ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202

LYDIA O. JACKSON PAPERS

COLLECTION: OGL#987 (addition)

DATES:1931-1985

SIZE: 1.25 linear feet

INTRODUCTION

ACQUISITION: This addition to the Lydia O. Jackson Papers were deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Elizabeth Fagerholt of Grafton, North Dakota, on March 8, 1985 (Acc.#85-1356).

ACCESS: Available for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The addition to the Lydia Jackson Papers includes three types of materials. Jackson was a member of Epsilon Sigma Omicron, an educational sorority and project of the Federation of Women's Clubs whose purpose was to foster and encourage the literary spirit among club women. As a member, Jackson was enrolled in reading courses administered by the Extension Division of the University of North Dakota. The addition contains her book reviews and critiques of those reviews by Beatrice Johnstone, administrator of the courses written in the late 1940's and early 1950's.

Also included in correspondence from members of the Fargo and Medora branches of the National League of American Pen Women dating primarily from 1966 - 1971. The letters relate concerns about the organization and describe the publication and type of poetry to be included in Jackson' a booklet of poems, A Peace Garden of Verses. There are also post-cards from 1940 - 1956 regarding the publication of her poetry and her acceptance as Regent of North Dakota for the Midwest Federation of Chapparel Poets in the mid-1940's.

Lastly, the addition consists of seven tapes which are not transcribed. They are interviews of Jackson or her husband, Arthur Jackson. One tape describes the botulism outbreak in Grafton in the early 1930's. Two other tapes are interviews by the North Dakota Bi-centennial Committee.

The addition to the collection was deposited Elizabeth Fagerholt, March 8, 1985.

BOX AND FOLDER LISTING

BOX 15

Folder 1. North Dakota Branch of the National League of American Pen Women 1966-1968

       2. Sister Ione Hilger - January, 1966 - January, 1970

       3. Stella Hochnke - January, 1967 - March, 1968

       4. Nora Mohberg - July, 1967 - April, 1971

       5. Ruth Ottinger - January, 1968 - March, 1968

       6. Prudence Sand - May, 1967 - April, 1968

       7. Grace Watkins - October, 1966 - February, 1971

       8. Clarice Ressler - April, 1967 - July, 1971

       9. Rose Sackett - January, 1967 - April, 1968

      10. Round Robin Correspondents - 1944

      11. Flozari Rockwood - Printing of Rhymes for All Seasons, 1943

      12. Epsilon Sigma Omicron, Theta Chapter - History and Biographical Sketches 
          1952

      13. Epsilon Sigma Omicron - Members - 1949 - 1951; 1967 - 1971

      14. Epsilon Sigma Omicron Correspondence - 1949 - 1953; 1967-1971

      15. Epsilon Sigma Omicron - Course Work

      16. Epsilon Sigma Omicron - Book Reviews

      17. Epsilon Sigma Omicron - Book Review Notebooks

      18. Miscellaneous Correspondence - 1943 - 1949; 1967

      19. Postcards - 1940 - 1962

      20. Tapes-Interviews with the Jacksons - 1976 - 1983 
          a. Interview of Arthur and Lydia Jackson by North Dakota Bicentennial 
             Committee, 1976 (two tapes) 
          b. Botulism in Grafton-1931; Arthur Jackson, Warren Evans, and Bill Green, 
             February 12, 1985 
          c. Achievement Day, 1976 and About Lydia Jackson, by Roberta Burger, 
             grand-daughter 
          d. Art and Lydia Jackson and Family; Visit with Warren Evans at Farm Home, 
             April 13, 1983 
          e. Art Jackson and Warren Evans - Discussion about Horses - August 9, 1983 
          f. Mother and Father

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