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Historical fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2561 Collections and/or Records:

Family and friends, undated

 File — Box 49, 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: undated

Family History, 1983, 1992, undated

 Sub-Series
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: 1983, 1992, undated

Fan letters - special, 1972-1973

 File — Box 27, Folder: 9
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: 1972-1973

"Farm Machinery "- Trade article

 File — Box 21, Folder: 14
Series Description From the Series:

This subseries includes detailed documentation on the creation of Kirkland's short stories "The Disappearance of Widow Ellen", "Peck Woodside", and "Leet's Christmas". Also included are drafts of many incomplete short stories.

Dates: 1936-1990, undated

Fashions

 File — Box 2, Folder: 11
Series Description From the Series:

This series includes extensive research files and many annotated typescripts of Crook’s first novel. The research files include clippings, handwritten notes, photographs, and correspondence with research assistant Eva B. Denning, of Gallatin, TN, 1984-90. The typescripts have been arranged in alphabetical order by working titles.

Dates: 1984-1990, undated

Fath, Conrad

 File — Box 52, Folder: 4
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: 1936-1991, undated

“Father’s Day Cards”, undated

 File — Box 1657, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection consists of material related to the personal life and writing career of Stephen Harrigan. Included in this collection is research and drafts for screenplays, articles, and novels including Remember Ben Clayton, A Place Called Home, Justice for None, Young Caesar, Gates of Rome, and Broadway Joe. This donation also includes handwritten notes, journals, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, books, magazines, newspapers, and posters.

Dates: Other: undated

Faulk, John Henry (including two 1939 English papers by Faulk), 1953-1991

 File — Box 27, Folder: 10
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: 1953-1991

February

 File — Box 17, Folder: 4
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

Feedback on “Freedmen” drafts, concepts, and research printouts, 2021

 File — Box 4473, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Archival material received from author, journalist and screenwriter, Stephen Harrigan dating 2001-2024. Materials include edited manuscripts of Harrigan’s Big Wonderful Thing, They Came from the Sky, Leopard is Loose and others, ephemera, reviews, permissions, royalty statements, correspondence from fans, notes and journals. NOTE RESTRICTIONS: UNPROCESSED BOX 4477 (7 of 7) PERSONAL JOURNALS ARE RESTRICTED FOR A PERIOD OF 15 YEARS UNTIL 2039 AS PER STEPHEN HARRIGAN.

Dates: 2021

Files 1-4 were removed from Box 23 “Second Chance, Payback, Jeff and Jill, Heather Sharp, Misc. Dead Girl”: Box 23-Note from JoAnn at Victor Television Productions, undated

 File — Box 1640, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection consists of material related to the personal life and writing career of Stephen Harrigan. Included in this collection is research and drafts for screenplays, articles, and novels including Remember Ben Clayton, A Place Called Home, Justice for None, Young Caesar, Gates of Rome, and Broadway Joe. This donation also includes handwritten notes, journals, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, books, magazines, newspapers, and posters.

Dates: undated

Files 1-4 were removed from Box 23 “Second Chance, Payback, Jeff and Jill, Heather Sharp, Misc. Dead Girl”: Box 23-Screenplay-Payback by Dennis Nemec, third draft , April 18, 1996

 File — Box 1640, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection consists of material related to the personal life and writing career of Stephen Harrigan. Included in this collection is research and drafts for screenplays, articles, and novels including Remember Ben Clayton, A Place Called Home, Justice for None, Young Caesar, Gates of Rome, and Broadway Joe. This donation also includes handwritten notes, journals, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, books, magazines, newspapers, and posters.

Dates: April 18, 1996

Files 1-4 were removed from Box 23 “Second Chance, Payback, Jeff and Jill, Heather Sharp, Misc. Dead Girl”: Box 23-Screenplay-Payback by Denns, Shooting Script , September 4, 1996

 File — Box 1640, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection consists of material related to the personal life and writing career of Stephen Harrigan. Included in this collection is research and drafts for screenplays, articles, and novels including Remember Ben Clayton, A Place Called Home, Justice for None, Young Caesar, Gates of Rome, and Broadway Joe. This donation also includes handwritten notes, journals, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, books, magazines, newspapers, and posters.

Dates: September 4, 1996

Files 1-4 were removed from Box 23 “Second Chance, Payback, Jeff and Jill, Heather Sharp, Misc. Dead Girl”: Box 23-Screenplay-Payback notes and drafts, undated

 File — Box 1640, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection consists of material related to the personal life and writing career of Stephen Harrigan. Included in this collection is research and drafts for screenplays, articles, and novels including Remember Ben Clayton, A Place Called Home, Justice for None, Young Caesar, Gates of Rome, and Broadway Joe. This donation also includes handwritten notes, journals, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, books, magazines, newspapers, and posters.

Dates: undated

Final bound copies

 File — Box 12, Folder: 1-3
Series Description From the Series:

Arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the musical, this subseries includes drafts, notes and correspondence documenting the creation and production of Kirkland's musicals.

Dates: circa 1970-1990

“Final Copy Sent to Ben before Editing”; Annotated The Which Way Tree manuscript, undated

 File — Box 3130, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Series: This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of writer, Elizabeth Crook from 1961-2018. Majority of the materials in the collection are manuscript drafts of The Which Way Tree, Monday, Monday, and others. The collection also includes screenplay drafts of The Which Way Tree; promotional materials and research for her manuscripts; correspondence between Crook, editors, and Stephen Harrigan; as well as screenplay and manuscript drafts of Harrigan’s works such as Water...
Dates: undated

Final Page Proofs

 File — Box 3, Folder: 2-3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series I: Novels (1991-1999) documents the writing and editing process of Bonner’s four published novels, Lily, Looking After Lily, The Passion of Dellie O’Barr, and Right from Wrong. This series also includesthe unpublished novel “Flossie/War Dreams." Formats include research notes, annotated drafts, proofs, and correspondence.

Dates: 1992

Final version: "The Private War of Peck Woodside: Nazi Intrigue in the Jungles of Mexico" (2 copies)

 File — Box 7, Folder: 9-10
Series Description From the Series:

Arranged in alphabetical order by book title, this subseries includes research material, notes, outlines, drafts, correspondence, publicity documents, and drafts of stage and film adaptations.

Dates: 1990

Financial records

 File — Box 21, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series:

This subseries includes detailed documentation on the creation of Kirkland's short stories "The Disappearance of Widow Ellen", "Peck Woodside", and "Leet's Christmas". Also included are drafts of many incomplete short stories.

Dates: 1985-1986