Papers of James Southall Wilson, 1928-1959.

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Papers of James Southall Wilson, 1928-1959.

The collection contains 11 letters and Christmas cards from James Southall Wilson to Thomas H. Foster together with two photographs of Wilson taken at Breadloaf in 1928 and two letters to Foster from Blair Rouse with a reply. Wilson comments, sometimes with disapproval, on various subjects including summers at Breadloaf, the Virginia Quarterly Review, presidential elections of 1928 and 1932, Henry W. Anderson, Ellen Glasgow, Julia Peterkin, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, James Stephens, Stark Young, Willa Cather as a Virginian, and Joyce's "Ulysses" which he finds "tiresome." Correspondence between Rouse and Foster discusses criticism of Willa Cather and Ellen Glasgow by David Daiches and John Edward Hardy and Rouse's own work on Glasgow. Wilson's 1930 Christmas card is a woodcut by J.J. Lankes.

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Stephens, James, 1882-1950

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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953

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Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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Rouse, Blair, 1912-....

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Young, Stark

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Daiches, David, 1912-2005

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Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-

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Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963

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Hardy, John Edward

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