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Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, 1999 May 5. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Steven Mandeville-Gamble.Finding aid is written in English.Guide to the Wallace Earle Stegner Papers , 1961-1965Collection number: M0184Department of Special Collections Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CaliforniaContact InformationDepartment of Special CollectionsGreen LibraryStanford University LibrariesStanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022Email: speccoll@sulmail.stanford.eduURL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/R. Ginns1969 Oct. 13

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Descriptive SummaryWallace Earle Stegner Papers , 1961-1965Special Collections M0184Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-2.5 linear ft.Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections.Administrative InformationAccess Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

Provenance

Gift of Wallace Stegner, 1968.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Wallace Earle Stegner Papers , M0184, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biography

Wallace Earle Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, February 18, 1909. A prize winning novelist and author also of articles and short stories, Stegner has been a professor of English at Stanford University since 1945.

Scope and Content

Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, printed materials, photographs, and documents relating chiefly to the writing and publication of two works by Stegner, A SHOOTING STAR and THE GATHERING OF ZION. Also includes material on Mormonism used as background for later work.

Container ListSection I: A Shooting Star.11Fragmentary drafts, carbon typescript, 14 pp.; typescript, 20 pp.12First draft, incomplete, typescript, 333 pp.23Early drafts and notes.24Semifinal draft (lacks ending), carbon typescript, 488 pp.25Final draft (essentially semifinal draft, with ending), typescript and carbon typescript, 509 pp.26Revisions of final draft, carbon typescript, pp. 309 - 477, 129, 134 - 5, 162(173 pp.).37Printer's proof.38Reviews (44).39Correspondence re publication, 1960 - 1961 (34).310Photographs, (2).Section II: The Gathering Of Zion.311Notes.412Early fragmentary drafts, including:Miscellaneous typescript and carbon typescript, some with autograph correction, 61 pp.Chapter on 1856 “Handcart Migration,” carbon typescript, 25 pp.“Flight Out Of Egypt,” (Mormon migration of 1846-7), typescript, 17 pp.(Same), early draft, typescript with autograph corrections, 24 pp.(Same), as adapted as Chapter 5, typescript and carbon typescript, with autograph corrections, 15 pp.Introduction, two different drafts, typescript, 13 pp. and 16 pp.“Camp Of Israel,” typescript with autograph corrections, 22 pp.Winter trek of 1847, typescript with autograph corrections, 25 pp.413First draft, typescript (partially carbon), pp. 1 - 245.414Late draft, typescript, 323 pp.415Reviews, (14).416Correspondence re publication, 1961 - 1965 (65), including letters from:Brooks, Juanita, 1961 - 1964 (18).Section III. Research Material On Mormonism.517Bibliographies (7).518Journals, unidentified, 1856, typescript and two carbon typescript, 10 pp.519Journals, general file, including those of:Beebe, Charles E., typescript, 7 pp.Huntington, William, xerox typescript, 28 pp.Pratt, Orson, xerox excerpts from journal as published in The Latter Day Saints' Millenial Star, 1849 - 1850, 32 pp.Richards, Willard, chemical copy typescript, 11 pp.Smith, George A., chemical copy typescript, 4 pp.520Journal of Joan Rio Baker, from England to the Salt Lake Valley, 1851, xerox copy excerpts from the Logan, Utah, Herald-Journal, c. 1936, 58 pp.521Journals of Fanny Beebe. Typescript, June 14, 1857 - February 13, 1861 198 pp. (with carbon typescript of first part to April 10, 1858, 107 pp.).522Beebe family memorabilia, including:Miscellaneous, including a leaf picked up July 6, 1865; newspaper clippings (3); Harvard Club memorial to J. Arthur Beebe.Correspondence, with: Frisby, Leah R. TLS N.D.Beebe, Esther, autograph letter signed, 2/22/1877.Cobden-Sanderson, T.G., als, February 2, ----.Dickens, Charles Jr., als, 11/10/1887.Fiske, George L., als, 5/5/1878.Harrison, Robert H., als, 6/17/1884.Holmes, Oliver Wendell, als to Mr. Hammond re: "nor" as correlative of "not, neither", quotes from Shakespeare and EcclesiastesLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth, als and calling card, 6/23/1862.Morgan, Juliet, als, 3/3, 3/17, and 3/20/1866.Invitations, 1824 - 1851 (2).Receipts, 1885 - 1906 (5).523Beebe family photographs, 1863 - 1900 (53), including autographed photo of George Peabody, 1869.624Miscellaneous source material, including:Frazier, Arthur W., Biography of Thomas Leonard and Thomas E. Frazier, typescript, 22 pp.Guide To the Route Map Of the Mormon Pioneers, published by Millroy and Hayes, xerox copy.“Historic Mormon Country,” pamphlet. (3).Jenson, Andrew, Day By Day With The Utah Pioneers, 1847, a revision of the account published April 5-July 24, 1897, in the Salt Lake Tribune.Johannsen, Robert W., Overland Migrations West Of the Mississippi, carbon typescript, 92 pp.Map of the Mormon Trail, 1847.New York Daily Tribune, May 28, 1844, article on “Life In Nauvoo,” xerox copy.Sorenson, Parry D., “Nauvoo Times and Seasons,” tearsheets.Stegner, Louise, Adventures In Pursuit Of Nebraska History, interview published by the Greater Omaha Historical Society.Wakefield, Eliza M., The Handcart Trail, xerox copy.Section IV: Documents.625American Association For State and Local History, Award Of Merit, for The Gathering Of Zion, October 15, 1965.626Secondary source material on Robert FrostBooks by Wallace Stegner (separately shelved)The Gathering Of Zion, New York, Mc-Graw Hill Book Co., 1964.The Gathering Of Zion, , London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., 1966.A Shooting Star, New York, The Viking Press, 1961.A Shooting Star, , New York, Dell Press, 1962 (first paperback edition).Una Estrella Fugaz, Barcelona, Plaza & Janés, S.A., 1964 (second Spanish edition).Una Estrella Fugaz, , Barcelona, Plaza & Janés, S.A., 1964 (first Spanish paper edition)Une Etoile Filante, Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1961 (first French edition).Jeder Stern auf seiner Bahn, Bern, Alfred Scherz, 1962.Sabrina, Stockholm, Gebers, 1962.A Shooting Star, London, Heinemann, 1961 (hardcover British edition).A Shooting Star, , London, Transworld Publishers, 1962 (paperback British edition).