Letters (19) from Elsie Singmaster, Gettysburg, to Edward Wageknecht, 1945-1952 and undated autograph manuscripts and typescripts signed.

Asking that he use her story "The Battleground" rather than "November the Nineteenth" in an anthology; recalling William Eleazar Barton's (1861-1930) visits to Gettysburg while he was working on Lincoln at Gettysburg (1930), and their visit with a Mrs. Bilheimer, who had seen Lincoln speak; thanking him for praise of her book I speak for Thaddeus Stevens(1947); listing her three good fortunes as a writer: coming from a Pennsylvania German family steeped in storytelling, finding "stories in every fence corner" when she came to live at Gettysburg, and sitting in a room listening to someone who had loved Thaddeus Stevens; commenting on reviews of her book on Stevens; discussing her project to write a book on the Susquehanna River, with photographs by Robert McFarland, for the "River Series"; remembering being interviewed by Esther Forbes (1891-1967); offering contributions to various anthologies and suggesting possible topics for future anthologies--stories about black Americans, about great American engineers, and about witches(to follow his anthology of ghost stories); discussing a new work about a Lutheran in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, for a series called "They asked for Freedom"; praising the book Cry the Beloved Country ; sending a story called "Walk the Long Years," by Frederic Brush (4-page typescript enclosed); and mentioning her famous neighbors (including Tom Wolfe's relatives and General Eisenhower).