William Faulkner and Ruth Ford Collection [manuscript], 1948-1990.

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William Faulkner and Ruth Ford Collection [manuscript], 1948-1990.

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Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, contracts, printed material, newsclippings, reviews, publicity material, and photographs pertinent to William Faulkner, Ruth Ford and the writing and production of "Requiem for a Nun." The collection contains nine letters and notes from Faulkner to Ford, 1948[?]-1952, chiefly concerning visits to New York, "Requiem for a nun," and their romance. Correspondence with Faulkner scholars, family members and friends particularly Louis Daniel Brodsky, as well as Lemuel Ayers, Albert R. Erskine, Robert Hamblin, Barbara Izard, Albert Marre, Noel Polk, Robert Henry Rubin, Judith Sensibar, Jill Faulkner Summers, and Dean Faulkner Wells discusses publications, conferences, exhibitions, theater adaptations, film rights, purchase of manuscripts, and placement of Zachary Scott materials. Of interest is a note about a racial disturbance at the 1965 Southern Literary Festival. The papers also contain papers pertinent to Ford's participation in literary events including the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi, 1987, the Southern Literary Festival, 1965, and the Mississipi Arts Festival, 1965. In addition there are two VCR tapes: "William Faulkner's Mississippi," 1965, narrated by Montgomery Cliff and Zachary Scott, and "Faulkner and the craft of fiction," a talk by Ruth Ford at a Faulkner conference at the University of Mississippi. In addition the collection contains a theses "The decline of Faulkner's art" by Leila Clark Wynn; poetry by Brodsky; postcards of the University of Mississipi; and printed items regarding the Brodsky collection of Faulkner.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Polk, Noel

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Faulkner scholar, English professor and editor of the Mississippi Quarterly and the Southern Quarterly. From the description of Noel Polk editorial papers from the Library of America and Random House editions of the works of William Faulkner [manuscript], 1968-2000. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 228069932 From the description of Faulkner in the University [manuscript], 2008 April 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 277040640 ...

Wynn, Leila Downs Clark, 1932-

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University of Mississippi

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Sensibar, Judith L. (Judith Levin), 1941-

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Rubin, Robert Henry,

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Brodsky, Louis Daniel

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Poet and Faulkner scholar, Louis Daniel Brodsky was born St. Louis, Missouri in 1941 and attended Yale University. His comprehensive Faulkner collection is housed at Southeast Missouri State University. From the description of Louis Daniel Brodsky Collection, 1981-1983. (University of Mississippi). WorldCat record id: 631919657 ...

Marre, Albert

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Izard, Barbara.

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Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference 1987 : University of Mississippi)

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Hamblin, Robert W.

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Wells, Dean Faulkner

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Summers, Jill Faulkner,

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Scott, Zachary, 1914-1965

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Actor. From the description of Reminiscences of Zachary Scott : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122480974 ...

Ayers, Lemuel

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Award winning designer of sets and costumes and a theatrical producer, Lemuel Ayers (1915-1955) had a brief but brilliant career with extensive Broadway credits including High button shoes and Oklahoma! He was born in New York City and received a degree in architecture from Princeton University and a degree in drama from the University of Iowa. From the guide to the Lemuel Ayers set designs, elevations and blueprints, 1941-1954, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Divisi...

Ford, Ruth, 1911-2009

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Actress. From the description of Papers of Ruth Ford [manuscript], 1947-1965. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647845310 From the description of Papers of Ruth Ford, 1947-1965. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136577 Actress Ruth Ford was born on July 7, 1911 in Brookhaven, Mississippi to Charles and Gertrude Cato Ford. Her parents owned and managed hotels in several southern towns; as a result Ford and her brother, the poet, novelist and...

Southern Literary Festival

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Mississippi Arts Festival (1965)

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Erskine, Albert, 1911-1993

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Random House editor. From the description of Albert Erskine papers, 1930-1999. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647994034 From the description of Papers of Albert Erskine pertaining to William Faulkner [manuscript], 1931-1973. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647911508 Random House Editor. From the description of Correspondence of Albert Erskine with and about William Faulkner and Random House [manuscript], 1931-1972. (Universit...

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

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American fiction writer. From the description of Papers of William Faulkner [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647809728 From the description of Jacket, [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647811922 From the description of Uncorrected galley proof of The Faulkner reader [manuscript], 1954 April 1. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647809700 From the description of Photograph, 1962 Mar. 2...