Mary Hunter Austin Papers: Finding Aid mssAU
Finding aid prepared by Karen Kearns, Natalie Russell, Suzanne Oatey, and Diann
Benti.
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Last updated by Brooke M. Black in November 2023.
Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Mary Hunter Austin papers
Creator:
Austin, Mary, 1868-1934
Identifier/Call Number: mssAU
Physical Description:
200.2 Linear Feet
(136 boxes, 14 folders, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1845-1950
Date (bulk): 1920-1934
Abstract: The collection consists of the literary
and personal papers of American novelist, essayist and political activist Mary Hunter Austin
(1868-1934), best known for her portrayals of life in California and New Mexico. It includes
correspondence and literary manuscripts by both Austin and numerous other authors, editors
and friends, as well as ephemera and photographs. Literary manuscripts include Austin's
personal journals, short stories, poems, essays, and numerous drafts of novels. The
correspondence deals with Austin's personal life and business dealings as well as her
activities with Indian rights and the water right controversies in California's Owens Valley
and in the Southwest. There are also materials related to Austin's interests in folklore and
religion in New Mexico and the Southwest. The more than 1,200 photographs in the collection
date from 1869 to the 1920s and include personal and family photographs of Mary Austin, her
friends, relatives, homes, and various topics related to her interests.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
Publication Rights
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responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining
necessary permissions rests with the researcher. For more information about the copyright
ownership of unpublished materials in the Mary Hunter Austin Collection, researchers are
encouraged to contact the Huntington's Curator of Literary Manuscripts.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Mary Hunter Austin papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino,
California.
Acquisition Information
Acquired from the Mary Austin Estate in 1951. Some additional material has been
incorporated from other sources. These acquisitions include gifts of Charlotte Kellogg, May
9, 1951 (AU 1123); Bertha B. Wardell, August 23, 1954 (AU 1274-1279); Glen Dawson, January
6, 1956 (AU 1290); and J. E. Reynolds, January 26, 1958 (AU 1246); and purchases from
Argonaut Book Shop, December 1960 (AU-113-1138, AU 1267, AU 3554); Zeitlin & Ver Brugge,
March 28, 1968 (AU 1077); Dawson's Book Shop, June 30, 1969 (AU 1091-1093); K. W. Rendell,
August 18, 1970 (AU 1104); Joseph the Provider, July 5, 1977 (AU 1249-1266); and Randall
House, February 23, 1989 (AU 5456).
Custodial History
Prior to their acquisition by the Huntington, the items were housed at the School of
American Research.
Separated Material
Photographs received as part of this collection that were created by Ansel Adams for the
book
Taos Pueblo, a collaboration with Austin published in 1930, were
transferred to the Art Division in July 1988 (accession numbers 88.10.1 – 88.10.19). These
items may be viewed by appointment with the Registrar, Art Division.
Processing Information
This collection was divided between the Manuscripts Department and the Photo Archives, with
the manuscripts and ephemera processed as one collection (mssAU), and the photographs
processed separately (photCL 296). A summary report for the manuscripts collection was made
by Karen Kearns in March 1989 and updated by Natalie Russell on August 27, 2007. In December
2014, Suzanne Oatey created a folder list of the photographs, and Diann Benti combined and
updated the various inventories and created a box list in order to create this finding aid
describing both the manuscript and photographic components.
Biography
Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) was a well-known and prolific writer best known for her
portrayals of life in California and New Mexico. She published 33 books, including Land of
Little Rain, 3 plays and well over 125 short stories, articles, and poems before her death
on August 13, 1934. During her lifetime, Austin befriended many important figures including
Jimmy Hopper, Herbert Hoover, Jack London, Charles Fletcher Lummis, George Bernard Shaw,
George Sterling, and H.G. Wells, among many others represented in the collection. There is
little correspondence with her immediate family, though she was close to her brother Jim's
daughter, Mary Hunter Sullivan Wolf, and numerous correspondence between the two exist.
Austin lived in Carmel, California, New York, London, and Rome. Santa Fe, New Mexico, became
her final residence and she erected a house there, which she named "Casa Querida." Once in
Santa Fe, her lifelong interest in American Indians became more pronounced, and she lobbied
vigorously and frequently on their behalf. Much of her later writing dealt with Indians as
well as mysticism and religions. With the help of Arthur Leon Campa of the University of New
Mexico, Austin collected Spanish folklore, which had existed as oral tradition until they
transcribed it. Austin's writings also focused on the financial, intellectual, and social
independence of women.
Scope and Content
This collection contains the personal papers of American novelist, essayist, and political
activist Mary Hunter Austin, best known for her portrayals of life in California and New
Mexico. It includes correspondence and literary manuscripts by both Austin and numerous
other authors, editors and friends, as well as ephemera, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings
about Austin, and photographs. Literary manuscripts include Austin's personal journals,
short stories, poems, essays, and numerous drafts of novels. The correspondence deals with
Austin's personal life and business dealings as well as her activities with Indian rights
and the water right controversies in California's Owens Valley and in the Southwest. There
are also materials related to Austin's interests in folklore and religion in New Mexico and
the Southwest. Subjects include the publishing of her books, Indians of North America,
Spanish folklore, religion and mysticism, and the Colorado River and Owens Valley water
isues. The more than 1,200 photographs in the collection date from 1869 to the 1920s and
include personal and family photographs of Mary Austin, her friends and relatives, and her
various homes; portraits of notable literary friends and acquaintances; theaters and theater
productions; Southwest Indians and pueblos, art and artifacts; desert plants and scenery;
town views and travel photographs; Guatemalan masks; views of Penitente processions in New
Mexico; and other miscellaneous views. Most of the photographs are unattributed and are of
various sizes and formats.
Physical Description
Many items have pencil marks previously made by Nellie Barnes at the School of American
Research. The marks may be found in the forms of added dates and words, summarizations of
the contents of letters, and corrected spellings. No attempt has been made to erase these
marks. Most of the manuscripts are originals with some carbon copies. There are numerous
drafts of the same manuscripts. Many are in bad condition. Austin frequently wrote on the
backs of other manuscripts and letters. When possible the identity of these fragments has
been determined and included on the folders. There are many pages that are glued, taped, or
pinned together and have been folded. These items have now been unfolded and pins and paper
clips have been removed. Some of the paper has become very brittle. Most of the letters from
Mary Hunter Austin are carbon copies. Those to Ansel Easton Adams are Xerox copies given to
the library by Adams in 1978. Letters to Austin are mainly originals. The letters tend to be
in good physical condition.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following eight series: 1. Manuscripts by Mary Hunter
Austin (Boxes 1-41); 2. Manuscripts by other authors (Boxes 42-44); 3. Oversize Manuscripts
(Boxes 45-52); 4. Correspondence (Boxes 53-121); 5. Oversize Correspondence (Box 52 [4
folders]); 6. Ephemera (Boxes 122-136); 7. Oversize Ephemera and Art (12 folders); 8.
Photographs (photCL 296 Boxes 1-12).
General
Individual call numbers included in this collection: mssAU 1-5456 ; photCL 296.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Southwest review.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Adobe buildings -- Photographs.
Cahuilla Indians -- Photographs.
Churches--New Mexico -- Photographs.
Cocopa Indians -- Photographs -- Photographs.
Folklore -- Southwest, New.
Geothermal resources -- Imperial Valley (Calif. and Mexico) --
Photographs.
Hermanos Penitentes--Southwest, New--Religion -- Photographs.
Hopi dance -- Photographs.
Hopi Indians -- Photographs.
Indian baskets -- Photographs.
Indian masks -- Photographs.
Indians of North America -- California.
Indians of North America -- California -- Photographs.
Indians of North America -- New Mexico.
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Photographs.
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Isleta Indians -- Photographs.
Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.) --
Photographs.
Navajo Indians -- Photographs.
Paiute Indians -- Photographs.
Pueblo Indians -- Photographs.
Pueblo pottery -- Photographs.
Pueblos – New Mexico -- Photographs.
Ruins--New Mexico -- Photographs.
Sandpaintings -- Photographs.
Santuario de Chimayo (Chimayo, N.M.) -- Photographs.
Theaters -- Photographs.
Tohono O'odham Indians -- Photographs.
Water rights -- California -- Owens Valley.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Archives
Women -- Suffrage -- United States.
Women travelers -- Photographs.
Arizona -- Photographs.
California -- History -- Sources.
California – Photographs.
Chimayo (N.M.) -- Photographs.
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Water rights.
Fort McDowell (Ariz.) -- Photographs.
Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Photographs.
Independence (Calif.) – Photographs.
Inyo County (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Lone Pine (Calif.) -- Photographs.
New Mexico -- History -- Sources.
New Mexico -- Photographs.
Owens Valley (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Pajarito Plateau (N.M.) -- Photographs.
Salton Sea Region (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Santa Fe (N.M.) -- Photographs.
Southwest, New -- History -- Sources.
Taos (N.M.) -- Photographs.
Zuni (N.M.) -- Photographs.
Cyanotypes.
Lantern slides.
Letters (correspondence) Southwest, New.
Manuscripts Southwest, New.
Personal papers -- Southwest, New
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Adamic, Louis, 1899-1951.
Adams, Andy, 1859-1935.
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984.
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 --
Photographs.
Applegate, Frank G. (Frank Guy), 1881-1931.
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.
Austin, Mary, 1868-1934 -- Photographs.
Austin, Mary, 1868-1934 – Homes and haunts --
Photographs.
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914 --
Photographs.
Bender, Albert M. (Albert Maurice), 1866-1941.
Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950.
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963.
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968.
Campa, Arthur L. (Arthur Leon), 1905-1978.
Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961.
Canby, Marion Ponsonby Gause.
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna), 1842?-1928.
Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna), 1842?-1928 --
Photographs.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Photographs --
Photographs.
Cutting, Bronson M., 1888-1935.
Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957.
Farrar, John Chipman, 1896-1974.
Fiske, Turbesé Lummis -- Photographs.
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940.
Grierson, Francis, 1848-1927.
Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956.
Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 --
Photographs.
Holt, Henry, 1840-1926
Hopper, James, 1876-1956 -- Photographs.
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 -- Photographs.
Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944.
Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944 --
Photographs.
Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968.
James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 --
Photographs.
Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962.
Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958.
La Farge, Oliver, 1901-1963.
Lang, Annie Traquair, artist.
Levien, Sonya, 1888?-1960.
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.
Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974.
London, Charmian
London, Jack, 1876-1916
London, Jack, 1876-1916 -- Photographs.
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925.
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962.
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962 --
Photographs.
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928.
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928 --
Photographs.
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928 -- Homes and
haunts -- California -- Photographs.
Lummis, Eve -- Photographs.
MacDougal, Daniel Trembly, 1865-1958.
MacDougal, Daniel Trembly, 1865-1958 --
Photographs.
McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980.
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.
Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913 -- Photographs.
Palmer, Sutton, 1854-1933
Park, Robert Ezra, 1864-1944.
Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931 -- Photographs.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957.
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957 -- Photographs.
Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949 -- Photographs.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Schultz, James Willard, 1859-1947 --
Photographs.
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946.
Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria
Seymour) 1820-1914 -- Photographs.
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Photographs.
Simpson, William Haskell.
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.
Sterling, George, 1869-1926.
Sterling, George, 1869-1926 -- Photographs.
Toor, Frances, 1890-1956.
Tracy, Henry Chester, 1876-
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977.
Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.
Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972.
Walker, Ryan.
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 --
Photographs.
Wolf, Mary Hunter, 1904-
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984, photographer.
Bradfield, Wesley, 1876-1929, photographer.
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer.
Forbes, A. A., photographer.
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928, photographer.
Houghton Mifflin Company.
Bobbs-Merrill Company.
Century Company.
Forum.
Nation.
New Republic.
Yale University Press.
World Celebrities.
Series 1. Manuscripts by Mary Hunter Austin
Physical Description: 41
boxes
Arrangement
Manuscripts by Mary Hunter Austin are arranged alphabetically by the title of the work
or document.
Box 1
Ab-Am (AU 1-14)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 45 for draft of the article "American Experience Must County in
Disarmament."
Box 2
An-Au (AU 15-34)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 45 for draft of
Auto Pastoral Estrella.
Box 3
Ba-Bz (AU 36-42; AU 44-51)
Box 4
Cac-Cam (AU 52-58)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 52 for draft of
Cactus Thorn.
Box 5
Can-Cho (AU 59-69)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 45 for the play
Coloquio de Pastores.
Box 11
Ea-Ev (AU 125-146)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 45 for a translated copy of the play
El Niño Perdido,
and drafts of
Experience Facing Death; see Oversize Box 52 for draft of
Everyman's Genius.
Box 12
Ex-Fire (AU 147-162)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 51 for drafts of
Extra Horizon.
Box 13
Fire Drill-Ford (AU 163-174)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 46 for draft of
The Ford.
Box 14
Forest-Gar (AU 175-199)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 52 for draft of
The Friend in the Wood.
Box 17
Indita-Journal: Ex (Au 249-267)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 52 for draft of
Isidro.
Box 18
Journal: I-Juego (AU 268-271)
Box 20
Lad-Li (AU 288-309)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 47 for drafts of
The Land of Journeys' Ending and
Lost Border, and the plays
Le Aparicion De Nuestra Señora De
Guadalupe
and
Las Comanches.
Box 22
Love Coming-Lovely (AU 323-330)
Box 23
M-Mem (AU 331-350)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 48 for draft of
The Man Jesus and "A New Medium for
Poetic Drama."
Box 25
Mo-No (AU 364-377)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 52 for draft of
No. Twenty-Six Jayne Street.
Box 26
Notebook: F-Notebook: R (AU 378-382)
Box 27
Notebook containing miscellany-Notes on American Indians (folder
2)
(AU 383-389)
Box 28
Notes on American Indians (folder 3)-Novels (AU 390-415)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 48 for notes on Indian lore.
Box 30
Or-Pl (AU 430-447)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 48 for draft of "A Personal View on Crime."
Box 32
Rep-Se (AU 485-522)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 49 for draft of
Santa Lucia.
Box 33
Sh-So (AU 523-540)
Related Materials
See Oversize box 49 for draft of
Shape of Society; see Oversize Box 50
for draft of
A Small Town Man.
Box 34
Soc-Sy (AU 541-579)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 50 for the play
The Sweetheart of Dona Inez and
transcriptions of Spanish folk songs; see Oversize Box 52 for draft of
Starry
Adventure.
Box 37
Transcriptions of poems (folders 1-3) (AU 600-602)
Box 38
Transcriptions of poems (folder 4)-Two (AU 603-613)
Box 41
Woman-Y (AU 647-656)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 50 for draft of
The Young Woman Citizen.
Series 2. Manuscripts by other authors
Physical Description: 3
boxes
Arrangement
Manuscripts by other authors are arranged alphabetically by the author.
Box 42
B-Mahon (AU 657-688; AU 690-693a)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 50 for Grierson, Francis. [A.Ms. article on Mary (Hunter) Austin,
1908]; see Oversize Folder AU 689 for Lee, Laurence F.
Las Hermanos
Penintentes. A Thesis submitted for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the English
Course,
1910.
Box 43
Mayo-Suarez (AU 35; AU 43; AU 649-700; FAC 1109; AU 701-720)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 50 for Padilla, Camilo, translator.
Los Pastores
[typewritten play with Mary (Hunter) Austin's autograph notation] and Sterling,
George. "The Rack" [poem].
Box 44
Manuscripts by other authors: Tenorio-White, and anonymous (AU 721-739)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 50 for Wright, Lillian (Freeman). America's National Folk Festival
[typewritten article, 1934] and Anonymous. [A. Ms. Music and verses of Indian
songs].
Series 3. Oversize Manuscripts
Physical Description: 8
boxes
Box 45
Oversize manuscripts by Mary Hunter Austin: A-E (AU 740-745)
Item AU 740
"American Experience Must County in Disarmament" [typewritten article,
1921]
(AU 740)
Item AU 741
Auto Pastoral Estrella [story draft]
(AU 741)
Item AU 742
Coloquio de Pastores [play]
(AU 742)
Item AU 743
El Niño Perdido [play, translated copy]
(AU 743)
Item AU 744
"Experience Facing Death" [article draft] (AU 744)
Item AU 745
Experience Facing Death [novel draft]
(AU 745)
Box 46
Oversize manuscripts by Mary Hunter Austin:
The Ford [novel
draft]
(AU 746-747)
Box 47
Oversize manuscripts by Mary Hunter Austin: G-L (AU 748-751)
Item AU 748
The Land of Journeys' Ending [novel draft]
(AU 748)
Item AU 749
Le Aparicion De Nuestra Señora De Guadalupe
[play]
(AU 749)
Item AU 750
Las Comanches [play, translated draft]
(AU 750)
Item AU 751
Lost Border [collected short stories drafts]
(AU 751)
Box 48
Oversize manuscripts by Mary Hunter Austin: M-P (AU 752-757)
Item AU 752
The Man Jesus [non-fiction draft]
(AU 752)
Item AU 753
"A New Medium for Poetic Drama" [article] (AU 753)
Item AU 754-755
[Notes on Indian Lore] (AU 754-755)
Item AU 756
"A Personal View of Crime" [article] (AU 756)
Box 49
Oversize manuscripts by Mary Hunter Austin: Sa-Sm (AU 758-762)
Item AU 758-759
Santa Lucia [novel draft]
(AU 758-759)
Item AU 760-762
Shape of Society [novel draft]
(AU 760-762)
Box 50
Oversize manuscripts by Mary Hunter Austin: Sk-Z - Oversize manuscripts by
other authors
(AU 763-772)
Item AU 763
[Sketchbook of wildflowers in watercolor, 1901] (AU 763)
Item AU 764
A Small Town Man [novel draft]
(AU 764)
Item AU 765
The Sweetheart of Dona Inez [play]
(AU 765)
Item AU 766
[Transcriptions of Spanish folk songs] (AU 766)
Item AU 767
The Young Woman Citizen [novel, early draft]
(AU 767)
Item AU 768
Grierson, Francis. [A.Ms. article on Mary (Hunter) Austin,
1908]
(AU 768)
Item AU 769
Padilla, Camilo, translator.
Los Pastores [typewritten play
with Mary (Hunter) Austin's autograph notation]
(AU 769)
Item AU 770
Sterling, George. "The Rack" [poem] (AU 770)
Item AU 771
Wright, Lillian (Freeman). America's National Folk Festival [typewritten
article, 1934]
(AU 771)
Item AU 772
Anonymous. [A. Ms. Music and verses of Indian songs] (AU 772)
Box OV Box 51
Extra Horizon. Austin's 1932 autobiography
(AU 773-792)
Box OV Box 52, Item AU 793
[Everyman's Genius] [novel draft, untitled]
(AU 793)
Box OV Box 52, Item AU 794
The Friend in the Wood [story draft]
(AU 794)
Box OV Box 52, Item AU 795
Isidro [novel draft]
(AU 795)
Box OV Box 52, Item AU 796
No. Twenty-Six Jayne Street [novel draft]
(AU 796)
Box OV Box 52, Item AU 797
[Incomplete of draft of novella
Cactus Thorn]
(AU 797)
Box OV Box 52, Item AU 798-801
Starry Adventure [novel drafts]
(AU 798-801)
Series 4. Correspondence
Physical Description: 69
boxes
Arrangement
Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 53
Abbott-Adams, Ansel (September 1930) (AU 805-874; FAC 1110-1114)
Box 54
Adams, Ansel Easton (October 1930)-Akeley (AU 875-926)
Box 56
Antiques-Austin, Ephraim (AU 986-1068)
Box 57
Austin, Mary (Hunter) to recipients A-C (AU 1069-1086; FAC 1115-1162)
Box 58
Austin, Mary (Hunter) to recipients D-McCr (AU 1087-1142)
Box 59
Austin, Mary (Hunter) to recipients MacD-R (AU 1143-1215)
Box 60
Austin, Mary (Hunter) to recipients S-Y (AU 1216-1294; AU 5456)
Box 61
Austin, Stafford-Baylies (AU 1295-1370)
Box 62
Beath-Bender, Albert (1930) (AU 1371-1442)
Box 63
Bender, Albert Maurice (1931)-Blumenschein (AU 1443-1502)
Box 64
Bobbs-Merrill Company (AU 1503-1576)
Box 65
Bolitho-Bratton (AU 1577-1657)
Box 66
Breck-Bumpus (AU 1658-1720)
Box 67
Burden-Bynner (AU 1721-1773)
Box 68
Calhoun-Campbell (AU 1774-1840)
Box 69
Canby-Carhart (AU 1841-1914)
Box 70
Carman-Century (AU 1915-1983)
Related Materials
See Oversize folder AU 5451 for Cary, Maude Lyon. To Mary (Hunter) Austin. (1928
January 13).
Box 71
Chalfant-Cowley (AU 1984-2052)
Box 72
Creel-Cutting (AU 2053-2109)
Box 77
Ficke-The Forum (1928) (AU 2377-2453)
Box 78
The Forum (1929)-Gavit (AU 2454-2522)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 52 (AU 802) for Garland, Marie T. To Mary (Hunter) Austin. (1930,
February 17).
Box 79
Geden-Grierson (AU 2523-2586)
Box 80
Griffith-Harper & Brothers (1924) (AU 2587-2656)
Box 81
Harper & Brothers (1925)-Haywood (AU 2657-2722)
Box 82
Heard-Hodge, Frederick Webb (AU 2723-2796)
Box 83
Hodge, Zahrah (Preble)-Holt (AU 2797-2865)
Box 84
Hooker-Hoover (AU 2866-2912)
Box 85
Hooper-Houghton Mifflin Co. (1928) (AU 2913-2988)
Box 86
Houghton Mifflin Co. (1929-1931) (AU 2989-3065)
Box 87
Houghton Mifflin Co. (1932) (AU 3066-3118)
Box 88
Houghton Mifflin Co. (1933)-Hunt (AU 3119-3182)
Box 89
Hunter-Ives (AU 3183-3252; FAC 1163)
Box 90
Jackson-Joyce (AU 3253-3309)
Box 91
Kahn-Kellogg (AU 3310-3376)
Box 92
Kennedy-Lafler (AU 3377-3444)
Box 93
LaFlesche-Literary (AU 3445-3514; FAC 1164)
Box 94
Littell-Ludlum (AU 3515-3570)
Box 95
Luhan-Lummis (AU 3571-3621)
Box 96
McCalls-MacDougal, Daniel Trembly (1921) (AU 3622-3679)
Box 97
MacDougal, Douglas Trembly (1922-April 1923) (AU 3680-3749)
Box 98
MacDougal, Douglas Trembly (May 1923)-MacKaye (AU 3750-3816)
Box 99
MacLeod-McWilliams (AU 3817-3887)
Box 100
Macy-Mencken (AU 3888-3965)
Box 101
Mentor-Moore (AU 3966-4030)
Box 102
Moran-National Feature (AU 4031-4101)
Box 103
National Folk-New Republic (1924) (AU 4102-4157)
Box 104
New Republic (1925)-O'Neill (AU 4158-4228)
Box 105
Open-Peabody (AU 4229-4304)
Box 106
Pearce-Pound (AU 4305-4372)
Box 107
Powell-Rinehart (AU 4373-4437)
Box 108
Rittenhouse-Saturday (AU 4438-4509)
Box 109
Saunders-Seton (AU 4510-4577)
Box 110
Shafer-Sinclair (AU 4578-4638)
Box 111
Skinner-Southwest Review (1931) (AU 4639-4709)
Box 112
Southwest Review (1932)-Sterling (AU 4710-4762)
Box 113
Stern-Thoburn (AU 4763-4849)
Box 114
Thomas-Turnbull (AU 4850-4927)
Box 115
Turner-Unpartisan (AU 4928-5002)
Box 116
Untermeyer-Viking (AU 5003-5077)
Box 117
Villard-Waterman (AU 5078-5158)
Box 118
Watkins-White (AU 5159-5239)
Box 119
Wiggin-Wolf, Mary (Hunter) Sullivan (1923) (AU 5240-5320)
Related Materials
See Oversize Box 52 (AU 804) for Wilson, Francis Cushman. To the Secretary of the
United States Department of the Interior. (1930 January 8).
Box 120
Wolf, Mary (Hunter) Sullivan (1925)-Wrigly (AU 5321-5399)
Box 121
Yale-Zuker, and anonymous (AU 5400-5450)
Series 5. Oversize Correspondence
Box OV Box 52, Item AU 802
Garland, Marie T. To Mary (Hunter) Austin. (1930, February 17) (AU 802)
Box OV Box 52, Item AU 803
Cocopa Indians. To the Secretary of the Department of Interior. (1923 May
21)
(AU 803)
Box OV Box 52
Wilson, Francis Cushman. To the Secretary of the United States Department of
the Interior. (1930 January 8)
AU 804
Folder OV folder AU 5451
Cary, Maude Lyon. To Mary (Hunter) Austin. (1928 January 13) (AU 5451)
Series 6. Ephemera
Physical Description: 15
boxes
Box 122
Personal and family material
Folder 1
Autobiographical research
Folder 3
Family related material and documents
Folder 4
Educational material (diplomas, etc.)
Folder 5
Tax and income information; Royalty statements
Folder 6
Inventory of Austin's house and library; Building permits
Folder 8
Marriage announcement; Suit for divorce; Property settlement
Folder 9
Bibliography and book lists
Folder 1
Collection acquisition and use
Folder 2
Pressed flowers from Joseph Conrad's garden and Thomas Hardy's
birthplace
Folder 6
Printed invitations and announcements
Folder 7
Excerpts from printed books
Folder 2
Archaeological Institute of America – membership
Folder 3
Lists of names and addresses by state
Folder 4
Lists of Governors of Pueblos
Folder 5
Bible, interleaved with Austin's annotations
Box 125
Newspaper clipping, A - L
Folder 4
Children Sing In The Far West; Everyman's Genius
Folder 5
Colorado River controversy
Folder 9
Lands of the Sun; Experiences Facing Death
Box 126
Newspaper clippings, M - P
Box 127
Newspaper clippings, S - W
Folder 4
Spanish-American colonial arts
Folder 1
American Indians, folder 1
Folder 2
American Indians, folder 2
Folder 3
American Rhythm; Children Sing In The Far West; Small Town Man
Folder 5
Earth Horizon; Land of Journeys' Ending; and, Lands of the Sun
Box 129
Articles, Li - Misc., folder 1
Folder 1
Literature and authors, folder 1
Folder 2
Literature and authors, folder 2
Folder 3
Marriage, birth control and women
Box 130
Articles, Misc., folder 2 - Re
Folder 4
Religion, mysticism and psychology
Folder 1
Science, nature and philosophy, folder 1
Folder 2
Science, nature and philosophy, folder 2
Folder 4
Western United States, folder 1
Folder 5
Western United States, folder 2
Box 132
Card file: List of books in library of May Austin, A - S
Box 133
Card file: List of books in library of Mary Austin, T – Z; Union Theological
Seminary, Bibliography of Christ
Box 134
Card file: Names and addresses
Folder 1
Silhouettes of Mary Austin, by Baron Scotford, 1915.
Folder 2
Printed items: The Arrow Maker, program from play presented by Alpha
Epsilon Pi, 1912, May 27.
Folder 3
Printed items: Birth Control . . . , by Adolphus Knopf, 1919.
Folder 4
Printed items: British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology: Sixth
Annual Report, 1920, July.
Folder 5
Printed items: Congressional Record and Hearings.
Folder 6
Printed items: The Daily Silver Belt, Miami, Ariz., 1927, June
30.
Folder 7
Printed items: Estudia, 1929-1930
Folder 8
Printed items: Finger Lakes Topics, 1948, July 19-20.
Folder 9
Printed items: Fire, by Mary Austin, program for production at Palm
Springs, 1929, Nov. 9-11.
Folder 10
Printed items: Impending Problems of Eugenics, by Irving Fisher, 1921,
Sep.
Folder 11
Printed items: Impressionism – Some Speculations, by Ford Madox
Ford.
Folder 12
Printed items: Indian Poetry, by Mary Austin.
Folder 13
Printed items: Is the Rating of Human Character Practicable?, by Harold
Rugg, 1921-1922, Nov.-Feb.
Folder 14
Printed items: Laurel Club Cook Book
Folder 15
Printed items: Love in the Machine Age, by Floyd Dell: flyer for book,
1931.
Folder 16
Printed items: Manford's Monthly Magazine, 1866, May.
Folder 17
Printed items: Mexican Song Sheets.
Folder 18
Printed items: New Mexican Colonial Arts.
Folder 19
Printed items: Sexual Variety and Variability Among Women.
Folder 20
Printed items: To W.E. Burghardt DuBois, 1924, Apr. 13.
Folder 21
Printed items: The Woman's Club of Fortworth, TX, 1927-1928.
Folder 22
Printed items: Miscellaneous.
Box 136
Scrapbooks: 3 volumes of newspaper clippings about Mary Hunter
Austin.
Series 7. Oversize Ephemera and Art
Folder OV folder AU 5452
Cantadas Mejicanas: [Mexican songs], [1882- 1934]. (AU 5452 )
Folder OV folder AU 5453
Broadside Playbill for the Koshare Production of "Billy Bonney, the Kid,"
July 20, 1932.
(AU 5453 )
Folder OV folder AU 5454
Broadside advertisement for Mary (Hunter) Austin's
Earth
Horizon,
1932.
(AU 5454)
Folder OV folder AU 5455
Broadside of review of Mary (Hunter) Austin's Earth Horizon, reprinted from
the New York Herald, Nov. 6, 1932.
(AU 5455)
Folder OV folder AU 5457
Realia: lock of Ruth Austin's hair, lock of Mary (Hunter) Austin's hair,
wedding handkerchief, funerary souvenir for Mrs. S. S. Hunter, July 16,
1896.
(AU 5456)
Folder OV folder AU 5458
Miscellaneous drawings, 10 pieces. (AU 5458)
Folder OV folder AU 5459
Woodblock Illustrations, and sampler, 7 pieces. (AU 5459)
Folder OV folder AU 5460
Publicity poster for "The Arrow Maker," 2 pieces. (AU 5460)
Folder OV folder AU 5461
Poster for "A Masque of Land and People," 1 piece. (AU 5461)
Folder OV folder AU 5462
Miscellaneous drawings, 9 pieces. (AU 5462)
Folder OV folder AU 5463
Dixon, Maynard. "The Earth Knower." Signed color engravings. (AU 5463)
Folder OV folder AU 5464
Hand-painted poster of Mary Austin as a fortune teller by Annie Traquair
Lang.
(AU 5464)
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Series 8. Photographs
Physical Description: 1242
Photographic Prints(12 boxes)
Other Finding Aids
Folder 1 (1-50)
Various members of the Graham and Dugger families, Austin's relatives in
Carlinville, Illinois. Includes records of family births, deaths, marriages and
wills, 1880s. Ruth Austin, daughter of Mary Austin, appears in images
38-40.
Folder 2 (1-42)
Residents of Carlinville, Ill., 1880s.
Folder 2 (43-70)
Carlinville, Ill. Views of town, buildings and family homes of Graham and
Dugger families, Austin's relatives, 1880s.
Folder 3 (1-39)
Mary Austin with family and friends, some in her various homes—Carlinville,
Ill.; Independence, Ca.; New York; and Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1869-1923. Portraits
include George Sterling, Jack London, Stafford Wallace Austin (Mary's husband), and
James Hopper.
Folder 3 (40-40.2)
Mary Austin with Dr. Daniel T. MacDougal.
Folder 3 (41-92)
Mary Austin in Arizona and New Mexico, ca. 1923-1933. Includes photographs
of Austin's house in Santa Fe, "Casa Querida" and of Diego Rivera.
Folder 4 (1-57)
Friends and acquaintances of Mary Austin in California, New Mexico and
London, England, ca. 1900-1920. Includes photographs of Herbert Hoover, Charles F.
Lummis, George Wharton James, George Bernard Shaw, Susan B. Anthony, and Joseph
Conrad.
Folder 5 (1-147)
Views of California, including Lone Pine, Owens Valley, Sierra Nevada
Range, Monterey, Carmel, Mojave Desert, Death Valley, Salton Sea area, Baja
California, and the Colorado Delta. Includes views of geothermal mud pots in
Baja.
Folder 6 (1-18)
Color plates of paintings by Sutton Palmer for "California, the Land of the
Sun." (London: A & C Black, 1914; 6 x 9 in.) Note: See also RB
285870.
Folder 7 (1-60)
Theaters and rehearsals. Sixty photographs depicting various performances,
actors, and theaters, ca. early 1900s. Includes photographs of George Sterling and
Mary Austin as actors; productions of Austin's "Fire" and "The Arrow Maker;" and
Anna Pavlova.
Folder 8 (1-145)
Southwest Indians. Views of various Southwestern tribe members and
villages, ca. early 1900s. Includes Navajo, Paiute, Papago, Arapaho, Cocopah, and
Pueblo Indians.
Folder 9 (1-76)
Indian art and artifacts from a variety of pueblos. Includes pottery,
baskets, paintings and rugs of Navajo, Zuni, and Hopi tribes.
Folder 10 (1-163)
New Mexico views. Scenery, towns, dwellings, people and villages of New
Mexico. Includes views of Penitente processions; towns of Chimayo, Santa Fe, and
Taos.
Box photCL 296 Box 9
Photographs: Folders 11-12
Folder 11 (1-78.2)
Arizona views. Scenery, towns, missions, state monuments. Includes Grand
Canyon; Missions San Xavier del Bac and San Jose de Tumacacori; the Apache Trail;
Tucson; and Casa Grande ruins.
Folder 12 (1-110)
Desert botany. Views of various botanical desert specimens in their natural
environs. Southwest: Arizona, California, Mexico, ca. 1920s.
Box photCL 296 Box 10
Photographs: Folders 13-14
Folder 13 (1-114)
Travel photographs from around the world, including Florida, England,
Ireland, Italy, Egypt, Cambodia, and the Holy Land.
Folder 14 (1-22)
Miscellaneous. Views include ceremonial masks from Guatemala and
photographs of European and Western U.S. paintings and artwork.
Folder 15 (1-26)
Oversized portraits and miscellaneous subjects. Includes portraits of Mary
Austin; Austin and a Pueblo Indian Delegation in Washington D.C., 1923; Mission San
Gabriel Arcángel; the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse; movie sets for "The Arrow
Maker," and other subjects.
Folder 16 (1-11)
Theater. Lantern slides of various theatrical productions, early
1900s.
