Opal Whiteley papers [manuscript], 1915-1969.

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Opal Whiteley papers [manuscript], 1915-1969.

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Correspondence, clippings, and magazine articles related to Opal Stanley Whiteley, a woman from Cottage Grove, Oregon, who became famous through the publication of her childhood diary in 1921 and subsequent controversy over the story of her origins. The collection includes letters from Whiteley, 1918-1963, to her friend Nellie Hemenway Price, a resident of Portland, Oregon; letters from Atlantic Monthly publisher Ellery Sedgwick to Price; an issue of the British magazine Queen, 1929, containing an article by Whiteley on India (in oversize); an issue of the magazine Old Oregon with an extensive article on Whiteley; and newspaper clippings (in oversize).

.25 cubic feet (2 folders, 1 oversize folder)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Price, Nellie Hemenway.

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Whiteley, Opal Stanley

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Opal Stanley Whiteley was born on December 11, 1897 in Colton, Washington and later moved with her family to Walden, Oregon, near the town of Cottage Grove. It was in Walden that Whiteley wrote a diary, later published in 1920 by the Atlantic Monthly, which was to become both celebrated and controversial. Whiteley was keenly interested in nature and botany; she became an amateur naturalist and utilized her interests in both nature and religion for her work in the Oregon Christian Endeavor Union....

Sedgwick, Ellery, 1872-1960

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Ellery Sedgwick was editor of The Atlantic Monthly. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1920. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884345 ...