Women authors, American

Scope and Contents

The history of the Author’s Club of Louisville includes typed and handwritten entries, some photographs and clippings.

Scope and Contents Autograph letters from Mary Austin Holley to various correspondents, including her husband Horace Holley and daughter Harriette Holley Brand. Mary Austin Holley was author of Texas in a Series of Letters and History of Texas. She was noted for traveling widely at a time when travel was difficult and also for influence on her younger cousin, Texas pioneer Stephen F. Austin. These letters cover the period of her residence in Kentucky while Horace...

Summary

The collection includes some correspondence, personal and printed material, along with photographs and artwork. The bulk of the collection is made up of manuscript materials from her writings, including several revisions of a novel, The Voyage of the Golden Plover, some short stories and poetry, and appears to date from the 1960s-1980s.