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WDS Correspondence, 1971 October

 File — Box: 40, Folder: 20
Identifier: G
From the Sub-Series:

Wilma Dykeman continues her prolific writing career in the 1970s with letters recording her researching, writing, publishing, and promoting processes for Return the Innocent Earth (1973, at one point referred to as The Root and The Claw), Too Many People, Too Little Love (1974), Tennessee: A Bicentennial History (1975), Tennessee Women: Past and Present (with editor Carol Lynn Yellin, 1977) and With Fire and Sword: The Battle of Kings Mountain, 1780 (1978). The 1970s also mark when she begins collaborating with her sons Dykeman and James Stokely III on writing projects such as Highland Homeland (with Jim Stokely, 1978) and Appalachian Mountains (with Dykeman Stokely, 1980). James R. Stokely Jr.’s correspondence with his family, friends, business associates, and newspaper editors cease with his death in 1977.

Dates

  • 1971 October

Language

From the Collection:

The material in this collection is in English.

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Extent

From the Collection: 97.5 Linear Feet

Repository Details

Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository

Contact:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville TN 37996 USA
865-974-4480