The Eudora Welty Collection Mississippi Department of Archives and History
- The Eudora Welty Collection Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Since March 2011, additional Welty materials have been transferred from the Museum Division of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) to the Archives and Records Services Division (A&RS). These recently transferred materials, along with those transferred to MDAH upon the settlement of Eudora Welty’s estate, continue to be incorporated into the Eudora Welty Collection.
Currently, no series are closed for reprocessing but some series are undergoing substantial revisions. We suggest researchers contact MDAH at refdesk@mdah.state.ms.us to verify the availability of series that are of particular interest to them prior to visiting the archives.
During summer 2011, the A&RS division began using Koha, an open source system, for its online catalog. Therefore, a new instruction sheet, The Eudora Welty Collection: Collection Research and Access via the Online Catalog, has been prepared to aid researchers in readily locating catalog records for the Eudora Welty Collection and other Welty-related materials in the division’s holdings.
Availability of the 2012 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship co-sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History was announced on February 10 with the application deadline on March 15. The selection committee’s decision will be announced by May 1, 2012.
The documents that follow are updated as of March 1, 2012, and are included in this report to aid scholars in their research. Researchers, scholars, and readers may wish to visit the MDAH website, where the home page (mdah.state.ms.us) features Welty information with some regularity. [End Page 174]
The Eudora Welty Collection
Mississippi Department of Archives and History Archives and Records Services Division
Existing Series (and Series Revisions) as of March 1, 2012 The Eudora Welty Collection (Z/0301.000/S)
| Key to Series Revisions | |
|---|---|
| (Completed) | Establishment of new series and/or all additional material has been incorporated |
| (Partial) | Some additional material has been incorporated |
| (In progress) | Incorporation of additional material is in progress and the series may be closed temporarily |
| Unmarked | Incorporation of additional material into these series continues |
Currently, almost all of the original collection, Z/0301.000/S, is open to the public. Additional materials are not available to the public until they are incorporated into a new or existing series. We close series as we reprocess them and reopen them as soon as incorporation, rehousing, and conservation work are completed.
Manuscripts
| Archives Series 1: | Uncollected Stories (Completed) (additional material incorporated; unpublished stories not related to other published works) |
| Archives Series 2: | A Curtain of Green (Completed) (additional material incorporated) |
| Archives Series 3: | The Wide Net (additional material to be incorporated) |
| Archives Series 4: | Delta Wedding (additional material to be incorporated) |
| Archives Series 5: | The Golden Apples and Related Works (Completed) (additional material incorporated) |
| Archives Series 6: | The Ponder Heart (Completed) (No additional material was incorporated; how ever, the “Editorial Notes” that were previously filed with correspondence have been transferred to this series.) |
| Archives Series 7: | The Bride of the Innisfallen (Completed) (additional material incorporated) |
| Archives Series 8: | “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” |
| Archives Series 9: | The Shoe Bird (Completed) (additional material incorporated) |
| Archives Series 10: | “The Demonstrators” (Completed) (additional material incorporated) |
| Archives Series 11: | Losing Battles (additional material to be incorporated) |
| Archives Series 12: | The Optimist’s Daughter (Completed) (additional material incorporated) |
| Archives Series 13: | The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (Completed) (additional material incorporated) |
| Archives Series 14: | One Time, One Place (additional material to be incorporated) |
| Archives Series 15: | Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace |
| Archives Series 16: | Eye of the Story (Completed) (additional material incorporated) |
| Archives Series 17: | One Writer’s Beginnings (Completed) (additional material incorporated) |
| Archives Series 18: | Reviews (Completed) (additional material incorporated) |
| Archives Series 19: | Speeches (Completed) (additional material incorporated) |
| Archives Series 20: | Essays and Short Non-Fiction (Completed) (additional material incorporated) |
| Archives Series 21: | Drama (Completed) (additional material incorporated) |
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Photographs
| Archives Series 26: | Photographs |
| Archives Series 27: | Welty Prints |
| Archives Series 28: | Welty Family Photographs |
Correspondence
| Archives Series 29: | Correspondence (Our original arrangement of the few hundred letters in the earliest donation was in chronological order with Welty correspondence mixed... |
