The Short Writings include manuscript and printed copies of various published and unpublished writings of MKR. They are unbound and sometime overlap in contents with other categories specified above.

A few of the items listed here, unnumbered, are filed in a bound volume in the Miscellaneous Rawlings Papers.

    SW 1:  "Editor to Author. The Letters of Maxwell Perkins." Drafts of book review. T.s. 8 1. With published copy from Publishers' Weekly, April 1, 1950, 1573-1574.

    Essay by MKR relating to her grandfather and Ase Linden (The Sojourner.) Typed ms. 3 ll.  Filed in bound volume with Miscellaneous Papers.

    SW 2:     Essay on National War Fund and American Field Service, with TLS from Joan Belmont, American Field Serivce; New York, 17 March 1945, requesting piece. T.s. 1 1.

    SW 3:     "The Everglades: River of Grass, by Marjory Stoneman Douglas" [book review] T.s. 4 1. With copy of publication from the New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review , Nov. 30, 1947.

    SW 4:   "In This I Believe." T.s. 4 1. Radio broadcast for Voice of America.

    SW 5:   "Introduction to the Katherine Mansfield Collection." T.s. with a.note 7 l. With letter from William Targ, World Publishing Co., Cleveland, 1 March 1946.

     SW 6:   "A Manual for Puppies," by an Old Dog. Photocopy of typed ms. Mostly illegible. 2 1

    SW 7:  "Niggers and Superstitions." Bound notebook with 3 leaves of notes. Also an envelope with notes on "Art" on the verso.

    Notes on Regional Literature. Filed in bound volume with Miscellaneous Papers.

    SW 8:     "Scott."  Account of MKR's visit with F. Scott Fitzgerald. T.s. 5 1.

    SW 9:     "Wolfe." T.s. 1 1. Fragmentary account of meeting with Thomas Wolfe.

   SW 10:  "A Word about Her Life and Her Work As a Novelist"; Questionnaire from Mary Louise Fagg with answers by Rawlings. July 29, 1952. Xerox. 21 pp., [28] ll.  The Thermofax copy, largely illegible, from which this copy was made may be found as A12 - A13.

     SW 11:     "Writing as a Career." T.s. 8 ll. Published in the Book of Knowledge, 1948 annual volume.

    SW12:   "Yesterday's Woman: An Exclusive interview by Lollie Pop Twitter." Typed ms. and carbon. 3 ll.   Spoof of interview with MKR. Cf. MKR letter to Norton Baskin, 17 March 1946 for another copy of p. 2 with a. note.

    SW13:   "Yesterday's Woman: An Exclusive interview by Lollie Pop Twitter." Typed ms. and carbon. 3 ll.  Variant copy.  Spoof of interview with MKR.
 

    Typed and autograph notes by MKR. 17 encapsulated leaves.  These mostly relate to writing. Cf. "Speeches." Several are written on note paper of the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago. Filed in bound volume with Miscellaneous Papers.

   Typed and autograph fragments and notes by MKR. 37 encapsulated leaves. Some relate to Cross Creek. Filed in bound volume with Miscellaneous Papers.

    SW 14:  Printed Diary for 1932. Contains entries by MKR.

    SW 15:   Printed Day Book for 1939. Contains entries by MKR.

    SW 16:  Printed Day Book for 1939. Contains entries by MKR.

    SW17:   "Alonzo Perceval Van Clyne," first-prize story by Marjorie Kinnan [Washington Sunday Post, 1924]

    SW18:   "Cracker Chidlings." Scribner's Magazine, Feb. 1931. Photostat and xerox copy.

    SW 18a: "Cross Creek," Condensation.  Reader's Digest, v. 41:244 (August 1942), 149-176. (Added September, 2002)

     SW 19:  Cross Creek Cookery. Selections in promotional brochure. 9 leaves, including cover. With annotations and additional recipes in autograph of MKR.

    SW 20: "Dramatics and Movies." Columns written by Lady Alicia Thwaite [MKR] Five O'Clock, a Rochester, N.Y. periodical, April-May 1924.

     SW 21:    "Florida, Land of Contrasts." Transatlantic, no. 14, Oct. 1944, 12-17.

     SW 22:     "Florida Scene by Robert Camp, Jr." Printed leaflet. 1 sheet. Introduction by MKR to art exhibition, Jacksonville, Jan. 1942.

     SW 23:   "Miss Moffatt Steps Out." Liberty Magazine, Feb. 16, 1946,  30-31, 58-61.

    SW (Box 2): "Mountain Prelude," excised from issues of the Saturday Evening Post, April 26, 1947 - May 31, 1947.

    SW 24:   "The Provider."  Woman's Home Companion, June 1941, 21 ff.

    SW 25:   [Songs of a Housewife] 1926 - 1927.  Original clippings from Rochester newspaper.
    Mounted on paper. 36 ll. Fragile; use xerox copies (SW 26) unless reference to the originals are necessary.

    SW 26:  [Songs of a Housewife]  Xerox of original clippings from Rochester newspaper.  36 ll.

    SW 27: Selection from Cross Creek, Novosselye , 1943, no. 9-10, 5-22.

    SW 28:  Miscellaneous fragments of verse, found with the Charles Rawlings - Marjorie Rawlings correspondence [ca. 1918?] 7 sheets.

    SW29:  "Hyacinth Drift," by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Scribner's Magazine 94:3, Sept. 1933.
(Accessioned November, 2000. Gift of the Lucius Neal Smith Trust.)

    SW30: "Fish Fry and Fireworks," by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Florida Quarterly. Galley proofs.
 
  revised September 19, 2002