Mary Dengler Hudgins Arkansas Literature and Music Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MS H886a

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Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, largely from authors and composers, to Ms. Hudgins, pertaining primarily to her interests in Arkansas-related music and literature, together with a few documents, largely of a historical nature, relating principally to James Henderson Berry, Charles Hillman Brough, William Jennings Bryan, John Joseph Pershing, and Albert Pike. File 1 contains correspondence concerning books by or about Raymond Franklin Da Boll, including reviews of Recollections of the Lyceum and Chautuqua Circuits, written by calligrapher Da Boll and his wife, Irene Briggs Da Boll; and of With Respect to RFD: An Appreciation of Raymond Franklin Da Boll and His Contribution to the Letter Arts, a tribute by friends and fellow artists, published by TBW Books, Inc., Freeport, Maine.

Correspondents include: James Truslow Adams, Frederick William Allsopp, Fred Astaire, James Harris Atkinson, Gene Autry, Bernie Smade Babcock, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Rudi Blesh, Van Wyck Brooks, Robert Raymond Brown, Albert Edward Brumley, Bruce Catton, Raymond Franklin Da Boll, Samuel Claudius Dellinger, Beverly Githens Dresbach, Charles J. Finger, Charlie May Simon Fletcher, Edsel Ford, James William Fulbright, Ezekiel Candler Gathings, David W. Guion, Harrison Hale, Mary Martin Halliday, Fred Harvey Harrington, Dallas Tabor Herndon, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Junior, Carey Estes Kefauver, Clara Berniece Kennan, Chester H. Lauck, Walter John Lemke, Harry Jacob Lemley, Sinclair Lewis, Carman Lombardo, John Little McClellan, Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, Wilbur Daigh Mills, Max Morath, Thomas Morrissey, Ogden Nash, John David Orear, Lily Peter, Luther G. Presley, Otto Ernest Rayburn, Margarey Ann Smith Ross, Lois Snelling, Robert Alphonso Taft, Adolphene Fletcher Terry, Blanche Thebom, David Yancey Thomas, Everett Webber, Maud McCurdy Welch, and Thyra Samter Winslow.

Dates

1850-1979
Majority of material found within 1930-1978

Creator

Hudgins, Mary Dengler, 1901-1987 (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

Mary Dengler Hudgins (1901-1987), a native of Hot Springs, graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1924. She was a free-lance writer, librarian, and collector of materials pertaining to Hot Springs and to Arkansas. She was especially interested in Arkansas composers and musicians. She was active in the American Association of University Women, the Arkansas Folklore Society, and the Arkansas Historical Association.

Extent

0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Additional Description

Arrangement of the Papers

Letters are arranged in alphabetical order by name of correspondent, preserving the original order imposed by donor.

Acquisition Information

The Mary Dengler Hudgins Arkansas Literature and Music Correspondence was gifted to the Special Collections Department by Mary Dengler Hudgins of Hot Springs, Arkansas in July 1979.