Robert Molloy papers, 1929-1976.

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Robert Molloy papers, 1929-1976.

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Correspondence with friends, family, and publishers (Box 1); typescripts of published and unpublished novels and short stories (Boxes 2-6); magazines containing his short stories; scrapbooks and clippings relating to his career as literary critic and author, including book reviews written for the New York Sun (Box 7); and his notes for writing and teaching (Boxes 4 and 6). Diary, April 1941 - August 1976, in 4 volumes, re daily activities during 35 years of his life in New York (Box 6); correspondence with friends, fans, and business associates, along with ideas for future writing projects (Box 1); typescripts of published and unpublished novels and short stories; magazines containing articles by Molloy; and scrapbooks and newsclippings re his career as a literary critic and author (Box 7). Much of Molloy's correspondence was exchanged with fellow novelist William McFee, a ship's engineer who became famous for writing sea stories. McFee's letters discuss news of the literary world and other contemporary affairs. On 6 Apr. 1944, McFee wrote, "It is my obsession that nobody has ever had the position as national poety that [Rudyard] Kipling had in the Empire. Nobody writes about America as he did about England. I don't suggest that he be imitated but that we need something between [Walt] Whitman ... and Eddie Guest." Letter, 17 Feb. 1948, Charleston, S.C., from William McFee, "I suppose you notice the political rumblings even in the New York papers. The Southern governors were planning secession from the Democratic Party and even the United States ... Sen. Olin Johns[t]on called [William Watts] Ball an effete reactionary, vindictive doting old man whom time has passed by. So I guess Mr. Ball is pretty conservative when Olin goes on like that. They say [President Harry] Truman's Civil Rights scheme is 'unamerican.' " After publication of the non-fiction history, Charleston: A Gracious Heritage in 1947, E. Milby Burton wrote to Molloy, "You have at last accomplished something that I have always wanted to see done, and that is to write a readable history of Charleston." Other correspondents include Glenn Allan, Van Wyck Brooks, Howard Fast, Rebecca Motte Frost, Alfred A. Knopf, and Elizabeth O'Neill Verner (Box 1); includes various drafts of a work about the life of Iowa native Lewis Dodge (1870-1952), author of books for adults and children (Box 6); and typescript for The Light and the Shadow, a work about life of French foreign minister Robert Schuman, author of the "Schuman Declaration" of 9 May 1950, a proposal that resulted in creation of the European Union / European Common Market (Boxes 2 and 5); Box 5 holds related research notes for Light and Shadow and incomplete copies. Includes Molloy's notes for use in teaching a class on writing fiction and notes for future writings (Box 4), with 4 volumes of notes discussing the the novel, Cakes and Ale, by W. Somerset Maugham (Box 6); various drafts of The Lost Ones and The Best of Intentions, and typescripts of An Afternoon in March and The Other Side of the Hill (Box 3).

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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