Box 1
Fugitive Materials
1. The Fugitive - April 1922
2. The Fugitive - Theresa S. Davidson’s cover design c. 1922
3. The Fugitive - 1922 - 1925 By Laws
4. The Fugitive - 1922 - 1925 Advertising materials
5. The Fugitive - 1922 - 1925 Poetry contests
6. The Fugitive - 1922 - 1925 Donald Davidson. Poetry Prize telegram text to Laura Riding
7. “Fugitives Add to Literary Honors of Tennessee” in Nashville Tennessean, May 27, 1923
8. The Fugitive - Correspondence, 1924 - Louis Gilmore
9. The Fugitive in The Writer - a directory of periodicals, 1924
10. The Fugitive - Correspondence, 1923 - 44 - Joseph Shipley/ Allen Tate
11. Fugitives - “The Year 1925 Witnesses”
12. “The Fugitives and the Archives of American Letters” in The Princeton University Library Chronicle, April 1942
13. Fugitive Collections - Vanderbilt University Library. Correspondence of A. F. (Augustus Frederick ) Kuhlman, Director, 1942 - 56
14. Fugitive Collections. Vanderbilt University Library. Correspondence of A. F. (Augustus Frederick) Kuhlman, Director, 1942 - 56
15. Fugitive Reunion. Calendar and Program, May 3 - 5, 1956
16. Fugitive Reunion in Vanderbilt Alumnus, Vol. 41, no. 4, May - June 1956
17. Fugitive Room Committee. Correspondence, 1966 - 1971
18. The Fugitives. Vanderbilt Centennial History “Brief” by Joseph Kempf, 1970 with background documents.
19. “Fugitive/Agrarian Materials at Vanderbilt University” by Martha Emily Cook and Thomas Daniel Young, 1971
20. “The Fugitives” Hustler Special Issue, April 1972.
21. “The Fugitives” in Versus, February, 1977
22. Fugitive/Agrarian Solicitation - Summer/Fall 1978
23. Boyer, Allen D. - a history of the Fugitives at Vanderbilt
24. Lynch, Amy. “The Company was Olympian: Fugitives and Agrarians” and an interview with Agrarian Andrew Lytle in Nashville, 1984
25. “The Fugitives, the Agrarians, and Other Twentieth Century Writers” an Exhibition in the Department of Rare Books, University of Virginia Library, 1985
26. Vaughn, William S. “ Some Recollections of a Fugitive Sort”;Cook, Mary Ann “Prophets with Honors”in Vanderbilt Magazine, Vol. 72, no. 2, Fall 1987
27. Wiltshire, Susan Ford. “Aeneas in Tennessee: Vergil and the Vanderbilt Fugitives” in Vanderbilt Magazine, Fall 1989
28. “Fugitive No More” in Vanderbilt Hustler, August 10, 1993
29. Fugitive and Agrarian books in Vanderbilt Library - several lists
30. Fugitive and Agrarian items offered for sale to Special Collections
31. Fugitives - newspaper clippings
32. Fugitives - newspaper clippings
Box 2
Agrarians
1. I’ll Take My Stand. Tate Authorization. 1930
2. Vanderbilt Masquerader, Vol. X, no. 3, December 1933
3. “The Agrarians Today : a Symposium” in Shenandoah, Autumn 1952 (photocopy);
“Dualisms in Agrarian Thought” by Virginia Rock reprinted from Mississippi Quarterly, XIII (Spring 1960)
4. “Brief” by Rick Byrd for Vanderbilt Centennial History, 1977
5. “The Southern Agrarians” in New Boston Review, Vol. IV, no. III, December 1978
6. Agrarian Symposium, 1980 - programs, Vanderbilt Alumnus, Vol. 66, no. 1, Winter 1981; Versus, April, 1980; newspaper articles
7. “About Face or Forward March? Nashville Agrarians, Southern Liberals, and the 1930 Richmond Debate on the Future of the South” by John Kneebone in Virginia Cavalcade, Vol. 36, no. 3, Winter 1987
8. “The Twelve Apostles” by Hal Crowther in Oxford American January/February 1997
9. Newspaper clippings
Walter Clyde Curry
10. “Walter Clyde Curry’s Last Lecture” by Dan D. Moore, (LSU) c. 1955
Donald Davidson
11. Letter to Walter Clyde Curry, June 3, 1952
12. “Southern Progressivism” in Saturday Review of Literature, February 11, 1933 (photocopy)
13. “Sectionalism in the United States” in Hound and Horn, July – September, 1933 (photocopy)
14. “The Trend of Literature: A Partisan View” in Culture in the South, ed. William T. Couch. Chapel Hill: UNC Pressw, 1934
15. “Agrarianism and Politics” in Review of Politics, April 1939 (photocopy)
16. “White Spirituals: The Choral Music of the South” in American Scholar, Autumn 1935 (photocopy)
17. “Regionalism as Social Science” in Southern Review, Autumn, 1937 (photocopy)
18. “The Class Approach to Southern Problems” in Southern Review, Autumn,1939 (photocopy)
19. “Mr. Babbitt at Philadelphia” in Southern Review, Spring 1941 (photocopy)
20. “The Mystery of the Agrarians: Facts and Illusions About Some Southern Writers” in The Saturday Review, January 23, 1943
21. Doctor of Letters invitation to Davidson. Washington and Lee University, 1947
22. Review of Regionalism in America, ed. by Merrill Jensen in American Literature,March 1952 (photocopy)
23. Singin’ Billy – programs, April 23 -26, 1952
24. “Regionalism” in Collier’s 1954 Year Book, ed. William T. Couch. NewYork: P. F. Collier and Son, 1954. (photocopy)
25. Notebook. South Carolina Gazette, 1760
26. Propaganda mailing, c. 1961 - 63
27. Tribute program. Vanderbilt University Department of English. January 19, 1966
28. Poem - “Gradual of the Northern Summer” and correspondence with Eleanor Scott Morse, 1964 - 1975.
29. Young, T. D. and Kirk, Russell. Introduction and Preface to The Tennessee,1978 (photocopy)
30. Offer of books from Fugitive Books, 1987
31. “Traditions of Southern Thought: Frederick Douglass and Donald Davidson” Conference, 1992 at Vanderbilt University
32. Murphy, Paul. “The Social Memory of the South: Donald Davidson and the Tennessee Past” in Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Fall 1996
33. . Poetry Reviews - newspaper clippings (43 items)
34. Student Paper by Sarah McCanless (Howell)
35. Student Papers of Adelle Dudney, 1928 - 1930
36. Student Paper of Sally Rodes (Lee), 1952
37. Davidson, Theresa Sherrer - printed copy and transparency of her illustrations for The Tennessee
William Yandell Elliott
38. Letter to Donald Davidson, June 9, 1924
39. “The Metaphysics of Duguit’s Pragmatic Conception of Law” reprinted from Political Science Quarterly, Vol. XXXVIII, no. 4, December, 1922;
“ Mussolini, Prophet of the Pragmatic Era in Politics” reprinted from Political Science Quarterly,Vol. XLI, no. 2, June, 1926
40. “Vers Une Nouvelle Constitution” extrait du Recueil d’Etudes enl’honneur d’Edouard Lambert
41. Address to the graduating class of 1960, the Webb School, Bell Buckle, Tennessee
42. Articles, obituary.
Box 3
John Gould Fletcher
1. Correspondence concerning his letters
Sidney M. Hirsch
2. Letter from Merrill Moore, January 13, 1950; Art and Mysticism - cover
3. Hirsch family tree since 1790
Lyle Lanier
4. Articles, obituary, 1989
Andrew Lytle
5. Correspondence
6. “The Passion of Alex Maury” book review in The New Republic, January 2, 1935
“Congratulations” by Stark Young
7. “The Quality of the South” in National Review, March 8, 1958
8. “Man or Symbol?” book review of Brainard Cheney’s This is Adam in The New Republic, December 6, 1958
9. Correspondence with Richard Sanders re: A Wake for the Living including publisher blurb and photograph, 1975
10. Symposium participant “The Changing South: Rural to Urban” 1980
“Andrew Nelson Lytle: A Celebration” Sewanee, Tennessee, December 3, 1982
11. Articles by and about Lytle in The Chatttahoochee Review Vol. I, no. 1, Spring 1981
12. “An Afternoon on the Porch with Andrew Lytle” by Douglas Paschall in Touchstone: the Magazine of the Tennessee Humanities Council, Number 8, Fall 1986
13. Andrew Lytle issue Horns of Plenty, with correspondence, 1990
14. Newspaper articles and reviews
15. Newspaper articles and reviews
16. Newspaper articles and reviews
17. Newspaper articles and reviews
18. Newspaper articles and reviews
19. Newspaper articles and reviews
Merrill Moore
20. Correspondence
21. Correspondence
22. Correspondence - Helen Frank
23. Correspondence - Virginia Campbell Johns
24. “Poems from the Fugitive” [1922 - 1926]
“It’s a Good Deal Later Than You Think” reprinted from Avenue, June 4, 1934;
“Ego” reprinted from Life and Letters To-Day,October, 1938
25. “Eight Sonnets” reprinted from the January number of The Sewanee Review, 1955
26. “Note on a Limerick” reprint from The American Imago, Vol. 13, no. 2
27. “Notes on Re-Reading Dr. Hanns Sachs’ Last Book” reprint from The American Imago,
Vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 1954
28. Medical Journal articles - Alcoholism
29. Medical Journal articles - Conchology
30. Medical Journal articles
31. Medical Journal articles
32. Medical Journal articles
33. Medical Journal articles
34. Personal and Biographical items, 1914, 1923
35. Personal and Biographical - Military Service
36. Personal and Biographical - “Success” by John Trotwood Moore ( M. M’s father) with
Biographical note, J. T. M.
37. Personal and Biographical - articles
Box 4
Merrill Moore
1. “Merrill Moore” by Louis Untermeyer reprinted from the January Number of The Sewanee Review,1935; “Three Younger Poets” by Louis Untermeyer in The English
Journal, December 1932
2. “Dawn Honey” musical composition - words by Merrill Moore, music by Ives Hendrick, 1938
3. “The Mental Measure of Merrill Moore” by F. L. Wells reprinted from Life and Letters To-Day, Vol. 21, no. 19, pages 27 - 36, March 1939 (London)
4. “Poet and Psychiatrist: Merrill Moore” by Henry W. Wells reprinted from The Hopkins Review, Vol. VI, no. 1, Fall 1952 (Baltimore, Maryland)
5. Newspaper articles and reviews; travel literature
6. Vanderbilt Centennial History file - newspaper articles
7. Book reviews
8. Book promotional materials
9. Book promotional materials
10. Eulogy and Elegy by Michel Farrano - inscribed to Anne Leslie Moore
11. Obituaries in Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, October 1957; February 1958
12. Obituary in The New England Journal of Medicine, October 31, 1957, vol. 257, no. 18
13. Obituaries, 1957 (1)
14. Obituaries, 1957 (2)
Herman Clarence Nixon
15. “Social Security for Southern Farmers” from Southern Policy Papers No. 2, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1936
Frank Lawrence Owsley
16. Newspaper articles and reviews; booklet Alabama Academy of Distinquished Authors Inductees, 1982 - 1986
John Crowe Ransom
17. Correspondence
18. Incoming correspondence – Delmore Schwartz, July 5, 1941
19. Letter to Robie Macauley, 1958
20. Poem “As We Two Walked at Dusk” (never published typescript)
21. “The State and the Land” in New Republic, February 17, 1932
22. “Address to the Scholars of New England” (Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Poem, June 23, 1939)
in The Kenyon Review
23. Tribute from the Community of Letters, 1964
24. Program “Martin College presents John Crowe Ransom” Friday, April 28, 1967
25. Memorial Lectures. Program, Gambier, Ohio, April 3 - 5, 1975
26. “The Kenyon Review and the Rockefeller Foundation” Rockefeller Archives Center Newsletter, Fall 1991, pp. 3 - 4.
27. Newspaper articles and reviews, 1930’s - 1950’s
28. Newspaper articles and reviews
29. Newspaper articles and reviews
30. Newspaper articles and reviews,1974 - 1089
31. Response to biography, Gentleman in a Dustcoat by Thomas Daniel Young from Brainard
Cheney, Elizabeth Spencer; Ransom’s grandparents’ marriage certificate, 1851
32. Vanderbilt Centennial History file
33. Giles County, Tennessee Historical Marker, and invitation, 1996
34. Photograph
35. Library of Congress Contemporary Recordings. Text. Ransom, Warren, Tate, and others
Laura Riding
36. Newspaper articles
37. Obituary in The New York Times, September 4, 1991 A16 (photocopy)
Box 5
Allen Tate
1. Parthenia and Other Poems (1922). Photocopies from original in the Vanderbilt
University English Department ,November 9, 1988
2. “Putting Agrarianism into Practice” by John Thompson in The Tennessean Magazine,Sunday
June 27, 1937 (includes photograph of Tate and his wife Caroline Gordon and Mr. and Mrs. Ford
Madox Ford)
3. “The Critic Behind Barbed Wire: If He Wishes He Can End His Self-Imposed Internment” by Herbert J. Mueller in Saturday Review of Literature, September 25, 1943
4. Tate’s Venus” by Nicholson Adams. Review of Tate’s translation of The Vigil of Venus, offprint from The Quarterly Review of Literature, March 1944, Vol. I, no. 2. Inscribed by Tate
5. “The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Papers” by Allen Tate in Library of Congress Quarterly Journal, Vol. I, no. 2, 1944
6. “The Fathers and Realistic Fiction” review by Arthur Mizener in Accent, 1947 (photocopy)
7. “The Hovering Fly” Cummington Press Prospectus, October 1948
8. “Fragment of a Meditation/MCMXXXXVII” Christmas Card from Caroline and Allen Tate,
1948
9. “Dr. Johnson on Religious Poetry” Broadside lecture announcement, May 15, 1949
10. Program - Kansas Writer’s Conference, University of Kansas, June 8 - 21, 1949
11. “Is Literary Criticism Possible?” Typescript, 1950 - 51 (17 pages)
12. “Allen Tate est à Paris” clipping from Le Figaro Litterâire, 24 Mai 1952. Extrait de “Ode
aux morts confédérés” translated by Jacques and Raissa Maritain
13. Correspondence, 1968 - 69, 3 items
14. Correspondence to Thomas Daniel Young and others,1959 - 1981
15. Vanderbilt Alumni Records and information
16. Vanderbilt Centennial History file
17. Collected Poems, 1919 - 1976 - Duplicate proofs, author’s set
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