THE DONALD GRADY DAVIDSON
PAPERS
ACORN CATALOG ENTRY
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
CHRONOLOGY
SERIES LIST
APPENDIX A – D
ARRANGED AND DESCRIBED BY MOLLY DOHRMANN
2002
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Donald Grady Davidson Papers
Scope and Content Note
The Donald Davidson Papers (1906 – 1968) include correspondence and writings by Davidson
as well as reviews, research materials, publications materials, publicity for books, legal and financial
documents, family records, newspaper clippings and photographs, segregation materials, and manuscripts
of writings by others. The bulk of the materials come from the 1920’s through the 1960’s.
Davidson received his B. A. and M. A. degrees from Vanderbilt University and remained at the
University his entire professional career (1920 – 1968) teaching English. In addition to being a teacher
Davidson was also a poet, novelist, and critic. From 1931-1967 he spent his summers teaching at Breadloaf
School of English in Ripton, Vermont. He served in the military during World War I May 1917- June
1919. In June of 1918 he married Theresa Sherrer, a legal scholar and artist, and their only child Mary
(later Mrs. Eric Bell, Jr.)was born March 26, 1919.
Davidson maintained extensive correspondence with many of his friends and associates who were
also important literary figures of this time--John Gould Fletcher, Brainard and Frances Cheney, John
Crowe Ransom, Laura Riding, Louis Rubin, Jesse Stuart, Allen Tate, John Donald Wade, Robert Penn
Warren, Caroline Gordon/Tate, and Stark Young among others. These letters and others are important
highlights of the Davidson Papers and comprise 5 1/3 cubic feet.
The Papers include much information that pertains to Vanderbilt, especially Davidson’s role in
The Fugitive and Agrarian groups which were centered at the university in the 1920’s and 1930’s. In the
Series Fugitives and Agrarians there are letters and manuscript poems by John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate,
Robert Penn Warren,and other of the Fugitives and Agrarians. Appendix C is a listing of newspaper
clippings relating to I’ll Take My Stand (1930) and Who Owns America?(1936)
Davidson’s Writings ( 5 1/3 cubic feet ) are divided into several genres: poetry, reviews, articles,
essays, lectures, text books, history books, plays, a short story and an operetta. His Editing Projects—
The Tennessean Book Review and Literary Page and The Weekly Review—A Page About Books cover the
period September 7, 1924 – October 26, 1930 and is 1 cubic foot. Of special interest in the Writings is a
collection of over 150 of Davidson’s poems typed or holograph ( Complete listing Appendix A).
Davidson’s Literary Career is well documented in these papers. Appendix B is a listing of newspaper
clippings about Davidson’s work. There are also publicity materials and correspondence concerning his
various literary projects.
In the Academic Career Series there are Davidson’s notes for lectures at Vanderbilt as well as
papers by some of his students including Randall Jarrell, Francis Robinson, and Mildred Haun. There
are also committee reports and other administrative reports and a small section on Breadloaf School
of English. In the Research Notes there are extensive notes for his two volume book The Tennessee and
also notes on American Composition and Rhetoric. There are many miscellaneous notes.
Personal and Biographical Materials include Biographical Sketches and Writings about Davidson,
Personal and Financial Records and Family Papers. Davidson’s own detailed curriculum vita and also that
of his wife Theresa Sherrer Davidson are in this series. In the series Organizations, Activities and Events
there is 1 1/3 cubic feet of material which is concerned with Segregation and Civil Rights, including
Reports of Citizens’ Councils in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.
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The Subject Files contain information on the Tennessee Valley Authority, on George Pullen
Jackson , Jesse Stuart, Agriculture, Southern Policy Papers and others. There are also book
announcements (arranged by publisher or dealer ) and Photographs of Writers (A complete list of
these photographs found in Appendix D).
Finally in the Writings By Others there are publications and articles collected by Davidson-book reviews , poems, and short stories by others, including poems by Cleanth Brooks, , e.e. cummings,
Hart Crane,and George Marion O’Donnell.
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DONALD DAVIDSON CHRONOLOGY
18 August 1893
Donald Grady Davidson born in Campbellsville, near Pulaski, Tennessee to
parents Elma Wells Davidson and Wiliam Bluford Davidson. Both of his
parents were teachers—his father a schoolteacher and his mother a piano
teacher.
1905 – 1909
Attends and graduates from Branham and Hughes School in Spring Hill, TN.
1909
Begins a B. A. program at Vanderbilt, drops out for financial reasons, returns in
1914.
1910 –1912
Davidson teaches at the Cedar Hill Institute in Cedar Hill, Tennessee.
1912 – 1914
Davidson teaches in the rural community of Mooresville.
Fall 1914
Returns to Vanderbilt at the age of 21.
1915, 1916
Attends George Peabody College for Teachers as a summer student.
1916 – 1917
Teaches in Pulaski, Tennessee where he meets Theresa Sherrer (later to be a
legal scholar and artist and Davidson’s wife ).
1917
Davidson does not graduate with his class in 1916, but receives his B. A. in
absentia from Vanderbilt.
May 1917 – June 1919
Davidson serves in the U. S. Military .
May 1917
Davidson joins the first officer candidates who leave Vanderbilt for Fort
Oglethorpe in May 1917; commissioned 2nd lieutenant in 324th Infantry, 81st
Division, U. S. Army.
Lands in Liverpool England.
81st Division assembled in Tonnerre France; Davidson sees action in Defensive
Sector and Meuse-Argonne offensive; he becomes a first lieutenant .
August 1917
August 16, 1918
June 8, 1918
Davidson marries Theresa Sherrer in Greenville, South Carolina while assigned
To Camp Sevier.
March 26, 1919
Mary Theresa Davidson born, the only child of Theresa and Donald Davidson
(And later Mrs. Eric Bell, Jr. ).
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June 7, 1919
Leaves to return to America on the USS Martha Washington and arrives in
Charleston, South Carolina in mid June.
1919
Davidson begins work on Master’s Thesis on Joseph Conrad at Vanderbilt
August 1919 – 1920
Davidson teaches at Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, Kentucky
Summer 1920
Davidson has a job as a reporter for the Evening Tennesseean
Fall 1920
Davidson begins a 44 year career in the English Department at Vanderbilt
University:
1920-1924, Instructor in English
1925-1929, Assistant Professor of English
1930-1937, Associate Professor of English
1938-1964, Professor of English
1964, Distinguished Lecturer in English
1965-1968, Professor of English, Emeritus
1922
M. A. from Vanderbilt (Master’s Thesis on Joseph Conrad)
1924
An Outland Piper. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
1925
Article derived from Davidson’s Master’s Thesis published in the Spring 1925
issue of the Sewanee Review, “Joseph Conrad’s Directed Indirections”
Work on the Master’s degree was begun in 1919, and the degree awarded 1922.
April 1922 – Dec.
1925
Fugitive magazine published—Davidson co-founder, 1922 and co-editor, 19221924
1926
Poetry Society of South Carolina Southern Prize for “Fire on Belmont Street"
1927
The Tall Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
1924 -1930
Sept. 7, 1924 –
Oct. 26, 1930
Editor of The Book Review and Literary Page of The Tennessean and The
Weekly Review—A Page About Books.
November 1930
I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. By Twelve
Southerners. New York : Harper and Brothers.
Davidson’s essay titled “ A Mirror for Artists “
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June 1931
Davidson joins the faculty of the Breadloaf School of English of Middlebury
College for the summers of 1931 – 1967, Ripton, Vermont.
1934
Culture in the South. Edited by W. T. Couch. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press. Davidson contributes the essay “ The Trend of Literature.”
1936
Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence. Edited by Herbert
Agar and Allen Tate. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Davidson’s essay titled “ That This Nation May Endure—The Need for Political
Regionalism.”
1937
British Poetry of the Eighteen Nineties. New York: Doubleday. Davidson is the
editor and author of introduction, notes, and biographical sketches.
1938
The Attack on Leviathan: Regionalism and Nationalism in the United States.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
1938
Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
1939
American Composition and Rhetoric ( textbook). New York: Scribner.
1942
Readings for Composition (textbook ). New York: Scribner. Revised edition,
1957.
1946
The Tennessee Vol. 1, The Old River: Frontier to Secession. New York:
Rinehart. Rivers of America Series.
1946
Honorary degree, Litt. D., Cumberland University
1948
Honorary degree, Litt. D., Washington and Lee University
1948
The Tennessee Vol. 2, The New River: Civil War to TVA. New York:
Rinehart. Rivers of America Series.
1952
Singin Billy—based on a poem by Davidson, music composed by Charles
Faulkner Bryan of George Peabody College for Teachers. Produced at
Vanderbilt Theater.
1953
(Author of introduction ) Stark Young, So Red the Rose, new edition, Scribner.
1955
Twenty Lessons in Reading and Writing ( textbook ). New York: Scribner.
1955 – 1959
Davidson Chairman of the Tennessee Federation for
Constitutional Government.
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May 1956
Fugitive Reunion at Vanderbilt.
1957
Davidson gives the first series of the Eugenia Dorothy Blount Lamar Memorial
Lectures at Mercer University in Georgia ( Published as Southern Writers in the
Modern World ).
1957
Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press.
1958
Southern Writers in the Modern World ( Eugenia Lamar Memorial Lectures ).
Athens: University of Georgia Press.
1961
The Long Street: Poems. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
1963
The Spyglass: Views and Reviews, 1924 – 1930. Edited by John Tyree Fain.
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
1964
Davidson retires from Vanderbilt after 44 years.
1965
Honorary degree, L. H. D., Middlebury College.
1966
Poems, 1922 – 1961. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
1966
( Editor and author of introduction ) John Donald Wade, Selected Essays and
Other Writings. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Spring 1968
Reunion of the Agrarians at the University of Dallas; Davidson unable to attend
because of failing health.
April 25, 1968
Donald Davidson dies in his home at the age of 74. Funeral service April 27,
1968 in Nashville.
1974
The Literary Correspondence of Donald Davidson and Allen Tate. Edited by
John Tyree Fain and Thomas Daniel Young. Athens: University of Georgia
Press.
1985
Singin Billy: A Folk Opera. Text by Donald Davidson; music by Charles
Faulkner Bryan. Glendale, S. C.: Foundation for American Education.
1996
The Big Ballad Jamboree. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
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DONALD DAVIDSON PAPERS
File Listing
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
Outgoing
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CORRESPONDENCE--OUTGOING
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Undated No. 1
Undated No. 2
Undated No. 3
Fragments and Rough Drafts of Telegrams
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Ahearn – Alexander, Harvey
Alexander, T. H.
Alexander, Tom – Allen, Charles
Allen, Hervey No. 1
Allen, Hervey No. 2
Allen, Hervey No. 3
Allen, Jane – Allen, Ward
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Alliance of Agrarian and Distributist Groups, Comm. For the– Andrews and Almon
Ames – Archibald
Armstrong, Walter P.
Armstrong, Zella – Aymard
Babcock – Bailey
Baker – Ball, Faith No. 1
Ball, Faith ( No. 2 ) – Barder
Barker – Barnwell, C. H.
Barr – Barrow
Bartlett – Battey
Battle – Beach
Beaird – Beatty [1937]
Beatty [1940] – Beck
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Benet – Berlin
Best – Bjorkman
Black – Blankenship
Bledsoe – Boland
Bond, R. P.
Bond – Borsodi
Bostell – Bosworth
Bowers – Bowling
Boyd – Brandon
Branscomb, Harvie
Breadloaf School of English
Breast – Breyer
Brickell- Bromley
Brooks, Cleanth, Jr. (No. 1)
Brooks, Cleanth, Jr. (No. 2 ) – Brooks, Paul
Broome – Brown, Maud Marion
Brown, O. E. – Brown, W.L. (No. 1 )
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Cabeen – Campbell, Harry [1953]
Campbell, Harry [1954]
Campbell, Harry [ 1960] – Campbell, Robert C.
Campbell, Ruth E. – Campbell, W. B. [ 1928]
Campbell, W. B. [1929]
Campbell, W. B. [April 1930]
Campbell, W. B. [May 1930] – Canby
Capeci – Carmichael, Peter A.
Carroll – Cason
Caswell, A.Remington [ 1930 – Feb. 1931]
Caswell, A. Remington [ March – May 1931]
Chadsey, C. P. – Chambers
Chambliss – Chapman, A.
Chapman, M. – Chase, R. ( 1 )
Chase, R. (2) – Cheney, Lon (1946 )
Cheney, Lon [1948] – Chodoron
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Constiner – Cornell
Corps. HQS. – Couch [ May 6, 1932 ]
Couch [May 21, 1932 –1934]
Couch [1937 – 1943]
Couch [1948-1955, N.D.]
Cousins, R. B.
Cowan, Louise
Cowan, Louise
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Cullon - Curry, W. C. [ 1923]
Curry, W. C. [1924 –62] – Cutting
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Davies – Davis, Lambert [1930]
Davis, Lambert [1934-35]
Davis, Lambert [1939 –48]
Davis, Lambert [1949] – Davis, Lillian Perrine
Dawson – De Bellis
Deeds – Doane
Dodd, Richard E. and Clare
Dodd, Richard E.
Dodd, Richard E. and Clare
Dodd, Richard E. and Clare
Dodson – Dorrance [1938]
Dodson – Dorrance [1938]
Dorrance [1939] – Dos Passos
Douglas – Drake
Draper – Dresbach
Drew – Durr
Dutton – Dye
Eagel – Edmunds
Edwards – Eisenby
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Elliott, W. Y. [1960] – Ellis
Ellison – Engle
Epperson – Everitt
Faber – Farrar [ 1940]
Farrar [1941] – Faulkner
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Fletcher, J. G. [March 25,1927 – Feb. 4, 1931]
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Fletcher, J. G. [1938, 1942, 1948]
Fletcher, J. G. [1949 – Jan. 1950]
Fletcher, J. G. [ Feb. 1950 – N. D.’s & Letter to Allen Tate]
Fletcher, J. M. – Flint
Flournoy – Forbes, E. [Jan. 1924]
Forbes, E. [Feb. 1924. . . ] – Ford, Jesse Hill
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Fore – Fox, Julia
Fox, Stuart – Fraser
Frazer – Frederick [1936 ]
Frederick [1937-40]
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Gale – Gates
Gaus – Gay [June 1931 – 1935]
Gay [1936. . .] – Gilchrist
Gilmore – Gohdes
Goldgar – Gosnell
Govan – Gower
Gower [1956] – Graves, Louis
Graves, R. – Green-Leach
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Greenslet [March 1938 –1940] – Greig [1931]
Greig [1932] – Guthum
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Henslee [May 1947 . . .] – Hewlings
Heyward – Hibbard [ Aug. 1923 ]
Hibbard [September 1923 –1925]
Hibbard [ 1926 – 1929]
Higgins – Hood
Hopkins – Howard
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Howe [ July 1939 – 1940] – Hubbell[ . . . July 1954]
Hubbell [1929 – 1957] – Hudson [ 1928]
Hudson [1936 – 1968]
Hughes – Hyde
Ijames – Irwin
Jackson – Jarrell
Jensen – Johnson, Allen
Johnson – Johnstone
Jones, Betty – Jones, Howard M. [. . . 1929 ]
Jones, Howard M. [ 1930-38 & Letter to Ransom] – Jones, Madison
Jones, W. Powell – Kaub [ . . . May 1948 ]
Kaub [June 1948 . . .] – Keister
Keller – Kent [ . . . April 1938]
Kent [May 1938 . . . ] – Kilvington
Kimball – Kirk [ . . . July 1955]
Kirk [. . . 1955] – Kirkland, J. H. [. . . 1937 ]
Kirkland, W. – Kline [ . . .1929]
Kline [ April 27, 1930]
Kline [. . . June 2, 1930]
Kline [June 2 – June 16, 1930] (photocopies)
Kline [June 13 – Sept. 1930]
Kline […1940] – Knickerbocker [. . . Feb. 1928 to Davidson]
Knickerbocker [. . .1934 to Davidson & 1930 to Ransom]
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Kronenberger – Kuhn
Lacy - Lea
Leake – Leighton
Leite – Linscott [. . . April 1927 ]
Linscott [. . . 1938 & to Tate] – Littlejohn
Livingood – Lord [1938]
Lord [1939 – 40] – Lowrey
Lowry – Lyons
Lytle [1926 –41]
Lytle [1942 – 1959]
Lytle [ 1961 – 65 , N. D.’s ]
McBryde – McClure
McCord – Mc Dowell
McElfatrick – McIntyre
McKeithan – Macrae
Madden – Martin, H. T. [Jan. – Feb. 1923]
Martin, H. F. [April, 1923 – 1931] – Masters
Mathis – Mellen
Melton – Merrifield
Metcalf – Millet
Mills – Milton [March – August 1930]
Milton [September 1930 – February 10, 1931]
Milton [Feb. 18, 1931 – Feb. 12, 1942]
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27) Mims [undated] – Moch
28) Modern Age: A Quarterly Review; Eugene Davidson, Richard Weaver, David Collier, Et Al,
Outgoing and Incoming 1960 – 1966
29) Moe – Moore, Mary Daniel
30) Moore, Merrill [1924 –1931]
31) Moore, Merrill [1932 – 57 & No date]
32) Moore, R. – Morgan
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34) Morrison [ Jan. 31,1934 – 1938]
35) Morrison [1939 –61 and no year]
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Moses, B. [1931 – 39]
Moses, Eliz. – Moses, W. R.
Moss – Mynders
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Newman – Nixon[1928 – Feb. 13, 1930]
Nixon[Feb. 21 – March 25, 1931]
Nixon [March 29,1931 – 1934]
Noble – Nye
Ochs – O’Donnell [1935 – Feb. 1938]
O’Donnell [Feb. 1938 – 1939]
O’Donnell [ 1940 – 1928]
O’Donnell [1954 & Letter to Tate] – Oglesby
Oliphant, May [Jan. 22, 1952 – 1961]
Oliphant, May[1962 – Dec. 14, 1965]
Oliphant, May [ Jan. 1966 – Nov. 1967]
Oliphant, May [ Summer 1967]
Olmstead – Olney [1952 – 55]
Olney [N.D.’s] – Oman
Oppegard – Owen, H. G. [1931 – 37 ]
Owen, H. G. [1938 – 54 & N. D.’s ]
Owsley
P – Paris
Parker – Parks, E. W. [1933 – 1935]
Park, Edd Winfield [ 1936 –39, 1962, & N. D.’s]
Parrigin – Patton
Payne, T. H. Co., - Pedigo
Peery – Percy [1923 – 24]
Percy [1928 –31 & N.D.] – Peter [1930]
Peter [1931] – Pettee [1950 – Sept. 1961]
Pettee [October – December 1961]
Pettee [Jan. – June 1962]
Pettee [July – November 1962]
Pettee [ Dec. 1962 – Feb. 1963]
Pettee [March – April 1963 & N. D.] – Phillips, James
Phillips, U. – Pickup
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Poe – Porter, H. [1934]
Porter, H. [1935 – 37] – Porter, Richard
Potamkin – Powell
Powers – Prisk
Puckett – Quinn
Random House and Knopf
Rankin – Ransom, H.
Ransom, John Crowe [1927 – 45]
Ransom, John Crowe [1951 – N.Y,’s (Aug.) ]
Ransom, John Crowe [N.Y.’s (Sept.) – N. D.’s ]
Ransom, Marie Howe – Reagan
Reed – Reichert
Reid – Rice
Rice – Richardson
Riding [March – November 1924]
Riding [December 1924 –1927 & N. Y.’s]
Riding [N. D.’s]
Riding [N. D. ‘s]
Riding [N. D.’s]
Riggs – Rinehart, F. R. [1928 –47]
Rinehart, F. M. [1948 –54] – Rinehart S.
Rippey – Robertson
Robins – Robinson, F. A. [1931 – March 1954]
Robinson, F. A. [ April 1954 – Sept. 1956 ] – Rockwell
Rodes – Roller
Romeike – Rosenbaum
Rosenthal – Rothrock
Rothschild – Rubin [1950 –51]
Rubin [1952 – Dec. 1954]
Rubin [Jan. – April 1955 – Jan. 1961]
Rubin [May 1967 – July 1967, N. D.’s] - Rynn
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Schneider, J. T. – Scott, D.
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Selby [Sept. 46 – 48] – Seymore
Shackelford – Shafer [1934]
Shafer [March – June 1935]
Shafer [July – 1935 – June 1942]
Shannon – Shaw
Sherer
Sherrer – Shipley [ 1923 –1935 & N. D.’s]
Shively – Simmons
Simms, William Gilmore. Voltmeier Project.
Simms, William Gilmore, 1950 – 52
Simpson, C. – Smith, P.
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Stein – Stephens, E. [1938 – 1940]
Stephens, H. – Stevenson, A. [1933 – 46]
Stevenson, A. [1958 –63] – Stewart, E. [1935 – May 36]
Stewart, E. [June 1936 – 37] – Stewart, R. [1931 – Feb. 1954]
Stewart. R..[May 1954 – 1960]
Stix – Stone, G. [1936 – May 1938]
Stone, G. [July 1938] – Stuart, Jesse [March – May 1933]
Stuart, Jesse [Sept. 1933 – 1937]
Stuart, Jesse [Oct. 21, 1937 – Feb. 1938]
Stuart, Jesse [ 1938 –42]
Stuart, Jesse [Oct. 1942 – Nov. 1952]
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Stuart, Jesse [Dec. 17, 1953 – June 1, 1954]
Stuart, Jesse [June 30, 1954 – May 16, 1955]
Stuart, Jesse [May 20, 1955 – 1958]
Stuart, Jesse [ Jan. – July 1954]
Stuart, Jesse [ Sept. – Oct. 23, 1959]
Stuart, Jesse [ Oct. 25, 1959 – 1960]
Stuart, Jesse [ 1961 – March 12, 1962]
Stuart, Jesse [April 1962 – August 1967]
Stuart, Jesse [Sept. 1967, 1968 & no dates]
Stuart, N. d. – Tarleton
Tate, Allen [June – July 5, 1922]
Tate, Allen [July 12, 1922 – August 17, 1922]
Tate, Allen [August 31, 1922 – June 16, 1923]
Tate, Allen [June 22, 1923 – July 1923]
Tate, Allen [Aug. 1923 – March 1, 1924]
Tate, Allen [March3 –27, 1924]
Tate, Allen [ April 1924]
Tate, Allen [May 1924]
Tate, Allen [June – Sept. 4, 1924]
Tate, Allen [Sept. 11 – Oct. 10, 1924]
Tate, Allen [Oct. 11 – Nov. 7, 1924]
Tate, Allen [ Nov. 9 – Dec. 11, 1924 ]
Tate, Allen [ Dec. 17, 1924 – Jan. 1925 ]
Tate, Allen [Feb. – May 21, 1925]
Tate, Allen [ May 25 – July 13, 1925]
Tate, Allen [July 25 – Oct. 1925]
Tate, Allen [ Nov. 1925 –March 3, 1926]
Tate, Allen [March 11 – June 1926]
Tate, Allen [ July – Sept. 1926]
Tate, Allen [ Oct. 1926 – Jan. 1927]
Tate, Allen [Feb. – May 5, 1927]
Tate, Allen [ May 13 – June 11, 1927]
Tate, Allen [ June 22 – July 1927]
Tate, Allen [ Sept. – Nov. 1927]
Tate, Allen [ Jan. – March14, 1928]
Tate, Allen [March 16, - April 1928]
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Tate, Allen [Aug.- Nov. 1929]
Tate, Allen [ Dec. 1929 – Feb. 3, 1930]
Tate, Allen [ Feb. 9 – 27, 1930]
Tate, Allen [ June – July 1930]
Tate, Allen [ Aug. – Nov. 1930]
Tate, Allen [ Dec. 1930 – 1931]
Tate, Allen [ Jan. – June 1932]
Tate, Allen [ Oct. 1932 – March 1933]
Tate, Allen [April 1933 – 1934]
Tate, Allen [1935]
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Tate, Allen [May 1937 – August 1938]
Tate, Allen [Oct. 1938 –39]
Tate, Allen [Jan. 1940 – June 1942 ]
Tate, Allen [ Aug. 1942 – Feb. 11, 1943]
Tate, Allen [Feb. 20, 1943 – Dec. 1950]
Tate, Allen [ 1951 – 53]
Tate, Allen [ August 1955 – January 1962]
Tate, Allen [Feb. 1962 – Jan. 1963]
Tate, Allen [Feb. 1963 – Jan. 1965]
Tate, Allen [Feb. – Jan. 67, Sept. 1971 & N. D.’s 1924- 30]
Tate, Allen [Jan. – Nov. 14, N. Y.’s]
Tate, Allen [ Nov. 18 – Dec. N.Y.’s – N. D.’s & letter to Mims]
Tate, Caroline – Taylor, Tyre
Taylor, Warren
Taylor, Wesley F. – Thomas, W. E. [ 1935 – Feb. 36 ]
Thomas, W. E. [ April 1936 – 38] – Thompson, C. W.
Thompson, E. – Titterton [ 1928 –29]
Titterton [1930] – Todd
Toledano – Trawick
Tribble – Tyler
Underwood – Untermeyer [1923 – Aug 1926]
Untermeyer [1929 –61 & N. D.] – Upson
Valentine – Van Doren [Feb. 1925 – Feb. 1927]
Van Doren ,Mark [Oct. 1929 – 1938 ] – Vinal [1924]
Vinal [N. Y. ‘s – N. D. ‘s] – Waddell
Wade, A. – Wade, James P.
Wade, John Donald [1930 – Aug. 1932]
Wade, John Donald [Sept. 1932 – Feb. 1933]
Wade, John Donald [May 1933 – Jan. 9, 1934]
Wade, John Donald [Jan. – March 1934]
Wade, John Donald [April 1934 – June 1935]
Wade, John Donald [ August 1935 – April 1936]
Wade, John Donald [ May 1936 – 1939]
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Wade, John Donald [Nov. 1943 – March 1945]
Wade, John Donald [April 1945 – Jan. 1947]
Wade, John Donald [May 1947 – April 1948]
Wade, John Donald [ May 1948 – March 1949]
Wade, John Donald [ April – Nov. 1949]
Wade, John Donald [Dec. 1949 – July 1951]
Wade, John Donald [ Aug. 1951 – 1952]
Wade, John Donald [ 1953]
Wade, John Donald [1954]
Wade, John Donald [Jan. – April 1955]
Wade, John Donald [May – Dec. 1955]
Wade, John Donald [1956 – Oct. 1957]
Wade, John Donald [Aug. 1958 – Aug. 1959]
Wade, John Donald [Sept. 1959 – March 1960]
Wade, John Donald [ May 1960 – Dec. 6, 1960]
Wade, John Donald [ Dec. 12, 1960 – April 1961]
Wade, John Donald [ May – Oct. 1961]
Wade, John Donald [ Nov. 1961 – Jan. 1962]
Wade, John Donald [ Feb. – May 1962]
Wade, John Donald [ Oct. 1962 – 63]
Wagner – Walker, E.
Walker, L. – Walsh, T. [1937]
Walsh, T. [Jan. – June 1938]
Walsh, T. [July 27, 1938 – Dec. 14, 1938]
Walsh, T. [ Dec. 28, 1938 –April 1939]
Walsh, T. [ May – Sept. 1939]
Walsh, T. [ Oct. 1939 – 1940]
Walsh, T. [1942 – Sept. 9, 1953]
Walsh, T. [Sept. 14, 1953 – Feb. 1954]
Walsh, T. [ March – Dec. 9, 1954]
Walsh, T. [Dec. 10, 1954 – March 1955]
Walsh, T. [April 1955 – Aug. 1956]
Walsh, T. [Sept. 1956 – Jan. 1957]
Walsh, T. [March – May 1957, N. Y. – N. D.] – Ward [1959]
Waring – Warren Mary Celia
Warren, Robert Penn [1923 –July 1926]
Warren, Robert Penn [Sept. 1926 – June 1930]
Warren, Robert Penn [Sept. 1930 – 1935]
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Warren, Robert Penn [1946 – 62 & N. D.]
Warren, Robert Penn [N. D.’s]
Warrick – Watt
Weaver, Bennett
Weaver, Richard M.
Webb – Weeks
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Wells – Wheatley [July – Aug. 1928]
Wheatley [Sept. 1928 – March 1954]
Wheeler – Wheelock [1927 – 1960]
Whitaker – Wieck
Williams, A – Williams, L
Williams, O. – Wills, Ellen
Wills, Jesse [ July – Aug. 5 1923]
Wills, Jesse [Aug. 10, 1923 – 1961]
Wills, Ridley
Wilson, E. – Wilson, L.
Wilson, M. – Winton
Wise – Woods
Woody – Wright
Writer’s Monthly – Yarbrough [1923]
Yarbrough [1934 –1935] – Young, F.
Young, J. P. – Young, Stark [1929]
Young, Stark [ 1930 – 1931]
Young, Stark [ 1934 – 37]
Young, Stark [1939 – 1952]
Young, Stark [1953 – 1957]
Young, Stark [ 1930, no date]
Young, Stark [ 1930, no date]
Young, Stark [N.D.]
Young, Stark [N. D.’s]
Young, Stark [N. D.’s]
Young, Stark [N. D.’s]
Young, Stark [N. D.’s]
Young, Stark [N. D.’s]
Copies of Stark Young Letters Given by Dr. John Pilkington
Youngstrom – Zugsmith
Fragments, Unidentified
Misc. fragments, unidentified [1930 – 1939]
Fragments, unidentified [1940’s: ’42, ’44, ‘47]
Misc. fragments, unidentified [ 1950’s: ’52,’56]
Fragments, unidentified [ 1960’s: ’60, ’62, ’67, ‘68]
Misc. fragments, unidentified—no dates
WRITINGS
Book Manuscripts ( Boxes 17-24)
Articles, Essays, and Lectures ( Boxes 25 –30)
Poems, Reviews, Short Story, Plays, Interview ( Box 31 )
Editing Projects (Boxes 31-33)
Tennessean Book Review and Literary Page
The Weekly Review—A Page About Books (2 Boxes of Photocopies, 2 Boxes of Original
Newspaper Clippings in boxes 54 and 55 at the end of the Papers)
Book Manuscripts
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American Composition and Rhetoric- Introduction
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American Composition and Rhetoric mss (fragment)
American Composition and Rhetoric mss (fragment)
Big Ballad Jamboree
Big Ballad Jamboree
Big Ballad Jamboree, Chapters I – VIII, original typed MS
Big Ballad Jamboree, Chapters IX – XXI, original typed MS
Big Ballad Jamboree, Photocopy Chapters 1 – 5
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Big Ballad Jamboree, Photocopy Chapters 9 – 11
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Big Ballad Jamboree, Photocopy Chapters 12 – 16
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Big Ballad Jamboree, Photocopy Chapters 17 – 19
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6 –23) Chapters from Divided We Stand which was published as Attack on Leviathan
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Divided We Stand. Contents.
Divided We Stand. The Nation We Are.
Divided We Stand. The Nation We Are.
Divided We Stand. Regionalism in the Arts.
Divided We Stand. Regionalism in the Arts.
Divided We Stand. Chapters fromThe American Review.
Divided We Stand. The Immovable Bodies.
Divided We Stand. Political Economy of Regionalism.
Divided We Stand. Regionalism and Nationalism in American Literature.
Divided We Stand. American Heroes
Divided We Stand. Howard Odum and the Sociological Proteus.
Divided We Stand. Where Regionalism and Sectionalism Meet reprint from Social Forces
Vol. 13, No. 1, October 1934
Divided We Stand. Fragments.
Divided We Stand. The Dilemma of the Southern Liberals, No. 1
Divided We Stand. The Dilemma of the Southern Liberals No. 2
Divided We Stand. The Dilemma of the Southern Liberals
Divided We Stand. The Dilemma of the Southern Liberals
Divided We Stand. The Dilemma of the Southern Liberals reprint from The American Mercury
Feb. 1934
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Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems.
Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems.
The Long Street No. 1
The Long Street No. 2
The Long Street No. 3
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The Long Street No. 5
The Long Street No.6
The Long Street No. 7
The Long Street, Book Manuscript
Readings for Composition, No. 1
Readings for Composition, No. 2
Readings for Composition, No. 3
Readings for Composition, No. 4
Readings for Composition, No. 5
Readings for Composition, No. 6
Readings for Composition, No. 7
Readings for Composition, No. 8
Readings for Composition, No. 9
Readings for Composition, No. 10
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Southern Writers in the Modern World.
The Tall Men No.1
The Tall Men No.2
The Tall Men No.3
The Tall Men No.4
The Tall Men No.5
The Tall Men ( Incomplete final drafts) No. 6
The Tall Men ( Incomplete final drafts ) No. 7
The Tall Men (Incomplete final drafts ) No. 8
The Tall Men ( Rough drafts ) No. 9
The Tall Men ( Rough drafts ) No. 10
The Tall Men (Rough drafts ) No. 11
The Tall Men (Rough drafts ) No. 12
The Tall Men (Rough drafts) No. 13
The Tall Men (Rough drafts ) No. 14
The Tall Men ( Rough drafts ) No. 15
The Tall Men (Rough drafts ) No. 16
The Tall Men (Rough drafts ) No. 17
The Tennessee, Vol. 1, Three Woodcuts by Theresa Sherrer Davidson
The Tennessee, Vol. I
The Tennessee, Vol. 1
The Tennessee, Vol. 1
The Tennessee, Vol. 1
The Tennessee, Vol.1
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The Tennessee, Vol. 1
The Tennessee, Vol. 1
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The Tennessee, Vol. 1
The Tennessees,Vol. 1
The Tennessee, Vol. 1
The Tennessee, Vol. 1
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The Tennessee, Vol. 2
The Tennessee, Vol. 2, No. 26
The Tennessee, Vol. 2, No. 27
The Tennessee, Vol. 2, No. 28
The Tennessee, Vol. 2, No. 29
The Tennessee, Vol. 2, No. 30
The Tennessee, Table of Contents and Chapter 1
The Tennessee. First Comers. Chapter 2.
The Tennessee. The River of the Cherokees. Chapter 3.
The Tennessee. Myths and Games of the Cherokees. Chapter 4.
The Tennessee. The Carolina Traders and Their Empire. Chapter 5.
The Tennessee. The Brilliant Idea of a Scottish Baronet. Chapter 6.
The Tennessee. The Siege and Fall of Fort Loudoun. Chapter 7.
The Tennessee. Fort Loudoun, Monument of Lost Empire. Chapter ?
The Tennessee. Rally in the Canebrake. Chapter 10.
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The Tennessee. Rally in the Canebrake. Fragment.
The Tennessee. John Sevier and the Lost State of Franklin. Chapter 12
The Tennessee. Dragging Canoe Blockades the River. Chapter 13.
The Tennessee. Flatboat and Keelboat Days. Chapter 14.
The Tennessee. Boatmen and Outlaws on the Trace. Chapter 15.
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The Tennessee. Early Steamboat Days. Chapter 16.
The Tennessee. Selected Bibliography
Misc. pages from The Tennessee No. 1
Misc. pages from The Tennessee No. 2
Misc. pages from The Tennessee No. 3
Untitled. “South Carolina MS Book and Notes”
Untitled. “ South Carolina MS Book and Notes” –Chronology-Montgomery’s
expedition against Cherokees
South Carolina Book and Notes “Fort Loudoun: the Years of
Decision”
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“About Merrill Moore”
“An Agrarian Looks at the New Deal”
“The Agrarian South: An Interpretation”
“The Agrarians Today” Shenandoah Summer 1952, Vol. III, No. 2
“The Agrarian Tradition: Resume of Principles”
“The All Day Singing at Cedar Valley”
“Allen Tate: The Traditionalist as Modern”
“Aristocracy and Machinery”
“Articles of an Agrarian Reform “
“Articles of an Agrarian Restoration”
“The Artist as Southerner.” In Saturday Review, May 15, 1926
“The Artist as Southerner.”
“The Average Man and Poetry
“At the Railway Station, Middlebury, July 19, 1949”
“Die Bedeutung der Sudstaaten in der Modernen Amerikanischen Literatur”
“ Brother Jonathan and Cousin Roderick”
Commencement Address—Breadloaf School of English, 1938
Commencement Address –-Breadloaf School of English, 1956
Commencement Address—Breadloaf School of English, 1956
Commencement Address—Peabody Demonstration School, June 5, 1945
Commencement Address—Wallace School (no date)
The Communion of the Ever-Living: A Statement of the Role of the Humanities
“Counterattack, 1930 –1940: The South Against Leviathan” delivered as the second lecture
in the Eugenia Dorothy Blount Lamar Memorial Lectures, Nov. 1957 at Mercer University
“Counter-Revolution: The Sequel to I’ll Take My Stand
“The Crisis in Education”
“Criticism Outside New York”
“Current Attitudes Toward Folklore”
Dominance of Government over Culture. Nationalism in the Industrial Age.
“ Dying Cities, Living Fields”
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Essays on Liberals ( untitled )
“An Exhortation for the Times “
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“Faulkner and Warren: A Study in the Vitality of Tradition”
“Faulkner and Warren: A Note on the Role of the South in Contemporary American Literature”
“First Fruits of Dayton”
“The Folk in Literature”
“Folkways and Folk Arts”
Foreword. The Works and Days of Arthur Palmer Hudson.
Foreword and Notes. The Southern Tradition at Bay, by Richard Weaver.
“Geography of the Brain”
“Grammar and Rhetoric: The Teacher’s Problem,” 1953
“Grammar and Rhetoric: The Teacher’s Problem”
“Grand Tour at Age 72 or The New “Innocents Abroad” Autumn , 1965
“The Great Plains”
“Gulliver Goes South”
“Gulliver with Hay Fever.”
“History of the Honor System at Vanderbilt”
“The Horrors of Peace”
I’ll Take My Stand—Dedication and Prospectus
“In Memory of John Gould Fletcher”
“ Introduction to the Fugitive,” 1966
“ Introduction to John Donald Wade’s Essays”
“Introduction : A Statement of Principles” No. 1 (I’ll Take My Stand )
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“Introduction to Voltmeier” by William Gilmore Simms
“ John Dos Passos—No Rip Van Winkle”
“ John Dos Passos—No Rip Van Winkle”
“Joseph Conrad’s Directed Indirections”
“ Joseph Conrad’s Directed Indirections.” The Sewanee Review, April 1925
“ Joseph Conrad and the Vision of His Youth” ( lecture)
“ Kennedy’s Horseshoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendancy “( 1835)
“Kennedy’s Rob of the Bowl,” 1838
Kennedy’s Swallow Barn or a Sojourn in the Old Dominion (1832 )
“ John Pendleton Kennedy (1795 – 1870)”
Kingdom Coming.
Kingdom Coming. Muscle Schoals and the T. V. A.
Kingdom Coming. Muscle Schoals. The Flint Rocks, and TVA.
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Lecture on Southern Literature ( untitled )
Lecture on Southern Writers, pp. 10 – 16
“ Literature as Experience and Form”
“The Local Color Novel” (Creative Reading, Sept. 15, 1928, Vol. II, No. 23 )
“The Lyric of the 1600’s: Song or Poem?”
“The Lyric of Tradition”
“The Machine Age”
Mark Twain ( lecture )
“ The Master of the Sacred Harp: In Memoriam George Pullen Jackson, 1874 – 1953”
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“ A Meeting of Southern Writers”
“ Middletown, Yankee Town, and Rebelville.”
“A Mirror for Artists “ No. 1
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16) “A Mirror for Artists” No. 2 (from I’ll Take My Stand)
17) “ The ‘Mystery’ of the Agrarians”
18) “ Nashville in the Eighteen- Nineties” ( Coffee House Club, Feb. 16, 1967 )
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31) Poetry and Progress; Poetry as Tradition (2 copies)
32) The Political Economy of Regionalism
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“ Regionalism Versus Chaos”
“ Relationship of the Faculty and Administrative Officers to the Honor System”
“ Remarks Given at the Installation of Alexander Heard as Chancellor of Vanderbilt
University 1963.”
Remarks Given at Memorial Assembly for Elizabeth Drew. Bread Loaf School of English.
“The Renaissance of Southern Poetry and Literature”
A Reply to Clarence Cason’s “Is the South Advancing?”
Report on Southern Literature.
“The Return of the Native—Introduction”
“Richard Croom Beatty: A Memoir” No. 1
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“ The Role of the South in Modern Literature.”
“The Sacred Harp in the Land of Eden”
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“Sectionalism in America “
“ Sectionalism in America”
“ A Siege Gun Opens From Texas”
“ Simms and the Critics”
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“ Social Science Discovers Regionalism”
“ The Sociological Proteus”
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“ The South in Contemporary Literature” ( lecture ).
“The South and Intellectual Progress”
“The South and the Nation—A Historical Interpretation No. 1
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“ The Southern Association Joins the Kennedy Army,” Coffee House Club, 1962
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“ Southern Letter” ( fragment )
“A Southern View of Folk Song”
“The Southerner”
“The Southern Writer and the Modern University”
“ The Statecraft of Charles A. Beard”
“ Statement and Interpretation of the Negative”
Statement for Dallas Meeting, April 19 –21, 1968
“ Still Rebels, Still Yankees”
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“ Stuart’s Escape and Timberlake’s Mission”
Studies in War Time, Convocation Address, Hollins College, September 18, 1942
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“ The Teaching of Composition and Rhetoric”
“ The Thankless Muse and Her Fugitive Poets”
“ Theme and Method in So Red the Rose”
“Theme and Method in So Red the Rose” Modern Southern Literature: A Symposium –XVII,
The Hopkins Review, Spring- Summer 1953
“ Thomas Hardy”
Essay on Thomas Hardy, pp.2 – 12, 14 – 27 (incomplete )
“ To the Civitans.” Lecture.
“ To Go West and South” ( unfinished )
“ To the Wardens of the Gate”
“ The Traditional Basis of Thomas Hardy’s Fiction”
“ The Trend of Southern Literature” No. 1
“ The Trend of Southern Literature” No. 2
“The Trend toward Regional Devolution”
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“The TVA Makes a New River”
“Two Schools of Southern Fiction”
“Two Views of the World State: Wells and A. E.”
“ The Unhappy Role of Science- 1956”
“Vanderbilt and the South”
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“The Vocabulary of the Moderns”
“ The Voyage of the Good Boat Adventure.
“ What does History Mean?
“Where are the Laymen? An Inquiry into the Southern Policy Committees”
“Where Regionalism and Sectionalism Meet?”
“Where Regionalism and Sectionalism Meet?”
“The White Spirituals and Their Historian”
Whither Dixie? Mr. Barr and Mr. Ransom in the Great Debate at Richmond.
“ Whitman and the American Spirit” (lecture)
“ Why the Modern South has a Great Literature”
“ William Gilmore Simms and the Southern Frontier.” No. 1
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“ Zola’s Naturalism and Le Roman Experimental”
Untitled ( address to students in American Literature class )
Untitled. Subject: Agrarian View of the South’s Problems
Untitled Essay. Beginning “Americans are a Wilderness People,” 1938
Untitled Essay. Subject: Civil War and the South.
Untitled Essay. Subject: Columbia Debate “Mr. Chairman and Fellow Tennesseans”
Untitled Essay. Subject: The Lack of Audience for Art in the South.
Untitled Essay. Subject: [ Role of the Humanities in Modern Education]
Untitled Essay. Subject: Southerners and Northerners
Untitled Essay. Subject: To the Kiwanis Club
Untitled Essay. Subject: Tribute to Dr. Sanborn
Davidson. Untitled essay fragments
Untitled Manuscripts. No. 1
Untitled Manuscripts. No. 2
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6) Papers written while a student No. 1—“Arnold Bennett—Balanceer”; ‘Churches”; “Editorials After ‘
‘The New Republic’ “; “Meredith”; “Militarists in America”; “My Little League of Nations” (after
Stephen Leacock in “Our Little Soviet, “ Vanity Fair, November)
7) Papers written while a student No. 2—“The Mythological and Symbolical Interpretation of
Beowulf”;”The Poems of Cynewulf”(term paper December 1920)
8) Papers written while a student No. 3—“The Plays of Galsworthy”; “A Profession of Some
Principles”; “A Shropshire Lad”;”Yeats as a Lyrist”
9) Papers written while a student No. 4—“The Wine of Jules Leroux”;”Untitled”
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Poems
( a complete list of Davidson’s poems in this collection is available with this finding aid –
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Ad to At
Aunt – Barren
Battle Vow
Bird of Paradise – Boudoir
Boundary – Cabined
The Case of Motorman 17
The Charm – Coat of Arms
Color Blind – Country Music
Countersong – Crime
Cross Question
Cumberland – David Crockett
Deserter
Desolate – Echo
Epinician – Fear
Fiddler – First
For a – From a Window
The Game
God – Harold
Hermitage
Hermitage
Hit – Hunter
Idyl – Johnnie Armstrong
Last Charge – Lost Rider
Lee in the Mountains
Legend
Lines Written for Allen Tate
Lines – Martha
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Morning Was Golden
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“Naiad” ( in Nov. 1922 issue of The Double Dealer)
Nervous Man
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Ninth Part of Speech
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Ninth Part of Speech
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No – Old
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Old Man of Thorn – Pastoral
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Pavane – Priapus Younger
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Projection – Randall
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Rebel – Return
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Ritual – Robertson
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Running of Streight
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Sequel – Sky
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Soldier – Southward
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Sp – To Anybody
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To the Army of Tennessee
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To the Army of Tennessee (2)
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Totom – Touch
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Twilight – Vow
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Wassail – X,Y, Z
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Untitled
Miscellaneous ( includes untitled poems and fragments )
A Notebook—Notes for Poetry and Prose
3 poems (“Lee Sulle Montagne” “Pastorale Della Georgia: Randall Figlio Mio” and ‘L’Uomo
Eccitabile) in The Journal –Questioni, Gennaio – Marzo 1960
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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
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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
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Oct. 5, 1924; Oct. 12; Oct. 26, 1924
Nov. 2, 1924 – Nov. 30, 1924
Dec. 7, 1924 - Dec. 28, 1924
Jan. 11, 1925 – Jan. 25, 1925
Feb. 1, 1925 – Feb. 22, 1925
March 1, 1925 – March 22, 1925
April 5, 1925 – April 26, 1925
May 3, 1925 – May 31, 1925
June 7, 1925 – June 28, 1925
July 5, 1925 – July 26, 1925
Aug. 2, 1925 – August 30, 1925
Sept. 6, 1925; Sept. 20; Sept. 27
Oct. 4, 1925 – Oct. 25, 1925
Nov. 8, 1925; Nov. 22; Nov. 29, 1925
Dec. 6, 1925 – Dec. 27, 1925
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February 22, 1926
March 1, 1926 – March 8, 1926
April 4, 1926 – April 25, 1926
May 9, 1926 – May 23; May 30, 1926
June 13, 1926; June 27, 1926
August 8, 1926 – Aug. 29, 1926
Sept. 19, 1926; Sept. 26, 1926
Oct. 3, 1926 – Sept. 26, 1926
Nov. 14, 1926; Nov. 28, 1926
Dec. 12, 1926
Jan. 2, 1927 – Jan. 30, 1927
Feb. 13, 1927; Feb. 27, 1927
March 6, 1927 – March 27, 1927
April 3, 1927 – April 24, 1927
May 1, 1927 – May 29, 1927
June 5, 1927 – June 26, 1927
July 3, 1927 – July 31, 1927
Aug. 14, 1927 – Aug. 30, 1927
Sept. 4, 1927 – Sept. 25, 1927
Oct. 2, 1927 – Oct. 30, 1927
Nov. 6, 1927 – Nov. 27, 1927
Dec. 11, 1927; Dec. 18, 1927
Jan. 1, 1928 – Jan. 29, 1928
Feb. 5, 1928; Feb. 12; Feb. 19, 1928
March 4, 1928 – March 25, 1928
April 1, 1928 –April 8, 1928
The Weekly Review—A Page About Books
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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
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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
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39) March 3, 1929 – March 31, 1929
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41) May 5, 1929 – May 19, 1929
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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
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March 2, 1930 – March 30, 1930
April 6, 1930 – April 27, 1930
May 4, 1930 – May 25, 1930
June 1, 1930 – June 29, 1930
July 14, 1930; July 20, 1930
Aug. 3, 1930 – Aug. 31, 1930
Sept. 7, 1930; Sept. 21; Sept. 28, 1930
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
Personal and Financial Records
Family Papers
Biographical Sketches and Writings about Davidson
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Biographical Data—Detailed information supplied by Davidson
Autobiographical Sketch. Publicity Material for Lee in the Mountains, Feb. 1949
“He Clings to Enduring Values,” by Louise Davis, The Tennessean, Sept. 4, 1949
“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
“A Durable Fire: Donald Davidson and the Profession of Letters” by Melvin E. Bradford.
Honorary Degree, Washington and Lee University, 1949—Correspondence, Program, Clippings
“Donald Davidson and the Dynamics of Nostaglia” by Charles Edward Eaton, The Georgia
Review, Fall 1966
Interview with Donald Davidson by Nasse Paquerette, 1967
Fragment “For Donald Davidson . . .” and Program Columbia University Concert of Original
Compositions 1922-23 “Have You Seen My Love?” by Davidson.
A Toast to Donald Davidson, date and author unknown.
Personal and Financial Records
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Military Service, 1918 –
The American Battle Monuments Commission, 1929, re: 81st Infantry Division,
World War I
Wildcat Reunion, Military Service, 1936
Bills and Receipts, 1919 – 1954
Bills and Receipts, 1933 – 1938
Davidson’s List of Books for Sale
Lease, 3612 Central Avenue, 1937
Photographs of Davidson and his family (not dated and most not identified)
Travelling notebook—Georgia notes, 1947; Carolina trip,etc.
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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
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LITERARY CAREER
American Composition and Rhetoric
Publicity
Teachers’ Critiques
Miscellaneous Notes
The Attack on Leviathan
Reviews
Big Ballad Jamboree
Correspondence
Prospectus
Notes
Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems
Correspondence
The Long Street
Reviews
Poems, 1922-1961
Reviews
William Gilmore Simms Project
Correspondence
Notes
Singin’ Billy
Correspondence
(Determine what other material)
* 5 Audio Cassette tapes of Singin’Billy in Box 63
Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays
Reviews
The Tall Men
Reviews
The Tennessee
Correspondence
Reviews
Publication Lists
Review of Book About Davidson
Newspaper Clippings About Davidson’s Books (Photocopies—originals available
On request ) See separate complete listing of these clippings—Appendix B
Requests for Permission to Publish
American Composition and Rhetoric
Publicity
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American Composition and Rhetoric
American Composition and Rhetoric
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American Composition and Rhetoric
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American Composition and Rhetoric
American Composition and Rhetoric
American Composition and Rhetoric
Publicity about other Davidson works.
Teachers’ Critiques
Miscellaneous Notes
8) Teachers’ Critiques and Miscellaneous Notes
The Attack on Leviathan
Reviews (4)
9) 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
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Big Ballad Jamboree
Correspondence
Prospectus and Chapters
Notes
Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems
Correspondence, Outgoing and Incoming (20), 1948 – 49
Reviews
A) By George Marion O’Donnell
B) Vanderbilt Alumnus, Nov. 1938
The Long Street
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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
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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
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Correspondence, Outgoing and Incoming, 1960-61
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Correspondence, Outgoing and Incoming, 1960-61
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Correspondence, Outgoing and Incoming, 1960-61
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Correspondence, Outgoing and Incoming,1960-61
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Correspondence and Clippings, Speech in Mississippi on William Gilmore Simms and the
and the Southern Frontier
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Correspondence. Guilds, John, University of South Carolina, 1965, re: Voltmeier
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Correspondence and Notes. Voltmeier by William Gilmore Simms
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Correspondence and Notes. Voltmeier by William Gilmore Simms
Listing of 14 books by William Gilmore Simms in Tuttle’s Literary Miscellany p. 4
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Singin’ Billy ( *5 audio cassettes of Singin’ Billy are in Box 63)
Correspondence
Correspondence
Scripts
Scripts—Proposed Folk Opera
Scripts
Performance Contracts; Nomination for Town Theater Award; List of cuts
Some Remarks on Singin’ Billy
Singin’ Billy. Notes, Revisions, Programs, etc.
Singin’ Billy. Program
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
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The Tall Men
Reviews (2)
By Percy Hutchinson in The New York Times Book Review, Nov. 13, 1927
By Stephen Vincent Benet in The Saturday Review of Literature, Dec. 10, 1927
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The Tennessee, Vol. I and II
Correspondence
Outgoing and Incoming, 1941, 1943-1945
Outgoing and Incoming, 1941, 1943-47
Davidson to Hervey Allen, undated. Re: The Tennessee
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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
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Publication Lists
List of Davidson’s Publications 1924 – 1963; Publications Jan. 1, 1955 to June 30, 1958
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Review of book: Re: Donald Davidson
Donald Davidson: An Essay and a Bibliography, by Thomas Daniel Young and M. Thomas
Inge (1966)
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Newspaper Clippings about Davidson’s Books
( A Complete Listing of these clippings --Appendix B)
1924 – 1926
April 1927 – Nov. 6, 1927
Nov. 11, 1927 – Jan. 1928
Feb. 11, 1928- 1929
1934 –1938
July 1938 – 1939
1940 – Nov. 1946
Dec. 1946 – Jan. 25, 1948
Jan. 26, 1948 – Feb. 1948
March 1948 – April 18, 1948
April 21, 1948 – 1949
1950 – April 1957
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Undated
Clippings saved by Davidson, not about him, undated
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Requests for permission to publish
Requests for permission to publish Davidson’s poems
FUGITIVES & AGRARIANS
Group
Individuals
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
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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
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
“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.
Memorandum. Agrarians
Memorandum on Fugitive Reunion Typescript
A Group of Southern Poets—The Fugitives, pp. 1 – 20, 29—hand written notes for a lecture
Notes. The Tennessee Agrarians, thesis by James W. Rowe
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
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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
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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
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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 )
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
Allen Tate. Poems.
A) The Guardian April 1925, “Madness, “ (poem)
B) The Double Dealer, July 1922, “ William Blake” and “Parthenia
Allen Tate. Poem
“Seasonal Confessions”
Allen Tate. Poems
“Shrine” and “Poem for My Father” (from Voices: A Journal of Verse, 1922)
Allen Tate. Poems.
The Yearbook of the Poetry Society of South Carolina 1929—Poems by Allen Tate and Merrill Moore
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”
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 )
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”
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Allen Tate—Contributing Editor to Voices 1924
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”
List of letters to Allen Tate
Allen Tate. Photograph, undated.
John Donald Wade—Correspondence, Outgoing and Incoming (4), 1951—Georgia
Education
John Donald Wade. Poem. “Tornado –1936”
John Donald Wade. Apparently notes for a book Marshallville, Georgia.
John Donald Wade. Review. John Wesley by John Donald Wade
Reviews.Selected Essays and Other Writings of John Donald Wade (1966) ed. Donald Davidson
John Donald Wade. Obituaries.
Robert Penn Warren. Poems.
A) “Goodbye” (1940)
B) “The Flaming Terrapin” in Voices, Vol. IV, No. 3, January 1924
Robert Penn Warren. Poem.
“Promises” [1956] (26 pages)
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”
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”
Jesse Wills. Poems.
A) “The Watchers”
B) ”Question Mark and Elegy”
C) ”Bat Magic”
D) ”Healing”
E) “Parade”
Ridley Wills. Poem.
A) “Yearning”
Stark Young .Article.
“Schools for Artists” in The New Republic, Wednesday Jan. 21, 1931
Lists which include Fugitives and Agrarians
Committee for the Alliance of Agrarian and Distributists Groups. Minutes of Meeting, June 4-5, 1936
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ACADEMIC CAREER
Class Materials
Material by Davidson’s Students
Bread Loaf School of English
Lecture Notes
Class Materials
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Schedules, Assignments, Course Outlines, Bibliographies, Library Lists, Modern Poetry List,
Reference List of American and British Critics
Request for Library to purchase books and Course Examinations
Notes for teaching including notes about Yeats and his poetry
“The Fur Trapper’s Winter Diet,” “The Last Decision” “The Role to Mind One’s Own Business”
“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
Notes for corrections of themes, notes on English courses
Class records and grades; theme assignments
Vanderbilt University—Preliminary Announcement: A Study of the Humanities
Reports of Teaching and Publishing Activities, 1955 – 1959
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Vanderbilt Calendars Friday January 8, 1954 – Friday May 21, 1954
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
A) Committee on Junior College and the Committee on Senior College
B) Curriculum
A) English Courses
B) Vanderbilt Faculty Club , Faculty Council Report
A) Faculty Minutes and Resolutions
B) Report of the Committee on the Fine Arts, Division of Humanities
C)”Towers of Strength,” Vanderbilt University, 1930
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
Bulletin of Vanderbilt University, Publications of the Faculty members, 1935 – 1950
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
Material by Davidson’s Students
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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
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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.
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Newspaper, The Crumb, 1954
Bulletins, 1938, 1947, 1957, 1963, 1965, 1966
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
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English Literature
English Literature
English Ballads
English 282 –British and American Ballads
Virginia Woolf and James Joyce
Ballads
Course on Ballads
John Donne and Ben Jonson
Elizabethan Lyric ( English Lyric)
English 256 Poetry ( Yeats, Eliot, Frost)
English 256 Studies in Poetry (Yeats, Eliot, Frost )
English 256 Poetry (Yeats, Eliot, Frost )
English 258 Hardy and Conrad
Pastoral Poetry (English Lyric)
Raleigh’s “To His Son” (English Lyric)
Raleigh, Walter (English Lyric)
Sannazaro, Jacopo (English Lyric )
The Scansion of English Verse: Selected Studies (English Lyric)
Troubadour Lyric
Troubadour and Medieval Lyric
Elizabethan and Shakespearean Poetry
The Restoration Period and the 18th Century
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Kentucky Workers Alliance. Flyers, Songbook
Rinehart—Iowa Writing Fellowship, December 30, 1946, Press Release
Publications:
A) Report of the Alabama Policy Conference
B) Report of the Tenth Alabama Conference
A) National Policy Commission
B) Open Letters
Modern Language Association
The Book of the Month Club. Publications.
A)Pamphlets ( Academic, Literary)
B) Poetry Societies
Programs “A- W” (including performances ,plays, and conferences).
Ladies Hermitage Association Minutes.
Segregation Materials
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South the News Magazine of Dixie, 1956-1957, 10 issues in this folder
South the NewsMagazine of Dixie, 1956-1957, 10 issues in this folder
Allen – Bradley Co. – American Legion
American Mercury – American Opinion
American Progress Foundation – Americans for Const. Action ( also 5 copies of American Progress )
Major L. L. B. Angas – Bible News
The John Birch Society—Blake
The California Committee – Christian Bible Society
Christian Economics – ( Commonsense—The Nation’s Anti-Communist Newspaper )
Citizens’ Councils (1956 –1960)
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Citizens’ Councils [The Citizen Council] (9 issues Aug. 1957-Jan. 1958)
Citizens’ Councils [The Citizen Council] (11 issues, Jan. 1958- Dec. 1958)
Citizens’ Councils [The Citizen Council] ( 22 issues January 1959 – May 1961 )
Claiborne Parish School Board – The Cross and the Flag
Curtis Publishing Co. [The Saturday Evening Post] (June, July 1957)
Donald Davidson—“ A Comment on James Jackson Kilpatrick’s The Sovereign States”
Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties (1955-1960)
East Tennessee Publishing Co. [ East Tennessee Reporter] ( April 26, 1957 – May 31, 1957 )
East Tennessee Publishing Co. [The Tennessee Reporter ] ( Dec.12, 1957 – Jan.30, 1958 )
East Tennessee Publishing Co. [ The Tennessee Reporter ] ( Dec.19, 1957 – Feb.6, 1958 )
East Tennessee Publishing Co. [ The Tennessee Reporter ] ( Feb.27, 1958 – May 22, 1958 )
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11)
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13)
14)
Farm and Ranch Southern Agriculturist – The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.
The Solid South, April/May 1959, June/ July 1959 – Free Men Speak, Jan. 1957 – Nov. 1957
Gamble, Harry Pollard – Grass Roots League, Inc.
Haley, J. Evetts – Human Events (1958,1959)
The Independent American ( March 1958 – March/April 1960 )
The Independent American – Interim Committee for Independent Political Action
Kirk, Russell – Meador Publishing Co.
N. A. A. C. P. – New York Mirror ( Sunday, October 9, 1960)
The Oberlin Letter, 3rd quarter, 1958 – Our Country
Phillips, Herbert S. – Putnam Letter Committee
The Record – SCA House
The Dan Smoot Report –University of South Carolina Press (1957-1958)
Southern States Industrial Council
Southern States Industrial Council—States Rights Council of Georgia
Box 44
Segregation Materials
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2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
Book—Three Races Under God by Grady Fowler ( 1956 ) Tennessee Federation for Constitutional
Government
Tennessee Society to Maintain Segregation—The Toronto Star Limited
U. S. News and World Report – The Virginian
The Wanderer ( St. Paul, Minnesota ) Jan.2, 1958 – March 27, 1958
Weaver, Richard – Wirt, John Belding and n. p.
Newspaper/Magazine Articles on Segregation (copies )
Civil Rights Legislation
Clippings on Segregation, Miscellaneous (1957 – 1960 )
Association of Citizens’ Councils of Mississippi
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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
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14)
15)
16)
17)
The Tennessee
The Tennessee
The Tennessee
The Tennessee
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
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15) Research Notes
16) Research Notes
17) Research Notes
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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
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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, #1-7, 9, 10, 1936 –1937, University of North Carolina
#1 Southern Population and Social Planning by T. J. Woofter, Jr.
#3 Social Legislation in the South by Charles W. Pipkin
#4 How the Other Half is Housed—A Pictorial Record of Sub-Minimum Farm Housing in the South
by Rupert B. Vance
#5 Industrial Social Security in the South by Robin Hood
#6 The Southern Press Considers the Constitution edited by Francis P. Miller
#7 The TVA and Economic Security in the South by T. Levron Howard (2 copies)
#9 Wage and Hour Legislation for the South by H. M. Douty
#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
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13)
H) Davidson’s Letter of Recommendation for Stuart
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
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)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
11)
Roberts – Royde-Smith
Russell – Schneider
Scott – Sinclair
Sir Ronald Storrs – Terhune
Louis Untermeyer – Van Doren
Henry Van Dyke – Walpole
Wasserman – Walter White
Thornton Wilder – Wodehouse
Thomas Wolfe – Stark Young
The Taylor Bill, Correspondence, 1950-51
The Taylor Bill, Correspondence, 1950-51
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WRITINGS BY OTHERS
Material Collected by Davidson –Publications
Material Collected by Davidson—Articles by Others
Book Reviews by Others
Poems by Others
Manuscripts By Others
Short Stories 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
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The Double Dealer,July 1924, November – December 1924, May 1926 (published at New Orleans)
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
1)
2)
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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
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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)
12)
13)
14)
15)
16)
17)
18)
19)
20)
21)
22)
“A – Coles”
“Coulter – D”
“E – Orwell”
“Parks – Shoup”
“Shryock – W”; Saturday Review of Literature; No authors
Neuhoff, Karl. Amerikanische Kulturprobleme.
Newspaper Clippings saved by Davidson—not about him, 1924 -25
Newspaper Clippings saved by Davidson---not about him, 1926-29
Newspaper Clippings saved by Davidson---not about him, 1930-34
Newspaper Clippings saved by Davidson –not about him, March-May 16, 1936
Newspaper Clippings saved by Davidson—not about him, May 19, 1936-1938
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
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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 )
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7)
Br – Mc
Mi – Od (1)
Od (2) – St
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”
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--“ Parody on an Easy Poet”
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--“An Imaginative Child’s Rainy Afternoon”
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--“The Seeburg Rocks Its Newest Love”
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--“There is a Season”
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--“An Unsung Requiem”
-----Margaret Beaufort Miller-- “ Wanderer’s Night Song” (Goethe )
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--“ Hill Dreamer “
-----George Marion O’Donnell—“The Art of Pain”
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-- “Autumn and Mrs. Noel, Old”
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-- “Commencement Oration”
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-- “Green Thought”
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-- “In the Delta, Remembering”
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-- “The Mask and the Poet “
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-- “Mirrored Dead”
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--“Obituary”
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--“The Prophet Speaks”
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--“Prothalamion”
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--“Reprimand”
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--“Soliloquy upon Return”
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--“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”
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--“To Franz Hal’s . . .” “Morning”
-----sent by Mrs. J. E. Blankenship—“ A Song Called Hurrah for the Tennesseans”
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-- “Southern Battle Song”
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--“ The Knot of Blue and Gray”
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--“The Homespun Dress”
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-----Author unknown –“The Air”
Manuscripts 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
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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):
1) Personal and Biographical Material—Resolution by the Board of Trust of Vanderbilt University in
Memory of Donald Davidson, May 17, 1968
2) Galley Proof (uncorrected proof ) of American Composition and Rhetoric, Concise Edition
3) Big Ballad Jamboree materials –correspondence and notes
4) Big Ballad Jamboree—Chapters
5) 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:
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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
----Other Recordings:
Lee in the Mountains and Sanctuary read by Earl Foster student in the College of the Ozarks,
Clarksville, Arkansas
----Audio Cassette Tapes
Singin’ Billy (3 tapes)
Singin’ Billy (4 tapes)
Box 64
1)
2)
3)
Singin’ Billy An Opera in Two Acts ( typescript of 137 pages )
Singin’ Billy An Opera in Two Acts, Music by Charles Faulkner Bryan , Drama and Lyrics by
Donald Davidson
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)
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2)
3)
Photographs--Americana
Photographs—The South and the Confederacy
Photographs—Writers (with pipes) (October 1955)
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DONALD DAVIDSON PAPERS
APPENDIX A -- LIST OF POEMS WRITTEN BY DAVIDSON
WRITINGS—POEMS
-----Admonition to the Dead
-----Advice to Shepherds
-----Aftermath
-----All Fool’s Calendar
-----II Calendar
-----All Fool’s Calendar
-----All Fool’s Calendar
-----Androcles Again
-----Assembly
-----Assembly at Murfreesboro
-----At the Torture Post
-----Aunt Maria and the Gourds
-----Avalon
-----A Barren Look
-----Battle Vow
-----Bird of Paradise
-----Blood of Heroes
-----Boudoir
-----Boundary
-----Bryony
-----Burial of an Idea
-----Cabined
-----The Case of Motorman 17: Commitment Proceedings
-----The Charm
-----Charm Against the Evil Eye
-----Charm for the Evil Eye
-----The Charmless One
-----Cities of Refuge
-----Coat of Arms
-----Color Blind
-----Competition
-----Corymba
-----Country Music
-----Countersong
-----Country Roses: A Song
-----Crabbed Youth and Age
-----Crabbed Youth and Merry Age/ Southward Returning
-----Crabbed Youth and Merry Age
-----Crime
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-----Cross Question, Crooked Answer: A Civil War Seminar
-----Cumberland Bound
-----Bound for Cumberland
-----Curve
-----David Crockett
-----The Deserter: A Christmas Eclogue
-----Desolate Stream
-----A Dirge
-----Dryan—from An Outland Piper
-----Earthbound
-----Ecclesiasticus
-----Echo
-----An Epinician Ode in Honor of John Crowe Ransom
-----The Family Trouble—Motorman 17: Commitment Proceedings
-----A Farewell
-----Fear in a Cubicle
-----Fiddler Dow
-----First Alienist [part of Case of Motorman 17]
-----For a Student Celebration
-----For Example
-----Forrest Rides
-----Four Sacred
-----From a Window
-----Funeral in a Garden
-----The Game
-----A God at Bay
-----Gradual of the Northern Summer
-----Graph of the Cosmos
-----Graph of the Cosmos
-----Gravure
-----Guest at Morning
-----Handicap
-----Harold Pennybunch
-----Hermitage
-----Hermitage
-----Hit or Miss
-----The House of No Surrender
-----Hunter
-----Idyl
-----In Blue Stocking Hollow: Bedford County
-----Jasper
-----Joe Clisby’s Song
-----John Darrow
-----Johnnie Armstrong
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-----The Last Charge
-----The Last Rider
-----The Last Rider
-----Lee in the Mountains, 1865 –1870
-----Legend
-----Lines Written for Allen Tate
-----Lines for a Tomb
-----Lines to Atticus
-----Litany
-----Long Green
-----Manslaughter
-----Martha and Shadow
-----Meeting with Scylla
-----Morning Love
-----Morning was Golden
-----Naiad in The Double Dealer
-----The Nervous Man
-----Ninth Part of Speech
-----Ninth Part of Speech
-----Not Long Green
-----Ode to the Home Town
-----Old Black Joe Comes Home
-----The Old Man of Thorn
-----On Culleoka Road
-----On a Replica of the Parthenon
-----On Winstead Hill
-----Palingenesis
-----Pastoral –In the Modern Style
-----Pavane
-----Peek-a-Boo!
-----Plus and Minus
-----Portraits of Three Ladies
-----A Prayer
-----Preface
-----Priapus Younger
-----Projection of a Body Upon Space
-----Randall, My Son
-----The Rebel Yell
-----Resume
-----Retreat
-----Return in Autumn
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-----Ritual of a Summer Day
-----Riddle of a Day Summer
-----Robertson County Nights
-----The Running of Streight
-----The Running of Streight
-----The Running of Streight
-----The Running of Streight
-----Second Harvest
-----Sequel of Appomattox
-----Sideways Forever
-----Sky Mark
-----Soldier and Son
-----Southward Returning
-----Spoken at a Castle Gate
-----Stone and Roses
-----A Study in Shadows
-----The Swan
-----Swan and Exile
-----The Swinging Bridge
-----The Terrible
-----To—
-----To Anybody
-----To the Army of Tennessee
-----To the Army of Tennessee
-----To Tom, A Yowling
-----To An Unwilling Student
-----To See Through All Things
-----A Toast: From Bread Loaf to Elizabeth Drews
-----A Touch of Snow
-----A Trooper of Forrest
-----Twilight on Union Street
-----Two Landscapes
-----Vicisti, Leuconoe
-----The Vision
-----The Vow
-----Wassail! To Julia and John and Anne
-----The Way to Thorn
-----Who’s Got . . . ?
-----Wild Game
-----Wilderness Meeting
-----Wind Chant for Autumn
-----Woodlands, 1956
-----X, Y, and Z
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Poems Untitled
-----Find me a shepherd who can say. . .
-----Sir, with not the slightest surprise . . .
-----Let now the brutal melodies . . .
-----Threading the maze that is myself . . .
-----When I left my old home . . .
-----The Angel proffered Apostle John . . .
Poems Miscellaneous (includes untitled poems and fragments)
-----Prefatory Note
-----The Tall Men 1927 (frag.)
-----Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems, 1932-1938 (frag.)
-----The Return
-----A Little terrible . . .
-----From the Tomb of the Bishop
-----Let now the jaded melodies
-----Gnawing a little, day by day, somehow . . .
-----Under this hollow ice a soundless ocean . . .
-----Sing ah, for this bright thought . . .
-----Under the pulsing stars the lights swims free . . .
-----And you whose breath is but the dirty sneer. . .
-----Out of the sullen fury of the time . . .
-----Burning as if the summer wind had blown . . .
-----For this body give a soul . . .
-----Sir, with not the slightest surprise . . .
-----To the High Muck – le- Muck, with a bellows . . .
-----“The Season is dry, I said and promises yet no rain”
-----What solemn Incantation. . .
-----Closing the door, she first was softly ware
-----Close now the gate and lock the guardian tower . . .
A Notebook--Notes for Poetry and Prose
-----Randall, My Son
-----The Bell Witch
-----The Hermitage
-----Your mother’s folks were Huguenots,. . .
-----Traveler, haste, the time runs on
-----General Lee Remembers
-----Assembly at Murfreesbora
-----In the dark and green of water-oaks the fall of the cold spring rain
-----The Starlings
-----Guerillas
-----Meeting in Nashville
-----Country Roses, O
-----Summer in Vermont, Winter in Georgia –Prose
-----The Negroes—Prose
-----Emmett Blue and the “Passionate” Flower
-----Notes for Articles—Not Enough Cooks; Eastern Pilgrimage; Folklore; The Laughter of Time
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-----Lee Sulle Montagne
-----Una Pastorale Della Georgia: Randall, Figlio Mio
-----L’uomo Eccitabile (from Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1950)
-----Il Sud di un “Reazionario” : Donald Davidson, an article by Claudio Gorlier
DONALD DAVIDSON PAPERS
APPENDIX B-- LITERARY CAREER-LIST OF CLIPPINGS ABOUT DAVIDSON’S WORK, 1924
- 1968
March 8, 1924, The Literary Review: ‘”The Literary Lobby, “ by Kenel M. Digby.
March 16, 1924, Record (Columbia, S.C.): “Rare Books of Poetry,” a review of
An Outland Piper.
March 16, 1924, Nashville Banner: An Outland Piper, a review.
March 23, 1924, The Lexington Herald, An Outland Piper, a review.
March 30, 1924, The New York Times Book Review: “Poets Start Piping in This
‘Freshly Budded’ Spring/ Six Volumes of Newly Published Verse,” a review of
An Outland Piper et al.
April, 1924, Reading Sample: “New Poems/’An Outland Piper’ “.
April 1,1924 Sigma Upsilon New Letter, Vol. III: An Outland Piper.
May 1924, The Bookman: “Individual Verse,” by David Morton
June 1924, Southern Magazine: “Dextrous Measures,” An Outland Piper reviewed by
Clyde Pettus.
June 1924, The Stratford Monthly: a comment on Davidson’s poems.
Nov. 29,1924 Nashville Tennessean: “A Page About Books.”
Dec. 21, 1924 , The Dallas Morning News : “An Outland Piper by Donald Davidson
Has Lyrical Passion,” by Hilton R. Greer.
Feb.1, 1925, The Dallas Morning News: “The World of Letters/Ransom Comment on
Books and Bookmen.”
March 1, 1925, Sigma Upsilon News Letter: “Donald Davidson.”
April 12, 1925, The Dallas Morning News: “Thirty-two Poetry Magazines Have Appeared Since
The first one in 1912/ Each Section of the Country Now has its Representative/The
General Interest in Poetry is Preparing the Way for a Great Poet, Masefield Says,”
By Isaac C. Wade and Ellen Lovell.
July 4, 1926, New York World. “Advice to Shepherds.”
Nov. 27, 1926, Chattanooga News: “Dinner in Honor Donald Davidson Event of Tonight.”
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April 21, 1927, Atlanta Georgian: “Writers Will Hear Vanderbilt Author.”
Sept. 3, 1927, Journal (Milwaukee, Wis.): citation of The Tall Men.
Sept. 15, 1927, Nashville Tennessean: “Davidson’s New Book Off Press.”
Sept. 18, 1927 Nashville Banner: a citation of The Tall Men.
Sept. 24, 1927, Transcript (Boston, Mass.): a citation of The Tall Men.
Sept. 24, 1927, New York Publisher’s Weekly: a citation of The Tall Men.
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Sept. 25, 1927, New York Herald Tribune: a citation of The Tall Men et al.
Sept. 25, 1927, State (Columbia, S.C.): “ The Tall Men by: Donald Davidson,” review by
J.V, N.
Sept. 25, 1927, Nashville Banner: “The Tall Men.”
Sept. 25, 1927, News (Lynchburg, Va.): a citation of The Tall Men et al.
Sept. 26, 1927, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN ): “I Reckon So,” by T. H. Alexander.
Oct. 1, 1927, Times (Raleigh, N. C.): “Tennesseans and Their Background in Lyric
Poetry,” by M. G. A.
Oct. 1, 1927, Saturday Review of Literature (N.Y, N. Y.): a citation of The Tall Man (sic).
Oct. 2, 1927, N. Y. Times: a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 2, 1927, Star (Indianapolis, Indiana ): “Many Books of Verse Appear in Fall Output of
Publishers.”
Oct. 2, 1927, Nashville Tennessean: “Donald Davidson’s New Volume Offers Poetry
Singularly Sustained/ Fosters Question of Attitude Becoming Men of South in
Present Circumstances,” review of The Tall Men by John Crowe Ransom
Oct.4, 1927, Nashville Tennessean: “The Tall Men,Donald Davidson’s New Book Given
Wide Praise/Publication Goes on Sale Here Today; Is Writer’s Second Collection
Of Poems.”
Oct. 7, 1927, Union (New Haven, Connecticut) : review of Stygian Freight by Cale Young
Rice, including a comment by Davidson.
Oct. 8, 1927, Lake County Times (Hammond, Indiana ): a citation of An Outland Piper.
Oct. 8, 1927,Lender (Manchester, N. H. ): a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 9, 1927, News (Dayton, Ohio) :a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 9, 1927, Sentinel (Knoxville, TN ): “The Tall Men is Epic of Tennessee,” a review of
The Tall Me by R.E. McCormick.
Oct. 9, 1927 Nashville Tennessean: “Communicatons,” a letter by William Bandy.
Oct. 9, 1927,Commercial Appeal: a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 9, 1927, Times Picayune (New Orleans, La.): “Notable Books,” a citation of
The Tall Men.
Oct. 9, 1927, Commerical Appeal: a newspaper illustration entitled, “The Tall Men/Portrait
Of a Tennessean.”
Oct. 10, 1927, Union (Manchester, N. H. ): a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 10, 1927, Democrat (Johnstown, PA) : a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 15, 1927, Transcript (Boston, Mass. ) : a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 16, 1927, Commercial Appeal ( Memphis, TN) : “Authors Will Meet at Tri-State Fair.”
Oct. 23, 1927, Republican (Springfield, Mass.): a citation of The Tall Men
Oct. 23, 1927 Democratic Chronicle (Rochester, N. Y. ): “New Era in South “
Oct. 24, 1927, Evening Post (-----, S.C,): “To Address Poetry Society/ Donald Davidson
Speaks on ‘Poetry and Progress’ Friday Night.”
Oct. 25, 1927, News and Courier (Charleston, S.C. ): “Nashville Poet to Make Address/
Davidson to Be Speaker Before Poetry Society/ First Meeting Friday/ Begins
Eighth Year of Existence with Full Membership.”
Oct. 27,1927, ?: “ Poetry Society Meets Friday/Donald Davidson , Nashville, will Deliver
Address.”
Oct. 27, 1927, Age Herald (Birmingham, Ala.): “I Reckon So,” by T. H. Alexander
Oct.28, 1927, News and Courier (Charleston, S. C. ) “Tennessee Poet Speaks Tonight/
Donald Davidson Will Address First Meeting of Poetry Society.”
Oct. 29, 1927, News and Courier ( Charleston, S.C.): “Poetry Society Hears Davidson/
Tennessee Poet Speaks, on ‘Poetry and Progress’/Art Begins with Life/Poet
Cannot Retire to Ivory Tower, Lecturer Declares.”
Nov., 1927, Bookman (N.Y., N. Y. ): a comment on Davidson.
Nov. –Dec. 1927, Bozart (Atlanta, GA.): “ Pasture on Parnassus,” by Ernest Hartsock,
A review of The Tall Men et al.
Nov. 5, 1927, Observer (Baltimore, Md.): “A Goodly Peper/This,” a citation of
Tall Men (sic.)
Nov. 6, 1927, Telegraph (Macon, GA.): a citation of The Tall Men.
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Nov. 6, 1927, Spokesman Review (Spokane, Washington ): a citation of The Tall Men.
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Nov. 11, 1927, Christian Advocate: “Two New Books of Distinction/A Son of the Pioneers,”
By G. B. Winton
Nov. 13, 1927, New York Times Book Review: “Five True Poets and a Satirist/ New Books
By John Hall Wheelock, Alfred Noyes, Humbert Wolfe, Donald Davidson, Evan
Morgan and Leonard Bacon,” by Percy Hutchison.
Nov. 13, 1927, Call (Allentown, PA): a citation of The Tall Men.
Nov. 13, 1927. Times (Asheville, N. C.): “ A Tennessee Poet,” a review of The Tall
Men by Willis Posey.
Nov. 20, 1927, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN): “Our Heritage/At Once a Tennessean’s
Pride and His Responsibility,” a review of The Tall Men by John Crowe Ransom.
Nov. 26, 1927, Journal of Commerce (Chicago, Ill.) : a citation of The Tall Men
Nov. 27, 1927, Observer (Charlotte, N. C.): a citation of The Tall Men.
Nov. 27, 1927, Journal Courier (Louisville, KY): a citation of The Tall Men.
Nov. 30, 1927, Transcript (Boston, Mass.) : a citation of The Tall Men.
Dec. 3, 1927, Beacon News (Ill. ?): a citation of The Tall Men.
Dec. 10, 1927, Saturday Review of Literature ( N. Y., N. Y.): “ Two Types of Poetry,”
A review by Stephen Vincent Benet of The Tall Men and Trinc by H. Phelps
Putnam.
Dec. 14, 1927, Nashville Tennessean: “Benet Suggests The Tall Men As Material Worthy
Of Pulitzer Prize/ Noted Poet in Saturday Review Places Davidson In Class
With Masters and Neihardt.”
Dec. 24, 1927, Record (Columbia, S. C.): a citation of Davidson et al.
Dec. 28, 1927, Express (San Antonio, Texas ): “The Literary Lantern,” a citation
Of The Tall Men.
Dec. 28, 1927, Desert News (Salt Lake City, Utah ): “Books and Authors,” a citation of
The Tall Men.
Jan. 1928, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse: a review of The Tall Men by H. M.
Jan. 18, 1928, The Nation: “ A Tennessee Epic,” a review of The Tall Men by John Gould
Fletcher.
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Feb. 11, 1928, Saturday Review of Literature (N. Y., N. Y.): “Books of Special Interest/
A Contrast in Poets, “ Ballads of the singing Bowl by Marjorie Allen Seifert and
The Close Chaplet by Laura Riding (Gottschalk), reviewed by William Rose Benet;
Mentions Davidson.
Feb. 12, 1928, Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.): “Poetry, Songs, and Ballads,” a review
Of The Tall Men.
May 1928, Voices: The Pale Woman by Sara Bard Field and The Tall Men, reviewed by
Oliver Jenkins.
May 26, 1928, Beacon-News, (Aurora, Ill.): a citation of Davidson
July 15, 1928, N.Y. Herald Tribune Books: “Turns With A Bookworm,” a citation
Of Davidson by I.M. P.
Aug. 1928, Book Review Digest: a citation of Fugitives, an Anthology of Verse.
Nov. 26, 1928, Knoxville Journal: “To Welcome Donald Davidson.”
Dec. 21, 1928, “Christmas in the Old South, “ A Talk Made by Mr. Donald Davidson
Of Vanderbilt University on the Caldwell radio program Dec. 21, 1928,
Caldwell and Co., Southern Securities, Nashville, TN
Sept. 22, 1929, Nashville Tennessean: an illustration from The Tree Named John, edited
By Donald Davidson.
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Sept. 22, 1929, Times (Toledo, Ohio): a citation of The Tall Men.
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March 30, 1931, Yale News (New Haven, Conn.): “Donald Davidson, Southern Writer, Sees
Rot in Yale Review Diagnosis of South’s Progress.”
April 17, 1931, Star (Clarksville, Tn.): “ ‘South is Advancing,’ Donald Davidson Says,
Answering Yale Publication Story.”
May 11, 1931, News (Greensboro, N. C.): “The Reviewing Shambles of New York.”
March 1934, Birmingham News (Ala.): “Liberalism As A Factor in the Southern Outlook.”
May 11, 1934, The Sheffield Standard (Sheffield, Alabama) : “TVA Chiefs Ignor South,
Davidson Claims/ Southerners Not Leaders in Exclusive Experiment/ Speaker
Declares Area Not Inhabited by All Guinea Pigs.”
July 7, 1935, Nashville Banner: “ Donald Davidson Gives Illuminating Views in Essay.”
April 16, 1937, The Birmingham News (Ala.): “The New South Talks a Rebellion.”
April 23, 1937, News (Chattanooga, TN) : “Books.”
May 16, 1937 Herald Tribune (N. Y.): “An Anthology.”
June 27, 1937, Constitution (Atlanta, GA) : “A Shelf of Classics”
March 5, 1938, Republican (Springfield, Mass.) : “Southern Regionalism,” by Edward
N. Jenckes, review of I’ll Take My Stand.
March 13, 1938, News and Observer (Raleigh , N. C. ): “Critical Regionalism,” review
Of The Attack on Levia than by Allen Tate.
March 13, 1938, Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N. C.) : “Imperialism of Sections New Theory,”
Review of I’ll Take My Stand.
March 19, 1938, Nashville Banner: “Searching Probes of Social Ills,” The Attack on
Leviathan, reviewed by Richmond Croom Beatty.
March 20, 1938, Morning Herald (Durham, N. C.): review of The Attack on Leviathan.
March 27, 1938, Journal (Knoxville, TN) : “Mr. Davidson Sees His Facts Logically.”
March 27, 1938, Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala. ): “Regionalism vs. Sectionalism.”
March 31, 1938, Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio): “Recent Arrivals at Cincinnati Book Stores,”
Citation of The Attack on Leviathan.
April 3, 1938, The Nashville Tennessean: “ A Conscientious Citizen Defines A Problem/
Donald Davidson Argues Case of Regionalism/ Nation Entering Great Period of
Debate.”
April 3, 1938, News (Savannah, GA) : “Donald Davidson Scores Our National Uniformity/
The Attack on Leviathan Again Carries Forward the Banner of Agrarianism,” review
Of Attack on Leviathan, by J. P. Dyer.
April 15, 1938, Sun ( N. Y., N. Y.) : “Regionalism,” review of The Attack on Leviathan,
By Clayton Hoagland.
May 1, 1938, News (Birmingham, Ala.): “ Mr. Davidson Asks If South Intends to Do Nothing,”
Review of The Attack on Leviathan by William C. Frierson.
May 8, 1938, Daily Times (Chattanooga, TN ): “Davidson Expounds Philosophy of
Agrarianism in Book of Essays on Regionalism and Nationalism in U. S,” review
Of The Attack onLeviathan by Frank W. Prescott.
May 14, 1938, Telegraph (Macon, GA) : “Today’s Book,” review of The Attack on Leviathan.
By Eugene Anderson.
June 25, 1938, Press (Savannah, GA): no title, review of The Attack on Leviathan.
June 26, 1938, Observer (Charlotte, N. C.): no title, review of The Attack on Leviathan.
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July 3, 1938, World News (Roanoke, VA) : “Books to Own,” review of The Attack
On Leviathan by Hon. Francis Pickens Miller.
July 6, 1938, Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Mass.): “Regionalism and the South,”
Review of The Attack on Leviathan by Horace Reynolds.
Oct. 1938, Book of the Month: no title, citation of Lee in the Mountains.
Oct. 16, 1938, Nashville Tennessean: “City’s Doom Implicit in Davidson’s Poems/
Lee in the Mountains Has Brilliant Examples, New and Old, of Work of Vanderbilt
Professor,” review of Lee in the Mountains by John Tompson.
Oct. 16, 1938, Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) : “Poems Have Robust Style, “ Lee in the
Mountains and Other Poems, reviewed by Kathryn Ames.
Oct. 16, 1938, Journal (Knoxville, TN): “Poetry.”
Oct. 19, 1938, Transcript (Boston, Mass. ): “A Nashville ‘Fugitive’ Talks for Robert E. Lee/
Donald Davidson Shows Southern Poets are Still Not Reconciled,” review by
John Holmes.
Oct. 30, 1938, Journal (Atlanta, Georgia): Lee in the Mountains, review.
Oct. 30, 1938, Washington (D.C.) Star: Lee in the Mountains, review
Nov. 20, 1938, Chattanooga Times: “ Donald Davidson’s New Book of Poems Holds Particular
Appeal for Tennesseans,” review of Lee in the Mountains by Elizabeth C. Palmer.
Nov. 28, 1938, News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind. ): “Significant Verse,” Lee in the Mountains
And Other Poems, reviewed by Floyd Logan.
Nov. 1938, Richmond Times Dispatch (Richmond, Va.) : “Donald Davidson and Abbie Evans
Praised,” Lee in the Mountains and The Bright North by Evans, reviewed by
Coleman Resenberger.
Dec. 3, 1938, The Philadelphia Inquirer: no title, comment on Lee in the Mountains.
Dec. 4, 1938, Constitution (Atlanta, Ga.): “Southern Poetry,” comment on Lee in the
Mountains.
Dec. 25, 1938, Telegraph, (Macon, Ga.): “Today’s Book,” review of Lee in the Mountains.
Jan. 1, 1939, The Commerical Appeal (Memphis, Tn): “New Book Affirms Genius of Southern
Poet, Davidson,” review of Lee in the Mountains by George Marion O’Donnell
Jan. 8, 1939, News (Birmingham, Ala.): “Donald Davidson is Author of Volume of Fine Poems,”
Review of Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems, by William C. Frierson.
Jan. 8, 1939, Herald Tribune (N. Y, N. Y. ): Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems, reviewed
By John Berryman.
Jan. 14, 1939, Columbia Missourian: “Southern Poet/Donald Davidson’s Verses of Civil War
South Penetrating,” review of Lee in the Mountains by Ward Allison Dorrance.
Feb. 5, 1939, Observer (Raleigh, N. C.): “Davidson’s Poems.”
Feb. 12, 1939, Republican (Springfield, Mass.): Lee in the Mountains, review by A.M. J.
March 10, 1939, Birmingham Age Herald: “This Morning,” by John Temple Graves, II; comment
On I’ll Take My Stand and on Vanderbilt University and O.C. Carmichael.
March 19, 1939, New York Times Book Review: “About Old Ghosts and Tennessee Earth,” review
Of Lee in the Mountains by Peter Monro Jack.
March 24, 1939, The Atlanta Journal: “Dixie Dominates Literary Field, Donald Davidson
Says Here,” by Adolph Rosenberg.
April 23, 1939, Daily Times (Chattanooga, TN): “Roaming/ A.A.U.W.—Thomas Wolfe-Edgar Allan Poe.”
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Aug. 11, 1940, Times (Chattanooga, TN): no title, comment on The Tennessee.
May 23, 1942, Waterways Journal (St. Louis, Mo.) : “News of River Books/ Nashville
Author Now Writing a Tennessee River Book.”
Nov. 17, 1944, Times (Los Angeles, Cal.): “Story of Tennessee River Recalls Era of
Pioneering,” review of The Tennessee, Vol 1, by P.J. S.
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Nov. 26, 1944, News, (Newark, N.J.) : The Tennessee, comment
Sept. 26, 1946, Observer(Charlotte, N.C.): “The Southern Scene.”
Sept. 29, 1946, Journal (Knoxville, TN): “Vanderbilt Member to Address Historical
Society Friday.”
Oct., 1946, Retail Bookseller: “The Tennessee, Vol. 1,” citation.
Oct. 14, 1946, Herald (Boston, Mass.): no title; photograph of Theresa S. Davidson’s
Woodcut on the cover (bookjacket) of The Tennessee.
Oct. 20, 1946, Sun (Chicago, Ill.): “I’ve Been Reading,” by John T. Frederick
(The Old Tennessee River”).
Oct. 23, 1946, Sun (N.Y., N. Y.) : “The Reviews: The Earlier History of the Tennessee:
A Stirring Tale of the Scottish Border,” by Clayton Hoagland.
Oct. 25, 1946, same as Oct. 23, plus a photograph of Donald Davidson.
Oct. 27, 1946, Journal (Milwaukee, Wis.): no title; review of The Tennessee, by
E.C. Kiessling.
Oct. 27, 1946, Herald Tribune, (N. Y., N. Y.) : “The Tennessee Before TVA/Before
Man Curbed the Wild River of the Cherokees,” reviewed by Avery Craven.
Oct. 27, 1946, Tribune, (Chicago, Ill.): “Past Brought Near in Book of Tennessee,”
The Tennessee, Vol. I, reviewed by Walter Havinghurst.
Oct. 30, 1946, News (Chicago, Ill.): “The Tennessee Too Good to Cut,” review of Vol.1.
Oct. 31, 1946, Waterways, “News of River Books,” review of Vol.I, by D. T. W.
Oct.- Nov.1946, Vanderbilt Alumnus (Vol. 32, No. 1): “ Donald Davidson/ The Tennessee, Before
T.V.A.,” reprint of review by Avery Craven in N.Y. Herald Tribune Weekly Book
Review, 10-27-46.
Nov. 3, 1946, The Knoxville News Sentinel: “Books Old and New,” by Lucy Curtis Templeton
Review of The Tennessee, Vol. I ).
Nov. 3, 1946, State (Columbia, S. C.): no title, review of The Tennessee by Alderman Duncan.
Nov. 9, 1946, Times ( Hartford, Ct.): “Dramatic History of River Pageant Vividedly Recalled.”
Nov. 10, 1946, Gazette (Little Rock, Arkansas.) : “Books and History Recounted,” by S.D.
Dickinson.
Nov. 17, 1946, Times Star (Cincinnati, Ohio): no title: review of The Tennessee, Vol. I.
Nov. 17, 1946, Los Angeles Times: “Story of Tennessee River Recalls Era of Pioneering,
Review of The Tennessee, Vol. I, by P. J. S.
Nov. 20, 1946, Christian Science Monitor: “River of the Cherokees,” review of The Tennessee
By Horace Reynolds.
Nov. 20, 1946, The Nashville Banner, “The Tennessee: The Old River: Frontier to Secession,”
Reviewed by Mary Stahlman Douglas.
Nov. 22, 1946, Contra Costa Labor Journal (Richmond, Cal.): no title; review of
The Tennessee, The Old River. . .,by Al Sessions.
Nov. 23, 1946, Californian (Bakersfield, California): no title; review of The Tennessee,
Vol. I.
Nov. 24, 1946, Picayune (New Orleans, La.): “Distinguished Addition.”
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Dec. 1946, Book of the Month Club: review of The Tennessee, Vol. I by George
Genzmer.
Dec. 1946, Guidepost: review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1.
Dec. 1, 1946, Chicago Tribune: “History and Biography Are Good in 1946,” by
Avery Craven.
Dec. 1, 1946, Chronicle (Augusta, GA.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1, by
Helen Colburn.
Dec. 1, 1946, Journal (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) review of The Tennessee, Vol.1.
Dec. 1, 1946, New York Herald Tribune: review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1.
Dec. 1, 1946, Chicago Tribune: review of The Tennessee
Dec. 2, 1946, Traveler (Boston, Mass.): “Work Tells Story of the Tennessee,” review by
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Dec. 8, 1946, New York Times: “History-Laden River,” review of The Tennessee, Vol.1,
By Harry Harrison Kroll.
Dec. 8, 1946, Journal (Providence, R. I.): “New Course of ‘Rivers,” review of
The Tennessee, Vol. 1, by William E. Wilson.
Dec. 15, 1946, Mercury Herald (San Jose, Cal.): “River’s Story,” review of The
Tennessee, Vol. 1., by Gladys Hoover.
Dec. 15, 1946, News (Charleston, S. C.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. By K. R.
Dec. 19, 1946, St. Louis Post-Dispatch : “ Time and the Tennessee,” review by Rufus Terral.
Dec. 22, 1946, Times-Herald (Dallas, Texas): “History of Two Rivers in One Bed,” review of
The Tennessee, Vol. 1, by W. Strickland.
Dec. 22, 1946, News (Charleston, S. C.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1., by K. R.
Jan. 1947, World in Books (Boston, Mass.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1 by A.H. Scouten.
Feb. 9, 1947, Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.): “Distinquised and Entertaining Story of Early
Tennessee River is Grand,” review of The Tennessee, Vol.1 by Ray Gould.
March 1947, The Bookmark (Albany, N. Y.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1.
April 28, 1947, Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Mass. ): “ A New and An Old River
Flow as One.”
July 31, 1947,Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Mass. ): “Flatboats on theTennessee.”
Dec. 15, 1947, New York Times: citation of The Tennesse, Vol. II.
Jan. 1948, RetailBookseller (N.Y.,N. Y.):citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Jan. 18, 1948, Bulletin (Phila., Pa.): “On a River from Civil War to T.V.A.,” reviewed by
Leigh Mitchell Hodges.
Jan. 20, 1948, Times (Chattanooga, TN): “ Agrarian Davidson Shies at Progress,” review
Of The Tennessee, Vol.II, by James Livingood.
Jan. 22, 1948, Herald Tribune (N. Y., N. Y.): “Books Out Today.”
Jan. 24, 1948, Publisher’s Weekly (N. Y., N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Jan. 24, 1948, The New Yorker: review of The Tennessee.
Jan.25, 1948, Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio): “Tennessee Story Told in American
Rivers Chronicles,” review of The Tennessee, Vols. I and II by George J. Barmann.
Jan. 25, 1948, N. Y. Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review: “The Tennessee, Vol. II:
The New River: Civil War to T. V. A.,” reviewed by Gerald W. Johnson.
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Jan. 26, 1948, New York Times: “From Civil War to TVA,” review of The Tennessee, Vol. II,
By Horace Reynolds.
Jan. 26, 1948, Sun (N. Y., N. Y.): “ A River’s Stirring History in the Civil War and Later,”
Review by Clayton Hoagland.
Jan. 29, 1948, Globe (Boston, Mass.): “The Tennessee.”
Jan. 31, 1948, Army Times (Washington, D. C.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Jan. 31, 1948, Science News Letter (Washington, D. C.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Jan. 31, 1948, Journal American (N. Y., N. Y.): review of The Tennessee.
Jan. 31, 1948, Saturday Review of Literature (N. Y, N. Y.): “Liquid Mason-Dixon Line,”
Review of The Tennessee, The New River: . . . by Willson Whitman.
Feb. 1948, Book of the Month Club News (N.Y., N. Y.): “How the Tennessee Has Influenced
History.”
Feb. 1, 1948, Booklist: review of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 1, 1948, World (Tulsa, Oklahoma): review of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 1, 1948, Journal (Milwaukee, WI): “ The Tennessee: River of Strife and Kilowatts,”
Reviewed by Harry Pease.
Feb. 1, 1948, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN): “The Tennessee: New River Traces Streams
History From War of 1860’s/Davidson’s Vol II Lacks Rugged Drama of First Part,”
Review by P.F.
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Feb. 8, 1948, Star (Washington, D. C.): “In the TVA Valley,” review of The Tennessee, Vol.II,
By James Birchfield.
Feb. 8, 1948, Chicago Tribune: “Tennessee River Volume Develops Its Late History,”
Reviewed by August Derleth.
Feb. 11, 1948, Mail (Anderson, S.C.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 12, 1948, Record (Columbia, S. C.): “A Turbulent River/ The Story of the Tennessee
And Momentous Events Nearby,” review by Alderman Duncan.
Feb. 12, 1948, Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio): “Walter Winchell,” (column).
Feb. 14, 1948, Star (Kansas City, MO.): “Tennessee River Story,” review by W.W.B.
Feb. 14, 1948, Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 15, 1948, St. Louis Post Dispatch: “An Ingrown Southerner Looks at TVA,’ review
By Rufus Terral.
Feb. 15, 1948, Spokesman Review (Spokane, Washington): “Rivers of America”
Feb. 20, 1948, Republican (Pottsville, PA): review of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 21, 1948, Advertiser (Tiffin, Ohio): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 21, 1948, Intermountain (Elkins, W. Va.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 22, 1948, Observer and Budget (Troy, N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 22, 1948, News (Jackson, Miss.): “New Volume in River Series on Tennessee.”
Feb. 22, 1948, Citizen (Asheville, N. C.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 24, 1948, Mail (Hagerstown, Md.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 24, 1948, Item (Portchester, N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 26, 1948, News (Beloit, Wisc.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 26, 1948, Journal (Pottsville, PA) : citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 27, 1948, Herald Enterprises (Bellflower, Cal. ): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 27, 1948, Nashville Banner: “South’s Frontier Life,” review of Everett Dick’s
The Dixie Frontier, By Mortimer Truil.
Feb. 27, 1948, Post (Vicksburg, Miss.) : “Vicksburesque”
Feb. 28, 1948, Independent (Richmond, Cal.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 29, 1948, Press Herald (Portland, Maine): “ The Tennessee.”
Feb. 29, 1948, News (Dallas, Texas): “ Of Tennessee River and TVA,” review by
John H. Mcginnis.
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March, 1948, Book Review Digest (N.Y., N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 1948, The Southern Packet (Asheville, N. C. ): “The Perennial Problem: The
Club Program,” by Agatha Boyd Adams.
March 1, 1948, Press-Gazette (Green Bay, Wis.): “Son of the Valley Writes History of
Tennessee River.”
March 2, 1948, Record (Meriden, Conn.): “Have you Read/ The Tennessee/ The Everglades”
March 2, 1948, Evening News (San Jose, Cal. ): “The Tennessee—Civil War to TVA.”
March 2, 1948, News (San Francisco, Cal.): “The Tennessee—Civil War to TVA.”
March 6, 1948, Gazette (Taunton, Mass. ): “The Tennessee—Civil War to TVA.”
March 7, 1948, Press (Atlantic City, N. J. ): “The Tennessee—Civil War to TVA.”
March 7, 1948, Times (Wichita Falls, Texas): “The Tennessee—Civil War to TVA.”
March 8, 1948, News (North Kansas City, Mo.): “A New King is Crowned.”
March 9, 1948, News Tribune (Fullerton, Cal.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 11, 1948, Eagle (Butler, Pa.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 12, 1948, Herald-Times (Manitowoc, Wisconsin): “The Tennessee . . . Donald Davidson.”
March 13, 1948, Gazette (Gastonia, N. C.): “Book Reviews,” of The Tennessee, Vol.II ,
By Ben and Estelle Atkins.
March 15, 1948, Register (Torrington, Conn.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 16, 1948, Messenger (St. Albans, Vt.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 18, 1948, Piedmont (Greenville, S. C.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
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March 18, 1948, Journal (Lewiston, Maine): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 20, 1948, Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Cal. ): “Literary Works Lead Current
Affairs Books.”
March 21, 1948, Times Herald (Dallas, Texas): “Many Lakes and a River.” By William
H. Vann.
March 21, 1948, Observer (Charlotte, N. C.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 24, 1948, Journal (Meriden, Conn.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol.II.
April, 1948, Friends of American Writers News (Chicago, Illinois): citation of
The Tennessee, Vol. II..
April 1948, Southern Packet (Asheville, N. C.): “The Tennessee: Modern.” Review by
Paul M. Fink.
April 1948, Holiday: “The Tennessee: The New River—Civil War to TVA.”
April 1, 1948, Gate City (Keokuki, Iowa): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
April 2, 1948, Telegram (Superior, Wisconsin): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
April 4, 1948, Times (Kingsport, Tn.): “This Week’s Best Sellers in Kingsport.”
April 5, 1948, Observer (Dunkirk, N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol II.
April 8, 1948, Journal (Antigo, Wisconsin): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
April 9, 1948, Sentinel Mist ( St. Helens, Oregon): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
April 10, 1948, Intelligencer-Journal (Lancaster, Pa.): “Southern River.”
April 12, 1948, Nashville Banner: “Donald Davidson Receives Honorary Degree
From W & L.”
April 13, 1948, Nashville Tennessean: “Donald Davidson Given Honorary W & L Degree.”
April 17, 1948, Nation ( N. Y., N. Y.): “ The Giant—TVA,” review of David Lilienthal,
Public Servant in a Power Age, by Willson Whitman, and of The Tennessee, Vol. II,
By Ernest Kirschten.
April 18, 1948, Sun & Times ( Chicago, Ill.): “How the TVA Gave River A ‘New Look,’”
By C. Herman Pritchett.
April 18, 1948, Herald (Albany, Ga.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
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April 21, 1948, Record Herald (Richmond, Cal.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
April 22, 1948, Reporter (Two Rivers, Wisconsin: citation of The Tennessee, Vol II.
April 23, 1948, Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass. ): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
April 29, 1948, Gazette (Xenia, Ohio): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
May 2, 1948, Picayune (New Orleans, La.): “River of Destiny.”
May 3, 1948, Senior Scholastic (N. Y., N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
May 8, 1948, America (N. Y,, N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
May 9, 1948, Gazette (Little Rock, Arkansas): “Down South.”
May 9, 1948, Post (Boston, Mass. ): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
May 15, 1948, Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Mass.) : “Tennessee Valley:
3 Periods,” The Tennessee, Vol. II., reviewed by R.M. H.
May 16, 1948, Chronicle ( Augusta, Ga.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
May 16, 1948, Journal (Providence, R. I.): “ The Tennessee-Civil War to TVA,” review
By K. B. R.
July 1948, Current History: review of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
July 8, 1948, Union (Fort Atkinson, Wis.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II
July 11, 1948, Daily (Decatur, Ala.): “Books/The Tennessee/ By Donald Davidson.”
Aug. 22, 1948, Courant (Hartford, Conn.): “River Victor in Two Wars,” The Tennessee,
Vol. II, reviewed by Maxine Tull Boatner.
Sept., 1948, Southern Packet (Asheville, N. C.): “Poetry.”
Sept. 16, 1948, Townsman (Andover, Mass. ): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Dec. 1948, Southern Packet (Asheville, N. C.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 1949, Education: review of The Tennessee, Vol.II, by William P. Sears.
March 1949, Peabody Bi-Monthly: citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
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July 31, 1949, N. Y. Times: “ A Tribute to the Persistence of Poets,” review of Lee
In the Mountains, and The Wind of Time by Rolfe Humphries, review by
Phyllis McGinley.
Sept. 4, 1949, Nashville Tennessean Magazine: “He Clings to Enduring Values,” by
Louise Davis.
Dec. 4, 1949, New York Times, citation of Lee in the Mountains.
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Feb. 5, 1950, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn.): “Davidson on Yeats.”
Dec. 14, 1950, Record (Columbia, S. C.): “Southern Literary Leader Visits in
Columbia,” by Louis Jones DuBose.
Jan. 21, 1951, Nashville Tennessean: no title; report on Davidson’s activities.
Jan. 28, 1951 News(Charleston, S. C.) : “Books and People.”
March 2, 1954, News (Charleston, S.C.) : “:The Letters of William Gilmore Simms.”
Jan., 1954, Peabody Journal of Education (Nashville, Tn.): citation of American
Composition and Rhetoric.
May 15, 1955, Nashville Tennessean: “Twenty Lessons in Reading and Writing Prose.”
May 1, 1956, Nashville Banner: “Literary Leaders to Meet at V. U. for 3 Day Parley
Of Fugitive Poets.
March 21, 1957, The Evening Sun (Baltimore, MD.): “Books in Review/ Essays in Literature,”
Review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays, by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
April 1, 1957, Library Journal (N. Y., N. Y.): review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees and
Other Essays.
April 7, 1957, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn): “ U. S. Conscience Commands Look
By Two Writers,” by Paul Flowers.
April 7, 1957, Tribune (Chicago, Ill.): “Among the Authors,” by Frederic Babcock.
April 14, 1957, Nashville Tennessean: citation of The Attack on Leviathan.
April 14, 1957, Nashville Tennessean: “V. U. Prof Explores Basic Human Issues.”
April 15, 1957, Book List (Chicago, Ill.): citation of, Still Yankees Still Rebels and
Other Essays.
April 21, 1957, Magazine of Books, Chicago Tribune: “Voice of the Reader/ The
Hinterland.”
April 26, 1957, Nashville Banner: “Rich Varied Commentary On Our Times,” review
Of Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays, by Brainard Cheney.
April 28, 1957, Journal (Providence, R. I.): “Essays on the South,” Still Rebels, Still
Yankees, and Other Essays, reviewed by Charles H. Watts, II.
April 28, 1957, Pilot (Norfolk, Va.): “Nostalgic Essays/Daydreams in Dixie,” review
Of Still Rebels, Still Yankees, and Other Essays by Frank Blackford.
April 28, 1957, Tribune (Chicago, Ill.): “Many Stimulating Variations on a Single Theme,”
Review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays by Ben Ray Redman.
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May 4, 1957, Saturday Review: “Change vs. Tradition,” Still Rebels, Still Yankees and
Other Essays reviewed by J. T. W.
May 11, 1957, America: no title; citation of Still Rebels, Still Yankees, and Other Essays
June 2, 1957, Times Dispatch (Richmond, Va.): review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees and
Other Essays by Clifford Dowdey.
June 9, 1957, Observer (Raleigh, N. C.): “Still Rebels.”
July 7, 1957, Sun (Jackson, Tn.): “Teahouse of Southern Moon May Still Fit Together,”
Review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees, and Other Essays, by Prof. William B.
Hesseltine.
July 7, 1957, Oklahoman ( Oklahoma City, Oklahoma): “Too Heavy, Too Zoned,”
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Review of Kees, by J. P. Pritchard.
July 20, 1957, Times (Chattanooga, Tn.): “But How Shall the South Act,” review of Still
Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays by Wilma Dykeman Stokely.
Aug. 3, 1957, America: review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees by Margaret Kenny.
Autumn 1957, South Atlantic Quarterly: review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees by Jay B. Hubbell.
Sept. 1957, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: review of
Still Rebels, Still Yankees by Ella Lonn.
Nov. 30, 1957, America: citation of Still Rebels, Still Yankees.
Jan. 5, 1958, Sentinel (Grand Jct., Colo.): “Don Miller Memorial Collection.”
March 13, 1958, The Daily Reveille (L.S.U., Baton Rouge, La.): “Fugitive Group Discussed by
Poet,” by Angela Maspero.
June 1, 1958, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn.): “Fugitives Again.”
June 15, 1958, Picayune (New Orleans, La.): citation of Southern Writers in the Modern World.
June 21, 1958, Saturday Review (N. Y., N. Y.): citation of Southern Writers in the Modern World.
June 29, 1958, Observer (Raleigh, N. C.): “Southern Accent.”
July 6, 1958, Times (Chattanooga, Tn.): “Books and Writers,” by Gilbert E. Govan.
Autumn, 1958, Va. Quarterly Review: review of Southern Writers in the Modern World.
Sept. 7, 1958, Nashville Banner, “Recollections of Fugitives and Agrarians,” review of
Southern Writers in the Modern World, by Frances Neel Cheney.
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Sept. 18, 1960, ______,(Selma, Ala.): “Sensing the News,” by Thurman Sensing.
Sept. 19, 1960, Americus Times-Recorder (Americus, Ga.): “The Actual South”
(editorial).
Sept. 19, 1961, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn.): “Regional Actors Active,” by
Paul Flowers
Oct. 15, 1961, Anniston Star (Anniston, Ala.): “New Poems Published,” The Long
Street reviewed by Barbara Hodge Hall.
Oct. 15, 1961, The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, Va.): “Books of the Times/Donald
Davidson and His Poetry,” by Paxton Davis.
Oct. 20, 1961, Nashville Banner: “Creates Poetry That is Truly Universal,” The Long
Street reviewed by Robert L. Welker.
Oct. 22, 1961, Nashville Tennessean, “Collected Poems Have Warmth, Distinction,”
The Long Street reviewed by Dean Kenneth England.
Nov., 1961, Southern Observer: “An Authentic Southern Voice,” by Durant Da Ponte.
Nov. 19, 1961, News and Courier (Charleston, S. C.): “Davidson’s Poetry,” by
John R. Doyle.
Dec. 6, 1961, Richmond News Leader: “Major ‘Fugitive’ : Donald Davidson’s Poetry
Reveals Love of Tradition,” The Long Street reviewed by Harry M. Meacham.
Dec. 27, 1961,The Christian Century: “A Vatic Poet,” The Long Street reviewed by
Robert Drake.
Dec. 13, 1961, Tulsa World (Tulsa, Okla.): citation of The Long Street by Bob Wyatt
_____, 1962, South Carolina Librarian (Vol. 6, No. 2): “Book Reviews,” a review
of The Long Street.
Dec. 24, 1961, N. Y. Times Book Review:” Davidson’s Long Street is the South.”
Jan. 21, 1962, The Times Picayune (New Orleans, La.): “Collected Verse of a Fugitive,”
The Long Street reviewed by James W. Nolan.
Jan. 22, 1962, The Evening Sun (Baltimore, Md.): “New Books in Review/Three Poets,”
The Long Street reviewed by Josephine Jcobsen.
Jan. 28, 1962, Chattanooga Times: “Of Books and Writers,” by Gilbert E. Govan, a review
Of The Long Street.
Feb. 25, 1962, Sunday Advocate (Baton Rouge, La. ): “Donald Davidson’s Poetry is
Confident, Erudite, Honest,” review of The Long Street by Miller Williams.
_____,1965, Nashville Banner: “Donald Davidson Honored by VU English Department.”
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_____, 1968, Atlanta Journal: “Fugitive is Dead/Compare Agrarians, Black Power,” by
Roy Blount, Jr.
_____, 1968, Atlanta Journal:”Attack Him Myself/ Davidson : Whole in His Acts,” by
Roy Blount, Jr.
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Undated Newspaper Clippings About Davidson Arranged by Title:
“Authors to Lecture at Bread Loaf School/Noted Educators and Critics Also Named to
Staff of Middlebury Summer Session.” No newspaper title or place of publication.
“The Blooming Lyre,” a review of An Outland Piper et al. By Arthur Guiterman; Outlook,
April Book Supplement.
“Davidson Speaks on Poetry at U. C./Vanderbilt Professor Also Reads from Own Works
in University Lecture,” by Thomas Brahan. No newspaper title, Chattanooga, Tn.
“Davidson Talks on ‘Place of Poetry’/ Poet Can Be Interpreter in Time of Confusion, He Tells
Civitans.” No newspaper title or place of publication.
“Davidson To Talk To Knox Historians.” No newspaper title or place of publication.
“Dixie Problems Agrarian. Industrialism Drawa Strong Attack by Vanderbilt Educator,”
by Walter Paschall. No newspaper title or place of publication given.
“Dr. Donald Davidson’s Lecture.” No newspaper title or place of publication given.
“Donald Davidson Appears In Lecture at Centennial Club.” No newspaper title or place
of publication given.
“Donald Davidson Discussed Modern Poetry Before Literary Department/Lecture Inaugurated
Series of Studies for Centennial Club Members.” Nashville Tennessean.
“Donald Davidson’s Talk on Poetry Centennial Club Attraction.” No newspaper title or place of
publication given.
“A Far Fair Strain,” An Outland Piper, reviewed by Joseph T. Shipley. No newspaper title or place
of publication given.
“Future Poem Prizes Awarded.” No newspaper title or place of publication given.
“Good Evenin’/What Did Lee Think of Surrender.” No newspaper title or place of publication given.
“The Lantern,” edited by J. C. Comfort. No newspaper title or place of publication given.
“The Literary Lantern,” three different columns. No newspaper titles or places of publication given.
“Lucid, Yet Modern,” Lee in the Mountains and OtherPoems reviewed by Richmond Croom
Beatty. Nashville Banner or Nashville Tennessean.
“A Nashville ‘Fugitive’ Talks for Robert E. Lee/Donald Davidson Shows Southern Poets Are
Still Not Reconciled,” by John Holmes. No newspaper title or place of publication
Given.
“A Note on ‘The Fugitive’.” The Vanderbilt Hustler.
“Our Book for the Week/ The Tall Men.” The Cadet (Virginia Military Institute).
“ An Outland Piper.” No newspaper title or place of publication given.
“The Poet as Southerner,” The Tall Men reviewed by Jay B. Hubbell. The Archive.
“Poetry Society of Tennessee Organized Saturday Evening.” Nashville Banner.
“Roaming Tennessee Writers,” by Gilbert E. Govan. No newspaper title or place of
publication given.
“The Tall Men.” The New Republic.
“Taste for Poetry Inherent in U. S./Donald Davidson Speaks at Luncheon Meeting of
Kiwanis Club.” Nashville Banner
“A Tennessee Poet,” a review of The Tall Men by Willis Posey. Asheville Times (N.C.).
“Tennessee Story Told in American Rivers Chronicles,” by George Barmann. Plain Dealer.
“’Undamaged Souls’ Is Topic of Donald Davidson’s Club Lecture.” Nashville Banner
or Nashville Tennessean.
“Verse That Entertains But Is Unimportant,” comment on An Outland Piper and on
Archibald MacLeish’s The Happy Marriage.
Untitled—two reviews of An Outland Piper
One unrelated fragment
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Notice of Davidson’s speaking before the American Association of University Women,
No newspaper title or place of publication given.
“Industrialism Holds No Salvation For the South, Agrarian Warns,” no newspaper title
or place of publication given.
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DONALD DAVIDSON PAPERS
APPENDIX C—FUGITIVES AND AGRARIANS—LIST OF NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, 1924 1936
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[1924] The Nashville Tennessean:” By Far the Best of Its Kind in the South”
a writer describing Davidson’s Book and Literary Page in The Tennessean.
April 5, 1924, The Chicago Tribune: “More Poetry Prizes.” Noting The Fugitive.
January 16, ____, New York Sun: “The Bear Garden Program—and Young Writers”
May 21, 1926, The Virginia Pilot and the Norfolk _____:” The Literary Lantern”—News of the Fugitives
Sept. 3, 1930,Chattanooga News: “The Young Confederates.”
Sept. 24, 1930, Macon Telegraph: “Lee, We Are Here!”
Nov. 1, 1930, Washington Post: Review of I’ll Take My Stand.
Nov. 10, 1930, Virginian Pilot (Norfolk, Va.): “Our Own Kulturkampf”
Nov. 12, 1930, Nashville Tennessean: “Book of Protest by 12 Southerners of Agrarian Tradition
Issued Today.”
Nov. 12, 1930, New York Morning World:The First Reader, “Voices of the South: Paris Gets
Conservative,” by Harry Hansen.
Nov. 12, 1930, Nashville Banner: “ I’ll Take My Stand Is On Sale Today/Agrarianism Versus
Industrialism Treated by Vanderbilt Writers.”
Nov. 12, 1930, Leaf Chronicle (Clarksville, Tn.): “Local Authors To Hear A Debate at Richmond
Virginia.”
Nov. 13, 1930, Mercury (New Bedford, Mass.): The First Reader, by Harry Hansen—duplicate
Of Nov. 12.
Nov. 13, 1930, Leaf Chronicle (Clarksville, Tn.): “I’ll Take My Stand.”
Nov. 14, 1930, Virginian Pilot (Norfolk, Va.): The First Reader, by Harry Hansen—duplicate
Of Nov. 12.
Nov. 15, 1930, Publishers Weekly: citation of I’ll Take My Stand.
Nov. 15, 1930, Transcript (Boston, Mass.): citation of I”ll Take My Stand.
Nov. 15, 1930, Sentinel (Orlando, Florida): “A Southern Book By Southerners”
Nov. 15, 1930, Star (Kansas City, Mo.): “They Deplore Coming of Machinery in the South.”
Nov. 15, 1930, The Chattanooga News: “The Young Confederates Take Their Stand/Dr.
Hesseltine Reviews New Book by Southern Thinkers Who Would Carry the Trend
Away from Industrialism and Back to Life of Contentment on the South’s
Beautiful Acres,” reviewed by Dr. W. B. Hesseltine.
Nov. 16, 1930, Enterprise (High Point, N. C.): “Agrarian Way of Living is Book Subject/
Southern Writers Define a Positive Philosophy As Opposed to the Present Day
Industrialism.”
Nov. 16, 1930, News Courier (Charleston, S. C.): “Book On South Is Out/ 12 Southerners
Write of Agrarian Tradition.”
Nov. 16, 1930, New York Times: citation of I’ll Take My Stand.
Nov. 16, 1930, Journal (Knoxville, Tn.): “Southern Agrarians Protest Industrialism’s
Encroachment,” review of I’ll Take My Stand by James I. Finney.
Nov. 17, 1930, Post Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri): Of Making Many Books, “Antaean
Voices,” review of I’ll Take My Stand.
Nov. 19, 1930, Register (Des Moines, Iowa): “Back to the South.”
Nov. 22, 1930, Publishers Weekly: citation of I’ll Take My Stand.”
Nov. 22, 1930, Tribune (Jackson, Mich.): “In Dixie Land.”
Nov. 22, 1930, Independent (St. Petersburg, Fla.): “Notes” on I’ll Take My Stand.
Nov. 23, 1930, Register (Mobile, Ala.): “In Dixie Land,” duplicate of Nov. 22.
Nov. 23, 1930, Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.): “A Militant Indictment of ‘Progress.’”
Review of I’ll Take My Stand by W.J. M., Jr.
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Nov. 25, 1930, News (Greensboro, N. C.): The First Reader, duplicate of Nov. 12.
Nov. 25, 1930, Nashville Tennessean: I Reckon So, by T. H. Alexander, comment on
I’ll Take My Stand.
Nov. 26, 1930, Gazette (Gastonia, N. C.): comment on I’ll Take My Stand.
Nov. 27, 1930, Macon Telegraph: In My Opinion, by Coleman Hill, comment on
I’ll Take My Stand.
Nov. 27, 1930, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn.): I Reckon So, by T. H. Alexander,
Duplicate of Nov. 25.
Nov. 29, 1930, Press (Savannah, Ga.): The Literary Lantern, “Is the Industrialism of the
South Inevitable?” review of I’ll Take My Stand by Paul Green and Elizabeth Lay
Green.
Nov. 29, 1930, Evening Sun (Baltimore, Md.): “Symposium on the Industrial Problem of the
New South,” review of I’ll Take My Stand and of The Industrial Revolution in the
South, latter by Broadus Mitchell and George Sinclair Mitchell.
Nov. 30, 1930, Star (Wilmington, N. C.): “In Dixie Land,” duplicate of Nov. 22
Nov. 30, 1930, Macon Telegraph: In My Opinion, by Coleman Hill, comment on I’ll Take
My Stand., duplicate Nov. 27.
Nov. 30, 1930, Observer (Charlotte, N. C.): The Literary Lantern, duplicate of Nov. 29.
Nov. 30, 1930, New York Herald Tribune: “What is the Southland?” review of I’ll
Take My Stand by Virginia Moore.
Dec. 6, 1930, Nashville Tennessean, “Book Review,” of I’ll Take My Stand.
Dec. 6, 1930, Herald (Columbia, Tn.): review of I’ll Take My Stand.
Dec. 6, 1930, Gazette (Emporia, Kansas): “The Real South,” review of I’ll Take My
Stand.
Dec. 6, 1930, New York Sun: “South, Old and New,” review of I’ll Take My Stand.
Dec. 7, 1930, Times Dispatch (Richmond, Va.): “Four Southern Champions,” by
Allen Cleaton.
Dec. 8, 1930, Journal (Knoxville, Tn.): “Book Review” of I’ll Take My Stand.
Dec. 8, 1930, Tribune (New Orleans, La.): “Southerners Make Plea for Agrarianism/ 12
Born in Rural south, Urge Stand Against Industrialism/ Tulane Professor Includes
His Views/ Philosophy of Group Set Forth in I’ll Take My Stand.”
Dec. 10, 1930, Nashville Banner: “Knickerbocker to Debate Ransom.”
Dec. 13, 1930, News (Buffalo, N. Y.): review of I’ll Take My Stand.
Dec. 13, 1930, News (Chattanooga, Tn.): review of I’ll Take My Stand.
Dec. 13, 1930, Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio): review of I’ll Take My Stand
Dec. 14, 1930, News Sentinel (Knoxville, Tn.): “Can South Go Back To Agrarian
Culture?”
Dec. 14, 1930, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn): Cossitt Book Notes—“Southern
Agrarian Tradition.”
Dec. 14, 1930, Constitution (Atlanta, Ga.): citation of I’ll Take My Stand.
Dec. 14, 1930, Star Telegram (Fort Worth, Tx.): “ 12 Valiants Take Stand for Old Life/
Symposium of Southerners on Necessity for Agrarian Revival,” review of
I’ll Take My Stand by Alex Stedman.
Dec. 15, 1930, News (Dallas, Texas): “Machine Age Problems Up Before Forum/ Half
Way Point Betwween Industrial South and Agricultural Sought/Writer Lectures/
Howard M. Jones Formerly University of Texas Teacher.
Dec. 17, 1930, The Outlook, advertisement for I’ll Take My Stand.
Dec. 18, 1930, Baltimore Evening Sun: “Crusade in Dixie,” comment on I’ll Take
My Stand and agrarianism by Virginius Dabney.
Dec. 18, 1930, Commerce and Finance: “Tradition and the South,” review of I’ll
Take My Stand by L.B.J.
Dec. 19, 1930, N. Y. Telegram: “ South’s Stories and Problems in Two Volumes/
I’ll Take My Stand, Dozen Essays by Southerners with Eyes on Post,” review
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Dec. 20, 1930, Saturday Review of Literature: “Back to the Hand,” review of
I’ll Take My Stand, by William S. Knickerbocker.
Dec. 20, 1930, Leaf Chronicle (Clarksville, Tn.): “Library Notes.”
Dec. 21, 1930, Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio): “Protest From the South Against Industrialism
Twelve Pleas for Restoration of Agrarian Life of Cultured Leisure There and
Elsewhere in the Country,” review of I’ll Take My Stand.
Dec. 21, 1930, News (Dallas, Tx.): “Symposium Presents Twelve Southerners/These
Men Emphasize Menace of Machine Age and Urge Return to Farm Life.”
Dec. 24, 1930, Journal Courier (New Haven, Ct.): review of I’ll Take My Stand.
Dec. 26, 1930, Times (Chattanooga, Tn.): “Ransom-Barr Debate Scheduled for Jan. 9.”
Dec. 26, 1930, Post (Chicago, Ill.): “Public Affairs,” review of I’ll Take My Stand by
Hilda Joseph.
Dec. 27, 1930, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn.): “University Women To Hear Talk
On Southern Writers.”
Dec. 28, 1930, News (Charlotte, N. C.): “Southern Ideal Called Oways (sic) Out of
Black Industrial Fog/ Leaders Declare Pulmotor Methods of Stimulating Business
And Cultural Insensibility False,” review of I’ll Take My Stand.
Dec. 30, 1930, N. Y. Morning World: The Firsts Reader, “A New Shepard.” Citation of
I’ll Take My Stand by Harry Hansen.
Jan. 2, 1931, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn.): “Young Writers Is Topic/Penn Warren
To Address University Women This Afternoon.”
Jan. 4, 1931, News (Birmingham, Ala.): “Back to the Land Urged To Save South’s Soul.”
Jan. 4, 1931, The New York Times Book Review: “Industrialism and the Agrarian Tradition
In the South/Two Forces Are at War for Control of the Future Below the Mason
And Dixon Line.”
Jan. 4, 1931, World Herald (Omaha, Nebraska): “Saving the South,” review of I’ll Take
My Stand.
Jan. 4, 1931, News Sentinel (Knoxville, Tn.): “Takes His Stand.”
Jan. 4, 1931, Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.): comment on I’llTake My Stand by
John McClure.
Jan. 5, 1931, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn.): “I’ll Take My Stand—a Review,” by
Virginia Frazier Boyle.
Jan. 7, 1931, Nashville Tennessean: “I Reckon So,” by T. H. Alexander.
Jan. 9, 1931, Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.): “Book Is Dedicated to W. L. Fleming By
12 Authors/Former L. S. U. History Professor Is Honored With Dedication of
I’ll Take My Stand.
Jan. 9, 1931, Journal (Knoxville, Tn.): “Last Call to U.T. Playwrights.”
Jan. 10, 1931, Star News (Pasadena, Cal.): “I’ll Take My Stand.”
Jan. 10, 1931, Journal (Knoxville, Tn.): “I Reckon So,” by T. H. Alexander.
Jan. 10, 1931, Press (Savannah, Ga.): “The Literary Lantern,” by Paul Green.
Jan. 10, 1931, News (Chattanooga, Tn.): no title, letter to the Editor re: the
Young Confederates by Alfred Mynders.
Jan. 11, 1931, Courier Journal (Louisville, Ky.): “To Warn the Wavering South,”
Review of I’llTake My Stand.
Jan. 14, 1931, Nation: “ So did King Canute,” review of I’ll Take My Stand, by Henry Hazlitt.
Jan. 15, 1931, Journal (Knoxville, Tn.): “I Reckon So,” by T. H. Alexander.
Jan. 18, 1931, News Observer (Raleigh, N. C.): “Alumni Book Club Lists Four Books/
Unique Loan Literary Plan Creating Interest.”
Jan. 18, 1931, Twin City Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N. C.): “Industrial Move Regarded
Askance/What Can Be Saved of the Old South is Symposium Topic.”
Jan. 18, 1931, Courant (Hartford, Ct.): “Twelve Southerners Take Their Stand.”
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Jan. 18, 1931, Times Union (Jacksonville, Fla.): no title, citation of Ransom-Barr Debate.
Jan. 18, 1931, Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio): “Modern Mass Production—Is It a Boon or
A Menace”—mention of I’ll Take My Stand as a notable book.
Jan. 19, 1931, Nashville Tennessean: “Carnegie Library.”
Jan. 21,1931, Gazette (Gastonia, N. C.): “Twelve ‘Young Rebels’ Speak Out For The
Agrarian South/ Southern Writers Deplore Coming of Industrialism in I’ll
Take My Stand.”
Jan.24, 1931, Saturday Review of Literature : “I’ll Take My Stand”; letter to the editor
By Helen Hill.
Jan. 24, 1931, News (Hollywood, Ca.): no title, citation of Ransom-Barr Debate.
Jan. 25, 1931, Star News ( Wilmington, N. C. ): “Alumni Book Club Lists for January.”
Jan. 25, 1931, Twin City Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N. C.): “Four Books Are Listed by
Alumni Book Club.”
Jan. 25, 1931, Free Press (Detroit, Michigan): “I’ll Take My Stand,” comment on.
Jan. 30, 1931, Nashville Tennessean: “I Reckon So,” by T. H. Alexander.
Feb. 1, 1931, News (Birmingham, Ala.): “Joint Authority.”
Feb. 1, 1931, News (Savannah, Ga.); “Twelve Southerners Consider South’s Ideals,”
I’ll Take My Stand reviewed by Adah Young.
Feb. 1, 1931, New York Times: “Texas Is Feeling Its Cultural Oats”—mention of
I’ll Take My Stand.
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Feb. 2, 1931, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn.): “I Reckon So,” by T. H. Alexander.
Feb. 4, 1931, Transcript (Boston, Mass.): “The South and Industrialism.”
_________ “Leaders Declare Pulmotor Methods of Stimulating Business and Cultural
Insensibility False.” Review of I’ll Take My Stand by C. K. Brown of Davidson
College.
Feb. 4, 1931, Chattanooga News (Chattanooga, Tn.): “G.K. Chesterton, English Notable
‘Stranded’ in Chattanooga, Agrees with Ideals of Young Confederates.’”
Feb. 8, 1931, Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah): “New Rebellion in South,” editorial.
Feb. 8, 1931, News (Dallas, Tx.): “Southwest Review Offers Material for Discussion.”
Feb. 8, 1931, American (Atlanta, Ga.): “12 Southerners Collaborate on Book.
Feb. 8, 1931, Record (Columbia, S. C.) no title, citation of I’ll Take My Stand.
Feb. 9, 1931, Journal (Atlanta, Ga.): “Emory’s Notable Institute.”
Feb. 14, 1931, Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Mass.): “Rise of Industry in South
Draws Diverse Views/ Condemned as Menace to Culture and Defended in
Debate at Atlanta.”
Feb. 15, 1931, New York Times: “Regional Culture,” editorial.
Feb. 15, 1931, State (Columbia, S. C.): “The Literary Highway.”
Feb. 15, 1931, Times Union (Jacksonville, Florida): “Twelve Southerners With a Mirror,”
By Edgar Legare Pennington.
Feb. 22, 1931, Tribune (New Orleans, La.): “The South.”
March 1, 1931, Times (Seattle, Washington): “World Calls in List of New Books/Rear
Admiral R. E. Coontz’s Autobiography Among New Volumes at Public Library.”
May 21, 1931, Daily Herald (Columbia, Tn.): “Agrarian Issue Will Be Debated in City
Tonight/Joint Discussion Between Knickerbocker and Davidson Will Begin
At 8 O’Clock/Judge Whitthorne Will Act as Moderator for Debate/ Speakers
Will Be Presented to the Audience by the Sponsorers of Notable Intellectual
Event Here.”
May 27, 1931, Yale News Literary Supplement: “The New South,” review of I’ll
Take My Stand by G. W. Glenn.
Nov. 8, 1931, New York Herald Tribune Books: “A Weekend at Mr. Jefferson’s
University,” by Emily Clark.
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Newspaper Clippings and Reviews about Who Owns America? (April 29, 1936-May 19, 1936)
April 29, 1936, News (Chicago, Ill.): “The Book of the Week (Number 18)” review of
Who Owns America? By Sterling North.
May 3, 1936, Star (Wilmington, Delaware): citation of Who Owns America?
May 3, 1936, Courier Journal (Louisville, Ky.): citation of Who Owns America?
May 3, 1936, News (Detroit, Michigan): “Arguments On the Necessity of Small-Scale
Industry and the Return to a ‘Property State.’” By Clyde Beck.
May 3, 1936, News (Dallas, Tx.): “Symposium Is Revision of Agrarian Philosophy/New
Manifesto Is Unlike Earlier Book.”
May 3, 1936, Washington Post: “No End of Books” citation of Who Owns America?
May 5, 1936, News (Buffalo, N. Y.): “Who Owns America? Is Symposium Theme” review
By Charles Hanson Towne.
May 5, 1936, American (N.Y. N. Y.): review of Who Owns America? By Charles
Hanson Towne.
May 5, 1936, Herald Examiner (Chicago, Ill.): review of Who Owns America?
May 6, 1936, Post (Cincinnati, Ohio): “Land of the Free Insurgent America” review
Of Who Owns America? by James D. Earley.
May 9, 1936, Post (Worcester, Mass.): “Effectively Answered.”
May 9, 1936, Beacon – Journal (Akron, Ohio): review of Who Owns America?
May 10, 1936, Herald-Tribune (N.Y., N.Y.): “Who Owns This Country in Which We
Live/Big Business, Say These Anti-Socialist Authors; They Want Ownership
Distributed,” review of Who Owns America? By Stringfellow Barr.
May 10, 1936, New York Times, “ A Share for All in America/ Mr. Agar and Mr. Tate
Sponsor ‘A New Declaration of Independence,’” review of Who Owns
America? By John Corbin.
May 11, 1936, Times (Buffalo, N. Y.): “Volume Is Sure To Prove Provocative.”
May 16, 1936, Journal of Commerce (Chicago, Ill.): “ Something for Everybody
In United States,” review of Who Owns America?
May 16, 1936, Mid-Week Pictorial (N.Y, N. Y.): “A Call for Another Deal.”
May 16, 1936, Star (Kansas City, Mo.): “American Problems.”
May 17, 1936, Tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.): “Decentralization,” review of Who Owns
America?
May 17, 1936, Courier Journal (Louisville, Ky.): “Program for Patriots,” a review of
Who Owns America? by Russell Briney.
May 19, 1936, Daily Worker (N. Y., N. Y.): “Books in Review,” by John Stanley, notice
Of Who Owns America?
May 19, 1936, New Era (Lancaster, Pa.): “The Literary Guidepost,” by John Selby review of
Who Owns America?
May 19, 1936, Twin City Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.): “The Agrians State Their Case,”
Extracts from Who Owns America?
May 19, 1936, Post Star (Glens Falls, N.Y.): “About Books,” by John Selby review of
Who Owns America?
May 21, 1936, Press (Escanaba, Michigan): “The Literary Guidepost,” by John Selby
Review of Who Owns America?
May 21, 1936, Twin City Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N. C.): citation of Who Owns America?
May 22, 1936, Tribune (Holdenville, Okla.): “The Literary Guidepost,” by John Selby
Review of Who Owns America?
May 22, 1936, News Tribune (Waco, Texas): “Books,” by John Selby, review of Who Owns
America?
May 24, 1936, Gazette (Charleston, W. Va.): review of Who Owns America?
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May 24, 1936, St. Louis Post-Dispatch : “Based on American Ideals,” review of
Who Owns America?
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DONALD DAVIDSON PAPERS
APPENDIX D—SUBJECT FILES
PHOTOGRAPHS
-----Major Peregrine Acland
-----Michael Arlen
-----Gertrude Atherton (2)
-----Mary Austin
-----Irving Babbitt
-----Margaret Culkin Banning
-----Sir James M. Barrie
-----Clive Bell
-----Silas Bent
-----Albert Beveridge
-----Princess Marthe Bibesco
-----Henri Biraud
-----Maxwell Bodenheim (2)
-----Louise Bogan
-----Johan Bojer (2)
-----James Boyd
-----Thomas Boyd
-----Rear Admiral W. E. D. Boyle
-----Ernest Brace
-----Breadloaf Inn, Vermont
-----James Henry Breasted
-----Heyward Broun
-----Katharine Brush
-----Konrad Bucovici
-----Thomas Burke
-----Com. Richard E. Byrd, U.S.N.
-----Henry Seidel Canby
-----Ada Jack Carver
-----Carl Carver
-----Catherine the Great
-----Robert W. Chambers
-----Stuart Chase
-----Dr. Joseph Collins
-----Grace Hazard Conkling
-----Hughes Cornell
-----e.e.cummings
-----Richard Curle
-----Miss Clemence Dane
-----E. M. Delafield
-----John Dewey (2)
-----Ward Donnance
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-----Manhattan Transfer—John Dos Passos
-----Theodore Dreiser (2)
-----Isadore Duncan (2)
-----T. S. Eliot
-----Ralph Waldo Emerson
-----John Erskine
-----Susan Ertz
-----Jake Falstaff (pseudonym)
-----Charles Ferguson
-----H.M. King Feisal of Irak
-----Henry Ford
-----H.W. Freeman
-----V. H. M. Friedlaender
-----John Galsworthy
-----William Gerhardi
-----Herbert Adams Gibbons
-----Julian Green
-----Paul Green
-----Mrs. J. Borden Harriman
-----Lee Foster Hartman
-----Ernest Hemingway (3)
-----A. P. Herbert
-----Dorothy Heyward
-----Dubose Heyward (2)
-----Rupert Hughes
-----Fannie Hurst
-----Aldous Huxley
-----Andrew Jackson
-----Marquis James
-----Robinson Jeffers (2)
-----Generals Joffre, Haig and Foch
-----Matthew Josephson (3)
-----Keat’s “Endymion”
-----Helen Keller
-----Count Hermann Keyserling
-----Manuel Komfoft
-----Paul de Kruif
-----Peter Kyne
-----Ring Lardner
-----T. E. Lawrence from a portrait by Augustus John
-----Margaret Leech
-----B. H. Lehman
-----Sinclair Lewis
-----Herbert Lootner (sp?)
-----William McFee
-----Kenneth Macgowan
-----Heinrich Mann
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-----Frances Marion
-----Frank Jewett Mather
-----Norman Matson
-----Somerset Maugham
----Andre Maurois
-----Adah Isaacs Menken
-----Robert A. Millikan
-----Sarah Gertrude Millin
-----C. E. Montagne
-----Paul Elmer More
-----Gorham B. Munson
-----Benito Mussolini
-----Gustavus Myers
-----Beverly Nichols
-----Jessica Nelson North
-----Albert Bigelow Paine
-----Dorothy Parker
-----Anne Parrish
-----Vernon Lewis Pennington
-----William Lyon Phelps
-----Alexander Pope
-----Llewlyn Powys
-----Cale Young Rice
-----Lola Ridge
-----Carroll E. Robb
-----Elizabeth Madox Roberts
-----Edwin Arlington Robinson
-----James Harvey Robinson
-----O. E. Rolvaag (2)
-----Naomi G. Royde-Smith
-----Bertrand Russell
-----Michael Sadleir
-----Herbert Ravenel Sass (2)
-----Lyle Saxon (2 )
-----Isador Schneider
-----Evelyn Scott
-----Grace Thompson Seton
-----Professor Robert Shafer
-----Dallas Lore Sharp
-----Upton Sinclair
-----Sir Ronald Storrs
-----T. S. Stribling
-----Frank Swinnerton (?)
-----Booth Tarkington (3)
-----Albert Payson Terhune
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-----Louis Untermeyer (4)
-----S.S. Van Dine (3)
-----Dorothy Van Doren
-----Mark Van Doren
-----C. Van Doren
-----Henry Van Dyke
-----Hendrik Willem Van Loon
-----Carl Van Vechten
-----Mary Heaton Vorse
-----Hugh Walpole
-----Jacob Wasserman
-----H. G. Wells
-----Rebecca West
-----Stewart Edward White
-----Walter White
-----Thornton Wilder
-----Jesse Lynch Williams
-----Woodrow Wilson ( 2)
-----John K. Winkler
-----P. G. Wodehouse
-----Thomas Wolfe
-----W. E. Woodward (2)
-----Virginia Woolf
-----Elinor Wylie
-----Alvin York
-----Francis Brett Young
-----Stark Young
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