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","\nWhen Bud Pancake was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Breece transferred to Marshall University in Huntington in order to be closer to home. The two men enjoyed a very close relationship, having spent many hours fishing, camping, hiking, and hunting during Breece's youth. However, after a broken engagement in December 1971, Pancake decided to leave West Virginia and visit his sister Donnetta in Phoenix, Arizona. He was there from January to April 1972, working odd jobs, traveling to Mexico and throughout the southwest. Breece returned to Marshall later that year and earned a BA in English in 1974 with plans to teach high school English. While there he began writing several stories, including \"Stuart,\" \"Fox Hunters,\" and \"The Honored Dead.\" ","\nBreece spent the next two years teaching at military prep schools in Virginia. In the fall of 1974 he found a job at the Fork Union Military Academy. There he met fellow teacher Matthew Heard, who quickly became a close friend and travel companion. Breece spent the following year teaching at the Staunton Military Academy. He continued writing during this time, completing \"Fox Hunters\" in June 1975 and \"The Scrapper\" in September of that year. On 8 September 1975 Bud Pancake died of complications from multiple sclerosis. Less than three weeks later, Matthew Heard was killed in a car accident. Devastated by these deaths, Breece considered returning to West Virginia. However, he was committed to his teaching job and in November he moved instead into an apartment at the home of Sarah Nutt, who became a close friend and support, and poured himself into his writing. ","\nBy the end of 1975, Breece had written several new stories, including \"The Mark,\" and \"Cowboys and Girls,\" which became \"The Way It Has to Be\" when it was published in 1983. In early 1976 he started writing \"Salvation of Me,\" \"Will o' the Wisp,\" which became \"Trilobites,\" and \"Time and Again.\" That spring, the University of Virginia's literary magazine, Rivanna, published \"The Mark,\" and Breece decided to leave teaching and study creative writing in graduate school. ","\nIn the spring of 1975 Breece had met John Casey at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and shown him at least two of his stories. He also attended one of Casey's classes. Breece became a full-time student in the fall of 1976 and worked with distinguished writers John Casey, James Alan McPherson, Richard Jones, and Peter Taylor. He also taught composition and fiction writing as a graduate assistant on the Emily Clark Balch and Henry Hoyns fellowships and served as a fiction consultant to the editor of Virginia Review Quarterly. ","\nThe demands of graduate school exhausted Breece and did not leave him much time for his own writing. He spent most of his time polishing his earlier work and began to enjoy more literary success. Both \"Hollow\" and \"Cowboys and Girls\" were published in the university newspaper, The Declaration, during his first semester. The Atlantic Monthly accepted \"Trilobites\" for publication in March 1977 and \"In the Dry\" in early 1978. Breece also sold \"Time and Again\" to the magazine Nightwork and won the Jefferson Society Prize for fiction that year. It was during the publication of \"Trilobites\" in the spring of 1977 that a typesetter's error changed Breece's name from Breece D.J. Pancake to Breece D'J Pancake. (Breece had unofficially changed his middle name to David and then added John as a confirmation name in 1977 when he converted to Catholicism.) He decided to keep the new punctuation and adopt the name by which he is now known. Breece also began writing \"First Day of Winter,\" \"In the Dry,\" and \"A Room Forever\" while in Charlottesville. ","\nDespite his early literary success, Breece had difficulties adjusting to graduate school and life in Charlottesville. He rented a small apartment in the manor home of Virginia Meade and her husband and struggled to feel at home at the university, where he was bothered by class consciousness and felt alienated from many of his fellow students. However, he did meet Emily Miller, a PhD student in English at U.Va., in the fall of 1977, and the two dated until Breece's death. By the spring of 1979, Breece was close to completing his master's degree and was applying for teaching positions for the following academic year. ","\nBreece Pancake died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 8 April 1979 in Charlottesville and was buried in Milton, West Virginia. In the months and years after his death, Helen Pancake and John Casey worked to publish his stories. Atlantic Monthly published \"The Honored Dead\" in January 1981 and \"Hollow\" in October 1982, and Antaeus accepted \"A Room Forever\" for its December 1981 issue. A collection of Breece's work, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously through the efforts of Helen Pancake and Breece's literary executor, John Casey, in February 1983 by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Stories was reviewed by more than one hundred major newspapers and journals and received widespread critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reprinted the book as a paperback in 1984 and in 1986 Stories won the West Virginia Literary Award. Even after the book's publication, Helen Pancake continued to support her son's writing by answering the questions of those interested in understanding Breece's writing and youth in West Virginia. In 1998 Thomas E. Douglass published A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake. Much of this biographical information comes from that book. ","\nIn 1985 Helen Pancake sold the family home in Milton and moved to Spring Hills, Florida.","There are seven series in this collection:","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated \nSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1979-1994) \nSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated) \nSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993) \nSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated \nSeries 6. Addenda, 1978-1979 and 1999-2000 \nSeries 7. Oversize","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated , contains approximately two hundred fifty letters chiefly written by Breece Pancake to his parents between 1966 and his death in April 1979. There are also several letters between Breece and his sisters, Donnetta and Charlotte; friends Matthew Heard and Mike Jennings; and Phoebe-Lou Adams at The Atlantic Monthly. Letters chiefly record Breece's work on his short stories and his daily activities at college in West Virginia in the early 1970s; while teaching at military academies in Virginia in the mid-1970s; and during his graduate studies in creative writing at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in Charlottesville in the late 1970s. Topics also include Breece's desire to better himself; his goals for life; his views on human beings and relationships; and his feelings about West Virginia and its people.","Approximately forty letters between Breece and his parents from 1970 to 1973 document Breece's studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and the family's life back in Milton. Helen and Bud share news from home and Breece shares stories about college life, including his classes, living in the dorm, difficulties at school and his desire to transfer to Marshall University. From January to April 1972 Breece writes from Arizona, where he is visiting his sister Doni and traveling out West. Topics include finding odd jobs; rappelling, horses, exploring the area; a Gordon Lightfoot concert; a trip to Mexico; his plans to return home; and plans for going back to school.","Almost eighty letters from the mid-1970s document the two years Pancake spent teaching at the Fork Union Military Academy (1974-1975) and the Staunton Military Academy (1975-1976) in Virginia. Fork Union letters primarily describe his teaching and social life. Topics include his classes and students; hiking on his own and with his students; his friendship with Matthew Heard; his finances and expenses; and his growing unhappiness in his position. Letters from the fall of 1975 relate to the death of his father that September and the death of Matthew Heard two weeks later. Pancake also writes about his teaching; his stories, including \"The Mark\" and \"The Hollow\"; his social life; moving into Sarah Nutt's apartment; his new car; family and friends; and his plans to attend the University of Virginia. Mixed within his news about daily activities are comments about his desire to keep getting better in life; not being satisfied with life; his desire to be himself; and on not understanding people.","Approximately 135 letters from the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1979 document Breece's life during his three years in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia. They describe his difficult adjustment to graduate school and life in Charlottesville as well as his success with writing and publishing his short stories. Topics related to his coursework, professors, and writing include the demands of graduate school; John Casey; Richard Jones; James McPherson; Mary Lee Settle; Peter Taylor; the progress of his writing; publishing his short stories in The Atlantic Monthly; his literary executorship; and searching for teaching jobs. Pancake also writes about his personal life, daily activities, and his surroundings. These topics include his finances; his social life, including girlfriend Emily Miller; visits to Sarah Nutt; his participation in the local Catholic Church; his landlady, Virginia Meade; and class consciousness in Charlottesville. Breece's letters from 1977 to 1979 also reveal his feelings of isolation and unease in Charlottesville and his homesickness for West Virginia. Also included are several letters received after Breece's death in April 1979.","Series 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1975-1994) , consists of more than 700 letters written to and from Helen Pancake. With the exception of a few early letters, most of the correspondence begins after Breece's death in April 1979. Letters from 1979 and 1980 are largely sympathy notes containing explanations of how people knew Breece and what he meant to them. Primary topics in most of the letters are the publication of Breece's stories and book and projects related to Breece's work, including films, plays, and articles based on his stories. Scattered throughout are letters from people describing how Breece touched their lives. This series is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the correspondent. Folders also contain any other letters from that correspondent. For example, the John Casey folders include not only letters between Casey and Helen, but also letters between Casey and other people related to his role as Breece's literary executor. Letters from Helen Pancake are usually identified as copies; some are handwritten while others are photocopies.","Many of the correspondents can be grouped into the following categories: Breece's friends, (Kathleen Devereux, Matt Jennings, Matthew Heard, Sarah Nutt, John Shaffer, and Rick Wilson); people connected to Breece's life at the University of Virginia (John Casey, Richard Jones, James McPherson, girlfriend Emily Miller, landlady Virginia Meade, Raymond Nelson, Father Pat O'Connor, Charles Perdue, Peter Taylor, and Anthony Winner); Breece's former professors and students (including Michael Beasley, John Harrison, John McKernan, William Sullivan, and Albert Wilhelm); editors at The Atlantic Monthly and others associated with publishing Breece's stories (Phoebe-Lou Adams, Peter Davison, and Robert Manning and editors at Antaeus); people working on projects related to Breece's stories (Russ Barbour of WPBY-TV in West Virginia, filmmaker Jeffrey Davidson, biographer and historian Thomas Douglass, woodcut artist Richard Gerber, filmmaker and producer Mark Rance, and writer Topper Sherwood); people who wrote about Breece's life and work (Grace Toney Edwards, John Foster, Paul Hendrickson, Darla Radcliffe, and Robert Sumney); Helen Pancake's family and friends (Patricia Bins, Helen Heard, Matthew Heard, Charlotte Pancake, Donnetta Pancake, and Susan Maslowski); and other West Virginia authors (Pinckney Benedict, Mary Lee Settle, and Lee Maynard).","Letters from frequent correspondents such as John Casey, Peter Davison, Thomas Douglass, Richard Jones, James McPherson, and Emily Miller comment on additional subjects and provide greater insight into their relationships with Breece and Helen. John Casey was Breece's professor at U.Va., his godfather, and his literary executor. Letters between Casey and Helen date from 1977 to 1993. Early letters relate to Breece's death and his relationship with Casey. Letters from the early 1980s document Casey and Helen's efforts to publish Breece's stories and book and the publication process from their perspective. Later letters comment on projects related to Breece's work and mention Mark Rance, Russ Barbour, and Cynthia Kadohata. Casey also writes frequently of his family and writing, and the letters between him and Helen reveal a friendship that grew out of their mutual loss.","Peter Davison was the poetry editor at The Atlantic Monthly in the early 1980s and later the literary editor for Atlantic Monthly Press. These letters from 1980 to 1985 describe the process of sorting through Breece's stories and poetry for publication; publishing \"The Hollow\" and \"The Honored Dead\"; and publishing Stories in February 1983. Topics include the format of the book, contracts, the dust jacket, advertising, reviews, royalties, and the film rights.","Letters from Thomas Douglass between 1987 and 1994 chiefly chart his work on A Room Forever (1998), his biography of Breece, and Helen's assistance with the piece as she replied to his questions about Breece and the Pancake family. Additional topics include publishing \"Rat Boy,\" the Gulf War, pictures and a woodcut of Breece, and Douglass's family and writing. Also includes several letters between Douglass and John Casey and two folders of Douglass's research materials.","Letters from Richard Jones, Breece's professor at U.Va., are from 1979 to 1993 and describe Jones's reaction to Breece's death, his daily life in London, his family, his writing and teaching, projects related to Breece and his stories, and mutual friends and acquaintances, including John Casey, Mark Rance, and Mary Lee Settle. Jones also comments on meeting the daughter and granddaughter of Virginia Meade.","James Alan McPherson was one of Breece's professors at U.Va. and wrote the forward to Stories. Thirteen letters from 1979 to 1994, mostly from McPherson to Helen, chiefly detail McPherson's relationship with Breece. McPherson describes his reaction to Breece's death, the birth of his daughter that same night, and the difficulties that he and Breece had living in Charlottesville. He also comments on Breece's book and his own family affairs.","Emily Miller was Breece's girlfriend from September 1977 to April 1979 and a student at U.Va. Her letters from 1979 to 1982 primarily describe her response to Breece's death. She remembers Breece and his love of life and writes about his memorial service and Father Pat O'Connor, the pain of Breece's death, and things that remind of her Breece. She also tells Helen about her own teaching and writing and daily activities as a graduate student.","Series 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated) , includes handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories, story fragments, the beginnings of novels and plays, and poetry as well as published stories, book reviews for The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, and copies of projects based on Breece's stories. Drafts of Breece's short stories include pieces that he had published or submitted for publication before his death as well as stories that were found among his belongings and published posthumously. Also included are drafts of a story about Mae Moore from the 1960s; partial drafts of two plays, \"Cousins\" and \"Rosary\"; the beginnings of two novels, \"Survivors\" and \"Water in a Sieve,\"; a paper for his Bible as Literature course at U.Va., \"Happy Are They Not Born in Jerusalem\"; and notes and a draft of a folklore paper he was working on at U.Va. Also included are book reviews of Stories that were compiled by Helen Pancake and drafts of the \"Hollow\" screenplay by Jeff Davidson (1991) and the \"Trilobites\" screenplay by Mark Rance (1993).","Writings are arranged in alphabetical order according to title. Some drafts are incomplete and some have handwritten annotations. Several stories are accompanied by related materials, such as copies of the folders that Pancake used to track his journal submissions and copies of the published story. Almost all drafts are undated. Note that the title of \"Cowboys and Girls\" was changed to \"The Way it Has to Be\" for Stories. The story has been filed under the latter title.","Series 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993) , contains files compiled by both Breece and Helen Pancake that pertain to the education, family, personal life, and the death of Breece Pancake. Materials related to Breece's education and teaching include university transcripts, course notes and papers from Marshall University (1972-1974); a lesson plan and grade book from Fork Union Military Academy (1975-1976); an interview with Breece for the U.Va. newspaper in 1977; and job letters from the spring of 1979. Personal items include newspaper articles (1965-1993); Breece's 1979 pocket diary (with just a few brief entries); and a phone directory as well as various certificates and awards, including Breece's baptismal certificate in 1977 and a Virginia teaching certificate in 1979. Family materials include Clarence Pancake's 1975 obituary and clippings and photographs of his Aunt Julia Pancake Ward and her husband (1925-1968). Materials related to Breece's death include the items that were taken off the walls in his room in Charlottesville, notes related to his memorial services, his last list of things to do, and notes that Helen wrote about Breece. This series also contains five pieces written about Breece, including a transcript of the WPBY-TV program and articles written by Grace Toney Edwards, Albert Wilhelm, and Rick Wilson between 1983 and 1993.","Series 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated , chiefly contain clippings, photographs, and articles collected by either Breece Pancake or Helen Pancake. Topics include Appalachian culture, John Casey, Sam Harshbarger, Gordon Lightfoot, Milton, West Virginia, and O. Norman Simkins.","Series 6. Addenda , consists of additions made to the collection in 2000 and 2007. The first addenda includes two newspaper articles (1999, 2000) about Breece that were each sent to Helen Pancake. The accompanying letters are also included. The 2007 addition contains includes two photographs of Breece Pancake, his Bible (with his handwritten annotations), and his curriculum vita.","His copy of The Jerusalem Bible (published by Doubleday and Company, 1966) includes tabbed pages apparently indicating passages of interest to Pancake; many of these passages include his annotations. Tabbed passages include all of the following: Genesis 49:22-26 (p. 75); Judges 6:36-40 (p. 316); I Chronicles 16:30-33 (p. 516); Psalm 52:8 (p.835); Psalm 83 (p.867-868); Psalm 148:7-10 (p.929); Proverbs 11:30-31 (p.947); Song of Songs 2:3 (p. 994); Isaiah 4:2-3 (p.1148); Isaiah 22: 4-5 (p. 1175); Isaiah 40-43 (p. 1202-1212); Jeremiah 1-3, 17-20, 24 (p. 1249-1286, 1292-1293); Jeremiah 31:31-34 (p.1304); Jeremiah 32 (p. 1305-1308); Lamentations 4:8 (p.1350); Ezekiel 3-27 (p. 1362-1408); Daniel 4:16-22 (p.1432); Hosea 4-14 (p. 1455-1468); Habbakkuk 2:19 (p.1516); Zechariah 13:9-14 (p.1541); Matthew 10: 30-31 (p. 30); Mark 11:12-14 (p. 80); the Book of Luke (p.90-136); Galatians 4:25-31 (p. 326-327); I Peter 4:17-19 (p.405); and Revelation 6-11 (p. 436-439). The majority of verse annotations reference the natural environment, including: mountains, trees, fruit, and drought. Ezekiel, Chapters 20-21, are heavily annotated.","Series 7. Oversize, 1966-1985 and undated , contains a scrapbook; posters and flyers from Breece's office at Wilson Hall at U.Va.; his calendars and a sketchbook; and several oversize items compiled by Helen Pancake. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about Breece when he was a child, articles written by Breece for the Cabell Record in 1975, and articles about the writing program at U.Va. These articles include a piece on the professors in the writing program at U.Va., the 1977 Declaration interview with Breece, and a January 1979 article about Breece. Posters and flyers advertising concerts and lectures were apparently removed from Breece's office after his death. Also includes Breece's 1979 Sierra Club calendar with notations. Arranged according to format.","Original photograph to Photographs Collection, \"Portraits--Pancake, Breece\"","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Breece D'J Pancake (1952-1979) of Milton, West Virginia, noted short story writer who depicted the Appalachian experience of rural West Virginians. Breece Pancake had two short stories published in The Atlantic Monthly before he died of an apparent suicide on 8 April 1979. His only collection of stories, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously in 1983. Correspondence, writings, biographical and genealogical materials, and subject files document Breece Pancake's personal life and writing career from the mid-1960s to April 1979 as well as efforts made by his mother, Helen Pancake, and author John Casey to publish his stories after his death. Collection also contains subject files and oversize materials taken from Breece's office at the University of Virginia after he died. 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He was raised in Milton, West Virginia, a small town in the hills in the southwestern part of that state. Helen Frazier (b. 1922) and Bud Pancake (1917-1975) married in September 1939 and had two daughters, Charlotte and Donnetta, shortly thereafter. Bud began working for Union Carbide Chemical Company as a shipping clerk, and remained in the job for more than thirty years. He also served in an army field observation unit in Germany for almost two years during World War II. Helen Pancake became a librarian in the Milton Public Library in the 1970s. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBreece attended Milton High School and graduated in 1970. He wrote two stories during that time, \"Keeper of the Flame,\" which was published in the school paper in 1968, and \"Rat Boy,\" which was rejected in the early 1970s by several publications. Breece enrolled in school at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in the summer of 1970 and continued to study there into the fall. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nWhen Bud Pancake was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Breece transferred to Marshall University in Huntington in order to be closer to home. The two men enjoyed a very close relationship, having spent many hours fishing, camping, hiking, and hunting during Breece's youth. However, after a broken engagement in December 1971, Pancake decided to leave West Virginia and visit his sister Donnetta in Phoenix, Arizona. He was there from January to April 1972, working odd jobs, traveling to Mexico and throughout the southwest. Breece returned to Marshall later that year and earned a BA in English in 1974 with plans to teach high school English. While there he began writing several stories, including \"Stuart,\" \"Fox Hunters,\" and \"The Honored Dead.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBreece spent the next two years teaching at military prep schools in Virginia. In the fall of 1974 he found a job at the Fork Union Military Academy. There he met fellow teacher Matthew Heard, who quickly became a close friend and travel companion. Breece spent the following year teaching at the Staunton Military Academy. He continued writing during this time, completing \"Fox Hunters\" in June 1975 and \"The Scrapper\" in September of that year. On 8 September 1975 Bud Pancake died of complications from multiple sclerosis. Less than three weeks later, Matthew Heard was killed in a car accident. Devastated by these deaths, Breece considered returning to West Virginia. However, he was committed to his teaching job and in November he moved instead into an apartment at the home of Sarah Nutt, who became a close friend and support, and poured himself into his writing. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBy the end of 1975, Breece had written several new stories, including \"The Mark,\" and \"Cowboys and Girls,\" which became \"The Way It Has to Be\" when it was published in 1983. In early 1976 he started writing \"Salvation of Me,\" \"Will o' the Wisp,\" which became \"Trilobites,\" and \"Time and Again.\" That spring, the University of Virginia's literary magazine, Rivanna, published \"The Mark,\" and Breece decided to leave teaching and study creative writing in graduate school. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIn the spring of 1975 Breece had met John Casey at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and shown him at least two of his stories. He also attended one of Casey's classes. Breece became a full-time student in the fall of 1976 and worked with distinguished writers John Casey, James Alan McPherson, Richard Jones, and Peter Taylor. He also taught composition and fiction writing as a graduate assistant on the Emily Clark Balch and Henry Hoyns fellowships and served as a fiction consultant to the editor of Virginia Review Quarterly. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe demands of graduate school exhausted Breece and did not leave him much time for his own writing. He spent most of his time polishing his earlier work and began to enjoy more literary success. Both \"Hollow\" and \"Cowboys and Girls\" were published in the university newspaper, The Declaration, during his first semester. The Atlantic Monthly accepted \"Trilobites\" for publication in March 1977 and \"In the Dry\" in early 1978. Breece also sold \"Time and Again\" to the magazine Nightwork and won the Jefferson Society Prize for fiction that year. It was during the publication of \"Trilobites\" in the spring of 1977 that a typesetter's error changed Breece's name from Breece D.J. Pancake to Breece D'J Pancake. (Breece had unofficially changed his middle name to David and then added John as a confirmation name in 1977 when he converted to Catholicism.) He decided to keep the new punctuation and adopt the name by which he is now known. Breece also began writing \"First Day of Winter,\" \"In the Dry,\" and \"A Room Forever\" while in Charlottesville. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nDespite his early literary success, Breece had difficulties adjusting to graduate school and life in Charlottesville. He rented a small apartment in the manor home of Virginia Meade and her husband and struggled to feel at home at the university, where he was bothered by class consciousness and felt alienated from many of his fellow students. However, he did meet Emily Miller, a PhD student in English at U.Va., in the fall of 1977, and the two dated until Breece's death. By the spring of 1979, Breece was close to completing his master's degree and was applying for teaching positions for the following academic year. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBreece Pancake died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 8 April 1979 in Charlottesville and was buried in Milton, West Virginia. In the months and years after his death, Helen Pancake and John Casey worked to publish his stories. Atlantic Monthly published \"The Honored Dead\" in January 1981 and \"Hollow\" in October 1982, and Antaeus accepted \"A Room Forever\" for its December 1981 issue. A collection of Breece's work, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously through the efforts of Helen Pancake and Breece's literary executor, John Casey, in February 1983 by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Stories was reviewed by more than one hundred major newspapers and journals and received widespread critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reprinted the book as a paperback in 1984 and in 1986 Stories won the West Virginia Literary Award. Even after the book's publication, Helen Pancake continued to support her son's writing by answering the questions of those interested in understanding Breece's writing and youth in West Virginia. In 1998 Thomas E. Douglass published A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake. Much of this biographical information comes from that book. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIn 1985 Helen Pancake sold the family home in Milton and moved to Spring Hills, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Breece D'J Pancake was born Breece Dexter Pancake on 29 June 1952 in Charleston, West Virginia, the son of Helen Frazier Pancake and Clarence \"Bud\" Pancake. He was raised in Milton, West Virginia, a small town in the hills in the southwestern part of that state. Helen Frazier (b. 1922) and Bud Pancake (1917-1975) married in September 1939 and had two daughters, Charlotte and Donnetta, shortly thereafter. Bud began working for Union Carbide Chemical Company as a shipping clerk, and remained in the job for more than thirty years. He also served in an army field observation unit in Germany for almost two years during World War II. Helen Pancake became a librarian in the Milton Public Library in the 1970s. ","\nBreece attended Milton High School and graduated in 1970. He wrote two stories during that time, \"Keeper of the Flame,\" which was published in the school paper in 1968, and \"Rat Boy,\" which was rejected in the early 1970s by several publications. Breece enrolled in school at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in the summer of 1970 and continued to study there into the fall. ","\nWhen Bud Pancake was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Breece transferred to Marshall University in Huntington in order to be closer to home. The two men enjoyed a very close relationship, having spent many hours fishing, camping, hiking, and hunting during Breece's youth. However, after a broken engagement in December 1971, Pancake decided to leave West Virginia and visit his sister Donnetta in Phoenix, Arizona. He was there from January to April 1972, working odd jobs, traveling to Mexico and throughout the southwest. Breece returned to Marshall later that year and earned a BA in English in 1974 with plans to teach high school English. While there he began writing several stories, including \"Stuart,\" \"Fox Hunters,\" and \"The Honored Dead.\" ","\nBreece spent the next two years teaching at military prep schools in Virginia. In the fall of 1974 he found a job at the Fork Union Military Academy. There he met fellow teacher Matthew Heard, who quickly became a close friend and travel companion. Breece spent the following year teaching at the Staunton Military Academy. He continued writing during this time, completing \"Fox Hunters\" in June 1975 and \"The Scrapper\" in September of that year. On 8 September 1975 Bud Pancake died of complications from multiple sclerosis. Less than three weeks later, Matthew Heard was killed in a car accident. Devastated by these deaths, Breece considered returning to West Virginia. However, he was committed to his teaching job and in November he moved instead into an apartment at the home of Sarah Nutt, who became a close friend and support, and poured himself into his writing. ","\nBy the end of 1975, Breece had written several new stories, including \"The Mark,\" and \"Cowboys and Girls,\" which became \"The Way It Has to Be\" when it was published in 1983. In early 1976 he started writing \"Salvation of Me,\" \"Will o' the Wisp,\" which became \"Trilobites,\" and \"Time and Again.\" That spring, the University of Virginia's literary magazine, Rivanna, published \"The Mark,\" and Breece decided to leave teaching and study creative writing in graduate school. ","\nIn the spring of 1975 Breece had met John Casey at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and shown him at least two of his stories. He also attended one of Casey's classes. Breece became a full-time student in the fall of 1976 and worked with distinguished writers John Casey, James Alan McPherson, Richard Jones, and Peter Taylor. He also taught composition and fiction writing as a graduate assistant on the Emily Clark Balch and Henry Hoyns fellowships and served as a fiction consultant to the editor of Virginia Review Quarterly. ","\nThe demands of graduate school exhausted Breece and did not leave him much time for his own writing. He spent most of his time polishing his earlier work and began to enjoy more literary success. Both \"Hollow\" and \"Cowboys and Girls\" were published in the university newspaper, The Declaration, during his first semester. The Atlantic Monthly accepted \"Trilobites\" for publication in March 1977 and \"In the Dry\" in early 1978. Breece also sold \"Time and Again\" to the magazine Nightwork and won the Jefferson Society Prize for fiction that year. It was during the publication of \"Trilobites\" in the spring of 1977 that a typesetter's error changed Breece's name from Breece D.J. Pancake to Breece D'J Pancake. (Breece had unofficially changed his middle name to David and then added John as a confirmation name in 1977 when he converted to Catholicism.) He decided to keep the new punctuation and adopt the name by which he is now known. Breece also began writing \"First Day of Winter,\" \"In the Dry,\" and \"A Room Forever\" while in Charlottesville. ","\nDespite his early literary success, Breece had difficulties adjusting to graduate school and life in Charlottesville. He rented a small apartment in the manor home of Virginia Meade and her husband and struggled to feel at home at the university, where he was bothered by class consciousness and felt alienated from many of his fellow students. However, he did meet Emily Miller, a PhD student in English at U.Va., in the fall of 1977, and the two dated until Breece's death. By the spring of 1979, Breece was close to completing his master's degree and was applying for teaching positions for the following academic year. ","\nBreece Pancake died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 8 April 1979 in Charlottesville and was buried in Milton, West Virginia. In the months and years after his death, Helen Pancake and John Casey worked to publish his stories. Atlantic Monthly published \"The Honored Dead\" in January 1981 and \"Hollow\" in October 1982, and Antaeus accepted \"A Room Forever\" for its December 1981 issue. A collection of Breece's work, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously through the efforts of Helen Pancake and Breece's literary executor, John Casey, in February 1983 by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Stories was reviewed by more than one hundred major newspapers and journals and received widespread critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reprinted the book as a paperback in 1984 and in 1986 Stories won the West Virginia Literary Award. Even after the book's publication, Helen Pancake continued to support her son's writing by answering the questions of those interested in understanding Breece's writing and youth in West Virginia. In 1998 Thomas E. Douglass published A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake. Much of this biographical information comes from that book. ","\nIn 1985 Helen Pancake sold the family home in Milton and moved to Spring Hills, Florida."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Breece Pancake, Author, Papers, A\u0026amp;M 3306, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Breece Pancake, Author, Papers, A\u0026M 3306, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are seven series in this collection:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1979-1994)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Addenda, 1978-1979 and 1999-2000\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Oversize\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e, contains approximately two hundred fifty letters chiefly written by Breece Pancake to his parents between 1966 and his death in April 1979. There are also several letters between Breece and his sisters, Donnetta and Charlotte; friends Matthew Heard and Mike Jennings; and Phoebe-Lou Adams at The Atlantic Monthly. Letters chiefly record Breece's work on his short stories and his daily activities at college in West Virginia in the early 1970s; while teaching at military academies in Virginia in the mid-1970s; and during his graduate studies in creative writing at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in Charlottesville in the late 1970s. Topics also include Breece's desire to better himself; his goals for life; his views on human beings and relationships; and his feelings about West Virginia and its people.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eApproximately forty letters between Breece and his parents from 1970 to 1973 document Breece's studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and the family's life back in Milton. Helen and Bud share news from home and Breece shares stories about college life, including his classes, living in the dorm, difficulties at school and his desire to transfer to Marshall University. From January to April 1972 Breece writes from Arizona, where he is visiting his sister Doni and traveling out West. Topics include finding odd jobs; rappelling, horses, exploring the area; a Gordon Lightfoot concert; a trip to Mexico; his plans to return home; and plans for going back to school.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlmost eighty letters from the mid-1970s document the two years Pancake spent teaching at the Fork Union Military Academy (1974-1975) and the Staunton Military Academy (1975-1976) in Virginia. Fork Union letters primarily describe his teaching and social life. Topics include his classes and students; hiking on his own and with his students; his friendship with Matthew Heard; his finances and expenses; and his growing unhappiness in his position. Letters from the fall of 1975 relate to the death of his father that September and the death of Matthew Heard two weeks later. Pancake also writes about his teaching; his stories, including \"The Mark\" and \"The Hollow\"; his social life; moving into Sarah Nutt's apartment; his new car; family and friends; and his plans to attend the University of Virginia. Mixed within his news about daily activities are comments about his desire to keep getting better in life; not being satisfied with life; his desire to be himself; and on not understanding people.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eApproximately 135 letters from the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1979 document Breece's life during his three years in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia. They describe his difficult adjustment to graduate school and life in Charlottesville as well as his success with writing and publishing his short stories. Topics related to his coursework, professors, and writing include the demands of graduate school; John Casey; Richard Jones; James McPherson; Mary Lee Settle; Peter Taylor; the progress of his writing; publishing his short stories in The Atlantic Monthly; his literary executorship; and searching for teaching jobs. Pancake also writes about his personal life, daily activities, and his surroundings. These topics include his finances; his social life, including girlfriend Emily Miller; visits to Sarah Nutt; his participation in the local Catholic Church; his landlady, Virginia Meade; and class consciousness in Charlottesville. Breece's letters from 1977 to 1979 also reveal his feelings of isolation and unease in Charlottesville and his homesickness for West Virginia. Also included are several letters received after Breece's death in April 1979.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1975-1994)\u003c/emph\u003e, consists of more than 700 letters written to and from Helen Pancake. With the exception of a few early letters, most of the correspondence begins after Breece's death in April 1979. Letters from 1979 and 1980 are largely sympathy notes containing explanations of how people knew Breece and what he meant to them. Primary topics in most of the letters are the publication of Breece's stories and book and projects related to Breece's work, including films, plays, and articles based on his stories. Scattered throughout are letters from people describing how Breece touched their lives. This series is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the correspondent. Folders also contain any other letters from that correspondent. For example, the John Casey folders include not only letters between Casey and Helen, but also letters between Casey and other people related to his role as Breece's literary executor. Letters from Helen Pancake are usually identified as copies; some are handwritten while others are photocopies.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMany of the correspondents can be grouped into the following categories: Breece's friends, (Kathleen Devereux, Matt Jennings, Matthew Heard, Sarah Nutt, John Shaffer, and Rick Wilson); people connected to Breece's life at the University of Virginia (John Casey, Richard Jones, James McPherson, girlfriend Emily Miller, landlady Virginia Meade, Raymond Nelson, Father Pat O'Connor, Charles Perdue, Peter Taylor, and Anthony Winner); Breece's former professors and students (including Michael Beasley, John Harrison, John McKernan, William Sullivan, and Albert Wilhelm); editors at The Atlantic Monthly and others associated with publishing Breece's stories (Phoebe-Lou Adams, Peter Davison, and Robert Manning and editors at Antaeus); people working on projects related to Breece's stories (Russ Barbour of WPBY-TV in West Virginia, filmmaker Jeffrey Davidson, biographer and historian Thomas Douglass, woodcut artist Richard Gerber, filmmaker and producer Mark Rance, and writer Topper Sherwood); people who wrote about Breece's life and work (Grace Toney Edwards, John Foster, Paul Hendrickson, Darla Radcliffe, and Robert Sumney); Helen Pancake's family and friends (Patricia Bins, Helen Heard, Matthew Heard, Charlotte Pancake, Donnetta Pancake, and Susan Maslowski); and other West Virginia authors (Pinckney Benedict, Mary Lee Settle, and Lee Maynard).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters from frequent correspondents such as John Casey, Peter Davison, Thomas Douglass, Richard Jones, James McPherson, and Emily Miller comment on additional subjects and provide greater insight into their relationships with Breece and Helen. John Casey was Breece's professor at U.Va., his godfather, and his literary executor. Letters between Casey and Helen date from 1977 to 1993. Early letters relate to Breece's death and his relationship with Casey. Letters from the early 1980s document Casey and Helen's efforts to publish Breece's stories and book and the publication process from their perspective. Later letters comment on projects related to Breece's work and mention Mark Rance, Russ Barbour, and Cynthia Kadohata. Casey also writes frequently of his family and writing, and the letters between him and Helen reveal a friendship that grew out of their mutual loss.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePeter Davison was the poetry editor at The Atlantic Monthly in the early 1980s and later the literary editor for Atlantic Monthly Press. These letters from 1980 to 1985 describe the process of sorting through Breece's stories and poetry for publication; publishing \"The Hollow\" and \"The Honored Dead\"; and publishing Stories in February 1983. Topics include the format of the book, contracts, the dust jacket, advertising, reviews, royalties, and the film rights.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Thomas Douglass between 1987 and 1994 chiefly chart his work on A Room Forever (1998), his biography of Breece, and Helen's assistance with the piece as she replied to his questions about Breece and the Pancake family. Additional topics include publishing \"Rat Boy,\" the Gulf War, pictures and a woodcut of Breece, and Douglass's family and writing. Also includes several letters between Douglass and John Casey and two folders of Douglass's research materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Richard Jones, Breece's professor at U.Va., are from 1979 to 1993 and describe Jones's reaction to Breece's death, his daily life in London, his family, his writing and teaching, projects related to Breece and his stories, and mutual friends and acquaintances, including John Casey, Mark Rance, and Mary Lee Settle. Jones also comments on meeting the daughter and granddaughter of Virginia Meade.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJames Alan McPherson was one of Breece's professors at U.Va. and wrote the forward to Stories. Thirteen letters from 1979 to 1994, mostly from McPherson to Helen, chiefly detail McPherson's relationship with Breece. McPherson describes his reaction to Breece's death, the birth of his daughter that same night, and the difficulties that he and Breece had living in Charlottesville. He also comments on Breece's book and his own family affairs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEmily Miller was Breece's girlfriend from September 1977 to April 1979 and a student at U.Va. Her letters from 1979 to 1982 primarily describe her response to Breece's death. She remembers Breece and his love of life and writes about his memorial service and Father Pat O'Connor, the pain of Breece's death, and things that remind of her Breece. She also tells Helen about her own teaching and writing and daily activities as a graduate student.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated)\u003c/emph\u003e, includes handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories, story fragments, the beginnings of novels and plays, and poetry as well as published stories, book reviews for The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, and copies of projects based on Breece's stories. Drafts of Breece's short stories include pieces that he had published or submitted for publication before his death as well as stories that were found among his belongings and published posthumously. Also included are drafts of a story about Mae Moore from the 1960s; partial drafts of two plays, \"Cousins\" and \"Rosary\"; the beginnings of two novels, \"Survivors\" and \"Water in a Sieve,\"; a paper for his Bible as Literature course at U.Va., \"Happy Are They Not Born in Jerusalem\"; and notes and a draft of a folklore paper he was working on at U.Va. Also included are book reviews of Stories that were compiled by Helen Pancake and drafts of the \"Hollow\" screenplay by Jeff Davidson (1991) and the \"Trilobites\" screenplay by Mark Rance (1993).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWritings are arranged in alphabetical order according to title. Some drafts are incomplete and some have handwritten annotations. Several stories are accompanied by related materials, such as copies of the folders that Pancake used to track his journal submissions and copies of the published story. Almost all drafts are undated. Note that the title of \"Cowboys and Girls\" was changed to \"The Way it Has to Be\" for Stories. The story has been filed under the latter title.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993)\u003c/emph\u003e, contains files compiled by both Breece and Helen Pancake that pertain to the education, family, personal life, and the death of Breece Pancake. Materials related to Breece's education and teaching include university transcripts, course notes and papers from Marshall University (1972-1974); a lesson plan and grade book from Fork Union Military Academy (1975-1976); an interview with Breece for the U.Va. newspaper in 1977; and job letters from the spring of 1979. Personal items include newspaper articles (1965-1993); Breece's 1979 pocket diary (with just a few brief entries); and a phone directory as well as various certificates and awards, including Breece's baptismal certificate in 1977 and a Virginia teaching certificate in 1979. Family materials include Clarence Pancake's 1975 obituary and clippings and photographs of his Aunt Julia Pancake Ward and her husband (1925-1968). Materials related to Breece's death include the items that were taken off the walls in his room in Charlottesville, notes related to his memorial services, his last list of things to do, and notes that Helen wrote about Breece. This series also contains five pieces written about Breece, including a transcript of the WPBY-TV program and articles written by Grace Toney Edwards, Albert Wilhelm, and Rick Wilson between 1983 and 1993.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e, chiefly contain clippings, photographs, and articles collected by either Breece Pancake or Helen Pancake. Topics include Appalachian culture, John Casey, Sam Harshbarger, Gordon Lightfoot, Milton, West Virginia, and O. Norman Simkins.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 6. Addenda\u003c/emph\u003e, consists of additions made to the collection in 2000 and 2007. The first addenda includes two newspaper articles (1999, 2000) about Breece that were each sent to Helen Pancake. The accompanying letters are also included. The 2007 addition contains includes two photographs of Breece Pancake, his Bible (with his handwritten annotations), and his curriculum vita.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHis copy of The Jerusalem Bible (published by Doubleday and Company, 1966) includes tabbed pages apparently indicating passages of interest to Pancake; many of these passages include his annotations. Tabbed passages include all of the following: Genesis 49:22-26 (p. 75); Judges 6:36-40 (p. 316); I Chronicles 16:30-33 (p. 516); Psalm 52:8 (p.835); Psalm 83 (p.867-868); Psalm 148:7-10 (p.929); Proverbs 11:30-31 (p.947); Song of Songs 2:3 (p. 994); Isaiah 4:2-3 (p.1148); Isaiah 22: 4-5 (p. 1175); Isaiah 40-43 (p. 1202-1212); Jeremiah 1-3, 17-20, 24 (p. 1249-1286, 1292-1293); Jeremiah 31:31-34 (p.1304); Jeremiah 32 (p. 1305-1308); Lamentations 4:8 (p.1350); Ezekiel 3-27 (p. 1362-1408); Daniel 4:16-22 (p.1432); Hosea 4-14 (p. 1455-1468); Habbakkuk 2:19 (p.1516); Zechariah 13:9-14 (p.1541); Matthew 10: 30-31 (p. 30); Mark 11:12-14 (p. 80); the Book of Luke (p.90-136); Galatians 4:25-31 (p. 326-327); I Peter 4:17-19 (p.405); and Revelation 6-11 (p. 436-439). The majority of verse annotations reference the natural environment, including: mountains, trees, fruit, and drought. Ezekiel, Chapters 20-21, are heavily annotated.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 7. Oversize, 1966-1985 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e, contains a scrapbook; posters and flyers from Breece's office at Wilson Hall at U.Va.; his calendars and a sketchbook; and several oversize items compiled by Helen Pancake. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about Breece when he was a child, articles written by Breece for the Cabell Record in 1975, and articles about the writing program at U.Va. These articles include a piece on the professors in the writing program at U.Va., the 1977 Declaration interview with Breece, and a January 1979 article about Breece. Posters and flyers advertising concerts and lectures were apparently removed from Breece's office after his death. Also includes Breece's 1979 Sierra Club calendar with notations. Arranged according to format.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["There are seven series in this collection:","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated \nSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1979-1994) \nSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated) \nSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993) \nSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated \nSeries 6. Addenda, 1978-1979 and 1999-2000 \nSeries 7. Oversize","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated , contains approximately two hundred fifty letters chiefly written by Breece Pancake to his parents between 1966 and his death in April 1979. There are also several letters between Breece and his sisters, Donnetta and Charlotte; friends Matthew Heard and Mike Jennings; and Phoebe-Lou Adams at The Atlantic Monthly. Letters chiefly record Breece's work on his short stories and his daily activities at college in West Virginia in the early 1970s; while teaching at military academies in Virginia in the mid-1970s; and during his graduate studies in creative writing at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in Charlottesville in the late 1970s. Topics also include Breece's desire to better himself; his goals for life; his views on human beings and relationships; and his feelings about West Virginia and its people.","Approximately forty letters between Breece and his parents from 1970 to 1973 document Breece's studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and the family's life back in Milton. Helen and Bud share news from home and Breece shares stories about college life, including his classes, living in the dorm, difficulties at school and his desire to transfer to Marshall University. From January to April 1972 Breece writes from Arizona, where he is visiting his sister Doni and traveling out West. Topics include finding odd jobs; rappelling, horses, exploring the area; a Gordon Lightfoot concert; a trip to Mexico; his plans to return home; and plans for going back to school.","Almost eighty letters from the mid-1970s document the two years Pancake spent teaching at the Fork Union Military Academy (1974-1975) and the Staunton Military Academy (1975-1976) in Virginia. Fork Union letters primarily describe his teaching and social life. Topics include his classes and students; hiking on his own and with his students; his friendship with Matthew Heard; his finances and expenses; and his growing unhappiness in his position. Letters from the fall of 1975 relate to the death of his father that September and the death of Matthew Heard two weeks later. Pancake also writes about his teaching; his stories, including \"The Mark\" and \"The Hollow\"; his social life; moving into Sarah Nutt's apartment; his new car; family and friends; and his plans to attend the University of Virginia. Mixed within his news about daily activities are comments about his desire to keep getting better in life; not being satisfied with life; his desire to be himself; and on not understanding people.","Approximately 135 letters from the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1979 document Breece's life during his three years in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia. They describe his difficult adjustment to graduate school and life in Charlottesville as well as his success with writing and publishing his short stories. Topics related to his coursework, professors, and writing include the demands of graduate school; John Casey; Richard Jones; James McPherson; Mary Lee Settle; Peter Taylor; the progress of his writing; publishing his short stories in The Atlantic Monthly; his literary executorship; and searching for teaching jobs. Pancake also writes about his personal life, daily activities, and his surroundings. These topics include his finances; his social life, including girlfriend Emily Miller; visits to Sarah Nutt; his participation in the local Catholic Church; his landlady, Virginia Meade; and class consciousness in Charlottesville. Breece's letters from 1977 to 1979 also reveal his feelings of isolation and unease in Charlottesville and his homesickness for West Virginia. Also included are several letters received after Breece's death in April 1979.","Series 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1975-1994) , consists of more than 700 letters written to and from Helen Pancake. With the exception of a few early letters, most of the correspondence begins after Breece's death in April 1979. Letters from 1979 and 1980 are largely sympathy notes containing explanations of how people knew Breece and what he meant to them. Primary topics in most of the letters are the publication of Breece's stories and book and projects related to Breece's work, including films, plays, and articles based on his stories. Scattered throughout are letters from people describing how Breece touched their lives. This series is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the correspondent. Folders also contain any other letters from that correspondent. For example, the John Casey folders include not only letters between Casey and Helen, but also letters between Casey and other people related to his role as Breece's literary executor. Letters from Helen Pancake are usually identified as copies; some are handwritten while others are photocopies.","Many of the correspondents can be grouped into the following categories: Breece's friends, (Kathleen Devereux, Matt Jennings, Matthew Heard, Sarah Nutt, John Shaffer, and Rick Wilson); people connected to Breece's life at the University of Virginia (John Casey, Richard Jones, James McPherson, girlfriend Emily Miller, landlady Virginia Meade, Raymond Nelson, Father Pat O'Connor, Charles Perdue, Peter Taylor, and Anthony Winner); Breece's former professors and students (including Michael Beasley, John Harrison, John McKernan, William Sullivan, and Albert Wilhelm); editors at The Atlantic Monthly and others associated with publishing Breece's stories (Phoebe-Lou Adams, Peter Davison, and Robert Manning and editors at Antaeus); people working on projects related to Breece's stories (Russ Barbour of WPBY-TV in West Virginia, filmmaker Jeffrey Davidson, biographer and historian Thomas Douglass, woodcut artist Richard Gerber, filmmaker and producer Mark Rance, and writer Topper Sherwood); people who wrote about Breece's life and work (Grace Toney Edwards, John Foster, Paul Hendrickson, Darla Radcliffe, and Robert Sumney); Helen Pancake's family and friends (Patricia Bins, Helen Heard, Matthew Heard, Charlotte Pancake, Donnetta Pancake, and Susan Maslowski); and other West Virginia authors (Pinckney Benedict, Mary Lee Settle, and Lee Maynard).","Letters from frequent correspondents such as John Casey, Peter Davison, Thomas Douglass, Richard Jones, James McPherson, and Emily Miller comment on additional subjects and provide greater insight into their relationships with Breece and Helen. John Casey was Breece's professor at U.Va., his godfather, and his literary executor. Letters between Casey and Helen date from 1977 to 1993. Early letters relate to Breece's death and his relationship with Casey. Letters from the early 1980s document Casey and Helen's efforts to publish Breece's stories and book and the publication process from their perspective. Later letters comment on projects related to Breece's work and mention Mark Rance, Russ Barbour, and Cynthia Kadohata. Casey also writes frequently of his family and writing, and the letters between him and Helen reveal a friendship that grew out of their mutual loss.","Peter Davison was the poetry editor at The Atlantic Monthly in the early 1980s and later the literary editor for Atlantic Monthly Press. These letters from 1980 to 1985 describe the process of sorting through Breece's stories and poetry for publication; publishing \"The Hollow\" and \"The Honored Dead\"; and publishing Stories in February 1983. Topics include the format of the book, contracts, the dust jacket, advertising, reviews, royalties, and the film rights.","Letters from Thomas Douglass between 1987 and 1994 chiefly chart his work on A Room Forever (1998), his biography of Breece, and Helen's assistance with the piece as she replied to his questions about Breece and the Pancake family. Additional topics include publishing \"Rat Boy,\" the Gulf War, pictures and a woodcut of Breece, and Douglass's family and writing. Also includes several letters between Douglass and John Casey and two folders of Douglass's research materials.","Letters from Richard Jones, Breece's professor at U.Va., are from 1979 to 1993 and describe Jones's reaction to Breece's death, his daily life in London, his family, his writing and teaching, projects related to Breece and his stories, and mutual friends and acquaintances, including John Casey, Mark Rance, and Mary Lee Settle. Jones also comments on meeting the daughter and granddaughter of Virginia Meade.","James Alan McPherson was one of Breece's professors at U.Va. and wrote the forward to Stories. Thirteen letters from 1979 to 1994, mostly from McPherson to Helen, chiefly detail McPherson's relationship with Breece. McPherson describes his reaction to Breece's death, the birth of his daughter that same night, and the difficulties that he and Breece had living in Charlottesville. He also comments on Breece's book and his own family affairs.","Emily Miller was Breece's girlfriend from September 1977 to April 1979 and a student at U.Va. Her letters from 1979 to 1982 primarily describe her response to Breece's death. She remembers Breece and his love of life and writes about his memorial service and Father Pat O'Connor, the pain of Breece's death, and things that remind of her Breece. She also tells Helen about her own teaching and writing and daily activities as a graduate student.","Series 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated) , includes handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories, story fragments, the beginnings of novels and plays, and poetry as well as published stories, book reviews for The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, and copies of projects based on Breece's stories. Drafts of Breece's short stories include pieces that he had published or submitted for publication before his death as well as stories that were found among his belongings and published posthumously. Also included are drafts of a story about Mae Moore from the 1960s; partial drafts of two plays, \"Cousins\" and \"Rosary\"; the beginnings of two novels, \"Survivors\" and \"Water in a Sieve,\"; a paper for his Bible as Literature course at U.Va., \"Happy Are They Not Born in Jerusalem\"; and notes and a draft of a folklore paper he was working on at U.Va. Also included are book reviews of Stories that were compiled by Helen Pancake and drafts of the \"Hollow\" screenplay by Jeff Davidson (1991) and the \"Trilobites\" screenplay by Mark Rance (1993).","Writings are arranged in alphabetical order according to title. Some drafts are incomplete and some have handwritten annotations. Several stories are accompanied by related materials, such as copies of the folders that Pancake used to track his journal submissions and copies of the published story. Almost all drafts are undated. Note that the title of \"Cowboys and Girls\" was changed to \"The Way it Has to Be\" for Stories. The story has been filed under the latter title.","Series 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993) , contains files compiled by both Breece and Helen Pancake that pertain to the education, family, personal life, and the death of Breece Pancake. Materials related to Breece's education and teaching include university transcripts, course notes and papers from Marshall University (1972-1974); a lesson plan and grade book from Fork Union Military Academy (1975-1976); an interview with Breece for the U.Va. newspaper in 1977; and job letters from the spring of 1979. Personal items include newspaper articles (1965-1993); Breece's 1979 pocket diary (with just a few brief entries); and a phone directory as well as various certificates and awards, including Breece's baptismal certificate in 1977 and a Virginia teaching certificate in 1979. Family materials include Clarence Pancake's 1975 obituary and clippings and photographs of his Aunt Julia Pancake Ward and her husband (1925-1968). Materials related to Breece's death include the items that were taken off the walls in his room in Charlottesville, notes related to his memorial services, his last list of things to do, and notes that Helen wrote about Breece. This series also contains five pieces written about Breece, including a transcript of the WPBY-TV program and articles written by Grace Toney Edwards, Albert Wilhelm, and Rick Wilson between 1983 and 1993.","Series 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated , chiefly contain clippings, photographs, and articles collected by either Breece Pancake or Helen Pancake. Topics include Appalachian culture, John Casey, Sam Harshbarger, Gordon Lightfoot, Milton, West Virginia, and O. Norman Simkins.","Series 6. Addenda , consists of additions made to the collection in 2000 and 2007. The first addenda includes two newspaper articles (1999, 2000) about Breece that were each sent to Helen Pancake. The accompanying letters are also included. The 2007 addition contains includes two photographs of Breece Pancake, his Bible (with his handwritten annotations), and his curriculum vita.","His copy of The Jerusalem Bible (published by Doubleday and Company, 1966) includes tabbed pages apparently indicating passages of interest to Pancake; many of these passages include his annotations. Tabbed passages include all of the following: Genesis 49:22-26 (p. 75); Judges 6:36-40 (p. 316); I Chronicles 16:30-33 (p. 516); Psalm 52:8 (p.835); Psalm 83 (p.867-868); Psalm 148:7-10 (p.929); Proverbs 11:30-31 (p.947); Song of Songs 2:3 (p. 994); Isaiah 4:2-3 (p.1148); Isaiah 22: 4-5 (p. 1175); Isaiah 40-43 (p. 1202-1212); Jeremiah 1-3, 17-20, 24 (p. 1249-1286, 1292-1293); Jeremiah 31:31-34 (p.1304); Jeremiah 32 (p. 1305-1308); Lamentations 4:8 (p.1350); Ezekiel 3-27 (p. 1362-1408); Daniel 4:16-22 (p.1432); Hosea 4-14 (p. 1455-1468); Habbakkuk 2:19 (p.1516); Zechariah 13:9-14 (p.1541); Matthew 10: 30-31 (p. 30); Mark 11:12-14 (p. 80); the Book of Luke (p.90-136); Galatians 4:25-31 (p. 326-327); I Peter 4:17-19 (p.405); and Revelation 6-11 (p. 436-439). The majority of verse annotations reference the natural environment, including: mountains, trees, fruit, and drought. Ezekiel, Chapters 20-21, are heavily annotated.","Series 7. Oversize, 1966-1985 and undated , contains a scrapbook; posters and flyers from Breece's office at Wilson Hall at U.Va.; his calendars and a sketchbook; and several oversize items compiled by Helen Pancake. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about Breece when he was a child, articles written by Breece for the Cabell Record in 1975, and articles about the writing program at U.Va. These articles include a piece on the professors in the writing program at U.Va., the 1977 Declaration interview with Breece, and a January 1979 article about Breece. Posters and flyers advertising concerts and lectures were apparently removed from Breece's office after his death. Also includes Breece's 1979 Sierra Club calendar with notations. 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For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_6441c078b74f01a3d29ec19113cc435a\"\u003ePapers of Breece D'J Pancake (1952-1979) of Milton, West Virginia, noted short story writer who depicted the Appalachian experience of rural West Virginians. Breece Pancake had two short stories published in The Atlantic Monthly before he died of an apparent suicide on 8 April 1979. His only collection of stories, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously in 1983. Correspondence, writings, biographical and genealogical materials, and subject files document Breece Pancake's personal life and writing career from the mid-1960s to April 1979 as well as efforts made by his mother, Helen Pancake, and author John Casey to publish his stories after his death. Collection also contains subject files and oversize materials taken from Breece's office at the University of Virginia after he died. See scope and content note for details.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Breece D'J Pancake (1952-1979) of Milton, West Virginia, noted short story writer who depicted the Appalachian experience of rural West Virginians. Breece Pancake had two short stories published in The Atlantic Monthly before he died of an apparent suicide on 8 April 1979. His only collection of stories, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously in 1983. Correspondence, writings, biographical and genealogical materials, and subject files document Breece Pancake's personal life and writing career from the mid-1960s to April 1979 as well as efforts made by his mother, Helen Pancake, and author John Casey to publish his stories after his death. Collection also contains subject files and oversize materials taken from Breece's office at the University of Virginia after he died. See scope and content note for details."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_5c27276c7340d96926bef81bd8a0b4e6\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_coll_ssim":["University of Virginia. Department of English","Pancake, Breece D'J, 1952-1979"],"names_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","University of Virginia. 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He was raised in Milton, West Virginia, a small town in the hills in the southwestern part of that state. Helen Frazier (b. 1922) and Bud Pancake (1917-1975) married in September 1939 and had two daughters, Charlotte and Donnetta, shortly thereafter. Bud began working for Union Carbide Chemical Company as a shipping clerk, and remained in the job for more than thirty years. He also served in an army field observation unit in Germany for almost two years during World War II. Helen Pancake became a librarian in the Milton Public Library in the 1970s. ","\nBreece attended Milton High School and graduated in 1970. He wrote two stories during that time, \"Keeper of the Flame,\" which was published in the school paper in 1968, and \"Rat Boy,\" which was rejected in the early 1970s by several publications. Breece enrolled in school at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in the summer of 1970 and continued to study there into the fall. ","\nWhen Bud Pancake was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Breece transferred to Marshall University in Huntington in order to be closer to home. The two men enjoyed a very close relationship, having spent many hours fishing, camping, hiking, and hunting during Breece's youth. However, after a broken engagement in December 1971, Pancake decided to leave West Virginia and visit his sister Donnetta in Phoenix, Arizona. He was there from January to April 1972, working odd jobs, traveling to Mexico and throughout the southwest. Breece returned to Marshall later that year and earned a BA in English in 1974 with plans to teach high school English. While there he began writing several stories, including \"Stuart,\" \"Fox Hunters,\" and \"The Honored Dead.\" ","\nBreece spent the next two years teaching at military prep schools in Virginia. In the fall of 1974 he found a job at the Fork Union Military Academy. There he met fellow teacher Matthew Heard, who quickly became a close friend and travel companion. Breece spent the following year teaching at the Staunton Military Academy. He continued writing during this time, completing \"Fox Hunters\" in June 1975 and \"The Scrapper\" in September of that year. On 8 September 1975 Bud Pancake died of complications from multiple sclerosis. Less than three weeks later, Matthew Heard was killed in a car accident. Devastated by these deaths, Breece considered returning to West Virginia. However, he was committed to his teaching job and in November he moved instead into an apartment at the home of Sarah Nutt, who became a close friend and support, and poured himself into his writing. ","\nBy the end of 1975, Breece had written several new stories, including \"The Mark,\" and \"Cowboys and Girls,\" which became \"The Way It Has to Be\" when it was published in 1983. In early 1976 he started writing \"Salvation of Me,\" \"Will o' the Wisp,\" which became \"Trilobites,\" and \"Time and Again.\" That spring, the University of Virginia's literary magazine, Rivanna, published \"The Mark,\" and Breece decided to leave teaching and study creative writing in graduate school. ","\nIn the spring of 1975 Breece had met John Casey at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and shown him at least two of his stories. He also attended one of Casey's classes. Breece became a full-time student in the fall of 1976 and worked with distinguished writers John Casey, James Alan McPherson, Richard Jones, and Peter Taylor. He also taught composition and fiction writing as a graduate assistant on the Emily Clark Balch and Henry Hoyns fellowships and served as a fiction consultant to the editor of Virginia Review Quarterly. ","\nThe demands of graduate school exhausted Breece and did not leave him much time for his own writing. He spent most of his time polishing his earlier work and began to enjoy more literary success. Both \"Hollow\" and \"Cowboys and Girls\" were published in the university newspaper, The Declaration, during his first semester. The Atlantic Monthly accepted \"Trilobites\" for publication in March 1977 and \"In the Dry\" in early 1978. Breece also sold \"Time and Again\" to the magazine Nightwork and won the Jefferson Society Prize for fiction that year. It was during the publication of \"Trilobites\" in the spring of 1977 that a typesetter's error changed Breece's name from Breece D.J. Pancake to Breece D'J Pancake. (Breece had unofficially changed his middle name to David and then added John as a confirmation name in 1977 when he converted to Catholicism.) He decided to keep the new punctuation and adopt the name by which he is now known. Breece also began writing \"First Day of Winter,\" \"In the Dry,\" and \"A Room Forever\" while in Charlottesville. ","\nDespite his early literary success, Breece had difficulties adjusting to graduate school and life in Charlottesville. He rented a small apartment in the manor home of Virginia Meade and her husband and struggled to feel at home at the university, where he was bothered by class consciousness and felt alienated from many of his fellow students. However, he did meet Emily Miller, a PhD student in English at U.Va., in the fall of 1977, and the two dated until Breece's death. By the spring of 1979, Breece was close to completing his master's degree and was applying for teaching positions for the following academic year. ","\nBreece Pancake died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 8 April 1979 in Charlottesville and was buried in Milton, West Virginia. In the months and years after his death, Helen Pancake and John Casey worked to publish his stories. Atlantic Monthly published \"The Honored Dead\" in January 1981 and \"Hollow\" in October 1982, and Antaeus accepted \"A Room Forever\" for its December 1981 issue. A collection of Breece's work, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously through the efforts of Helen Pancake and Breece's literary executor, John Casey, in February 1983 by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Stories was reviewed by more than one hundred major newspapers and journals and received widespread critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reprinted the book as a paperback in 1984 and in 1986 Stories won the West Virginia Literary Award. Even after the book's publication, Helen Pancake continued to support her son's writing by answering the questions of those interested in understanding Breece's writing and youth in West Virginia. In 1998 Thomas E. Douglass published A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake. Much of this biographical information comes from that book. ","\nIn 1985 Helen Pancake sold the family home in Milton and moved to Spring Hills, Florida.","There are seven series in this collection:","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated \nSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1979-1994) \nSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated) \nSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993) \nSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated \nSeries 6. Addenda, 1978-1979 and 1999-2000 \nSeries 7. Oversize","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated , contains approximately two hundred fifty letters chiefly written by Breece Pancake to his parents between 1966 and his death in April 1979. There are also several letters between Breece and his sisters, Donnetta and Charlotte; friends Matthew Heard and Mike Jennings; and Phoebe-Lou Adams at The Atlantic Monthly. Letters chiefly record Breece's work on his short stories and his daily activities at college in West Virginia in the early 1970s; while teaching at military academies in Virginia in the mid-1970s; and during his graduate studies in creative writing at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in Charlottesville in the late 1970s. Topics also include Breece's desire to better himself; his goals for life; his views on human beings and relationships; and his feelings about West Virginia and its people.","Approximately forty letters between Breece and his parents from 1970 to 1973 document Breece's studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and the family's life back in Milton. Helen and Bud share news from home and Breece shares stories about college life, including his classes, living in the dorm, difficulties at school and his desire to transfer to Marshall University. From January to April 1972 Breece writes from Arizona, where he is visiting his sister Doni and traveling out West. Topics include finding odd jobs; rappelling, horses, exploring the area; a Gordon Lightfoot concert; a trip to Mexico; his plans to return home; and plans for going back to school.","Almost eighty letters from the mid-1970s document the two years Pancake spent teaching at the Fork Union Military Academy (1974-1975) and the Staunton Military Academy (1975-1976) in Virginia. Fork Union letters primarily describe his teaching and social life. Topics include his classes and students; hiking on his own and with his students; his friendship with Matthew Heard; his finances and expenses; and his growing unhappiness in his position. Letters from the fall of 1975 relate to the death of his father that September and the death of Matthew Heard two weeks later. Pancake also writes about his teaching; his stories, including \"The Mark\" and \"The Hollow\"; his social life; moving into Sarah Nutt's apartment; his new car; family and friends; and his plans to attend the University of Virginia. Mixed within his news about daily activities are comments about his desire to keep getting better in life; not being satisfied with life; his desire to be himself; and on not understanding people.","Approximately 135 letters from the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1979 document Breece's life during his three years in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia. They describe his difficult adjustment to graduate school and life in Charlottesville as well as his success with writing and publishing his short stories. Topics related to his coursework, professors, and writing include the demands of graduate school; John Casey; Richard Jones; James McPherson; Mary Lee Settle; Peter Taylor; the progress of his writing; publishing his short stories in The Atlantic Monthly; his literary executorship; and searching for teaching jobs. Pancake also writes about his personal life, daily activities, and his surroundings. These topics include his finances; his social life, including girlfriend Emily Miller; visits to Sarah Nutt; his participation in the local Catholic Church; his landlady, Virginia Meade; and class consciousness in Charlottesville. Breece's letters from 1977 to 1979 also reveal his feelings of isolation and unease in Charlottesville and his homesickness for West Virginia. Also included are several letters received after Breece's death in April 1979.","Series 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1975-1994) , consists of more than 700 letters written to and from Helen Pancake. With the exception of a few early letters, most of the correspondence begins after Breece's death in April 1979. Letters from 1979 and 1980 are largely sympathy notes containing explanations of how people knew Breece and what he meant to them. Primary topics in most of the letters are the publication of Breece's stories and book and projects related to Breece's work, including films, plays, and articles based on his stories. Scattered throughout are letters from people describing how Breece touched their lives. This series is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the correspondent. Folders also contain any other letters from that correspondent. For example, the John Casey folders include not only letters between Casey and Helen, but also letters between Casey and other people related to his role as Breece's literary executor. Letters from Helen Pancake are usually identified as copies; some are handwritten while others are photocopies.","Many of the correspondents can be grouped into the following categories: Breece's friends, (Kathleen Devereux, Matt Jennings, Matthew Heard, Sarah Nutt, John Shaffer, and Rick Wilson); people connected to Breece's life at the University of Virginia (John Casey, Richard Jones, James McPherson, girlfriend Emily Miller, landlady Virginia Meade, Raymond Nelson, Father Pat O'Connor, Charles Perdue, Peter Taylor, and Anthony Winner); Breece's former professors and students (including Michael Beasley, John Harrison, John McKernan, William Sullivan, and Albert Wilhelm); editors at The Atlantic Monthly and others associated with publishing Breece's stories (Phoebe-Lou Adams, Peter Davison, and Robert Manning and editors at Antaeus); people working on projects related to Breece's stories (Russ Barbour of WPBY-TV in West Virginia, filmmaker Jeffrey Davidson, biographer and historian Thomas Douglass, woodcut artist Richard Gerber, filmmaker and producer Mark Rance, and writer Topper Sherwood); people who wrote about Breece's life and work (Grace Toney Edwards, John Foster, Paul Hendrickson, Darla Radcliffe, and Robert Sumney); Helen Pancake's family and friends (Patricia Bins, Helen Heard, Matthew Heard, Charlotte Pancake, Donnetta Pancake, and Susan Maslowski); and other West Virginia authors (Pinckney Benedict, Mary Lee Settle, and Lee Maynard).","Letters from frequent correspondents such as John Casey, Peter Davison, Thomas Douglass, Richard Jones, James McPherson, and Emily Miller comment on additional subjects and provide greater insight into their relationships with Breece and Helen. John Casey was Breece's professor at U.Va., his godfather, and his literary executor. Letters between Casey and Helen date from 1977 to 1993. Early letters relate to Breece's death and his relationship with Casey. Letters from the early 1980s document Casey and Helen's efforts to publish Breece's stories and book and the publication process from their perspective. Later letters comment on projects related to Breece's work and mention Mark Rance, Russ Barbour, and Cynthia Kadohata. Casey also writes frequently of his family and writing, and the letters between him and Helen reveal a friendship that grew out of their mutual loss.","Peter Davison was the poetry editor at The Atlantic Monthly in the early 1980s and later the literary editor for Atlantic Monthly Press. These letters from 1980 to 1985 describe the process of sorting through Breece's stories and poetry for publication; publishing \"The Hollow\" and \"The Honored Dead\"; and publishing Stories in February 1983. Topics include the format of the book, contracts, the dust jacket, advertising, reviews, royalties, and the film rights.","Letters from Thomas Douglass between 1987 and 1994 chiefly chart his work on A Room Forever (1998), his biography of Breece, and Helen's assistance with the piece as she replied to his questions about Breece and the Pancake family. Additional topics include publishing \"Rat Boy,\" the Gulf War, pictures and a woodcut of Breece, and Douglass's family and writing. Also includes several letters between Douglass and John Casey and two folders of Douglass's research materials.","Letters from Richard Jones, Breece's professor at U.Va., are from 1979 to 1993 and describe Jones's reaction to Breece's death, his daily life in London, his family, his writing and teaching, projects related to Breece and his stories, and mutual friends and acquaintances, including John Casey, Mark Rance, and Mary Lee Settle. Jones also comments on meeting the daughter and granddaughter of Virginia Meade.","James Alan McPherson was one of Breece's professors at U.Va. and wrote the forward to Stories. Thirteen letters from 1979 to 1994, mostly from McPherson to Helen, chiefly detail McPherson's relationship with Breece. McPherson describes his reaction to Breece's death, the birth of his daughter that same night, and the difficulties that he and Breece had living in Charlottesville. He also comments on Breece's book and his own family affairs.","Emily Miller was Breece's girlfriend from September 1977 to April 1979 and a student at U.Va. Her letters from 1979 to 1982 primarily describe her response to Breece's death. She remembers Breece and his love of life and writes about his memorial service and Father Pat O'Connor, the pain of Breece's death, and things that remind of her Breece. She also tells Helen about her own teaching and writing and daily activities as a graduate student.","Series 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated) , includes handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories, story fragments, the beginnings of novels and plays, and poetry as well as published stories, book reviews for The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, and copies of projects based on Breece's stories. Drafts of Breece's short stories include pieces that he had published or submitted for publication before his death as well as stories that were found among his belongings and published posthumously. Also included are drafts of a story about Mae Moore from the 1960s; partial drafts of two plays, \"Cousins\" and \"Rosary\"; the beginnings of two novels, \"Survivors\" and \"Water in a Sieve,\"; a paper for his Bible as Literature course at U.Va., \"Happy Are They Not Born in Jerusalem\"; and notes and a draft of a folklore paper he was working on at U.Va. Also included are book reviews of Stories that were compiled by Helen Pancake and drafts of the \"Hollow\" screenplay by Jeff Davidson (1991) and the \"Trilobites\" screenplay by Mark Rance (1993).","Writings are arranged in alphabetical order according to title. Some drafts are incomplete and some have handwritten annotations. Several stories are accompanied by related materials, such as copies of the folders that Pancake used to track his journal submissions and copies of the published story. Almost all drafts are undated. Note that the title of \"Cowboys and Girls\" was changed to \"The Way it Has to Be\" for Stories. The story has been filed under the latter title.","Series 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993) , contains files compiled by both Breece and Helen Pancake that pertain to the education, family, personal life, and the death of Breece Pancake. Materials related to Breece's education and teaching include university transcripts, course notes and papers from Marshall University (1972-1974); a lesson plan and grade book from Fork Union Military Academy (1975-1976); an interview with Breece for the U.Va. newspaper in 1977; and job letters from the spring of 1979. Personal items include newspaper articles (1965-1993); Breece's 1979 pocket diary (with just a few brief entries); and a phone directory as well as various certificates and awards, including Breece's baptismal certificate in 1977 and a Virginia teaching certificate in 1979. Family materials include Clarence Pancake's 1975 obituary and clippings and photographs of his Aunt Julia Pancake Ward and her husband (1925-1968). Materials related to Breece's death include the items that were taken off the walls in his room in Charlottesville, notes related to his memorial services, his last list of things to do, and notes that Helen wrote about Breece. This series also contains five pieces written about Breece, including a transcript of the WPBY-TV program and articles written by Grace Toney Edwards, Albert Wilhelm, and Rick Wilson between 1983 and 1993.","Series 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated , chiefly contain clippings, photographs, and articles collected by either Breece Pancake or Helen Pancake. Topics include Appalachian culture, John Casey, Sam Harshbarger, Gordon Lightfoot, Milton, West Virginia, and O. Norman Simkins.","Series 6. Addenda , consists of additions made to the collection in 2000 and 2007. The first addenda includes two newspaper articles (1999, 2000) about Breece that were each sent to Helen Pancake. The accompanying letters are also included. The 2007 addition contains includes two photographs of Breece Pancake, his Bible (with his handwritten annotations), and his curriculum vita.","His copy of The Jerusalem Bible (published by Doubleday and Company, 1966) includes tabbed pages apparently indicating passages of interest to Pancake; many of these passages include his annotations. Tabbed passages include all of the following: Genesis 49:22-26 (p. 75); Judges 6:36-40 (p. 316); I Chronicles 16:30-33 (p. 516); Psalm 52:8 (p.835); Psalm 83 (p.867-868); Psalm 148:7-10 (p.929); Proverbs 11:30-31 (p.947); Song of Songs 2:3 (p. 994); Isaiah 4:2-3 (p.1148); Isaiah 22: 4-5 (p. 1175); Isaiah 40-43 (p. 1202-1212); Jeremiah 1-3, 17-20, 24 (p. 1249-1286, 1292-1293); Jeremiah 31:31-34 (p.1304); Jeremiah 32 (p. 1305-1308); Lamentations 4:8 (p.1350); Ezekiel 3-27 (p. 1362-1408); Daniel 4:16-22 (p.1432); Hosea 4-14 (p. 1455-1468); Habbakkuk 2:19 (p.1516); Zechariah 13:9-14 (p.1541); Matthew 10: 30-31 (p. 30); Mark 11:12-14 (p. 80); the Book of Luke (p.90-136); Galatians 4:25-31 (p. 326-327); I Peter 4:17-19 (p.405); and Revelation 6-11 (p. 436-439). The majority of verse annotations reference the natural environment, including: mountains, trees, fruit, and drought. Ezekiel, Chapters 20-21, are heavily annotated.","Series 7. Oversize, 1966-1985 and undated , contains a scrapbook; posters and flyers from Breece's office at Wilson Hall at U.Va.; his calendars and a sketchbook; and several oversize items compiled by Helen Pancake. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about Breece when he was a child, articles written by Breece for the Cabell Record in 1975, and articles about the writing program at U.Va. These articles include a piece on the professors in the writing program at U.Va., the 1977 Declaration interview with Breece, and a January 1979 article about Breece. Posters and flyers advertising concerts and lectures were apparently removed from Breece's office after his death. Also includes Breece's 1979 Sierra Club calendar with notations. Arranged according to format.","Original photograph to Photographs Collection, \"Portraits--Pancake, Breece\"","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Breece D'J Pancake (1952-1979) of Milton, West Virginia, noted short story writer who depicted the Appalachian experience of rural West Virginians. Breece Pancake had two short stories published in The Atlantic Monthly before he died of an apparent suicide on 8 April 1979. His only collection of stories, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously in 1983. Correspondence, writings, biographical and genealogical materials, and subject files document Breece Pancake's personal life and writing career from the mid-1960s to April 1979 as well as efforts made by his mother, Helen Pancake, and author John Casey to publish his stories after his death. Collection also contains subject files and oversize materials taken from Breece's office at the University of Virginia after he died. 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He was raised in Milton, West Virginia, a small town in the hills in the southwestern part of that state. Helen Frazier (b. 1922) and Bud Pancake (1917-1975) married in September 1939 and had two daughters, Charlotte and Donnetta, shortly thereafter. Bud began working for Union Carbide Chemical Company as a shipping clerk, and remained in the job for more than thirty years. He also served in an army field observation unit in Germany for almost two years during World War II. Helen Pancake became a librarian in the Milton Public Library in the 1970s. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBreece attended Milton High School and graduated in 1970. He wrote two stories during that time, \"Keeper of the Flame,\" which was published in the school paper in 1968, and \"Rat Boy,\" which was rejected in the early 1970s by several publications. Breece enrolled in school at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in the summer of 1970 and continued to study there into the fall. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nWhen Bud Pancake was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Breece transferred to Marshall University in Huntington in order to be closer to home. The two men enjoyed a very close relationship, having spent many hours fishing, camping, hiking, and hunting during Breece's youth. However, after a broken engagement in December 1971, Pancake decided to leave West Virginia and visit his sister Donnetta in Phoenix, Arizona. He was there from January to April 1972, working odd jobs, traveling to Mexico and throughout the southwest. Breece returned to Marshall later that year and earned a BA in English in 1974 with plans to teach high school English. While there he began writing several stories, including \"Stuart,\" \"Fox Hunters,\" and \"The Honored Dead.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBreece spent the next two years teaching at military prep schools in Virginia. In the fall of 1974 he found a job at the Fork Union Military Academy. There he met fellow teacher Matthew Heard, who quickly became a close friend and travel companion. Breece spent the following year teaching at the Staunton Military Academy. He continued writing during this time, completing \"Fox Hunters\" in June 1975 and \"The Scrapper\" in September of that year. On 8 September 1975 Bud Pancake died of complications from multiple sclerosis. Less than three weeks later, Matthew Heard was killed in a car accident. Devastated by these deaths, Breece considered returning to West Virginia. However, he was committed to his teaching job and in November he moved instead into an apartment at the home of Sarah Nutt, who became a close friend and support, and poured himself into his writing. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBy the end of 1975, Breece had written several new stories, including \"The Mark,\" and \"Cowboys and Girls,\" which became \"The Way It Has to Be\" when it was published in 1983. In early 1976 he started writing \"Salvation of Me,\" \"Will o' the Wisp,\" which became \"Trilobites,\" and \"Time and Again.\" That spring, the University of Virginia's literary magazine, Rivanna, published \"The Mark,\" and Breece decided to leave teaching and study creative writing in graduate school. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIn the spring of 1975 Breece had met John Casey at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and shown him at least two of his stories. He also attended one of Casey's classes. Breece became a full-time student in the fall of 1976 and worked with distinguished writers John Casey, James Alan McPherson, Richard Jones, and Peter Taylor. He also taught composition and fiction writing as a graduate assistant on the Emily Clark Balch and Henry Hoyns fellowships and served as a fiction consultant to the editor of Virginia Review Quarterly. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe demands of graduate school exhausted Breece and did not leave him much time for his own writing. He spent most of his time polishing his earlier work and began to enjoy more literary success. Both \"Hollow\" and \"Cowboys and Girls\" were published in the university newspaper, The Declaration, during his first semester. The Atlantic Monthly accepted \"Trilobites\" for publication in March 1977 and \"In the Dry\" in early 1978. Breece also sold \"Time and Again\" to the magazine Nightwork and won the Jefferson Society Prize for fiction that year. It was during the publication of \"Trilobites\" in the spring of 1977 that a typesetter's error changed Breece's name from Breece D.J. Pancake to Breece D'J Pancake. (Breece had unofficially changed his middle name to David and then added John as a confirmation name in 1977 when he converted to Catholicism.) He decided to keep the new punctuation and adopt the name by which he is now known. Breece also began writing \"First Day of Winter,\" \"In the Dry,\" and \"A Room Forever\" while in Charlottesville. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nDespite his early literary success, Breece had difficulties adjusting to graduate school and life in Charlottesville. He rented a small apartment in the manor home of Virginia Meade and her husband and struggled to feel at home at the university, where he was bothered by class consciousness and felt alienated from many of his fellow students. However, he did meet Emily Miller, a PhD student in English at U.Va., in the fall of 1977, and the two dated until Breece's death. By the spring of 1979, Breece was close to completing his master's degree and was applying for teaching positions for the following academic year. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBreece Pancake died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 8 April 1979 in Charlottesville and was buried in Milton, West Virginia. In the months and years after his death, Helen Pancake and John Casey worked to publish his stories. Atlantic Monthly published \"The Honored Dead\" in January 1981 and \"Hollow\" in October 1982, and Antaeus accepted \"A Room Forever\" for its December 1981 issue. A collection of Breece's work, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously through the efforts of Helen Pancake and Breece's literary executor, John Casey, in February 1983 by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Stories was reviewed by more than one hundred major newspapers and journals and received widespread critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reprinted the book as a paperback in 1984 and in 1986 Stories won the West Virginia Literary Award. Even after the book's publication, Helen Pancake continued to support her son's writing by answering the questions of those interested in understanding Breece's writing and youth in West Virginia. In 1998 Thomas E. Douglass published A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake. Much of this biographical information comes from that book. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIn 1985 Helen Pancake sold the family home in Milton and moved to Spring Hills, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Breece D'J Pancake was born Breece Dexter Pancake on 29 June 1952 in Charleston, West Virginia, the son of Helen Frazier Pancake and Clarence \"Bud\" Pancake. He was raised in Milton, West Virginia, a small town in the hills in the southwestern part of that state. Helen Frazier (b. 1922) and Bud Pancake (1917-1975) married in September 1939 and had two daughters, Charlotte and Donnetta, shortly thereafter. Bud began working for Union Carbide Chemical Company as a shipping clerk, and remained in the job for more than thirty years. He also served in an army field observation unit in Germany for almost two years during World War II. Helen Pancake became a librarian in the Milton Public Library in the 1970s. ","\nBreece attended Milton High School and graduated in 1970. He wrote two stories during that time, \"Keeper of the Flame,\" which was published in the school paper in 1968, and \"Rat Boy,\" which was rejected in the early 1970s by several publications. Breece enrolled in school at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in the summer of 1970 and continued to study there into the fall. ","\nWhen Bud Pancake was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Breece transferred to Marshall University in Huntington in order to be closer to home. The two men enjoyed a very close relationship, having spent many hours fishing, camping, hiking, and hunting during Breece's youth. However, after a broken engagement in December 1971, Pancake decided to leave West Virginia and visit his sister Donnetta in Phoenix, Arizona. He was there from January to April 1972, working odd jobs, traveling to Mexico and throughout the southwest. Breece returned to Marshall later that year and earned a BA in English in 1974 with plans to teach high school English. While there he began writing several stories, including \"Stuart,\" \"Fox Hunters,\" and \"The Honored Dead.\" ","\nBreece spent the next two years teaching at military prep schools in Virginia. In the fall of 1974 he found a job at the Fork Union Military Academy. There he met fellow teacher Matthew Heard, who quickly became a close friend and travel companion. Breece spent the following year teaching at the Staunton Military Academy. He continued writing during this time, completing \"Fox Hunters\" in June 1975 and \"The Scrapper\" in September of that year. On 8 September 1975 Bud Pancake died of complications from multiple sclerosis. Less than three weeks later, Matthew Heard was killed in a car accident. Devastated by these deaths, Breece considered returning to West Virginia. However, he was committed to his teaching job and in November he moved instead into an apartment at the home of Sarah Nutt, who became a close friend and support, and poured himself into his writing. ","\nBy the end of 1975, Breece had written several new stories, including \"The Mark,\" and \"Cowboys and Girls,\" which became \"The Way It Has to Be\" when it was published in 1983. In early 1976 he started writing \"Salvation of Me,\" \"Will o' the Wisp,\" which became \"Trilobites,\" and \"Time and Again.\" That spring, the University of Virginia's literary magazine, Rivanna, published \"The Mark,\" and Breece decided to leave teaching and study creative writing in graduate school. ","\nIn the spring of 1975 Breece had met John Casey at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and shown him at least two of his stories. He also attended one of Casey's classes. Breece became a full-time student in the fall of 1976 and worked with distinguished writers John Casey, James Alan McPherson, Richard Jones, and Peter Taylor. He also taught composition and fiction writing as a graduate assistant on the Emily Clark Balch and Henry Hoyns fellowships and served as a fiction consultant to the editor of Virginia Review Quarterly. ","\nThe demands of graduate school exhausted Breece and did not leave him much time for his own writing. He spent most of his time polishing his earlier work and began to enjoy more literary success. Both \"Hollow\" and \"Cowboys and Girls\" were published in the university newspaper, The Declaration, during his first semester. The Atlantic Monthly accepted \"Trilobites\" for publication in March 1977 and \"In the Dry\" in early 1978. Breece also sold \"Time and Again\" to the magazine Nightwork and won the Jefferson Society Prize for fiction that year. It was during the publication of \"Trilobites\" in the spring of 1977 that a typesetter's error changed Breece's name from Breece D.J. Pancake to Breece D'J Pancake. (Breece had unofficially changed his middle name to David and then added John as a confirmation name in 1977 when he converted to Catholicism.) He decided to keep the new punctuation and adopt the name by which he is now known. Breece also began writing \"First Day of Winter,\" \"In the Dry,\" and \"A Room Forever\" while in Charlottesville. ","\nDespite his early literary success, Breece had difficulties adjusting to graduate school and life in Charlottesville. He rented a small apartment in the manor home of Virginia Meade and her husband and struggled to feel at home at the university, where he was bothered by class consciousness and felt alienated from many of his fellow students. However, he did meet Emily Miller, a PhD student in English at U.Va., in the fall of 1977, and the two dated until Breece's death. By the spring of 1979, Breece was close to completing his master's degree and was applying for teaching positions for the following academic year. ","\nBreece Pancake died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 8 April 1979 in Charlottesville and was buried in Milton, West Virginia. In the months and years after his death, Helen Pancake and John Casey worked to publish his stories. Atlantic Monthly published \"The Honored Dead\" in January 1981 and \"Hollow\" in October 1982, and Antaeus accepted \"A Room Forever\" for its December 1981 issue. A collection of Breece's work, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously through the efforts of Helen Pancake and Breece's literary executor, John Casey, in February 1983 by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Stories was reviewed by more than one hundred major newspapers and journals and received widespread critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reprinted the book as a paperback in 1984 and in 1986 Stories won the West Virginia Literary Award. Even after the book's publication, Helen Pancake continued to support her son's writing by answering the questions of those interested in understanding Breece's writing and youth in West Virginia. In 1998 Thomas E. Douglass published A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake. Much of this biographical information comes from that book. ","\nIn 1985 Helen Pancake sold the family home in Milton and moved to Spring Hills, Florida."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Breece Pancake, Author, Papers, A\u0026amp;M 3306, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Breece Pancake, Author, Papers, A\u0026M 3306, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are seven series in this collection:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1979-1994)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993)\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Addenda, 1978-1979 and 1999-2000\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Oversize\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e, contains approximately two hundred fifty letters chiefly written by Breece Pancake to his parents between 1966 and his death in April 1979. There are also several letters between Breece and his sisters, Donnetta and Charlotte; friends Matthew Heard and Mike Jennings; and Phoebe-Lou Adams at The Atlantic Monthly. Letters chiefly record Breece's work on his short stories and his daily activities at college in West Virginia in the early 1970s; while teaching at military academies in Virginia in the mid-1970s; and during his graduate studies in creative writing at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in Charlottesville in the late 1970s. Topics also include Breece's desire to better himself; his goals for life; his views on human beings and relationships; and his feelings about West Virginia and its people.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eApproximately forty letters between Breece and his parents from 1970 to 1973 document Breece's studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and the family's life back in Milton. Helen and Bud share news from home and Breece shares stories about college life, including his classes, living in the dorm, difficulties at school and his desire to transfer to Marshall University. From January to April 1972 Breece writes from Arizona, where he is visiting his sister Doni and traveling out West. Topics include finding odd jobs; rappelling, horses, exploring the area; a Gordon Lightfoot concert; a trip to Mexico; his plans to return home; and plans for going back to school.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlmost eighty letters from the mid-1970s document the two years Pancake spent teaching at the Fork Union Military Academy (1974-1975) and the Staunton Military Academy (1975-1976) in Virginia. Fork Union letters primarily describe his teaching and social life. Topics include his classes and students; hiking on his own and with his students; his friendship with Matthew Heard; his finances and expenses; and his growing unhappiness in his position. Letters from the fall of 1975 relate to the death of his father that September and the death of Matthew Heard two weeks later. Pancake also writes about his teaching; his stories, including \"The Mark\" and \"The Hollow\"; his social life; moving into Sarah Nutt's apartment; his new car; family and friends; and his plans to attend the University of Virginia. Mixed within his news about daily activities are comments about his desire to keep getting better in life; not being satisfied with life; his desire to be himself; and on not understanding people.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eApproximately 135 letters from the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1979 document Breece's life during his three years in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia. They describe his difficult adjustment to graduate school and life in Charlottesville as well as his success with writing and publishing his short stories. Topics related to his coursework, professors, and writing include the demands of graduate school; John Casey; Richard Jones; James McPherson; Mary Lee Settle; Peter Taylor; the progress of his writing; publishing his short stories in The Atlantic Monthly; his literary executorship; and searching for teaching jobs. Pancake also writes about his personal life, daily activities, and his surroundings. These topics include his finances; his social life, including girlfriend Emily Miller; visits to Sarah Nutt; his participation in the local Catholic Church; his landlady, Virginia Meade; and class consciousness in Charlottesville. Breece's letters from 1977 to 1979 also reveal his feelings of isolation and unease in Charlottesville and his homesickness for West Virginia. Also included are several letters received after Breece's death in April 1979.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1975-1994)\u003c/emph\u003e, consists of more than 700 letters written to and from Helen Pancake. With the exception of a few early letters, most of the correspondence begins after Breece's death in April 1979. Letters from 1979 and 1980 are largely sympathy notes containing explanations of how people knew Breece and what he meant to them. Primary topics in most of the letters are the publication of Breece's stories and book and projects related to Breece's work, including films, plays, and articles based on his stories. Scattered throughout are letters from people describing how Breece touched their lives. This series is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the correspondent. Folders also contain any other letters from that correspondent. For example, the John Casey folders include not only letters between Casey and Helen, but also letters between Casey and other people related to his role as Breece's literary executor. Letters from Helen Pancake are usually identified as copies; some are handwritten while others are photocopies.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMany of the correspondents can be grouped into the following categories: Breece's friends, (Kathleen Devereux, Matt Jennings, Matthew Heard, Sarah Nutt, John Shaffer, and Rick Wilson); people connected to Breece's life at the University of Virginia (John Casey, Richard Jones, James McPherson, girlfriend Emily Miller, landlady Virginia Meade, Raymond Nelson, Father Pat O'Connor, Charles Perdue, Peter Taylor, and Anthony Winner); Breece's former professors and students (including Michael Beasley, John Harrison, John McKernan, William Sullivan, and Albert Wilhelm); editors at The Atlantic Monthly and others associated with publishing Breece's stories (Phoebe-Lou Adams, Peter Davison, and Robert Manning and editors at Antaeus); people working on projects related to Breece's stories (Russ Barbour of WPBY-TV in West Virginia, filmmaker Jeffrey Davidson, biographer and historian Thomas Douglass, woodcut artist Richard Gerber, filmmaker and producer Mark Rance, and writer Topper Sherwood); people who wrote about Breece's life and work (Grace Toney Edwards, John Foster, Paul Hendrickson, Darla Radcliffe, and Robert Sumney); Helen Pancake's family and friends (Patricia Bins, Helen Heard, Matthew Heard, Charlotte Pancake, Donnetta Pancake, and Susan Maslowski); and other West Virginia authors (Pinckney Benedict, Mary Lee Settle, and Lee Maynard).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters from frequent correspondents such as John Casey, Peter Davison, Thomas Douglass, Richard Jones, James McPherson, and Emily Miller comment on additional subjects and provide greater insight into their relationships with Breece and Helen. John Casey was Breece's professor at U.Va., his godfather, and his literary executor. Letters between Casey and Helen date from 1977 to 1993. Early letters relate to Breece's death and his relationship with Casey. Letters from the early 1980s document Casey and Helen's efforts to publish Breece's stories and book and the publication process from their perspective. Later letters comment on projects related to Breece's work and mention Mark Rance, Russ Barbour, and Cynthia Kadohata. Casey also writes frequently of his family and writing, and the letters between him and Helen reveal a friendship that grew out of their mutual loss.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePeter Davison was the poetry editor at The Atlantic Monthly in the early 1980s and later the literary editor for Atlantic Monthly Press. These letters from 1980 to 1985 describe the process of sorting through Breece's stories and poetry for publication; publishing \"The Hollow\" and \"The Honored Dead\"; and publishing Stories in February 1983. Topics include the format of the book, contracts, the dust jacket, advertising, reviews, royalties, and the film rights.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Thomas Douglass between 1987 and 1994 chiefly chart his work on A Room Forever (1998), his biography of Breece, and Helen's assistance with the piece as she replied to his questions about Breece and the Pancake family. Additional topics include publishing \"Rat Boy,\" the Gulf War, pictures and a woodcut of Breece, and Douglass's family and writing. Also includes several letters between Douglass and John Casey and two folders of Douglass's research materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Richard Jones, Breece's professor at U.Va., are from 1979 to 1993 and describe Jones's reaction to Breece's death, his daily life in London, his family, his writing and teaching, projects related to Breece and his stories, and mutual friends and acquaintances, including John Casey, Mark Rance, and Mary Lee Settle. Jones also comments on meeting the daughter and granddaughter of Virginia Meade.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJames Alan McPherson was one of Breece's professors at U.Va. and wrote the forward to Stories. Thirteen letters from 1979 to 1994, mostly from McPherson to Helen, chiefly detail McPherson's relationship with Breece. McPherson describes his reaction to Breece's death, the birth of his daughter that same night, and the difficulties that he and Breece had living in Charlottesville. He also comments on Breece's book and his own family affairs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEmily Miller was Breece's girlfriend from September 1977 to April 1979 and a student at U.Va. Her letters from 1979 to 1982 primarily describe her response to Breece's death. She remembers Breece and his love of life and writes about his memorial service and Father Pat O'Connor, the pain of Breece's death, and things that remind of her Breece. She also tells Helen about her own teaching and writing and daily activities as a graduate student.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated)\u003c/emph\u003e, includes handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories, story fragments, the beginnings of novels and plays, and poetry as well as published stories, book reviews for The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, and copies of projects based on Breece's stories. Drafts of Breece's short stories include pieces that he had published or submitted for publication before his death as well as stories that were found among his belongings and published posthumously. Also included are drafts of a story about Mae Moore from the 1960s; partial drafts of two plays, \"Cousins\" and \"Rosary\"; the beginnings of two novels, \"Survivors\" and \"Water in a Sieve,\"; a paper for his Bible as Literature course at U.Va., \"Happy Are They Not Born in Jerusalem\"; and notes and a draft of a folklore paper he was working on at U.Va. Also included are book reviews of Stories that were compiled by Helen Pancake and drafts of the \"Hollow\" screenplay by Jeff Davidson (1991) and the \"Trilobites\" screenplay by Mark Rance (1993).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWritings are arranged in alphabetical order according to title. Some drafts are incomplete and some have handwritten annotations. Several stories are accompanied by related materials, such as copies of the folders that Pancake used to track his journal submissions and copies of the published story. Almost all drafts are undated. Note that the title of \"Cowboys and Girls\" was changed to \"The Way it Has to Be\" for Stories. The story has been filed under the latter title.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993)\u003c/emph\u003e, contains files compiled by both Breece and Helen Pancake that pertain to the education, family, personal life, and the death of Breece Pancake. Materials related to Breece's education and teaching include university transcripts, course notes and papers from Marshall University (1972-1974); a lesson plan and grade book from Fork Union Military Academy (1975-1976); an interview with Breece for the U.Va. newspaper in 1977; and job letters from the spring of 1979. Personal items include newspaper articles (1965-1993); Breece's 1979 pocket diary (with just a few brief entries); and a phone directory as well as various certificates and awards, including Breece's baptismal certificate in 1977 and a Virginia teaching certificate in 1979. Family materials include Clarence Pancake's 1975 obituary and clippings and photographs of his Aunt Julia Pancake Ward and her husband (1925-1968). Materials related to Breece's death include the items that were taken off the walls in his room in Charlottesville, notes related to his memorial services, his last list of things to do, and notes that Helen wrote about Breece. This series also contains five pieces written about Breece, including a transcript of the WPBY-TV program and articles written by Grace Toney Edwards, Albert Wilhelm, and Rick Wilson between 1983 and 1993.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e, chiefly contain clippings, photographs, and articles collected by either Breece Pancake or Helen Pancake. Topics include Appalachian culture, John Casey, Sam Harshbarger, Gordon Lightfoot, Milton, West Virginia, and O. Norman Simkins.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 6. Addenda\u003c/emph\u003e, consists of additions made to the collection in 2000 and 2007. The first addenda includes two newspaper articles (1999, 2000) about Breece that were each sent to Helen Pancake. The accompanying letters are also included. The 2007 addition contains includes two photographs of Breece Pancake, his Bible (with his handwritten annotations), and his curriculum vita.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHis copy of The Jerusalem Bible (published by Doubleday and Company, 1966) includes tabbed pages apparently indicating passages of interest to Pancake; many of these passages include his annotations. Tabbed passages include all of the following: Genesis 49:22-26 (p. 75); Judges 6:36-40 (p. 316); I Chronicles 16:30-33 (p. 516); Psalm 52:8 (p.835); Psalm 83 (p.867-868); Psalm 148:7-10 (p.929); Proverbs 11:30-31 (p.947); Song of Songs 2:3 (p. 994); Isaiah 4:2-3 (p.1148); Isaiah 22: 4-5 (p. 1175); Isaiah 40-43 (p. 1202-1212); Jeremiah 1-3, 17-20, 24 (p. 1249-1286, 1292-1293); Jeremiah 31:31-34 (p.1304); Jeremiah 32 (p. 1305-1308); Lamentations 4:8 (p.1350); Ezekiel 3-27 (p. 1362-1408); Daniel 4:16-22 (p.1432); Hosea 4-14 (p. 1455-1468); Habbakkuk 2:19 (p.1516); Zechariah 13:9-14 (p.1541); Matthew 10: 30-31 (p. 30); Mark 11:12-14 (p. 80); the Book of Luke (p.90-136); Galatians 4:25-31 (p. 326-327); I Peter 4:17-19 (p.405); and Revelation 6-11 (p. 436-439). The majority of verse annotations reference the natural environment, including: mountains, trees, fruit, and drought. Ezekiel, Chapters 20-21, are heavily annotated.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 7. Oversize, 1966-1985 and undated\u003c/emph\u003e, contains a scrapbook; posters and flyers from Breece's office at Wilson Hall at U.Va.; his calendars and a sketchbook; and several oversize items compiled by Helen Pancake. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about Breece when he was a child, articles written by Breece for the Cabell Record in 1975, and articles about the writing program at U.Va. These articles include a piece on the professors in the writing program at U.Va., the 1977 Declaration interview with Breece, and a January 1979 article about Breece. Posters and flyers advertising concerts and lectures were apparently removed from Breece's office after his death. Also includes Breece's 1979 Sierra Club calendar with notations. Arranged according to format.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["There are seven series in this collection:","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated \nSeries 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1979-1994) \nSeries 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated) \nSeries 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993) \nSeries 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated \nSeries 6. Addenda, 1978-1979 and 1999-2000 \nSeries 7. Oversize","Series 1. Breece Pancake Correspondence, 1966-1979 and undated , contains approximately two hundred fifty letters chiefly written by Breece Pancake to his parents between 1966 and his death in April 1979. There are also several letters between Breece and his sisters, Donnetta and Charlotte; friends Matthew Heard and Mike Jennings; and Phoebe-Lou Adams at The Atlantic Monthly. Letters chiefly record Breece's work on his short stories and his daily activities at college in West Virginia in the early 1970s; while teaching at military academies in Virginia in the mid-1970s; and during his graduate studies in creative writing at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in Charlottesville in the late 1970s. Topics also include Breece's desire to better himself; his goals for life; his views on human beings and relationships; and his feelings about West Virginia and its people.","Approximately forty letters between Breece and his parents from 1970 to 1973 document Breece's studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and the family's life back in Milton. Helen and Bud share news from home and Breece shares stories about college life, including his classes, living in the dorm, difficulties at school and his desire to transfer to Marshall University. From January to April 1972 Breece writes from Arizona, where he is visiting his sister Doni and traveling out West. Topics include finding odd jobs; rappelling, horses, exploring the area; a Gordon Lightfoot concert; a trip to Mexico; his plans to return home; and plans for going back to school.","Almost eighty letters from the mid-1970s document the two years Pancake spent teaching at the Fork Union Military Academy (1974-1975) and the Staunton Military Academy (1975-1976) in Virginia. Fork Union letters primarily describe his teaching and social life. Topics include his classes and students; hiking on his own and with his students; his friendship with Matthew Heard; his finances and expenses; and his growing unhappiness in his position. Letters from the fall of 1975 relate to the death of his father that September and the death of Matthew Heard two weeks later. Pancake also writes about his teaching; his stories, including \"The Mark\" and \"The Hollow\"; his social life; moving into Sarah Nutt's apartment; his new car; family and friends; and his plans to attend the University of Virginia. Mixed within his news about daily activities are comments about his desire to keep getting better in life; not being satisfied with life; his desire to be himself; and on not understanding people.","Approximately 135 letters from the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1979 document Breece's life during his three years in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia. They describe his difficult adjustment to graduate school and life in Charlottesville as well as his success with writing and publishing his short stories. Topics related to his coursework, professors, and writing include the demands of graduate school; John Casey; Richard Jones; James McPherson; Mary Lee Settle; Peter Taylor; the progress of his writing; publishing his short stories in The Atlantic Monthly; his literary executorship; and searching for teaching jobs. Pancake also writes about his personal life, daily activities, and his surroundings. These topics include his finances; his social life, including girlfriend Emily Miller; visits to Sarah Nutt; his participation in the local Catholic Church; his landlady, Virginia Meade; and class consciousness in Charlottesville. Breece's letters from 1977 to 1979 also reveal his feelings of isolation and unease in Charlottesville and his homesickness for West Virginia. Also included are several letters received after Breece's death in April 1979.","Series 2. Helen Pancake Correspondence, 1952-1994 and undated (bulk 1975-1994) , consists of more than 700 letters written to and from Helen Pancake. With the exception of a few early letters, most of the correspondence begins after Breece's death in April 1979. Letters from 1979 and 1980 are largely sympathy notes containing explanations of how people knew Breece and what he meant to them. Primary topics in most of the letters are the publication of Breece's stories and book and projects related to Breece's work, including films, plays, and articles based on his stories. Scattered throughout are letters from people describing how Breece touched their lives. This series is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the correspondent. Folders also contain any other letters from that correspondent. For example, the John Casey folders include not only letters between Casey and Helen, but also letters between Casey and other people related to his role as Breece's literary executor. Letters from Helen Pancake are usually identified as copies; some are handwritten while others are photocopies.","Many of the correspondents can be grouped into the following categories: Breece's friends, (Kathleen Devereux, Matt Jennings, Matthew Heard, Sarah Nutt, John Shaffer, and Rick Wilson); people connected to Breece's life at the University of Virginia (John Casey, Richard Jones, James McPherson, girlfriend Emily Miller, landlady Virginia Meade, Raymond Nelson, Father Pat O'Connor, Charles Perdue, Peter Taylor, and Anthony Winner); Breece's former professors and students (including Michael Beasley, John Harrison, John McKernan, William Sullivan, and Albert Wilhelm); editors at The Atlantic Monthly and others associated with publishing Breece's stories (Phoebe-Lou Adams, Peter Davison, and Robert Manning and editors at Antaeus); people working on projects related to Breece's stories (Russ Barbour of WPBY-TV in West Virginia, filmmaker Jeffrey Davidson, biographer and historian Thomas Douglass, woodcut artist Richard Gerber, filmmaker and producer Mark Rance, and writer Topper Sherwood); people who wrote about Breece's life and work (Grace Toney Edwards, John Foster, Paul Hendrickson, Darla Radcliffe, and Robert Sumney); Helen Pancake's family and friends (Patricia Bins, Helen Heard, Matthew Heard, Charlotte Pancake, Donnetta Pancake, and Susan Maslowski); and other West Virginia authors (Pinckney Benedict, Mary Lee Settle, and Lee Maynard).","Letters from frequent correspondents such as John Casey, Peter Davison, Thomas Douglass, Richard Jones, James McPherson, and Emily Miller comment on additional subjects and provide greater insight into their relationships with Breece and Helen. John Casey was Breece's professor at U.Va., his godfather, and his literary executor. Letters between Casey and Helen date from 1977 to 1993. Early letters relate to Breece's death and his relationship with Casey. Letters from the early 1980s document Casey and Helen's efforts to publish Breece's stories and book and the publication process from their perspective. Later letters comment on projects related to Breece's work and mention Mark Rance, Russ Barbour, and Cynthia Kadohata. Casey also writes frequently of his family and writing, and the letters between him and Helen reveal a friendship that grew out of their mutual loss.","Peter Davison was the poetry editor at The Atlantic Monthly in the early 1980s and later the literary editor for Atlantic Monthly Press. These letters from 1980 to 1985 describe the process of sorting through Breece's stories and poetry for publication; publishing \"The Hollow\" and \"The Honored Dead\"; and publishing Stories in February 1983. Topics include the format of the book, contracts, the dust jacket, advertising, reviews, royalties, and the film rights.","Letters from Thomas Douglass between 1987 and 1994 chiefly chart his work on A Room Forever (1998), his biography of Breece, and Helen's assistance with the piece as she replied to his questions about Breece and the Pancake family. Additional topics include publishing \"Rat Boy,\" the Gulf War, pictures and a woodcut of Breece, and Douglass's family and writing. Also includes several letters between Douglass and John Casey and two folders of Douglass's research materials.","Letters from Richard Jones, Breece's professor at U.Va., are from 1979 to 1993 and describe Jones's reaction to Breece's death, his daily life in London, his family, his writing and teaching, projects related to Breece and his stories, and mutual friends and acquaintances, including John Casey, Mark Rance, and Mary Lee Settle. Jones also comments on meeting the daughter and granddaughter of Virginia Meade.","James Alan McPherson was one of Breece's professors at U.Va. and wrote the forward to Stories. Thirteen letters from 1979 to 1994, mostly from McPherson to Helen, chiefly detail McPherson's relationship with Breece. McPherson describes his reaction to Breece's death, the birth of his daughter that same night, and the difficulties that he and Breece had living in Charlottesville. He also comments on Breece's book and his own family affairs.","Emily Miller was Breece's girlfriend from September 1977 to April 1979 and a student at U.Va. Her letters from 1979 to 1982 primarily describe her response to Breece's death. She remembers Breece and his love of life and writes about his memorial service and Father Pat O'Connor, the pain of Breece's death, and things that remind of her Breece. She also tells Helen about her own teaching and writing and daily activities as a graduate student.","Series 3. Writings and Related Materials, 1963-1993 and undated (bulk 1975-1978 and undated) , includes handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories, story fragments, the beginnings of novels and plays, and poetry as well as published stories, book reviews for The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, and copies of projects based on Breece's stories. Drafts of Breece's short stories include pieces that he had published or submitted for publication before his death as well as stories that were found among his belongings and published posthumously. Also included are drafts of a story about Mae Moore from the 1960s; partial drafts of two plays, \"Cousins\" and \"Rosary\"; the beginnings of two novels, \"Survivors\" and \"Water in a Sieve,\"; a paper for his Bible as Literature course at U.Va., \"Happy Are They Not Born in Jerusalem\"; and notes and a draft of a folklore paper he was working on at U.Va. Also included are book reviews of Stories that were compiled by Helen Pancake and drafts of the \"Hollow\" screenplay by Jeff Davidson (1991) and the \"Trilobites\" screenplay by Mark Rance (1993).","Writings are arranged in alphabetical order according to title. Some drafts are incomplete and some have handwritten annotations. Several stories are accompanied by related materials, such as copies of the folders that Pancake used to track his journal submissions and copies of the published story. Almost all drafts are undated. Note that the title of \"Cowboys and Girls\" was changed to \"The Way it Has to Be\" for Stories. The story has been filed under the latter title.","Series 4. Biographical and Genealogical Materials, 1925-1993 and undated (bulk 1968-1993) , contains files compiled by both Breece and Helen Pancake that pertain to the education, family, personal life, and the death of Breece Pancake. Materials related to Breece's education and teaching include university transcripts, course notes and papers from Marshall University (1972-1974); a lesson plan and grade book from Fork Union Military Academy (1975-1976); an interview with Breece for the U.Va. newspaper in 1977; and job letters from the spring of 1979. Personal items include newspaper articles (1965-1993); Breece's 1979 pocket diary (with just a few brief entries); and a phone directory as well as various certificates and awards, including Breece's baptismal certificate in 1977 and a Virginia teaching certificate in 1979. Family materials include Clarence Pancake's 1975 obituary and clippings and photographs of his Aunt Julia Pancake Ward and her husband (1925-1968). Materials related to Breece's death include the items that were taken off the walls in his room in Charlottesville, notes related to his memorial services, his last list of things to do, and notes that Helen wrote about Breece. This series also contains five pieces written about Breece, including a transcript of the WPBY-TV program and articles written by Grace Toney Edwards, Albert Wilhelm, and Rick Wilson between 1983 and 1993.","Series 5. Subject Files, 1971-1992 and undated , chiefly contain clippings, photographs, and articles collected by either Breece Pancake or Helen Pancake. Topics include Appalachian culture, John Casey, Sam Harshbarger, Gordon Lightfoot, Milton, West Virginia, and O. Norman Simkins.","Series 6. Addenda , consists of additions made to the collection in 2000 and 2007. The first addenda includes two newspaper articles (1999, 2000) about Breece that were each sent to Helen Pancake. The accompanying letters are also included. The 2007 addition contains includes two photographs of Breece Pancake, his Bible (with his handwritten annotations), and his curriculum vita.","His copy of The Jerusalem Bible (published by Doubleday and Company, 1966) includes tabbed pages apparently indicating passages of interest to Pancake; many of these passages include his annotations. Tabbed passages include all of the following: Genesis 49:22-26 (p. 75); Judges 6:36-40 (p. 316); I Chronicles 16:30-33 (p. 516); Psalm 52:8 (p.835); Psalm 83 (p.867-868); Psalm 148:7-10 (p.929); Proverbs 11:30-31 (p.947); Song of Songs 2:3 (p. 994); Isaiah 4:2-3 (p.1148); Isaiah 22: 4-5 (p. 1175); Isaiah 40-43 (p. 1202-1212); Jeremiah 1-3, 17-20, 24 (p. 1249-1286, 1292-1293); Jeremiah 31:31-34 (p.1304); Jeremiah 32 (p. 1305-1308); Lamentations 4:8 (p.1350); Ezekiel 3-27 (p. 1362-1408); Daniel 4:16-22 (p.1432); Hosea 4-14 (p. 1455-1468); Habbakkuk 2:19 (p.1516); Zechariah 13:9-14 (p.1541); Matthew 10: 30-31 (p. 30); Mark 11:12-14 (p. 80); the Book of Luke (p.90-136); Galatians 4:25-31 (p. 326-327); I Peter 4:17-19 (p.405); and Revelation 6-11 (p. 436-439). The majority of verse annotations reference the natural environment, including: mountains, trees, fruit, and drought. Ezekiel, Chapters 20-21, are heavily annotated.","Series 7. Oversize, 1966-1985 and undated , contains a scrapbook; posters and flyers from Breece's office at Wilson Hall at U.Va.; his calendars and a sketchbook; and several oversize items compiled by Helen Pancake. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about Breece when he was a child, articles written by Breece for the Cabell Record in 1975, and articles about the writing program at U.Va. These articles include a piece on the professors in the writing program at U.Va., the 1977 Declaration interview with Breece, and a January 1979 article about Breece. Posters and flyers advertising concerts and lectures were apparently removed from Breece's office after his death. Also includes Breece's 1979 Sierra Club calendar with notations. 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Collection also contains subject files and oversize materials taken from Breece's office at the University of Virginia after he died. See scope and content note for details.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Breece D'J Pancake (1952-1979) of Milton, West Virginia, noted short story writer who depicted the Appalachian experience of rural West Virginians. Breece Pancake had two short stories published in The Atlantic Monthly before he died of an apparent suicide on 8 April 1979. His only collection of stories, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, was published posthumously in 1983. Correspondence, writings, biographical and genealogical materials, and subject files document Breece Pancake's personal life and writing career from the mid-1960s to April 1979 as well as efforts made by his mother, Helen Pancake, and author John Casey to publish his stories after his death. Collection also contains subject files and oversize materials taken from Breece's office at the University of Virginia after he died. See scope and content note for details."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_5c27276c7340d96926bef81bd8a0b4e6\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_coll_ssim":["University of Virginia. Department of English","Pancake, Breece D'J, 1952-1979"],"names_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","University of Virginia. 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Giardina's father and other members of her family were employed by the coal company. The mine closed when Giardina was thirteen, and her family was forced to move to Charleston in search of work.","Giardina pursued higher education at West Virginia Wesleyan College, graduating 1973 with a Bachelor's degree in History. She continued on to do graduate work at Marshall University. Giardina considered ordination in the Episcopal Church and pursued a Masters in Divinity at the Virginia Theological Seminary of Alexandria, Virginia, which she received in 1979. Giardina decided to write rather than to be ordained, publishing her first historical novel, \"Good King Harry\", in 1984.","Giardina's next two novels, \"Storming Heaven\" (1987) and \"The Unquiet Earth\" (1992) draw on the author's childhood experiences growing up in a coal camp and on the history of the West Virginia coalfields. Giardina has published several other novels on historical subjects. She currently teaches at West Virginia State University and serves as an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church.","Papers of Appalachian author Denise Giardina, whose 1987 novel  Storming Heaven  received the W. D. Weatherford Award, and 1992 novel  The Unquiet Earth  received the American Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award for fiction.  The collection includes research notebooks and draft manuscripts of her historical novels  Good King Harry ,  Storming Heaven ,  The Unquiet Earth ,  Saints and Villains , and  Emily's Ghost .","The collection also includes five 5.25 in. floppy computer disks containing electronic files and Giardina's notes, drafts for an unfinished and unpublished work of nonfiction entitled \"The State of Appalachia\", and a draft of a play about Senator Robert C. 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Miscellaneous Manuscripts (2002-2013, undated), boxes 6-7 \nAddendum of 2014/06/30,  Animals  (undated), box 7 \nAddendum of 2016/12/15, Correspondence, Photographs, and Other Material (circa 1950-2008), boxes 8-10 \nAddendum of 2017/10/19, Photographs and Other Material (circa 1900-2016), box 11 \nAddendum of 2018/02/23,  Saints and Villains  and Other Material (circa 1979-1999, undated), box 12 \nAddendum of 2019/06/19, Family Records (1964-2019 and undated), boxes 13-14 \nAddendum of 2020/08/28, Draft and Other Material (1951-1983 and undated), box 15 \nAddendum of 2022/05/18, Graduation Speech Script (2022)","This series consists of five floppy disks with an attached sticky note from Giardina that identifies them as containing backups for  The State of Appalachia  and  The Unquiet Earth .","This series pertains to Giardina's first novel,  Good King Harry  (1984), a fictional re-telling of the life of Henry V of England. This series contains four notebooks: one containing research notes, the other three containing manuscript drafts. The research notebook contains news clippings, maps, and other material, some which was collected during Giardina's time studying abroad in England in 1972. The three draft notebooks contain the fourth notebook of the first draft, the first notebook of the second draft, and the last notebook Giardina used before she began to type a final version of the novel for her agent.","This series regards  Storming Heaven  (1987), a historical novel that tells the story of the coal town of Annadel, West Virginia through the eyes of its residents, culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain. This series contains five notebooks. There are two research notebooks, the first of which is also the last notebook in Series 2. The remaining three notebooks contain draft versions of the novel. The first research notebook contains research notes, news clippings, and photocopies, most regarding labor and Charleston history, and other material. The second research notebook contains Giardina's earliest notes for  Storming Heaven . The draft manuscript notebooks include the second and third notebooks of the first draft and the first notebook of a revised draft. "," In the second notebook of the first draft of  Storming Heaven  (green notebook in box 3, folder 2) is an episode that was not included in the finished novel; it is titled \"From the Diary of Lytton Davidson\" and appears on pages 298-310.","This series regards  The Unquiet Earth  (1992), a historical novel and sequel to  Storming Heaven . The series consists of three notebooks, each of which contains an early draft version of the novel.","This series regards  Saints and Villains  (1998), a historical novel concerning the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was executed by Nazi Germany for crimes against the regime. This series contains two notebooks: the first containing research notes, and the other a draft version of the novel. The research notebook mostly consists of notes from a German language class that Giardina took. The second notebook also contains early notes for Giardina's subsequent novel,  Fallam's Secret .","This series regards  Emily's Ghost  (2009), a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Emily Bronte. This series contains two notebooks, the first containing research notes, and the second containing a draft version of the novel. Inside the front cover of the research notebook are a New Yorker article regarding cholera and a copy of a review of \"Emily's Ghost\" by Jennifer L. Holberg that was published in \"Books and Culture: A Christian Review;\" the review has underlining by Giardina.","This series includes manuscripts for several unpublished and unfinished works, including:","The State of Appalachia  (undated), an unfinished and unpublished work of non-fiction. It consists of one notebook containing research notes and draft versions of the book.","Robert and Ted  (2011-2013), an unfinished play about Senator Robert C. Byrd. Box 6 includes one typescript copy of the first draft of the first act of the play and an email authored by Giardina to a director regarding a staged reading of the play. Box 7 includes drafts 4-6 of the play; collection also includes digital files for these drafts.","Can These Bones Live?  (2002). Notes for a speech created by Giardina on 25 October 2002 delivered at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia regarding biblical stories.","This addendum includes both a printed and digital copy of a draft of a memoir titled  Animals . This memoir recounts episodes from Giardina's life, focusing on the pets she and her family owned. 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Giardina decided to write rather than to be ordained, publishing her first historical novel, \"Good King Harry\", in 1984.","Giardina's next two novels, \"Storming Heaven\" (1987) and \"The Unquiet Earth\" (1992) draw on the author's childhood experiences growing up in a coal camp and on the history of the West Virginia coalfields. Giardina has published several other novels on historical subjects. She currently teaches at West Virginia State University and serves as an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Denise Giardina, Author, Papers, A\u0026amp;M 3740, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Denise Giardina, Author, Papers, A\u0026M 3740, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of Appalachian author Denise Giardina, whose 1987 novel \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e received the W. D. Weatherford Award, and 1992 novel \u003ctitle\u003eThe Unquiet Earth\u003c/title\u003e received the American Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award for fiction.  The collection includes research notebooks and draft manuscripts of her historical novels \u003ctitle\u003eGood King Harry\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eThe Unquiet Earth\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eSaints and Villains\u003c/title\u003e, and \u003ctitle\u003eEmily's Ghost\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes five 5.25 in. floppy computer disks containing electronic files and Giardina's notes, drafts for an unfinished and unpublished work of nonfiction entitled \"The State of Appalachia\", and a draft of a play about Senator Robert C. Byrd entitled \"Robert and Ted.\" Digital files also include the script for a speech given by Giardina at a high school graduation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAdditional material pertains to her personal and professional life, covering topics including her childhood an Italian heritage, her travels, and her campaign for Governor of West Virginia in 2000.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 1. Floppy Disks (undated), box 1\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. \u003ctitle\u003eGood King Harry\u003c/title\u003e (1984, undated), boxes 1-2\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e (undated), boxes 2-4\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. \u003ctitle\u003eThe Unquiet Earth\u003c/title\u003e (undated), boxes 4-5\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. \u003ctitle\u003eSaints and Villains\u003c/title\u003e and \u003ctitle\u003eFallam's Secret\u003c/title\u003e (undated), box 5\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. \u003ctitle\u003eEmily's Ghost\u003c/title\u003e (2006-2009, undated), box 6\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (2002-2013, undated), boxes 6-7\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2014/06/30, \u003ctitle\u003eAnimals\u003c/title\u003e (undated), box 7\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2016/12/15, Correspondence, Photographs, and Other Material (circa 1950-2008), boxes 8-10\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2017/10/19, Photographs and Other Material (circa 1900-2016), box 11\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2018/02/23, \u003ctitle\u003eSaints and Villains\u003c/title\u003e and Other Material (circa 1979-1999, undated), box 12\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2019/06/19, Family Records (1964-2019 and undated), boxes 13-14\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2020/08/28, Draft and Other Material (1951-1983 and undated), box 15\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2022/05/18, Graduation Speech Script (2022)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of five floppy disks with an attached sticky note from Giardina that identifies them as containing backups for \u003ctitle\u003eThe State of Appalachia\u003c/title\u003e and \u003ctitle\u003eThe Unquiet Earth\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series pertains to Giardina's first novel, \u003ctitle\u003eGood King Harry\u003c/title\u003e (1984), a fictional re-telling of the life of Henry V of England. This series contains four notebooks: one containing research notes, the other three containing manuscript drafts. The research notebook contains news clippings, maps, and other material, some which was collected during Giardina's time studying abroad in England in 1972. The three draft notebooks contain the fourth notebook of the first draft, the first notebook of the second draft, and the last notebook Giardina used before she began to type a final version of the novel for her agent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series regards \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e (1987), a historical novel that tells the story of the coal town of Annadel, West Virginia through the eyes of its residents, culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain. This series contains five notebooks. There are two research notebooks, the first of which is also the last notebook in Series 2. The remaining three notebooks contain draft versions of the novel. The first research notebook contains research notes, news clippings, and photocopies, most regarding labor and Charleston history, and other material. The second research notebook contains Giardina's earliest notes for \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e. The draft manuscript notebooks include the second and third notebooks of the first draft and the first notebook of a revised draft. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e In the second notebook of the first draft of \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e (green notebook in box 3, folder 2) is an episode that was not included in the finished novel; it is titled \"From the Diary of Lytton Davidson\" and appears on pages 298-310.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series regards \u003ctitle\u003eThe Unquiet Earth\u003c/title\u003e (1992), a historical novel and sequel to \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e. The series consists of three notebooks, each of which contains an early draft version of the novel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series regards \u003ctitle\u003eSaints and Villains\u003c/title\u003e (1998), a historical novel concerning the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was executed by Nazi Germany for crimes against the regime. This series contains two notebooks: the first containing research notes, and the other a draft version of the novel. The research notebook mostly consists of notes from a German language class that Giardina took. The second notebook also contains early notes for Giardina's subsequent novel, \u003ctitle\u003eFallam's Secret\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series regards \u003ctitle\u003eEmily's Ghost\u003c/title\u003e (2009), a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Emily Bronte. This series contains two notebooks, the first containing research notes, and the second containing a draft version of the novel. Inside the front cover of the research notebook are a New Yorker article regarding cholera and a copy of a review of \"Emily's Ghost\" by Jennifer L. Holberg that was published in \"Books and Culture: A Christian Review;\" the review has underlining by Giardina.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes manuscripts for several unpublished and unfinished works, including:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eThe State of Appalachia\u003c/title\u003e (undated), an unfinished and unpublished work of non-fiction. It consists of one notebook containing research notes and draft versions of the book.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eRobert and Ted\u003c/title\u003e (2011-2013), an unfinished play about Senator Robert C. Byrd. Box 6 includes one typescript copy of the first draft of the first act of the play and an email authored by Giardina to a director regarding a staged reading of the play. Box 7 includes drafts 4-6 of the play; collection also includes digital files for these drafts.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eCan These Bones Live?\u003c/title\u003e (2002). Notes for a speech created by Giardina on 25 October 2002 delivered at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia regarding biblical stories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes both a printed and digital copy of a draft of a memoir titled \u003ctitle\u003eAnimals\u003c/title\u003e. This memoir recounts episodes from Giardina's life, focusing on the pets she and her family owned. She also writes about Italian immigration in WV, race relations and civil rights, life in coal camps, coal companies, her time in school, her political views, travel to England, religion, music, her mother, and her personal experience writing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes assorted professional and personal correspondence, photographs, and other material regarding Giardina's career and personal life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes Giardina family photographs, assorted correspondence, and other material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes research notes, correspondence, and other material used by Giardina in writing \u003ctitle\u003eSaints and Villains\u003c/title\u003e and other material regarding Giardina's 2000 West Virginia gubernatorial campaign.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes family records, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs, as well as several middle and high school literature awards, newspaper columns, and scrapbooks. Also included is a draft of \"Storming Heaven.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum consists of assorted certificates, photographs, papers, newspaper clippings, and the first draft of \"Storming Heaven.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum consists of a script written for a high school graduation speech Giardina gave in 2022.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Appalachian author Denise Giardina, whose 1987 novel  Storming Heaven  received the W. D. Weatherford Award, and 1992 novel  The Unquiet Earth  received the American Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award for fiction.  The collection includes research notebooks and draft manuscripts of her historical novels  Good King Harry ,  Storming Heaven ,  The Unquiet Earth ,  Saints and Villains , and  Emily's Ghost .","The collection also includes five 5.25 in. floppy computer disks containing electronic files and Giardina's notes, drafts for an unfinished and unpublished work of nonfiction entitled \"The State of Appalachia\", and a draft of a play about Senator Robert C. Byrd entitled \"Robert and Ted.\" Digital files also include the script for a speech given by Giardina at a high school graduation.","Additional material pertains to her personal and professional life, covering topics including her childhood an Italian heritage, her travels, and her campaign for Governor of West Virginia in 2000.","Series include:  \nSeries 1. Floppy Disks (undated), box 1 \nSeries 2.  Good King Harry  (1984, undated), boxes 1-2 \nSeries 3.  Storming Heaven  (undated), boxes 2-4 \nSeries 4.  The Unquiet Earth  (undated), boxes 4-5 \nSeries 5.  Saints and Villains  and  Fallam's Secret  (undated), box 5 \nSeries 6.  Emily's Ghost  (2006-2009, undated), box 6 \nSeries 7. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (2002-2013, undated), boxes 6-7 \nAddendum of 2014/06/30,  Animals  (undated), box 7 \nAddendum of 2016/12/15, Correspondence, Photographs, and Other Material (circa 1950-2008), boxes 8-10 \nAddendum of 2017/10/19, Photographs and Other Material (circa 1900-2016), box 11 \nAddendum of 2018/02/23,  Saints and Villains  and Other Material (circa 1979-1999, undated), box 12 \nAddendum of 2019/06/19, Family Records (1964-2019 and undated), boxes 13-14 \nAddendum of 2020/08/28, Draft and Other Material (1951-1983 and undated), box 15 \nAddendum of 2022/05/18, Graduation Speech Script (2022)","This series consists of five floppy disks with an attached sticky note from Giardina that identifies them as containing backups for  The State of Appalachia  and  The Unquiet Earth .","This series pertains to Giardina's first novel,  Good King Harry  (1984), a fictional re-telling of the life of Henry V of England. This series contains four notebooks: one containing research notes, the other three containing manuscript drafts. The research notebook contains news clippings, maps, and other material, some which was collected during Giardina's time studying abroad in England in 1972. The three draft notebooks contain the fourth notebook of the first draft, the first notebook of the second draft, and the last notebook Giardina used before she began to type a final version of the novel for her agent.","This series regards  Storming Heaven  (1987), a historical novel that tells the story of the coal town of Annadel, West Virginia through the eyes of its residents, culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain. This series contains five notebooks. There are two research notebooks, the first of which is also the last notebook in Series 2. The remaining three notebooks contain draft versions of the novel. The first research notebook contains research notes, news clippings, and photocopies, most regarding labor and Charleston history, and other material. The second research notebook contains Giardina's earliest notes for  Storming Heaven . The draft manuscript notebooks include the second and third notebooks of the first draft and the first notebook of a revised draft. "," In the second notebook of the first draft of  Storming Heaven  (green notebook in box 3, folder 2) is an episode that was not included in the finished novel; it is titled \"From the Diary of Lytton Davidson\" and appears on pages 298-310.","This series regards  The Unquiet Earth  (1992), a historical novel and sequel to  Storming Heaven . The series consists of three notebooks, each of which contains an early draft version of the novel.","This series regards  Saints and Villains  (1998), a historical novel concerning the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was executed by Nazi Germany for crimes against the regime. This series contains two notebooks: the first containing research notes, and the other a draft version of the novel. The research notebook mostly consists of notes from a German language class that Giardina took. The second notebook also contains early notes for Giardina's subsequent novel,  Fallam's Secret .","This series regards  Emily's Ghost  (2009), a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Emily Bronte. This series contains two notebooks, the first containing research notes, and the second containing a draft version of the novel. Inside the front cover of the research notebook are a New Yorker article regarding cholera and a copy of a review of \"Emily's Ghost\" by Jennifer L. Holberg that was published in \"Books and Culture: A Christian Review;\" the review has underlining by Giardina.","This series includes manuscripts for several unpublished and unfinished works, including:","The State of Appalachia  (undated), an unfinished and unpublished work of non-fiction. It consists of one notebook containing research notes and draft versions of the book.","Robert and Ted  (2011-2013), an unfinished play about Senator Robert C. Byrd. Box 6 includes one typescript copy of the first draft of the first act of the play and an email authored by Giardina to a director regarding a staged reading of the play. Box 7 includes drafts 4-6 of the play; collection also includes digital files for these drafts.","Can These Bones Live?  (2002). Notes for a speech created by Giardina on 25 October 2002 delivered at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia regarding biblical stories.","This addendum includes both a printed and digital copy of a draft of a memoir titled  Animals . This memoir recounts episodes from Giardina's life, focusing on the pets she and her family owned. She also writes about Italian immigration in WV, race relations and civil rights, life in coal camps, coal companies, her time in school, her political views, travel to England, religion, music, her mother, and her personal experience writing.","This addendum includes assorted professional and personal correspondence, photographs, and other material regarding Giardina's career and personal life.","This addendum includes Giardina family photographs, assorted correspondence, and other material.","This addendum includes research notes, correspondence, and other material used by Giardina in writing  Saints and Villains  and other material regarding Giardina's 2000 West Virginia gubernatorial campaign.","This addendum includes family records, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs, as well as several middle and high school literature awards, newspaper columns, and scrapbooks. Also included is a draft of \"Storming Heaven.\"","This addendum consists of assorted certificates, photographs, papers, newspaper clippings, and the first draft of \"Storming Heaven.\"","This addendum consists of a script written for a high school graduation speech Giardina gave in 2022."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_a29ce59838d2feaa2346b4f35d5b2ef0\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","Giardina, Denise, 1951-"],"corpname_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center"],"names_coll_ssim":["Giardina, Denise, 1951-"],"persname_ssim":["Giardina, Denise, 1951-"],"language_ssim":["English \n.    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Giardina's father and other members of her family were employed by the coal company. The mine closed when Giardina was thirteen, and her family was forced to move to Charleston in search of work.","Giardina pursued higher education at West Virginia Wesleyan College, graduating 1973 with a Bachelor's degree in History. She continued on to do graduate work at Marshall University. Giardina considered ordination in the Episcopal Church and pursued a Masters in Divinity at the Virginia Theological Seminary of Alexandria, Virginia, which she received in 1979. Giardina decided to write rather than to be ordained, publishing her first historical novel, \"Good King Harry\", in 1984.","Giardina's next two novels, \"Storming Heaven\" (1987) and \"The Unquiet Earth\" (1992) draw on the author's childhood experiences growing up in a coal camp and on the history of the West Virginia coalfields. Giardina has published several other novels on historical subjects. She currently teaches at West Virginia State University and serves as an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church.","Papers of Appalachian author Denise Giardina, whose 1987 novel  Storming Heaven  received the W. D. Weatherford Award, and 1992 novel  The Unquiet Earth  received the American Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award for fiction.  The collection includes research notebooks and draft manuscripts of her historical novels  Good King Harry ,  Storming Heaven ,  The Unquiet Earth ,  Saints and Villains , and  Emily's Ghost .","The collection also includes five 5.25 in. floppy computer disks containing electronic files and Giardina's notes, drafts for an unfinished and unpublished work of nonfiction entitled \"The State of Appalachia\", and a draft of a play about Senator Robert C. Byrd entitled \"Robert and Ted.\" Digital files also include the script for a speech given by Giardina at a high school graduation.","Additional material pertains to her personal and professional life, covering topics including her childhood an Italian heritage, her travels, and her campaign for Governor of West Virginia in 2000.","Series include:  \nSeries 1. Floppy Disks (undated), box 1 \nSeries 2.  Good King Harry  (1984, undated), boxes 1-2 \nSeries 3.  Storming Heaven  (undated), boxes 2-4 \nSeries 4.  The Unquiet Earth  (undated), boxes 4-5 \nSeries 5.  Saints and Villains  and  Fallam's Secret  (undated), box 5 \nSeries 6.  Emily's Ghost  (2006-2009, undated), box 6 \nSeries 7. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (2002-2013, undated), boxes 6-7 \nAddendum of 2014/06/30,  Animals  (undated), box 7 \nAddendum of 2016/12/15, Correspondence, Photographs, and Other Material (circa 1950-2008), boxes 8-10 \nAddendum of 2017/10/19, Photographs and Other Material (circa 1900-2016), box 11 \nAddendum of 2018/02/23,  Saints and Villains  and Other Material (circa 1979-1999, undated), box 12 \nAddendum of 2019/06/19, Family Records (1964-2019 and undated), boxes 13-14 \nAddendum of 2020/08/28, Draft and Other Material (1951-1983 and undated), box 15 \nAddendum of 2022/05/18, Graduation Speech Script (2022)","This series consists of five floppy disks with an attached sticky note from Giardina that identifies them as containing backups for  The State of Appalachia  and  The Unquiet Earth .","This series pertains to Giardina's first novel,  Good King Harry  (1984), a fictional re-telling of the life of Henry V of England. This series contains four notebooks: one containing research notes, the other three containing manuscript drafts. The research notebook contains news clippings, maps, and other material, some which was collected during Giardina's time studying abroad in England in 1972. The three draft notebooks contain the fourth notebook of the first draft, the first notebook of the second draft, and the last notebook Giardina used before she began to type a final version of the novel for her agent.","This series regards  Storming Heaven  (1987), a historical novel that tells the story of the coal town of Annadel, West Virginia through the eyes of its residents, culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain. This series contains five notebooks. There are two research notebooks, the first of which is also the last notebook in Series 2. The remaining three notebooks contain draft versions of the novel. The first research notebook contains research notes, news clippings, and photocopies, most regarding labor and Charleston history, and other material. The second research notebook contains Giardina's earliest notes for  Storming Heaven . The draft manuscript notebooks include the second and third notebooks of the first draft and the first notebook of a revised draft. "," In the second notebook of the first draft of  Storming Heaven  (green notebook in box 3, folder 2) is an episode that was not included in the finished novel; it is titled \"From the Diary of Lytton Davidson\" and appears on pages 298-310.","This series regards  The Unquiet Earth  (1992), a historical novel and sequel to  Storming Heaven . The series consists of three notebooks, each of which contains an early draft version of the novel.","This series regards  Saints and Villains  (1998), a historical novel concerning the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was executed by Nazi Germany for crimes against the regime. This series contains two notebooks: the first containing research notes, and the other a draft version of the novel. The research notebook mostly consists of notes from a German language class that Giardina took. The second notebook also contains early notes for Giardina's subsequent novel,  Fallam's Secret .","This series regards  Emily's Ghost  (2009), a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Emily Bronte. This series contains two notebooks, the first containing research notes, and the second containing a draft version of the novel. Inside the front cover of the research notebook are a New Yorker article regarding cholera and a copy of a review of \"Emily's Ghost\" by Jennifer L. Holberg that was published in \"Books and Culture: A Christian Review;\" the review has underlining by Giardina.","This series includes manuscripts for several unpublished and unfinished works, including:","The State of Appalachia  (undated), an unfinished and unpublished work of non-fiction. It consists of one notebook containing research notes and draft versions of the book.","Robert and Ted  (2011-2013), an unfinished play about Senator Robert C. Byrd. Box 6 includes one typescript copy of the first draft of the first act of the play and an email authored by Giardina to a director regarding a staged reading of the play. Box 7 includes drafts 4-6 of the play; collection also includes digital files for these drafts.","Can These Bones Live?  (2002). Notes for a speech created by Giardina on 25 October 2002 delivered at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia regarding biblical stories.","This addendum includes both a printed and digital copy of a draft of a memoir titled  Animals . This memoir recounts episodes from Giardina's life, focusing on the pets she and her family owned. She also writes about Italian immigration in WV, race relations and civil rights, life in coal camps, coal companies, her time in school, her political views, travel to England, religion, music, her mother, and her personal experience writing.","This addendum includes assorted professional and personal correspondence, photographs, and other material regarding Giardina's career and personal life.","This addendum includes Giardina family photographs, assorted correspondence, and other material.","This addendum includes research notes, correspondence, and other material used by Giardina in writing  Saints and Villains  and other material regarding Giardina's 2000 West Virginia gubernatorial campaign.","This addendum includes family records, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs, as well as several middle and high school literature awards, newspaper columns, and scrapbooks. Also included is a draft of \"Storming Heaven.\"","This addendum consists of assorted certificates, photographs, papers, newspaper clippings, and the first draft of \"Storming Heaven.\"","This addendum consists of a script written for a high school graduation speech Giardina gave in 2022.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","Giardina, Denise, 1951-","English \n.    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Giardina's father and other members of her family were employed by the coal company. The mine closed when Giardina was thirteen, and her family was forced to move to Charleston in search of work.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGiardina pursued higher education at West Virginia Wesleyan College, graduating 1973 with a Bachelor's degree in History. She continued on to do graduate work at Marshall University. Giardina considered ordination in the Episcopal Church and pursued a Masters in Divinity at the Virginia Theological Seminary of Alexandria, Virginia, which she received in 1979. Giardina decided to write rather than to be ordained, publishing her first historical novel, \"Good King Harry\", in 1984.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGiardina's next two novels, \"Storming Heaven\" (1987) and \"The Unquiet Earth\" (1992) draw on the author's childhood experiences growing up in a coal camp and on the history of the West Virginia coalfields. 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Giardina decided to write rather than to be ordained, publishing her first historical novel, \"Good King Harry\", in 1984.","Giardina's next two novels, \"Storming Heaven\" (1987) and \"The Unquiet Earth\" (1992) draw on the author's childhood experiences growing up in a coal camp and on the history of the West Virginia coalfields. Giardina has published several other novels on historical subjects. 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The collection includes research notebooks and draft manuscripts of her historical novels \u003ctitle\u003eGood King Harry\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eThe Unquiet Earth\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eSaints and Villains\u003c/title\u003e, and \u003ctitle\u003eEmily's Ghost\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes five 5.25 in. floppy computer disks containing electronic files and Giardina's notes, drafts for an unfinished and unpublished work of nonfiction entitled \"The State of Appalachia\", and a draft of a play about Senator Robert C. Byrd entitled \"Robert and Ted.\" Digital files also include the script for a speech given by Giardina at a high school graduation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAdditional material pertains to her personal and professional life, covering topics including her childhood an Italian heritage, her travels, and her campaign for Governor of West Virginia in 2000.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries include: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 1. Floppy Disks (undated), box 1\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. \u003ctitle\u003eGood King Harry\u003c/title\u003e (1984, undated), boxes 1-2\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e (undated), boxes 2-4\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. \u003ctitle\u003eThe Unquiet Earth\u003c/title\u003e (undated), boxes 4-5\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. \u003ctitle\u003eSaints and Villains\u003c/title\u003e and \u003ctitle\u003eFallam's Secret\u003c/title\u003e (undated), box 5\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. \u003ctitle\u003eEmily's Ghost\u003c/title\u003e (2006-2009, undated), box 6\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. 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This series contains four notebooks: one containing research notes, the other three containing manuscript drafts. The research notebook contains news clippings, maps, and other material, some which was collected during Giardina's time studying abroad in England in 1972. The three draft notebooks contain the fourth notebook of the first draft, the first notebook of the second draft, and the last notebook Giardina used before she began to type a final version of the novel for her agent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series regards \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e (1987), a historical novel that tells the story of the coal town of Annadel, West Virginia through the eyes of its residents, culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain. This series contains five notebooks. There are two research notebooks, the first of which is also the last notebook in Series 2. The remaining three notebooks contain draft versions of the novel. The first research notebook contains research notes, news clippings, and photocopies, most regarding labor and Charleston history, and other material. The second research notebook contains Giardina's earliest notes for \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e. The draft manuscript notebooks include the second and third notebooks of the first draft and the first notebook of a revised draft. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e In the second notebook of the first draft of \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e (green notebook in box 3, folder 2) is an episode that was not included in the finished novel; it is titled \"From the Diary of Lytton Davidson\" and appears on pages 298-310.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series regards \u003ctitle\u003eThe Unquiet Earth\u003c/title\u003e (1992), a historical novel and sequel to \u003ctitle\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c/title\u003e. The series consists of three notebooks, each of which contains an early draft version of the novel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series regards \u003ctitle\u003eSaints and Villains\u003c/title\u003e (1998), a historical novel concerning the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was executed by Nazi Germany for crimes against the regime. This series contains two notebooks: the first containing research notes, and the other a draft version of the novel. The research notebook mostly consists of notes from a German language class that Giardina took. The second notebook also contains early notes for Giardina's subsequent novel, \u003ctitle\u003eFallam's Secret\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series regards \u003ctitle\u003eEmily's Ghost\u003c/title\u003e (2009), a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Emily Bronte. This series contains two notebooks, the first containing research notes, and the second containing a draft version of the novel. Inside the front cover of the research notebook are a New Yorker article regarding cholera and a copy of a review of \"Emily's Ghost\" by Jennifer L. Holberg that was published in \"Books and Culture: A Christian Review;\" the review has underlining by Giardina.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes manuscripts for several unpublished and unfinished works, including:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eThe State of Appalachia\u003c/title\u003e (undated), an unfinished and unpublished work of non-fiction. It consists of one notebook containing research notes and draft versions of the book.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eRobert and Ted\u003c/title\u003e (2011-2013), an unfinished play about Senator Robert C. Byrd. Box 6 includes one typescript copy of the first draft of the first act of the play and an email authored by Giardina to a director regarding a staged reading of the play. Box 7 includes drafts 4-6 of the play; collection also includes digital files for these drafts.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle\u003eCan These Bones Live?\u003c/title\u003e (2002). Notes for a speech created by Giardina on 25 October 2002 delivered at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia regarding biblical stories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes both a printed and digital copy of a draft of a memoir titled \u003ctitle\u003eAnimals\u003c/title\u003e. This memoir recounts episodes from Giardina's life, focusing on the pets she and her family owned. She also writes about Italian immigration in WV, race relations and civil rights, life in coal camps, coal companies, her time in school, her political views, travel to England, religion, music, her mother, and her personal experience writing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes assorted professional and personal correspondence, photographs, and other material regarding Giardina's career and personal life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes Giardina family photographs, assorted correspondence, and other material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes research notes, correspondence, and other material used by Giardina in writing \u003ctitle\u003eSaints and Villains\u003c/title\u003e and other material regarding Giardina's 2000 West Virginia gubernatorial campaign.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis addendum includes family records, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs, as well as several middle and high school literature awards, newspaper columns, and scrapbooks. 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The collection includes research notebooks and draft manuscripts of her historical novels  Good King Harry ,  Storming Heaven ,  The Unquiet Earth ,  Saints and Villains , and  Emily's Ghost .","The collection also includes five 5.25 in. floppy computer disks containing electronic files and Giardina's notes, drafts for an unfinished and unpublished work of nonfiction entitled \"The State of Appalachia\", and a draft of a play about Senator Robert C. Byrd entitled \"Robert and Ted.\" Digital files also include the script for a speech given by Giardina at a high school graduation.","Additional material pertains to her personal and professional life, covering topics including her childhood an Italian heritage, her travels, and her campaign for Governor of West Virginia in 2000.","Series include:  \nSeries 1. Floppy Disks (undated), box 1 \nSeries 2.  Good King Harry  (1984, undated), boxes 1-2 \nSeries 3.  Storming Heaven  (undated), boxes 2-4 \nSeries 4.  The Unquiet Earth  (undated), boxes 4-5 \nSeries 5.  Saints and Villains  and  Fallam's Secret  (undated), box 5 \nSeries 6.  Emily's Ghost  (2006-2009, undated), box 6 \nSeries 7. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (2002-2013, undated), boxes 6-7 \nAddendum of 2014/06/30,  Animals  (undated), box 7 \nAddendum of 2016/12/15, Correspondence, Photographs, and Other Material (circa 1950-2008), boxes 8-10 \nAddendum of 2017/10/19, Photographs and Other Material (circa 1900-2016), box 11 \nAddendum of 2018/02/23,  Saints and Villains  and Other Material (circa 1979-1999, undated), box 12 \nAddendum of 2019/06/19, Family Records (1964-2019 and undated), boxes 13-14 \nAddendum of 2020/08/28, Draft and Other Material (1951-1983 and undated), box 15 \nAddendum of 2022/05/18, Graduation Speech Script (2022)","This series consists of five floppy disks with an attached sticky note from Giardina that identifies them as containing backups for  The State of Appalachia  and  The Unquiet Earth .","This series pertains to Giardina's first novel,  Good King Harry  (1984), a fictional re-telling of the life of Henry V of England. This series contains four notebooks: one containing research notes, the other three containing manuscript drafts. The research notebook contains news clippings, maps, and other material, some which was collected during Giardina's time studying abroad in England in 1972. The three draft notebooks contain the fourth notebook of the first draft, the first notebook of the second draft, and the last notebook Giardina used before she began to type a final version of the novel for her agent.","This series regards  Storming Heaven  (1987), a historical novel that tells the story of the coal town of Annadel, West Virginia through the eyes of its residents, culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain. This series contains five notebooks. There are two research notebooks, the first of which is also the last notebook in Series 2. The remaining three notebooks contain draft versions of the novel. The first research notebook contains research notes, news clippings, and photocopies, most regarding labor and Charleston history, and other material. The second research notebook contains Giardina's earliest notes for  Storming Heaven . The draft manuscript notebooks include the second and third notebooks of the first draft and the first notebook of a revised draft. "," In the second notebook of the first draft of  Storming Heaven  (green notebook in box 3, folder 2) is an episode that was not included in the finished novel; it is titled \"From the Diary of Lytton Davidson\" and appears on pages 298-310.","This series regards  The Unquiet Earth  (1992), a historical novel and sequel to  Storming Heaven . The series consists of three notebooks, each of which contains an early draft version of the novel.","This series regards  Saints and Villains  (1998), a historical novel concerning the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was executed by Nazi Germany for crimes against the regime. This series contains two notebooks: the first containing research notes, and the other a draft version of the novel. The research notebook mostly consists of notes from a German language class that Giardina took. The second notebook also contains early notes for Giardina's subsequent novel,  Fallam's Secret .","This series regards  Emily's Ghost  (2009), a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Emily Bronte. This series contains two notebooks, the first containing research notes, and the second containing a draft version of the novel. Inside the front cover of the research notebook are a New Yorker article regarding cholera and a copy of a review of \"Emily's Ghost\" by Jennifer L. Holberg that was published in \"Books and Culture: A Christian Review;\" the review has underlining by Giardina.","This series includes manuscripts for several unpublished and unfinished works, including:","The State of Appalachia  (undated), an unfinished and unpublished work of non-fiction. It consists of one notebook containing research notes and draft versions of the book.","Robert and Ted  (2011-2013), an unfinished play about Senator Robert C. Byrd. Box 6 includes one typescript copy of the first draft of the first act of the play and an email authored by Giardina to a director regarding a staged reading of the play. Box 7 includes drafts 4-6 of the play; collection also includes digital files for these drafts.","Can These Bones Live?  (2002). Notes for a speech created by Giardina on 25 October 2002 delivered at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia regarding biblical stories.","This addendum includes both a printed and digital copy of a draft of a memoir titled  Animals . This memoir recounts episodes from Giardina's life, focusing on the pets she and her family owned. She also writes about Italian immigration in WV, race relations and civil rights, life in coal camps, coal companies, her time in school, her political views, travel to England, religion, music, her mother, and her personal experience writing.","This addendum includes assorted professional and personal correspondence, photographs, and other material regarding Giardina's career and personal life.","This addendum includes Giardina family photographs, assorted correspondence, and other material.","This addendum includes research notes, correspondence, and other material used by Giardina in writing  Saints and Villains  and other material regarding Giardina's 2000 West Virginia gubernatorial campaign.","This addendum includes family records, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs, as well as several middle and high school literature awards, newspaper columns, and scrapbooks. Also included is a draft of \"Storming Heaven.\"","This addendum consists of assorted certificates, photographs, papers, newspaper clippings, and the first draft of \"Storming Heaven.\"","This addendum consists of a script written for a high school graduation speech Giardina gave in 2022."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Most of his work was produced at his home \"Old Hemlock\" in Preston County, West Virginia. Records document his careers as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting; as a breeder of quality bird dogs; an illustrator for several national magazines and the United States Navy during World War II; and as co-author with his wife, Kay Evans, of mystery novels. Materials include: George Bird Evans' Gun Diary with entries and illustrations regarding hunting, fishing, and dog breeding experiences for 65 years; correspondence with friends, patrons, publishers, and other hunters; manuscripts and galleys; cassette tapes (2 items) of recordings of readings by George and Kay Evans; DVDs (3 items) containing 188 digital scans of illustrations by George Bird Evans; and a scrapbook documenting the Evans' career as mystery writers under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". There are also 32 oversize drawings by G.B. 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","George Washington Bird Evans and Eve Hunt Evans celebrated the birth of their only child, George Bird Evans, in 1906. Their comfortable Uniontown, Pennsylvania home provided a secure environment for young George to learn and develop his talents in art and literature. George's father also wasted no time pouring into his young son his love for hunting, bird dogs, and the outdoor life. George Bird Evans attended Carnegie Institute to pursue a career in art. He later transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, staying for two years before moving to New York in 1927 to establish a career as an illustrator, but not alone. He had met and married Kay Harris from Wheeling; their marriage would last for over seventy years. In New York George Evans found success as an illustrator. He also included trips home for the hunt of game on Chestnut Ridge during hunting season. George started keeping a \"gun diary\" or journal in 1932, recording every outing for hunting, shooting, or bird dog training over the next 65 years. The Evans loved the Chestnut Ridge area, leaving New York in 1939 to buy a farm in Preston County, West Virginia, naming their new homestead \"Old Hemlock\". George enjoyed working out of his new surroundings, mailing his work to publishers in New York and having time to roam and hunt with Kay and their dogs.","This ideal life was interrupted by World War II when George volunteered his services and was commissioned a Lieutenant J.G. in Navy. He used his talents by illustrating equipment repair manuals, substituting pictures for complicated language. After the war George and Kay chose to venture into writing mystery novels as a team under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". It was a success. The Evans were also beginning to breed Belton English Setters in their quest for the best bird dog possible. In 1956 George started using his journal as a source for articles, publishing over a hundred over the next forty two years. In 1971 his first book, \"The Upland Shooting Life\", was published, achieving status as a classic. Twenty seven more upland shooting books followed. Most of the photographs published with the articles and books were taken by Kay Evans. Always careful with their projects, George and Kay Evans began publishing their own books in 1983 under the name \"Old Hemlock\". George Bird Evans died in May, 1998 at the age of ninety-one. He had been hunting only a few weeks before with his best friend Kay and their family of bird dogs.","Papers of George Bird Evans, including records documenting his career as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting, and as a breeder of his own line of Belton English Setter bird dogs called the \"Old Hemlock Line\" in partnership with his wife, Kay Evans. There are also records regarding his career as a magazine illustrator, including his original art works (32 oversize drawings) that were published with fiction that appeared in several popular women's magazines before and after World War II (including \"Cosmopolitan\" and \"McCall's\" among others). The collaborative writing career of George and Kay Evans under the pen name of \"Brandon Bird\" is documented in a scrapbook (ca.1950-1962) containing photographs, clippings, and book reviews regarding their five published mystery novels.","\nThe collection includes a journal, which Evans referred to as his \"Gun Diary\", with entries ranging from 1932 to 1997 where Evans recorded and illustrated his hunting, fishing, and bird dog training excursions for 65 years. There are also several periodicals, such as \"Field and Stream\", \"The Pointing Dog Journal\", and \"Gun Dog\", among others, most issues contain articles by George Bird Evans and a few by Kay Evans. Other materials include extensive correspondence with publishers, friends, outdoor sports writers, hunters and breeders (such as Nash Buckingham, Dr. Charles Norris, and Dr. Gordon Gullion), and patrons of his bird dog breeding business. There are several manuscripts and galleys of published books, including \"The Upland Shooting Life\" and \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\", among others. There are also financial records regarding the publication and sales of his books, videos, and cassette tapes. The collection also includes 188 digital scans of illustrations by Evans on DVD discs (3 items), audio recordings (2 cassette tapes) of readings by George and Kay Evans, and oversized framed photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, his wife Kay, and their dogs.","Series include:","Series 1. Biographical Information, 1936, 1993, 2008 (box 1)  \nSeries 2. Journal of George Bird Evans, 1932–1997 (boxes 1-4)  \nSeries 3. Correspondence, 1942–2005 (boxes 5-9)  \nSeries 4. Manuscripts - Published Books, ca. 1971 (boxes 9-16)  \nSeries 5. Manuscripts - Published Articles, ca. 1961-1995 (box 17)  \nSeries 6. Manuscript, undated (box 17)  \nSeries 7. Manuscripts - Illustrations, ca. 1984-1986 (box 17)  \nSeries 8. Manuscripts - Galleys, 1956, ca. 1991, undated (box 18)  \nSeries 9. Projects - Dr. Charles Norris, 1952-1969, undated (boxes 19-22)  \nSeries 10. Projects - Nash Buckingham, 1960–1984 (boxes 23-25)  \nSeries 11. Financial Records, 1971–1999 (boxes 25-26)  \nSeries 12. Magazine Articles, 1956, 1971-1982 (box 26)  \nSeries 13. Subjects, 1975–1997 (box 26)  \nSeries 14. Audio Tapes, June 1989 and Fall 1993 (box 26)  \nSeries 15. Digital Files, undated (box 26)  \nSeries 16. Scrapbook, ca. 1948-1975 (box 27)  \nSeries 17. Artworks, ca. 1938-1948 (boxes 28-29)  \nSeries 18. Oversized Pictures of George Bird Evans and Others, undated (box 29)  \nSeries 19. Artifacts, undated (box 30)  \nSeries 20. Motion Picture, undated (box 30)  \nSeries 21. Sportsmen Journals, 1959–2013 (boxes 31-38)  \nSeries 22. Motion Pictures -- Unpublished, ca. 1950-1975 (boxes 39-42)  \nSeries 23. Oversized Material, 1986 (unboxed)","Regards the life and career of George Bird Evans, including feature articles in the Morgantown \"Dominion Post\" newspaper (1993) and The West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter (Spring 2008). Also contains a 3 in. x 5 in. photograph of George Bird Evans with one of his setters and a \"kill\" (a grouse); a photograph of Evans with friend, David Hall; and two photos of Evans with his wife Kay on a fishing trip (1936).","Spanning 65 years (1932-1997), the journal documents the hunting, fishing, and dog training excursions of George Evans through text and illustrations. The journals were a primary source for most of the books and articles Evans authored.","Includes a substantial amount of correspondence with the book publishers (Winchester, Amwell, and Alfred Knopf Company), book dealers, and magazines (including: \"Field and Stream\", \"Gun Dog\", \"American Hunter\", and \"The American Sportsman\") that were publishing material authored by Evans. Also includes research requests, permissions, and releases for material used in publications by Evans. Other correspondents includes friends and fellow hunters. Many letters were from patrons and fans such as David Hall and the Ingrahams. There is a series of letters \"written\" by the setters at Old Hemlock to their family members that were living with the Ingrahams.","This series contains 16 manuscripts of published books by George Bird Evans, including his first book pertaining to dogs, guns, and hunting, \"The Upland Shooting Life\" (1971) and his last, \"Grouse \u0026 Woodcocks in the Blackwater/Canaan\" (1997). There is one incomplete manuscript of a published book, \"From My Covers\" (1995).","This series contains 17 published articles and seven \"copies\" of published articles authored by George Bird Evans with photographs by Kay Evans. Most were published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" but some appeared in \"Pennsylvania Gaming News\" and Field and Stream,\" among other such publications. There are also four forewords by George Bird Evans, including an introduction for the 1989 edition of \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" authored by Evans's close friend, Dr. Charles Norris.","Includes:","1. \"The Ache of Memory,\" published in the \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","2. \"A Bird Dog Fancy,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (November 1993)","3. \"The Solo Dog,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","4. \"The Quality of Time,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1993)","5. \"The End of Day,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","6. \"Bittersweet,\" appears in the book \"A Breed Apart, Vol. I,\" published by \"Countrysport Press\" (1993)"," Also includes editing notes, layouts and photo captions.","Includes:","1. \"And Don't Go Near the Water,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1993)","2. \"Point of Pride,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1993)","3. \"Light Guns, Light Loads, and A Gentle Bird,\" published in \"Game and Gun\" (July 1992/07)","4. \"Luck of November,\" published in \"Game Journal\" (January 1992)","5. \"Giants of the Coverts\" (Kay Harris Evans's photographs), published in \"Shooting Sportsman\" (1990)","6. \"Sixty-Seven Seasons Gunning Grouse,\" an article appearing as a chapter in the book, \"Bare November Days,\" published by Countrysport Press (1992)","Includes:","1. \"Char,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1995)","2. \"Anniversary,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1995)","3. \"When the Blood Is There,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (September 1994)","4. \"How Many Days,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","5. \"In the Coverts of Our Minds,\" appears in the book, \"Come October,\" published by Countrysport Press (1991)"," Also includes the manuscript, \"Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948,\" labeled \"unused\"","Includes:","1. \"Tradition in My Hands,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (1982)","2. \"Fowling Piece for a Wife\" by Kay Harris Evans, publication information unknown","3. \"Wild Clays,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (June 1988)","4. \"A Winter's Tale,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (December 1988)","5. \"The Day the Purdey Broke,\" publication information unknown","6. \"Tony's Mayhawk Speck: 17 June 1923 - 9 November 1935,\" publication information unknown","7. \"A Gunner's Tale,\" publication information unknown","8. \"A Family Connection\" [photocopy], published in \"Civil War Times Illustrated\" (November 1961) [regards the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett; see Box 27 for correspondence and clippings regarding this song]"," Also includes four \"Forewords\" by George Bird Evans:","1. \"Woodcock Shooting\" author, Edmund W. Davis","2. Gordon Gullion's book, title unknown","3. \"Upland Game Bird Shooting\" author, Eugene Connett","4. \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" author, Charles Norris"," Also includes four pages of Evans's notes, photocopies of articles regarding upland shooting and clippings of obituaries","This series contains the manuscript of \"Three Englishmen and A Lady\" by George and Kay Evans; it follows the lives of four of the Evans' Belton English Setters, including Ruff, Blue, Feathers, and Wilda. Publication information is unknown; it was apparently never published as an entire work.","This series includes several of George Bird Evans's \"Gun Diary\" sketches taken from his journal. Many were used in Evans's books (including \"Grouse along the Tramroad\") and articles. There are also charts comparing 41 seasons (1939-1980) of grouse numbers and grouse per coverts.","This series includes proofs of published works includes two books, \"Living with Gun Dogs\" (nine rolled and sealed galleys) and \"Hawk Watch\" authored by George and Kay Evans (unrolled galleys). It also includes three articles and/or chapters: \"Charles Hallock, 1834-1917,\" \"V.E. Willouby\" and \"S.T. Hammond 'Shadow,' 1831-1925.\"","Dr. Norris was a close friend George and Kay Evans. When writing the book \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" Norris became too ill to complete it; this series includes three copies of the unfinished manuscript. George Bird Evans used the unfinished work as the basis for \"Recollections of a Shooting Guest\"; an incomplete copy of the manuscript for \"Shooting Guest\" is also included in this series. There are also copies of letters Dr. Norris wrote to George and Kay Evans over a period of eight years which were used as a resource for information and quotations included in the book. This series also includes photographs of Dr. Norris and his dogs, ephemera from hunting and shooting establishments, and clippings.","George Bird Evans wrote two books to honor the conservationist and author Nash Buckingham by focusing on Buckingham's own material, including \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and \"Dear John . . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". The collection has one copy of the manuscript of \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and two copies of the manuscript for 'Dear John. . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". Evans used, among other sources, the extensive correspondence of Nash Buckingham for both books. The letters are included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Buckingham's family and friends relating facts and anecdotes regarding Nash Buckingham; photographs of Nash Buckingham; and ephemera, including programs from the Hunting Hall of Fame ceremony honoring Nash Buckingham as a 1974 inductee.","Includes stories of shooting, hunting with friends, and samples of Buckingham's 'down home' language. Also includes copies of Nash Buckingham's obituary, reviews of Evans's book, \"The Best of Nash Buckingham,\" published in newspapers and written in private letters to Evans.","Includes anecdotes about Nash Buckingham, a page of \"Notes on Scent,\" written by Buckingham (photocopy), and several lists with subjects including Buckingham's published books and articles, his guns, and \"his people.\"","Includes programs and memorabilia from The Hunting Hall of Fame's Second Awards Dinner (honoring Nash Buckingham as one of the 1974 inductees), the January 1982 issue of \"MS Outdoors\" featuring an article about John Bailey, a close friend of Nash Buckingham, and advertisements for \"The Nash Buckingham Award Gun.\"","Items include:","1. Nash Buckingham receiving the award as the \"1962 Outdoorsman of the Year\"","2. Nash Buckingham at age 85 (1965)","3. A 1984 photograph of a photograph portrait of Nash Buckingham","Subjects include hunting, shooting, and fishing in various regions of the country, and breeding bird dogs. Also includes Nash Buckingham's work on a federal task force to investigate illegal trapping during the depression years [ca. 1936-1938] and his strong opinions against Franklin Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"","Subjects include the building of John Bailey's Lodge, farm preserves, a copy of a speech given by Buckingham at an awards dinner, habitat destruction, and hunting.","Subjects include federal hunting legislation, habitat destruction, \"Sling Shot Charlie\" and the world's largest sling shot, hunting, dogs and family.","This series includes ledgers compiled by the Evans to record sales of their books and audio tapes. There are also several royalty statements.","Articles:","1. \"Old Hemlock: Bequeath to Nature Conservancy,\" published in \"Journal of the Alleghenies,\" Volume VII (1971)","2. \"A Closer Look at Electronic Collars\" (copy), published in \"The American Hunter\" (December 1973)","3. \"The Grandeur and The Glory,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (January 1982)","4. \"Design for Setters,\" unknown publication (1956)","This series includes a variety of material, including a 1988 pedigree chart for the Old Hemlock line of English Setters bred by Stephen Hitsman and George and Kay Evans; research notes compiled by George Bird Evans from his reading of books related to hunting; a greeting card to the Evans labeled by George and/or Kay \"idea for opus 12 jacket\"; and ephemera (three cards advertising publication of books by George Bird Evans).","This series includes audio tapes of \"An Evening at Old Hemlock\" (includes George and Kay Harris Evans reading selections from several books authored by George Bird Evans).","This series includes 3 DVDs by the Hemlock Foundation of hunting footage and other videos about George Bird Evans. Also present are 3 DVDs that include additional copies of digital files of scans of illustrations by Evans that appeared in \"Cosmopolitan,\" \"McCall's,\" and other magazines from Series 12. Magazine Articles [box 26].","This scrapbook documents the collaborative writing career of George and Kay Harris Evans under the pen name \"Brandon Bird,\" which produced five mystery novels and a number of fiction pieces for magazines (includes clippings of articles regarding the Evans as a writing team and the awards they had won; book reviews of the Evans' five mystery novels by several publications, including the New York Times Book Review; press releases announcing the publication of a new novel and several 8x10 photographs of the Evans, their home and their dogs; also includes correspondence and clippings regarding the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett [the original manuscript of the song was in the possession of George and Kay Harris Evans at their home Old Hemlock; see Box 17, Folder 4 for manuscript of article by Evans regarding the Evans-Emmett connection]).","This series includes original copies of illustrations by George Bird Evans (includes 30 oversize pieces, most published in popular women's magazines [such as Cosmopolitan and McCall's] before and after World War II; one 8 1/2 x 12 inch watercolor illustration for book \"Mission Murder\" by Hugh Pentecost; and one 16 x 20 inch drawing of military equipment, drawn by Lieutenant J.G. Evans for the Navy during WWII).","This series includes seven photographs of George Bird Evans, Kay Harris Evans, their dogs, and members of the Evans family; it also includes two artworks by Evans depicting himself and his dogs.","This series includes an easel, two brushes, and hunting gear (hat, backpack, shell box, and shell holster).","This series includes one DVD of an 18-minute motion picture documentary featuring footage of George Bird Evans describing his home, property, and way of life.","This series includes periodicals such as \"Field and Stream,\" \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" \"Game and Gun,\" \"Gun Dog,\" \"Shooting Sportsman,\" and \"Pennsylvania Game News,\" among others. There are also three editions of \"The American Sportsman\" book series with photographs from the ABC-TV series, \"The American Sportsman.\" Several of the publications have articles by George Bird Evans and Kay Harris Evans (most are written by George Bird Evans, some are co-authored with his wife, Kay Evans, and a few are by Kay Evans only).","This series includes 8mm motion picture films of dog training and of special events in the lives of George and Kay Harris Evans and their dogs.","This series includes one framed illustration of a hunting dog by G.B. Evans, \"Toby's Mayhawk Speck-1931\" with text [media unknown, 20 x 25 1/4 inches, signed (68 of 750)].","Books by George Bird Evans separated to the Rare Book Collection.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of George Bird Evans, a widely published author and illustrator of books and articles regarding hunting and bird dog breeding. Most of his work was produced at his home \"Old Hemlock\" in Preston County, West Virginia. Records document his careers as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting; as a breeder of quality bird dogs; an illustrator for several national magazines and the United States Navy during World War II; and as co-author with his wife, Kay Evans, of mystery novels. Materials include: George Bird Evans' Gun Diary with entries and illustrations regarding hunting, fishing, and dog breeding experiences for 65 years; correspondence with friends, patrons, publishers, and other hunters; manuscripts and galleys; cassette tapes (2 items) of recordings of readings by George and Kay Evans; DVDs (3 items) containing 188 digital scans of illustrations by George Bird Evans; and a scrapbook documenting the Evans' career as mystery writers under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". There are also 32 oversize drawings by G.B. Evans; oversized photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, Kay Evans, and their dogs; a DVD of an 18 minute motion picture regarding George Bird Evans; and several sportsman journals, most with published articles by George Bird Evans.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGeorge Washington Bird Evans and Eve Hunt Evans celebrated the birth of their only child, George Bird Evans, in 1906. Their comfortable Uniontown, Pennsylvania home provided a secure environment for young George to learn and develop his talents in art and literature. George's father also wasted no time pouring into his young son his love for hunting, bird dogs, and the outdoor life. George Bird Evans attended Carnegie Institute to pursue a career in art. He later transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, staying for two years before moving to New York in 1927 to establish a career as an illustrator, but not alone. He had met and married Kay Harris from Wheeling; their marriage would last for over seventy years. In New York George Evans found success as an illustrator. He also included trips home for the hunt of game on Chestnut Ridge during hunting season. George started keeping a \"gun diary\" or journal in 1932, recording every outing for hunting, shooting, or bird dog training over the next 65 years. The Evans loved the Chestnut Ridge area, leaving New York in 1939 to buy a farm in Preston County, West Virginia, naming their new homestead \"Old Hemlock\". George enjoyed working out of his new surroundings, mailing his work to publishers in New York and having time to roam and hunt with Kay and their dogs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis ideal life was interrupted by World War II when George volunteered his services and was commissioned a Lieutenant J.G. in Navy. He used his talents by illustrating equipment repair manuals, substituting pictures for complicated language. After the war George and Kay chose to venture into writing mystery novels as a team under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". It was a success. The Evans were also beginning to breed Belton English Setters in their quest for the best bird dog possible. In 1956 George started using his journal as a source for articles, publishing over a hundred over the next forty two years. In 1971 his first book, \"The Upland Shooting Life\", was published, achieving status as a classic. Twenty seven more upland shooting books followed. Most of the photographs published with the articles and books were taken by Kay Evans. Always careful with their projects, George and Kay Evans began publishing their own books in 1983 under the name \"Old Hemlock\". George Bird Evans died in May, 1998 at the age of ninety-one. He had been hunting only a few weeks before with his best friend Kay and their family of bird dogs.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["George Washington Bird Evans and Eve Hunt Evans celebrated the birth of their only child, George Bird Evans, in 1906. Their comfortable Uniontown, Pennsylvania home provided a secure environment for young George to learn and develop his talents in art and literature. George's father also wasted no time pouring into his young son his love for hunting, bird dogs, and the outdoor life. George Bird Evans attended Carnegie Institute to pursue a career in art. He later transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, staying for two years before moving to New York in 1927 to establish a career as an illustrator, but not alone. He had met and married Kay Harris from Wheeling; their marriage would last for over seventy years. In New York George Evans found success as an illustrator. He also included trips home for the hunt of game on Chestnut Ridge during hunting season. George started keeping a \"gun diary\" or journal in 1932, recording every outing for hunting, shooting, or bird dog training over the next 65 years. The Evans loved the Chestnut Ridge area, leaving New York in 1939 to buy a farm in Preston County, West Virginia, naming their new homestead \"Old Hemlock\". George enjoyed working out of his new surroundings, mailing his work to publishers in New York and having time to roam and hunt with Kay and their dogs.","This ideal life was interrupted by World War II when George volunteered his services and was commissioned a Lieutenant J.G. in Navy. He used his talents by illustrating equipment repair manuals, substituting pictures for complicated language. After the war George and Kay chose to venture into writing mystery novels as a team under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". It was a success. The Evans were also beginning to breed Belton English Setters in their quest for the best bird dog possible. In 1956 George started using his journal as a source for articles, publishing over a hundred over the next forty two years. In 1971 his first book, \"The Upland Shooting Life\", was published, achieving status as a classic. Twenty seven more upland shooting books followed. Most of the photographs published with the articles and books were taken by Kay Evans. Always careful with their projects, George and Kay Evans began publishing their own books in 1983 under the name \"Old Hemlock\". George Bird Evans died in May, 1998 at the age of ninety-one. He had been hunting only a few weeks before with his best friend Kay and their family of bird dogs."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George Bird Evans Papers, A\u0026amp;M 3610, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George Bird Evans Papers, A\u0026M 3610, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of George Bird Evans, including records documenting his career as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting, and as a breeder of his own line of Belton English Setter bird dogs called the \"Old Hemlock Line\" in partnership with his wife, Kay Evans. There are also records regarding his career as a magazine illustrator, including his original art works (32 oversize drawings) that were published with fiction that appeared in several popular women's magazines before and after World War II (including \"Cosmopolitan\" and \"McCall's\" among others). The collaborative writing career of George and Kay Evans under the pen name of \"Brandon Bird\" is documented in a scrapbook (ca.1950-1962) containing photographs, clippings, and book reviews regarding their five published mystery novels.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe collection includes a journal, which Evans referred to as his \"Gun Diary\", with entries ranging from 1932 to 1997 where Evans recorded and illustrated his hunting, fishing, and bird dog training excursions for 65 years. There are also several periodicals, such as \"Field and Stream\", \"The Pointing Dog Journal\", and \"Gun Dog\", among others, most issues contain articles by George Bird Evans and a few by Kay Evans. Other materials include extensive correspondence with publishers, friends, outdoor sports writers, hunters and breeders (such as Nash Buckingham, Dr. Charles Norris, and Dr. Gordon Gullion), and patrons of his bird dog breeding business. There are several manuscripts and galleys of published books, including \"The Upland Shooting Life\" and \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\", among others. There are also financial records regarding the publication and sales of his books, videos, and cassette tapes. The collection also includes 188 digital scans of illustrations by Evans on DVD discs (3 items), audio recordings (2 cassette tapes) of readings by George and Kay Evans, and oversized framed photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, his wife Kay, and their dogs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Biographical Information, 1936, 1993, 2008 (box 1) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Journal of George Bird Evans, 1932–1997 (boxes 1-4) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Correspondence, 1942–2005 (boxes 5-9) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Manuscripts - Published Books, ca. 1971 (boxes 9-16) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Manuscripts - Published Articles, ca. 1961-1995 (box 17) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Manuscript, undated (box 17) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Manuscripts - Illustrations, ca. 1984-1986 (box 17) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Manuscripts - Galleys, 1956, ca. 1991, undated (box 18) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Projects - Dr. Charles Norris, 1952-1969, undated (boxes 19-22) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. Projects - Nash Buckingham, 1960–1984 (boxes 23-25) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Financial Records, 1971–1999 (boxes 25-26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Magazine Articles, 1956, 1971-1982 (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 13. Subjects, 1975–1997 (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 14. Audio Tapes, June 1989 and Fall 1993 (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 15. Digital Files, undated (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 16. Scrapbook, ca. 1948-1975 (box 27) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 17. Artworks, ca. 1938-1948 (boxes 28-29) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 18. Oversized Pictures of George Bird Evans and Others, undated (box 29) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 19. Artifacts, undated (box 30) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 20. Motion Picture, undated (box 30) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 21. Sportsmen Journals, 1959–2013 (boxes 31-38) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 22. Motion Pictures -- Unpublished, ca. 1950-1975 (boxes 39-42) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 23. Oversized Material, 1986 (unboxed)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegards the life and career of George Bird Evans, including feature articles in the Morgantown \"Dominion Post\" newspaper (1993) and The West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter (Spring 2008). Also contains a 3 in. x 5 in. photograph of George Bird Evans with one of his setters and a \"kill\" (a grouse); a photograph of Evans with friend, David Hall; and two photos of Evans with his wife Kay on a fishing trip (1936).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpanning 65 years (1932-1997), the journal documents the hunting, fishing, and dog training excursions of George Evans through text and illustrations. The journals were a primary source for most of the books and articles Evans authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a substantial amount of correspondence with the book publishers (Winchester, Amwell, and Alfred Knopf Company), book dealers, and magazines (including: \"Field and Stream\", \"Gun Dog\", \"American Hunter\", and \"The American Sportsman\") that were publishing material authored by Evans. Also includes research requests, permissions, and releases for material used in publications by Evans. Other correspondents includes friends and fellow hunters. Many letters were from patrons and fans such as David Hall and the Ingrahams. There is a series of letters \"written\" by the setters at Old Hemlock to their family members that were living with the Ingrahams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains 16 manuscripts of published books by George Bird Evans, including his first book pertaining to dogs, guns, and hunting, \"The Upland Shooting Life\" (1971) and his last, \"Grouse \u0026amp; Woodcocks in the Blackwater/Canaan\" (1997). There is one incomplete manuscript of a published book, \"From My Covers\" (1995).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains 17 published articles and seven \"copies\" of published articles authored by George Bird Evans with photographs by Kay Evans. Most were published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" but some appeared in \"Pennsylvania Gaming News\" and Field and Stream,\" among other such publications. There are also four forewords by George Bird Evans, including an introduction for the 1989 edition of \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" authored by Evans's close friend, Dr. Charles Norris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. \"The Ache of Memory,\" published in the \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. \"A Bird Dog Fancy,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (November 1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. \"The Solo Dog,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \"The Quality of Time,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. \"The End of Day,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e6. \"Bittersweet,\" appears in the book \"A Breed Apart, Vol. I,\" published by \"Countrysport Press\" (1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Also includes editing notes, layouts and photo captions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. \"And Don't Go Near the Water,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. \"Point of Pride,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. \"Light Guns, Light Loads, and A Gentle Bird,\" published in \"Game and Gun\" (July 1992/07)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \"Luck of November,\" published in \"Game Journal\" (January 1992)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. \"Giants of the Coverts\" (Kay Harris Evans's photographs), published in \"Shooting Sportsman\" (1990)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e6. \"Sixty-Seven Seasons Gunning Grouse,\" an article appearing as a chapter in the book, \"Bare November Days,\" published by Countrysport Press (1992)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Char,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1995)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. \"Anniversary,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1995)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. \"When the Blood Is There,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (September 1994)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \"How Many Days,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. \"In the Coverts of Our Minds,\" appears in the book, \"Come October,\" published by Countrysport Press (1991)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Also includes the manuscript, \"Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948,\" labeled \"unused\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Tradition in My Hands,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (1982)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. \"Fowling Piece for a Wife\" by Kay Harris Evans, publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. \"Wild Clays,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (June 1988)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \"A Winter's Tale,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (December 1988)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. \"The Day the Purdey Broke,\" publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e6. \"Tony's Mayhawk Speck: 17 June 1923 - 9 November 1935,\" publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e7. \"A Gunner's Tale,\" publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e8. \"A Family Connection\" [photocopy], published in \"Civil War Times Illustrated\" (November 1961) [regards the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett; see Box 27 for correspondence and clippings regarding this song]\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Also includes four \"Forewords\" by George Bird Evans:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Woodcock Shooting\" author, Edmund W. Davis\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Gordon Gullion's book, title unknown\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. \"Upland Game Bird Shooting\" author, Eugene Connett\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" author, Charles Norris\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Also includes four pages of Evans's notes, photocopies of articles regarding upland shooting and clippings of obituaries\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the manuscript of \"Three Englishmen and A Lady\" by George and Kay Evans; it follows the lives of four of the Evans' Belton English Setters, including Ruff, Blue, Feathers, and Wilda. Publication information is unknown; it was apparently never published as an entire work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes several of George Bird Evans's \"Gun Diary\" sketches taken from his journal. Many were used in Evans's books (including \"Grouse along the Tramroad\") and articles. There are also charts comparing 41 seasons (1939-1980) of grouse numbers and grouse per coverts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes proofs of published works includes two books, \"Living with Gun Dogs\" (nine rolled and sealed galleys) and \"Hawk Watch\" authored by George and Kay Evans (unrolled galleys). It also includes three articles and/or chapters: \"Charles Hallock, 1834-1917,\" \"V.E. Willouby\" and \"S.T. Hammond 'Shadow,' 1831-1925.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Norris was a close friend George and Kay Evans. When writing the book \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" Norris became too ill to complete it; this series includes three copies of the unfinished manuscript. George Bird Evans used the unfinished work as the basis for \"Recollections of a Shooting Guest\"; an incomplete copy of the manuscript for \"Shooting Guest\" is also included in this series. There are also copies of letters Dr. Norris wrote to George and Kay Evans over a period of eight years which were used as a resource for information and quotations included in the book. This series also includes photographs of Dr. Norris and his dogs, ephemera from hunting and shooting establishments, and clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Bird Evans wrote two books to honor the conservationist and author Nash Buckingham by focusing on Buckingham's own material, including \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and \"Dear John . . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". The collection has one copy of the manuscript of \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and two copies of the manuscript for 'Dear John. . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". Evans used, among other sources, the extensive correspondence of Nash Buckingham for both books. The letters are included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Buckingham's family and friends relating facts and anecdotes regarding Nash Buckingham; photographs of Nash Buckingham; and ephemera, including programs from the Hunting Hall of Fame ceremony honoring Nash Buckingham as a 1974 inductee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes stories of shooting, hunting with friends, and samples of Buckingham's 'down home' language. Also includes copies of Nash Buckingham's obituary, reviews of Evans's book, \"The Best of Nash Buckingham,\" published in newspapers and written in private letters to Evans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes anecdotes about Nash Buckingham, a page of \"Notes on Scent,\" written by Buckingham (photocopy), and several lists with subjects including Buckingham's published books and articles, his guns, and \"his people.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes programs and memorabilia from The Hunting Hall of Fame's Second Awards Dinner (honoring Nash Buckingham as one of the 1974 inductees), the January 1982 issue of \"MS Outdoors\" featuring an article about John Bailey, a close friend of Nash Buckingham, and advertisements for \"The Nash Buckingham Award Gun.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. Nash Buckingham receiving the award as the \"1962 Outdoorsman of the Year\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Nash Buckingham at age 85 (1965)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. A 1984 photograph of a photograph portrait of Nash Buckingham\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include hunting, shooting, and fishing in various regions of the country, and breeding bird dogs. Also includes Nash Buckingham's work on a federal task force to investigate illegal trapping during the depression years [ca. 1936-1938] and his strong opinions against Franklin Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include the building of John Bailey's Lodge, farm preserves, a copy of a speech given by Buckingham at an awards dinner, habitat destruction, and hunting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include federal hunting legislation, habitat destruction, \"Sling Shot Charlie\" and the world's largest sling shot, hunting, dogs and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes ledgers compiled by the Evans to record sales of their books and audio tapes. There are also several royalty statements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Old Hemlock: Bequeath to Nature Conservancy,\" published in \"Journal of the Alleghenies,\" Volume VII (1971)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. \"A Closer Look at Electronic Collars\" (copy), published in \"The American Hunter\" (December 1973)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. \"The Grandeur and The Glory,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (January 1982)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \"Design for Setters,\" unknown publication (1956)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a variety of material, including a 1988 pedigree chart for the Old Hemlock line of English Setters bred by Stephen Hitsman and George and Kay Evans; research notes compiled by George Bird Evans from his reading of books related to hunting; a greeting card to the Evans labeled by George and/or Kay \"idea for opus 12 jacket\"; and ephemera (three cards advertising publication of books by George Bird Evans).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes audio tapes of \"An Evening at Old Hemlock\" (includes George and Kay Harris Evans reading selections from several books authored by George Bird Evans).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes 3 DVDs by the Hemlock Foundation of hunting footage and other videos about George Bird Evans. Also present are 3 DVDs that include additional copies of digital files of scans of illustrations by Evans that appeared in \"Cosmopolitan,\" \"McCall's,\" and other magazines from Series 12. Magazine Articles [box 26].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook documents the collaborative writing career of George and Kay Harris Evans under the pen name \"Brandon Bird,\" which produced five mystery novels and a number of fiction pieces for magazines (includes clippings of articles regarding the Evans as a writing team and the awards they had won; book reviews of the Evans' five mystery novels by several publications, including the New York Times Book Review; press releases announcing the publication of a new novel and several 8x10 photographs of the Evans, their home and their dogs; also includes correspondence and clippings regarding the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett [the original manuscript of the song was in the possession of George and Kay Harris Evans at their home Old Hemlock; see Box 17, Folder 4 for manuscript of article by Evans regarding the Evans-Emmett connection]).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes original copies of illustrations by George Bird Evans (includes 30 oversize pieces, most published in popular women's magazines [such as Cosmopolitan and McCall's] before and after World War II; one 8 1/2 x 12 inch watercolor illustration for book \"Mission Murder\" by Hugh Pentecost; and one 16 x 20 inch drawing of military equipment, drawn by Lieutenant J.G. Evans for the Navy during WWII).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes seven photographs of George Bird Evans, Kay Harris Evans, their dogs, and members of the Evans family; it also includes two artworks by Evans depicting himself and his dogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes an easel, two brushes, and hunting gear (hat, backpack, shell box, and shell holster).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes one DVD of an 18-minute motion picture documentary featuring footage of George Bird Evans describing his home, property, and way of life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes periodicals such as \"Field and Stream,\" \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" \"Game and Gun,\" \"Gun Dog,\" \"Shooting Sportsman,\" and \"Pennsylvania Game News,\" among others. There are also three editions of \"The American Sportsman\" book series with photographs from the ABC-TV series, \"The American Sportsman.\" Several of the publications have articles by George Bird Evans and Kay Harris Evans (most are written by George Bird Evans, some are co-authored with his wife, Kay Evans, and a few are by Kay Evans only).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes 8mm motion picture films of dog training and of special events in the lives of George and Kay Harris Evans and their dogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes one framed illustration of a hunting dog by G.B. Evans, \"Toby's Mayhawk Speck-1931\" with text [media unknown, 20 x 25 1/4 inches, signed (68 of 750)].\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of George Bird Evans, including records documenting his career as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting, and as a breeder of his own line of Belton English Setter bird dogs called the \"Old Hemlock Line\" in partnership with his wife, Kay Evans. There are also records regarding his career as a magazine illustrator, including his original art works (32 oversize drawings) that were published with fiction that appeared in several popular women's magazines before and after World War II (including \"Cosmopolitan\" and \"McCall's\" among others). The collaborative writing career of George and Kay Evans under the pen name of \"Brandon Bird\" is documented in a scrapbook (ca.1950-1962) containing photographs, clippings, and book reviews regarding their five published mystery novels.","\nThe collection includes a journal, which Evans referred to as his \"Gun Diary\", with entries ranging from 1932 to 1997 where Evans recorded and illustrated his hunting, fishing, and bird dog training excursions for 65 years. There are also several periodicals, such as \"Field and Stream\", \"The Pointing Dog Journal\", and \"Gun Dog\", among others, most issues contain articles by George Bird Evans and a few by Kay Evans. Other materials include extensive correspondence with publishers, friends, outdoor sports writers, hunters and breeders (such as Nash Buckingham, Dr. Charles Norris, and Dr. Gordon Gullion), and patrons of his bird dog breeding business. There are several manuscripts and galleys of published books, including \"The Upland Shooting Life\" and \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\", among others. There are also financial records regarding the publication and sales of his books, videos, and cassette tapes. The collection also includes 188 digital scans of illustrations by Evans on DVD discs (3 items), audio recordings (2 cassette tapes) of readings by George and Kay Evans, and oversized framed photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, his wife Kay, and their dogs.","Series include:","Series 1. Biographical Information, 1936, 1993, 2008 (box 1)  \nSeries 2. Journal of George Bird Evans, 1932–1997 (boxes 1-4)  \nSeries 3. Correspondence, 1942–2005 (boxes 5-9)  \nSeries 4. Manuscripts - Published Books, ca. 1971 (boxes 9-16)  \nSeries 5. Manuscripts - Published Articles, ca. 1961-1995 (box 17)  \nSeries 6. Manuscript, undated (box 17)  \nSeries 7. Manuscripts - Illustrations, ca. 1984-1986 (box 17)  \nSeries 8. Manuscripts - Galleys, 1956, ca. 1991, undated (box 18)  \nSeries 9. Projects - Dr. Charles Norris, 1952-1969, undated (boxes 19-22)  \nSeries 10. Projects - Nash Buckingham, 1960–1984 (boxes 23-25)  \nSeries 11. Financial Records, 1971–1999 (boxes 25-26)  \nSeries 12. Magazine Articles, 1956, 1971-1982 (box 26)  \nSeries 13. Subjects, 1975–1997 (box 26)  \nSeries 14. Audio Tapes, June 1989 and Fall 1993 (box 26)  \nSeries 15. Digital Files, undated (box 26)  \nSeries 16. Scrapbook, ca. 1948-1975 (box 27)  \nSeries 17. Artworks, ca. 1938-1948 (boxes 28-29)  \nSeries 18. Oversized Pictures of George Bird Evans and Others, undated (box 29)  \nSeries 19. Artifacts, undated (box 30)  \nSeries 20. Motion Picture, undated (box 30)  \nSeries 21. Sportsmen Journals, 1959–2013 (boxes 31-38)  \nSeries 22. Motion Pictures -- Unpublished, ca. 1950-1975 (boxes 39-42)  \nSeries 23. Oversized Material, 1986 (unboxed)","Regards the life and career of George Bird Evans, including feature articles in the Morgantown \"Dominion Post\" newspaper (1993) and The West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter (Spring 2008). Also contains a 3 in. x 5 in. photograph of George Bird Evans with one of his setters and a \"kill\" (a grouse); a photograph of Evans with friend, David Hall; and two photos of Evans with his wife Kay on a fishing trip (1936).","Spanning 65 years (1932-1997), the journal documents the hunting, fishing, and dog training excursions of George Evans through text and illustrations. The journals were a primary source for most of the books and articles Evans authored.","Includes a substantial amount of correspondence with the book publishers (Winchester, Amwell, and Alfred Knopf Company), book dealers, and magazines (including: \"Field and Stream\", \"Gun Dog\", \"American Hunter\", and \"The American Sportsman\") that were publishing material authored by Evans. Also includes research requests, permissions, and releases for material used in publications by Evans. Other correspondents includes friends and fellow hunters. Many letters were from patrons and fans such as David Hall and the Ingrahams. There is a series of letters \"written\" by the setters at Old Hemlock to their family members that were living with the Ingrahams.","This series contains 16 manuscripts of published books by George Bird Evans, including his first book pertaining to dogs, guns, and hunting, \"The Upland Shooting Life\" (1971) and his last, \"Grouse \u0026 Woodcocks in the Blackwater/Canaan\" (1997). There is one incomplete manuscript of a published book, \"From My Covers\" (1995).","This series contains 17 published articles and seven \"copies\" of published articles authored by George Bird Evans with photographs by Kay Evans. Most were published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" but some appeared in \"Pennsylvania Gaming News\" and Field and Stream,\" among other such publications. There are also four forewords by George Bird Evans, including an introduction for the 1989 edition of \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" authored by Evans's close friend, Dr. Charles Norris.","Includes:","1. \"The Ache of Memory,\" published in the \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","2. \"A Bird Dog Fancy,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (November 1993)","3. \"The Solo Dog,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","4. \"The Quality of Time,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1993)","5. \"The End of Day,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","6. \"Bittersweet,\" appears in the book \"A Breed Apart, Vol. I,\" published by \"Countrysport Press\" (1993)"," Also includes editing notes, layouts and photo captions.","Includes:","1. \"And Don't Go Near the Water,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1993)","2. \"Point of Pride,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1993)","3. \"Light Guns, Light Loads, and A Gentle Bird,\" published in \"Game and Gun\" (July 1992/07)","4. \"Luck of November,\" published in \"Game Journal\" (January 1992)","5. \"Giants of the Coverts\" (Kay Harris Evans's photographs), published in \"Shooting Sportsman\" (1990)","6. \"Sixty-Seven Seasons Gunning Grouse,\" an article appearing as a chapter in the book, \"Bare November Days,\" published by Countrysport Press (1992)","Includes:","1. \"Char,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1995)","2. \"Anniversary,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1995)","3. \"When the Blood Is There,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (September 1994)","4. \"How Many Days,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","5. \"In the Coverts of Our Minds,\" appears in the book, \"Come October,\" published by Countrysport Press (1991)"," Also includes the manuscript, \"Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948,\" labeled \"unused\"","Includes:","1. \"Tradition in My Hands,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (1982)","2. \"Fowling Piece for a Wife\" by Kay Harris Evans, publication information unknown","3. \"Wild Clays,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (June 1988)","4. \"A Winter's Tale,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (December 1988)","5. \"The Day the Purdey Broke,\" publication information unknown","6. \"Tony's Mayhawk Speck: 17 June 1923 - 9 November 1935,\" publication information unknown","7. \"A Gunner's Tale,\" publication information unknown","8. \"A Family Connection\" [photocopy], published in \"Civil War Times Illustrated\" (November 1961) [regards the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett; see Box 27 for correspondence and clippings regarding this song]"," Also includes four \"Forewords\" by George Bird Evans:","1. \"Woodcock Shooting\" author, Edmund W. Davis","2. Gordon Gullion's book, title unknown","3. \"Upland Game Bird Shooting\" author, Eugene Connett","4. \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" author, Charles Norris"," Also includes four pages of Evans's notes, photocopies of articles regarding upland shooting and clippings of obituaries","This series contains the manuscript of \"Three Englishmen and A Lady\" by George and Kay Evans; it follows the lives of four of the Evans' Belton English Setters, including Ruff, Blue, Feathers, and Wilda. Publication information is unknown; it was apparently never published as an entire work.","This series includes several of George Bird Evans's \"Gun Diary\" sketches taken from his journal. Many were used in Evans's books (including \"Grouse along the Tramroad\") and articles. There are also charts comparing 41 seasons (1939-1980) of grouse numbers and grouse per coverts.","This series includes proofs of published works includes two books, \"Living with Gun Dogs\" (nine rolled and sealed galleys) and \"Hawk Watch\" authored by George and Kay Evans (unrolled galleys). It also includes three articles and/or chapters: \"Charles Hallock, 1834-1917,\" \"V.E. Willouby\" and \"S.T. Hammond 'Shadow,' 1831-1925.\"","Dr. Norris was a close friend George and Kay Evans. When writing the book \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" Norris became too ill to complete it; this series includes three copies of the unfinished manuscript. George Bird Evans used the unfinished work as the basis for \"Recollections of a Shooting Guest\"; an incomplete copy of the manuscript for \"Shooting Guest\" is also included in this series. There are also copies of letters Dr. Norris wrote to George and Kay Evans over a period of eight years which were used as a resource for information and quotations included in the book. This series also includes photographs of Dr. Norris and his dogs, ephemera from hunting and shooting establishments, and clippings.","George Bird Evans wrote two books to honor the conservationist and author Nash Buckingham by focusing on Buckingham's own material, including \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and \"Dear John . . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". The collection has one copy of the manuscript of \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and two copies of the manuscript for 'Dear John. . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". Evans used, among other sources, the extensive correspondence of Nash Buckingham for both books. The letters are included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Buckingham's family and friends relating facts and anecdotes regarding Nash Buckingham; photographs of Nash Buckingham; and ephemera, including programs from the Hunting Hall of Fame ceremony honoring Nash Buckingham as a 1974 inductee.","Includes stories of shooting, hunting with friends, and samples of Buckingham's 'down home' language. Also includes copies of Nash Buckingham's obituary, reviews of Evans's book, \"The Best of Nash Buckingham,\" published in newspapers and written in private letters to Evans.","Includes anecdotes about Nash Buckingham, a page of \"Notes on Scent,\" written by Buckingham (photocopy), and several lists with subjects including Buckingham's published books and articles, his guns, and \"his people.\"","Includes programs and memorabilia from The Hunting Hall of Fame's Second Awards Dinner (honoring Nash Buckingham as one of the 1974 inductees), the January 1982 issue of \"MS Outdoors\" featuring an article about John Bailey, a close friend of Nash Buckingham, and advertisements for \"The Nash Buckingham Award Gun.\"","Items include:","1. Nash Buckingham receiving the award as the \"1962 Outdoorsman of the Year\"","2. Nash Buckingham at age 85 (1965)","3. A 1984 photograph of a photograph portrait of Nash Buckingham","Subjects include hunting, shooting, and fishing in various regions of the country, and breeding bird dogs. Also includes Nash Buckingham's work on a federal task force to investigate illegal trapping during the depression years [ca. 1936-1938] and his strong opinions against Franklin Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"","Subjects include the building of John Bailey's Lodge, farm preserves, a copy of a speech given by Buckingham at an awards dinner, habitat destruction, and hunting.","Subjects include federal hunting legislation, habitat destruction, \"Sling Shot Charlie\" and the world's largest sling shot, hunting, dogs and family.","This series includes ledgers compiled by the Evans to record sales of their books and audio tapes. There are also several royalty statements.","Articles:","1. \"Old Hemlock: Bequeath to Nature Conservancy,\" published in \"Journal of the Alleghenies,\" Volume VII (1971)","2. \"A Closer Look at Electronic Collars\" (copy), published in \"The American Hunter\" (December 1973)","3. \"The Grandeur and The Glory,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (January 1982)","4. \"Design for Setters,\" unknown publication (1956)","This series includes a variety of material, including a 1988 pedigree chart for the Old Hemlock line of English Setters bred by Stephen Hitsman and George and Kay Evans; research notes compiled by George Bird Evans from his reading of books related to hunting; a greeting card to the Evans labeled by George and/or Kay \"idea for opus 12 jacket\"; and ephemera (three cards advertising publication of books by George Bird Evans).","This series includes audio tapes of \"An Evening at Old Hemlock\" (includes George and Kay Harris Evans reading selections from several books authored by George Bird Evans).","This series includes 3 DVDs by the Hemlock Foundation of hunting footage and other videos about George Bird Evans. Also present are 3 DVDs that include additional copies of digital files of scans of illustrations by Evans that appeared in \"Cosmopolitan,\" \"McCall's,\" and other magazines from Series 12. Magazine Articles [box 26].","This scrapbook documents the collaborative writing career of George and Kay Harris Evans under the pen name \"Brandon Bird,\" which produced five mystery novels and a number of fiction pieces for magazines (includes clippings of articles regarding the Evans as a writing team and the awards they had won; book reviews of the Evans' five mystery novels by several publications, including the New York Times Book Review; press releases announcing the publication of a new novel and several 8x10 photographs of the Evans, their home and their dogs; also includes correspondence and clippings regarding the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett [the original manuscript of the song was in the possession of George and Kay Harris Evans at their home Old Hemlock; see Box 17, Folder 4 for manuscript of article by Evans regarding the Evans-Emmett connection]).","This series includes original copies of illustrations by George Bird Evans (includes 30 oversize pieces, most published in popular women's magazines [such as Cosmopolitan and McCall's] before and after World War II; one 8 1/2 x 12 inch watercolor illustration for book \"Mission Murder\" by Hugh Pentecost; and one 16 x 20 inch drawing of military equipment, drawn by Lieutenant J.G. Evans for the Navy during WWII).","This series includes seven photographs of George Bird Evans, Kay Harris Evans, their dogs, and members of the Evans family; it also includes two artworks by Evans depicting himself and his dogs.","This series includes an easel, two brushes, and hunting gear (hat, backpack, shell box, and shell holster).","This series includes one DVD of an 18-minute motion picture documentary featuring footage of George Bird Evans describing his home, property, and way of life.","This series includes periodicals such as \"Field and Stream,\" \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" \"Game and Gun,\" \"Gun Dog,\" \"Shooting Sportsman,\" and \"Pennsylvania Game News,\" among others. There are also three editions of \"The American Sportsman\" book series with photographs from the ABC-TV series, \"The American Sportsman.\" Several of the publications have articles by George Bird Evans and Kay Harris Evans (most are written by George Bird Evans, some are co-authored with his wife, Kay Evans, and a few are by Kay Evans only).","This series includes 8mm motion picture films of dog training and of special events in the lives of George and Kay Harris Evans and their dogs.","This series includes one framed illustration of a hunting dog by G.B. Evans, \"Toby's Mayhawk Speck-1931\" with text [media unknown, 20 x 25 1/4 inches, signed (68 of 750)]."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBooks by George Bird Evans separated to the Rare Book Collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Books by George Bird Evans separated to the Rare Book Collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_51da0d32c80e41fa05abeaccb1ac2a70\"\u003ePapers of George Bird Evans, a widely published author and illustrator of books and articles regarding hunting and bird dog breeding. Most of his work was produced at his home \"Old Hemlock\" in Preston County, West Virginia. Records document his careers as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting; as a breeder of quality bird dogs; an illustrator for several national magazines and the United States Navy during World War II; and as co-author with his wife, Kay Evans, of mystery novels. Materials include: George Bird Evans' Gun Diary with entries and illustrations regarding hunting, fishing, and dog breeding experiences for 65 years; correspondence with friends, patrons, publishers, and other hunters; manuscripts and galleys; cassette tapes (2 items) of recordings of readings by George and Kay Evans; DVDs (3 items) containing 188 digital scans of illustrations by George Bird Evans; and a scrapbook documenting the Evans' career as mystery writers under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". There are also 32 oversize drawings by G.B. Evans; oversized photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, Kay Evans, and their dogs; a DVD of an 18 minute motion picture regarding George Bird Evans; and several sportsman journals, most with published articles by George Bird Evans.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of George Bird Evans, a widely published author and illustrator of books and articles regarding hunting and bird dog breeding. Most of his work was produced at his home \"Old Hemlock\" in Preston County, West Virginia. Records document his careers as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting; as a breeder of quality bird dogs; an illustrator for several national magazines and the United States Navy during World War II; and as co-author with his wife, Kay Evans, of mystery novels. Materials include: George Bird Evans' Gun Diary with entries and illustrations regarding hunting, fishing, and dog breeding experiences for 65 years; correspondence with friends, patrons, publishers, and other hunters; manuscripts and galleys; cassette tapes (2 items) of recordings of readings by George and Kay Evans; DVDs (3 items) containing 188 digital scans of illustrations by George Bird Evans; and a scrapbook documenting the Evans' career as mystery writers under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". There are also 32 oversize drawings by G.B. Evans; oversized photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, Kay Evans, and their dogs; a DVD of an 18 minute motion picture regarding George Bird Evans; and several sportsman journals, most with published articles by George Bird Evans."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_67b7df20655573ed9e21475079062c2d\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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","George Washington Bird Evans and Eve Hunt Evans celebrated the birth of their only child, George Bird Evans, in 1906. Their comfortable Uniontown, Pennsylvania home provided a secure environment for young George to learn and develop his talents in art and literature. George's father also wasted no time pouring into his young son his love for hunting, bird dogs, and the outdoor life. George Bird Evans attended Carnegie Institute to pursue a career in art. He later transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, staying for two years before moving to New York in 1927 to establish a career as an illustrator, but not alone. He had met and married Kay Harris from Wheeling; their marriage would last for over seventy years. In New York George Evans found success as an illustrator. He also included trips home for the hunt of game on Chestnut Ridge during hunting season. George started keeping a \"gun diary\" or journal in 1932, recording every outing for hunting, shooting, or bird dog training over the next 65 years. The Evans loved the Chestnut Ridge area, leaving New York in 1939 to buy a farm in Preston County, West Virginia, naming their new homestead \"Old Hemlock\". George enjoyed working out of his new surroundings, mailing his work to publishers in New York and having time to roam and hunt with Kay and their dogs.","This ideal life was interrupted by World War II when George volunteered his services and was commissioned a Lieutenant J.G. in Navy. He used his talents by illustrating equipment repair manuals, substituting pictures for complicated language. After the war George and Kay chose to venture into writing mystery novels as a team under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". It was a success. The Evans were also beginning to breed Belton English Setters in their quest for the best bird dog possible. In 1956 George started using his journal as a source for articles, publishing over a hundred over the next forty two years. In 1971 his first book, \"The Upland Shooting Life\", was published, achieving status as a classic. Twenty seven more upland shooting books followed. Most of the photographs published with the articles and books were taken by Kay Evans. Always careful with their projects, George and Kay Evans began publishing their own books in 1983 under the name \"Old Hemlock\". George Bird Evans died in May, 1998 at the age of ninety-one. He had been hunting only a few weeks before with his best friend Kay and their family of bird dogs.","Papers of George Bird Evans, including records documenting his career as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting, and as a breeder of his own line of Belton English Setter bird dogs called the \"Old Hemlock Line\" in partnership with his wife, Kay Evans. There are also records regarding his career as a magazine illustrator, including his original art works (32 oversize drawings) that were published with fiction that appeared in several popular women's magazines before and after World War II (including \"Cosmopolitan\" and \"McCall's\" among others). The collaborative writing career of George and Kay Evans under the pen name of \"Brandon Bird\" is documented in a scrapbook (ca.1950-1962) containing photographs, clippings, and book reviews regarding their five published mystery novels.","\nThe collection includes a journal, which Evans referred to as his \"Gun Diary\", with entries ranging from 1932 to 1997 where Evans recorded and illustrated his hunting, fishing, and bird dog training excursions for 65 years. There are also several periodicals, such as \"Field and Stream\", \"The Pointing Dog Journal\", and \"Gun Dog\", among others, most issues contain articles by George Bird Evans and a few by Kay Evans. Other materials include extensive correspondence with publishers, friends, outdoor sports writers, hunters and breeders (such as Nash Buckingham, Dr. Charles Norris, and Dr. Gordon Gullion), and patrons of his bird dog breeding business. There are several manuscripts and galleys of published books, including \"The Upland Shooting Life\" and \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\", among others. There are also financial records regarding the publication and sales of his books, videos, and cassette tapes. The collection also includes 188 digital scans of illustrations by Evans on DVD discs (3 items), audio recordings (2 cassette tapes) of readings by George and Kay Evans, and oversized framed photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, his wife Kay, and their dogs.","Series include:","Series 1. Biographical Information, 1936, 1993, 2008 (box 1)  \nSeries 2. Journal of George Bird Evans, 1932–1997 (boxes 1-4)  \nSeries 3. Correspondence, 1942–2005 (boxes 5-9)  \nSeries 4. Manuscripts - Published Books, ca. 1971 (boxes 9-16)  \nSeries 5. Manuscripts - Published Articles, ca. 1961-1995 (box 17)  \nSeries 6. Manuscript, undated (box 17)  \nSeries 7. Manuscripts - Illustrations, ca. 1984-1986 (box 17)  \nSeries 8. Manuscripts - Galleys, 1956, ca. 1991, undated (box 18)  \nSeries 9. Projects - Dr. Charles Norris, 1952-1969, undated (boxes 19-22)  \nSeries 10. Projects - Nash Buckingham, 1960–1984 (boxes 23-25)  \nSeries 11. Financial Records, 1971–1999 (boxes 25-26)  \nSeries 12. Magazine Articles, 1956, 1971-1982 (box 26)  \nSeries 13. Subjects, 1975–1997 (box 26)  \nSeries 14. Audio Tapes, June 1989 and Fall 1993 (box 26)  \nSeries 15. Digital Files, undated (box 26)  \nSeries 16. Scrapbook, ca. 1948-1975 (box 27)  \nSeries 17. Artworks, ca. 1938-1948 (boxes 28-29)  \nSeries 18. Oversized Pictures of George Bird Evans and Others, undated (box 29)  \nSeries 19. Artifacts, undated (box 30)  \nSeries 20. Motion Picture, undated (box 30)  \nSeries 21. Sportsmen Journals, 1959–2013 (boxes 31-38)  \nSeries 22. Motion Pictures -- Unpublished, ca. 1950-1975 (boxes 39-42)  \nSeries 23. Oversized Material, 1986 (unboxed)","Regards the life and career of George Bird Evans, including feature articles in the Morgantown \"Dominion Post\" newspaper (1993) and The West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter (Spring 2008). Also contains a 3 in. x 5 in. photograph of George Bird Evans with one of his setters and a \"kill\" (a grouse); a photograph of Evans with friend, David Hall; and two photos of Evans with his wife Kay on a fishing trip (1936).","Spanning 65 years (1932-1997), the journal documents the hunting, fishing, and dog training excursions of George Evans through text and illustrations. The journals were a primary source for most of the books and articles Evans authored.","Includes a substantial amount of correspondence with the book publishers (Winchester, Amwell, and Alfred Knopf Company), book dealers, and magazines (including: \"Field and Stream\", \"Gun Dog\", \"American Hunter\", and \"The American Sportsman\") that were publishing material authored by Evans. Also includes research requests, permissions, and releases for material used in publications by Evans. Other correspondents includes friends and fellow hunters. Many letters were from patrons and fans such as David Hall and the Ingrahams. There is a series of letters \"written\" by the setters at Old Hemlock to their family members that were living with the Ingrahams.","This series contains 16 manuscripts of published books by George Bird Evans, including his first book pertaining to dogs, guns, and hunting, \"The Upland Shooting Life\" (1971) and his last, \"Grouse \u0026 Woodcocks in the Blackwater/Canaan\" (1997). There is one incomplete manuscript of a published book, \"From My Covers\" (1995).","This series contains 17 published articles and seven \"copies\" of published articles authored by George Bird Evans with photographs by Kay Evans. Most were published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" but some appeared in \"Pennsylvania Gaming News\" and Field and Stream,\" among other such publications. There are also four forewords by George Bird Evans, including an introduction for the 1989 edition of \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" authored by Evans's close friend, Dr. Charles Norris.","Includes:","1. \"The Ache of Memory,\" published in the \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","2. \"A Bird Dog Fancy,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (November 1993)","3. \"The Solo Dog,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","4. \"The Quality of Time,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1993)","5. \"The End of Day,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","6. \"Bittersweet,\" appears in the book \"A Breed Apart, Vol. I,\" published by \"Countrysport Press\" (1993)"," Also includes editing notes, layouts and photo captions.","Includes:","1. \"And Don't Go Near the Water,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1993)","2. \"Point of Pride,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1993)","3. \"Light Guns, Light Loads, and A Gentle Bird,\" published in \"Game and Gun\" (July 1992/07)","4. \"Luck of November,\" published in \"Game Journal\" (January 1992)","5. \"Giants of the Coverts\" (Kay Harris Evans's photographs), published in \"Shooting Sportsman\" (1990)","6. \"Sixty-Seven Seasons Gunning Grouse,\" an article appearing as a chapter in the book, \"Bare November Days,\" published by Countrysport Press (1992)","Includes:","1. \"Char,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1995)","2. \"Anniversary,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1995)","3. \"When the Blood Is There,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (September 1994)","4. \"How Many Days,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","5. \"In the Coverts of Our Minds,\" appears in the book, \"Come October,\" published by Countrysport Press (1991)"," Also includes the manuscript, \"Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948,\" labeled \"unused\"","Includes:","1. \"Tradition in My Hands,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (1982)","2. \"Fowling Piece for a Wife\" by Kay Harris Evans, publication information unknown","3. \"Wild Clays,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (June 1988)","4. \"A Winter's Tale,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (December 1988)","5. \"The Day the Purdey Broke,\" publication information unknown","6. \"Tony's Mayhawk Speck: 17 June 1923 - 9 November 1935,\" publication information unknown","7. \"A Gunner's Tale,\" publication information unknown","8. \"A Family Connection\" [photocopy], published in \"Civil War Times Illustrated\" (November 1961) [regards the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett; see Box 27 for correspondence and clippings regarding this song]"," Also includes four \"Forewords\" by George Bird Evans:","1. \"Woodcock Shooting\" author, Edmund W. Davis","2. Gordon Gullion's book, title unknown","3. \"Upland Game Bird Shooting\" author, Eugene Connett","4. \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" author, Charles Norris"," Also includes four pages of Evans's notes, photocopies of articles regarding upland shooting and clippings of obituaries","This series contains the manuscript of \"Three Englishmen and A Lady\" by George and Kay Evans; it follows the lives of four of the Evans' Belton English Setters, including Ruff, Blue, Feathers, and Wilda. Publication information is unknown; it was apparently never published as an entire work.","This series includes several of George Bird Evans's \"Gun Diary\" sketches taken from his journal. Many were used in Evans's books (including \"Grouse along the Tramroad\") and articles. There are also charts comparing 41 seasons (1939-1980) of grouse numbers and grouse per coverts.","This series includes proofs of published works includes two books, \"Living with Gun Dogs\" (nine rolled and sealed galleys) and \"Hawk Watch\" authored by George and Kay Evans (unrolled galleys). It also includes three articles and/or chapters: \"Charles Hallock, 1834-1917,\" \"V.E. Willouby\" and \"S.T. Hammond 'Shadow,' 1831-1925.\"","Dr. Norris was a close friend George and Kay Evans. When writing the book \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" Norris became too ill to complete it; this series includes three copies of the unfinished manuscript. George Bird Evans used the unfinished work as the basis for \"Recollections of a Shooting Guest\"; an incomplete copy of the manuscript for \"Shooting Guest\" is also included in this series. There are also copies of letters Dr. Norris wrote to George and Kay Evans over a period of eight years which were used as a resource for information and quotations included in the book. This series also includes photographs of Dr. Norris and his dogs, ephemera from hunting and shooting establishments, and clippings.","George Bird Evans wrote two books to honor the conservationist and author Nash Buckingham by focusing on Buckingham's own material, including \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and \"Dear John . . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". The collection has one copy of the manuscript of \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and two copies of the manuscript for 'Dear John. . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". Evans used, among other sources, the extensive correspondence of Nash Buckingham for both books. The letters are included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Buckingham's family and friends relating facts and anecdotes regarding Nash Buckingham; photographs of Nash Buckingham; and ephemera, including programs from the Hunting Hall of Fame ceremony honoring Nash Buckingham as a 1974 inductee.","Includes stories of shooting, hunting with friends, and samples of Buckingham's 'down home' language. Also includes copies of Nash Buckingham's obituary, reviews of Evans's book, \"The Best of Nash Buckingham,\" published in newspapers and written in private letters to Evans.","Includes anecdotes about Nash Buckingham, a page of \"Notes on Scent,\" written by Buckingham (photocopy), and several lists with subjects including Buckingham's published books and articles, his guns, and \"his people.\"","Includes programs and memorabilia from The Hunting Hall of Fame's Second Awards Dinner (honoring Nash Buckingham as one of the 1974 inductees), the January 1982 issue of \"MS Outdoors\" featuring an article about John Bailey, a close friend of Nash Buckingham, and advertisements for \"The Nash Buckingham Award Gun.\"","Items include:","1. Nash Buckingham receiving the award as the \"1962 Outdoorsman of the Year\"","2. Nash Buckingham at age 85 (1965)","3. A 1984 photograph of a photograph portrait of Nash Buckingham","Subjects include hunting, shooting, and fishing in various regions of the country, and breeding bird dogs. Also includes Nash Buckingham's work on a federal task force to investigate illegal trapping during the depression years [ca. 1936-1938] and his strong opinions against Franklin Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"","Subjects include the building of John Bailey's Lodge, farm preserves, a copy of a speech given by Buckingham at an awards dinner, habitat destruction, and hunting.","Subjects include federal hunting legislation, habitat destruction, \"Sling Shot Charlie\" and the world's largest sling shot, hunting, dogs and family.","This series includes ledgers compiled by the Evans to record sales of their books and audio tapes. There are also several royalty statements.","Articles:","1. \"Old Hemlock: Bequeath to Nature Conservancy,\" published in \"Journal of the Alleghenies,\" Volume VII (1971)","2. \"A Closer Look at Electronic Collars\" (copy), published in \"The American Hunter\" (December 1973)","3. \"The Grandeur and The Glory,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (January 1982)","4. \"Design for Setters,\" unknown publication (1956)","This series includes a variety of material, including a 1988 pedigree chart for the Old Hemlock line of English Setters bred by Stephen Hitsman and George and Kay Evans; research notes compiled by George Bird Evans from his reading of books related to hunting; a greeting card to the Evans labeled by George and/or Kay \"idea for opus 12 jacket\"; and ephemera (three cards advertising publication of books by George Bird Evans).","This series includes audio tapes of \"An Evening at Old Hemlock\" (includes George and Kay Harris Evans reading selections from several books authored by George Bird Evans).","This series includes 3 DVDs by the Hemlock Foundation of hunting footage and other videos about George Bird Evans. Also present are 3 DVDs that include additional copies of digital files of scans of illustrations by Evans that appeared in \"Cosmopolitan,\" \"McCall's,\" and other magazines from Series 12. Magazine Articles [box 26].","This scrapbook documents the collaborative writing career of George and Kay Harris Evans under the pen name \"Brandon Bird,\" which produced five mystery novels and a number of fiction pieces for magazines (includes clippings of articles regarding the Evans as a writing team and the awards they had won; book reviews of the Evans' five mystery novels by several publications, including the New York Times Book Review; press releases announcing the publication of a new novel and several 8x10 photographs of the Evans, their home and their dogs; also includes correspondence and clippings regarding the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett [the original manuscript of the song was in the possession of George and Kay Harris Evans at their home Old Hemlock; see Box 17, Folder 4 for manuscript of article by Evans regarding the Evans-Emmett connection]).","This series includes original copies of illustrations by George Bird Evans (includes 30 oversize pieces, most published in popular women's magazines [such as Cosmopolitan and McCall's] before and after World War II; one 8 1/2 x 12 inch watercolor illustration for book \"Mission Murder\" by Hugh Pentecost; and one 16 x 20 inch drawing of military equipment, drawn by Lieutenant J.G. Evans for the Navy during WWII).","This series includes seven photographs of George Bird Evans, Kay Harris Evans, their dogs, and members of the Evans family; it also includes two artworks by Evans depicting himself and his dogs.","This series includes an easel, two brushes, and hunting gear (hat, backpack, shell box, and shell holster).","This series includes one DVD of an 18-minute motion picture documentary featuring footage of George Bird Evans describing his home, property, and way of life.","This series includes periodicals such as \"Field and Stream,\" \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" \"Game and Gun,\" \"Gun Dog,\" \"Shooting Sportsman,\" and \"Pennsylvania Game News,\" among others. There are also three editions of \"The American Sportsman\" book series with photographs from the ABC-TV series, \"The American Sportsman.\" Several of the publications have articles by George Bird Evans and Kay Harris Evans (most are written by George Bird Evans, some are co-authored with his wife, Kay Evans, and a few are by Kay Evans only).","This series includes 8mm motion picture films of dog training and of special events in the lives of George and Kay Harris Evans and their dogs.","This series includes one framed illustration of a hunting dog by G.B. Evans, \"Toby's Mayhawk Speck-1931\" with text [media unknown, 20 x 25 1/4 inches, signed (68 of 750)].","Books by George Bird Evans separated to the Rare Book Collection.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of George Bird Evans, a widely published author and illustrator of books and articles regarding hunting and bird dog breeding. Most of his work was produced at his home \"Old Hemlock\" in Preston County, West Virginia. Records document his careers as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting; as a breeder of quality bird dogs; an illustrator for several national magazines and the United States Navy during World War II; and as co-author with his wife, Kay Evans, of mystery novels. Materials include: George Bird Evans' Gun Diary with entries and illustrations regarding hunting, fishing, and dog breeding experiences for 65 years; correspondence with friends, patrons, publishers, and other hunters; manuscripts and galleys; cassette tapes (2 items) of recordings of readings by George and Kay Evans; DVDs (3 items) containing 188 digital scans of illustrations by George Bird Evans; and a scrapbook documenting the Evans' career as mystery writers under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". There are also 32 oversize drawings by G.B. Evans; oversized photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, Kay Evans, and their dogs; a DVD of an 18 minute motion picture regarding George Bird Evans; and several sportsman journals, most with published articles by George Bird Evans.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGeorge Washington Bird Evans and Eve Hunt Evans celebrated the birth of their only child, George Bird Evans, in 1906. Their comfortable Uniontown, Pennsylvania home provided a secure environment for young George to learn and develop his talents in art and literature. George's father also wasted no time pouring into his young son his love for hunting, bird dogs, and the outdoor life. George Bird Evans attended Carnegie Institute to pursue a career in art. He later transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, staying for two years before moving to New York in 1927 to establish a career as an illustrator, but not alone. He had met and married Kay Harris from Wheeling; their marriage would last for over seventy years. In New York George Evans found success as an illustrator. He also included trips home for the hunt of game on Chestnut Ridge during hunting season. George started keeping a \"gun diary\" or journal in 1932, recording every outing for hunting, shooting, or bird dog training over the next 65 years. The Evans loved the Chestnut Ridge area, leaving New York in 1939 to buy a farm in Preston County, West Virginia, naming their new homestead \"Old Hemlock\". George enjoyed working out of his new surroundings, mailing his work to publishers in New York and having time to roam and hunt with Kay and their dogs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis ideal life was interrupted by World War II when George volunteered his services and was commissioned a Lieutenant J.G. in Navy. He used his talents by illustrating equipment repair manuals, substituting pictures for complicated language. After the war George and Kay chose to venture into writing mystery novels as a team under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". It was a success. The Evans were also beginning to breed Belton English Setters in their quest for the best bird dog possible. In 1956 George started using his journal as a source for articles, publishing over a hundred over the next forty two years. In 1971 his first book, \"The Upland Shooting Life\", was published, achieving status as a classic. Twenty seven more upland shooting books followed. Most of the photographs published with the articles and books were taken by Kay Evans. Always careful with their projects, George and Kay Evans began publishing their own books in 1983 under the name \"Old Hemlock\". George Bird Evans died in May, 1998 at the age of ninety-one. He had been hunting only a few weeks before with his best friend Kay and their family of bird dogs.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["George Washington Bird Evans and Eve Hunt Evans celebrated the birth of their only child, George Bird Evans, in 1906. Their comfortable Uniontown, Pennsylvania home provided a secure environment for young George to learn and develop his talents in art and literature. George's father also wasted no time pouring into his young son his love for hunting, bird dogs, and the outdoor life. George Bird Evans attended Carnegie Institute to pursue a career in art. He later transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, staying for two years before moving to New York in 1927 to establish a career as an illustrator, but not alone. He had met and married Kay Harris from Wheeling; their marriage would last for over seventy years. In New York George Evans found success as an illustrator. He also included trips home for the hunt of game on Chestnut Ridge during hunting season. George started keeping a \"gun diary\" or journal in 1932, recording every outing for hunting, shooting, or bird dog training over the next 65 years. The Evans loved the Chestnut Ridge area, leaving New York in 1939 to buy a farm in Preston County, West Virginia, naming their new homestead \"Old Hemlock\". George enjoyed working out of his new surroundings, mailing his work to publishers in New York and having time to roam and hunt with Kay and their dogs.","This ideal life was interrupted by World War II when George volunteered his services and was commissioned a Lieutenant J.G. in Navy. He used his talents by illustrating equipment repair manuals, substituting pictures for complicated language. After the war George and Kay chose to venture into writing mystery novels as a team under the pen name \"Brandon Bird\". It was a success. The Evans were also beginning to breed Belton English Setters in their quest for the best bird dog possible. In 1956 George started using his journal as a source for articles, publishing over a hundred over the next forty two years. In 1971 his first book, \"The Upland Shooting Life\", was published, achieving status as a classic. Twenty seven more upland shooting books followed. Most of the photographs published with the articles and books were taken by Kay Evans. Always careful with their projects, George and Kay Evans began publishing their own books in 1983 under the name \"Old Hemlock\". George Bird Evans died in May, 1998 at the age of ninety-one. He had been hunting only a few weeks before with his best friend Kay and their family of bird dogs."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George Bird Evans Papers, A\u0026amp;M 3610, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George Bird Evans Papers, A\u0026M 3610, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of George Bird Evans, including records documenting his career as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting, and as a breeder of his own line of Belton English Setter bird dogs called the \"Old Hemlock Line\" in partnership with his wife, Kay Evans. There are also records regarding his career as a magazine illustrator, including his original art works (32 oversize drawings) that were published with fiction that appeared in several popular women's magazines before and after World War II (including \"Cosmopolitan\" and \"McCall's\" among others). The collaborative writing career of George and Kay Evans under the pen name of \"Brandon Bird\" is documented in a scrapbook (ca.1950-1962) containing photographs, clippings, and book reviews regarding their five published mystery novels.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe collection includes a journal, which Evans referred to as his \"Gun Diary\", with entries ranging from 1932 to 1997 where Evans recorded and illustrated his hunting, fishing, and bird dog training excursions for 65 years. There are also several periodicals, such as \"Field and Stream\", \"The Pointing Dog Journal\", and \"Gun Dog\", among others, most issues contain articles by George Bird Evans and a few by Kay Evans. Other materials include extensive correspondence with publishers, friends, outdoor sports writers, hunters and breeders (such as Nash Buckingham, Dr. Charles Norris, and Dr. Gordon Gullion), and patrons of his bird dog breeding business. There are several manuscripts and galleys of published books, including \"The Upland Shooting Life\" and \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\", among others. There are also financial records regarding the publication and sales of his books, videos, and cassette tapes. The collection also includes 188 digital scans of illustrations by Evans on DVD discs (3 items), audio recordings (2 cassette tapes) of readings by George and Kay Evans, and oversized framed photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, his wife Kay, and their dogs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Biographical Information, 1936, 1993, 2008 (box 1) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Journal of George Bird Evans, 1932–1997 (boxes 1-4) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Correspondence, 1942–2005 (boxes 5-9) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Manuscripts - Published Books, ca. 1971 (boxes 9-16) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Manuscripts - Published Articles, ca. 1961-1995 (box 17) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Manuscript, undated (box 17) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Manuscripts - Illustrations, ca. 1984-1986 (box 17) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Manuscripts - Galleys, 1956, ca. 1991, undated (box 18) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Projects - Dr. Charles Norris, 1952-1969, undated (boxes 19-22) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. Projects - Nash Buckingham, 1960–1984 (boxes 23-25) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Financial Records, 1971–1999 (boxes 25-26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Magazine Articles, 1956, 1971-1982 (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 13. Subjects, 1975–1997 (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 14. Audio Tapes, June 1989 and Fall 1993 (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 15. Digital Files, undated (box 26) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 16. Scrapbook, ca. 1948-1975 (box 27) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 17. Artworks, ca. 1938-1948 (boxes 28-29) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 18. Oversized Pictures of George Bird Evans and Others, undated (box 29) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 19. Artifacts, undated (box 30) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 20. Motion Picture, undated (box 30) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 21. Sportsmen Journals, 1959–2013 (boxes 31-38) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 22. Motion Pictures -- Unpublished, ca. 1950-1975 (boxes 39-42) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 23. 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The journals were a primary source for most of the books and articles Evans authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a substantial amount of correspondence with the book publishers (Winchester, Amwell, and Alfred Knopf Company), book dealers, and magazines (including: \"Field and Stream\", \"Gun Dog\", \"American Hunter\", and \"The American Sportsman\") that were publishing material authored by Evans. Also includes research requests, permissions, and releases for material used in publications by Evans. Other correspondents includes friends and fellow hunters. Many letters were from patrons and fans such as David Hall and the Ingrahams. There is a series of letters \"written\" by the setters at Old Hemlock to their family members that were living with the Ingrahams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains 16 manuscripts of published books by George Bird Evans, including his first book pertaining to dogs, guns, and hunting, \"The Upland Shooting Life\" (1971) and his last, \"Grouse \u0026amp; Woodcocks in the Blackwater/Canaan\" (1997). There is one incomplete manuscript of a published book, \"From My Covers\" (1995).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains 17 published articles and seven \"copies\" of published articles authored by George Bird Evans with photographs by Kay Evans. Most were published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" but some appeared in \"Pennsylvania Gaming News\" and Field and Stream,\" among other such publications. There are also four forewords by George Bird Evans, including an introduction for the 1989 edition of \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" authored by Evans's close friend, Dr. Charles Norris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. \"The Ache of Memory,\" published in the \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. \"A Bird Dog Fancy,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (November 1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. \"The Solo Dog,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \"The Quality of Time,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. \"The End of Day,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e6. \"Bittersweet,\" appears in the book \"A Breed Apart, Vol. I,\" published by \"Countrysport Press\" (1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Also includes editing notes, layouts and photo captions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. \"And Don't Go Near the Water,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. \"Point of Pride,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1993)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. \"Light Guns, Light Loads, and A Gentle Bird,\" published in \"Game and Gun\" (July 1992/07)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \"Luck of November,\" published in \"Game Journal\" (January 1992)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. \"Giants of the Coverts\" (Kay Harris Evans's photographs), published in \"Shooting Sportsman\" (1990)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e6. \"Sixty-Seven Seasons Gunning Grouse,\" an article appearing as a chapter in the book, \"Bare November Days,\" published by Countrysport Press (1992)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Char,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1995)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. \"Anniversary,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1995)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. \"When the Blood Is There,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (September 1994)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \"How Many Days,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. \"In the Coverts of Our Minds,\" appears in the book, \"Come October,\" published by Countrysport Press (1991)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Also includes the manuscript, \"Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948,\" labeled \"unused\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Tradition in My Hands,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (1982)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. \"Fowling Piece for a Wife\" by Kay Harris Evans, publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. \"Wild Clays,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (June 1988)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \"A Winter's Tale,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (December 1988)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. \"The Day the Purdey Broke,\" publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e6. \"Tony's Mayhawk Speck: 17 June 1923 - 9 November 1935,\" publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e7. \"A Gunner's Tale,\" publication information unknown\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e8. \"A Family Connection\" [photocopy], published in \"Civil War Times Illustrated\" (November 1961) [regards the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett; see Box 27 for correspondence and clippings regarding this song]\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Also includes four \"Forewords\" by George Bird Evans:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Woodcock Shooting\" author, Edmund W. Davis\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Gordon Gullion's book, title unknown\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. \"Upland Game Bird Shooting\" author, Eugene Connett\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" author, Charles Norris\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Also includes four pages of Evans's notes, photocopies of articles regarding upland shooting and clippings of obituaries\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the manuscript of \"Three Englishmen and A Lady\" by George and Kay Evans; it follows the lives of four of the Evans' Belton English Setters, including Ruff, Blue, Feathers, and Wilda. Publication information is unknown; it was apparently never published as an entire work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes several of George Bird Evans's \"Gun Diary\" sketches taken from his journal. Many were used in Evans's books (including \"Grouse along the Tramroad\") and articles. There are also charts comparing 41 seasons (1939-1980) of grouse numbers and grouse per coverts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes proofs of published works includes two books, \"Living with Gun Dogs\" (nine rolled and sealed galleys) and \"Hawk Watch\" authored by George and Kay Evans (unrolled galleys). It also includes three articles and/or chapters: \"Charles Hallock, 1834-1917,\" \"V.E. Willouby\" and \"S.T. Hammond 'Shadow,' 1831-1925.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Norris was a close friend George and Kay Evans. When writing the book \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" Norris became too ill to complete it; this series includes three copies of the unfinished manuscript. George Bird Evans used the unfinished work as the basis for \"Recollections of a Shooting Guest\"; an incomplete copy of the manuscript for \"Shooting Guest\" is also included in this series. There are also copies of letters Dr. Norris wrote to George and Kay Evans over a period of eight years which were used as a resource for information and quotations included in the book. This series also includes photographs of Dr. Norris and his dogs, ephemera from hunting and shooting establishments, and clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Bird Evans wrote two books to honor the conservationist and author Nash Buckingham by focusing on Buckingham's own material, including \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and \"Dear John . . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". The collection has one copy of the manuscript of \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and two copies of the manuscript for 'Dear John. . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". Evans used, among other sources, the extensive correspondence of Nash Buckingham for both books. The letters are included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Buckingham's family and friends relating facts and anecdotes regarding Nash Buckingham; photographs of Nash Buckingham; and ephemera, including programs from the Hunting Hall of Fame ceremony honoring Nash Buckingham as a 1974 inductee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes stories of shooting, hunting with friends, and samples of Buckingham's 'down home' language. Also includes copies of Nash Buckingham's obituary, reviews of Evans's book, \"The Best of Nash Buckingham,\" published in newspapers and written in private letters to Evans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes anecdotes about Nash Buckingham, a page of \"Notes on Scent,\" written by Buckingham (photocopy), and several lists with subjects including Buckingham's published books and articles, his guns, and \"his people.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes programs and memorabilia from The Hunting Hall of Fame's Second Awards Dinner (honoring Nash Buckingham as one of the 1974 inductees), the January 1982 issue of \"MS Outdoors\" featuring an article about John Bailey, a close friend of Nash Buckingham, and advertisements for \"The Nash Buckingham Award Gun.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems include:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. Nash Buckingham receiving the award as the \"1962 Outdoorsman of the Year\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Nash Buckingham at age 85 (1965)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. A 1984 photograph of a photograph portrait of Nash Buckingham\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include hunting, shooting, and fishing in various regions of the country, and breeding bird dogs. Also includes Nash Buckingham's work on a federal task force to investigate illegal trapping during the depression years [ca. 1936-1938] and his strong opinions against Franklin Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include the building of John Bailey's Lodge, farm preserves, a copy of a speech given by Buckingham at an awards dinner, habitat destruction, and hunting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include federal hunting legislation, habitat destruction, \"Sling Shot Charlie\" and the world's largest sling shot, hunting, dogs and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes ledgers compiled by the Evans to record sales of their books and audio tapes. There are also several royalty statements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. \"Old Hemlock: Bequeath to Nature Conservancy,\" published in \"Journal of the Alleghenies,\" Volume VII (1971)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. \"A Closer Look at Electronic Collars\" (copy), published in \"The American Hunter\" (December 1973)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. \"The Grandeur and The Glory,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (January 1982)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. \"Design for Setters,\" unknown publication (1956)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a variety of material, including a 1988 pedigree chart for the Old Hemlock line of English Setters bred by Stephen Hitsman and George and Kay Evans; research notes compiled by George Bird Evans from his reading of books related to hunting; a greeting card to the Evans labeled by George and/or Kay \"idea for opus 12 jacket\"; and ephemera (three cards advertising publication of books by George Bird Evans).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes audio tapes of \"An Evening at Old Hemlock\" (includes George and Kay Harris Evans reading selections from several books authored by George Bird Evans).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes 3 DVDs by the Hemlock Foundation of hunting footage and other videos about George Bird Evans. Also present are 3 DVDs that include additional copies of digital files of scans of illustrations by Evans that appeared in \"Cosmopolitan,\" \"McCall's,\" and other magazines from Series 12. Magazine Articles [box 26].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook documents the collaborative writing career of George and Kay Harris Evans under the pen name \"Brandon Bird,\" which produced five mystery novels and a number of fiction pieces for magazines (includes clippings of articles regarding the Evans as a writing team and the awards they had won; book reviews of the Evans' five mystery novels by several publications, including the New York Times Book Review; press releases announcing the publication of a new novel and several 8x10 photographs of the Evans, their home and their dogs; also includes correspondence and clippings regarding the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett [the original manuscript of the song was in the possession of George and Kay Harris Evans at their home Old Hemlock; see Box 17, Folder 4 for manuscript of article by Evans regarding the Evans-Emmett connection]).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes original copies of illustrations by George Bird Evans (includes 30 oversize pieces, most published in popular women's magazines [such as Cosmopolitan and McCall's] before and after World War II; one 8 1/2 x 12 inch watercolor illustration for book \"Mission Murder\" by Hugh Pentecost; and one 16 x 20 inch drawing of military equipment, drawn by Lieutenant J.G. Evans for the Navy during WWII).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes seven photographs of George Bird Evans, Kay Harris Evans, their dogs, and members of the Evans family; it also includes two artworks by Evans depicting himself and his dogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes an easel, two brushes, and hunting gear (hat, backpack, shell box, and shell holster).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes one DVD of an 18-minute motion picture documentary featuring footage of George Bird Evans describing his home, property, and way of life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes periodicals such as \"Field and Stream,\" \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" \"Game and Gun,\" \"Gun Dog,\" \"Shooting Sportsman,\" and \"Pennsylvania Game News,\" among others. There are also three editions of \"The American Sportsman\" book series with photographs from the ABC-TV series, \"The American Sportsman.\" Several of the publications have articles by George Bird Evans and Kay Harris Evans (most are written by George Bird Evans, some are co-authored with his wife, Kay Evans, and a few are by Kay Evans only).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes 8mm motion picture films of dog training and of special events in the lives of George and Kay Harris Evans and their dogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes one framed illustration of a hunting dog by G.B. Evans, \"Toby's Mayhawk Speck-1931\" with text [media unknown, 20 x 25 1/4 inches, signed (68 of 750)].\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of George Bird Evans, including records documenting his career as an author of books and articles regarding bird dog hunting, and as a breeder of his own line of Belton English Setter bird dogs called the \"Old Hemlock Line\" in partnership with his wife, Kay Evans. There are also records regarding his career as a magazine illustrator, including his original art works (32 oversize drawings) that were published with fiction that appeared in several popular women's magazines before and after World War II (including \"Cosmopolitan\" and \"McCall's\" among others). The collaborative writing career of George and Kay Evans under the pen name of \"Brandon Bird\" is documented in a scrapbook (ca.1950-1962) containing photographs, clippings, and book reviews regarding their five published mystery novels.","\nThe collection includes a journal, which Evans referred to as his \"Gun Diary\", with entries ranging from 1932 to 1997 where Evans recorded and illustrated his hunting, fishing, and bird dog training excursions for 65 years. There are also several periodicals, such as \"Field and Stream\", \"The Pointing Dog Journal\", and \"Gun Dog\", among others, most issues contain articles by George Bird Evans and a few by Kay Evans. Other materials include extensive correspondence with publishers, friends, outdoor sports writers, hunters and breeders (such as Nash Buckingham, Dr. Charles Norris, and Dr. Gordon Gullion), and patrons of his bird dog breeding business. There are several manuscripts and galleys of published books, including \"The Upland Shooting Life\" and \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\", among others. There are also financial records regarding the publication and sales of his books, videos, and cassette tapes. The collection also includes 188 digital scans of illustrations by Evans on DVD discs (3 items), audio recordings (2 cassette tapes) of readings by George and Kay Evans, and oversized framed photographs and art pieces (7 items) of George Bird Evans, his wife Kay, and their dogs.","Series include:","Series 1. Biographical Information, 1936, 1993, 2008 (box 1)  \nSeries 2. Journal of George Bird Evans, 1932–1997 (boxes 1-4)  \nSeries 3. Correspondence, 1942–2005 (boxes 5-9)  \nSeries 4. Manuscripts - Published Books, ca. 1971 (boxes 9-16)  \nSeries 5. Manuscripts - Published Articles, ca. 1961-1995 (box 17)  \nSeries 6. Manuscript, undated (box 17)  \nSeries 7. Manuscripts - Illustrations, ca. 1984-1986 (box 17)  \nSeries 8. Manuscripts - Galleys, 1956, ca. 1991, undated (box 18)  \nSeries 9. Projects - Dr. Charles Norris, 1952-1969, undated (boxes 19-22)  \nSeries 10. Projects - Nash Buckingham, 1960–1984 (boxes 23-25)  \nSeries 11. Financial Records, 1971–1999 (boxes 25-26)  \nSeries 12. Magazine Articles, 1956, 1971-1982 (box 26)  \nSeries 13. Subjects, 1975–1997 (box 26)  \nSeries 14. Audio Tapes, June 1989 and Fall 1993 (box 26)  \nSeries 15. Digital Files, undated (box 26)  \nSeries 16. Scrapbook, ca. 1948-1975 (box 27)  \nSeries 17. Artworks, ca. 1938-1948 (boxes 28-29)  \nSeries 18. Oversized Pictures of George Bird Evans and Others, undated (box 29)  \nSeries 19. Artifacts, undated (box 30)  \nSeries 20. Motion Picture, undated (box 30)  \nSeries 21. Sportsmen Journals, 1959–2013 (boxes 31-38)  \nSeries 22. Motion Pictures -- Unpublished, ca. 1950-1975 (boxes 39-42)  \nSeries 23. Oversized Material, 1986 (unboxed)","Regards the life and career of George Bird Evans, including feature articles in the Morgantown \"Dominion Post\" newspaper (1993) and The West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter (Spring 2008). Also contains a 3 in. x 5 in. photograph of George Bird Evans with one of his setters and a \"kill\" (a grouse); a photograph of Evans with friend, David Hall; and two photos of Evans with his wife Kay on a fishing trip (1936).","Spanning 65 years (1932-1997), the journal documents the hunting, fishing, and dog training excursions of George Evans through text and illustrations. The journals were a primary source for most of the books and articles Evans authored.","Includes a substantial amount of correspondence with the book publishers (Winchester, Amwell, and Alfred Knopf Company), book dealers, and magazines (including: \"Field and Stream\", \"Gun Dog\", \"American Hunter\", and \"The American Sportsman\") that were publishing material authored by Evans. Also includes research requests, permissions, and releases for material used in publications by Evans. Other correspondents includes friends and fellow hunters. Many letters were from patrons and fans such as David Hall and the Ingrahams. There is a series of letters \"written\" by the setters at Old Hemlock to their family members that were living with the Ingrahams.","This series contains 16 manuscripts of published books by George Bird Evans, including his first book pertaining to dogs, guns, and hunting, \"The Upland Shooting Life\" (1971) and his last, \"Grouse \u0026 Woodcocks in the Blackwater/Canaan\" (1997). There is one incomplete manuscript of a published book, \"From My Covers\" (1995).","This series contains 17 published articles and seven \"copies\" of published articles authored by George Bird Evans with photographs by Kay Evans. Most were published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal,\" but some appeared in \"Pennsylvania Gaming News\" and Field and Stream,\" among other such publications. There are also four forewords by George Bird Evans, including an introduction for the 1989 edition of \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" authored by Evans's close friend, Dr. Charles Norris.","Includes:","1. \"The Ache of Memory,\" published in the \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","2. \"A Bird Dog Fancy,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (November 1993)","3. \"The Solo Dog,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (July 1993)","4. \"The Quality of Time,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1993)","5. \"The End of Day,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","6. \"Bittersweet,\" appears in the book \"A Breed Apart, Vol. I,\" published by \"Countrysport Press\" (1993)"," Also includes editing notes, layouts and photo captions.","Includes:","1. \"And Don't Go Near the Water,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1993)","2. \"Point of Pride,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1993)","3. \"Light Guns, Light Loads, and A Gentle Bird,\" published in \"Game and Gun\" (July 1992/07)","4. \"Luck of November,\" published in \"Game Journal\" (January 1992)","5. \"Giants of the Coverts\" (Kay Harris Evans's photographs), published in \"Shooting Sportsman\" (1990)","6. \"Sixty-Seven Seasons Gunning Grouse,\" an article appearing as a chapter in the book, \"Bare November Days,\" published by Countrysport Press (1992)","Includes:","1. \"Char,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (March 1995)","2. \"Anniversary,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (January 1995)","3. \"When the Blood Is There,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (September 1994)","4. \"How Many Days,\" published in \"The Pointing Dog Journal\" (May 1994)","5. \"In the Coverts of Our Minds,\" appears in the book, \"Come October,\" published by Countrysport Press (1991)"," Also includes the manuscript, \"Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948,\" labeled \"unused\"","Includes:","1. \"Tradition in My Hands,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (1982)","2. \"Fowling Piece for a Wife\" by Kay Harris Evans, publication information unknown","3. \"Wild Clays,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (June 1988)","4. \"A Winter's Tale,\" published in \"The Shooting Sportsman\" (December 1988)","5. \"The Day the Purdey Broke,\" publication information unknown","6. \"Tony's Mayhawk Speck: 17 June 1923 - 9 November 1935,\" publication information unknown","7. \"A Gunner's Tale,\" publication information unknown","8. \"A Family Connection\" [photocopy], published in \"Civil War Times Illustrated\" (November 1961) [regards the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett; see Box 27 for correspondence and clippings regarding this song]"," Also includes four \"Forewords\" by George Bird Evans:","1. \"Woodcock Shooting\" author, Edmund W. Davis","2. Gordon Gullion's book, title unknown","3. \"Upland Game Bird Shooting\" author, Eugene Connett","4. \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" author, Charles Norris"," Also includes four pages of Evans's notes, photocopies of articles regarding upland shooting and clippings of obituaries","This series contains the manuscript of \"Three Englishmen and A Lady\" by George and Kay Evans; it follows the lives of four of the Evans' Belton English Setters, including Ruff, Blue, Feathers, and Wilda. Publication information is unknown; it was apparently never published as an entire work.","This series includes several of George Bird Evans's \"Gun Diary\" sketches taken from his journal. Many were used in Evans's books (including \"Grouse along the Tramroad\") and articles. There are also charts comparing 41 seasons (1939-1980) of grouse numbers and grouse per coverts.","This series includes proofs of published works includes two books, \"Living with Gun Dogs\" (nine rolled and sealed galleys) and \"Hawk Watch\" authored by George and Kay Evans (unrolled galleys). It also includes three articles and/or chapters: \"Charles Hallock, 1834-1917,\" \"V.E. Willouby\" and \"S.T. Hammond 'Shadow,' 1831-1925.\"","Dr. Norris was a close friend George and Kay Evans. When writing the book \"Eastern Upland Shooting\" Norris became too ill to complete it; this series includes three copies of the unfinished manuscript. George Bird Evans used the unfinished work as the basis for \"Recollections of a Shooting Guest\"; an incomplete copy of the manuscript for \"Shooting Guest\" is also included in this series. There are also copies of letters Dr. Norris wrote to George and Kay Evans over a period of eight years which were used as a resource for information and quotations included in the book. This series also includes photographs of Dr. Norris and his dogs, ephemera from hunting and shooting establishments, and clippings.","George Bird Evans wrote two books to honor the conservationist and author Nash Buckingham by focusing on Buckingham's own material, including \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and \"Dear John . . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". The collection has one copy of the manuscript of \"The Best of Nash Buckingham\" and two copies of the manuscript for 'Dear John. . . Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey\". Evans used, among other sources, the extensive correspondence of Nash Buckingham for both books. The letters are included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Buckingham's family and friends relating facts and anecdotes regarding Nash Buckingham; photographs of Nash Buckingham; and ephemera, including programs from the Hunting Hall of Fame ceremony honoring Nash Buckingham as a 1974 inductee.","Includes stories of shooting, hunting with friends, and samples of Buckingham's 'down home' language. Also includes copies of Nash Buckingham's obituary, reviews of Evans's book, \"The Best of Nash Buckingham,\" published in newspapers and written in private letters to Evans.","Includes anecdotes about Nash Buckingham, a page of \"Notes on Scent,\" written by Buckingham (photocopy), and several lists with subjects including Buckingham's published books and articles, his guns, and \"his people.\"","Includes programs and memorabilia from The Hunting Hall of Fame's Second Awards Dinner (honoring Nash Buckingham as one of the 1974 inductees), the January 1982 issue of \"MS Outdoors\" featuring an article about John Bailey, a close friend of Nash Buckingham, and advertisements for \"The Nash Buckingham Award Gun.\"","Items include:","1. Nash Buckingham receiving the award as the \"1962 Outdoorsman of the Year\"","2. Nash Buckingham at age 85 (1965)","3. A 1984 photograph of a photograph portrait of Nash Buckingham","Subjects include hunting, shooting, and fishing in various regions of the country, and breeding bird dogs. Also includes Nash Buckingham's work on a federal task force to investigate illegal trapping during the depression years [ca. 1936-1938] and his strong opinions against Franklin Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"","Subjects include the building of John Bailey's Lodge, farm preserves, a copy of a speech given by Buckingham at an awards dinner, habitat destruction, and hunting.","Subjects include federal hunting legislation, habitat destruction, \"Sling Shot Charlie\" and the world's largest sling shot, hunting, dogs and family.","This series includes ledgers compiled by the Evans to record sales of their books and audio tapes. There are also several royalty statements.","Articles:","1. \"Old Hemlock: Bequeath to Nature Conservancy,\" published in \"Journal of the Alleghenies,\" Volume VII (1971)","2. \"A Closer Look at Electronic Collars\" (copy), published in \"The American Hunter\" (December 1973)","3. \"The Grandeur and The Glory,\" published in \"Gun Dog\" (January 1982)","4. \"Design for Setters,\" unknown publication (1956)","This series includes a variety of material, including a 1988 pedigree chart for the Old Hemlock line of English Setters bred by Stephen Hitsman and George and Kay Evans; research notes compiled by George Bird Evans from his reading of books related to hunting; a greeting card to the Evans labeled by George and/or Kay \"idea for opus 12 jacket\"; and ephemera (three cards advertising publication of books by George Bird Evans).","This series includes audio tapes of \"An Evening at Old Hemlock\" (includes George and Kay Harris Evans reading selections from several books authored by George Bird Evans).","This series includes 3 DVDs by the Hemlock Foundation of hunting footage and other videos about George Bird Evans. Also present are 3 DVDs that include additional copies of digital files of scans of illustrations by Evans that appeared in \"Cosmopolitan,\" \"McCall's,\" and other magazines from Series 12. Magazine Articles [box 26].","This scrapbook documents the collaborative writing career of George and Kay Harris Evans under the pen name \"Brandon Bird,\" which produced five mystery novels and a number of fiction pieces for magazines (includes clippings of articles regarding the Evans as a writing team and the awards they had won; book reviews of the Evans' five mystery novels by several publications, including the New York Times Book Review; press releases announcing the publication of a new novel and several 8x10 photographs of the Evans, their home and their dogs; also includes correspondence and clippings regarding the song \"Dixie's Land\" composed by George Bird Evans' great-grandmother's second husband, Daniel Decatur Emmett [the original manuscript of the song was in the possession of George and Kay Harris Evans at their home Old Hemlock; see Box 17, Folder 4 for manuscript of article by Evans regarding the Evans-Emmett connection]).","This series includes original copies of illustrations by George Bird Evans (includes 30 oversize pieces, most published in popular women's magazines [such as Cosmopolitan and McCall's] before and after World War II; one 8 1/2 x 12 inch watercolor illustration for book \"Mission Murder\" by Hugh Pentecost; and one 16 x 20 inch drawing of military equipment, drawn by Lieutenant J.G. 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