Helene Mullins and Marie McCall papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 767
Scope and Contents
The Helene Mullins and Marie McCall Papers consists of correspondence, writings, and photographs by and relating to the American authors and sisters Helene Mullins and Marie McCall. Correspondence is fragmentary, consisting chiefly of letters from Jean and Zohmah Charlot and John Hall Wheelock to Helene Mullins. Photographs depict Mullins and McCall from childhood to later adulthood, and also include portraits and snapshots of family members and friends. Writings include drafts of Mullins's poetry, an autobiographical novel by Mullins entitled The Loving are Daring, and the unpublished diaries of Marie McCall.
Dates
- 1870 - 1985
- Majority of material found within 1926 - 1985
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Helene Mullins and Marie McCall Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Serendipity Books on the Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Memorial Fund, 1999.
Arrangement
Organized into two series: I. Helene Mullins Papers, 1870-1985. II. Marie McCall Papers, 1934-circa 1980.
Extent
1.46 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
The Helene Mullins and Marie McCall Papers consists of correspondence, writings, and photographs by and relating to the American authors and sisters Helene Mullins and Marie McCall. Correspondence is highly fragmentary, consisting chiefly of letters from Jean and Zohmah Charlot and John Hall Wheelock to Helene Mullins. Photographs depict Mullins and McCall from childhood to later adulthood, and also include portraits and snapshots of family members and friends. Writings include drafts of Mullins's poetry, an autobiographical novel by Mullins entitled The Loving are Daring, and the unpublished diaries of Marie McCall.
Helene Mullins (1899-1991)
Helene Mullins (née Gallagher), American poet and novelist, was born in New York City in 1899, and was active from the 1920s (by which time she had already married Ivan Mullins) through the 1960s. She and her sister Marie McCall collaborated on their first novel, Paulus Fy (New York: Robert M. McBride & Company) in 1924. Mullins's breakthrough as an author came when a novel, Convent girl, and a volume of poetry, Earthbound & other poems, were published by Harper and Bros. in 1929. In 1935 she was involved in a near-fatal car accident, and soon thereafter she and McCall moved to Hollywood, California, for a lengthy convalescence. Except for this period, and time spent in Washington, D.C., during the Second World War, Mullins lived her entire life in New York City. She continued to publish poems (under the name Mullins, though she later married Linné Johnson) in journals and collected volumes until 1970. Helene Mullins died in Manhattan in 1991.
Marie McCall (circa 1903-1986)
Marie McCall (née Gallagher), American author and painter, date of birth recorded variously as circa 1903 or 1909. Marie McCall and her sister Helene Mullins spent much of their early adulthood living and working together. They collaborated on their first novel, Paulus Fy (New York: Robert M. McBride & Company) in 1924. McCall also published The Evening Wolves (New York: John Day Company, 1949), a novel inspired by Salem witchcraft. Born in New York City, McCall spent much of the latter half of her life in Woodstock, New York, where she died in 1986.
Processing Information
Former call numbers: Uncat ZA MS 626, Uncat ZA File 406
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. This collection was processed, including organization into series and listing, in 2013.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. This collection was processed, including organization into series and listing, in 2013.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- American literature -- 20th century
- American poetry -- 20th Century
- Authors -- United States -- 20th century
- Authors, American -- 20th Century -- Archives
- Charlot, Jean, 1932-
- Charlot, Zohmah
- McCall, Marie, 1909-
- Mullins, Helene, 1899-1991
- Photographic prints -- United States -- 20th Century
- Poets -- United States -- 20th Century
- Poets, American -- 20th Century -- Archives
- Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978
- Title
- Guide to the Helene Mullins and Marie McCall Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- by Drew Adan and Lisa Conathan
- Date
- 2013-07-22
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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