Home›Sources›The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown (Damon Runyon, 1933, Primary Text)SourcesThe Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown (Damon Runyon, 1933, Primary Text)sourceCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown (Damon Runyon, 1933, Primary Text)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/idyll-of-miss-sarah-brown-runyon-primary-text.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown (Damon Runyon, 1933, Primary Text). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/idyll-of-miss-sarah-brown-runyon-primary-textCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-the-idyll-of-miss-sarah-brown-damon-runy, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown (Damon Runyon, 1933, Primary Text)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/idyll-of-miss-sarah-brown-runyon-primary-text}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXThe full text of Damon Runyon's short story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown," first published in Collier's Weekly January 28, 1933 and the acknowledged literary basis for Guys and Dolls, hosted at a dedicated Runyon archive site. Read directly for this entry: the story itself names the fictional mission "the Save-a-Soul Mission," run by Miss Sarah Brown's grandfather Arvide Abernathy, and does not use the words "Salvation Army" anywhere in its own text.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (7 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedDamon RunyonPublisherWell-attestedCollier's Weekly (1933 first publication); text hosted at damonrunyon.neocities.orgURLWell-attestedhttps://damonrunyon.neocities.org/Broadway_Stories/The_Idyll_of_Miss_Sarah_BrownSource TypeWell-attestedprimary-textAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Tier one: the author's own primary text, read directly to confirm precisely what the original story does and does not say about the fictional mission's identity, rather than relying on secondary paraphrase.Claims Backed By This Source (7 claims)This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.Articles, 1 claims: 1 general references.Well-attested6SourcesThe Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown (Damon Runyon, 1933, Primary Text)General References1ArticlesThe Mission Broadway Built From a Real OneComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year