Although several members of Stephen Crane\u27s immediate family were writers, scholars know little about their work. Thomas A. Gullason
published writings by Crane\u27s parents and brother Jonathan Townley, but other items remain to be studied and possibly printed. Fortunately, Melvin H. Schoberlin preserved holographs and transcripts of documents by Crane\u27s sister, Agnes, and mother, Mary Helen, that further reveal the family\u27s interest in writing. Because the transcripts, which Schoberlin copied from materials once owned by Crane\u27s niece Edith, are unique to the Schoberlin Collection, researchers cannot verify their accuracy. As scholars examine the Collection, though, they will find that he worked meticulously and discovered independently much of the biographical material and many of the Crane stories and articles that have surfaced during the past thirty-five or so years
