Papers of Virginia Hunter Lyne Tunstall [manuscript] 1869-1959.

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Papers of Virginia Hunter Lyne Tunstall [manuscript] 1869-1959.

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Correspondence is addressed to Mrs. Tunstall and her husband Robert Baylor Tunstall. Principle correspondents who discuss her work and their own are: Emily Tapscott Clark Balch, Isabel Fiske Conant, Ellen Glasgow, Armistead Churchill Gordon, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Leonora Speyer, Allen Tate and Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy. Miss Rees, Tate and Princess Troubetzkoy enclose poems. Rawlings and Tate comment upon Ellen Glasgow, and Tate remarks on: Hervey Allen, Stringfellow Barr, James Branch Cabell, Hart Crane, William Faulkner, France in the late 1920's, the Southern Writers Convention, U. Va., 1931, and evaluates Mrs. Tunstall's book of poems A white sail set. Other correspondents are: Edwin Anderson Alderman, Donald Davison, Armistead Chuchill Gordon, Leigh Hanes, Margaret Mitchell, Caroline Gordon Tate, Pierre Troubetzkoy, Irwin Wallace, James Southall Wilson, and editors and publishers of various poetry magazines of the 1920's. Scrapbooks, 1921-51 & 1923-59, contain clippings of Mrs. Tunstall's poems and their reviews, of her speeches and talks, of her reviews of other author's works, Christmas cards, 1932-57, containing original poems, invitations to and membership cards of various literary societies. Also souvenirs of European trips, theater programs, telegrams sent on death of Mr. Tunstall and obituaries -- Album, 1869, kept by Isabel Merclin Meiser Tunstall [1 v.].

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