Memoirs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: McCoy, Esther
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content: Esther McCoy papers
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content: Esther McCoy papers / Series 3: Personal Writings
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940s-1989
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mccoesth, Subseries 3.3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Folders are arranged in alphabetical order.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This subseries has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains autobiographical writings by Esther McCoy documenting various moments in her life. Many of these writings are in a short story format and were given a title by McCoy. Subjects covered in her memoirs, some of which were published, include her mother, childhood, and living in New York and Malibu. Also of note is the piece of writing titled "Geoff/Bo: Paris" describing her time in Paris in 1928 and her relationship with Geoffrey Eaton, and the story "Happy Birthday RMS" about working for architect R. M. Schindler. A folder of manuscripts about Theodore Dreiser contains drafts of three manuscripts relating to Helen and Theodore Dreiser and other literary figures McCoy knew in New York during the 1920s and 1930s. One titled manuscript about Dreiser, "Outward Journey" (1946-1947), can also be found in this subseries.