TABLE OF CONTENTS
Scope and Contents
Restrictions
Administrative Information
Description of Series
I. Writings and Associated
Material
II. Correspondence
III. Career-Related and
Personal
IV. Ermine Stone's Diaries,
1941-1974
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Alma Stone:
A Preliminary Inventory of Her Papers at the
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
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| Creator: | Stone, Alma,
1908- |
| Title: | Alma Stone Papers
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| Dates: | 1930s-1990s |
| Abstract: | The papers, consisting of
typescripts, drafts, galleys and proofs, notes, research material, reviews,
business and personal papers, correspondence, and diaries, document the
personal and professional life of this novelist and short story
writer. |
| Extent: | 21 boxes, 4
galleys (8.82 linear feet) |
| Repository: | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,
University of Texas at Austin |
This collection of novelist and short story writer Alma Stone
consists primarily of typescripts, drafts, galleys and proofs, notes, research
material, reviews, business and personal papers, correspondence, and diaries.
The collection is arranged in four Series: Series I. Writings and Associated
Material, Series II. Correspondence, Series III. Career-Related and Personal,
and Series IV. Ermine Stone's Diaries, 1941-1974.
Three of Stone's published works are represented in Series I,
galleys for
The Banishment, contracts and
reviews for
The Bible Salesman, and proofs
for
Now for the Turbulence. Numerous
short story typescripts and notes form the bulk of this series as well as
unidentified typescripts, possibly book chapters or short stories.
Correspondence in Series II includes business and personal
letters written to Stone, as well as family correspondence. The career-related
and personal papers in Series III contain book reviews and articles, passports,
trip memorabilia, a family biography, and poems written by her mother. Diaries
kept by Stone's sister, Ermine "Pebble" Stone (1901-1978), chief librarian at
Sarah Lawrence College, are found in Series IV.
Books and serials received with the collection have been
transferred to the Ransom Center's Library. Likewise, audio tapes of Stone
reading from
The Bible Salesman were
transferred to the Center's Sound Recordings Collection.
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Availability:
Open for research
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Purchase, 1999 (Reg. no. 14507)
Liz Murray, 2001
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I. Writings and Associated
Material
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| Box |
| 1 | | | The
Banishment [partial set of galleys removed to galley files] |
| | | The Bible
Salesman |
| Box | Folder |
| 1 | 1-2 | | | Reviews |
| 3 | | | Publishing agreement |
| 4 | | The Big Trees |
| Box | Folder |
| 2 | 1-2 | | Chapters for a book, title
undetermined |
| | | Now for the
Turbulence |
| Box | Folder |
| 2 | 3 | | | Setting copy |
| 4 | | | Uncorrected proofs and galleys
[page proofs and galleys removed to the galley files] |
| Box | Folder |
| 3 | 1 | | Pleasantly and Well Suited I
Walk |
| 2 | | Notes, chapters of
"Pleasantly and
Well Suited," letters |
| 3-4 | | Quotations from Whitman |
| Box | Folder |
| 4 | 1 | | Splendour in the Grass, novel, never
published |
| 2 | | Chapters,
"Banishment" or
"Turbulence" |
| 3-4 | | Chapters, maybe from
"Banishment," letters |
| 5 | | Notes and misc. |
| Box | Folder |
| 5 | 1 | | Notes, misc. |
| 2-3 | | Book notes, ideas, etc.; clippings for
research |
| 4-5 | | Superceded chapters |
| | | Short stories |
| Box | Folder |
| 6 | 1 | | | "A Good
Home" and short stories |
| 2 | | | "The
Hobbyist and the Communist" and notes |
| 3 | | | "The Ladies
from Kountz" |
| 4 | | | "Mayhaw
Gatherers" and
"A Fine Zoo
Day" |
| 5 | | | "Mrs.
Seely,""Library," and
"Double
Entry" |
| 6 | | | "My Bonny
O" and other short stories |
| Box | Folder |
| 7 | 1 | | | "Old
Ladies" |
| 2 | | | "The
Sucker" |
| 3 | | Short stories or chapters from a
book? |
| 4-7 | | Short stories |
| Box | Folder |
| 8 | 1-6 | | Stories and notes |
| Box | Folder |
| 9 | 1-2 | | Stories and notes |
| 3-5 | | Typescript drafts and
fragments |
| Box | Folder |
| 10 | 1-4 | | Typescripts cont'd |
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II. Correspondence
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| Box | Folder |
| 11 | 1-4 | | General |
| Box | Folder |
| 12 | 1-3 | | General, cont'd |
| 4 | | Christmas cards |
| Box | Folder |
| 13 | 1 | | Christmas cards, cont'd |
| 2-3 | | Letters re: books |
| 4 | | Postcards, Alma's friends and
family |
| Box | Folder |
| 14 | 1-3 | | Alma (Adams Stone--Mama), Alma (Dady),
Ermine ("Pebble") |
| 4 | | Mary Stone |
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III. Career-Related and
Personal
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| Box | Folder |
| 15 | 1 | | Book reviews, articles |
| 2 | | Columbia writing class |
| 3 | | Family biography |
| 4 | | Material removed from book
transfers |
| 5 | | Misc. printed material |
| 6 | | Notebook with drawings and
notes |
| 7 | | Passports, address book |
| 8 | | Photographs |
| Box | Folder |
| 16 | 1 | | Scrapbook |
| 2 | | "`Through the years,' poems written by
our dear mother," Christmas
1961 |
| 3-4 | | Trips abroad |
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IV. Ermine Stone's Diaries,
1941-1974
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| Box | Folder |
| 17 | 1-3 | | 1941-1943 |
| 4-5 | | 1946-1947 |
| 6-7 | | 1950-1951 |
| Box | Folder |
| 18 | 1-6 | | 1952-1957 |
| Box | Folder |
| 19 | 1-5 | | 1958-1962 |
| Box | Folder |
| 20 | 1-4 | | 1963-1966 |
| Box | Folder |
| 21 | 1 | | 1969 |
| 2-4 | | 1972-1974 |
| 5 | | Passport, address book, and holograph
notebook |
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