Box 1

Scope and Contents

Folders arranged by chapters, then by chronological order. Some include the original folders with handwritten titles and notes. Most contain two or more drafts. The folders begin with the introduction and ascend through all five chapters to notes and bibliography. One section of the introduction contains a date, 1964, but no other dates are found. The chronology of the drafts was determined by author’s notes indicating “original draft” on the exterior of most of her folders.

Scope and Contents

These manuscripts serve as a stepping stone between the drafts and the galleys. Contains only chapters two and three but was not included with the drafts because they had already been placed into a folder together. All the drafts in the previous file were found in individual folders by chapter.

Scope and Contents

These manuscripts serve as a stepping stone between the drafts and the galleys. Manuscript is complete and the chronology was determined by author’s notes.

Scope and Contents One letter and two photographs. Robert Walts, English Professor at Southwest Texas State College, explains how he met the Kirks for the first time in a brief letter of introduction. There are also two photographs. One is dated 1967 and pictures Clara Kirk, Professor Charles Sellers, and Dean Samuel H. Magill at the opening of the Moncure Conway Collection at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, where Kirk served as head librarian. There is also a photo of Dr. Rudolf Kirk, captioned as having...

Scope and Contents

Contains newsletters and journal articles relating to the Kirks. It includes a 1964 journal article by Helen C. White with the author’s note to the Kirks, several editions of the Johnsonian Newsletter addressed to Dr. Rudolf Kirk, a journal article by the Kirks from 1967, and an advertisement for the Twayne’s English Author Series, on which Clara Kirk’s Oliver Goldsmith is outlined. There is also an article about the Kirk-Howells collection from a 1969 issue of the “Library Chronicle.”