Papers regarding Erskine Caldwell [manuscript] 1973.

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Papers regarding Erskine Caldwell [manuscript] 1973.

The collection contains a greeting card and a letter with a clipping for Hench from Virginia Moffett Fletcher Caldwell. Also included are a letter and an invitation from Joseph Wightman for Hench to attend commencement at Erskine College, Due West, S.C. in June 1973, a clipping about Caldwell's address at that graduation and three magazine articles about Caldwell.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7926848

University of Virginia. Library

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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...

Caldwell, Virginia Moffett Fletcher,

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Erskine College (Due West, S.C.)

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Wightman, J. (Joseph),

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Hench, Atcheson Laughlin, 1891-1974

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Professor of English at the University of Virginia. From the description of Letter of Atcheson Laughlin Hench to Dr. and Mrs. Edward Harper Rynearson [manuscript], 1950 October 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647821141 Professor of English at the University of Virginia, 1922-1962. From the description of Oral history interview of Atcheson L. Hench by Ann L.S. Southwell [manuscript], March 15, 1972. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 6...