Children's Literature Research Collection
113 Elmer L. Andersen Library
University of Minnesota
222 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Children's Literature
Research Collection
113 Elmer L. Andersen Library
University of Minnesota
222 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Summary Information
Collection Number: CLRC0132
Collection Size: 14.56 linear ft. (Manuscript and other material)
Abstract/Notes: The Nancy Garden collection comprises manuscript production materials for 17 titles, chiefly corrected typescripts and corrected typescript carbons (many of each with front matter), notes, correspondence with editors, and some research materials and clippings. Several titles are additionally presented in galley and page proof states. The material is arranged by title with folder level control.
In 1985, Nancy Garden placed manuscript production materials from three titles, Annie on My Mind, Watersmeet, The Kid's Code and Cipher Book in the Kerlan Collection. In 1990, two groups of Garden titles were added to the Kerlan, including Mystery of the Secret Marks, Mystery of the Midnight Menace, Prisoner of Vampires followed by The Door Between and Peace, O River. Since then, the Garden manuscript collection has grown steadily.
Collection is non-circulating, in-house use only.
This collection is protected by the Copyright law of the United States (Titles 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all the necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials.
This collection was processed with financial assistance from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical/Historical Notes
Nancy Garden was born in Boston, May 15, 1938. Because her family moved a great deal, she attended elementary schools in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. She studied at Columbia University where she earned her M.F.A. (1961) and M.A. (1962). After working in theater and teaching at Hunter College, she began working as an editor for a commercial editing firm, then for Scholastic magazines and Houghton Mifflin while starting her career as an author of young adult books. Her first titles were mostly nonfiction, but soon she began focusing on fiction of several kinds including mystery, fantasy, and young adult, which led to her involvement with book censorship issues. Annie on My Mind became the subject of a federal court case in 1995 and was eventually returned to the school library shelves. Since then, Garden has written about and continued to advocate against book censorship. She has won the ALA Best Books, ALA Best of the Best, and ALA Best Books for Young Adults, among other awards.
Biographical Source:
Scope and Content Notes
The Nancy Garden collection comprises manuscript production materials for 17 titles, chiefly corrected typescripts and corrected typescript carbons, notes, notes from editors and correspondence from editors, and some research materials and clippings. Several titles are additionally presented in page proof and galley states. The material is arranged by title with folder level control.
See attached inventory for folder and box contents.
Collection Inventory
Annie on My Mind, 1982
-Typescript, corrected,
244 p.
(M.F. 2129, folders 1-6)
-Typescript, corrected,
250 p.
(M.F. 2129, folders 6-11)
-Typescript, corrected,
292 p.
(M.F. 2129, folders 11-17)
-Typescript, corrected partial photocopy,
284 p.
(M.F. 1107, folders 25-30)
-Front matter, corrected paste up,
1 p.
(M.F. 2129, folder 1)
-Front matter, corrected typescript,
8 p.
(M.F. 2199, folder 1, 6)
-Publisher's dummy with boards and jacket,
240 p.
(M.F. 2129, folder 18)
-Uncorrected proof for review, with jacket
(M.F. 2130, folder 24)
-Jacket,
1
(M.F. 2130, folder 24)
-Jacket photocopy (sepia),
1
(M.F. 2130, folder 24)
The Door Between, 1987
-Holograph and typescript, corrected,
100 p.
(M.F. 1581, folders 17-18)
-Holograph and typescript, corrected,
80 p.
(M.F. 1581, folders 19-20)
-Typescript, corrected,
237 p.
(M.F. 1580, folders 1-5)
-Typescript, corrected,
218 p.
(M.F. 1580, folders 6-10)
-Typescript, corrected,
222 p.
(M.F. 1581, folders 21-25)
-Typescript, corrected,
267 p.
(M.F. 1581, folders 29-34)
-Typescript, corrected,
274 p.
(M.F. 2079, folders 35-40)
-Typescript, corrected,
283 p.
(M.F. 2079, folders 42-47)
-Typescript, corrected,
292 p.
(M.F. 2082, folders 55-60)
-Typescript, corrected,
226 p.
(M.F. 2082, folders 61-65)
-Typescript, corrected (scattered pages),
66 p.
(M.F. 2079, folder 41; M.F. 2082, folder 60)
-Typescript, corrected carbon,
282 p.
(M.F. 2082, folders 49-54)
-Typescript, corrected photocopy,
258 p.
(M.F. 1580, folders 11-15)
-Front matter,
7 p.
(M.F. 1580, folder 16)
-Correspondence,
5 p.
(M.F. 1581, folder 26)
-Notes,
22 p.
(M.F 1581, folder 27; M.F. 1581, folder 28)
-Research material,
1 p.
(M.F. 1581, folder 28)
Dove and Sword, 1995
-Typescript,
512 p.
(M.F. 2236, folders 6-13)
-Typescript, corrected,
6 p.
(M.F. 2236, folder 1)
-Typescript, corrected,
47 p.
(M.F. 2236, folder 14)
-Typescript, corrected,
309 p.
(M.F. 2236-2237, folders 15-20)
-Typescript, corrected
372 p.
(M.F. 2237, folders 20-27)
-Typescript, corrected,
404 p.
(M.F. 2237-2238, folders 27-35)
-Typescript, corrected,
419 p.
(M.F. 2238, folders 35-42)
-Typescript, corrected,
362 p.
(M.F. 2238-2239, folders 43-50)
-Typescript, corrected,
417 p.
(M.F. 2239, folders 50-57)
-Typescript, corrected,
343 p.
(M.F. 2239-2240, folders 57-63)
-Typescript, corrected,
415 p.
(M.F. 2240, folder 63-70)
-Typescript, corrected,
235 p.
(M.F. 2249, folders 94-100)
-Typescript, corrected photocopy,
333 p.
(M.F. 2240-2241, folders 70-76)
-Front matter,
15 p.
(M.F. 249, folder 94)
-Galley proof, corrected,
256 p.
(M.F. 2241, folders 77-82)
-Galley proof, corrected ("2nd pass"),
254 p.
(M.F. 2249, folders 84-88)
-Galley proof, corrected ("1st pass"),
235 p.
(M.F. 2249, folders 89-93)
-Page proof, corrected,
254 p.
(M.F. 2236, 2240, folders 1-5, 70)
-Correspondence,
12 p.
(M.F. 2240, 2241, folders 70, 82)
-Notes,
41 p.
(M.F. 2241, folders 82, 83)
-Research material,
10 p.
(M.F. 2240, folder 70)
-Illustration, photocopy with notes,
2
(M.F. 2241, folder 83)
-Maps,
9 p.
(M.F. 2241, folder 82)
Favorite Tales From Grimm, 1982
-Typescript, corrected,
262 p.
(M.F. 1873, folders 1-5)
-Typescript, corrected,
159 p.
(M.F. 1873, folders 6-9)
-Typescript, corrected,
259 p.
(M.F. 1873, folders 10-14)
-Correspondence,
3 p.
(M.F. 1873, folders 1, 3)
-Notes,
7 p.
(M.F. 1873, folder 6)
-Research material,
4 p.
(M.F. 1873, folder 6)
Fours Crossing, 1981
-Galley proof, corrected,
71 p.
Good Moon Rising, 1996
-Holograph,
72 p.
(M.F. 2232, folder 1)
-Holograph and typescript, corrected,
315 p.
(M.F. 2232, folder 2-7)
-Holograph and typescript, corrected,
294 p.
(M.F. 2233, folder 19-24)
-Holograph and typescript, corrected,
20 p.
(M.F. 2234, folders 31)
-Typescript,
294 p.
(M.F. 2232, folders 7-12)
-Typescript, corrected,
297 p.
(M.F. 2232-2233, folders 13-18)
-Typescript, corrected,
82 p.
(M.F. 2233, folders 24-26)
-Typescript, corrected,
299 p.
(M.F. 2234, folders 31-36)
-Typescript, corrected ("Corrected final draft"),
297 p.
(M.F. 2234, folders 37-42)
-Typescript, corrected ("Next to final draft"),
294 p.
(M.F. 2234-2235, folders 43-48)
-Typescript, corrected,
293 p.
(M.F. 2235, folders 49-54)
-Typescript, corrected,
298 p.
(M.F. 2250, folders 70-76)
-Typescript, corrected photocopy,
305 p.
(M.F. 2235, folders 55-60)
-Page proof, corrected,
241 p.
(M.F. 2233, folders 26-30)
-Page proof, corrected,
239 p.
(M.F. 2250, folders 61-65)
-Page proof, corrected,
238 p.
(M.F. 2250, folders 65-70)
-Correspondence,
5 p.
(M.F. 2235, folder 48)
-Notes,
3 p.
(M.F. 2234, folder 37)
The Kid's Code and Cipher Book, 1981
-Holograph and typescript, corrected,
202 p.
(M.F. 1107, folders 1-4)
-Front matter,
1 p.
(M.F. 1107, folder 1)
Lark in the Morning, 1991
-Typescript, corrected,
261 p.
(M.F. 1874, folders 1-5)
-Typescript, corrected,
200 p.
(M.F. 1874, folders 6-10)
-Typescript, corrected,
80 p.
(M.F. 1875, folders 20-21)
-Typescript, corrected
257 p.
(M.F. 1875, folders 22-26)
-Typescript, corrected photocopy,
267 p.
(M.F. 1874, folders 11-16)
-Typescript, corrected photocopy,
249 p.
(M.F. 1875, folder 27-31)
-Galley proof, corrected photocopy,
155 p.
(M.F. 1875, folders 17-19)
-Galley proof, corrected photocopy,
154 p.
(M.F. 1880, folders 37-39)
-Page proof, corrected
232 p.
(M.F. 1880, folders 32-36)
-Notes,
16 p.
(M.F. 1874, folder 6; 1875, folder 20)
-Research material,
1 p.
(M.F. 1874, folder 6)
My Sister the Vampire, 1992
-Typescript,
189 p.
(M.F. 1881, folders 19-22)
-Typescript, corrected ("Draft #1"),
175 p.
(M.F. 1880, folders 3-6)
-Typescript, corrected ("Draft #2"),
131 p.
(M.F. 1880, folders 7-10)
-Typescript, corrected ("Draft #3"),
132 p.
(M.F. 1881, folders 11-14)
-Typescript, corrected,
182 p.
(M.F. 1881, folders 23-26)
-Typescript, corrected photocopy,
102 p.
(M.F. 1880, folders 1-2)
-Typescript, corrected photocopy,
186 p.
(M.F. 1881, folder 15-18)
-Galley proof, corrected photocopy,
154 p.
(M.F. 1880, folders 37-39)
-Page proof, corrected
232 p.
(M.F. 1880, folders 32-36)
-Notes,
12 p.
(M.F. 1881, folder 11, 19)
Mystery of the Kidnapped Kidnapper, 1994
-Typescript, corrected,
162 p.
(M.F. 2120, folders 1-4)
-Typescript, corrected,
162 p.
(M.F. 2120, folders 5-8)
-Typescript, corrected,
169 p.
(M.F. 2120, folders 9-12)
-Typescript, corrected ("Draft 4"),
126 p.
(M.F. 2120, folders 13-16)
-Typescript, corrected photocopy,
171 p.
(M.F. 2121, folders 17-20)
-Typescript, corrected,
165 p.
(M.F. 2121, folder 21-24)
-Correspondence,
5 p.
(M.F. 2121, folders 21, 25)
-Notes,
57 p.
(M.F. 2120, folders 5, 13; M.F. 2121, folders 25, 26)
-Research materials,
36 p.
(M.F. 2121, folder 25)
Mystery of the Midnight Menace, 1988
-Typescript, corrected,
185 p.
(M.F. 1578, folders 2-5)
-Typescript, corrected,
115 p.
(M.F. 1578, folders 6-8)
-Typescript, corrected,
180 p.
(M.F. 1578, folders 9-12)
-Front matter,
6 p.
(M.F. 1578, folder 1)
Mystery of the Night Raiders, 1987
-Typescript, corrected photocopy,
175 p.
(M.F. 1873, folders 1-4)
Mystery of the Secret Marks, 1989
-Typescript, corrected,
211 p.
(M.F. 1578, folders 2-5)
-Typescript, corrected,
212 p.
(M.F. 1580, folders 6-9)
-Front matter,
10 p.
(M.F. 1578, folder 1)
-Correspondence,
1 p.
(M.F. 1580, folder 10)
-Research material,
2 p.
(M.F. 1580, folder 10)
The Mystery of the Watchful Witches, 1995
-Typescript, corrected,
178 p.
(M.F. 2112, folders 1-4)
-Typescript, corrected,
173 p.
(M.F. 2112, folders 4-8)
-Typescript, corrected,
72 p.
(M.F. 2112, folders 8-9)
-Typescript, corrected,
171 p.
(M.F. 2112, folders 12-15)
-Typescript, corrected carbon ("Proposal"),
3 p.
(M.F. 2112, folder 10)
-Typescript, corrected photocopy,
183 p.
(M.F. 2112, folders 15-19)
-Typescript, corrected ("Outline"),
37 p.
(M.F. 2112, folders 9-10)
-Holograph and typescript, corrected ("Outline, 1st version"),
22 p.
(M.F. 2112, folder 10)
-Typescript, corrected ("Outline, 2nd draft"),
26 p.
(M.F. 2112, folder10-11)
-Correspondence,
3 p.
(M.F. 2112, folders 11, 12, 19)
-Notes,
40 p.
(M.F. 2112, folders 4, 11, 31)
-Clippings,
1 p.
(M.F. 2112, folder 11)
Peace, O River, 1986
-Typescript, corrected,
236 p.
(M.F. 1574, folders 1-5)
-Typescript, corrected,
256 p.
(M.F. 1574, folders 6-10)
-Typescript, corrected,
264 p.
(M.F. 1574, folders 11-15)
-Typescript, corrected,
268 p.
(M.F. 2083, folders 29-34)
-Typescript, corrected,
305 p.
(M.F. 2083, folders 35-41)
-Typescript, corrected photocopy,
289 p.
(M.F. 1575, folder 16-21)
-Typescript, corrected photocopy,
268 p.
(M.F. 2083, folders 23-28)
-Typescript, calendar and map,
7 p.
(M.F. 1575, folder 22)
-Front matter,
7 p.
(M.F. 2083, folder 34)
-Notes,
5 p.
(M.F. 2083, folder 41)
Prisoner of Vampires, 1984
-Typescript, corrected,
153 p.
(M.F. 1575, folders 1-3)
-Typescript, corrected,
252 p.
(M.F. 1575, folders 4-8)
-Typescript, corrected,
204 p.
(M.F. 1174, folders 9-12)
-Front matter,
7 p.
(M.F. 1174, folder 12)
-Galley proof, corrected,
99 p.
(M.F. 1174, folder 13-14)
-Galley proof, corrected,
111 p.
(M.F. 1174, folders 15-17)
Watersmeet, 1983
-Typescript, partial photocopy, corrected,
234 p.
(M.F. 2180, folders 1-5)
-Typescript, partial photocopy, corrected,
33 p.
(M. F. 2180, folders 5-6)
-Typescript, corrected,
226 p.
(M.F. 2180, folders 6-10)
-Front matter,
2 p.
(M.F. 2180, folder 1)
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