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"A Home Game", "House of Smiles"

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Donley Watt Papers span the years from 1970 to 2004. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, notes, drafts, and computer discs. The bulk of the papers is focused on the writings of his published works from 1994 to 2004: Can You Get There From Here; The Journal of Hector Rabinal; Haley, Texas 1959; Reynolds; and ...
Dates: 1970-2004

“A Man in the Window”—unpublished novel , undated

 File — Box: 13-16
Abstract From the Series:

Research, manuscripts, correspondence and galley proofs for several works by Judy Alter, along with manuscripts for Alter’s early unpublished novels. Also included are editorial files for Larry L. King’s Golden Shadows Old West Museum, which was published in 1993 by Texas Christian University Press, where Judy Alter serves as Director.

Dates: undated

A Plot of Earth, Christmas 1953

 File — Box: 45, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series: Material relating to Kirkland’s personal life and interests are divided into several subseries: awards; biographical notes; clippings; correspondence; J. Frank Dobie material; notes; photographs; speeches; subject files; and speeches.Awards (1953-1987) Kirkland won many awards during her lifetime, and was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame by Gov. Bill Clements in 1987. This subseries includes correspondence, photographs, and ephemera related to these honors. Awards are...
Dates: Christmas 1953

A Revelation

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 52
Series Description From the Series:

Although Kirkland never officially published her poetry on its own, it appears in her novels and short stories. For many years, her Christmas cards featured her Christmas poems which are listed here in chronological order by year. Also of particular interest is a one-of-a- kind handmade booklet of Kirkland's war poems written for World War II soldiers. Poems listed with quotation marks represent the first line of untitled poems.

Dates: 1944-1988, undated

A River Has a Soul

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 53
Series Description From the Series:

Although Kirkland never officially published her poetry on its own, it appears in her novels and short stories. For many years, her Christmas cards featured her Christmas poems which are listed here in chronological order by year. Also of particular interest is a one-of-a- kind handmade booklet of Kirkland's war poems written for World War II soldiers. Poems listed with quotation marks represent the first line of untitled poems.

Dates: 1944-1988, undated

A Schoolteacher in Alpine, Christmas 1962

 File — Box: 45, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series: Material relating to Kirkland’s personal life and interests are divided into several subseries: awards; biographical notes; clippings; correspondence; J. Frank Dobie material; notes; photographs; speeches; subject files; and speeches.Awards (1953-1987) Kirkland won many awards during her lifetime, and was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame by Gov. Bill Clements in 1987. This subseries includes correspondence, photographs, and ephemera related to these honors. Awards are...
Dates: Christmas 1962

“A Secret Attachment” synopsis, pages 1-11 and asst.

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Series Description From the Series: The series is organized in the following subseries:Novels (1978-1998) Annotated typescripts for Daddy’s Girl, The Perfect Sonya, Crossed Over, and The Track of Real Desires comprise the bulk of this subseries, with extensive research notes, correspondence, and photographs related to Crossed Over. Correspondence includes letters from Lowry to Karla Faye Tucker, 1989-1992, 1998, plus...
Dates: 1977-1986, undated

"A Sketch of My Life" (written while at Denton Teacher's College), circa 1927

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: Material relating to Kirkland’s personal life and interests are divided into several subseries: awards; biographical notes; clippings; correspondence; J. Frank Dobie material; notes; photographs; speeches; subject files; and speeches.Awards (1953-1987) Kirkland won many awards during her lifetime, and was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame by Gov. Bill Clements in 1987. This subseries includes correspondence, photographs, and ephemera related to these honors. Awards are...
Dates: circa 1927

A Son You Have

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 57
Series Description From the Series:

Although Kirkland never officially published her poetry on its own, it appears in her novels and short stories. For many years, her Christmas cards featured her Christmas poems which are listed here in chronological order by year. Also of particular interest is a one-of-a- kind handmade booklet of Kirkland's war poems written for World War II soldiers. Poems listed with quotation marks represent the first line of untitled poems.

Dates: 1944-1988, undated

"A Special Place (This was used (partially) in Buying the Farm-TX Monthly"; Edited draft of "A Special Place" by Donley Watt, undated

 File — Box: 3671, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence, drafts of short stories, and notes, from novelist Donley Watt dating 1984-2019. Short stories include "A Tragedy on the Mexican Border", "Circling", "A Special Place", "Buying the Farm", "Right of Way", "Wish Me Luck", "Something Old, Something New, Something White and Black and Brown", "Headed to Tornillo" and "La Gloria de San Caralampio, Mexico".

Dates: undated

A Sweetheart's Letter on a Rainy Day

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 63
Series Description From the Series:

Although Kirkland never officially published her poetry on its own, it appears in her novels and short stories. For many years, her Christmas cards featured her Christmas poems which are listed here in chronological order by year. Also of particular interest is a one-of-a- kind handmade booklet of Kirkland's war poems written for World War II soldiers. Poems listed with quotation marks represent the first line of untitled poems.

Dates: 1944-1988, undated

A Texan in England. Little, Brown and Co.: Boston, 1945

 Item — Box: 42, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: Material relating to Kirkland’s personal life and interests are divided into several subseries: awards; biographical notes; clippings; correspondence; J. Frank Dobie material; notes; photographs; speeches; subject files; and speeches.Awards (1953-1987) Kirkland won many awards during her lifetime, and was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame by Gov. Bill Clements in 1987. This subseries includes correspondence, photographs, and ephemera related to these honors. Awards are...
Dates: Publication: 1945

" 'A Tragedy on the Mexican Border' Published in Cutthroat Journal #24, Spring"; Printout of story , 2019

 File — Box: 3671, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence, drafts of short stories, and notes, from novelist Donley Watt dating 1984-2019. Short stories include "A Tragedy on the Mexican Border", "Circling", "A Special Place", "Buying the Farm", "Right of Way", "Wish Me Luck", "Something Old, Something New, Something White and Black and Brown", "Headed to Tornillo" and "La Gloria de San Caralampio, Mexico".

Dates: 2019

A Vaquero of the Brush Country. Grosset & Dunlap: New York, 1929

 Item — Box: 42, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series: Material relating to Kirkland’s personal life and interests are divided into several subseries: awards; biographical notes; clippings; correspondence; J. Frank Dobie material; notes; photographs; speeches; subject files; and speeches.Awards (1953-1987) Kirkland won many awards during her lifetime, and was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame by Gov. Bill Clements in 1987. This subseries includes correspondence, photographs, and ephemera related to these honors. Awards are...
Dates: Publication: 1929

"A Yuletide Prayer", production and script by Joe Murphy, December 17, 1943

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 14
Series Description From the Series:

Arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the series or show, these scripts date from Kirkland days at UT Austin's Radio House, circa 1940-1947. Typescripts and working drafts are included, as well as some photographs of the Radio House staff, including J. Frank Dobie. Of particular interest is the series entitled "Guardians of Freedom", which includes documents related to the Peck Woodside story Kirkland covered in Mexico.

Dates: December 17, 1943