Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: Collection of material documenting the work of David McDowell especially as it relates to author James Agee.One portion of this collection houses material that David McDowell gathered for his unfinished biography of James Agee. This includes numerous examples of Agee's work, including some unpublished materials. Among these items are notes, poems, manuscripts about John Carter, two unpublished chapters of A Death in the Family, an issue of the ...