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J. Taylor Doggett Collection, 1991-2005

Title: J. Taylor Doggett Collection, 1991-2005

J. Taylor Doggett is a businessman and writer who has extensively researched, among various other interests, the 1950s R&B group the 5 Royales, swing bandleaders, and musicians associated with the University of North Carolina. He lives in Greensboro, N.C. The collection consists of three series: 5 Royales Materials; UNC Bandleaders Materials; and Other R&B, Jazz, and Doo Wop Materials. The Five Royales series documents Doggett's extensive research and collecting efforts relating to the Winston-Salem, N.C., R&B vocal group of that name and the careers of constituent members Lowman Pauling, Clarence Paul, Curtis Pauling, Obadiah Carter, Johnny Tanner, Eugene Tanner, Otto Jeffries, and William Samuels. There is also music of the Royal Sons, EL Pauling and the Royalton, and the Charlie Ferguson Orchestra. The UNC Bandleaders series reflects Doggett's interest in bandleaders associated with the University of North Carolina, including Kay Kyser, Hal Kemp, Skinnay Ennis, and John Scott Trotter. Also in this series are other performers, including Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge, Harry Babbitt, Merwyn Bogue (Ish Kabibble), Libby Holman, Georgia Carroll Kyser, Ginny Simms, and Bo Thorpe. The 5 Royales and UNC Bandleaders series both include audio and video recordings, printed materials, and correspondence. The Other R&B, Doo Wop, Jazz, and Blues Materials series contains printed materials and recordings that reflect Doggett's broader musical interests. Little Jazz sweet jazz

ArchivalResource: 15.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 11,000 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20286/ View

Gron, Lee. Memorandum of agreement, 1942 Jan. 16, between Muriel Rukeyser, Lee Gron, and Libby Holman. Typescript (carbon), signed.

Title: Memorandum of agreement, 1942 Jan. 16, between Muriel Rukeyser, Lee Gron, and Libby Holman. Typescript (carbon), signed.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122533946 View

Wilder, Alec. Alec Wilder papers, 1939-2000.

Title: Alec Wilder papers, 1939-2000.

Collection consists of correspondence and printed matter concerning Wilder.

ArchivalResource: .7 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122687178 View

Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973. Jane Bowles Collection, 1944-1966.

Title: Jane Bowles Collection, 1944-1966.

The Works Series contains three typescript versions of In the Summer House, as well as pieces of other works, mostly untitled. Additionally, there are four undated notebooks with parts of stories and plays as well as doodles and sketches, and one notebook contains a completed short story, "Everything Is Nice." Two untitled plays and an untitled story round out the series. The Correspondence Series is divided into Outgoing and Incoming correspondence. The outgoing section contains three personal letters from Bowles, while the incoming section contains letters from Libby Holman, Ruth Sillitoe, Oliver Smith, and Tennessee Williams, as well as others. The small Personal Papers series contains memoranda of agreement and medical information from the fifties as well as a letter from the U.S. Consulate in Madeira, to be used in lieu of a lost passport.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.83 linear feet), 1 galley folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122602047 View

Powell, Dawn. Dawn Powell Papers, 1910-1998.

Title: Dawn Powell Papers, 1910-1998.

Personal and professional correspondence of Dawn Powell, including she received from publishers, agents, admirers of her work, friends, family and others. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Malcolm Cowley (4 letters); John Dos Passos (57 letters); Ernest Hemingway (1 letter); Gerald and Sara Murphy (23 letters); Mark Schorer (2 letters); Edmund Wilson (15 letters); and Powell's own letters to her family. There are drafts of her playscripts and drafts and related materials for her novel "The Golden Spur". There are 4 scrapbooks of her husband, Joseph R. Gousha, recording the plays he saw in Pittsburg from 1910 to 1914, and 4 journals of her son. Additional personal and professional papers of Dawn Powell (correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and misc. materials) are on deposit with this library and will be added to the collection in the future.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear ft. (1,485 items in 14 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/265033382 View