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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Box 118

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

"The Jolly Jump-Ups Favorite Nursery Stories," a favorite book from childhood, 1942

 Item — Box: 118
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Jan Karon papers (66 cubic feet; 1918-2018) contain Mitford book typescripts and galleys; materials related to Ms. Karon's publishing career and her relationship with her agent and publisher; letters and fan mail from readers, arranged by month and year only; memorabilia; professional and personal correspondence; reviews and press publicity; research related to Karon's novels; files related to charitable organizations and boards; architectural drawings of Esmont Farm; files and...
Dates: 1942

"The Pocket Book of Robert Frost’s Poems" with an introduction and commentary by Louis Untermeyer, given to Jan Karon by her grandmother at Christmas 1946, “this book had a powerful influence on my inner life and zeal to become an author” note dated January 22, 1999, 1946

 Item — Box: 118
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Jan Karon papers (66 cubic feet; 1918-2018) contain Mitford book typescripts and galleys; materials related to Ms. Karon's publishing career and her relationship with her agent and publisher; letters and fan mail from readers, arranged by month and year only; memorabilia; professional and personal correspondence; reviews and press publicity; research related to Karon's novels; files related to charitable organizations and boards; architectural drawings of Esmont Farm; files and...
Dates: 1946

"The Creative Process" edited by Brewster Ghiselin, with the note “An important work, read many times over when I was in my twenties and thirties”, 1955

 Item — Box: 118
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Jan Karon papers (66 cubic feet; 1918-2018) contain Mitford book typescripts and galleys; materials related to Ms. Karon's publishing career and her relationship with her agent and publisher; letters and fan mail from readers, arranged by month and year only; memorabilia; professional and personal correspondence; reviews and press publicity; research related to Karon's novels; files related to charitable organizations and boards; architectural drawings of Esmont Farm; files and...
Dates: 1955

"A Pocket Book of Modern Verse An Anthology" edited by Oscar Williams and "Great Essays" edited by Houston Peterson, with the note “books which were extremely meaningful to my life as a young woman,” dated January 22, 1999, 1958, 1960

 Item — Box: 118
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Jan Karon papers (66 cubic feet; 1918-2018) contain Mitford book typescripts and galleys; materials related to Ms. Karon's publishing career and her relationship with her agent and publisher; letters and fan mail from readers, arranged by month and year only; memorabilia; professional and personal correspondence; reviews and press publicity; research related to Karon's novels; files related to charitable organizations and boards; architectural drawings of Esmont Farm; files and...
Dates: 1958, 1960

"Response 5," Volume 2, Number 1, Jan founded and edited this quarterly publication as Jan Orth, Charlotte, North Carolina, for several issues, 1962

 Item — Box: 118
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Jan Karon papers (66 cubic feet; 1918-2018) contain Mitford book typescripts and galleys; materials related to Ms. Karon's publishing career and her relationship with her agent and publisher; letters and fan mail from readers, arranged by month and year only; memorabilia; professional and personal correspondence; reviews and press publicity; research related to Karon's novels; files related to charitable organizations and boards; architectural drawings of Esmont Farm; files and...
Dates: 1962

"A Light in the Window" by Mary Roberts Rinehart, with the note “after publishing the Mitford novel "A Light in the Window" in 1997, Jan learned that M.R. Rinehart had used this title in 1922, 1992

 Item — Box: 118
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Jan Karon papers (66 cubic feet; 1918-2018) contain Mitford book typescripts and galleys; materials related to Ms. Karon's publishing career and her relationship with her agent and publisher; letters and fan mail from readers, arranged by month and year only; memorabilia; professional and personal correspondence; reviews and press publicity; research related to Karon's novels; files related to charitable organizations and boards; architectural drawings of Esmont Farm; files and...
Dates: 1992