In 1990, the Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors received from the estate of Dorothy Thomas, 17 boxes of materials relating to Dorothy Thomas’ writing life. Although Lincoln City Libraries does not hold literary rights to these materials, their literary executor, Wanda Barbee of Bronte, Texas, has been generous in allowing the use of these papers. Requests for usage must be cleared through Mrs. Barbee.
The collection includes thousands of letters to and from Dorothy Thomas, hundreds of story manuscripts, photographs, slides, clippings, and other ephemera. This collection was sorted and ordered by Heritage Room staff between 1997 and 1999. When possible, the original order the materials were placed in by Dorothy Thomas was preserved. This is especially true with her stories. However, the correspondence came to us in no particular order and so has been arranged chronologically and by sender, without interfiling. All material is housed in acid-free document boxes in acid-free folders. Clippings have been transferred to acid-free paper. Personnel who worked on the collection include Vicki Clarke, Joanna Lloyd, and Christine Pappas.
Dorothy Thomas was born, August 13, 1898 in Kansas, the sixth of ten children to Willard and Agusta Dodge Thomas. When Dorothy was seven, the family moved to Alberta, Canada, where they homesteaded near a logging company, often providing food and shelter to the loggers. The family moved back to Kansas when Dorothy was 12, and she attended school for the first time. A bright child, Dorothy showed immediate aptitude in writing stories and creating artwork, but always struggled with her other schoolwork. Other members of the Thomas family, especially Dorothy’s sister Kennetha, share Dorothy’s artistic strengths.
After the death of her father, Dorothy moved with her mother and other siblings to Bethany, a suburb of Lincoln. Dorothy received a Second Grade teaching certificate in 1918. Not graduating from either school, she attended Cotner College for two semesters during the 1920 and 1921 school years and the University of Nebraska for a semester in 1921. From 1918 to 1929, Dorothy taught elementary and secondary school in Emerson, Tryon, Gering, Scotts Bluff, Saunders County and Lincoln. While teaching in Scotts Bluff in 1924, Dorothy met a young farmer named Martin Gable and became engaged, but later returned the ring at her mother’s urging.
Dorothy’s first publication was in the Prairie Schooner—a poem entitled “The Beast Room,” which appeared in 1927. Selling her story “The Blue Doves” to Scribners in 1928 gave Dorothy the confidence to return her 1929 teaching contract unsigned: “sink or swim, I would risk everything, work at whatever jobs I could get, and write for my life and my living.”
Despite the raging Great Depression, Dorothy’s plan succeeded, and throughout the 1930s she supported her large family with the proceeds of her writings. By 1975, Dorothy sold over 150 stories to the top magazines and journals all over the world, with many stories being placed in American Mercury, The New Yorker, Harpers and other literary magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. After the 1940s, Dorothy’s stories mainly found their way into slicks and women’s magazines—Saturday Evening Post, Red Book, Colliers, or Good Housekeeping. H. L. Mencken admired her writing, and New Yorker founding editor Harold Ross called her story “The Getaway” the “best damn story ever in The New Yorker.” Many of her stories were deemed among the best stories of the year.
Alfred A. Knopf published two novels by Dorothy, but they were really collections of short stories— Ma Jeeter’s Girls in 1931 and The Home Place in 1934. The rights to both of these books are held by the University of Nebraska Press, which has issued reprints of each. Besides her children’s book Hi-Po the Hippo, published by Random House in 1942, these were Dorothy’s only book-length publications, although, as the manuscript collection reflects, she worked extensively on other projects. These include a collection of stories from her Alberta, Canada childhood, a book on teaching children to read, and a collection of letters regarding Dorothy’s relationship with D. H. Lawrence’s widow Frieda whom, Dorothy visited in New Mexico (see the “Frieda Telling Letters”).
In her life Dorothy was associated with several prominent writers. In Lincoln in the 1920s, she came to know Loren and Mabel Dodge Eiseley and forged a life-long correspondence. In Lincoln, she also was acquainted with Mari Sandoz, Rudolph Umland, and Louise Pound. Dorothy Thomas was living in naturalist Mary Autsin’s guesthouse when Austin died in 1934 and was the last person who saw her alive. During the summer of 1935, Dorothy attended the writing retreat at Yaddo, New York, and fell in love with prominent writer Leonard Ehrlich, a relationship about which, when it ended, Dorothy wrote, “pulled a ligament in my personality.”
After leaving Lincoln, Dorothy lived in a variety of places—Espanola, New Mexico; New York City; Vernon, New Jersey; the US Virgin Islands, and finally, Bronte, Texas. While in Vernon, Dorothy met retired machinist John Buickerood who lived in her trailer park. They were married on Valentine’s Day, 1959, and consolidated their trailers. They lived happily reading, writing and gardening together until his death in 1990.
Dorothy’s personal correspondence and diary writing is voluminous, and many of the people she kept in touch with were family members. Never having children of her own (although she did take in two troubled foster children in 1950s), Dorothy doted on the children in her family and was affectionately known as Aunt Dolly. Dorothy loved clothes almost as much as she loved books and many of her letters contain drawings and descriptions of the newest article of clothing she had sewn.
Dorothy died in 1990. She had long been weakened by myasthenia gravis and suffered a debilitating stroke brought on by an unfavorable review of one of her stories. Dorothy cared about her literary reputation and hoped to be “discovered” in the Twenty-First Century. Dorothy’s correspondence shows that she had a buoyant spirit and was ever confident in her ability to create a good story. She wrote that on her grave marker, she wished it to say, “she told an enjoyable story.”
By Christine Pappas, 12/99
Sold / Published Stories BOX 1
1920s: The Goat [Avenue, 1927]
1920s: Three Blue Doves [Scribners, Oct. 1929]
1930s: A Jeeter Wedding [American Mercury, 1931]
1930s: Agusta and the Big Brewer’s Horses [Harpers, Nov. 1932]
1930s: The Red Chair [Canadian Home Journal, 1933]
1930s: To the Brave, the Fair [Omaha World Herald, 1933]
1930s: The Consecrated Coal Scuttle [Harper’s, May, 1933]
1930s: All Day Sunday [American Mercury, July 1933]
1930s: Ma Jeeters’s Girls [published by Knopf, 1933]
1930s: The Girl from Follow [Atlantic Monthly, 1934]
1930s: The Sunday Dishes [1934]—TV playscript; Woman’s Day ?
1930s: First Love [Atlantic Monthly, May 1934]
1930s: The Getaway [New Yorker, 1934]
1930s: Hazel [Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1934]
Home Place Stories
1930s: Fall (from Home Place), [Harper’s, Jan. 1935]
1930s: Christmas Morning (from Home Place), [Harper’s, Jan. 1936]
1930s: Spring (from Home Place), [Harper’s, Aug. 1935]
1930s: Summer (from Home Place), [Harper’s, Sept. 1935]
1930s: Second Fall (from Home Place)
1930s: The Home Place carbons [published by Knopf, 1936]
1930s: The Home Place proof of illustrations
1930s: Ice Cream on Monday [Atlantic Monthly, July 1935]
1930s: Apple Wood [Atlantic Monthly, 1936]
1930s: Home for the Wedding [Good Housekeeping, Sept. 1936]
1930s: Past Speaking [Sat. Eve. Post, Dec. 26, 1936]
1930s: Flowers Appear on the Earth [New Yorker, 1936]
1930s: Garish Day [Harper’s, July 1937]
1930s: Helen, I’ve Seen Your Father [Sat. Eve. Post, Sept. 25, 1937]
1930s: The Car [Sat. Eve. Post, 1938]
1930s: Morning [Canadian Home Journal, May 1939]
1930s: Star Light, Star Bright [Ladies Home Journal, Ap. 2, 1939]
1940s: After Many Mysteries [Woman’s Day early 1940s]
1940s: The Handkerchiefs [Sat. Eve. Post May 11, 1940]
1940s: We’ll Not Speak of It [Ladies Home Journal March, 1941]
1940s: My Pigeon Pair [Harper’s June 1941]
1940s: Love is a Proud and Gentle Thing [Sat. Eve. Post, Ap. 28, 1942]
1940s: Sin [Sat. Eve. Post July 4, 1942]
1940s: The Thread that Runs So Truly [Woman’s Day, Aug. 7, 1942]
1940s: Come and Bring the Children [Sat. Eve. Post, Aug. 8, 1942]
1940s: Such Sweet Sorrow [Ladies Home Journal, Oct. 1943]
1940s: Help One Fainty Robin [New Yorker, 1944]
1940s: Worth the Telling [Good Housekeeping, March 1945]
1940s: We Got Back [Ladies Home Journal, July 8, 1945]
1940s: Never Said a Word [Ladies Home Journal, Aug. 1947]
1940s: Impatient Bridegroom [Sat. Eve. Post, May 15, 1948]
1960s: Mina’s Man Trap [Ladies Home Journal, Nov. 1961]
1960s: A Word Fitfully Spoken [Ladies Home Journal, May 1961]
1960s: Of Day of Rest and Gladness or Angels Ever Bright and Fair [Redbook, 1964-5]
1960s: Madonna of the Rocking Chair or Joy Cometh in the Morning [Redbook, 1966]
1960s: Violets are Brief or Faster, Faster, Faster [Redbook, Ap. 1967]
1960s: The Holy Stove [Redbook, Jan. 1968]
1980s: The Car [Sat. Eve. Post, June 1984]
1980s: Another Lilac Time [West Texas Sun, Nov. 1989]
1990s: The Goat [West Texas Sun, Ap. 1990]
A. Sold Stories but Date Unknown BOX 2
A Good Heart [Canadian Home Journal]
Harvest Idyl [sold in 1957 to English magazine ? ]
In the Lord’s Hands [Woman’s Home Companion]
The Mercy Barrel [Woman’s Day]
Spur of the Morning [sold to a Canadian magazine]
A Touch of Genius [Canadian Home Journal]
The Woman Not to be Known [Woman’s Day]
Woman Trouble [Mercury Magazine]
You Have to Believe in Love [Woman’s Day]
Complete Alberta Christmas Stories BOX 2The Halfway Spot that Whirled the Sun Across the Sky [early 1960s]The Christmas Whopper or The Christmas Lie [Sat. Eve. Post , Dec. 1983]
First Canada Christmas or Christmas Lost and Christmas Found
Something to Draw On [1959]
Joy Cometh in the Morning [Redbook, Dec. 1966]
C. Unsold Stories By Decade Arranged by Dorothy Thomas BOX 2
1920s: Angus
1920s: The Blue Teapot
1920s: The Call
1920s: A Fairy Story
1920s: Frost in the Morning
1920s: No Panties
1920s: Sunday School Lesson
1920s: Twas Meant
1920s: A Writing of Divorcement
1930s: Antelope Boy
1930s: Belinda, Europe and a Good New Fiddle
1930s: The Bloom and the Blossoming
1930s: Buried Treasure
1930s: The Carved and Painted Bed
1930s: The Creation of Stinky Oleander
1930s: Diagnosis in Gillian’s Pasture
1930s: A Dr. Christiansen Play Script
1930s: Every Day a Red Rose
1930s: A Face Seen in a Dream
1930s: Four Triple A
1930s: Gone to Find the One I Love
1930s: Let there be Duck and Damsels
1930s: The Living Heir
1930s: Mountain Idyl
1930s: Runaway Squaw
1930s: Tigers of Consequence
1930s: To Do the Chores
1930s: Twin Sons
1930s: Young Man’s Vision, Old Man’s Dream
1940s: The Bargain
1940s: The Big Jump
1940s: Butter on the Cat’s Paws
1940s: A Good Name
1940s: I Came to See You
1940s: I’ll Ask My Husband
1940s: A Little Learning
1940s: Mrs. Johnson and the Atomic Bomb
1940s: The Opera Tune
1940s: Right to Marry
1940s: Some Sturdy Midsummer Illusion
1940s: There are Lions
1940s: The Wake of the Party
1940s: The Wandersome One
1950s: Above the Storm
1950s: The Blizzard
1950s: The Closed Door
1950s: Cold White Fury
1950s: Spur of the Morning
1950s: The Very Necessary Little Dog
1960s-1970s: The Faithful Orchard
1960s-1970s: The Halcyon Day
1960s-1970s: O Time in Your Flight
1960s-1970s: Steam Children
1960s-1970s: Today is My Husband’s Wedding Day
1960-1966: Based on Life in Vernon, N.J.: Christmastree Arcadia
1960-1966: Based on Life in Vernon, N.J.: In Time of Tomatoes
1960-1966: Based on Life in Vernon, N.J.: Our Corn Patch
D. Unsold Stories, Dates Uncertain BOX 2
Abigail: A Biblical Screen or Television Play
Ann Hays’ Story of the Girl Sent from Sweden
The Bargain or The Good Swap (6/28/67)
The Building of the Sussex County Home Place
A Clap of Thunder Brought Me into this World
Cooking with Gas or High Point Venture
Come Look
Death Wish in a Pretty Place or To Heaven From the Pretty Place (4 versions) or To Town
A Delicate Undertaking
The Fall
Farm Homes
Fire Guard
For Baby’s Christmas
Fortnight Away
Forty Odd
The Happy Ending
Hospital Story
Journal of an Impractical Nurse (1952)
A Late and Sudden Wooing or Two Early and a Third Sudden but Late Wooing
D. Unsold Stories, Dates Uncertain BOX 3
The Light Blue China Hen
Little Girl Wife
A Little Learning
The Long Mystery of the Averted Scandal
Love Letters from Espanola
Mary Austin
A Matter of Time or Fortnight Away
The Most Amazing Secret of What Was Needed to Get a Baby Sister
My Mother and Me (or I) on the Night of My Sudden Birth
Never Said a Word
Next to Last Happy Rights
Old Pointer (1938)
Our Three Ducks
Papa’s Supper
Pedro and Otero of New Mexico
Prairie Children (see Manuscripts Written by Others, Prairie Children by Agusta Dodge Thomas)
Rain from Heaven
Responsibility
Right as Rain
A School Marm’s Story
Set Another Plate
The Old Spicer House
Split Up
The Story of the Building of Our House in Bronte
A Sunday Joke
Tell Us About the Children
Three Silk Handkerchiefs or The Holy Stove
A Time for Embracing or The Mobil and Completely Simple Life
To Stay the Night
To Them, Benighted
Town
The Trip from the Schoolhouse
Two-Mile Journey from School to Our Homestead or Journey in the Head
Two with a Light: An Alaska Idyll
Uncle Martin’s Halocination
Up in the Hills
Visit from the Luckiest Wiseman
Westward to Santa Fe
Worst Laid Plans Gang Too
You are my Other Self
Scraps of Stories
Misc. Pages
E. Frieda Telling Letters BOX 4
Original Frieda Telling Letters Written to Ted Mabley
Edited Letters to Ted Mabley
E. Frieda Telling Letters BOX 5
Frieda Lawrence Book Story 1
Frieda Lawrence Book Story 2
Frieda Lawrence Book Story 3
Frieda Lawrence Book Story 4
Frieda Lawrence Book Story 5
Frieda Lawrence Book Story 6
Frieda Lawrence Book Story 7
Frieda Lawrence Book Story 8
Frieda Lawrence Book Story 9
Frieda Lawrence Book Story 10
Frieda Lawrence Book Story 11
Frieda Lawrence Book Story 12
Frieda Lawrence Book Story 13
Frieda Telling Letter 2nd Version
Frieda Telling Letters Handwritten
Edited Letters to Ted about Frieda
Again We Went to Taos to See Frieda Lawrence
Frieda Telling Letters Bronte Version
Poetry BOX 6Poetry
Poems
Children’s Poetry
Nursing Home Telling or Grandpa Walked Home
A Story Told in Big Country Nursing Home
Sunday Joke and Beauteous Evening
Nonfiction BOX 6
Loren Eiseley Celebration Talk
Plays
A Tutoring Book
The Story Opening
Memoir
Dorothy
Dorothy: In her Kansas and Alberta Early Years
A Nine Decade Personal History
A Personal History
Manuscripts Written by Others BOX 6Carney, Paul: Stories
Franklin, Mary: The Overturning of Marcella
Franklin, Mary: Snow White, Clara and the Seven Dwarfs
Frost, Robert: A Masque of Reason
Hays, Allegra Thomas: A Very Special Day
Int Haut, Della: Quicksand on the Middle Fork
Merrill, Kennetha Thomas: Wrack and Ruin: A Tale of the Horses
Merrill, Kennetha Thomas, Allegra and Burrus: The Others Remember
Murray, Don and Fred Clasel: The Homeless
Thomas, Agusta Dodge: Prairie Children
Wollin, Gosha: Untitled
II. GENERAL BOX 7
Addresses and Phone Numbers
Alberta—Letters about Battle Lake
Alberta—Valuble Letters and Papers
Alberta—Dorothy’s Trip to Alberta, June-July, 1957
Book Sales by Consignment
Buickerood, John
Buickerood, John—Sympathy Cards Received upon Death
Buickerood Land and Ski Runs
Buickerood Wedding—February 14, 1959
Christmas Cards
Clarke, Deanna—Correspondence
Clippings—About Dorothy Thomas
Clippings—Misc.
Financial Information
Friends of Loren Eiseley
Geneology I
Geneology II
Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors/ NLHA
Horizontal Sundial Plans
Kansas—Trip, 1953
Letters about Writing and Publishing
Letters from Readers
Lifetime Literary Achievement Award
Little People’s Corner
Kirkham Family Newsletter
II. GENERAL BOX 8
Medical
Poetry Society of Texas
Sussex County Welfare Board
Teaching Papers
Texas Nightwriters
Texas Observer (Joe Holley and Alicia Daniel)
University of Nebraska Press
Personal Miscellanea
CORRESPONDENCE BOX 8A. Letters to Dorothy Thomas BOX 8
Letters from Unknown Authors
Miscellaneous
Abercrombie, Edna
Ackerman, Dora (John’s sister)
Adler, Fagan A.
Alcorn, Helen—1953-1983
Allen, Myrtle—1953-1983
Alumbaugh, Goldie
Armijo, Karen
Asher, Eleanor
Aull, Peggy
Barbee, Alan Hodges
Boardwell, Mrs. Bruce
Brower, Bill
Brown, Dorris
Brown, June Heacock
Buickerood, Ed and Helen (John’s brother and sister-in-law)
Buickerood, Jim (John’s nephew, son of Ed and Helen)
Buickerood, John (and from Dorothy to John)
Burgess, Eve
C., Martha
Callahan, Grace
Campbell, Hope—1954-1977
Champe, Flavia Waters—1954-1990
Chodorov, Edward
Christenson, Brenda
Christenson, Gale
Church, Peggy
Clark, Deanna and Ross (Dorothy’s foster children)
Clemens, Lois
Cooper, George
Corlett
Crockett, Harriet
Daniels, Sherrill
Darrow, Martha
Day, Bess (includes “Singer of Life” interview)
Denlon, Grace
Dodge, Doris
Doyle, Esther
Drury, Margaret
Dunbar, Eva
Earnest, Altha
East, Therese
Eckert, Vera
Ehrman, Lola Pharook
Eiseley, Mabel and Loren
Esser, Grace D.
Ewing, Gordon
Farron, Paul
Ferris, Bernice (Aunt Bird)
Fink, Agusta
Fitzgerald, Florence
Fitzgerald, Marty
Franklin, Rosalie
Freeborn, Roselyn
Frisbie, Jo
Gable, Martin (early boyfriend)
Giel, Marilyn and Jack
Glaze, Eleanor
H., Bob and Fritz
Hanck, Randy and Louise
Hanson, Lois
Hare, Dennis O.
Harper, Mary
Harris, Ann
Harris, Eva B.
Havener, Sandra
Hays, Bonna and Hobe
Heaner, Dorothy
Hey, Ann and Harry
Hoover, Helen
Howell, Madge Bunny
Hult, Carrie
Hyde, Herb
Int-Hout, Della
Jacobs, Elijah
Jarvis, Deana King
Jewett, John Figgis
Johnson, Libbie
Kadhibs,
Kemp, Mildred
Kirk, Joy
Kirkham, Steve
Klinkhamer, Tina/Carolyn Randall
Klug, Bertha and Carl
Kudlack, Ed and Marjorie
A. Letters to Dorothy Thomas BOX 9
Kysekla, Jo
Lakey, Denise
Lancaster, Sarah Heaner
Lane, Rose Wilder
Larkin, Elizabeth
Lasch, Robert and Zora
Lent, Helen
Lewis, Marguerite Good
Lightly, Florence and Paul
Lisowski, Austiss
London, Lloyd
Long,
Lowe, Robert Liddell
Mabley, Mabelle
Mabley, Ted
Mabley, Ted—Traveling with Strangers
MacGregor, Thelma
Macklin, Eugenie
Marshall, Mary Thomas
Martin, Katie
Marx, Groucho
McHugh, Jane
Mencken, H. L.
Menke, Dorothea and Hattie
Michel, Darlene
Miller, Skedge
Murphy, Eve O.
Murray, Don
Newton, C. A.
Nickel, Mrs, Louis
Nielson, Soren
O’Brien, Edward
Older, Vera and Jim
Packwood, Ann
Palmer, Charlotte and Rocky
Pearce, T. M.
Pryor, Nancy and John
Purchard, Dora
Rodenberger, Lou
Rodman, Nathan
Rowland, Barbara
Roy, Elizabeth
S., Denise and Jody
S., Geneva
Sanders, Bob
Sanford, Annette
Sartin, John
Schultz, Marian and Bert
Sedluck, Thema
Sexton, Annie
Sheldon, Mrs. A. B.
Sjolin, Oscar and Jenny
Skippen, Pat and Skipper
Sowanick, Paul and Nancy
Speight, Anne
Spencer, Mrs. Tom
Stafford, Amber
Stauffer, Helen Winter
Stelfox, Henry
Stepanek, Orin
Sterling, Pan–1952-1955
Sterling, Pan–1956-1960
Sterling, Pan–1961-1966
Sterling, Pan—1967-1970 and undated
Stuart, Winifred
Sulphen, Florence
Swanson, Berry
Taylor, John
Teague, Ruth and Walter
Teller, Walter
Theissen, Leonard
A. Letters to Dorothy Thomas BOX 10
Thomas, Agusta Dodge
Thomas, Agusta Dodge—1936-1937
Thomas, Augsta Dodge—Death of
Thomas Hays, Allegra
Thomas, Aurelle
Thomas, Bob
Thomas, Buzz and Marie
Thomas, David and Mildred
Thomas, Esther
Thomas, Evan
Thomas, Hap
Thomas, Jacquelyn
Thomas, John
Thomas Kelly, Laurie
Thomas, Margaret and Vance
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—General
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1950s
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1960
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1961
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1962
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1963
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1964
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1965
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1966
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1966
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1968
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1969
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1970
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1971
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1972
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1973
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1974
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1975
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1977
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1978
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1979
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—1980
Thomas Merrill, Kennetha—death of
Thomas, Lowell and Elaine—1950s
Thomas, Lowell and Elaine—1960-1066
Thomas, Lowell and Elaine—1967-1969
Thomas, Lowell and Elaine—1970s
Thomas, Lowell and Elaine—1980-1990
Thomas, Lowell and Elaine—The Thomas Times
A. Letters to Dorothy Thomas BOX 11
Thomas, Macklin—1935
Thomas, Macklin and Marjorie—1958-1982
Thomas, Marjorie Joan
Thomas, Mark and Grace
Thomas, Michael
Thone, Ruth
Umland, Rudolph
Wallis, Bill
Ward, Bert and Christine
Watkins,
Watson, Jane
Wells, Paulene
Westmorland, Roberta
Wheeler, Elsie Jane
Williams, Robert Orzo
Wilson, Nadene and Ray
Zesch, Mrs. Kurt
Becky
Bernard
Betty
Betty and Al
Carol
Charlotte and Rocky
Claire and Paul
David
Dennis
Esther
Eva
Florence and Betty
Gayle
Genny
Gerry
Gladys
Goldie
Gretchen
Hazel
Henry
Irene
Jim and Hylda
Joan
Jocelyn
June and Lou
Karen
Kay
Kristen
Lauralea
Lillymae
Louise
Louise
Marj
Mary Alice
Ola
Patty
Ross
Scottie
Tony and Ruth
Walter
B. Literary Correspondence BOX 11
Jack Chambrun Letters 1
Jack Chambrun Letters 2
Jack Chambrun Letters 3
Jack Chambrun Letters 4
Letters about Nineth-Nine Alarm Clocks—1938-1939
Letters about Writing and Publishing: 1976-
Letters from Readers
Literary Correspondence I—1953-1964 (Henry Volkening)
Literary Correspondence II—1965-1975 (Sylvia Plapinger)
Redbook—Conflict over Angels Ever Bright and Fair—1967
C. Letters from Dorothy Thomas BOX 12
Letters Dorothy Wrote Home: 1919-1920 (Gering) and 1924 (Tryon)
Dorothy’s Letters: 1930s
Letters from Yaddo: 1935
Letters Dorothy Wrote Home: 1935-1939
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1940s
Letters to Ted Mabely from Washington, D.C.: 1943-4
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1950s
Dorothy’s Letters: 1951
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1952
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1953
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1954
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1955
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1956
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1957
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1958
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1959
Dorothy’s Letters and Diary Writing: Jan-May, 1960 (Vernon, NJ)
Dorothy’s Letters and Diary Writing: June-Dec., 1960 (Vernon, NJ)
Dorothy’s Carbobs: Jan.-June, 1961 (some journal, mostly letters)
Dorothy’s Carbons: Jan.-June, 1962
Dorothy’s Carbons: July-Dec., 1962
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1963
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1964
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1965
Dorothy’s Carbons: Jan-July, 1966
Dorothy’s Carbons: July-Dec. and undated, 1966
Dorothy’s Carbons: Jan.-June, 1967 (St. Croix)
Dorothy’s Carbons: July-Dec., 1967
Dorothy’s Carbons: Jan-June, 1968
Dorothy’s Unattached Carbons: 1966-1969 and undated (St. Croix)
C. Letters from Dorothy Thomas BOX 13
Dorothy’s Carbons: July-Dec, 1968
Dorothy’s Carbons: Jan.-Aug, 1969
Dorothy’s Carbons: Sept.-Dec., 1969
Dorothy’s Carbons: re: New Jersey Land, 1969
Dorothy’s Unattached Carbons: 1969
Dorothy’s Carbons: Jan.-June, 1970
Dorothy’s Carbons: July-Dec., 1970
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1971
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1972
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1973
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1974
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1975
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1976
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1977
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1978
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1979
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1980
Dorothy’s Carbons: Jan.-June, 1981
Dorothy’s Carbons: July-Dec., 1981
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1982
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1983
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1983
C. Letters from Dorothy Thomas BOX 14
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1984
Dorothy’s Carbons: Jan. 29-Aug. 30, 1985
Dorothy’s Carbons: Sept. 19-Dec.28, 1985 and Undated
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1986
Dorothy’s Carbons: Jan. 1-May 30, 1987
Dorothy’s Carbons: June 9-Dec. 17, 1987 and Undated
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1988
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1989
Dorothy’s Carbons: 1990
Dorothy’s Carbons: Loose and Undated I
Dorothy’s Carbons: Loose and Undated II
DIARIES BOX 15-17Diary—1923 and 1934-5
Diary—1939
Diary—1946 and 1948
Diary—1949 and 1951
Diary—1950s (sets of notes in this folder)
Diary—1952
Diary—1953
Diary—1956(?)
Diary—1957(?) (envelope of notes)
Diary—1957 (trip to Alberta)
Diary—1958 (two diaries for 1958)
Diary—1959 (loose sheets of notes)
Diary—1963
Diary—1964 and 1965
Diary—1966 (two diaries for 1966)
Diary—Jan. 9, 1967-Aug. 1967 and Aug. 14, 1967-June, 1968
Diary—1969
Diary—1970-1975
Diary—July, 1972-Oct., 1988 (diary includes photographs)
Diary—Jan-April, 1974
Diary—Sept., 1947-Dec., 1975
Diary—1975 (blank) and Jan.-Aug, 1975
Diary—Aug.-Oct., 1975 and Nov.-Dec., 1975
Diary—Jan., 1976-Jan., 1977
Diary—Jan.-Sept., 1977
Diary—Jan.-March, 1978
Diary—Aug. 13, 1978-1979 (204 loose pages in this folder)
Diary—Aug. 13, 1979-1980 (loose pages in this folder)
Diary—1981
Diary—Jan. 3-Nov.11, 1982 (10 loose pages in this folder)
Diary—Dec. 30, 1982-Jan. 1, 1985
Diary—Sept. 30-Nov. 28, 1983
Diary—1985 (diary includes key in box)
Diary—May-Dec., 1985
Diary—1986-7
EPHEMERA
A. Slides
Mainly taken on trip to Canada and of art subjects in photography class. A few slides of Dorothy and John taken around the time of their wedding in 1959. A few slides of Dorothy in the 1940s. Pictures of Dorothy’s foster children Deanna and Ross Clark (c. late 1940s).
PhotographsC. Awards