Richard Croom Beatty Papers

CORRESPONDENCE-OUTGOING-INCOMING-POEMS

Box 1

1. Correspondence (Outgoing)
2. Correspondence (Incoming, A – B)
3. Correspondence (Incoming, C)
4. Correspondence (Incoming, Donald Davidson)
5. Correspondence (Incoming, E – G)
6. Correspondence (Incoming, H – J)
7. Correspondence (Incoming, W.S. Knickerbocker)
8. Correspondence (Incoming, L)
9. Correspondence (Incoming, M – N)
10. Correspondence (Incoming, George Marion O’Donnell)
11. Correspondence (Incoming, O – Q)
12. Correspondence (Incoming, R)
13. Correspondence (Incoming, S)
14. Correspondence (Incoming, Allen Tate)
15. Correspondence (Incoming, W)
16. Correspondence (Incoming, incomplete signatures)
17. Poems by Richmond C. Beatty, 1934 – 1935
18. Poems by Richmond C. Beatty, 1935 – 1936 (1)
19. Poems by Richmond C. Beatty, 1935 – 1936 (2)
20. Poems by Richmond C. Beatty, 1935 – 1936 (3)
21. Poems by Richmond C. Beatty, 1939 – 1940
22. Poems by Richmond C. Beatty, 1941 – 1942; 1945; 1948
23. Poems by Richmond C. Beatty, 1949
24. Poems by Richmond C. Beatty, 1950
25. Poems by Richmond C. Beatty, undated
26. Poems by Richmond C. Beatty, undated fragments

WRITINGS

Box 2

1. Manuscript of James Russell Lowell (1) [Preface, Chapters I – VI]
2. Manuscript of James Russell Lowell (2) [Chapters VII – XIII]
3. Manuscript of James Russell Lowell (3) ‘Chapters XIV – XX]
4. Manuscript of James Russell Lowell (4) [Chapters XXI – XXIV]
5. Manuscript of Lord Macaulay: Victorian Liberal (1)
6. Manuscript of Lord Macaulay: Victorian Liberal (2)
7. Manuscript of Lord Macaulay: Victorian Liberal (3)
8. Manuscript of Lord Macaulay: Victorian Liberal (4)
9. Manuscript of Lord Macaulay: Victorian Liberal (5)
10. Manuscript of Lord Macaulay: Victorian Liberal (6)
11. Manuscript fragment, proposal and notes for Lord Macaulay: Victorian Liberal
12. Lord Macaulay: Victorian Liberal excerpts; Trevelyan’s notes

WRITINGS

Box 3

1. Manuscript of Biographies of American Authors (1)
2. Manuscript of Biographies of American Authors (2)
3. Manuscript of Biographies of American Authors (3)
4. Manuscript of Biographies of American Authors (4)
5. Manuscript of Biographies of American Authors (5)
6. Manuscript of The Southern Renaissance (1918 – 1950), Chapter I, “The Renaissance Per Se” (pages 1 – 25)
7. Manuscript of The Southern Renaissance (1918 – 1950), Chapter II, “Recent Southern Political Figures”
8. Manuscript of The Southern Renaissance (1918 – 1950), Chapter III, “Recent Southern Magazines . . .”
9. Manuscript of The Southern Renaissance (1918 – 1950), Chapter IV, “The Revisionist School of Southern Historians”
10. Manuscript of The Southern Renaissance (1918 – 1950), Chapter V, “Literary Criticism”
11. Manuscript of The Southern Renaissance (1918 – 1950), Chapter VI – C, “Robert Penn Warren”
12. Manuscript of The Southern Renaissance (1918 -1950), Chapter VI – B, “The Ordeal of Thomas Wolfe” (pages 209 – 232)
13. Manuscript of The Nashville Group (1) John Crowe Ransom (pages 26 – 53)
14. Manuscript of The Nashville Group (2) Allen Tate (pages 54 – 75)
15. Manuscript of The Nashville Group (3) Donald Davidson (pages 76 – 97)
16. Manuscript of The Nashville Group (4) Robert Penn Warren (pages 98 – 121)
17. Manuscript of The Woman’s Vision (Ellen Glasgow, Elizabeth M. Roberts, Caroline Gordon) [pages 122 – 154]
18. Manuscript of “Eudora Welty and Katherine Ann Porter” (pages 155 – 169)
19. Manuscript of Four Poets (Jarrell, Bishop, Stuart, Moore) [pages 244 – 272]
20. Manuscript of “Hugh Henry Brackenridge on Frontier Democracy”
21. Manuscript of “Irving as Humorist”
22. Manuscript fragment (American Poetry: Pound, Eliot, Tate, Crane)
23. Manuscripts of book reviews by Beatty
24. Manuscript of A Biographical History of English Literature (1)
25. Manuscript of A Biographical History of English Literature (2)
26. Manuscript of A Biographical History of English Literature (3)
27. Manuscript of “A Reaction to Keats”
28. Manuscript of “Macaulay and Carlyle”

NOTES – WRITINGS

Box 4

1. Notes: American Literature (General)
2. Notes: Emerson
3. Notes: Thoreau, etc.
4. Notes: Southern Literature, etc.
5. Notes: Fugitives, etc.
6. Grade book, lecture notebook, etc.
7. Notes: English and Continental Literature
8. Miscellaneous manuscripts and notes
9. Manuscript of “A Note on Proletarian Aesthetic”
10. Manuscript of “College Presidents (A Note on Apostasy)”
11. Biographical and autobiographical material
12. Reviews of Beatty’s books, etc.
13. English 302; 304: Ph.D. examinations (University of Chicago)
14. Notes and syllabi : English 535 (American Literature)
15. Vanderbilt University theses in English through 1948

PHOTOGRAPHS – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS – MISCELLANEOUS

Box 5

1. Table of Contents, etc.
2. Miscellaneous
3. Photographs and sketches
4. Manuscripts by others (1)
5. Miscellaneous manuscripts by others (2)
6. Agrarian documents
7. Poems by others
8. Primary stories
9. Lowell correspondence (1)
10. Lowell correspondence (2)
11. Lowell correspondence (3)
12. Newspaper clippings of book reviews by Beatty (1930s)
13. Newspaper clippings of book reviews by Beatty (1940s)
14. Newspaper clippings of book reviews by Beatty (1950s)
15. Newspaper clippings of reviews of William Byrd (1932)
16. Newspaper clippings of reviews of Bayard Taylor (1937)
17. Newspaper clippings of reviews of Lord Macaulay (1939)
18. Newspaper clippings of reviews of James R. Lowell (1942)
19. Newspaper clippings of reviews of books edited by Beatty (1940 - 1945)
20. Newspaper clippings of items about Beatty
21. Newspaper clippings of items about Beatty family
22. Newspaper clippings referring to Davidson, Cheney, and Warren
23. Newspaper clippings referring to friends of Beatty
24. Newspaper clippings of miscellaneous book reviews
25. Miscellaneous newspaper clippings

JOURNAL AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Box 6

1. “Seminal Emissions” (pamphlet) by James C. Jackson, M.D.
   Reviews in brief of Beatty’s Lord Macaulay
   Miscellaneous manuscript notes (three sheets)
   “Digging Up Daylight” from The American Review (pamphlet)
   Handwritten memo dated March 30, 1960
2. The Saturday Review of Literature (December 26, 1936) (two copies)
   Newsweek (January 23, 1939)
   The Nation (February 11, 1939)
3. The Saturday Review of Literature (June 24, 1950)
   The New Republic (March 8, 1939)
4. River: A Magazine in the Deep South (June 1937) (two copies)
   The Observer: A Literary publication (October – November, 1933)
   The Hopkins Review (Summer 1951)
5. “The Ninth Part of Speech (A Verse Letter: To Louis Zahner) by Donald Davidson [inscribed by Davidson]
   These Fragments (pamphlet) by George Marion O’Donnell [Reprint from the April Number of The Sewanee Review, 1935]
   Rains (Pluies) St.-John Pearse (1945)
   The Fugitive: Clippings and Comment Collected by Merrill Moore (literary magazine)
6. “The Ocular History of James Joyce” by Noah D. Fabricant, M.D.
   “William Byrd and the Virginian Author of The Wanderer” by Kenneth Ballard Murdock [Reprinted from Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, Volume 17 (1935)]
   “A Great Teacher’s Legacy” (Tribute to Edwin Mims) [one sheet]
   “Poe and the Southern Literary Tradition” by Jay B. Hubbell [Reprint from the University of Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Volume II, Number 2,  Summer 1960]
   The Saturday Review of Literature (January 23, 1943)
   The English Journal (April, 1954)
   “The New South and the Conservative Tradition” by Donald Davidson (pamphlet) [inscribed by Davidson]
   “Waltzing Matilda” by William Power (graduate student in English at Vanderbilt)
   “Structural Devices in the Works of Faulkner” by Harry Campbell [inscribed by author]
   Governor Robert L. Taylor and the Blair Educational Bill in Tennessee by Daniel M. Robison (1932)
   The Political Background of Tennessee’s War of the Roses by Daniel M. Robison
   Tennessee Politics and the Agrarian Revolt (1886 -1896) by Daniel M. Robison (1933)
7. Vanderbilt Alumnus (December 1939)
   Fundamentals of Air Fighting (pamphlet)
   VU 75 (brochure of Vanderbilt history in brief)
8. Review of James Russell Lowell (1942) by Roy F. Nichols of University of Pennsylvania
   Review of Wright and Tinling’s The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709 – 1712 by Beatty
   The Southwestern Journal (December 1934)
   “Brief Articles and Notes” (pamphlet of varied literary commentaries) [two copies]
   The South Atlantic Quarterly (April, 1948)

INDEX CARDS

Box 7

Miscellaneous handwritten notes on index cards

CORRESPONDENCE – WRITINGS

Box 8

1. Correspondence (Outgoing) July 5, 1943 – November 8, 1943
2. Correspondence (Outgoing) November 9, 1943 – January 11, 1944
3. Correspondence (Outgoing) January 13, 1944
4. Correspondence (Outgoing) Undated
5. Correspondence (Incoming) B – Davidson, W.W.
6. Correspondence (Incoming) Davidson, Donald – Leatherman
7. Correspondence (Incoming) McCarthy – Ransom
8. Correspondence (Incoming) Rose – Stuart
9. Correspondence (Incoming) Sullivan – Tate
10. Correspondence (Incoming) Taylor – Williams
11. Correspondence (Incoming) Woods – Unidentified
12. Manuscript: Dedication, Preface, Title Page, Table of Contents
13. Manuscript: Notes on the Authors
14. Manuscript: “Writing at Vanderbilt” by Beatty
15. Manuscript: Introduction
16. Manuscript: Introduction
17. Manuscripts of entries: Boone and Brooks (Prose)
18. Manuscripts of entries: Cheney and Davidson (Prose)
19. Manuscripts of entries: Haun and Lytle (Prose)
20. Manuscripts of entries: Nixon and Owsley (Prose)
21. Manuscripts of entries: Parks (Prose)
22. Manuscripts of entries: Ransom (Prose)
23. Manuscripts of entries: Still – Stuart (Prose)
24. Manuscripts of entries: Tate – Wade (Prose)
25. Manuscripts of entries: Warren – Woods (Prose)
26. Manuscripts of entries: Clark – Moore (Poetry)
27. Manuscripts of entries: Moses – Parks (Poetry)
28. Manuscripts of entries: Ransom – Tate (Poetry)
29. Manuscripts of entries: Warren – Wills (Poetry)
30. Miscellaneous manuscripts
31. Newspaper clipping: review of Giles J. Patterson’s Journal of a Southern Student (1846 – 1848) which is edited and introduced by Beatty; from The Nashville Banner (January 24, 1945)

WRITINGS

Box 9

Typescript of James Russell Lowell

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