Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The “Water Devil” manuscript contains one folder that holds the first fifty pages of the story entitled “The Water Devil: a Tale of Fact and Fiction,” as well as a note detailing the characters involved in the story. On the note, it is mentioned that the character that is the manager of the Watch Tower Inn in the story, Mr. Stephens, shares a resemblance to an actual manager of Watch Tower Inn, G.R. Stephenson. G.R. Stephenson was manager of Watch Tower Inn in 1918. The author of this...