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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 16, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00043::Mary Johnston Papers)//EN" "ViU00043.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Mary Johnston Papers A Collection in the Special Collections Department 3588-c

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Elizabeth Slomba Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #3588-c Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Mary Johnston Papers 3588-c 4 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research

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Mary Johnston Papers, Accession 3588-c, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

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Purchase, 1993 April 13

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Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Container List Mary Johnston Letters Mary Johnston, Virginia, to Elizabeth Whiting 1899 Aug 10 ALS 1 p.

[expresses pleasure that Prisoners of Hope,her first published book, was appreciated by Elizabeth Whiting]

 Mary Johnston, "Three Hills," Warm Springs, Virginia, to "My Dear Mr. Yard" [possibly Robert Sterling Yard, editor at Moffat, Yard and Company] 1913 Oct 27 ALS 2 p.

[thanks him for his pleasant letter, saying "Of course it is my meaning to do this story to the best of my ability. It is only that no man -nor no woman -can say how much or how little one's ability will bring forth." She explains that she wants the six chapters returned so that she can make corrections and changes in the manuscript and promises to return the whole to him when the changes have been made and she has written at least ten chapters. She also admits she is puzzled when people address her as Mary E. Johnston, as she has no middle name]

 Mary Johnston, "Three Hills," Virginia, to "My Dear Mr. Yard" [possibly Robert Sterling Yard, editor at Moffat, Yard and Company] 1914 Feb 6 ALS 3 p.

[regrets her share of their mutual misunderstanding but still feels that some of the points made in his letter should have been made during their original negotiations and agrees to remain good acquaintances and well-wishers, "By nature I am a hard fighter but I can truly say that I rarely feel animosity toward the person whom, for reasons, I am fighting. If this is the case in actual conflict it is of course doubly the case when the conflict has ceased, or when, as in this case, I am prepared to agree that greater insight on my own part might have helped to prevent any grave conflict at all."]

 Mary Johnston, "Three Hills," Warm Springs, Virginia, to Glen Walton Blodgett, Buffalo, New York 1915 Jul 26 ALS 1 p.

[writes "I hope that your little daughter, whom you have named Audrey after the Audrey of whom I wrote, will grow to be a noble woman, loved and trusted by all who know her"]