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Della J. Evans papers, 1894-1956

A Guide to her papers at the Indiana University Archives


Electronic finding aid encoded by Nicole Mares and Amanda Harlan.

Summary Information

Repository
Indiana University Archives
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives

Creator
Evans, Della Julia.

Title
Della J. Evans papers, 1894-1956

Collection No.
C164

Extent
1.6 cubic feet

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
Della J. Evans was an Indiana University alumna who graduated in 1897. She was a writer and sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Julian Allen. Collection consists of sketches, correspondence, journals, essays, plays, short stories, and poetry.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Advance notice is required.

Biographical Note

Della Julia Evans was born in Evansville, Indiana. She attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, between 1894 and 1897, graduating with a degree in English. During her time at IU she worked as an Associate Editor for The Student and was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, helping to establish a new chapter at University of Illinois at Champaign in 1895.

Miss Evans was a prolific writer after her graduation from Indiana University. In 1921 two of her plays, M-R-S and The Younger Son were published by R.C. Badger of Boston, and M-R-S was reproduced in the Indiana University Alumni Quarterly in 1923. She frequently submitted poems to newspapers for publication, sometimes using her chosen pseudonym, Julian Allen.

Moving from Evansville, Miss Evans spent her remaining years in Port Washington, New York, close to her sister, philanthropist Caroline Hornbrook Evans Veatch. Della Evans died June 03, 1956 and her remains were interred in New York.

Arrangement

Collection is arranged into two series: Subject files and Writings. The Writings is further arranged into six subseries: Journals; Essays; Plays; Short stories; Verse; and Collected writings

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains two series, Subject files and Writings. Arranged alphabetically, the first series, Subject files, contains Miss Evans’s personal artifacts. Notable items within this series include an unsigned letter written circa 1835 to a Dr. Richard Harlan, a noted Philadelphia physician and naturalist, the program from her sister Caroline Veatch’s funeral, and various architectural and botanical sketches.

The second series, Writings, is further organized into six sub-series including Journals; Plays; Verse; Short Stories; Essays; and Collected writings. The series and subsequent sub-series are arranged alphabetically, with the exception of journals, which have been given the primary position in the Writings series, and the Collected writings sub-series, which appears last and contains works Ms. Evans collected from various sources and either clipped or transcribed for her personal files.

The Journals sub-series contains volumes of works produced by Della Evans at various phases in her life. They contain a variety of materials, including biographical information, verse, newspaper clippings, collected works of other authors, and travel narratives.

The second sub-series in the Writings series contains Ms. Evans’s essays. The essays in this collection are generally defined as works appearing to be non-fictional in subject matter, and have been arranged alphabetically by their titles. If a title was not assigned by the author, they have been alphabetized according to their subject matter.

Ms. Evans wrote a variety of plays, and these make up the third sub-series. The collection includes copies of her published plays, as well as pageants performed in local productions. These, like the above sub-series, have been arranged alphabetically by title.

The fourth sub-series contains short stories written by Ms. Evans. These are arranged by title and are essentially Ms. Evans’s only substantial fictional works in prose form.

The fifth sub-series, Verse, contains Della Evans’s various works of poetry. Within this sub-series one can track Ms. Evans’s enjoyment of literary experimentation, as she dabbled in many forms of verse. Poems not assigned titles by the creator have been labeled according to their first line. All poems in the collection have been arranged alphabetically, with all drafts of each poem appearing in one folder for the poem title. Some poems within these folders have been signed and/or published under the name Julian Allen, Della J. Evans’s pseudonym.

The final sub-series, Collected works, contains clippings and transcriptions of various poems, and were found mixed into Della Evans’s own various writings. These are arranged alphabetically by the poets name. If there is no indication of the author, the works have been alphabetized according to their title.

Separated Material

Photographs of her trip to South America were transferred to the Archives Photographs Collection.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Accession 0825
Usage Restrictions
The donor(s) of this collection have not transferred their copyrights for the materials to the Trustees of Indiana University. For more information, please contact the Indiana University Archives staff.

The Indiana University Archives respects the intellectual property rights of others and does not claim any copyrights for non-university records, materials in the public domain, or materials for which we do not hold a Deed of Gift. Responsibility for the determination of the copyright status of these materials rests with those persons wishing to reuse the materials. Researchers are responsible for securing permission from copyright owners and any other rights holders for any reuse of these materials that extends beyond fair use or other statutory limitations.

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Preferred Citation
[Item], Della J. Evans papers, Collection C164, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.
Processing Information
Processed by Nicole M. Mares.

Completed in 2004.


Series: Subject files, 1894-1956 

Box 1 Correspondence, undated 

Funeral Program for Caroline Veatch (nee Evans), ca. 1953 

A Guide to Butterflies, undated 

Obituary for Dr. Allison Maxwell, 16 January 1915 

Orthodietetic Chart, undated 

Playbills, undated 

Sketches of Architectural Fixtures, undated 

Sketches of Pet Dog, undated 

Sketches of Vegetation, undated 

Series: Writings, 1894-1956 

Subseries: Journals, 1897-1956 

Box 1 Writing Journal, 1897-1900 

Writing Journal, undated 

Travel Journal, Europe, 1905 

Travel Journal, Venezuela, undated 

Subseries: Essays, undated 

Box 1 After Fifty Years, undated 

Appropriateness in Writing, undated 

Barbs, undated 

Europe, undated 

The Green Goddess, undated 

In Other People’s Gardens, undated 

Industries of South America, undated 

An Intimate Monarch, undated 

The Letters of a Pioneer, undated 

Life of Samuel G. Evans, undated 

Matrimony, ca. 1906 

A Matter of Faith, undated 

The Meaning of Music: Daniel Gregory Manson in the New York Outlook, undated 

Mr. Bradley, undated 

The One-Act Play, undated 

Origins of hieroglyphics, undated 

Palissy’s Patience, undated 

Play-Making, undated 

Preface, undated 

Recently at Rouen there was unveiled a statue of Gustave Mahler, undated 

The Remodeled Religious Frock, undated 

The Riddle of the Universe, undated 

The Rise of High Comedy, undated 

The Short Story, undated 

Silver, Coal, Iron, & Tin Business, undated 

Some Dogs I Have Known, undated 

To a Barbarian Bachelor, undated 

A Translation from the German, undated 

Subseries: Plays, undated 

Box 1 And Things are Not What They Seem, undated 

A Barrel of Potatoes, undated 

The Bastard, undated 

The Betrothed, undated 

The Black Tulip, undated 

The Blue Hoop Skirt, undated 

The Bride To Be, undated 

The Charming Mr. Slade, undated 

Coffee for One, undated 

The Conquering Spirit, undated 

Cousin Willie, undated 

The Founding of a College, undated 

The Foundling, undated 

Hunting Dorothea, undated 

A Mother that Wasn’t Wanted, undated 

Mowbry’s Second Wife, undated 

M-R-S, undated 

Mrs. Votington for Mayor, undated 

Mrs. Williams, undated 

The New Manager at Biddel’s, undated 

No Husbands!, undated 

O’Connell’s Boy, undated 

One of Reggie’s Hairs, undated 

Peg, Meg, and Margaret, undated 

The Piece of String, undated 

Science is Introduced Into Education, undated 

Shakespeare Pageant, undated 

Skeleton in the Closet, undated 

The Tiger Rider, undated 

Twenty-Four Hours of Celebrities, undated 

Water I & II, undated 

When the Blind See, undated 

The Willings, undated 

Work, undated 

The World and the Bow Wows, undated 

The Younger Son, undated 

Subseries: Short stories, undated 

Box 1 The Bachelor, undated 

Betty, undated 

The Bishop’s Scarab, undated 

Black Eyes, undated 

The Book, undated 

Brown County, undated 

Casa Grande, undated 

The Child Idea of God, undated 

A Commuter’s Wife, undated 

Confessions of a Spinster, undated 

The Conquest of One who Knew Only Victory, undated 

The Doctor’s Story, undated 

Forty Questions on the Bible, undated 

Fumbling for God, undated 

Glimpse of Bohemia, undated 

Green Snake of Negro Tradition, undated 

Grossmutter Baumn’s Remorse, undated 

The Hills, undated 

How the Goldenrod Came to Be, undated 

Inez, undated 

The Joys of Single Blessedness: By a Spinster with Apologies to Mr. Ade, undated 

Just Emmie, undated 

Just one Day, undated 

The Last One, undated 

Letterwell’s Nurse, undated 

The Little Blue Cup, undated 

The Little Dog that Laughed, undated 

Box 2 Little Town in Wales, undated 

Love Letter Written by Ernest Eastham, undated 

The Magic Flute, 27 November 1894 

Major, undated 

The Marriage of Jimmy MacGowan, undated 

Mrs. Vernon Lee’s Progressive Driving Party, undated 

My Nearest Neighbors, undated 

The New Chauffeur, undated 

Other Side of Ruth, undated 

Pay Night, undated 

The Peregrinations of Billy, undated 

The Piano in the Garret, undated 

The Plot Furnisher, undated 

Portes des Mort, undated 

The Putting Green, undated 

The Sheltered Inn: Five Short Stories / Preface and the Little Blue Cup, undated 

The Smile, undated 

Susan Sims, undated 

Troubadors, undated 

Two Bits: The Love Story of a Little Girl, undated 

Two Little Aberdeens, undated 

The Water Lily, undated 

Where There is Smoke, undated 

Widower Cardinal’s Son, undated 

Will Booth, undated 

Young Hamilton Payne, undated 

Subseries: Verse, undated 

Box 1 Collection, undated 

"Abstraction," undated 

"The Altitude Test," undated 

"Bartholomew Sous," undated 

"Cabbage and Kings," undated 

"A Case of Bluff," undated 

"The Childless," undated 

"A College Hall to Her Future Students," undated 

"The Coming of Skippy," undated 

"A Corros in Verse: Or, Sunset on the Hill," undated 

"Cradle Song," undated 

"The Deep Love," undated 

"Delphiniums," undated 

"Evening," undated 

"Finding my First Flint Arrowhead / The Love that Passeth, Understanding," undated 

"For a Song," undated 

"The Great Adventure," undated 

"Guanoco," undated 

"Farewell to a Bride," undated 

"Goodbye to a Bird," undated 

"Here comes a candle to light us to bed," undated 

"Home / To a Snowdrop" undated 

"I Heard a Cat Bird Sing One Night," undated 

"Immutability," undated 

"In the Harbor at the Port of Spain," undated 

"Jamie," undated 

"Josie Johns," undated 

"Just like soldiers straight and tall," undated 

"The Little Pauper," undated 

"The Miracle / Summer (Natura Mystica)," undated 

"Missing," undated 

"Morning Dew," undated 

"My dear, my dear in a year or two," undated 

"My Haunted House / Memory," undated 

"My Heart is away on a pilgrimage," undated 

"My Wireless," undated 

"Natura Mystica: Autumn," undated 

"Natura Mystica: Spring / Butterflies," undated 

"Natura Mystica: Summer," undated 

"Natura Mystica: Winter," undated 

"Nature as a Love Cure," undated 

"A Negro Lullaby," undated 

"Oh that old boy Chopin," undated 

"Oh to be!," undated 

"Oh What a Day / June in Indiana," undated 

"Oh who will go agipsying," undated 

"On the Yacht at Port of Spain," undated 

"One More Kiss," undated 

"A Parent," undated 

"Peace," undated 

"The Penitent," undated 

"A Place Called Home," undated 

"The Poacher," undated 

"The Priest of St. Mary’s," undated 

"Progress Speaks," undated 

"A Raindrop Rag," undated 

"Red Bird, Red Bird, Sing to Me," undated 

"The Riddle," undated 

"The Robin’s Song," undated 

"The Rose," undated 

"Runaway Time," undated 

"Sea, Take Me," undated 

"Self-Satisfaction," undated 

Box 3 "The Setting of the Sun Dial," undated 

"She’s Got the Vote," undated 

"A Short Story," undated 

"Softly our voices blend," undated 

"Song," undated 

"The Song in Your Eyes," undated 

"Song of a Negro Field Hand," undated 

"The Spooky Mook," undated 

"Sunset," undated 

"Tango in the Patio," undated 

"There’s a Disagreeable Woman," undated 

"Theta Pansies," undated 

"To Betty," undated 

"To a Companion of Travel," undated 

"To the Fellows Who Made it," undated 

"To a Flower Found in the Forest," undated 

"To a Snowdrop," undated 

"To a Violet," undated 

"To You," undated 

"The Touching Ballad of Mary," undated 

"Two American Indian Love Lyrics," undated 

"Two Women," undated 

"The Wail of the Unfortunate," undated 

"The West Wind," undated 

"What is Poetry?" undated 

"Where to Grow Old," undated 

"Where the Light Shines Brightest," undated 

"Which," September 1935 

"Will O the Wisp," undated 

"Wisdom," undated 

"The Wren’s Song / Morning Dew," undated 

"A Woman’s Pride," undated 

Subseries: Collected writings, undated 

Box 3 Anon. "De Profundis," undated 

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, "Sonnets From the Portuguese," undated 

Hammond, Herbert, "The Real and the Ideal," 1893 

Kipling, Rudyard, "If," undated 

Labouchere, Henry, "Compressed Schopenhauer," undated 

"Life’s Darkest Moment," 1949 

Payne, William Morton, "Lohengrin," undated 

Reid, Cale Young, "The Immortal," and Sara Teasdale, "Blue Squills," undated 

"Taps," undated 

"The Thrill that Comes Once in a Lifetime," 1949 

Turner, Nancy Byrd, "Click O’ the Latch," undated 

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