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  • The Eudora Welty Collection Mississippi Department of Archives and History
  • Forrest Galey, Special Projects Officer

Materials transferred to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) upon the settlement of Eudora Welty's estate continue to be incorporated into the Eudora Welty Collection in the Archives and Records Services Division. Since March 2010, additional materials have been added to ten series. Series 6: The Ponder Heart; Series7: The Bride of the Innisfallen; Series 9: The Shoe Bird; Series 13: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty; Series 18: Reviews; Series 19: Speeches; Series 21: Drama; and Series 23: Reviews have been reopened for research. Two series titles have been changed to better reflect content, and these series also have been reopened: Series 20: Essays and Short Non-Fiction, formerly Essays Revised from Speeches; and Series 24: Essays in Publications, formerly Essays. A list of all series and their status as of March 9, 2011, follows below. We suggest researchers contact MDAH, refdesk@mdah.state.ms.us, to verify the availability of series that are of particular interest to them prior to visiting the archives.

Applications for the Eudora Welty Research Fellowship, funded by the Eudora Welty Foundation and co-sponsored with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, were received in February. Candidates [End Page 190] will be notified of the selection committee's decision and an official announcement will be released by mid-April.

Readers are invited to visit the MDAH Web site where the home page (mdah.state.ms.us) features Welty information with some regularity.

The Eudora Welty Collection
Mississippi Department of Archives and History Archives and Records Services Division

Existing Series (and Series Revisions) as of March 9, 2011 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) [End Page 191]

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; however, 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) [End Page 192]

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)

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 with the correspondence of others. The incorporation of thousands of letters from the accretions necessitates the...

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