Memorabilia of the Clifton Waller Barrett family [manuscript] 1950-1992.

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Memorabilia of the Clifton Waller Barrett family [manuscript] 1950-1992.

The collection consists primarily of family photographs taken at "Arcadia," the Grolier Club, the Walpole Society, the Lake Placid Club, the Special Collections Dept. of the University of Virginia Library, and Europe. Subjects include Erskine and Virginia Caldwell. In addition the collection includes Edgar F. Shannon's "Remarks at the Funeral of Clifton Waller Barrett," 1991, a postcard from Louis Auchincloss, and a note from Virginia and Erskine Caldwell.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7923118

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.

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Walpole Society (U.S.)

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Grolier Club

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The Grolier Club was founded in Jan. 23, 1884 by a group of seven New York City book collectors with the object, as stated in its constitution, "of literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." From its early days the Club has maintained a library related to collecting, bibliography and books about books. A library endowment fund (sometimes referred to as the "Library Fund) for the Grolier Club was first proposed in 1921, and the first fund-raising campaign amo...

Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987

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Erskine Preston Caldwell was born in White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia, the son of Ira Sylvester Caldwell, a minister, and Caroline Bell, a teacher. Caldwell much later believed that being brought up as a minister's son in the Deep South was "my good fortune in life," for his family's frequent moves to different congregations in the region gave him an intimate knowledge of the people, localities, and ways of life that would inform his fiction and documentary writing. As a youth he observed, with...

Shannon, Edgar Finley, 1918-1997

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President Emeritus of the University of Virginia. From the description of Remarks at the funeral of Clifton Waller Barrett, 1991 November 11 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647829572 Fourth President of the University of Virginia; graduated from Washington and Lee University; Rhodes Scholar, Merton College, Oxford, PhD; U.S. Naval Officer, WWII; Central Intelligence Agency; Domestic Activities Investigating Committee; established Foundation for Ex...

Lake Placid Club

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Arcadia (Albemarle County, Va. : Dwelling)

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Caldwell, Virginia

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American painter and wife of author Erskine Caldwell. From the description of Letter, card and photograph for Cornelia and Waller Barrett [manuscript], 1984 August 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810919 ...

Auchincloss, Louis

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American novelist, short-story writer, lawyer, historian and critic Louis Auchincloss (1917- ) was born in Lawrence, New York. Auchincloss attended Yale University from 1935 to 1939 and was an editor of the Yale Literary Magazine during his studies there. Auchincloss graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1941. While practicing law in New York State from 1941 to 1986, he penned many of his novels and short stories. He is best known for his novels of manners set in the world of c...

Barrett, Clifton Waller, 1901-1991

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Bibliophile. From the description of Photoprints of Barrett's personal library in New York City [manuscript], ca. 1955. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647805897 Rare book collector. From the description of Letter: 1981 June 1, [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647826922 From the description of Notebook [manuscript], 1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810688 From the description of Addr...

Barrett, Cornelia,

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