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Fletcher, John Gould, 1886-1950. John Gould Fletcher collections 1881-1960 (bulk 1911-1960).

Title: John Gould Fletcher collections 1881-1960 (bulk 1911-1960).

The John Gould Fletcher collections are arranged in five series. Literary manuscripts include poems, prose books published and unpublished, translations, essays, lectures and lecture notes, short stories, plays and miscellaneous items. His notebooks include 129 volumes on experiences, drafts or ideas for writings. Correspondence both sent and received. The correspondence is described in a catalog by name and selected subjects, as well as listed chronologically in a calendar. The John Gould Fletcher library includes about 1,700 volumes. The book collection contains many standard works of American literature as well as important twentieth-century British and Continental works, an impressive collection of "little magazines" both American and English, pamphlets, brochures, and other ephemera. An inventory to the library's marginalia and inscriptions was created. Papers include official documents, personal and professional records, letters of Charlie May Simon Fletcher, and some literary manuscripts by other writers.

ArchivalResource: 26.5 linear ft., 5 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39675072 View

Sara Alderman Murphy papers 1951-1994.

Title: Sara Alderman Murphy papers 1951-1994.

Materials in collection include interviews on cassette tapes, transcripts of interviews, films and video cassette tapes, correspondence, booklets and pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and broadsides. The collection is a combination of papers accumulated by Murphy during her years as an activist and materials used in writing her book. Among them are the papers of Billie Wilson, a former member of WEC (Women's Emergency Committee to Open our Schools). Wilson gave Murphy her papers, which include correspondence, pamphlets, and press clippings. Photocopies of original documents from the Arkansas History Commission and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Special Collections and Archives, which Murphy gathered for her work.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37920745 View

Powell, Velma. Velma and J.O. Powell collection 1958-1979.

Title: Velma and J.O. Powell collection 1958-1979.

Papers pertaining to the Little Rock Central High School integration crisis (1957-1959) and the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC). Collection includes an account of the events by J.O. Powell, along with notes and correspondence to a nephew, Tim DeLaney. Photocopies of several other accounts: an unpublished book, The Embattled Ladies of Little Rock, by Vivion Lenon Brewer, one of the founders of WEC; an oral history interview of Brewer; a diary kept by Adolphine Fletcher Terry, another founder of WEC ; an account by Sara Alderman Murphy, later published as Breaking the Silence: Little Rock's Womens Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958-1963; and other papers.

ArchivalResource: 15 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39531453 View

Simon, Charlie May Hogue, 1897-1977. Papers. 1910-1977.

Title: Papers. 1910-1977.

Letters, diaries, research files, manuscripts, newsclippings, articles, poems, prose, and photographs relating primarily to the literary career of Charlie May Simon. Also includes letters, etc. relating to her husband, John Gould Fletcher, her father, Charles Wayman Hogue, and her sister-in-law, Adolphine Terry.

ArchivalResource: 10 ft. ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6758073 View

Terry, David Dickson, 1881-1963. [Fletcher-Terry family papers, 1850s-1960s].

Title: [Fletcher-Terry family papers, 1850s-1960s].

ArchivalResource: 10.5 ft. : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7373652 View