John Donald Wade family papers, 1857-1963 (bulk 1929-1945).

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John Donald Wade family papers, 1857-1963 (bulk 1929-1945).

The collection consists of papers of John Donald Wade and the Wade family from 1857-1963. Includes primarily correspondence with some clippings, research material and notes, receipts, legal records pertaining to various trust funds, printed material and note books. Early materials (1857-1912) contain land grants and correspondence of the Wade family including John Daniel and Ida Anne, John Donald Wade's parents. The bulk of the collection pertains to Wade's involvement with and writings of the Agrarian concept, the Georgia Review, and the Marshallville Foundation, a beautification and improvement organization in Marshallville, Georgia. Major correspondents include such Southern writers as James Truslow Adams, Charles A. Beard, Donald Davidson, Berry Fleming, Andrew Lytle, Dumas Malone, Minnie Hite Moody, Flannery O'Connor, Charlton Ogburn, Byron Herbert Reece, and Lamar Trotti.

13.5 linear ft.

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Wade, John Daniel.

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Malone, Dumas, 1892-1986

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American historian and editor. From the description of Address books [manuscript] ca. 1925-1934. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647963645 Historian, biographer, University of Virginia professor. From the description of Papers of Dumas Malone [manuscript], 1913-1986. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816236 Professor of History at the University of Virginia; Editor of the "Dictionary of American biography," and biographer of ...

Beard, Charles Austin, 1874-1948

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American historian and educator From the guide to the Charles Austin Beard letters, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Historian, political scientist. From the description of Austin Charles Beard letters, 1929-1939. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 465279213 Charles Austin Beard was born in 1874 and died in 1948. He was a political science professor and historian at Columbia Univer...

Fleming, Berry, 1899-1989

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Berry Fleming (1899-1989), author, native of Augusta, Georgia. From the description of Berry Fleming papers, 1929-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476477 Publishers Weekly magazine once called Berry Fleming "the quintessential Southern writer; funny, wise and like the best of those from the South, an incredibly good storyteller." His long career began in 1927 with the publication of The Conqueror's Stone, an adventure story about a bloodthirsty pirate off the South Car...

Marshallville Foundation.

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O'Connor, Flannery, 1925-1964

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Mary Flannery O'Connor (b. March 25, 1925, Savannah, Georgia-d. August 3, 1964, Milledgeville, Georgia), Southern American novelist and short story writer, the daughter of Edward Francis and Regina Cline O'Connor in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925. She attended parochial schools in Savannah before moving to Milledgeville after the death of her father in 1941. After finishing high school in Milledgeville, she attended the Georgia State College for Women, now Georgia College and State Univers...

Wade, John Donald, 1892-1963

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A noted biographer, essayist, and literary-review editor, John Donald Wade is best remembered for his participation in the Vanderbilt Agrarian movement of the 1930s and especially his contribution to the symposium that was to become that movement's manifesto, I'll take my stand: the South and the Agrarian Tradition (1930). From the description of Wade, John Donald letter, 1963. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 276231234 John Donald Wade (1892-1963), educator, aut...

Reece, Byron Herbert, 1917-1958

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Byron Herbert Reece (1971-1958), American poet, novelist, farmer, teacher, resided in Blairsville, Georgia. From the description of Byron Herbert Reece papers, 1937-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38478163 "Byron Herbert Reece was the author of four books of poetry and two novels. During his short career he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, earned two Guggenheim awards, and served as writer-in-residence at the University of California at Los Angeles, Emory University ...

Davidson, Donald, 1893-1968

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Author, poet, teacher, and editor. Member of the Fugitive and Agrarian Groups. From the description of Donald Davidson Papers, 1917-1968. (Vanderbilt University Library). WorldCat record id: 17789409 ...

Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949

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Mormon missionary. From the description of Diary, 1900-1902. [photocopy]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122604696 James Truslow Adams was successful businessman who became a celebrated historian, writing chiefly about the history of early New England. In 1912, having worked for twelve years as a businessman in a New York brokerage house, Adams moved to Bridgehampton, L.I., and began writing. His first books--"Memorials of Old Bridgehampton" (1916) a...

Trotti, Lamar, 1900-1952

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Lamar Jefferson Trotti (1900-1952), screenwriter, born in Atlanta, Georgia. From the description of Lamar Trotti screenplays, 1930-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476835 Screenplay writer, author, and motion picture director. From the description of Brigham Young, 1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367264476 From the description of Brigham Young, 1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122351664 From the guide to the Collection on Brigham ...

Moody, Minnie Hite, 1900-1993

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Minnie Hite Moody, journalist and author, was born 23 June 1900, in Granville, Ohio, lived and worked in Atlanta, Georgia, and later returned to the family home, Tannery Hill in Granville, Ohio. Moody died 25 October 1993 at her home in Granville, Ohio. She was a columnist with the Atlanta JOURNAL (1938-1943) and was the author of several novels including LONG MEADOWS (1941), and many short stories and poems which were published in the SATURDAY EVENING POST, GEORGIA REVIEW, COSMOPOLITAN, GOOD HO...

Wade, Ida Anne.

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Lytle, Andrew Nelson, 1902-1995

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Andrew Nelson Lytle (Dec. 26, 1902-Dec. 12, 1995) was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and graduated from Vanderbilt University. He was a novelist, dramatist, essayist, and professor of literature. As a member of the Agrarians, he contributed a chapter to that group's manifesto, I'll take my stand. He taught at the University of the South and edited the Sewanee review. Among his greatest works are Bedford Forrest and his Critter Company, a biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest; The velvet horn, a ...

Ogburn, Charlton, 1911-1998

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Charlton Ogburn, author, was born March 15, 1911 in Atlanta, Georgia. Ogburn held various posts in the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs including that of political advisor to the United States Delegation to the United Nations Security Council's Committee of Good Offices in the Indonesian Dispute and Chief of the Division of Research for the Near East, South Asia, and Africa. After resigning from government work (1957), he devoted his time to writing, focusing on wildlife and on the true identity of...