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This collection houses poetry, correspondence, and a decoupage made with tatted lace documenting the life and work of Tennessee author May Justus.

This collection contains clippings, correspondence, drafts, and notes documenting Miriam Weiss' book A Lively Corpse: Religion in Utopia (1969).

This collection consists of an 1870 broadside printing of the poem "Adam and Eve in Paradise" by Mrs. Francis B. Fogg (Mary Rutledge Fogg) of Nashville.

Nancy Crampton took this photograph of author Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor in 1975.

This collection documents the work of author Nancy Siler. Included are letters of appreciation from fans, correspondence with publishers, newspaper clippings and announcements, and papers related to Siler's two books, The Peculiar Miss Pickett and Miss Pickett's Secrets. The collection also contains works on the East Tennessee Baptist Hospital and a history of the First Baptist Church of Knoxville all authored by Siler.

The collection contains poetry manuscripts, prose manuscripts, correspondence, clippings, and other materials documenting the life and career of Tennessee author Nell Thompson Miller.

This collection houses materials documenting Peggy Bach's scholarly work, including her unfinished biography of Evelyn Scott.

This collection documents the work of Peggy Bach (and is an addition to MS.2047: Peggy Bach Collection.) Box 1 houses Bach's professional and personal correspondence, arranged alphabetically. Box 2 contains materials documenting Bach's scholarly writing and the grants and fellowships for which she applied. Box 3 shows Bach's efforts to gather Evelyn Scott-related material from other institutions.

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.

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.

This collection contains materials collected by Sarah Ricketts while researching and writing A Window on Eternity (1989), the biography of poet Jane Merchant. Spanning the years 1937-1992, the papers include Merchant's voluminous correspondence, excerpts from her diary, and scrapbooks of her published and unpublished poetry. Also included are the various drafts of Ricketts' book.

This collection consits of a typed manuscript of Iris G. Oster's story, Skyline (1933). Also included are some photographs and newspaper clippings.

This collection houses a galley proof of Harry Harrison Kroll's fictional account of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, entitled Their Ancient Grudge.

This collection houses manuscripts, newspaper clippings, correspondence, journals, photographs, legal agreements, and other materials documenting Will Allen Dromgoole's literary work and family.

The William Broadway Collection on Peter Taylor contains letters, articles, photographs, and writings concerning the Southern author Peter Taylor. Most of the items date from the mid-1980s to Taylor's death in 1994. There are articles on Taylor, including some written by or with photographs by Broadway.

This collection, dating from March and April 1966, contains a signed copy of the book The Far Family by Wilma Dykeman and letters about the book between Dykeman, her husband and writing partner Jim Stokely, and Erich Rosenberg.