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Finding Aid for the Carolyn Haines Collection
(MUM00212)

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Finding Aid for the Carolyn Haines Collection

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Collected and maintained by the author, this collection of manuscripts, photographs
and ephemera was donated by Ms. Haines to Special Collections on March 13, 2003.

Processing Information

Collection processed by Jennifer Ford, 2003. Addition of photographs to the finding
aid by Pamela Williamson, 2010. Finding aid encoded by Special Collections staff,
2005. Finding aid revised by Kathryn Michaelis, August 2011.

Additions

No further additions are expected to this collection.

Subject Terms

Biographical Note

Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on May 12, 1953, Carolyn Haines graduated from high
school in George County. She received a B.S. from the University of Southern Mississippi
in Journalism and a M.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing in 1985 from
the University of Southern Alabama. Carolyn Haines’s first published novel, Summer
of Fear, appeared in 1993, followed by Summer of the Redeemers appearing in 1994.
Her popular detective series featuring the feisty Southern belle detective Sarah Booth
Delaney began in 1999 with the publication of Them Bones; Haines continues to add
to the series as of 2011. In 2003, Haines published My Mother’s Witness: The Peggy
Morgan Story, a non-fiction account of a young white woman caught in a violent world
of racism and brutality. Haines has written numerous books under the pseudonym Caroline
Burnes.

Scope and Content Note

Nine boxes of manuscript material, correspondence, and book jacket art from the collection
of noted Mississippi-born mystery author Carolyn Haines. The collection also contains
6 binders of 35mm negatives Ms. Haines took in the 1970’s as a photographer for publications
including the Mobile Press Register, the Mississippi Press, the Hattiesburg American, and the George County Times.

User Information

Prefered Citation

Carolyn Haines Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library,
The
University of Mississippi

Access Restrictions

Open for research. The photographic portion of this collection is stored at an off-site facility. Researchers
interested in using photographic materials in this collection must contact Archives and Special Collections at least two business days in
advance of their planned visit.

Copyright Restrictions

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the
making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under
certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized
to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions
is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other
than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for,
or
later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use”,
that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Separated Material

Sixty four copies of various works by Carolyn Haines have been cataloged for Special
Collections. Ms. Haines is listed as a collector for these works and they can be searched
in this way online.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in two subgroups, and chronologically within each subgroup.

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