Corneille McCarn Correspondence
This collection containing 15 folders of letters to poet Corneille McCarn covers approximately 30 years of correspondence with McCarn family and friends.
See MS.2707 Jefferson McCarn Collection.
Dates
- 1909-1958
- Majority of material found within 1920-1929
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Extent
1 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection containing 15 folders of letters to poet Corneille McCarn covers approximately 30 years of correspondence with McCarn family and friends.
Biographical/Historical Note
Corneille McCarn was born to Jefferson B. and Mary D. (Allison) McCarn in Nashville, Tennessee in approximately 1900. Corneille grew up in East Nashville where her father was attorney general for Davidson County. The family moved to Hawaii in 1913 when Jefferson McCarn was appointed Attorney General of the Territory of Hawaii. Corneille attended Vanderbilt University, where she was the first woman to publish in The Fugitive, the poetry journal published by the famed Fugitive poets. She married Dr. Anthony Warren Rucker (1900-1979) in 1927. Throughout her lifetime she continued to write at her home in Martinsville, Virginia. Every Christmas for more than 50 years she sent a Christmas poem to her friends and published a collection of these letters called Christmas is Love in 1987. Corneille lived several of her last years in Franklin, Tenn. Corneille died on August 8th, 1989 in Charlottsville, Virginia.
Acquisition Note
Collection was purchased May 26, 2006
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository