The home and garden of internationally acclaimed author Eudora Welty

The Eudora Welty Foundation, Inc., held its organizational meeting in Jackson on April 13, 1999, Eudora Welty's ninetieth birthday. The Foundation was established to assist the Mississippi Department of Archives and History with the conservation of Welty archival material and with the preservation, maintenance, interpretation, and operation of the Welty House on Pinehurst Street in Jackson. From 1957 until her death in 2001, Miss Welty regularly donated manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs to the Department of Archives and History. In 1986, she deeded her Pinehurst Street home to the Department, subject to a life-estate interest. Today, in the wake of Miss Welty's death and in continuing gratitude for her generous gifts, the Foundation is even more committed to its original mission.

In particular, the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Department of Archives and History envision the Welty home as providing an active literary experience that will enhance the understanding of Welty's life and work for visitors from across America and around the world. The first project of the Welty Foundation has been underway for the past two years--the restoration of the property's garden, created and carefully maintained by Miss Welty's mother during her lifetime. The One Writer's Garden project is being directed by an archival gardener, who will continue to oversee the restoration plan she devised. Work on the house that Eudora Welty called home for seventy-six years and in which she wrote almost all of her fiction has now also commenced and will culminate in a literary house museum that helps to illuminate the creative process of one of this nation's finest writers.

The Eudora Welty Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt entity and welcomes contributions in support of the Eudora Welty House.

Donations can be sent to the following address:

Eudora Welty

Picture by Patchy Wheatley