Series 1. Printed articles by Hudgins,
ca. 1930s - 1980s. Boxes 5-7.
This series includes printed articles written by Mary Dengler
Hudgins under her name and various pseudonyms: Ida Philomen, Mary
Dean, Mary Dee, and Jane Dengler. These articles have been culled
from hundreds of duplicates kept by Hudgins in her research files
and are arranged in alphabetical order, the first and last titles
(quotation marks omitted) in each folder separated by a short
dash ( - ). Group III, Topical Manuscript Collections, may
contain more information on specific topics, and so may the
various music and general research files in Group II.
Box 5
A.& N. Patients Make Good Use Of Library - Another Look at a
Very Historical Word..."Rackensack."
Arkansan Introduced Father's Day - Arkansas Red Men.
"Arkansas Scrapbook" Covered a Wide Field - An Awakening.
Back From the Solomons - Book 'N Things.
Books 'N Things - Buckville Isn't With Us Any More--But Its
People Are.
The Bugle - Buttonhooks.
Camp Bonanza Boy Scout Paradise - Child Play.
Christmas Card Collectibles - Customs of the Caddos.
Days of the "Diamond Jo" - Discovery by an Arkansan.
A Dream - "The Drumming Evil.'"
ETV to Keep On The Air This Summer - Everybody Loved Papa
Schneider.
Fables and Pharmacies - From Mound Builders to Days of Gay
Nineties.
Garland County's Long Wait... - The Great Patti Sang Her
Farewell Program in Hot Springs.
Box 6
H of Hot Springs - Hot Springs: a Resort Surrounded By
Outdoor Recreation Facilities.
Hot Springs and Its Music - How Hot Springs Came To Be.
In Memoriam - It's Easy To Get Hooked By Button Hooks.
Jacob Fowler Was An Arkansas Traveler - The Junior League At
Work.
KTHS Started in Grand Fashion, Half Century Ago - KTHS to Re-
broadcast NBC Radio Drama on Spa Tonight.
Lagniappe for Librarians - Library Line-Up.
Library Line-Up in The Bugle... - Lourine White's Latest Is
Romantic but Down-to-earth.
A Magic Party - My First Impressions of Hot Springs.
"Nobody" Was A Well Known Somebody - Novaculite in Arkansas.
Oklahoma Press Has a Story Of Pourtales' Adventures - Ox
Teams Still Utilized.
Paeons For Petit Jean - Picking On The Pentagon.
Pictures Are A "Must" For Fact Writers - Protest Of Drys
Popularized Christmas Cards.
Quizzes From Bible Published - The Quapaws Are "Paid in
Full."
Racing In Hot Springs As It Was In The Days Of Old - Revived
Work Has a Good Story of "Arkansas Traveler."
Riding "A Christmas Hobby" - Rural Poverty Today.
Box 7
Saga Of Arkansas Shortlines - A Sunrise Breakfast For A May
Morning.
A Tale Of The Trail Of Tears - A Thumbnail History of Hot
Springs (Revised 1954).
A Thumbnail History of Hot Springs (Revised 1946) - Twenty-
Five Years of Community Theatre.
Under Three Flags - The University of Arkansas.
Vaudevillian Fay Templeton: Little Rock's Christmas Star -
Victory's Choice.
Want to Know Facts About Hot Springs? Milton Nobles Can Give
the Answers - Writing Christmas Greetings.
Yesterday In Baseball - Your Super Secretary - Without
Salary.
Series 2. Manuscript articles by
Hudgins, ca. 1930s - 1980s. Boxes 8-13.
This series contains articles, plays, and radio broadcasts
written by Mary Dengler Hudgins under her name and various
pseudonyms. The manuscripts are arranged in alphabetical order;
each manuscript and/or various manuscripts and drafts of the same
article are found in one folder. Original titles given by Hudgins are in
italics; those in Roman type have been supplied by the processor. Due to Hudgins's
practice of keeping numerous carbons of all her writings, it has
not been possible to create a complete series of her manuscript
articles. Other manuscripts may be found in Group II, Series 8,
General Research Files.
Box 8
Adeline Blakely (interview), 1937?
Adventures in Re-educating Muscles, n.d.
Albert Pike--An Unexpected Champion, n.d.
Alias--"Mr. Western Union," n.d.
Alice in Dixie Land, 1939.
Anecdotes, n.d.
Anniversary of birth of Adelina Patti, Feb 19,-.
Another Hot Springs Claimant--Don Filhiol, n.d.
Arkansas Bookshelf, n.d.
An Arkansas Chef Extraordinary, n.d.
Arkansas History, n.d.
Arkansas Permanent Exhibit of Magnet Cove Minerals, Sept 18,
1937.
Arkansas Post, n.d.
The Arkansas Traveler (Hymn to Ark.), n.d.
Arkansas Waters, n.d.
Arkansas's Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, n.d.
Army and Navy General Hospital, n.d.
Army and Navy General Hospital, Oct 11, 1953.
Back Home to the Three-Way Mill, n.d.
Bath houses in Hot Springs, n.d.
Bear, Arkansas, n.d.
Bearing Up, n.d.
The Book-Bug, n.d.
A cabin, n.d.
Call of the Land (Book Review), n.d.
A Carnegie Medal Winner and an Indian Princess, n.d.
Cash for the Quapaws, n.d.
Charles N. Rix--Hot Springs Citizen Extraordinary, n.d.
"Chow" Talk, n.d.
Christmas Feasting in Arkansas a la 1804, n.d.
Christmas in Hot Springs--One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago,
n.d.
The Circus in America, n.d.
Claims, April 5, 1981.
"Coin"--Harvey and Glass, n.d.
A Collector's Lucky Find, n.d.
A Community's Dream--That Came True, n.d.
Consumers Gas Company, n.d.
Cooperation and Conservation, n.d.
In darkness, n.d.
Box 9
Days of The Diamond Jo, n.d.
Description of Magnet Cove and Itinerary of Field Trip,
April 20, 1935.
The Diamond Jo Line, n.d.
Diamond Jo story, n.d.
Doctors Then and Now, n.d.
Early Arkansas Victuals, n.d.
Earthquakes--Physical and Otherwise, n.d.
Eastman--History, n.d.
Entertainment, n.d.
Epigrams, n.d.
Ernie, n.d.
Everybody likes to play games, n.d.
Everybody likes to play games, n.d.
Everybody likes to play games, n.d.
Everybody likes to play games, n.d.
Everybody likes to play games, n.d.
Fables and Pharmacies, n.d.
A Famous--Yet Unknown Arkansan, n.d.
Fashions in foods, n.d.
Fashions in Humor Change Too, n.d.
Father's day, 1937.
Fences, n.d.
A Few Dollars and a Little Imagination, n.d.
A Few Memories, n.d.
Fifty Years of Fellowships, n.d.
Filming Hot Springs, n.d.
The Fire of 1878, n.d.
The Fire of 1913, n.d.
First citizens and first families, n.d.
First Presbyterian Church, n.d.
Forest Farmer--Extraordinary, n.d.
Forestry and William L. Hall, n.d.
Box 10
Friday 13th, in Santa Claus Land, n.d.
From Horses to Horse-Power With the Murphy's, n.d.
The Garrison Chronicle, n.d.
Go to College Week skit, n.d.
Gold Stock on a Bear Market, n.d.
Gone the Way of the Steam Locomotive, n.d.
The Great Impersonation, n.d.
Greetings, 1940s.
Greetings, 1970s.
Greetings--Christmas--Commercial, n.d.
Guessing Games for the Group, n.d.
A Guide Par Excellence--Charles Cutter, n.d.
Opening of Hot Springs and North Mountain Roads for
Automobile Travel, July 9, 1920.
Hamp Williams--Citizen of America, n.d.
Harris Humphreys, n.d.
Health Facilities for Colored, n.d.
Helen Keller--and Arkansas, n.d.
Helen Keller--And Her Frequent Arkansas Visits, n.d.
Series 3. Manuscript articles by other
authors, 1922-1979. Boxes 14-17.
This series includes articles, stories, and poetry by various
authors. The manuscripts are listed alphabetically by author and
then by title if there are several manuscripts by the same
author. The only exceptions are boxes 15 and 16 which contain
exclusively the manuscripts of Mrs. Mabel C. Stenger of Norman,
Oklahoma, who used the pseudonyms Christine, M. Christine,
Christina, Grace Edwards, Mrs. M. Napier, and El Turko. Original
titles given by the author are in italics; titles in Roman type have been
supplied by the processor.
Box 14
Adams, Julie, The Architecture of Bathhouse Row, Hot
Springs, Arkansas, May 15, 1979.
Alcorn, Maude Barton, Told by: William Johnson Barton to
Maude Barton Alcorn, n.d.
Bancroft, Carroll Douglass, My First Impressions of Hot
Springs, n.d.
Bancroft, Carroll Douglas, My First Impressions of Hot
Springs (Slightly edited by his nephew Robert Douglass Bancroft
of Tucson, Arizona and by Mary D. Hudgins, Hot Springs,
Arkansas), n.d.
Bancroft, Carroll Douglass, A Sketch of Hot Springs in the
Late Eighteen-Seventies, 1922.
Belding, Amelia S., The Belding and Bassett Families Through
the Centuries, June 15, 1964.
Bishop, Marilyn M., First Methodist Church, n.d.
Blankenship, James E., [short autobiography], Oct 20, 1959.
Buhlis, Richard, The Famous Magnet Cove, n.d.
Cline, Inez E., Who Were the First Settlers in--Bucktown,
U.S.A., n.d.
Covington, Robert Daniel, The Grand Opera House of Hot
Springs, Arkansas 1882 - 1904, May 7, 1974.
Crockett, Mrs. Mary D., Indian Trails and Old Spots in
Arkansas, n.d.
Eisele, Martin A., Historical Sketch of the Army and Navy
Hospital, n.d.
Gabriel, Helen and Edith Armenia, editors, Palm St. News,
July 29, 1933.
Series 4. Manuscript speeches by
Hudgins, 1951-1953. Box 17.
This series contains manuscript speeches by Mary Dengler Hudgins.
They are filed alphabetically according to title. Original titles
given by Hudgins in italics; titles in Roman type have been supplied by the
processor.
Additional information about speeches may be found in Group II, Series 7,
Box 35, which has indexes to talks given by Hudgins.
Box 17 (cont.)
Home Demonstration in Garland County, n.d.
Indian artifacts, n.d.
Sarah Elizabeth Van Patten Ellsworth, 1951 or 1952.
Series 5. Manuscript speeches by other
authors, 1938-1964. Box 17.
This series contains manuscript speeches by other authors. They
are filed in alphabetical order according to author. Original
titles are in italics; titles in Roman type have
been supplied by the processor.
Box 17 (cont.)
Foizie, Mrs. E. W., Exploration of the Mississippi by the
French explorers which we uncovered during our recent trip to
Canada, Nov 21, 1961.
Harrison, J.J., Address before the Hendrix Alumni
Association, Nov 10, 1938.
Morris, Bishop John B., Golden Jubilee address at St.
Vincent's Infirmary, May 24, 1938.
Scully, F. J., Cooperation is the Keynote to the Prosperity
of Hot Springs, Apr 28, 1964.
Stenger, Mrs. Mabel C., Sustaining Mind and Body, n.d.