Tryon, Kate Allen

This collection includes newspaper articles, catalogs from a 1972 exhibit of Tryon's work, and a number of paintings by Tryon. Maine Women Writers Collection also holds a copy of the 2-volume Adventures in the vale of the white horse and 14 books by Richard Jefferies from Tryon's personal library. Jefferies titles are all rebound in green with gold-embossed lettering on the spine. A biographical sketch is found in the Sylvia Tryon papers.

This collection contains a biographical sketch of her mother, Kate Tryon; correspondence focusing on her mother and the Tryon gift to the college; a manuscript of her play, Christmas at Castlewood; published poetry; descriptions of her mother's paintings and Jefferies quotations to accompany them.