LOUISE MCNEILL
PEASE COLLECTION
Ms84-247
Box 1:
Folder 1
Old Poetry
Folder 2
"acceptable" poems - mostly unpublished, 1960s-1980s
Folder 3
26 prose pieces - mostly short stories unpublished, 1930s-1940s;
chapter of novel destroyed by author in 1983
Folder 4
modern prose, 1970s
Folder 5
poems - xeroxed
Folder 6
second grade poetry
Folder 7
"Night at the Commodore"
Folder 8
Farm Journal short stories
Folder 9
deleted chapters from Kanawha in the Old South
Folder 10
poem foreword for Gauley Mountain 1938 but not used
Folder 11
papers and reviews from WVU graduate school 1950s
Folder 12
Paradox Hill - major reviews 1972
Folder 13
Paradox Hill - Charles Carpenter's review
Folder 14
Elderberry Flood - working version
Folder 15
Elderberry Flood
Folder 16
Elderberry Flood - galleys
Folder 17
Elderberry Flood - discards, comments
Folder 18
Appalachian Heart - short version
Folder 19
Appalachian Heart - 1982 St. Martins, later Greenberg
version
Folder 20
Appalachian Heart - four abandoned chapters
Folder 21
Miscellaneous articles, pamphlets. Includes West Virginia
Sings, class assignment by one of Dr. Pease's students,
etc.
Folder 22
Diploma, from Miami University, M. A. degree
Folder 23
Milkweed Ladies
Periodicals
Appalachian Review, Spring 1968
WV Progress, April-June 1970
Pathway, December 1970
Pathway, February 1971
Appalachia, May-June 1971
WVU Magazine, Spring 1973
Catamount, 1962 Potomac State Yearbook
Guide to Manuscripts & Archives in the West Virginia
Collection
Magazine of History & Biography, #11, December
1954
Sam Houston Literary Review, December 1976
Ohioana Quarterly, volume XX, #4, Winter 1977
Ohioana Quarterly, volume XXI, #1, Spring 1978
West Virginia History, Volume XII, #4, July 1951
West Virginia History, Volume XX, #1, July 1958
West Virginia History, Volume XXXI, #4, July 1970
Box 2:
Folder 1
Correspondence, 1936-1959
Folder 2
Correspondence, 1960-1975
Folder 3
Correspondence, 1976-1979
Folder 4
Correspondence, 1980-1984
Folder 5
Correspondence, undated
Folder 6
Correspondence from 1st grade class in California, 1973
Folder 7
Research paper on Louise McNeill by Susan O'Dell Pomeroy,
University of Charleston
Folder 8
Bright Lights of Kasson - collection of poems dedicated to
Louise McNeill from Kasson Elementary & Middle School
Folder 9
West Virginia Daughter - 1977
Folder 10
West Virginia Daughter - guest book
Folder 11
Forest Festival
Folder 12
Vaughan-Waugh material
Folder 13
Notebook - lumber boom 1940s, c. 1900 women's styles, notes about
mother
Folder 14
Contents of scrapbook - letters, 1931-1938
Folder 15
Contents of scrapbook - undated letters, clippings, etc.
Folder 16
Clippings; Honey in the Rock program
Folder 17
Clippings, many for Gauley Mountain, 1939
Folder 18
Clippings
Folder 19
Clippings
Folder 20
Newspapers
Folder 21
Newspapers, West Virginia Hillbilly, November 27, 1976
Folder 22
Xeroxes of letters
Folder 23
West Virginian of the Year, 1985