Collection Guide
This document describes a Manuscript Collection held by the
Special Collections DepartmentUniversity of Iowa Libraries
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Guide Contents
Biographical and Historical Information
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Administrative Information
Access and
Restrictions:
Biographical Note
Marjorie Holmes (1910-2002) was born in Storm Lake, Iowa and graduated from Cornell College. She worked in the College of Education, State University of Iowa following graduation and met her first husband there. One of her stories, "The General Comes Home," was bought by MGM. She wrote newspaper columns and radio scripts as well.Scope and Contents
Acquisition and Processing Information
These papers
were given to the University of Iowa Libraries by
Guide posted
to Internet:
Box 1
Correspondence
Author lecture series (Doubleday)
Fan letters
Books
1969
1970
Column ("Love and Laughter")
General correspondence
Hallmark cards
Correspondence with journals
Better Homes and Gardens. 2 folders
Better Living
Family Circle
Glamour
House Beautiful
Hygeia
McCalls
Readers Digest
The Woman
Woman's Day
Writers Digest
Marie McSwigal
Letters from school children
Manuscripts
Articles and short stories
"13 Steps Toward Self-Confidence"
"The Amber Monkey"
"Appointment for Lunch"
"Bouquet for Betty"
"Can Children Ruin Your Marriage"
"Children"
"Children -- Bless 'Em, They're Worth It""The Creative Article"
"A Dad, a Boy, and a Car"
"Don't You Be My Valentine"
"The Family Table"
"Friend of the Family" (Original title: "William Don't Want To")
"A Girl Like Judy"
"Goodbye Family, Hello World"
"How To Get Along With Your Mother-In-Law"
"How to Stuff a Fish"
"Just Between Us Barns""To Keep the World Out"
"The Last Teacher"
"Let's Be Gullible, Girls"
"Love and Laughter." First drafts for the newspaper column. 2 folders"Make Me Beautiful for Him"
"Mother's Apron"
"My Thirty Years With Writer's Digest"
"A Mother Speaks Up for Censorship"
"Of Mothers, Sons, and Pants ""Old Cow's Tail"
"Prayers sold to Woman's Day Magazine"
"Prose Poems sold to House Beautiful"
"The Real Intimacy in Marriage"
"Second Wife"
Short short stories
"Comic Valentine"
"A Date With Her Daughter"
"Formula For Self Help""How Not To be Loved By Your Landlord"
"Just One More Man""Matinee Price"
"Mother's Having a Baby"
"The Rubbers"
"The Untouched"
"Sister Act"
"Two From Galilee"
"We's Miss the Sunsets Without Them""What A Nice Guy"
Box 2 Articles and Short Stories, cont.
What a Wonderful Thing is a Floor
What Parents Can Do About Obscenity
Why Women Can't Talk to Their Husbands and Why Men Can't Talk to Their Wives
You Can Help Prevent Infidelity
Books
And Always Tomorrow (Published with the byline Sarah Lorenz)
Fair copy. Carbon copy
Correspondence
Cherry Blossom Princess
First draft
Final draft
Correspondence
Galleys. In box 7
Follow Your Dream
First draft showing revisions and deletions
Final draft? Carbon copy
Printer's copy, typescript manuscript
Correspondence and notes
Galleys. In box 7
God and Vitamins
Typescript with revisions and corrections. 3 folders
Galleys. 2 folders. In Box 7
How Can I Find You, God?
Rough draft and notes. 2 folders
Rough draft. 2 folders
Notes and outline
Second draft
Foundry proof. In Box 7
Final galley. In Box 7
Box 3 Books, cont.
How Can I Find You, God?
Setting proofs. 2 folders
How Tall Am I, Mother?
I've Got to Talk to Somebody, God
Rough draft and notes
Draft with revisions and corrections
Carbon, final version
Foundry proof. In box 7
Readers set galleys. In box 7
Love and Laughter
Selected columns for inclusion in the book. 2 folders
Typescript draft. 2 folders
Typescript draft. Carbon copy
Items dropped from the book
Page proofs. In Box 7
Final galley. In Box 7
Love is a HopscotchThing
Synopsis
First draft
Final draft
Galleys. In Box 7
Nobody Else Will Listen
Rough draft
Typescript draft. 2 folders
Final draft with printers instructions
Galleys. In box 7
Box 4 Books, cont.
Saturday Night
First draft
Correspondence. 2 folders
Senior Trip
First draft
Carbon typescript with corrections
Final draft with printer's instructions
Miscellaneous notes
Correspondence and notes
Galleys. In box 7
Ten O'Clock Scholar
Typescript draft with revisions. 2 folders
First draft with revisions. 3 folders
Second draft with revisions. 2 folders
Third version. Incomplete.
Front matter
Correspondence. 4 folders
Publicity and review materials
Who Am I, God? (Originally titled I've Got to Talk Some More)
First plan. 2 folders
Box 5 Books, cont.
Who Am I, God? (Originally titled I've Got to Talk Some More), cont.
First draft with changes. 2 folders
Final draft
Carbon copy
Correspondence
Galleys. In Box 7
World By the Tail
Typescript draft. 3 folders
Fair copy. 3 folders
Correspondence. 3 folders
Writing the Creative Article
Rough draft
First carbon
Changes, substitutions, corrections
Permissions correspondence
Reviewers and promotion
Correspondence
You and I and Yesterday
Nostalgia articles sold to Today's Health retyped and included in the book
Miscellaneous
Box 6
Letters to Mrs. Meade
Lists
Miscellaneous papers
Notebooks from classes
Radio appearances
Speaking dates
Box 7
Galleys
Cherry Blossom Princess
Follow Your Dream
God and Vitamins. 2 folders
How Can I Find You, God? 2 folders
I've Got to Talk to Somebody, God. 2 folders
Love and Laughter. 2 folders
Love is a Hopscotch Thing
Nobody Else Will Listen
Senior Trip
Who Am I, God?
