W. Whittier Wright Collection
1943-1968
The W. Whittier Wright Collection was a generous donation given to Special Collections by Mr. Wright in 1998. Mr. Wright is a Vanderbilt Alumnus who graduated in 1943.
His collection consists of correspondence between himself and Agrarian literary writer Andrew Nelson Lytle which began while Mr. Wright attended the University in the forties. The collection is contained in one half-sized Hollinger box.
Biographical/Historical Note
1941-1943: Attended Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
1943: Received B.A. from Vanderbilt University
Box Listing
Series I. Correspondence, 1946-1968 (1 box)
The correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters, spanning the years 1946 to 1968. The series is subdivided into Outgoing and Incoming Correspondence.
Mr. Wright states in a letter to Vanderbilt University Special Collections that the correspondence shared between the two "speaks more to anecdotes of our friendship
than it does to Lytle's writings..."
Box 1
- Outgoing Correspondence: July 28, 1946 - June 16, 1947
- Outgoing Correspondence: July 7, 1947 - Dec. 2, 1947
- Outgoing Correspondence: Feb. 3, 1948 - Dec. 9, 1948
- Outgoing Correspondence: Apr. 29, 1949 - Oct. 25, 1951
- Outgoing Correspondence: Nov. 25, 1951 - Nov. 25, 1968
- Incoming Correspondence: Nov. 7, 1943 - Oct. 26, 1944
- Incoming Correspondence: Mar. 31, 1945 - May 7, 1947
- Incoming Correspondence: Jun. 12, 1947 - Sep. 15, 1947
- Incoming Correspondence: Oct. 25, 1947 - Oct. 15, 1948
- Incoming Correspondence: Oct. 25, 1948 - Jun. 22, 1950
- Incoming Correspondence: Sep. 13, 1950 - Nov. 23, 1953
- Incoming Correspondence: Apr. 25, 1954 - Sep. 1, 1956
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