The Welty Collection: A Guide to the Eudora Welty Manuscripts and Documents at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History [Hardcover]

Suzanne Marrs (Author)

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Publication Date: March 1, 1989

This valuable & extensive guide is an annotated listing of all the materials in the Eudora Welty collection of the Mississippi Dept. of Archives & History. Almost all the materials in the collected were donated by Welty to her native state, including manuscripts, correspondence, & documentary photos. It is essential for those engaged in serious study of this acclaimed writer & her many stories & novels. The author has written 3 essays about holdings in the Collection & cataloged the papers in 5 sections. Also includes an unannotated listing of significant Welty manuscripts that are located at the Univ. of Texas & the Univ. of Virginia.

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A valuable annotated listing that surveys the extensive collection of primary and secondary materials in the principal repository of Welty's manuscripts, photographs, and related documents

Product Details

• Hardcover: 220 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi; annotated edition edition (March 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878053662
• ISBN-13: 978-0878053667
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,929,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: The Welty Collection: A Guide to the Eudora Welty Manuscripts and Documents at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (Hardcover)

I wasn't that crazy about Dr. Marrs' biography of the troubled Southern writer, and I'm afraid I let her have it on [...].

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The book is handsomely illustrated with a selection of Welty's own fine, evocative photographs, reproduced adequately from the original negatives, which form part of the collection.

Her correspondence is annotated, so we can see that Welty was a favorite of many Broadway and Hollywood stars as early as the 1950s, and an autograph hound would have a great time reading this fan mail from such greats as Julie Harris, Una Merkel, Maurice Evans, John Houseman, and Geraldine Fitzgerald. I wonder if the estate couldn't actually create a small keepsake book based on her mail from famous actresses who loved playing eccentric Southern women in adaptations of Welty's work.

Good work, Dr. Marrs. I hope someday you expand your work here to include the complete range of Welty's writing, both published and not. Reading this book is like the promise of a new day, filled with strange smells and tantalizing glimpses of a mind both at its peak, and later, not doing so great, but still soldiering on valiantly.