BOX 3
Other materials relating to the Fugitives and Agrarians
1 Program - Literary Department of the Centennial Club, February 25, 1926
(Lyle Lanier)
2 Vanderbilt Literary Symposium - Writing Laboratory Conference - 5 papers by
participants taught by Warren Beck, Andrew Lytle, Richard Weaver, Donald Davidson
and Walter Sullivan
3 Correspondence with Thomas Daniel Young, Professor of English at Vanderbilt
4 Correspondence with Thomas Daniel Young, Professor of English at Vanderbilt
5 Fugitive associations - Randall Jarrell - “Generations of Writers Inspired” by Robert
Watson in Alumni News, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Spring 1969
6 Newspaper article “50 Candles for the Fugitives” Wednesday, April 19, 1972 and
photocopies of other newspaper articles
7 Article “Reflections on the Fugitives: Fifty Years and After” with attachment of pages
from Understanding Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren
8 Programs - Downeast Southern Renascence Conference “A Sense of Place” at the
University of Southern Maine, October 29 - 31, 1978
9 Publication announcements from 1976, 1977, and 1979
10 Bibliography “Fugitive/Agrarian Materials at Vanderbilt University” by Martha Emily
Cook and Thomas Daniel Young, Vanderbilt University
Bibliographic list of Fugitive/Agrarian M.A. and Ph.D. Theses, 1973 - 1979
Materials on individual Fugitives and Agrarians
11 Davidson, Donald - Correspondence, 1906 - 1968
12 Davidson, Donald - Program - “Tradition and Change in Lyric Poetry” Four lectures at
Vanderbilt given by Davidson
13 Davidson, Donald - Photocopy of a letter from RG 600, Library University Archives,
D.D. to Dr. A.F. Kuhlman, May 11, 1956
14 Davidson, Donald - unpublished manuscript - “The Center That Holds: Southern
Literature and the Old Time Religion.” 17 pages, 1966. Footnotes added by T.D.
Young in 1968.
15 Davidson, Donald - Newspaper clippings, obituaries
16 Hirsch, Sidney M. - Correspondence – photocopies
17 Hirsch, Sidney M. - “Art and Mysticism” and other poems – photocopies
18 Hirsch, Sidney M. - newspaper articles - obituary of S.M. Hirsch “Fugitive Poet Founder
Dies”;
“Nashvillians Espouse Relocation of U.S. Capitol on Mississippi River” - photocopies
19 Johnson, Stanley - student paper by Frances Neel Cheney, October 4, 1924
20 Lytle, Andrew Nelson - An Andrew Nelson Lytle Checklist, 1923 - 1959 by Jack de
Bellis, Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, June 1966
21 Moore, Merrill - Correspondence to A.F. Kuhlman - Photocopies from RG 600, Library,
Vanderbilt University Archives
22 Moore, Merrill - Broadside advertisements for Clinical Sonnets and More Clinical
Sonnets
23 Moore, Merrill - Miscellaneous items:
Moore, John Trotwood. “Success,” a poem printed on card with brief biography on
card, with brief biography on reverse side. 2 copies
Inscription on How to Know Architecture (title not shown). Frank Edwin Wallis, New
York and London, 1914. “Herbert Sanborn, January 10, 1923, presented by Merrill
Moore.”
Program - “A Reading and Definition of the Sonnet Form,” by Merrill Moore.
Presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry Fund.
The Coolidge Auditorium, February 2, 1953
Holograph poem - “. . . and, to the young man . . .,” autographed, ca. 1925
Holograph poem - “The Lady of the Lambs” by Alice Meynell, presented to Mrs.
Adolph Skinner; cover letter from Herschel Gower to Marice Wolfe.
24 Ransom, John Crowe - Correspondence - Outgoing, 1941 - 1942
25 Ransom, John Crowe - Correspondence
26 Ransom, John Crowe - Correspondence
27 Ransom, John Crowe - Title page only “ The South - Old or New?” Reprinted from
The Sewanee Review, 1928.
28 Ransom, John Crowe - extract from a speech by J.C.R. delivered at Richmond,
November 14, 1930 in the Barr - Ransom debate on Industrialism vs. Agrarianism
29 Ransom, John Crowe - Student papers by Frances Neel Cheney
30 Ransom, John Crowe - Student papers by Frances Neel Cheney and Dillard Jacobs
31 Ransom, John Crowe - “A Tribute from the Community” edited by D. David Long and
Michael R. Burr. Supplement to the Kenyon Collegian, Vol. 90, no. 7, 1964
32 Ransom, John Crowe - Memorial Service, order of service, November 1, 1974; with
Invitation to Brainard and Frances Cheney, October 15, 1974
33 Ransom, John Crowe - Bibliographies - photocopies of pages concerning J.C.R. from
A Bibliographic Guide to the Study of Southern Literature; John Crowe Ransom,
1888 -1974
Photocopies
34 Stevenson, Alec Brock - Poem - “In the County of Davidson” typescript
35 Stewart, Randall (Fugitive associate) -“The Outlook for Southern Writing: Diagnosis
and Prognosis” reprint from Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 31, no. 2, Spring 1955.
With Inscription “For Frances and Lon Cheney, with all good wishes of Randall
Stewart.”
36 Tate, Allen - Correspondence - Outgoing and Incoming
37 Tate, Allen – Poem - “The Anabasis” Holograph, January 14, 1932
38 Tate, Allen - Poem - “A Ballade of the Lugubrious Wench” from The Jade, November
12, Vol. 111, no. 1, p. 17 - photocopy
39 Tate, Allen – Poem- “Ode to the Confederate Dead” with a translation by Jacques and
Raissa Maritain, reprint from The Sewanee Review, Vol. LX, No. 3, Summer 1952
40 Tate, Allen - Article - “Dostoevsky’s Hovering Fly” reprinted from the Summer number
of The Sewanee Review, 1943.
BOX 4
Materials on individual Fugitives and Agrarians
1 Tate, Allen - Personnel Assayer; Moral Judgment Test, 1931
2 Tate, Allen - Southwestern Bulletin - Faculty Register, Vol. 21, no.4, September 1934,
Memphis, Tennessee
3 Tate, Allen - Article - “Allen Tate as Man of Letters” by Richmond C. Beatty, reprint
from The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 47, no. 2, April 1948
4 Tate, Allen - “Homage to Allen Tate Essays, Notes, and Verses in Honor of his Sixtieth
Birthday” The Sewanee Review, Vol. LXVII, no. 4,Autumn 1959
5 Tate, Allen - Elliott Carter’s Score for Emblems with lyrics by Tate. Inscription “To
Thank Allen Tate”, February 7, 1965
6 Tate, Allen - Christmas card, 1967 - original verse
7 Tate, Allen - “Rumors of Mortality: An Introduction to Allen Tate” by Melvin E. Bradford
In Studies in Southeastern Culture, Vol. 1, no. 1, 1969
8 Tate, Allen - Article - “Allen Tate: Poet in Residence” in The Sewanee News, December
1969
9 Tate, Allen - Lecture - “Mere Literature and the Lost Traveller” reprint of the Fourth
Annual C.C. Williamson Lecture given by Tate at the Peabody Library School,
Nashville, Tennessee, July 17, 1969 with program
10 Tate, Allen - Poem by Sister Mary Anthony Barr on the occasion of Tate’s receiving of
the Aquinas Medal, July 5, 1974 - photocopy
11 Tate. Allen - 75th Birthday Celebration items:
Program “Celebration of the Seventy-Fifth Birthday of Allen Tate Poet - Novelist
Critic” The University of the South, November 15 - 16, 1974, 3 copies
Biographies of eight of the participants
List of participants - photocopy
12 Tate, Allen - 75th Birthday Celebration items:
Schedule of events
Press releases from the News Rom, University of the South concerning the event
Tennessean article “ Sewanee Event to cite poet, critic Allen Tate” November 11,
1974
Letter - Jesse Wills to Frank Grisham, November 18, 1974
13 Tate, Allen - Poem - “At Delphi” by William Jay Smith for Allen Tate on his 75th
birthday, November 19, 1974
14 Tate, Allen - Poem “The First Day Out from Troy” by Radcliffe Squires for Allen Tate’s
75th birthday, 1974
15 Tate, Allen - The Western Approaches, Poems 1973 -75 by Howard Nemerov - Book
jacket with note: “Einstein and Freud and Jack: to Allen Tate on his 75th birthday”
pp. 20 - 21
16 Tate, Allen - Broadsides:
“All is Brillig (or ought to be)” Palaemon Press, 1978, signed “Allen Tate”, copy
No. 5
“For the Poet . . .” by Allen Tate. Calligraphy by Helen Tate 1979
“Song from Buffalo” by Leslie A. Fiedler, December 1975, signed by Leslie A.
Fiedler. Presented “with the compliments of the Director of Libraries”
17 Tate, Allen - The First Year of Greek by James T. Allen. New York: MacMillan
Company, 1918. Signature, notes, caricatures of Tate by Andy White. Association
copy.
18 Warren, Robert Penn. Audubon: A Vision - Advance Proofs uncorrected, October
1969, Random House, Inc.
19 Warren, Robert Penn. Program - Convocation University of the South, October 10,
1974. Honorary doctorate for R.P. Warren ( 2 copies)
20 Warren, Robert Penn. Notes on an Approach to Literature, Fifth Edition, 1975 by
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren. Prentice - Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New
Jersey, 1975
21 Warren, Robert Penn. Promotional brochures: The Ultimate Private Library, Franklin
Library and American Express Company, March 1974. Warren on the Board of
Distinquished scholars.
First Edition Society by the Franklin Library, 1976 - Warren’s books among those
offered by the society
22 Wills, Ridley - Sonnet - “To Rupert Brooke” 1 holograph copy; 2 photocopies
23 Wills, Ridley
Lanier, Lyle - Vanderbilt University Commencement Program, 1923 (includes their
names)
The Agrarians
24 Davidson, Donald - article - “Where Regionalism and Sectionalism Meet” reprint from
Social Forces, Vol. 13, No. 1, October 1934. Inscribed by Davidson.
25 Article - “The Agrarian Inheritance: an Affirmation” by Melvin E. Bradford from the
Proceedings of the Gulf Coast History and Humanities Conference, IV (1973).
Inscribed by author.
26 Article - “Donald Davidson and the Tennessee Valley Authority: The Response of a
Southern Conservative” by Edward S. Shapiro in Tennessee Historical Quarterly,
Winter 1974.
27 Article - “The South, the Tradition, and the Traditionalist” by Hunter Kay in Versus,
February 1975.
28 Articles - “They Took Their Stand” …but were they all wrong? Paper by John
Compton. Presented February 2, 1978 to the Round Table, Nashville, Tennessee.
“Science, Anti - Science and Human Values” by John Compton reprint from The Key
Reporter, Winter, 1978 - 1979.
29 Lanier, Lyle - Vanderbilt University College on Campus, August 1 - 5, 1979 -
recommended reading list, maps, participants, schedule. Faculty includes Lanier.
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