Sam Byrd papers, 1904-1972.

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Sam Byrd papers, 1904-1972.

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Chiefly correspondence, clippings, and other material, 1940-1955, relating to Byrd's activities in the U.S. Navy in World War II; his novel, "Hurry Home to My Heart" (1945); the staging of a historical pageant in Duplin County, N.C., in 1949; and especially his proposed co-production, with Oliver Sayler, of stage adaptations of Edgar Lee Masters's "Domesday Book" and James Joyce's "Ulysses" in New York City, 1954-1955. Volumes include a photograph album and a European travel notebook, 1953.

ca. 250 items (0.5 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7143867

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Byrd, Samuel Kyle

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Byrd, Sam, 1908-1955

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Byrd was an author, actor, and producer, of Mt. Olive, N.C. From the description of Sam Byrd papers, 1904-1972. WorldCat record id: 25290691 ...

Sayler, Oliver M., 1887-1958

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American dramatic critic and writer on the theater. From the description of Letter : to Norman Bel Geddes, 1929 Mar. 22. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122494173 Oliver Martin Sayler (b. 1887), American theater critic. From the description of Oliver Martin Sayler letters, 1908-1956 (bulk 1913-1930). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702193152 ...

United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950

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Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, novelist, biographer, and essayist. From the description of Edgar Lee Masters collection of papers, 1919-1949. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164224 From the guide to the Edgar Lee Masters collection of papers, 1919-1949, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Masters was an Illinois poet best known for the Spoon River Anthology. F...

Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...