Series 25: Miscellaneous, Eudora Welty Collection (Z/0301)
Series 25: Miscellaneous.
| Description | Folder | Box |
|---|---|---|
| Lamar Life Radio News. 24-30 Jan. 1932: 1-4. 1 p. EW notes that this newsletter "contains editorial and a news story I wrote on a flood in the studio." | 1 | 104 |
| Lamar Life Radio News. 18-24 Sept. 1932: 1-4. Written in part by EW. | 2 | 104 |
| Mississippi Women's War Bond News Letter 13 May 1944: 1-9.5 pp. Edited by EW. | 3 | 104 |
| Press release. 13 April 1961, calling for books for Mississippi hospitals and institutions (4 pages). Holograph corrections; accompanying letter from William E. Keith, Chairman, Publicity Committee, National Library Week. | 4 | 104 |
| TCG Reprint. Feb. 1975. 1 p. Excerpts from "a speech delivered at the opening of the Governor's Conference on the Arts, Jackson, Mississippi, last fall by Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and a member of the National Council on the Arts" (1 page).The speech was the basis for a 5 Dec. 1974 NY Times article entitled "'The Feast Itself'". | 5 | 104 |
Material Relocation
Items originally belonging to this series were initially described in Suzanne Marrs’ The Welty Collection: A Guide to the Eudora Welty Manuscripts and Documents at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1988). Some of the materials listed in Marrs’ description have been moved to other series for which the items were better suited and, as such, are not listed in the table above. Those materials that have been relocated appear in the table below along with their new series, box, and folder numbers.
| Description | New Location |
|---|---|
| "Department of Amplification." New Yorker 1 Jan. 1949: 50-51. EW’s letter, responding to Edmund Wilson’s criticism of William Faulkner’s fiction. | Series 30: Book Reviews, Box 83, Folder 3 |
| "Eudora Welty Blames Lack of Reading for Lack of Creative Ability in Child."1955.1p. Jackson Daily News 17 Nov. 1955, sec. 2:4. | Series 24: Essays in Publication, Box 102, Folder 10 |
| "A Salute from One of the Family." A Tower of Strength in the Deep South: 50th Anniversary, Lamar Life Insurance Company [Montgomery, Alabama: Paragon Press, 1956]. 3-5. | Series 24: Essays in Publication, Box 102, Folder 13 |
| "A Flock of Guinea Hens Seen from a Car." New Yorker 20 April 1957:35. Complete issue. | Series 40: Poetry, Box 365, Folder 6 |