Hubert Creekmore Collection | General Special Collections

Born in Water Valley, Mississippi, Hiram Hubert Creekmore (1907-1966), gained notoriety as an author, poet, translator, editor, and literary critic. He spent much of his adult life in New York City, with sporadic moves back to Mississippi. His novels drew largely upon his early life in the Southern United States and often criticized the region’s history of racial discrimination. In addition, as a gay man living in the South, Creekmore faced what scholar Courtney Chartier described as the “forced heterosexuality” of the area, which is also reflected in his work

Read more about Hubert Creekmore's life as a writer, editor, translator, and literary critic.

The Creekmore Collection, donated by Mary Alice Welty White and Elizabeth Welty Thompson in 2010 and subsequently by Cynthia Walker Kennedy, is arranged into three series:1. professional/personal correspondence; 2. family correspondence; 3. ephemera (including a large collection of theatre programs collected by Creekmore).

This digital collection was made possible through the generous support of the Creekmore family. Additional physical items may be consulted on-site in the Department of Archives and Special Collections (archivesdept@olemiss.edu).

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Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (04 June 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters and local news. She states that Hiram Hubert Creekmore left for Oxford, Mississippi, to attend federal court. Eudora Welty is in New York over the summer to work as an assistant book reviewer for the New York Times. Includes envelope.
Letter from Hiram Hubert Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (03 June 1944)

Hiram Hubert Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Hiram writes from Jackson, Mississippi, on Creekmore and Creekmore Attorneys at Law letterhead to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters and World War II. Includes envelope.
Letter from Lehman Engel to Hubert Creekmore (03 June 1944)

Lehman Engel and Hubert Creekmore

Engel writes from the United States Naval Photographic Science Laboratory at the United States Naval Air Station in Washington, D.C. Engel discusses the weather and the possibility for Creekmore's transfer to Washington, D.C. Engel did a recording for Decca Records of Oscar Wilde's "The Selfish Giant" with Fredric March as narrator. Engel also mentions working with Hiram Sherman, Boyd Crawford, and James Gregory.
Letter from Ella to Mittie [Horton Creekmore?] (30 May 1944)

Ella

Ella writes from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to her "Aunt Mitt" regarding personal matters.
Letter from Wade H. Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (29 May 1944)

Wade H. Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Wade writes two letters from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters, local news, and World War II. He includes a stamp from Spain and discusses collecting stamps. Includes envelope.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (28 May 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters and local news. Includes envelope.
Letter from Hubert Creekmore to Mittie Horton Creekmore (23 May 1944)

Hubert Creekmore and Mittie Horton Creekmore

Hubert writes from the South Pacific to his parents in Jackson, Mississippi, regarding his experiences stationed in North Caldonia during World War II. Includes envelope.
Letter from Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty to Hubert Creekmore (23 May 1944)

Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Portland, Oregon, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters and Walter Andrew Welty's deployment. Includes envelope.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (21 May 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters. Includes envelope.
Letter from Hiram Hubert Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (20 May 1944)

Hiram Hubert Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Hiram writes from Jackson, Mississippi, on Creekmore and Creekmore Attorneys at Law letterhead to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters and World War II. Includes envelope.
Postcard from Lt. H. H. Creekmore to Mrs. Walter Welty (18 May 1944?)

Hubert Creekmore and Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty

Postcard from Hubert Creekmore to Mittie Creekmore Welty regarding his military service. The front of the postcard features the gymnasium at the University of Arizona at Tucson.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (14 May 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters. Includes envelope.
Letter from Hiram Hubert Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (12 May 1944)

Hiram Hubert Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Hiram writes from Jackson, Mississippi, on Creekmore and Creekmore Attorneys at Law letterhead to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters, World War II, and Lehman Engel. He discusses the death of Roddy Thompson, son of Harvey Thompson of Jackson, Mississippi. Includes envelope.
Letter from Hubert Creekmore to Hiram Hubert Creekmore (11 May 1944)

Hubert Creekmore and Hiram Hubert Creekmore

Hubert writes from the South Pacific to his parents in Jackson, Mississippi, regarding a letter he received from Lehman Engel and his desire to transfer to the United States Naval Photographic Science Laboratory at the United States Naval Air Station in Washington, D.C. He also discusses the possibility of transferring to become a movie writer and working under Frank Githens.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (09 May 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (08 May 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters and Eudora Welty's upcoming trip to New York City. Includes envelope.
Letter from Hubert Creekmore to Hiram Hubert and Mittie Horton Creekmore (05 May 1944)

Hubert Creekmore, Hiram Hubert Creekmore, and Mittie Horton Creekmore

Hubert writes from the South Pacific to his parents in Jackson, Mississippi, regarding his experiences stationed in North Caldonia during World War II. Includes envelope.
Letter from Lehman Engel to Hubert Creekmore (04 May 1944)

Lehman Engel and Hubert Creekmore

Engel writes from the United States Naval Photographic Science Laboratory at the United States Naval Air Station in Washington, D.C. regarding Frank Githens's and Commander Ayres's comments about Creekmore's transfer. Engel discusses weather and social life in Washington, D.C. and mentions Howard Cullman's nephew, Governor Herbert Lehman's daughter Hilda Lehman Wise, Peggy Wood, Mrs. Morgenthau, and Maron J. Simon. Engel reviews a concert with Maria Kurenko and Ania Dorfmann and discusses going to a party for Dorfmann thrown by British Royal Air Force Commodore Douglas Leslie Blackford. Includes envelope.
Letter from Einar C. Akerson to Hubert Creekmore (02 May 1944)

Einar C. Akerson and Hubert Creekmore

Akerson writes from the Long Beach Naval Ship Yard on Terminal Island in San Pedro, California, to Creekmore through the San Francisco, California, post. Creekmore is stationed in the South Pacific. He discusses his transfer to the base and their mutual friends who transferred to the East Coast: Coogan, Kelly, Robar, and W. G. Jones. He discusses leaving the WARDIAL with a friend named Guthrie. Includes envelope.
Letter from Hiram Hubert Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (02 May 1944)

Hiram Hubert Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Hiram writes from Jackson, Mississippi, on Creekmore and Creekmore Attorneys at Law letterhead to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters and World War II. He discusses John Roy Carlson's book, Under Cover. He mentions organizing by communists and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Includes envelope.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (30 April 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters, local news, and World War II. She mentions Eudora Welty and asks if New Directions Publishing Corporation has sent James Joyce's Stephen Hero. Includes envelope.
Postcard from [M. Doates] to [Hubert Creekmore] (undated)

M. Doates and Hubert Creekmore

Postcard from [M. Doates] to [Hubert Creekmore] regarding various news stories, clippings, etc. Front of card features a photograph of a soldier and family members reading mail.
Letter from Lehman Engel to Hubert Creekmore (24 April 1944)

Lehman Engel and Hubert Creekmore

Engel writes from the United States Naval Photographic Science Laboratory at the United States Naval Air Station in Washington, D.C. He gives Creekmore an update on the challenges of requesting that Creekmore transfer to the United States Naval Photographic Science Laboratory, but that Creekmore himself can request the transfer. Includes envelope.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (22 April 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters, local news, and World War II. Includes envelope.
Letter from Hiram Hubert Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (19 April 1944)

Hiram Hubert Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Hiram writes from Jackson, Mississippi, on Creekmore and Creekmore Attorneys at Law letterhead to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters and the progress of World War II. Includes envelope.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (16 April 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters and local news. Includes envelope.
Letter from F. P. Curtis to Hubert Creekmore (15 April 1944)

F. P. Curtis and Hubert Creekmore

Curtis writes from Gulfport Field, Mississippi, to Creekmore through the San Francisco, California, fleet post. Curtis plans to spend time in New Orleans, Louisiana, and plans to send Creekmore's folder to the literary editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper. Curtis gives an update on his experiences in World War II. Includes envelope.
Letter from Lehman Engel to Hubert Creekmore (13 April 1944)

Lehman Engel and Hubert Creekmore

Engel writes from the United States Naval Photographic Science Laboratory at the United States Naval Air Station in Washington, D.C. Engel discusses avoiding 'indoctrination school' and taking a correspondence course instead to become an officer. He speaks about people from Hollywood who are officers: Richard Carlson, Collier Young, Philo Higley, Frank Githens, Boyd Crawford, Hiram Sherman, Russell Hayden, Hugh MacMullen. Engel reports on the process of getting Creekmore transferred to Washington, D.C. He discusses life in the city; an upcoming production of 'Belle Helene' with Jarmila Novotna; Lillian Hellman's play The Searching Wind with Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dennis King, Dudley Digges, Montgomery Clift, and Barbara O'Neill; and spending time with the families of General Edwin Watson, [Felix?] Frankfurter, [Archibald?] MacLeish, and Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Includes envelope.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (09 April 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters and local news. Includes envelope.
Letter from Hubert Creekmore to Hiram Hubert and Mittie Horton Creekmore (08 April 1944)

Hubert Creekmore, Hiram Hubert Creekmore, and Mittie Horton Creekmore

Hubert writes from the South Pacific to his parents in Jackson, Mississippi, regarding his experiences stationed in North Caldonia during World War II. Includes envelope.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (02 April 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters and local news. She includes a newspaper clipping that discusses Colonel C. D. Jones, a young man from Jackson, Mississippi, who is missing in action in World War II. Includes envelope.
Letter from Hiram Hubert Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (31 March 1944)

Hiram Hubert Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Hiram writes from Jackson, Mississippi, on Creekmore and Creekmore Attorneys at Law letterhead to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters and a new tax on whiskey and black market good sales. Includes envelope.
Letter from Marchy Lee [Cowart?] to Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty (31 March 1944)

Mary Lee Cowart and Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty

Mary Lee writes from [Bristow?], Oklahoma, regarding the birth of Walter and Mittie Welty's daughter. She discusses personal matters and local news.
Letter from Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty to Hubert Creekmore (28 March 1944)

Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding the birth of her daughter, the photographs that Eudora Welty took, and other personal matters. Includes envelope.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (26 March 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters. Includes envelope.
Letter from Lehman Engel to Hubert Creekmore (21 March 1944)

Lehman Engel and Hubert Creekmore

Engel writes from the United States Naval Photographic Science Laboratory at the United States Naval Air Station in Washington, D.C. Engel updates Creekmore on his writing and filming, and he discusses working with actor Richard Carlson and actor Hiram Sherman. He discusses living in Washington, D.C., and a recent visit to Jackson, Mississippi, where he saw Eudora Welty. Engel also went to New York and saw the play, "The Cherry Orchard." Includes envelope
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (20 March 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters. She mentions that Eudora Welty will be taking pictures of Walter and Mittie Welty's daughter. Includes envelope.
Letter from Charlotte Capers to Hubert Creekmore (17 March 1944)

Charlotte Capers and Hubert Creekmore

Capers is the Acting Director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson, Mississippi. She writes to Creekmore to tell him about his niece, to discuss life in Jackson, to discuss business at the state archives, and to discuss where their friends fighting in World War II are located. She discusses visits with Jean Fly, Bessie Cook, Frances McWillie, Eudora Welty, Teet Seay, and Jules McNair. Includes envelope.
Letter from Hiram Hubert Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (17 March 1944)

Hiram Hubert Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Hiram writes from Jackson, Mississippi, on Creekmore and Creekmore Attorneys at Law letterhead to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters. Includes envelope.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (10 March 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding the birth of Walter and Mittie Welty's child and other personal matters. Includes envelope.
"Li'l Abner" comic strip (09 March 1944)

Al Capp

Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty mailed the comic strip from Jackson, Mississippi, to Hubert Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California. The "Li'l Abner" comic strip discusses a broken engagement between Li'l Abner and Appasionata Van Climax. Includes envelope.
Letter from Hiram Hubert Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (06 March 1944)

Hiram Hubert Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Hiram writes from Jackson, Mississippi, on Creekmore and Creekmore Attorneys at Law letterhead to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters. Includes envelope.
Letter from James F. Wooldridge to Hubert Creekmore (05 March 1944)

James F. Wooldridge and Hubert Creekmore

Wooldridge writes from United States Army Camp Butner in North Carolina to Creekmore through the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California. He recounts the previous six months of travel through Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Tennessee; Columbia, South Carolina; and North Carolina. He discusses the leave he took in January, during which he traveled from Raleigh to New York City. In New York, he saw "Carmen Jones" and John Van Druten's "The Voice of the Turtle." He ate at the Algonquin Hotel and stayed at the Prince George Hotel. Then Wooldridge traveled to Washington, D.C. before traveling home and staying with Eudora Welty and her family. Includes envelope.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (04 March 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters, local news, and Eudora Welty's upcoming visit. Includes envelope.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (27 February 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters and local news. Includes envelope.
Letter from Hiram Hubert Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (22 February 1944)

Hiram Hubert Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Hiram writes from Jackson, Mississippi, on Creekmore and Creekmore Attorneys at Law letterhead to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters, local news, and the progress of World War II. Includes envelope.
Letter from Dorothy Demourelle to Hubert Creekmore (20 February 1944)

Dorothy Demourelle and Hubert Creekmore

Vic Demourelle, Jr.'s wife, Dorothy, writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Hubert Creekmore, through the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California. Writing through Victory Mail or V-Mail, she discusses World War II; some friends who recently moved to Sarasota, Florida; and friends who live in Birmingham, Alabama. Includes envelope.
Letter from Mittie Horton Creekmore to Hubert Creekmore (19 February 1944)

Mittie Horton Creekmore and Hubert Creekmore

Mittie writes from Jackson, Mississippi, to Creekmore via the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California, regarding personal matters. She includes a card from Bill Faust, who asks for Hubert Creekmore's address. Includes envelope.

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