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  Book, "Abelard & Heloise", Ella Costillo Bennett, 1907

  Book, "Abelard & Heloise, The Love Letters, A Poetical Rendering" by Ella Costillo Bennett, San Francisco, California, Paul Elder & Company, 1907.

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  Essay, "Petty Pilfering," Ella Costillo Bennett, Los Angeles, California, undated

  Essay, "Petty Pilfering" by Ella Costillo Bennett, Los Angeles, California, undated.

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  Play, "The Dregs in the Cup", Ella Costillo Bennett, 1920(?) March 26

  Play, "The Dregs in the Cup" by Ella Costillo Bennett, 19 typed pages, Copyright No. 46466, 1920(?) March 26.

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  Play, "The First Tragedy", Ella Costillo Bennett, undated

  Play, "The First Tragedy" by Ella Costillo Bennett, published by Paul Elder, 37 typed pages, undated.

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  Poem, "Poverty My Guest," Ella Costillo Bennett, undated

  Poem, "Poverty, My Guest," by Ella Costillo Bennett, undated.

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  Reminiscences of My Childhood and Youth, The West Tennessee Historical Society Papers, 1958

  “Reminiscences of My Childhood and Youth” by Mary Costillo Nickolds in “The West Tennessee Historical Society Papers”, published by The West Tennessee Historical Society, Memphis, Tennessee, No. 12, 1958, pp.80-108.

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  Scrapbook, ephemera and writings, Mary L. Nichols, 1859-1947

  Scrapbook, ephemera and writings by Mary L. Nichols, 1859-1947.

  This scrapbook is a memoir of Ella Costillo Bennett's sister Mary L. Nichols, and contains material dated 1859-1947. Nichols maintained and annotated this scrapbook to preserve the family history of the Costillos and the Nichols for later generations of the family. She recorded births, events of individual's development, marriages, arid deaths in a wealth of colorful detail. Researchers can gather excellent material on the lifestyle of wealthy slaveholding Whites before the Civil War and the hardships these people suffered after the war in adapting to a less affluent way of life. She depicted Memphis as a thriving waterfront city lacking public and private schools in the decade of the 1850s. Memphis children could only receive lessons from their parents or for a few years from priests and sisters of the Catholic Church. Mary Nichols' visit to a Friars Point, Mississippi plantation is briefly documented in the scrapbook.

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  Scrapbook, poetry and writings, Ella Costillo Bennett, circa 1930

  Scrapbook of poems and writings by Ella Costillo Bennett, circa 1930.

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  Sermon by Elias Jefferson Jones, compiled by Ella Costillo Bennett, 1915.

  Sermon, "Elias Jefferson Jones Preaches His First Sermon in Darktown", by Elias Jefferson Jones, compiled by Ella Costillo Bennett, 23 typed pages, 1915.