Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957), Papers, 1894-1943 (C3633)
34 folders on MICROFILM
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INTRODUCTION
Papers of the author of the Little House series of children's stories. Manuscripts, a diary and some correspondence are included.
DONOR INFORMATION
Original documents loaned for microfilming 9 January 1981 by the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association.
FOLDER LIST
| f. 1-6 | The "Pioneer Girl" manuscript appears to be the original from which the "Little House" series was taken. These tablets, written in first person, contain the story line for Mrs. Wilder's books. |
| f. 1 | Little House on the Prairie and On the Banks of Plum Creek. |
| f. 2 | Second part of On the Banks of Plum Creek. |
| f. 3 | By the Shores of Silver Lake. |
| f. 4 | The Long Winter and Little Town on the Prairie. |
| f. 5 | Second part of Little Town on the Prairie. |
| f. 6 | These Happy Golden Years. |
| f. 7-18 | School tablet manuscripts and revisions for portions of the series. Some chapters are incomplete. |
| f. 7-9 | Little House in the Big Woods. |
| f. 10-13 | Farmer Boy |
| f. 14-18 | Little House on the Prairie |
| f. 14 | Portions of a manuscript for chapters 2, 3, 5-19, 25 and 26. |
| f. 15 | Tablet begins after chapter 15, "Fever 'n' Ague," and contain portions of all succeeding chapters. |
| f. 16-18 | Later draft of Little House on the Prairie. |
| f. 19-32 | School tablet manuscripts and revisions for portions of the series. Some chapters are incomplete. |
| f. 19-24 | On the Banks of Plum Creek |
| f. 19 | Notes and correspondence between Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane working out details of the book manuscript |
| f. 20-24 | Later draft of On the Banks of Plum Creek. |
| f. 25-32 | By the Shores of Silver Lake. Two manuscripts, neither of them the published version. |
| f. 33 | Account of the Wilders' trip from DeSmet, Dakota Territory, to Mansfield, Missouri, in July and August 1894. Laura mentions traveling conditions, emigrants, weather and crops along their route. Contains a long account of a Russian settlement. Rose's book On the Way Home was based on this diary. |
| f. 34 | Miscellaneous correspondence concerning the manuscripts and books. Back sides of other letters in the collection were used as scratch paper on which various stories were written or revised. A calendar of them has been provided at the beginning of the film. |
INDEX TERMS
These index terms are the subjects, people, places, etc. under which this collection is listed in all available indexes at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. If you are interested in a specific index term, please contact the reference staff.
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Indians
- Ingalls, Laura
- Kirkus, Virginia
- Lane, Rose Wilder (1887-1968)
- Russian Americans, 1894
- Weather, 1894
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957), By the Shores of Silver Lake, (1939)
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957), Farmer Boy, (1933)
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957), Little House in the Big Woods, (1932)
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957), Little House on the Prairie, (1935)
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957), On the Banks of Plum Creek, (1937)
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957), On the Way Home
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957), The Long Winter (1940)
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957), These Happy Golden Years (1943)
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