The first nine items are essays or fragments of essays about Marjorie's early years at Cross Creek. Some of them are similar to parts of the book of that name and may be early drafts. Items 10-15 are more formal, including a transcript for a radio interview, and material contributed for a school edition of TheYearling, etc. Except for number 15, these items are encapsulated and bound in a single volume.

         A1.   "I Find I Have Been in Acute Need for Solitude." June 4 [1929?] T.ms. 2 1.

         A2.   " I Had My First Lesson in Milking." June 5 [1929?]  T.ms. 2 1.

         A3.   " On Our First Night Here, We Heard a Wild Cat Howl." T. ms. 8 1. This is either a fragment, or parts of two manuscripts, as the second leaf does not follow the first.

          A4.    "This Has Been an Evil Day." Cross Creek. October 3, 1937. A.Ms. 7 pp.

          A5.    Cross Creek." "A Week or So Ago I Noticed That One of the . . . Young Mallards Was Taking on the Brightness of a Drake."   October 19, 1938. Typed  ms. 3 1.

         A6.  "A Summer: Peace and War on a Florida Farm."  Typed ms. l1. 1-10, 13-22. This manuscript incorporates several of those listed above.

         A7.  "September." Typed ms. 6 1l.

         A8.  "I Have Crossed the River Styx." Typed Ms. ll. [1] 3-4.

         A9. "Cracker Florida." Typed ms. with a. notes 1l. 2-9.

       A10.   Radio Interview (1941?). T.s. 4 1l.

       A11.    Autobiographical Sketch. [20], 17 ll. Two drafts. Some of the pages in the second, are retyped from the first.

       A12. "A Word about Her Life and Her Work as a Novelist," by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. July 29, 1952. 3 ll. Thermofax copy. Largely illegible. A better Xeroxed copy is filed with the Miscellaneous Papers, MP 22.

       A13.   Questionnaire from Mary Louise Fagg with answers by Rawlings. July 29, 1952. Thermofax copy.  [25] ll. Largely illegible. A better Xeroxed copy is filed with the Miscellaneous Papers, MP 22.
 

         A14.    "Mrs. Rawlings -- Biographical Sketch."  T.ms. with a. notes by M. L. Fagg on the versos. 4 1.

        A15.  Introduction to the school edition of  The Yearling by MKR and Biographical Sketch by Mary Louise Fagg. T.ms. with corrections. 10 1. Bound separately.