Stuart Wright Collection: William Alexander Percy Papers, 2016

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Stuart Wright Collection: William Alexander Percy Papers, 2016

2016

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/1169-106

Papers of William Alexander Percy (2016) concerning the wealthy Greenville, Mississippi-raised planter, lawyer, noted poet and memoirist, whose father, Leroy Percy, served as U. S. Senator from Mississippi, 1910-1913; consisting of loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection volume of Percy’s poems, entitled Enzio’s Kingdom and Other Poems; also Stuart Wright's note that he gave the book to commemorate George Core's retirement as editor of Sewanee Review (2016); also Stuart Wright's email correspondence with Percy’s biographer, Benjamin E. Wise, and East Carolina University faculty members, Thomas Douglass, and Maurice C. York regarding Wise's collection of works by Percy (2016).

0.25 Cubic feet, 0.25 Cubic feet, 1 archival box

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11617646

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942

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William Alexander Percy was born on 14 May 1885, in Greenville, Mississippi into an illustrious family of the planter class. His mother, Camille, was a French Catholic from New Orleans; his father LeRoy Percy, was an influential Episcopalian attorney, and cotton planter who owned more than 20,000 acres under cultivation. He served as the last U. S. Senator elected by the Mississippi legislature. William Percy campaigned actively in behalf of his father's election. William Alexander Percy atte...