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Contained in this collection are documents related to the life and career of Ernestine Evans, a journalist, critic and literary agent active in the early-to-mid-twentieth century. Personal and professional correspondence and a wide variety of literary manuscripts, likely accumulated during her long career as a literary agent, constitute the bulk of this collection. In addition, the collection includes photographs, drawings and other visual material. Also represented in this collection are clippings of Evans' and other journalists' work; printed material, both periodicals and books; personal documents (including address books, contact lists and journals), financial documents and medical documents.

This collection documents the career of Vera Connolly, journalist, editor, and fiction author, through her drafts, notes, and correspondence. Connolly's articles, published in popular magazines such as Good Housekeeping,Colliers, and Woman's Day, ranged in topic from financial advice for married women to juvenile delinquency, prison reform, sweatshops, and poor living conditions on Indian reservations.