Purchase, 1999 (R 14507)
Open for research. One scrapbook restricted for preservation reasons; use digital copy.
Liz Murray, 2001
This collection of novelist and short story writer Alma Stone consists primarily of typescripts, drafts, galleys and proofs, notes, research material, reviews, business and personal papers, correspondence, and diaries. The collection is arranged in four Series: Series I. Writings and Associated Material, Series II. Correspondence, Series III. Career-Related and Personal, and Series IV. Ermine Stone's Diaries, 1941-1974.
Three of Stone's published works are represented in Series I, galleys for
Correspondence in Series II includes business and personal letters written to Stone, as well as family correspondence. The career-related and personal papers in Series III contain book reviews and articles, passports, trip memorabilia, a family biography, and poems written by her mother. Diaries kept by Stone's sister, Ermine "Pebble" Stone (1901-1978), chief librarian at Sarah Lawrence College, are found in Series IV.
Books and serials received with the collection have been transferred to the Ransom Center's Library. Likewise, audio tapes of Stone reading from
Sound recordings were transferred to the Ransom Center's Sound Recording collection and are
described individually in a list at the end of this finding aid and in a