MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS 
SERIES 3B: SCRAPBOOKS and CLIPPINGS
 4 Boxes and 7 Notebooks

Scrapbooks of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

Box 1:  Two leather scrapbooks with her name stamped on the cover, ca. 1898-1945.
(Formerly catalogued and shelved as 813.5 R259Yr). Gift of Norton Baskin, April 20,
1960.  "This data was compiled . . . by Grace I. Kinnan and Wilmer Kinnan."

Restricted - Very fragile condition. Not available for use. Photocopies are available. Cf.  Notebooks 1-3.

Contents of volume 1 include a photograph of the home of Arthur F. Kinnan, Washington, D.C., where Marjorie was born, two letters from him to his mother, genealogical data on the Kinnan and related families, and numerous clippings, primarily but not exclusively relating to the Yearling. Volume 2 contains clippings relating to other of Rawlings's works.

Notebooks 1-3 The contents of the scrapbooks have been photocopied into 3 notebook. Volume 1 is in Notebook 1, and volume 2 is in Notebooks 2-A and 2-B.

Notebooks 4-7:  Scrapbooks of Book Reviews. Collected and Presented to the University of Florida by Patrick D. Smith.  (Formerly classed as 813.5 R259Yr 1965).
The original notebooks are in fragile condition. Use is restricted. Photocopies are available for use. Cf. Box 2.

Box 2: Copy of Contents of Scrapbook of Book Reviews (13 folders)

                        Folder 1:  South Moon Under, 1933-1934
                        Folder 2:  Golden Apples, 1935-1944
                        Folder 3:  The Yearling, 1938-1948
                        Folder 4:  Cross Creek, 1941-194
                        Folder 5:  Cross Creek Cookery, 1942-1950
                        Folder 6:   Sojourner, 1952-1954
                        Folder 7:  The Secret River, 1955-1956
                        Folder 8:  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (biographical) 1933-1953
                        Folder 9:  I Dream of the Day, 1945. MKR wrote an introduction to this volumes of letters by Caleb Milne.
                        Folder 10:   "The Pelican's Shadow," 1940
                        Folder 11:  Jacob's Ladder, 1931, 1950-1951
                        Folder 12:  The Marjorie Rawlings Reader, 1958
                        Folder 13:  When the Whippoorwill, 1940


Clippings

Boxes 3-4: Many of the clippings in this classified collection were probably collected by MKR herself. Others have been added later, including folders of clippings published after her death. The original clippings (Box 3) have been Xeroxed (Box 4) and should be used by readers, rather than the originals. Two of the folders exist only as "copies" in Box 4. A partial list of the clippings is available in the Department of Special Collections.

These clippings contain several examples of original writing by MKR. Folder II contains examples of her student and newspapers writings. Folder XVII contains copies of letters to editorial pages of newspapers, and copies of some of her published book reviews are in folder XIX.
 
Folder I,1 Articles about MKR, 1916-1953
Folder I,2 Articles about MKR, 1945-1953
Folder II Articles by MKR, 1918-1926 (Student and 
journalism writings)
Folder III Autobiographical material, 1938 and 1953 (Los Angeles Times)
Folder IV Book Reviews, etc. -- Cross Creek, 1942
Folder V Book Reviews, etc. -- Cross Creek Cookery, 1942
Folder VI Book Reviews, etc. -- Golden Apples, 1935 
Folder VII Book Reviews, etc. -- Jacob's Ladder, 1931, 1951
Folder VIII Book Reviews, etc. -- "Mountain Prelude," 1947
Folder IX Book Reviews, etc. -- Sojourner, 1953
Folder X Book Reviews, etc. -- South Moon Under, 1933-1937
Folder XI Book Reviews, etc. -- When the Whippoorwill, 1940, 1946
Folder XII Book Reviews, etc. -- The Yearling, 1938-1951
Folder XIII "Cracker Chidlings" Controversy
Folder XIV a and b: Originals only. Copies are in Cason v. Baskin (Ms. Group 33, Box 7, folder 1) Cross Creek Trial, Feb. Feb., 1943-1946, 1948.
Folder VX Death of MKR, December 14, 1953
Folder XVI Maxwell Perkins's Death, 1947 (Includes telegrams from C. Scribner and Carl Brandt)
Folder XVII Miscellaneous Articles, 1936-1950
Folder XVIII Pulitzer Prize, 1939
Folder XIX Book Reviews by MKR, 1941, 1946
Folder XX Use of "Nigger" in The Yearling, 1946
Folder XXI Clyde Line Steamers, Jacksonville Times Union, 1914
Folder XXII (copy file only) "Private Lives," by Edwin Cox; comic panel re MKR, Sept. 3, 1939. Accessioned 1999. 
Folder XXIII (copy file only) Original shelved in MKR Collection Map and Oversize Drawer The Sojourner; newspaper abridgment from the Montreal Standard, Sept. 26, 1953.

revised fo; 4.02.04