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Series I: Correspondence, 1912, 1926-1968, undated
Series II: Writings, 1922-1962, undated
Series III: Personal, 1907-1968, undated
Series IV: Visual material, 1890s-1963, undated
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Ernestine Evans papers, 1890-1968, bulk 1930-1967

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Series I: Correspondence, 1912, 1926-1968, undated

This series contains Evans' personal and professional correspondence, and it includes letters both incoming and outgoing. The majority of these letters dates to the 1940s and 1950s; this archive does not contain Evans' early correspondence. Evans' most voluminous correspondence was with Jessie Heckman Hirschl, a lifelong friend whom she met during her undergraduate studies. Other friends and colleagues that are well represented here include: Evans' close friend Frances H. Flaherty, wife of the documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty. (Evans collaborated with Robert Flaherty on several occasions.); Gertrude Emerson Sen, an expert on Asia, who lived in India and was, like Evans, a member of the Society of Women Geographers; Margaret Barrington ("Topsy"), a writer who lived in Ireland; Helga Greene, a prominent London literary agent; and Karl A. Bickel and Carleton Beals, two writers for whom she served as literary agent. Evans' correspondence also includes letters to and from luminaries that include Walker Evans, Jean Renoir, Cornell Capa and Katherine Anne Porter.


Box 1 Folder 1 to 12 Incoming, 1912, 1930s-1949, (13 Folders)


Box 2 Folder 1 to 11 Incoming, 1950-1959, (11 Folders)


Box 3 Folder 1 to 5 Incoming, 1960s, (5 Folders)

Box 3 Folder 6 to 11 Incoming, Undated, (6 Folders)


Box 4 Folder 1 to 2 Incoming, Undated, (2 Folders)

Box 4 Folder 3 to 8 Outgoing, circa 1930s-1967, (6 Folders)


Box 5 Folder 1 to 5 Outgoing, circa 1930s-1967, (5 Folders)

Box 5 Folder 6 Outgoing, 1941-1945, undated

Box 5 Folder 7 Outgoing, 1957

Box 5 Folder 8 to 13 Outgoing--Flaherty, Robert and Frances, circa 1940-1950, (6 Folders)

Box 5 Folder 14 Outgoing, 1960-1965

Box 5 Folder 15 to 16 Others, 1932-1958, undated, (2 Folders)


Box 6 Folder 1 to 2 Others, 1932-1958, undated, (2 Folders)

Box 6 Folder 3 to 4 Regarding Evans, 1955-1967, undated, (2 Folders)

Box 6 Folder 5 Fragments, 1941-1965, undated

Alphabetical and previously catalogued

Box 6 Folder 6 Allen, Evelyn, 1953, undated

Box 6 Folder 7 Anderson, Eleanor and Sherwood, 1946-1957, undated

Box 6 Folder 8 Barrington, Margaret "Topsy", 1941-1952, undated

Box 6 Folder 9 Bickel, Karl, 1941-1954, undated

Box 6 Folder 10 Bliven-Sheean, 1941-1945

Box 6 Folder 11 Capa, Cornell, (includes reminiscences of Robert Capa), undated

Box 6 Folder 12 Evans, Walker, undated

Box 6 Folder 13 Flaherty, Robert, Frances and family, 1938


Box 7 Folder 1 Flaherty, Robert, Frances and family, 1937-1951, undated

Box 7 Folder 2 Graham, Eleanor, 1940-1958, undated

Box 7 Folder 3 Greene, Helga, 1953-1965, undated

Box 7 Folder 4 to 11 Hirschl, Jessie [Heckman], 1938-1968, undated, (8 Folders)

Box 7 Folder 12 Johnstone, Ken, 1959-1961, undated


Box 8 Folder 1 MacLeish, Archibald, 1940, undated

Box 8 Folder 2 Plomer, William, 1943-1958

Box 8 Folder 3 [Porter,] Katherine Anne, 1944-1951, undated

Box 8 Folder 4 Schaffner, John to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Edes Harrison and Elizaberth Briggs Harrison, 1968

Box 8 Folder 5 to 6 Sen, Gertrude Emerson--(Mrs. Basiswar Sen), 1926-1965, undated, (2 Folders)

Box 8 Folder 7 [Treat Bergeret,] Ida, 1947-1958, undated

Box 8 Folder 8 to 10 General, 1941-1958, undated, (3 Folders)