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Women authors, Texan

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 443 Collections and/or Records:

Paul Porter Collection of Katherine Anne Porter

 Collection
Identifier: SWWC-032
Abstract

This collection ranges in date from 1940-1998 (bulk 1980-1990) and features correspondence, recipes, notes, photographs, invitations to Katherine Anne Porter conferences and dinners, published materials, and an artifact.



Dates: 1940-1998; Majority of material found within 1980-1990

Roger L. Brooks Collection of Katherine Anne Porter

 Collection
Identifier: SWWC-031
Abstract

This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life.  Also included are several letters to Dr. Brooks from famous writers regarding Porter’s work.

Dates: 1972-1977

Porter, Katherine Anne. Shahn, Ben, illus. A Christmas Story. New York : Delacourte Press, 1967. (Initialed by Porter), 1967

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: 1967

Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1962. 1st edition. (Inscribed to Roger Brooks.), 1962

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: 1962

Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1962. 2nd printing. (Inscribed to Roger Brooks.), 1962

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: 1962

Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1962. 3rd printing. (Inscribed to Roger Brooks.), 1962

 Item — Box 4, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: 1962

Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1962. (Signed by Lady Bird Johnson.), 1962

 Item — Box 4, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: 1962

Porter, Katherine Anne. The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter. New York : Delacourte Press, 1970. (Inscribed to Roger L. Brooks.), 1970

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: 1970

Porter, Katherine Anne. The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter. New York : Delacourte Press, 1970. (Signed by Porter), 1970

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: 1970

Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1952. 1st edition. (Inscribed to Roger L. Brooks.), 1952

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: 1952

Porter, Katherine Anne. The Leaning Tower and Other Stories. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1944. 1st edition. (Inscribed to Roger L. Brooks.), 1944

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: 1944

Porter, Katherine Anne. The Never-Ending Wrong. Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1977. 1st edition. (Partially inscribed. Writing and figures drawn by Porter after a stroke which affected her writing arm and hand.), 1977

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: 1977

Porter’s astrological chart, undated

 File — Box 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection ranges in date from 1940-1998 (bulk 1980-1990) and features correspondence, recipes, notes, photographs, invitations to Katherine Anne Porter conferences and dinners, published materials, and an artifact. Items of note include 1946 correspondence from Ms. Porter to Paul Porter, encouraging Mr. Porter to attend college, and describing her days at the C-Bar-H Ranch in California. Correspondence in 1981 between Paul Porter and Ms. Porter’s publisher, Arthur Thornhill of Little,...
Dates: undated

Postcard Collection, undated

 Series
Series Description

The postcard collection is made up of mostly travel post cards consisting of photographs and drawings of locations, hotels, and art works.

Dates: undated

Prevention, May 1967

 Item — Box 6, Folder: 5
Series Description From the Series: In this series are the books The Voice of the Coyote by J. Frank Dobie and Finding Literature on the Texas Plains by John William Roger and J. Frank Dobie both of which contain personal inscriptions from Dobie to Jovita González Mireles. There are also three volumes of the Silver Spur, the yearbook from W.B. Ray High School where Ms. Mireles taught. These yearbooks offer a glimpse into her...
Dates: May 1967

Programs and invitations

 File — Box 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection ranges in date from 1940-1998 (bulk 1980-1990) and features correspondence, recipes, notes, photographs, invitations to Katherine Anne Porter conferences and dinners, published materials, and an artifact. Items of note include 1946 correspondence from Ms. Porter to Paul Porter, encouraging Mr. Porter to attend college, and describing her days at the C-Bar-H Ranch in California. Correspondence in 1981 between Paul Porter and Ms. Porter’s publisher, Arthur Thornhill of Little,...
Dates: undated

Promotional material for Sweetest You Can Find by Josephine Etlinger, circa 1987

 File — Folder SMC 0066
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...
Dates: circa 1987

Psalm 151, undated

 File — Box 1371, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of materials related to the writing career of Joyce Gibson Roach. Included in the collection are articles, reviews, newspaper clippings, correspondence, reel-to-reel audio recordings, and numerous pieces of sheet music written by Roach. In addition to these materials, Roach also donated a large collection of books most of which focus on folklore and the American West and Southwest. Original folder titles are in quotation marks.

Dates: undated

Psalm 151, undated

 File — Box 1373, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of materials related to the writing career of Joyce Gibson Roach. Included in the collection are articles, reviews, newspaper clippings, correspondence, reel-to-reel audio recordings, and numerous pieces of sheet music written by Roach. In addition to these materials, Roach also donated a large collection of books most of which focus on folklore and the American West and Southwest. Original folder titles are in quotation marks.

Dates: undated

Publicity

 File — Box 9, Folder: 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: 1999