urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00287 Alma Stone: A Preliminary Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Ransom Center Staff Harry Ransom Center, 2003 Text converted by SPI Content Sciences Inc., July 2003. Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Stone, Alma, 1908- The papers, consisting of typescripts, drafts, galleys and proofs, notes, research material, reviews, business and personal papers, correspondence, and diaries, document the personal and professional life of this novelist and short story writer. Alma Stone Papers 1930s-1990s Manuscript Collection MS-04851 21 boxes (8.82 linear feet), 4 galley folders (gf) English Acquisition:

Purchase, 1999 (R 14507)

 Availability:

Open for research. One scrapbook restricted for preservation reasons; use digital copy.

 Accessioned by:

Liz Murray, 2001

 Scope and Contents

This collection of novelist and short story writer Alma Stone consists primarily of typescripts, drafts, galleys and proofs, notes, research material, reviews, business and personal papers, correspondence, and diaries. The collection is arranged in four Series: Series I. Writings and Associated Material, Series II. Correspondence, Series III. Career-Related and Personal, and Series IV. Ermine Stone's Diaries, 1941-1974.

Three of Stone's published works are represented in Series I, galleys for The Banishment, contracts and reviews for The Bible Salesman, and proofs for Now for the Turbulence. Numerous short story typescripts and notes form the bulk of this series as well as unidentified typescripts, possibly book chapters or short stories.

Correspondence in Series II includes business and personal letters written to Stone, as well as family correspondence. The career-related and personal papers in Series III contain book reviews and articles, passports, trip memorabilia, a family biography, and poems written by her mother. Diaries kept by Stone's sister, Ermine "Pebble" Stone (1901-1978), chief librarian at Sarah Lawrence College, are found in Series IV.

Books and serials received with the collection have been transferred to the Ransom Center's Library. Likewise, audio tapes of Stone reading from The Bible Salesman were transferred to the Center's Sound Recordings Collection.

 Separated Material

Sound recordings were transferred to the Ransom Center's Sound Recording collection and are described individually in a list at the end of this finding aid and in a searchable database.

 Alma Stone Papers--Folder List I. Writings and Associated Material 1 gf The Banishment [partial set of galleys removed to galley files] The Bible Salesman 1 1-2 Reviews 1 3 Publishing agreement 1 4 The Big Trees 2 1-2 Chapters for a book, title undetermined Now for the Turbulence 2 3 Setting copy 2 4, gf Uncorrected proofs and galleys [page proofs and galleys removed to the galley files] 3 1 Pleasantly and Well Suited I Walk 3 2 Notes, chapters of Pleasantly and Well Suited, letters 3 3-4 Quotations from Whitman 4 1 Splendour in the Grass, novel, never published 4 2 Chapters, Banishment or Turbulence 4 3-4 Chapters, maybe from Banishment, letters 4 5 Notes, etc. 5 1 Notes, etc. (continued) 5 2-3 Book notes, ideas, etc.; clippings for research 5 4-5 Superceded chapters Short stories 6 1 A Good Home and short stories 6 2 The Hobbyist and the Communist and notes 6 3 The Ladies from Kountz 6 4 Mayhaw Gatherers and A Fine Zoo Day 6 5 Mrs. Seely,Library, and Double Entry 6 6 My Bonny O and other short stories 7 1 Old Ladies 7 2 The Sucker 7 3 Short stories or chapters from a book? 7 4-7 Short stories 8 1-6 Stories and notes 9 1-2 Stories and notes 9 3-5 Typescript drafts and fragments 10 1-4 Typescripts (continued) II. Correspondence 11 1-4 General 12 1-3 General (continued) 12 4 Christmas cards 13 1 Christmas cards (continued) 13 2-3 Letters re: books 13 4 Postcards, Alma's friends and family 14 1-3 Alma (Adams Stone--Mama), Alma (Dady), Ermine ("Pebble") 14 4 Mary Stone III. Career-Related and Personal 15 1 Book reviews, articles 15 2 Columbia writing class 15 3 Family biography 15 4 Material removed from book transfers 15 5 Printed material 15 6 Notebook with drawings and notes 15 7 Passports, address book 15 8 Photographs 16 1 Scrapbook [RESTRICTED: Use digital copy] 16 2 "`Through the years,' poems written by our dear mother," Christmas 1961 16 3-4 Trips abroad IV. Ermine Stone's Diaries, 1941-1974 17 1-3 1941-1943 17 4-5 1946-1947 17 6-7 1950-1951 18 1-6 1952-1957 19 1-5 1958-1962 20 1-4 1963-1966 21 1 1969 21 2-4 1972-1974 21 5 Passport, address book, and holograph notebook Sound Recordings List R 1067 : reel-to-reel audiotapes : The Bible Salesman Reading, Reel 1 of 3 R 1068 : reel-to-reel audiotapes : The Bible Salesman Reading, Reel 2 of 3 R 1069 : reel-to-reel audiotapes : The Bible Salesman Reading, Reel 3 of 3