Caro Brown Papers

Title

Caro Brown Papers

Subject

Authors

Description

Newspaper articles and columns of 1955 Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist. Also includes clippings, autobiography, telegrams, and correspondence.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from Texas. Graduate of Texas Woman's University.

Contributor

Brown, Caro

Identifier

MSS 044

Extent


1 cubic foot

Accrual Method

Gift

Provenance

Sparks, Mary K.

Items in the Caro Brown Papers Collection

Telegram from John Ben Shepperd to Caro Brown, May 3, 1955

(Inserted in the size of a stamp, on the top left are the words. “This is a full-late Telegram or Cablegram unless its deferred character is indicted by a suitable symbol above or preceding the address.”)
WESTERN
UNION
W.P MARSHALL.…

Poem written to Caro Brown

Caro Brown both tall and lean
Who won an award it seems,
For something she wrote
Long, big and really great
We’re happy for you, that’s no
Mistake.
Your nice to work with day after day
And you do your job in a straight forward way.
Your…

Newsclipping of Caro Brown and other reporters, undated

[News clipping image of seven men and one women gathered around a desk]
THE PRESS—Reporters who covered the Sapet trial from the beginning to end are pictured at midnight Saturday as they waited for the jury to return its verdict. Sitting, left to…

Clipping of political cartoon featuring Caro Brown and Ken Towery, undated

The Pen Is Still Mightier
[Inserted is a cartoon image of the following. There are four cartoon people imaged, Ken Towery, Caro Brown, and two dead men laying. Both Ken and Caro are each standing on top of one of the two men lying dead while an arm…

Newsclipping of the "Angel Face" cartoon, September 22, 1955
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from Texas. Graduate of Texas Woman's University.

Letter to Caro Brown. Sender's name is illegible. Undated.

The New York Times
TIMES SQUARE NEW YORK 36 NY
LACKAWANNA 4-1000


LOS ANGELES BUREAU
LOS ANGELES TIMES BLDG.
LOS ANGELES, CAL.


[The following text is handwritten in black ink.]
Dear Caro-
Here’s the [cannot read]. Many, many thanks…

Letter from Caro Brown to Maurine (no last name), undated

Maurine
Just made these copies this morning, and thought I’d get them to you, instead of waiting until I complete the other work you asked for.
I have done a lot on both the situation as I found it when I moved to the area, and also am whipping…

Letter from Caro Brown to Maurine (no last name), undated

Dearest Maurine –
Please forgive me for not taking care of this matter long ago, but the truth is that this summer has been just too much for me. We have record-breaking heat, day after day, and even staying inside with aircondition doesn’t cure…

Letter to Caro Brown from Calvin Bowden, June 26, 1974

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
PROBATION OFFICE
June 26, 1974
POST OFFICE BOX 308
LAWRENCE E. MIGGINS BROWNSVILLE 78520
CHIEF PROBATION OFFICER POST OFFICE BOX 2623
POST OFFICE BOX 61207…