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McKeithan, Daniel Morley, 1902-. Collection, 1932-1975.

Title: Collection, 1932-1975.

Collection contains typescripts, publications, photographs, and other materials including correspondence and newspaper clippings gathered by Daniel Morley McKeithan. McKeithan wrote primarily about Paul Hamilton hayne, and his papers contain numerous published articles on Hayne, correspondence about locating Hayne manuscripts and uncollected poems, a few copies of Hayne documents, and two photographs and negatives of "Copse Hill," the cottage near Augusta, GA, where Hayne lived from 1866-1886 (the photographs were taken in 1940). He also wrote articles and reviews on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Edgar Allan Poe. The collection includes a student paper entitled "Self-repetition in Hawthorne's stories and novels" (71 pp. holograph probably prepared while a student at the College of Charleston). A carbon type-script of McKeithan's thesis (M.A.), entitled "The origin and development of the Athurian legend," is also included in the collection (100 pp.). His 1935 dissertation (Ph. D.) presented to the University of Texas, entitled "The debt to Shakespeare in the Beaumont-and-Fletcher plays, " was privately printed in 1938--a copy can be found in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 linear ft. (2 boxes)

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Jay B. Hubbell Papers, 1816-1998 and undated, bulk 1920-1979

Title: Jay B. Hubbell Papers, 1816-1998 and undated, bulk 1920-1979

Professor of American literature, Duke University, Durham, N.C. The Jay B. Hubbell Papers span the years from 1816 to 1998, with the bulk of the material documenting Hubbell's career from his early student years in the 1920s until his death in 1979. The collection consists mainly of his professional papers, including correspondence with colleagues and literary figures, articles written by others at his request for the Jay B. Hubbell Center, printed materials inscribed to him and written by him, and unpublished manuscripts. The material chronicles the four decades of Hubbell's career as professor and critic, which he dedicated to the growth and development of American literature as a field of critical inquiry. Among the many significant correspondents or subjects of others' writings are Conrad Aiken, Gay Wilson Allen, Robert Frost, Clarence Gohdes, members of the Hubbell family, Ralph Leslie Rusk, Carl Sandburg, Allen Tate, Arlin Turner, and John Hall Wheelock. Other significant topics covered by the material include the founding of the Jay B. Hubbell Center for American Literary Historiography at Duke University, the study and teaching of literature from the American South, the activities of the faculty at Duke University, and the development of the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association (MLA).

ArchivalResource: 10.2 Linear Feet; 6375 Items

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