Cyril Kay-Scott's Blind Mice Manuscript
This collection contains a manuscript copy of Cyril Kay-Scott's Blind Mice. Comprised of five volumes, the manuscript is handwritten and includes rewrites throughout.
Dates
- undated
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (5 folders)
Abstract
This collection contains a manuscript copy of Cyril Kay-Scott's Blind Mice. Comprised of five volumes, the manuscript is handwritten and includes rewrites throughout.
Biographical/Historical Note
Cyril Kay-Scott (1879-1960) was born Frederick Creighton Wellman. After four children and two marriages, he eloped on December 26, 1913, to New York City with native Tennessean Evelyn Scott (born Elise Dunn, 1893-1963). Because he was still married, they changed their names and moved to Brazil, where they had a son named Creighton Jigg Scott in 1914. In 1919, the family returned to New York City. Cyril published Blind Mice and Evelyn published The Narrow House in 1921. In 1922, Owen Merton, a family friend, persuaded him to start a new career as a watercolorist. Then, after extensive travel throughout Europe, Cyril and Creighton returned to America in 1928, when he filed for divorce from Evelyn. Cyril moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and opened an art school. Between 1931 and 1934, he was director of the Denver Art Museum, and then he and Creighton worked on a Works Progress Administration project. Life is Too Short, the autobiography of Cyril Kay-Scott, was published in 1943.
Arrangement
Collection consists of five folders.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository