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BOX 1 — NON-FICTION BY BONNER, POETRY BY BONNER, & MISCELLANEOUS PRIMARY SOURCES

Letters from Boston to the Memphis Avalanche, 1874-1875:

Folder 1-1:

Photocopy. Katherine McDowell. “From the ‘Hub.’ A Southern Girl’s Experience of Life in New England. What a Bright, Educated, Witty, Lively, Snappy Young Woman Can Say on a Variety of Topics.” Memphis Avalanche (15 March 1874): 2.

Folder 1-2:

Photocopy. Katherine McDowell. “The Hub’s Good Side. Ralph Waldo Emerson Interviewed by Fair Southron. His Orphic Utterances — Stately Harmonies — The Fluting and Frilling of Involuted Words — His Airy Wit — A Brahmin in Religion — Personal Notes and Gossip.” Memphis Avalanche (12 April 1874): 2.

Folder 1-3:

Photocopy. Kate McDowell. “From the ‘Hub.’ A Personal Chapter on Sumner, Schurs, Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Others.” Memphis Avalanche (17 May 1874): 2.

Folder 1-4:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “The Big Celebration. An Avalanche Correspondent’s Impressions of the Lexington-Concord Centennial. A Descriptive, Critical, Analytical and Generally Interesting Account of the Great Day.” Memphis Avalanche (4 May 1875): 2.

Folder 1-5:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Wendell Phillips. Interviewed by a Southern Girl — He Talks on Politics — He Disparages Bartlett, Kellogg, Grant and Beauregard — Southern Debt to be Paid by the Nation — What the South Wants and How to Get It — The Democracy to Pay for the Slaves — Description of the Yankee Orator’s Home — Sketch of His Life — The Critic Criticized.” Memphis Avalanche (30 May 1875): 2.

Folder 1-6:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Boston’s Centennial. A Southern Woman’s Description of the Celebration at Bunker Hill. The Blue and the Gray — How the North and the South Mingled Fraternally.” Memphis Avalanche (30 June 1875):2.

Folder 1-7:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner’s Letter. Longfellow’s Home — Its History. The Heroine of Sax Holm’s Story — ‘Young Man: Never Hurry, for See How an Old Woman Looks in Bed!’ — The Room that Washington Occupied — Longfellow’s Study and MSS. — His Paintings, Books and Rare Relics — the Poet in His Home.” Memphis Avalanche (26 December 1875): 2.

Letters from Europe, 1876:

Folder 1-8: Letters from Europe 1

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner’s Letter. ‘D. Scribe Renews Acquaintance with Times Readers. Pencillings En Route for England by the Author of ‘The Radical Club.’ Incidents of a Wintry Passage — A Curious Band of Pilgrims — English and American Ideas Illustrated in the Cabin of an Ocean Steamer — Louise Chandler Moulton’s Retort to an English Swell.” Boston Times (27 February 1876):1.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “‘Sherwood Bonner.’ An Avalanche Correspondent’s Voyage Across the Atlantic. The Eve of Departure — Incidents of the Trip — Companions on Shipboard — Liverpool in Sight.” Memphis Avalanche (27 February 1876): 2.

Computer print-out with Dr. Gowdy’s handwritten notes. 1 page.

Folder 1-9: Letters from Europe 2

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner’s Letter. First Impressions of Life in London. The Englishwoman’s Ideas of Dress. Notes on the Recent Royal Pageant.” Boston Times (12 March 1876): 2.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “‘Sherwood Bonner.’ A Southern Woman’s Impressions of England and the English. The People, the Fashions and the Theaters — Descriptive and Critical. Her Majesty the Queen Opening Parliament — Royalty as Viewed by American Eyes.” Memphis Avalanche (15 March 1876): 2.

Folder 1-10: Letters from Europe 3

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner’s Letter. Over the Blue Waters of the Mediterranean. First Experiences in Rome. Unveiling the Keats Medallion in the English Cemetery.” Boston Times (26 March 1876): 1.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “‘Sherwood Bonner.’ A Southern Woman’s Trip from London to Rome. Glimpses of Paris and the Parisians — A Day in Genoa — Rome — The Poet Keats’ Grave — Scenes and Incidents of Travel.” Memphis Avalanche (26 March 1876): 1.

Folder 1-11: Letters from Europe 4

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner’s Letter. Rome in Carnival Time. Gay Scenes on the Corso. Incidents of the Ten Days’ Revelry.” Boston Times (9 April 1876): 2.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Rome’s Carnival. ‘Sherwood Bonner’s’ Description of Carnival Week in the Eternal City. Scenes of Revelry Not Soon to be Forgotten — The Roman Fica Philsophically Considered — Mark Twain’s Sad Work — Rome’s Fascinations.” Memphis Avalanche (9 April 1876): 2.

Folder 1-12: Letters from Europe 5

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner’s Letter. An Audience with His Holiness the Pope. The Unhappy Capuchins. The New Protestant Church in Rome.” Boston Times (30 April 1876): 1.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “‘Sherwood Bonner.’ An Avalanche Correspondent’s Visit to the Pope. Her Impressions of His Holiness — A Little Interview. Roman Churches and Ruins — The Capuchin Monk — Rome’s New Protestant Church, Sensation, Etc., Etc., Etc.” Memphis Avalanche (30 April 1876): 2.

Folder 1-13: Letters from Europe 6

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner’s Letters. Social Life in the Eternal City. The Art Studios of Rome. Gossip about American Artists Abroad.” Boston Times (4 May 1876).

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “‘Sherwood Bonner.’ A Picture of Social Life in the Eternal City. Hours Spent Among the Artists — the Painters and Sculptors. Famous Americans and Others Far Advanced on the Road to Fame.” Memphis Avalanche (14 May 1876):2.

Folder 1-14: Letters from Europe 7

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner’s Letter. A Visit to Garibaldi. Interesting Scenes at the Old Hero’s Home. An Italian Romance. And Other Gossip from Rome.” Boston Times (28 May 1876): 1.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner. A Charming Web of Italian Gossip. Visiting Garibaldi — Victor Emmanuel’s Superstitions. Story, the Poet Artist — Society Matters — An Italian Romance.” Memphis Avalanche (28 May 1876): 2.

Photocopy. “Punch, Boys, Punch”

Folder 1-15: Letters from Europe 8

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner’s Letter. Farewell Notes on the Sacred City. Easter Sunday at St. Peter’s. The Tomb of Tasso.” Boston Times (11 June 1876): 1.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Our Letter from Rome. Peculiarities of Sight Seers — Farewell Visits. Easter Sunday in the Center of Catholicism. Tasso’s Tomb — Rambles on the Eternal Hill, Etc.” Memphis Avalanche (18 June 1876): 2.

Folder 1-16: Letters from Europe 9

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner’s Letter. Florence and the Florentines. Interesting Gossip about the City of Michael Angelo. Its Sculptures and Paintings — How the Visitors Adopt Ruskin’s Criticism of Giotto — The Natural Beauties of the City.” Boston Times (16 July 1876): 1.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Beautiful Florence. The Art Galleries of the Birthplace of Michael Angelo. What an American Woman Thinks of Them — Florence and Rome Contrasted — Something about ‘Ouida.'” Memphis Avalanche (9 July 1876): 2.

Folder 1-17: Letters from Europe 10

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner’s Letter. The Romance of Life in ‘Beautiful Venice.’ An Evening Walk in the Square of St. Mark. From Venice to Verona.” Boston Times (6 August 1876): 1.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “At Venice. Sherwood Bonner Visits the ‘Bride of the Sea,’ and Is Happy. A Morning at Verona with the Descendants of the Capulets and Montagues, and at the Tomb of Juliet.” Memphis Avalanche (6 August 1876): 2.

Folder 1-18: Letters from Europe 11

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner’s Letter. How She Is Seeing Paris. The Maison Moublee and the Apartments. Where to Live, How to Live, What to Eat, and How to Eat It — A Rift of Instructive Gossip, Etc., Etc.” Boston Times (27 August 1876): 1.

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy. 2 pages.

Folder 1-19: Letters from Europe 12

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner, “Sherwood Bonner’s Letter. Gossip about the Leading Theatre in the World. Sara Bernhardt, the Actress. The Romantic Story of Her Life. Other French Theatres and Their Peculiarities.” Boston Times (24 September 1876): 1.

Folder 1-20: Letters from Europe 13

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sherwood Bonner’s Afterthoughts. Reminiscences of a Visit to Bohemia. The Merry Town of Grez. The Unconventional Life of Its Clever Residents.” Boston Times (29 October 1876): 1.

Two Historical Sketches Set in Holly Springs, MS:

Folder 1-21:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “From ’60 to ’65.” Lippincott’s Magazine (October 1876): 500-509.

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy. 1 page.

Folder 1-22:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “The Yellow Plague of ’78. A Record of Horror and Heroism.” The Youth’s Companion (3 April 1879): 117-119.

Photocopy. [Mrs. John Newton Craig]. A Chapter in the History of the Epidemic of 1878 from Private Memoranda. McComb City, MS: McComb City Intelligencer, [1879].

Handwritten letter. 28 February 1993. Hubert McAlexander in Athens, GA to Anne R. Gowdy in Knoxville, TN. Envelope. Re: Craig, not Bonner, as author of A Chapter in the History of the Epidemic of 1878.

Index card with handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy.

Newspaper clipping. Gloria Quinn Smith. “Munch-A-Lunch Author Speaks on Work of Sisters of Mercy in Yellow Fever and the Civil War.”

Newspaper clipping. Marjorie Roehl. “When ‘Bronze John’ felled the Crescent City.” New Orleans Times-Picayune (11 October 1987): F-10.

Newspaper clipping. Sam M. McKinney, “Pike County Chronicles. Chatawa: Its Historical Origins as Carter’s Hill” Magnolia Gazette (13 August 1998): B4.

Newspaper clipping. Sam M. McKinney, “Pike County Chronicles. Chatawa: Yellow Fever in Pike County” Magnolia Gazette (3 September 1998): A8.

Profiles of Personalities:

Folder 1-23:

Photocopy. [Sherwood Bonner]. “Dr. J.G. Holland.” Cottage Hearth (January 1875): 1-2.

Folder 1-24:

Photocopy. [Sherwood Bonner]. “Mary Clemmer.” Cottage Hearth (February 1875): 29-30.

Folder 1-25:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Julia Ward Howe.” Cottage Heart (April 1875): 85-86.

Folder 1-26:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Louise Chandler Moulton.” Cottage Hearth (January 1877): 1-2.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Louise Chandler Moulton,” Boston Times (14 January 1877): 1.

Computer print-out of Louise Chandler Moulton’s publications.

Photocopy. “The Duty of a Woman to be a Lady.” Memphis Avalanche (28 June 1874): 2.

Photocopy. “New Marriage Service: The Form Proposed by One of the Women-Women.” Memphis Avalanche (5 April 1874): 2.

Folder 1-27:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “The Poet Longfellow and His Home.” Boston Times (21 January 1877): 1.

Photocopy. [Sherwood Bonner]. “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.” in R.H. Stoddard and Others. Poet’s Homes. Pen and Pencil Sketches of American Poets and Their Homes. Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1877. pp. 1-16.

Index card with handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy.

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy. 1 page.

Ciba Vaughan. “Where Books Are Born: ‘Come to Me , O Ye Children!'” Victoria (March 1990): 80+.

“Longfellow” in Homes of American Authors; Comprising Anecdotal, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various Writers. New York: G.P. Putnam and Co., 1853.

“Longfellow Meets Mrs. Craigie.” in Harry Hanson. Longfellow’s New England. New York: Hastings, 1972.

Newspaper clipping. Michael Kenney. “Face Lift for Longfellow: Work Planned on Poet’s House Full of History.” Boston Globe (5 September 1998): C1 & C5.

Newspaper clipping. “That’s What Friends Are For.” Boston Globe (16 March 1996).

Folder 1-28:

Photocopy. “A Citizen of Holly Springs” [Sherwood Bonner]. “Mrs. Meriwether’s Lecture at Holly Springs.” Memphis Avalanche (18 March 1877): 4.

Photocopy. “A Lecture by Mrs. Meriwether.” Memphis Avalanche (26 September 1876).

Folder 1-29:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “The Modjeska: Sherwood Bonner’s Impressions of the Great Artist.” Memphis Avalanche (9 February 1879): 4.

Poetry — Satire:

Folder 1-30:

Photocopy. [Sherwood Bonner], “The Radical Club. A Poem, Respectfully Dedicated to ‘The Infinite.’ By an ‘Atom.”” Boston Times (8 May 1875): 2.

Photocopy. [Sherwood Bonner], The Radical Club. A Poem Respectfully Dedicated to “The Infinite,” by “an Atom.” Boston: Times Publishing Company, 1876. Included in this collection with the permission of Brown University Library which holds the original of this photocopy. “Not to be reproduced, published or placed in another institution without written permission” of Brown University.

Photocopy. Broadside. [Sherwood Bonner], “The Radical Club. A Poem, Respectfully Dedicated to ‘The Infinite.’ By an ‘Atom.'” Copy of annotated version from the Massachusetts Historical Society Library which claims to identify the subjects of the poem.

Handwritten page of notes by Dr. Gowdy. 1 page.

Photocopy. Advertisement for Bonner’s “The Radical Club: A Satirical Poem” in Boston Times (14 May 1876).

Photocopy. Advertisement for Bonner’s “The Radical Club” in Boston Times (23 February 1877). 2 copies.

Photocopy. The Radical Club. A Poem Respectfully Dedicated to An Atom. By a Chip. Boston: William F. Gill and Company, 1876. Included in this collection with the permission of Brown University Library which holds the original of this photocopy. “Not to be reproduced, published or placed in another institution without written permission” of Brown University.

Photocopy. Mrs. John T. Sargent, ed. Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club of Chestnut Street, Boston. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1880. 5 pages.

Photocopy. Kenneth Walter Cameron. Emerson among His Contemporaries: A Harvest of Estimates, Insights, and Anecdotes from the Victorian Literary World and an Index. Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1967. p. 424.

Folder 1-31:

Photocopy. Handwritten, undated manuscript. [Sherwood Bonner]. “The Judge.” 3 pages. Original in George Royster Stephenson Collection at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History with a copy at Mississippi State University.

Typescript of “The Judge.” 4 pages.

Poetry — For Children:

Folder 1-32:

Photocopy. [Sherwood Bonner]. “A Page of Poems.” Harper’s Young People (7 September 1880): 661.

Photocopy. Handwritten letter dated 18 January 1993 from ILL Department from Miami-Dade Public Library System.

Folder 1-33:

Photocopy. [Sherwood Bonner]. “A Page of Poems.” Harper’s Young People (12 October 1880): 741.

Poetry — Lyrics:

Folder 1-34:

Handwritten transcript of and notes about “To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow” (Bonner’s dedication in her 1878 novel Like Unto Like).

Folder 1-35:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Modjeska.” Memphis Avalanche (14 February 1879): 4.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “To Modjeska in the South.” Harper’s Weekly (23 March 1879): 230.

Index card with handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy.

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy. 2 pages.

Typescript. “Modjeska.” with notes by Dr. Gowdy.

Computer print-out of book about Helena Modjeska.

Photocopy. [writings about Modjeska] with index card of notes by Dr. Gowdy attached.

Folder 1-36:

Photocopy. “Bohemian” [Sherwood Bonner]. “In Memoriam. Howard Falconer.” Holly Springs Reporter (7 July 1881): 3.

Handwritten transcript. “In Memoriam. Howard Falconer.” 2 pages.

Folder 1-37:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “With Her Picture.” Our Continent (12 April 1882): 138.

Typescript. “With Her Picture.”

Folder 1-38:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Two Smiles.” Harper’s Weekly (21 July 1883): 458.

Typescript. “Two Smiles.”

Folder 1-39:

Photocopy. [Sherwood Bonner]. “Despondency.” Harper’s Weekly (16 August 1883): 518.

Typescript. “Despondency.”

Folder 1-40:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “My Legend for Valentine.” Youth’s Companion (12 February 1885): 58.

Typescript. “A Longed for Valentine.”

Photocopy. “A Longed for Valentine.” Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society (1899): 54.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “A Longed-For Valentine.” in Ernestine Clayton Deavours, ed. The Mississippi Poets. Memphis: E.H. Clarke & Brother, 1922. p. 36.

Correspondence:

Folder 1-41:

Photocopy. Handwritten letter signed dated 21 February 1874 from Theodore Dwight in New York to [Katherine] McDowell. 11 pages. Original held by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

Folder 1-42:

Photocopy. Handwritten letter signed dated 6 December 1875 from Howard Falconer in Holly Springs, MS to “Sherwood” [Bonner]. 4 pages. Original held by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

Bonner’s 1869 Diary:

Folder 1-43:

Nash Burger, ed. “Diary of Sherwood Bonner.” Southern Review (Winter 1934): 4-13.

William L. Frank, ed. “Sherwood Bonner’s Diary for the Year 1869.” Notes on Mississippi Writers (Winter 1970): 111-130. Part 1.

William L. Frank, ed. “Sherwood Bonner’s Diary for the Year 1869, Part II.” Notes on Mississippi Writers (Spring 1971): 22-40.

William L. Frank, ed. “Sherwood Bonner’s Diary for the Year 1869, Part III.” Notes on Mississippi Writers (Fall 1971): 64-83.

Index card with handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy.

Handwritten notes with Dr. Gowdy. 2 pages.

Contemporary Reviews of Bonner:

Folder 1-44:

“Our Book Table.” Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (July 1883): 94. Re: Dialect Tales.

Nation (24 March 1881): 206. Re: “Sister Weeden’s Prayer.”

“Our Arm Chair.” Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (December 1884): 652. Re: Suwanee River Tales.

Handwritten transcription. Harper’s Weekly (21 April 1883): 243. Re: Dialect Tales.

Handwritten transcription. Harper’s Weekly (24 November 1883): 755. Re: Dialect Tales.

Obituaries:

Folder 1-45:

Photocopy. “Sherwood Bonner.” Times-Democrat (2 September 1883): 5.

Photocopy. “A Southern Authoress.” Memphis Daily Appeal (11 August 1883).

Photocopy. George M. Moreland. “Sherwood Bonner.” (29 November 1931).

Photocopy. [Helen Craft Anderson]. “In Memoriam.” Holly Springs Reporter (16 August 1883): 2; and “In Memoriam” Holly Springs South.

Photocopy. “Sherwood Bonner.” Harper’s Weekly (11 August 1883): 503.

BOX 2 — FICTION BY BONNER

Short Fiction originally appearing in periodicals. Some were later collected in Dialect Tales & Suwanee River Tales:

Folder 2-1:

Photocopy. Clayton Vaughn [Sherwood Bonner]. “Laura Capello.” Massachusetts Ploughman and New England Journal of Agriculture (20 February 1869): 4.

Folder 2-2:

Photocopy. [Sherwood Bonner]. “The Heir of Delmont.” Massachusetts Ploughman and New England Journal of Agriculture (28 August 1869): 4. Part 1.

Photocopy. [Sherwood Bonner]. “The Heir of Delmont.” Massachusetts Ploughman and New England Journal of Agriculture (4 September 1869): 4. Part 2.

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy. 2 pages.

Folder 2-3:

Photocopy. [Sherwood Bonner]. “Saved.” Massachusetts Ploughman and New England Journal of Agriculture (9 October 1869): 4.

Folder 2-4:

Photocopy. Kate Bonner. “Who Won the Crown?” Youth’s Companion (18 March 1875): 81-82.

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy. 1 page.

Folder 2-5:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Gran’mamy’s Last Gift.” Youth’s Companion (29 July 1875): 237-238.

Folder 2-6:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Miss Willard’s Two Rings.” (December 1875): 754-761.

Photocopy. Carrie L. Jenness. “Dr. Mary J. Safford Blake.” Cottage Hearth (May 1876): 113-114.

Photocopy. Carrie L. Jenness. “The Building of the House.” Cottage Hearth (December 1876): 227.

Folder 2-7:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Gran’mamy’s Story.” Youth’s Companion (6 January 1876): 1-2.

Folder 2-8:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Which Was the Heroine?: A Story of the Revolution to Be Read Around the Hearth of ’76…Prologue.” Cottage Hearth (January 1876): 24-25.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Which Was the Heroine?: A Story of the Revolution to Be Read Around the Hearth of ’76…Chapter II.” Cottage Hearth (February 1876): 52-53.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Which Was the Heroine?: A Story of the Revolution to Be Read Around the Hearth of ’76…Chapter III.” Cottage Hearth (March 1876): 80-81.

Photocopy. “A Revolutionary Girl’s Pluck.” Illustrated Christian Weekly (15 July 1876): 343.

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy. 2 pages.

Photocopy of handwritten manuscript. “By Sherwood Bonner.” 2 pages.

Folder 2-9:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Rosine’s Story.” Youth’s Companion (14 December 1876): 421-422.

Folder 2-10:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Leonie.” Youth’s Companion (8 February 1877): 42-43.

Folder 2-11:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Breaking the News.” Youth’s Companion (27 December 1877): 441-442.

Folder 2-12:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “In Aunt Mely’s Cabin.” Lippincott’s Magazine (February 1878): 245-250.

Folder 2-13:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Dear Eyelashes.” Youth’s Companion (7 March 1878).

Folder 2-14:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “C.G.; or, Lilly’s Earrings.” Lippincott’s Magazine (September 1878): 362-373.

Folder 2-15:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Terrible Adventures of Ourselves and the Marshal.” St. Nichcholas (May 1879): 456-459.

Folder 2-16:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “The Revolution in the Life of Mr. Balingall.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (October 1879): 753-763.

Folder 2-17:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Maddy Gascar and the Professor.” Harper’s Weekly (18 October 1879): 831-832.

Folder 2-18:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Lost and Found.” Youth’s Companion (6 November 1879): 389-390.

Folder 2-19:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Mars’ Colton’s Lesson.” Youth’s Companion (11 March 1880): 81-82.

Folder 2-20:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “A Volcanic Interlude.” Lippincott’s Magazine (April 1880): 452-459.

Folder 2-21:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Hieronymus Pop and the Baby.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (June-November 1880): 20-25.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Hieronymus Pop and the Baby.” People’s Home Journal (June 1908): 14.

Folder 2-22:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “The Angel in the Lilly Family.” Harper’s Young People (19 October 1880): 756-757.

Photocopy. “Doll Rosy’s Party.” Youth’s Companion (3 May 1877): 145.

Folder 2-23:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Dr. Jex’s Predicament.” Harper’s Weekly (18 December 1880): 816-817.

Folder 2-24:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Jack and the Mountain Pink.” Harper’s Weekly (29 January 1881): 75-76.

Folder 2-25:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “The Case of Eliza Bleylock.” Harper’s Weekly (5 March 1881): 155-156.

Newspaper clipping. Morgan Simmons. “Running Off Batch of History: Big South Fork recruits moonshiner, 81, to programs on his heritage.” Knoxville News-Sentinel (24 December 2000): B1 & B3.

Folder 2-26:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Two Storms.” Harper’s New Monthly Weekly (April 1881): 728-748.

Folder 2-27:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Sister Weeden’s Prayer.” Lippincott’s Magazine (April 1881): 399-404.

Folder 2-28:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Lame Jerry.” Harper’s Weekly (28 May 1881): 346.

Folder 2-29:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “The Valcours.” Lippincott’s Magazine (September 1881): 243-258. Chapters 1 through 4.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “The Valcours.” Lippincott’s Magazine (October 1881): 345-361. Chapters 5 through 8.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “The Valcours.” Lippincott’s Magazine (November 1881): 444-462. Chapters 9 through 13.

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner, “The Valcours.” Lippincott’s Magazine (December 1881): 555-570. Chapters 14 through 16.

Folder 2-30:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “The Bran Dance at the Apple Settlement.” Harper’s Weekly (19 November 1881): 779-780.

Folder 2-31:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Peacock Feathers.” Harper’s Weekly (29 April 1882): 266-267.

Folder 2-32:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “A Shorn Lamb.” Harper’s Weekly (26 April 1882): 539-540.

Folder 2-33:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “On the Nine-Mile.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (May 1882): 918-928.

Folder 2-34:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner, “Aunt Anniky’s Teeth” Harper’s Weekly (3 June 1882): 347-348.

Folder 2-35:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Tobey’s Fortune.” Our Continent (9 August 1882): 134-136.

Folder 2-36:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “The Gentlemen of Sarsar.” Harper’s Weekly (16 December 1882): 802-804.

Folder 2-37:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “At the Wool-Picking.” Youth’s Companion (6 September 1883): 356-357.

Folder 2-38:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Christmas Eve at Tuckeyho.” (January 1884): 51-65.

Folder 2-39:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “The Tender Conscience of Mr. Bobberts.” Harper’s Weekly (22 March 1884): 190-192.

Folder 2-40:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner. “Coming Home to Roost.” Harper’s Weekly (17 May 1884): 318-319.

Photocopy. “Introduction.” in Virginia Frazer Boyle, Devil Tales. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972. Attached yellow stickies with handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy.

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy. 18 pages.

Novels:

Folder 2-41:

Photocopy. Sherwood Bonner, Like Unto Like (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878). Copy of the book owned by Lilian Kirk McDowell, Bonner’s daugher. Contains clippings of contemporary reviews of the novel pasted in the back. Volume held by the Marshall County Public Library in Holly Springs, MS.

Folder 2-42:

Photocopy. Henry Hayes, The Story of Margaret Kent (Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1886). Copies of 12 pages only. Hayes was the pseudonym for Bonner and her literary executrix.

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy. 8 pages.

BOX 3 — SECONDARY LITERATURE

Folder 3-1:

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy on Oscar Fay Adams. Dictionary of American Authors. 5th edition. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1969.

Folder 3-2:

Photocopy. Sacvan Bercovitch, ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press. pp. 64-73. With attached index cards handwritten by Dr. Gowdy.

Folder 3-3:

Photocopy. Lawrence I. Berkove. “New Old Additions to the American Cannon.” American Periodicals (Fall 1991): 25-33.

Folder 3-4:

Photocopy. “Bibliography: The Works of Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell.” pp. 231-237.

Folder 3-5:

Photocopy. Jean Nosser Biglane. “Sherwood Bonner: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials.” American Literary Realism (1972): 38-60.

Folder 3-6:

Photocopy. Robert W. Bolwell. “Katherine Sherwood Bonner MacDowell.” in Dumas Malone, ed. Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933. pp. 33-34.

Folder 3-7:

Photocopy. Alexander L. Bondurant. “Sherwood Bonner — Her Life and Place in the Literature of the South.” Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society (1898): 43-68.

Folder 3-8:

Photocopy. Alexander L. Bondurant. “Sherwood Bonner [1849-1883].” in Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, & Charles William Kent, eds. Library of Southern Literature. Atlanta: Martin & Hoyt Company, 1908. pp. xix-xxi & 439-445.

Folder 3-9:

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy on Paul H. Buck. The Road to Reunion 1865-1900. Boston: Little, Brown, 1937.

Folder 3-10:

Photocopy. Louis J. Budd. “Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell.” in Notable American Women 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. pp. 461-462. 2 copies.

Folder 3-11:

Photocopy. Jane Turner Censer. “Reimagining the North-South Reunion: Southern Women Novelists and the Intersectional Romance, 1876-1900.” Southern Cultures (Summer 1999): 64-91.

Folder 3-12:

Photocopy. B.M. Drake. “Sherwood Bonner” in Southern Writers: Biographical and Critical Studies. Vol. II. New York: Guardian Press, 1970. pp. 82-119.

Folder 3-13:

Photocopy. Lisa Pater Faranda. “A Social Necessity: The Friendship of Sherwood Bonner and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.” in Shirley Marchalonis, ed. Patrons and Protegees: Gender, Friendship and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988. pp. 184-211.

Folder 3-14:

Photocopy. Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990. p. 114.

Folder 3-15:

Photocopy. Judith Fetterley. “Commentary: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Politics of Recovery.” American Literary History (Fall 1994): 600-611.

Folder 3-16:

Photocopy. William L. Frank. “Catherine Sherwood Bonner.” in James B. Lloyd, ed. Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1981. pp. 46-48.

Folder 3-17:

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy on William L. Frank. Sherwood Bonner (Catherine McDowell). Boston: Hall, 1976. 3 pages.

Folder 3-18:

Photocopy. Francis P. Gaines. The Southern Plantation. p. 21.

Folder 3-19:

Photocopy. David L. Greene. “The Youth’s Companion.” R. Gordon Kelly, ed. Children’s Periodicals of the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984.

Folder 3-20:

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy on William C. Harris. The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. 2 pages.

Folder 3-21:

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy on Wade Hall. The Smiling Phoenix: Southern Humor from 1865 to 1914. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1965.

Folder 3-22:

Photocopy. James D. Hart, ed. Oxford Companion to American Literature. 5th edition. New York: Oxford University.

Folder 3-23:

Betty Hearn. Sherwood Bonner. Jackson: Mississippi Library Commission, 1976.

Folder 3-24:

Max J. Herzberg. Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1962. p. 674.

Folder 3-25:

Photocopy. John Foster Kirk. Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American Authors. Vol. 2. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1891. p. 1044.

Folder 3-26:

Photocopy. Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, eds. American Authors, 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1938. pp. 494-495.

Folder 3-27:

Photocopy. Lina Mainiero, ed. American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. Vol. 3. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1981. pp. 88-90.

Folder 3-28:

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy on Hubert H. McAlexander. The Prodigal Daughter: A Biography of Sherwood Bonner. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.

Folder 3-29:

Photocopy. Hubert McAlexander, Jr. “Sherwood Bonner (Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell).” pp. 203-204.

Folder 3-30:

Photocopy. Rayburn S. Moore. “‘Merlin and Vivien’? Some Notes on Sherwood Bonner and Longfellow.” Mississippi Quarterly (1974-1975): 181-184.

Folder 3-31:

Photocopy. Rayburn S. Moore. “Sherwood Bonner’s Contributions to Lippincott’s Magazine and Harper’s New Monthly.” Mississippi Quarterly (Winter 1963-64): 226-230.

Folder 3-32:

Photocopy. “Bibliographical Notes: For the Period 1872-1892.” in Frank Luther Mott. American Journalism, A History: 1690-1960. 3rd edition. New York: Macmillan, 1962. pp. 514-516.

Folder 3-33:

Photocopy. National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. 11. New York: James T. White & Co., 1901. p. 496.

Folder 3-34:

Photocopy. Dorrie Busby Norwood. “Sherwood Bonner.” in Robert Bain, Joseph M. Flora, and Louis D. Rubin, Jr., eds. Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. pp. 37-39.

Folder 3-35:

Photocopy. Gregory Paine, Southern Prose Writers: Representative Selections. New York: American, 1947. pp. xciii-cvii & 273-275.

Folder 3-36:

Photocopy. Darlene Pajo. “The Woman Question in the Life and Fiction of Sherwood Bonner.” (M.A.; University of Louisville; 1989).

Folder 3-37:

Photocopy. Randy Patterson. “William Malone Baskervill: First-Generation Critic of Southern Literature.” POMPA (1990): 153-157.

Folder 3-38:

Photocopy. Robert C. Pierle. “Sherwood Who? A Study in the Vagaries of Literary Evaluation.” Notes on Mississippi Writers (Spring 1968): 18-22.

Folder 3-39:

Photocopy. George W. Polhemus. “The Correct Spelling of Sherwood Bonner’s Name.” Notes and Queries (July 1960): 265.

Folder 3-40:

George W. Polhemus. “An Uncollected Longfellow Poem.” Notes and Queries (March 1962): 96-97.

Folder 3-41:

Photocopy. Noel E. Polk & James R. Scafidel, eds. An Anthology of Mississippi Writers. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1979. pp. 97-99 & 536.

Folder 3-42

Photocopy. Sam G. Riley. “A New Generation of Reference Books on Newspapers and Periodicals: Efforts of the 1980s and ’90s.” American Periodicals (Fall 1991): 1-10.

Folder 3-43:

Photocopy. Mildred Lewis Rutherford. The South in History and Literature: A Hand-book of Southern Authors from the Settlement of Jamestown, 1607, to Living Writers. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1907: 547-550.

Folder 3-44:

Photocopy. Dorothy Scura. “Southern Women’s Writing.” in Carthy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin, eds. The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. pp. 828-831.

Folder 3-45:

Newspaper clipping. Laura Shapiro. “Housewife Read. Housewife Want. Housewife Buy: Mass circulation magazines, according to the author, encouraged women to spend their money on stuff.” New York Times Book Review.

Folder 3-46:

Photocopy. Robert J. Scholnick. “Scribner’s Monthly and the ‘Pictorial Representation of Life and Truth’ in Post-Civil War America.” American Periodicals (Fall 1991): 46-69.

Folder 3-47:

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy on Merrill Maguire Skaggs. “Varieties of Local Color.” in Ruben, et. al., History of Southern Literature.

Folder 3-48:

Photocopy. Daniel E. Sutherland. “Some Thoughts Concerning the Love Life of Sherwood Bonner.” Southern Studies (Summer 1987): 115-127.

Folder 3-49:

Daniel E. Sutherland. The Confederate Carpetbaggers. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. pp. 278-283.

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy. 16 pages.

Folder 3-50:

Photocopy. James T.F. Tanner, “American Periodicals: A Selected Checklist of Scholarship and Criticism 1985-1991.” American Periodicals.

Folder 3-51:

Photocopy. Mary Louise Weaks and Carolyn Perry, eds. Southern Women’s Writing: Colonial to Contemporary. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 1995. pp. 140-148.

Handwritten notes by Dr. Gowdy. 3 pages.

Folder 3-52:

Photocopy. James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, eds. Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. 4. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888. pp. 111.

Folder 3-53:

Newspaper clipping. Eileen Bailey. “Cedarhurst: French Gothic-style house was home to Holly Springs writer.” (3 March 1997): 1D & 6D.

Folder 3-54:

Miscellaneous handwritten notes, typed notes, and photocopies concerning Bonner’s bibliography.

Removed for cataloging:

Alexander L. Bondurant, “Sherwood Bonner: Her Life and Place in the Literature of the South” (reprint from the Publication of the Mississippi Historical Society for 1899). Call Number: PS2358 B6.

Little Classics of the South: Mississippi (New York: Purdy Press, 1927). Call Number: PS2357 G7 1927.