Savery's Work Diaries

After Christmas in 1929 Savery was given an empty sturdily bound manuscript book in which she recorded information about Suffolk, family history, and--eventually--thousands of entries about what she was writing, had completed, or sold. This book, the fair copy that she wrote out by hand in 1973 for the Knight Library at the University of Oregon, and the digital facsimile edition of the original diary that I prepared in 2006, are the primary references about her work. She also kept a record of manuscript submissions and acceptances in four small memorandum books, and these are invaluable in tracing, especially, her unpublished works. These work records, together with a log book containing an accounting of income from her writing, are in the manuscript collection at the Knight Library, University of Oregon. Two of the digital facsimiles are in private hands, and there is a copy in the de Grummond Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi as well as the one in Oregon. The memorandum books were also scanned and indexed.

Original Work Diary, Fair Copy, and Memorandum Books:

Original Diary	Fair Copy	Green Memo Book	Tan and Blue Books	Red Memo Book

Facsimile, with annotation of contents: