VCU James Branch Cabell Library
Edgar E. MacDonald papers
Virginia Writers Club
MacDonald, Edgar E.
Ellen Glasgow Society
M 142
/repositories/5/resources/64
10 Linear Feet
1933-1993
English
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Arrangement
Series I--General personal papers (n.d., 1933-1976), Series II--Professional papers (n.d., 1933-1984), Series III--James Branch Cabell (n.d., 1977-1984), Series IV--Education of the Heart (n.d., 1654-1982), Series V--Ellen Glasgow (n.d., 1874-1981), Series VI--Articles, lectures, speeches and reviews (n.d.), Series VII--correspondence (n.d., 1816-1986): Subseries A: chronological; Subseries B: Alphabetical; Subseries C: Research correspondence, Series VIII--Ellen Glasgow Society (n.d., 1880-1983), Series IX--Published materials (n.d., 1961-1985), Series X--Virginia State Library and Archives Board, Series XI--James Branch Cabell and Richmond-in-Virginia ( - 1993), Series XII--Oversize in oversize drawer 25 and box 20
Access Restrictions
Access to the Roger Hunt Carroll correspondence is restricted. For additional information contact the Special Collections and Archives staff.
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection range from 1654 to 1990 and include correspondence, articles, reviews, drafts of published work, photographs and clippings. The bulk of the material can be found in the 1970- 1980 date range. There is extensive information on James Branch Cabell, Ellen Glasgow and the Edgeworth/Mordecai relationship. Activities of the Ellen Glasgow Society and the Virginia Writer's Club, to a lesser extent, are also documented. Clipping for "Rain" RTD 10/31/24 fragile note taken and clipping discarded. Photographs removed to University Photograph Collection. The video "Richmond: Historic Sights & Haunts" has been transferred to RG 70.
Preferred Citation
Box/folder, Edgar E. MacDonald Papers, M 142, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University
Use Restrictions
There are no restrictions on use.
Biographical / Historical
Edgar Edgeworth MacDonald was born in Richmond on 5 March 1919, the son of John Edgar and Marie Edgeworth MacDonald. He attended the University of Virginia (1936-1938), Sorbonne, University of Paris (1947-1948), Richmond Professional Institute [VCU] (B.S.), University of Richmond (M.A.) and the University of Paris, D. de l'Universite. A professor of English at Randolph-Macon College from 1953 until his retirement in 1984, Dr. MacDonald served as Senior Cabell Scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University until his death in 2011. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including a biography of James Branch Cabell published by the University of Mississippi Press in 1993.
Acquisition Information
The collection was donated to the department by Dr. Edgar E. MacDonald in March 1990 and continuing.
Scholars -- Virginia -- Richmond
Lazarus, Rachel Mordecai, 1788-1838
MacDonald, Edgar E. -- Archives
Randolph-Macon College -- Faculty
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958
Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945
General Personal Papers n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/213681953-1976Centennial Post/repositories/5/archival_objects/2138019761Personal materials/repositories/5/archival_objects/213811Poe Museum Material, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/2138219761Richmond/repositories/5/archival_objects/213831St. Christopher's Newspapers; Annual Reports/repositories/5/archival_objects/213841933-1938, 1977, 1994-19951Will of Emily Clark Balch/repositories/5/archival_objects/2138519531Professional Papers, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/213691933-1984Annuaire/repositories/5/archival_objects/2138619651aAssociation Internationale Des Docteurs (Lettres)/repositories/5/archival_objects/213871955-19841aBulletin of Randolph Macon College/repositories/5/archival_objects/213881953-19831aCentre Roland de Jouvenel/repositories/5/archival_objects/213891aFulbright Scholarship--Soviet Union/repositories/5/archival_objects/2139019841aReception/repositories/5/archival_objects/2139119661aSouthern Literature Symposium/repositories/5/archival_objects/2139219801aVirginia Writer's Club, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/213931aJames Branch Cabell/repositories/5/archival_objects/213701977-1984After the James Branch Cabell Period/repositories/5/archival_objects/213942Book Sellers, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/213951977, 19802Cabell as Prospero, Wylie as Miranda in Richmond, Va/repositories/5/archival_objects/213962Cabell Poems to Gabriella Moncure/repositories/5/archival_objects/213972Cabell related Correspondence, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/213981979-1980, 19832Cabell research material/repositories/5/archival_objects/213992Cabell without Jurgen/repositories/5/archival_objects/214002Cabell's Game of Hide and Seek/repositories/5/archival_objects/214012Cabell's Hero: Cosmic Rebel/repositories/5/archival_objects/214022Cabell's Richmond Trial/repositories/5/archival_objects/214032Fragmented Cabell, The/repositories/5/archival_objects/214042James Branch Cabell: Centennial Essays/repositories/5/archival_objects/214052James Branch Cabell: Centennial Essays Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/214061981-19843James Branch Cabell: Centennial Essays Edited Draft/repositories/5/archival_objects/214073James Branch Cabell: Centennial Essays Edited Draft/repositories/5/archival_objects/214083James Branch Cabell: Centennial Essays Index/repositories/5/archival_objects/214093MacDonald Papers photos/repositories/5/archival_objects/769033aRoger Hunt Carroll /repositories/5/archival_objects/769043aJames Branch Cabell--The Women's Club/repositories/5/archival_objects/214104Richmond and The Reviewerby Elizabeth S. Scott/repositories/5/archival_objects/214114Well-Paid Myths/repositories/5/archival_objects/214124Education of the Heart/repositories/5/archival_objects/21371American Edgeworths, The/repositories/5/archival_objects/214131970, 19734Books for Fall and Spring/repositories/5/archival_objects/2141419774Dictionary of North Carolina Biography/repositories/5/archival_objects/214151975-19764Edgeworth Bibliography/repositories/5/archival_objects/214164Edgeworth Family/repositories/5/archival_objects/214174Education of the Heart: Biographical Index/repositories/5/archival_objects/2141819764Education of the Heart: Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/214191968-19824Education of the Heart: Draft, edited 1 of 4/repositories/5/archival_objects/214204Education of the Heart: Draft, edited 2 of 4/repositories/5/archival_objects/214215Education of the Heart: Draft, edited 3 of 4/repositories/5/archival_objects/214225Education of the Heart: Draft, edited 4 of 4/repositories/5/archival_objects/214235Education of the Heart: Manuscript 1 of 3/repositories/5/archival_objects/214245Education of the Heart: Manuscript 2 of 3/repositories/5/archival_objects/214255Education of the Heart: Manuscript 3 of 3/repositories/5/archival_objects/214265Education of the Heart: Original 1 of 4/repositories/5/archival_objects/214275Education of the Heart: Original 3 of 4/repositories/5/archival_objects/214286Education of the Heart: Original 4 of 4/repositories/5/archival_objects/214296Education of the Heart: Proofs 1 of 2/repositories/5/archival_objects/214306Education of the Heart: Proofs 2 of 2/repositories/5/archival_objects/214316First American Jewish Families/repositories/5/archival_objects/214321654-19776General Papers and Reviews/repositories/5/archival_objects/214336Graded Classics--The King of the Golden River/repositories/5/archival_objects/214346Index/repositories/5/archival_objects/214356Times Literary Supplement/repositories/5/archival_objects/2143619776Ellen Glasgow/repositories/5/archival_objects/21372Ancient Law/repositories/5/archival_objects/214377Articles on Ellen Glasgow/repositories/5/archival_objects/214381935, 1945, 19547Articles on Ellen Glasgow--Newspaper/repositories/5/archival_objects/214397Articles on Ellen Glasgow--Newspaper/repositories/5/archival_objects/214407Articles on Ellen Glasgow--New Dominion Life Style/repositories/5/archival_objects/214417Barren Ground/repositories/5/archival_objects/214427Battleground/repositories/5/archival_objects/214437Bennett, Anne Virginia/repositories/5/archival_objects/214447Deliverance, A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields/repositories/5/archival_objects/214457Descendant, The/repositories/5/archival_objects/214467Duke, Frank/repositories/5/archival_objects/214477Ellen Anderson Gohlson Glasgow/repositories/5/archival_objects/214481874-19457Ellen Glasgow and the Art of the Novel/repositories/5/archival_objects/214497Ellen Glasgow: An Essay in Bibliography/repositories/5/archival_objects/214507Ellen Glasgow, James Branch Cabell and Richmond/repositories/5/archival_objects/214517Ellen Glasgow-James Branch Cabell Entente/repositories/5/archival_objects/214527Ellen Glasgow: A Reference Guide: Manuscript/repositories/5/archival_objects/214531898-19417Ellen Glasgow: A Reference Guide: Manuscript/repositories/5/archival_objects/214541942-19817Ellen Glasgow: A Reference Guide: Preface/repositories/5/archival_objects/214557Ellen Glasgow's Flexible Style/repositories/5/archival_objects/214567Ellen Glasgow's Novels: Time and Place/repositories/5/archival_objects/214577Ellen Glasgow's Territory/repositories/5/archival_objects/214587Ellen Glasgow's Virginia/repositories/5/archival_objects/214591951-19547Ellen Glasgow's Virginia--Background of her Novels/repositories/5/archival_objects/214607Glasgow, Ellen A Reference Guide /repositories/5/archival_objects/768971942-19818Preface to Ellen Glasgow, A Reference Guide/repositories/5/archival_objects/768988Ellen Glasgow's "Flexible Style"/repositories/5/archival_objects/768998Ellen Glasgow's Territory/repositories/5/archival_objects/769008Ellen Glasgow's Virginia/repositories/5/archival_objects/769011951-19548Ellen Glasgow – The Background of her Novels/repositories/5/archival_objects/769028Ellen Glasgow's Virginia--Background of her Novels/repositories/5/archival_objects/214619Ellen Glasgow's Virginia--Background of her Novels/repositories/5/archival_objects/214629Ellen Glasgow's Virginia Women/repositories/5/archival_objects/214639Finger on the Pulse of Life: Ellen Glasgow's Search for Style/repositories/5/archival_objects/214649Focus on Ellen Glasgow's Use of Virginia Territories in Her Novels/repositories/5/archival_objects/214659General File/repositories/5/archival_objects/214669Glasgow Map Material/repositories/5/archival_objects/214679Glasgow Research material/repositories/5/archival_objects/214689Guest Book-Glasgow House/repositories/5/archival_objects/214699Hall, G.K./repositories/5/archival_objects/214709Happy Birthday, Miss Ellen!/repositories/5/archival_objects/214719Louisa County/repositories/5/archival_objects/2147210Mill and Old Church/repositories/5/archival_objects/2147310Notes/repositories/5/archival_objects/2147410Phases of an Inferior Planet/repositories/5/archival_objects/2147510Romance of a Plain Man/repositories/5/archival_objects/2147610Romantic Comedians/repositories/5/archival_objects/2147710Sheltered Image/repositories/5/archival_objects/2147810Sheltered Life, The/repositories/5/archival_objects/2147910Six Months with Ellen Glasgow in Virginia/repositories/5/archival_objects/2148010Tutwiler, Mrs/repositories/5/archival_objects/2148110Two Biographical Notes on Ellen Glasgow/repositories/5/archival_objects/2148210Vein of Iron/repositories/5/archival_objects/2148310Virginia/repositories/5/archival_objects/2148410Voice of the People/repositories/5/archival_objects/2148510Wilkins (Ruth Jones) Papers 1 of 2/repositories/5/archival_objects/2148610Wilkins (Ruth Jones) Papers 2 of 2/repositories/5/archival_objects/2148710American Literary Scholarship: A Review/repositories/5/archival_objects/21373American Literary Scholarship: A Review/repositories/5/archival_objects/2148810Another Opinion of Ingenue Among the Lions/repositories/5/archival_objects/2148910Barren Ground: A Classic Revisited/repositories/5/archival_objects/2149010Bond That Held/repositories/5/archival_objects/2149110Child's Collection Miller/repositories/5/archival_objects/2149210Deep and Loving Heart/repositories/5/archival_objects/2149310Elinor Wylie and Richmond/repositories/5/archival_objects/2149410Henry Sydnor Harrison: A Centennial Appreciation/repositories/5/archival_objects/2149510Modern Poetry/repositories/5/archival_objects/2149610Reception of Two Black Artists in Mid-1920s Richmond/repositories/5/archival_objects/2149710Russian related Memorabilia/repositories/5/archival_objects/2149810Scholarship and Teaching/repositories/5/archival_objects/2149911Speeches/repositories/5/archival_objects/2150011Symbolic Unity of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter/repositories/5/archival_objects/2150111Tennessee Williams and the Tragic Tradition/repositories/5/archival_objects/2150211Van Vechten Pose: Mark Lutz and Gertrude Stein/repositories/5/archival_objects/2150311Virginians: Lives and Literature/repositories/5/archival_objects/2150411Williamsburg Public Library Speech/repositories/5/archival_objects/2150511Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/21374Chronological/repositories/5/archival_objects/21506Correspondence, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/215361956-196911Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/215371970-197311Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/215381974-197811Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/215391979-198112Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/21540198212Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/21541198312Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/215421984-199012Alphabetical/repositories/5/archival_objects/21507Andrews, Edna/repositories/5/archival_objects/215431985-198613Bickers, William/repositories/5/archival_objects/21544197913Cabell, Margaret Freeman and Ballard, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/215451956-196813Calisch, Edith/repositories/5/archival_objects/215461974-197513Carroll, Roger Hunt, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/215471974-198013Carroll, Roger Hunt/repositories/5/archival_objects/215481986-198813Cherry, Kenneth/repositories/5/archival_objects/215491976-197713Childs, Rives/repositories/5/archival_objects/215501966-197313Clark, Josephine Glasgow, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/215511973-197513Cook, Martha/repositories/5/archival_objects/215521980-198213Davis Paxton/repositories/5/archival_objects/21553198913Davis, Richard Beale/repositories/5/archival_objects/215541977-198013Diakonova, Nina/repositories/5/archival_objects/215551984-199013Duke, Maurice/repositories/5/archival_objects/215561968-198213Ekman, Barlero/repositories/5/archival_objects/215571978-198013Flora, Joseph/repositories/5/archival_objects/215581972-198413Free, Ann/repositories/5/archival_objects/215591979-198114Freudenberg, Anne/repositories/5/archival_objects/215601976-198614Gaskin, J.R./repositories/5/archival_objects/21561197914Gatlin, Judith/repositories/5/archival_objects/215621975-197914Giacomini, Lynwood/repositories/5/archival_objects/215631972-198114Godshalk, William/repositories/5/archival_objects/215641968-197414Hartman, Harry/repositories/5/archival_objects/21565196714Hibino, Michael/repositories/5/archival_objects/21566198014Holman, Hugh/repositories/5/archival_objects/215671969-197414Hood, Thomas/repositories/5/archival_objects/21568197914Inge, Thomas/repositories/5/archival_objects/215691969-198414Hook Andrew/repositories/5/archival_objects/21570198014Jones, Howard/repositories/5/archival_objects/215711974-197914Kelly, William/repositories/5/archival_objects/215721973-197514Kellner, Bruce, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/215731975-198314Kovalev, Yuri V/repositories/5/archival_objects/215741985-198814Lewis, George, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/215751970-197114McDowell, Fred/repositories/5/archival_objects/215761974-197614Karl, Moreland/repositories/5/archival_objects/215771971-197514Morton, Tim/repositories/5/archival_objects/215781974-197514Myer, Elizabeth/repositories/5/archival_objects/21579198014Norfleet, Fillmore/repositories/5/archival_objects/215801919, 1977-198214Penninger, Elaine/repositories/5/archival_objects/215811973-197514Peple, Edward/repositories/5/archival_objects/215821969-198414Raper, J.R./repositories/5/archival_objects/215831974-198315Roberts, Marguerite/repositories/5/archival_objects/215841919-197615Roberts, Marguerite/repositories/5/archival_objects/215851919-197615Ronson, Ethel n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/215861970-197815Rothman, Julius/repositories/5/archival_objects/215871967-197115Rouse, Blaire/repositories/5/archival_objects/215881965-198115Rubin, Louis/repositories/5/archival_objects/215891959-198515Schlegel, Dorothy/repositories/5/archival_objects/21590197215Schmidt, Jan/repositories/5/archival_objects/215911978-198215Sharogradskaya, Anna/repositories/5/archival_objects/215921984-199015Sharokava, Eugenia/repositories/5/archival_objects/215931984-198715Shield, Asa/repositories/5/archival_objects/215941979-198115Simpson, Bill/repositories/5/archival_objects/215951978-198015Slatten, Richard/repositories/5/archival_objects/21596198415Smylie, James/repositories/5/archival_objects/215971975-197615Tolochin, Igor/repositories/5/archival_objects/215981984-199016Tolochin, Nina/repositories/5/archival_objects/215991984-199116Trigg, Emma, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/2160016Tutwiler, Colonel Carrington, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/216011974-198116Wang, Arthur/repositories/5/archival_objects/216021978-198416White III, Luther/repositories/5/archival_objects/216031972-197516Wilkins, Elliot/repositories/5/archival_objects/216041974-198216Williams, Peyton/repositories/5/archival_objects/216051974-197716Woodward, Harry/repositories/5/archival_objects/21606197516Woodbridge, Annie/repositories/5/archival_objects/216071978-198116Various Correspondence Concerning Publishing/repositories/5/archival_objects/216081977-197816Research Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/21508Bennett, Anne Virginia, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/216091933-195316aEdgeworth, Maria to Rachel Lazarus/repositories/5/archival_objects/216101816-183816aGlasgow, Ellen, Marjorie K. Rawlings and James Branch Cabell, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/216111909-194516aGlasgow, Ellen to MKR/repositories/5/archival_objects/216121939-194416aGlasgow, Ellen to Hunter Stagg/repositories/5/archival_objects/21613194417Lutz, Mark/repositories/5/archival_objects/216141934-193617Lutz, Mark to Bruce Kellner, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/21615196717Stagg, Hunter and Gertrude Stein/repositories/5/archival_objects/216161923-194117Williams, Frances L. To Ellen Glasgow/repositories/5/archival_objects/21617193517Ellen Glasgow Society/repositories/5/archival_objects/213751880-1983Articles, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/2150917Autograph, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/21510188017By-Laws/repositories/5/archival_objects/2151118Copy for Newsletter, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/215121953-197517Correspondence, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/215131975-198318General Organization/repositories/5/archival_objects/215141974-198018Membership, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/215151978-198018Mary Baldwin College Symposium/repositories/5/archival_objects/215161973-198018MLA Seminar/repositories/5/archival_objects/215171975-198018Newsletter-Comment/repositories/5/archival_objects/21518198018Seminar, n.d./repositories/5/archival_objects/215191976-197818Published Materials/repositories/5/archival_objects/213761961-1985Brochures and Pamphlets/repositories/5/archival_objects/215201964-198519Down East/repositories/5/archival_objects/21521197419Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature/repositories/5/archival_objects/2152219Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature/repositories/5/archival_objects/2152319Poetry/repositories/5/archival_objects/2152419Southern Literature Information/repositories/5/archival_objects/2152519Southern Literature Information/repositories/5/archival_objects/21526196119Virginia Verse/repositories/5/archival_objects/2152719Virginia State Library and Archives Board/repositories/5/archival_objects/21377Notes and Memoranda/repositories/5/archival_objects/21528199019James Branch Cabell and Richmond-in-Virginia/repositories/5/archival_objects/21378Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/7690520Ellen Glasgow/repositories/5/archival_objects/7690620Biographical Sources (3 folders)/repositories/5/archival_objects/7690720James Branch Cabell & Richmond-in-Virginia: Draft 1 Edited (3 folders)/repositories/5/archival_objects/769082021James Branch Cabell & Richmond-in-Virginia: Draft 2 (3 folders)/repositories/5/archival_objects/7690921James Branch Cabell & Richmond-in-Virginia: Draft 3 (3 folders)/repositories/5/archival_objects/7691023James Branch Cabell & Richmond-in-Virginia: Manuscript (3 folders)/repositories/5/archival_objects/769112223James Branch Cabell & Richmond-in-Virginia: Original (2 folders)/repositories/5/archival_objects/7691223Oversize/repositories/5/archival_objects/21379Ellen Glasgow's Virginia map by Ruth Jones Wilkins/repositories/5/archival_objects/2152920News Leader article on map/repositories/5/archival_objects/2153012 December 195120Engraved Block of map/repositories/5/archival_objects/2153120Four photographs of Josephine Glasgow Clark/repositories/5/archival_objects/2153221Scope and ContentsFour photographs of Josephine Glasgow Clark, niece of Ellen Glasgow. Two of these are postcard images, one of which also shows her mother,Annie Glasgow Clark (Mrs. Frank Tarleton Clark). Both of these postcard images were taken in Atlantic City. It was on this trip to Atlantic City where Annie Glasgow Clark had a stroke and died.
Obituaries for Josephine Glasgow Clark/repositories/5/archival_objects/2153321Scope and ContentsTwo obituaries, one written by Edgar MacDonald and the other from the
Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 5, 1984.Ellen Glasgow Festival Posters/repositories/5/archival_objects/215341983Located in Map Drawer 2525Video-Tape Richmond: Historic Sights and Haunts (RG 70)/repositories/5/archival_objects/21535Located in Map Drawer 2525