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Correspondence, Papers, and Photographs, 1885-1977
Manuscript Collection 727
INFORMATION ABOUT CORA PINKLEY CALL
Cora Pinkley Call was born in Winona Springs (Carroll County), the youngest of George Washington and Mary Jane Harp Pinkley's ten children. Due to a rare illness, Call was taken out of school at an early age and spent most of her time out of doors studying plant and animal life. In 1925 Call began contributing articles that primarily dealt with nature and gardening to national newspapers and magazines. She later began using three pen names; Karel Lowe, Sallie Green, and Marjorie Thorn, as well as her own. Call founded and was life president of the Ozark Writers and Artists Guild of Eureka Springs. In 1953, she and Edith Bestard began Ozark Gardens, a nationally distributed newspaper that was devoted to gardening and birds. Call was married to Miles Oliver Call and had five children; Peggy Joyce, George Patrick, Paul, Philip Dale, and Betty Jane.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLLECTION
This collection contains manuscripts, essays, poems, drafts, notes, photographs, genealogical information, and clippings that Call wrote or used for her research and writings. Broadsides are also included in this collection. A significant portion of the collection is comprised of manuscript drafts of her writings. Of special note are her personal and nature diaries, late nineteenth century photographs of Eureka Springs and Fayetteville (Washington County), and a scrapbook of Eureka Springs lyceum performer Thomas Elmore Lucy. Call's two scrapbooks contain clippings and other material relating to the Ozark Writers and Artists Guild, and items belonging to her daughters, Peggy and Betty.
Papers and photographs of Cora Elizabeth Pinkley Call (1892-1966) of Eureka Springs (Carroll County), Arkansas, were donated by the Eureka Springs Preservation Society to Special Collections in April, 1987.
For more information, see the finding aid for Cora
Pinkley Call Papers Addendum (MC 1090).
Prepared by Susan Lynn Parks, Special Collections Division, University
of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in January, 1989.
5 linear feet + 2 volumes
Volume 1. Scrapbook, 1929-1960.
Volume 2. Scrapbook, 1930-1950.
Series 1. Correspondence (Boxes 1-3)
Series 2.
Essays, Short Stories, and Poems (Boxes 4-12)
Series 3.
Personal and Family Papers (Box 13)
Series 4.
Booklets, Arkansas Material (Box 13)
Series 5. Clippings
(Box 13)
Series 6.
Photographs, Post Cards and Artwork (Box 14)
Series 1. Correspondence (Boxes 1-3)
This series contains correspondence to and from Cora Pinkley Call concerning her books, articles, and family, including genealogical information.
Box 1
1. Apr 2, 1928-Dec 7, 1938.
2. Aug 16, 1941-June 17, 1947.
3. Aug 5, 1948-Dec 6, 1952.
4. Apr 3, 1953-Nov 18, 1954.
5. Feb 7, 1955-Apr 18, 1956.
6. Nov 21, 1956-Dec 16, 1957.
7. Feb 23, 1958-Mar 17, 1959.
8. Apr 26, 1959-Dec 20, 1959.
9. Jan 7-Mar 21, 1960.
10. Apr 22-Dec 28, 1960.
11. Jan 3-Apr 13, 1961.
12. Apr 18-Nov 14, 1961.
13. Nov 16-Dec 21, 1961.
14. Jan 1-July 3, 1962.
15. July 4-Aug 27, 1962.
Box 2
1. Sept 9-18, 1962.
2. Sept 19-24, 1962.
3. Sept 25-30, 1962.
4. Oct 1-6, 1962.
5. Oct 7-13, 1962.
6. Oct 16-Nov 8, 1962.
7. Nov 17-Dec 31, 1962.
8. Jan 8-June 19, 1963.
9. June 22-Aug 25, 1963.
10. Sept 3-Dec 21, 1963.
11. Jan 18-Feb 15, 1964.
12. Feb 19-Apr 8, 1964.
13. Apr 18-July 9, 1964.
14. July 25-Sept 8, 1964.
15. Sept 14-Nov 19, 1964.
Box 3
1. Dec 10-16, 1964.
2. Dec 17-19, 1964.
3. Dec 20-21, 1964.
4. Dec 22-30, 1964.
5. Feb 13-Dec 13, 1965.
6. Dec 14-17, 1965.
7. Dec 18-23, 1965.
8. Jan 9-Mar 31, 1966.
9. Apr 18-June 20, 1966 and June 22, 1967.
10. N.d.
11. Incomplete correspondence, n.d.
12. Genealogy correspondence, Mar 5, 1940-July 12, 1978 and
n.d.
13. Genealogy information on Vaughn, Pinckney, Stone, and Pinkley
families, n.d.
Series 2. Essays, Short Stories, and Poems (Boxes 4-12)
Call wrote many short stories about characters living in the Ozarks, as well as articles and poems involving nature, religion, her life, Glenn and Beverley Dresbach, Eureka Springs and other areas of the Ozarks. Many are incomplete and not dated, unless otherwise noted. The short stories are arranged by subject. Several stories that were published are included with signature proofs and dummies. Call also kept a "nature diary" that was often printed in the Ozark Gardens, but some entries contain personal notations.
Subseries 1. Short stories and autobiographies.
Box 4
1. Short stories.
2. Short stories.
3. Short stories.
4. Short stories.
5. Short stories.
6. Short stories.
7. Handwritten notes for stories.
8. Handwritten notes for stories.
9. Handwritten notes for stories.
10. Autobiographical essays.
11. Autobiographical essays.
12. Autobiographical essays.
13. Autobiographical essays.
14. Autobiographical essays.
15. Autobiographical essays.
16. Autobiographical essays.
17. Autobiographical essays.
18. Autobiographical essays.
19. Autobiographical essays.
20. Autobiographical essays plus rough draft of Cora Pinkley
Call biography by unidentified niece.
Box 5
1. Essay by Beverley G. Dresbach on an "Autograph Party for Cora
Pinkley Call's Within My Ozark Valley," ca. 1956; published articles
by Call, n.d.
2. Handwritten story, "A Tale of a Southern Home and Bygone
Days."
3. Short stories, Minerva.
4. Short stories, Minerva.
5. Short stories, Minerva.
6. Short stories, Minerva.
7. Short stories, Minerva.
8. Short stories, Vaughns.
9. Short stories, Vaughns.
10. Short stories, Vaughns.
11. Short stories, Vaughns.
12. Short stories, Vaughns.
13. Short stories, Vaughns.
14. Short stories, Vaughns.
15. Short stories, Dicky and Sally.
16. Short stories, Dicky and Sally.
17. Short stories, Dicky and Sally.
18. Short stories, Sally Shannon.
19. Incomplete manuscript, "They Were from Arkansas."
20. Manuscript fragments.
21. Manuscript fragments.
22. Manuscript fragments.
23. Manuscript fragments.
24. Manuscript fragments.
Subseries 2. The Ozarks and Arkansas.
Box 6
1. Essays on the Ozarks/Arkansas, Oct 10, 1941 and n.d.
2. Essays on the Ozarks/Arkansas.
3. Essays on the Ozarks/Arkansas.
4. Essays on the Ozarks/Arkansas.
5. Incomplete essays on the Ozarks/Arkansas.
6. Incomplete essays on the Ozarks/Arkansas.
7. Incomplete essay on the history of the Ozark region.
8. Notes on the Ozarks/Arkansas.
9. Essays and information on Eureka Springs, Sept 17, 1952,
1965, and n.d.
10. Essays on Eureka Springs, includes incomplete material.
11. Essays on Eureka Springs, includes incomplete material.
12. Essays on Eureka Springs, includes incomplete material.
13. Essays on Eureka Springs, includes incomplete material.
14. Essays on the Saunders family of Berryville (Carroll County).
15. Essays on the Saunders family of Berryville (Carroll County).
16. Ozark cooking articles.
17. Essays on American Indians, including those who lived in
the Ozark region of Arkansas.
Subseries 3. Nature and other topics.
Box 7
1. Essays on nature.
2. Essays on nature.
3. Essays on nature.
4. Essays and notes on nature.
5. Incomplete essays and notes on nature.
6. Incomplete essays and notes on nature.
7. Incomplete essays and notes on nature.
8. Incomplete essays and notes on nature.
9. Incomplete essays and notes on nature.
10. Incomplete essays and notes on nature.
11. Incomplete essays and notes on nature.
12. Incomplete essays and notes on nature.
13. Lists of birds and plants.
14. Essays, some incomplete, concerning health, books, and Joaquin
Miller.
15. Essays, some incomplete, on the weather, writers and artists,
handicaps, and other topics.
Box 8
1. Dummys and signature proofs.
2. Dummys.
3. Dummys.
4. Dummys.
5. Dummys.
6. Dummys.
Subseries 4. Poems.
7. Poems, Aug 8, 1941-June 2, 1965 and n.d.
8. Poems, n.d.
9. Typescripts of poems by Henry A. Wier, ca. 1918, Henry Vaughan,
and Siegfried Sassoon.
Subseries 5. Herbs and their uses.
Box 9
1. Essays and notes.
2. Essays and notes.
3. Essays and notes.
4. Essays and notes.
Subseries 6. Cora Pinkley Call's diary.
Box 10
1. Feb 1930-Dec 25, 1936.
2. Mar 1, 1931-Nov 9, 1933.
3. Feb 26, 1936-Dec 19, 1955.
4. Feb 1956-Oct 8, 1958.
5. Nov 6, 1958-July 31, 1960.
6. July 12, 1960-May 13, 1960.
7. Aug 1, 1961-Feb 25, 1966.
8. Jan 21-Feb 28 [no year].
9. Mar 1-Apr 1 [no year].
10. Apr 2-19 [no year].
11. Apr 28-May 24 [no year].
12. May 25-Aug 7 [no year].
13. Aug 10-Sept 20 [no year].
14. Oct 1-3 [no year].
15. Oct 12-Dec 28 [no year].
Subseries 7. Religious writings.
Box 11
1. Essays, Sept 5, 1962 and n.d.
2. Essays, n.d.
3. Incomplete essays.
4. Incomplete essays.
5. Incomplete essays.
6. Incomplete essays.
7. Incomplete essays.
8. Lectures on Prophecy, author unknown. Call wrote comments
within the margins.
9. Notes.
10. Notes.
11. Notes.
12. Notes.
13. Notes.
14. Notes.
Box 12
1. Notes.
2. Notes.
3. Notes.
4. Notes.
5. Notes.
6. Notes.
Series 3. Personal and Family Papers (Box 13)
Personal papers include Call's address book, notebooks, book orders, and medical records. Family papers include those of Call's children and one grandchild.
Box 13
1. Call's address book with notation from Feb 8, 1942; book orders,
Aug 1, 1960-Aug 21, 1967; acceptance and rejection notices for Call's essays,
July 6, 1961 and n.d.
2. Medical records, 1959.
3. Message about publishers; two notebooks with notes
for stories and drawings by children; birthday card, n.d.
4. Promotion paper, 1948; Thanksgiving banquet booklet, 1949;
graduation announcement and program, 1970; medical notes, 1976; personal
writing income and expense record filled out by granddaughter[?], July
1977.
This series contains booklets by other authors owned by Call, information on the Ozark Writers and Artists Guild, and pamphlets concerning areas in the Ozarks. The scrapbook belonged to Carol Elmore of Eureka Springs, whose lyceum name was Thomas Elmore Lucy. Elmore, who billed himself as a poet, actor, and humorist, collected reviews, broadsides, correspondence, and receipts regarding his performances and travel in the United States and Latin America. Call and Elmore operated a manuscript and clipping service in Eureka Springs called the Ozark News, Features and Pictures Syndicate where she wrote fiction and news features and he composed poems and travelogues.
Box 13 (cont'd)
5. Booklets, 1933-1965 and n.d.
6. Ozark Writers and Artists Guild programs, membership card
and certificate, 1959-1960 and n.d.; pamphlets and stationery on areas
in the Ozarks, 1950 and n.d.
7. Carroll County, Arkansas by Darrell M. Sooter, 1975.
8. Thomas Elmore Lucy scrapbook, 1899-1910.
The majority of the clippings are of Call's articles in the Ozark Gardens. Others include information on Arkansas and the Ozarks, nature, and herbs.
Box 13 (cont'd)
9. 1944-1957.
10. 1958-1964.
11. N.d.
12. N.d.
Series 6. Photographs, Post Cards and Artwork (Box 14)
Late nineteenth century photographs are of the Fayetteville square and various locations in Eureka Springs. Other photographs include Call, Bonnie Lela Crump, members of the Ozark Writers and Artists Guild, and the Ozarks. Many of the post cards have messages or photographic images of scenes in Arkansas. The drawings and paintings are by A.H. Odell, Bonnie Lela Crump, Frank E. Wetherell, and unidentified artists.
Box 14
1. Photographs 1-8. 1885-1895.
2. Photographs 9-19. ca. 1920-1949.
3. Photographs 20-28. 1950-ca. 1950.
4. Photographs 29-37. ca. 1955-ca. 1965.
5. Post cards 38-63. 1910-ca. 1965 and n.d.
6. Drawings and paintings, 1959 and n.d.