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Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-. Elizabeth Spencer papers, 1911-2003 (bulk 1999-2003.

Title: Elizabeth Spencer papers, 1911-2003 (bulk 1999-2003.

Correspondence, writings and related materials, and pictures. Business and personal correspondence, 1948-2003 (bulk 1999-2003), includes both letters and printed copies of incoming and outgoing emails. Subjects include Eudora Welty, Spencer's writings and professional activities, Spencer family history, John McCain's presidential run in 2000, and other topics. Writings, 1950s, 1987-2002, are chiefly by or about Spencer. Pictures include photographs of Spencer; family and friends; travels; other writers; and writing events. Also included is a series of pictures that Spencer selected for possible inclusion in her memoir "Landscapes of the Heart." Note that major correspondents and other names significant in the collection appear as access points in this record.

ArchivalResource: About 6000 items (10.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59109545 View

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990,. [Library of Walker Percy in the Rare Book Collection of the Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill].

Title: [Library of Walker Percy in the Rare Book Collection of the Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]. 1853-1999.

Percy's personal working library, including belles lettres and literary criticism, monographs and pamphlets on religion, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and history, predominantly in English. Many contain Percy's markings. A few titles were added to the library following Percy's death in 1990. This library excludes Percy's own works, which are cataloged individually. Present in the library but not included in the database are materials about Percy and his family, translations of Percy's novels, and some issues of serials.

ArchivalResource: 2653 titles ; 16-36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57616317 View

Ziff, Lloyd. Happy birthday N.B.C.C. 1974-1984 ; the National Book Critics Circle tenth anniversary, 1985.

Title: Happy birthday N.B.C.C. 1974-1984 ; the National Book Critics Circle tenth anniversary, 1985.

Notes of congratulations by winners and nominees of the annual NBCC awards for the most distinguished American works of literature. These autograph facsimiles include Alice Adams, Nina Auerbach, W. Jackson Bate, Marshall Berman, Harold Bloom, John Boswell, Douglas Crase, Peter Davison, Morris Dickstein, Joan DIdion, Stanley Elkin, Leslie Epstein, Donald Finkel, Sally Fitzgerald, Paul Fussell, Martin Gardner, Stephen J. Gould, Jorie Graham, Elizabeth Hardwick, Shirley Hazzard, Anthony Hecht, Michael Herr, Seymour M. Hersh, Edward Hoagland, John Irving, Phyllis Janowitz, Fred Kaplan, Justin Kaplan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jackson Lears, Philip Levine, Ron Loewinsohn, John McPhee, Dumas Malone, Greil Marcus, Edward Mendelson, W.S. Merwin, Toni Morrison, Howard Moss, Barbara Novak, Cynthia Ozick, Walker Percy, Katha Pollitt, John Rockwell, Roger Rosenblatt, Frederick Seidel, Dave Smith, Cathy Song, Ronald Steel, Telford Taylor, Paul Theroux, Virgil Thomson, Barbara W. Tuchman, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Helen Vendler, Alice Walker, William W. Warner, Richard Wilbur, C.K. Williams, Edward O. Wilson, and Larry Woiwode.

ArchivalResource: 1 poster ; 91 x 61 cm.

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Percy, Walker, 1916-1990. Letters : to Jean Stafford, 1962-1971.

Title: Letters : to Jean Stafford, 1962-1971.

Percy writes about the National Book Awards, comments on The Golden Bowl and Stafford's A mother in history, compliments a story by her, and mentions his uncle, a stay at Key West, and current activities and feelings.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793525 View

Hobson, Linda Whitney. Linda Whitney Hobson papers, 1971-1996.

Title: Linda Whitney Hobson papers, 1971-1996.

The collection includes materials related to Hobson's work on southern writer Walker Percy and other writings by Hobson. Percy materials include subject files and printed material, including clippings. Subject files contain correspondence, writings about Percy and his works, notes on his works, and information about conferences and symposia in which Hobson participated. Correspondents include author Patrick H. Samway, Jan Nordby Gretlund, Patricia Lewis Patent of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Lewis A. Lawson. Printed material consists of articles about Walker Percy and his writings, especially "Love in the Ruins" (1971), "Lancelot" (1977), and "The Thanatos Syndrome" (1987). Also included are Hobson's book reviews, articles, and related materials about subjects other than Percy.

ArchivalResource: About 1000 items (2.5 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57710992 View

Meredith, William, 1919-2007. William Meredith papers, 1947-1979.

Title: William Meredith papers, 1947-1979.

Correspondence with Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick relating primarily to poetry and to personal affairs. Also includes correspondence and related material (1978-1979) pertaining to the nomination of poet Robert Earl Hayden to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Correspondents include Donald Barthelme, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Cheever, John Ciardi, Babette Deutsch, Peter De Vries, Richard Eberhart, Francis Fergusson, Lillian Hellman, Archibald MacLeish, William Maxwell, Howard Nemerov, Walker Percy, Karl Jay Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Wallace Stegner, May Swenson, Kurt Vonnegut, and Robert Penn Warren.

ArchivalResource: 80 items.1 container.0.4 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79604917 View

Erskine, Albert, 1911-1993. Albert Erskine papers, 1930-1999.

Title: Albert Erskine papers, 1930-1999.

Random House editorial files of Albert Erskine contain correspondence with staff and authors; editorial fact sheets and notes; copy for book covers; financial documents including contracts and royalty statements; copies of articles, speeches and manuscripts; photographs; and reviews, advertising schedules and publicity for book publications. The collection also contains some personal correspondence and miscellaneous Random House staff correspondence. The William Faulkner series includes articles about Faulkner; setting copy and proof for "As I lay dying"; copies of the 1984 edition of "The sound and the fury" with editorial notes; smaller files on several other novels; correspondence and editorial work with Faulkner scholars including Joseph Blotner, James B. Meriwether, Michael Millgate, and Noel Polk; and material regarding the Faulkner collection at the University of Virginia including copies of Randon House /Faulkner correspondence. The James Michener series includes correspondence, editing notes and proofs, and design and production materials for several titles, chiefly "Alaska," "Iberia," "Kent State," "The source," and "Texas." The miscellaneous author series contains a variety of material including correspondence, editorial material, photographs and biographical information, proofs, mockups and reviews pertaining to works by Matthew J. Bruccoli, Bennett Cerf, Ralph Ellison, Richard A. Falk, James Joyce, Sheen T. Kassouf, Philip J. Klass, Rosanne Klass, Pierre La Mure, Malcolm Lowry, Cormac McCarthy including the typescript of "All the pretty horses," Michael Mewshaw, Michael Millgate, John O'Hara, Carlotta O'Neill, Eugene O'Neill, P.M. Pasinett, David A. Randall, Anthony Reinach, Karl Shapiro, Irwin Shaw, Martin Shubik, Oliver Statler, Edward O. Thorp, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty and Martin J. Whitman. The miscellaneous author series and the personal series, particularly the latter, contain letters from hundreds of literary figures including Richard Bankowsky, Saul Bellow, R.P. Blackmur, Paul Bowles, Cleanth Brooks, Matthew Bruccoli, Anthony Burgess, Malcolm Cowley, Donald Davidson, John Gould Fletcher, Shelby Foote, George Garrett, S.I. Hayakawa, Granville Hicks, Langston Hughes, William Inge, Paul Johnston, Andrew Lytle, Linton Massey, Arthur Miller, Maxim Kumin, Andre Malraux, Howard Nemerov, Gordon Parks, Walker Percy, Katherine Anne Porter, John Crowe Ransom, Budd Schulberg, Jean Stafford, Allan Tate, Frank Taylor, Peter Taylor, Carl Van Vechten, Glenway Wescott, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, and Bernard Wolfe. A diverse range of topics are covered in the editorial files and the correspondents. Among those of interest are Cleanth Brooks; Huey Long; Andrew Lytle; Van Wyck Brooks; Randall Jarrell; William Wyler, Ralph Ellison's reaction to Caldwell's "Tobacco Road"; Pearl Harbor and World War II; script writing and productions at MGM, 1949-1951; the Southern Review, 1935; Saigon in 1955; Afghanistan, 1963-1965; government disregard of possible flood damage to New Orleans, 1937; Tougaloo College; Katharine Anne Porter at dinner with Clifford Odets, Theodore Dreiser and Charlie Chaplin who ridiculed American music; and the U.D.C. at Beauvoir. There are numerous photographs of Random House authors, generally publicity shots, as well as snapshots of Katherine Anne Porter and Malcom Lowry. There is also a tape recording of the memorial sevice for Bennett Cerf.

ArchivalResource: 10,500 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647994034 View

Jones, Madison, 1925-. Madison Jones papers, 1950-1989.

Title: Madison Jones papers, 1950-1989.

The collection consists of the papers of Madison Jones from 1950-1989. The papers include materials relating to the writing and publishing of his novels, including corrected typescripts, manuscript notebooks, and correspondence, and preliminary drafts. The rest of the collection consists of a copy of Madison Jones's vita, two financial documents, and a short story written by Scarlett Robinson. Among the earliest materials found in this collection are manuscript drafts of his second novel, Forest of the Night, published in 1960, and manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of his third novel, A Buried Land, published in 1963. Jones's first novel, The Innocents, published in 1957, is not represented. Corrected typescripts of his last published novel, Last Things, published in 1989, and a photocopied typescript of Jones's autobiography are also included in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear ft. : (15 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173863058 View

Foote, Shelby. Shelby Foote papers, 1935-1999 [manuscript].

Title: Shelby Foote papers, 1935-1999 [manuscript].

The collection is chiefly correspondence and writings of Foote. Writings include drafts of the three-volume "The Civil War: A Narrative" (1958-1974) and of his published novels (among them "Tournament," "Follow Me Down," "Love in a Dry Season," "Shiloh!" "Jordan County," and "September, September"), and drafts and published versions of short stories and other wiritngs. Correspondence consists primarily of letters from Foote to his friend, novelist Walker Percy (1916- ) and a few letters from others.

ArchivalResource: About 525 items (9.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14121417 View

Spalding, Phinizy. Phinizy Spalding papers, 1910-1994 (bulk 1931-1982).

Title: Phinizy Spalding papers, 1910-1994 (bulk 1931-1982).

The collection consists of papers of Phinizy Spalding from 1910-1994. The papers include personal and professional correspondence, lecture materials, student papers, seminar materials, manuscripts, photographs, posters, and ephemera. The materials document Spalding's interests in historic preservation, particularly in Clarke County (Ga.); his tenure as professor of history at the University of Georgia (1966-1991) including information on the Phinizy Lectures; his editorship (1974-1982) of the Georgia Historical Quarterly; as well as information pertaining to publication of his books and articles. The collection also contains information on the Cobbham Historic District, Athens Clarke Heritage Foundation, Lucy Cobb Institute, and the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. Correspondents include Joyce Blackburn, Tom Watson Brown, Kenneth Coleman, E. Merton Coulter, Walter Stanton Forbes, Mills B. Lane IV, Valeria and Piero Leida, David T. Morgan, Walker Percy, James K. Reap, and Betty Wood.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477278 View

Simpson, Lewis P. Lewis P. Simpson papers, 1923-2004 (bulk 1980-2000).

Title: Lewis P. Simpson papers, 1923-2004 (bulk 1980-2000).

Correspondence consists primarily of Simpson's professional correspondence with peers, employees, publishers, reviewers, and organizations, but is interlaced with some personal notes. Topical Files consist of Simpson's works: book drafts, book reviews, essays, miscellaneous notes and writings, speeches, and lectures. It also contains clippings, awards, invitations to professional events, various reports, fliers, circulars, announcements, meeting notes and minutes, memos, photographs, miscellaneous notes for writing essays, bibliographies, numerous printed matter, film projects, television scripts, contracts, royalty statements, receipts, correspondence with the LSU Press, correspondence within the LSU Dept. of English, applications to the National Endowment for the Humanities, and itineraries.

ArchivalResource: 24 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/129876663 View

New Yorker records

Title: New Yorker records

Weekly magazine founded in New York City in 1925 by Harold W. Ross, Jane Grant, Alexander Woollcott and Raoul Fleischman. The records consist of correspondence, interoffice memoranda, edited and corrected manuscripts and typescripts, drawings, statistical reports, lists of story and art ideas, photographs, and sound recordings and printed materials created during the foundation and day-to-day operations of the magazine from 1924-1984. This material documents the production of every issue of the magazine and provides insight on the careers of its staff and contributors.

ArchivalResource: 1058.76 linear feet; 2566 boxes; 7 microfilm reels; 18 sound recordings

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2236 View

Darwin, Charles 1809-1882. Authors Collection, [16--?] - [19--].

Title: Authors Collection, [16--?] - [19--].

Consists mainly of correspondence of various English and American authors, politicians and churchmen. There are also items relating to other famous individuals.

ArchivalResource: ca. 6.5 linear ft. (13 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35986676 View

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990. Walker Percy letter, 1968 Sept. 9.

Title: Walker Percy letter, 1968 Sept. 9.

Short, typewritten letter on Walker Percy letterhead, signed in ink addressed to Mr. Harg, probably a publisher. Letter contains Percy's comments after reading the proofs of John W. Corrington's The Lonesome Traveler and Other Stories.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/271013220 View

Harper's Magazine Records, 1847-1983, (bulk 1940-1983)

Title: Harper's Magazine Records 1847-1983 (bulk 1940-1983)

Editorial, production, and business records including correspondence, reports, drafts of articles, and galleys for monthly issues of , a compendium of social commentary, news, history, criticism, poetry and fiction. Harper's Magazine

ArchivalResource: 255,000 items; 701 containers; 290 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010321 View

Hawkins, John R. John R. Hawkins '56 literary manuscript collection, 1972-80.

Title: John R. Hawkins '56 literary manuscript collection, 1972-80.

The collection is formed around the correspondence of more than 60 authors with John R. Hawkins. In most cases, this is combined with a 2-3 page preface, generally in typescript form to be published by the First Edition Society along with a work selected by the Society for a special edition. Authors include: Simone De Beauvoir, Dee Brown, Bruce Catton, John Cheever, Robert Coles, William Faulkner, John Fowles, Antonia Fraser, John Kenneth Galbraith, Shirley Ann Grau, John Le Carré, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Peter Matthiessen, James Michener, Joyce Carol Oates, Walker Percy, Philip Roth, William Safire, Françoise Sagan, Harrison Salisbury, William Saroyan, Isaac Bashevis Singer, C.P. Snow, Wallace Stegner, Irving Stone, William Styron, Paul Theroux, Barbara Tuchman, John Updike, Leon Uris, Kurt Vonnegut, Eudora Welty, Jessamyn West and Herman Wouk.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27673209 View

McDonald, Ralph Waldo, 1903-1977. Ralph Waldo McDonald papers, 1936.

Title: Ralph Waldo McDonald papers, 1936.

The collection includes correspondence, speeches, political materials, and other items related to Ralph Waldo McDonald's 1936 Democratic Party gubernatorial primary campaign against Clyde R. Hoey and Alexander H. Sandy Graham. Campaign-related correspondence includes letters between McDonald and his campaign staff, particularly W. L. Lumpkin and Itimous T. Valentine, and to and from McDonald supporters and campaign volunteers. Topics include finances; press and newspaper coverage; the organization of volunteers; the political atmosphere and leanings of North Carolina counties; Hoey's reputation and claims; and critical campaign issues such as the sales tax, old age pensions, liquor regulation, and the political machine. Post-primary correspondence also discusses allegations of electoral irregularities, campaign finance difficulties, and McDonald's decision to campaign for Hoey. There are also materials relating to organizing campaign workers and supporters--including women--in North Carolina counties and precincts; publicity materials, including speeches, press releases, photographs, and political cartoons; financial records; appointments and itineraries; tables charting votes by county and candidate; and Hoey campaign materials. Topics include banking, electric power and Hoey's connection to the Duke Power Company, prison reform, labor, and the sales tax. Also included are few personal and family letters, a group photograph of members of the Order of Gimghoul that features author Walker Percy, and other items.

ArchivalResource: About 1100 items (3.0 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463333497 View

Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969. John Kennedy Toole papers, 1930-1999.

Title: John Kennedy Toole papers, 1930-1999.

The collection primarily consists of personal and literary papers of John Kennedy Toole, including unbound manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, pamphlets, drawings, photographs, music, and posters. The author's parents' papers are also included.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear feet (27 boxes and 2 oversized v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/236103515 View

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990. Walker Percy papers, 1910-1992.

Title: Walker Percy papers, 1910-1992.

The collection includes drafts, notes, and other materials relating to all of Percy's major works and to many of his shorter efforts. Also included are subject files containing source materials and other items relating to authors and topics in which he was particularly interested, including religious themes in literature and the intellectual life of the American South. There are also materials relating to John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces (1980), which Percy helped publish. The collection contains a large amount of correspondence with authors, critics, and others. Most significant among Percy's correspondents were Shelby Foote, a life-long friend; Caroline Gordon, who, in the early 1950s, offered Percy in-depth critiques of his work and pointers on writing in general; and Donald Barthelme, who wrote about Percy's submissions to the journal Forum. Other correspondents include Zoltan Abadi Nagy, Malcolm Bell, Cleanth Brooks, Gary M. Ciuba, James Collins, Ansley Cope, John William Corrington, Robert Woodham Daniel, John N. Deely, Clifton Fadiman, Robert Giroux, Peter Handke, John Hofer, Paul Horgan, Kenneth Laine Ketner, Victor A. Kramer, Bernald Malamud, Jacques Maritain, Doug Marlette, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, Walter J. Ong, J. F. Powers, Thomas A. Sebeok, Elizabeth Spencer, Lewis P. Simpson, Allen Tate, Mark Taylor, Gene Usdin, Henry Babcock Veatch, Eudora Welty, and C. Vann Woodward. There are also over 200 formal and informal photographs, most of Percy with his family, including his uncle William Alexander Percy, but some of Percy with Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Eudora Welty, Cleanth Brooks, C. Vann Woodward, Elizabeth Spencer, Louis D. Rubin Jr., Ernest Gaines, Shelby Foote, and others. Also included are several hats and a sweater belonging to Percy.

ArchivalResource: About 2200 items (27.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31966166 View

Berry, Jason. Papers 1966-1987.

Title: Papers 1966-1987.

New Orleans author, journalist, and press secretary for Charles Evers' Mississippi gubernatorial campaign. Includes correspondence, financial records, and writings : Up from the cradle of jazz; and Amazing grace.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 ln. ft. 8 Boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22575546 View

McInerny, Ralph, 1929-2010. Papers, 1943-[ongoing].

Title: Papers, 1943-[ongoing].

Manuscripts of literary and philosophical essays, articles, lectures, and books; notebooks and diaries (1947-1986), correspondence (1954-1987), and alphabetical files; involving Jacques Maritain, Soren Kierkegaard, Thomas Aquinas, Boethius, G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Walker Percy, and other philosophers and writings; concerning contemporary Thomism, analogy, natural law, Humanae Vitae, the Second Vatican Council, and changes in the Catholic Church; with drafts and some galleys of his fiction, including early magazine stories, novels, and detective series.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25316865 View

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. records, 1899-2003, 1945-1989

Title: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. records 1899-2003 1945-1989

The publishing company Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. was founded in 1945 as Farrar, Straus & Company by John Farrar and Roger W. Straus, Jr. After numerous changes in management and corresponding changes in name, the company became known as Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. (FSG) in 1964 when Robert Giroux became editor-in-chief. The company firmly established itself as a quality publisher in the 1960s and 1970s. FSG remained staunchly independent of conglomerate publishing for many years. Even after selling controlling interest to the German publisher Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck in 1994, FSG maintained much of the freedom of an independent publishing house.

ArchivalResource: 377.21 linear feet linear feet; 893 boxes, 182 microfilm reels

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/979 View

Rubin, Louis Decimus, 1923-. Louis Decimus Rubin papers, 1945-

Title: Louis Decimus Rubin papers, 1945-

Series 1.1.1. Selected author correspondence (names beginning with O-T): This series contains correspondence with writers and critics of major import, as selected by Rubin. Note that writers and critics of special importance in Rubin's papers are listed in the general abstract for this collection.

ArchivalResource: About 31400 items (38.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31069837 View

Hopwood Awards Collection, 1930-

Title: Hopwood Awards Collection, 1930-

Consists of correspondence relating to the annual University of Michigan student contests in creative literature for the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Prizes funded by income from the Avery Hopwood bequest.

ArchivalResource: 8, 111 items.

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/990039225410106381 View

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990. Walker Percy and Charles Suhor Letters, 1971-1975.

Title: Walker Percy and Charles Suhor Letters, 1971-1975.

The Percy-Suhor collection is comprised of four letters and one journal article, dating from 1971-1975.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (4 folders).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767525268 View

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990. Percy-Walsh Correspondence, 1980-1999.

Title: Percy-Walsh Correspondence, 1980-1999.

The brief correspondence between William Walsh, a former Jesuit priest, and Walker Percy began in 1980, shortly after Walsh read Percy's Lancelot. This collection contains three letters and a postcard from Percy to Walsh as well as two letters from Walsh to Patrick Samway, S.J.

ArchivalResource: 7 folders, (0.10 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755028264 View

Durr, Virginia Foster. Papers, 1904-1991.

Title: Papers, 1904-1991.

These papers contain correspondence, letters, clippings, photographs, awards, certificates, ephemera, and printed materials. The primary topics discussed are her family and friends, civil rights and voting in the South, and politics in the U.S. and in Ala. Correspondence and letters constitute one-half of the collection, and clippings one-fourth. Of particular interest is the correspondence with the Harkness Fellows, who were European students studying in the U.S., as well as the correspondence with Hugo L. Black, and his second wife, Elizabeth, and with Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. Other prominent correspondents included: Julian Bond, Angus Cameron, William Sloan Coffin, John Doar, James Dombrowski, William O. Douglas, James E. Folsom, Abe Fortas, John Hope Franklin, Helen Fuller, Katherine Graham, Grover Cleveland Hall Sr., Estes Kefauver, Herbert H. Lehman, David E. Lilienthal, Carey McWilliams, Arthur Miller, Drew Pearson, Walker Percy, Claude Pepper, Albert Raines, Richard T. Rives, Pete Seeger, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Sparkman, Harlan F. Stone, Studs Terkel, and William Allen White.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 cubic ft. (4 archives boxes, 1 oversized folder).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122507748 View

Percy, Walker, 1916-. Autograph letter signed : Covington, La., to Bob M. Weingrad, 1980 Dec. 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Covington, La., to Bob M. Weingrad, 1980 Dec. 20.

Comments on Weingrad's thesis on Percy's novels.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) + 1 envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270840308 View

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990. Walker Percy letter and Christmas card, 1953-1969.

Title: Walker Percy letter and Christmas card, 1953-1969.

The collection consists of two items: letter to Prof. Robert David, postmarked 26 March 1953, part of an ongoing correspondence, with mention of Scribners turning something down; Christmas and New Year's greeting card to Jon Bracker, postmarked 23 Dec. 1969, responding to questions to the effect that he was more influenced by Dostoyevsky than Chekhov, and that he has never written a short story. Both items include envelopes.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62590109 View

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990. Walker Percy interview, 1966.

Title: Walker Percy interview, 1966.

Original typescript of an interview by Ashley Brown with Walker Percy discussing the existentialist element in Percy's novels, including holographic corrections by Percy. Also included are the issue of Shenandoah in which this interview was published (Vol. 18, No. 3, Spring 1967) and a letter from Percy to Brown discussing the interview.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270991056 View

Letters.

Title: Letters.

One letter signed by Adlai Stevenson, two postcards signed by Doris Lessing, one postcard signed by Nadine Gordimer, one letter signed by Walker Percy, and one later signed by William Golding.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/246634442 View

Walker Percy Papers, circa 1910-1992

Title: Walker Percy Papers, circa 1910-1992

Walker Percy was raised in Georgia,Alabama, and Greenville, Miss., and lived most of his adult life in Covington, La.He was the author of six published novels: (1961), (1966), (1971), (1977), (1980), and (1987). He also wrote and neither of which waspublished during his lifetime. Works of non-fiction include (1975), (1983), and (collected essays, unpublished as a collection). Healso wrote numerous short stories, book reviews, philosophical pieces relating tolanguage and to religion, especially Catholicism. TheMoviegoer The Last Gentleman Love in the Ruins Lancelot The SecondComing The Thanatos Syndrome The Gramercy Winner The Charterhouse, The Message in the Bottle Lost in theCosmos Symbol and Existence: AStudy in Meaning The collection includes drafts, notes, and othermaterials relating to all of Percy's major works and to many of his shorter efforts.Also included are subject files containing source materials and other items relatingto authors and topics in which he was particularly interested, including religiousthemes in literature and the intellectual life of the American South. There are alsomaterials relating to John Kennedy Toole's (1980), which Percy helped publish. The collection contains alarge amount of correspondence with authors, critics, and others. Most significantamong Percy's correspondents were Shelby Foote, a life-long friend; Caroline Gordon,who, in the early 1950s, offered Percy in-depth critiques of his work and pointerson writing in general; and Donald Barthelme, who wrote about Percy's submissions tothe journal . Other correspondents includeZoltan Abadi Nagy, Malcolm Bell, Cleanth Brooks, Gary M. Ciuba, James Collins,Ansley Cope, John William Corrington, Robert Woodham Daniel, John N. Deely, CliftonFadiman, Robert Giroux, Peter Handke, John Hofer, Paul Horgan, Kenneth Laine Ketner, Victor A.Kramer, Bernald Malamud, Jacques Maritain, Doug Marlette, Thomas Merton, FlanneryO'Connor, Walter J. Ong, J. F. Powers, Thomas A. Sebeok, Elizabeth Spencer, Lewis P.Simpson, Allen Tate, Mark Taylor, Gene Usdin, Henry Babcock Veatch, Eudora Welty, and C. VannWoodward. There are also over 200 formal and informal photographs, most of Percywith his family, including his uncle William Alexander Percy, but some of Percy withPope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Eudora Welty, Cleanth Brooks, C.Vann Woodward, Elizabeth Spencer, Louis D. Rubin Jr., Ernest Gaines, Shelby Foote,and others. Also included are several hats and a sweater belonging toPercy. A Confederacy ofDunces Forum

ArchivalResource: About 2200 items (27 linear feet)

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/p/Percy,Walker.html View

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. records, 1899-2003 (bulk 1945-1989).

Title: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. records, 1899-2003 (bulk 1945-1989).

The Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Records consist of letters, book manuscripts, contracts, photographs, audio tapes and catalogs chronicling the history and ongoing concerns of Farrar, Straus & Giroux (FSG) and its subsidiaries, Hill & Wang (H & W) and L. C. Page & Company.

ArchivalResource: 382 linear ft. (905 boxes, 1 oversize folder)Microfilm 181 reels.Audiotapes 5 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86164357 View

Carson, L. M. Kit. The moviegoer : a screenplay, 1975 / by L.M. Kit Carson ; from the novel by Walker Percy.

Title: The moviegoer : a screenplay, 1975 / by L.M. Kit Carson ; from the novel by Walker Percy.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 100 leaves) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25273665 View

Reynolds Price Papers, bulk, 1927-2010 and undated, 1956-2006

Title: Reynolds Price Papers, bulk 1927-2010 and undated, 1956-2006

Reynolds Price was a novelist, short story writer, poet, dramatist, essayist, translator, and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, where he taught creative writing and literature beginning in 1958. He was an alumnus of Duke and of Oxford University, which he attended on a Rhodes Scholarship. He received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and his books were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Correspondence, writings, serials, clippings, speeches, interviews, legal and financial papers, photographs, audiovisual materials, and digital materials about Price's career and personal life. Personal and professional correspondence document his education at Duke University, especially his studies under William Blackburn; his period abroad as a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford; and his literary work and interaction with other authors, including Stephen Spender, Eudora Welty, and Allan Gurganus. Writings include manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, outlines, and notes produced in the creation and publication of all his major works, including: and many other books and individual stories, poems, and essays. Printed and audiovisual materials document the critical reception of Price's work and his speeches, readings, interviews, and many other public appearances. A Long and Happy Life; Kate Vaiden; A Palpable God; Clear Pictures; A Whole New Life; The Collected Stories; The Collected Poems; Later additions are described in detail below.

ArchivalResource: 198.7 Linear Feet; 96,900 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/pricereynolds/ View

Doar, Harriet. Papers, 1938-1991 (bulk 1938-1982).

Title: Papers, 1938-1991 (bulk 1938-1982).

Papers of a journalist and book review editor with The Charlotte News (1939-46) and The Charlotte Observer (1959-82). Includes copies of her articles, correspondence with authors and editors, and research files.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet (ca. 7,200 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48133919 View

Kerr, Samantha Jane. Walker Percy plots the American soul / by Samantha Jane Kerr.

Title: Walker Percy plots the American soul / by Samantha Jane Kerr. 1993.

ArchivalResource: iv, 339 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428736251 View

Donald Barthelme Literary Papers 2002-007., 1956-2001

Title: Donald Barthelme Literary Papers 1956-2001

Donald Barthelme was an experimental short story writer and novelist who contributed frequently to magazine in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. He remains best known for his classic collection . Barthelme served as director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston for many years. The collection contains typescript drafts, galley proofs, and page proofs of Barthelme's work, correspondence with fellow writers, and other materials related to Barthelme's writing and teaching career. The New Yorker Sixty Stories

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uhsc/00062/00062-P.html View

Cleanth Brooks papers., 1927-1986 (inclusive), 1960-1986

Title: Cleanth Brooks papers. 1927-1986 (inclusive) 1960-1986

The Cleanth Brooks Papers contain correspondence, manuscripts of books, textbooks, essays, lectures, and various other shorter works, classroom material, professional papers, writings of others, and personal papers which document aspects of the life and career of Cleanth Brooks.

ArchivalResource: 40.75 linear ft. (96 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.brooks View

Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999. C. Vann Woodward papers, 1804-2004 (inclusive), 1804-2000 (bulk).

Title: C. Vann Woodward papers, 1804-2004 (inclusive), 1804-2000 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, and topical files, primarily documenting the professional career of historian C. Vann Woodward.

ArchivalResource: 40.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702170380 View

Barthelme, Donald. Donald Barthelme literary papers, 1956-2001.

Title: Donald Barthelme literary papers, 1956-2001.

This collection contains typescript drafts, galley proofs, and page proofs of Donald Barthelme's novels, collected works, short stories, and other writings, plus collages and collage stories created by Barthelme. One of the richest aspects of the collection is the large set of letters and cards from Barthelme's writing friends and colleagues. The collection also includes about a dozen photographs of Barthelme. In addition, material related to Barthelme's teaching career is incorporated, notably student works that Barthelme received during his years in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. Each series is prefaced by a detailed description.

ArchivalResource: 30 boxes

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694183024 View