Collection including letters, all from Williams to Todd, newspaper clippings, photocopies of various materials relating to Miller illiams's career, and an inscribed copy of one of Williams's early books. The letters were written by Miller Williams to D.D. Todd in three phases of Williams's life: (1) Jonesboro, 1950-1951; (2) Baton Rouge, 1951; and (3) Fayetteville, 1973-1995. Attached to the letters in the first two groups are Dr. Todd's explanatory notes. In one of these addenda Dr. Todd explains the gap in Williams's correspondence from 1951 to 1973. The remainder of the collection comprises printed materials that Dr. Todd collected relating to Miller Williams's career. They include newspaper clippings of articles about Williams's life and works, a photocopy of an interview given by Miller Williams in New Letters in 1989, a photocopy of Williams's essay appearing in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series (vol. 20,1994), reviews of some of Williams's books, photocopies of critical essays discussing Williams's work in The History of Southern Literature (1985) and The Southern Review (1990), a photocopy of Williams's essay "The Line in Poetry" appearing in Antaeus (vols. 30/31, 1978), and a copy of Williams's early volume Et Cetera (Imboden, Ark., Stovall Printing Co., 1952) inscribed to D.D.Todd.
