Series 35: Works by Others, Eudora Welty Collection (Z/0301)

Series 35: Works by Others.

Dates: 1930; 1942-2002; n.d.
Size: 8.21 cubic ft.

Duplication by photocopying or scanning is restricted. Any reproduction of items in this series is prohibited.

This series consists of works that were not written by Eudora Welty, but were either sent to her or collected by her. They include works by admirers, by people inspired by Welty, and by people who wanted Welty's help in getting their work published. The series also contains works sent to Welty for criticism or promotion by publishing houses; works sent her by literary colleagues like Bernard Malamud; and ones sent by such close friends as Lehman Engel and Diarmuid Russell. In addition, Welty collected and kept essays, reviews, and other articles by or about her friends, literary colleagues, and writers she admired such as Kenneth Millar, Reynolds Price, V. S. Pritchett, and Seamus Heaney. Welty also retained works on gardening by her mother, Chestina Welty.

The materials present in this series include a diverse array of formats. Most are copies of typescript or printed versions of short stories, essays, plays, or novels. But there are also hand-made small volumes; slides of art works; copies of photographs; original sketches; and family trees.

While this series does include genealogical works on the Welty family, works inspired by Welty, and those containing brief mentions of Welty or her work, this series does not include biographical works on Welty herself; interviews with her; or bibliographies, reviews, criticism, or essays concerning her work. These will be found elsewhere in the Welty Collection in the appropriate series. However, one will find in this series occasional remarks or replies by Welty regarding an author's work.

Frequently, the works sent to Welty are accompanied by correspondence addressed to her by the authors or creators themselves, or their representatives. However, in the case of those authors who have been identified in Series 29b as Welty's "Select" correspondents, any accompanying correspondence remains in Series 29b, and cross-references to the location of these letters will be found on the folders containing their works.

Finally, the works of all but one of the authors / creators listed below have been added to the original collection from the Estate gift. Their names are indicated in bold font. The descriptions of Deborah Thompson Yarrow's works, which were originally present in the Collection, are drawn from those created by Suzanne Marrs for her work 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). Box List:

Most of the material in this series may be found in boxes 338-343. The material in boxes 110, 344-351 has been housed separately because of its size or format. An index of works of individual authors follows this box list.

This list of authors / Creators is arranged first alphabetically by last name, and thereunder by date of work, and then by title. If there is no title, or there are multiple works included together, a short description of the work, or of its format (poems, photographs, etc.), is provided instead. The names of the authors whose work was added to this series by the gift of Welty's Estate appear in bold font. It should be noted that, for sorting purposes, the dates given in this list include supplied ones: brackets indicating these supplied dates will appear on the folders. In the case of some photocopies, the date given is that of the original work. The arrangement of folders within each box may vary slightly from arrangement on the list: for example, groups of works by an author may remain in the order in which they were found at the time of processing.

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