Biographical note

Scope and contents

Box 1 Drop-Out -- The World of Ellen March

Box 2 The World of Ellen March -- See Dave Run

Box 3 Letter and Certificate of Appreciation -- The Seeing Summer

Box 4 Correspondence

Box 5 Correspondence -- Something About the Author

Box 6 Something About the Author -- Writing Young Adult Novels

Jeannette Hyde Eyerly was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1908. Her family moved to Des Moines, Iowa when she was still a youngster. There she attended Drake University, although she transferred to the University of Iowa in her senior year and graduated in 1930. In 1932, she married Frank Eyerly, a newspaperman for the Des Moines Register and Tribune. Although she had her first publication at the age of eight, her first novel was not published until 1962. She had, however, published short stories and articles for many years, writing under her own name and a number of pseudonyms. Her first novel, More Than a Summer Love, was written after her daughters had made some rather uncomplimentary remarks about contemporary books aimed at teenagers. Thus began Jeannette Eyerly's career writing for young adults. In her nearly twenty novels, she dealt with such serious topics as drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, and abortion.. Her books have been translated into many languages.

The papers of Jeannette Eyerly consist of six boxes (approximately 12.5 linear feet) of manuscript material dating from 1925 to 1994. Given to the University of Iowa by Jeannette Eyerly over a period of years (1970-1993), each subsequent year's addition has been appended to the earlier gifts. The collection of papers is made up of research, correspondence, notes, early drafts, page proofs, galleys, publicity, and reviews for many of her novels. Included are Drop-Out, Gretchen's Hill, More Than a Summer Love, See Dave Run, The Seeing Summer, and The Leonardo Touch. There is also biographical material, correspondence from school children, and other writings by Eyerly. Correspondence from other writers include letters from: Paul Corey, John T. Frederick, Lee Hadley, Annabelle Irwin, MacKinlay Kantor, Julie Jensen McDonald, Mary Kay Phelan, and others.

Drop-Out

Interview questionnaire and survey of drop-outs in the Des Moines high schools

Outline notes and miscellaneous rewritten pages (with corrections)

First draft

Typescript (with corrections)

Galley proofs

The Girl Inside

Original manuscript - first draft (with revisions) (2 folders)

Printer's copy (with corrections)

Galley proofs (with corrections)

A Girl Like Me

Early draft (with revisions) (2 folders)

Xerox copy of editor's typescript (with editor's comments)

Gretchen's Hill

First draft (with revisions and criticisms) - last chapter missing

Various corrections and revisions made prior to the second draft

More Than A Summer Love

Early draft (with notes and revisions) - first title: Casey, To You (2 folders)

Editor's typescript (with revisions)

Galley proofs (with corrections)

The World of Ellen March

First draft (with revisions)

Revisions made prior to the second draft

Box 2

 The World of Ellen March (cont.)

Printer's page proofs

Galley proofs

Bonnie Jo, Go Home. Xerox of version sent to publisher

Business correspondence, 1944 -- 1961 (5 folders)

Correspondence with young adults, 1973 -- 1974

Family Diary, drafts, carbons, tear sheets, syndicate releases, promotional articles and leaflets, miscellaneous undated correspondence (2 folders)

Miscellaneous writings

"Don't Let Your Eyes Have It" and " Your Children's Eye Hazards" (carbons)

Dearest Kate (early parts of the book) and "Bundle from Heaven" (drafts)

Valeria Griffith: " How to be a Parent" (originals of two columns)

Fragments, outlines, etc.

The Phaedra Complex. Draft with corrections

Promotional material on Eyerly

The Senator, Emily and Me. Draft of version sent to publishers, later published as Radigan Cares)

He's My Baby Now. Typescript - carbon

The Leonardo Touch

Typescript - carbon - with corrections (2 copies of chapter 3)

Publisher's typescript - with revisions

Page proofs

Untitled manuscript. Typescript carbon

See Dave Run

Early draft (with corrections)

Printer's page proofs (with corrections)

Typescript carbon

Letter and certificate of appreciation from Governor Ray for service on the Commission for the Blind.

Commission for the Blind. Taping and correspondence.

Miscellaneous. Including a press release, runaway article, and See Dave Run cover

The ALAN Review, Winter 1981, Vol. 8 no.2 (contains Eyerly talk)

Correspondence

1960 -- 1966

1972 -- 1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

Angel Baker, Thief

Correspondence -- 1984

Rough draft -- typescript with holograph corrections

Final draft -- typescript with holograph corrections

Galley proofs

Diagnosis. Poem -- rough drafts, typescript with holograph corrections

If I Loved You Wednesday. Edited manuscript, typescript with holograph corrections

The Seeing Summer. First draft and research, typescript with holograph corrections (2 copies of ch. 4)

Correspondence

December 1976 -- November 1978

1979

1980 (with 2 photographs)

1981

1982

1983 -- Callanan school visis

1984 -- Francis Howell school visit

Correspondence, 1977 -- 1985. Including letters from Robert D. Ray and John C. Culver

Correspondence from children, 1985

The Seeing Summer, 1985. A short dramatization of certain scenes from The Seeing Summer presented by the Perkins Elementary School in Des Moines, IA., along with letters from the children participating in the production

 Box 4

Correspondence

1944 -- 1945. Including letters from Paul Corey and John T. Frederick

1946 -- 1947. Including a letter from A.B. Guthrie, Jr.

1948 -- 1956

1974, 1983 -- 1985

1986. Including a letter from Fletcher Knebel

Undated

"I Blame Divorce" Radio play, 1948

"The Perennial Roomer," Ladies Home Journal, vol. 64, # 8(August 1947) pp. 52 -- 53, 180 -- 183

Report cards (J. Eyerly's), 1925 -- 1926

Angel Baker, Thief. Notes, dust jacket, etc.

Biographical material, 1969 -- 1994

Book reviews, 1971 -- 1987

Children's Reading Round Table, 1981 -- 1985

Clippings, 1963 -- 1988, undated

Correspondence

1962 -- 1970. Including letters from Joe Garagiola, Neal Smith and Jack Miller

1971

1972 -- 1977

1978 -- 1979. Including a letter from Julie Jensen Mcdonald

1980. Including a letter from Ann Landers

1981. Including letters from Mary Kay Phelan

1982

1983. Including letters from Lee Hadley and Ann Irwin

January -- July 1984

August -- December 1984. Including letters from bill Keane and Mary Kay Phelan

1985. Including a letter from Julie Jensen McDonald

1986 -- 1988

Correspondence (cont.)

Undated. Including letters from Julie Jensen McDonald and Mary Kay Phelan

Family Diary

He's My Baby, Now

Book reviews and clippings regarding the television adaptation, 1977 -- 1980

Material regarding the proposal to ban the book, 1977 -- 1980

"How Newspapers Can Woo Women Readers" Speech

If I Loved You Wednesday. Penultimate typescript draft, with corrections and revisions

Iowa Commission for the Blind, 1980

Kegger. Typescript of a novel written by a 9th grade communications class at Webster City Junior High School, 1986

"The Lay of a Lay Librarian." Undated essay by Jeannette Eyerly

Mental health care, community development, etc. (charities in which Eyerly participates)

Miscellaneous pages from various unidentified manuscripts

Newspaper articles, editorials written by Jeannette Eyerly, 1984 -- 1996

"Notes from the Underground." Holograph draft of a story about a hospital stay

Photographs

Poetry

See Dave Run. Illustration and a page of a printer's proof

The Seeing Summer

Early typescript with revisions and corrections

Miscellaneous page revisions

Typescipt with corrections and revisions

Editor's typescript with revisions and corrections

Printer's typescript with corrections

Book reviews

Appendix A of a playlet adapted by Beth Couch

Seth and Me and Rebel Makes Three

Typescript of a rough draft with revisions, corrections, and miscellaneous pages

Early typescript draft with corrections and revisions

Reviews and dust jacket

Someone to Love Me

Research material, 1980 -- 1986

Incomplete typescript of a rough draft with corrections and revisions

Early typescript draft with corrections and revisions

Incomplete final typescript with a page of revisions

Typescript pages with revisions and corrections

Typescript carbon

Typescript carbon

West Virginia Library Association, Oct. 1980. 65th annual conference

 

"All For One" Short story by Jeannette Eyerly for the Toronto Star Weekly, Nov. 27, 1954

The Seeing Summer. Appendix A: A playlet adapted by Beth Couch, draft

Someone to Love Me

Blue line proof with corrections

Final page proof

Page proofs with numbered lines and corrections

Page proofs with corrections

Page proofs with corrections

Printers notes.

Typescript draft with corrections

Something About the Author. Autobiography Series. Joyce Nakamura ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. Jeannette Hyde Eyerly, p. 87 -- 102

Something About the Author (cont.)

Early typescript draft with corrections and revision edited by daughter Susan

Typescript draft with corrections and revisions edited by daughter Jane

Typescript draft. 2 copies

Off print

Arnold, Virginia A. and Caarl B. Smith. Winning Moments. New York: Macmillan Publishing , 1990. Including partial text of novel The Seeing Summer, p. 412 -- 422

Autobiography written by Jeannette Hyde Eyerly. Published in Something About the Author, 1989

Christopher Awards. 1969 -- 1970. Press releases

Correspondence

Letters sent between Jeannette Eyerly, Lee Hadley and Annabelle Irwin, 1984 -- 1988.

1948 -- 1986. Including letters from Cloris Leachman and MacKinlay Kantor.

1987.

1988.

1989 -- 1992. Including a letter from Paul Corey.

Undated.

Family Diary by Jeannette Eyerly and Valeria Winkler Griffith [ca. 1958] Written under pseudonym Jeannette Griffith

Gift receipts from the University of Iowa and the University of Minnesota, 1970 -- 1971, 1988 -- 1989

Miscellaneous items

1957 -- 1987

1988 -- 1989

Polk County Mental Health Center Board, Inc. Annual meeting report, 1988

Remodeling Invoices, 1940 -- 41

Reviews and advertisements of books authored and co-authored by Jeanette Eyerly, 1968 -- 1988 and undated

Royalties and comissions vouchers dated 1969 -- 1970

Speeches

"The Anomaly of Adolescent Literature" written and given by Jeanette Eyerly, Nov. 20, 1979

"Luncheon Talk to Midwest Federation of Library Associations." Written and given by Jeanette Eyerly, Nov. 4, 1983

Where the Heart Is. Unpublished manuscript, 1945

Typescript

Chapters I -- V.

Chapters VI -- XIV

Chapters XV -- XXV

Writing Young Adult Novels: How to Write Stories that Today's Teens Want to Read by Hadley Irwin and Jeanette Eyerly, 1988. (Alternate titles during the writng process were The Write Way: A Novel Approach to Young Adult Literature and How to Write the Young Adult Novel)

Typescript with corrections and revisions

Typescript with corrections and revisions

 Typescript with corrections and revisions

Permissions for inclusions, 1986 -- 1987

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