John Robert Doyle papers, 1933-1986.

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John Robert Doyle papers, 1933-1986.

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Correspondence files, with index; drafts of Doyle's literary publications re Arthur Shearly Cripps, Robert Frost, William Plomer, Thomas Pringle, William Charles Scully, and Francis Carey Slater; miscellaneous papers re the Poetry Society of South Carolina, and the Society's writing group, the Forum, including minutes of board meetings, organizational records, correspondence, and poems submitted for various prize competitions. Topical files reflect Doyle's work at the universities of Cape Town and Witwatersrand, South Africa; literary reviews, lectures, essays, and notes; autobiographical reminiscences; and two plays by Katherine Drayton Mayrant Simons: "The Flageolet of God" and "Two Gals in a Garden" Bound volume, 1989, containing text of two lectures before the Poetry Society of South Carolina, 9 Sept. 1988 and 8 Sept. 1989, focusing in part on Southern poets and writers, including South Carolinians Katherine Drayton Mayrant Simons, Helen von Kolnitz Hyer, and Beatrice Ravenel.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Scully, W.C. (William Charles), 1855-1943

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University of Cape Town

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Doyle, John Robert, Jr.

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Author, literary critic, and English professor, of South Carolina. From the description of John Robert Doyle papers, 1933-1986. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 29926626 ...

Pringle, Thomas, 1733-1823

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South Carolina Poetry Society. Forum.

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