Overview of the Collection
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Repository Name:
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University of Oregon Libraries
Special Collections & University Archives
1299 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1299
URL: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/index.html
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Collection Number:
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Ax 753
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Creator:
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Daly, Maureen, 1921-
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Title:
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Maureen Daly Papers
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Dates:
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1938-1973 (inclusive)
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Quantity:
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6 linear feet
4 containers
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Languages:
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Collection materials are in English.
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Summary:
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Maureen Daly (1921-) wrote fiction, both short stories and novels, and nonfiction articles and books. She is credited with establishing the category of Young Adult fiction with her novel Seventeenth Summer, first published in 1942. The collection includes correspondence, literary manuscripts, reviews, interviews, and tearsheets.
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Biographical Note
Maureen Daly was born in County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland in 1921 and grew up in Fon du Lac, Wisconsin. She attended Rosary College and began her writing career as a teenage reporter for the Chicago Tribune. She married William P. McGivern (a writer) in 1946. Daly became an author of fiction, but also continued to write nonfiction for newspapers and magazines and also compiled and edited collections of short stories by other authors. Her young adult novel, Seventeenth Summer, published in 1942, was an immediate success and launched her career as a writer.
Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002.
Content Description
The papers include personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, television scripts and memorabilia. There is also a collection of books that McGivern wrote, including others that she compiled or edited.
Arrangement
Collection is organized into the following series:
Series: Correspondence
Subseries: Business
Subseries: Personal
Subseries: Fan Letters
Series: Manuscripts
Subseries: Book Length Manuscripts
Subseries: Short Stories
Subseries: Non-fiction Articles
Subseries: Television Scripts
Series: Newspaper and Magazine Material
Subseries: Interviews
Subseries: Magazine Columns and Tearsheets
Subseries: Newspaper Columns and Clippings
Subseries: Notes and Reviews
Subseries: Miscellaneous
Series: Addenda
Subseries: Correspondence
Subseries: Manuscripts
Subseries: Miscellaneous
Administrative Information
Processing Note Collection processed by processing staff, 1979.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access Collection is open to the public.
Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room.
Restrictions on Use Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Maureen Daly Papers, Ax 753, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Subjects
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.
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| Daly, Maureen, 1921- |
| Daly, Maureen, 1921---Correspondence |
| Manuscripts for publication |
| Women authors, American--20th century |
| Women journalists--United States |
| Young adult fiction, American--Authorship |
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Correspondence
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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Business
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Outgoing
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Outgoing
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1953-1973 |
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Incoming A-D
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Chicago Daily News
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1939 |
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Blassingame, Lurton
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1964-1965 |
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American Express Company, Inc.
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1956 |
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American Express Company, Inc.
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1956 |
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American Library Association
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1967 |
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Annals, The
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1942 |
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Ave Maria
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1962 |
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Barkin, Herman and Associates
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1962 |
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Ted Bates New York/Advertising
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1973 |
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Binghampton Public Library
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1957 |
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Blassingame, Lurton
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1951 |
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R. R. Bowker Co.
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undated |
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City of Burbank
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1972 |
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Carey, Marion
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undated |
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Beck, Virginia M.
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1942 |
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Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
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1973 |
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Curtis Publishing Co.
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1950 |
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Cypress School District
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1973 |
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Daly, Marguerite (Marg Bazlen)
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1952 |
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Daly, Marguerite (Marg Bazlen)
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undated |
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D'Arcy Advertising Co.
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1941 |
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Davis, Clarice
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1951 |
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Dramatic Publishing Co.
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1951 |
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Incoming E-L
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Evanston Township High School
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1939 |
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Evening and Sunday Bulletin, The
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1951 |
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Freedoms Foundation
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1938 |
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Gores, Stan
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1965 |
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Grills, Jane
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1956-1957 |
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Icelandic Legation
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1956 |
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Immaculate Heart College
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1957 |
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Daly, M.
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1973 |
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Ladies Home Journal
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1944-1964 |
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W. Colston Leigh, Inc.
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1961 |
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Los Angeles Times
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1973 |
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Incoming M-Z
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Moss, Marvin
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1972 |
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Milwaukee Public Library
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1956 |
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National Phyllis Wheatley Foundation
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1951 |
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Port Leyden Central School
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1941 |
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Rhode Island Hospital School of Nursing
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1948 |
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McGivern, M.
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1948 |
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Rose Hill High School
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undated |
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Russell and Volkening, Inc.
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1950 |
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Holiday
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1951-1952 |
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St. Joseph's College
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1951 |
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St. Nicholas Church
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1942 |
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Society of Christ the King
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1957 |
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Society of Midland Authors
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1944 |
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Daly, M.
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1973 |
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Southern California Society for the Prevention of Blindness, Inc.
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undated |
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Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
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undated |
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Syracuse University
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1951 |
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Syracuse University
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1948 |
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Teen
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1966 |
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This Week Magazine
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1957 |
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Universal Paper Products Co.
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1952 |
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University of Missouri
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1944 |
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University of Redlands
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1943 |
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Vincentian Institute
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1956 |
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White, Kenneth S.
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1944 |
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Zolotow, Maurice
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1957 |
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Dodd, Mead and Co.
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1941-1973 |
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Personal
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Incoming A-M
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Alexander, Deaver
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undated |
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Bass, Mary
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1973 |
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Brookter, Marie
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1973 |
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Bryan, Dorothy
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1973 and undated |
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Daly, M.
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1972-1973 and undated |
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Dickinson, Joan
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1973 and undated |
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Ehrlich, Arnold
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Explorers Camp
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1965 and undated |
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Fortugno, A. E.
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1963 |
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Globe Star Travel Service
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1965 |
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Gould, Bruce and Beatrice
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1972 |
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Hoopes, Marcia
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Kersten, E. M.
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1943 |
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Gibson, Mary Bass
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1973 |
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McGivern, William
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undated |
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Incoming N-Z
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Park, Joe
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1941 |
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Daly, M.
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1973 |
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Radebaugh, William H. and Marie
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1973 and undated |
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McGivern, Megan
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undated |
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McGivern, Patrick
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Outgoing
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1941-1973 |
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Fan Letters
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Answers to Fan Letters
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Fan Letters
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Fan Letters
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Fan Letters
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Fan Letters
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Fan Letters
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Manuscripts
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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Book Length Manuscripts
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The Ginger Horse
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1964 |
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Moroccan Roundabout
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The Ginger Horse
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1963 |
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Seventeenth Summer
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1942 |
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The Small War of Sergeant Donkey
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1966 |
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The Small War of Sergeant Donkey
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undated |
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The Small War of Sergeant Donkey
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The Small War of Sergeant Donkey
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The Small War of Sergeant Donkey
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The Small War of Sergeant Donkey
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Spain: Wonderland of Contrasts
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1965 |
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Spain: Wonderland of Contrasts
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undated |
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Spain: Wonderland of Contrasts
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Spain: Wonderland of Contrasts
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Short Stories
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A-M
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All That Glitters Is Not Sold
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And Then There Were None
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As Easy As That
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A Baby Named Carlos IV
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A Boy I Knew Once
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Daffodils-Two Bunches
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A Fair Trade
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Fifteen
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First Real Job
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The First Sound of Love
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The Girl Behind the Venetian Blinds
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Graduation Dance
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Homing Pigeon
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I Remember One Christmas
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The Last Bridge
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Let Me Call You Tuesday
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Little Boy Blue-Blood
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Love Letters in the Attic
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Mary was a Little Lamb
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Midnight Plus Two
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N-Z
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A Night For Only Stars
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No One But an Anthony
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One Letter Via Portugal
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One September Afternoon
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Postlude to Summer
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Read, White and So Blue
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The Same Old Story
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Smart Girl
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Sixteen
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The Snob
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Tall Grass
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The Ten O'Clock Dream
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Those Lovely Letters
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Want Ad
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Untitled
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Story
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Alibi For a Stranger
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Don't Do That to Poor Harriet
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The Gold Digger Happening
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A Night in the Admiral's House
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A Story in Black and White
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A Tale of Love and Death
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Incomplete Short Stories
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Non-fiction Articles
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"Etiquette: The Friend of a Friend"
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"Have Book Bag, Will Travel"
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"Here's How in High School"
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"Old Welcome, New Style"
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"The Rolling Green Hills of Apt 2-B"
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"Summer Holiday"
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"We Need More Honest Loving"
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Untitled
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"Beatrice Lodge de Oyarzabal"
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"Etiquette"
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"The Green Days"
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"Iceland: The $100 Million Question"
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"Iceland"
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"Offbeat Pets"
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Television Scripts
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Bottom Line
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Crossfire
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Deadly Exchange
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Eight to Five, It's a Miracle
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A Fair Shake
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The Ghetto Trap
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Love is an Eight Letter Word
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Tuesday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week
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Newspaper and Magazine Material
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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Interviews
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Joan Didion
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undated |
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Julie Andrews
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Julie Andrews
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Magazine Columns and Tearsheets
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"What Are People Really Like?"
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Tearsheets A-M
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Tearsheets N-Z
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Clippings
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Tearsheets
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Newspaper Columns and Clippings
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"On The Solid Side"
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"On The Solid Side"
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Chicago Tribune Clippings
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Chicago Tribune Clippings
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Catholic Herald and Chicago Daily News
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Notes and Reviews
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Memos and Notes
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"Profile of Youth"
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Reviews
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undated |
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Book Reviews
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undated |
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Miscellaneous
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Sub-Deb Federation Material
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undated |
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The Sixth Day by Roger Holguin
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The Sixth Day by Roger Holguin
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Management and Writers Guild Strike Material
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undated |
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A Walk in the Park--"Military Cemetery at Anzio"
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A Walk in the Park Newspaper clippings
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A Walk in the Park Miscellaneous clippings
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Ladies Journal: Sub-Deb Federations
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undated |
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Essays
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undated |
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Press Releases
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Press Releases
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Scrapbook
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Scrapbook
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Scrapbook
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undated |
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Magazine Cory [?]
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Clippings
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Avondale House Plans
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undated |
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Correspondence Re: Avondale House
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Biographical Material with Notations by McGivern
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Daly Sisters- Miscellaneous clippings
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Miscellaneous
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Memorabilia
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Correspondence
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Miscellaneous
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Manuscripts
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Addenda, 1979
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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Correspondence
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Incoming
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Incoming
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Incoming
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Incoming
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Outgoing
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Notes on correspondence
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Manuscripts
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Magazine articles and manuscripts
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Police Surgeon
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Police Surgeon
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Miscellaneous
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Chicago Tribune
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Chicago Tribune
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Chicago Tribune
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Miscellaneous
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Photographs
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Clippings
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Jessica Knows by Jere Packard
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1978 |
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