Ellen Glasgow Papers [1945]

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968

Summary

Creator:
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of twenty-five letters written by Ellen Glasgowto Edmund M. Prestonbetween 1934 and 1944. Many of the letters are brief social ones in which Miss Glasgow mentions visits to or from Preston and members of his family, all residents of Richmond; thanks him for bouquets of yellow roses, her favorite flower which he often sent for special occasions or an illness; discusses her health; or describes her vacations in Maine. In several letters she discusses with Preston, apparently her lawyer, such legal matters as her will, her literary estate and an [animal?] shelter she started. In 1939 she asks him to escort her to the city jail and to the Negro section of Richmondso that she might do research for a book. In another letter she discusses the city pound's practice of sending dogs out of state for vivisection rather than turning them over to the S. P. C. A. She asks Preston to discuss alternatives with "Dr. Bigger."

Acquisition information:
Gift, 13 Apr 1977
Physical location:
Physical description:
25 items