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Hoskins Library
1401 Cumberland Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37996-4000
865-974-4480
e-mail: special@utk.edu
© The University of Tennessee Special Collections Library
Administrative Information
Statement of Provenance:
Professor Robert Welker of Huntsville, Alabama, generously donated these papers.
Copyright Statement: Copyright
© 2005. The University of Tennessee Libraries. All Rights Reserved. Permission
to use, copy, modify, and distribute these materials for educational, research,
and not-for-profit purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement,
is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph
appear in all copies, modifications, and distributions. For commercial license
to use contact, University of Tennessee Libraries, Office of the Dean, Permissions,
1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996-1000.
Biographical Note:
The Southern Years: 1893-1913
Elsie Dunn, who later changed her name to Evelyn Scott, was born in January, 1893 to Maud Thomas and Seely
Dunn of Clarksville, Tennessee. Her father worked for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad as a railroad
superintendent, moved on to work as a train dispatcher, and later became involved in building railroads. Her
mother's family had been established in Clarksville since 1829, when Elsie's great-grandfather, Captain Joseph
Thomas, settled in the vicinity. His son, Maud's father Edwin Thomas, freed his own slaves and was a
non-combatant in the Civil War. For a time the Dunn family lived in Russelville, Kentucky, then St. Louis
Missouri. Finally they settled, when Elsie Dunn was 14, in New Orleans to be near her paternal grandparents.
From a very young age, Elsie displayed interest in creative production and writing. When still a teenager in New
Orleans she displayed her independent bent of mind by working as secretary for the Women's Suffrage Party of
Louisiana. She attended the Sophie Newcombe Preparatory School, the Sophie Newcombe Art School, and then
Tulane University for a brief period.
This period is given special attention by the author in her autobiography Background in Tennessee (1937). She
credits her Southern upbringing with providing her with much of her artistic material and in fostering her
sensibility as a writer.
Brazilian Escapade: 1913-1919
Lacking just under a month of her twenty-first birthday, Elsie Dunn left New Orleans the day after Christmas,
1913 with Frederick Creighton Wellman, then Dean of the School of Tropical Medicine at Tulane University.
Wellman had been an acquaintance of her father's, whom he met in Honduras when Seely Dunn was working on
railroad projects. They quit New Orleans, took a train to Biloxi, Mississippi, then traveled to New York, London,
then Rio de Janeiro. On the way out of the States the couple shed their identities and became Cyril Kay-Scott
and Evelyn Scott. Although never completely out of touch with her family, the couple's act was considered
extreme. They went about setting up a marriage in "Common Law" as Cyril's wife, a musician, would not grant
him a divorce. Escapade (1923) covers the first three years of their six year stay in Brazil. Crucial events which
took place during that time included their being joined by Evelyn's mother Maud Thomas Dunn (Nannette in
Escapade), the birth of their son Creighton on October 26, 1914 in Recife, Brazil, Seely Dunn's divorce of Maud
Thomas Dunn, and the beginnings of Evelyn's career as a writer.
Escapade describes the extreme poverty, isolation, and hardship of the narrator, Evelina, and her relationships to
her "husband," John, her son, Jackie and her "aunt," Nannette. The true identities of the characters described are
veiled because of the potentially volatile nature of the narrative. Maud Thomas Dunn was in fact divorced for
desertion when her husband purposefully failed to provide her a means to get back to New Orleans from Brazil.
From these events Evelyn suffered a breach from her family that was never fully recuperated, although she was
close to her mother until Maud's death in April, 1940. She became estranged to her grandparents and her father,
a situation that caused her pain, but never regret, for the actions she had taken.
Besides the experiences that informed Escapade, Scott began to compose her play Love (produced in New York
in 1921) , and send poems to American and British "Little Magazines", like Harriet Monroe's Poetry. Her first
poems caused excitement in the literary community and were followed up in 1920 with the publication of
Precipitations.
Literary Achievement: 1920-1941
Evelyn Scott published books between 1920 and 1941. She began with the sharp, imagist poetry of
Precipitations, followed by the naturalistic novels The Narrow House (1921) , Narcissus (1922) and The Golden
Door (1925). Escapade (1923) stood alone as an autobiography of her first three years in Brazil. The 1921-25
trilogy explored dysfunctional power structures in the family and was informed by psychological probing and
stream of consciousness writing. Evelyn Scott explains the transition she made from this early
trilogy to her second, panoramic and historical trilogy composed of Migrations (1927), The Wave (1929) and
Calendar of Sin (1931) in an article in Contempo magazine. She characterizes her first investigations as
"romantic," focused on the individual and the self, if darkly so. In her historical trilogy Scott expands to canvass
a century of change and development between the antebellum period in the South to 1914. Some of the
characters in these novels are based on Scott's family, and many important scenes take place in Tennessee. The
Wave on its own became Scott's most critically acclaimed and recognized production and remains important in
literary history in part because of its tremendously ambitious structure. Composed of many short-story length
vignettes, the novel focuses on the Civil War as an event that takes place in nearly a hundred individual lives.
Non-partisan with regard to the North or the South, the novel reflected Scott's own mixed cultural heritage from
that time period. Scott's paternal grandparents, before settling in New Orleans, were from Indiana, so she
attempted in the novel to view the war as objectively as possible.
In her personal life, Evelyn Scott and Cyril Kay-Scott dissolved their common-law marriage by divorce in 1928
and Evelyn Scott married British novelist John Metcalfe in 1930.
The Final Years: 1941-1963
In 1941 Scott's final published novel, The Shadow of the Hawk, appeared. It had a very limited publication
following dismal sales of Scott's novels subsequent to the near commercial success of The Wave. Scott
composed two more novels, Escape into Living and Before Cock Crow, and a collection of poetry, The
Gravestones Wept, which remain unpublished.
Scott's later years are characterized by the need for money, separations and breaches of contact with many of her
family members, and an increasing paranoia about the intertwining of political events during the Second World
War and the productivity of artists. Evelyn Scott died in 1963, John Metcalfe survived her until 1968 and turned
over control of the papers, now housed here at the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, to
Robert L. Welker. Dr. Welker had completed for his dissertation the first full length study of Scott's work and
had become friends with the writer during the research and composition of his project. The papers eventually
settled, with Welker, in Huntsville, Alabama, where they stayed for thirty years, until Welker donated them to us
in 1996. Housed within this collection are numerous letters, financial records, scrapbooks, notebooks, and
photographs. This collection comprises one of the two major collections of Scott's papers, the second being
housed at The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas.
-Caroline Maun, The University of Tennessee
Series/Container List
Box 1: Correspondence 1920-1951
Folder 1: 1920 [11 sheets, 9 envelopes]
Folder 2: 1921 [10 sheets, 6 envelopes]
Folder 3: 1923 [2 sheets]
Folder 4: 1928 [6 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 5: 1929 [10 sheets, 4 envelopes]
Folder 6: 1930 [1 sheet]
Folder 7: 1931 [13 sheets, 5 envelopes]
Folder 8: 1933 [2 sheets]
Folder 9: 1934 [22 sheets, 5 envelopes, 3 photographs that came with letter, 2 brochures from The Salisbury
Cathedral that came with a letter]
Folder 10: 1935-1937 [21 sheets, 7 envelopes, 5 postcards]
Folder 11: 1938 [10 sheets]
Folder 12: 1939 [8 sheets]
Folder 13: 1940 [4 sheets, 1 postcard]
Folder 14: 1941 [12 sheets]
Folder 15: 1943 [17 sheets, 2 envelopes]
Folder 16: 1944 [55 sheets, 2 envelopes]
Folder 17: 1945 [35 sheets, 3 envelopes]
Folder 18: 1946 [63 sheets, 2 envelopes]
Folder 19: January/February 1947 [15 sheets]
Folder 20: March/April 1947 [28 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 21: May/June 1947 [36 sheets]
Folder 21a: July 1947 [33 sheets]
Folder 22: August 1947 [35 sheets]
Folder 23: September 1947 [27 sheets]
Folder 24: October 1947 [27 sheets]
Folder 25: November/December 1947
Folder 26: 1947 [31 sheets, 1 card]
Folder 27: 1948 [7 sheets]
Folder 28: 1949 [5 sheets]
Folder 29: 1950 [1 sheet]
Folder 30: January/February 1951 [40 sheets]
Folder 31: March 1951 [26 sheets]
Folder 32: April 195165 sheets, 3 envelopes, 1 card]
Folder 33: May 1951[47 sheets]
Folder 34: June 1951[33 sheets]
Folder 35: July 1951 [66 sheets, 8 cards]
Folder 36: August 1951 [83 sheets]
Folder 37: September 1951 [65 sheets]
Folder 38: October 1951 [38 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 39: November 1951 [82 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 40: December 1951 [80 sheets, 2 envelopes]
Box 2: Correspondence 1952-1969
Folder 1: January 1952 [86 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 2: February 1952 [56 sheets, 1 postcard]
Folder 3: March 1952 [26 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 4: April 1952 [67 sheets]
Folder 5: May 1952 [47 sheets]
Folder 6: June 1952 [55 sheets]
Folder 7: July 1952 [56 sheets]
Folder 8: August 1952 [23 sheets]
Folder 9: September 1952 [43 sheets, 1 postcard]
Folder 10: October 1952 [15 sheets]
Folder 11: November 1952 [23 sheets]
Folder 12: December 1952 [21 sheets, 2 cards, 1 envelope]
Folder 13: 1953 [20 sheets, 2 cards]
Folder 14: 1954 [1 sheet]
Folder 15: 1956 [1 sheet]
Folder 16: January 1957 [7 sheets]
Folder 17: February 1957 [19 sheets]
Folder 18: March 1957 [4 sheets, 1 postcard]
Folder 19: April 1957 [14 sheets]
Folder 20: May 1957 [14 sheets]
Folder 21: June 1957 [7 sheets]
Folder 22: July 1957 [13 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 23: August 1957 [9 sheets]
Folder 24: September 1957 [11 sheets]
Folder 25: October 1957 [1 sheet]
Folder 26: December 1957 [4 sheets, 1 card, 1 postcard]
Folder 27: January 1958 [3 sheets]
Folder 28: February 1958 [3 sheets]
Folder 29: March 1958 [3 sheets]
Folder 30: April 1958 [3 sheets]
Folder 31: May 1958 [11 sheets]
Folder 32: July 1958 [3 sheets, 1 envelope, 2 postcards]
Folder 33: August 1958 [12 sheets]
Folder 34: September 1958 [10 sheets]
Folder 35: October 1958 [5 sheets]
Folder 36: November 1958 [13 sheets]
Folder 37: December 1958 [4 sheets, 1 card]
Folder 38: January 1959 [5 sheets, 3 cards]
Folder 39: February 1959 [8 sheets]
Folder 40: March 1959 [4 sheets, 1 postcard]
Folder 41: May 1959 [8 sheets, 3 envelopes]
Folder 42: June 1959 [7 sheets, 1 [postcard]
Folder 43: July 1959 [20 sheets, 2 envelopes, 1 postcard]
Folder 44: August 1959 [45 sheets, 4 envelopes]
Folder 45: September 1959 [51 sheets, 5 envelopes, 1 postcard]
Folder 46: October 1959 [17 sheets, 5 envelopes]
Folder 47: November 1959 [6 sheets, 1 envelope, 1 postcard]
Folder 48: December 1959 [5 sheets, 2 envelopes, 1 card]
Folder 49: January 1960 [12 sheets, 2 envelopes]
Folder 50: February 1960 [12 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 51: March 1960 [27 sheets, 3 envelopes]
Folder 52: April 1960 [22 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 53: May 1960 [8 sheets, 2 envelopes]
Folder 54: June 1960 [8 sheets]
Folder 55: July 1960 [4 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 56: August 1960 [9 sheets, 1 check attached to letter]
Folder 57: September 1960 [23 sheets, 3 envelopes]
Folder 58: October 1960 [6 sheets]
Folder 59: November 1960 [3 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 60: December 1960 [2 sheets]
Folder 61: 1961 [22 sheets, 2 envelopes]
Folder 62: January 1962 [9 sheets]
Folder 63: February 1962 [3 sheets]
Folder 64: March 1962 [9 sheets, 2 envelopes]
Folder 65: May 1962 [11 sheets, 1 card]
Folder 66: June 1962 [10 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 67: July 1962 [9 sheets, 2 envelopes]
Folder 68: August 1962 [6 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 69: September 1962 [4 sheets]
Folder 70: October 1962 [7 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 71: November 1962 [7 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 72: December 1962 [3 sheets, 1 card]
Folder 73: January 1963 [6 sheets, 1 envelope]
Folder 74: February 1963 [3 sheets]
Folder 75: March 1963 [10 sheets]
Folder 76: April 1963 [6 sheets]
Folder 77: May 1963 [5 sheets, 2 envelopes]
Folder 78: June 1963 [6 sheets, 2 envelopes, 1 card]
Folder 79: July 1963 [5 sheets, 1 card]
Folder 80: August 1963 [13 sheets, 2 cards]
Folder 81: September 1963 [4 sheets]
Folder 82: October 1963 [3 sheets]
Folder 83: November 1963 [15 sheets]
Folder 84: December 1963 [10 sheets, 1 card, 1 postcard]
Folder 85: 1964 [69 sheets, 5 envelopes]
Folder 86: 1965 [9 sheets, 2 envelopes]
Folder 87: 1966 [2 sheets]
Folder 88: 1969 [1 envelope]
Folder 89: Undated [9 sheets, 4 envelopes, 1 card]
Folder 90: Undated (given to Welker by Mrs. Theiss, personal friend of Evelyn Scott and John Metcalfe) [27
sheets, 3 envelopes, 1 postcard]
Folder 91: Miscellaneous envelopes [36]
Folder 92: Telegrams [10 sheets]
Folder 93: Letter written to William Faulkner (incomplete, no date) [2 sheets]
Box 3: Correspondence Photocopies 1921-1940 (these are thought to be letters from other collections on Evelyn
Scott)
Folder 1: 1921 [11 sheets]
Folder 2: 1922 [15 sheets]
Folder 3: 1923 [5 sheets]
Folder 4: 1924 [9 sheets]
Folder 5: 1925 [11 sheets]
Folder 6: 1926 [6 sheets]
Folder 7: 1928 [70 sheets]
Folder 8: 1929 [37 sheets]
Folder 9: 1930 [33 sheets]
Folder 10: 1931 [16 sheets]
Folder 11: 1932 [32 sheets]
Folder 12: 1933 [33 sheets]
Folder 13: 1934 [35 sheets]
Folder 14: 1935 [25 sheets]
Folder 15: 1936 [11 sheets]
Folder 16: 1937-1938 [5 sheets]
Folder 17: 1939 [11 sheets]
Folder 18: 1940 [13 sheets]
Folder 19: Copies from Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Beach [24 sheets]
Folder 20: undated [71 sheets]
Folder 21: undated [68 sheets]
Folder 22: undated [41 sheets]
Folder 23: undated [47 sheets]
Folder 24: undated [29 sheets]
Folder 25: undated [40 sheets]
Folder 26: undated [36 sheets]
Folder 27: undated [41 sheets]
Folder 28: undated [27 sheets]
Folder 29: undated [44 sheets]
Box 4: Various scripts, articles, reviews and publications concerning the work of Evelyn Scott and John
Metcalfe
Folder 1: Copies of Blushes about York [1 hand-written page]
Folder 2: Life is Too Short by John Metcalfe [1 hand-written page]
Folder 3: Judas by John Metcalfe [extract from the London Mercury]
Folder 4: First version of first chapter of Enter Cousin by John Metcalfe [9 pages typed with hand-written
marginal notes]
Folder 5: Copy of Enter Cousin by John Metcalfe [typed with hand-written marginal notes]
Folder 6: Conversation Piece -- The Misanthrope by John Metcalfe [7 pages with two copies of page 1]
Folder 7: How brave you are by Evelyn Scott [1 page typed]
Folder 8: The Fallacy of Marxist Doctrine by Evelyn Scott [25 pages typed with hand-written and typed edits]
Folder 9: The Destruction of the Liberals by Evelyn Scott [92 pages typed, incomplete, pages duplicated]
Folder 10: The last chapter of Escapade by Evelyn Scott, here called Shadow Play [37 typed pages with
hand-written marginal notes]
Folder 11: Evelyn Scott's review of The Collected later Poems of William Carlos Williams [5 typed pages]
Folder 12: Evelyn Scott's review of The Crazy Doctor by Arie van der Lugt [2 typed pages]
Folder 13: Evelyn Scott's review of The American Genius by Edith Sitwell [1 typed page, incomplete with
hand-written notes] and [9 typed pages, complete with typed and hand-written edits]
Folder 14: Evelyn Scott's review of The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson [2 typed pages]
Folder 15: Copy of a poem by Edith Sitwell from The Times Literary Supplement (London) [1 hand-written
page]
Folder 16: Homage to Gawsworth by Ian Fletcher [4 typed pages, signed by the author]
Folder 17: Before Cock Crow by Evelyn Scott [3 typed sheets of page 205, v. II]
Folder 18: Foreword to Escape into Living by Evelyn Scott [2 typed pages, dated New York 1955]
Folder 19: Papers concerning German words used in Escape into Living and supplied by personal English-
German friends - Mrs. Theiss and Mrs. Wyatt Rawson [15 typed and hand-written pages]
Folder 20: Miscellaneous sheet from what appears to be two separate manuscripts [1 typed page, front side is
page 695, verso is page 742]
Folder 21: Partial script from Escape into Living by Evelyn Scott [17 typed miscellaneous pages with edits]
Folder 22: Miscellaneous page from Escape into Living by Evelyn Scott [1 typed page with hand-written notes
concerning Enter Cousin by John Metcalfe]
Folder 23: List of reviewer comments about Bread and a Sword, 1937 by Evelyn Scott, [1 typed page]
Folder 24: List of reviewer comments about Escape into Living by Evelyn Scott [14 typed pages with hand-
written notes]
Folder 25: Reviewer comments about Breathe Upon These Slain, The Wave, Escapade, Eva Gay and Calendar
of Sin [1 typed page]
Folder 26: Quotations from available reviews of the books of John Metcalfe and Evelyn Scott [10 typed pages,
incomplete]
Folder 27: Reviews of Love, Precipitations and Narrow House [4 typed and hand-written pages]
Folder 28: List of critical reviewer comments of Evelyn Scott's books [10 typed pages]
Folder 29: List of critical reviewer comments of Evelyn Scott's books, cont. [10 typed pages]
Folder 30: Notes concerning reviews written by Evelyn Scott [5 typed and hand-written pages]
Folder 31: Data pertinent to the revival of Evelyn Scott's books [2 typed and hand-written pages and 1 typed
envelope]
Folder 32: Critical comments on the books written by Evelyn Scott [1/2 typed page]
Folder 33: Miscellaneous sheet of reviewer comments on the books of Evelyn Scott [1 typed page]
Folder 34: Comments on Evelyn Scott's books [2 typed pages]
Folder 35: Excerpts from published reviews of Evelyn Scott's work [29 typed pages with hand-written marginal
notes]
Folder 36: Authors Preface by Evelyn Scott. Her comments concerning reviews of her work [6 typed pages,
incomplete]
Folder 37: Authors Preface by Evelyn Scott. Her comments concerning reviews of her work [5 typed pages,
incomplete]
Folder 38: Authors Preface by Evelyn Scott. Her comments concerning reviews of her work [16 typed pages,
incomplete]
Folder 39: Article titled Evelyn Scott and the Civil War by Donald Davidson [5 typed pages]
Folder 40: Article titled Communication in The Narrow House by Amy L. Kahrs, possibly from one of Robert
Welker's courses [16 typed pages]
Folder 41: Miscellaneous bibliographic information about Evelyn Scott and John Metcalfe [2 typed pages]
Folder 42: Table of Contents - origin unknown [1 typed page]
Folder 43: List of works of literature [2 hand-written small sheets]
Folder 44: List of Evelyn Scott's works [1 typed page]
Folder 45: List and reviews of the Dramas and Short Stories of Evelyn Scott [8 typed pages]
Folder 46: List of Evelyn Scott's works obtained by Robert Welker [14 typed pages]
Folder 47: Additions to the list of Evelyn Scott's works obtained by Robert Welker [10 typed pages]
Folder 48: Bibliography of Evelyn Scott's Novels and Poetry [2 typed pages]
Folder 49: Miscellaneous sheet titled Reviewing Justice on Behalf of the Inarticulate [1 typed page]
Folder 50: Article titled The Decline of Feminism and the Metamorphosis of the Feminist, circa 1930 [5 typed
pages]
Folder 51: Notes on the careers of Evelyn Scott, John Metcalfe and Wellman [2 hand-written pages]
Folder 52: Miscellaneous sheets from the Manhattan Yellow Pages [2 pages]
Folder 53: Article about Bernard Shaw in The Saturday Review of Literature [2 pages]
Folder 54: Editorial from The Saturday Review of Literature [2 pages]
Folder 55: Article titled Idealist in Conflict with Society about Theodore Dreiser. Note from Evelyn Scott at top
of page indicating that Dreiser was an old friend and she was unaware that he had recently died. [2
pages]
Folder 56: Miscellaneous editorials from The Saturday Review of Literature [2 pages with hand-
written comments by Evelyn Scott]
Folder 57: Articles from The Saturday Review of Literature [5 pages with hand-written comments by Evelyn
Scott]
Folder 58: Article titled Lillian Russell's ghost walks: When Saratoga unpacks its trunk given to Evelyn by a
friend [2 pages with hand-written comments by Evelyn and her friend]
Folder 59: Article of Waldo Frank's book Island in the Atlantic reviewed by Ben Ray Redman in The Saturday
Review, 1946 [2 pages]
Folder 60: Article titled The Anatomy of Book Publishing by Jacques Barzun, given to Evelyn by a friend [2
pages]
Folder 61: Miscellaneous list of names from unknown publication. The name Ferner and Ruth S. Nuhn is
marked [1 corner of page]
Folder 62: Article titled Studio Father by William Morrison from Family Circle [1 1/2 pages]
Folder 63: Article titled Calendar of Sin by Evelyn Scott in Contempo
Folder 64: Brochure from Duckett Catholic Book Centre titled Church History a selection of titles on the
History of the Catholic Church
Folder 65: Brochure from Harper & Brothers on the book The Modern Renaissance in American Art
Folder 66: Copy of The Book Guild Bulletin in which John Metcalfe is featured as the author of the book of the
month for June
Folder 67: Copy of Wings in which Evelyn Scott is featured as the author of the guild selection for July
Folder 68: Copy of Wings, July issue
Folder 69: Copy of On WIlliam Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" by Evelyn Scott, handwritten comments
by Evelyn Scott on cover
Folder 70: Copy of the Huntington Hartford Foundation News Digest of Former Fellows, July 1955
Folder 71: Cover page to The American Language signed by Evelyn Scott and John Metcalfe
Folder 72: Newsclipping of review of Life is Too Short by Lewis Gannet [3 small clippings]
Folder 73: Newsclipping titled Novelist says Reds made her use party line given to Evelyn Scott by a friend
Folder 74: Proof from Who's Who
Folder 75: Proof from Who's Who, volume 26
Folder 76: Copy of International Who's Who, 1949
Folder 77: Small book titled Contentment by Charlotte Durray
Folder 78: Small book titled Flowery Footprints , signed - to dear uncle Jack from Jackie with much love
Folder 79: Small card with artwork titled Polish Girl by Slawa Sadlowska
Folder 80: Brochure for pianist Nicholas Zumbro
Box 5: Business and miscellaneous personal materials for Evelyn Scott and John Metcalfe
Folder 1: Certificate of Registration of a Claim to the Renewal of a Copyright [16 typed and hand-written
forms and 1 index card]
Folder 2: Copyright renewal information [ 9 pages]
Folder 3: Copyright applications and information [15 pages]
Folder 4: Correspondence between Evelyn Scott and the Copyright office [23 pages]
Folder 5: Envelopes from the Copyright Office [6 envelopes, 1 with hand-written notes from Evelyn Scott]
Folder 6: Receipts from registered copyright [56 receipts]
Folder 7: Copyright renewals for Bread and A Sword [3 pages]
Folder 8: Publisher Agreement for The Wave between Evelyn Scott and Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, Inc
Folder 9: Publisher Agreement for Escapade between Evelyn Scott and Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, Inc
Folder 10: Note concerning The Wave from Abbey Book Shop to Evelyn Scott [1 card]
Folder 11: Note concerning A Calendar of Sin from University Microfilm to John Metcalfe [1 card]
Folder 12: Royalty Statement for The Narrow House from Harcourt Brace and Company to Evelyn Scott
Folder 13: Statement from Creighton Scott granting permission to Evelyn Scott to quote from his book The
Muscovites [1 typed sheet signed by Creighton Scott and 1 envelope with hand-written notes by
Evelyn Scott]
Folder 14: Guggenheim material concerning an award [1 envelope and 2 pages]
Folder 15: Request for biographical article from The Woman's Encyclopedia [1 sheet]
Folder 16: Correspondence concerning Robert Welker's dissertation about Evelyn Scott [3 sheets, 1 envelope, 1
postcard]
Folder 17: Miscellaneous sheet of biographical information concerning Evelyn and Creighton Scott [1 typed and
hand-written page]
Folder 18: John Metcalfe's references for teaching positions [3 typed pages]
Folder 19: Identification cards [26 various cards]
Folder 20: Miscellaneous envelope with typed and hand-written lists on contents
Folder 21: Passports for Evelyn Scott [2 passports, issued December 16, 1946 and August 31, 1934]
Folder 22: Notice to Passengers from airline [1 card]
Folder 23: List of U.S. Customs regulations [2 pages]
Folder 24: Application for passage of Wife to Rejoin Husband Repatriated to United Kingdom - concerning
Evelyn Scott and John Metcalfe, issued August 12, 1943 [10 typed pages]
Folder 25: Envelope from Rio Arriba County Clerk to Evelyn Scott Metcalfe
Folder 26: Correspondence between Evelyn Scott and the British Consulate-General concerning passports [2
typed pages]
Folder 27: Correspondence between Evelyn Scott and Metcalfe concerning reissue of her passport [3 hand-
written pages]
Folder 28: Correspondence between Evelyn Scott and British Ministry and others concerning her passage out of
the country and passport waivers [5 typed pages]
Folder 29: Correspondence between Evelyn Scott and the Royal Canadian Air Force concerning the return of her
passport [4 typed and hand-written sheets]
Folder 30: List of Passengers for the Holland-America Line
Folder 31: Railway concession fare certificate for Wives and Children accompanying R.A.F. officer for Evelyn
Scott, issued June 9, 1944 [1 sheet]
Folder 32: Friends names and addresses for Evelyn Scott and John Metcalfe [2 typed and hand-written pages
and 1 business card]
Folder 33: Addresses for John Metcalfe in Canada [1 hand-written page]
Folder 34: Birth Certificate for Elsie Dunn and miscellaneous materials concerning her birth certificate and
affirmation of her birth and baptism by various people [2 copies of birth certificate and 9
miscellaneous letters]
Folder 35: Certified copy of and entry of birth, registration district - Docking [1 sheet]
Folder 36: Receipt for birth certificate
Folder 37: Copy of Marriage license and receipt for Evelyn Scott and John Metcalfe [2 copies]
Folder 38: Receipt for marriage license of Evelyn Scott and John Metcalfe
Folder 39: Information concerning the marriage certificate of Evelyn Scott and John Metcalfe [2 hand-written
sheets]
Folder 40: Death Certificate for Evelyn Metcalfe [3 copies]
Folder 41: Obituaries for Evelyn Scott [6 newsclippings]
Folder 42: Article titled A visit to Evelyn Scott three weeks before her death by Eleanor Graham [5 typed
pages]
Folder 43: Evelyn Scott's Will and materials pertaining to the Will [1 Will dated June 29, 1942, 1 testament of
deposit of Will from Surrogate's Court, NY, 2 letters to Evelyn Scott concerning her Will, 13 total
pages]
Folder 44: Single Grave Certificate for the remains of Evelyn Metcalfe at Rosehill Cemetery [1 certificate and 1
envelope]
Folder 45: Envelopes for Cemetery Deed of Evelyn Metcalfe [2 envelopes]
Folder 46: List of funeral expenses from Walter B. Cooke Funeral Homes to John Metcalfe [2 typed pages and
2 envelopes]
Folder 47: Obituaries for John Metcalfe [2 newsclippings and 3 photocopies]
Folder 48: Eulogy of John Metcalfe written by John Gawsworth [5 typed pages]
Folder 49: Obituary for Miss Sophie Theiss, personal friend of Evelyn and John Metcalfe [1 newsclipping, 1
envelope]
Folder 50: Autobiographical and Biographical data pertinent to the applications of John Metcalfe and Evelyn
Scott for extensions of their fellowships: includes miscellaneous reviews, hand-drawn diagram of
streets and houses of the Dunn family, and pages titled for editorial reference and customs
convenience [34 typed and hand-written pages]
Folder 51: Letter to the Huntington Hartford Foundation concerning renewal of their fellowships [25 typed pages
with hand-written marginal notes]
Folder 52: Miscellaneous letter concerning John Metcalfe and the Huntington Hartford Foundation [1 page]
Folder 53: Notes of possible source of hostility in union resentment by Evelyn Scott [5 typed pages with hand-
written marginal notes]
Folder 54: Miscellaneous pages titled For Dr. Vincent to read or pass on in the quarter most appropriate in
connection with the cruelty of our situation and my poor family written by Evelyn [2 typed pages]
Folder 55: Miscellaneous list [1 card]
Folder 56: Miscellaneous list [1 hand-written page]
Folder 57: Miscellaneous notes and lists [2 hand-written pages]
Folder 59: Miscellaneous notes, possibly referring to Creighton Scott [2 hand-written pages]
Folder 60: Miscellaneous notes [28 typed and hand-written sheets]
Folder 61: Large envelope with hand-written notes on it
Folder 62: Miscellaneous note
Folder 63: Miscellaneous map
Folder 64: Miscellaneous pamphlets [ 2 pamphlets]
Folder 65: Satiric drawings, unknown artist [19 sheets]
Folder 66: Miscellaneous newspaper articles
Folder 67: Miscellaneous newspaper articles
Folder 68: Miscellaneous envelope with personal notes from Evelyn Scott
Folder 69: Book ballot pamphlet with personal notes written by Evelyn Scott
Box 6: Financial information concerning Evelyn Scott and John Metcalfe
Folder 1: Personal financial records compiled by John Metcalfe
Folder 2: Personal financial records compiled by John Metcalfe
Folder 3: Personal financial records compiled by John Metcalfe
Folder 4: Change-of-Address notice from John Metcalfe to The British Ministry of Pensions [1 typed page]
Folder 5: Letter written to Evelyn Scott from the British Ministry of Pensions concerning receipt of payments
[1 typed page]
Folder 6: Authorization of payment from the Ministry of Pension to Evelyn Scott [1 typed page]
Folder 7: Financial arrangements for family of R.A.F. personnel informational pamphlet
Folder 8: Notice of Provisional Title to Retirement Pension from the Ministry of Pensions and National
Insurance [2 sheets]
Folder 9: Cheques from the British Ministry of Pensions, Canadian office to Evelyn Scott [2 cheques]
Folder 10: Post Office receipts for Evelyn Scott and John Metcalfe [21 receipts]
Folder 11: Financial payment books [5 books]
Folder 12: Receipts from Sims & Sims Builders and Decorators [2 receipts]
Folder 13: Financial agreement and receipt from St. Martin's Typewriter
Folder 14: Financial payment and receipts from John Barnes & Company
Folder 15: Miscellaneous receipts [13 receipts]
Folder 16: Miscellaneous gas and electric receipts [15 receipts]
Folder 17: Miscellaneous receipts [10 receipts]
Folder 18: Financial documentation and materials concerning the estate [14 typed pages]
Folder 19: Ration books
Folder 20: Receipts from Hampstead Electricity Supply
Folder 21: Income tax and land tax receipts
Folder 22: Receipts from Westminster Bank
Folder 23: Receipts from Westminster Bank
Folder 24: Receipts from the Metropolitan Water Board
Folder 25: Cheque receipts
Box 7: Maud Dunn - her manuscripts, letters, and personal materials
Folder 1: Poetry translations by Maud Dunn [3 typed and hand-written pages]
Folder 2: Maud Dunn's translation Crimes of Padre Amaro [incomplete, 12 typed pages]
Folder 3: Maud Dunn's translation The Woman and the Puppet [incomplete, 12 typed pages]
Folder 4: Maud Dunn's translation Cousin Brazilio [incomplete, 58 typed pages]
Folder 5: Maud Dunn's translation Cousin Brazilio [incomplete, 39 pages]
Folder 6: Maud Dunn's translation Cousin Brazilio [incomplete, 39 pages]
Folder 7: Maud Dunn's translation Cousin Brazilio [incomplete, 42 pages]
Folder 8: Maud Dunn's translation Cousin Brazilio [incomplete, 67 pages]
Folder 9: Maud Dunn's translation Blind [26 typed pages]
Folder 10: Maud Dunn's translation of The Mandarin by Eca de Queiroz [46 typed pages]
Folder 11: Maud Dunn's translation Dom Pedro & Dona Ines [incomplete, 71 pages]
Folder 12: Maud Dunn's translation of Queen After Death by Antero De Figueiredo [117 typed pages and 1
return envelope from Little Brown & Company]
Folder 13: Maud Dunn's translation Adrienne Lecouvreur [incomplete, 82 typed pages]
Folder 14: Maud Dunn's translation of The Love Life of Madame de Pompadour [incomplete, 68 typed pages]
Folder 15: Maud Dunn's translation of The Hanged Man by Eca de Queiroz [20 typed pages and 1 return
envelope from Vomrath's Library and Bookshops]
Folder 16: Maud Dunn's translation of The Abandoned Estate by Coelho Netto [27 typed pages, 1 page letter
and 1 return envelope from The Virginia Quarterly Review]
Folder 17: Maud Dunn's translation of Frei Genebro by Eca de Queiroz [incomplete, 22 pages]
Folder 18: Portuguese manuscript titled As Gencianas Azues [7 typed pages, 1 envelope]
Folder 19: Maud Dunn's translation of Curse by Goetho Netto [19 typed pages, 1 envelope with hand-written
note]
Folder 20: Miscellaneous manuscripts, Maud Dunn [4 typed pages]
Folder 21: Miscellaneous manuscripts, Maud Dunn [13 typed pages]
Folder 22: Correspondence, Maud Dunn and Publishers [15 sheets 12 envelopes]
Folder 23: Correspondence, Maud Dunn and Publishers [20 sheets, 10 envelopes]
Folder 24: Correspondence with Maud Dunn from Brazil [13 sheets, 5 envelopes]
Folder 25: Correspondence with Maud Dunn from Brazil [32 sheets, 10 envelopes]
Folder 26: Correspondence with Maud Dunn written in French [24 hand-written sheets]
Folder 27: Miscellaneous personal correspondence with Maud Dunn [18 sheets, 6 cards, 11 envelopes]
Folder 28: Marriage Certificate and affirmation of marriage for Seely Dunn and Maud Thomas [1 certificate and
3 letters]
Folder 29: Wedding announcement [2 copies of announcement and 1 hand-written article about the wedding]
Folder 30: Funeral Home correspondence with Maud Dunn [1 letter, 1 envelope]
Folder 31: Miscellaneous envelopes [3]
Folder 32: Pedigree information for a poodle [1 photograph, 2 certificates, 3 papers, 1 envelope]
Folder 33: Published article titled Mata Hari: The dance of death by Major Thomas Coulson [6 pages]
Box 8: Robert Welker - correspondence, notes, and personal materials
Folder 1: 1950 Correspondence [3 envelopes]
Folder 2: 1962-63 Correspondence [4 sheets, 4 envelopes, 1 card]
Folder 3: 1964 Correspondence [9 sheets, 6 envelopes]
Folder 4: 1965 Correspondence [3 sheets, 3 envelopes]
Folder 5: 1966 Correspondence [23 sheets, 5 envelopes]
Folder 6: 1968-80 Correspondence [6 sheets, 6 envelopes]
Folder 7: Miscellaneous Correspondence [7 sheets, 2 cards, 6 envelopes]
Folder 8: Short paper about Evelyn Scott [5 pages, 2 copies]
Folder 9: Miscellaneous notes concerning Evelyn Scott [9 hand-written pages]
Folder 10: Bibliographic information sent to Robert Welker from O.B. Emerson [3 hand-written sheets]
Folder 11: Miscellaneous envelopes to Robert Welker from Evelyn Scott and John Metcalfe [9]
Folder 12: Miscellaneous envelopes to Robert Welker from Evelyn Scott [50]
Folder 13: Miscellaneous envelopes to Robert Welker from Evelyn Scott [32]
Folder 14: Miscellaneous large envelopes to Robert Welker [4]
Folder 15: Correspondence concerning the transfer of the Evelyn Scott manuscript to UT-K [8 sheets]
Folder 16: Correspondence with Robert Welker concerning publications [10 sheets]
Folder 17: Legal agreement between Robert Welker and John Metcalfe [5 copies, 1 envelope]
Folder 18: Airline ticket stub
Folder 19: Travel Guide for Britain
Folder 20: Paper titled From a Tennessean Abroad: you ought to feel at home when you go abroad [31 pages]
Folder 21: Miscellaneous notes [1 sheet]
Folder 22: Copy of Faulkner Unvanquished
Folder 23: Seasonal cards [2]
Folder 24: Copy of 1957-58 City Directory, Clarksville, TN, copy of Clarksville Sesqui-Centennial Historical
Book 1794-1934, and Through the Mist of the Years by Arthur E. Whittle
Folder 25: Paper concerning Tennessee and Andrew Johnson [incomplete, 11 typed pages with edits]
Folder 26: Copy of Liebestod with a Southern Accent by Robert L. Welker
Folder 27: Newsclipping titled Dr. R.L. Welker to Speak at Woman's Club Luncheon
Folder 28: Luncheon menu from the Holland-America Line
Folder 29: Box of index card notes taken by Robert Welker
8 miscellaneous notebooks with notes taken by Robert Welker
Box 9: Poetry of Evelyn Scott and John Metcalfe
Folder 1: To Frederick Scott by Evelyn Scott [1 typed page with edits]
Folder 2: Survival by Evelyn Scott [1 typed page, original version of the author]
Folder 3: City Streets [1 typed page]
Folder 4: To the Mocked Romantics by Evelyn Scott [1 typed page]
Folder 5: Master Mathew Scott by Evelyn Scott [1 typed page]
Folder 6: Paen and Good Friday Poem from The Gravestones Wept; To a Snake in Eden from The Nation;
and The Snake from the volume Precipitations, cycle entitled Brazil through a Mist by Evelyn Scott
[5 typed pages, 2 copies of Paen]
Folder 7: Little Jigaroo, 1916 by Evelyn Scott [3 typed pages]
Folder 8: They Know Not What They do by Evelyn Scott [1 typed page]
Folder 9: Summer Storm -- or Flood, if that title preferred by Evelyn Scott [1 typed page]
Folder 10: Apocalypse, Speech for an Old Man, As Seen by a Sceptic and Of Great Price - dedicated to Lola
Ridge by Evelyn Scott [4 typed pages]
Folder 11: Index of poems [2 hand-written pages]
Folder 12: List of poems [1 typed page]
Folder 13: Poems by John Metcalfe [20 typed pages]
Folder 14: Group of poems by Evelyn Scott [120 typed pages]
Folder 15: Copies of The Poetry Review, 1951 [incomplete, 3 copies]
Folder 16: Copy of Poetry magazine featuring Evelyn Scott [1 copy]
Folder 17: Copy of Tennessee in Literature, article on Evelyn Scott's poetry [1 copy]
Folder 18: Copy of Poetry Public
Folder 19: Clippings of featured poems in Saturday Review included are: She Dies, Cock Crow, Artists of
Every Land by Evelyn Scott [4 pages]
Folder 20: Materials from the Poetry Society of America [3 pages, 1 letter, 1 information sheet and 1
application sheet]
Folder 21: Copies of various poems from Evelyn Scott to Robert Welker [8 typed pages]
Folder 22: Collection of poems from The Youngest Smiles by Evelyn Scott [multiple typed pages]
Folder 23: Additional poems from The Youngest Smiles by Evelyn Scott [10 typed pages]
Folder 24: Poems, To Zebulon Pike and Archaic Art by Evelyn Scott [2 typed pages]
Folder 25: Additional poems for The Gravestones Wept by Evelyn Scott
Folder 26: Various poems
Folder 27: Light by Evelyn Scott set to music by Ruth Shaw Wylie
Folder 28: Poems from The Gravestones Wept
Folder 29: Poems from The Gravestones Wept
Folder 30: Poems from The Gravestones Wept
Manuscripts:
2 copies of Jingle Bells alternate title Good Children Street by Evelyn Scott
5 copies of The Youngest Smiles by Evelyn Scott
Box 10: Manuscripts
9 books of manuscript from Escape into Living by Evelyn Scott
Box 11: Manuscripts
5 books of manuscript from Escape into Living by Evelyn Scott
Box 12: Manuscripts
7 books of manuscript from Escape into Living by Evelyn Scott
Box 13: Manuscripts
1 book of manuscript from Before Cock Crow by Evelyn Scott
Box 14: Manuscripts
4 books of manuscript from Before Cock Crow by Evelyn Scott
Box 15: Manuscripts
8 books of manuscript from Before Cock Crow by Evelyn Scott
Box 16: Manuscript Notes
45 notebooks and 1 folder of index card notes for Before Cock Crow by Evelyn Scott
Box 17: Manuscript Notes
3 Boxes of index card notes for Before Cock Crow by Evelyn Scott
Box 18: Manuscripts
5 books and 1 Box of manuscript from French Revolution novel by Evelyn Scott
Box 19: Notebooks and personal items
10 notebooks and 1 Box with teeth and containers of Evelyn Scott
Box 20: Scrapbooks
3 scrapbooks of Evelyn Scott
Box 21: Photographs
Various photographs of Evelyn Scott and family
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