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• Author/Creator:Wagstaff, Dorothy, 1922-2005, collector.
  
• Title:Dorothy Wagstaff collection of Margaret Wise Brown, 1934-1954.
  
• Physical Description:0.63 linear feet (2 boxes) + 1 broadside.
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: GEN MSS 1390
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: 3 (Broadside)
    

  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: GEN MSS 1390
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Boxes 1-2
    

   
• Notes:In English.
  Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc. on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2015.
  
• Organization:Organized into two series: I. Writings, 1948-1954. II. Other Papers, 1934-1952.
  
• Access and use:This collection is open for research.
• Biographical / Historical note:Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952), American author of children's books.
  Dorothy Wagstaff (1922-2005), American illustrator and author.
  
• Summary:Collection of writings and other papers relating to children's author Margaret Wise Brown. Writings (box 1) consist of drafts, both typescript and autograph manuscript, of poems and stories, as well as an extensive autograph revision of "Count To Ten," in the printed version of Brown's Wonderful Story Book (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948). Other papers (box 2) include a small number of original pieces of artwork, letters, an unsigned last will and testament, a list of works by Brown, one color photograph of her home on Vinalhaven Island off the coast of Maine, and several printed postcards of scenes from County Kerry, Ireland. Correspondents include illustrator Jean Charlot.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Dorothy Wagstaff Collection of Margaret Wise Brown. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952.
  Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952. Wonderful story book.
  Charlot, Jean, 1898-1979.
  Wagstaff, Dorothy, 1922-2005.
  Simon and Schuster, Inc.
  Children's literature, American.
  Authors, American--20th century.
  Illustrators--United States.
  Kerry (Ireland)--Pictorial works.
  Vinalhaven Island (Me.)--Pictorial works.
  
• Genre/Form:Drawings (visual works)
  Photographic prints.
  
• Occupation:Authors United States 20th century.
  Illustrators United States 20th century.