guide to the margaret wise brown papers 1929-1952 collection

Guide to the Margaret Wise Brown papers 1929-1952 ,MWB01Westerly Public Library

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Guide to the Margaret Wise Brown papers1929-1952

Westerly Public LibraryLocal History and Special Collections44 Broad StreetWesterly, RI 02891Tel: 401-596-2877E-mail: [email protected]

Published in 2009©Westerly Public Library


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Collection overview

Title: Margaret Wise Brown papers

Date range: 1929-1952

Creator: Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952

Extent: 24 box(es)

Abstract: The Margaret Wise Brown papers containscorrespondence, photographs, manuscripts, poems,songs, stories and essays, books, and many ideas forrecords, television and radio programs.

Language of materials: English

Repository: Westerly Public Library

Collection number: MWB01

Scope & content

The published works portion of the collection contains many of Margaret Wise Brown'shandwritten or typed stories and ideas, which ultimately evolved into published books.There are often several different versions of a story, with ideas or changes scribbled in themargins. There are also book dummies with her notes for revisions. The collection includestwo first editions of The Little Fur Family, covered in actual rabbit fur, and two records forchildren. The published works component of the collection is by far the largest, consistingof 12 boxes, most containing 10-30 folders. Series 2, the unpublished works part of thecollection, contains several hundred poems or songs, stories and essays, both for childrenand adults, and many ideas for records, television and radio programs, and books.

In addition to her writings, the collection includes correspondence between MargaretWise Brown and friends or collaborators, papers she wrote while in college for creativewriting classes, articles and book reviews about her work, black and white photographsof Margaret Wise Brown and illustrations for some of her books. The illustrations weredone by Clement Hurd (for The Little Brass Band) and Barbara Cooney (for The Little FirTree), and include complete storyboards for these two books. Lastly, the collection containsarticles and theses written about Margaret Wise Brown.


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Arrangement

The Margaret Wise Brown Collection consists of seven series: published works,unpublished works, correspondence, miscellaneous papers, illustrations, materials aboutMargaret Wise Brown, and photographs.

• Series 1. Published Works contains published stories, poems, and songs, bothhandwritten and typed, often with Margaret Wise Brown's notes. The collection also hasbook dummies for some of her works. These items are arranged alphabetically by title andhoused in Boxes 1-12.

• Series 2. Unpublished Works contains poems and songs, essays and stories, ideasfor records, plays, radio and television programs, musical scores with words by MargaretWise Brown, music by Elizabeth Randolph or Dorothy Cadzow, and composition bookswith ideas for stories, notes, and thoughts in them. These items are grouped by format, andarranged alphabetically within format. They are housed in boxes 13-18.

• Series 3. Correspondence contains letters to and from Margaret Wise Brown,separated into two files. Correspondence is in box 19.

• Series 4. Miscellaneous Papers contains Margaret Wise Brown’s college papers andcreative stories, her notes from writing workshops she participated in, including notes abouthow children reacted to her stories, and book reviews and articles on her work that sheclipped from newspapers. Series IV is in box 20.

• Series 5. Illustrations contains illustrations, generally in storyboard form, for a fewof Margaret Wise Brown’s published books. One box holds the complete storyboard forthe story The Little Brass Band. The second box has assorted illustrations from several ofMargaret Wise Brown’s books including The Little Fir Tree. The collection contains work byBarbara Cooney and Clement Hurd and is housed in boxes 21 and 22.

• Series 6. Materials about Margaret Wise Brown contains articles, theses, andmanuscripts about her, grouped by format. It is contained in box 23.

• Series 7. Photographs contains black and white photographs of Margaret WiseBrown, from her childhood until shortly before her death. Also included are photographs ofher homes in Maine and New York City. Photographs are in box 24.

Biographical note

Margaret Wise Brown was born May 23, 1910 in Brooklyn, New York, and raised with anolder brother and younger sister on Long Island. Her father, Robert Brown, worked forthe American Manufacturing Company and her mother, Maude Johnson Brown, was ahomemaker. She described her childhood as difficult and lonely. Her parents' marriage was


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not happy, and she spent a lot of time alone, exploring the beaches and woods of LongIsland, and caring for her numerous pets.

Margaret left home at age 13 to attend boarding school in Switzerland, returning two yearslater to complete her high school education at Dana Hall in Massachusetts. In 1932 shereceived her B.A. from Hollins College in Virginia, her mother's alma mater. She thenmoved to New York City to intern at the Bank Street School, an experimental school forchild-development study and teacher training, with intentions of becoming a teacher. WhileMargaret decided not to pursue a teaching career, the Writers Laboratory at the schoolinspired her. Margaret became a children's book editor at the William R. Scott publishingcompany, while also working at Bank Street and freelance writing. The books she wroteand edited were approved or revised based on responses to the story by groups of childrenenrolled at Bank Street. She published her first children's book, When the Wind Blows, in1937. Over the next 14 years she published over 100 books for children, including the wellknown classics, Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.

Margaret Wise Brown entertained friends at her two homes, Manhattan's Cobble Courtand The Only House on Vinalhaven Island in Maine. Animals were always a big part ofher life. At one point she shared her small Manhattan home with a cat, a dog, a flyingsquirrel, and a goat. She had a long and difficult relationship with Blanche Oelrichs, apoet who wrote under the pen name "Michael Strange". Oelrichs had also been marriedto John Barrymore, the actor. Margaret eventually became engaged to a younger man,James Stillman ("Pebbles") Rockefeller, Jr. She was on a pre-honeymoon trip to Europewhen she fell ill. She died in France of an embolism on November 13, 1952, two days afterappendectomy surgery.

Access & use

Access to the collection: There are no restrictions on access, except that thecollection can only be seen by prior appointment. Somematerials may be stored off-site and cannot be producedon the same day on which they are requested.

Use of materials: Researchers are advised that express written permissionto reproduce, quote, or otherwise publish any portionor extract from this collection must be obtained fromthe Westerly Public Library. Although Westerly PublicLibrary has physical ownership of the collection andthe materials contained therein, it does not claim


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literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine theowners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessarypermissions from them.

Preferred citation: Margaret Wise Brown papers, MWB01, Westerly PublicLibrary

Contact information: Westerly Public LibraryLocal History and Special Collections44 Broad StreetWesterly, RI 02891Tel: 401-596-2877E-mail: [email protected]

Administrative information

About the collection

Aquisition: The Margaret Wise Brown Collection was donated tothe Westerly Public Library by Jessica Gamble Dunham.Mrs. Dunham was the personnel director at the BankStreet School and a close friend of Ms. Brown. In 1946,Jessica and Gilbert Dunham moved to Stonington,Connecticut on the border of Westerly, Rhode Island.Margaret Wise Brown visited her friends in Stoningtonoften and had great affection for the area.

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Inventory

Series 1, Published Works ,Contains the manuscripts, notes, book dummies, and revisions for many of Margaret WiseBrown’s published books and articles.

Container Description Date

Box 1, Folder 1 All the Bright Colors, from the Mouse ofMy Heart Collection

undated

Box 1, Folder 2 Animals in the Snow undated

Box 1, Folder 3 Another Important Book undated

Box 1, Folder 4 Baby Animals, Random House 1941

Box 1, Folder 5 Bad Little Duck Hunter, Scott 1947

Box 1, Folder 6 The Barnyard Song, Heath 1939

Box 1, Folder 7 Big and Little, Scott 1938

Box 1, Folder 8 Big Bunny--Little Bunny undated

Box 1, Folder 9 Big Dog Little Dog, Doubleday 1943

Box 1, Folder10

Big Fast Farmer undated

Box 1, Folder11

Big Red Barn, Scott 1956

Box 1, Folder12

The Big Steamshovel, or, The BigDigger

undated

Box 1, Folder13

The Big Warm Barn undated


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Box 1, Folder14

Birthdays in the Woods undated

Box 1, Folder15

Stories to be Sung and Songs to beTold, article in the Book of KnowledgeAnnual

1952

Box 1, Folder16

The Bunny's Birthday undated

Box 1, Folder17

The Bunny's Noisy Book undated

Box 1, Folder18

Funny Bunny; The Glorious Death of aMouse; The Glorious Flight of a Bunny;The Little Fat Bunny; The Little RabbitWho Was Learning How to Jump

undated

Box 1, Folder19

The Cardboard Egg undated

Box 1, Folder20

The Little Indian, Simon & Schuster 1954

Box 1, Folder21

A Child's Good Morning, Scott 1943

Box 1, Folder22

A Child's Good-Night Book, Scott 1943

Box 1, Folder23

Christmas in the Barn, Crowell 1952

Box 1, Folder24

The Color Bunnies undated

Box 1, Folder25

The Color Kittens, Simon & Schuster 1949


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Box 1, Folder26

The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds,Harper

1950

Box 1, Folder27

The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds,Harper

1950

Box 2, Folder 1 Dirty Mary undated

Box 2, Folder 2 Doctor Squash, The Doll Doctor, Simon& Schuster

1952

Box 2, Folder 3 Dog Abroad, or, Dogeral: Memories ofan Irish Dog in France

undated

Box 2, Folder 4 The Dream Book, Random House 1950

Box 2, Folder 5 The Dreaming Bunny, or, The Story ofBunny No Good, in The Golden SleepyBook, Simon & Schuster

1948

Box 2, Folder 6 The Earth Will Hold Us (play) undated

Box 2, Folder 7 Every Little Clown or Chercher LeClown

1952

Box 2, Folder 8 The Fabulous Fish undated

Box 2, Folder 9 Humpty Together Again, or, The Falland Rise of Humpty Dumpty, a storyin music by MWB, music by ElizabethRandolph

1950

Box 2, Folder10

The Fast Farmer undated

Box 2, Folder11

Fire Fire Fire in the Fall of the Year, inThe Golden Bunny

1953

Box 2, Folder12

The First Story, Harper 1947


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Box 2, Folder13


Box 2, Folder14


Box 2, Folder15

The Fish With the Deep Sea SmileCollection; E.P. Dutton compositionbook with early versions of manystories in this collection and in AnotherHere and Now Story Book collection

1938

Box 2, Folder16

The Fishing Cat undated

Box 2, Folder17

Five Little Firemen 1946

Box 2, Folder18

Four Little Fishermen; Fish Eyes Underthe Sea

1948

Box 2, Folder19

A Friend for Easter undated

Box 2, Folder20

The Friendly Book, or, The Boy WhoLoved the Whole World

undated

Box 2, Folder21

Funny Bunny undated

Box 3, Folder 1 The Gentle Tigerrr, or, The Polite Tiger undated

Box 3, Folder 2 The Golden Bunny 1950

Box 3, Folder 3 The Golden Bunny undated




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Box 3, Folder 7 The Golden Bunny, note: much of thismaterial was not included in the finalbook and can be found in The GreenWind or The Golden Sleepy Book

undated

Box 3, Folder 8 The Golden Bunny, Here Comesa Baby, or, Whose Baby Bunny,Birthdays in the Woods (A SingingStory), Funny Bunny, The RabbitDoctor, The Mouse and the MouseDoctor, The Rabbit Who Lived on aRanch, The Little Rabbit Who StayedUp All Night, The Smart Little Bunny

undated


Box 3, Folder10

The Golden Dog and his Two BlueKittens

undated

Box 3, Folder11

The Golden Lion undated

Box 3, Folder12

The Golden Story Book undated

Box 3, Folder13

The Golden Story Book undated

Box 4, Folder 1 Good Housekeeping, poem onp.86: Pusscatkin and the Pumpkin.Other items published in GoodHousekeeping: Daisy CloverPussywillow Brown; The Grey Rabbit'sDream; The Kitten at the Keyhole;Little Brown Tug; The Magic Car;One Eye Open; Pigwilliam Pumpkin,Where Have You Been?; Pussywillows;

1948-1949


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Scarecrow School; Three Pigeons GoTo School and others.

Box 4, Folder 2 The Good Little Bad Little Bunny undated

Box 4, Folder 3 The Good Little Bad Little Pig undated

Box 4, Folder 4 The Good Little Bad Little Raccoon undated

Box 4, Folder 5 Early versions of Goodnight Moon,titled Goodnight, Room and Chlild'sGoodnight, Harper (note states seealso Series II: Unpublished Works,academic work from Bank St.)

1947

Box 4, Folder 6 The Green Wind (book dummy), alsoSong of the Silverfish, from The GreenWind, published in Nibble Nibble

undated

Box 4, Folder 7 Happy the Hot Dog Man undated

Box 4, Folder 8 He Heard Seashells by the Seashore undated

Box 4, Folder 9 Hedgehog Ball or The Hedgehog WhoRolled Away

undated

Box 4, Folder10

Here Comes the Sun, A Weather Book(book dummy), The Seven WeathersOut the Window

undated

Box 4, Folder11

The Hidden House, Henry Holt 1953

Box 4, Folder12

Home for a Bunny, Simon & Schuster 1956

Box 4, Folder13

Homes in the Wilderness, Scott 1939


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Box 4, Folder14

A Horse Of Course (book dummy) undated

Box 4, Folder15

The Horse of Course, the YoungestHorse Anthology

undated

Box 4, Folder16

How the Animals Took a Bath, firstpublished in Jack and Jill Magazine(1939), reprinted in Wonderful StoryBook, Simon & Schuster (1950)

1939, 1950

Box 5, Folder 1 How the Bunny Learned to Wash HisFace

undated

Box 5, Folder 2 How to Live in a House undated

Box 5, Folder 3 How to Raise a Rabbit and Comfort aBunny

undated

Box 5, Folder 4 The Hungry ABC undated

Box 5, Folder 5 The Little Boat undated

Box 5, Folder 6 The Little Book undated

Box 5, Folder 7 The Little Brass Band undated

Box 5, Folder 8 The Little Cat Who Found a Place inthe World, or, The Cat

undated

Box 5, Folder 9 The Little Cat Who Liked to Purr toPeople

undated

Box 5, Folder10

Little Chicken, Harper 1943

Box 5, Folder11

The Little Cowboy 1948


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Box 5, Folder13

The Little Fir Tree; Christmas Song(several verses used in The Little FirTree), T.Y. Cromwell

1954

Box 5, Folder14

The Little Fisherman, a Fish Story,W.R. Scott

1945

Box 5, Folder15

The Little Flat Flounder in the Depthsof the Sea, shorter version publishedin The Wonderful Story Book, Simon &Schuster

1948

Box 5, Folder16

The Little Frightened Tiger undated

Box 5, Folder17

The Little Fur Family, Harper & Row 1946

Box 5, Folder18

The Little Girl's Medicine undated

Box 5, Folder19

One Two Three in a Family (part of TheLittle Golden Family Book)

undated

Box 5, Folder20

The Little Golden Tugboat Book, TheWhole Tug Family or The Annie Moran,That Old Tug at my Heart

undated

Box 5, Folder21

The Little Golden Younger andYounger Book

undated

Box 5, Folder22

The Little Iceberg undated

Box 5, Folder23

The Little Indian, Simon & Schuster 1954

Box 5, Folder24

The Little Island undated


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Box 5, Folder25

The Little Rabbit Who Was LearningHow to Jump

undated

Box 5, Folder26

The Little River undated

Box 5, Folder27

The Little Scarecrow Boy, in theanthology Fun and Frolic, D.C. Heath &Co.

1942

Box 6, Folder 1 The Little Toy Train undated

Box 6, Folder 2 A Little Weather Story, in the anthology,Read Me Another Story, Crowell

1949

Box 6, Folder 3 The Little White Rabbit Who Chasedthe Wind

undated

Box 6, Folder 4 The Little Wind undated

Box 6, Folder 5 The Magic Numbers Book undated

Box 6, Folder 6 The Magic Numbers Song undated

Box 6, Folder 7 The Manners Kittens undated

Box 6, Folder 8 Missy's Christmas Shopping undated

Box 6, Folder 9 The Monkey Man and his Monkey undated

Box 6, Folder10

The Mouse Doctor undated

Box 6, Folder11

The Mouse Hole Book and MouseBook

undated

Box 6, Folder12

Night and Day, or, Things that Love theNight, Harper

1942


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Box 6, Folder13

The Four Year Old Book, NO, or, TheCat with No Whiskers

undated

Box 6, Folder14

The Noon Balloon, from The NoisyBalloon Book

undated

Box 7, Folder 1 North, East, South, West: A Story inFour Directions; Cricket Song (wordsby MWB, music by Dorothy Cadzow)

undated

Box 7, Folder 2 Nothing But Bunnies undated

Box 7, Folder 3 Number Kittens undated

Box 7, Folder 4 The Number Bears undated

Box 7, Folder 5 The Numbers Book undated

Box 7, Folder 6 Oceans of Air: A story of the flight ofblue geese from North to South, alsoThe Unknown World in the Air, to beincluded in Oceans of Air

undated

Box 7, Folder 7 Odds and Ends; The Poodle and theSheep (title changed later to Cat andMouse)

undated

Box 7, Folder 8 One, Two, Three, A Magic NumbersBook

undated

Box 7, Folder 9 The Peppermints and the Postman, orSeven Little Postmen Carry the Mail

undated

Box 7, Folder10

Pictures and Stories magazine:published The Shining Stones; TheBirthday Present; A Surprise

1942


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Box 7, Folder11

Quiet in the Wilderness, publishedin Once Upon A Time In a Pigpen,Addison Wesley

undated

Box 8, Folder12

The Puppy's English undated

Box 7, Folder13

A Pussycat's Christmas, Crowell--original title: Pigwilliam's ChristmasBook

1949

Box 8, Folder 1 Pussy Willow undated

Box 8, Folder 2 Pussywillow, includes illustrations byLeonard Weisgard

1952

Box 8, Folder 3 The Quiet Noisy Book--untitled storyused in the book, The Ridiculous NoisyBook

undated

Box 8, Folder 4 The Quiet Noisy Book stories: TheWonderful Day, The Rabbit's Garden,Sound of the New Day Breaking

undated

Box 8, Folder 5 The Rabbit Doctor, and The Mouse andthe Mouse Doctor

undated

Box 8, Folder 6 The Rabbit Who Lived On A Ranch undated

Box 8, Folder 7 Red Light--Green Light, Pig Jig, SailorBoy Jig

undated

Box 8, Folder 8 Robin's House undated

Box 8, Folder 9 Song of the Runaway Bunny, score forMagali, to which the song is set

undated

Box 8, Folder10

The Sad Little Squirrel, or, The LittleSquirrel Who Wouldn't Grow Up

undated


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Box 8, Folder11

The Sea Shore Noisy Book undated

Box 8, Folder12

Seven Little Postmen, Simon &Schuster

1952

Box 8, Folder13

Shoot Straight the Boy with the Gun, or,A Straight Shooter

undated

Box 8, Folder14

The Sleepy ABC, Lathrop, Lee, andShepard

1953

Box 8, Folder15

Sleepy Animals undated

Box 8, Folder16

A Sleepy Story, A Sleepy Book, or,Little Fur Beds

1952

Box 8, Folder17

The Sleepy Little Rabbit undated

Box 8, Folder18

The Sleepy Mend; A Big Little SleepyStory (A book for a father to read in bedto his son)

undated

Box 8, Folder19

The Sleepy Rabbit Record, ThreeTimes To Sleep, Put Yourself To Sleep

undated

Box 5, Folder20

20 Sneakers Finds the Sea; Sneakers,That Rapscallion Cat; SneakersComes to Town; The Sky FollowsSneakers To Town; Sneakers and theEaster Flowers; The Easter Surprise;Sneakers and the Easter Bunnies; TheCountry Happens to Sneakers Again

undated

Box 5, Folder21

Snowball and Sunshine, from thecollection Mouse of My Heart

undated


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Box 8, Folder22

Spurs, The Fighting Cock undated

Box 8, Folder23

The Steam Roller (A Fantasy) part ofThe Fish with the Deep Sea Smile

undated

Box 8, Folder24

The Three Snowmen from Mouse of MyHeart Collection

undated

Box 9, Folder 1 The Teeny Tiny Woman undated

Box 9, Folder 2 The Terrific Terrible Pumpkin, from Funand Frolic, D.C. Heath

undated

Box 9, Folder 3 That Admiral undated

Box 9, Folder 4 There Was An Old Lady Who Lived InA House

undated

Box 9, Folder 5 They Could All Smell It undated

Box 9, Folder 6 Three Little Animals, or The Little FurAnimals, or A Little Warm Animal World

undated

Box 9, Folder 7 Town and Country undated

Box 9, Folder 8 The Train to Timbucktoo (Timbuktu),song score called Kalamazoo andTimbuctoo (Timbuktu)

undated

Box 9, Folder 9 Two Little Canaballs (Cannibals) undated

Box 9, Folder10

Two Little Trains undated

Box 9, Folder11

Two Little Trains, musical dramatization undated

Box 9, Folder12

The Unimportant Book undated


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Box 9, Folder13

The Very Rich Rabbit, The Little WhiteRabbit Who Chased the Wind, TheLittle Rabbit Who Stayed Up All Night,The Rabbit Who Lived On a Ranch

undated

Box 9, Folder14

The Very Rich Rabbit undated

Box 9, Folder15

The Weather Book undated

Box 9, Folder16

What A Little Man! undated

Box 9, Folder17

Wheels On the Chimney undated

Box 9, Folder18

When the Sun Came Up undated

Box 9, Folder19

Where Have You Been? Some of theseverses were in Another Here and NowStory book

undated

Box 9, Folder20

Where Have You Been? undated

Box 9, Folder21

Whistle For the Train undated

Box 9, Folder22

Will You Come For a Walk With Me?and The Love Song of the Little Bear

undated

Box 9, Folder23

Willie's Animals, in Willie's Adventures,W.R. Scott

1954

Box 9, Folder24

Willie's Pockets, or Peter's Pockets undated


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Box 9, Folder25

Willie the Whistling Giraffe, A MusicalBallad, music by Ruth Cleary Patterson

undated

Box 9, Folder26

Willie The Whistling Giraffe 1952

Box 10, Folder1

Whistling Giraffe undated

Box 10, Folder2

The Wonderful House, Simon &Schuster

1950

Box 10, Folder3

The Wonderful Story Book collection;The Little Toy Train, Out of the Rabbit,Pansies, The Race, A RemarkableRabbit, Said A Fish to A Fish, TheyCould All Smell It, But What Was It?(some of these were in The GoldenSleepy Book)

undated

Box 10, Folder4

The World That Jack Built undated

Box 10, Folder5

Writing for Children, in Hollins AlumnaeMagazine

1949

Box 10, Folder6

The Yellow Tug or The Teeny TinyTugboat

undated

Box 10, Folder7

You Be Little and I'll Be Big undated

Box 10, Folder8

Young Kangaroo undated

Box 11, Folder1

The Little Fur Family--two specialeditions, bound in real rabbit fur, onewith the original box

1946


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Box 12, Folder1

Wait Til the Moon is Full record, storyby MWB, music by Richard Mohaupt,described as a "musical story"

undated

Box 12, Folder2

Whoa! Little Horses Lie Down record,story by MWB, music by HerbertHaufrecht, described as an "activityrecord"

undated

Series 2, Unpublished Works,Contains poems and songs, essays and stories, ideas for records, plays, radio andtelevision programs, musical scores with words by Margaret Wise Brown, music byElizabeth Randolph or Dorothy Cadzow, and composition books with ideas for stories,notes, and thoughts in them.


Box 13, Folder1

Poems/songs, A-B undated

Box 13, Folder2

Poems/songs, C-D undated

Box 13, Folder3

Poems/songs, E-F undated

Box 13, Folder4

Poems/songs, G undated

Box 13, Folder5

Poems/songs, H-K undated

Box 13, Folder6

Poems/songs, L undated

Box 13, Folder7

Poems/songs, M-N undated


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Box 13, Folder8

Poems/songs, O-Q undated

Box 13, Folder9

Poems/songs, R undated

Box 14, Folder1

Poems/songs, S undated

Box 14, Folder2

Poems/songs, T undated

Box 14, Folder3

Poems/songs, U-Z undated

Box 14, Folder4

Stories/essays, A-C undated

Box 14, Folder5

Stories/essays, D-F undated

Box 14, Folder6

Stories/essays, G-I undated

Box 14, Folder7

Stories/essays, J-L undated

Box 14, Folder8

Stories/essays, M undated

Box 14, Folder9

Stories/essays, N-P undated

Box 15, Folder1

Stories/essays, R undated

Box 15, Folder2

Stories/essays, S undated


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Box 15, Folder3

Stories/essays, T-Z undated

Box 15, Folder4

Book dummy, The Color Book 1948

Box 15, Folder5

Book dummy, Dances and Jigs undated

Box 15, Folder6

Book dummies (two) and detailed notesfor book titled The Little Golden GoodBad Book of Manners or The ConcreteManners Book or The Good-Bad Book

undated

Box 15, Folder7

Book dummy, Material to Draw On: AColor Book

undated

Box 15, Folder8

Ideas for plays, records, television andradio

undated

Box 15, Folder9


undated

Box 15, Folder10


undated

Box 15, Folder11


undated

Box 16, Folder1


undated

Box 16, Folder2


undated

Box 16, Folder3


undated


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Box 16, Folder4

Music/scores undated

Box 16, Folder5

Composition book undated

Box 16, Folder6


Box 16, Folder7


Box 17, Folder1


Box 17, Folder2


Box 17, Folder3


Box 17, Folder4


Box 18, Folder1

Composition Book 1937

Box 18, Folder2

Composition book 1941

Box 18, Folder3

Composition book 1946

Series 3, Correspondence,Includes letters from Margaret Wise Brown to others, and letters received by MargaretWise Brown, separated into two files. There are also several files that contain a series ofcorrespondence between MWB and someone else. These are each in a separate folder.


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Box 19, Folder1

Correspondence from Margaret WiseBrown

undated

Box 19, Folder2

Correspondence to Margaret WiseBrown

undated

Box 19, Folder3

Correspondence with John regardingThe Good Night Book

undated

Box 19, Folder4

Letter from Burl Ives to MWB, includesher proposal to him for a book/recordtitled Bonnie Prince Charlie or TheBlack Prince

undated

Box 19, Folder5

Correspondence with Katharine Colieof the Grolier Society

undated

Series 4, Miscellaneous Papers,Contains some of Margaret Wise Brown’s academic work (papers and stories she wrotewhile in college), papers/notes from her participation in writing workshops, including notesabout how children reacted to her stories, and book reviews and articles about her workthat she clipped from newspapers.


Box 20, Folder1

Academic work undated

Box 20, Folder2

Writing workshop notes undated

Box 20, Folder3


Box 20, Folder4



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Box 20, Folder4


Box 20, Folder5


Box 20, Folder6


Box 20, Folder7

Writing workshop notes, the BabyInstitute

1943

Box 20, Folder8


Box 20, Folder9


Box 20, Folder10

Notes for a talk in Richmond undated

Box 20, Folder11

Printer's proof for Who's Who in NewEngland entry on Golden MacDonald(MWB pseudonym)

undated

Box 20, Folder12

Notes by MWB on what to include in allpublishing contracts

undated

Box 20, Folder13

Book reviews undated

Box 20, Folder14

Book reviews undated

Box 20, Folder15

Articles clipped by MWB (two) on herwork

1949,1952

Box 20, Folder16

Diary from MWB's time at Dana Hallboarding school

1929


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Series 5, Illustrations,Contains many illustrations and/or storyboards for several of Margaret Wise Brown’s books.Illustrations are by Barbara Cooney and Clement Hurd.


Box 21, Complete Storyboard for The LittleBrass Band, pictures by Clement Hurd

undated

Box 22, Numerous illustrations for variousbooks, complete storyboard for TheLittle Fir Tree, pictures by BarbaraCooney

undated

Series 6, Materials about Margaret Wise Brown,Contains items written about her, grouped by format. Magazines containing articles abouther include The Horn Book, Vanity Fair, and LIFE.


Box 23, Folder1

Articles about Margaret Wise Brown 1946

Box 23, Folder2


Box 23, Folder3

Articles about Margaret Wise Brown 1947-1949

Box 23, Folder4

Articles about Margaret Wise Brown 1958, 1983

Box 23, Folder5

Articles about Margaret Wise Brown undated

Box 23, Folder6



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Box 23, Folder7

Thesis on MWB written by Eugene M.Scheel

1969

Series 7, Photographs,


Box 24, Folder1

MWB 5: portrait of MWB as a child (2copies)

undated

Box 24, Folder2

MWB and sister Roberta as girls withtheir pets

undated

Box 24, Folder3

MWB with dogs (two collies) undated

Box 24, Folder4

MWB leaning; MWB with pup, othersfrom same photo shoot (18 photos)

undated

Box 24, Folder5

MWB with kerry (kerry blue terrier) undated

Box 24, Folder6

MWB headshot 1945

Box 24, Folder7

vinyl2; vinyl haven; other shots ofVinalhaven, Maine (6 photos)

undated

Box 24, Folder8

Works (MWB headshot with collage ofher books)

undated

Box 24, Folder9

MWB in blazer on rocks (three photos) undated

Box 24, Folder10

MWB in light coat with kerry blue terrier(2 photos)

undated

Box 24, Folder11

MWB in black dress, with book open undated


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Box 24, Folder12

Newspaper photo of Cobble Court inNew York City

undated

Box 24, Folder13

Portrait of Michael Strange undated

guide to the margaret wise brown papers 1929-1952 collection

Documents