Women authors, American -- Texas -- 20th century
Found in 2163 Collections and/or Records:
McMahan, Mary E.: Personal Feature
Material in this subseries includes essays written for college classes, and articles written for newspapers. Some published, many are unpublished. They are arranged in alphabetical order, with a special section for Kirkland's freshman year college papers.
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“Merging in San Francisco” “A Mother’s Love” “New Venture” “The Old Woman of the Mountain” “Reunion” “Third House, On the Left” “Three Ages on a Park Bench” “Torn Leaves” “Welcome Strangers, and Others Too” “The Valley of Zibelu”
"Mexico's Toonerville Trolley of the Air"
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.
Middlebusters (partial novel), 1937
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.
Midway Review (Issue 5); “A Corresponding Weather” , 1984
Mineral Wells
Miriam in Egypt draft
Miriam Sagan
Miscellaneous , 1967-1989, undated
“George Crane 1971 Georgetown University Student”
“G.W. Bush at dedication of LBJ Library, Austin 1967, taken by Eckhardt
“Curtis Graves 68 and 89”(3)
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, TX; L-R Mrs. Robert Turner, Robert Tuner, Mrs. Bob Eckhardt, Astronaut Michael Collins; January 27, 1967 (3)
Unidentified photos (14)
Miscellaneous drafts
Miscellaneous folder containing material on Irma Rangel, copies of Eakin Press catalogs, and two audio cassettes, undated
Materials from Jean Flynn’s writing career, materials include brochures from the Ruth Taylor Theater and the Dallas Theater, correspondence, research materials used for stories, manuscripts, thank you notes, newspaper clippings, posters, audiocassettes, drafts, various hats, and one Royal typewriter.
Miscellaneous materials: Copy of prologue, correspondence, various handwritten notes, copy of review published in the Austin Chronicle, small spiral notebook paper containing notes written by Crook from her agent regarding an early version of the Night Journal, 5 compact discs used as backup files The Night Journal, notes from Charlie Meeks (San Marcos Culligan Man) used for Crooks’ book regarding a character named Meg whose career was a water quality expert, correspondence to/from Jane Graves, miscellaneous scraps of editing notes used for The Night Journal, excerpt from The Night Journal describing the train wreck scene, and one letter from Crook to Connie describing donation made on 6/2/2006, June 2, 2006
Materials related to Elizabeth Crook’s novels The Raven’s Bride, Promised Lands, Dog Hill Diaries (unpublished, working title)
Miscellaneous materials: One advanced uncorrected proof copy of The Night Journal and one blue spiral notebook, which accompanies the oversized handwritten calendar, both referencing the Texas Revolution, undated
Materials related to Elizabeth Crook’s novels The Raven’s Bride, Promised Lands, Dog Hill Diaries (unpublished, working title)
Miscellaneous photos – numerous photos of Jean Flynn, Robert Flynn, family and friends. Includes the Flynns’ wedding photo. Many of the photos are annotated with names of subjects, undated
Materials from Jean Flynn’s writing career, materials include brochures from the Ruth Taylor Theater and the Dallas Theater, correspondence, research materials used for stories, manuscripts, thank you notes, newspaper clippings, posters, audiocassettes, drafts, various hats, and one Royal typewriter.
"Miscellaneous publicity", undated
Material donated from Alter's files; items include magazines, writer contracts, reviews, newspaper clippings, limited correspondence, and some research material. All original folder titles appear in quotation marks.
Missions of Texas (video-Matson-multi-media) – notes, research materials, and annotated copies of The Spanish Missions of San Antonio, undated
Materials from Jean Flynn’s writing career, materials include brochures from the Ruth Taylor Theater and the Dallas Theater, correspondence, research materials used for stories, manuscripts, thank you notes, newspaper clippings, posters, audiocassettes, drafts, various hats, and one Royal typewriter.
“Missouri”– notes, draft, and research material, undated
Material consists mainly of “working files for children’s books now in print”. Research material consists of newspaper clippings, information from the internet, and photocopies from various books and other sources. In a few instances, original file folders were kept because of notes or other writings that appear on them. Folder 20 has been flagged for sensitive material.
Mixed Up
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.
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