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Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)Shirley Jackson papers, 1932-1991

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Description

• 7,500 items.
• 52 containers.
• 20.6 linear feet.

Access advisory

• Open to research.

Finding aids

• Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms996001 opens in a new window

Biography/History note

• Author.

Organized/Arranged

• Arranged in two parts composed of eleven series.
• Part I arranged in five series. Series 1: Diaries and Journal, 1932-1936; Series 2: Family Correspondence, 1944-1965; Series 3: General Correspondence, 1933-1965; Series 4: Literary Manuscripts; and Series 5: Miscellany, 1937-1964.
• Part II arranged in six series. Series 1: Diary and Diary Notes, 1932-1934; Series 2: Family Papers, 1938-1965 Series 3: Correspondence, 1936-1970; Series 4: Literary File, 1943-1970; Series 5: Miscellany, 1938-1966; and Series 6: Addition, 1953-1991.

Summary

• Correspondence; diaries; journals; manuscripts, typescripts, and galleys of articles, books, and short stories; notes; college notebooks; Hyman and Jackson family papers; watercolors; pencil and ink drawings; and other papers pertaining primarily to the development of Jackson's novels and short stories as well as to her supernatural tales and to her humorous stories about contemporary domestic life. Family correspondents include Jackson's husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, and her parents, Leslie H. Jackson and Geraldine B. Jackson. Other correspondents include Walter Bernstein; Jean Brockway; Elizabeth "Libby" Batterham Burke; John Ciardi; Pascal Covici; Carol Black Livaudais; June Mirken Mintz; Frank Orenstein; Louis L. Scher; Mary Shaw; Robert M. Strauss; Louis Untermeyer; Jay Williams; the publishing firm of Farrar, Straus and Young; and Jackson's literary agents, Brandt & Brandt and the Music Corporation of America.

LC Subjects

• [Bernstein, Walter--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Bernstein, Walter--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Brockway, Jean--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Brockway, Jean--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Burke, Elizabeth Batterham--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Burke, Elizabeth Batterham--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Ciardi, John, 1916-1986--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Ciardi, John, 1916-1986--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Covici, Pascal, 1930---Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Covici, Pascal, 1930---Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 1919-1970--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 1919-1970--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Jackson, Geraldine B.--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Jackson, Geraldine B.--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Jackson, Leslie H.--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Jackson, Leslie H.--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Livaudais, Carol Black--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Livaudais, Carol Black--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Mintz, June Mirken--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Mintz, June Mirken--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Orenstein, Frank--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Orenstein, Frank--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Scher, Louis L.--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Scher, Louis L.--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Shaw, Mary--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Shaw, Mary--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Strauss, Robert M.--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Strauss, Robert M.--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Williams, Jay, 1914-1978--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Williams, Jay, 1914-1978--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Hyman family.](search?searchArg=Hyman family.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Jackson family.](search?searchArg=Jackson family.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Brandt & Brandt--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Brandt & Brandt--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Farrar, Straus and Young--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Farrar, Straus and Young--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Music Corporation of America--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Music Corporation of America--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [American fiction.](search?searchArg=American fiction.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• Fiction.
• [Horror tales, American.](search?searchArg=Horror tales, American.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Humorous stories, American.](search?searchArg=Humorous stories, American.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Short stories, American.](search?searchArg=Short stories, American.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Supernatural in literature.](search?searchArg=Supernatural in literature.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• Authors.

Notes

• Audiotape transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
• Selected artifacts transferred to Smithsonian Institution.
• Collection material in English.
• Material was transferred to this collection from the Manuscript Division's Stanley Edgar Hyman papers.

Acquisition source

• Gift, Stanley Edgar Hyman, 1967.
• Other gift, 1991-1997.

Cite as

• Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Shirley Jackson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Other standard no.

• MSS52522

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home opens in a new window

Type of material

• Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)

Request in

• Manuscript Reading Room (Madison, LM101)

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