MS 418
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Collection Summary | |
| Creator: | Mabie, Mary Louise |
| Collection Name: | Mary Louise Mabie Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1864-1975 |
| Physical Description: | 9 linear feet |
| Abstract: | Papers, 1864-1975 (bulk 1904-1972). This collection is comprised of the papers of Mary Louise Mabie. The bulk of the material relates to her lengthy literary career. The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, published and unpublished manuscripts, short stories, novels, poetry, a play, articles, and diaries. Also included are research material, legal papers, photographs, and scrapbooks. The collection also contains material relating to other members of her family. |
| Collection Number: | MS 418 |
| Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ |
Mary Louise Mabie was born in 1904 at the home of her maternal grandparents, James H. and Mary Kennedy, in St. Nicholas Place, NYC. Her father, Webster Boutelle Mabie, was a New York real estate broker and her mother, Louise Kennedy Mabie, was a prolific short story writer whose work regularly appeared in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal. Her parents divorced in 1909 and Mary Louise Mabie was raised primarily by her mother and grandparents. She enjoyed a privileged upbringing: holidays spent in fashionable resorts, a secondary education at a private girls' school in New Jersey, and a European tour in 1922. As a teen she began writing stories and, under the pseudonym Hall Pegg, poems, many of which were published in newspapers and magazines. The Kennedy-Mabie household moved to California in 1926 where mother and daughter continued their literary efforts. In 1928, Mary Louise Mabie's first novel, The Long Knives Walked, appeared in serial form (published in one volume in 1932); she would eventually produce a raft of short stories and four other novels: The Saints, the Devil, and the King (1930), The Pale Survivors (1934), The Root of the Lotus (1938), and Prepare Them for Caesar (1949). In 1948 she and her mother moved to Flagstaff, AZ and resided together until Louise Kennedy Mabie was confined to a sanitarium in the early 1950s. Around this time, Mary Louise Mabie began working as a reporter for The Arizona Republic, The Daily Sun, and Flagstaff's radio station KCLS. She was also briefly married to John "Slim" Ellis in the late 1950s; the union ended in divorce in 1960. After her mother's death in 1957, Mary Louise Mabie achieved little literary success although she worked assiduously on projects concerning George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Earl of Sandwich throughout the 1960s. She was declared mentally incompetent in 1971 and died the following year at the state hospital in Phoenix.
Papers, 1864-1975 (bulk 1904-1972). This collection consists of the papers of the author Mary Louise Mabie. The bulk of the papers contain personal and professional correspondence, published and unpublished manuscripts, short stories, novels, poetry, a play, articles, and diaries. Also included are research material, legal papers, photographs, and scrapbooks. The collection also contains material relating to other members of her family, primarily biographical material, writings, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks.
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Mary Louise Mabie Papers(MS 418). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
| Series I: Biographical Files , 1864-1975 | |||||||||||
| This series contains biographical materials associated with Mary Louise Mabie. It includes a baby book, certificates, drawings, news clippings, and material associated with her estate as well as materials relating to her parents and maternal grandfather. | |||||||||||
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| 1 | 1 | Kennedy, James H - General. , 1864-1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Mabie Family - Portrait. , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - General. , 1900-1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Mabie, Mary Louise - The Baby's Biography. , 1904-1910 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Mabie, Mary Louise - Certificates and Identification. , 1904-1972 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Mabie, Mary Louise - Drawings. , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Mabie, Mary Louise - Estate. , undated, 1971-1972 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Mabie, Mary Louise - General. , undated, 1922-1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Mabie, Mary Louise - News Clippings. , 1921-1972 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Mabie, Mary Louise - Personal Remembrances. , 1972-1975 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Mabie, Webster Boutelle - General. , 1894-1940 | |||||||||
| Series II: Correspondence, 1912-1970 | |||||||||||
| This series is divided into two subseries: | |||||||||||
| Business (1913-1969) contains correspondence between Mary Louise Mabie and various publishers, agents, and editors. Also included is the business correspondence of Louise Kennedy Mabie. | |||||||||||
| Personal (1912-1970) contains correspondence between Mary Louise Mabie and family, friends, and the Christian Children's Fund. It also includes the personal correspondence of various family members. | |||||||||||
| subseries 1: Business, 1913-1969 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - General. , undated, 1913-1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Mabie, Mary Louise - Brandt and Brandt. , 1953-1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Mabie, Mary Louise - The Daily Sun (Flagstaff). , 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Mabie, Mary Louise - General. , undated, 1942-1969 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Mabie, Mary Louise - Paul R. Reynolds & Sons. , 1956-1969 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Mabie, Mary Louise - Laura Wilck. , 1952-1960 | |||||||||
| subseries 2: Personal, 1912-1970 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Ellis, John ("Slim")- General. , 1958-1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Kennedy Family - General. , undated, 1922-1932 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - General. , undated, 1913-1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Mabie, Mary Louise - Christian Children's Fund. , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Mabie, Mary Louise - Christian Children's Fund. , 1954-1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Mabie, Mary Louise - General. , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Mabie, Mary Louise - General. , 1912-1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Mabie, Mary Louise - General. , 1950-1970 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Mabie, Mary Louise - John Hecker. , 1918-1919 | |||||||||
| Series III: Writings, 1916-1972 | |||||||||||
| This series contains the published and unpublished writings of Mary Louise Mabie. The Writings Series is divided into eight subseries: | |||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Short Stories, 1918-1941 contains mostly undated drafts of stories by Mary Louise Mabie (including several written under the nom de plume "Webster Boutelle") as well as those by Louise Kennedy Mabie and James H. Kennedy. | |||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Novels, undated contains drafts of published and unpublished novels by Mary Louise Mabie. | |||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Plays, undated contains a draft of a play written by Mary Louise Mabie. | |||||||||||
| Subseries 4: Poetry, 1918-1972 contains writing journals and poems produced by Mary Louise Mabie under her own name as well as under the pseudonym Hall Pegg. | |||||||||||
| Subseries 5: Articles, 1955-1961 contains articles and news clippings written by Mary Louise Mabie. | |||||||||||
| Subseries 6: Research Files, undated contains research materials largely composed of Mary Louise Mabie's reading notes as well as information on northern Arizona. | |||||||||||
| Subseries 7: Legal Files, 1949-1961 contains contracts, copyrights, and royalty statements. | |||||||||||
| Subseries 8: Diaries, 1916-1923, 1966 contains the personal diaries of Mary Louise Mabie. | |||||||||||
| subseries 1: Short Stories, 1918-1941 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 27 | "The Ambassador Has a Wife." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | "And the Finns Came." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | "Ballerina, Dance." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | "Bappy and the Ford." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | "Black John's Rock." , 1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | "Bracelets." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | "Bucky." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | "The Chromium Penny." , 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | "Cicero and Cleopatra." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | "Deb." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | "The Drinking Man." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | "Front Street." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 39-40 | "The Frozen Piano." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 41-42 | "How Mother Won the First World War." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 43 | "Hunger Moon." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 44 | "Luck at Trenton in the Snow." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 45 | "Mr. J." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 46 | "Never Meet a Stranger." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 47-48 | "No Details" (by Webster Boutelle). , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 49 | "One Cocker Spaniel Going North." , 1925 | |||||||||
| 1 | 50 | "One Cocker Spaniel Going North." , 1926 | |||||||||
| 1 | 51 | "Someone's Waiting to Get You." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 52 | "Three Days Away from This Town." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 53-54 | "Thunder Gust." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 55 | Boutelle, Webster - "Tumbleweed." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 56 | Boutelle, Webster - "Two Stars Collide." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 57 | Boutelle, Webster - "The Wedding." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 58 | Boutelle, Webster - "Whipping the Devil Around a Stump." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 59 | Kennedy, James H. - "John Brombacher's Hired Man." , 1918 | |||||||||
| 1 | 60 | Kennedy, James H. - "Side-Stepping the Clocks." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 61 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "The Alaskan Serial." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 62 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "And a Man Named Wall." , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 63 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "The Artificial Moon." , 1929 | |||||||||
| 1 | 64 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "At the Drop of a Hat." , undated | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "The Bird of Paradise." , 1921 | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "Come In, Ellen." , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "The Doctor." , 1934 | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "The Duchess Wore Black." , 1941 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "Farthest West." , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "The First Mrs. Carrick." , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 7 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "Five Painted Star." , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 8 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "Flower of a Chance." , 1934 | |||||||||
| 2 | 9 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "General Grant's Bedroom." , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 10 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "John All Alone." , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 11 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln." , 1941 | |||||||||
| 2 | 12 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "The Ladies from Colorado." , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 13 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "Madame Venus." , 1928 | |||||||||
| 2 | 14 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "A Modern Fable." , 1918 | |||||||||
| 2 | 15 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "The Tinselfish." , 1929 | |||||||||
| 2 | 16 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - "Willow Street Door." , undated | |||||||||
| subseries 2: Novels, undated | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 17 | Call Colonel Hamilton. , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 18-19 | Martel. , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 20-21 | My Country, My Country, My Country. , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 22-23 | The Pale Survivors. , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 24 | Prepare Them for Caesar. , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 25-26 | The Saints, the Devil and the King. , undated | |||||||||
| subseries 3: Plays, undated | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 27 | Concerto. , undated | |||||||||
| subseries 4: Poetry, 1918-1972 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 28 | "America." , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 29 | "Bright Ashes." , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 30 | "Bright Ashes." , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 31 | Manuscripts. , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 32 | Post Card Poems. , undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 33 | "The Red Feather" (in Opus Scribendi). , 1918 | |||||||||
| 2 | 34 | "Summer Storms" (in Pacifica). , 1972 | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | Notebooks. , 1921-1923 | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Notebooks. , 1923-1924 | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Notebooks. , 1950s | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | Pegg, Hall - Notebooks. , 1923-1928 | |||||||||
| subseries 5: Articles, 1955-1961 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Arizona Republic. , 1955 | |||||||||
| 3 | 6 | Arizona Republic. , 1956 | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Arizona Republic. , 1957 | |||||||||
| 3 | 8 | Arizona Republic. , 1958 | |||||||||
| 3 | 9 | "Blaw Knox at the Dam." , 1961 | |||||||||
| 3 | 10 | "Careful, Pardner - I am Referring to the Town I Love." , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 11 | Crime Reporting. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 12-15 | General. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 16 | KCLS Radio Reports. , 1955-1957 | |||||||||
| 3 | 17 | Obituaries. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 18 | "A Spanish Wedding Near Us in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora." , 1957 | |||||||||
| 3 | 19 | "You can Have Supai." , undated | |||||||||
| subseries 6: Research Files, undated | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 20 | Literature - Auden, W.H. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 21 | Literature - Boswell, James. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 22 | Literature - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 23 | Literature - Buck, Pearl S. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 24 | Literature - Cather, Willa. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 25 | Literature - Collier, Jeremy. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 26 | Literature - Dobson, Austen. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 27 | Literature - Douglas, Norman. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 28 | Literature - Faulkner, William. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 29 | Literature - Frost, Robert. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 30 | Literature - Goldsmith, Oliver. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 31 | Literature - Greek Drama. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 32 | Literature - Johnson, Samuel. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 33 | Literature - de Maupassant, Guy. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 34 | Literature - Meredith, George. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 35 | Literature - O'Neill, Eugene. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 36 | Literature - Proust, Marcel. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 37 | Literature - Rilke, Rainier Maria. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 38 | Literature - Roberts, Elizabeth. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 39 | Literature - Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 40 | Literature - Sidgewick, Ethel. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 41 | Literature - Strachey, Lytton. , undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 42 | Literature - Tolstoi, Leo (folder 1 of 3). , undated | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1-2 | Literature - Tolstoi, Leo (folders 2 and 3 of 3). , undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Literature - Winwar, Francis. , undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 4 | Northern Arizona - General. , undated | |||||||||
| subseries 7: Legal Files, 1949-1961 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 5 | "A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln" ("The Wayward Kiss") - Contracts. , 1954 | |||||||||
| 4 | 6 | "A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln" ("The Wayward Kiss") - Royalties. , 1954-1955 | |||||||||
| 4 | 7 | The Long Knives Walked - Contracts. , 1959 | |||||||||
| 4 | 8 | The Pale Survivors - Copyright. , 1961 | |||||||||
| 4 | 9 | Prepare Them for Caesar - Contracts. , 1949 | |||||||||
| 4 | 10 | Prepare Them for Caesar - Copyright. , 1949 | |||||||||
| 4 | 11 | Prepare Them for Caesar - Royalties. , 1949 | |||||||||
| subseries 8: Diaries, 1916-1923, 1966 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 12 | California Diary. , undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 13 | New York City Diary. , undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 14 | Personal Diary. , 1916 | |||||||||
| 4 | 15 | Personal Diary. , 1917 | |||||||||
| 4 | 16 | Personal Diary. , 1918 | |||||||||
| 4 | 17 | Personal Diary. , 1919 | |||||||||
| 4 | 18 | Personal Diary. , 1920 | |||||||||
| 4 | 19 | European Vacation. , 1922 | |||||||||
| 4 | 20 | Travel Diary. , 1922-1923 | |||||||||
| 4 | 21 | Personal Diary. , 1966 | |||||||||
| Series IV: Photographs, 1866-1957 | |||||||||||
| This series contains albums, photographs, daguerreotypes, and several negatives and slides. Subjects include various members of the Mabie family, pets, landscapes, and unidentified others. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 5 | 1-2 | Flagstaff. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 3 | Graffman, Gary. , 1954 | |||||||||
| 5 | 4 | The "John Sherwin." , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 5-6 | Kennedy Family. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 7 | Kennedy Family. , 1866-1926 | |||||||||
| 5 | 8 | Kennedy Family - Daguerreotypes. , undated, 1890 | |||||||||
| 5 | 9 | Mabie Family - Album. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 10 | Mabie Family - Album. , 1904-1913 | |||||||||
| 5 | 11 | Mabie Family - Album. , 1927-1928 | |||||||||
| 5 | 12-13 | Mabie Family - General. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 14 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - General. , undated, 1895-1897 | |||||||||
| 5 | 15-16 | Mabie, Louise Kennedy - General. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 17-18 | Mabie, Mary Louise - Childhood. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 19 | Mabie, Mary Louise - Childhood. , 1905-1908 | |||||||||
| 5 | 20 | Mabie, Mary Louise - Adolescence. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 21-22 | Mabie, Mary Louise - General. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 23 | Mabie, Mary Louise - School Photographs. , 1910s | |||||||||
| 5 | 24 | Mexican Wedding (Life Article). , 1957 | |||||||||
| 5 | 25 | Military Encampment. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 26 | Military Re-enactment. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 27 | Negatives and Slides. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 28 | Pets. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 29 | Residences - General. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 30 | Residences - The Little House (Flagstaff, AZ). , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 31 | Stilwell, Ethel. , 1895 | |||||||||
| 5 | 32-35 | Travel Photographs. , undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 36-38 | Unidentified , undated | |||||||||
| Series V: Scrapbooks, 1900-1947 | |||||||||||
| This series contains scrapbooks relating to the literary careers of Mary Louise Mabie and her grandfather, James H. Kennedy. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | Kennedy, James H. , 1900-1902 | |||||||||
| 6 | 2 | Kennedy, James H. , 1903-1907 | |||||||||
| 6 | 3 | Mabie, Mary Louise. , 1924-1947 | |||||||||
| 6 | 4 | Mabie, Mary Louise. , 1929-1930 | |||||||||
| 6 | 5 | Mabie, Mary Louise. , 1930-1932 | |||||||||
| Series VI: Oversize Photographs and Scrapbooks, 1908-1950 | |||||||||||
| This series contains oversize materials from the photographs and scrapbooks series. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 7 | 1 | Photographs - Mabie, Mary Louise. , 1908-1948 | |||||||||
| 7 | 2 | Photographs - Unidentified. , undated, 1931 | |||||||||
| 7 | 3 | Scrapbooks - Mabie, Louise Kennedy. , 1921-1931 | |||||||||
| 7 | 4 | Scrapbooks - Mabie, Louise Kennedy. , 1931-1937 | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | Scrapbooks - Mabie, Louise Kennedy. , 1938-1944 | |||||||||
| 8 | 2 | Scrapbooks - Mabie, Mary Louise. , 1932-1940 | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 1 | Scrapbooks - Mabie, Mary Louise. , 1949-1950 | |||||||||