In Boxes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 is a selection of Miss Lincoln's published and unpublished writings which form Series 4. There is a particularly good selection of short stories, articles, and essays published in American magazines over a span of thirty years. The material was removed from the periodicals and filed chronologically, 1935-1962. Well represented are writings from the New Yorker, Harper's, and Vogue. The fiction is often light and sentimental, conforming to the standards of popular taste of the period. In non-fiction writings, Miss Lincoln often drew on her role of wife, mother, homemaker for titles such as "What Makes a Happy Marriage?," "No Regrets," and "Making an Asset of Your Shortcomings".

Also in Series 4 is a considerable number of typescript pages, most of which are not totally organized. There are drafts of short stories, articles, poems, and parts of novels. Unfortunately, very little of this is complete. Where possible, titled pieces have been separated and some correct pagination has been restored. The incomplete drafts are not filed in any particular order. It is necessary to scan the Container List for titles. Typescript pages of poetry are filed in six sections within Box 4. Titles of poems appear on the folders but are not listed in the Container List.

Miss Lincoln's novels represented in this series include February Hill, Celia Amberly, A Private Disgrace, and Teresa. Here are clippings, reviews, and some fan mail. A complete manuscript (with corrections) of A Private Disgrace is filed in the Writings Series. It's original title was "Miss Borden of Maplecroft."

In Boxes 5, 6, and 7 are drafts and other material relating to Miss Lincoln's last project, Teresa: A Woman. Miss Lincoln spent ten years researching and writing the biographical study of the Spanish mystic. She recalled that she read every relevant book in the British Museum. In a lengthy, unpublished preface contained in Series 4, she described her total absorption and "sense of kinship" with her subject. She reworked the manuscript several times, and there are at least two drafts of Teresa included in the collection. The draft pages with corrections are mostly unorganized and out-of-sequence.

At the time of her death in 1981, Miss Lincoln left an uncorrected, final draft of Teresa: A Woman. Her husband, Victor Lowe, assumed the job of editing the manuscript for publication. He was assisted by two professors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook: Elias Rivers, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature and Antonio de Nicol s, Department of Philosophy. Other items in Series 4 reflect Victor Lowe's efforts to finalize the work. There are invoices, business receipts, and correspondence with Rivers, de Nicol s, and SUNY Press.