framed for the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center's 1996 exhibit on Strother. Please see Series 9 for additional information on this exhibit.","The artworks are mainly portraits of various men and women. Other subjects depicted include barns and farms, salt works, fisheries, a sugar refinery, an oak tree, a Civil War encampment, and John Brown's execution. Locations and landmarks depicted include Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Blackwater Falls, West Virginia; Bayou Teche, Louisiana; Moorefield, West Virginia; Martinsburg, West Virginia; and Montgomery County, Maryland.","Oil on canvas. Depicts \"Justice,\" a seated woman in green and red robes and a crown of laurels, gazing upon a sleeping man and woman with their baby. The light shines upon the family in the darkness.","This series contains facsimiles of Strother's artwork which have been framed for display. These facsimiles were created for the traveling version of the 2009 West Virginia Day exhibit, which commemorated the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. The majority of these facsimiles are of sketches made by Strother during the trial of John Brown in 1859, including facsimiles of \"Harper's Weekly\" articles for which Strother provided the illustrations. People depicted include John Brown, Shields Green, Edwin Coppock, Aaron Dwight Stevens, John Copeland, and George Henry Hoyt. Please note that the dates given for this series indicate the date that the original artwork was created, rather than the date the facsimile was created.","Original of p. 713 of Harper's Weekly, November 5, 1859, is in Series 7, Box 45.","This series includes brochures, reproduced images, and captions from the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center's 1996 exhibit \"David Hunter Strother: One of the Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses\" and a 2001 digital catalog of Strother's drawings and sketches.","This series includes issues of various newspapers spanning the years 1795-1887 (bulk 1859-1887). Newspapers include the Gazette of the United States, the Ulster County Gazette, Harper's Weekly, The Children's Friend, and The Two Republics.","Contains a drawing by Porte Crayon (alias for David Strother) titled \"The Eyes of Delaware are Upon You.\" The drawing depicts a man sitting in a chair. This drawing may be a sketch for a finished artwork.","Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, announcements, and photographs regarding David Hunter Strother (DHS) and related families of the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia.","Correspondence (1958-1963) includes letters to and from Mrs. Ernest Sewall Shepard (Louise Shepard) regarding both Strother genealogy and publications of and about DHS.","Newspaper clippings regarding DHS, John Strother, Porte Crayon Memorial Society, the dedication of Mt. Porte Crayon, reviews of publications relating to DHS, and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. There is a typescript copy of a 1938 New York Times article titled \"John Harper's Grandson\" referencing DHS.","Announcements regarding the publication of three books by Cecil Eby, a biographer of Strother. Also includes four photographs: 1) Lt. D.H. Strother (copy); 2) the Richardson family with John Strother (copy); 3) David Hunter Strother at home in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. (same picture as photograph in A\u0026M 2200) and 4) Louise Strother Kieutner in the dress of Elizabeth Pendleton Hunter Strother. There is also a postcard featuring Robert E. Lee, and a copy of an 1887 manuscript letter from D.H. Strother to Mary Hunter.","Original diary (1879-1880) is located in Series 1; Journal 39; Box 5, Folder 4.","Immediate Source of AcquisitionAddendum acquired 2021/06/04","Separated to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures: letter, dated March 6, 1796, to Col. David Hunter of Berkeley County, Va., from John Marshall (subsequently Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court) regarding a dispute over land ownership.","Separated to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures: commission, dated March 11, 1862, to David H. Strother, from Abraham Lincoln and Edwin Stanton regarding officer's commission, appointing David H. Strother as \"Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, with the rank of Captain.\"","Separated to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures: commission, dated April 9, 1866, to David H. Strother, from Andrew Johnson and Edwin Stanton regarding officer's commission, appointing David H. Strother as \"Brigadier General.\"","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, photographs, journals, drawings, and sketchbooks of David Hunter Strother (1816-1888), a nineteenth century illustrator and writer for Harpers Magazine whose pseudonym, \"Porte Crayon\", was a household word. Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of Virginia Illustrated (1857) and Charleston and its Resources (1878), his work as illustrator for Blackwater Chronicle (1853), service during the Civil War as a Union officer, stint as a newspaper editor, and Consul-Generalship to Mexico (1879-1885). According to Strother's biographer, Cecil D. 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Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of \u003ctitle\u003eVirginia Illustrated\u003c/title\u003e (1857) and \u003ctitle\u003eCharleston and its Resources\u003c/title\u003e (1878), his work as illustrator for \u003ctitle\u003eBlackwater Chronicle\u003c/title\u003e  (1853), service during the Civil War as a Union officer, stint as a newspaper editor, and Consul-Generalship to Mexico (1879-1885). According to Strother's biographer, Cecil D. Eby Jr., his writings linked the two traditions of literature in the south, \"the genteel romanticism of the sentimental novelists and the earthy realism of the frontier humorists.\" In 1872-1875 Strother wrote \u003ctitle\u003eThe Mountains\u003c/title\u003e, which Eby considers the first important presentation of West Virginia in literature. The collection includes roughly 590 drawings and sketches, 44 volumes of journals, and several boxes of correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection is organized into thirteen series, including:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 1. Journals; 1840-1888; boxes 1-6 and reels 1-4\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e \nSeries 2. Manuscripts and Correspondence; 1778-1925, undated; boxes 7-9\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e \nSeries 3. Oversize; 1798-1882, undated; box 10\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Sketchbooks; 1843-1887; undated; boxes 11, 13-15\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e \nSeries 5. Artwork by Others; 1858-1909; undated; box 12\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Artworks; 1833-1887, undated; undated; boxes 16-25\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Framed Original Artworks; 1844-1887, undated; boxes 26-41 and 3 framed items\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Framed Facsimiles; 1845-1859, undated; boxes 42-49\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. 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Entries contain detailed accounts of Strother's daily life, as well as commentary on topics such as politics, art, languages, health, weather, and events of local and national interest. Many journals contain sketches, as well as poems, stories, and transcriptions of song lyrics. A highlight of this series is found in Journal 3, which contains Strother's notes on John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, WV in October 1859. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStrother's Civil War journals have been abridged by Cecil Eby and published as \u003ctitle\u003eA Virginia Yankee in the Civil War: The Diaries of David Hunter Strother\u003c/title\u003e. His journals from his tenure as consul to Mexico have been edited by John Stealey and published as \u003ctitle\u003ePorte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn abridged transcription by Cecil Eby, Jr., of this journal is located in Series 13, Box 5, Folder 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the correspondence and papers of the Strother family covering the years 1778-1925 (bulk 1827-1888). Correspondence includes letters to and from friends, family, and business associates, as well as telegraphs from David Hunter Strother's service in the American Civil War. Topics discussed in correspondence include personal and family matters, business matters, the Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, the military as a profession, education, health, finances, politics, prohibition, art and illustration techniques, D. H. Strother's travels in Italy, John Brown's raid, the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, and D. H. Strother's work as consul to Mexico. Correspondents include various members of the Strother family, John Marshall (U.S. Chief Justice), Alexander Stephens (U.S. Congressman and Vice President of the Confederacy), Edmund P. Hunter (Virginia lawyer and politician), J. E. Heath (U.S. Commissioner of Pensions), Charles J. Faulkner (U.S. Congressman), George W. Mumford (Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia), Howard Sutherland (U.S. Senator), and William Ravenel (Administrative Assistant, Smithsonian Institution). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonal papers include memoirs, notebooks, sections of diaries, essays, short stories, poems, song lyrics, enlistment documents, military commissions, legal documents (including a land grant and will), diplomas, receipts, account books, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and genealogies of the Strother family and their slaves. Subjects covered in these manuscript materials include religion, education, politics, the War of 1812, the United States Navy, the American Civil War, the Peekskill Military Academy, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and D. H. Strother's work as consul to Mexico.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains oversize material including prints, drawings, sketches, manuscript materials, and a photograph taken of Strother in Mexico. The artwork is mostly from the 1880s and includes sketches of Strother's time in Mexico and American Civil War scenes. Manuscript material includes letters and a Strother family genealogy. Correspondents include David Hunter, Morgan Tate, John C. Calhoun (South Carolina congressman and U.S. Vice President), H. L. Tucker (Virginia House of Representatives), and Luther Martin (Attorney General of Maryland and delegate to the Constitutional Convention).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains ten sketchbooks depicting the people and places Strother encountered as a correspondent for Harper's Magazine, hotel operator, traveling artist, and consul to Mexico.  Subjects of drawings include log cabins, barns, mills, wagons and coaches, railroad stations, trees, animals, and natural landscapes and features (Warm Springs Ridge, the Potomac River, the Alabama River, and the White Mountains). People rendered in sketches include fishermen, steamship passengers, railroad workers, newsboys, preachers, miners, and various prominent individuals, including Ambrose Burnside, Sitting Bull, John Brown, Shields Green, John Copeland, Aaron Dwight Stevens, and Edwin Coppock.  Places depicted include Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Harper's Ferry, West Virginia; Martinsburg, West Virginia; Charleston, West Virginia; Arlington, Virginia; Mexico; Jefferson County, West Virginia; Kanawha County, West Virginia; Morgan County, West Virginia; Hampshire County, West Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; Clarke County, Virginia; Yancey County, North Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Nantucket, Massachusetts. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA highlight of this series is found in Box 15, Folder 3, which includes sketches relating to John Brown's imprisonment, trial, and execution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes drawings, photographs, and commercial prints by artists other than David Hunter Strother. Artists whose work is included in the series are John Strother (D. H. Strother's son), Ruth Johnson, J. V. Kennedy, and other unidentified artists. Subjects represented in the artwork include structures such as log cabins, churches, bridges, and the Peekskill Military Academy; natural features including the Arno River in Florence, Italy and Blackwater Falls in West Virginia; battle scenes; classical statues; and sketches of men and women in various poses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains artwork including watercolors, pastels, sketches, and drawings, done by David Hunter Strother throughout his lifetime. Subjects of artwork include landscapes depicting mountains, rivers, oceans, lakes and caves; animals, including horses, cats, dogs, birds, fish, and pigs; structures, including houses, churches, schools, and bridges; ships and boats; the American Civil War; John Brown's raid, imprisonment, trial, and execution; the Mississippi River; the Potomac River; the Indian Head River; and landmarks in Italy, including the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, and the Villa Borghese in Rome.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeople rendered in artwork include fishermen, soldiers, miners, sailors, farmers, train passengers, and Italian peasants. There are also various portraits of women and children. Prominent individuals depicted in artwork include John Brown and Emma Hardinge Britten.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlaces depicted include West Virginia; Virginia; New York; Maryland; North Carolina; New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mexico City; and Florence, Venice, Rome, Bologna, and Vallombrosa, Italy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of artwork by David Hunter Strother which has been framed for display. These artworks were selected to be framed for the West Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center's 1996 exhibit on Strother. Please see Series 9 for additional information on this exhibit. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe artworks are mainly portraits of various men and women. Other subjects depicted include barns and farms, salt works, fisheries, a sugar refinery, an oak tree, a Civil War encampment, and John Brown's execution. Locations and landmarks depicted include Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Blackwater Falls, West Virginia; Bayou Teche, Louisiana; Moorefield, West Virginia; Martinsburg, West Virginia; and Montgomery County, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOil on canvas. Depicts \"Justice,\" a seated woman in green and red robes and a crown of laurels, gazing upon a sleeping man and woman with their baby. The light shines upon the family in the darkness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains facsimiles of Strother's artwork which have been framed for display. These facsimiles were created for the traveling version of the 2009 West Virginia Day exhibit, which commemorated the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. The majority of these facsimiles are of sketches made by Strother during the trial of John Brown in 1859, including facsimiles of \"Harper's Weekly\" articles for which Strother provided the illustrations. People depicted include John Brown, Shields Green, Edwin Coppock, Aaron Dwight Stevens, John Copeland, and George Henry Hoyt. Please note that the dates given for this series indicate the date that the original artwork was created, rather than the date the facsimile was created.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal of p. 713 of Harper's Weekly, November 5, 1859, is in Series 7, Box 45.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes brochures, reproduced images, and captions from the West Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center's 1996 exhibit \"David Hunter Strother: One of the Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses\" and a 2001 digital catalog of Strother's drawings and sketches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes issues of various newspapers spanning the years 1795-1887 (bulk 1859-1887). 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Porte Crayon, reviews of publications relating to DHS, and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. There is a typescript copy of a 1938 New York Times article titled \"John Harper's Grandson\" referencing DHS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncements regarding the publication of three books by Cecil Eby, a biographer of Strother. Also includes four photographs: 1) Lt. D.H. Strother (copy); 2) the Richardson family with John Strother (copy); 3) David Hunter Strother at home in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. (same picture as photograph in A\u0026amp;M 2200) and 4) Louise Strother Kieutner in the dress of Elizabeth Pendleton Hunter Strother. There is also a postcard featuring Robert E. Lee, and a copy of an 1887 manuscript letter from D.H. Strother to Mary Hunter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clb\u003e\nOriginal diary (1879-1880) is located in Series 1; Journal 39; Box 5, Folder 4. \u003c/lb\u003e","\u003cacqinfo id=\"aspace_ee9b1f9b241b251e2eca2374ebdd7b7f\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eImmediate Source of Acquisition\u003c/head\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddendum acquired 2021/06/04\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/acqinfo\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, photographs, journals, drawings, and sketchbooks of a nineteenth century illustrator and writer for Harpers Magazine whose pseudonym, \"Porte Crayon\", was a household word. Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of Virginia Illustrated (1857) and Charleston and its Resources (1878), his work as illustrator for Blackwater Chronicle  (1853), service during the Civil War as a Union officer, stint as a newspaper editor, and Consul-Generalship to Mexico (1879-1885). According to Strother's biographer, Cecil D. Eby Jr., his writings linked the two traditions of literature in the south, \"the genteel romanticism of the sentimental novelists and the earthy realism of the frontier humorists.\" In 1872-1875 Strother wrote The Mountains, which Eby considers the first important presentation of West Virginia in literature. The collection includes roughly 590 drawings and sketches, 44 volumes of journals, and several boxes of correspondence.","This collection is organized into thirteen series, including:\nSeries 1. Journals; 1840-1888; boxes 1-6 and reels 1-4 \nSeries 2. Manuscripts and Correspondence; 1778-1925, undated; boxes 7-9 \nSeries 3. Oversize; 1798-1882, undated; box 10\nSeries 4. Sketchbooks; 1843-1887; undated; boxes 11, 13-15 \nSeries 5. Artwork by Others; 1858-1909; undated; box 12\nSeries 6. Artworks; 1833-1887, undated; undated; boxes 16-25\nSeries 7. Framed Original Artworks; 1844-1887, undated; boxes 26-41 and 3 framed items\nSeries 8. Framed Facsimiles; 1845-1859, undated; boxes 42-49\nSeries 9. Exhibit; ca. 1996; boxes 50-53\nSeries 10. Newspapers; 1795-1887; box 54 \nSeries 11. Addendum of 2015/06/13, undated \nSeries 12. Addendum of 2007/02/08, 1862-1970 \nSeries 13. Addendum of 2021/06/04, undated","This series includes 44 journals written by Strother which document his multifaceted career and cover the years 1840-1888. The journals chronicle his time in Europe as a young artist in the 1840s, his travels throughout the United States as a writer and illustrator for Harper's Magazine, his service as a topographer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War, his involvement in operating the Berkeley Springs Hotel, and his work as consul to Mexico from 1878-1885. Entries contain detailed accounts of Strother's daily life, as well as commentary on topics such as politics, art, languages, health, weather, and events of local and national interest. Many journals contain sketches, as well as poems, stories, and transcriptions of song lyrics. A highlight of this series is found in Journal 3, which contains Strother's notes on John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, WV in October 1859.","Strother's Civil War journals have been abridged by Cecil Eby and published as A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War: The Diaries of David Hunter Strother. His journals from his tenure as consul to Mexico have been edited by John Stealey and published as Porte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era.","An abridged transcription by Cecil Eby, Jr., of this journal is located in Series 13, Box 5, Folder 5.","This series contains the correspondence and papers of the Strother family covering the years 1778-1925 (bulk 1827-1888). Correspondence includes letters to and from friends, family, and business associates, as well as telegraphs from David Hunter Strother's service in the American Civil War. Topics discussed in correspondence include personal and family matters, business matters, the Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, the military as a profession, education, health, finances, politics, prohibition, art and illustration techniques, D. H. Strother's travels in Italy, John Brown's raid, the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, and D. H. Strother's work as consul to Mexico. Correspondents include various members of the Strother family, John Marshall (U.S. Chief Justice), Alexander Stephens (U.S. Congressman and Vice President of the Confederacy), Edmund P. Hunter (Virginia lawyer and politician), J. E. Heath (U.S. Commissioner of Pensions), Charles J. Faulkner (U.S. Congressman), George W. Mumford (Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia), Howard Sutherland (U.S. Senator), and William Ravenel (Administrative Assistant, Smithsonian Institution).","Personal papers include memoirs, notebooks, sections of diaries, essays, short stories, poems, song lyrics, enlistment documents, military commissions, legal documents (including a land grant and will), diplomas, receipts, account books, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and genealogies of the Strother family and their slaves. Subjects covered in these manuscript materials include religion, education, politics, the War of 1812, the United States Navy, the American Civil War, the Peekskill Military Academy, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and D. H. Strother's work as consul to Mexico.","This series contains oversize material including prints, drawings, sketches, manuscript materials, and a photograph taken of Strother in Mexico. The artwork is mostly from the 1880s and includes sketches of Strother's time in Mexico and American Civil War scenes. Manuscript material includes letters and a Strother family genealogy. Correspondents include David Hunter, Morgan Tate, John C. Calhoun (South Carolina congressman and U.S. Vice President), H. L. Tucker (Virginia House of Representatives), and Luther Martin (Attorney General of Maryland and delegate to the Constitutional Convention).","This series contains ten sketchbooks depicting the people and places Strother encountered as a correspondent for Harper's Magazine, hotel operator, traveling artist, and consul to Mexico.  Subjects of drawings include log cabins, barns, mills, wagons and coaches, railroad stations, trees, animals, and natural landscapes and features (Warm Springs Ridge, the Potomac River, the Alabama River, and the White Mountains). People rendered in sketches include fishermen, steamship passengers, railroad workers, newsboys, preachers, miners, and various prominent individuals, including Ambrose Burnside, Sitting Bull, John Brown, Shields Green, John Copeland, Aaron Dwight Stevens, and Edwin Coppock.  Places depicted include Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Harper's Ferry, West Virginia; Martinsburg, West Virginia; Charleston, West Virginia; Arlington, Virginia; Mexico; Jefferson County, West Virginia; Kanawha County, West Virginia; Morgan County, West Virginia; Hampshire County, West Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; Clarke County, Virginia; Yancey County, North Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Nantucket, Massachusetts.","A highlight of this series is found in Box 15, Folder 3, which includes sketches relating to John Brown's imprisonment, trial, and execution.","This series includes drawings, photographs, and commercial prints by artists other than David Hunter Strother. Artists whose work is included in the series are John Strother (D. H. Strother's son), Ruth Johnson, J. V. Kennedy, and other unidentified artists. Subjects represented in the artwork include structures such as log cabins, churches, bridges, and the Peekskill Military Academy; natural features including the Arno River in Florence, Italy and Blackwater Falls in West Virginia; battle scenes; classical statues; and sketches of men and women in various poses.","This series contains artwork including watercolors, pastels, sketches, and drawings, done by David Hunter Strother throughout his lifetime. Subjects of artwork include landscapes depicting mountains, rivers, oceans, lakes and caves; animals, including horses, cats, dogs, birds, fish, and pigs; structures, including houses, churches, schools, and bridges; ships and boats; the American Civil War; John Brown's raid, imprisonment, trial, and execution; the Mississippi River; the Potomac River; the Indian Head River; and landmarks in Italy, including the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, and the Villa Borghese in Rome.","People rendered in artwork include fishermen, soldiers, miners, sailors, farmers, train passengers, and Italian peasants. There are also various portraits of women and children. Prominent individuals depicted in artwork include John Brown and Emma Hardinge Britten.","Places depicted include West Virginia; Virginia; New York; Maryland; North Carolina; New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mexico City; and Florence, Venice, Rome, Bologna, and Vallombrosa, Italy.","This series consists of artwork by David Hunter Strother which has been framed for display. These artworks were selected to be framed for the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center's 1996 exhibit on Strother. Please see Series 9 for additional information on this exhibit.","The artworks are mainly portraits of various men and women. Other subjects depicted include barns and farms, salt works, fisheries, a sugar refinery, an oak tree, a Civil War encampment, and John Brown's execution. Locations and landmarks depicted include Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Blackwater Falls, West Virginia; Bayou Teche, Louisiana; Moorefield, West Virginia; Martinsburg, West Virginia; and Montgomery County, Maryland.","Oil on canvas. Depicts \"Justice,\" a seated woman in green and red robes and a crown of laurels, gazing upon a sleeping man and woman with their baby. The light shines upon the family in the darkness.","This series contains facsimiles of Strother's artwork which have been framed for display. These facsimiles were created for the traveling version of the 2009 West Virginia Day exhibit, which commemorated the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. The majority of these facsimiles are of sketches made by Strother during the trial of John Brown in 1859, including facsimiles of \"Harper's Weekly\" articles for which Strother provided the illustrations. People depicted include John Brown, Shields Green, Edwin Coppock, Aaron Dwight Stevens, John Copeland, and George Henry Hoyt. Please note that the dates given for this series indicate the date that the original artwork was created, rather than the date the facsimile was created.","Original of p. 713 of Harper's Weekly, November 5, 1859, is in Series 7, Box 45.","This series includes brochures, reproduced images, and captions from the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center's 1996 exhibit \"David Hunter Strother: One of the Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses\" and a 2001 digital catalog of Strother's drawings and sketches.","This series includes issues of various newspapers spanning the years 1795-1887 (bulk 1859-1887). Newspapers include the Gazette of the United States, the Ulster County Gazette, Harper's Weekly, The Children's Friend, and The Two Republics.","Contains a drawing by Porte Crayon (alias for David Strother) titled \"The Eyes of Delaware are Upon You.\" The drawing depicts a man sitting in a chair. This drawing may be a sketch for a finished artwork.","Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, announcements, and photographs regarding David Hunter Strother (DHS) and related families of the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia.","Correspondence (1958-1963) includes letters to and from Mrs. Ernest Sewall Shepard (Louise Shepard) regarding both Strother genealogy and publications of and about DHS.","Newspaper clippings regarding DHS, John Strother, Porte Crayon Memorial Society, the dedication of Mt. Porte Crayon, reviews of publications relating to DHS, and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. There is a typescript copy of a 1938 New York Times article titled \"John Harper's Grandson\" referencing DHS.","Announcements regarding the publication of three books by Cecil Eby, a biographer of Strother. Also includes four photographs: 1) Lt. D.H. Strother (copy); 2) the Richardson family with John Strother (copy); 3) David Hunter Strother at home in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. (same picture as photograph in A\u0026M 2200) and 4) Louise Strother Kieutner in the dress of Elizabeth Pendleton Hunter Strother. There is also a postcard featuring Robert E. Lee, and a copy of an 1887 manuscript letter from D.H. Strother to Mary Hunter.","Original diary (1879-1880) is located in Series 1; Journal 39; Box 5, Folder 4.","Immediate Source of AcquisitionAddendum acquired 2021/06/04"],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeparated to A\u0026amp;M 435, Rare Signatures: letter, dated March 6, 1796, to Col. David Hunter of Berkeley County, Va., from John Marshall (subsequently Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court) regarding a dispute over land ownership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeparated to A\u0026amp;M 435, Rare Signatures: commission, dated March 11, 1862, to David H. Strother, from Abraham Lincoln and Edwin Stanton regarding officer's commission, appointing David H. Strother as \"Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, with the rank of Captain.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeparated to A\u0026amp;M 435, Rare Signatures: commission, dated April 9, 1866, to David H. Strother, from Andrew Johnson and Edwin Stanton regarding officer's commission, appointing David H. Strother as \"Brigadier General.\"\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Separated to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures: letter, dated March 6, 1796, to Col. David Hunter of Berkeley County, Va., from John Marshall (subsequently Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court) regarding a dispute over land ownership.","Separated to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures: commission, dated March 11, 1862, to David H. Strother, from Abraham Lincoln and Edwin Stanton regarding officer's commission, appointing David H. Strother as \"Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, with the rank of Captain.\"","Separated to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures: commission, dated April 9, 1866, to David H. Strother, from Andrew Johnson and Edwin Stanton regarding officer's commission, appointing David H. Strother as \"Brigadier General.\""],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_2a30b1b04b1299c542baa5017f755d1a\"\u003eCorrespondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, photographs, journals, drawings, and sketchbooks of David Hunter Strother (1816-1888), a nineteenth century illustrator and writer for \u003ctitle\u003eHarpers Magazine\u003c/title\u003e whose pseudonym, \"Porte Crayon\", was a household word. Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of \u003ctitle\u003eVirginia Illustrated\u003c/title\u003e (1857) and \u003ctitle\u003eCharleston and its Resources\u003c/title\u003e (1878), his work as illustrator for \u003ctitle\u003eBlackwater Chronicle\u003c/title\u003e (1853), service during the Civil War as a Union officer, stint as a newspaper editor, and Consul-Generalship to Mexico (1879-1885). According to Strother's biographer, Cecil D. Eby Jr., his writings linked the two traditions of literature in the south, \"the genteel romanticism of the sentimental novelists and the earthy realism of the frontier humorists.\" In 1872-1875 Strother wrote \u003ctitle\u003eThe Mountains\u003c/title\u003e, which Eby considers the first important presentation of West Virginia in literature. The collection includes roughly 590 drawings and sketches, 44 volumes of journals, and several boxes of correspondence. An addendum of 2015/06/13 includes one drawing. An addendum of 2007/02/08 includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, announcements, and photographs regarding Strother and related families of the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia. An addendum of 2021/06/04 contains an abridged transcription by Cecil D. Eby Jr., of Strother's diary, 1879-1880, when Strother was General Consul to Mexico. For contents of the addenda and link to the digital collection: Drawings of David Hunter Strother, please see the Scope and Content Note.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, photographs, journals, drawings, and sketchbooks of David Hunter Strother (1816-1888), a nineteenth century illustrator and writer for Harpers Magazine whose pseudonym, \"Porte Crayon\", was a household word. Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of Virginia Illustrated (1857) and Charleston and its Resources (1878), his work as illustrator for Blackwater Chronicle (1853), service during the Civil War as a Union officer, stint as a newspaper editor, and Consul-Generalship to Mexico (1879-1885). According to Strother's biographer, Cecil D. Eby Jr., his writings linked the two traditions of literature in the south, \"the genteel romanticism of the sentimental novelists and the earthy realism of the frontier humorists.\" In 1872-1875 Strother wrote The Mountains, which Eby considers the first important presentation of West Virginia in literature. The collection includes roughly 590 drawings and sketches, 44 volumes of journals, and several boxes of correspondence. An addendum of 2015/06/13 includes one drawing. An addendum of 2007/02/08 includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, announcements, and photographs regarding Strother and related families of the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia. An addendum of 2021/06/04 contains an abridged transcription by Cecil D. Eby Jr., of Strother's diary, 1879-1880, when Strother was General Consul to Mexico. For contents of the addenda and link to the digital collection: Drawings of David Hunter Strother, please see the Scope and Content Note."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_08cdf7ef79081b8d2aaaa4c9b2193604\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\"\u003eWest Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n    "],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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We encourage researchers interested in the journals to use the microfilm copies when possible to preserve the integrity of the fragile originals.","Researchers may access born digital or digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, photographs, journals, drawings, and sketchbooks of a nineteenth century illustrator and writer for Harpers Magazine whose pseudonym, \"Porte Crayon\", was a household word. Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of Virginia Illustrated (1857) and Charleston and its Resources (1878), his work as illustrator for Blackwater Chronicle  (1853), service during the Civil War as a Union officer, stint as a newspaper editor, and Consul-Generalship to Mexico (1879-1885). According to Strother's biographer, Cecil D. Eby Jr., his writings linked the two traditions of literature in the south, \"the genteel romanticism of the sentimental novelists and the earthy realism of the frontier humorists.\" In 1872-1875 Strother wrote The Mountains, which Eby considers the first important presentation of West Virginia in literature. The collection includes roughly 590 drawings and sketches, 44 volumes of journals, and several boxes of correspondence.","This collection is organized into thirteen series, including:\nSeries 1. Journals; 1840-1888; boxes 1-6 and reels 1-4 \nSeries 2. Manuscripts and Correspondence; 1778-1925, undated; boxes 7-9 \nSeries 3. Oversize; 1798-1882, undated; box 10\nSeries 4. Sketchbooks; 1843-1887; undated; boxes 11, 13-15 \nSeries 5. Artwork by Others; 1858-1909; undated; box 12\nSeries 6. Artworks; 1833-1887, undated; undated; boxes 16-25\nSeries 7. Framed Original Artworks; 1844-1887, undated; boxes 26-41 and 3 framed items\nSeries 8. Framed Facsimiles; 1845-1859, undated; boxes 42-49\nSeries 9. Exhibit; ca. 1996; boxes 50-53\nSeries 10. Newspapers; 1795-1887; box 54 \nSeries 11. Addendum of 2015/06/13, undated \nSeries 12. Addendum of 2007/02/08, 1862-1970 \nSeries 13. Addendum of 2021/06/04, undated","This series includes 44 journals written by Strother which document his multifaceted career and cover the years 1840-1888. The journals chronicle his time in Europe as a young artist in the 1840s, his travels throughout the United States as a writer and illustrator for Harper's Magazine, his service as a topographer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War, his involvement in operating the Berkeley Springs Hotel, and his work as consul to Mexico from 1878-1885. Entries contain detailed accounts of Strother's daily life, as well as commentary on topics such as politics, art, languages, health, weather, and events of local and national interest. Many journals contain sketches, as well as poems, stories, and transcriptions of song lyrics. A highlight of this series is found in Journal 3, which contains Strother's notes on John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, WV in October 1859.","Strother's Civil War journals have been abridged by Cecil Eby and published as A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War: The Diaries of David Hunter Strother. His journals from his tenure as consul to Mexico have been edited by John Stealey and published as Porte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era.","An abridged transcription by Cecil Eby, Jr., of this journal is located in Series 13, Box 5, Folder 5.","This series contains the correspondence and papers of the Strother family covering the years 1778-1925 (bulk 1827-1888). Correspondence includes letters to and from friends, family, and business associates, as well as telegraphs from David Hunter Strother's service in the American Civil War. Topics discussed in correspondence include personal and family matters, business matters, the Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, the military as a profession, education, health, finances, politics, prohibition, art and illustration techniques, D. H. Strother's travels in Italy, John Brown's raid, the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, and D. H. Strother's work as consul to Mexico. Correspondents include various members of the Strother family, John Marshall (U.S. Chief Justice), Alexander Stephens (U.S. Congressman and Vice President of the Confederacy), Edmund P. Hunter (Virginia lawyer and politician), J. E. Heath (U.S. Commissioner of Pensions), Charles J. Faulkner (U.S. Congressman), George W. Mumford (Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia), Howard Sutherland (U.S. Senator), and William Ravenel (Administrative Assistant, Smithsonian Institution).","Personal papers include memoirs, notebooks, sections of diaries, essays, short stories, poems, song lyrics, enlistment documents, military commissions, legal documents (including a land grant and will), diplomas, receipts, account books, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and genealogies of the Strother family and their slaves. Subjects covered in these manuscript materials include religion, education, politics, the War of 1812, the United States Navy, the American Civil War, the Peekskill Military Academy, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and D. H. Strother's work as consul to Mexico.","This series contains oversize material including prints, drawings, sketches, manuscript materials, and a photograph taken of Strother in Mexico. The artwork is mostly from the 1880s and includes sketches of Strother's time in Mexico and American Civil War scenes. Manuscript material includes letters and a Strother family genealogy. Correspondents include David Hunter, Morgan Tate, John C. Calhoun (South Carolina congressman and U.S. Vice President), H. L. Tucker (Virginia House of Representatives), and Luther Martin (Attorney General of Maryland and delegate to the Constitutional Convention).","This series contains ten sketchbooks depicting the people and places Strother encountered as a correspondent for Harper's Magazine, hotel operator, traveling artist, and consul to Mexico.  Subjects of drawings include log cabins, barns, mills, wagons and coaches, railroad stations, trees, animals, and natural landscapes and features (Warm Springs Ridge, the Potomac River, the Alabama River, and the White Mountains). People rendered in sketches include fishermen, steamship passengers, railroad workers, newsboys, preachers, miners, and various prominent individuals, including Ambrose Burnside, Sitting Bull, John Brown, Shields Green, John Copeland, Aaron Dwight Stevens, and Edwin Coppock.  Places depicted include Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Harper's Ferry, West Virginia; Martinsburg, West Virginia; Charleston, West Virginia; Arlington, Virginia; Mexico; Jefferson County, West Virginia; Kanawha County, West Virginia; Morgan County, West Virginia; Hampshire County, West Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; Clarke County, Virginia; Yancey County, North Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Nantucket, Massachusetts.","A highlight of this series is found in Box 15, Folder 3, which includes sketches relating to John Brown's imprisonment, trial, and execution.","This series includes drawings, photographs, and commercial prints by artists other than David Hunter Strother. Artists whose work is included in the series are John Strother (D. H. Strother's son), Ruth Johnson, J. V. Kennedy, and other unidentified artists. Subjects represented in the artwork include structures such as log cabins, churches, bridges, and the Peekskill Military Academy; natural features including the Arno River in Florence, Italy and Blackwater Falls in West Virginia; battle scenes; classical statues; and sketches of men and women in various poses.","This series contains artwork including watercolors, pastels, sketches, and drawings, done by David Hunter Strother throughout his lifetime. Subjects of artwork include landscapes depicting mountains, rivers, oceans, lakes and caves; animals, including horses, cats, dogs, birds, fish, and pigs; structures, including houses, churches, schools, and bridges; ships and boats; the American Civil War; John Brown's raid, imprisonment, trial, and execution; the Mississippi River; the Potomac River; the Indian Head River; and landmarks in Italy, including the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, and the Villa Borghese in Rome.","People rendered in artwork include fishermen, soldiers, miners, sailors, farmers, train passengers, and Italian peasants. There are also various portraits of women and children. Prominent individuals depicted in artwork include John Brown and Emma Hardinge Britten.","Places depicted include West Virginia; Virginia; New York; Maryland; North Carolina; New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mexico City; and Florence, Venice, Rome, Bologna, and Vallombrosa, Italy.","This series consists of artwork by David Hunter Strother which has been framed for display. These artworks were selected to be framed for the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center's 1996 exhibit on Strother. Please see Series 9 for additional information on this exhibit.","The artworks are mainly portraits of various men and women. Other subjects depicted include barns and farms, salt works, fisheries, a sugar refinery, an oak tree, a Civil War encampment, and John Brown's execution. Locations and landmarks depicted include Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Blackwater Falls, West Virginia; Bayou Teche, Louisiana; Moorefield, West Virginia; Martinsburg, West Virginia; and Montgomery County, Maryland.","Oil on canvas. Depicts \"Justice,\" a seated woman in green and red robes and a crown of laurels, gazing upon a sleeping man and woman with their baby. The light shines upon the family in the darkness.","This series contains facsimiles of Strother's artwork which have been framed for display. These facsimiles were created for the traveling version of the 2009 West Virginia Day exhibit, which commemorated the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. The majority of these facsimiles are of sketches made by Strother during the trial of John Brown in 1859, including facsimiles of \"Harper's Weekly\" articles for which Strother provided the illustrations. People depicted include John Brown, Shields Green, Edwin Coppock, Aaron Dwight Stevens, John Copeland, and George Henry Hoyt. Please note that the dates given for this series indicate the date that the original artwork was created, rather than the date the facsimile was created.","Original of p. 713 of Harper's Weekly, November 5, 1859, is in Series 7, Box 45.","This series includes brochures, reproduced images, and captions from the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center's 1996 exhibit \"David Hunter Strother: One of the Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses\" and a 2001 digital catalog of Strother's drawings and sketches.","This series includes issues of various newspapers spanning the years 1795-1887 (bulk 1859-1887). Newspapers include the Gazette of the United States, the Ulster County Gazette, Harper's Weekly, The Children's Friend, and The Two Republics.","Contains a drawing by Porte Crayon (alias for David Strother) titled \"The Eyes of Delaware are Upon You.\" The drawing depicts a man sitting in a chair. This drawing may be a sketch for a finished artwork.","Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, announcements, and photographs regarding David Hunter Strother (DHS) and related families of the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia.","Correspondence (1958-1963) includes letters to and from Mrs. Ernest Sewall Shepard (Louise Shepard) regarding both Strother genealogy and publications of and about DHS.","Newspaper clippings regarding DHS, John Strother, Porte Crayon Memorial Society, the dedication of Mt. Porte Crayon, reviews of publications relating to DHS, and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. There is a typescript copy of a 1938 New York Times article titled \"John Harper's Grandson\" referencing DHS.","Announcements regarding the publication of three books by Cecil Eby, a biographer of Strother. Also includes four photographs: 1) Lt. D.H. Strother (copy); 2) the Richardson family with John Strother (copy); 3) David Hunter Strother at home in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. (same picture as photograph in A\u0026M 2200) and 4) Louise Strother Kieutner in the dress of Elizabeth Pendleton Hunter Strother. There is also a postcard featuring Robert E. Lee, and a copy of an 1887 manuscript letter from D.H. Strother to Mary Hunter.","Original diary (1879-1880) is located in Series 1; Journal 39; Box 5, Folder 4.","Immediate Source of AcquisitionAddendum acquired 2021/06/04","Separated to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures: letter, dated March 6, 1796, to Col. David Hunter of Berkeley County, Va., from John Marshall (subsequently Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court) regarding a dispute over land ownership.","Separated to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures: commission, dated March 11, 1862, to David H. Strother, from Abraham Lincoln and Edwin Stanton regarding officer's commission, appointing David H. Strother as \"Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, with the rank of Captain.\"","Separated to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures: commission, dated April 9, 1866, to David H. Strother, from Andrew Johnson and Edwin Stanton regarding officer's commission, appointing David H. Strother as \"Brigadier General.\"","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, photographs, journals, drawings, and sketchbooks of David Hunter Strother (1816-1888), a nineteenth century illustrator and writer for Harpers Magazine whose pseudonym, \"Porte Crayon\", was a household word. Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of Virginia Illustrated (1857) and Charleston and its Resources (1878), his work as illustrator for Blackwater Chronicle (1853), service during the Civil War as a Union officer, stint as a newspaper editor, and Consul-Generalship to Mexico (1879-1885). According to Strother's biographer, Cecil D. 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Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of \u003ctitle\u003eVirginia Illustrated\u003c/title\u003e (1857) and \u003ctitle\u003eCharleston and its Resources\u003c/title\u003e (1878), his work as illustrator for \u003ctitle\u003eBlackwater Chronicle\u003c/title\u003e  (1853), service during the Civil War as a Union officer, stint as a newspaper editor, and Consul-Generalship to Mexico (1879-1885). According to Strother's biographer, Cecil D. Eby Jr., his writings linked the two traditions of literature in the south, \"the genteel romanticism of the sentimental novelists and the earthy realism of the frontier humorists.\" In 1872-1875 Strother wrote \u003ctitle\u003eThe Mountains\u003c/title\u003e, which Eby considers the first important presentation of West Virginia in literature. The collection includes roughly 590 drawings and sketches, 44 volumes of journals, and several boxes of correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection is organized into thirteen series, including:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 1. Journals; 1840-1888; boxes 1-6 and reels 1-4\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e \nSeries 2. Manuscripts and Correspondence; 1778-1925, undated; boxes 7-9\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e \nSeries 3. Oversize; 1798-1882, undated; box 10\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Sketchbooks; 1843-1887; undated; boxes 11, 13-15\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e \nSeries 5. Artwork by Others; 1858-1909; undated; box 12\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Artworks; 1833-1887, undated; undated; boxes 16-25\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Framed Original Artworks; 1844-1887, undated; boxes 26-41 and 3 framed items\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Framed Facsimiles; 1845-1859, undated; boxes 42-49\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. 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Entries contain detailed accounts of Strother's daily life, as well as commentary on topics such as politics, art, languages, health, weather, and events of local and national interest. Many journals contain sketches, as well as poems, stories, and transcriptions of song lyrics. A highlight of this series is found in Journal 3, which contains Strother's notes on John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, WV in October 1859. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStrother's Civil War journals have been abridged by Cecil Eby and published as \u003ctitle\u003eA Virginia Yankee in the Civil War: The Diaries of David Hunter Strother\u003c/title\u003e. His journals from his tenure as consul to Mexico have been edited by John Stealey and published as \u003ctitle\u003ePorte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn abridged transcription by Cecil Eby, Jr., of this journal is located in Series 13, Box 5, Folder 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the correspondence and papers of the Strother family covering the years 1778-1925 (bulk 1827-1888). Correspondence includes letters to and from friends, family, and business associates, as well as telegraphs from David Hunter Strother's service in the American Civil War. Topics discussed in correspondence include personal and family matters, business matters, the Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, the military as a profession, education, health, finances, politics, prohibition, art and illustration techniques, D. H. Strother's travels in Italy, John Brown's raid, the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, and D. H. Strother's work as consul to Mexico. Correspondents include various members of the Strother family, John Marshall (U.S. Chief Justice), Alexander Stephens (U.S. Congressman and Vice President of the Confederacy), Edmund P. Hunter (Virginia lawyer and politician), J. E. Heath (U.S. Commissioner of Pensions), Charles J. Faulkner (U.S. Congressman), George W. Mumford (Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia), Howard Sutherland (U.S. Senator), and William Ravenel (Administrative Assistant, Smithsonian Institution). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonal papers include memoirs, notebooks, sections of diaries, essays, short stories, poems, song lyrics, enlistment documents, military commissions, legal documents (including a land grant and will), diplomas, receipts, account books, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and genealogies of the Strother family and their slaves. Subjects covered in these manuscript materials include religion, education, politics, the War of 1812, the United States Navy, the American Civil War, the Peekskill Military Academy, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and D. H. Strother's work as consul to Mexico.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains oversize material including prints, drawings, sketches, manuscript materials, and a photograph taken of Strother in Mexico. The artwork is mostly from the 1880s and includes sketches of Strother's time in Mexico and American Civil War scenes. Manuscript material includes letters and a Strother family genealogy. Correspondents include David Hunter, Morgan Tate, John C. Calhoun (South Carolina congressman and U.S. Vice President), H. L. Tucker (Virginia House of Representatives), and Luther Martin (Attorney General of Maryland and delegate to the Constitutional Convention).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains ten sketchbooks depicting the people and places Strother encountered as a correspondent for Harper's Magazine, hotel operator, traveling artist, and consul to Mexico.  Subjects of drawings include log cabins, barns, mills, wagons and coaches, railroad stations, trees, animals, and natural landscapes and features (Warm Springs Ridge, the Potomac River, the Alabama River, and the White Mountains). People rendered in sketches include fishermen, steamship passengers, railroad workers, newsboys, preachers, miners, and various prominent individuals, including Ambrose Burnside, Sitting Bull, John Brown, Shields Green, John Copeland, Aaron Dwight Stevens, and Edwin Coppock.  Places depicted include Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Harper's Ferry, West Virginia; Martinsburg, West Virginia; Charleston, West Virginia; Arlington, Virginia; Mexico; Jefferson County, West Virginia; Kanawha County, West Virginia; Morgan County, West Virginia; Hampshire County, West Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; Clarke County, Virginia; Yancey County, North Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Nantucket, Massachusetts. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA highlight of this series is found in Box 15, Folder 3, which includes sketches relating to John Brown's imprisonment, trial, and execution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes drawings, photographs, and commercial prints by artists other than David Hunter Strother. Artists whose work is included in the series are John Strother (D. H. Strother's son), Ruth Johnson, J. V. Kennedy, and other unidentified artists. Subjects represented in the artwork include structures such as log cabins, churches, bridges, and the Peekskill Military Academy; natural features including the Arno River in Florence, Italy and Blackwater Falls in West Virginia; battle scenes; classical statues; and sketches of men and women in various poses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains artwork including watercolors, pastels, sketches, and drawings, done by David Hunter Strother throughout his lifetime. Subjects of artwork include landscapes depicting mountains, rivers, oceans, lakes and caves; animals, including horses, cats, dogs, birds, fish, and pigs; structures, including houses, churches, schools, and bridges; ships and boats; the American Civil War; John Brown's raid, imprisonment, trial, and execution; the Mississippi River; the Potomac River; the Indian Head River; and landmarks in Italy, including the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, and the Villa Borghese in Rome.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeople rendered in artwork include fishermen, soldiers, miners, sailors, farmers, train passengers, and Italian peasants. There are also various portraits of women and children. Prominent individuals depicted in artwork include John Brown and Emma Hardinge Britten.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlaces depicted include West Virginia; Virginia; New York; Maryland; North Carolina; New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mexico City; and Florence, Venice, Rome, Bologna, and Vallombrosa, Italy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of artwork by David Hunter Strother which has been framed for display. These artworks were selected to be framed for the West Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center's 1996 exhibit on Strother. Please see Series 9 for additional information on this exhibit. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe artworks are mainly portraits of various men and women. Other subjects depicted include barns and farms, salt works, fisheries, a sugar refinery, an oak tree, a Civil War encampment, and John Brown's execution. Locations and landmarks depicted include Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Blackwater Falls, West Virginia; Bayou Teche, Louisiana; Moorefield, West Virginia; Martinsburg, West Virginia; and Montgomery County, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOil on canvas. Depicts \"Justice,\" a seated woman in green and red robes and a crown of laurels, gazing upon a sleeping man and woman with their baby. The light shines upon the family in the darkness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains facsimiles of Strother's artwork which have been framed for display. These facsimiles were created for the traveling version of the 2009 West Virginia Day exhibit, which commemorated the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. The majority of these facsimiles are of sketches made by Strother during the trial of John Brown in 1859, including facsimiles of \"Harper's Weekly\" articles for which Strother provided the illustrations. People depicted include John Brown, Shields Green, Edwin Coppock, Aaron Dwight Stevens, John Copeland, and George Henry Hoyt. Please note that the dates given for this series indicate the date that the original artwork was created, rather than the date the facsimile was created.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal of p. 713 of Harper's Weekly, November 5, 1859, is in Series 7, Box 45.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes brochures, reproduced images, and captions from the West Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center's 1996 exhibit \"David Hunter Strother: One of the Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses\" and a 2001 digital catalog of Strother's drawings and sketches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes issues of various newspapers spanning the years 1795-1887 (bulk 1859-1887). Newspapers include the Gazette of the United States, the Ulster County Gazette, Harper's Weekly, The Children's Friend, and The Two Republics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a drawing by Porte Crayon (alias for David Strother) titled \"The Eyes of Delaware are Upon You.\" The drawing depicts a man sitting in a chair. This drawing may be a sketch for a finished artwork.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence, newspaper clippings, announcements, and photographs regarding David Hunter Strother (DHS) and related families of the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence (1958-1963) includes letters to and from Mrs. Ernest Sewall Shepard (Louise Shepard) regarding both Strother genealogy and publications of and about DHS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings regarding DHS, John Strother, Porte Crayon Memorial Society, the dedication of Mt. Porte Crayon, reviews of publications relating to DHS, and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. There is a typescript copy of a 1938 New York Times article titled \"John Harper's Grandson\" referencing DHS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncements regarding the publication of three books by Cecil Eby, a biographer of Strother. Also includes four photographs: 1) Lt. D.H. Strother (copy); 2) the Richardson family with John Strother (copy); 3) David Hunter Strother at home in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. (same picture as photograph in A\u0026amp;M 2200) and 4) Louise Strother Kieutner in the dress of Elizabeth Pendleton Hunter Strother. There is also a postcard featuring Robert E. Lee, and a copy of an 1887 manuscript letter from D.H. Strother to Mary Hunter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clb\u003e\nOriginal diary (1879-1880) is located in Series 1; Journal 39; Box 5, Folder 4. \u003c/lb\u003e","\u003cacqinfo id=\"aspace_ee9b1f9b241b251e2eca2374ebdd7b7f\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eImmediate Source of Acquisition\u003c/head\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddendum acquired 2021/06/04\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/acqinfo\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, photographs, journals, drawings, and sketchbooks of a nineteenth century illustrator and writer for Harpers Magazine whose pseudonym, \"Porte Crayon\", was a household word. Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of Virginia Illustrated (1857) and Charleston and its Resources (1878), his work as illustrator for Blackwater Chronicle  (1853), service during the Civil War as a Union officer, stint as a newspaper editor, and Consul-Generalship to Mexico (1879-1885). According to Strother's biographer, Cecil D. Eby Jr., his writings linked the two traditions of literature in the south, \"the genteel romanticism of the sentimental novelists and the earthy realism of the frontier humorists.\" In 1872-1875 Strother wrote The Mountains, which Eby considers the first important presentation of West Virginia in literature. The collection includes roughly 590 drawings and sketches, 44 volumes of journals, and several boxes of correspondence.","This collection is organized into thirteen series, including:\nSeries 1. Journals; 1840-1888; boxes 1-6 and reels 1-4 \nSeries 2. Manuscripts and Correspondence; 1778-1925, undated; boxes 7-9 \nSeries 3. Oversize; 1798-1882, undated; box 10\nSeries 4. Sketchbooks; 1843-1887; undated; boxes 11, 13-15 \nSeries 5. Artwork by Others; 1858-1909; undated; box 12\nSeries 6. Artworks; 1833-1887, undated; undated; boxes 16-25\nSeries 7. Framed Original Artworks; 1844-1887, undated; boxes 26-41 and 3 framed items\nSeries 8. Framed Facsimiles; 1845-1859, undated; boxes 42-49\nSeries 9. Exhibit; ca. 1996; boxes 50-53\nSeries 10. Newspapers; 1795-1887; box 54 \nSeries 11. Addendum of 2015/06/13, undated \nSeries 12. Addendum of 2007/02/08, 1862-1970 \nSeries 13. Addendum of 2021/06/04, undated","This series includes 44 journals written by Strother which document his multifaceted career and cover the years 1840-1888. The journals chronicle his time in Europe as a young artist in the 1840s, his travels throughout the United States as a writer and illustrator for Harper's Magazine, his service as a topographer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War, his involvement in operating the Berkeley Springs Hotel, and his work as consul to Mexico from 1878-1885. Entries contain detailed accounts of Strother's daily life, as well as commentary on topics such as politics, art, languages, health, weather, and events of local and national interest. Many journals contain sketches, as well as poems, stories, and transcriptions of song lyrics. A highlight of this series is found in Journal 3, which contains Strother's notes on John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, WV in October 1859.","Strother's Civil War journals have been abridged by Cecil Eby and published as A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War: The Diaries of David Hunter Strother. His journals from his tenure as consul to Mexico have been edited by John Stealey and published as Porte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era.","An abridged transcription by Cecil Eby, Jr., of this journal is located in Series 13, Box 5, Folder 5.","This series contains the correspondence and papers of the Strother family covering the years 1778-1925 (bulk 1827-1888). Correspondence includes letters to and from friends, family, and business associates, as well as telegraphs from David Hunter Strother's service in the American Civil War. Topics discussed in correspondence include personal and family matters, business matters, the Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, the military as a profession, education, health, finances, politics, prohibition, art and illustration techniques, D. H. Strother's travels in Italy, John Brown's raid, the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, and D. H. Strother's work as consul to Mexico. Correspondents include various members of the Strother family, John Marshall (U.S. Chief Justice), Alexander Stephens (U.S. Congressman and Vice President of the Confederacy), Edmund P. Hunter (Virginia lawyer and politician), J. E. Heath (U.S. Commissioner of Pensions), Charles J. Faulkner (U.S. Congressman), George W. Mumford (Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia), Howard Sutherland (U.S. Senator), and William Ravenel (Administrative Assistant, Smithsonian Institution).","Personal papers include memoirs, notebooks, sections of diaries, essays, short stories, poems, song lyrics, enlistment documents, military commissions, legal documents (including a land grant and will), diplomas, receipts, account books, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and genealogies of the Strother family and their slaves. Subjects covered in these manuscript materials include religion, education, politics, the War of 1812, the United States Navy, the American Civil War, the Peekskill Military Academy, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and D. H. Strother's work as consul to Mexico.","This series contains oversize material including prints, drawings, sketches, manuscript materials, and a photograph taken of Strother in Mexico. The artwork is mostly from the 1880s and includes sketches of Strother's time in Mexico and American Civil War scenes. Manuscript material includes letters and a Strother family genealogy. Correspondents include David Hunter, Morgan Tate, John C. Calhoun (South Carolina congressman and U.S. Vice President), H. L. Tucker (Virginia House of Representatives), and Luther Martin (Attorney General of Maryland and delegate to the Constitutional Convention).","This series contains ten sketchbooks depicting the people and places Strother encountered as a correspondent for Harper's Magazine, hotel operator, traveling artist, and consul to Mexico.  Subjects of drawings include log cabins, barns, mills, wagons and coaches, railroad stations, trees, animals, and natural landscapes and features (Warm Springs Ridge, the Potomac River, the Alabama River, and the White Mountains). People rendered in sketches include fishermen, steamship passengers, railroad workers, newsboys, preachers, miners, and various prominent individuals, including Ambrose Burnside, Sitting Bull, John Brown, Shields Green, John Copeland, Aaron Dwight Stevens, and Edwin Coppock.  Places depicted include Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Harper's Ferry, West Virginia; Martinsburg, West Virginia; Charleston, West Virginia; Arlington, Virginia; Mexico; Jefferson County, West Virginia; Kanawha County, West Virginia; Morgan County, West Virginia; Hampshire County, West Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; Clarke County, Virginia; Yancey County, North Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Nantucket, Massachusetts.","A highlight of this series is found in Box 15, Folder 3, which includes sketches relating to John Brown's imprisonment, trial, and execution.","This series includes drawings, photographs, and commercial prints by artists other than David Hunter Strother. Artists whose work is included in the series are John Strother (D. H. Strother's son), Ruth Johnson, J. V. Kennedy, and other unidentified artists. Subjects represented in the artwork include structures such as log cabins, churches, bridges, and the Peekskill Military Academy; natural features including the Arno River in Florence, Italy and Blackwater Falls in West Virginia; battle scenes; classical statues; and sketches of men and women in various poses.","This series contains artwork including watercolors, pastels, sketches, and drawings, done by David Hunter Strother throughout his lifetime. Subjects of artwork include landscapes depicting mountains, rivers, oceans, lakes and caves; animals, including horses, cats, dogs, birds, fish, and pigs; structures, including houses, churches, schools, and bridges; ships and boats; the American Civil War; John Brown's raid, imprisonment, trial, and execution; the Mississippi River; the Potomac River; the Indian Head River; and landmarks in Italy, including the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, and the Villa Borghese in Rome.","People rendered in artwork include fishermen, soldiers, miners, sailors, farmers, train passengers, and Italian peasants. There are also various portraits of women and children. Prominent individuals depicted in artwork include John Brown and Emma Hardinge Britten.","Places depicted include West Virginia; Virginia; New York; Maryland; North Carolina; New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mexico City; and Florence, Venice, Rome, Bologna, and Vallombrosa, Italy.","This series consists of artwork by David Hunter Strother which has been framed for display. These artworks were selected to be framed for the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center's 1996 exhibit on Strother. Please see Series 9 for additional information on this exhibit.","The artworks are mainly portraits of various men and women. Other subjects depicted include barns and farms, salt works, fisheries, a sugar refinery, an oak tree, a Civil War encampment, and John Brown's execution. Locations and landmarks depicted include Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Blackwater Falls, West Virginia; Bayou Teche, Louisiana; Moorefield, West Virginia; Martinsburg, West Virginia; and Montgomery County, Maryland.","Oil on canvas. Depicts \"Justice,\" a seated woman in green and red robes and a crown of laurels, gazing upon a sleeping man and woman with their baby. The light shines upon the family in the darkness.","This series contains facsimiles of Strother's artwork which have been framed for display. These facsimiles were created for the traveling version of the 2009 West Virginia Day exhibit, which commemorated the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. The majority of these facsimiles are of sketches made by Strother during the trial of John Brown in 1859, including facsimiles of \"Harper's Weekly\" articles for which Strother provided the illustrations. People depicted include John Brown, Shields Green, Edwin Coppock, Aaron Dwight Stevens, John Copeland, and George Henry Hoyt. Please note that the dates given for this series indicate the date that the original artwork was created, rather than the date the facsimile was created.","Original of p. 713 of Harper's Weekly, November 5, 1859, is in Series 7, Box 45.","This series includes brochures, reproduced images, and captions from the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center's 1996 exhibit \"David Hunter Strother: One of the Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses\" and a 2001 digital catalog of Strother's drawings and sketches.","This series includes issues of various newspapers spanning the years 1795-1887 (bulk 1859-1887). Newspapers include the Gazette of the United States, the Ulster County Gazette, Harper's Weekly, The Children's Friend, and The Two Republics.","Contains a drawing by Porte Crayon (alias for David Strother) titled \"The Eyes of Delaware are Upon You.\" The drawing depicts a man sitting in a chair. This drawing may be a sketch for a finished artwork.","Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, announcements, and photographs regarding David Hunter Strother (DHS) and related families of the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia.","Correspondence (1958-1963) includes letters to and from Mrs. Ernest Sewall Shepard (Louise Shepard) regarding both Strother genealogy and publications of and about DHS.","Newspaper clippings regarding DHS, John Strother, Porte Crayon Memorial Society, the dedication of Mt. Porte Crayon, reviews of publications relating to DHS, and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. There is a typescript copy of a 1938 New York Times article titled \"John Harper's Grandson\" referencing DHS.","Announcements regarding the publication of three books by Cecil Eby, a biographer of Strother. Also includes four photographs: 1) Lt. D.H. Strother (copy); 2) the Richardson family with John Strother (copy); 3) David Hunter Strother at home in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. (same picture as photograph in A\u0026M 2200) and 4) Louise Strother Kieutner in the dress of Elizabeth Pendleton Hunter Strother. There is also a postcard featuring Robert E. Lee, and a copy of an 1887 manuscript letter from D.H. Strother to Mary Hunter.","Original diary (1879-1880) is located in Series 1; Journal 39; Box 5, Folder 4.","Immediate Source of AcquisitionAddendum acquired 2021/06/04"],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeparated to A\u0026amp;M 435, Rare Signatures: letter, dated March 6, 1796, to Col. David Hunter of Berkeley County, Va., from John Marshall (subsequently Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court) regarding a dispute over land ownership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeparated to A\u0026amp;M 435, Rare Signatures: commission, dated March 11, 1862, to David H. Strother, from Abraham Lincoln and Edwin Stanton regarding officer's commission, appointing David H. Strother as \"Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, with the rank of Captain.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeparated to A\u0026amp;M 435, Rare Signatures: commission, dated April 9, 1866, to David H. Strother, from Andrew Johnson and Edwin Stanton regarding officer's commission, appointing David H. Strother as \"Brigadier General.\"\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Separated to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures: letter, dated March 6, 1796, to Col. David Hunter of Berkeley County, Va., from John Marshall (subsequently Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court) regarding a dispute over land ownership.","Separated to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures: commission, dated March 11, 1862, to David H. Strother, from Abraham Lincoln and Edwin Stanton regarding officer's commission, appointing David H. Strother as \"Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, with the rank of Captain.\"","Separated to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures: commission, dated April 9, 1866, to David H. Strother, from Andrew Johnson and Edwin Stanton regarding officer's commission, appointing David H. Strother as \"Brigadier General.\""],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_2a30b1b04b1299c542baa5017f755d1a\"\u003eCorrespondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, photographs, journals, drawings, and sketchbooks of David Hunter Strother (1816-1888), a nineteenth century illustrator and writer for \u003ctitle\u003eHarpers Magazine\u003c/title\u003e whose pseudonym, \"Porte Crayon\", was a household word. Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of \u003ctitle\u003eVirginia Illustrated\u003c/title\u003e (1857) and \u003ctitle\u003eCharleston and its Resources\u003c/title\u003e (1878), his work as illustrator for \u003ctitle\u003eBlackwater Chronicle\u003c/title\u003e (1853), service during the Civil War as a Union officer, stint as a newspaper editor, and Consul-Generalship to Mexico (1879-1885). According to Strother's biographer, Cecil D. Eby Jr., his writings linked the two traditions of literature in the south, \"the genteel romanticism of the sentimental novelists and the earthy realism of the frontier humorists.\" In 1872-1875 Strother wrote \u003ctitle\u003eThe Mountains\u003c/title\u003e, which Eby considers the first important presentation of West Virginia in literature. The collection includes roughly 590 drawings and sketches, 44 volumes of journals, and several boxes of correspondence. An addendum of 2015/06/13 includes one drawing. An addendum of 2007/02/08 includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, announcements, and photographs regarding Strother and related families of the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia. An addendum of 2021/06/04 contains an abridged transcription by Cecil D. Eby Jr., of Strother's diary, 1879-1880, when Strother was General Consul to Mexico. For contents of the addenda and link to the digital collection: Drawings of David Hunter Strother, please see the Scope and Content Note.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, photographs, journals, drawings, and sketchbooks of David Hunter Strother (1816-1888), a nineteenth century illustrator and writer for Harpers Magazine whose pseudonym, \"Porte Crayon\", was a household word. Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of Virginia Illustrated (1857) and Charleston and its Resources (1878), his work as illustrator for Blackwater Chronicle (1853), service during the Civil War as a Union officer, stint as a newspaper editor, and Consul-Generalship to Mexico (1879-1885). According to Strother's biographer, Cecil D. Eby Jr., his writings linked the two traditions of literature in the south, \"the genteel romanticism of the sentimental novelists and the earthy realism of the frontier humorists.\" In 1872-1875 Strother wrote The Mountains, which Eby considers the first important presentation of West Virginia in literature. The collection includes roughly 590 drawings and sketches, 44 volumes of journals, and several boxes of correspondence. An addendum of 2015/06/13 includes one drawing. An addendum of 2007/02/08 includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, announcements, and photographs regarding Strother and related families of the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia. An addendum of 2021/06/04 contains an abridged transcription by Cecil D. Eby Jr., of Strother's diary, 1879-1880, when Strother was General Consul to Mexico. For contents of the addenda and link to the digital collection: Drawings of David Hunter Strother, please see the Scope and Content Note."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_08cdf7ef79081b8d2aaaa4c9b2193604\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\"\u003eWest Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n    "],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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The collection includes research notebooks and draft manuscripts of her historical novels \u003cspan\u003eGood King Harry\u003c/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003eThe Unquiet Earth\u003c/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003eSaints and Villains\u003c/span\u003e, and \u003cspan\u003eEmily's Ghost\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2179#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2179","ead_ssi":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2179","_root_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2179","_nest_parent_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2179","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WVU/repositories_2_resources_2179.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/210747","title_ssm":["Denise Giardina, Author, Papers"],"title_tesim":["Denise Giardina, Author, Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["circa 1900-2016"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["circa 1900-2016"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1900/2016"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Denise Giardina, Author, Papers, 1900/2016"],"text":["Denise Giardina, Author, Papers, 1900/2016","A\u0026M 3740","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/2179","Authors -- Letters and papers","Authors, American -- West Virginia","Coal miners","Coal mines and mining","American fiction -- West Virginia","West Virginia Feminist Activist and Women's History Collection","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access born digital materials by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","Denise Giardina (1951- ) was born in Bluefield, West Virginia and spent her childhood in a McDowell County coal mining camp named Black Wolf. Giardina's father and other members of her family were employed by the coal company. The mine closed when Giardina was thirteen, and her family was forced to move to Charleston in search of work.","Giardina pursued higher education at West Virginia Wesleyan College, graduating 1973 with a Bachelor's degree in History. She continued on to do graduate work at Marshall University. Giardina considered ordination in the Episcopal Church and pursued a Masters in Divinity at the Virginia Theological Seminary of Alexandria, Virginia, which she received in 1979. Giardina decided to write rather than to be ordained, publishing her first historical novel, \"Good King Harry\", in 1984.","Giardina's next two novels, \"Storming Heaven\" (1987) and \"The Unquiet Earth\" (1992) draw on the author's childhood experiences growing up in a coal camp and on the history of the West Virginia coalfields. Giardina has published several other novels on historical subjects. She currently teaches at West Virginia State University and serves as an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church.","Papers of Appalachian author Denise Giardina, whose 1987 novel Storming Heaven received the W. D. Weatherford Award, and 1992 novel The Unquiet Earth received the American Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award for fiction.  The collection includes research notebooks and draft manuscripts of her historical novels Good King Harry, Storming Heaven, The Unquiet Earth, Saints and Villains, and Emily's Ghost.","The collection also includes five 5.25 in. floppy computer disks containing electronic files and Giardina's notes, drafts for an unfinished and unpublished work of nonfiction entitled \"The State of Appalachia\", and a draft of a play about Senator Robert C. Byrd entitled \"Robert and Ted.\" Digital files also include the script for a speech given by Giardina at a high school graduation.","Additional material pertains to her personal and professional life, covering topics including her childhood an Italian heritage, her travels, and her campaign for Governor of West Virginia in 2000.","Series include: \nSeries 1. Floppy Disks (undated), box 1\nSeries 2. Good King Harry (1984, undated), boxes 1-2\nSeries 3. Storming Heaven (undated), boxes 2-4\nSeries 4. The Unquiet Earth (undated), boxes 4-5\nSeries 5. Saints and Villains and Fallam's Secret (undated), box 5\nSeries 6. Emily's Ghost (2006-2009, undated), box 6\nSeries 7. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (2002-2013, undated), boxes 6-7\nAddendum of 2014/06/30, Animals (undated), box 7\nAddendum of 2016/12/15, Correspondence, Photographs, and Other Material (circa 1950-2008), boxes 8-10\nAddendum of 2017/10/19, Photographs and Other Material (circa 1900-2016), box 11\nAddendum of 2018/02/23, Saints and Villains and Other Material (circa 1979-1999, undated), box 12\nAddendum of 2019/06/19, Family Records (1964-2019 and undated), boxes 13-14\nAddendum of 2020/08/28, Draft and Other Material (1951-1983 and undated), box 15\nAddendum of 2022/05/18, Graduation Speech Script (2022)","This series consists of five floppy disks with an attached sticky note from Giardina that identifies them as containing backups for The State of Appalachia and The Unquiet Earth.","This series pertains to Giardina's first novel, Good King Harry (1984), a fictional re-telling of the life of Henry V of England. This series contains four notebooks: one containing research notes, the other three containing manuscript drafts. The research notebook contains news clippings, maps, and other material, some which was collected during Giardina's time studying abroad in England in 1972. The three draft notebooks contain the fourth notebook of the first draft, the first notebook of the second draft, and the last notebook Giardina used before she began to type a final version of the novel for her agent.","This series regards Storming Heaven (1987), a historical novel that tells the story of the coal town of Annadel, West Virginia through the eyes of its residents, culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain. This series contains five notebooks. There are two research notebooks, the first of which is also the last notebook in Series 2. The remaining three notebooks contain draft versions of the novel. The first research notebook contains research notes, news clippings, and photocopies, most regarding labor and Charleston history, and other material. The second research notebook contains Giardina's earliest notes for Storming Heaven. The draft manuscript notebooks include the second and third notebooks of the first draft and the first notebook of a revised draft.","In the second notebook of the first draft of Storming Heaven (green notebook in box 3, folder 2) is an episode that was not included in the finished novel; it is titled \"From the Diary of Lytton Davidson\" and appears on pages 298-310.","This series regards The Unquiet Earth (1992), a historical novel and sequel to Storming Heaven. The series consists of three notebooks, each of which contains an early draft version of the novel.","This series regards Saints and Villains (1998), a historical novel concerning the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was executed by Nazi Germany for crimes against the regime. This series contains two notebooks: the first containing research notes, and the other a draft version of the novel. The research notebook mostly consists of notes from a German language class that Giardina took. The second notebook also contains early notes for Giardina's subsequent novel, Fallam's Secret.","This series regards Emily's Ghost (2009), a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Emily Bronte. This series contains two notebooks, the first containing research notes, and the second containing a draft version of the novel. Inside the front cover of the research notebook are a New Yorker article regarding cholera and a copy of a review of \"Emily's Ghost\" by Jennifer L. Holberg that was published in \"Books and Culture: A Christian Review;\" the review has underlining by Giardina.","This series includes manuscripts for several unpublished and unfinished works, including:","The State of Appalachia (undated), an unfinished and unpublished work of non-fiction. It consists of one notebook containing research notes and draft versions of the book.","Robert and Ted (2011-2013), an unfinished play about Senator Robert C. Byrd. Box 6 includes one typescript copy of the first draft of the first act of the play and an email authored by Giardina to a director regarding a staged reading of the play. Box 7 includes drafts 4-6 of the play; collection also includes digital files for these drafts.","Can These Bones Live? (2002). Notes for a speech created by Giardina on 25 October 2002 delivered at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia regarding biblical stories.","This addendum includes both a printed and digital copy of a draft of a memoir titled Animals. This memoir recounts episodes from Giardina's life, focusing on the pets she and her family owned. She also writes about Italian immigration in WV, race relations and civil rights, life in coal camps, coal companies, her time in school, her political views, travel to England, religion, music, her mother, and her personal experience writing.","This addendum includes assorted professional and personal correspondence, photographs, and other material regarding Giardina's career and personal life.","This addendum includes Giardina family photographs, assorted correspondence, and other material.","This addendum includes research notes, correspondence, and other material used by Giardina in writing Saints and Villains and other material regarding Giardina's 2000 West Virginia gubernatorial campaign.","This addendum includes family records, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs, as well as several middle and high school literature awards, newspaper columns, and scrapbooks. 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The collection includes research notebooks and draft manuscripts of her historical novels \u003ctitle\u003eGood King Harry\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eThe Unquiet Earth\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eSaints and Villains\u003c/title\u003e, and \u003ctitle\u003eEmily's Ghost\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes five 5.25 in. floppy computer disks containing electronic files and Giardina's notes, drafts for an unfinished and unpublished work of nonfiction entitled \"The State of Appalachia\", and a draft of a play about Senator Robert C. 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This series contains two notebooks, the first containing research notes, and the second containing a draft version of the novel. Inside the front cover of the research notebook are a New Yorker article regarding cholera and a copy of a review of \"Emily's Ghost\" by Jennifer L. Holberg that was published in \"Books and Culture: A Christian Review;\" the review has underlining by Giardina.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes manuscripts for several unpublished and unfinished works, including:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eThe State of Appalachia\u003c/title\u003e (undated), an unfinished and unpublished work of non-fiction. It consists of one notebook containing research notes and draft versions of the book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eRobert and Ted\u003c/title\u003e (2011-2013), an unfinished play about Senator Robert C. Byrd. Box 6 includes one typescript copy of the first draft of the first act of the play and an email authored by Giardina to a director regarding a staged reading of the play. Box 7 includes drafts 4-6 of the play; collection also includes digital files for these drafts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eCan These Bones Live?\u003c/title\u003e (2002). Notes for a speech created by Giardina on 25 October 2002 delivered at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia regarding biblical stories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes both a printed and digital copy of a draft of a memoir titled \u003ctitle\u003eAnimals\u003c/title\u003e. This memoir recounts episodes from Giardina's life, focusing on the pets she and her family owned. 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The collection includes research notebooks and draft manuscripts of her historical novels Good King Harry, Storming Heaven, The Unquiet Earth, Saints and Villains, and Emily's Ghost.","The collection also includes five 5.25 in. floppy computer disks containing electronic files and Giardina's notes, drafts for an unfinished and unpublished work of nonfiction entitled \"The State of Appalachia\", and a draft of a play about Senator Robert C. Byrd entitled \"Robert and Ted.\" Digital files also include the script for a speech given by Giardina at a high school graduation.","Additional material pertains to her personal and professional life, covering topics including her childhood an Italian heritage, her travels, and her campaign for Governor of West Virginia in 2000.","Series include: \nSeries 1. Floppy Disks (undated), box 1\nSeries 2. Good King Harry (1984, undated), boxes 1-2\nSeries 3. Storming Heaven (undated), boxes 2-4\nSeries 4. The Unquiet Earth (undated), boxes 4-5\nSeries 5. Saints and Villains and Fallam's Secret (undated), box 5\nSeries 6. Emily's Ghost (2006-2009, undated), box 6\nSeries 7. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (2002-2013, undated), boxes 6-7\nAddendum of 2014/06/30, Animals (undated), box 7\nAddendum of 2016/12/15, Correspondence, Photographs, and Other Material (circa 1950-2008), boxes 8-10\nAddendum of 2017/10/19, Photographs and Other Material (circa 1900-2016), box 11\nAddendum of 2018/02/23, Saints and Villains and Other Material (circa 1979-1999, undated), box 12\nAddendum of 2019/06/19, Family Records (1964-2019 and undated), boxes 13-14\nAddendum of 2020/08/28, Draft and Other Material (1951-1983 and undated), box 15\nAddendum of 2022/05/18, Graduation Speech Script (2022)","This series consists of five floppy disks with an attached sticky note from Giardina that identifies them as containing backups for The State of Appalachia and The Unquiet Earth.","This series pertains to Giardina's first novel, Good King Harry (1984), a fictional re-telling of the life of Henry V of England. This series contains four notebooks: one containing research notes, the other three containing manuscript drafts. The research notebook contains news clippings, maps, and other material, some which was collected during Giardina's time studying abroad in England in 1972. The three draft notebooks contain the fourth notebook of the first draft, the first notebook of the second draft, and the last notebook Giardina used before she began to type a final version of the novel for her agent.","This series regards Storming Heaven (1987), a historical novel that tells the story of the coal town of Annadel, West Virginia through the eyes of its residents, culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain. This series contains five notebooks. There are two research notebooks, the first of which is also the last notebook in Series 2. The remaining three notebooks contain draft versions of the novel. The first research notebook contains research notes, news clippings, and photocopies, most regarding labor and Charleston history, and other material. The second research notebook contains Giardina's earliest notes for Storming Heaven. The draft manuscript notebooks include the second and third notebooks of the first draft and the first notebook of a revised draft.","In the second notebook of the first draft of Storming Heaven (green notebook in box 3, folder 2) is an episode that was not included in the finished novel; it is titled \"From the Diary of Lytton Davidson\" and appears on pages 298-310.","This series regards The Unquiet Earth (1992), a historical novel and sequel to Storming Heaven. The series consists of three notebooks, each of which contains an early draft version of the novel.","This series regards Saints and Villains (1998), a historical novel concerning the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was executed by Nazi Germany for crimes against the regime. This series contains two notebooks: the first containing research notes, and the other a draft version of the novel. The research notebook mostly consists of notes from a German language class that Giardina took. The second notebook also contains early notes for Giardina's subsequent novel, Fallam's Secret.","This series regards Emily's Ghost (2009), a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Emily Bronte. This series contains two notebooks, the first containing research notes, and the second containing a draft version of the novel. Inside the front cover of the research notebook are a New Yorker article regarding cholera and a copy of a review of \"Emily's Ghost\" by Jennifer L. Holberg that was published in \"Books and Culture: A Christian Review;\" the review has underlining by Giardina.","This series includes manuscripts for several unpublished and unfinished works, including:","The State of Appalachia (undated), an unfinished and unpublished work of non-fiction. It consists of one notebook containing research notes and draft versions of the book.","Robert and Ted (2011-2013), an unfinished play about Senator Robert C. Byrd. Box 6 includes one typescript copy of the first draft of the first act of the play and an email authored by Giardina to a director regarding a staged reading of the play. Box 7 includes drafts 4-6 of the play; collection also includes digital files for these drafts.","Can These Bones Live? (2002). Notes for a speech created by Giardina on 25 October 2002 delivered at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia regarding biblical stories.","This addendum includes both a printed and digital copy of a draft of a memoir titled Animals. This memoir recounts episodes from Giardina's life, focusing on the pets she and her family owned. She also writes about Italian immigration in WV, race relations and civil rights, life in coal camps, coal companies, her time in school, her political views, travel to England, religion, music, her mother, and her personal experience writing.","This addendum includes assorted professional and personal correspondence, photographs, and other material regarding Giardina's career and personal life.","This addendum includes Giardina family photographs, assorted correspondence, and other material.","This addendum includes research notes, correspondence, and other material used by Giardina in writing Saints and Villains and other material regarding Giardina's 2000 West Virginia gubernatorial campaign.","This addendum includes family records, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs, as well as several middle and high school literature awards, newspaper columns, and scrapbooks. Also included is a draft of \"Storming Heaven.\"","This addendum consists of assorted certificates, photographs, papers, newspaper clippings, and the first draft of \"Storming Heaven.\"","This addendum consists of a script written for a high school graduation speech Giardina gave in 2022."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Giardina's father and other members of her family were employed by the coal company. The mine closed when Giardina was thirteen, and her family was forced to move to Charleston in search of work.","Giardina pursued higher education at West Virginia Wesleyan College, graduating 1973 with a Bachelor's degree in History. She continued on to do graduate work at Marshall University. Giardina considered ordination in the Episcopal Church and pursued a Masters in Divinity at the Virginia Theological Seminary of Alexandria, Virginia, which she received in 1979. Giardina decided to write rather than to be ordained, publishing her first historical novel, \"Good King Harry\", in 1984.","Giardina's next two novels, \"Storming Heaven\" (1987) and \"The Unquiet Earth\" (1992) draw on the author's childhood experiences growing up in a coal camp and on the history of the West Virginia coalfields. Giardina has published several other novels on historical subjects. She currently teaches at West Virginia State University and serves as an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church.","Papers of Appalachian author Denise Giardina, whose 1987 novel Storming Heaven received the W. D. Weatherford Award, and 1992 novel The Unquiet Earth received the American Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award for fiction.  The collection includes research notebooks and draft manuscripts of her historical novels Good King Harry, Storming Heaven, The Unquiet Earth, Saints and Villains, and Emily's Ghost.","The collection also includes five 5.25 in. floppy computer disks containing electronic files and Giardina's notes, drafts for an unfinished and unpublished work of nonfiction entitled \"The State of Appalachia\", and a draft of a play about Senator Robert C. 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This series contains four notebooks: one containing research notes, the other three containing manuscript drafts. The research notebook contains news clippings, maps, and other material, some which was collected during Giardina's time studying abroad in England in 1972. The three draft notebooks contain the fourth notebook of the first draft, the first notebook of the second draft, and the last notebook Giardina used before she began to type a final version of the novel for her agent.","This series regards Storming Heaven (1987), a historical novel that tells the story of the coal town of Annadel, West Virginia through the eyes of its residents, culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain. This series contains five notebooks. There are two research notebooks, the first of which is also the last notebook in Series 2. The remaining three notebooks contain draft versions of the novel. The first research notebook contains research notes, news clippings, and photocopies, most regarding labor and Charleston history, and other material. The second research notebook contains Giardina's earliest notes for Storming Heaven. The draft manuscript notebooks include the second and third notebooks of the first draft and the first notebook of a revised draft.","In the second notebook of the first draft of Storming Heaven (green notebook in box 3, folder 2) is an episode that was not included in the finished novel; it is titled \"From the Diary of Lytton Davidson\" and appears on pages 298-310.","This series regards The Unquiet Earth (1992), a historical novel and sequel to Storming Heaven. The series consists of three notebooks, each of which contains an early draft version of the novel.","This series regards Saints and Villains (1998), a historical novel concerning the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was executed by Nazi Germany for crimes against the regime. This series contains two notebooks: the first containing research notes, and the other a draft version of the novel. The research notebook mostly consists of notes from a German language class that Giardina took. The second notebook also contains early notes for Giardina's subsequent novel, Fallam's Secret.","This series regards Emily's Ghost (2009), a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Emily Bronte. This series contains two notebooks, the first containing research notes, and the second containing a draft version of the novel. Inside the front cover of the research notebook are a New Yorker article regarding cholera and a copy of a review of \"Emily's Ghost\" by Jennifer L. Holberg that was published in \"Books and Culture: A Christian Review;\" the review has underlining by Giardina.","This series includes manuscripts for several unpublished and unfinished works, including:","The State of Appalachia (undated), an unfinished and unpublished work of non-fiction. It consists of one notebook containing research notes and draft versions of the book.","Robert and Ted (2011-2013), an unfinished play about Senator Robert C. Byrd. Box 6 includes one typescript copy of the first draft of the first act of the play and an email authored by Giardina to a director regarding a staged reading of the play. Box 7 includes drafts 4-6 of the play; collection also includes digital files for these drafts.","Can These Bones Live? (2002). Notes for a speech created by Giardina on 25 October 2002 delivered at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia regarding biblical stories.","This addendum includes both a printed and digital copy of a draft of a memoir titled Animals. This memoir recounts episodes from Giardina's life, focusing on the pets she and her family owned. She also writes about Italian immigration in WV, race relations and civil rights, life in coal camps, coal companies, her time in school, her political views, travel to England, religion, music, her mother, and her personal experience writing.","This addendum includes assorted professional and personal correspondence, photographs, and other material regarding Giardina's career and personal life.","This addendum includes Giardina family photographs, assorted correspondence, and other material.","This addendum includes research notes, correspondence, and other material used by Giardina in writing Saints and Villains and other material regarding Giardina's 2000 West Virginia gubernatorial campaign.","This addendum includes family records, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs, as well as several middle and high school literature awards, newspaper columns, and scrapbooks. 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The collection includes research notebooks and draft manuscripts of her historical novels Good King Harry, Storming Heaven, The Unquiet Earth, Saints and Villains, and Emily's Ghost.","The collection also includes five 5.25 in. floppy computer disks containing electronic files and Giardina's notes, drafts for an unfinished and unpublished work of nonfiction entitled \"The State of Appalachia\", and a draft of a play about Senator Robert C. Byrd entitled \"Robert and Ted.\" Digital files also include the script for a speech given by Giardina at a high school graduation.","Additional material pertains to her personal and professional life, covering topics including her childhood an Italian heritage, her travels, and her campaign for Governor of West Virginia in 2000.","Series include: \nSeries 1. Floppy Disks (undated), box 1\nSeries 2. Good King Harry (1984, undated), boxes 1-2\nSeries 3. Storming Heaven (undated), boxes 2-4\nSeries 4. The Unquiet Earth (undated), boxes 4-5\nSeries 5. Saints and Villains and Fallam's Secret (undated), box 5\nSeries 6. Emily's Ghost (2006-2009, undated), box 6\nSeries 7. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (2002-2013, undated), boxes 6-7\nAddendum of 2014/06/30, Animals (undated), box 7\nAddendum of 2016/12/15, Correspondence, Photographs, and Other Material (circa 1950-2008), boxes 8-10\nAddendum of 2017/10/19, Photographs and Other Material (circa 1900-2016), box 11\nAddendum of 2018/02/23, Saints and Villains and Other Material (circa 1979-1999, undated), box 12\nAddendum of 2019/06/19, Family Records (1964-2019 and undated), boxes 13-14\nAddendum of 2020/08/28, Draft and Other Material (1951-1983 and undated), box 15\nAddendum of 2022/05/18, Graduation Speech Script (2022)","This series consists of five floppy disks with an attached sticky note from Giardina that identifies them as containing backups for The State of Appalachia and The Unquiet Earth.","This series pertains to Giardina's first novel, Good King Harry (1984), a fictional re-telling of the life of Henry V of England. This series contains four notebooks: one containing research notes, the other three containing manuscript drafts. The research notebook contains news clippings, maps, and other material, some which was collected during Giardina's time studying abroad in England in 1972. The three draft notebooks contain the fourth notebook of the first draft, the first notebook of the second draft, and the last notebook Giardina used before she began to type a final version of the novel for her agent.","This series regards Storming Heaven (1987), a historical novel that tells the story of the coal town of Annadel, West Virginia through the eyes of its residents, culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain. This series contains five notebooks. There are two research notebooks, the first of which is also the last notebook in Series 2. The remaining three notebooks contain draft versions of the novel. The first research notebook contains research notes, news clippings, and photocopies, most regarding labor and Charleston history, and other material. The second research notebook contains Giardina's earliest notes for Storming Heaven. The draft manuscript notebooks include the second and third notebooks of the first draft and the first notebook of a revised draft.","In the second notebook of the first draft of Storming Heaven (green notebook in box 3, folder 2) is an episode that was not included in the finished novel; it is titled \"From the Diary of Lytton Davidson\" and appears on pages 298-310.","This series regards The Unquiet Earth (1992), a historical novel and sequel to Storming Heaven. The series consists of three notebooks, each of which contains an early draft version of the novel.","This series regards Saints and Villains (1998), a historical novel concerning the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was executed by Nazi Germany for crimes against the regime. This series contains two notebooks: the first containing research notes, and the other a draft version of the novel. The research notebook mostly consists of notes from a German language class that Giardina took. The second notebook also contains early notes for Giardina's subsequent novel, Fallam's Secret.","This series regards Emily's Ghost (2009), a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Emily Bronte. This series contains two notebooks, the first containing research notes, and the second containing a draft version of the novel. Inside the front cover of the research notebook are a New Yorker article regarding cholera and a copy of a review of \"Emily's Ghost\" by Jennifer L. Holberg that was published in \"Books and Culture: A Christian Review;\" the review has underlining by Giardina.","This series includes manuscripts for several unpublished and unfinished works, including:","The State of Appalachia (undated), an unfinished and unpublished work of non-fiction. It consists of one notebook containing research notes and draft versions of the book.","Robert and Ted (2011-2013), an unfinished play about Senator Robert C. Byrd. Box 6 includes one typescript copy of the first draft of the first act of the play and an email authored by Giardina to a director regarding a staged reading of the play. Box 7 includes drafts 4-6 of the play; collection also includes digital files for these drafts.","Can These Bones Live? (2002). Notes for a speech created by Giardina on 25 October 2002 delivered at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia regarding biblical stories.","This addendum includes both a printed and digital copy of a draft of a memoir titled Animals. This memoir recounts episodes from Giardina's life, focusing on the pets she and her family owned. 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Most of his work was produced at his home \"Old Hemlock\" in Preston County, West Virginia. Records document his careers as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting; as a breeder of quality bird dogs; an illustrator for several national magazines and the United States Navy during World War II; and as co-author with his wife, Kay Evans, of mystery novels. Materials include: George Bird Evans' Gun Diary with entries and illustrations regarding hunting, fishing, and dog breeding experiences for 65 years; correspondence with friends, patrons, publishers, and other hunters; manuscripts and galleys; cassette tapes (2 items) of recordings of readings by George and Kay Evans; DVDs (3 items) containing 188 digital scans of illustrations by George Bird Evans; and a scrapbook documenting the Evans' career as mystery writers under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". There are also 32 oversize drawings by G.B. 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Their comfortable Uniontown, Pennsylvania home provided a secure environment for young George to learn and develop his talents in art and literature. George's father also wasted no time pouring into his young son his love for hunting, bird dogs, and the outdoor life. George Bird Evans attended Carnegie Institute to pursue a career in art. He later transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, staying for two years before moving to New York in 1927 to establish a career as an illustrator, but not alone. He had met and married Kay Harris from Wheeling; their marriage would last for over seventy years. In New York George Evans found success as an illustrator. He also included trips home for the hunt of game on Chestnut Ridge during hunting season. George started keeping a \"gun diary\" or journal in 1932, recording every outing for hunting, shooting, or bird dog training over the next 65 years. The Evans loved the Chestnut Ridge area, leaving New York in 1939 to buy a farm in Preston County, West Virginia, naming their new homestead \"Old Hemlock\". George enjoyed working out of his new surroundings, mailing his work to publishers in New York and having time to roam and hunt with Kay and their dogs.","This ideal life was interrupted by World War II when George volunteered his services and was commissioned a Lieutenant J.G. in Navy. He used his talents by illustrating equipment repair manuals, substituting pictures for complicated language. After the war George and Kay chose to venture into writing mystery novels as a team under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". It was a success. The Evans were also beginning to breed Belton English Setters in their quest for the best bird dog possible. In 1956 George started using his journal as a source for articles, publishing over a hundred over the next forty two years. In 1971 his first book, \"The Upland Shooting Life\", was published, achieving status as a classic. Twenty seven more upland shooting books followed. Most of the photographs published with the articles and books were taken by Kay Evans. Always careful with their projects, George and Kay Evans began publishing their own books in 1983 under the name \"Old Hemlock\". George Bird Evans died in May, 1998 at the age of ninety-one. He had been hunting only a few weeks before with his best friend Kay and their family of bird dogs.","Papers of George Bird Evans, including records documenting his career as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting, and as a breeder of his own line of Belton English Setter bird dogs called the \"Old Hemlock Line\" in partnership with his wife, Kay Evans. There are also records regarding his career as a magazine illustrator, including his original art works (32 oversize drawings) that were published with fiction that appeared in several popular women's magazines before and after World War II (including \"Cosmopolitan\" and \"McCall's\" among others). The collaborative writing career of George and Kay Evans under the pen name of \"Brandon Bird\" is documented in a scrapbook (ca.1950-1962) containing photographs, clippings, and book reviews regarding their five published mystery novels.","The collection includes a journal, which Evans referred to as his \"Gun Diary\", with entries ranging from 1932 to 1997 where Evans recorded and illustrated his hunting, fishing, and bird dog training excursions for 65 years. There are also several periodicals, such as \"Field and Stream\", \"The Pointing Dog Journal\", and \"Gun Dog\", among others, most issues contain articles by George Bird Evans and a few by Kay Evans. Other materials include extensive correspondence with publishers, friends, outdoor sports writers, hunters and breeders (such as Nash Buckingham, Dr. Charles Norris, and Dr. Gordon Gullion), and patrons of his bird dog breeding business. There are several manuscripts and galleys of published books, including \"The Upland Shooting Life\" and \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\", among others. There are also financial records regarding the publication and sales of his books, videos, and cassette tapes. The collection also includes 188 digital scans of illustrations by Evans on DVD discs (3 items), audio recordings (2 cassette tapes) of readings by George and Kay Evans, and oversized framed photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, his wife Kay, and their dogs.","Series include:","Series 1. Biographical Information, 1936, 1993, 2008 (box 1) \nSeries 2. Journal of George Bird Evans, 1932–1997 (boxes 1-4) \nSeries 3. Correspondence, 1942–2005 (boxes 5-9) \nSeries 4. Manuscripts - Published Books, ca. 1971 (boxes 9-16) \nSeries 5. Manuscripts - Published Articles, ca. 1961-1995 (box 17) \nSeries 6. Manuscript, undated (box 17) \nSeries 7. Manuscripts - Illustrations, ca. 1984-1986 (box 17) \nSeries 8. Manuscripts - Galleys, 1956, ca. 1991, undated (box 18) \nSeries 9. Projects - Dr. Charles Norris, 1952-1969, undated (boxes 19-22) \nSeries 10. Projects - Nash Buckingham, 1960–1984 (boxes 23-25) \nSeries 11. Financial Records, 1971–1999 (boxes 25-26) \nSeries 12. Magazine Articles, 1956, 1971-1982 (box 26) \nSeries 13. Subjects, 1975–1997 (box 26) \nSeries 14. Audio Tapes, June 1989 and Fall 1993 (box 26) \nSeries 15. Digital Files, undated (box 26) \nSeries 16. Scrapbook, ca. 1948-1975 (box 27) \nSeries 17. Artworks, ca. 1938-1948 (boxes 28-29) \nSeries 18. Oversized Pictures of George Bird Evans and Others, undated (box 29) \nSeries 19. Artifacts, undated (box 30) \nSeries 20. Motion Picture, undated (box 30) \nSeries 21. Sportsmen Journals, 1959–2013 (boxes 31-38) \nSeries 22. Motion Pictures -- Unpublished, ca. 1950-1975 (boxes 39-42) \nSeries 23. Oversized Material, 1986 (unboxed)","Regards the life and career of George Bird Evans, including feature articles in the Morgantown \"Dominion Post\" newspaper (1993) and The West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter (Spring 2008). Also contains a 3 in. x 5 in. photograph of George Bird Evans with one of his setters and a \"kill\" (a grouse); a photograph of Evans with friend, David Hall; and two photos of Evans with his wife Kay on a fishing trip (1936).","Spanning 65 years (1932-1997), the journal documents the hunting, fishing, and dog training excursions of George Evans through text and illustrations. The journals were a primary source for most of the books and articles Evans authored.","Includes a substantial amount of correspondence with the book publishers (Winchester, Amwell, and Alfred Knopf Company), book dealers, and magazines (including: \"Field and Stream\", \"Gun Dog\", \"American Hunter\", and \"The American Sportsman\") that were publishing material authored by Evans. Also includes research requests, permissions, and releases for material used in publications by Evans. Other correspondents includes friends and fellow hunters. Many letters were from patrons and fans such as David Hall and the Ingrahams. There is a series of letters \"written\" by the setters at Old Hemlock to their family members that were living with the Ingrahams.","This series contains 16 manuscripts of published books by George Bird Evans, including his first book pertaining to dogs, guns, and hunting, \"The Upland Shooting Life\" (1971) and his last, \"Grouse \u0026 Woodcocks in the Blackwater/Canaan\" (1997). There is one incomplete manuscript of a published book, \"From My Covers\" (1995).","This series contains 17 published articles and seven \"copies\" of published articles authored by George Bird Evans with photographs by Kay Evans. Most were published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" but some appeared in \"Pennsylvania Gaming News\" and Field and Stream,\" among other such publications. There are also four forewords by George Bird Evans, including an introduction for the 1989 edition of \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" authored by Evans's close friend, Dr. Charles Norris.","Includes:","1. \"The Ache of Memory,\" published in the \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","2. \"A Bird Dog Fancy,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (November 1993)","3. \"The Solo Dog,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","4. \"The Quality of Time,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1993)","5. \"The End of Day,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","6. \"Bittersweet,\" appears in the book \"A Breed Apart, Vol. I,\" published by \"Countrysport Press\" (1993)","Also includes editing notes, layouts and photo captions.","Includes:","1. \"And Don't Go Near the Water,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1993)","2. \"Point of Pride,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1993)","3. \"Light Guns, Light Loads, and A Gentle Bird,\" published in \"Game and Gun\" (July 1992/07)","4. \"Luck of November,\" published in \"Game Journal\" (January 1992)","5. \"Giants of the Coverts\" (Kay Harris Evans's photographs), published in \"Shooting Sportsman\" (1990)","6. \"Sixty-Seven Seasons Gunning Grouse,\" an article appearing as a chapter in the book, \"Bare November Days,\" published by Countrysport Press (1992)","Includes:","1. \"Char,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1995)","2. \"Anniversary,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1995)","3. \"When the Blood Is There,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (September 1994)","4. \"How Many Days,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","5. \"In the Coverts of Our Minds,\" appears in the book, \"Come October,\" published by Countrysport Press (1991)","Also includes the manuscript, \"Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948,\" labeled \"unused\"","Includes:","1. \"Tradition in My Hands,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (1982)","2. \"Fowling Piece for a Wife\" by Kay Harris Evans, publication information unknown","3. \"Wild Clays,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (June 1988)","4. \"A Winter's Tale,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (December 1988)","5. \"The Day the Purdey Broke,\" publication information unknown","6. \"Tony's Mayhawk Speck: 17 June 1923 - 9 November 1935,\" publication information unknown","7. \"A Gunner's Tale,\" publication information unknown","8. \"A Family Connection\" [photocopy], published in \"Civil War Times Illustrated\" (November 1961) [regards the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett; see Box 27 for correspondence and clippings regarding this song]","Also includes four \"Forewords\" by George Bird Evans:","1. \"Woodcock Shooting\" author, Edmund W. Davis","2. Gordon Gullion's book, title unknown","3. \"Upland Game Bird Shooting\" author, Eugene Connett","4. \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" author, Charles Norris","Also includes four pages of Evans's notes, photocopies of articles regarding upland shooting and clippings of obituaries","This series contains the manuscript of \"Three Englishmen and A Lady\" by George and Kay Evans; it follows the lives of four of the Evans' Belton English Setters, including Ruff, Blue, Feathers, and Wilda. Publication information is unknown; it was apparently never published as an entire work.","This series includes several of George Bird Evans's \"Gun Diary\" sketches taken from his journal. Many were used in Evans's books (including \"Grouse along the Tramroad\") and articles. There are also charts comparing 41 seasons (1939-1980) of grouse numbers and grouse per coverts.","This series includes proofs of published works includes two books, \"Living with Gun Dogs\" (nine rolled and sealed galleys) and \"Hawk Watch\" authored by George and Kay Evans (unrolled galleys). It also includes three articles and/or chapters: \"Charles Hallock, 1834-1917,\" \"V.E. Willouby\" and \"S.T. Hammond 'Shadow,' 1831-1925.\"","Dr. Norris was a close friend George and Kay Evans. When writing the book \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" Norris became too ill to complete it; this series includes three copies of the unfinished manuscript. George Bird Evans used the unfinished work as the basis for \"Recollections of a Shooting Guest\"; an incomplete copy of the manuscript for \"Shooting Guest\" is also included in this series. There are also copies of letters Dr. Norris wrote to George and Kay Evans over a period of eight years which were used as a resource for information and quotations included in the book. This series also includes photographs of Dr. Norris and his dogs, ephemera from hunting and shooting establishments, and clippings.","George Bird Evans wrote two books to honor the conservationist and author Nash Buckingham by focusing on Buckingham's own material, including \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and \"Dear John . . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". The collection has one copy of the manuscript of \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and two copies of the manuscript for 'Dear John. . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". Evans used, among other sources, the extensive correspondence of Nash Buckingham for both books. The letters are included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Buckingham's family and friends relating facts and anecdotes regarding Nash Buckingham; photographs of Nash Buckingham; and ephemera, including programs from the Hunting Hall of Fame ceremony honoring Nash Buckingham as a 1974 inductee.","Includes stories of shooting, hunting with friends, and samples of Buckingham's 'down home' language. Also includes copies of Nash Buckingham's obituary, reviews of Evans's book, \"The Best of Nash Buckingham,\" published in newspapers and written in private letters to Evans.","Includes anecdotes about Nash Buckingham, a page of \"Notes on Scent,\" written by Buckingham (photocopy), and several lists with subjects including Buckingham's published books and articles, his guns, and \"his people.\"","Includes programs and memorabilia from The Hunting Hall of Fame's Second Awards Dinner (honoring Nash Buckingham as one of the 1974 inductees), the January 1982 issue of \"MS Outdoors\" featuring an article about John Bailey, a close friend of Nash Buckingham, and advertisements for \"The Nash Buckingham Award Gun.\"","Items include:","1. Nash Buckingham receiving the award as the \"1962 Outdoorsman of the Year\"","2. Nash Buckingham at age 85 (1965)","3. A 1984 photograph of a photograph portrait of Nash Buckingham","Subjects include hunting, shooting, and fishing in various regions of the country, and breeding bird dogs. Also includes Nash Buckingham's work on a federal task force to investigate illegal trapping during the depression years [ca. 1936-1938] and his strong opinions against Franklin Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"","Subjects include the building of John Bailey's Lodge, farm preserves, a copy of a speech given by Buckingham at an awards dinner, habitat destruction, and hunting.","Subjects include federal hunting legislation, habitat destruction, \"Sling Shot Charlie\" and the world's largest sling shot, hunting, dogs and family.","This series includes ledgers compiled by the Evans to record sales of their books and audio tapes. There are also several royalty statements.","Articles:","1. \"Old Hemlock: Bequeath to Nature Conservancy,\" published in \"Journal of the Alleghenies,\" Volume VII (1971)","2. \"A Closer Look at Electronic Collars\" (copy), published in \"The American Hunter\" (December 1973)","3. \"The Grandeur and The Glory,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (January 1982)","4. \"Design for Setters,\" unknown publication (1956)","This series includes a variety of material, including a 1988 pedigree chart for the Old Hemlock line of English Setters bred by Stephen Hitsman and George and Kay Evans; research notes compiled by George Bird Evans from his reading of books related to hunting; a greeting card to the Evans labeled by George and/or Kay \"idea for opus 12 jacket\"; and ephemera (three cards advertising publication of books by George Bird Evans).","This series includes audio tapes of \"An Evening at Old Hemlock\" (includes George and Kay Harris Evans reading selections from several books authored by George Bird Evans).","This series includes 3 DVDs by the Hemlock Foundation of hunting footage and other videos about George Bird Evans. Also present are 3 DVDs that include additional copies of digital files of scans of illustrations by Evans that appeared in \"Cosmopolitan,\" \"McCall's,\" and other magazines from Series 12. Magazine Articles [box 26].","This scrapbook documents the collaborative writing career of George and Kay Harris Evans under the pen name \"Brandon Bird,\" which produced five mystery novels and a number of fiction pieces for magazines (includes clippings of articles regarding the Evans as a writing team and the awards they had won; book reviews of the Evans' five mystery novels by several publications, including the New York Times Book Review; press releases announcing the publication of a new novel and several 8x10 photographs of the Evans, their home and their dogs; also includes correspondence and clippings regarding the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett [the original manuscript of the song was in the possession of George and Kay Harris Evans at their home Old Hemlock; see Box 17, Folder 4 for manuscript of article by Evans regarding the Evans-Emmett connection]).","This series includes original copies of illustrations by George Bird Evans (includes 30 oversize pieces, most published in popular women's magazines [such as Cosmopolitan and McCall's] before and after World War II; one 8 1/2 x 12 inch watercolor illustration for book \"Mission Murder\" by Hugh Pentecost; and one 16 x 20 inch drawing of military equipment, drawn by Lieutenant J.G. Evans for the Navy during WWII).","This series includes seven photographs of George Bird Evans, Kay Harris Evans, their dogs, and members of the Evans family; it also includes two artworks by Evans depicting himself and his dogs.","This series includes an easel, two brushes, and hunting gear (hat, backpack, shell box, and shell holster).","This series includes one DVD of an 18-minute motion picture documentary featuring footage of George Bird Evans describing his home, property, and way of life.","This series includes periodicals such as \"Field and Stream,\" \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" \"Game and Gun,\" \"Gun Dog,\" \"Shooting Sportsman,\" and \"Pennsylvania Game News,\" among others. There are also three editions of \"The American Sportsman\" book series with photographs from the ABC-TV series, \"The American Sportsman.\" Several of the publications have articles by George Bird Evans and Kay Harris Evans (most are written by George Bird Evans, some are co-authored with his wife, Kay Evans, and a few are by Kay Evans only).","This series includes 8mm motion picture films of dog training and of special events in the lives of George and Kay Harris Evans and their dogs.","This series includes one framed illustration of a hunting dog by G.B. Evans, \"Toby's Mayhawk Speck-1931\" with text [media unknown, 20 x 25 1/4 inches, signed (68 of 750)].","Books by George Bird Evans separated to the Rare Book Collection.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of George Bird Evans, a widely published author and illustrator of books and articles regarding hunting and bird dog breeding. Most of his work was produced at his home \"Old Hemlock\" in Preston County, West Virginia. Records document his careers as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting; as a breeder of quality bird dogs; an illustrator for several national magazines and the United States Navy during World War II; and as co-author with his wife, Kay Evans, of mystery novels. Materials include: George Bird Evans' Gun Diary with entries and illustrations regarding hunting, fishing, and dog breeding experiences for 65 years; correspondence with friends, patrons, publishers, and other hunters; manuscripts and galleys; cassette tapes (2 items) of recordings of readings by George and Kay Evans; DVDs (3 items) containing 188 digital scans of illustrations by George Bird Evans; and a scrapbook documenting the Evans' career as mystery writers under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". There are also 32 oversize drawings by G.B. Evans; oversized photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, Kay Evans, and their dogs; a DVD of an 18 minute motion picture regarding George Bird Evans; and several sportsman journals, most with published articles by George Bird Evans.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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(37 document cases,  in. each); (5 flat storage boxes,  in. each)","13.9 Gigabytes 46 files, formats include .pdf, .iso, .cue, .md5, and .jpg"],"date_range_isim":[1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNo special access restriction applies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearchers may access digitized and born digital materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the \u003ca href=\"https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWest Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center reference department\u003c/a\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e  "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized and born digital materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGeorge Washington Bird Evans and Eve Hunt Evans celebrated the birth of their only child, George Bird Evans, in 1906. Their comfortable Uniontown, Pennsylvania home provided a secure environment for young George to learn and develop his talents in art and literature. George's father also wasted no time pouring into his young son his love for hunting, bird dogs, and the outdoor life. George Bird Evans attended Carnegie Institute to pursue a career in art. He later transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, staying for two years before moving to New York in 1927 to establish a career as an illustrator, but not alone. He had met and married Kay Harris from Wheeling; their marriage would last for over seventy years. In New York George Evans found success as an illustrator. He also included trips home for the hunt of game on Chestnut Ridge during hunting season. George started keeping a \"gun diary\" or journal in 1932, recording every outing for hunting, shooting, or bird dog training over the next 65 years. The Evans loved the Chestnut Ridge area, leaving New York in 1939 to buy a farm in Preston County, West Virginia, naming their new homestead \"Old Hemlock\". George enjoyed working out of his new surroundings, mailing his work to publishers in New York and having time to roam and hunt with Kay and their dogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis ideal life was interrupted by World War II when George volunteered his services and was commissioned a Lieutenant J.G. in Navy. He used his talents by illustrating equipment repair manuals, substituting pictures for complicated language. After the war George and Kay chose to venture into writing mystery novels as a team under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". It was a success. The Evans were also beginning to breed Belton English Setters in their quest for the best bird dog possible. In 1956 George started using his journal as a source for articles, publishing over a hundred over the next forty two years. In 1971 his first book, \"The Upland Shooting Life\", was published, achieving status as a classic. Twenty seven more upland shooting books followed. Most of the photographs published with the articles and books were taken by Kay Evans. Always careful with their projects, George and Kay Evans began publishing their own books in 1983 under the name \"Old Hemlock\". George Bird Evans died in May, 1998 at the age of ninety-one. He had been hunting only a few weeks before with his best friend Kay and their family of bird dogs.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["George Washington Bird Evans and Eve Hunt Evans celebrated the birth of their only child, George Bird Evans, in 1906. Their comfortable Uniontown, Pennsylvania home provided a secure environment for young George to learn and develop his talents in art and literature. George's father also wasted no time pouring into his young son his love for hunting, bird dogs, and the outdoor life. George Bird Evans attended Carnegie Institute to pursue a career in art. He later transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, staying for two years before moving to New York in 1927 to establish a career as an illustrator, but not alone. He had met and married Kay Harris from Wheeling; their marriage would last for over seventy years. In New York George Evans found success as an illustrator. He also included trips home for the hunt of game on Chestnut Ridge during hunting season. George started keeping a \"gun diary\" or journal in 1932, recording every outing for hunting, shooting, or bird dog training over the next 65 years. The Evans loved the Chestnut Ridge area, leaving New York in 1939 to buy a farm in Preston County, West Virginia, naming their new homestead \"Old Hemlock\". George enjoyed working out of his new surroundings, mailing his work to publishers in New York and having time to roam and hunt with Kay and their dogs.","This ideal life was interrupted by World War II when George volunteered his services and was commissioned a Lieutenant J.G. in Navy. He used his talents by illustrating equipment repair manuals, substituting pictures for complicated language. After the war George and Kay chose to venture into writing mystery novels as a team under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". It was a success. The Evans were also beginning to breed Belton English Setters in their quest for the best bird dog possible. In 1956 George started using his journal as a source for articles, publishing over a hundred over the next forty two years. In 1971 his first book, \"The Upland Shooting Life\", was published, achieving status as a classic. Twenty seven more upland shooting books followed. Most of the photographs published with the articles and books were taken by Kay Evans. Always careful with their projects, George and Kay Evans began publishing their own books in 1983 under the name \"Old Hemlock\". George Bird Evans died in May, 1998 at the age of ninety-one. He had been hunting only a few weeks before with his best friend Kay and their family of bird dogs."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George Bird Evans Papers, A\u0026amp;M 3610, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George Bird Evans Papers, A\u0026M 3610, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of George Bird Evans, including records documenting his career as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting, and as a breeder of his own line of Belton English Setter bird dogs called the \"Old Hemlock Line\" in partnership with his wife, Kay Evans. There are also records regarding his career as a magazine illustrator, including his original art works (32 oversize drawings) that were published with fiction that appeared in several popular women's magazines before and after World War II (including \"Cosmopolitan\" and \"McCall's\" among others). The collaborative writing career of George and Kay Evans under the pen name of \"Brandon Bird\" is documented in a scrapbook (ca.1950-1962) containing photographs, clippings, and book reviews regarding their five published mystery novels.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe collection includes a journal, which Evans referred to as his \"Gun Diary\", with entries ranging from 1932 to 1997 where Evans recorded and illustrated his hunting, fishing, and bird dog training excursions for 65 years. There are also several periodicals, such as \"Field and Stream\", \"The Pointing Dog Journal\", and \"Gun Dog\", among others, most issues contain articles by George Bird Evans and a few by Kay Evans. Other materials include extensive correspondence with publishers, friends, outdoor sports writers, hunters and breeders (such as Nash Buckingham, Dr. Charles Norris, and Dr. Gordon Gullion), and patrons of his bird dog breeding business. There are several manuscripts and galleys of published books, including \"The Upland Shooting Life\" and \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\", among others. There are also financial records regarding the publication and sales of his books, videos, and cassette tapes. The collection also includes 188 digital scans of illustrations by Evans on DVD discs (3 items), audio recordings (2 cassette tapes) of readings by George and Kay Evans, and oversized framed photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, his wife Kay, and their dogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Biographical Information, 1936, 1993, 2008 (box 1) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Journal of George Bird Evans, 1932–1997 (boxes 1-4) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Correspondence, 1942–2005 (boxes 5-9) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Manuscripts - Published Books, ca. 1971 (boxes 9-16) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Manuscripts - Published Articles, ca. 1961-1995 (box 17) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Manuscript, undated (box 17) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Manuscripts - Illustrations, ca. 1984-1986 (box 17) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Manuscripts - Galleys, 1956, ca. 1991, undated (box 18) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Projects - Dr. Charles Norris, 1952-1969, undated (boxes 19-22) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. Projects - Nash Buckingham, 1960–1984 (boxes 23-25) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Financial Records, 1971–1999 (boxes 25-26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Magazine Articles, 1956, 1971-1982 (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 13. Subjects, 1975–1997 (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 14. Audio Tapes, June 1989 and Fall 1993 (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 15. Digital Files, undated (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 16. Scrapbook, ca. 1948-1975 (box 27) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 17. Artworks, ca. 1938-1948 (boxes 28-29) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 18. Oversized Pictures of George Bird Evans and Others, undated (box 29) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 19. Artifacts, undated (box 30) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 20. Motion Picture, undated (box 30) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 21. Sportsmen Journals, 1959–2013 (boxes 31-38) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 22. Motion Pictures -- Unpublished, ca. 1950-1975 (boxes 39-42) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 23. Oversized Material, 1986 (unboxed)\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eRegards the life and career of George Bird Evans, including feature articles in the Morgantown \"Dominion Post\" newspaper (1993) and The West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter (Spring 2008). Also contains a 3 in. x 5 in. photograph of George Bird Evans with one of his setters and a \"kill\" (a grouse); a photograph of Evans with friend, David Hall; and two photos of Evans with his wife Kay on a fishing trip (1936).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpanning 65 years (1932-1997), the journal documents the hunting, fishing, and dog training excursions of George Evans through text and illustrations. The journals were a primary source for most of the books and articles Evans authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a substantial amount of correspondence with the book publishers (Winchester, Amwell, and Alfred Knopf Company), book dealers, and magazines (including: \"Field and Stream\", \"Gun Dog\", \"American Hunter\", and \"The American Sportsman\") that were publishing material authored by Evans. Also includes research requests, permissions, and releases for material used in publications by Evans. Other correspondents includes friends and fellow hunters. Many letters were from patrons and fans such as David Hall and the Ingrahams. There is a series of letters \"written\" by the setters at Old Hemlock to their family members that were living with the Ingrahams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains 16 manuscripts of published books by George Bird Evans, including his first book pertaining to dogs, guns, and hunting, \"The Upland Shooting Life\" (1971) and his last, \"Grouse \u0026amp; Woodcocks in the Blackwater/Canaan\" (1997). There is one incomplete manuscript of a published book, \"From My Covers\" (1995).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains 17 published articles and seven \"copies\" of published articles authored by George Bird Evans with photographs by Kay Evans. Most were published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" but some appeared in \"Pennsylvania Gaming News\" and Field and Stream,\" among other such publications. There are also four forewords by George Bird Evans, including an introduction for the 1989 edition of \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" authored by Evans's close friend, Dr. Charles Norris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. \"The Ache of Memory,\" published in the \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. \"A Bird Dog Fancy,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (November 1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. \"The Solo Dog,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \"The Quality of Time,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5. \"The End of Day,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6. \"Bittersweet,\" appears in the book \"A Breed Apart, Vol. I,\" published by \"Countrysport Press\" (1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also includes editing notes, layouts and photo captions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. \"And Don't Go Near the Water,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. \"Point of Pride,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. \"Light Guns, Light Loads, and A Gentle Bird,\" published in \"Game and Gun\" (July 1992/07)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \"Luck of November,\" published in \"Game Journal\" (January 1992)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5. \"Giants of the Coverts\" (Kay Harris Evans's photographs), published in \"Shooting Sportsman\" (1990)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6. \"Sixty-Seven Seasons Gunning Grouse,\" an article appearing as a chapter in the book, \"Bare November Days,\" published by Countrysport Press (1992)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Char,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1995)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. \"Anniversary,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1995)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. \"When the Blood Is There,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (September 1994)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \"How Many Days,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5. \"In the Coverts of Our Minds,\" appears in the book, \"Come October,\" published by Countrysport Press (1991)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also includes the manuscript, \"Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948,\" labeled \"unused\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Tradition in My Hands,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (1982)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. \"Fowling Piece for a Wife\" by Kay Harris Evans, publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. \"Wild Clays,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (June 1988)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \"A Winter's Tale,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (December 1988)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5. \"The Day the Purdey Broke,\" publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6. \"Tony's Mayhawk Speck: 17 June 1923 - 9 November 1935,\" publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7. \"A Gunner's Tale,\" publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8. \"A Family Connection\" [photocopy], published in \"Civil War Times Illustrated\" (November 1961) [regards the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett; see Box 27 for correspondence and clippings regarding this song]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also includes four \"Forewords\" by George Bird Evans:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Woodcock Shooting\" author, Edmund W. Davis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. Gordon Gullion's book, title unknown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. \"Upland Game Bird Shooting\" author, Eugene Connett\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" author, Charles Norris\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also includes four pages of Evans's notes, photocopies of articles regarding upland shooting and clippings of obituaries\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the manuscript of \"Three Englishmen and A Lady\" by George and Kay Evans; it follows the lives of four of the Evans' Belton English Setters, including Ruff, Blue, Feathers, and Wilda. Publication information is unknown; it was apparently never published as an entire work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes several of George Bird Evans's \"Gun Diary\" sketches taken from his journal. Many were used in Evans's books (including \"Grouse along the Tramroad\") and articles. There are also charts comparing 41 seasons (1939-1980) of grouse numbers and grouse per coverts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes proofs of published works includes two books, \"Living with Gun Dogs\" (nine rolled and sealed galleys) and \"Hawk Watch\" authored by George and Kay Evans (unrolled galleys). It also includes three articles and/or chapters: \"Charles Hallock, 1834-1917,\" \"V.E. Willouby\" and \"S.T. Hammond 'Shadow,' 1831-1925.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Norris was a close friend George and Kay Evans. When writing the book \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" Norris became too ill to complete it; this series includes three copies of the unfinished manuscript. George Bird Evans used the unfinished work as the basis for \"Recollections of a Shooting Guest\"; an incomplete copy of the manuscript for \"Shooting Guest\" is also included in this series. There are also copies of letters Dr. Norris wrote to George and Kay Evans over a period of eight years which were used as a resource for information and quotations included in the book. This series also includes photographs of Dr. Norris and his dogs, ephemera from hunting and shooting establishments, and clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Bird Evans wrote two books to honor the conservationist and author Nash Buckingham by focusing on Buckingham's own material, including \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and \"Dear John . . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". The collection has one copy of the manuscript of \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and two copies of the manuscript for 'Dear John. . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". Evans used, among other sources, the extensive correspondence of Nash Buckingham for both books. The letters are included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Buckingham's family and friends relating facts and anecdotes regarding Nash Buckingham; photographs of Nash Buckingham; and ephemera, including programs from the Hunting Hall of Fame ceremony honoring Nash Buckingham as a 1974 inductee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes stories of shooting, hunting with friends, and samples of Buckingham's 'down home' language. Also includes copies of Nash Buckingham's obituary, reviews of Evans's book, \"The Best of Nash Buckingham,\" published in newspapers and written in private letters to Evans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes anecdotes about Nash Buckingham, a page of \"Notes on Scent,\" written by Buckingham (photocopy), and several lists with subjects including Buckingham's published books and articles, his guns, and \"his people.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes programs and memorabilia from The Hunting Hall of Fame's Second Awards Dinner (honoring Nash Buckingham as one of the 1974 inductees), the January 1982 issue of \"MS Outdoors\" featuring an article about John Bailey, a close friend of Nash Buckingham, and advertisements for \"The Nash Buckingham Award Gun.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. Nash Buckingham receiving the award as the \"1962 Outdoorsman of the Year\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. Nash Buckingham at age 85 (1965)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. A 1984 photograph of a photograph portrait of Nash Buckingham\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include hunting, shooting, and fishing in various regions of the country, and breeding bird dogs. Also includes Nash Buckingham's work on a federal task force to investigate illegal trapping during the depression years [ca. 1936-1938] and his strong opinions against Franklin Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include the building of John Bailey's Lodge, farm preserves, a copy of a speech given by Buckingham at an awards dinner, habitat destruction, and hunting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include federal hunting legislation, habitat destruction, \"Sling Shot Charlie\" and the world's largest sling shot, hunting, dogs and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes ledgers compiled by the Evans to record sales of their books and audio tapes. There are also several royalty statements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Old Hemlock: Bequeath to Nature Conservancy,\" published in \"Journal of the Alleghenies,\" Volume VII (1971)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. \"A Closer Look at Electronic Collars\" (copy), published in \"The American Hunter\" (December 1973)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. \"The Grandeur and The Glory,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (January 1982)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \"Design for Setters,\" unknown publication (1956)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a variety of material, including a 1988 pedigree chart for the Old Hemlock line of English Setters bred by Stephen Hitsman and George and Kay Evans; research notes compiled by George Bird Evans from his reading of books related to hunting; a greeting card to the Evans labeled by George and/or Kay \"idea for opus 12 jacket\"; and ephemera (three cards advertising publication of books by George Bird Evans).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes audio tapes of \"An Evening at Old Hemlock\" (includes George and Kay Harris Evans reading selections from several books authored by George Bird Evans).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes 3 DVDs by the Hemlock Foundation of hunting footage and other videos about George Bird Evans. Also present are 3 DVDs that include additional copies of digital files of scans of illustrations by Evans that appeared in \"Cosmopolitan,\" \"McCall's,\" and other magazines from Series 12. Magazine Articles [box 26].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook documents the collaborative writing career of George and Kay Harris Evans under the pen name \"Brandon Bird,\" which produced five mystery novels and a number of fiction pieces for magazines (includes clippings of articles regarding the Evans as a writing team and the awards they had won; book reviews of the Evans' five mystery novels by several publications, including the New York Times Book Review; press releases announcing the publication of a new novel and several 8x10 photographs of the Evans, their home and their dogs; also includes correspondence and clippings regarding the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett [the original manuscript of the song was in the possession of George and Kay Harris Evans at their home Old Hemlock; see Box 17, Folder 4 for manuscript of article by Evans regarding the Evans-Emmett connection]).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes original copies of illustrations by George Bird Evans (includes 30 oversize pieces, most published in popular women's magazines [such as Cosmopolitan and McCall's] before and after World War II; one 8 1/2 x 12 inch watercolor illustration for book \"Mission Murder\" by Hugh Pentecost; and one 16 x 20 inch drawing of military equipment, drawn by Lieutenant J.G. Evans for the Navy during WWII).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes seven photographs of George Bird Evans, Kay Harris Evans, their dogs, and members of the Evans family; it also includes two artworks by Evans depicting himself and his dogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes an easel, two brushes, and hunting gear (hat, backpack, shell box, and shell holster).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes one DVD of an 18-minute motion picture documentary featuring footage of George Bird Evans describing his home, property, and way of life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes periodicals such as \"Field and Stream,\" \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" \"Game and Gun,\" \"Gun Dog,\" \"Shooting Sportsman,\" and \"Pennsylvania Game News,\" among others. There are also three editions of \"The American Sportsman\" book series with photographs from the ABC-TV series, \"The American Sportsman.\" Several of the publications have articles by George Bird Evans and Kay Harris Evans (most are written by George Bird Evans, some are co-authored with his wife, Kay Evans, and a few are by Kay Evans only).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes 8mm motion picture films of dog training and of special events in the lives of George and Kay Harris Evans and their dogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes one framed illustration of a hunting dog by G.B. Evans, \"Toby's Mayhawk Speck-1931\" with text [media unknown, 20 x 25 1/4 inches, signed (68 of 750)].\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of George Bird Evans, including records documenting his career as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting, and as a breeder of his own line of Belton English Setter bird dogs called the \"Old Hemlock Line\" in partnership with his wife, Kay Evans. There are also records regarding his career as a magazine illustrator, including his original art works (32 oversize drawings) that were published with fiction that appeared in several popular women's magazines before and after World War II (including \"Cosmopolitan\" and \"McCall's\" among others). The collaborative writing career of George and Kay Evans under the pen name of \"Brandon Bird\" is documented in a scrapbook (ca.1950-1962) containing photographs, clippings, and book reviews regarding their five published mystery novels.","The collection includes a journal, which Evans referred to as his \"Gun Diary\", with entries ranging from 1932 to 1997 where Evans recorded and illustrated his hunting, fishing, and bird dog training excursions for 65 years. There are also several periodicals, such as \"Field and Stream\", \"The Pointing Dog Journal\", and \"Gun Dog\", among others, most issues contain articles by George Bird Evans and a few by Kay Evans. Other materials include extensive correspondence with publishers, friends, outdoor sports writers, hunters and breeders (such as Nash Buckingham, Dr. Charles Norris, and Dr. Gordon Gullion), and patrons of his bird dog breeding business. There are several manuscripts and galleys of published books, including \"The Upland Shooting Life\" and \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\", among others. There are also financial records regarding the publication and sales of his books, videos, and cassette tapes. The collection also includes 188 digital scans of illustrations by Evans on DVD discs (3 items), audio recordings (2 cassette tapes) of readings by George and Kay Evans, and oversized framed photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, his wife Kay, and their dogs.","Series include:","Series 1. Biographical Information, 1936, 1993, 2008 (box 1) \nSeries 2. Journal of George Bird Evans, 1932–1997 (boxes 1-4) \nSeries 3. Correspondence, 1942–2005 (boxes 5-9) \nSeries 4. Manuscripts - Published Books, ca. 1971 (boxes 9-16) \nSeries 5. Manuscripts - Published Articles, ca. 1961-1995 (box 17) \nSeries 6. Manuscript, undated (box 17) \nSeries 7. Manuscripts - Illustrations, ca. 1984-1986 (box 17) \nSeries 8. Manuscripts - Galleys, 1956, ca. 1991, undated (box 18) \nSeries 9. Projects - Dr. Charles Norris, 1952-1969, undated (boxes 19-22) \nSeries 10. Projects - Nash Buckingham, 1960–1984 (boxes 23-25) \nSeries 11. Financial Records, 1971–1999 (boxes 25-26) \nSeries 12. Magazine Articles, 1956, 1971-1982 (box 26) \nSeries 13. Subjects, 1975–1997 (box 26) \nSeries 14. Audio Tapes, June 1989 and Fall 1993 (box 26) \nSeries 15. Digital Files, undated (box 26) \nSeries 16. Scrapbook, ca. 1948-1975 (box 27) \nSeries 17. Artworks, ca. 1938-1948 (boxes 28-29) \nSeries 18. Oversized Pictures of George Bird Evans and Others, undated (box 29) \nSeries 19. Artifacts, undated (box 30) \nSeries 20. Motion Picture, undated (box 30) \nSeries 21. Sportsmen Journals, 1959–2013 (boxes 31-38) \nSeries 22. Motion Pictures -- Unpublished, ca. 1950-1975 (boxes 39-42) \nSeries 23. Oversized Material, 1986 (unboxed)","Regards the life and career of George Bird Evans, including feature articles in the Morgantown \"Dominion Post\" newspaper (1993) and The West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter (Spring 2008). Also contains a 3 in. x 5 in. photograph of George Bird Evans with one of his setters and a \"kill\" (a grouse); a photograph of Evans with friend, David Hall; and two photos of Evans with his wife Kay on a fishing trip (1936).","Spanning 65 years (1932-1997), the journal documents the hunting, fishing, and dog training excursions of George Evans through text and illustrations. The journals were a primary source for most of the books and articles Evans authored.","Includes a substantial amount of correspondence with the book publishers (Winchester, Amwell, and Alfred Knopf Company), book dealers, and magazines (including: \"Field and Stream\", \"Gun Dog\", \"American Hunter\", and \"The American Sportsman\") that were publishing material authored by Evans. Also includes research requests, permissions, and releases for material used in publications by Evans. Other correspondents includes friends and fellow hunters. Many letters were from patrons and fans such as David Hall and the Ingrahams. There is a series of letters \"written\" by the setters at Old Hemlock to their family members that were living with the Ingrahams.","This series contains 16 manuscripts of published books by George Bird Evans, including his first book pertaining to dogs, guns, and hunting, \"The Upland Shooting Life\" (1971) and his last, \"Grouse \u0026 Woodcocks in the Blackwater/Canaan\" (1997). There is one incomplete manuscript of a published book, \"From My Covers\" (1995).","This series contains 17 published articles and seven \"copies\" of published articles authored by George Bird Evans with photographs by Kay Evans. Most were published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" but some appeared in \"Pennsylvania Gaming News\" and Field and Stream,\" among other such publications. There are also four forewords by George Bird Evans, including an introduction for the 1989 edition of \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" authored by Evans's close friend, Dr. Charles Norris.","Includes:","1. \"The Ache of Memory,\" published in the \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","2. \"A Bird Dog Fancy,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (November 1993)","3. \"The Solo Dog,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","4. \"The Quality of Time,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1993)","5. \"The End of Day,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","6. \"Bittersweet,\" appears in the book \"A Breed Apart, Vol. I,\" published by \"Countrysport Press\" (1993)","Also includes editing notes, layouts and photo captions.","Includes:","1. \"And Don't Go Near the Water,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1993)","2. \"Point of Pride,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1993)","3. \"Light Guns, Light Loads, and A Gentle Bird,\" published in \"Game and Gun\" (July 1992/07)","4. \"Luck of November,\" published in \"Game Journal\" (January 1992)","5. \"Giants of the Coverts\" (Kay Harris Evans's photographs), published in \"Shooting Sportsman\" (1990)","6. \"Sixty-Seven Seasons Gunning Grouse,\" an article appearing as a chapter in the book, \"Bare November Days,\" published by Countrysport Press (1992)","Includes:","1. \"Char,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1995)","2. \"Anniversary,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1995)","3. \"When the Blood Is There,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (September 1994)","4. \"How Many Days,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","5. \"In the Coverts of Our Minds,\" appears in the book, \"Come October,\" published by Countrysport Press (1991)","Also includes the manuscript, \"Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948,\" labeled \"unused\"","Includes:","1. \"Tradition in My Hands,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (1982)","2. \"Fowling Piece for a Wife\" by Kay Harris Evans, publication information unknown","3. \"Wild Clays,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (June 1988)","4. \"A Winter's Tale,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (December 1988)","5. \"The Day the Purdey Broke,\" publication information unknown","6. \"Tony's Mayhawk Speck: 17 June 1923 - 9 November 1935,\" publication information unknown","7. \"A Gunner's Tale,\" publication information unknown","8. \"A Family Connection\" [photocopy], published in \"Civil War Times Illustrated\" (November 1961) [regards the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett; see Box 27 for correspondence and clippings regarding this song]","Also includes four \"Forewords\" by George Bird Evans:","1. \"Woodcock Shooting\" author, Edmund W. Davis","2. Gordon Gullion's book, title unknown","3. \"Upland Game Bird Shooting\" author, Eugene Connett","4. \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" author, Charles Norris","Also includes four pages of Evans's notes, photocopies of articles regarding upland shooting and clippings of obituaries","This series contains the manuscript of \"Three Englishmen and A Lady\" by George and Kay Evans; it follows the lives of four of the Evans' Belton English Setters, including Ruff, Blue, Feathers, and Wilda. Publication information is unknown; it was apparently never published as an entire work.","This series includes several of George Bird Evans's \"Gun Diary\" sketches taken from his journal. Many were used in Evans's books (including \"Grouse along the Tramroad\") and articles. There are also charts comparing 41 seasons (1939-1980) of grouse numbers and grouse per coverts.","This series includes proofs of published works includes two books, \"Living with Gun Dogs\" (nine rolled and sealed galleys) and \"Hawk Watch\" authored by George and Kay Evans (unrolled galleys). It also includes three articles and/or chapters: \"Charles Hallock, 1834-1917,\" \"V.E. Willouby\" and \"S.T. Hammond 'Shadow,' 1831-1925.\"","Dr. Norris was a close friend George and Kay Evans. When writing the book \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" Norris became too ill to complete it; this series includes three copies of the unfinished manuscript. George Bird Evans used the unfinished work as the basis for \"Recollections of a Shooting Guest\"; an incomplete copy of the manuscript for \"Shooting Guest\" is also included in this series. There are also copies of letters Dr. Norris wrote to George and Kay Evans over a period of eight years which were used as a resource for information and quotations included in the book. This series also includes photographs of Dr. Norris and his dogs, ephemera from hunting and shooting establishments, and clippings.","George Bird Evans wrote two books to honor the conservationist and author Nash Buckingham by focusing on Buckingham's own material, including \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and \"Dear John . . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". The collection has one copy of the manuscript of \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and two copies of the manuscript for 'Dear John. . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". Evans used, among other sources, the extensive correspondence of Nash Buckingham for both books. The letters are included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Buckingham's family and friends relating facts and anecdotes regarding Nash Buckingham; photographs of Nash Buckingham; and ephemera, including programs from the Hunting Hall of Fame ceremony honoring Nash Buckingham as a 1974 inductee.","Includes stories of shooting, hunting with friends, and samples of Buckingham's 'down home' language. Also includes copies of Nash Buckingham's obituary, reviews of Evans's book, \"The Best of Nash Buckingham,\" published in newspapers and written in private letters to Evans.","Includes anecdotes about Nash Buckingham, a page of \"Notes on Scent,\" written by Buckingham (photocopy), and several lists with subjects including Buckingham's published books and articles, his guns, and \"his people.\"","Includes programs and memorabilia from The Hunting Hall of Fame's Second Awards Dinner (honoring Nash Buckingham as one of the 1974 inductees), the January 1982 issue of \"MS Outdoors\" featuring an article about John Bailey, a close friend of Nash Buckingham, and advertisements for \"The Nash Buckingham Award Gun.\"","Items include:","1. Nash Buckingham receiving the award as the \"1962 Outdoorsman of the Year\"","2. Nash Buckingham at age 85 (1965)","3. A 1984 photograph of a photograph portrait of Nash Buckingham","Subjects include hunting, shooting, and fishing in various regions of the country, and breeding bird dogs. Also includes Nash Buckingham's work on a federal task force to investigate illegal trapping during the depression years [ca. 1936-1938] and his strong opinions against Franklin Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"","Subjects include the building of John Bailey's Lodge, farm preserves, a copy of a speech given by Buckingham at an awards dinner, habitat destruction, and hunting.","Subjects include federal hunting legislation, habitat destruction, \"Sling Shot Charlie\" and the world's largest sling shot, hunting, dogs and family.","This series includes ledgers compiled by the Evans to record sales of their books and audio tapes. There are also several royalty statements.","Articles:","1. \"Old Hemlock: Bequeath to Nature Conservancy,\" published in \"Journal of the Alleghenies,\" Volume VII (1971)","2. \"A Closer Look at Electronic Collars\" (copy), published in \"The American Hunter\" (December 1973)","3. \"The Grandeur and The Glory,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (January 1982)","4. \"Design for Setters,\" unknown publication (1956)","This series includes a variety of material, including a 1988 pedigree chart for the Old Hemlock line of English Setters bred by Stephen Hitsman and George and Kay Evans; research notes compiled by George Bird Evans from his reading of books related to hunting; a greeting card to the Evans labeled by George and/or Kay \"idea for opus 12 jacket\"; and ephemera (three cards advertising publication of books by George Bird Evans).","This series includes audio tapes of \"An Evening at Old Hemlock\" (includes George and Kay Harris Evans reading selections from several books authored by George Bird Evans).","This series includes 3 DVDs by the Hemlock Foundation of hunting footage and other videos about George Bird Evans. Also present are 3 DVDs that include additional copies of digital files of scans of illustrations by Evans that appeared in \"Cosmopolitan,\" \"McCall's,\" and other magazines from Series 12. Magazine Articles [box 26].","This scrapbook documents the collaborative writing career of George and Kay Harris Evans under the pen name \"Brandon Bird,\" which produced five mystery novels and a number of fiction pieces for magazines (includes clippings of articles regarding the Evans as a writing team and the awards they had won; book reviews of the Evans' five mystery novels by several publications, including the New York Times Book Review; press releases announcing the publication of a new novel and several 8x10 photographs of the Evans, their home and their dogs; also includes correspondence and clippings regarding the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett [the original manuscript of the song was in the possession of George and Kay Harris Evans at their home Old Hemlock; see Box 17, Folder 4 for manuscript of article by Evans regarding the Evans-Emmett connection]).","This series includes original copies of illustrations by George Bird Evans (includes 30 oversize pieces, most published in popular women's magazines [such as Cosmopolitan and McCall's] before and after World War II; one 8 1/2 x 12 inch watercolor illustration for book \"Mission Murder\" by Hugh Pentecost; and one 16 x 20 inch drawing of military equipment, drawn by Lieutenant J.G. Evans for the Navy during WWII).","This series includes seven photographs of George Bird Evans, Kay Harris Evans, their dogs, and members of the Evans family; it also includes two artworks by Evans depicting himself and his dogs.","This series includes an easel, two brushes, and hunting gear (hat, backpack, shell box, and shell holster).","This series includes one DVD of an 18-minute motion picture documentary featuring footage of George Bird Evans describing his home, property, and way of life.","This series includes periodicals such as \"Field and Stream,\" \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" \"Game and Gun,\" \"Gun Dog,\" \"Shooting Sportsman,\" and \"Pennsylvania Game News,\" among others. There are also three editions of \"The American Sportsman\" book series with photographs from the ABC-TV series, \"The American Sportsman.\" Several of the publications have articles by George Bird Evans and Kay Harris Evans (most are written by George Bird Evans, some are co-authored with his wife, Kay Evans, and a few are by Kay Evans only).","This series includes 8mm motion picture films of dog training and of special events in the lives of George and Kay Harris Evans and their dogs.","This series includes one framed illustration of a hunting dog by G.B. Evans, \"Toby's Mayhawk Speck-1931\" with text [media unknown, 20 x 25 1/4 inches, signed (68 of 750)]."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBooks by George Bird Evans separated to the Rare Book Collection.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Books by George Bird Evans separated to the Rare Book Collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_51da0d32c80e41fa05abeaccb1ac2a70\"\u003ePapers of George Bird Evans, a widely published author and illustrator of books and articles regarding hunting and bird dog breeding. Most of his work was produced at his home \"Old Hemlock\" in Preston County, West Virginia. Records document his careers as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting; as a breeder of quality bird dogs; an illustrator for several national magazines and the United States Navy during World War II; and as co-author with his wife, Kay Evans, of mystery novels. Materials include: George Bird Evans' Gun Diary with entries and illustrations regarding hunting, fishing, and dog breeding experiences for 65 years; correspondence with friends, patrons, publishers, and other hunters; manuscripts and galleys; cassette tapes (2 items) of recordings of readings by George and Kay Evans; DVDs (3 items) containing 188 digital scans of illustrations by George Bird Evans; and a scrapbook documenting the Evans' career as mystery writers under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". There are also 32 oversize drawings by G.B. Evans; oversized photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, Kay Evans, and their dogs; a DVD of an 18 minute motion picture regarding George Bird Evans; and several sportsman journals, most with published articles by George Bird Evans.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of George Bird Evans, a widely published author and illustrator of books and articles regarding hunting and bird dog breeding. Most of his work was produced at his home \"Old Hemlock\" in Preston County, West Virginia. Records document his careers as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting; as a breeder of quality bird dogs; an illustrator for several national magazines and the United States Navy during World War II; and as co-author with his wife, Kay Evans, of mystery novels. Materials include: George Bird Evans' Gun Diary with entries and illustrations regarding hunting, fishing, and dog breeding experiences for 65 years; correspondence with friends, patrons, publishers, and other hunters; manuscripts and galleys; cassette tapes (2 items) of recordings of readings by George and Kay Evans; DVDs (3 items) containing 188 digital scans of illustrations by George Bird Evans; and a scrapbook documenting the Evans' career as mystery writers under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". There are also 32 oversize drawings by G.B. Evans; oversized photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, Kay Evans, and their dogs; a DVD of an 18 minute motion picture regarding George Bird Evans; and several sportsman journals, most with published articles by George Bird Evans."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_67b7df20655573ed9e21475079062c2d\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\"\u003eWest Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n    "],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center"],"corpname_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center"],"persname_ssim":["Evans, George Bird, 1906-1998"],"names_coll_ssim":["Evans, George Bird, 1906-1998"],"names_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","Evans, George Bird, 1906-1998"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":317,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:54:07.247Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2049","ead_ssi":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2049","_root_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2049","_nest_parent_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2049","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WVU/repositories_2_resources_2049.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/196177","title_ssm":["George Bird Evans Papers"],"title_tesim":["George Bird Evans Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1932-2013","1932-1998"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1932-2013"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1932-1998"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1932/2013, bulk 1932/1998"],"normalized_title_ssm":["George Bird Evans Papers, 1932/2013, bulk 1932/1998"],"text":["George Bird Evans Papers, 1932/2013, bulk 1932/1998","A\u0026M 3610","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/2049","Art and artists","Authors -- Letters and papers","Bird dogs","Fowling -- United States","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized and born digital materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","George Washington Bird Evans and Eve Hunt Evans celebrated the birth of their only child, George Bird Evans, in 1906. Their comfortable Uniontown, Pennsylvania home provided a secure environment for young George to learn and develop his talents in art and literature. George's father also wasted no time pouring into his young son his love for hunting, bird dogs, and the outdoor life. George Bird Evans attended Carnegie Institute to pursue a career in art. He later transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, staying for two years before moving to New York in 1927 to establish a career as an illustrator, but not alone. He had met and married Kay Harris from Wheeling; their marriage would last for over seventy years. In New York George Evans found success as an illustrator. He also included trips home for the hunt of game on Chestnut Ridge during hunting season. George started keeping a \"gun diary\" or journal in 1932, recording every outing for hunting, shooting, or bird dog training over the next 65 years. The Evans loved the Chestnut Ridge area, leaving New York in 1939 to buy a farm in Preston County, West Virginia, naming their new homestead \"Old Hemlock\". George enjoyed working out of his new surroundings, mailing his work to publishers in New York and having time to roam and hunt with Kay and their dogs.","This ideal life was interrupted by World War II when George volunteered his services and was commissioned a Lieutenant J.G. in Navy. He used his talents by illustrating equipment repair manuals, substituting pictures for complicated language. After the war George and Kay chose to venture into writing mystery novels as a team under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". It was a success. The Evans were also beginning to breed Belton English Setters in their quest for the best bird dog possible. In 1956 George started using his journal as a source for articles, publishing over a hundred over the next forty two years. In 1971 his first book, \"The Upland Shooting Life\", was published, achieving status as a classic. Twenty seven more upland shooting books followed. Most of the photographs published with the articles and books were taken by Kay Evans. Always careful with their projects, George and Kay Evans began publishing their own books in 1983 under the name \"Old Hemlock\". George Bird Evans died in May, 1998 at the age of ninety-one. He had been hunting only a few weeks before with his best friend Kay and their family of bird dogs.","Papers of George Bird Evans, including records documenting his career as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting, and as a breeder of his own line of Belton English Setter bird dogs called the \"Old Hemlock Line\" in partnership with his wife, Kay Evans. There are also records regarding his career as a magazine illustrator, including his original art works (32 oversize drawings) that were published with fiction that appeared in several popular women's magazines before and after World War II (including \"Cosmopolitan\" and \"McCall's\" among others). The collaborative writing career of George and Kay Evans under the pen name of \"Brandon Bird\" is documented in a scrapbook (ca.1950-1962) containing photographs, clippings, and book reviews regarding their five published mystery novels.","The collection includes a journal, which Evans referred to as his \"Gun Diary\", with entries ranging from 1932 to 1997 where Evans recorded and illustrated his hunting, fishing, and bird dog training excursions for 65 years. There are also several periodicals, such as \"Field and Stream\", \"The Pointing Dog Journal\", and \"Gun Dog\", among others, most issues contain articles by George Bird Evans and a few by Kay Evans. Other materials include extensive correspondence with publishers, friends, outdoor sports writers, hunters and breeders (such as Nash Buckingham, Dr. Charles Norris, and Dr. Gordon Gullion), and patrons of his bird dog breeding business. There are several manuscripts and galleys of published books, including \"The Upland Shooting Life\" and \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\", among others. There are also financial records regarding the publication and sales of his books, videos, and cassette tapes. The collection also includes 188 digital scans of illustrations by Evans on DVD discs (3 items), audio recordings (2 cassette tapes) of readings by George and Kay Evans, and oversized framed photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, his wife Kay, and their dogs.","Series include:","Series 1. Biographical Information, 1936, 1993, 2008 (box 1) \nSeries 2. Journal of George Bird Evans, 1932–1997 (boxes 1-4) \nSeries 3. Correspondence, 1942–2005 (boxes 5-9) \nSeries 4. Manuscripts - Published Books, ca. 1971 (boxes 9-16) \nSeries 5. Manuscripts - Published Articles, ca. 1961-1995 (box 17) \nSeries 6. Manuscript, undated (box 17) \nSeries 7. Manuscripts - Illustrations, ca. 1984-1986 (box 17) \nSeries 8. Manuscripts - Galleys, 1956, ca. 1991, undated (box 18) \nSeries 9. Projects - Dr. Charles Norris, 1952-1969, undated (boxes 19-22) \nSeries 10. Projects - Nash Buckingham, 1960–1984 (boxes 23-25) \nSeries 11. Financial Records, 1971–1999 (boxes 25-26) \nSeries 12. Magazine Articles, 1956, 1971-1982 (box 26) \nSeries 13. Subjects, 1975–1997 (box 26) \nSeries 14. Audio Tapes, June 1989 and Fall 1993 (box 26) \nSeries 15. Digital Files, undated (box 26) \nSeries 16. Scrapbook, ca. 1948-1975 (box 27) \nSeries 17. Artworks, ca. 1938-1948 (boxes 28-29) \nSeries 18. Oversized Pictures of George Bird Evans and Others, undated (box 29) \nSeries 19. Artifacts, undated (box 30) \nSeries 20. Motion Picture, undated (box 30) \nSeries 21. Sportsmen Journals, 1959–2013 (boxes 31-38) \nSeries 22. Motion Pictures -- Unpublished, ca. 1950-1975 (boxes 39-42) \nSeries 23. Oversized Material, 1986 (unboxed)","Regards the life and career of George Bird Evans, including feature articles in the Morgantown \"Dominion Post\" newspaper (1993) and The West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter (Spring 2008). Also contains a 3 in. x 5 in. photograph of George Bird Evans with one of his setters and a \"kill\" (a grouse); a photograph of Evans with friend, David Hall; and two photos of Evans with his wife Kay on a fishing trip (1936).","Spanning 65 years (1932-1997), the journal documents the hunting, fishing, and dog training excursions of George Evans through text and illustrations. The journals were a primary source for most of the books and articles Evans authored.","Includes a substantial amount of correspondence with the book publishers (Winchester, Amwell, and Alfred Knopf Company), book dealers, and magazines (including: \"Field and Stream\", \"Gun Dog\", \"American Hunter\", and \"The American Sportsman\") that were publishing material authored by Evans. Also includes research requests, permissions, and releases for material used in publications by Evans. Other correspondents includes friends and fellow hunters. Many letters were from patrons and fans such as David Hall and the Ingrahams. There is a series of letters \"written\" by the setters at Old Hemlock to their family members that were living with the Ingrahams.","This series contains 16 manuscripts of published books by George Bird Evans, including his first book pertaining to dogs, guns, and hunting, \"The Upland Shooting Life\" (1971) and his last, \"Grouse \u0026 Woodcocks in the Blackwater/Canaan\" (1997). There is one incomplete manuscript of a published book, \"From My Covers\" (1995).","This series contains 17 published articles and seven \"copies\" of published articles authored by George Bird Evans with photographs by Kay Evans. Most were published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" but some appeared in \"Pennsylvania Gaming News\" and Field and Stream,\" among other such publications. There are also four forewords by George Bird Evans, including an introduction for the 1989 edition of \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" authored by Evans's close friend, Dr. Charles Norris.","Includes:","1. \"The Ache of Memory,\" published in the \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","2. \"A Bird Dog Fancy,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (November 1993)","3. \"The Solo Dog,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","4. \"The Quality of Time,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1993)","5. \"The End of Day,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","6. \"Bittersweet,\" appears in the book \"A Breed Apart, Vol. I,\" published by \"Countrysport Press\" (1993)","Also includes editing notes, layouts and photo captions.","Includes:","1. \"And Don't Go Near the Water,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1993)","2. \"Point of Pride,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1993)","3. \"Light Guns, Light Loads, and A Gentle Bird,\" published in \"Game and Gun\" (July 1992/07)","4. \"Luck of November,\" published in \"Game Journal\" (January 1992)","5. \"Giants of the Coverts\" (Kay Harris Evans's photographs), published in \"Shooting Sportsman\" (1990)","6. \"Sixty-Seven Seasons Gunning Grouse,\" an article appearing as a chapter in the book, \"Bare November Days,\" published by Countrysport Press (1992)","Includes:","1. \"Char,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1995)","2. \"Anniversary,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1995)","3. \"When the Blood Is There,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (September 1994)","4. \"How Many Days,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","5. \"In the Coverts of Our Minds,\" appears in the book, \"Come October,\" published by Countrysport Press (1991)","Also includes the manuscript, \"Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948,\" labeled \"unused\"","Includes:","1. \"Tradition in My Hands,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (1982)","2. \"Fowling Piece for a Wife\" by Kay Harris Evans, publication information unknown","3. \"Wild Clays,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (June 1988)","4. \"A Winter's Tale,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (December 1988)","5. \"The Day the Purdey Broke,\" publication information unknown","6. \"Tony's Mayhawk Speck: 17 June 1923 - 9 November 1935,\" publication information unknown","7. \"A Gunner's Tale,\" publication information unknown","8. \"A Family Connection\" [photocopy], published in \"Civil War Times Illustrated\" (November 1961) [regards the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett; see Box 27 for correspondence and clippings regarding this song]","Also includes four \"Forewords\" by George Bird Evans:","1. \"Woodcock Shooting\" author, Edmund W. Davis","2. Gordon Gullion's book, title unknown","3. \"Upland Game Bird Shooting\" author, Eugene Connett","4. \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" author, Charles Norris","Also includes four pages of Evans's notes, photocopies of articles regarding upland shooting and clippings of obituaries","This series contains the manuscript of \"Three Englishmen and A Lady\" by George and Kay Evans; it follows the lives of four of the Evans' Belton English Setters, including Ruff, Blue, Feathers, and Wilda. Publication information is unknown; it was apparently never published as an entire work.","This series includes several of George Bird Evans's \"Gun Diary\" sketches taken from his journal. Many were used in Evans's books (including \"Grouse along the Tramroad\") and articles. There are also charts comparing 41 seasons (1939-1980) of grouse numbers and grouse per coverts.","This series includes proofs of published works includes two books, \"Living with Gun Dogs\" (nine rolled and sealed galleys) and \"Hawk Watch\" authored by George and Kay Evans (unrolled galleys). It also includes three articles and/or chapters: \"Charles Hallock, 1834-1917,\" \"V.E. Willouby\" and \"S.T. Hammond 'Shadow,' 1831-1925.\"","Dr. Norris was a close friend George and Kay Evans. When writing the book \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" Norris became too ill to complete it; this series includes three copies of the unfinished manuscript. George Bird Evans used the unfinished work as the basis for \"Recollections of a Shooting Guest\"; an incomplete copy of the manuscript for \"Shooting Guest\" is also included in this series. There are also copies of letters Dr. Norris wrote to George and Kay Evans over a period of eight years which were used as a resource for information and quotations included in the book. This series also includes photographs of Dr. Norris and his dogs, ephemera from hunting and shooting establishments, and clippings.","George Bird Evans wrote two books to honor the conservationist and author Nash Buckingham by focusing on Buckingham's own material, including \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and \"Dear John . . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". The collection has one copy of the manuscript of \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and two copies of the manuscript for 'Dear John. . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". Evans used, among other sources, the extensive correspondence of Nash Buckingham for both books. The letters are included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Buckingham's family and friends relating facts and anecdotes regarding Nash Buckingham; photographs of Nash Buckingham; and ephemera, including programs from the Hunting Hall of Fame ceremony honoring Nash Buckingham as a 1974 inductee.","Includes stories of shooting, hunting with friends, and samples of Buckingham's 'down home' language. Also includes copies of Nash Buckingham's obituary, reviews of Evans's book, \"The Best of Nash Buckingham,\" published in newspapers and written in private letters to Evans.","Includes anecdotes about Nash Buckingham, a page of \"Notes on Scent,\" written by Buckingham (photocopy), and several lists with subjects including Buckingham's published books and articles, his guns, and \"his people.\"","Includes programs and memorabilia from The Hunting Hall of Fame's Second Awards Dinner (honoring Nash Buckingham as one of the 1974 inductees), the January 1982 issue of \"MS Outdoors\" featuring an article about John Bailey, a close friend of Nash Buckingham, and advertisements for \"The Nash Buckingham Award Gun.\"","Items include:","1. Nash Buckingham receiving the award as the \"1962 Outdoorsman of the Year\"","2. Nash Buckingham at age 85 (1965)","3. A 1984 photograph of a photograph portrait of Nash Buckingham","Subjects include hunting, shooting, and fishing in various regions of the country, and breeding bird dogs. Also includes Nash Buckingham's work on a federal task force to investigate illegal trapping during the depression years [ca. 1936-1938] and his strong opinions against Franklin Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"","Subjects include the building of John Bailey's Lodge, farm preserves, a copy of a speech given by Buckingham at an awards dinner, habitat destruction, and hunting.","Subjects include federal hunting legislation, habitat destruction, \"Sling Shot Charlie\" and the world's largest sling shot, hunting, dogs and family.","This series includes ledgers compiled by the Evans to record sales of their books and audio tapes. There are also several royalty statements.","Articles:","1. \"Old Hemlock: Bequeath to Nature Conservancy,\" published in \"Journal of the Alleghenies,\" Volume VII (1971)","2. \"A Closer Look at Electronic Collars\" (copy), published in \"The American Hunter\" (December 1973)","3. \"The Grandeur and The Glory,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (January 1982)","4. \"Design for Setters,\" unknown publication (1956)","This series includes a variety of material, including a 1988 pedigree chart for the Old Hemlock line of English Setters bred by Stephen Hitsman and George and Kay Evans; research notes compiled by George Bird Evans from his reading of books related to hunting; a greeting card to the Evans labeled by George and/or Kay \"idea for opus 12 jacket\"; and ephemera (three cards advertising publication of books by George Bird Evans).","This series includes audio tapes of \"An Evening at Old Hemlock\" (includes George and Kay Harris Evans reading selections from several books authored by George Bird Evans).","This series includes 3 DVDs by the Hemlock Foundation of hunting footage and other videos about George Bird Evans. Also present are 3 DVDs that include additional copies of digital files of scans of illustrations by Evans that appeared in \"Cosmopolitan,\" \"McCall's,\" and other magazines from Series 12. Magazine Articles [box 26].","This scrapbook documents the collaborative writing career of George and Kay Harris Evans under the pen name \"Brandon Bird,\" which produced five mystery novels and a number of fiction pieces for magazines (includes clippings of articles regarding the Evans as a writing team and the awards they had won; book reviews of the Evans' five mystery novels by several publications, including the New York Times Book Review; press releases announcing the publication of a new novel and several 8x10 photographs of the Evans, their home and their dogs; also includes correspondence and clippings regarding the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett [the original manuscript of the song was in the possession of George and Kay Harris Evans at their home Old Hemlock; see Box 17, Folder 4 for manuscript of article by Evans regarding the Evans-Emmett connection]).","This series includes original copies of illustrations by George Bird Evans (includes 30 oversize pieces, most published in popular women's magazines [such as Cosmopolitan and McCall's] before and after World War II; one 8 1/2 x 12 inch watercolor illustration for book \"Mission Murder\" by Hugh Pentecost; and one 16 x 20 inch drawing of military equipment, drawn by Lieutenant J.G. Evans for the Navy during WWII).","This series includes seven photographs of George Bird Evans, Kay Harris Evans, their dogs, and members of the Evans family; it also includes two artworks by Evans depicting himself and his dogs.","This series includes an easel, two brushes, and hunting gear (hat, backpack, shell box, and shell holster).","This series includes one DVD of an 18-minute motion picture documentary featuring footage of George Bird Evans describing his home, property, and way of life.","This series includes periodicals such as \"Field and Stream,\" \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" \"Game and Gun,\" \"Gun Dog,\" \"Shooting Sportsman,\" and \"Pennsylvania Game News,\" among others. There are also three editions of \"The American Sportsman\" book series with photographs from the ABC-TV series, \"The American Sportsman.\" Several of the publications have articles by George Bird Evans and Kay Harris Evans (most are written by George Bird Evans, some are co-authored with his wife, Kay Evans, and a few are by Kay Evans only).","This series includes 8mm motion picture films of dog training and of special events in the lives of George and Kay Harris Evans and their dogs.","This series includes one framed illustration of a hunting dog by G.B. Evans, \"Toby's Mayhawk Speck-1931\" with text [media unknown, 20 x 25 1/4 inches, signed (68 of 750)].","Books by George Bird Evans separated to the Rare Book Collection.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of George Bird Evans, a widely published author and illustrator of books and articles regarding hunting and bird dog breeding. Most of his work was produced at his home \"Old Hemlock\" in Preston County, West Virginia. Records document his careers as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting; as a breeder of quality bird dogs; an illustrator for several national magazines and the United States Navy during World War II; and as co-author with his wife, Kay Evans, of mystery novels. Materials include: George Bird Evans' Gun Diary with entries and illustrations regarding hunting, fishing, and dog breeding experiences for 65 years; correspondence with friends, patrons, publishers, and other hunters; manuscripts and galleys; cassette tapes (2 items) of recordings of readings by George and Kay Evans; DVDs (3 items) containing 188 digital scans of illustrations by George Bird Evans; and a scrapbook documenting the Evans' career as mystery writers under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". There are also 32 oversize drawings by G.B. Evans; oversized photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, Kay Evans, and their dogs; a DVD of an 18 minute motion picture regarding George Bird Evans; and several sportsman journals, most with published articles by George Bird Evans.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift from Graffious, LeJay, 2008/01/25"],"access_subjects_ssim":["Art and artists","Authors -- Letters and papers","Bird dogs","Fowling -- United States"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Art and artists","Authors -- Letters and papers","Bird dogs","Fowling -- United States"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["16.7 Linear Feet 16 ft. 8 in. (37 document cases,  in. each); (5 flat storage boxes,  in. each)","13.9 Gigabytes 46 files, formats include .pdf, .iso, .cue, .md5, and .jpg"],"extent_tesim":["16.7 Linear Feet 16 ft. 8 in. (37 document cases,  in. each); (5 flat storage boxes,  in. each)","13.9 Gigabytes 46 files, formats include .pdf, .iso, .cue, .md5, and .jpg"],"date_range_isim":[1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNo special access restriction applies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearchers may access digitized and born digital materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the \u003ca href=\"https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWest Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center reference department\u003c/a\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e  "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized and born digital materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGeorge Washington Bird Evans and Eve Hunt Evans celebrated the birth of their only child, George Bird Evans, in 1906. Their comfortable Uniontown, Pennsylvania home provided a secure environment for young George to learn and develop his talents in art and literature. George's father also wasted no time pouring into his young son his love for hunting, bird dogs, and the outdoor life. George Bird Evans attended Carnegie Institute to pursue a career in art. He later transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, staying for two years before moving to New York in 1927 to establish a career as an illustrator, but not alone. He had met and married Kay Harris from Wheeling; their marriage would last for over seventy years. In New York George Evans found success as an illustrator. He also included trips home for the hunt of game on Chestnut Ridge during hunting season. George started keeping a \"gun diary\" or journal in 1932, recording every outing for hunting, shooting, or bird dog training over the next 65 years. The Evans loved the Chestnut Ridge area, leaving New York in 1939 to buy a farm in Preston County, West Virginia, naming their new homestead \"Old Hemlock\". George enjoyed working out of his new surroundings, mailing his work to publishers in New York and having time to roam and hunt with Kay and their dogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis ideal life was interrupted by World War II when George volunteered his services and was commissioned a Lieutenant J.G. in Navy. He used his talents by illustrating equipment repair manuals, substituting pictures for complicated language. After the war George and Kay chose to venture into writing mystery novels as a team under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". It was a success. The Evans were also beginning to breed Belton English Setters in their quest for the best bird dog possible. In 1956 George started using his journal as a source for articles, publishing over a hundred over the next forty two years. In 1971 his first book, \"The Upland Shooting Life\", was published, achieving status as a classic. Twenty seven more upland shooting books followed. Most of the photographs published with the articles and books were taken by Kay Evans. Always careful with their projects, George and Kay Evans began publishing their own books in 1983 under the name \"Old Hemlock\". George Bird Evans died in May, 1998 at the age of ninety-one. He had been hunting only a few weeks before with his best friend Kay and their family of bird dogs.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["George Washington Bird Evans and Eve Hunt Evans celebrated the birth of their only child, George Bird Evans, in 1906. Their comfortable Uniontown, Pennsylvania home provided a secure environment for young George to learn and develop his talents in art and literature. George's father also wasted no time pouring into his young son his love for hunting, bird dogs, and the outdoor life. George Bird Evans attended Carnegie Institute to pursue a career in art. He later transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, staying for two years before moving to New York in 1927 to establish a career as an illustrator, but not alone. He had met and married Kay Harris from Wheeling; their marriage would last for over seventy years. In New York George Evans found success as an illustrator. He also included trips home for the hunt of game on Chestnut Ridge during hunting season. George started keeping a \"gun diary\" or journal in 1932, recording every outing for hunting, shooting, or bird dog training over the next 65 years. The Evans loved the Chestnut Ridge area, leaving New York in 1939 to buy a farm in Preston County, West Virginia, naming their new homestead \"Old Hemlock\". George enjoyed working out of his new surroundings, mailing his work to publishers in New York and having time to roam and hunt with Kay and their dogs.","This ideal life was interrupted by World War II when George volunteered his services and was commissioned a Lieutenant J.G. in Navy. He used his talents by illustrating equipment repair manuals, substituting pictures for complicated language. After the war George and Kay chose to venture into writing mystery novels as a team under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". It was a success. The Evans were also beginning to breed Belton English Setters in their quest for the best bird dog possible. In 1956 George started using his journal as a source for articles, publishing over a hundred over the next forty two years. In 1971 his first book, \"The Upland Shooting Life\", was published, achieving status as a classic. Twenty seven more upland shooting books followed. Most of the photographs published with the articles and books were taken by Kay Evans. Always careful with their projects, George and Kay Evans began publishing their own books in 1983 under the name \"Old Hemlock\". George Bird Evans died in May, 1998 at the age of ninety-one. He had been hunting only a few weeks before with his best friend Kay and their family of bird dogs."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George Bird Evans Papers, A\u0026amp;M 3610, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George Bird Evans Papers, A\u0026M 3610, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of George Bird Evans, including records documenting his career as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting, and as a breeder of his own line of Belton English Setter bird dogs called the \"Old Hemlock Line\" in partnership with his wife, Kay Evans. There are also records regarding his career as a magazine illustrator, including his original art works (32 oversize drawings) that were published with fiction that appeared in several popular women's magazines before and after World War II (including \"Cosmopolitan\" and \"McCall's\" among others). The collaborative writing career of George and Kay Evans under the pen name of \"Brandon Bird\" is documented in a scrapbook (ca.1950-1962) containing photographs, clippings, and book reviews regarding their five published mystery novels.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe collection includes a journal, which Evans referred to as his \"Gun Diary\", with entries ranging from 1932 to 1997 where Evans recorded and illustrated his hunting, fishing, and bird dog training excursions for 65 years. There are also several periodicals, such as \"Field and Stream\", \"The Pointing Dog Journal\", and \"Gun Dog\", among others, most issues contain articles by George Bird Evans and a few by Kay Evans. Other materials include extensive correspondence with publishers, friends, outdoor sports writers, hunters and breeders (such as Nash Buckingham, Dr. Charles Norris, and Dr. Gordon Gullion), and patrons of his bird dog breeding business. There are several manuscripts and galleys of published books, including \"The Upland Shooting Life\" and \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\", among others. There are also financial records regarding the publication and sales of his books, videos, and cassette tapes. The collection also includes 188 digital scans of illustrations by Evans on DVD discs (3 items), audio recordings (2 cassette tapes) of readings by George and Kay Evans, and oversized framed photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, his wife Kay, and their dogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Biographical Information, 1936, 1993, 2008 (box 1) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Journal of George Bird Evans, 1932–1997 (boxes 1-4) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Correspondence, 1942–2005 (boxes 5-9) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Manuscripts - Published Books, ca. 1971 (boxes 9-16) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Manuscripts - Published Articles, ca. 1961-1995 (box 17) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Manuscript, undated (box 17) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Manuscripts - Illustrations, ca. 1984-1986 (box 17) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Manuscripts - Galleys, 1956, ca. 1991, undated (box 18) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Projects - Dr. Charles Norris, 1952-1969, undated (boxes 19-22) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. Projects - Nash Buckingham, 1960–1984 (boxes 23-25) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Financial Records, 1971–1999 (boxes 25-26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Magazine Articles, 1956, 1971-1982 (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 13. Subjects, 1975–1997 (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 14. Audio Tapes, June 1989 and Fall 1993 (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 15. Digital Files, undated (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 16. Scrapbook, ca. 1948-1975 (box 27) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 17. Artworks, ca. 1938-1948 (boxes 28-29) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 18. Oversized Pictures of George Bird Evans and Others, undated (box 29) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 19. Artifacts, undated (box 30) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 20. Motion Picture, undated (box 30) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 21. Sportsmen Journals, 1959–2013 (boxes 31-38) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 22. Motion Pictures -- Unpublished, ca. 1950-1975 (boxes 39-42) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 23. Oversized Material, 1986 (unboxed)\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eRegards the life and career of George Bird Evans, including feature articles in the Morgantown \"Dominion Post\" newspaper (1993) and The West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter (Spring 2008). Also contains a 3 in. x 5 in. photograph of George Bird Evans with one of his setters and a \"kill\" (a grouse); a photograph of Evans with friend, David Hall; and two photos of Evans with his wife Kay on a fishing trip (1936).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpanning 65 years (1932-1997), the journal documents the hunting, fishing, and dog training excursions of George Evans through text and illustrations. The journals were a primary source for most of the books and articles Evans authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a substantial amount of correspondence with the book publishers (Winchester, Amwell, and Alfred Knopf Company), book dealers, and magazines (including: \"Field and Stream\", \"Gun Dog\", \"American Hunter\", and \"The American Sportsman\") that were publishing material authored by Evans. Also includes research requests, permissions, and releases for material used in publications by Evans. Other correspondents includes friends and fellow hunters. Many letters were from patrons and fans such as David Hall and the Ingrahams. There is a series of letters \"written\" by the setters at Old Hemlock to their family members that were living with the Ingrahams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains 16 manuscripts of published books by George Bird Evans, including his first book pertaining to dogs, guns, and hunting, \"The Upland Shooting Life\" (1971) and his last, \"Grouse \u0026amp; Woodcocks in the Blackwater/Canaan\" (1997). There is one incomplete manuscript of a published book, \"From My Covers\" (1995).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains 17 published articles and seven \"copies\" of published articles authored by George Bird Evans with photographs by Kay Evans. Most were published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" but some appeared in \"Pennsylvania Gaming News\" and Field and Stream,\" among other such publications. There are also four forewords by George Bird Evans, including an introduction for the 1989 edition of \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" authored by Evans's close friend, Dr. Charles Norris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. \"The Ache of Memory,\" published in the \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. \"A Bird Dog Fancy,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (November 1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. \"The Solo Dog,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \"The Quality of Time,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5. \"The End of Day,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6. \"Bittersweet,\" appears in the book \"A Breed Apart, Vol. I,\" published by \"Countrysport Press\" (1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also includes editing notes, layouts and photo captions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. \"And Don't Go Near the Water,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. \"Point of Pride,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1993)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. \"Light Guns, Light Loads, and A Gentle Bird,\" published in \"Game and Gun\" (July 1992/07)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \"Luck of November,\" published in \"Game Journal\" (January 1992)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5. \"Giants of the Coverts\" (Kay Harris Evans's photographs), published in \"Shooting Sportsman\" (1990)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6. \"Sixty-Seven Seasons Gunning Grouse,\" an article appearing as a chapter in the book, \"Bare November Days,\" published by Countrysport Press (1992)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Char,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1995)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. \"Anniversary,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1995)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. \"When the Blood Is There,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (September 1994)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \"How Many Days,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5. \"In the Coverts of Our Minds,\" appears in the book, \"Come October,\" published by Countrysport Press (1991)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also includes the manuscript, \"Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948,\" labeled \"unused\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Tradition in My Hands,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (1982)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. \"Fowling Piece for a Wife\" by Kay Harris Evans, publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. \"Wild Clays,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (June 1988)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \"A Winter's Tale,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (December 1988)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5. \"The Day the Purdey Broke,\" publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6. \"Tony's Mayhawk Speck: 17 June 1923 - 9 November 1935,\" publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7. \"A Gunner's Tale,\" publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8. \"A Family Connection\" [photocopy], published in \"Civil War Times Illustrated\" (November 1961) [regards the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett; see Box 27 for correspondence and clippings regarding this song]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also includes four \"Forewords\" by George Bird Evans:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Woodcock Shooting\" author, Edmund W. Davis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. Gordon Gullion's book, title unknown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. \"Upland Game Bird Shooting\" author, Eugene Connett\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" author, Charles Norris\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Also includes four pages of Evans's notes, photocopies of articles regarding upland shooting and clippings of obituaries\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the manuscript of \"Three Englishmen and A Lady\" by George and Kay Evans; it follows the lives of four of the Evans' Belton English Setters, including Ruff, Blue, Feathers, and Wilda. Publication information is unknown; it was apparently never published as an entire work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes several of George Bird Evans's \"Gun Diary\" sketches taken from his journal. Many were used in Evans's books (including \"Grouse along the Tramroad\") and articles. There are also charts comparing 41 seasons (1939-1980) of grouse numbers and grouse per coverts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes proofs of published works includes two books, \"Living with Gun Dogs\" (nine rolled and sealed galleys) and \"Hawk Watch\" authored by George and Kay Evans (unrolled galleys). It also includes three articles and/or chapters: \"Charles Hallock, 1834-1917,\" \"V.E. Willouby\" and \"S.T. Hammond 'Shadow,' 1831-1925.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Norris was a close friend George and Kay Evans. When writing the book \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" Norris became too ill to complete it; this series includes three copies of the unfinished manuscript. George Bird Evans used the unfinished work as the basis for \"Recollections of a Shooting Guest\"; an incomplete copy of the manuscript for \"Shooting Guest\" is also included in this series. There are also copies of letters Dr. Norris wrote to George and Kay Evans over a period of eight years which were used as a resource for information and quotations included in the book. This series also includes photographs of Dr. Norris and his dogs, ephemera from hunting and shooting establishments, and clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Bird Evans wrote two books to honor the conservationist and author Nash Buckingham by focusing on Buckingham's own material, including \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and \"Dear John . . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". The collection has one copy of the manuscript of \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and two copies of the manuscript for 'Dear John. . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". Evans used, among other sources, the extensive correspondence of Nash Buckingham for both books. The letters are included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Buckingham's family and friends relating facts and anecdotes regarding Nash Buckingham; photographs of Nash Buckingham; and ephemera, including programs from the Hunting Hall of Fame ceremony honoring Nash Buckingham as a 1974 inductee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes stories of shooting, hunting with friends, and samples of Buckingham's 'down home' language. Also includes copies of Nash Buckingham's obituary, reviews of Evans's book, \"The Best of Nash Buckingham,\" published in newspapers and written in private letters to Evans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes anecdotes about Nash Buckingham, a page of \"Notes on Scent,\" written by Buckingham (photocopy), and several lists with subjects including Buckingham's published books and articles, his guns, and \"his people.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes programs and memorabilia from The Hunting Hall of Fame's Second Awards Dinner (honoring Nash Buckingham as one of the 1974 inductees), the January 1982 issue of \"MS Outdoors\" featuring an article about John Bailey, a close friend of Nash Buckingham, and advertisements for \"The Nash Buckingham Award Gun.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems include:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. Nash Buckingham receiving the award as the \"1962 Outdoorsman of the Year\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. Nash Buckingham at age 85 (1965)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. A 1984 photograph of a photograph portrait of Nash Buckingham\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include hunting, shooting, and fishing in various regions of the country, and breeding bird dogs. Also includes Nash Buckingham's work on a federal task force to investigate illegal trapping during the depression years [ca. 1936-1938] and his strong opinions against Franklin Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include the building of John Bailey's Lodge, farm preserves, a copy of a speech given by Buckingham at an awards dinner, habitat destruction, and hunting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include federal hunting legislation, habitat destruction, \"Sling Shot Charlie\" and the world's largest sling shot, hunting, dogs and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes ledgers compiled by the Evans to record sales of their books and audio tapes. There are also several royalty statements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Old Hemlock: Bequeath to Nature Conservancy,\" published in \"Journal of the Alleghenies,\" Volume VII (1971)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2. \"A Closer Look at Electronic Collars\" (copy), published in \"The American Hunter\" (December 1973)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3. \"The Grandeur and The Glory,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (January 1982)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4. \"Design for Setters,\" unknown publication (1956)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a variety of material, including a 1988 pedigree chart for the Old Hemlock line of English Setters bred by Stephen Hitsman and George and Kay Evans; research notes compiled by George Bird Evans from his reading of books related to hunting; a greeting card to the Evans labeled by George and/or Kay \"idea for opus 12 jacket\"; and ephemera (three cards advertising publication of books by George Bird Evans).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes audio tapes of \"An Evening at Old Hemlock\" (includes George and Kay Harris Evans reading selections from several books authored by George Bird Evans).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes 3 DVDs by the Hemlock Foundation of hunting footage and other videos about George Bird Evans. Also present are 3 DVDs that include additional copies of digital files of scans of illustrations by Evans that appeared in \"Cosmopolitan,\" \"McCall's,\" and other magazines from Series 12. Magazine Articles [box 26].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook documents the collaborative writing career of George and Kay Harris Evans under the pen name \"Brandon Bird,\" which produced five mystery novels and a number of fiction pieces for magazines (includes clippings of articles regarding the Evans as a writing team and the awards they had won; book reviews of the Evans' five mystery novels by several publications, including the New York Times Book Review; press releases announcing the publication of a new novel and several 8x10 photographs of the Evans, their home and their dogs; also includes correspondence and clippings regarding the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett [the original manuscript of the song was in the possession of George and Kay Harris Evans at their home Old Hemlock; see Box 17, Folder 4 for manuscript of article by Evans regarding the Evans-Emmett connection]).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes original copies of illustrations by George Bird Evans (includes 30 oversize pieces, most published in popular women's magazines [such as Cosmopolitan and McCall's] before and after World War II; one 8 1/2 x 12 inch watercolor illustration for book \"Mission Murder\" by Hugh Pentecost; and one 16 x 20 inch drawing of military equipment, drawn by Lieutenant J.G. Evans for the Navy during WWII).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes seven photographs of George Bird Evans, Kay Harris Evans, their dogs, and members of the Evans family; it also includes two artworks by Evans depicting himself and his dogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes an easel, two brushes, and hunting gear (hat, backpack, shell box, and shell holster).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes one DVD of an 18-minute motion picture documentary featuring footage of George Bird Evans describing his home, property, and way of life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes periodicals such as \"Field and Stream,\" \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" \"Game and Gun,\" \"Gun Dog,\" \"Shooting Sportsman,\" and \"Pennsylvania Game News,\" among others. There are also three editions of \"The American Sportsman\" book series with photographs from the ABC-TV series, \"The American Sportsman.\" Several of the publications have articles by George Bird Evans and Kay Harris Evans (most are written by George Bird Evans, some are co-authored with his wife, Kay Evans, and a few are by Kay Evans only).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes 8mm motion picture films of dog training and of special events in the lives of George and Kay Harris Evans and their dogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes one framed illustration of a hunting dog by G.B. Evans, \"Toby's Mayhawk Speck-1931\" with text [media unknown, 20 x 25 1/4 inches, signed (68 of 750)].\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of George Bird Evans, including records documenting his career as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting, and as a breeder of his own line of Belton English Setter bird dogs called the \"Old Hemlock Line\" in partnership with his wife, Kay Evans. There are also records regarding his career as a magazine illustrator, including his original art works (32 oversize drawings) that were published with fiction that appeared in several popular women's magazines before and after World War II (including \"Cosmopolitan\" and \"McCall's\" among others). The collaborative writing career of George and Kay Evans under the pen name of \"Brandon Bird\" is documented in a scrapbook (ca.1950-1962) containing photographs, clippings, and book reviews regarding their five published mystery novels.","The collection includes a journal, which Evans referred to as his \"Gun Diary\", with entries ranging from 1932 to 1997 where Evans recorded and illustrated his hunting, fishing, and bird dog training excursions for 65 years. There are also several periodicals, such as \"Field and Stream\", \"The Pointing Dog Journal\", and \"Gun Dog\", among others, most issues contain articles by George Bird Evans and a few by Kay Evans. Other materials include extensive correspondence with publishers, friends, outdoor sports writers, hunters and breeders (such as Nash Buckingham, Dr. Charles Norris, and Dr. Gordon Gullion), and patrons of his bird dog breeding business. There are several manuscripts and galleys of published books, including \"The Upland Shooting Life\" and \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\", among others. There are also financial records regarding the publication and sales of his books, videos, and cassette tapes. The collection also includes 188 digital scans of illustrations by Evans on DVD discs (3 items), audio recordings (2 cassette tapes) of readings by George and Kay Evans, and oversized framed photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, his wife Kay, and their dogs.","Series include:","Series 1. Biographical Information, 1936, 1993, 2008 (box 1) \nSeries 2. Journal of George Bird Evans, 1932–1997 (boxes 1-4) \nSeries 3. Correspondence, 1942–2005 (boxes 5-9) \nSeries 4. Manuscripts - Published Books, ca. 1971 (boxes 9-16) \nSeries 5. Manuscripts - Published Articles, ca. 1961-1995 (box 17) \nSeries 6. Manuscript, undated (box 17) \nSeries 7. Manuscripts - Illustrations, ca. 1984-1986 (box 17) \nSeries 8. Manuscripts - Galleys, 1956, ca. 1991, undated (box 18) \nSeries 9. Projects - Dr. Charles Norris, 1952-1969, undated (boxes 19-22) \nSeries 10. Projects - Nash Buckingham, 1960–1984 (boxes 23-25) \nSeries 11. Financial Records, 1971–1999 (boxes 25-26) \nSeries 12. Magazine Articles, 1956, 1971-1982 (box 26) \nSeries 13. Subjects, 1975–1997 (box 26) \nSeries 14. Audio Tapes, June 1989 and Fall 1993 (box 26) \nSeries 15. Digital Files, undated (box 26) \nSeries 16. Scrapbook, ca. 1948-1975 (box 27) \nSeries 17. Artworks, ca. 1938-1948 (boxes 28-29) \nSeries 18. Oversized Pictures of George Bird Evans and Others, undated (box 29) \nSeries 19. Artifacts, undated (box 30) \nSeries 20. Motion Picture, undated (box 30) \nSeries 21. Sportsmen Journals, 1959–2013 (boxes 31-38) \nSeries 22. Motion Pictures -- Unpublished, ca. 1950-1975 (boxes 39-42) \nSeries 23. Oversized Material, 1986 (unboxed)","Regards the life and career of George Bird Evans, including feature articles in the Morgantown \"Dominion Post\" newspaper (1993) and The West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter (Spring 2008). Also contains a 3 in. x 5 in. photograph of George Bird Evans with one of his setters and a \"kill\" (a grouse); a photograph of Evans with friend, David Hall; and two photos of Evans with his wife Kay on a fishing trip (1936).","Spanning 65 years (1932-1997), the journal documents the hunting, fishing, and dog training excursions of George Evans through text and illustrations. The journals were a primary source for most of the books and articles Evans authored.","Includes a substantial amount of correspondence with the book publishers (Winchester, Amwell, and Alfred Knopf Company), book dealers, and magazines (including: \"Field and Stream\", \"Gun Dog\", \"American Hunter\", and \"The American Sportsman\") that were publishing material authored by Evans. Also includes research requests, permissions, and releases for material used in publications by Evans. Other correspondents includes friends and fellow hunters. Many letters were from patrons and fans such as David Hall and the Ingrahams. There is a series of letters \"written\" by the setters at Old Hemlock to their family members that were living with the Ingrahams.","This series contains 16 manuscripts of published books by George Bird Evans, including his first book pertaining to dogs, guns, and hunting, \"The Upland Shooting Life\" (1971) and his last, \"Grouse \u0026 Woodcocks in the Blackwater/Canaan\" (1997). There is one incomplete manuscript of a published book, \"From My Covers\" (1995).","This series contains 17 published articles and seven \"copies\" of published articles authored by George Bird Evans with photographs by Kay Evans. Most were published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" but some appeared in \"Pennsylvania Gaming News\" and Field and Stream,\" among other such publications. There are also four forewords by George Bird Evans, including an introduction for the 1989 edition of \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" authored by Evans's close friend, Dr. Charles Norris.","Includes:","1. \"The Ache of Memory,\" published in the \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","2. \"A Bird Dog Fancy,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (November 1993)","3. \"The Solo Dog,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","4. \"The Quality of Time,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1993)","5. \"The End of Day,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","6. \"Bittersweet,\" appears in the book \"A Breed Apart, Vol. I,\" published by \"Countrysport Press\" (1993)","Also includes editing notes, layouts and photo captions.","Includes:","1. \"And Don't Go Near the Water,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1993)","2. \"Point of Pride,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1993)","3. \"Light Guns, Light Loads, and A Gentle Bird,\" published in \"Game and Gun\" (July 1992/07)","4. \"Luck of November,\" published in \"Game Journal\" (January 1992)","5. \"Giants of the Coverts\" (Kay Harris Evans's photographs), published in \"Shooting Sportsman\" (1990)","6. \"Sixty-Seven Seasons Gunning Grouse,\" an article appearing as a chapter in the book, \"Bare November Days,\" published by Countrysport Press (1992)","Includes:","1. \"Char,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1995)","2. \"Anniversary,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1995)","3. \"When the Blood Is There,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (September 1994)","4. \"How Many Days,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","5. \"In the Coverts of Our Minds,\" appears in the book, \"Come October,\" published by Countrysport Press (1991)","Also includes the manuscript, \"Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948,\" labeled \"unused\"","Includes:","1. \"Tradition in My Hands,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (1982)","2. \"Fowling Piece for a Wife\" by Kay Harris Evans, publication information unknown","3. \"Wild Clays,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (June 1988)","4. \"A Winter's Tale,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (December 1988)","5. \"The Day the Purdey Broke,\" publication information unknown","6. \"Tony's Mayhawk Speck: 17 June 1923 - 9 November 1935,\" publication information unknown","7. \"A Gunner's Tale,\" publication information unknown","8. \"A Family Connection\" [photocopy], published in \"Civil War Times Illustrated\" (November 1961) [regards the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett; see Box 27 for correspondence and clippings regarding this song]","Also includes four \"Forewords\" by George Bird Evans:","1. \"Woodcock Shooting\" author, Edmund W. Davis","2. Gordon Gullion's book, title unknown","3. \"Upland Game Bird Shooting\" author, Eugene Connett","4. \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" author, Charles Norris","Also includes four pages of Evans's notes, photocopies of articles regarding upland shooting and clippings of obituaries","This series contains the manuscript of \"Three Englishmen and A Lady\" by George and Kay Evans; it follows the lives of four of the Evans' Belton English Setters, including Ruff, Blue, Feathers, and Wilda. Publication information is unknown; it was apparently never published as an entire work.","This series includes several of George Bird Evans's \"Gun Diary\" sketches taken from his journal. Many were used in Evans's books (including \"Grouse along the Tramroad\") and articles. There are also charts comparing 41 seasons (1939-1980) of grouse numbers and grouse per coverts.","This series includes proofs of published works includes two books, \"Living with Gun Dogs\" (nine rolled and sealed galleys) and \"Hawk Watch\" authored by George and Kay Evans (unrolled galleys). It also includes three articles and/or chapters: \"Charles Hallock, 1834-1917,\" \"V.E. Willouby\" and \"S.T. Hammond 'Shadow,' 1831-1925.\"","Dr. Norris was a close friend George and Kay Evans. When writing the book \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" Norris became too ill to complete it; this series includes three copies of the unfinished manuscript. George Bird Evans used the unfinished work as the basis for \"Recollections of a Shooting Guest\"; an incomplete copy of the manuscript for \"Shooting Guest\" is also included in this series. There are also copies of letters Dr. Norris wrote to George and Kay Evans over a period of eight years which were used as a resource for information and quotations included in the book. This series also includes photographs of Dr. Norris and his dogs, ephemera from hunting and shooting establishments, and clippings.","George Bird Evans wrote two books to honor the conservationist and author Nash Buckingham by focusing on Buckingham's own material, including \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and \"Dear John . . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". The collection has one copy of the manuscript of \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and two copies of the manuscript for 'Dear John. . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". Evans used, among other sources, the extensive correspondence of Nash Buckingham for both books. The letters are included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Buckingham's family and friends relating facts and anecdotes regarding Nash Buckingham; photographs of Nash Buckingham; and ephemera, including programs from the Hunting Hall of Fame ceremony honoring Nash Buckingham as a 1974 inductee.","Includes stories of shooting, hunting with friends, and samples of Buckingham's 'down home' language. Also includes copies of Nash Buckingham's obituary, reviews of Evans's book, \"The Best of Nash Buckingham,\" published in newspapers and written in private letters to Evans.","Includes anecdotes about Nash Buckingham, a page of \"Notes on Scent,\" written by Buckingham (photocopy), and several lists with subjects including Buckingham's published books and articles, his guns, and \"his people.\"","Includes programs and memorabilia from The Hunting Hall of Fame's Second Awards Dinner (honoring Nash Buckingham as one of the 1974 inductees), the January 1982 issue of \"MS Outdoors\" featuring an article about John Bailey, a close friend of Nash Buckingham, and advertisements for \"The Nash Buckingham Award Gun.\"","Items include:","1. Nash Buckingham receiving the award as the \"1962 Outdoorsman of the Year\"","2. Nash Buckingham at age 85 (1965)","3. A 1984 photograph of a photograph portrait of Nash Buckingham","Subjects include hunting, shooting, and fishing in various regions of the country, and breeding bird dogs. Also includes Nash Buckingham's work on a federal task force to investigate illegal trapping during the depression years [ca. 1936-1938] and his strong opinions against Franklin Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"","Subjects include the building of John Bailey's Lodge, farm preserves, a copy of a speech given by Buckingham at an awards dinner, habitat destruction, and hunting.","Subjects include federal hunting legislation, habitat destruction, \"Sling Shot Charlie\" and the world's largest sling shot, hunting, dogs and family.","This series includes ledgers compiled by the Evans to record sales of their books and audio tapes. There are also several royalty statements.","Articles:","1. \"Old Hemlock: Bequeath to Nature Conservancy,\" published in \"Journal of the Alleghenies,\" Volume VII (1971)","2. \"A Closer Look at Electronic Collars\" (copy), published in \"The American Hunter\" (December 1973)","3. \"The Grandeur and The Glory,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (January 1982)","4. \"Design for Setters,\" unknown publication (1956)","This series includes a variety of material, including a 1988 pedigree chart for the Old Hemlock line of English Setters bred by Stephen Hitsman and George and Kay Evans; research notes compiled by George Bird Evans from his reading of books related to hunting; a greeting card to the Evans labeled by George and/or Kay \"idea for opus 12 jacket\"; and ephemera (three cards advertising publication of books by George Bird Evans).","This series includes audio tapes of \"An Evening at Old Hemlock\" (includes George and Kay Harris Evans reading selections from several books authored by George Bird Evans).","This series includes 3 DVDs by the Hemlock Foundation of hunting footage and other videos about George Bird Evans. Also present are 3 DVDs that include additional copies of digital files of scans of illustrations by Evans that appeared in \"Cosmopolitan,\" \"McCall's,\" and other magazines from Series 12. Magazine Articles [box 26].","This scrapbook documents the collaborative writing career of George and Kay Harris Evans under the pen name \"Brandon Bird,\" which produced five mystery novels and a number of fiction pieces for magazines (includes clippings of articles regarding the Evans as a writing team and the awards they had won; book reviews of the Evans' five mystery novels by several publications, including the New York Times Book Review; press releases announcing the publication of a new novel and several 8x10 photographs of the Evans, their home and their dogs; also includes correspondence and clippings regarding the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett [the original manuscript of the song was in the possession of George and Kay Harris Evans at their home Old Hemlock; see Box 17, Folder 4 for manuscript of article by Evans regarding the Evans-Emmett connection]).","This series includes original copies of illustrations by George Bird Evans (includes 30 oversize pieces, most published in popular women's magazines [such as Cosmopolitan and McCall's] before and after World War II; one 8 1/2 x 12 inch watercolor illustration for book \"Mission Murder\" by Hugh Pentecost; and one 16 x 20 inch drawing of military equipment, drawn by Lieutenant J.G. 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There are also three editions of \"The American Sportsman\" book series with photographs from the ABC-TV series, \"The American Sportsman.\" Several of the publications have articles by George Bird Evans and Kay Harris Evans (most are written by George Bird Evans, some are co-authored with his wife, Kay Evans, and a few are by Kay Evans only).","This series includes 8mm motion picture films of dog training and of special events in the lives of George and Kay Harris Evans and their dogs.","This series includes one framed illustration of a hunting dog by G.B. 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Materials include: George Bird Evans' Gun Diary with entries and illustrations regarding hunting, fishing, and dog breeding experiences for 65 years; correspondence with friends, patrons, publishers, and other hunters; manuscripts and galleys; cassette tapes (2 items) of recordings of readings by George and Kay Evans; DVDs (3 items) containing 188 digital scans of illustrations by George Bird Evans; and a scrapbook documenting the Evans' career as mystery writers under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". There are also 32 oversize drawings by G.B. Evans; oversized photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, Kay Evans, and their dogs; a DVD of an 18 minute motion picture regarding George Bird Evans; and several sportsman journals, most with published articles by George Bird Evans.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of George Bird Evans, a widely published author and illustrator of books and articles regarding hunting and bird dog breeding. Most of his work was produced at his home \"Old Hemlock\" in Preston County, West Virginia. Records document his careers as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting; as a breeder of quality bird dogs; an illustrator for several national magazines and the United States Navy during World War II; and as co-author with his wife, Kay Evans, of mystery novels. Materials include: George Bird Evans' Gun Diary with entries and illustrations regarding hunting, fishing, and dog breeding experiences for 65 years; correspondence with friends, patrons, publishers, and other hunters; manuscripts and galleys; cassette tapes (2 items) of recordings of readings by George and Kay Evans; DVDs (3 items) containing 188 digital scans of illustrations by George Bird Evans; and a scrapbook documenting the Evans' career as mystery writers under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". There are also 32 oversize drawings by G.B. 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She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Bunting Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship, and numerous other awards, including Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction for Black Tickets (1979), The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Lark and Termite (2008), and an Academy Award in Literature for Shelter (1994) presented by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She and her works have also been selected as finalists for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle in Fiction, and the Prix de Medici Étrangers (Paris).","For more information about current projects and a detailed biography, please visit https://jayneannephillips.com/.","(Adapted from Biography, Jayne Anne Phillips Official Website. 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Accessed January, 2024.)","This collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, photographs, artifacts, and publications of author Jayne Anne Phillips.","Box 1 includes original, edited, and published drafts of Jayne Anne Phillips' work, including her books Quiet Dell and MotherKind, the essay Love's Labor's Lost, and drafts of works related to Breece D'J Pancake. This set of material also includes collected materials used for research during the writing of, and correspondence about, these publications.","Boxes 2 and 3 and the oversize folders include clippings and publications in which Jayne Anne Phillips was mentioned or featured, including several foreign language items. Materials consist of newspapers, magazines, and printed articles. Most notable is an issue of Rolling Stone with Mean Fiction, a short story by Jayne Anne Phillips, in Oversize Folder 1.","Box 2, folder 6 includes a small selection of essays by and about Jayne Anne Phillips, correspondence from Library of America editorial director John Kulka, and original photographs of Jayne Anne Phillips.","This collection also contains a framed item, Phillips' grade-school cheerleading suit.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center","West Virginia and Regional History Center","Phillips, Jayne Anne","Pancake, Breece D'J, 1952-1979","English\n."],"collection_title_tesim":["Jayne Anne Phillips, Author, Papers, 1970/2022"],"collection_ssim":["Jayne Anne Phillips, Author, Papers, 1970/2022"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["A\u0026M 4571","Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/6960"],"unitid_tesim":["A\u0026M 4571","Archival Resource Key","/repositories/2/resources/6960"],"repository_ssm":["West Virginia and Regional History Center"],"repository_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center"],"geogname_ssm":["West Virginia -- Fiction"],"geogname_ssim":["West Virginia -- Fiction"],"places_ssim":["West Virginia -- Fiction"],"creator_ssm":["Phillips, Jayne Anne"],"creator_ssim":["Phillips, Jayne Anne"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Phillips, Jayne Anne","Pancake, Breece D'J, 1952-1979"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center"],"creators_ssim":["Phillips, Jayne Anne","Pancake, Breece D'J, 1952-1979","West Virginia and Regional History Center"],"access_terms_ssm":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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She graduated from West Virginia University with a B.A. in 1974 and later completed the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. In the mid-1970s, she left West Virginia for California on a cross-country trip that would lead to numerous jobs, experiences, and encounters that would greatly affect her fiction, however many of her works use the mountain state iteself as subject and inspiration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhillips has held teaching positions at several colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Williams College, Brandeis University, and Boston University. She is currently a Professor of English and founder/director of the Rutgers University–Newark Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. During its inaugural year, \u003ctitle\u003e\u003cpart\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c/part\u003e\u003c/title\u003e magazine named Phillips' MFA program at Rutgers–Newark to its list of \u003ctitle render=\"doublequote\"\u003e\u003cpart\u003eFive Up-and-Coming\u003c/part\u003e\u003c/title\u003e creative writing programs in the United States.\n \nPhillips' works have been translated and published in twelve foreign languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Bunting Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship, and numerous other awards, including Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction for \u003ctitle\u003eBlack Tickets\u003c/title\u003e (1979), The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for \u003ctitle\u003eLark and Termite\u003c/title\u003e (2008), and an Academy Award in Literature for \u003ctitle\u003eShelter\u003c/title\u003e (1994) presented by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She and her works have also been selected as finalists for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle in Fiction, and the Prix de Medici Étrangers (Paris).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor more information about current projects and a detailed biography, please visit https://jayneannephillips.com/.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Adapted from \u003ca href=\"https://jayneannephillips.com/biography/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBiography\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003e\u003cpart\u003eJayne Anne Phillips Official Website\u003c/part\u003e\u003c/title\u003e. Accessed January, 2024.)\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Jayne Anne Phillips is an American novelist and short story writer born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She graduated from West Virginia University with a B.A. in 1974 and later completed the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. In the mid-1970s, she left West Virginia for California on a cross-country trip that would lead to numerous jobs, experiences, and encounters that would greatly affect her fiction, however many of her works use the mountain state iteself as subject and inspiration.","Phillips has held teaching positions at several colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Williams College, Brandeis University, and Boston University. She is currently a Professor of English and founder/director of the Rutgers University–Newark Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. During its inaugural year, The Atlantic magazine named Phillips' MFA program at Rutgers–Newark to its list of Five Up-and-Coming creative writing programs in the United States.\n \nPhillips' works have been translated and published in twelve foreign languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Bunting Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship, and numerous other awards, including Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction for Black Tickets (1979), The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Lark and Termite (2008), and an Academy Award in Literature for Shelter (1994) presented by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She and her works have also been selected as finalists for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle in Fiction, and the Prix de Medici Étrangers (Paris).","For more information about current projects and a detailed biography, please visit https://jayneannephillips.com/.","(Adapted from Biography, Jayne Anne Phillips Official Website. 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This set of material also includes collected materials used for research during the writing of, and correspondence about, these publications.","Boxes 2 and 3 and the oversize folders include clippings and publications in which Jayne Anne Phillips was mentioned or featured, including several foreign language items. Materials consist of newspapers, magazines, and printed articles. Most notable is an issue of Rolling Stone with Mean Fiction, a short story by Jayne Anne Phillips, in Oversize Folder 1.","Box 2, folder 6 includes a small selection of essays by and about Jayne Anne Phillips, correspondence from Library of America editorial director John Kulka, and original photographs of Jayne Anne Phillips.","This collection also contains a framed item, Phillips' grade-school cheerleading suit."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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There are over 90 letters from Stuart to Dahmer, dating from 1966 to 1976, which discuss travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. The collection also includes a large number of Stuart's books, many of which are first editions inscribed to Dahmer, as well as publications by his daughter Jane Stuart. Jesse Hilton Stuart was born on August 8, 1906 in Greenup County, Kentucky. He published over 2000 poems and over 60 books, writing primarily about Appalachian life in poems, novels, children's books, autobiographical works, and short stories. He received several prestigious accolades for his work, including the highest award for poetry in America, the Fellowship for the Academy of American Poets. 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There are over 90 letters from Stuart to Dahmer, dating from 1966 to 1976, which discuss travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. The collection also includes a large number of Stuart's books, many of which are first editions inscribed to Dahmer, as well as publications by his daughter Jane Stuart. Jesse Hilton Stuart was born on August 8, 1906 in Greenup County, Kentucky. He published over 2000 poems and over 60 books, writing primarily about Appalachian life in poems, novels, children's books, autobiographical works, and short stories. He received several prestigious accolades for his work, including the highest award for poetry in America, the Fellowship for the Academy of American Poets. Stuart spent the majority of his life in his hometown of Greenup and remained deeply devoted to his Appalachian roots until he died on 17 Feburary 1984.","Series include:\nSeries 1. Clippings, 1966–1976 (box 1) \nSeries 2. Newsletters, 1967–1975 (box 1) \nSeries 2. Incoming Letters, 1966-1982 (boxes 1-2) \nSeries 3. Subjects, 1950-1966, undated (box 2) \nSeries 4. Writings by Jesse Stuart, 1965–1982 (boxes 3-4) \nSeries 5. Writings about Jesse Stuart, 1957–1980 (box 4) \nSeries 6. Broadside, undated (box 4)","This series contains newspaper and magazine clippings regarding Jesse Stuart's writings, reviews of his work, and his life.","This series contains issues of three newsletters: \"Jefferson Community College Bulletin,\" \"The Alicia Patterson Foundation,\" and \"Pegasus.\"","This series contains 143 mailed items, including letters, greeting cards, pamphlets, etc. 114 items are from Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 96 of which are letters regarding travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. With the letter of 1967 January 22 are five photos of Stuart with a postman who is delivering him coconuts.","This series includes assorted correspondence, tests, photographs, and other material sorted by subject.","This series contains journals and magazines with short stories, poetry, and essays on teaching, Robert Burns, travel in Greece, etc.","This series contains not only magazines and newspapers including advertisements for and reviews of Jesse Stuart's writings but also one biographical article.","This series contains one broadside of a poem by Jesse Stuart, \"Kentucky Is My Land,\" with an illustration by Orville Carroll.","BOOKS BY JESSE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:","ALBUM OF DESTINY. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. 255 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"I worked longer on this book than on any I've written. Eleven years off and on I worked on this book.\" Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, clipped corner, chipped and soiled, but sound.","ANDY FINDS A WAY. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1961. 92 pages. Second printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969.  Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise fine.","THE BEATINEST BOY.  Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1953. 110 pages. Eleventh printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"The Beatinest Boy was real -- very real.\" Library binding, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","BEYOND DARK HILLS: A PERSONAL STORY. With six decorations by Ishmael. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1938. 399 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"You had a time getting this one -- a really scarce book.\" Cloth, ex-lib, card pocket pasted in back, book spine torn, worn, and repaired with tape, title page secured with tape, end papers and various pages stained and/or soiled.","CLEARING IN THE SKY \u0026 OTHER STORIES. Woodcuts by Stanley Rice. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. 262 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1967, \"This is a book hard to come by but Naomi Deane found it for you. ... So from the green hills of Appalachia, green clouds of leaves now rustling in the winds of May, we send you this and our warmest personal greetings to a fellow teacher and a friend.\" Cloth, end papers stained, otherwise fine, with dust jacket, well worn and soiled, but sound. Letter from Naomi Deane Stuart (Mrs. Jesse Stuart) dated May 22, 1967 enclosed.","COME GENTLE SPRING. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. 282 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"fellow teacher, friend, a girl from the Appalachian hills -- your background is my background.\"  Cloth covers and end papers stained at top and at bottom from tape residue, otherwise clean and sound, with dust jacket, also stained from tape residue, and slightly soiled, but otherwise sound.","COME TO MY TOMORROWLAND. Nashville: Aurora Publishers, 1971.  195 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1974, \"I hope there will be a tomorrowland for all wildlife.\" Very fine hardcover, with dust jacket, very fine.","COME BACK TO THE FARM. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. 246 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, September 1971, \"How wonderful it is to sign this first edition for you.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","DAUGHTER OF THE LEGEND. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. 249 pages. First edition. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, fine.","DAWN OF REMEMBERED SPRING. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.  179 pages. First edition? Inscribed by author, to Maryan Dahmer, June 1972, \"I know you love people but I wonder if you will love the things that crawl, run (on two legs and four) and fly.\" Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","FORETASTE OF GLORY. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. 256 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You were in Blakesburg this afternoon and you walked where these people ran ...\" Fine cloth, with label pasted on inscribed end paper, with dust jacket, soiled, faded, chipped, clipped corner, extensively repaired with tape.","GOD'S ODDLING: THE STORY OF MICK STUART, MY FATHER. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. Third printing. 266 pages. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You are now where my father lived, where he walked and talked and he loved this land. I wish you could have met him.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, showing mild wear.","THE GOOD SPIRIT OF LAUREL RIDGE.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953. 263 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You visited Laurel Ridge yesterday -- the land where Old Op once lived and loved.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, chipped and slightly worn, fine.","HARVEST OF YOUTH. Berea, Ky.: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1964, ca. 1930. 80 pages. Reproduced by offset printing from the pages of the original book published by the Scroll Press, Howe, Oklahoma. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1966. Wrappers, very fine, with dust jacket, large portion at bottom of front missing, corners worn. Dust jacket: \"Jesse Stuart's First Book.\"","HARVEST OF YOUTH. Berea, Ky.: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1964, ca. 1930. 80 pages. Reproduced by offset printing from the pages of the original book published by the Scroll Press, Howe, Oklahoma. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1966. Wrappers, very fine, with dust jacket, fine. Dust jacket: \"Jesse Stuart's First Book.\"","HEAD O' W-HOLLOW. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1936. 342 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, August 1971, \"You, certainly a friend of first dimension to go out and buy my old books and collect me. I'll tell you this is a rare one and a scarce one. It's really a pleasure to special autograph this for you.\" Cloth covers with minor wear and some soiling, but spine and pasted-down end papers badly stained apparently from bookbinder's glue, one inch tear in front flyleaf end paper.","HIE TO THE HUNTERS. New York: Whittlesey House, 1950. 265 pages. Eleventh printing. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, chipped at corners, otherwise fine.","HOLD APRIL: NEW POEMS. Woodcuts by Walter Ferro. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. 114 pages. Second printing.  Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"It is so nice to see you again and to sign Hold April for you. But we can't hold April.\" Very Fine hardcover, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise very fine.","A JESSE STUART READER: STORIES AND POEMS SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JESSE STUART.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. 342 pages. Decorative cloth, very fine.","KENTUCKY IS MY LAND. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952. 95 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"... a rare book ... most difficult to find. Very few copies of this book were printed in the first place.\" Cloth, stained on front end papers and eight various pages, otherwise near fine.","THE LAND BEYOND THE RIVER. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. 380 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1974, \"W-Hollow is really beautiful now.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, very fine.","LOST SANDSTONES AND LONELY SKIES AND OTHER ESSAYS. [Danbury, CT], Archer Editions Press, 1979. 176 pages. Illustrated with photographs from the Jesse Stuart family album.  \"Library of Jesse Stuart\" embossed on flyleaf end paper. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart, to Maryan Dahmer, July 1982. Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","MAN WITH A BULL-TONGUE PLOW. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1934. 361 pages.  Fourth printing, December 1942. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"This book was our meeting at Shepherd College ... From Shepherd College to W-Hollow, you are with us tonight.\" Cloth, fine, end papers and edges stained.","MONGREL METTLE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DOG. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. 201 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"you are in the spot in this old living room ... where I wrote this book.\" Cloth, covers and end papers stained, spine faded, sound, pages clean.","MR. GALLION'S SCHOOL. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 337 pages. Second printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, June 1968, \"Who recommended J. S. to Mrs. Scott.\" Hard cover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, fine.","MR. GALLION'S SCHOOL. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 337 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1967, \"I think of you often. You away from our hills. You a native of these hills. You who fights for us.\" Hard cover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","MY LAND HAS A VOICE. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.  243 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968. Hardcover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","MY WORLD. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1975. 95, [1] pages  (The Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf)  \"Library of Jesse Stuart\" embossed on flyleaf end paper. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, July 1982, \"Thank you for coming to see us again.\" Decorative cloth, very fine.","OLD BEN. Illustrated by Richard Cuffari. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. 92 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, September 1970.  Hardcover, very fine, illustrated covers, no dust jacket.","A PENNY'S WORTH OF CHARACTER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, a division of McGraw-Hill, 1954. 61, [2] pages. Ninth printing. Inscribed by author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"If I had but one of my junior books to sign for you, I would select and sign this one for you.\" Very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, trimmed at bottom, but sound and clean.","PLOWSHARE IN HEAVEN: STORIES BY JESSE STUART. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 273 pages. Seventh printing. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, production flaw on back, otherwise fine.","RED MULE. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1955. 124 pages. Fifth printing. Inscribed by the author, to Mayan Dahmer, November 1969, \"Red Mule was real -- a neighbor and friend.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, corner clipped, small stain, minor wear.","A RIDE WITH HUEY THE ENGINEER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996. 92, [3] pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"Huey will never pull this train again over the countryside in our part of Kentucky.\" Library binding, very fine, with dust jacket, severely trimmed at top, otherwise fine.","THE RIGHTFUL OWNER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. 110 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969. Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, corner clipped, slight wear, otherwise fine.","SAVE EVERY LAMB. Illustrations by Jean George. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. 278 pages. First edition. Signed by the author. Hardcover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, minor shelf wear, but fine plus.","SEVEN BY JESSE. Terre Haute, Ind.: Indiana Council of Teachers of English, Indiana State University, 1970. 42 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1970, \"With love and Christmas best wishes from your friends in W-Hollow.\" Wrappers, very fine.","SHORT STORIES FOR DISCUSSION. Edited by Albert K. Ridout, Jesse Stuart. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. 489 pages. Includes \"How I Write My Short Stories\" by Jesse Stuart, as well as one short story each by Stuart and his daughter, Jessica Jane Stuart. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968. Very fine cloth, decorative cover.","SPLIT CHERRY TREE: A PLAY IN ONE ACT. By Jessie [sic] Stuart, dramatized by Dem and Janet Polachek. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1967. 24 pages. Two copies, both signed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 December 4 and April 1968. Wrappers, very fine.","TALES FROM THE PLUM GROVE HILLS. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. 256 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Kenneth Gould, October 7th, 1946, \"This book will be published Oct 21st.\" Also inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, October 1970, \"to think you have the copy I signed for an editor who used to accept my poems and stories for Scholastic Magazine.\" Cloth, foxing on covers and end papers, otherwise fine, with dust jacket, soiled and chipped.","TAPS FOR PRIVATE TUSSIE. Illustrated by Thomas Benton. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. Cloth, good, but sound.","TAPS FOR PRIVATE TUSSIE. Illustrated by Thomas Benton. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. 303 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969. Cloth covers faded and stained, showing some wear, front hinge loosened, with dust jacket, soiled, faded, creased, chipped, and torn. Includes Book-of-the-Month Club News reprint about Jesse Stuart and this book.","THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. DRAMATIZED BY REGINALD LAWRENCE. FROM THE BOOK BY JESSE STUART. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1958. 107 pages. Wrappers, fine plus.","THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958, ca. 1949. 293 pages. With a new preface by the author. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"I think this is one of your favorites of my books and I am glad it is.\" Cloth, lower third of back cover water-stained, otherwise clean and sound, with dust jacket, lower half of back wrinkled and discolored from moisture.","TIM: A STORY. Cincinnati: Kentucky Writers' Guild, Harvest Press, [1968?].  34 pages.  Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"Upon this wonderful occasion, your visiting us, take this little memento with you.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, very fine.","TO TEACH, TO LOVE. New York: World Publishing, 1970. First printing. 317 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1969, and signed with a juvenile flourish by Conrad Stuart Juergensmeyer, Jesse Stuart's grandson. Hardcover, shelf bump at bottom of back cover, otherwise fine plus, with dust jacket, fine plus.","TREES OF HEAVEN. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1943, ca. 1940. 340 pages. Fourth printing. Distributed by E. P. Dutton, New York. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You've been over the scenes of this book. These people used to live here.\"  Cloth, long scratch from top to bottom of back cover, bottom edges bumped and worn, large stain on top of leaves, near spine, that has soaked into paper and affected nearly every page. With dust jacket, large chips at all outside corners, clipped corner, soiled.","THE WORLD OF JESSE STUART: SELECTED POEMS.  Edited and with an introduction by J. R. LeMaster. Frontispiece, woodcut by Woodi Ishmael.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. 309 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, inside corner creased, otherwise very fine.","THE WORLD OF JESSE STUART: SELECTED POEMS. Edited and with an introduction by J. R. LeMaster. Frontispiece, woodcut by Woodi Ishmael.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. 309 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise very fine.","THE YEAR OF MY REBIRTH. Illustrations by Barry Martin. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 342 pages. Fifth printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"This book was lived -- and passages in this book you've spoken about here.\" Hardcover, fine plus, with dust jacket, fine plus.","PUBLICATIONS ABOUT JESSE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:","Blair, Everetta Love. JESSE STUART: HIS LIFE AND WORKS. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1967.) 288 pages. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket.","Clarke, Mary Washington. JESSE STUART'S KENTUCKY. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1968.) 240 pages. First edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, Nov. 26, 1969.","Foster, Ruel E. JESSE STUART. (New York: Twayne Publishers, ca. 1968.) 168 pages. (Twayne's United States Authors Series, 140) Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1969 June 16.","Hall, Wade. \"THE TRUTH IS FUNNY\": A STUDY OF JESSE STUART'S HUMOR. (Terre Haute, Ind.: Indiana Council of Teachers of English, Indiana State University, 1970. 75 pages. Paperback. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970.","LAND OF THE HONEY-COLORED WIND: JESSE STUART'S KENTUCKY: A RESOURCE BOOK. Selected and edited by Jerry A. Herndon. (Morehead, Ky.: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, Inc., ca. 1981. 168 pages. Paperback. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1982 July 27.","THE MAN ... JESSE STUART: POET, NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, EDUCATOR. (Ashland, Ky.: Economy Printers, [1965?]) [28] pages, illus. Paperback. Two copies, both inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1966 March 30 and 1967 January 21.","THE MAN ... JESSE STUART: POET, NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, EDUCATOR. (Ashland, Ky.: Economy Printers, [1967?]) [31] pages, illus. Revised edition. Paperback. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 July 24.","Pennington, Lee. THE DARK HILLS OF JESSE STUART: A CONSIDERATION OF SYMBOLISM AND VISION IN THE NOVELS OF JESSE STUART. (Cincinnati, Ohio: Harvest Press, The Kentucky Writers Guild, ca. 1967.) 166 pages, illus. Second printing. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970 October 7.","W-HOLLOW COOKBOOK. Compiled by Glennis Stuart Liles. With the assistance of Betty Stuart Baird. Edited by Chuck D. Charles. Second edition. (Ashland, Ky.: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1990.) 306 pages, illus. Hardcover.","W-HOLLOW HARVEST. (Cincinnati: Jesse Stuart Exchange) published monthly\nvol. 1, no. 1 (January 1967) - vol. 1, no. 12 (December 1967)\n_______. (Cincinnati: The Kentucky Writers' Guild) published 10 times per year\nvol. II, no. 4 (April 1968) - vol. II, no. 5 (May 1968)\nvol. II, no. 9 (September 1968) - vol. II, no. 10 (October 1968)","Woodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE AND JANE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. (Murray, Ky.: Murray State University, 1969.) 144 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, expanded and revised. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970 September 27.","Woodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR MAY, 1960 - MAY, 1965. Reprinted from The Register of The Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 63, Number 4, October 1965, pages 349-370.","Woodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. With essays by Roland Carter, Lawrence Edwards, H. H. Kroll, E. H. Smith, and Jesse Stuart. (Harrogate, Tenn.: Lincoln Memorial University Press, 1960.) 74 pages. Paperback.","BOOKS BY JANE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:","EYES OF THE MOLE. Sauk City, Wisc.: Stanton \u0026 Lee, 1967. 48 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.  Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 December 25.","GIDEON'S CHILDREN. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1976. 283 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.","LAND OF THE FOX. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1975. 154 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.","PASSERMAN'S HOLLOW. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1974. 141 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.","YELLOWHAWK. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1973. 178 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1973 April 21.","BOOKS COLLECTED BY MARYAN DAHMER SEPARATED TO THE REGULAR CIRCULATING COLLECTION (All books hardcover with dust jacket, unless otherwise indicated.):","Adkins, Jan. A STORM WITHOUT RAIN. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.","Bellow, Saul. MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET. New York: Viking Press, 1970.","BEST OF 'HILLBILLY': A PRIZE-WINNING COLLECTION OF 100-PROOF WRITING FROM JIM COMSTOCK'S WEST VIRGINIA HILLBILLY (\"A PAPER FOR PEOPLE WHO \nCAN'T READ, EDITED BY AN EDITOR WHO CAN'T EDIT\"). Compiled \u0026 edited by Otto Whittaker. Anderson, S.C.: Droke House, 1968. (Signed by Jim Comstock)","BEST FROM THE FARMERS' ALMANAC. Edited by Ray Geiger. Garden City: Doubleday, 1963. (No dust jacket)","Buck, Pearl S. THE LIVING REED: A NOVEL. New York: John Day, 1963.","Buck, Pearl S. A BRIDGE FOR PASSING. New York: John Day, 1962.","Campbell, Harry Modean, and Ruel E. Foster. ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS: AMERICAN NOVELIST.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. (Inscribed by Ruel E. Foster)","Case, Carlton B. STORIES FROM THE TRENCHES: HUMOROUS AND LIVELY DOINGS OF OUR BOYS \"OVER THERE\". Chicago: Shrewesbury Publishing, 1918. Cover title: Stories from the trenches: funny tales the soldiers tell. (paperback)","Caudill, Harry M. NIGHT COMES TO THE CUMBERLANDS: A BIOGRAPHY OF A DEPRESSED AREA. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.","Cheng, Nien. LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. (paperback)","Cooper, James Fenimore. THE SPY. Illustrated by William P. Crouse. Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing, 1936.","Cozzens, James Gould. CHILDREN AND OTHERS. New York: Harcourt, Brace, \u0026 World, 1964.","Crabb, Alfred Leland. DINNER AT BELMONT: A NOVEL OF CAPTURED NASHVILLE. New York: Pocket Books, 1953, first printing 1952. \"Cardinal Edition.\" (Signed by the author.) (Paperback, no dust jacket)","Crabb, Alfred Leland. DINNER AT BELMONT: A NOVEL OF CAPTURED NASHVILLE. [Nashville]: The Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County, 1965, ca. 1942. (Inscribed by the author.)","Ferber, Edna. SHOW BOAT, SO BIG, CIMARRON: THREE LIVING NOVELS OF AMERICAN LIFE. Garden City: Doubleday, [1958?].","Ferraro, Geraldine A. FERRARO: MY STORY. With Linda Bird Francke. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1985.","Goldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, AND OTHER WRITINGS. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Frederick W. Hilles. New York: The Modern Library, 1955.","Heckman, Hazel. ISLAND IN THE SOUND. Drawings by Helen Hiatt. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967.","Hoffman, Frederick J. WILLIAM FAULKNER. New Haven, Conn.: College \u0026 University Press, 1961. (Twayne's United States Authors Series) (paperback)","Huizinga, Johan. THE WANING OF THE MIDDLE AGES: A STUDY OF THE FORMS OF LIFE, THOUGH AND ART IN FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS IN THE XIVTH AND XVTH CENTURIES. Garden City: Doubleday Anchor, 1956. (paperback)","Lockridge, Ross. RAINTREE COUNTY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948.","Massie, Robert K. NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA. New York: Atheneum, 1968.","Nabokov, Vladimir. THE EYE. New York: Phaedra, 1965.","Nelson, Charles S. TO BE AN AMERICAN AND OTHER POEMS. New York: Carlton Press, 1973. (Signed by the author.)","Nelson, Charles S. TO BE AN AMERICAN AND OTHER POEMS. New York: Carlton Press, 1973. (Paperback) (Signed by the author's daughter.)","QUESTION OF HENRY JAMES: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS. Edited by F. W. Dupee. New York: Henry Holt, 1945.","Roosevelt, Eleanor. THIS I REMEMBER. New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1949.","Rushdie, Salman. THE SATANIC VERSES. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989.","Salmon, Arthur L. THE MAN AND THE WOMAN: CHAPTERS ON HUMAN LIFE. Chicago: Forbes \u0026 Company, 1915, ca. 1913. (No dust jacket)","Terrill, Ross. 800,000,000: THE REAL CHINA. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.","Terrill, Ross. FLOWERS ON AN IRON TREE: FIVE CITIES OF CHINA. Boston: Little Brown, 1975.","Terrill, Ross. MAO: A BIOGRAPHY. New York: Harper \u0026 Row, 1980.","Terrill, Ross. THE WHITE-BONED DEMON: A BIOGRAPHY OF MADAME MAO ZEDONG. New York: William Morrow, 1984.","Terrill, Ross. CHINA IN OUR TIME: THE EPIC SAGA OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC FROM THE COMMUNIST VICTORY TO TIANANMEN SQUARE AND BEYOND. New York: Simon \u0026 Schuster, 1992.","Thomas, Dylan. UNDER MILK WOOD: A PLAY FOR VOICES. Preface and musical settings by Daniel Jones. London: J. M. Dent \u0026 Sons, 1955, ca. 1954.","Thoreau, Henry David. WALDEN. Illustrated by Henry Bugbee Kane. New York: Bramhall House, 1951.","WALT WHITMAN'S NEW YORK: FROM MANHATTAN TO MONTAUK. Edited by Henry M. Christman. New York: Macmillan, 1963.","Waltari, Mika. THE EGYPTIAN: A NOVEL. Translated by Naomi Walford. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1949.","WAR POETS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE WAR POETRY OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Edited by Oscar Williams. New York: John Day, 1945.","Whitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. First Borzoi edition. With a preface by Bernard Smith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945.","Wolfe, Thomas. MANNERHOUSE: A PLAY IN A PROLOGUE AND THREE ACTS. New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1948. (no dust jacket)","Wolfe, Thomas. YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN. Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1942. (no dust jacket)","Wolfe, Thomas. LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL: A STORY OF THE BURIED LIFE. Illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947.","Wolfe, Thomas. OF TIME AND THE RIVER: A LEGEND OF MAN'S HUNGER IN HIS YOUTH. Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1944.","Wolfe, Thomas. A STONE, A LEAF, A DOOR: POEMS. Selected and arranged in verse by John S. Barnes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. (No dust jacket)","Wright, Austin Tappan. ISLANDIA. New York: Farrar \u0026 Rinehart, 1942. (No dust jacket)","Young, Barbara. THIS MAN FROM LEBANON: A STUDY OF KAHLIL GIBRAN. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970, ca. 1945.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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Newsletters, 1967–1975 (box 1) \nSeries 2. Incoming Letters, 1966-1982 (boxes 1-2) \nSeries 3. Subjects, 1950-1966, undated (box 2) \nSeries 4. Writings by Jesse Stuart, 1965–1982 (boxes 3-4) \nSeries 5. Writings about Jesse Stuart, 1957–1980 (box 4) \nSeries 6. Broadside, undated (box 4)","This series contains newspaper and magazine clippings regarding Jesse Stuart's writings, reviews of his work, and his life.","This series contains issues of three newsletters: \"Jefferson Community College Bulletin,\" \"The Alicia Patterson Foundation,\" and \"Pegasus.\"","This series contains 143 mailed items, including letters, greeting cards, pamphlets, etc. 114 items are from Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 96 of which are letters regarding travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. With the letter of 1967 January 22 are five photos of Stuart with a postman who is delivering him coconuts.","This series includes assorted correspondence, tests, photographs, and other material sorted by subject.","This series contains journals and magazines with short stories, poetry, and essays on teaching, Robert Burns, travel in Greece, etc.","This series contains not only magazines and newspapers including advertisements for and reviews of Jesse Stuart's writings but also one biographical article.","This series contains one broadside of a poem by Jesse Stuart, \"Kentucky Is My Land,\" with an illustration by Orville Carroll."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eBOOKS BY JESSE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eALBUM OF DESTINY. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. 255 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"I worked longer on this book than on any I've written. Eleven years off and on I worked on this book.\" Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, clipped corner, chipped and soiled, but sound. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eANDY FINDS A WAY. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1961. 92 pages. Second printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969.  Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE BEATINEST BOY.  Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1953. 110 pages. Eleventh printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"The Beatinest Boy was real -- very real.\" Library binding, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBEYOND DARK HILLS: A PERSONAL STORY. With six decorations by Ishmael. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1938. 399 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"You had a time getting this one -- a really scarce book.\" Cloth, ex-lib, card pocket pasted in back, book spine torn, worn, and repaired with tape, title page secured with tape, end papers and various pages stained and/or soiled. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCLEARING IN THE SKY \u0026amp; OTHER STORIES. Woodcuts by Stanley Rice. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. 262 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1967, \"This is a book hard to come by but Naomi Deane found it for you. ... So from the green hills of Appalachia, green clouds of leaves now rustling in the winds of May, we send you this and our warmest personal greetings to a fellow teacher and a friend.\" Cloth, end papers stained, otherwise fine, with dust jacket, well worn and soiled, but sound. Letter from Naomi Deane Stuart (Mrs. Jesse Stuart) dated May 22, 1967 enclosed. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCOME GENTLE SPRING. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. 282 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"fellow teacher, friend, a girl from the Appalachian hills -- your background is my background.\"  Cloth covers and end papers stained at top and at bottom from tape residue, otherwise clean and sound, with dust jacket, also stained from tape residue, and slightly soiled, but otherwise sound. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCOME TO MY TOMORROWLAND. Nashville: Aurora Publishers, 1971.  195 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1974, \"I hope there will be a tomorrowland for all wildlife.\" Very fine hardcover, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCOME BACK TO THE FARM. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. 246 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, September 1971, \"How wonderful it is to sign this first edition for you.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDAUGHTER OF THE LEGEND. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. 249 pages. First edition. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDAWN OF REMEMBERED SPRING. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.  179 pages. First edition? Inscribed by author, to Maryan Dahmer, June 1972, \"I know you love people but I wonder if you will love the things that crawl, run (on two legs and four) and fly.\" Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFORETASTE OF GLORY. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. 256 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You were in Blakesburg this afternoon and you walked where these people ran ...\" Fine cloth, with label pasted on inscribed end paper, with dust jacket, soiled, faded, chipped, clipped corner, extensively repaired with tape. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGOD'S ODDLING: THE STORY OF MICK STUART, MY FATHER. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. Third printing. 266 pages. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You are now where my father lived, where he walked and talked and he loved this land. I wish you could have met him.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, showing mild wear. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE GOOD SPIRIT OF LAUREL RIDGE.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953. 263 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You visited Laurel Ridge yesterday -- the land where Old Op once lived and loved.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, chipped and slightly worn, fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHARVEST OF YOUTH. Berea, Ky.: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1964, ca. 1930. 80 pages. Reproduced by offset printing from the pages of the original book published by the Scroll Press, Howe, Oklahoma. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1966. Wrappers, very fine, with dust jacket, large portion at bottom of front missing, corners worn. Dust jacket: \"Jesse Stuart's First Book.\" \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHARVEST OF YOUTH. Berea, Ky.: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1964, ca. 1930. 80 pages. Reproduced by offset printing from the pages of the original book published by the Scroll Press, Howe, Oklahoma. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1966. Wrappers, very fine, with dust jacket, fine. Dust jacket: \"Jesse Stuart's First Book.\" \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHEAD O' W-HOLLOW. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1936. 342 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, August 1971, \"You, certainly a friend of first dimension to go out and buy my old books and collect me. I'll tell you this is a rare one and a scarce one. It's really a pleasure to special autograph this for you.\" Cloth covers with minor wear and some soiling, but spine and pasted-down end papers badly stained apparently from bookbinder's glue, one inch tear in front flyleaf end paper. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHIE TO THE HUNTERS. New York: Whittlesey House, 1950. 265 pages. Eleventh printing. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, chipped at corners, otherwise fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHOLD APRIL: NEW POEMS. Woodcuts by Walter Ferro. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. 114 pages. Second printing.  Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"It is so nice to see you again and to sign Hold April for you. But we can't hold April.\" Very Fine hardcover, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA JESSE STUART READER: STORIES AND POEMS SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JESSE STUART.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. 342 pages. Decorative cloth, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKENTUCKY IS MY LAND. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952. 95 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"... a rare book ... most difficult to find. Very few copies of this book were printed in the first place.\" Cloth, stained on front end papers and eight various pages, otherwise near fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE LAND BEYOND THE RIVER. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. 380 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1974, \"W-Hollow is really beautiful now.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLOST SANDSTONES AND LONELY SKIES AND OTHER ESSAYS. [Danbury, CT], Archer Editions Press, 1979. 176 pages. Illustrated with photographs from the Jesse Stuart family album.  \"Library of Jesse Stuart\" embossed on flyleaf end paper. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart, to Maryan Dahmer, July 1982. Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMAN WITH A BULL-TONGUE PLOW. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1934. 361 pages.  Fourth printing, December 1942. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"This book was our meeting at Shepherd College ... From Shepherd College to W-Hollow, you are with us tonight.\" Cloth, fine, end papers and edges stained. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMONGREL METTLE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DOG. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. 201 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"you are in the spot in this old living room ... where I wrote this book.\" Cloth, covers and end papers stained, spine faded, sound, pages clean. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMR. GALLION'S SCHOOL. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 337 pages. Second printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, June 1968, \"Who recommended J. S. to Mrs. Scott.\" Hard cover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMR. GALLION'S SCHOOL. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 337 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1967, \"I think of you often. You away from our hills. You a native of these hills. You who fights for us.\" Hard cover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMY LAND HAS A VOICE. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.  243 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968. Hardcover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMY WORLD. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1975. 95, [1] pages  (The Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf)  \"Library of Jesse Stuart\" embossed on flyleaf end paper. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, July 1982, \"Thank you for coming to see us again.\" Decorative cloth, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOLD BEN. Illustrated by Richard Cuffari. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. 92 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, September 1970.  Hardcover, very fine, illustrated covers, no dust jacket. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA PENNY'S WORTH OF CHARACTER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, a division of McGraw-Hill, 1954. 61, [2] pages. Ninth printing. Inscribed by author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"If I had but one of my junior books to sign for you, I would select and sign this one for you.\" Very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, trimmed at bottom, but sound and clean. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePLOWSHARE IN HEAVEN: STORIES BY JESSE STUART. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 273 pages. Seventh printing. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, production flaw on back, otherwise fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRED MULE. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1955. 124 pages. Fifth printing. Inscribed by the author, to Mayan Dahmer, November 1969, \"Red Mule was real -- a neighbor and friend.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, corner clipped, small stain, minor wear. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA RIDE WITH HUEY THE ENGINEER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996. 92, [3] pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"Huey will never pull this train again over the countryside in our part of Kentucky.\" Library binding, very fine, with dust jacket, severely trimmed at top, otherwise fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE RIGHTFUL OWNER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. 110 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969. Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, corner clipped, slight wear, otherwise fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSAVE EVERY LAMB. Illustrations by Jean George. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. 278 pages. First edition. Signed by the author. Hardcover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, minor shelf wear, but fine plus. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSEVEN BY JESSE. Terre Haute, Ind.: Indiana Council of Teachers of English, Indiana State University, 1970. 42 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1970, \"With love and Christmas best wishes from your friends in W-Hollow.\" Wrappers, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSHORT STORIES FOR DISCUSSION. Edited by Albert K. Ridout, Jesse Stuart. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. 489 pages. Includes \"How I Write My Short Stories\" by Jesse Stuart, as well as one short story each by Stuart and his daughter, Jessica Jane Stuart. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968. Very fine cloth, decorative cover. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSPLIT CHERRY TREE: A PLAY IN ONE ACT. By Jessie [sic] Stuart, dramatized by Dem and Janet Polachek. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1967. 24 pages. Two copies, both signed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 December 4 and April 1968. Wrappers, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTALES FROM THE PLUM GROVE HILLS. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. 256 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Kenneth Gould, October 7th, 1946, \"This book will be published Oct 21st.\" Also inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, October 1970, \"to think you have the copy I signed for an editor who used to accept my poems and stories for Scholastic Magazine.\" Cloth, foxing on covers and end papers, otherwise fine, with dust jacket, soiled and chipped. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTAPS FOR PRIVATE TUSSIE. Illustrated by Thomas Benton. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. Cloth, good, but sound. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTAPS FOR PRIVATE TUSSIE. Illustrated by Thomas Benton. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. 303 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969. Cloth covers faded and stained, showing some wear, front hinge loosened, with dust jacket, soiled, faded, creased, chipped, and torn. Includes Book-of-the-Month Club News reprint about Jesse Stuart and this book. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. DRAMATIZED BY REGINALD LAWRENCE. FROM THE BOOK BY JESSE STUART. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1958. 107 pages. Wrappers, fine plus. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958, ca. 1949. 293 pages. With a new preface by the author. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"I think this is one of your favorites of my books and I am glad it is.\" Cloth, lower third of back cover water-stained, otherwise clean and sound, with dust jacket, lower half of back wrinkled and discolored from moisture. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTIM: A STORY. Cincinnati: Kentucky Writers' Guild, Harvest Press, [1968?].  34 pages.  Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"Upon this wonderful occasion, your visiting us, take this little memento with you.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTO TEACH, TO LOVE. New York: World Publishing, 1970. First printing. 317 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1969, and signed with a juvenile flourish by Conrad Stuart Juergensmeyer, Jesse Stuart's grandson. Hardcover, shelf bump at bottom of back cover, otherwise fine plus, with dust jacket, fine plus. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTREES OF HEAVEN. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1943, ca. 1940. 340 pages. Fourth printing. Distributed by E. P. Dutton, New York. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You've been over the scenes of this book. These people used to live here.\"  Cloth, long scratch from top to bottom of back cover, bottom edges bumped and worn, large stain on top of leaves, near spine, that has soaked into paper and affected nearly every page. With dust jacket, large chips at all outside corners, clipped corner, soiled. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE WORLD OF JESSE STUART: SELECTED POEMS.  Edited and with an introduction by J. R. LeMaster. Frontispiece, woodcut by Woodi Ishmael.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. 309 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, inside corner creased, otherwise very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE WORLD OF JESSE STUART: SELECTED POEMS. Edited and with an introduction by J. R. LeMaster. Frontispiece, woodcut by Woodi Ishmael.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. 309 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE YEAR OF MY REBIRTH. Illustrations by Barry Martin. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 342 pages. Fifth printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"This book was lived -- and passages in this book you've spoken about here.\" Hardcover, fine plus, with dust jacket, fine plus. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003ePUBLICATIONS ABOUT JESSE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlair, Everetta Love. JESSE STUART: HIS LIFE AND WORKS. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1967.) 288 pages. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClarke, Mary Washington. JESSE STUART'S KENTUCKY. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1968.) 240 pages. First edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, Nov. 26, 1969. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Ruel E. JESSE STUART. (New York: Twayne Publishers, ca. 1968.) 168 pages. (Twayne's United States Authors Series, 140) Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1969 June 16. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHall, Wade. \"THE TRUTH IS FUNNY\": A STUDY OF JESSE STUART'S HUMOR. (Terre Haute, Ind.: Indiana Council of Teachers of English, Indiana State University, 1970. 75 pages. Paperback. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLAND OF THE HONEY-COLORED WIND: JESSE STUART'S KENTUCKY: A RESOURCE BOOK. Selected and edited by Jerry A. Herndon. (Morehead, Ky.: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, Inc., ca. 1981. 168 pages. Paperback. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1982 July 27. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE MAN ... JESSE STUART: POET, NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, EDUCATOR. (Ashland, Ky.: Economy Printers, [1965?]) [28] pages, illus. Paperback. Two copies, both inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1966 March 30 and 1967 January 21. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE MAN ... JESSE STUART: POET, NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, EDUCATOR. (Ashland, Ky.: Economy Printers, [1967?]) [31] pages, illus. Revised edition. Paperback. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 July 24. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePennington, Lee. THE DARK HILLS OF JESSE STUART: A CONSIDERATION OF SYMBOLISM AND VISION IN THE NOVELS OF JESSE STUART. (Cincinnati, Ohio: Harvest Press, The Kentucky Writers Guild, ca. 1967.) 166 pages, illus. Second printing. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970 October 7. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW-HOLLOW COOKBOOK. Compiled by Glennis Stuart Liles. With the assistance of Betty Stuart Baird. Edited by Chuck D. Charles. Second edition. (Ashland, Ky.: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1990.) 306 pages, illus. Hardcover. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW-HOLLOW HARVEST. (Cincinnati: Jesse Stuart Exchange) published monthly\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nvol. 1, no. 1 (January 1967) - vol. 1, no. 12 (December 1967)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n_______. (Cincinnati: The Kentucky Writers' Guild) published 10 times per year\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nvol. II, no. 4 (April 1968) - vol. II, no. 5 (May 1968)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nvol. II, no. 9 (September 1968) - vol. II, no. 10 (October 1968)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWoodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE AND JANE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. (Murray, Ky.: Murray State University, 1969.) 144 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, expanded and revised. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970 September 27. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWoodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR MAY, 1960 - MAY, 1965. Reprinted from The Register of The Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 63, Number 4, October 1965, pages 349-370. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWoodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. With essays by Roland Carter, Lawrence Edwards, H. H. Kroll, E. H. Smith, and Jesse Stuart. (Harrogate, Tenn.: Lincoln Memorial University Press, 1960.) 74 pages. Paperback. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eBOOKS BY JANE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEYES OF THE MOLE. Sauk City, Wisc.: Stanton \u0026amp; Lee, 1967. 48 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.  Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 December 25. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGIDEON'S CHILDREN. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1976. 283 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLAND OF THE FOX. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1975. 154 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePASSERMAN'S HOLLOW. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1974. 141 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYELLOWHAWK. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1973. 178 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1973 April 21. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eBOOKS COLLECTED BY MARYAN DAHMER SEPARATED TO THE REGULAR CIRCULATING COLLECTION (All books hardcover with dust jacket, unless otherwise indicated.):\u003c/title\u003e \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdkins, Jan. A STORM WITHOUT RAIN. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBellow, Saul. MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET. New York: Viking Press, 1970. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBEST OF 'HILLBILLY': A PRIZE-WINNING COLLECTION OF 100-PROOF WRITING FROM JIM COMSTOCK'S WEST VIRGINIA HILLBILLY (\"A PAPER FOR PEOPLE WHO \nCAN'T READ, EDITED BY AN EDITOR WHO CAN'T EDIT\"). Compiled \u0026amp; edited by Otto Whittaker. Anderson, S.C.: Droke House, 1968. (Signed by Jim Comstock) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBEST FROM THE FARMERS' ALMANAC. Edited by Ray Geiger. Garden City: Doubleday, 1963. (No dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuck, Pearl S. THE LIVING REED: A NOVEL. New York: John Day, 1963. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuck, Pearl S. A BRIDGE FOR PASSING. New York: John Day, 1962. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCampbell, Harry Modean, and Ruel E. Foster. ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS: AMERICAN NOVELIST.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. (Inscribed by Ruel E. Foster) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCase, Carlton B. STORIES FROM THE TRENCHES: HUMOROUS AND LIVELY DOINGS OF OUR BOYS \"OVER THERE\". Chicago: Shrewesbury Publishing, 1918. Cover title: Stories from the trenches: funny tales the soldiers tell. (paperback) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaudill, Harry M. NIGHT COMES TO THE CUMBERLANDS: A BIOGRAPHY OF A DEPRESSED AREA. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCheng, Nien. LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. (paperback) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCooper, James Fenimore. THE SPY. Illustrated by William P. Crouse. Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing, 1936. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCozzens, James Gould. CHILDREN AND OTHERS. New York: Harcourt, Brace, \u0026amp; World, 1964. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrabb, Alfred Leland. DINNER AT BELMONT: A NOVEL OF CAPTURED NASHVILLE. New York: Pocket Books, 1953, first printing 1952. \"Cardinal Edition.\" (Signed by the author.) (Paperback, no dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrabb, Alfred Leland. DINNER AT BELMONT: A NOVEL OF CAPTURED NASHVILLE. [Nashville]: The Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County, 1965, ca. 1942. (Inscribed by the author.) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFerber, Edna. SHOW BOAT, SO BIG, CIMARRON: THREE LIVING NOVELS OF AMERICAN LIFE. Garden City: Doubleday, [1958?]. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFerraro, Geraldine A. FERRARO: MY STORY. With Linda Bird Francke. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1985. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, AND OTHER WRITINGS. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Frederick W. Hilles. New York: The Modern Library, 1955. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeckman, Hazel. ISLAND IN THE SOUND. Drawings by Helen Hiatt. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHoffman, Frederick J. WILLIAM FAULKNER. New Haven, Conn.: College \u0026amp; University Press, 1961. (Twayne's United States Authors Series) (paperback) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHuizinga, Johan. THE WANING OF THE MIDDLE AGES: A STUDY OF THE FORMS OF LIFE, THOUGH AND ART IN FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS IN THE XIVTH AND XVTH CENTURIES. Garden City: Doubleday Anchor, 1956. (paperback) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLockridge, Ross. RAINTREE COUNTY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMassie, Robert K. NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA. New York: Atheneum, 1968. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNabokov, Vladimir. THE EYE. New York: Phaedra, 1965. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelson, Charles S. TO BE AN AMERICAN AND OTHER POEMS. New York: Carlton Press, 1973. (Signed by the author.) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelson, Charles S. TO BE AN AMERICAN AND OTHER POEMS. New York: Carlton Press, 1973. (Paperback) (Signed by the author's daughter.) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQUESTION OF HENRY JAMES: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS. Edited by F. W. Dupee. New York: Henry Holt, 1945. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoosevelt, Eleanor. THIS I REMEMBER. New York: Harper \u0026amp; Brothers, 1949. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRushdie, Salman. THE SATANIC VERSES. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSalmon, Arthur L. THE MAN AND THE WOMAN: CHAPTERS ON HUMAN LIFE. Chicago: Forbes \u0026amp; Company, 1915, ca. 1913. (No dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTerrill, Ross. 800,000,000: THE REAL CHINA. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTerrill, Ross. FLOWERS ON AN IRON TREE: FIVE CITIES OF CHINA. Boston: Little Brown, 1975. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTerrill, Ross. MAO: A BIOGRAPHY. New York: Harper \u0026amp; Row, 1980. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTerrill, Ross. THE WHITE-BONED DEMON: A BIOGRAPHY OF MADAME MAO ZEDONG. New York: William Morrow, 1984. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTerrill, Ross. CHINA IN OUR TIME: THE EPIC SAGA OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC FROM THE COMMUNIST VICTORY TO TIANANMEN SQUARE AND BEYOND. New York: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, 1992. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas, Dylan. UNDER MILK WOOD: A PLAY FOR VOICES. Preface and musical settings by Daniel Jones. London: J. M. Dent \u0026amp; Sons, 1955, ca. 1954. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThoreau, Henry David. WALDEN. Illustrated by Henry Bugbee Kane. New York: Bramhall House, 1951. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWALT WHITMAN'S NEW YORK: FROM MANHATTAN TO MONTAUK. Edited by Henry M. Christman. New York: Macmillan, 1963. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWaltari, Mika. THE EGYPTIAN: A NOVEL. Translated by Naomi Walford. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1949. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWAR POETS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE WAR POETRY OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Edited by Oscar Williams. New York: John Day, 1945. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. First Borzoi edition. With a preface by Bernard Smith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWolfe, Thomas. MANNERHOUSE: A PLAY IN A PROLOGUE AND THREE ACTS. New York: Harper \u0026amp; Brothers, 1948. (no dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWolfe, Thomas. YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN. Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1942. (no dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWolfe, Thomas. LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL: A STORY OF THE BURIED LIFE. Illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWolfe, Thomas. OF TIME AND THE RIVER: A LEGEND OF MAN'S HUNGER IN HIS YOUTH. Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1944. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWolfe, Thomas. A STONE, A LEAF, A DOOR: POEMS. Selected and arranged in verse by John S. Barnes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. (No dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWright, Austin Tappan. ISLANDIA. New York: Farrar \u0026amp; Rinehart, 1942. (No dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYoung, Barbara. THIS MAN FROM LEBANON: A STUDY OF KAHLIL GIBRAN. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970, ca. 1945.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["BOOKS BY JESSE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:","ALBUM OF DESTINY. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. 255 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"I worked longer on this book than on any I've written. Eleven years off and on I worked on this book.\" Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, clipped corner, chipped and soiled, but sound.","ANDY FINDS A WAY. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1961. 92 pages. Second printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969.  Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise fine.","THE BEATINEST BOY.  Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1953. 110 pages. Eleventh printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"The Beatinest Boy was real -- very real.\" Library binding, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","BEYOND DARK HILLS: A PERSONAL STORY. With six decorations by Ishmael. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1938. 399 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"You had a time getting this one -- a really scarce book.\" Cloth, ex-lib, card pocket pasted in back, book spine torn, worn, and repaired with tape, title page secured with tape, end papers and various pages stained and/or soiled.","CLEARING IN THE SKY \u0026 OTHER STORIES. Woodcuts by Stanley Rice. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. 262 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1967, \"This is a book hard to come by but Naomi Deane found it for you. ... So from the green hills of Appalachia, green clouds of leaves now rustling in the winds of May, we send you this and our warmest personal greetings to a fellow teacher and a friend.\" Cloth, end papers stained, otherwise fine, with dust jacket, well worn and soiled, but sound. Letter from Naomi Deane Stuart (Mrs. Jesse Stuart) dated May 22, 1967 enclosed.","COME GENTLE SPRING. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. 282 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"fellow teacher, friend, a girl from the Appalachian hills -- your background is my background.\"  Cloth covers and end papers stained at top and at bottom from tape residue, otherwise clean and sound, with dust jacket, also stained from tape residue, and slightly soiled, but otherwise sound.","COME TO MY TOMORROWLAND. Nashville: Aurora Publishers, 1971.  195 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1974, \"I hope there will be a tomorrowland for all wildlife.\" Very fine hardcover, with dust jacket, very fine.","COME BACK TO THE FARM. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. 246 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, September 1971, \"How wonderful it is to sign this first edition for you.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","DAUGHTER OF THE LEGEND. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. 249 pages. First edition. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, fine.","DAWN OF REMEMBERED SPRING. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.  179 pages. First edition? Inscribed by author, to Maryan Dahmer, June 1972, \"I know you love people but I wonder if you will love the things that crawl, run (on two legs and four) and fly.\" Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","FORETASTE OF GLORY. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. 256 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You were in Blakesburg this afternoon and you walked where these people ran ...\" Fine cloth, with label pasted on inscribed end paper, with dust jacket, soiled, faded, chipped, clipped corner, extensively repaired with tape.","GOD'S ODDLING: THE STORY OF MICK STUART, MY FATHER. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. Third printing. 266 pages. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You are now where my father lived, where he walked and talked and he loved this land. I wish you could have met him.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, showing mild wear.","THE GOOD SPIRIT OF LAUREL RIDGE.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953. 263 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You visited Laurel Ridge yesterday -- the land where Old Op once lived and loved.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, chipped and slightly worn, fine.","HARVEST OF YOUTH. Berea, Ky.: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1964, ca. 1930. 80 pages. Reproduced by offset printing from the pages of the original book published by the Scroll Press, Howe, Oklahoma. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1966. Wrappers, very fine, with dust jacket, large portion at bottom of front missing, corners worn. Dust jacket: \"Jesse Stuart's First Book.\"","HARVEST OF YOUTH. Berea, Ky.: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1964, ca. 1930. 80 pages. Reproduced by offset printing from the pages of the original book published by the Scroll Press, Howe, Oklahoma. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1966. Wrappers, very fine, with dust jacket, fine. Dust jacket: \"Jesse Stuart's First Book.\"","HEAD O' W-HOLLOW. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1936. 342 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, August 1971, \"You, certainly a friend of first dimension to go out and buy my old books and collect me. I'll tell you this is a rare one and a scarce one. It's really a pleasure to special autograph this for you.\" Cloth covers with minor wear and some soiling, but spine and pasted-down end papers badly stained apparently from bookbinder's glue, one inch tear in front flyleaf end paper.","HIE TO THE HUNTERS. New York: Whittlesey House, 1950. 265 pages. Eleventh printing. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, chipped at corners, otherwise fine.","HOLD APRIL: NEW POEMS. Woodcuts by Walter Ferro. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. 114 pages. Second printing.  Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"It is so nice to see you again and to sign Hold April for you. But we can't hold April.\" Very Fine hardcover, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise very fine.","A JESSE STUART READER: STORIES AND POEMS SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JESSE STUART.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. 342 pages. Decorative cloth, very fine.","KENTUCKY IS MY LAND. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952. 95 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"... a rare book ... most difficult to find. Very few copies of this book were printed in the first place.\" Cloth, stained on front end papers and eight various pages, otherwise near fine.","THE LAND BEYOND THE RIVER. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. 380 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1974, \"W-Hollow is really beautiful now.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, very fine.","LOST SANDSTONES AND LONELY SKIES AND OTHER ESSAYS. [Danbury, CT], Archer Editions Press, 1979. 176 pages. Illustrated with photographs from the Jesse Stuart family album.  \"Library of Jesse Stuart\" embossed on flyleaf end paper. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart, to Maryan Dahmer, July 1982. Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","MAN WITH A BULL-TONGUE PLOW. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1934. 361 pages.  Fourth printing, December 1942. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"This book was our meeting at Shepherd College ... From Shepherd College to W-Hollow, you are with us tonight.\" Cloth, fine, end papers and edges stained.","MONGREL METTLE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DOG. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. 201 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"you are in the spot in this old living room ... where I wrote this book.\" Cloth, covers and end papers stained, spine faded, sound, pages clean.","MR. GALLION'S SCHOOL. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 337 pages. Second printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, June 1968, \"Who recommended J. S. to Mrs. Scott.\" Hard cover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, fine.","MR. GALLION'S SCHOOL. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 337 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1967, \"I think of you often. You away from our hills. You a native of these hills. You who fights for us.\" Hard cover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","MY LAND HAS A VOICE. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.  243 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968. Hardcover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","MY WORLD. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1975. 95, [1] pages  (The Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf)  \"Library of Jesse Stuart\" embossed on flyleaf end paper. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, July 1982, \"Thank you for coming to see us again.\" Decorative cloth, very fine.","OLD BEN. Illustrated by Richard Cuffari. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. 92 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, September 1970.  Hardcover, very fine, illustrated covers, no dust jacket.","A PENNY'S WORTH OF CHARACTER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, a division of McGraw-Hill, 1954. 61, [2] pages. Ninth printing. Inscribed by author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"If I had but one of my junior books to sign for you, I would select and sign this one for you.\" Very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, trimmed at bottom, but sound and clean.","PLOWSHARE IN HEAVEN: STORIES BY JESSE STUART. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 273 pages. Seventh printing. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, production flaw on back, otherwise fine.","RED MULE. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1955. 124 pages. Fifth printing. Inscribed by the author, to Mayan Dahmer, November 1969, \"Red Mule was real -- a neighbor and friend.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, corner clipped, small stain, minor wear.","A RIDE WITH HUEY THE ENGINEER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996. 92, [3] pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"Huey will never pull this train again over the countryside in our part of Kentucky.\" Library binding, very fine, with dust jacket, severely trimmed at top, otherwise fine.","THE RIGHTFUL OWNER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. 110 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969. Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, corner clipped, slight wear, otherwise fine.","SAVE EVERY LAMB. Illustrations by Jean George. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. 278 pages. First edition. Signed by the author. Hardcover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, minor shelf wear, but fine plus.","SEVEN BY JESSE. Terre Haute, Ind.: Indiana Council of Teachers of English, Indiana State University, 1970. 42 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1970, \"With love and Christmas best wishes from your friends in W-Hollow.\" Wrappers, very fine.","SHORT STORIES FOR DISCUSSION. Edited by Albert K. Ridout, Jesse Stuart. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. 489 pages. Includes \"How I Write My Short Stories\" by Jesse Stuart, as well as one short story each by Stuart and his daughter, Jessica Jane Stuart. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968. Very fine cloth, decorative cover.","SPLIT CHERRY TREE: A PLAY IN ONE ACT. By Jessie [sic] Stuart, dramatized by Dem and Janet Polachek. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1967. 24 pages. Two copies, both signed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 December 4 and April 1968. Wrappers, very fine.","TALES FROM THE PLUM GROVE HILLS. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. 256 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Kenneth Gould, October 7th, 1946, \"This book will be published Oct 21st.\" Also inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, October 1970, \"to think you have the copy I signed for an editor who used to accept my poems and stories for Scholastic Magazine.\" Cloth, foxing on covers and end papers, otherwise fine, with dust jacket, soiled and chipped.","TAPS FOR PRIVATE TUSSIE. Illustrated by Thomas Benton. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. Cloth, good, but sound.","TAPS FOR PRIVATE TUSSIE. Illustrated by Thomas Benton. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. 303 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969. Cloth covers faded and stained, showing some wear, front hinge loosened, with dust jacket, soiled, faded, creased, chipped, and torn. Includes Book-of-the-Month Club News reprint about Jesse Stuart and this book.","THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. DRAMATIZED BY REGINALD LAWRENCE. FROM THE BOOK BY JESSE STUART. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1958. 107 pages. Wrappers, fine plus.","THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958, ca. 1949. 293 pages. With a new preface by the author. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"I think this is one of your favorites of my books and I am glad it is.\" Cloth, lower third of back cover water-stained, otherwise clean and sound, with dust jacket, lower half of back wrinkled and discolored from moisture.","TIM: A STORY. Cincinnati: Kentucky Writers' Guild, Harvest Press, [1968?].  34 pages.  Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"Upon this wonderful occasion, your visiting us, take this little memento with you.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, very fine.","TO TEACH, TO LOVE. New York: World Publishing, 1970. First printing. 317 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1969, and signed with a juvenile flourish by Conrad Stuart Juergensmeyer, Jesse Stuart's grandson. Hardcover, shelf bump at bottom of back cover, otherwise fine plus, with dust jacket, fine plus.","TREES OF HEAVEN. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1943, ca. 1940. 340 pages. Fourth printing. Distributed by E. P. Dutton, New York. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You've been over the scenes of this book. These people used to live here.\"  Cloth, long scratch from top to bottom of back cover, bottom edges bumped and worn, large stain on top of leaves, near spine, that has soaked into paper and affected nearly every page. With dust jacket, large chips at all outside corners, clipped corner, soiled.","THE WORLD OF JESSE STUART: SELECTED POEMS.  Edited and with an introduction by J. R. LeMaster. Frontispiece, woodcut by Woodi Ishmael.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. 309 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, inside corner creased, otherwise very fine.","THE WORLD OF JESSE STUART: SELECTED POEMS. Edited and with an introduction by J. R. LeMaster. Frontispiece, woodcut by Woodi Ishmael.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. 309 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise very fine.","THE YEAR OF MY REBIRTH. Illustrations by Barry Martin. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 342 pages. Fifth printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"This book was lived -- and passages in this book you've spoken about here.\" Hardcover, fine plus, with dust jacket, fine plus.","PUBLICATIONS ABOUT JESSE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:","Blair, Everetta Love. JESSE STUART: HIS LIFE AND WORKS. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1967.) 288 pages. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket.","Clarke, Mary Washington. JESSE STUART'S KENTUCKY. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1968.) 240 pages. First edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, Nov. 26, 1969.","Foster, Ruel E. JESSE STUART. (New York: Twayne Publishers, ca. 1968.) 168 pages. (Twayne's United States Authors Series, 140) Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1969 June 16.","Hall, Wade. \"THE TRUTH IS FUNNY\": A STUDY OF JESSE STUART'S HUMOR. (Terre Haute, Ind.: Indiana Council of Teachers of English, Indiana State University, 1970. 75 pages. Paperback. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970.","LAND OF THE HONEY-COLORED WIND: JESSE STUART'S KENTUCKY: A RESOURCE BOOK. Selected and edited by Jerry A. Herndon. (Morehead, Ky.: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, Inc., ca. 1981. 168 pages. Paperback. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1982 July 27.","THE MAN ... JESSE STUART: POET, NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, EDUCATOR. (Ashland, Ky.: Economy Printers, [1965?]) [28] pages, illus. Paperback. Two copies, both inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1966 March 30 and 1967 January 21.","THE MAN ... JESSE STUART: POET, NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, EDUCATOR. (Ashland, Ky.: Economy Printers, [1967?]) [31] pages, illus. Revised edition. Paperback. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 July 24.","Pennington, Lee. THE DARK HILLS OF JESSE STUART: A CONSIDERATION OF SYMBOLISM AND VISION IN THE NOVELS OF JESSE STUART. (Cincinnati, Ohio: Harvest Press, The Kentucky Writers Guild, ca. 1967.) 166 pages, illus. Second printing. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970 October 7.","W-HOLLOW COOKBOOK. Compiled by Glennis Stuart Liles. With the assistance of Betty Stuart Baird. Edited by Chuck D. Charles. Second edition. (Ashland, Ky.: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1990.) 306 pages, illus. Hardcover.","W-HOLLOW HARVEST. (Cincinnati: Jesse Stuart Exchange) published monthly\nvol. 1, no. 1 (January 1967) - vol. 1, no. 12 (December 1967)\n_______. (Cincinnati: The Kentucky Writers' Guild) published 10 times per year\nvol. II, no. 4 (April 1968) - vol. II, no. 5 (May 1968)\nvol. II, no. 9 (September 1968) - vol. II, no. 10 (October 1968)","Woodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE AND JANE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. (Murray, Ky.: Murray State University, 1969.) 144 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, expanded and revised. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970 September 27.","Woodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR MAY, 1960 - MAY, 1965. Reprinted from The Register of The Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 63, Number 4, October 1965, pages 349-370.","Woodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. With essays by Roland Carter, Lawrence Edwards, H. H. Kroll, E. H. Smith, and Jesse Stuart. (Harrogate, Tenn.: Lincoln Memorial University Press, 1960.) 74 pages. Paperback.","BOOKS BY JANE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:","EYES OF THE MOLE. Sauk City, Wisc.: Stanton \u0026 Lee, 1967. 48 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.  Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 December 25.","GIDEON'S CHILDREN. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1976. 283 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.","LAND OF THE FOX. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1975. 154 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.","PASSERMAN'S HOLLOW. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1974. 141 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.","YELLOWHAWK. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1973. 178 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1973 April 21.","BOOKS COLLECTED BY MARYAN DAHMER SEPARATED TO THE REGULAR CIRCULATING COLLECTION (All books hardcover with dust jacket, unless otherwise indicated.):","Adkins, Jan. A STORM WITHOUT RAIN. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.","Bellow, Saul. MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET. New York: Viking Press, 1970.","BEST OF 'HILLBILLY': A PRIZE-WINNING COLLECTION OF 100-PROOF WRITING FROM JIM COMSTOCK'S WEST VIRGINIA HILLBILLY (\"A PAPER FOR PEOPLE WHO \nCAN'T READ, EDITED BY AN EDITOR WHO CAN'T EDIT\"). Compiled \u0026 edited by Otto Whittaker. Anderson, S.C.: Droke House, 1968. (Signed by Jim Comstock)","BEST FROM THE FARMERS' ALMANAC. Edited by Ray Geiger. Garden City: Doubleday, 1963. (No dust jacket)","Buck, Pearl S. THE LIVING REED: A NOVEL. New York: John Day, 1963.","Buck, Pearl S. A BRIDGE FOR PASSING. New York: John Day, 1962.","Campbell, Harry Modean, and Ruel E. Foster. ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS: AMERICAN NOVELIST.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. (Inscribed by Ruel E. Foster)","Case, Carlton B. STORIES FROM THE TRENCHES: HUMOROUS AND LIVELY DOINGS OF OUR BOYS \"OVER THERE\". Chicago: Shrewesbury Publishing, 1918. Cover title: Stories from the trenches: funny tales the soldiers tell. (paperback)","Caudill, Harry M. NIGHT COMES TO THE CUMBERLANDS: A BIOGRAPHY OF A DEPRESSED AREA. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.","Cheng, Nien. LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. (paperback)","Cooper, James Fenimore. THE SPY. Illustrated by William P. Crouse. Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing, 1936.","Cozzens, James Gould. CHILDREN AND OTHERS. New York: Harcourt, Brace, \u0026 World, 1964.","Crabb, Alfred Leland. DINNER AT BELMONT: A NOVEL OF CAPTURED NASHVILLE. New York: Pocket Books, 1953, first printing 1952. \"Cardinal Edition.\" (Signed by the author.) (Paperback, no dust jacket)","Crabb, Alfred Leland. DINNER AT BELMONT: A NOVEL OF CAPTURED NASHVILLE. [Nashville]: The Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County, 1965, ca. 1942. (Inscribed by the author.)","Ferber, Edna. SHOW BOAT, SO BIG, CIMARRON: THREE LIVING NOVELS OF AMERICAN LIFE. Garden City: Doubleday, [1958?].","Ferraro, Geraldine A. FERRARO: MY STORY. With Linda Bird Francke. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1985.","Goldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, AND OTHER WRITINGS. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Frederick W. Hilles. New York: The Modern Library, 1955.","Heckman, Hazel. ISLAND IN THE SOUND. Drawings by Helen Hiatt. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967.","Hoffman, Frederick J. WILLIAM FAULKNER. New Haven, Conn.: College \u0026 University Press, 1961. (Twayne's United States Authors Series) (paperback)","Huizinga, Johan. THE WANING OF THE MIDDLE AGES: A STUDY OF THE FORMS OF LIFE, THOUGH AND ART IN FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS IN THE XIVTH AND XVTH CENTURIES. Garden City: Doubleday Anchor, 1956. (paperback)","Lockridge, Ross. RAINTREE COUNTY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948.","Massie, Robert K. NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA. New York: Atheneum, 1968.","Nabokov, Vladimir. THE EYE. New York: Phaedra, 1965.","Nelson, Charles S. TO BE AN AMERICAN AND OTHER POEMS. New York: Carlton Press, 1973. (Signed by the author.)","Nelson, Charles S. TO BE AN AMERICAN AND OTHER POEMS. New York: Carlton Press, 1973. (Paperback) (Signed by the author's daughter.)","QUESTION OF HENRY JAMES: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS. Edited by F. W. Dupee. New York: Henry Holt, 1945.","Roosevelt, Eleanor. THIS I REMEMBER. New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1949.","Rushdie, Salman. THE SATANIC VERSES. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989.","Salmon, Arthur L. THE MAN AND THE WOMAN: CHAPTERS ON HUMAN LIFE. Chicago: Forbes \u0026 Company, 1915, ca. 1913. (No dust jacket)","Terrill, Ross. 800,000,000: THE REAL CHINA. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.","Terrill, Ross. FLOWERS ON AN IRON TREE: FIVE CITIES OF CHINA. Boston: Little Brown, 1975.","Terrill, Ross. MAO: A BIOGRAPHY. New York: Harper \u0026 Row, 1980.","Terrill, Ross. THE WHITE-BONED DEMON: A BIOGRAPHY OF MADAME MAO ZEDONG. New York: William Morrow, 1984.","Terrill, Ross. CHINA IN OUR TIME: THE EPIC SAGA OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC FROM THE COMMUNIST VICTORY TO TIANANMEN SQUARE AND BEYOND. New York: Simon \u0026 Schuster, 1992.","Thomas, Dylan. UNDER MILK WOOD: A PLAY FOR VOICES. Preface and musical settings by Daniel Jones. London: J. M. Dent \u0026 Sons, 1955, ca. 1954.","Thoreau, Henry David. WALDEN. Illustrated by Henry Bugbee Kane. New York: Bramhall House, 1951.","WALT WHITMAN'S NEW YORK: FROM MANHATTAN TO MONTAUK. Edited by Henry M. Christman. New York: Macmillan, 1963.","Waltari, Mika. THE EGYPTIAN: A NOVEL. Translated by Naomi Walford. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1949.","WAR POETS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE WAR POETRY OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Edited by Oscar Williams. New York: John Day, 1945.","Whitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. First Borzoi edition. With a preface by Bernard Smith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945.","Wolfe, Thomas. MANNERHOUSE: A PLAY IN A PROLOGUE AND THREE ACTS. New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1948. (no dust jacket)","Wolfe, Thomas. YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN. Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1942. (no dust jacket)","Wolfe, Thomas. LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL: A STORY OF THE BURIED LIFE. Illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947.","Wolfe, Thomas. OF TIME AND THE RIVER: A LEGEND OF MAN'S HUNGER IN HIS YOUTH. Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1944.","Wolfe, Thomas. A STONE, A LEAF, A DOOR: POEMS. Selected and arranged in verse by John S. Barnes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. (No dust jacket)","Wright, Austin Tappan. ISLANDIA. New York: Farrar \u0026 Rinehart, 1942. (No dust jacket)","Young, Barbara. THIS MAN FROM LEBANON: A STUDY OF KAHLIL GIBRAN. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970, ca. 1945."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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There are over 90 letters from Stuart to Dahmer, dating from 1966 to 1976, which discuss travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. The collection also includes a large number of Stuart's books, many of which are first editions inscribed to Dahmer, as well as publications by his daughter Jane Stuart. Jesse Hilton Stuart was born on August 8, 1906 in Greenup County, Kentucky. He published over 2000 poems and over 60 books, writing primarily about Appalachian life in poems, novels, children's books, autobiographical works, and short stories. He received several prestigious accolades for his work, including the highest award for poetry in America, the Fellowship for the Academy of American Poets. Stuart spent the majority of his life in his hometown of Greenup and remained deeply devoted to his Appalachian roots until he died on 17 Feburary 1984.","Series include:\nSeries 1. Clippings, 1966–1976 (box 1) \nSeries 2. Newsletters, 1967–1975 (box 1) \nSeries 2. Incoming Letters, 1966-1982 (boxes 1-2) \nSeries 3. Subjects, 1950-1966, undated (box 2) \nSeries 4. Writings by Jesse Stuart, 1965–1982 (boxes 3-4) \nSeries 5. Writings about Jesse Stuart, 1957–1980 (box 4) \nSeries 6. Broadside, undated (box 4)","This series contains newspaper and magazine clippings regarding Jesse Stuart's writings, reviews of his work, and his life.","This series contains issues of three newsletters: \"Jefferson Community College Bulletin,\" \"The Alicia Patterson Foundation,\" and \"Pegasus.\"","This series contains 143 mailed items, including letters, greeting cards, pamphlets, etc. 114 items are from Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 96 of which are letters regarding travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. With the letter of 1967 January 22 are five photos of Stuart with a postman who is delivering him coconuts.","This series includes assorted correspondence, tests, photographs, and other material sorted by subject.","This series contains journals and magazines with short stories, poetry, and essays on teaching, Robert Burns, travel in Greece, etc.","This series contains not only magazines and newspapers including advertisements for and reviews of Jesse Stuart's writings but also one biographical article.","This series contains one broadside of a poem by Jesse Stuart, \"Kentucky Is My Land,\" with an illustration by Orville Carroll.","BOOKS BY JESSE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:","ALBUM OF DESTINY. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. 255 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"I worked longer on this book than on any I've written. Eleven years off and on I worked on this book.\" Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, clipped corner, chipped and soiled, but sound.","ANDY FINDS A WAY. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1961. 92 pages. Second printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969.  Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise fine.","THE BEATINEST BOY.  Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1953. 110 pages. Eleventh printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"The Beatinest Boy was real -- very real.\" Library binding, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","BEYOND DARK HILLS: A PERSONAL STORY. With six decorations by Ishmael. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1938. 399 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"You had a time getting this one -- a really scarce book.\" Cloth, ex-lib, card pocket pasted in back, book spine torn, worn, and repaired with tape, title page secured with tape, end papers and various pages stained and/or soiled.","CLEARING IN THE SKY \u0026 OTHER STORIES. Woodcuts by Stanley Rice. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. 262 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1967, \"This is a book hard to come by but Naomi Deane found it for you. ... So from the green hills of Appalachia, green clouds of leaves now rustling in the winds of May, we send you this and our warmest personal greetings to a fellow teacher and a friend.\" Cloth, end papers stained, otherwise fine, with dust jacket, well worn and soiled, but sound. Letter from Naomi Deane Stuart (Mrs. Jesse Stuart) dated May 22, 1967 enclosed.","COME GENTLE SPRING. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. 282 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"fellow teacher, friend, a girl from the Appalachian hills -- your background is my background.\"  Cloth covers and end papers stained at top and at bottom from tape residue, otherwise clean and sound, with dust jacket, also stained from tape residue, and slightly soiled, but otherwise sound.","COME TO MY TOMORROWLAND. Nashville: Aurora Publishers, 1971.  195 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1974, \"I hope there will be a tomorrowland for all wildlife.\" Very fine hardcover, with dust jacket, very fine.","COME BACK TO THE FARM. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. 246 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, September 1971, \"How wonderful it is to sign this first edition for you.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","DAUGHTER OF THE LEGEND. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. 249 pages. First edition. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, fine.","DAWN OF REMEMBERED SPRING. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.  179 pages. First edition? Inscribed by author, to Maryan Dahmer, June 1972, \"I know you love people but I wonder if you will love the things that crawl, run (on two legs and four) and fly.\" Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","FORETASTE OF GLORY. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. 256 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You were in Blakesburg this afternoon and you walked where these people ran ...\" Fine cloth, with label pasted on inscribed end paper, with dust jacket, soiled, faded, chipped, clipped corner, extensively repaired with tape.","GOD'S ODDLING: THE STORY OF MICK STUART, MY FATHER. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. Third printing. 266 pages. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You are now where my father lived, where he walked and talked and he loved this land. I wish you could have met him.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, showing mild wear.","THE GOOD SPIRIT OF LAUREL RIDGE.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953. 263 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You visited Laurel Ridge yesterday -- the land where Old Op once lived and loved.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, chipped and slightly worn, fine.","HARVEST OF YOUTH. Berea, Ky.: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1964, ca. 1930. 80 pages. Reproduced by offset printing from the pages of the original book published by the Scroll Press, Howe, Oklahoma. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1966. Wrappers, very fine, with dust jacket, large portion at bottom of front missing, corners worn. Dust jacket: \"Jesse Stuart's First Book.\"","HARVEST OF YOUTH. Berea, Ky.: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1964, ca. 1930. 80 pages. Reproduced by offset printing from the pages of the original book published by the Scroll Press, Howe, Oklahoma. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1966. Wrappers, very fine, with dust jacket, fine. Dust jacket: \"Jesse Stuart's First Book.\"","HEAD O' W-HOLLOW. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1936. 342 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, August 1971, \"You, certainly a friend of first dimension to go out and buy my old books and collect me. I'll tell you this is a rare one and a scarce one. It's really a pleasure to special autograph this for you.\" Cloth covers with minor wear and some soiling, but spine and pasted-down end papers badly stained apparently from bookbinder's glue, one inch tear in front flyleaf end paper.","HIE TO THE HUNTERS. New York: Whittlesey House, 1950. 265 pages. Eleventh printing. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, chipped at corners, otherwise fine.","HOLD APRIL: NEW POEMS. Woodcuts by Walter Ferro. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. 114 pages. Second printing.  Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"It is so nice to see you again and to sign Hold April for you. But we can't hold April.\" Very Fine hardcover, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise very fine.","A JESSE STUART READER: STORIES AND POEMS SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JESSE STUART.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. 342 pages. Decorative cloth, very fine.","KENTUCKY IS MY LAND. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952. 95 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"... a rare book ... most difficult to find. Very few copies of this book were printed in the first place.\" Cloth, stained on front end papers and eight various pages, otherwise near fine.","THE LAND BEYOND THE RIVER. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. 380 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1974, \"W-Hollow is really beautiful now.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, very fine.","LOST SANDSTONES AND LONELY SKIES AND OTHER ESSAYS. [Danbury, CT], Archer Editions Press, 1979. 176 pages. Illustrated with photographs from the Jesse Stuart family album.  \"Library of Jesse Stuart\" embossed on flyleaf end paper. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart, to Maryan Dahmer, July 1982. Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","MAN WITH A BULL-TONGUE PLOW. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1934. 361 pages.  Fourth printing, December 1942. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"This book was our meeting at Shepherd College ... From Shepherd College to W-Hollow, you are with us tonight.\" Cloth, fine, end papers and edges stained.","MONGREL METTLE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DOG. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. 201 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"you are in the spot in this old living room ... where I wrote this book.\" Cloth, covers and end papers stained, spine faded, sound, pages clean.","MR. GALLION'S SCHOOL. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 337 pages. Second printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, June 1968, \"Who recommended J. S. to Mrs. Scott.\" Hard cover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, fine.","MR. GALLION'S SCHOOL. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 337 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1967, \"I think of you often. You away from our hills. You a native of these hills. You who fights for us.\" Hard cover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","MY LAND HAS A VOICE. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.  243 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968. Hardcover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","MY WORLD. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1975. 95, [1] pages  (The Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf)  \"Library of Jesse Stuart\" embossed on flyleaf end paper. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, July 1982, \"Thank you for coming to see us again.\" Decorative cloth, very fine.","OLD BEN. Illustrated by Richard Cuffari. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. 92 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, September 1970.  Hardcover, very fine, illustrated covers, no dust jacket.","A PENNY'S WORTH OF CHARACTER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, a division of McGraw-Hill, 1954. 61, [2] pages. Ninth printing. Inscribed by author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"If I had but one of my junior books to sign for you, I would select and sign this one for you.\" Very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, trimmed at bottom, but sound and clean.","PLOWSHARE IN HEAVEN: STORIES BY JESSE STUART. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 273 pages. Seventh printing. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, production flaw on back, otherwise fine.","RED MULE. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1955. 124 pages. Fifth printing. Inscribed by the author, to Mayan Dahmer, November 1969, \"Red Mule was real -- a neighbor and friend.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, corner clipped, small stain, minor wear.","A RIDE WITH HUEY THE ENGINEER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996. 92, [3] pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"Huey will never pull this train again over the countryside in our part of Kentucky.\" Library binding, very fine, with dust jacket, severely trimmed at top, otherwise fine.","THE RIGHTFUL OWNER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. 110 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969. Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, corner clipped, slight wear, otherwise fine.","SAVE EVERY LAMB. Illustrations by Jean George. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. 278 pages. First edition. Signed by the author. Hardcover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, minor shelf wear, but fine plus.","SEVEN BY JESSE. Terre Haute, Ind.: Indiana Council of Teachers of English, Indiana State University, 1970. 42 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1970, \"With love and Christmas best wishes from your friends in W-Hollow.\" Wrappers, very fine.","SHORT STORIES FOR DISCUSSION. Edited by Albert K. Ridout, Jesse Stuart. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. 489 pages. Includes \"How I Write My Short Stories\" by Jesse Stuart, as well as one short story each by Stuart and his daughter, Jessica Jane Stuart. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968. Very fine cloth, decorative cover.","SPLIT CHERRY TREE: A PLAY IN ONE ACT. By Jessie [sic] Stuart, dramatized by Dem and Janet Polachek. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1967. 24 pages. Two copies, both signed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 December 4 and April 1968. Wrappers, very fine.","TALES FROM THE PLUM GROVE HILLS. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. 256 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Kenneth Gould, October 7th, 1946, \"This book will be published Oct 21st.\" Also inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, October 1970, \"to think you have the copy I signed for an editor who used to accept my poems and stories for Scholastic Magazine.\" Cloth, foxing on covers and end papers, otherwise fine, with dust jacket, soiled and chipped.","TAPS FOR PRIVATE TUSSIE. Illustrated by Thomas Benton. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. Cloth, good, but sound.","TAPS FOR PRIVATE TUSSIE. Illustrated by Thomas Benton. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. 303 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969. Cloth covers faded and stained, showing some wear, front hinge loosened, with dust jacket, soiled, faded, creased, chipped, and torn. Includes Book-of-the-Month Club News reprint about Jesse Stuart and this book.","THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. DRAMATIZED BY REGINALD LAWRENCE. FROM THE BOOK BY JESSE STUART. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1958. 107 pages. Wrappers, fine plus.","THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958, ca. 1949. 293 pages. With a new preface by the author. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"I think this is one of your favorites of my books and I am glad it is.\" Cloth, lower third of back cover water-stained, otherwise clean and sound, with dust jacket, lower half of back wrinkled and discolored from moisture.","TIM: A STORY. Cincinnati: Kentucky Writers' Guild, Harvest Press, [1968?].  34 pages.  Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"Upon this wonderful occasion, your visiting us, take this little memento with you.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, very fine.","TO TEACH, TO LOVE. New York: World Publishing, 1970. First printing. 317 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1969, and signed with a juvenile flourish by Conrad Stuart Juergensmeyer, Jesse Stuart's grandson. Hardcover, shelf bump at bottom of back cover, otherwise fine plus, with dust jacket, fine plus.","TREES OF HEAVEN. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1943, ca. 1940. 340 pages. Fourth printing. Distributed by E. P. Dutton, New York. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You've been over the scenes of this book. These people used to live here.\"  Cloth, long scratch from top to bottom of back cover, bottom edges bumped and worn, large stain on top of leaves, near spine, that has soaked into paper and affected nearly every page. With dust jacket, large chips at all outside corners, clipped corner, soiled.","THE WORLD OF JESSE STUART: SELECTED POEMS.  Edited and with an introduction by J. R. LeMaster. Frontispiece, woodcut by Woodi Ishmael.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. 309 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, inside corner creased, otherwise very fine.","THE WORLD OF JESSE STUART: SELECTED POEMS. Edited and with an introduction by J. R. LeMaster. Frontispiece, woodcut by Woodi Ishmael.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. 309 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise very fine.","THE YEAR OF MY REBIRTH. Illustrations by Barry Martin. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 342 pages. Fifth printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"This book was lived -- and passages in this book you've spoken about here.\" Hardcover, fine plus, with dust jacket, fine plus.","PUBLICATIONS ABOUT JESSE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:","Blair, Everetta Love. JESSE STUART: HIS LIFE AND WORKS. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1967.) 288 pages. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket.","Clarke, Mary Washington. JESSE STUART'S KENTUCKY. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1968.) 240 pages. First edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, Nov. 26, 1969.","Foster, Ruel E. JESSE STUART. (New York: Twayne Publishers, ca. 1968.) 168 pages. (Twayne's United States Authors Series, 140) Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1969 June 16.","Hall, Wade. \"THE TRUTH IS FUNNY\": A STUDY OF JESSE STUART'S HUMOR. (Terre Haute, Ind.: Indiana Council of Teachers of English, Indiana State University, 1970. 75 pages. Paperback. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970.","LAND OF THE HONEY-COLORED WIND: JESSE STUART'S KENTUCKY: A RESOURCE BOOK. Selected and edited by Jerry A. Herndon. (Morehead, Ky.: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, Inc., ca. 1981. 168 pages. Paperback. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1982 July 27.","THE MAN ... JESSE STUART: POET, NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, EDUCATOR. (Ashland, Ky.: Economy Printers, [1965?]) [28] pages, illus. Paperback. Two copies, both inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1966 March 30 and 1967 January 21.","THE MAN ... JESSE STUART: POET, NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, EDUCATOR. (Ashland, Ky.: Economy Printers, [1967?]) [31] pages, illus. Revised edition. Paperback. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 July 24.","Pennington, Lee. THE DARK HILLS OF JESSE STUART: A CONSIDERATION OF SYMBOLISM AND VISION IN THE NOVELS OF JESSE STUART. (Cincinnati, Ohio: Harvest Press, The Kentucky Writers Guild, ca. 1967.) 166 pages, illus. Second printing. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970 October 7.","W-HOLLOW COOKBOOK. Compiled by Glennis Stuart Liles. With the assistance of Betty Stuart Baird. Edited by Chuck D. Charles. Second edition. (Ashland, Ky.: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1990.) 306 pages, illus. Hardcover.","W-HOLLOW HARVEST. (Cincinnati: Jesse Stuart Exchange) published monthly\nvol. 1, no. 1 (January 1967) - vol. 1, no. 12 (December 1967)\n_______. (Cincinnati: The Kentucky Writers' Guild) published 10 times per year\nvol. II, no. 4 (April 1968) - vol. II, no. 5 (May 1968)\nvol. II, no. 9 (September 1968) - vol. II, no. 10 (October 1968)","Woodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE AND JANE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. (Murray, Ky.: Murray State University, 1969.) 144 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, expanded and revised. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970 September 27.","Woodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR MAY, 1960 - MAY, 1965. Reprinted from The Register of The Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 63, Number 4, October 1965, pages 349-370.","Woodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. With essays by Roland Carter, Lawrence Edwards, H. H. Kroll, E. H. Smith, and Jesse Stuart. (Harrogate, Tenn.: Lincoln Memorial University Press, 1960.) 74 pages. Paperback.","BOOKS BY JANE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:","EYES OF THE MOLE. Sauk City, Wisc.: Stanton \u0026 Lee, 1967. 48 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.  Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 December 25.","GIDEON'S CHILDREN. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1976. 283 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.","LAND OF THE FOX. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1975. 154 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.","PASSERMAN'S HOLLOW. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1974. 141 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.","YELLOWHAWK. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1973. 178 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1973 April 21.","BOOKS COLLECTED BY MARYAN DAHMER SEPARATED TO THE REGULAR CIRCULATING COLLECTION (All books hardcover with dust jacket, unless otherwise indicated.):","Adkins, Jan. A STORM WITHOUT RAIN. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.","Bellow, Saul. MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET. New York: Viking Press, 1970.","BEST OF 'HILLBILLY': A PRIZE-WINNING COLLECTION OF 100-PROOF WRITING FROM JIM COMSTOCK'S WEST VIRGINIA HILLBILLY (\"A PAPER FOR PEOPLE WHO \nCAN'T READ, EDITED BY AN EDITOR WHO CAN'T EDIT\"). Compiled \u0026 edited by Otto Whittaker. Anderson, S.C.: Droke House, 1968. (Signed by Jim Comstock)","BEST FROM THE FARMERS' ALMANAC. Edited by Ray Geiger. Garden City: Doubleday, 1963. (No dust jacket)","Buck, Pearl S. THE LIVING REED: A NOVEL. New York: John Day, 1963.","Buck, Pearl S. A BRIDGE FOR PASSING. New York: John Day, 1962.","Campbell, Harry Modean, and Ruel E. Foster. ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS: AMERICAN NOVELIST.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. (Inscribed by Ruel E. Foster)","Case, Carlton B. STORIES FROM THE TRENCHES: HUMOROUS AND LIVELY DOINGS OF OUR BOYS \"OVER THERE\". Chicago: Shrewesbury Publishing, 1918. Cover title: Stories from the trenches: funny tales the soldiers tell. (paperback)","Caudill, Harry M. NIGHT COMES TO THE CUMBERLANDS: A BIOGRAPHY OF A DEPRESSED AREA. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.","Cheng, Nien. LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. (paperback)","Cooper, James Fenimore. THE SPY. Illustrated by William P. Crouse. Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing, 1936.","Cozzens, James Gould. CHILDREN AND OTHERS. New York: Harcourt, Brace, \u0026 World, 1964.","Crabb, Alfred Leland. DINNER AT BELMONT: A NOVEL OF CAPTURED NASHVILLE. New York: Pocket Books, 1953, first printing 1952. \"Cardinal Edition.\" (Signed by the author.) (Paperback, no dust jacket)","Crabb, Alfred Leland. DINNER AT BELMONT: A NOVEL OF CAPTURED NASHVILLE. [Nashville]: The Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County, 1965, ca. 1942. (Inscribed by the author.)","Ferber, Edna. SHOW BOAT, SO BIG, CIMARRON: THREE LIVING NOVELS OF AMERICAN LIFE. Garden City: Doubleday, [1958?].","Ferraro, Geraldine A. FERRARO: MY STORY. With Linda Bird Francke. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1985.","Goldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, AND OTHER WRITINGS. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Frederick W. Hilles. New York: The Modern Library, 1955.","Heckman, Hazel. ISLAND IN THE SOUND. Drawings by Helen Hiatt. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967.","Hoffman, Frederick J. WILLIAM FAULKNER. New Haven, Conn.: College \u0026 University Press, 1961. (Twayne's United States Authors Series) (paperback)","Huizinga, Johan. THE WANING OF THE MIDDLE AGES: A STUDY OF THE FORMS OF LIFE, THOUGH AND ART IN FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS IN THE XIVTH AND XVTH CENTURIES. Garden City: Doubleday Anchor, 1956. (paperback)","Lockridge, Ross. RAINTREE COUNTY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948.","Massie, Robert K. NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA. New York: Atheneum, 1968.","Nabokov, Vladimir. THE EYE. New York: Phaedra, 1965.","Nelson, Charles S. TO BE AN AMERICAN AND OTHER POEMS. New York: Carlton Press, 1973. (Signed by the author.)","Nelson, Charles S. TO BE AN AMERICAN AND OTHER POEMS. New York: Carlton Press, 1973. (Paperback) (Signed by the author's daughter.)","QUESTION OF HENRY JAMES: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS. Edited by F. W. Dupee. New York: Henry Holt, 1945.","Roosevelt, Eleanor. THIS I REMEMBER. New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1949.","Rushdie, Salman. THE SATANIC VERSES. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989.","Salmon, Arthur L. THE MAN AND THE WOMAN: CHAPTERS ON HUMAN LIFE. Chicago: Forbes \u0026 Company, 1915, ca. 1913. (No dust jacket)","Terrill, Ross. 800,000,000: THE REAL CHINA. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.","Terrill, Ross. FLOWERS ON AN IRON TREE: FIVE CITIES OF CHINA. Boston: Little Brown, 1975.","Terrill, Ross. MAO: A BIOGRAPHY. New York: Harper \u0026 Row, 1980.","Terrill, Ross. THE WHITE-BONED DEMON: A BIOGRAPHY OF MADAME MAO ZEDONG. New York: William Morrow, 1984.","Terrill, Ross. CHINA IN OUR TIME: THE EPIC SAGA OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC FROM THE COMMUNIST VICTORY TO TIANANMEN SQUARE AND BEYOND. New York: Simon \u0026 Schuster, 1992.","Thomas, Dylan. UNDER MILK WOOD: A PLAY FOR VOICES. Preface and musical settings by Daniel Jones. London: J. M. Dent \u0026 Sons, 1955, ca. 1954.","Thoreau, Henry David. WALDEN. Illustrated by Henry Bugbee Kane. New York: Bramhall House, 1951.","WALT WHITMAN'S NEW YORK: FROM MANHATTAN TO MONTAUK. Edited by Henry M. Christman. New York: Macmillan, 1963.","Waltari, Mika. THE EGYPTIAN: A NOVEL. Translated by Naomi Walford. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1949.","WAR POETS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE WAR POETRY OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Edited by Oscar Williams. New York: John Day, 1945.","Whitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. First Borzoi edition. With a preface by Bernard Smith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945.","Wolfe, Thomas. MANNERHOUSE: A PLAY IN A PROLOGUE AND THREE ACTS. New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1948. (no dust jacket)","Wolfe, Thomas. YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN. Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1942. (no dust jacket)","Wolfe, Thomas. LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL: A STORY OF THE BURIED LIFE. Illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947.","Wolfe, Thomas. OF TIME AND THE RIVER: A LEGEND OF MAN'S HUNGER IN HIS YOUTH. Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1944.","Wolfe, Thomas. A STONE, A LEAF, A DOOR: POEMS. Selected and arranged in verse by John S. Barnes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. (No dust jacket)","Wright, Austin Tappan. ISLANDIA. New York: Farrar \u0026 Rinehart, 1942. (No dust jacket)","Young, Barbara. THIS MAN FROM LEBANON: A STUDY OF KAHLIL GIBRAN. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970, ca. 1945.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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There are over 90 letters from Stuart to Dahmer, dating from 1966 to 1976, which discuss travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. The collection also includes a large number of Stuart's books, many of which are first editions inscribed to Dahmer, as well as publications by his daughter Jane Stuart. Jesse Hilton Stuart was born on August 8, 1906 in Greenup County, Kentucky. He published over 2000 poems and over 60 books, writing primarily about Appalachian life in poems, novels, children's books, autobiographical works, and short stories. He received several prestigious accolades for his work, including the highest award for poetry in America, the Fellowship for the Academy of American Poets. Stuart spent the majority of his life in his hometown of Greenup and remained deeply devoted to his Appalachian roots until he died on 17 Feburary 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 1. Clippings, 1966–1976 (box 1) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Newsletters, 1967–1975 (box 1) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Incoming Letters, 1966-1982 (boxes 1-2) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Subjects, 1950-1966, undated (box 2) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Writings by Jesse Stuart, 1965–1982 (boxes 3-4) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Writings about Jesse Stuart, 1957–1980 (box 4) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Broadside, undated (box 4)\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains newspaper and magazine clippings regarding Jesse Stuart's writings, reviews of his work, and his life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains issues of three newsletters: \"Jefferson Community College Bulletin,\" \"The Alicia Patterson Foundation,\" and \"Pegasus.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains 143 mailed items, including letters, greeting cards, pamphlets, etc. 114 items are from Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 96 of which are letters regarding travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. With the letter of 1967 January 22 are five photos of Stuart with a postman who is delivering him coconuts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes assorted correspondence, tests, photographs, and other material sorted by subject.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains journals and magazines with short stories, poetry, and essays on teaching, Robert Burns, travel in Greece, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains not only magazines and newspapers including advertisements for and reviews of Jesse Stuart's writings but also one biographical article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains one broadside of a poem by Jesse Stuart, \"Kentucky Is My Land,\" with an illustration by Orville Carroll.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Letters, books, clippings, biographical and literary articles, and other papers regarding Appalachian poet and author, Jesse Stuart, gathered by family friend, Maryan Dahmer. There are over 90 letters from Stuart to Dahmer, dating from 1966 to 1976, which discuss travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. The collection also includes a large number of Stuart's books, many of which are first editions inscribed to Dahmer, as well as publications by his daughter Jane Stuart. Jesse Hilton Stuart was born on August 8, 1906 in Greenup County, Kentucky. He published over 2000 poems and over 60 books, writing primarily about Appalachian life in poems, novels, children's books, autobiographical works, and short stories. He received several prestigious accolades for his work, including the highest award for poetry in America, the Fellowship for the Academy of American Poets. Stuart spent the majority of his life in his hometown of Greenup and remained deeply devoted to his Appalachian roots until he died on 17 Feburary 1984.","Series include:\nSeries 1. Clippings, 1966–1976 (box 1) \nSeries 2. Newsletters, 1967–1975 (box 1) \nSeries 2. Incoming Letters, 1966-1982 (boxes 1-2) \nSeries 3. Subjects, 1950-1966, undated (box 2) \nSeries 4. Writings by Jesse Stuart, 1965–1982 (boxes 3-4) \nSeries 5. Writings about Jesse Stuart, 1957–1980 (box 4) \nSeries 6. Broadside, undated (box 4)","This series contains newspaper and magazine clippings regarding Jesse Stuart's writings, reviews of his work, and his life.","This series contains issues of three newsletters: \"Jefferson Community College Bulletin,\" \"The Alicia Patterson Foundation,\" and \"Pegasus.\"","This series contains 143 mailed items, including letters, greeting cards, pamphlets, etc. 114 items are from Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 96 of which are letters regarding travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. With the letter of 1967 January 22 are five photos of Stuart with a postman who is delivering him coconuts.","This series includes assorted correspondence, tests, photographs, and other material sorted by subject.","This series contains journals and magazines with short stories, poetry, and essays on teaching, Robert Burns, travel in Greece, etc.","This series contains not only magazines and newspapers including advertisements for and reviews of Jesse Stuart's writings but also one biographical article.","This series contains one broadside of a poem by Jesse Stuart, \"Kentucky Is My Land,\" with an illustration by Orville Carroll."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eBOOKS BY JESSE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eALBUM OF DESTINY. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. 255 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"I worked longer on this book than on any I've written. Eleven years off and on I worked on this book.\" Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, clipped corner, chipped and soiled, but sound. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eANDY FINDS A WAY. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1961. 92 pages. Second printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969.  Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE BEATINEST BOY.  Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1953. 110 pages. Eleventh printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"The Beatinest Boy was real -- very real.\" Library binding, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBEYOND DARK HILLS: A PERSONAL STORY. With six decorations by Ishmael. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1938. 399 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"You had a time getting this one -- a really scarce book.\" Cloth, ex-lib, card pocket pasted in back, book spine torn, worn, and repaired with tape, title page secured with tape, end papers and various pages stained and/or soiled. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCLEARING IN THE SKY \u0026amp; OTHER STORIES. Woodcuts by Stanley Rice. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. 262 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1967, \"This is a book hard to come by but Naomi Deane found it for you. ... So from the green hills of Appalachia, green clouds of leaves now rustling in the winds of May, we send you this and our warmest personal greetings to a fellow teacher and a friend.\" Cloth, end papers stained, otherwise fine, with dust jacket, well worn and soiled, but sound. Letter from Naomi Deane Stuart (Mrs. Jesse Stuart) dated May 22, 1967 enclosed. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCOME GENTLE SPRING. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. 282 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"fellow teacher, friend, a girl from the Appalachian hills -- your background is my background.\"  Cloth covers and end papers stained at top and at bottom from tape residue, otherwise clean and sound, with dust jacket, also stained from tape residue, and slightly soiled, but otherwise sound. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCOME TO MY TOMORROWLAND. Nashville: Aurora Publishers, 1971.  195 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1974, \"I hope there will be a tomorrowland for all wildlife.\" Very fine hardcover, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCOME BACK TO THE FARM. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. 246 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, September 1971, \"How wonderful it is to sign this first edition for you.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDAUGHTER OF THE LEGEND. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. 249 pages. First edition. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDAWN OF REMEMBERED SPRING. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.  179 pages. First edition? Inscribed by author, to Maryan Dahmer, June 1972, \"I know you love people but I wonder if you will love the things that crawl, run (on two legs and four) and fly.\" Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFORETASTE OF GLORY. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. 256 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You were in Blakesburg this afternoon and you walked where these people ran ...\" Fine cloth, with label pasted on inscribed end paper, with dust jacket, soiled, faded, chipped, clipped corner, extensively repaired with tape. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGOD'S ODDLING: THE STORY OF MICK STUART, MY FATHER. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. Third printing. 266 pages. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You are now where my father lived, where he walked and talked and he loved this land. I wish you could have met him.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, showing mild wear. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE GOOD SPIRIT OF LAUREL RIDGE.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953. 263 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You visited Laurel Ridge yesterday -- the land where Old Op once lived and loved.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, chipped and slightly worn, fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHARVEST OF YOUTH. Berea, Ky.: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1964, ca. 1930. 80 pages. Reproduced by offset printing from the pages of the original book published by the Scroll Press, Howe, Oklahoma. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1966. Wrappers, very fine, with dust jacket, large portion at bottom of front missing, corners worn. Dust jacket: \"Jesse Stuart's First Book.\" \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHARVEST OF YOUTH. Berea, Ky.: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1964, ca. 1930. 80 pages. Reproduced by offset printing from the pages of the original book published by the Scroll Press, Howe, Oklahoma. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1966. Wrappers, very fine, with dust jacket, fine. Dust jacket: \"Jesse Stuart's First Book.\" \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHEAD O' W-HOLLOW. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1936. 342 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, August 1971, \"You, certainly a friend of first dimension to go out and buy my old books and collect me. I'll tell you this is a rare one and a scarce one. It's really a pleasure to special autograph this for you.\" Cloth covers with minor wear and some soiling, but spine and pasted-down end papers badly stained apparently from bookbinder's glue, one inch tear in front flyleaf end paper. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHIE TO THE HUNTERS. New York: Whittlesey House, 1950. 265 pages. Eleventh printing. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, chipped at corners, otherwise fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHOLD APRIL: NEW POEMS. Woodcuts by Walter Ferro. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. 114 pages. Second printing.  Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"It is so nice to see you again and to sign Hold April for you. But we can't hold April.\" Very Fine hardcover, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA JESSE STUART READER: STORIES AND POEMS SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JESSE STUART.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. 342 pages. Decorative cloth, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKENTUCKY IS MY LAND. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952. 95 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"... a rare book ... most difficult to find. Very few copies of this book were printed in the first place.\" Cloth, stained on front end papers and eight various pages, otherwise near fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE LAND BEYOND THE RIVER. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. 380 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1974, \"W-Hollow is really beautiful now.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLOST SANDSTONES AND LONELY SKIES AND OTHER ESSAYS. [Danbury, CT], Archer Editions Press, 1979. 176 pages. Illustrated with photographs from the Jesse Stuart family album.  \"Library of Jesse Stuart\" embossed on flyleaf end paper. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart, to Maryan Dahmer, July 1982. Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMAN WITH A BULL-TONGUE PLOW. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1934. 361 pages.  Fourth printing, December 1942. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"This book was our meeting at Shepherd College ... From Shepherd College to W-Hollow, you are with us tonight.\" Cloth, fine, end papers and edges stained. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMONGREL METTLE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DOG. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. 201 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"you are in the spot in this old living room ... where I wrote this book.\" Cloth, covers and end papers stained, spine faded, sound, pages clean. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMR. GALLION'S SCHOOL. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 337 pages. Second printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, June 1968, \"Who recommended J. S. to Mrs. Scott.\" Hard cover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMR. GALLION'S SCHOOL. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 337 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1967, \"I think of you often. You away from our hills. You a native of these hills. You who fights for us.\" Hard cover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMY LAND HAS A VOICE. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.  243 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968. Hardcover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMY WORLD. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1975. 95, [1] pages  (The Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf)  \"Library of Jesse Stuart\" embossed on flyleaf end paper. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, July 1982, \"Thank you for coming to see us again.\" Decorative cloth, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOLD BEN. Illustrated by Richard Cuffari. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. 92 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, September 1970.  Hardcover, very fine, illustrated covers, no dust jacket. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA PENNY'S WORTH OF CHARACTER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, a division of McGraw-Hill, 1954. 61, [2] pages. Ninth printing. Inscribed by author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"If I had but one of my junior books to sign for you, I would select and sign this one for you.\" Very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, trimmed at bottom, but sound and clean. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePLOWSHARE IN HEAVEN: STORIES BY JESSE STUART. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 273 pages. Seventh printing. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, production flaw on back, otherwise fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRED MULE. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1955. 124 pages. Fifth printing. Inscribed by the author, to Mayan Dahmer, November 1969, \"Red Mule was real -- a neighbor and friend.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, corner clipped, small stain, minor wear. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA RIDE WITH HUEY THE ENGINEER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996. 92, [3] pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"Huey will never pull this train again over the countryside in our part of Kentucky.\" Library binding, very fine, with dust jacket, severely trimmed at top, otherwise fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE RIGHTFUL OWNER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. 110 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969. Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, corner clipped, slight wear, otherwise fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSAVE EVERY LAMB. Illustrations by Jean George. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. 278 pages. First edition. Signed by the author. Hardcover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, minor shelf wear, but fine plus. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSEVEN BY JESSE. Terre Haute, Ind.: Indiana Council of Teachers of English, Indiana State University, 1970. 42 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1970, \"With love and Christmas best wishes from your friends in W-Hollow.\" Wrappers, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSHORT STORIES FOR DISCUSSION. Edited by Albert K. Ridout, Jesse Stuart. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. 489 pages. Includes \"How I Write My Short Stories\" by Jesse Stuart, as well as one short story each by Stuart and his daughter, Jessica Jane Stuart. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968. Very fine cloth, decorative cover. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSPLIT CHERRY TREE: A PLAY IN ONE ACT. By Jessie [sic] Stuart, dramatized by Dem and Janet Polachek. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1967. 24 pages. Two copies, both signed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 December 4 and April 1968. Wrappers, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTALES FROM THE PLUM GROVE HILLS. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. 256 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Kenneth Gould, October 7th, 1946, \"This book will be published Oct 21st.\" Also inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, October 1970, \"to think you have the copy I signed for an editor who used to accept my poems and stories for Scholastic Magazine.\" Cloth, foxing on covers and end papers, otherwise fine, with dust jacket, soiled and chipped. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTAPS FOR PRIVATE TUSSIE. Illustrated by Thomas Benton. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. Cloth, good, but sound. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTAPS FOR PRIVATE TUSSIE. Illustrated by Thomas Benton. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. 303 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969. Cloth covers faded and stained, showing some wear, front hinge loosened, with dust jacket, soiled, faded, creased, chipped, and torn. Includes Book-of-the-Month Club News reprint about Jesse Stuart and this book. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. DRAMATIZED BY REGINALD LAWRENCE. FROM THE BOOK BY JESSE STUART. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1958. 107 pages. Wrappers, fine plus. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958, ca. 1949. 293 pages. With a new preface by the author. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"I think this is one of your favorites of my books and I am glad it is.\" Cloth, lower third of back cover water-stained, otherwise clean and sound, with dust jacket, lower half of back wrinkled and discolored from moisture. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTIM: A STORY. Cincinnati: Kentucky Writers' Guild, Harvest Press, [1968?].  34 pages.  Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"Upon this wonderful occasion, your visiting us, take this little memento with you.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTO TEACH, TO LOVE. New York: World Publishing, 1970. First printing. 317 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1969, and signed with a juvenile flourish by Conrad Stuart Juergensmeyer, Jesse Stuart's grandson. Hardcover, shelf bump at bottom of back cover, otherwise fine plus, with dust jacket, fine plus. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTREES OF HEAVEN. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1943, ca. 1940. 340 pages. Fourth printing. Distributed by E. P. Dutton, New York. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You've been over the scenes of this book. These people used to live here.\"  Cloth, long scratch from top to bottom of back cover, bottom edges bumped and worn, large stain on top of leaves, near spine, that has soaked into paper and affected nearly every page. With dust jacket, large chips at all outside corners, clipped corner, soiled. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE WORLD OF JESSE STUART: SELECTED POEMS.  Edited and with an introduction by J. R. LeMaster. Frontispiece, woodcut by Woodi Ishmael.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. 309 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, inside corner creased, otherwise very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE WORLD OF JESSE STUART: SELECTED POEMS. Edited and with an introduction by J. R. LeMaster. Frontispiece, woodcut by Woodi Ishmael.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. 309 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise very fine. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE YEAR OF MY REBIRTH. Illustrations by Barry Martin. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 342 pages. Fifth printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"This book was lived -- and passages in this book you've spoken about here.\" Hardcover, fine plus, with dust jacket, fine plus. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003ePUBLICATIONS ABOUT JESSE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlair, Everetta Love. JESSE STUART: HIS LIFE AND WORKS. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1967.) 288 pages. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClarke, Mary Washington. JESSE STUART'S KENTUCKY. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1968.) 240 pages. First edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, Nov. 26, 1969. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Ruel E. JESSE STUART. (New York: Twayne Publishers, ca. 1968.) 168 pages. (Twayne's United States Authors Series, 140) Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1969 June 16. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHall, Wade. \"THE TRUTH IS FUNNY\": A STUDY OF JESSE STUART'S HUMOR. (Terre Haute, Ind.: Indiana Council of Teachers of English, Indiana State University, 1970. 75 pages. Paperback. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLAND OF THE HONEY-COLORED WIND: JESSE STUART'S KENTUCKY: A RESOURCE BOOK. Selected and edited by Jerry A. Herndon. (Morehead, Ky.: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, Inc., ca. 1981. 168 pages. Paperback. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1982 July 27. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE MAN ... JESSE STUART: POET, NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, EDUCATOR. (Ashland, Ky.: Economy Printers, [1965?]) [28] pages, illus. Paperback. Two copies, both inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1966 March 30 and 1967 January 21. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTHE MAN ... JESSE STUART: POET, NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, EDUCATOR. (Ashland, Ky.: Economy Printers, [1967?]) [31] pages, illus. Revised edition. Paperback. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 July 24. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePennington, Lee. THE DARK HILLS OF JESSE STUART: A CONSIDERATION OF SYMBOLISM AND VISION IN THE NOVELS OF JESSE STUART. (Cincinnati, Ohio: Harvest Press, The Kentucky Writers Guild, ca. 1967.) 166 pages, illus. Second printing. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970 October 7. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW-HOLLOW COOKBOOK. Compiled by Glennis Stuart Liles. With the assistance of Betty Stuart Baird. Edited by Chuck D. Charles. Second edition. (Ashland, Ky.: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1990.) 306 pages, illus. Hardcover. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW-HOLLOW HARVEST. (Cincinnati: Jesse Stuart Exchange) published monthly\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nvol. 1, no. 1 (January 1967) - vol. 1, no. 12 (December 1967)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n_______. (Cincinnati: The Kentucky Writers' Guild) published 10 times per year\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nvol. II, no. 4 (April 1968) - vol. II, no. 5 (May 1968)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nvol. II, no. 9 (September 1968) - vol. II, no. 10 (October 1968)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWoodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE AND JANE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. (Murray, Ky.: Murray State University, 1969.) 144 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, expanded and revised. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970 September 27. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWoodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR MAY, 1960 - MAY, 1965. Reprinted from The Register of The Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 63, Number 4, October 1965, pages 349-370. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWoodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. With essays by Roland Carter, Lawrence Edwards, H. H. Kroll, E. H. Smith, and Jesse Stuart. (Harrogate, Tenn.: Lincoln Memorial University Press, 1960.) 74 pages. Paperback. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eBOOKS BY JANE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEYES OF THE MOLE. Sauk City, Wisc.: Stanton \u0026amp; Lee, 1967. 48 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.  Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 December 25. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGIDEON'S CHILDREN. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1976. 283 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLAND OF THE FOX. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1975. 154 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePASSERMAN'S HOLLOW. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1974. 141 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYELLOWHAWK. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1973. 178 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1973 April 21. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eBOOKS COLLECTED BY MARYAN DAHMER SEPARATED TO THE REGULAR CIRCULATING COLLECTION (All books hardcover with dust jacket, unless otherwise indicated.):\u003c/title\u003e \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdkins, Jan. A STORM WITHOUT RAIN. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBellow, Saul. MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET. New York: Viking Press, 1970. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBEST OF 'HILLBILLY': A PRIZE-WINNING COLLECTION OF 100-PROOF WRITING FROM JIM COMSTOCK'S WEST VIRGINIA HILLBILLY (\"A PAPER FOR PEOPLE WHO \nCAN'T READ, EDITED BY AN EDITOR WHO CAN'T EDIT\"). Compiled \u0026amp; edited by Otto Whittaker. Anderson, S.C.: Droke House, 1968. (Signed by Jim Comstock) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBEST FROM THE FARMERS' ALMANAC. Edited by Ray Geiger. Garden City: Doubleday, 1963. (No dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuck, Pearl S. THE LIVING REED: A NOVEL. New York: John Day, 1963. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuck, Pearl S. A BRIDGE FOR PASSING. New York: John Day, 1962. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCampbell, Harry Modean, and Ruel E. Foster. ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS: AMERICAN NOVELIST.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. (Inscribed by Ruel E. Foster) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCase, Carlton B. STORIES FROM THE TRENCHES: HUMOROUS AND LIVELY DOINGS OF OUR BOYS \"OVER THERE\". Chicago: Shrewesbury Publishing, 1918. Cover title: Stories from the trenches: funny tales the soldiers tell. (paperback) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaudill, Harry M. NIGHT COMES TO THE CUMBERLANDS: A BIOGRAPHY OF A DEPRESSED AREA. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCheng, Nien. LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. (paperback) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCooper, James Fenimore. THE SPY. Illustrated by William P. Crouse. Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing, 1936. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCozzens, James Gould. CHILDREN AND OTHERS. New York: Harcourt, Brace, \u0026amp; World, 1964. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrabb, Alfred Leland. DINNER AT BELMONT: A NOVEL OF CAPTURED NASHVILLE. New York: Pocket Books, 1953, first printing 1952. \"Cardinal Edition.\" (Signed by the author.) (Paperback, no dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrabb, Alfred Leland. DINNER AT BELMONT: A NOVEL OF CAPTURED NASHVILLE. [Nashville]: The Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County, 1965, ca. 1942. (Inscribed by the author.) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFerber, Edna. SHOW BOAT, SO BIG, CIMARRON: THREE LIVING NOVELS OF AMERICAN LIFE. Garden City: Doubleday, [1958?]. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFerraro, Geraldine A. FERRARO: MY STORY. With Linda Bird Francke. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1985. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, AND OTHER WRITINGS. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Frederick W. Hilles. New York: The Modern Library, 1955. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeckman, Hazel. ISLAND IN THE SOUND. Drawings by Helen Hiatt. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHoffman, Frederick J. WILLIAM FAULKNER. New Haven, Conn.: College \u0026amp; University Press, 1961. (Twayne's United States Authors Series) (paperback) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHuizinga, Johan. THE WANING OF THE MIDDLE AGES: A STUDY OF THE FORMS OF LIFE, THOUGH AND ART IN FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS IN THE XIVTH AND XVTH CENTURIES. Garden City: Doubleday Anchor, 1956. (paperback) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLockridge, Ross. RAINTREE COUNTY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMassie, Robert K. NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA. New York: Atheneum, 1968. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNabokov, Vladimir. THE EYE. New York: Phaedra, 1965. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelson, Charles S. TO BE AN AMERICAN AND OTHER POEMS. New York: Carlton Press, 1973. (Signed by the author.) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelson, Charles S. TO BE AN AMERICAN AND OTHER POEMS. New York: Carlton Press, 1973. (Paperback) (Signed by the author's daughter.) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQUESTION OF HENRY JAMES: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS. Edited by F. W. Dupee. New York: Henry Holt, 1945. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoosevelt, Eleanor. THIS I REMEMBER. New York: Harper \u0026amp; Brothers, 1949. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRushdie, Salman. THE SATANIC VERSES. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSalmon, Arthur L. THE MAN AND THE WOMAN: CHAPTERS ON HUMAN LIFE. Chicago: Forbes \u0026amp; Company, 1915, ca. 1913. (No dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTerrill, Ross. 800,000,000: THE REAL CHINA. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTerrill, Ross. FLOWERS ON AN IRON TREE: FIVE CITIES OF CHINA. Boston: Little Brown, 1975. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTerrill, Ross. MAO: A BIOGRAPHY. New York: Harper \u0026amp; Row, 1980. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTerrill, Ross. THE WHITE-BONED DEMON: A BIOGRAPHY OF MADAME MAO ZEDONG. New York: William Morrow, 1984. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTerrill, Ross. CHINA IN OUR TIME: THE EPIC SAGA OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC FROM THE COMMUNIST VICTORY TO TIANANMEN SQUARE AND BEYOND. New York: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, 1992. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas, Dylan. UNDER MILK WOOD: A PLAY FOR VOICES. Preface and musical settings by Daniel Jones. London: J. M. Dent \u0026amp; Sons, 1955, ca. 1954. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThoreau, Henry David. WALDEN. Illustrated by Henry Bugbee Kane. New York: Bramhall House, 1951. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWALT WHITMAN'S NEW YORK: FROM MANHATTAN TO MONTAUK. Edited by Henry M. Christman. New York: Macmillan, 1963. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWaltari, Mika. THE EGYPTIAN: A NOVEL. Translated by Naomi Walford. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1949. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWAR POETS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE WAR POETRY OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Edited by Oscar Williams. New York: John Day, 1945. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. First Borzoi edition. With a preface by Bernard Smith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWolfe, Thomas. MANNERHOUSE: A PLAY IN A PROLOGUE AND THREE ACTS. New York: Harper \u0026amp; Brothers, 1948. (no dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWolfe, Thomas. YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN. Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1942. (no dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWolfe, Thomas. LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL: A STORY OF THE BURIED LIFE. Illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWolfe, Thomas. OF TIME AND THE RIVER: A LEGEND OF MAN'S HUNGER IN HIS YOUTH. Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1944. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWolfe, Thomas. A STONE, A LEAF, A DOOR: POEMS. Selected and arranged in verse by John S. Barnes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. (No dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWright, Austin Tappan. ISLANDIA. New York: Farrar \u0026amp; Rinehart, 1942. (No dust jacket) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYoung, Barbara. THIS MAN FROM LEBANON: A STUDY OF KAHLIL GIBRAN. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970, ca. 1945.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["BOOKS BY JESSE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:","ALBUM OF DESTINY. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. 255 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"I worked longer on this book than on any I've written. Eleven years off and on I worked on this book.\" Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, clipped corner, chipped and soiled, but sound.","ANDY FINDS A WAY. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1961. 92 pages. Second printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969.  Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise fine.","THE BEATINEST BOY.  Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1953. 110 pages. Eleventh printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"The Beatinest Boy was real -- very real.\" Library binding, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","BEYOND DARK HILLS: A PERSONAL STORY. With six decorations by Ishmael. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1938. 399 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"You had a time getting this one -- a really scarce book.\" Cloth, ex-lib, card pocket pasted in back, book spine torn, worn, and repaired with tape, title page secured with tape, end papers and various pages stained and/or soiled.","CLEARING IN THE SKY \u0026 OTHER STORIES. Woodcuts by Stanley Rice. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. 262 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1967, \"This is a book hard to come by but Naomi Deane found it for you. ... So from the green hills of Appalachia, green clouds of leaves now rustling in the winds of May, we send you this and our warmest personal greetings to a fellow teacher and a friend.\" Cloth, end papers stained, otherwise fine, with dust jacket, well worn and soiled, but sound. Letter from Naomi Deane Stuart (Mrs. Jesse Stuart) dated May 22, 1967 enclosed.","COME GENTLE SPRING. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. 282 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"fellow teacher, friend, a girl from the Appalachian hills -- your background is my background.\"  Cloth covers and end papers stained at top and at bottom from tape residue, otherwise clean and sound, with dust jacket, also stained from tape residue, and slightly soiled, but otherwise sound.","COME TO MY TOMORROWLAND. Nashville: Aurora Publishers, 1971.  195 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1974, \"I hope there will be a tomorrowland for all wildlife.\" Very fine hardcover, with dust jacket, very fine.","COME BACK TO THE FARM. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. 246 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, September 1971, \"How wonderful it is to sign this first edition for you.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","DAUGHTER OF THE LEGEND. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. 249 pages. First edition. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, fine.","DAWN OF REMEMBERED SPRING. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.  179 pages. First edition? Inscribed by author, to Maryan Dahmer, June 1972, \"I know you love people but I wonder if you will love the things that crawl, run (on two legs and four) and fly.\" Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","FORETASTE OF GLORY. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. 256 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You were in Blakesburg this afternoon and you walked where these people ran ...\" Fine cloth, with label pasted on inscribed end paper, with dust jacket, soiled, faded, chipped, clipped corner, extensively repaired with tape.","GOD'S ODDLING: THE STORY OF MICK STUART, MY FATHER. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. Third printing. 266 pages. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You are now where my father lived, where he walked and talked and he loved this land. I wish you could have met him.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, showing mild wear.","THE GOOD SPIRIT OF LAUREL RIDGE.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953. 263 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You visited Laurel Ridge yesterday -- the land where Old Op once lived and loved.\" Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, chipped and slightly worn, fine.","HARVEST OF YOUTH. Berea, Ky.: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1964, ca. 1930. 80 pages. Reproduced by offset printing from the pages of the original book published by the Scroll Press, Howe, Oklahoma. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1966. Wrappers, very fine, with dust jacket, large portion at bottom of front missing, corners worn. Dust jacket: \"Jesse Stuart's First Book.\"","HARVEST OF YOUTH. Berea, Ky.: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1964, ca. 1930. 80 pages. Reproduced by offset printing from the pages of the original book published by the Scroll Press, Howe, Oklahoma. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, May 1966. Wrappers, very fine, with dust jacket, fine. Dust jacket: \"Jesse Stuart's First Book.\"","HEAD O' W-HOLLOW. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1936. 342 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, August 1971, \"You, certainly a friend of first dimension to go out and buy my old books and collect me. I'll tell you this is a rare one and a scarce one. It's really a pleasure to special autograph this for you.\" Cloth covers with minor wear and some soiling, but spine and pasted-down end papers badly stained apparently from bookbinder's glue, one inch tear in front flyleaf end paper.","HIE TO THE HUNTERS. New York: Whittlesey House, 1950. 265 pages. Eleventh printing. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, chipped at corners, otherwise fine.","HOLD APRIL: NEW POEMS. Woodcuts by Walter Ferro. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. 114 pages. Second printing.  Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"It is so nice to see you again and to sign Hold April for you. But we can't hold April.\" Very Fine hardcover, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise very fine.","A JESSE STUART READER: STORIES AND POEMS SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JESSE STUART.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. 342 pages. Decorative cloth, very fine.","KENTUCKY IS MY LAND. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952. 95 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"... a rare book ... most difficult to find. Very few copies of this book were printed in the first place.\" Cloth, stained on front end papers and eight various pages, otherwise near fine.","THE LAND BEYOND THE RIVER. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. 380 pages. First edition? Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1974, \"W-Hollow is really beautiful now.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, very fine.","LOST SANDSTONES AND LONELY SKIES AND OTHER ESSAYS. [Danbury, CT], Archer Editions Press, 1979. 176 pages. Illustrated with photographs from the Jesse Stuart family album.  \"Library of Jesse Stuart\" embossed on flyleaf end paper. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart, to Maryan Dahmer, July 1982. Cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","MAN WITH A BULL-TONGUE PLOW. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1934. 361 pages.  Fourth printing, December 1942. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"This book was our meeting at Shepherd College ... From Shepherd College to W-Hollow, you are with us tonight.\" Cloth, fine, end papers and edges stained.","MONGREL METTLE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DOG. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. 201 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"you are in the spot in this old living room ... where I wrote this book.\" Cloth, covers and end papers stained, spine faded, sound, pages clean.","MR. GALLION'S SCHOOL. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 337 pages. Second printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, June 1968, \"Who recommended J. S. to Mrs. Scott.\" Hard cover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, fine.","MR. GALLION'S SCHOOL. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 337 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1967, \"I think of you often. You away from our hills. You a native of these hills. You who fights for us.\" Hard cover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","MY LAND HAS A VOICE. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.  243 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968. Hardcover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, very fine.","MY WORLD. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1975. 95, [1] pages  (The Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf)  \"Library of Jesse Stuart\" embossed on flyleaf end paper. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, July 1982, \"Thank you for coming to see us again.\" Decorative cloth, very fine.","OLD BEN. Illustrated by Richard Cuffari. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. 92 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, September 1970.  Hardcover, very fine, illustrated covers, no dust jacket.","A PENNY'S WORTH OF CHARACTER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, a division of McGraw-Hill, 1954. 61, [2] pages. Ninth printing. Inscribed by author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"If I had but one of my junior books to sign for you, I would select and sign this one for you.\" Very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, trimmed at bottom, but sound and clean.","PLOWSHARE IN HEAVEN: STORIES BY JESSE STUART. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 273 pages. Seventh printing. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, production flaw on back, otherwise fine.","RED MULE. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: Whittlesey House, 1955. 124 pages. Fifth printing. Inscribed by the author, to Mayan Dahmer, November 1969, \"Red Mule was real -- a neighbor and friend.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, corner clipped, small stain, minor wear.","A RIDE WITH HUEY THE ENGINEER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996. 92, [3] pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"Huey will never pull this train again over the countryside in our part of Kentucky.\" Library binding, very fine, with dust jacket, severely trimmed at top, otherwise fine.","THE RIGHTFUL OWNER. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. 110 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969. Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, corner clipped, slight wear, otherwise fine.","SAVE EVERY LAMB. Illustrations by Jean George. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. 278 pages. First edition. Signed by the author. Hardcover, half cloth, very fine, with dust jacket, minor shelf wear, but fine plus.","SEVEN BY JESSE. Terre Haute, Ind.: Indiana Council of Teachers of English, Indiana State University, 1970. 42 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1970, \"With love and Christmas best wishes from your friends in W-Hollow.\" Wrappers, very fine.","SHORT STORIES FOR DISCUSSION. Edited by Albert K. Ridout, Jesse Stuart. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. 489 pages. Includes \"How I Write My Short Stories\" by Jesse Stuart, as well as one short story each by Stuart and his daughter, Jessica Jane Stuart. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968. Very fine cloth, decorative cover.","SPLIT CHERRY TREE: A PLAY IN ONE ACT. By Jessie [sic] Stuart, dramatized by Dem and Janet Polachek. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1967. 24 pages. Two copies, both signed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 December 4 and April 1968. Wrappers, very fine.","TALES FROM THE PLUM GROVE HILLS. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. 256 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author, to Kenneth Gould, October 7th, 1946, \"This book will be published Oct 21st.\" Also inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, October 1970, \"to think you have the copy I signed for an editor who used to accept my poems and stories for Scholastic Magazine.\" Cloth, foxing on covers and end papers, otherwise fine, with dust jacket, soiled and chipped.","TAPS FOR PRIVATE TUSSIE. Illustrated by Thomas Benton. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. Cloth, good, but sound.","TAPS FOR PRIVATE TUSSIE. Illustrated by Thomas Benton. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. 303 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969. Cloth covers faded and stained, showing some wear, front hinge loosened, with dust jacket, soiled, faded, creased, chipped, and torn. Includes Book-of-the-Month Club News reprint about Jesse Stuart and this book.","THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. DRAMATIZED BY REGINALD LAWRENCE. FROM THE BOOK BY JESSE STUART. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1958. 107 pages. Wrappers, fine plus.","THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958, ca. 1949. 293 pages. With a new preface by the author. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"I think this is one of your favorites of my books and I am glad it is.\" Cloth, lower third of back cover water-stained, otherwise clean and sound, with dust jacket, lower half of back wrinkled and discolored from moisture.","TIM: A STORY. Cincinnati: Kentucky Writers' Guild, Harvest Press, [1968?].  34 pages.  Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"Upon this wonderful occasion, your visiting us, take this little memento with you.\" Very fine cloth, with dust jacket, very fine.","TO TEACH, TO LOVE. New York: World Publishing, 1970. First printing. 317 pages. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, Christmas 1969, and signed with a juvenile flourish by Conrad Stuart Juergensmeyer, Jesse Stuart's grandson. Hardcover, shelf bump at bottom of back cover, otherwise fine plus, with dust jacket, fine plus.","TREES OF HEAVEN. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1943, ca. 1940. 340 pages. Fourth printing. Distributed by E. P. Dutton, New York. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, April 1968, \"You've been over the scenes of this book. These people used to live here.\"  Cloth, long scratch from top to bottom of back cover, bottom edges bumped and worn, large stain on top of leaves, near spine, that has soaked into paper and affected nearly every page. With dust jacket, large chips at all outside corners, clipped corner, soiled.","THE WORLD OF JESSE STUART: SELECTED POEMS.  Edited and with an introduction by J. R. LeMaster. Frontispiece, woodcut by Woodi Ishmael.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. 309 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, inside corner creased, otherwise very fine.","THE WORLD OF JESSE STUART: SELECTED POEMS. Edited and with an introduction by J. R. LeMaster. Frontispiece, woodcut by Woodi Ishmael.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. 309 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket, corner clipped, otherwise very fine.","THE YEAR OF MY REBIRTH. Illustrations by Barry Martin. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 342 pages. Fifth printing. Inscribed by the author, to Maryan Dahmer, November 1969, \"This book was lived -- and passages in this book you've spoken about here.\" Hardcover, fine plus, with dust jacket, fine plus.","PUBLICATIONS ABOUT JESSE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:","Blair, Everetta Love. JESSE STUART: HIS LIFE AND WORKS. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1967.) 288 pages. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket.","Clarke, Mary Washington. JESSE STUART'S KENTUCKY. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1968.) 240 pages. First edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, Nov. 26, 1969.","Foster, Ruel E. JESSE STUART. (New York: Twayne Publishers, ca. 1968.) 168 pages. (Twayne's United States Authors Series, 140) Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1969 June 16.","Hall, Wade. \"THE TRUTH IS FUNNY\": A STUDY OF JESSE STUART'S HUMOR. (Terre Haute, Ind.: Indiana Council of Teachers of English, Indiana State University, 1970. 75 pages. Paperback. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970.","LAND OF THE HONEY-COLORED WIND: JESSE STUART'S KENTUCKY: A RESOURCE BOOK. Selected and edited by Jerry A. Herndon. (Morehead, Ky.: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, Inc., ca. 1981. 168 pages. Paperback. Inscribed by Naomi Deane Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1982 July 27.","THE MAN ... JESSE STUART: POET, NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, EDUCATOR. (Ashland, Ky.: Economy Printers, [1965?]) [28] pages, illus. Paperback. Two copies, both inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1966 March 30 and 1967 January 21.","THE MAN ... JESSE STUART: POET, NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, EDUCATOR. (Ashland, Ky.: Economy Printers, [1967?]) [31] pages, illus. Revised edition. Paperback. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 July 24.","Pennington, Lee. THE DARK HILLS OF JESSE STUART: A CONSIDERATION OF SYMBOLISM AND VISION IN THE NOVELS OF JESSE STUART. (Cincinnati, Ohio: Harvest Press, The Kentucky Writers Guild, ca. 1967.) 166 pages, illus. Second printing. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970 October 7.","W-HOLLOW COOKBOOK. Compiled by Glennis Stuart Liles. With the assistance of Betty Stuart Baird. Edited by Chuck D. Charles. Second edition. (Ashland, Ky.: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1990.) 306 pages, illus. Hardcover.","W-HOLLOW HARVEST. (Cincinnati: Jesse Stuart Exchange) published monthly\nvol. 1, no. 1 (January 1967) - vol. 1, no. 12 (December 1967)\n_______. (Cincinnati: The Kentucky Writers' Guild) published 10 times per year\nvol. II, no. 4 (April 1968) - vol. II, no. 5 (May 1968)\nvol. II, no. 9 (September 1968) - vol. II, no. 10 (October 1968)","Woodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE AND JANE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. (Murray, Ky.: Murray State University, 1969.) 144 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, expanded and revised. Inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Maryan Dahmer, 1970 September 27.","Woodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR MAY, 1960 - MAY, 1965. Reprinted from The Register of The Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 63, Number 4, October 1965, pages 349-370.","Woodbridge, Hensley C. JESSE STUART: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. With essays by Roland Carter, Lawrence Edwards, H. H. Kroll, E. H. Smith, and Jesse Stuart. (Harrogate, Tenn.: Lincoln Memorial University Press, 1960.) 74 pages. Paperback.","BOOKS BY JANE STUART SEPARATED TO RARE BOOKS:","EYES OF THE MOLE. Sauk City, Wisc.: Stanton \u0026 Lee, 1967. 48 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.  Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1967 December 25.","GIDEON'S CHILDREN. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1976. 283 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.","LAND OF THE FOX. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1975. 154 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.","PASSERMAN'S HOLLOW. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1974. 141 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket.","YELLOWHAWK. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., ca. 1973. 178 pages. Hardcover, very fine, with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Maryan Dahmer, 1973 April 21.","BOOKS COLLECTED BY MARYAN DAHMER SEPARATED TO THE REGULAR CIRCULATING COLLECTION (All books hardcover with dust jacket, unless otherwise indicated.):","Adkins, Jan. A STORM WITHOUT RAIN. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.","Bellow, Saul. MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET. New York: Viking Press, 1970.","BEST OF 'HILLBILLY': A PRIZE-WINNING COLLECTION OF 100-PROOF WRITING FROM JIM COMSTOCK'S WEST VIRGINIA HILLBILLY (\"A PAPER FOR PEOPLE WHO \nCAN'T READ, EDITED BY AN EDITOR WHO CAN'T EDIT\"). Compiled \u0026 edited by Otto Whittaker. Anderson, S.C.: Droke House, 1968. (Signed by Jim Comstock)","BEST FROM THE FARMERS' ALMANAC. Edited by Ray Geiger. Garden City: Doubleday, 1963. (No dust jacket)","Buck, Pearl S. THE LIVING REED: A NOVEL. New York: John Day, 1963.","Buck, Pearl S. A BRIDGE FOR PASSING. New York: John Day, 1962.","Campbell, Harry Modean, and Ruel E. Foster. ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS: AMERICAN NOVELIST.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. (Inscribed by Ruel E. Foster)","Case, Carlton B. STORIES FROM THE TRENCHES: HUMOROUS AND LIVELY DOINGS OF OUR BOYS \"OVER THERE\". Chicago: Shrewesbury Publishing, 1918. Cover title: Stories from the trenches: funny tales the soldiers tell. (paperback)","Caudill, Harry M. NIGHT COMES TO THE CUMBERLANDS: A BIOGRAPHY OF A DEPRESSED AREA. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.","Cheng, Nien. LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. (paperback)","Cooper, James Fenimore. THE SPY. Illustrated by William P. Crouse. Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing, 1936.","Cozzens, James Gould. CHILDREN AND OTHERS. New York: Harcourt, Brace, \u0026 World, 1964.","Crabb, Alfred Leland. DINNER AT BELMONT: A NOVEL OF CAPTURED NASHVILLE. New York: Pocket Books, 1953, first printing 1952. \"Cardinal Edition.\" (Signed by the author.) (Paperback, no dust jacket)","Crabb, Alfred Leland. DINNER AT BELMONT: A NOVEL OF CAPTURED NASHVILLE. [Nashville]: The Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County, 1965, ca. 1942. (Inscribed by the author.)","Ferber, Edna. SHOW BOAT, SO BIG, CIMARRON: THREE LIVING NOVELS OF AMERICAN LIFE. Garden City: Doubleday, [1958?].","Ferraro, Geraldine A. FERRARO: MY STORY. With Linda Bird Francke. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1985.","Goldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, AND OTHER WRITINGS. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Frederick W. Hilles. New York: The Modern Library, 1955.","Heckman, Hazel. ISLAND IN THE SOUND. Drawings by Helen Hiatt. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967.","Hoffman, Frederick J. WILLIAM FAULKNER. New Haven, Conn.: College \u0026 University Press, 1961. (Twayne's United States Authors Series) (paperback)","Huizinga, Johan. THE WANING OF THE MIDDLE AGES: A STUDY OF THE FORMS OF LIFE, THOUGH AND ART IN FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS IN THE XIVTH AND XVTH CENTURIES. Garden City: Doubleday Anchor, 1956. (paperback)","Lockridge, Ross. RAINTREE COUNTY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948.","Massie, Robert K. NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA. New York: Atheneum, 1968.","Nabokov, Vladimir. THE EYE. New York: Phaedra, 1965.","Nelson, Charles S. TO BE AN AMERICAN AND OTHER POEMS. New York: Carlton Press, 1973. (Signed by the author.)","Nelson, Charles S. TO BE AN AMERICAN AND OTHER POEMS. New York: Carlton Press, 1973. (Paperback) (Signed by the author's daughter.)","QUESTION OF HENRY JAMES: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS. Edited by F. W. Dupee. New York: Henry Holt, 1945.","Roosevelt, Eleanor. THIS I REMEMBER. New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1949.","Rushdie, Salman. THE SATANIC VERSES. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989.","Salmon, Arthur L. THE MAN AND THE WOMAN: CHAPTERS ON HUMAN LIFE. Chicago: Forbes \u0026 Company, 1915, ca. 1913. (No dust jacket)","Terrill, Ross. 800,000,000: THE REAL CHINA. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.","Terrill, Ross. FLOWERS ON AN IRON TREE: FIVE CITIES OF CHINA. Boston: Little Brown, 1975.","Terrill, Ross. MAO: A BIOGRAPHY. New York: Harper \u0026 Row, 1980.","Terrill, Ross. THE WHITE-BONED DEMON: A BIOGRAPHY OF MADAME MAO ZEDONG. New York: William Morrow, 1984.","Terrill, Ross. CHINA IN OUR TIME: THE EPIC SAGA OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC FROM THE COMMUNIST VICTORY TO TIANANMEN SQUARE AND BEYOND. New York: Simon \u0026 Schuster, 1992.","Thomas, Dylan. UNDER MILK WOOD: A PLAY FOR VOICES. Preface and musical settings by Daniel Jones. London: J. M. Dent \u0026 Sons, 1955, ca. 1954.","Thoreau, Henry David. WALDEN. Illustrated by Henry Bugbee Kane. New York: Bramhall House, 1951.","WALT WHITMAN'S NEW YORK: FROM MANHATTAN TO MONTAUK. Edited by Henry M. Christman. New York: Macmillan, 1963.","Waltari, Mika. THE EGYPTIAN: A NOVEL. Translated by Naomi Walford. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1949.","WAR POETS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE WAR POETRY OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Edited by Oscar Williams. New York: John Day, 1945.","Whitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. First Borzoi edition. With a preface by Bernard Smith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945.","Wolfe, Thomas. MANNERHOUSE: A PLAY IN A PROLOGUE AND THREE ACTS. New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1948. (no dust jacket)","Wolfe, Thomas. YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN. Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1942. (no dust jacket)","Wolfe, Thomas. LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL: A STORY OF THE BURIED LIFE. Illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947.","Wolfe, Thomas. OF TIME AND THE RIVER: A LEGEND OF MAN'S HUNGER IN HIS YOUTH. Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1944.","Wolfe, Thomas. 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