Donald Davidson Papers
File List: Boxes 31 - 65

Box 31

Reviews by Davidson

• 1) Seedtime on the Cumberland, by Harriette Simpson Arnow (New York Herald Tribune Book Review, Sept. 4, 1960, pp. 1 and 12)
• 2) Carry Nation, by Herbert Asbury (Creative Reading, November 1, 1929, Vol. III, No. 22)
  
• 3) Agriculture in Modern Life, by O. E. Baker, Ralph Borsodi, and M. L. Wilson (published 1939)
  
• 4) The Folklore of Maine, by Horace P. Beck ( Review for the Middlebury College Newsletter, Autumn 1957, Vol. 32, No. 1)
  
• 5) Texas Folk and Folklore, by Mody C. Boatright, Wilson M. Hudson, and Allen Maxwell ( Journal of American Folklore, Jan. - March 1956, Vol. 69, No. 271 )
  
• 6) This Ugly Civilization, by Ralph Borsodi
  
• 7) A Treasury of Southern Folklore, Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South, edited by B. A. Botkin (Western Folklore, July 1950, Vol. IX, No. 3 )
  
• 8) The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg, by Louis Bromfield (Creative Reading, Feb.15, 1929, Vol. III, No. 9 )
  
• 9) The Committee and Its Critics: A Calm Review of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, by William F. Buckley, Jr. and the Editors of National Review (this review read on The Vanderbilt Radio Station, this book published in 1962 )
  
• 10) The Happy Mountain, by Maristan Chapman (Creative Reading, Sept. 15, 1928, Vol. II, No. 23 )
  
• 11) River Rogue, by Brainard Cheney ( published in 1942 )
  
• 12) Universal Education in the South. In 2 volumes. Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1900, by Charles William Dabney
  
• 13) Liberalism in the South, by Virginius Dabney, 1932 (several copies)
  
• 14) The Astonished Muse, by Revel Denney (National Review, October 12, 1957, Vol. IV, No. 14 )
  
• 15) The Dixie Frontier: A Social History of the Southern Frontier from the First Transmontane Beginnings to the Civil War, by Everett Dick
  
• 16) The King of Elfland's Daughter, by Lord Dunsany (The Guardian, Feb. 1925, Vol. I, No. IV )
  
• 17) Sophocles: Oedipus Rex. An English Version, by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald
  
• 18) Sophocles: Oedipus Rex. An English Version, by Dudley Fitts (Shenandoah, Summer 1950, Vol. I, No. 2 )
  
• 19) God's Angry Man, by Leonard Ehrlich
  
• 20) Shine, Perishing Republic: Robinson Jeffers and the Tragic Sense in Modern Poetry, by Rudolph Gilbert (American Literature, May 1937, Vol.9, No. 2 )
  
• 21) Peter Ashley, by DuBose Heyward
  
• 22) Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America,collected and edited by George Pullen Jackson
  
• 23) Hoxsie Sells His Acres, by Christopher La Farge
  
• 24) The Son of Man, by Emil Ludwig (Creative Reading, Sept. 15, 1928, Vol. II, No. 23 )
  
• 25) American Regionalism, by Howard Odum and Harry Estill Moore (Free America, Oct. 1938, Vol. II, No. 10 )
  
• 26) William Gilmore Simms as Literary Critic, by Edd Winfield Parks (The South Atlantic Quarterly Winter 1962, Vol. LXI, No. 1 )
  
• 27) Grace After Meat, by John Crowe Ransom (The Guardian, Oct. 1925, Vol. II, No. III )
  
• 28) Letters of Ellen Glasgow, edited by Blair Rouse (The New York Times Book Review, Jan. 19, 1958 )
  
• 29) Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier, by Allen Tate (Modern Age: A Conservative Review, Fall 1958, Vol. 2, No. 4 )
  
• 30) The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, edited by Newman Ivey White (The Journal of Southern History, 1952 )
  
• 31) David Lilienthal: Public Servant in a Power Age, by Willson Whitman (published 1948)

Short Story

• 32) The Best Policy

Plays

• 33) Pandora's Box (This play by Davidson was written for a class he taught in Cedar Hill. See letter
  from Ruth Ruffin 1940)
  
• 34) Pandora's Box (2nd copy)
  
• 35) Untitled fragment, p. 8

Interview

• 36) Interview with Thomas Zerfoss, April 30, 1967.

Editing Projects

Tennessean Book Review and Literary Page ( The Sunday Tennessean's Book Page from Sept. 7, 1924 through Oct. 26, 1930, during which period Davidson was Literary Editor of the newspaper, includes also a memorandum for Reviewers which contains the purpose and scope of the book page as determined by Davidson-a few book pages are missing. These are photocopies of the newspaper clippings. The original clippings are in Boxes 54 and 55 of these papers.)

• 37) Sept. 7, 1924 - Sept. 28, 1924
  
• 38) Oct. 5, 1924; Oct. 12; Oct. 26, 1924
  
• 39) Nov. 2, 1924 - Nov. 30, 1924
  
• 40) Dec. 7, 1924 - Dec. 28, 1924
  
• 41) Jan. 11, 1925 - Jan. 25, 1925
  
• 42) Feb. 1, 1925 - Feb. 22, 1925
  
• 43) March 1, 1925 - March 22, 1925
  
• 44) April 5, 1925 - April 26, 1925
  
• 45) May 3, 1925 - May 31, 1925
  
• 46) June 7, 1925 - June 28, 1925
  
• 47) July 5, 1925 - July 26, 1925
  
• 48) Aug. 2, 1925 - August 30, 1925
  
• 49) Sept. 6, 1925; Sept. 20; Sept. 27
  
• 50) Oct. 4, 1925 - Oct. 25, 1925
  
• 51) Nov. 8, 1925; Nov. 22; Nov. 29, 1925
  
• 52) Dec. 6, 1925 - Dec. 27, 1925

Box 32

WRITINGS - Editing Projects (continued)

• 1) Jan. 3, 1926 - Jan. 31, 1926
  
• 2) February 22, 1926
  
• 3) March 1, 1926 - March 8, 1926
  
• 4) April 4, 1926 - April 25, 1926
  
• 5) May 9, 1926 - May 23; May 30, 1926
  
• 6) June 13, 1926; June 27, 1926
  
• 7) August 8, 1926 - Aug. 29, 1926
  
• 8) Sept. 19, 1926; Sept. 26, 1926
  
• 9) Oct. 3, 1926 - Sept. 26, 1926
  
• 10) Nov. 14, 1926; Nov. 28, 1926
  
• 11) Dec. 12, 1926
  
• 12) Jan. 2, 1927 - Jan. 30, 1927
  
• 13) Feb. 13, 1927; Feb. 27, 1927
  
• 14) March 6, 1927 - March 27, 1927
  
• 15) April 3, 1927 - April 24, 1927
  
• 16) May 1, 1927 - May 29, 1927
  
• 17) June 5, 1927 - June 26, 1927
  
• 18) July 3, 1927 - July 31, 1927
  
• 19) Aug. 14, 1927 - Aug. 30, 1927
  
• 20) Sept. 4, 1927 - Sept. 25, 1927
  
• 21) Oct. 2, 1927 - Oct. 30, 1927
  
• 22) Nov. 6, 1927 - Nov. 27, 1927
  
• 23) Dec. 11, 1927; Dec. 18, 1927
  
• 24) Jan. 1, 1928 - Jan. 29, 1928
  
• 25) Feb. 5, 1928; Feb. 12; Feb. 19, 1928
  
• 26) March 4, 1928 - March 25, 1928
  
• 27) April 1, 1928 -April 8, 1928

The Weekly Review-A Page About Books

• 28) April 22, 1928 - April 29, 1928
  
• 29) May 6, 1928 - May 27, 1928
  
• 30) June 3, 1928; June 10, 1928
  
• 31) July 1, 1928; July 8; July 22
  
• 32) August 12, 1928
  
• 33) Sept. 2, 1928 - Sept. 30, 1928
  
• 34) October 7, 1928 - October 28, 1928
  
• 35) Nov. 11, 1928 - Nov. 25, 1928
  
• 36) Dec. 2, 1928 - Dec. 30, 1928
  
• 37) Jan. 6, 1929 - Jan. 27, 1929
  
• 38) Feb. 3, 1929; Feb. 24, 1929
  
• 39) March 3, 1929 - March 31, 1929
  
• 40) April 17, 1929 - April 28, 1929
  
• 41) May 5, 1929 - May 19, 1929
  
• 42) June 2, 1929 - June 30, 1929
  
• 43) July 7, 1929 - July 28, 1929
  
• 44) August 4, 1929 - August 11, 1929
  
• 45) Sept. 1, 1929 - Sept. 29, 1929
  
• 46) Oct. 6, 1929 - Oct. 27, 1929
  
• 47) Nov. 3, 1929; Nov.10; Nov. 24, 1929

Box 33

WRITINGS-Editing Projects (continued)

• 1) Dec. 1, 1929 - Dec. 29, 1929
  
• 2) Jan. 5, 1930 - Jan. 26, 1930
  
• 3) Feb. 2, 1930 - Feb. 23, 1930
  
• 4) March 2, 1930 - March 30, 1930
  
• 5) April 6, 1930 - April 27, 1930
  
• 6) May 4, 1930 - May 25, 1930
  
• 7) June 1, 1930 - June 29, 1930
  
• 8) July 14, 1930; July 20, 1930
  
• 9) Aug. 3, 1930 - Aug. 31, 1930
  
• 10) Sept. 7, 1930; Sept. 21; Sept. 28, 1930
  
• 11) Oct. 5, 1930 - Oct. 26, 1930

(Note: These book review pages are photocopies. Originals are available if needed and are found
in Boxes 54 and 55 of the Davidson Papers.)

PERSONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL

Biographical Sketches and Writings about Davidson

• 12) Biographical data from Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary and Contemporary Authors
  
• 13) Biographical Data-Detailed information supplied by Davidson
  
• 14) Autobiographical Sketch. Publicity Material for Lee in the Mountains, Feb. 1949
  
• 15) "He Clings to Enduring Values," by Louise Davis, The Tennessean, Sept. 4, 1949
  
• 16) "Donald Davidson: 1893 - 1968" by M. E. Bradford in The Southern Review, Autumn 1968 "Donald Davidson and the Calculus of Memory" by M. E. Bradford in Chronicles a Magazine of American Culture, May 1994
  
• 17) "A Durable Fire: Donald Davidson and the Profession of Letters" by Melvin E. Bradford.
  
• 18) Honorary Degree, Washington and Lee University, 1949-Correspondence, Program, Clippings
  
• 19) "Donald Davidson and the Dynamics of Nostaglia" by Charles Edward Eaton, The Georgia Review, Fall 1966
  
• 20) Interview with Donald Davidson by Nasse Paquerette, 1967
  
• 21) Fragment "For Donald Davidson . . ." and Program Columbia University Concert of Original Compositions 1922-23 "Have You Seen My Love?" by Davidson.
  
• 22) A Toast to Donald Davidson, date and author unknown.

Personal and Financial Records

• 23) Military Service, 1918 -
  
• 24) The American Battle Monuments Commission, 1929, re: 81st Infantry Division, World War I
  
• 25) Wildcat Reunion, Military Service, 1936
  
• 26) Bills and Receipts, 1919 - 1954
  
• 27) Bills and Receipts, 1933 - 1938
  
• 28) Davidson's List of Books for Sale
  
• 29) Lease, 3612 Central Avenue, 1937
  
• 30) Photographs of Davidson and his family (not dated and most not identified)
  
• 31) Travelling notebook-Georgia notes, 1947; Carolina trip,etc.
  
• 32) Statement for Mr. Manning Pattillo-the Lilly Endowment; Answers to editorial queries; receipt from the Poetry Society of South Carolina.

Family Papers

• 33) Program Mary Davidson piano recital, June 11, 1931
  
• 34) "Short Biography of Theresa Sherrer Davidson" from The Rivers of America by Carol Fitzgerald published in 2001.
  
• 35) A Study in Roman Administrative Law, A Condensation of a Thesis by Theresa Sherrer Davidson,
  Vanderbilt University, Department of Classics, 1944.

Box 34

LITERARY CAREER

American Composition and Rhetoric
Publicity

• 1) American Composition and Rhetoric
  
• 2) American Composition and Rhetoric
  
• 3) American Composition and Rhetoric
  
• 4) American Composition and Rhetoric
  
• 5) American Composition and Rhetoric
  
• 6) American Composition and Rhetoric
  
• 7) Publicity about other Davidson works.

Teachers' Critiques
Miscellaneous Notes

• 8) Teachers' Critiques and Miscellaneous Notes

The Attack on Leviathan

• 9) Reviews (4)
• A) By Herbert Agar
• B) By Richmond Croom Beatty in Nashville Banner
• C) By Russell Kirk in The National Review, June 18, 1963, Vol. XIV, No. 24
• D) By unknown reviewer

Big Ballad Jamboree

• 10) Correspondence
  
• 11) Prospectus and Chapters
  
• 12) Notes

Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems

• 13) Correspondence, Outgoing and Incoming (20), 1948 - 49
  
• 14) Reviews
• A) By George Marion O'Donnell
• B) Vanderbilt Alumnus, Nov. 1938

The Long Street

• 15) Reviews (3)
  
  • A) By Kenneth England in South Atlantic Bulletin, Nov., 1962
    
  • B) By Louise Cowan in The Georgia Review, Summer 1962, Vol. XVI, No. 2
    
  • C) Press Release from The Vanderbilt University Press, October 1961

Poems, 1922 -1961

• 16) Reviews (8)
  
  • A) By Howell Pearre (Newspaper Clipping )
    
  • B) By Michael Franks in The Argonaut: The McCallie School's Literary Magazine, Winter, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 2
    
  • C) Times Literary Supplement, August 18, 1966, author unknown
    
  • D) By Dr. Sarah V. Clement in The Jackson Sun (Jackson, Tn), January 29, 1967
    
  • E) By Kathryn Gibbs Harris in Books Abroad, Autumn 1966
    
  • F) The Malahat (U of Victoria, B. C.), January 1967
    
  • G) The Key Reporter (Phi Beta Kappa), Winter 1966-67
    
  • H) By Robley Wilson, Jr. in The Carleton Miscellany, Winter 1967

William Gilmore Simms Project

• 17) Correspondence, Outgoing and Incoming, 1960-61
  
• 18) Correspondence, Outgoing and Incoming, 1960-61
  
• 19) Correspondence, Outgoing and Incoming, 1960-61
  
• 20) Correspondence, Outgoing and Incoming,1960-61
  
• 21) Correspondence and Clippings, Speech in Mississippi on William Gilmore Simms and the and the Southern Frontier
  
• 22) Correspondence. Guilds, John, University of South Carolina, 1965, re: Voltmeier
  
• 23) Correspondence and Notes. Voltmeier by William Gilmore Simms
  
• 24) Correspondence and Notes. Voltmeier by William Gilmore Simms
  
• 25) Listing of 14 books by William Gilmore Simms in Tuttle's Literary Miscellany p. 4

Box 35

Singin' Billy ( *5 audio cassettes of Singin' Billy are in Box 63)

• 1) Correspondence
  
• 2) Correspondence
  
• 3) Scripts
  
• 4) Scripts-Proposed Folk Opera
  
• 5) Scripts
  
• 6) Performance Contracts; Nomination for Town Theater Award; List of cuts
  
• 7) Some Remarks on Singin' Billy
  
• 8) Singin' Billy. Notes, Revisions, Programs, etc.
  
• 9) Singin' Billy. Program
• 10) Still Rebels, Still Yankees, and Other Essays - Reviews (6)
• A) By Mary Trippet in Descant-The Texas Christian University Literary Journal, Spring, 1957, Vol. I, No. 3
• B) In Vanderbilt Alumnus Jan.-Feb. 1957
• C) By Randall Stewart in The New England Quarterly, June 1957, Vol. XXX, No. 2
• D) By Richard Walser in The North Carolina Historical Review, Oct. 1957, Vol. XXXIV, No. 4
• E) By Jay B. Hubbell in The South Atlantic Quarterly, Autumn 1957, Vol. LVI, No. 4
• F) By Richebourg G. McWilliams in Alabama Review, Vol. XII, No. 2

The Tall Men - Reviews (2)

• 11) By Percy Hutchinson in The New York Times Book Review, Nov. 13, 1927
  
• 12) By Stephen Vincent Benet in The Saturday Review of Literature, Dec. 10, 1927

The Tennessee, Vol. I and II
Correspondence

• 13) Outgoing and Incoming, 1941, 1943-1945
  
• 14) Outgoing and Incoming, 1941, 1943-47
  
• 15) Davidson to Hervey Allen, undated. Re: The Tennessee
• 16) Reviews (5)
  • A) By George Genzmer in The Book-of-the-Month Club News, Dec. 1946
    
  • B) By Harvey Broome in The Tennessee Alumnus, Spring 1948
    
  • C) By Charles Lee Lewis in Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Sept. 1948, Vol. VII, No. 3
    
  • D) By Culver H. Smith in American Historical Review, Jan. 1949
    
  • E) Review in Military Affairs, Winter 1948

Publication Lists

• 17) List of Davidson's Publications 1924 - 1963; Publications Jan. 1, 1955 to June 30, 1958

Review of book: Re: Donald Davidson

• 18) Donald Davidson: An Essay and a Bibliography, by Thomas Daniel Young and M. Thomas Inge (1966)
  

Newspaper Clippings about Davidson's Books
( A Complete Listing of these clippings -- Appendix B)

• 19) 1924 - 1926
  
• 20) April 1927 - Nov. 6, 1927
  
• 21) Nov. 11, 1927 - Jan. 1928
  
• 22) Feb. 11, 1928- 1929
  
• 23) 1934 -1938
  
• 24) July 1938 - 1939
  
• 25) 1940 - Nov. 1946
  
• 26) Dec. 1946 - Jan. 25, 1948
  
• 27) Jan. 26, 1948 - Feb. 1948
  
• 28) March 1948 - April 18, 1948
  
• 29) April 21, 1948 - 1949
  
• 30) 1950 - April 1957

Box 36

LITERARY CAREER-Newspaper Clippings about Davidson's Books ( See Appendix B
For a complete listing of these clippings. )

• 1) May 1957 - 1958
  
• 2) 1960 - 1968
  
• 3) Undated
  
• 4) Clippings saved by Davidson, not about him, undated

Requests for permission to publish

• 5) Requests for permission to publish Davidson's poems

FUGITIVES & AGRARIANS

Group

• 6) Correspondence. Fugitives-Invitations to place papers at Vanderbilt
  
• 7) Correspondence. Shenandoah-Issue on Agrarian Thought, 1951
  
• 8) Correspondence. The Southern Tradition at Bay, by Richard Weaver

Fugitives and Agrarians-List of Newspaper Clippings-Appendix C 1924 - 1936

• 9) I'll Take My Stand-Clippings 1926 - Nov. 23, 1930
  
• 10) I'll Take My Stand-Clippings Nov. 25, 1930 -Dec.19,1930
  
• 11) I'll Take My Stand-Clippings Dec. 20, 1930 - Feb. 1, 1931
  
• 12) I'll Take My Stand-Clippings Feb. 2, 1931- Nov. 8, 1931
  
• 13) Who Owns America?-Clippings and Reviews 1936
  
• 14) Articles from reviews on Fugitives & Agrarians by Cowan, Rubin, and others
  
  • A) " The Communal World of Southern Literature" by Louise Cowan
    
  • B) " Economics of Agrarianism" by Theodore C. Hoepfner
    
  • C) "Agrarianism as a Theme in Southern Literature" by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
    
  • D) "Dichter und Burger Schriftsteller und Gesellschaft im Amerikanishcen Suden" by Klaus Jurgen Popp
    
• 15) Articles on Fugitives and Agrarians
  • A)"Southern Politics and the New Romanticists" by Frank Williams Prescott
  • B) Psyche in the South by R. P. Blackmur
    
  • C) "Southern Literature in A Period of Transition" by William S. Knickerbocker
    
  • D) Discussion of I'll Take My Stand by William S. Knickerbocker
    
  • E) Excerpts from The Fugitive-Agrarian Writers: A History and a Criticism by John Lincoln Stewart
    
• 16) Articles on Fugitives and Agrarians
  • A) "Coals of Fire" from The Nashville Tennessean re: The New Republic
    
  • B) Books from Chapel Hill-Cleanth Brooks and J. G. Fletcher
    
  • C) Announcement from the Committee for the Alliance of Agrarian and Distributists Groups
    
  • D) Letter to Editors of The Saturday Review
    
• 17) "Seward Collins and the American Review: Experiment in Pro-Fascism. 1933 -37" by Albert E. Stone, Jr., in The American Quarterly, Vol., XII, No. 1, Spring 1960-mentions The Nashville Agrarians.
  
• 18) Memorandum. Agrarians
  
• 19) Memorandum on Fugitive Reunion Typescript
  
• 20) A Group of Southern Poets-The Fugitives, pp. 1 - 20, 29-hand written notes for a lecture
  
• 21) Notes. The Tennessee Agrarians, thesis by James W. Rowe
  
• 22) Proposal to establish Fugitive and Agrarian Collections in the JUL by A. F. Kuhlman

Individuals

• 23) William Yandell Elliott , James Frank,and Cleanth Brooks. Poems in The Archive, Jan. 1929 and Jan. 1930.
  
• 24) John Gould Fletcher.
  
  • A) "The Sin of City-Mindedness" A Reply to H. L. Mencken
    
  • B) Program of the Ozarks Folk Festival, John Gould Fletcher, President
    
  • C) Fletcher's review of The Tall Men in The Nation, Jan. 18, 1928
    
• 25) John Gould Fletcher. Poem. "The Confederates" (Reunion in Chattanooga, June 1934) "The Modern Southern Poets" and "Incantations" in The Westminster Magazine, January-March 1935
  
• 26) William Frierson, Article (about).
  
• 27) Sidney Hirsch. Poems (2 ).
  
• 28) Voices a Journal of Verse,Vol. III, No. 2, March-April 1922 (includes poems by Stanley Johnson and Allen Tate )
  
• 29) Henry Blue Kline. Articles.
  
  • A) " The Career Farmer's Dilemma-A Footnote on Agrarianism"
    
  • B) "On Teaching Lyric Poetry"
    
  • C) "Freight Rates: The Interregional Tariff Issue
    
  • D) Review of J. C. Ransom's God Without Thunder
    
• 30) Andrew Lytle:
  
  • A) "An Andrew Lytle Checklist" -Bibliographical Society of Virginia
    
  • B) "A Christian University and the Word" -An Address for Founder's Day 1964-University of the South
    
  • C) "Andrew Lytle's A Name for Evil: A Transformation of The Turn of the Screw" by Jack De Bellis
    
  • D) Calumet Players' Presentation
    
  • E) Newspaper Clippings
    
  • F) Newspaper Clippings-Lytle's review of Thomas Jefferson: The Apostle of Americanism

Box 37

• 1) Shenandoah-Southern Literary Renascence a Symposium-Andrew Lytle, Louise Cowan, Louis D. Rubin and Randall Stewart
  
• 2) Merrill Moore:
  
  • A) Poems by Moore
    
  • B) Bibliography
    
  • C) Biographical Sketch
    
  • D) Review of The Noise That Time Makes
    
  • E) Notice of lecture at Harvard by Dr. Moore
    
  • F) Poems from the Fugitive by Merrill Moore (dedicated to Donald Davidson )
    
  • G) A Doctor's Book of Hours
    
  • H) Article on John Trotwood Moore, Merrill Moore's father in The Intermediate Weekly, May 18, 1930
    
• 3) Herman Clarence Nixon. Articles.
  
  • A) "Southern Economy"
    
  • B) "The Southern Geographic Scene"
    
• 4) Frank L. Owsley. Articles.
  
  • A) "The Confederacy and King Cotton: A Study in Economic Coercion"
    
  • B) Newspaper article " Agrarians and Liberalism," Richmond Times Dispatch, July 11, 1937
    
• 5) John Crowe Ransom
  
  • A) Review of God Without Thunder
    
  • B) Review of Chills and Fever by Robert Graves
    
  • C) Review of Chills and Fever by Louis Untermeyer
    
  • D) Review of Chills and Fever
    
  • E) Letter to the Editor of The Chattanooga Times by Ransom
    
  • F) Newspaper notice of Ransom
    
  • G) Notice of Ransom in The Saturday Review of Literature
    
  • H) Boston Evening Transcript
    
  • I) Davidson's Notes on God Without Thunder
    
• 6) Re: Ransom - Barr Debate-Newspaper Articles
  
• 7) John Crowe Ransom
  
  • A) Daughter Helen's play April 17, 1931
    
  • B) Notice of Dinner in honor of John Crowe Ransom June 10, 1937 with Allen Tate's holograph note to Stark Young
    
• 8) Re: Ransom leaving Vanderbilt
  
• 9) The Kenyon Review, Autumn 1945
  
• 10) Three Bishops, Feb. 1930 and March 1930 under the direction of J. C. Ransom
  
• 11) Laura Riding.
  
  • A) The Seizin Press- 1928 - Pamphlet
    
  • B) Newspaper clippings about Riding
    
  • C) "Prophecy or a Plea" in The Reviewer, April 1925
    
• 12) Alec B. Stevenson. Poems (3)
  
  • A) Monotone
    
  • B) Song for Hard Times
    
  • C) untitled
    
• 13) Allen Tate.
  
  • A) "A Personal Statement on Fascism" by Allen Tate in The Case Against the Saturday Review of Literature
    
  • B) Review of Tate's Collected Essays
    
  • C) Minneapolis Tribune Article (January 24, 1965)
    
  • D) Banner Article on Tate, Jan. 17, 1964
    
  • E) Chattanooga Times article on Tate
    
  • F) The Nation-"The Modern Writer in the South" by Allen Tate
    
  • G) "Mr. Allen Tate Wants to Know" by Dr. C.B. Wilmer, Atlanta Journal
    
  • H) "Proposals from Allen Tate," Macon Georgia, Telegraph, Dec. 1930
    
  • I) Review of Allen Tate's Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall in The New York Herald Tribune
    
• 14) Allen Tate.Reviews.
  
  • A) The Way of Ecben by James Branch Cabell
    
  • B) Pursuit of Happiness, The Story of American Democracy by Herbert Agar
    
  • C) The Lyric South.An Anthology of Recent Poetry from the South. Edited by Addison Hibbard.
    
  • D) Emily Dickinson by Mrs. Bianchi
    
  • E) The Partisan Leader by Nathaniel Beverly Tucker
    
  • F) The Attack on Leviathan by Donald Davidson ( this review by Tate is also in Davidson's Literary Career )
    
• 15) Allen Tate. Excerpts from a Discourse on The Man of Letters in the Modern World "The State of Letters" in The Sewanee Review, Summer 1945, Vol. LIII, No. 3
  
• 16) Allen Tate. Poems.
  
  • A) The Guardian April 1925, "Madness, " (poem)
    
  • B) The Double Dealer, July 1922, " William Blake" and "Parthenia"
    
• 17) Allen Tate. Poem "Seasonal Confessions"
  
• 18) Allen Tate. Poems "Shrine" and "Poem for My Father" (from Voices: A Journal of Verse, 1922)
  
• 19) Allen Tate. Poems. The Yearbook of the Poetry Society of South Carolina 1929-Poems by Allen Tate and Merrill Moore
  
• 20) Allen Tate. Poems.
  
  • A) Untitled
    
  • B) "Aeneas at Washington"
    
  • C) "Causerie II "
    
  • D) "Dejected Lines To the Memory of W. B. Yeats"
    
  • E) "Eager Youths to a Dead Girl in The Lyric"
    
  • F) "Fair Lady and False Knight a Ballad"
    
  • G) "The Fragment Curse"
    
  • H) "The Happy Poet Remembers Death"
    
  • I) "Hitch Your Wagon to A Star"
    
  • J) "Idiot"
    
  • K) "Idyl"
    
  • L) "Jubilo"
    
  • M) "Luncheon"
    
  • N) "Mary McDonald"
    
  • O) "The Meaning of Life"
    
• 21) Allen Tate. Poems.
  
  • A) "More Sonnets at Christmas-Ten Years Later"
    
  • B) "Needles and Pins" ( 3 copies )
    
  • C) "Ode To Our Young Pro-Consuls of the Airs"
    
  • D) "One Wild Stag"
    
  • E) "Picnic at Cassis"
    
  • F) "Portent" (2 copies)
    
  • G) "Prayer to the Woman Mountain" (2 copies )
    
  • H) "Quality of Mercy"
    
  • I) "Rapunzel"
    
  • J) "Resurgam" (2 copies )
    
• 22) Allen Tate. Poems.
  
  • A) "Seasonal Confessions" I
    
  • B) "Seasonal Confessions " II
    
  • C) "Shadow and Shade"
    
  • D) "Spring"
    
  • E) "Spring Poem"
    
  • F) "Teeth"
    
  • G) "Tercets of the Triad-To Proclus"
    
  • H) "These Deathy Leaves"
    
  • I) "The Vigil of Venus"
    
  • J) "Voluntary"
    
  • K) "You Tellem Jenny"
    
  • L) "Art"

Box 38

• 1) Allen Tate-Contributing Editor to Voices 1924
  
• 2) M. E. Bradford on Allen Tate: " Angels at Forty Thousand Feet: Tate's ' Ode to Our Young Pro Consuls of the Air' and the practice of Poetic Responsibility"
  
• 3) List of letters to Allen Tate
  
• 4) Allen Tate. Photograph, undated.
  
• 5) John Donald Wade-Correspondence, Outgoing and Incoming (4), 1951-Georgia Education
  
• 6) John Donald Wade. Poem. "Tornado -1936"
  
• 7) John Donald Wade. Apparently notes for a book Marshallville, Georgia.
  
• 8) John Donald Wade. Review. John Wesley by John Donald Wade
  
• 9) Reviews.Selected Essays and Other Writings of John Donald Wade (1966) ed. Donald Davidson
  
• 10) John Donald Wade. Obituaries.
  
• 11) Robert Penn Warren. Poems.
  
  • A) "Goodbye" (1940)
    
  • B) "The Flaming Terrapin" in Voices, Vol. IV, No. 3, January 1924
    
• 12) Robert Penn Warren. Poem. "Promises" [1956] (26 pages)
  
• 13) Robert Penn Warren. Poems.
  
  • A) "Apologia for Grief" (3 copies one in The Measure)
    
  • B) "Aubade for Hope"
    
  • C) "Art"
    
  • D) "Ballad: Between the Boxcars" (4 pages)
    
  • E) "Blumlein in April"
    
  • F) "Eidolon"
    
  • G) "The Eyeless Wind"
    
• 14) Robert Penn Warren. Poems.
  
  • A) "Iron Angelus"
    
  • B) "Letter of a Coward to a Hero"
    
  • C) "The Poet at Six O'Clock"
    
  • D) "Ransom and Late Subterfuge"
    
  • E) "Revelation"
    
  • F) "San Francisco Night Window for Two"
    
  • G) Some quiet poems: "Holly and Hickory," "Ornithology in a World of Flux"
    
  • H) "Toward Rationality"
    
• 15) Jesse Wills. Poems.
  
  • A) "The Watchers"
    
  • B) "Question Mark and Elegy"
    
  • C) "Bat Magic"
    
  • D) "Healing"
    
  • E) "Parade"
    
• 16) Ridley Wills. Poem.
  
  • A) "Yearning"
    
• 17) Stark Young .Article. "Schools for Artists" in The New Republic, Wednesday Jan. 21, 1931
  
• 18) Lists which include Fugitives and Agrarians
  
• 19) Committee for the Alliance of Agrarian and Distributists Groups. Minutes of Meeting, June 4-5, 1936

ACADEMIC CAREER

Class Materials

• 20) Schedules, Assignments, Course Outlines, Bibliographies, Library Lists, Modern Poetry List, Reference List of American and British Critics
  
• 21) Request for Library to purchase books and Course Examinations
  
• 22) Notes for teaching including notes about Yeats and his poetry
  
• 23) "The Fur Trapper's Winter Diet," "The Last Decision" "The Role to Mind One's Own Business"
  
• 24) "T. S. Eliot and the Traditionalists," notes on ballads, notes on Hemingway, notes on Willa Cather, notes on Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and other notes
  
• 25) Notes for corrections of themes, notes on English courses
  
• 26) Class records and grades; theme assignments
  
• 27) Vanderbilt University-Preliminary Announcement: A Study of the Humanities
  
• 28) Reports of Teaching and Publishing Activities, 1955 - 1959

Box 39

• 1) Vanderbilt Calendars Friday January 8, 1954 - Friday May 21, 1954
  
• 2)
  • A) Program of Symposium on Higher Education in the South and the Inauguration of Oliver C. Carmichael as Third Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, Feb. 3,4,5, 1938
    
  • B) Summary of a Conversation with Chancellor Carmichael, Feb.,4, 1942
    
• 3)
  • A) Committee on Junior College and the Committee on Senior College
    
  • B) Curriculum
    
• 4)
  • A) English Courses
    
  • B) Vanderbilt Faculty Club , Faculty Council Report
    
• 5)
  • A) Faculty Minutes and Resolutions
    
  • B) Report of the Committee on the Fine Arts, Division of Humanities
    
  • C)"Towers of Strength," Vanderbilt University, 1930
    
• 6)
  • A) Honors Courses
    
  • B) Division of Humanities Recommendations
    
  • C) Miscellaneous papers relating to the University including one handwritten and two typed copies of Vanderbilt Charter
    
• 7) Bulletin of Vanderbilt University, Publications of the Faculty members, 1935 - 1950
  
• 8)
  • A) Vanderbilt University-Regional and National functions
    
  • B) Vanderbilt and George Peabody College for Teachers: A Proposal to Establish the Social Science Research Library of the South

• 9) Two poems
  
  • A) "Alamagordo" by Ralph Grimes
    
  • B)"Lord Tennyson" by J. M. Zucker
    
• 10) M. A. thesis by Ruth Lowrey A Study of the Changes Resulting from the Oral Transmission of the English and Scottish Ballads in America
  
• 11) " " pp. 52 -end
  
• 12) Papers
  
  • A) "Fellowship Plan " by L. E. Bowling
    
  • B) Paper by Bernard Breyer
    
  • C) "Plan of Study" by Margaret W. Pepperdene
    
  • D) " Statement of Intellectual Interests" by Margaret Pepperdene
    
  • E) "A Plan for a Regional Printing Press" by Robert England
    
• 13) "Pa Went A-Courting" by Mildred Haun
  
• 14) "Lyric Elements in the Ballad" by Randall Jarrell
  
• 15) Papers
  
  • A) "The Conceits in Ault's Elizabethan Lyrics" by Emma Crownover
    
  • B) "What is the difference between the assumed naivete of De la Mare and the genuine naivete of Lindsay?" by unnamed student
    
  • C)"A Score of Years" by Mary Jane Brooks
    
  • D) "Tradition and William Blake" by Theodore Hoepfner
    
  • E) "Democratic versus Aristocratic Elements in the Love Lyrics" by Adelaide Douglas
    
  • F) "Paper on Prosody" London, hast thou accused me? By unnamed Student
    
• 16)
  • A) "The Dispersion of Poetic Values" by Merle Constiner
    
  • B) "All Day Sing" by Powell Jones
    
  • C) "The Fusion of French Influence Upon the Native Anglo-Saxon Prosody" by unnamed student
    
  • D) "The Garden of Proserpine" by unnamed student
    
  • E) "A Handful of Pleasant Delights" by Claire B. Graham
    
  • F) "A Mediaeval Press Agent " by Laurence Minot
    
  • G) "The Love Convention In the Early English Religious Lyric" by Francis Robinson, December 10, 1930
    
  • H) The Rime of The Ancient Mariner by Merle Constiner
    
• 17)
  • A) "My Grandfather"
    
  • B) "The Love Convention in England's Helicon"
    
  • C) "Whitman into Sandburg" by Adelaide Douglas
    
  • D) " A Short Analysis of the Rime Scheme of the Sonnets in Ault's 'Elizabethan Lyrics' and 'Seventeenth Century Lyrics'"
    
  • E) "Satire in the LyricBefore the Elizabethan" by Claire B. Graham
    
  • F) " Three Ideas of Women in Sixteenth Century England" by Francis Robinson
    
  • G) "Walter de la Mare, "The Idle Singer of an Empty Day"
    
  • H) "The Case History of Glenway Wescott"
    
• 18)
  • A) "Thomas Hardy's Use of the French Forms: A Prosodical Study"
    
  • B) "Robert Graves-Who Has a Fine Fancy" by Ernest McCaleb
    
  • C) "Prosodical Study" by Francis Robinson
    
  • D) Untitled
    
  • E) Versions and Variants of "The Wife of Usher's Well" by E. H. Duncan, Fragment
    
• 19) "Literature of Our Own Age" (English 431, Davidson) by Harry Goldgar.

Box 40

Bread Loaf School of English

• 1) Newspaper, The Crumb, 1954
  
• 2) Bulletins, 1938, 1947, 1957, 1963, 1965, 1966
  
• 3) The Crumb- and others-Hikes from Breadloaf

Lecture Notes

• 4) Exam questions National Songs
  
• 5) Modern Poetry
  
• 6) Medieval Lyrics
  
• 7) French Lyric
  
• 8) The English Lyric: I. The Beginnings of English Lyric (Anglo-Saxon Period and Introductory Material)
  
• 9) The English Lyric: II. English Medieval Lyric, The Lyric of Tradition
  
• 10) The English Lyric: III. Early Tudor and Transition Music
  
• 11) The English Lyric: IV. Elizabethan Lyric, Especially Music and Poetry
  
• 12) English Literature
  
• 13) English Literature
  
• 14) English Ballads
  
• 15) English 282 -British and American Ballads
  
• 16) Virginia Woolf and James Joyce
  
• 17) Ballads
  
• 18) Course on Ballads
  
• 19) John Donne and Ben Jonson
  
• 20) Elizabethan Lyric ( English Lyric)
  
• 21) English 256 Poetry ( Yeats, Eliot, Frost)
  
• 22) English 256 Studies in Poetry (Yeats, Eliot, Frost )
  
• 23) English 256 Poetry (Yeats, Eliot, Frost )
  
• 24) English 258 Hardy and Conrad
  
• 25) Pastoral Poetry (English Lyric)
  
• 26) Raleigh's "To His Son" (English Lyric)
  
• 27) Raleigh, Walter (English Lyric)
  
• 28) Sannazaro, Jacopo (English Lyric )
  
• 29) The Scansion of English Verse: Selected Studies (English Lyric)
  
• 30) Troubadour Lyric
  
• 31) Troubadour and Medieval Lyric
  
• 32) Elizabethan and Shakespearean Poetry
  
• 33) The Restoration Period and the 18th Century

Box 41

ORGANIZATIONS, ACTIVITIES, & EVENTS

• 1) Kentucky Workers Alliance. Flyers, Songbook
  
• 2) Rinehart-Iowa Writing Fellowship, December 30, 1946, Press Release
  
• 3) Publications:
  
  • A) Report of the Alabama Policy Conference
    
  • B) Report of the Tenth Alabama Conference
    
• 4)
  • A) National Policy Commission
    
  • B) Open Letters
    
• 5) Modern Language Association
  
• 6) The Book of the Month Club. Publications.
  
• 7)
  • A)Pamphlets ( Academic, Literary)
    
  • B) Poetry Societies
    
• 8) Programs "A- W" (including performances ,plays, and conferences).
  
• 9) Ladies Hermitage Association Minutes.

Segregation Materials

• 10) South the News Magazine of Dixie, 1956-1957, 10 issues in this folder
  
• 11) South the NewsMagazine of Dixie, 1956-1957, 10 issues in this folder
  
• 12) Allen - Bradley Co. - American Legion
  
• 13) American Mercury - American Opinion
  
• 14) American Progress Foundation - Americans for Const. Action ( also 5 copies of American Progress )
  
• 15) Major L. L. B. Angas - Bible News
  
• 16) The John Birch Society-Blake
  
• 17) The California Committee - Christian Bible Society
  
• 18) Christian Economics - ( Commonsense-The Nation's Anti-Communist Newspaper )
  
• 19) Citizens' Councils (1956 -1960)
  
• 20) Citizens' Councils (1956- )

Box 42

Segregation Materials

• 1) Citizens' Councils [The Citizen Council ] (9 issues October 1955-July 1957 )
  
• 2) Citizens' Councils [The Citizen Council] (9 issues Aug. 1957-Jan. 1958)
  
• 3) Citizens' Councils [The Citizen Council] (11 issues, Jan. 1958- Dec. 1958)
  
• 4) Citizens' Councils [The Citizen Council] ( 22 issues January 1959 - May 1961 )
  
• 5) Claiborne Parish School Board - The Cross and the Flag
  
• 6) Curtis Publishing Co. [The Saturday Evening Post] (June, July 1957)
  
• 7) Donald Davidson-"A Comment on James Jackson Kilpatrick's The Sovereign States"
  
• 8) Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties (1955-1960)
  
• 9) East Tennessee Publishing Co. [ East Tennessee Reporter] ( April 26, 1957 - May 31, 1957 )
  
• 10) East Tennessee Publishing Co. [The Tennessee Reporter ] ( Dec.12, 1957 - Jan.30, 1958 )
  
• 11) East Tennessee Publishing Co. [ The Tennessee Reporter ] ( Dec.19, 1957 - Feb.6, 1958 )
  
• 12) East Tennessee Publishing Co. [ The Tennessee Reporter ] ( Feb.27, 1958 - May 22, 1958 )

Box 43

Segregation Materials

• 1) Farm and Ranch Southern Agriculturist - The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.
  
• 2) The Solid South, April/May 1959, June/ July 1959 - Free Men Speak, Jan. 1957 - Nov. 1957
  
• 3) Gamble, Harry Pollard - Grass Roots League, Inc.
  
• 4) Haley, J. Evetts - Human Events (1958,1959)
  
• 5) The Independent American ( March 1958 - March/April 1960 )
  
• 6) The Independent American - Interim Committee for Independent Political Action
  
• 7) Kirk, Russell - Meador Publishing Co.
  
• 8) N. A. A. C. P. - New York Mirror ( Sunday, October 9, 1960)
  
• 9) The Oberlin Letter, 3rd quarter, 1958 - Our Country
  
• 10) Phillips, Herbert S. - Putnam Letter Committee
  
• 11) The Record - SCA House
  
• 12) The Dan Smoot Report -University of South Carolina Press (1957-1958)
  
• 13) Southern States Industrial Council
  
• 14) Southern States Industrial Council-States Rights Council of Georgia

Box 44

Segregation Materials

• 1) Book-Three Races Under God by Grady Fowler ( 1956 ) Tennessee Federation for Constitutional Government
  
• 2) Tennessee Society to Maintain Segregation-The Toronto Star Limited
  
• 3) U. S. News and World Report - The Virginian
  
• 4) The Wanderer ( St. Paul, Minnesota ) Jan.2, 1958 - March 27, 1958
  
• 5) Weaver, Richard - Wirt, John Belding and n. p.
  
• 6) Newspaper/Magazine Articles on Segregation (copies )
  
• 7) Civil Rights Legislation
  
• 8) Clippings on Segregation, Miscellaneous (1957 - 1960 )
  
• 9) Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi
  
• 10) The Citizens' Report - April, 1961
  
• 11) The Louisville Courier Journal, Newspaper Clippings 4/19/61; 4/21/61; 5/3/61
  
• 12) Shuey, Audrey M., " The Testing of Negro Intelligence " ( Carbon Copy )

RESEARCH NOTES

• 13) The Tennessee
  
• 14) The Tennessee
  
• 15) The Tennessee
  
• 16) The Tennessee
  
• 17) The Tennessee

Box 45

RESEARCH NOTES

• 1) The Tennessee
  
• 2) The Tennessee
  
• 3) The Tennessee
  
• 4) The Tennessee
  
• 5) The Tennessee
  
• 6) The Tennessee
  
• 7) The Tennessee
  
• 8) The Tennessee
  
• 9) The Tennessee
  
• 10) Memorandum: MS of The Tennessee, Vol. II
  
• 11) Drafts and notes on Tennessee History (The Tennessee?)
  
• 12) East Tennessee History and the State of Franklin
  
• 13) Notebook-notes on various historical topics for The Tennessee
  
• 14) Notebook-Trip to New Orleans, other notes in preparation for The Tennessee
  
• 15) American Composition and Rhetoric
  
• 16) American Composition and Rhetoric
  
• 17) American Composition and Rhetoric
  
• 18) Research Notes

Box 46

RESEARCH NOTES

• 1) Research Notes
  
• 2) Research Notes
  
• 3) Research Notes
  
• 4) Research Notes
  
• 5) Research Notes
  
• 6) Research Notes
  
• 7) Research Notes
  
• 8) Research Notes
  
• 9) Research Notes
  
• 10) Research Notes
  
• 11) Research Notes
  
• 12) Research Notes
  
• 13) Research Notes
  
• 14) Research Notes
  
• 15) Research Notes
  
• 16) Research Notes
  
• 17) Research Notes

Box 47

RESEARCH NOTES

• 1) Research Notes
  
• 2) Research Notes
  
• 3) Research Notes
  
• 4) Research Notes
  
• 5) Research Notes
  
• 6) Corrections of unidentified book
  
• 7) Chronicle of East Tennessee Settlements, pp. 2, 4-8
  
• 8) Contemporary Southern Literature
  
• 9) Dewey
  
• 10) Notebook containing notes and sketches on several topics
  
• 11) Leaders of Disassociation & Detachment
  
• 12) Ronsard, Du Bellay, etc.
  
• 13) Sketch of Libretto for Rip Van Winkle ( one-act opera)
  
• 14) Yeats
  
• 15) Miscellaneous
  
• 16) Micsellaneous
  
• 17) Miscellaneous. Ballads
  
• 18) Miscellaneous notes on the writings of others
  
• 19) Ft. Prince George
  
• 20) White Spirituals
  
• 21) Small black notebook containing notes on Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and others

Box 48

SUBJECT FILES

• 1) TVA
  
• 2) TVA
  
• 3) TVA
  
• 4) TVA
  
• 5) TVA
  
• 6) TVA
  
• 7) TVA
  
• 8) TVA Map of Tennessee
  
• 9) TVA Maps of Tennessee
  
• 10) Tennessee Road Maps
  
• 11) The Tennessee Recreation Development of the Tennessee River System
  
• 12) The Tennessee-Prospective Commerce on the Tennessee River
  
• 13) "A Comparison of TVA: Miracle or Monster" by Tom Humphrey and The Tennessee, Vol. I and II by Donald Davidson"
  
• 14) "The TVA Plant Food Program" in The Nation's Agriculture
  
• 15) Public Affairs Pamphlets, Public Service Magazine
  
• 16) Nashville, Notes
  
• 17) George Pullen Jackson
  
  • A) Obituary, Monday Jan. 19, 1953
    
  • B) Tennessee Folklore Society Program, Nov. 7, 1953
    
  • C) A New Catalog of Old Ballads, Folk Songs and Songsters from George Pullen Jackson.
    
  • D) Spiritual Folk Songs of Early America, order form
    
• 18) Henry Miller. Newspaper Clippings and legal documents relating to Henry Miller and his book.
  
• 19) Hervey Allen Memorial.

Box 49

SUBJECT FILES

• 1) Bulletins and Newsletters
  
• 2) Bulletins and Newsletters (Mark Twain Society brochure, Social Science Research Council offers for 1937-38, Post Mortem on the journal Secession, Amendment of Chapter 97 of the Code of Virginia, 1960)
  
• 3) State of Tennessee Financial Position, 1942

Book Announcements (Arranged by publisher (dealer) or by title if no publisher)

• 4) "A-H"
  
• 5) " I-O"
  
• 6) " R"
  
• 7) "S- T" and Miscellaneous
  
• 8) Southern Policy Papers, #1, 3-7, 9, 10, 1936 -1937, University of North Carolina
  
  • A) #1 Southern Population and Social Planning by T. J. Woofter, Jr.
    
  • B) #3 Social Legislation in the South by Charles W. Pipkin
    
  • C) #4 How the Other Half is Housed-A Pictorial Record of Sub-Minimum Farm Housing in the South by Rupert B. Vance
    
  • D) #5 Industrial Social Security in the South by Robin Hood
    
  • E) #6 The Southern Press Considers the Constitution edited by Francis P. Miller
    
  • F) #7 The TVA and Economic Security in the South by T. Levron Howard (2 copies)
    
  • G) #9 Wage and Hour Legislation for the South by H. M. Douty
    
  • H) #10 What is Regionalism by Harry E. Moore
    
• 9) Agriculture
  
  • A) Small Grain in Contour Furrows on Lespedeza Sod, August 1939
    
  • B) Soil: The Nation's Basic Heritage
    
  • C) Test Demonstrator-Strength of Land for War and Peace, Dec. 1942
    
  • D) The Volunteer Gardener, Official Publication of Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs, 1962
    
  • E) Test Demonstration Communities: Wartime Farming Activities in Organized Areas of Tennessee by Joe. A. Elliott
    
• 10) Agriculture
  
  • A) Building a New Dominion, a Publication of the Southwest Virginia Agricultural Association, Jan. 1943
    
  • B) Corrugated Farming: An Entirely New Method of Rain and Soil Control
    
  • C) The Cotton and Cotton Oil Press, Proceedings of the Forty-Second Annual Convention, National Cottonseed Products Association, Inc., May 1938
    
• 11) Jesse Stuart
  
  • A) Jesse Stuart Newsletter
    
  • B) Autobiographical Reminiscence
    
  • C) Six Sonnets reprinted from the Colorado Quarterly, Autumn 1960
    
  • D) Southern Observer, June 1959
    
  • E) "My Father's Fifty Acres"
    
  • F) Jesse Stuart Day, Oct. 15, 1955, Greenup, Kentucky
    
  • G) Letter to Time magazine by Stuart
    
  • H) Davidson's Letter of Recommendation for Stuart
    
• 12) Jesse Stuart
  
  • A) "Faith and Jesse Stuart by Ralph Morrissey," The Nashville Tennessean, Jan. 30, 1955
    
  • B) "Stuarts Arrive Back in America," Aug. 2, 1961
    
  • C) Tennessean, Feb. 16, 1961
    
  • D) "Stuart Receives American Poets Award," The Columbia Record, Dec. 13, 1961
    
• 13) Travel Folders (including Civil War Sites such as Fort Donelson National Military Park; Shiloh National Military Park; Fort Ticonderoga)

Photographs of Writers (Complete list of these photographs found in Appendix D)

• 14) Aland - Austin
  
• 15) Babbit - Bent
  
• 16) Beveridge - Bogan
  
• 17) Bojer - Brace
  
• 18) Breadloaf - Bucovici
  
• 19) Burke - Carver
  
• 20) Catherine the Great - Conkling
  
• 21) Cornell - Delafield
  
• 22) Dewey - Duncan
  
• 23) Eliot - Jake Falstaff
  
• 24) Charles Ferguson - Friedlaender
  
• 25) John Galsworthy - Green
  
• 26) Harriman-Herbert
  
• 27) Heyward - Huxley
  
• 28) Jackson - Josephson
  
• 29) Keats - de Kruif
  
• 30) Lardner - Lehman
  
• 31) Lewis - Mann
  
• 32) Marion - Maurois
  
• 33) Menken - More
  
• 34) Munson - North
  
• 35) Paine - Phelps
  
• 36) Pope - Robb

Box 50

SUBJECT FILES

Photographs of Writers ( For complete listing of these photographs see Appendix D)

• 1) Roberts - Royde-Smith
  
• 2) Russell - Schneider
  
• 3) Scott - Sinclair
  
• 4) Sir Ronald Storrs - Terhune
  
• 5) Louis Untermeyer - Van Doren
  
• 6) Henry Van Dyke - Walpole
  
• 7) Wasserman - Walter White
  
• 8) Thornton Wilder - Wodehouse
  
• 9) Thomas Wolfe - Stark Young

• 10) The Taylor Bill, Correspondence, 1950-51
• 11) The Taylor Bill, Correspondence, 1950-51

WRITINGS BY OTHERS

Material Collected by Davidson-Publications

• 12)
  • A) L'Alouette, Jan. - Feb. 1925
    
  • B) American Philosophical Society, Sept. 20, 1940
    
• 13)
  • A) American Poetry Magazine, Sept. - Oct. 1924
    
  • B) Annual Report of the Tennessee Valley Authority and Appendixes, June 30, 1934
    
  • C) Architectural Concrete
    
• 14) Arkansas State Policy Committee Published papers No. 1 and 2, October 31, 1936, April 1938
  
• 15)
  • A) Atlas the Magazine of the World Press
    
  • B) The Bard: Comrade of the Young Poet, Oct. 1923
    
• 16)
  • A) Blues, A Magazine of New Rhythms, March, April, May 1929
    
  • B) Bozart, The Bi-Monthly Poetry Review, Jan. -Feb., 1929
    
• 17) Broom, Sept. 1923, Oct. 192318)
  
• 18) Buccaneer, A Journal of Poetry, Sept. 1924
  
• 19)
  • A) Carpetbaggers of Industry by Thomas L. Stokes
    
  • B) Casements, 1924
    
  • C) The Circle, Sept. - Oct. 1924 D) IX. Charleston and Summerville, Jan. 1, 1927
    
• 20)
  • A) The Classical Journal, Dec. 1946, April 1947
    
  • B) Contemporary Verse, Nov. 1924
    
• 21) The Criterion, April 1924
  
• 22) Don Felipe : A Narrative Poem of Mexico by D. Maitland Bushby , copyright 1929

Box 51

• 1) The Double Dealer,July 1924, November - December 1924, May 1926 (published at New Orleans)
  
• 2)
  • A) Elements of Life, June 1940
    
  • B) Engineering Geology, June 1934
    
  • C) Engineering and Social Progress in the South, 1938
    
  • D) Farming for Victory and Peace, 1942
    
• 3)
  • A) Food at the Grass Roots, 1947
    
  • B) Forests and Human Welfare,1940
    
• 4)
  • A) The Forge, Nov. 1924 and September 1924
    
  • B) Four A Quarterly, October 1924
    
• 5) The Gypsy: Cincinnati All Poetry Magazine, Spring 1925
  
• 6)
  • A)"How Cheap Electricity Pays Its Way", 1937
    
  • B) Independence, Feb. 1931
    
  • C) Interludes: A Magazine of Verse, 1924
    
  • D) The Interpreter, July 2 & 16, 1945
    
• 7) The Journal of Educational Sociology,November 1941
  
• 8)
  • A) The Lariat, Nov. 1924
    
  • B) Laughing Horse, September 1924
    
• 9)
  • A) The Little Review, Spring 1923, 1924
    
  • B) The Lyric, December 1924
    
• 10)
  • A) The Measure, A Journal of Poetry, September 1924
    
  • B) Memorandum of the Special Committee On Investment Public and Private, 1940
    
• 11)
  • A)The Midland, May 1924, June, July, August 1924
    
  • B) The Minaret, Nov.-Dec. 1924
    
• 12) Mississippi Population Trends and their Implications by Dr. J. V. Van Sickle, April 1943
  
• 13)
  • A) The New Republic, March 11, 1931
    
  • B) The New Republic 1924
    
  • C) The Nomad , Spring, 1924
    
  • D) Orpheus, December 1924
    
  • E) Palms, Early Fall 1924
    
• 14) Phantasmus,July - August 1924

Box 52

• 1)
  • A) Phosphate Resources of the United States, Jan. 1939
    
  • B) The Guild Pioneer, May 1923
    
• 2) Poetry A Magazine of Verse, November 1924
  
• 3) The Reviewer, Jan. 1923, Jan. 1925
  
• 4)
  • A) Rural Youth by David Cushman Coyle, 1939
    
  • B) S4N Homage to Waldo Frank, 1923- 1924
    
  • C) Scientific Living, Dec. 1, 1929
    
• 5)
  • A) Secession, Winter 1924
    
  • B) Seven Poems by Julian Rayford, May 6, 1931
    
  • C) Sheila Kaye- Smith: A Biographical Sketch, Some Critical Appreciations, and a Bibliography, 1929
    
• 6) Tennessee Historical Quarterly, June 1943
  
• 7) The Testament of a Stone Being Notes on the Mechanics of the Poetic Image
  
• 8) The Transatlantic Review, Dec. 1924; Tuttle's Literary Miscellany,Catalog 290
  
• 9) The Virginia Quarterly Review
  
• 10) The Writer and His Tradition, 1969 Southern Literary Pestival, April 17-19, University of Tennessee, Robert Drake, editor and Cleanth Brooks, James Dickey, and Reynolds Price

Material collected by Davidson-Articles by Others

• 11) "A - Coles"
  
• 12) "Coulter - D"
  
• 13) "E - Orwell"
  
• 14) "Parks - Shoup"
  
• 15) "Shryock - W"; Saturday Review of Literature; No authors
  
• 16) Neuhoff, Karl. Amerikanische Kulturprobleme.
  
• 17) Newspaper Clippings saved by Davidson-not about him, 1924 -25
  
• 18) Newspaper Clippings saved by Davidson---not about him, 1926-29
  
• 19) Newspaper Clippings saved by Davidson---not about him, 1930-34
  
• 20) Newspaper Clippings saved by Davidson -not about him, March-May 16, 1936
  
• 21) Newspaper Clippings saved by Davidson-not about him, May 19, 1936-1938
  
• 22) Newspaper Clippings saved by Davidson-not about him, 1955-65

Box 53

Book Reviews by Others

• 1) Edward Parks-A Man Born to Command by Emil Ludwig
  
• 2)
  • A) Elizabeth D. Wheatley-Mr. Weston's Good Wine by T. F. Powys
    
  • B) Reviewer unknown-Hiawassee Island An Archaeological Account of Four Tennessee Indian Peoples by Thomas M. N.Lewis and Madeline Kneberg
    
  • C) Reviewer unknown-Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt by J. P Kennedy
    
  • D) Simon Jeune in Revue de Litterature Comparee (extrait) of Reality and Myth: Essays In American Literature in Memory of Richmond Croom Beatty edited by William E. Walker and Robert L. Welker, Vanderbilt University Press, 1964
    
• 3)
  • A) Reviewer unknown-Segments of Southern Thought by Edd W. Parks
    
  • B) Reviewer unknown-The Tragic Era by Claude G. Bowers
    
  • C) Edwin Mims-A Preface to Morals by Walter Lippman;
    
  • D) John McClure-The Advancing South by Edwin Mims, June 20, 1926

Poems by Others (arr. by author )

• 4) Br - Mc
  
• 5) Mi - Od (1)
  
• 6) Od (2) - St
  
• 7) Unger - Yancey, unknown authors

Complete list of Poems by others (Fugitives & Agrarians located in that Series )

• Cleanth Brooks-" Birth of Aphrodite"
  
• Constantine Cavafy-"Thermopylae" (trans. by Raphael Demos )
  
• Sam Clark (S. L. C.)-- "Research"
  
• e.e. cummings-untitled
  
• Hart Crane-"Lachrymae Christi" (with holograph note by Allen Tate)
  
• Hart Crane-"Legend"
  
• T.H. Davidson-"Prologue"
  
• Emanuel Eisenberg-"Small Offering"
  
• Marguerite Mather Eskind-"Hospitality"
  
• Marguerite Mather Eskind-"Joy"
  
• Edward McGehee
  • "No Storm for Fear"
    
  • "Parody on an Easy Poet"
    
  • "An Imaginative Child's Rainy Afternoon"
    
  • "The Seeburg Rocks Its Newest Love"
    
  • "There is a Season"
  • "An Unsung Requiem"
    
• Margaret Beaufort Miller
  • "Wanderer's Night Song" (Goethe )
    
  • "Hill Dreamer "
    
• George Marion O'Donnell
  • "The Art of Pain"
    
  • "Autumn and Mrs. Noel, Old"
    
  • "Commencement Oration"
    
  • "Green Thought"
    
  • "In the Delta, Remembering"
    
  • "The Mask and the Poet "
    
  • "Mirrored Dead"
    
  • "Obituary"
    
  • "The Prophet Speaks"
    
  • "Prothalamion"
    
  • "Reprimand"
    
  • "Soliloquy upon Return"
    
  • "Song: To Exiled Art"
    
• Isabel Tilden Riggs -"Shelley"
  
• Jane Stuart-"The City of the Dead"
  
• Leonard Unger-"Poem"
  
• Grace Allen Yancey
  • "Cosmic Neglect"
  • "Death Head"
    
  • "To Franz Hal's . . ."
  • "Morning"
    
• sent by Mrs. J. E. Blankenship
  • "A Song Called Hurrah for the Tennesseans"
    
  • "Southern Battle Song"
    
  • " The Knot of Blue and Gray"
    
  • "The Homespun Dress"
    
• Author unknown -"The Air"

Ms. By Others

• 8) John P. Ferris-Business and the Tennessee Valley Watershed, Address before a meeting of the Johnson City, Tennessee Chamber of Commerce on November 9, 1936
  
• 9)
  • A) Herschel Gower-Untitled
    
  • B) John Temple Graves-Talk, Talk, and More Talk
    
  • C) Verne P. Kaub-"What Is Really 'Inside U.S.A,'"
    
• 10) John Hubert Overall-Criticism No. 1

Short Stories by Others

• 11) Jesse Stuart-"As a Man Thinketh." In Esquire
  
• 12) Jesse Stuart-"Can You Win by Losing?"
  
• 13) Author unknown-Untitled Description of a Writing Class

Box 54

Original Newspaper Clippings
Nashville Tennessean Book Review and Literary Page
Sept. 7, 1924 - April 29, 1928 The copies are in Writings-Editing Projects (Boxes 31-33)

Box 55

Original Newspaper Clippings
Nashville Tennessean Book Review and Literary Page
May 6, 1928 - Oct. 26, 1930
The photocopies of these newspaper clippings are in Writings-Editing Projects (Box 31-33)

Box 56

Original Newspaper Clippings, 1926 -1965. Photocopies are in Boxes 35 and 36-Literary Career and in Box 52 --Writings by Others. Also in this box are photocopies of correspondence between Allen Tate and Davidson.

Box 57

Correspondence envelopes

Box 58

Photocopies of outgoing correspondence
May 17, 1917 - Nov. 1, 1939

Box 59

Photocopies of outgoing correspondence
March 11, 1940 - April 5, 1968

Box 60

The Fugitive
April 1922 - December 1925 ( 19 issues)

• 1) April 1922, June 1922
  
• 2) October 1922, December 1922
  
• 3) February, March 1923 and April, May 1923
  
• 4) June, July 1923 and August, September 1923
  
• 5) October 1923 and December 1923
  
• 6) February 1924 and April 1924
  
• 7) June 1924 and August 1924
  
• 8) December 1924 and March 1925
  
• 9) June 1925 and September 1925
  
• 10) December 1925

Box 61

These are various additions to the papers (Legal and Oversize):

• Personal and Biographical Material-Resolution by the Board of Trust of Vanderbilt University in Memory of Donald Davidson, May 17, 1968
  
• Galley Proof (uncorrected proof ) of American Composition and Rhetoric, Concise Edition
  
• Big Ballad Jamboree materials -correspondence and notes
  
• Big Ballad Jamboree-Chapters
  
• Conversation with Jack Dewitt, Station Manager, May 31, 1954, WSM Studio C Rehearsal ("Practice") for "Prince Albert" show, June 5, 1954, WSM Studio C

Box 62

Singin'Billy Materials

• Orchestra parts for Singin' Billy-music for the various instruments
  
• Singin' Billy an Opera in Two Acts, Music by Charles Faulkner Bryan and Drama and Lyrics by Donald Davidson with Spirituals adapted from William Walker's Southern Harmony, copyright 1952.
  
• Singin' Billy Overture (copyrighted 1952)
  
• Singin' Billy Orchestral Score Act I, Sc. Ii, Act II, sc.i
  
• Singin' Billy Orchestral Score Act II, sc, ii

Box 63

Singin' Billy Materials

• Singin' Billy-Correspondence, 1952 - 1955
  
• Singin' Billy -Libretto and Correspondence with Charles F. Bryan
  
• Donald Davidson's personal copy of Singin' Billy an Opera in Two Acts, Copyright, 1952 by Donald Davidson and Charles Faulkner Bryan
  
• Singin' Billy an Opera by Donald Davidson and Charles F. Bryan, Copy No. B-3
  
• Singin' Billy an Opera in Two Acts, music by Charles Faulkner Bryan, Drama and Lyrics by Donald Davidson, copyright 1952. Copy no. 121
  
• Singin' Billy an Opera in Two Acts, music by Charles Faulkner Bryan, Drama and Lyrics by Donald Davidson, copyright 1952
  
• Recordings of Singin' Billy:
  
  • No. 1, No. 3
    
  • No. 2, No. 4
    
  • No. 5, No. 7
    
  • No. 6, No. 8
    
  • No. 10, No. 12
    
  • No. 9, No. 11
    
  • No., 13, No. 14
    
• Audio Cassette Tapes
  
  • Singin' Billy (3 tapes)
    
  • Singin' Billy (4 tapes)
    

Other Recordings:

• Lee in the Mountains and Sanctuary read by Earl Foster student in the College of the Ozarks, Clarksville, Arkansas
  
  • 5 Audio Cassette Tapes ( See also Literary Career-Singin Billy)
    
• Singin' Billy
  
• Singin' Billy

Box 64:

• 1) Singing Billy An Opera in Two Acts (typescript of 137 pages)
  
• 2) Singing Billy An Opera in Two Acts, Music by Charles Faulkner Bryan, Drama and Lyrics by Donald Davidson
  
• 3) 2 typescripts of The Big Ballad Jamboree A Novel by Donald Davidson

Box 65:

Miscellaneous photographs and newspaper clippings collected by Davidson including Americana, the South and the Confederacy items, and Writers (with pipes)

• 1) Photographs - Americana
  
• 2) Photographs - The South and the Confederacy
  
• 3) Photographs - Writers (with pipes) (October 1955)

Overview | Biography | File Listing: Boxes 1-30 | File Listing: Boxes 31-65
Appendix A: Poems by Davidson | Appendix B: Literary Career
Appendix C: Fugitives & Agrarians | Appendix D: Photographs

Special Collections | Heard Library | Vanderbilt University

Copyright © Special Collections, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University
Last modified: April 10, 2008
For more information, contact us at: < >