John G. and Jeannette J. Varner papers, 1934-1992.

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John G. and Jeannette J. Varner papers, 1934-1992.

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The collection contains correspondence, clippings, manuscript drafts and notes, articles and essays, photographs, postcards, and illustration. Many of these materials relate to the various literary works written by the Varners such as The Florida of the Inca (1951), El Inca: the Life and Times of Garcilaso de la Vega (1968), and Dogs of the Conquest (1983).

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Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616

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Varner, John Grier.

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Author, musician, historian, and university professor John Grier Varner and his wife librarian and author Jeannette Johnson Varner lived and worked in Austin, Texas where he taught in the English Department at the University of Texas and she was head reference librarian of the Austin Public Library. They were scholars of Latin American history who spent their free time doing historical and literary research and published a number of works about the conquest and settlement of Latin American. ...

Varner, Jeannette Johnson, 1909-....

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John Grier Varner was born in 1905 in Mount Pleasant, Texas and was raised in Denton. In 1926 he received a B.A. from Austin College. He taught for four years at boys preporatory schools in Mississippi and Tennessee before studying American Literature in graduate school at the University of Virginia. This is where Varner met his future wife Jeannette Johnson, a Montgomery, Alabama native. Jeannette had received her B.A. and M.A. in Romanic Languages and English at the University of ...