Walter Sullivan Collection
Box Listing: Boxes 1-2

Box 1 of 2

Correspondence - Incoming - from Donald Davidson - 14 items

• August 3, 1943
  
• January 16, 1944
  
• February 15, 1944
  
• March 26, 1944
  
• April 15, 1948
  
• July 30, 1948 - postcard
  
• March 31, 1949
  
• April 27, 1949
  
• December 20, 1950
  
• July 27, 1951
  
• September 14, 1957
  
• June 16, 1957 - postcard
  
• May 10, 1959
  
• September 6, 1964

Correspondence - Incoming - from Andrew Lytle - 43 items

• March 28, 1949
  
• April 11, 1949
  
• December 30, 1949
  
• May 12, 1950
  
• February, 1950
  
• January 11, 1952
  
• February 8, 1952
  
• April 22, 1955
  
• September 16, 1955
  
• December 21, 1956
  
• March 19, 1957
  
• November 20, 1957
  
• January 31, 1959 - postcard
  
• July 26, 1960
  
• September 23, 1960
  
• November 5, 1964
  
• November 17, 1964
  
• January 28, 1965
  
• February 24, 1965 - postcard
  
• November 23, 1965
  
• December 16, 1965
  
• September 27, 1966
  
• February 8, 1967
  
• July 16, 1968
  
• March 31, 1970
  
• August 10, 1971
  
• August 10, 1975
  
• May 7, 1980
  
• November 13, 1980
  
• October 8, 1982
  
• December 18, 1982
  
• September 27, 1986
  
• September 9, 1988
  
• October 8, 1988
  
• 1988
  
• September 14, 1990
  
• July 31, 1993
  
• September 27, 1993
  
• n.d. - 5, one of which is a postcard

Correspondence - Incoming - from Peter Taylor - 12 items

• February 28, 1948
  
• April 21, 1948
  
• January 15, 1957
  
• April 10, 1957 - postcard
  
• June 18, 1957
  
• May 1, 1960
  
• February 13, 1964
  
• March 20, 1964
  
• November 23, 1987 - postcard
  
• November 4, 1991 - postcard
  
• n.d. - 2

Correspondence - Incoming - from Robert Penn Warren - 42 items

• April 14, 1952
  
• April 23, 1953
  
• January 25, 1959
  
• March 7, 1959
  
• March 18, 1959
  
• August 10, 1959
  
• September 21, 1959
  
• March 23, 1962
  
• February 24, 1964
  
• February 24, 1964 - telegram
  
• October 16, 1967
  
• November, 1967 - original and typescript
  
• May 11, 1968
  
• June 3, 1968
  
• June 10, 1968
  
• January 15, 1969
  
• October 14, 1970
  
• October 19, 1972
  
• May 30, 1973
  
• February 12, 1975
• July 17, 1977
  
• March 30, 1979
  
• April 25, 1979 - postcard
  
• July 16, 1979 - postcard
  
• September 25, 1979 - original and typescript note
  
• March 23, 1980 - original and typescript
  
• October 19, 1980 - postcard
  
• November 20, 1980
  
• December 19, 1987 - original and typescript
  
• January 20, 1988
  
• March 16, 1988
  
• March 18, 1988 - original and typescript
  
• June 25, 1988 - original and typescript
  
• September 15, 1988 - original and typescript
  
• September 15, 1988 - original and typescript
  
• October 4, 1988 - original and typescript
  
• January 25, 1989 - original and typescript
  
• August 9, 1990
  
• n.d. - 1 letter and (3) postcards, one w/typescript

Correspondence - Incoming - from Allen Tate - 46 items

• May 14, 1943
  
• June 19, 1943
  
• July 28, 1951
  
• October 29, 1951
  
• April 27, 1962
  
• May 5, 1963
  
• November 1, 1965 - postcard
  
• January 7, 1966
  
• January 30, 1966
  
• October 2, 1966
  
• November 16, 1966 - postcard
  
• October 31, 1967
  
• November 25, 1967
  
• January 13, 1968
  
• March 5, 1968
  
• May 9, 1968
  
• January 1, 1969
  
• February 4, 1969
  
• February 28, 1969 - postcard
  
• May 3, 1969 - postcard
  
• August 30, 1969
  
• October 16, 1969
  
• January 14, 1970 - postcard
  
• January 31, 1970
  
• February 7, 1970
  
• November 11, 1970
  
• January 22, 1971
  
• March 21, 1971
  
• June 22, 1971
  
• July 26, 1971
  
• October 9, 1971
  
• February 4, 1972 - postcard
  
• April 26, 1972
  
• May 28, 1972
  
• September 8, 1972
  
• January 31, 1973 - postcard
  
• September 19, 1973
  
• October 1, 1973
  
• January 28, 1974
  
• October 8, 1974 - postcard
  
• November 27, 1974 - postcard
  
• December 12, 1974 - postcard
  
• January 15, 1976 - postcard
  
• May 11, 1976 - postcard
  
• May 29, 1976
  
• November 11, 1976

Correspondence - from Mary Boyd Fleming to Donald Davidson

• November 20, 1930 [thank you note to the authors of I'll Take My Stand] -
  includes book announcement

Critic's Almanac

• The Poetry of Allen Tate in Book Page, Sunday, 1929

Radio Address

• Christmas in the Old South.
  • A talk made by Donald Davidson of Vanderbilt University on the Caldwell
    Radio Program on December 21, 1928.

Books - cataloged in the Fugitive and Agrarian collection

• Chills and Fever
  • by John Crowe Ransom, 1924
    [inscribed to Professor and Mrs. Bowen from John Crowe Ransom]
• I'll Take My Stand
  • by Twelve Southerners, First Edition, 1930
• Mr. Pope and Other Poems
  • by Allen Tate, 1928
    [inscribed to Donald Davidson from Allen Tate]
• The Tall Men
  • by Donald Davidson, Advance Copy, 1927

Box 2 of 2

Literary Symposium Lectures, Panels, Readings, and Interviews - 43 reels

1. April 15, 1957 – Interview: Peter Taylor

2. April 16, 1957 – Side I and II - Colloquium

3. April 30, 1958 Side and II – Panel: W. Beck, Donald Davidson, Andrew Lytle, Richard Weaver, Walter Sullivan

4. May 1, 1958 – Side I – Lecture: Richard Weaver
May 1, 1958 – Side II – Lecture: Cleanth Brooks

5. April 22, 1959 – Side I – Lecture: Jesse Stuart
April 23, 1959 – Side II - Interview: Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Conner

6. April 23, 1959 – Side I - Panel: William Davidson, Murray Krieger, Jesse Stuart, Robert Penn Warren
April 23, 1959 – Side II - Interview: Robert Penn Warren

7. November 17, 1959 – Side I – Reading: William Meredith

8. February 25, 1960 – Side I and II – Interview: Madison Jones
February 25, 1960 – Side I – Reading: Madison Jones

9. March 1, 1960 – Reading: Paul Engle

10. April 14, 1960 – Side I – Interview: Shelby Foote – Part I
April 14, 1960 – Side II – Interview: Shelby Foote – Part II

11. April 14, 1960 – Side I – Interview: Shelby Foote – Part III
April 21, 1960 – Side II – Interview: Peter Taylor, Lionel Trilling, John Crowe Ransom

12. April 20, 1960 – Side I - Reading: Peter Taylor
April 20, 1960 – Side II - Reading: Lionel Trilling

13. April 21, 1960 – Side I - Panel: Lionel Trilling, John Crowe Ransom, Peter Taylor, John Aden
October 27, 1960 – Side II – Interview: Brainard Cheney

14. April 21, 1960 – Side I - Reading: John Crowe Ransom
October 27, 1960 – Side II - Reading: Brainard Cheney

15. December 8, 1960 – Side I – Lecture: August Wilson
December 8, 1960 – Side II – Interview: August Wilson

16. April 27, 1961 – Side I – Panel: John Aden, Katherine Anne Porter, Austin Warren, Randall Jarrell
April 27, 1961 – Side II – Lecture - Randall Jarrell: 'Poets, Critics and Readers'

17. December 1, 1961 – Side I – Reading: William Golding

18. April 25, 1962 – Side I – Reading: John Donald Wade
April 25, 1962 – Side II – Reading: Allen Tate

19. April 26, 1962 – Size I – Lecture - Arthur Mizener: 'Memory and Drive in the American Novel'
April 26, 1962 – Side II – Reading: Donald Davidson

20. April 24, 1963 – Side I – Lecture - Carlos Baker: 'Faulkner, Hemmingway, the 88th and Other Parallels'
April 25, 1963 – Side II – Panel: Carlos Baker, Eudora Welty, Andrew Lytle, John Aden, Walter Sullivan

21. April 25, 1963 – Side I – Lecture - Andrew Lytle: 'Impressionism and It's Desperation'

22. December 13, 1963 - Graduate English Club – Christmas Party – Donald Davidson speaking

23. April 29, 1964 – Side I – Reading - Peter Taylor: 'A Strange Story'
April 29, 1964 – Side II – Reading: Louis Coxe

24. April 30, 1964 – Side I – Panel: Peter Taylor, Louis Coxe, Cleanth Brooks, T. D. Young
April 30, 1964 – Side II – Lecture - Cleanth Brooks: 'The American Innocence as Reflected in James, Fitzgerald,
Faulkner'

* November 4, 1964 – Side I – Reading: Benedict Kiely {see also March 13, 1967}

25. February 23, 1965 – Interview: Donald Davidson

26. March 2, 1965 – Interview: Donald Davidson – Fugitive Reminiscences – Part II

27. April 21, 1965 – Side I – Reading: Madison Jones
April 21, 1965 – Reading: Richard Wilbur

28. April 22, 1965 – Side I – Panel: Richard Wilbur, Madison Jones, Malcolm Cowley, Vereen Bell
April 22, 1965 – Side II – Lecture - Malcolm Cowley: 'The Untold Story of the Portable Faulkner'

29. November 16, 1965 – Interview: Allen Tate and Andrew Lytle

30. November 16, 1965 – Side I Reading: Allen Tate
November 17, 1965 – Side II – Reading: Andrew Lytle

31. April 20, 1966 – Side I – Reading: J. F. Powers
April 20, 1966 – Side II – Reading: Richard Eberhart

32. April 21, 1966 – Side I – Panel: Louis Rubin, Richard Eberhart, J. F. Powers, Walter Sullivan
April 21, 1966 – Side II – Interview: Louis Rubin

33. June 11, 1966 – Reunion Seminar: Walter Sullivan on F. Scott Fitzgerald

34. March 13, 1967 – Side II – Reading: William Stafford {see also November 4, 1964}

35. April 26, 1967 – Side I – Reading: Anthony Burgess
April 26, 1967 – Side II – Reading: Louis Simpson

36. April 27, 1967 – Side I – Panel: Anthony Burgess, Richard Ellemann, A. Guerard, Louis Simpson, Allen Tate
April 27, 1967 – Side II - Lecture - Richard Ellemann: 'Yeats and Auden'

37. April 17, 1968 – Side I – Lecture - Lawrence Thompson: 'Some Problems of a Frost Biographer'
April 17, 1968 – Side II – Reading: Jean Stafford

38. April 23, 1969 – Side I – Reading: Elizabeth Spencer
April 23, 1969 – Side II – Lecture - R.W.B. Lewis: 'The Man in the Novel: Formal Criticisms & Literary Biography'

39. April 24, 1969 – Side I – Reading: William Jay Smith
April 24, 1969 – Side II – Lecture - Robie Macaulay: 'Fiction and Us'

40. April 22, 1970 – Side I – Reading: R. V. Cassill
April 22, 1970 – Side II – Lecture - James Cox: 'American Autobiography'

41. April 23, 1970 – Side II – Reading: James Dickey

42. March 31, 1971 – Side I – Lecture - Louis Simpson: 'Images of Redemptive Community in Southern Literature'
March 31, 1971 – Side II – Lecture - Malcolm Cowley: 'The Last Year of Ernest Hemingway'

43. April 1, 1971 – Side I – Panel: Malcolm Cowley, Lewis Simpson, Andrew Lytle
April 1, 1971 – Side II – Reading: Andrew Lytle

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