And This Is Eleanor Early!

Early's Travel Books

Early’s first travel book, And This is Boston!, which was first published in 1930 and came out in a second edition in 1938, became a best seller and started her on the road to writing travel books. She sent Houghton Mifflin the first two chapters of her proposed book, and under contract turned out the rest of the book in seven weeks. Also shown is the cover of Washington Holiday.

And This is Boston!

And This is Boston! (And Seashore and Country Too). Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1930, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Book jacket, Washington Holiday, 1955.

Box 16, folder 2, Eleanor Early papers (MS1995-005), John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

For New Orleans Holiday, Early lived in the spring of 1945 in Beauregard House. Glendy Culligan wrote in the New Orleans Times Picayune that “her book is a potpourri of history, legend, custom and personal impressions, narrated in a style that can only be called irreverent. Some Orleanians will enjoy a touch of debunking, and undoubtedly, some won’t.” The photograph from that time period is of Early at a table in the courtyard of Lafitte’s Bar on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Originally a blacksmith shop and one of the oldest structures in New Orleans, it survived the New Orleans fires of 1788 and 1794.

Early at Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop Bar, New Orleans, undated.

Box 14, folder 17, Eleanor Early papers (MS1995-005), John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Book jacket, New Orleans Holiday, 1947.

Box 16, folder 2, Eleanor Early papers (MS1995-005), John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

New Orleans Holiday coasters, undated.

Box 12, folder 35, Eleanor Early papers (MS1995-005), John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

In gathering material for the book New York Holiday, Early ate in most of the two hundred restaurants described and visited the Statue of Liberty half a dozen times.

Early at Rockefeller Center, New York City, undated.

Box 14, folder 23, Eleanor Early papers (MS1995-005), John J. Burns Library, Boston College. John H. Popper, photographer.

New York Holiday Art, undated.

Box 12, folder 41, Eleanor Early papers (MS1995-005), John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

New York Holiday Advertisements, circa 1950.

Box 12, folder 40, Eleanor Early papers (MS1995-005), John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Early Years
Early's Fiction