Savannah Writers' Conference papers, 1938-1940.

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Savannah Writers' Conference papers, 1938-1940.

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This collection consists of Lowry Axley's correspondence and other papers related to the Savannah Writers' Conference. Correspondents include: John P. Dyer, Edith D. Johnston, John Peale Bishop, Ernest A. Lowe, Henry F. Meyer, Allen Tate, George Stevens, Samuel Gaillard Stoney, Mabel C. Pollard, Anne D. Jones, Stark Young, John Peale Bishop, Grace Hall Hemingway, Margaret Mitchell, Andrew Lytle, Frank P. Graham, Paul Green, George Stevens, Joseph Brewer Frederick H. Koch, Mary Ellington Mrs. Rosser H. Kaylor, Grace Hall Hemingway, Betty Myers, Vereen Bell, Buford Johnson, Virginia Tanner, Attie Camp, William S. Long, Dubose Heyward, Herbert L. Kayton, Anderson M. Scruggs, Margaret Curtis, Daisy Mae Roberts, and James Irwin Wallace. In addition to correspondence, the collection includes a cash book, programs, clippings and press releases, photographs and silhouettes of the staff, addresses of the conference staff for the Poetry Society of Georgia, and planning and arrangements lists.

1 box (.50 cubic feet)

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Georgia Historical Society

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