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Amazing Grace Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0350
Abstract

This collection includes manuscripts and galley proof material with handwritten edits and notes for Amazing Grace by Robert Drake.

Dates: circa 1960

Cyril Kay-Scott's Blind Mice Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2282
Abstract

The Cyril Kay-Scott's Blind Mice Manuscript includes his hand-written undated manuscript Blind Mice. Each of the five delicate volumes is covered with rewrites.

Dates: undated

David C. Moore Bibliographic Essay on Alex Haley's Roots

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2486
Abstract

This collection contains a manuscript copy of David Chioni Moore's 1994 essay entitled, "Revisiting a Silenced Giant: Alex Haley's Roots: A Bibliographic Essay, and Research Report on the Haley Archives at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville." Moore's article was later published in Resources for American Library Study, 22 (Summer 1996): 195-249.

Dates: 1994

David Madden Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3144
Abstract

This collection houses manuscripts that David Madden edited and promoted as well as advance copies of publications that David Madden reviewed. The manuscripts, all of which were meant to published as books, concern such Civil War topics as the battle of Gettysburg, black soldiers, Confederate submarines, and the lives of individual soldiers. Also included is a copy of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Palmetto Days.

Dates: 1862-1865, 1995-2000

David Madden Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0632
Abstract

Collection contains manuscripts of plays and books written by David Madden, including play manuscripts, notes and rough drafts for several novels, early manuscripts, printer's copies, proofs, and other work related to Madden's publications.

Dates: circa 1960s-1970s

David Madden Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0515
Abstract

This collection houses short story and poetry manuscripts written by Southern author David Madden.

Dates: undated

David Madden Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3038
Abstract

This collection contains manuscripts of novels and stories written by Madden's friends, clients, and other writers who asked him to evaluate and review their works.

Dates: 1990-2006

"Honest Simplicity in William Carlos Williams' "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower""

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3809
Abstract

This collection is a manuscript written by Marilyn Kallet entitled "Honest Simplicity in William Carlos Williams' "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"". In it, Kallet provides a study of the effect of turmoil on William Carlos Williams' output and theorizing. For Kallet, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" is a poem that reaches into the depths of Williams' creative spirit.

Dates: 1985

John Burroughs, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Nature Fakers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1629
Abstract In this manuscript, Broadus Farrar discusses John Burroughs' criticism of and Theodore Roosevelt's reaction to the nature fakers (nature writers who became popular in the early 20th century with nominally factual works anthropomorphizing wild animals). Burroughs began the campaign against these authors in his strongly worded Real and Sham Natural History (1903), but the fakers were not defeated until 1907, when Theodore Roosevelt gave an interview to ...
Dates: circa 1959

Richard Marius Literary Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3779
Abstract

This collection consists of partial and complete manuscript copies of author Richard Marius' first novels: The Coming of Rain, Luther, Once in Arcadia (published as After the War), and Bound for the Promised Land.

Dates: 1967-1975, undated

Robert Drake Essays on Flannery O'Connor

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0394
Abstract

This collection consists of several early and published versions of Robert Drake essays on author Flannery O'Connor.

Dates: 1965-1966

Robert Drake Reel-to-reel Audiotapes

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2524
Abstract

This collection contains two reel-to-reel audiotapes of Dr. Robert Drake, a 1963/1965 broadcasted reading of stories from his first book, Amazing Grace, and a panel discussion recording from the 1969 Southern Literary Festival.

Dates: 1963-1969

"Songs and Tales from Fairyland"

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0466
Abstract

This collection includes “Songs and Tales from Fairyland” by Alexander Abbey Piper. The verses and songs are dated June 1927–June 1931. The subjects of the verses and songs include love, spirituality, and stories for children. The book was a present to John C. Hodges from Piper and includes a handwritten inscription by Piper in the front of the book dated June 1931.

Dates: 1927 June-1931 June

The Night of the Hunter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3795
Abstract

Collection containing original 259 page edited manuscript for Davis Grubb's 1953 acclaimed novel The Night of the Hunter, fifteen pages of front matter drafting and publication instructions, and three pictures from the set of the 1955 film adapation directed by Charles Laughton.

Dates: 1953-1955

The Writer and His Tradition Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0576
Abstract This collection consists of three copies of the panel discussion and drafts of the forward written for the 1969 Southern Literary Festival which was held at the University of Tennessee. The theme of the festival was The Writer and His Tradition and focused mainly on American Southern writers and literary scholars. The materials in this collection cover commentary from a panel discussion led by Robert Drake. The panel members were Cleanth Brooks, James Dickey, and...
Dates: 1969 April 17-19