Hack mss., 1906-1959
Summary Information
Repository:
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly
Creator
Miller, Elizabeth,
1878-1961.
TitleHack mss., 1906-1959
Collection No.
LMC 1490
Extent
76 items
Language
Materials are in English
Abstract
Consists of the papers of author
Elizabeth Jane Miller, 1878-1961, born near New Ross, Indiana.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
Elizabeth Jane Miller, 1878-1961, was born near New Ross, Indiana. In 1908 she
married Oren Stephen Hack, an Indianapolis attorney who died in 1942. Her four
published novels were
The Yoke in 1904,
Saul of Tarsus in 1906,
The City
of Delight
in 1908, and
Daybreak in 1915,
all issued under her maiden name.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series: I. Biographical materials, II. Correspondence,
III. Writings, IV. Miscellaneous.
Scope and Content Note
Consists of the papers of author Elizabeth Jane Miller, 1878-1961, born near New
Ross, Indiana. Correspondents include Amos William Butler and Carrie Belle (Tyler)
Fenton. Writings include book reviews, drama, garden column notes, short stories,
speeches and longer works. The longer writings include multiple drafts of several
novels, often rewritten under different titles, a mixture of holograph, typed, and
carbon copies, most of which appear to be unpublished.
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Indexing Terms
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
IUCAT, the IU Libraries'
online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by
searching the catalog using these terms.
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Names
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Miller, Elizabeth, 1878-1961
--Correspondence.
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Butler, Amos W. (Amos
William), 1860-1937.
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Related Material
Additional materials for Elizabeth Jane Miller can be found in the Bobbs-Merrill
mss., 1906-1936, also located at the Lilly Library.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Gift. 1977
Usage Restrictions
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Hack mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Series:
Box 1
Biographical
(1 folder)
Includes genealogical trees, biographical accounts, military history.
Series:
Correspondence
Box 1
1921-1959
(1 folder)
Series:
Writings
Subseries:
Book Reviews
(1 folder)
Box 1
Plant Hunters of The Andes, by Thomas Harper Goodspeed.
T.D.
(8 pp.)
Three Acres & a Mill, by Robert Gathorne-Hardy.
T.D.
(6 pp.)
Subseries:
Drama
(1 folder)
Box 1
[Palmer, Bishop of Lycia] T.D.
(10 pp.)
[Pilgrim, play in verse] T.D.
(2 drafts, 3 & 4 pp.)
Subseries:
Box 1
Garden Column Notes
(1 folder)
Subseries:
Short Stories
Box 1
The Broncho-Busting at Grassy. T.D.
(19 pp.)
[Don David] T.D.
(2 drafts, 7 & 3 pp.)
Duty Plus (On the misinterpretation of poetry).
T.D.
(20 pp.)
George Wyrick. T.D.
(7 pp.)
Glorious Manning. T.D.
(3 pp.)
The Obligee. T.D.
(17 pp.)
The Thirteenth Marti. T.D.
(7 pp.)
Subseries:
Speeches
Box 1
Garden Club - An Old, Old Record Replayed (about Vance
Johnson's Heaven's Tableland). T.D.
(12 pp.)
Garden Club - Starting Seeds. T.D.
(8 pp.)
History Club - The History of Womankind. T.D.
(13 pp.)
Woman's Club Council - Luis de Santangel. T.D.
(11 pp.)
Norwegian literature speech fragment. T.D.
(1 p.)
Subseries:
Longer Works
Box 1
Able Agnes. Three drafts, miscellaneous pages, folder of
over-sized pages
(27 folders)
The Buckeen and the Weaver Lass. Two drafts
(24 folders)
David. In preparation in 1918. T.D.
(39 pp.)
Dawn Light on the River. Three drafts
(5 folders)
Box 2
Dawn Light on the River (cont.)
(31 folders)
Hang Virtue. Draft and miscellaneous pages
(5 folders)
The Hyphenate. Including two drafts, dramatic version,
miscellaneous pages
(4 folders)
Loaded Dice. Draft and miscellaneous pages
(7 folders)
Red Morning. Draft
(2 folders)
Saul of Tarsus.
T.D.
(14 pp.)
Tahmi, the Tramp. Five drafts
and miscellaneous pages
(8 folders)
Box 3
Tahmi, the Tramp
(cont.)
(25 folders)
Series:
Box 3
Miscellaneous
(2 folders)
Includes poem - These are the toilers of the old frontier [first line] A.D.
1p.; children's school papers; and meteorology and aviation notes
