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Collection Title: Madeline Tabler Collection
Dates: 1963-1975
Identification: MS-0248
Creator:
Tabler, Madeline, 1922-2002
Physical Description: 4.17 linear ft
Language of Materials:
English
Repository:
Special Collections & University Archives
5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050
San Diego, CA, 92182-8050
URL: http://library.sdsu.edu/scua
Email: scref@rohan.sdsu.edu
Phone: 619-594-6791
Madeline Ann Balch McDougal was born in 1922. Her mother, Catherine Ann Balch, died in childbirth when Madeline was 5, and
she grew up using her mother's maiden name. She graduated both from Michigan State College with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry,
and also from the School of Nursing at Sparrow Hospital. James Gilmore Tabler married Madeline in 1946, and the couple had
two children, Michael and Joseph. The family moved to San Diego in 1952.
While in San Diego, Tabler's interest in writing led her to take writing classes from Paul D. Perry in Coronado, eventually
teaching some classes herself. In the late 1950s and 1960s she authored articles for the
Pacific Beach Sentinel under the pseudonym Clementine Cartwright. Tabler was an early member of Chet Cunningham's San Diego Writer's Workshop, started
in the 1960s. She published several nurse novels, works of juvenile and young adult literature, soap opera novels, ghost-authored
at least one novel (a western for Chet Cunningham), wrote several short stories, articles, and poems. She also wrote several
unpublished mysteries and romances.
Aside from her professional and personal writing, she was involved in the community. She was a member of the Clairemont Woman's
Club, the PTA, and taught community children to swim in the Backyard Swim Program in Bay Park. Other hobbies included knitting
and needlepoint, swimming, bicycling, and yoga, which she continued after being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer's
Disease. She died in 2002.
This collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Personal Papers
Publications
Tabler, Madeline, 1922-2002 -- Archives
American literature -- 20th century
The copyright interests in some of these materials have been transferred to or belong to San Diego State University. The nature
of historical archival and manuscript collections means that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine.
Copyright resides with the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. Requests for permission to publish
must be submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. Permissions
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available
for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including
but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
This collection is open for research.
Identification of item, folder title, box number, Madeline Tabler Collection, Special Collections and University Archives,
Library and Information Access, San Diego State University.
For a list of published works donated with the Madeline Tabler Collection which were not published by Tabler herself, please
search the Pac or ask at the reference desk for assistance.
I. Manuscripts
II. Articles
The
Madeline Tabler Collection documents the creative process behind writing children's and young adult literature. The collection dates from 1963-1975.
The collection consists primarily of unpublished manuscripts and published articles. It has accordingly been divided into
two series,
Manuscripts and
Articles.
The
Manuscripts series includes several unpublished manuscripts written by Madeline Tabler, some of which were eventually published and some
of which were not. Some research files are included for the
Runaways manuscript. The materials are arranged alphabetically by manuscript title. There are two manuscripts Madeline Tabler did
not author, which were written by Kit Dalton.
The
Articles include several published newspaper and magazine articles written by Madeline Tabler, dating from 1963-1975. They are arranged
chronologically.