Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Papers of Ellen Glasgow, Accession #5060, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

The Ellen Glasgow Papers (MSS 5060) was a gift of the estate of Miss Glasgow and was presented to the library on May 7, 1955 by Mrs. Irita Van Doren and Dr. Frank V. Morley of the New York Herald Tribune, 230 West 41st Street, New York, N.Y.

Accession 5083 was a gift of Ms. Anne V. Bennett, 416 West Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia, on June 7, 1955.

Accession 6206 was an archival transfer from the files of the Librarian of the University of Virginia Library on January 14, 1960.

Accession 6206-a was a gift of Oliver L. Steele, Jr., 207 Thornton Hall, University of Virginia, on Jan 30, 1962.

Accession 6206-b was an archival transfer from the files of the Rare Book Department, University of Virginia Library, on August 2, 1967.

Accession 6473 was a gift of Ms. Catherine Bent, Editorial Department, Charles Scribner's Sons, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. on Dec 5, 1960.

Accession 7225 was a gift of Mrs. Carrington C. Tutwiler, Brushwood, Lexington, Virginia on July 4, 1963.

Accession 7225-a was a gift of Carrington C. Tutweiler, Jr., P.O. Box 1159, Lexington, Virginia, on September 14, 1966.

Accession 7225-b was a gift of Carrington C. Tutweiler, Jr., through the Rare Book Department, University of Virginia Library, on April 6, 1976 and on October 31, 1977.

Processing Information

Interfiled in this collection are these additional collections: accession 5083, ca. 80 items, 1902-1937 and n.d., largely correspondence from Ellen Glasgow to Elizabeth Patterson and Anne Virginia Bennett; accession 6206, a collection of newspaper clippings concerning Ellen Glasgow and her writings; accession 6206-a, newspaper clippings, 1900-1942, reviews of Ellen Glasgow's books from newspapers in England ; accession 6206-b, 10 items, 1938-1960, newspaper clippings (largely obituaries from Cleveland, Ohio newspapers) and related correspondence; accession 6473, 46 items, 1937-1939 and n.d., copies of letters from Ellen Glasgow to Maxwell E. Perkins, and 27 items, 1937-1941, copies of letters from Maxwell E. Perkins to Ellen Glasgow; accession 7225, 28 items, [1896]-1945, correspondence (primarily from Ellen Glasgow to Mrs. Carrington C. Tutwiler) and 12 items, n.d., manuscripts by Ellen Glasgow; accession 7225-a, 5 items, ca. 1926, manuscripts for "Between Two Shores", "A Modern Joan of Arc", "The Prairie Flower", and manuscript and galley proof for "The Romantic Comedians"; and accession 7225-b, ca. 50 items, ca. 1900-1950, and 7225-d, 47 items, ca. 1898-1942, miscellaneous items removed from books which had belonged to Ellen Glasgow.

Scope and Content

Papers of Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow include drafts of and notes on several novels including Phases of an inferior planet, Vein of iron, A certain measure, In this our life, and The woman within, as well as copies of speeches and articles, and notes relating to her personal and literary affairs.

Letters and telegrams, 1916 -1944, from Henry W. Anderson form about half of the correspondence; the more than 50 letters from James Lane Allen make up the second largest group.

The collection also includes notebooks containing addresses, comments, bibliography, recipes and miscellaneous notes; and photographs and drawings of Miss Glasgow, her homes, pets, and other literary figures including a commercial strike of a woodcut of Glasgow's home by J.J. Lankes, 1926, commissioned as a design for her Christmas card.