Papers of Guy Carleton Drewry, 1929-1970.

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Papers of Guy Carleton Drewry, 1929-1970.

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The collection contains Drewry's correspondence with publishers, anthologizers and admirers of his own poetry as well as with other poets whose work he edited for Voices magazine. Much of the correspondence was generated by his service as president of the Poetry Society of Virginia and concerns the arranging of meetings and the awarding of prizes. The papers also include some of Drewry's poetry as well as contracts, royalty statements, programs, plaques and fliers. Also included is Lyric Virginia Today, Vol. 2, 1956 (188 p.) and Virginia Reader, 1945 (576 p.). Both volumes contain selections by Mr. Drewry, poet laureate of Virginia. In addition, there are two plaster plaques, 1970, of Mr. Drewry's profile. The typescripts of The Writhen Wood (1952) and Cloud Above Clock Time (1956) are press copies for Drewry's books of poetry. There are poems, n.d., by Drewry (ca. 400 items) and 250 poems, including those published in The Writhen Wood. Correspondents include Ben Belitt, Oliver Evans, Charlotte E. Kohler, Brodie Strachan Herndon, Frances Minturn Howard, Rolfe Humphries, Josephine Winslow Johnson, Mary Sinton Leitch, Archibald MacLeish, Harry Meacham, Byron Herbert Reece, Francis Coleman Rosenberger, William Ward Seward, Lawrence P. Spingarn, Arthur Frederick Stocker, Jesse Stuart, Ulrich Troubetzkoy, Virginia Hunter Lyne Tunstall, Nancy Byrd Turner, Robert Penn Warren, and John Hall Wheelock.

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