Material regarding Erskine Caldwell [manuscript], 1969-1973.

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Material regarding Erskine Caldwell [manuscript], 1969-1973.

Collection includes material re Erskine Caldwell collection by A. L. Hench. Included are Hench's correspondence with Caldwell, notes from a conversation, and article by Ban Appel with reference to Caldwell, a Roll and Grade book, newspaper clippings re Caldwell's father-in-law, Henry Lannigan; clipping re Caldwell's "Tobacco Road"; and Hench's word list from Caldwell's "In Search of Bisco."

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SNAC Resource ID: 7935214

University of Virginia. Library

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Lannigan, Henry Haden, 1865-1930.

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University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

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...

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...