James Agee Collection, 1928-1969.

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James Agee Collection, 1928-1969.

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The James Agee Collection contains 14 boxes of primarily manuscripts, with a slight amount of correspondence, ranging in date from 1928-1969. The Works series consists of holographs, typescripts and carbon copy typescripts of books, articles, plays, poems, reviews, stories, and screenplays. Included are holographs and typescripts of Agee's novels, A Death in the Family (published posthumously in 1957), Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), written with Walker Evans, and his shorter novel, The Morning Watch (1950). Also present are typescripts of a collection of short prose entitled Collected short Prose of James Agee (1969), and of his poetry, Collected Poems of James Agee (1968), both edited by Robert Fitzgerald. A proof copy of Permit Me Voyage and Other Poems (1934) is included, as well as copies of several of Agee's screenplays such as The African Queen The Blue Hotel, Magia Verde, Night of the Hunter, Noa-Noa, Scientists and Tramps, A Tanglewood Story, The Touch of Nutmeg, and Undirectable Director. In addition, the television play, Mr. Lincoln, is represented along with the commentary for a documentary film, The Quiet One, as well as numerous reviews of books and films. The Correspondence series consists mainly of letters relating to Agee's work. Correspondents include director David Bradley, Walker Evans, Archibald MacLeish, T.S. Matthews, Gregory Associates, and Margaret Marshall. The Miscellaneous series contains correspondence from Agee and others; articles, book reviews, and works by various authors, as well as an address by Robert Fitzgerald given at the dedication banquet of the James Agee Memorial Library at Saint Andrew's School. Included also is a bound galley proof of My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years by Stanislaus Joyce, and correspondence from and concerning Laura Tyler Wright, Agee's mother.

14 boxes (5.83 linear feet), 7 galley folders, 2 oversize flat files.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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