Author, Artist. Dr. Frederick Creighton Wellman was a physician of tropical medicine, scientist, administrator, artist, educator, writer, and engineer. Writing under the pen names Cyril Kay-Scott and Richard Irving Carson, Wellman composed plays, novels, short stories, and poems. In 1896, he and his first wife Lydia Isely traveled to Portuguese West Africa, now Angola, for medical missionary position at a British post. By 1911, they were divorced; Lydia and their four children had returned to the United States; and he had married a concert pianist, Edna Willis. While working in Honduras in 1912, he befriended Seely Dunn. Using the name “Dr. Creighton Wellman”, he was recognized nationally after his landmark article was published in the “American Journal of Epidemiology” October, 1912. The following year while serving as Dean of the School of Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, he was introduced to Dunn’s beautiful twenty-year-old daughter Elsie. Shortly afterward an intimate relationship began between the two. On December 26, 1913, the couple “eloped” to New York City, and took the aliases of “Cyril Kay-Scott and Evelyn Scott”. Since Elsie was a minor, who was taken across state lines by an older man, her father and his wife were going to involved law enforcement. Shortly after arriving in New York, the couple sailed to London settling as husband and wife in Bloomsbury. When realizing that they were about to be recognized, he made arrangements with the British Museum for the noted Dr. Wellman to collect entomological specimens in South America; that gave an escape from England. Arriving in Brazil, he was unable to fulfill his assignment as using his credentials with the surname “Wellman” would betray his past. This forced him to take a bookkeeping position at a Singer Sewing Machine store. At this point he wrote his novel “Blind Mice”, which was not released for publication until 1921. Since he could speak Portuguese, he was promoted to auditor and then superintendent, requiring the couple to relocate to Natal. There, after a very difficult birth, the couple's only child, Creighton “Jigg” Scott was born October 26, 1914. Wellman moved the family, which now included his mother-in-law, to Cercadinho, Brazil, to a sheep ranch in an isolated region. Here the couple began to write both poetry and prose, which were being published in the United States. In 1917 they abandoned the ranch and moved to Villa Nova where he took a position with the International Ore Corporation. In 1919 the family returned to New York seeking medical treatment for Evelyn. The family lived in Greenwich Village for the next two years and took advantage of the opportunity to network with other writers. The couple continued to write but their personal relationship was failing causing a separation. His novels received more critical acclaim rather than commercial success causing monetary woes and leading to stress, hence to resolve problems, him reunited with his unfaithful Evelyn. In Bermuda in 1922, the couple had artist Owen Merton, as a long-time house guest; he encouraged Cyril to become a watercolorist. Starting about 1923, the couple traveled throughout Europe as a couple but other times estranged. While in Paris, he studied art and became a success artist. In 1928, he returned to America with Creighton to resolve legally any relationship he had to Evelyn. He decided to pursue a career as an art teacher, setting up an art school in Santa Fe, New Mexico but gave up that idea in 1931 to become director of the Denver Art Museum and later the Dean at College of Fine Arts at the University of Denver. He married Phyllis Crawford, a writer for New Yorker Magazine, while in Santa Fe. During this period of his life, he produced several watercolor paintings. He worked for a time with his son on a Works Progress Administration project, but soon after settled into retirement. In 1943, his autobiography, “Life Is Too Short”, was published; over the years, several biographies by others writers including Evelyn have been published. Located at Tulane University in the Howard-Tifton Library is a collection of his papers, which includes, but not limited, drafts from novels: “The Fiery Flower”, “Hunter’s Road”, “The Rim of Happiness”, “Love in the Morning”, “The Little Grey Centaur, and “Looking into the Crater”. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas purchased The Henry E. Turlington Collection, which contains, in addition to drafts of the couple’s work, boxes of personal papers, letters and photos of him, Evelyn, and his sons. Besides his wife Evelyn being a noted poet, playwright and novelist, his sons Paul, Fredrick, Manly, along with daughter Alice Wellman Harris were noted authors in their right. Wichita State University has a collection, “The Wellman Family” documenting their lives.