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TULANE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
NEW ORLEANS. LOUISIANA 70118
HOWARD-TILTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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NATALIE SCOTT PAPERS 1855-1967 2007 pieces
Natalie Vivian Scott wss born on July IB, 1890 in Bristol, Virginia to Nathaniel Craves Scott and Martha Vivien Fauver. Mr. Scott subsequently brought his family to ^ew ur!lean? where he worked as a railroad contractor.
Miss Scott graduated from ^ewcomb College in 1909, an active a-id popular student. She continued her studies there, and earned a ^aster's degree in 1914, writing her thesis on Euripides, Seneca, find Corneille. She volunteered for Red Cross work during Ivor Id taar I, and went to France in 1917; for her servicerin a field hospital, she earned the Croix de Guerre, ^he returned to Mew ^rleens alter the war intent on becoming a journalist. She' wrote a light society column for the New Orleans States, but covered some hard news stories as well, such as the -trial of Andrew J. VJhitfield for murder in 1920. Through the twenties, she was friendly with the literary group that centered in the French Quarter, wbofe more notable memVers included V.'illiain Faulkner, Sherwood Anderson, Lyle Saxon and William Spratling. Hiss Scott was rather close to the last two. The collectirn includes a cmdclence letter frcm Saxon to Scott on the death of her brother toauman (1926)., and Sprat] ing?s portrait of John ^os Passos signed by both artist and subject. Hjss Scott end Spratling collaborated on a book in 1927, Old Plantation Houses in Louisiana. It was through Spratling that she became interested in Mexico, ^e had moved there first and had be[vun to revive and encourage work in silver iri Taxco. She nade her first trip there on horseback in the late twenties, and, attracted by the low cost of living, she moved to Taxco in 1930. Mile entertaining f constant stream of visitors and tenants, she organised a group radical clinic and a day nursery for children under school ape whose mothers worked and were unable to care :l or them during the day. With Viorld V.'ar il, Miss Scott rejoined the Red Crors, seeing horth Africa, Germany, and the Philippines. She continued to serve the Red Cross in Korea, returning home in 1947.to Taxco. She came to i?evj Orleans in 1950 to raise funds for a new dormitory for ^ewcoi b College and ?lulane. Thereafter until her death, she devoted her energy to the day nursery in Taxco: the buildif.g was named after her in har ho-or. ^i:e died cn November 18, 1957 and was buried in Taxco.