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Authors, American -- Southern States.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

David Madden Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0276
Abstract

This collection contains manuscripts, articles, essays, and book reviews pertaining to Southeastern author David Madden.

Dates: 1961-1972

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-0515
Abstract

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

Dates: undated

David Madden Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2637
Abstract

This collection consists of notes, manuscripts, page proofs, and galley proofs relating to author David Madden. The works most prominently represented are Madden's collection of short stories entitled The Shadow Knows (originally published by LSU Press in 1970) and two series that he edited: Classics of Civil War Fiction and Beyond the Battlefield.

Dates: 1968-2001

David Madden Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3188
Abstract

This collection consists of manuscripts dated 1995 and 1998 that were reviewed, and in some cases published, by David Madden while he was director of the United States Civil War Center at Louisiana State University. These works include non-fictional accounts of the Battles of Chancellorsville and Ulyesses and fictional works with Civil War or Southern themes.

Dates: 1995, 1998, undated

David Madden Tapes

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2994
Abstract

This collection houses audiotapes and video tapes documenting interviews and public presentations given by David Madden.

Dates: 1984-1989

George Garrett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3297
Abstract

This collection houses a variety of material documenting George Garrett's scholarly and literary career. Although some of these items show Garrett's early work, the majority of the material is more recent. Of particular interest is the material documenting Garrett's Southern Excursions: Views on Southern Letters in My Time (2003).

Dates: 1966-2003 (bulk 2001-2003)

James Perkins' Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren (Volume 3) Material

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3057
Abstract

This collection contains material for the 2006 publication Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Triumph and Transition, 1943-1952 (Volume 3), edited by Randy Hendricks, James A. Perkins, and William Bradford Clark. Most of the material is copies of Warren's letters with edits by Perkins. There are also drafts and a page proof of the manuscript, as well as correspondence with the publisher, Louisiana State University Press.

Dates: 2004-2006, undated

Richard Beale Davis Introduction

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0716
Abstract

Richard Beale Davis wrote this introduction for the 1970 edition of William Wirt's Letters of the British Spy. In it, he discusses each of the ten letters in detail, places them in the context of Wirt's early 19th century Virginia, and examines how they were received when they were first published in the Virginia Argus in 1803.

Dates: circa 1970

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

Robert W. Daniel Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0354
Abstract

This collection includes 11 handwritten and typed letters from 1937-1953. The earliest letters, from the 1930s, are addressed to Henry J. W. Milley and are in relation to his work on English author Wilkie Collins. The remaining letters are addressed to Robert W. Daniel about his work. Notable correspondents to Daniel include American authors Eudora Welty, Allen Tate, and John Crowe Ransom.

Dates: 1937-1953

Stephen L. Mooney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0989
Abstract

The Stephen L. Mooney Papers, 1949-1971, house poetry and essay manuscripts, correspondence with other poets concerning the Tennessee Poetry Journal, personal and professional correspondence, teaching materials, and other files relating to Mooney's life and career as a poet, editor and English professor.

Dates: 1949-1971

Tennessee Library Association Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0353
Abstract This collection includes 27 handwritten and typewritten letters sent to officers in the Tennessee Library Association (TLA) between 1958 and 1964. Several of the letters are written to TLA presidents Ruth Ringo and Dorothy Ryan in response to requests for appearances. Notable correspondents include authors Eudora Welty, Wilma Dykeman Stokely, and Bergen Evans. A photograph of Evans and newspaper clippings from Nashville papers on Evans' appearance at the 1959 TLA convention are also...
Dates: 1958 October 28-1964 April 24

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

Warren Kimsey Manuscripts and Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0720
Abstract This collection houses manuscripts of several of Warren Kimsey's short stories (including "Alley Rats," "The Bloodhound Trail," and "Bandy") and nonfiction pieces (including "A Short Southern States History" and "Removing and Rebuilding the Brown Thrashers' Nest") in addition to lecture programs, transcribed newspaper clippings praising Kimsey's presentations about birds, and correspondence between Kimsey and Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. about the studio's acquiring the movie rights to...
Dates: 1934 July 24-1940 May 13

Wilma Dykeman and James R. Stokely Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3800
Abstract

The Wilma Dykeman and James R. Stokely Jr. Papers contain personal and family related-material, correspondence, research material, manuscripts, and visual media pertaining to the life and works of author and historian Wilma Dykeman and her husband, poet James R. Stokely Jr. The collection spans 1807-2011 with the bulk of the material dating between 1934 and 2007.

Dates: 1807-2011, undated; Majority of material found within 1934 - 2007