Women authors

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...

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Clara Marburg Kirk, was an American author married to a professor at Southwest Texas State College (now Texas State University), Rudolf Kirk. This collection contains materials related to her book "Oliver Goldsmith" along with a small amount of personal papers.

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Contains newspaper clippings from The Sunday Times of April 1951 and correspondence related to these clippings. The first clipping is an article by W. E. Johns entitled “How Lawrence joined the R. A. F.” which appeared in The Sunday Times on April 8. The other clippings are letters to the editor published in response to Johns’ article, one of which was written by John F. Chalkley. The correspondence is between Armitage, Colonel S. F. Newcombe, and John F. Chalkley.

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Contains Part 1 through 4 of The Sunday Times Weekly Review series entitled “The Secret Life of Lawrence of Arabia,” by Colin Simpson and Philip Knightley. The correspondence in this subseries is between Flora Armitage and Colin Simpson, and is related to the newspaper series.

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Research materials and correspondence related Flora Armitage’s biography on T. E. Lawrence.

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Contains two journals: Texas Quarterly, Autumn 1962, Volume V, Number 3, and The American Journal of Psychiatry, February 1969, Volume 125, Number 8. Texas Quarterly contains three articles about T. E. Lawrence: “T. E. Lawrence as a Writer” by Gordon Mills, page 35, “Lawrence of Arabia and the Seven Pillars of Wisdom” by Bertram Rota, page 47, and “The T. E. Lawrence Collection at The University of Texas” by Anne Bowen, page 54.

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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.”

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Contains publications about Dr. Hardin Craig. One article highlights Craig’s teaching career while another memorializes Craig after his death. There is also a magazine, AMEPNKA, No.77, from Russia, containing an article on Dr. Craig written in Cyrillic.

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Contains letters written to Armitage regarding the life of T. E. Lawrence and her book The Desert and the Stars. They range in date from 1944 to 1958.

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Contains items collected by Flora Armitage related to T. E. Lawrence. The series contains book covers from Lawrence’s translation of "The Odyssey," and "T. E. Lawrence to his Biographers" by Robert Graves and Liddell Hart. This series also contains photocopies and original newspaper clippings pertaining to the life and death of T. E. Lawrence

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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.

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Galley returned to the author by the publisher for proofreading. All the galleys contain handwritten notes.

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Galley returned to the author by the publisher for proofreading. All the galleys contain handwritten notes.

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Galley returned to the author by the publisher for proofreading. All the galleys contain handwritten notes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Contains 37 photographs taken between 1917 and 1963. These photographs are of Lawrence in Arabian attire, western attire, his homes at Clouds Hill in England and Azrak and Yenbo, and his tomb in Dorset, England. Three oversized, mounted photographs have been placed in the hanging verticle file.

Scope and Contents Contains typed notes written by Armitage concerning her June 22, 1947 meeting with Colonel Newcombe, and her January 30, 1948 meeting with Colonel Isham. Both of these meetings were related to Armitage’s research on T. E. Lawrence. The series contains a copy of typed notes written by Colonel Newcombe concerning Richard Aldington’s 1954 biography, "Lawrence of Arabia: a Biographical Inquiry." Also contains extracts from the T. E. Shaw – Charlotte Shaw Correspondence in the British Museum....

Collection Overview From the Collection: Small Manuscript Collections consists of material acquired by the Wittliff either through gift or purchase that are not part of larger collections. They are often indiidual items or small groups of items relating to a particular author, musician, photographer, or topic. Types of material include: manuscripts; letters; photographs; ephemera such as pamphlets, brouchures or cataloges; reports; historical documents; and other printed material. Each item or group of items is assigned a unique...