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MUM00110
Finding-Aid for the Ellen Douglas SMMSS (MUM00110)
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PURL:
http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00110/
Creator:
Douglas, Ellen
Title:
Ellen Douglas SMMSS.
Inclusive Dates:
1963-2005
Materials in:
English
Abstract:
Collection contains photographs and various documents related to the life of Ellen Douglas. Items were created 1963-2005. This box is intended to be a repository for Ellen Douglas materials which are not part of any collection or gift.
Quantity:
1 box.
Number:
MUM00110
Location:
B-13.
Repository :
The University of Mississippi
J.D. Williams Library
Department of Archives and Special Collections
P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Phone: 662.915.7408
Fax: 662.915.5734
E-Mail: archive@olemiss.edu
URL: http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/
J.D. Williams Library
Department of Archives and Special Collections
P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Phone: 662.915.7408
Fax: 662.915.5734
E-Mail: archive@olemiss.edu
URL: http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/
Cite as:
Ellen Douglas SMMSS (MUM00110). The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi.
Ellen Douglas is the pen name of Josephine Ayres Haxton, who was born in 1921 in Natchez, Mississippi. She attended schools in Hope, Arkansas and Alexandria, Louisiana before enrolling at Randolph Macon Women's College in Virginia. In 1942 she graduated from the University of Mississippi. For most of her adult life she lived in Greenville, MS. Her works include A Family's Affairs (1962), Black Cloud, White Cloud: Two Novellas and Two Stories (1963), Where the Dreams Cross (1968),Apostles of Light (1973), The rock cried out
(1979),
A lifetime burning
(1982),
A long night
(1986),
The magic carpet and other tales
(1987),
Can't quit you, baby
(1988),
Truth : four stories I am finally old enough to tell
(1998), and
Witnessing
(2004)
Collection contains photographs and various documents related to the life of Ellen Douglas. Items were created 1963-2005. This box is intended to be a repository for Ellen Douglas materials which are not part of any collection or gift.
Access Restrictions
Open.
Use Restriction
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ELLEN DOUGLAS SMALL MANUSCRIPTS
The Ellen Douglas Small Manuscript Collection
NOTE: This box is intended to be a repository for Ellen Douglas materials which are not part of any collection or gift.
Folder 1.
B & W photograph. Signed by Ellen Douglas. By Brooks Haxton (son of Josephine Haxton). 7 1/8" x 7 1/8" (torn).
Folder 2.
B & W copy of above photograph. 8"x10" with negative 3 1/8" x 4 1/8" .
Publication notice for Truth in Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (Fall 1998).
"Death and Homecoming" by Ellen Douglas in Esquire (December 1961).
Jerome Billingsley's "An Interview with Ellen Douglas" in Images (Spring 1984).
Two poems "The Trumpets of God" and "Dialogue" in The Delta Review (Winter 1963-64).
Book-of-the-Month Club pamphlet with piece on The Rock Cried Out.
April 2005. Transcript of Ellen Douglas' Phi Beta Kappa Address, University of Mississippi. 3pp.