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This collection contains papers concerning the writings, family history, and public career of the Arkansas author Bernie Babcock. It includes books by Babcock and other writers as well as unpublished manuscripts and poems, historical research, notes for articles, plays, and stories by Babcock. Other topics include a variety of articles on Abraham Lincoln, prohibition, and the women's suffrage movement. Also included are exhibit materials and business records of the Museum of Natural History, folklore research in Arkansas, and the writings of the Federal Writers' Project in Arkansas.
The original number for this collection was A-95.
Arranged in five series:
Series I: Personal Papers. Arranged by subject, containing biographical and family materials, personal and business correspondence, financial and legal papers, and diaries.
Series II: Manuscript and Research Materials. Arranged by subject, containing manuscripts of novels, short fiction, plays, and articles, including manuscripts and research concerning Abraham Lincoln; poetry and historical and religious articles.
Series III: Printed Material. Arranged by subject, containing periodicals with works by Babcock and other writers, articles and pamphlets by Babcock and others; newspaper serials by Babcock, and newsclippings; also include books by other authors used as research material.
Series IV: Federal Writers' Project Papers. Arranged by subject, containing organizational papers, historical notes and research for books and articles on Arkansas topics, including research on Indians, voodoo, and magic; folklore interview forms.
Series V: Museum of Natural History Papers. Arranged by subject, containing records, correspondence, newsclippings, annual reports, pamphets, and brochures.
Bernie Babcock was born Julia Burnel Smade in 1868 at Unionville, Ohio. Her family moved to Russellville, Arkansas, when she was ten. She married at 18 and moved to Little Rock. After her husband's death, she turned to writing to support herself and five children. In 1899, she began writing a weekly literary column in the
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Bernie Babcock Collection, 1855-1966, UALR.MS.0092. UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture, Arkansas Studies Institute, Little Rock, AR.
Description of item, file number, box number, series number, Bernie Babcock Collection, 1855-1966, UALR.MS.0092.
Miscellaneous items such as letters, cards, newsclippings, announcements, etc., have been removed from the diaries in Box 5 and placed in files in Box 6 (Files 1-12)
Only a few entries; also notes on a book about Abraham Lincoln, by T. G. Onstot; notes on Love is Eternal by Irving Wallace; prose pieces (Box 6/File 12)
Held in Paige Box