Scott, Evelyn, 1893-1963. Evelyn Scott Collection, 1894-1952.
Title:
Evelyn Scott Collection, 1894-1952.
The Evelyn Scott collection consists of primarily manuscripts and correspondence, with the bulk covering the period when she was most actively involved in writing (ca. 1920-1941). The Works series consists of original and carbon copy typescripts of books, articles, essays, short stories, plays, and poems, many unpublished. Included is a carbon copy typescript of Scott's autobiography, Background in Tennessee. The only published novel represented in the collection is Bread and a Sword, while two unpublished novels, "Before Cock Crows," about the French Revolution, and "Escape into Living" are both present in several drafts. More heavily represented, however, are Scott's short stories, articles, and essays, most of which are unpublished. Also present are two collections of poems, one entitled "The Gravestones Wept." Outgoing correspondence comprises a single folder principally of typed carbon copies of letters Scott wrote to her agents, Brandt ? publishers Bennett Cerf of Random House, Charles Scribner's ? also the Authors' League of America, the New York Herald Tribune, and friends such as Elizabeth Ames of Yaddo, and Marie Garland, author and financial benefactress. Incoming correspondence includes letters concerning her literary output and that of her correspondents, as well as discussions of the work of other authors. Scott carried on an active correspondence with such notables as Sherwood Anderson, Kay Boyle, Van Wyck Brooks, Willa Cather, Sidney Cox, John Dewey, Lovat Dickson, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, Albert Einstein, Waldo Frank, Marie Tudor Garland, Emma Goldman, Swinburne Hale, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Sinclair Lewis, Amy Lowell, Owen Merton, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jean Rhys, Elmer Rice, Lola Ridge, Bertrand Russell, Upton Sinclair, Frank Swinnerton, Thornton Wilder, William Carlos Williams, Morton Dauwen Zabel, and Marya Zaturenska. There are also numerous letters from Scott's publishers and literary agents. Additionally in this series are a few letters from her mother, Maude Thomas Dunn and her father, Seely Dunn. The Miscellaneous series includes various personal, financial, and legal papers relating to Evelyn Scott, as well as to her mother and her father. There are also a large number of letters from the artist Owen Merton, to his mother, Mrs. Alfred Merton, spanning 1909-1913, as well as a few letters to other Merton family members.
ArchivalResource:
19 boxes (8 linear feet), 1 galley folder.
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