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Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Reading Library, 1707-1961.

Title: Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Reading Library, 1707-1961.

The Robert Sterling Clark reading library is comprised of ca. 800 titles that document a broad range of interests. Fiction and history predominate, though there is significant subject development in cookery and horses. The collection includes multiple volumes by a number of authors, including substantive first edition holdings of Pearl S. Buck, John Galsworthy, Sinclair Lewis, and P.G. Wodehouse. Many of the volumes include minor penciled annotations by RSC which record reading dates and brief thoughts on the volume in hand.

ArchivalResource: 113.5 linear ft. : (ca. 1012 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263962247 View

Stallings, Laurence, 1894-1968. Papers of Laurence Stallings [manuscript], 1927-1928.

Title: Papers of Laurence Stallings [manuscript], 1927-1928.

Correspondence with Robert Bridges regards Stallings' literary contributions to a "Scribner's" series on World War I, and Helen P. Stallings poems submitted to the magazine. There are also galley proofs with autograph corrections of Stallings' reviews of "Pylon" by William Faulkner, "Personal history" by Vincent Sheean, "Things to live for" by Francis Stuart, and "Moscow carrousel" by Eugene Lyons.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647814585 View

Boyd, James, 1888-1944. Chapter XXXX, [193-?].

Title: Chapter XXXX, [193-?].

A manuscript draft of chapter 40 of "Bitter Creek" by Boyd. Possibly meant for publication in Scribner's Magazine, n.d.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (20 leaves) ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53203470 View

James Boyd Papers, 1906-1953, 1964-1969

Title: James Boyd Papers, 1906-1953, 1964-1969

James Boyd (1888-1944) was an American author and journalist. Papers include more than 400 letters written by Boyd to his parents in Harrisburg, Pa., and other places, beginning in 1906 and continuing through his years at Princeton University, 1907-1910, and Cambridge University, 1910-1912, and while he worked as a journalist and for the Red Cross in New York City. Also included are letters to his wife, Katharine Lamont Boyd, while he was overseas, 1917-1919, serving as an ambulance driver with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and correspondence with friends, readers, other writers, and publishers about his work, especially about the novels and and about The Free Company, a group of American writers, producers, and broadcasters who presented radio programs on the ideas of the free world, 1940-1941. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Vincent Benet, Robert Bridges, Louis Bromfield, Bernard De Voto, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Galsworthy, Frank Porter Graham, Paul Green, Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish, Thomas Mann, Maxwell Perkins, William Saroyan, Laurence Stallings, John Steinbeck, and Thomas Wolfe. Also included are drafts and copies of manuscripts of stories, articles, radio scripts, and poems; and clippings and pictures. Drums Bitter Creek

ArchivalResource: 1,020; 4.0

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/b/Boyd,James.html View

Hugh MacNair Kahler Papers, 1900-1964, 1900-1950

Title: Hugh MacNair Kahler Papers 1900-1964 1900-1950

Consists of writings, correspondence, documents, photographs, and other miscellanea of the American editor, novelist, and storywriter Hugh MacNair Kahler.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear feet; 4 archival boxes, 5 oversize flat boxes

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8p58pc95v View

Boyd, James, 1888-1944. The Free Company presents ... : manuscripts, [1941?].

Title: The Free Company presents ... : manuscripts, [1941?].

Consists of manuscripts of the three radio plays in, and the introduction to, THE FREE COMPANY PRESENTS ..., compiled by James Boyd.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 linear ft. (1 archival box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122477333 View

Boyd, James, 1888-1944. [James Boyd index reference] [microform].

Title: [James Boyd index reference] [microform]. [193-]

ArchivalResource: cards.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57344465 View

Boyd, James, 1888-1944. James Boyd papers, 1925-[1944]

Title: James Boyd papers, 1925-[1944]

Consists of manuscripts and galleys for four published novels by Boyd--DRUMS (1925), about the American Revolution, LONG HUNT (1930) and BITTER CREEK (1939), about the American frontier, and ROLL RIVER (1935), set in his native Harrisburg, Pa.--as well as autograph and typed manuscripts for many articles, short stories, and verse.

ArchivalResource: 8.5 linear ft. (15 archiaval boxes, 1 record center carton)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/177444038 View

Boyd, James, 1888-1944. Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1937-1943.

Title: Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1937-1943.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (6 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122490279 View

Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988

Title: Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988

Richard Gaither Walser (1908-1988) was a professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and author of numerous works, chiefly relating to North Carolina's literary heritage. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other materials chiefly relating to North Carolina' literary heritage. Files on individual authors and literary subjects dominate, with special emphasis on the life and works of Thomas Wolfe. Other authors represented in the collection include Doris Betts, Helen Bevington, James Boyd, Richard Chase, Jonathan Daniels, Wilma Dykeman, Charles Edward Eaton, John Ehle, Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, George Moses Horton, Gerald W. Johnson, Frederick H. Koch, Guy Owen, Robert C. Ruark, Wilbur D. Steele, Hardin E. Taliaferro, and Jonathan Williams. There is also material on North Carolina folklore and other topics not directly connected to literature. A small number of items relate to Walser's life as a student at the University of North Carolina and to his service with the United States Naval Reserve during World War II.

ArchivalResource: About 27,800 items (32.5 linear feet)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04168/ View

Confederate reminiscences, ca. 1924-1925 [manuscript].

Title: Confederate reminiscences, ca. 1924-1925 [manuscript].

Reminiscences, written ca. 1924-1925, by Confederate soldiers of North Carolina and their civilian contemporaries and collected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy of North Carolina; letters to Mrs. John H. Anderson, Fayetteville, N.C., a U.D.C. official; and a long letter to James Boyd reacting to his book, "Drums." The reminiscences deal with memories of various wartime affairs; two deal with wartime Christmases.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23808803 View

Aikman, Duncan, 1889-1955. Contributions to The American Mercury, 1933-1938.

Title: Contributions to The American Mercury, 1933-1938.

Typescripts, mostly heavily corrected, and proofs of stories and articles contributed to The American mercury.

ArchivalResource: 36 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17220002 View

Kahler, Hugh MacNair, 1883-1969. Hugh MacNair Kahler papers, 1900-1964 (bulk 1900-1950).

Title: Hugh MacNair Kahler papers, 1900-1964 (bulk 1900-1950).

Consists of manuscripts, correspondence, documents, and photographs of Kahler, with some papers of other persons. A further addition to the papers consists of 57 letters of Kahler, written while he was an undergraduate at Princeton University to his parents describing his life as a student at Princeton.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft. (4 archival boxes, 5 oversize flat boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/609703159 View

Betty L. Means collection, 1835-1926.

Title: Betty L. Means collection, 1835-1926.

Collection of unrelated manuscripts, containing letters from Edwin Arlington Robinson (1922) and James Boyd (1926) and a bill of sale (1835) for a slave in Pasquotank County, N.C.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46635878 View

Ragan, Sam, 1915-1996. Sam Ragan papers, 1950-1996.

Title: Sam Ragan papers, 1950-1996.

Papers document Sam Ragan's career as a journalist and his role as patron of the arts in North Carolina. Correspondence files include materials relating to newspaper organizations, the North Carolina Arts Council, North Carolina Writers' Conference, North Carolina Writers' Network, and the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities. Subject files include information about the Freedom of Information Act and on the Free Press-Fair Trial confrontation of 1968, along with correspondence from various North Carolina writers. Writings include materials regarding Ragan's "The Tree in the Far Pasture" (Blair, 1964), typescripts of commentaries from "Sam Ragan Reports," which aired on WTVD television in Durham, and drafts of works by other writers. There are also materials relating to Ragan's tenure at the "News and Observer," typescripts of the columns, and letters to the editor used on the editorial page of "The Pilot." Financial information chiefly relates to the "The Pilot." Also included are photographs of Sam Ragan alone and with others and recordings of North Carolina Writers' Conference banquet dinners. Selected correspondents are listed in this record.

ArchivalResource: About 32600 items (51.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31069844 View

Wisdom, William B. William B. Wisdom collection of Thomas Wolfe. 1909-1959.

Title: William B. Wisdom collection of Thomas Wolfe

Papers of American novelist Thomas Wolfe.

ArchivalResource: 156 boxes (78 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00435/catalog View

Anderson, Ellen Graham, 1887-. Papers of Ellen Graham Anderson [manuscript], 1912-1959.

Title: Papers of Ellen Graham Anderson [manuscript], 1912-1959.

The papers consist chiefly of drawings, chiefly pen-and-ink, by Anderson including portraits of Marietta Minnegerode Andrews, Michael Arlen, Tallulah Bankhead, James Boyd, Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Jane Cowl, Beale Davis, Anna Denzler Duncan, Isadora Duncan, Amelita Galli-Curci, Ellen Glasgow, Margaret Hamilton, O. P. Heggie, DuBose Heyward, Raymond Hitchcock, De Wolf Hopper, Margaret Bell Houston, Ring Lardner, Pauline Lord, O.O. McIntyre, Ethel Merman, Victor Moore, John Powell, Maud Powell, John Cowper Powys, Yvonne Printemps, Fred Stone, Laurette Taylor, June Walker, Clifton Webb, and Helen Westley together with newsclippings of her illustrations. In addition there are many sketches of circus performers, unidentified actors and dancers, still lifes, street scenes and houses in several southern cities, and scenes in Bermuda, The papers also contain correspondence of William Alexander Anderson regarding the controversy over the inventor of the McCormick reaper; and miscellaneous family correspondence. In addition there is a manuscript of a poem by Anderson entitled Goose Creek Church. Correspondents include Anita McCormick Blane, Cyrus H. Adams, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Kathaleen Bruce, Virginius Dabney, E.G. Dodson, J. Albertis Harrison, Paul M. Panick and A. Willis Robertson.

ArchivalResource: 300 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647882990 View

Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Correspondence relating to the Southern Writers Convention sponsored by the "Virginia Quarterly Review" at the University of Virginia, October 23-24, 1931 [manuscript], 1931-1932.

Title: Correspondence relating to the Southern Writers Convention sponsored by the "Virginia Quarterly Review" at the University of Virginia, October 23-24, 1931 [manuscript], 1931-1932.

The collection consists of Wilson's correspondence with authors he invited to the convention, particularly Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Katharine Anthony, John Peale Bishop, James Boyd, Roark Bradford, Herschel Brickell, Maxwell Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Henry Seidel Canby, Willa Cather, Maristan Chapman, Emily Clark, Irvin S. Cobb, Donald Davidson, William Edward Dodd, William Faulkner, John Gould Fletcher, Ellen Glasgow, Isa Glenn, Paul Green, Sara Haardt, Archibald Henderson, DuBose Heyward, Gerald W. Johnson, Mary Johnston, H.L. Mencken, Margaret Prescott Montague, Julia Mood Peterkin, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Josephine Pinckney, Burton Rascoe, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Cale Young Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, Amelie Rives, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Herbert Ravenal Sass, Mrs. Laurence Stallings, T.S. Stribling, Allen Tate, Irita Van Doren, Thomas Wolfe, and Stark Young.

ArchivalResource: 75 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647806920 View

Whisnant, David E., 1938-. David E. Whisnant papers, 1893-1967 [manuscript].

Title: David E. Whisnant papers, 1893-1967 [manuscript].

Correspondence of David E. Whisnant, University of North Carolina professor of English, relating to his biography of James Boyd (1888-1944), editor and novelist, and correspondence, writings, a tape recording, and other materials relating to Susan Chester [Mrs. A. Hunt Lyman] (1868- 1917?), founder of the Log Cabin Settlement, a pioneering social service center near Asheville, N.C.

ArchivalResource: 30 items (0.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25814205 View

Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Papers of James Southall Wilson, [manuscript], 1912-1962.

Title: Papers of James Southall Wilson, [manuscript], 1912-1962.

The collection contains a letter from Hervey Allen to Wilson, 1930 May 31, inviting him to a writers conference at Yaddo. The collection also contains four letters to Wilson and Stringfellow Barr from Thomas Wolfe, 1931 September 4, October 23, 1932 February 24, March 27, regarding Yaddo and the Southern writers conference held at the University of Virginia, and mentioning his writing, current activities, James Boyd and DuBose Heyward.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972532 View

Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941. Sherwood Anderson collection, 1922-1943

Title: Sherwood Anderson collection, 1922-1943

Consists of correspondence and manuscripts of the American fiction writer Sherwood Anderson. Included is an autograph manuscript page of the poem "The Mink", 8 pp. autograph manuscript of BEING PUBLISHED. Also found is a printed copy of ON BEING PUBLISHED which was printed for THE COLOPHON, February, 1930.

ArchivalResource: .20 linear ft. (1 half-size archival box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320299253 View

Green, Paul, 1894-1981. Paul Green papers, 1880-1985.

Title: Paul Green papers, 1880-1985.

This collection contains material documenting the many facets of Green's life and work, material relating to the life and work of his wife, Elizabeth Lay Green, and numerous items relating to members of the Greens' immediate and extended families. Paul Green's work as a dramatist and writer is documented in his professional correspondence files (ca. 34,400 items); by extensive files on his "symphonic dramas," including background material, drafts, musical scores, and business records; and by drafts of poems, novels, and essays by Green. Also included are yearly diaries, 1917-1981, photographs, tape recordings, and appointment books. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, James Boyd, Erskine Caldwell, William T. Couch, Jonathan Daniels, Donald Davidson, John Ehle, Caroline Gordon, Frank Porter Graham, John Howard Griffin, Tyrone Guthrie, Dubose Heyward, Noel Houston, Langston Hughes, Gerald W. Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Frederick Koch, Lotte Lenya, H.L. Mencken, Howard Odum, Clarence Poe, Carl Sandburg, Betty Smith, Lamar Stringfield, Allen Tate, Kurt Weill, Orson Welles, and Richard Wright. Green's associations with various theater, cultural, and humanitarian organizations in North Carolina and elsewhere are extensively documented. Correspondence and other materials show his opinions on such social issues as lynching, capital punishment, nationalism, communism, race relations, religion, and the Vietnamese, Korean, and First and Second World Wars. Also included are a considerable number of photographs relating to Green's family and to his work, and financial records.

ArchivalResource: ca. 110000 items (192.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26319551 View

Meade, Julian R. (Julian Rutherfoord), 1909-1940. Papers of Julian Meade Rutherfoord, 1928-1940.

Title: Papers of Julian Meade Rutherfoord, 1928-1940.

The collection contains the short story *At the green tea pot," an article on Ellen Glasgow, an article on flower legends, and a poem "For my southern kinsmen." The remainder of the collection consists of letters to Meade from fellow authors. Many of them concern a symposium on Robert Louis Stevenson which he proposed. Others mention James Branch Cabell, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Margaret Mitchell, Edgar Allan Poe, Amélie Rives, and Thomas Wolfe, as well as the problems of being a writer, their own work, gardening and Meade's books. Fourteen letters from Julia Peterkin comment on her early life, her writing, Meade's books including "I live in Virginia" in which he quotes her, and her garden. Six letters from James Branch Cabell contain personal news and comment on his series on Manuel. Correspondents include Louis Adamic, Gertrude Atherton, James Boyd, Ganaliel Bradford, Louis Bromfield, Leonard Barron, Van Wyck Brooks, Pearl S. Buck, Maxwell Struthers Burg, Emily Clark Balch, Carl L. Carmer, Winston Churchill, Walter de la Mare, Henry C. Ficklen, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, and Joseph Hergesheimer. Also Hewitt H. Howland, Fannie Hurst, Odette Kenn, Eva Le Gallienne, Sinclair Lewis, H.L. Mencken, John Calvin Metcalf, Kathleen Norris, Isabel Paterson, William Alexander Percy, William Lyon Phelps, Burton Rascoe, Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, Edward Arlington Robinson, Thomas S. Stribling, Arthur F. Swinnerton and Stark Young.

ArchivalResource: 77 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49246959 View

Boyd, James, 1888-1944. James Boyd papers, 1906-1952 ; 1964-1969.

Title: James Boyd papers, 1906-1952 ; 1964-1969.

Papers include more than 400 letters written by James Boyd to his parents in Harrisburg, Pa., and other places, beginning in 1903 and continuing through his years at Princeton University, 1907-1910, and Cambridge University, 1910-1912, and while working as a journalist and for the Red Cross in New York City. Also included are letters to his wife while he was overseas, 1917-1919, serving as an ambulance driver with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and correspondence with friends, readers, other writers, and publishers about his work, especially about the novels "Drums" and "Bitter Creek" and about The Free Company, a group of American writers, producers, and broadcasters who presented radio programs on the ideas of the free world, 1940-1941. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Vincent Benét, Robert Bridges, Louis Bromfield, Bernard De Voto, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Galsworthy, Frank Porter Graham, Paul Green, Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish, Thomas Mann, Maxwell Perkins, William Saroyan, Laurence Stallings, John Steinbeck, and Thomas Wolfe. Also included are drafts and copies of manuscripts of stories, articles, radio scripts, and poems; and clippings and pictures.

ArchivalResource: About 1020 items (4.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26319687 View

Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection, ca. 1910-1934

Title: Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection ca. 1910-1934

The collection consists of ca. 3000 photographic prints, primarily platinum but some photogravure. Typical portrait subjects include prominent artists, authors, the Columbia University medical faculty, Johns Hopkins University medical faculty, and American editors. There are also examples of some of her best-known African-American and Appalachian photographs. Although many of the images are unidentified, they are the largest known body of prints made by Ulmann herself

ArchivalResource: 223.71 Linear feet; (150 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/ulmann/ulmann.html View

Boyd, James, 1888-1944. Letter : Southern Pines, N. C., to [John Stuart] Groves, 1933 Nov. 21.

Title: Letter : Southern Pines, N. C., to [John Stuart] Groves, 1933 Nov. 21.

"Delighted to comply with" Groves' request, possibly for Boyd's autograph, as the letter is accompanied by two of James Boyd's letterheads, inscribed.

ArchivalResource: 1 item. 1 p. Holograph signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122648372 View