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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Primary Collecting Areas:
American literature, antiquarian and contemporary, American history (Southeastern United States), Virginiana, British literature, Sporting books and manuscripts, World War I, Bibliography, the book arts, history of the book and typography
Fine press and artist’s books, Pop-up books, Victorian publishers bindings, Typography, Archives of the University of Virginia
Description:

The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library administers over 13 million manuscripts, 3.6 million items in the University archives, and 325,000 rare books, as well as approximately 5,000 maps, over 4,000 broadsides; more than 250,000 photographs and small prints; over 8,000 reels of microfilm; and substantial holdings of audio recordings, motion picture films, and ephemera.

The major emphasis of the Department’s collections are American history and literature, with additional substantive collections in Virginiana, British literature, African-American history, book arts, the history of sporting and World War I, among others. In addition, the library serves as the University Archives, holding records of historic significance to UVA.

POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
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James Southall Wilson Letters 1931

This collection consists chiefly of 75 letters and telegrams, 1931, to Mr. James Southall Wilson, who invited several Southern authors to attend the Southern Writers Convention, sponsored by the Virginia Quarterly Review, at the University of Virginiaon October 23-24, 1931. The authors include the following: Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Katharine Anthony, Emily Clark Balch, John Peale Bishop, James Boyd, Roark Bradford, Herschel Brickell, Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Henry Seidel Canby, Willa Cather, Maristan Chapman, Irvin S. Cobb, Donald Davidson, William E. Dodd, William Faulkner, John Gould Fletcher, Ellen Glasgow, Isa Glenn, Paul Green, Sara Haardt, Archibald Henderson, DuBose Heyward, Gerald W. Johnson, Mary Johnston, H. L. Mencken, Margaret Prescott Montague, Julia Peterkin, Ulrich B. Phillips, Josephine Pinckney, Burton Rascoe, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, Cale Young Rice, Elizabeth Maddox Roberts, Herbert Ravenel Sass, Helen Purefoy Poteat Stallings, T. S. Stribling, Allen Tate, Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy, Irita Van Doren, Thomas Wolfe, and Stark Young.

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James Southall Wilson Letters 1931

James Southall Wilson

This collection consists chiefly of 75 letters and telegrams, 1931, to Mr. James Southall Wilson, who invited several Southern authors to attend the Southern Writers Convention, sponsored by the Virginia Quarterly Review, at the University of Virginiaon October 23-24, 1931. The authors include the following: Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Katharine Anthony, Emily Clark Balch, John Peale Bishop, James Boyd, Roark Bradford, Herschel Brickell, Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Henry Seidel Canby, Willa Cather, Maristan Chapman, Irvin S. Cobb, Donald Davidson, William E. Dodd, William Faulkner, John Gould Fletcher, Ellen Glasgow, Isa Glenn, Paul Green, Sara Haardt, Archibald Henderson, DuBose Heyward, Gerald W. Johnson, Mary Johnston, H. L. Mencken, Margaret Prescott Montague, Julia Peterkin, Ulrich B. Phillips, Josephine Pinckney, Burton Rascoe, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, Cale Young Rice, Elizabeth Maddox Roberts, Herbert Ravenel Sass, Helen Purefoy Poteat Stallings, T. S. Stribling, Allen Tate, Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy, Irita Van Doren, Thomas Wolfe, and Stark Young.

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James Southall Wilson Papers Pertaining to Edgar Allan Poe, 1921-1952

This collection of 19 items, 1921-1952, compiled by James Southall Wilson, pertains to Edgar Allan Poe. Included are three letters, ten reprints, notes, and three copies of portraits of Poe. The correspondents, C. Alphonso Smith, [Ellis?] Campbell, and Dudley Hutcherson, discuss articles by Wilson and by themselves about Poe. The reprints, 1933-1952, are of articles by Dudley Hutcherson, F. DeWolfe Miller, James Southall Wilson, Fredson Bowers, and Esmond L. Marilla. Also included are copies of a Rembrandt Peale portrait, 1833, and of two daguerrotypes, ca. 1845 and November 14, 1848, of Edgar Allan Poe.

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James Southall Wilson Papers Pertaining to Edgar Allan Poe, 1921-1952

James Southall Wilson

This collection of 19 items, 1921-1952, compiled by James Southall Wilson, pertains to Edgar Allan Poe. Included are three letters, ten reprints, notes, and three copies of portraits of Poe. The correspondents, C. Alphonso Smith, [Ellis?] Campbell, and Dudley Hutcherson, discuss articles by Wilson and by themselves about Poe. The reprints, 1933-1952, are of articles by Dudley Hutcherson, F. DeWolfe Miller, James Southall Wilson, Fredson Bowers, and Esmond L. Marilla. Also included are copies of a Rembrandt Peale portrait, 1833, and of two daguerrotypes, ca. 1845 and November 14, 1848, of Edgar Allan Poe.

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Papers Pertaining to Edgar Allan Poe, 1903-1939

This collection of 24 items, 1903-1939, contains papers of James Southall Wilson pertaining to Edgar Allan Poe. There is a letter, November 5, 1903, from James A. Harrison (in his wife's hand), Academic Department, University of Virginia, to Harry Rogers Pratt, Cambridge, Massachusetts, concerning the former's The Life and Letters of Edgar Allan Poeand the kindness with which it has been received. Other items include an annotated broadside advertising John H. Ingram's The Works of Edgar Allen Poe;a letter to the editor, January 7, 1924, from C. Alphonso Smith re Poe's essay on "Barnaby Rudge"; and, many notes on Poe bibliography.

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Papers Pertaining to Edgar Allan Poe, 1903-1939

James Southall Wilson

This collection of 24 items, 1903-1939, contains papers of James Southall Wilson pertaining to Edgar Allan Poe. There is a letter, November 5, 1903, from James A. Harrison (in his wife's hand), Academic Department, University of Virginia, to Harry Rogers Pratt, Cambridge, Massachusetts, concerning the former's The Life and Letters of Edgar Allan Poeand the kindness with which it has been received. Other items include an annotated broadside advertising John H. Ingram's The Works of Edgar Allen Poe;a letter to the editor, January 7, 1924, from C. Alphonso Smith re Poe's essay on "Barnaby Rudge"; and, many notes on Poe bibliography.

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