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Authors -- Letters and papers

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

Jayne Anne Phillips, Author, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4571
Scope and Contents This collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, photographs, artifacts, and publications of author Jayne Anne Phillips.Box 1 includes original, edited, and published drafts of Jayne Anne Phillips' work, including her books Quiet Dell and MotherKind, the essay Love's Labor's Lost, and drafts of works...
Dates: ca. 1970s-2022

Jean Lee Latham (b.1902) Typescripts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1232
Overview

Typescript copies of several works of Latham: THIS DEAR BOUGHT LAND, a story of the Jamestown settlement; TRAIL BLAZER OF THE SEAS, the story of Matthew Fontaine Maury; and a serialization CARRY ON, MR. BOWDITCH. Latham was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia, graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan in 1925, and became a prolific and distinguished author and playwright.

Dates: ca. 1947-1955

Jesse Stuart, Author, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3347
Scope and Contents Letters, books, clippings, biographical and literary articles, and other papers regarding Appalachian poet and author, Jesse Stuart, gathered by family friend, Maryan Dahmer. There are over 90 letters from Stuart to Dahmer, dating from 1966 to 1976, which discuss travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. The collection also includes a large number of Stuart's books, many of which are first editions inscribed to Dahmer, as...
Dates: 1934-1982

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2168
Scope and Contents

Selected letters and portions of the diary of John P. Kennedy, a Baltimore essayist and novelist. The letters describe Kennedy's many visits to Berkeley Springs and White Sulpher Springs. These items were copied from the originals which are held by the Library of Congress.

Dates: 1848-1857

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1220
Scope and Contents Papers of a Baltimore essayist and novelist which include a checklist of the Kennedy collection in the Peabody Institute Library; an alphabetical checklist of Kennedy's incoming correspondence; and selected materials pertaining to the Berkeley Springs-Martinsburg-Winchester area, visits to Richmond, Salt Sulphur, and White Sulphur Springs, and a journey in 1850 to Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville from Kennedy's journal, 1848-1855; and his diary, 1829-1832. There...
Dates: 1829-1854

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1301
Scope and Contents

Papers of a Baltimore essayist and novelist which include selected materials pertaining to the Berkeley Springs-Martinsburg-Winchester area, visits to Richmond, Salt Sulphur, and White Sulphur Springs, and a journey in 1850 to Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville from Kennedy's journal, 1848-1855; and his diary, 1829-1832. There are also selected letters and portions of a diary copied from originals in the Library of Congress.

Dates: 1829-1862

Joseph F. McNeely (b.1868) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0758
Scope and Contents

There are typescripts containing some of the writings and articles of Mr. J. F. McNeely of Morgantown, W. Va. They are as follows: “Economic Facts You Should Know,” and “From The Writings of J. F. McNeely.”

Dates: 1930-1955

Joseph F. McNeely Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0857
Scope and Contents

Collection contains one typescript entitled "The Universe and Life: The Secrets of Nature Constitute a Challenge to the Inquiring Mind of the Layman as Well as the Mind of the Scientist.” This booklet is an abbreviation of “The Universe and Life,” a book written by McNeely in 1930.

Dates: 1950-1955

Julia McDonald Davis (1900-1993) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1856
Scope and Contents Correspondence, manuscripts, class notes and other papers of Julia McDonald Davis (1900-1993), an author and daughter of lawyer and statesman John W. Davis. Includes correspondence of Julia Davis; manuscripts of her work; her notes; correspondence of John W. Davis; and additional newspaper clippings, postcards, photographs, ephemera, and other material. Subjects of Julia Davis's correspondence and notes include a biographical sketch of E.H. McDonald, Miss Davis's grandfather; business...
Dates: 1866-1963

Lillian Mayfield Wright, Poet, Notebooks

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3214
Overview Notebooks of Lillian Mayfield Wright, Appalachian writer and poet from Tyler Co., WV. One of the notebooks is a typed manuscript of No Wind Blowing/The Old Stone House. And the other two are a scrapbook of clippings of her published poems and a loose-leaf notebook of typed poems and short stories. Daughter of J. Grant and Florence Carter Mayfield, she was a noted West Virginia writer of the inter-war era who also published under the surname of her first husband as Lillian Mayfield Roberts....
Dates: 1921-1938