Arrangement: In two series, A, Elizabeth S. Austin, and B, Oliver L. Austin
Biographical notes: Elizabeth S. Austin, wife of Oliver L. Austin, author and ornithologist, was a Research Associate of the Florida State Museum. She authored several birding books, all represented here, including The Birds That Stopped Flying, Penguins, and The Random House Book of Birds, co-authored by Oliver Austin. She was the editor of Frank Chapman in Florida, and wrote a weekly newspaper column on birds.
Oliver L. Austin, Jr., born 1903, and educated at Wesleyan University and Harvard (Ph.D.), was the author of numerous books including Birds of the World (1961). His positions included Curator of Ornithology at the Florida State Museum of the University of Florida. Previously he was director of the Austin Ornithological Research Station on Cape Cod. He was the editor of Auk, the Journal of the American Ornithologists Union and of the Bulletin of the Florida State Museum.
Scope and Contents: Manuscripts of several of Elizabeth Austin's published works, correspondence, largely relating to the the publication of Frank Chapman in Florida, and a scrapbook of her nature columns in the Florida Times-Union.
Several drafts of the manuscript of Birds of the World by Oliver Austin, including an unbound printed copy, and a microfilmed scrapbook, primarily of his column, "Birds & Such," from the Cape Cod Colonial, 1936-1937.
Provenance: The
Elizabeth Austin manuscripts and correspondence were donated by Oliver Austin,
ca. 1961. The manuscripts of Birds of the World were received from his office in
the Florida State Museum.
Folder 1: Article for the Junior Encyclopedia of Natural History.
Folder 2: "The Birds That Stopped Flying", Ts.with corrections.
Folder 3: "The Birds That Stopped Flying", final mss. with corrections.
Folder 4: "The Birds That Stopped Flying", galleys.
Folder 5: "The Birds That Stopped Flying", quires.
Folder 6: "The Birds That Stopped Flying", dust jacket.
Folder 7: "The Birds That Stopped Flying", miscellaneous material.
Folder 8: "The Penguins", Ts. with corrections.
Folder 9: "Penguins: the Birds with Flippers", dust jackets.
Folder 10: "The Penguins", Chapter III, Ts. with corrections.
Folder 11: "Random House Book of Birds", Ts. with corrections, pt.1.
Folder 12: "Random House Book of Birds", Ts. With corrections, pt. 2.
Folder 13: "Random House Book of Birds", Ts. with corrections, pt.3.
Folder 14: "Random House Book of Birds", final Ts., pt.1.
Folder 15: "Random House Book of Birds", final Ts., pt.2.
Folder 16: "Random House Book of Birds", Outline of the birds to appear in the book.
Folder 18: "Random House Book of Birds", photographs.
Folder 19: "Random House Book of Birds", galley with editor’s marks.
Folder 20: "Random House Book of Birds", page proofs.
Folder 21: "Random House Book of Birds", original ms., returned from publisher with letter, August 6, 1971.
Folder 28: "Frank Chapman Writes of Florida," by Elizabeth Austin published in The Florida Naturalist, V.29, pp. 43-44.
Folder 29: "Florida and the AOU Founders," by Elizabeth Austin, mimeograph copy, 5 pp.
Folder 30: Frank Chapman in Florida, by Elizabeth Austin, reviews.
Folder 31:
Bryan, H. C. to Ernest Coe, 1936 (copy)
Bryan, H. C. to T. S. Palmer, 1936.
Both letters re to illegal of killing of birds for plumage in the Everglades.
Folder 32: 1937
Austin, Elizabeth. TL (copy) to G. J. Broekhuysen; 7 Dec. 1967.
Austin, Jr., Oliver L. TL (carbon) to Les Line, Audubon Magazine, 10 May 1967
Letters to Elizabeth, or Oliver Austin. Most are in regard to Frank
Chapman in Florida:
Amadon, Dean (2)
Belle, Jessie
Barker, Elizabeth
Broekhuysen, G. J.
Chavchavadze, Paul
Derringer, Betty
Dickinson's, The
Enwall, Jean
Germaine, Loraine
Hack, Joyce
Holland, Mary (2)
Lowery, Jr., George
Mautz, Robert, B.
Mayr, Ernst
Murphy, Grace
Pettingill, Eleanor
Ranson, Marion B.
Reitz, J. Wayne
Robertson, Bill
Schling, Max
Walters, John S.
Folder 33: 1968: Letters to Elizabeth Austin
Cotrell, Annette
Graham, Henry H.Warner, Dorothy M. (with carbon of reply by Elizabeth Austin. 19 March 1968)
Folder 34: 1970-1975
Austin, Elizabeth to V. P. Wystrack (carbon) re us of the word mistress.
University of Florida Press (Kishel, Mary J.; Summer, Bob; Nell, Paul C.)
Wystrack, V.P.
Folder 35: Miscellaneous: advertising, drawings, etc.
Scrapbook
Scrapbook of the published columns: "Wild Adventures,"
Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville);
#1, Sept. 1961 - #238, Oct. 23, 1966.
MS 51B: Oliver Austin (7 Boxes of Birds of the World; 1 scrapbook on microfilm)
Box 1: First draft (3 folders)
Box 2: 2nd draft (carbon) with revisions (5 folders)
Box 3: Author's working carbon of the final draft, as edited and retyped, 1960-1961 (4 folders)
Box 4: "Final copy, as edited, copy styled and set into galley, March 1961" (5 folders)
Box 5: Galley Proofs.
Box 6:
1 Biographical sketch of Oliver Austin.
2 Birds of the World, in quires.
Box 7: Birds of the World, illustrations in pencil, and page proofs, 22x15 inches.
Scrapbook (on microfilm) of Oliver Austin, 1933-1937. Primarily includes copies of his column "Birds & Such," Cape Cod Colonial, 1937-1937. Shelved in manuscripts microfilm cabinet.
revised Frank Orser 11 June 2003
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