Miner mss., 1915-1982
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
Miner, Virginia Scott.
TitleMiner mss., 1915-1982
Collection No.
LMC 1869
Extent
4,436 items
Language
Materials are in English
Abstract
Consists of the papers of Mrs. Virginia
(Scott) Miner (Mrs. Dewey Hobson Miner), 1901-1982, poet.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
Mrs. Virginia (Scott) Miner (Mrs. Dewey Hobson Miner), 1901-1982, was a poet. A
native of Indiana, she taught for several years at the Pembroke-Country Day School
in Kansas City. She retired in 1967 and later moved to Warsaw, Indiana. Some of her
writings were published under pseudonyms of Hannah Wilcox and Hoosier Hannah.
Arrangement
Organized into a single series: Files.
Scope and Content Note
Consists of the papers of Mrs. Virginia (Scott) Miner (Mrs. Dewey Hobson Miner),
1901-1982, poet. The materials include correspondence, diaries, poems, notebooks,
and scrapbooks; musical settings by composers Leo Ascher, Mary Mildred Chubb, Eileen
B. Maltby, and Alfred R. Service, and drawings by illustrators Dorothy Bayley,
Harold M. Sichel, and Katherine Richardson Wireman for poems by Mrs. Miner; poems
and prose by many of the students at Pembroke-Country Day School; and a group of
letters and writings by former students Martin Cohen, Geoffrey Alexander Oelsner
(with a few drawings), and Paul Williams. Letters written from a trip to Europe in
1953 form a travel account of the countries of France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany,
Holland, and England.
Printed materials include clippings of poems, many of which were removed from the
scrapbooks, several periodicals in which the poems appeared, book reviews, articles,
and a high school yearbook of 1917 in which Miner's first published poem appeared. A
number of photographs may be found in the biographical folder.
Drawings by illustrators Dorothy Bayley, Harold M. Sichel and Katherine
Richardson Wireman for poems by Miner are also included.
Note on Indexing Term - "Music": Included are musical settings of her poems
by composers Leo Ascher, Mary Mildred Chubb, Eileen B. Maltby, and Alfred R. Service.
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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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Pembroke-Country Day
School.
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Columbia Broadcasting System,
inc.
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American Book
Company.
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Pembroke-Country Day
School.
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Miner, Virginia Scott
--Correspondence.
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Thompson, Dorothy
Brown.
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Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Gift. 1976, 1977, 1983
Usage Restrictions
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Miner mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Series:
Box 1
Files
Boxes 1-3 have been indexed.
Correspondence
n.d.
Letters from Europe. 1953, June 10-Aug. 14
Box 2
Cohen, Marty
Letters. 1968
Niagra (Poems, 1969-1972)
Poems, prose, & printed
Oelsner, Geoffrey A.
Letters. 1967-1976
Drawings, poems, prose, & printed
Pembroke Country Day School
(4 folders)
Includes student poetry/prose; articles concerning the retirement of
Virginia Scott Miner; Writing Club; First Day Versifiers.
Williams, Paul
Letters. 1965-1975
Poems, prose, & printed
Travel journal to West Coast. 1956, June 19-July
25
Printed
Poems
Abandoned Cottage-Youth
(8 folders)
Appearance in whole periodicals
Miscellaneous
Includes Author-Journalist, Apr.
1955; Kansas Quarterly, v. 15 no. 2, 2/83; Calamus, no. 12, June 1976; brochures; magazine and
newspaper clippings
Annual verse market list in Author-Journalist by V.S.
Miner
Reviews of literature
Prose writings of V.S. Miner
Box 3
Notebooks
Journals and autograph drafts of poems
(26 volumes)
Writings
Poems. 1925-1973
Jacobson, E.-Wisby, Gloria
Miscellaneous pieces
Music
Sheet music of several V.S. Miner's poems arranged musically by Leo
Ascher, M.M. Chub, and Alfred Service. Titles include The Bored Goblins;
Come Early Spring; Come with Spring; Double Heaven; Irish Legend; Moon
Money; Not So My Heart (photostat copy); Song of the Rushes; Tension;
Wren Song
Box 4
Correspondence
Family. 1979, Sept. 29-1981, Apr.
30
Cohen, Marty. 1975-1982
Frank, James. 1979-1982
(4 folders)
Oelsner, Geoffrey A. 1975-1982
Phifer, Kenneth. 1978-1982
Sutherland, Robert Delano. 1977-1982
Thompson, Dorothy Brown, to. 1974-1981
(6 folders)
Thompson, Dorothy Brown, from. 1956-1982
(5 folders)
Vogt, Gertrude. 1975-1979
Williams, Paul. 1970-1977
n.d.
Box 5
Correspondence
1920-1982,
May
(20 folders)
Biographical material
Biographical clippings and accession information
Biographical account. 1924-1982
Clippings and printed. 1921-1982
(2 folders)
Financial. 1957-1981
(3 folders)
Photographs. 1905 (copy)-1981
(6 folders)
Box 6
Notebooks
Records of poems, published and unpublished. 1934-1981
(5 folders)
Writings
Poems and notes, 1937-1976
(5 folders)
Reviews of Nefertiti and Trees
Diaries
1953;
1971-1980;
1980 (note); 1980, Sept. 13-1981, Nov.
27;
1981
(5 folders)
Miscellaneous
P.E.O. materials
[Includes
P.E.O. Register
July 1978,
Oct. 1978,
Nov. 1978,
Jan. 1979; member directory
1974-1975,
1977-1978;
speeches; poems; notes]
Small book of pressed flowers from locations in
Europe
History of the Diversifiers. 1976
Box 7
Writings
(19 folders)
Writings
The Slender Screen. Proofs
Others
Cohen Martin
Conwell, Joseph
Garnett, Richard Gordon
Goodman, Ryan Tunmarkin
Jaffe, Dan
McLeod, Maria Julie
Mahkuk, Margret
Box 9
Sutherland, Robert D.
(6 folders)
Williams, Paul
(4 folders)
TBA
Printed
American Journal. Autograph
document and photostat copies with autograph notes
(4 folders)
Articles
Bound material.
(3 folders)
[Includes
The Windless Orchard #38,
Spring-Summer 1981;
New Letters, Winter
1981-1982 (2 copies);
Helicon Nine, no. 5, Fall
1981;
Focus Midwest, vol. 14, no. 86;
New Mexico Quarterly, vol. XXX,
no. 4, Winter
1960-1961;
Indiana Names, vol. III, no. 2,
Fall
1972;
Unity, April 1981,
December 1981;
Bits and Pieces from My Hoard that
Grew
, June 12,
1969;
Cornucopia, vol. 20 no. 2 Summer
1966, vol. 20 no. 3 Winter 1966, vol. 21 no. 4 Winter 1967, vol. 22 no. 3
Fall
1968, vol. 22 no. 2 Summer
1969]
Box 10
Printed
(3 folders)
Pembroke-Country Day School
[Includes student and parent directory/handbooks, 1971/1972,
1978-1982;
Helicon
1964-1968,
1970,
1977-1978,
1980-1981;
yearbook 1960; grade book
1966-1967]
Humphrey, Robin
[Includes photographs and literature from the Missouri Repertory
Theatre]
Travel
Europe
(2 folders)
[Includes maps; brochures; magazine articles; postcards]
Indiana
[Includes
Indiana History Bulletin
January 1971; newspaper
clippings]
Miscellaneous
[Includes maps, brochures, photographs and postcards of Europe, the
West Indies, South America, and the United States]
Miscellaneous
Miner notes
(5 folders)
[Includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles and brochures with
autograph notes]
Notes by others
Oversize 1
Scrapbooks
Scrapbook. 1939-1961
Oversize 2
Scrapbook. 1978-1982
Oversize 3
Scrapbooks. 1915-1925
Oversize 4
Scrapbooks I-VII
Oversize 5
Scrapbooks VIII-XIV
Oversize 6
Drawings by illustrators Dorothy Bayley, Harold M. Sichel,
and Katherine Richardson Wireman for poems by Mrs. Miner
