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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 McDowell gathered for his unfinished biography of Agee. The other portion contains items showing McDowell's career in the publishing industry.

Abstract The James Agee and James Agee Trust Collection, circa 1920-2003, contains materials belonging to James Agee, his family, and the James Agee Trust, which was established to protect the rights of his widow Mia and their three children. Material related to Agee himself includes an abundance of correspondence (with his wives, his mother Mrs. Erskine (Laura) Wright, and friends and co-workers, such as David McDowell, Charlie and Oona Chaplin, Robert Fitzgerald, Archibald Macleish, Walker Evans,...

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This collection contains ten letters sent from James Agee to Tamara Comstock between August 1954 and March 1955. The letters detail Agee's personal life (recounting events surrounding the birth of his last child and his health problems), his writing (updating her on his current professional projects and struggles with his personal work), and some discussion of Agee and Comstock's relationship.

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Two letters written by James Agee to Henry Steig and Lincoln Kirstein.

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This collection includes personal and professional material of James Agee's including correspondence, personal papers, literary manuscripts, screenplays, novels, and other publications as well as photographs and cassette readings of his works.

Abstract This collection houses correspondence, notebooks that Agee kept during his travels to Alabama and Cuba, movie reviews, and such personal effects as drivers licenses from New York and California and a bank book from the West Side Savings Bank. Much of the correspondence was written between James Agee and his third wife, Mia (Fritsch) Agee, and between James Agee and his mother, Laura (Tyler) Agee Wright. ***Materials in box 2 are currently closed to researchers except by permission of the...