Series I. Correspondence, 1924-1985

Many of the letters from 1935-1958 concern Pauline Young's futile attempts to get The Lofty Oak, a novel written by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, published. The manuscript of The Lofty Oak is available in the Alice Dunbar-Nelson papers (MSS 0113). Young corresponded for many years with Dodd, Mead & Company, which published a number of works by both Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Paul Laurence Dunbar. A number of the letters from the 1960s also concern a conflict between Young and Dodd, Mead & Company over the issue of copyrights and the payment of royalties.