Eudora Welty Foundation

The Eudora Welty Foundation, Inc., held its organizational meeting in Jackson on April 13, 1999, Eudora Welty’s 90th birthday. The Foundation was established to assist the Mississippi Department of Archives and History with the conservation of Welty archival material and with the preservation, maintenance, interpretation, and operation of the Welty house on Pinehurst Street in Jackson. From 1957 until her death in 2001, Welty regularly donated manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs to the Department of Archives and History. At her death, her home also became the property of  the Department.

   The Foundation’s goal is make visits to the home an experience that will enhance the understanding of Welty’s life and work for visitors from across America and around the world.

The first project, started two years ago, is the restoration of the property’s garden, created and carefully maintained by the author’s mother during her lifetime. Work on the house that Welty called home for 76 years and in which she wrote almost all of her fiction has now also begun and will culminate in a literary house museum that helps to illuminate the creative process of one of the nation’s finest writers.

       Contributions may be sent to the Eudora Welty Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571. For more details, visit www.eudorawelty.org/.