Manuscripts Department
         The Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                              #4400
                   WILLIE SNOW ETHRIDGE PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Willie Snow Ethridge was a columnist, author of
           volumes of humorous reminiscences and other works,
           recipient of honorary degrees from the University of
           Kentucky and Mercer University, resident of Chatham
           County, N.C., in the 1960s and 1970s, and wife of Mark
           Foster Ethridge, editor and publisher of the
           Louisville Courier-Journal, 1942-1962.
               Typescripts of unpublished book-length writings by
           Ethridge about her husband, Mark Foster Ethridge;
           newspaper clippings about Ethridge and her husband;
           items related to the Ethridges' housein Chatham
           County, N.C.; and about seventy-five letters to
           Ethridge, including fifty from her husband. 

Online Catalog Terms:
   Authors, American--20th century.
   Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.).
   Ethridge, Mark F. (Mark Foster), 1896-1981.
   Ethridge, Willie Snow, 1900-1983.
   Journalists--Kentucky--History--20th century.
   Newspaper editors--Kentucky--History--20th century.
   Women authors, American--20th century.

Size:  About 220 items (2.0 linear feet) 

Provenance:  Received from Mark Ethridge, Jr., Columbia, South
             Carolina, on behalf of himself, his brother David,
             and his sister Georgia Ethridge Schneider, in March
             and October 1984; and from Georgia Ethridge
             Schneider in August and September 1988.

Access:  No restrictions

Related Collection(s):     MARK FOSTER ETHRIDGE PAPERS (#3842). 
                           Mark Foster Ethridge was Willie Snow
                           Ethridge's husband.

Copyright:  Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
            their descendants, as stipulated by United States
            copyright law.

                            BOX LIST

Box 1.  Book-length Typescripts

   Folder 1.  "As I Lived and Breathed"
          2.  "Letter to Jenny"
          3.  "Side by Each"
          4a. "Mark's Time," title page-197
          4b. "Mark's Time," pp. 198-453
          5.  Untitled (cover labelled "Dup./Mark
                 Ethridge/Autobiog-Memoirs/Introd. and
                 Chap.I missing")
          6.  Untitled (chapters I-XXXII of an apparent
                 biography of Mark Ethridge)
          7.  Untitled (apparently same as previous item,
                 plus introduction and chapters XXXIII and
                 XXXIV)
          8.  "Cherubic Devil"

Box 2.  Other Material

   Folders 9-23.   About 260 items, 1937-1981, chiefly newspaper
                   clippings about Willie Snow Ethridge and her
                   writings, with some clippings about WSE and
                   her husband; blueprints and other items
                   relating to the Ethridge's house in Chatham
                   County, N.C.; and about seventy-five letters,
                   including about fifty from Mark Foster
                   Ethridge and brief friendly notes from Eleanor
                   Roosevelt (1948, 1950), Lady Byrd Johnson
                   (1965, 1966), and Richard Nixon (1972).