vircu00096Beatty, Richmond Croom, papersA Guide to the Richmond Croom Beatty papers, 1927-1967 M 2A Collection in Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Collection number M 2Special Collections and Archives staffVCU James Branch Cabell Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-03-15 15:37:55 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard VCU James Branch Cabell Library Richmond Croom Beatty papers Beatty, Richmond Croom, 1905-1961 M 2 /repositories/5/resources/90 1.5 Linear Feet 1927-1967 English . Arrangement

Arranged in seven series: I. College term papers (1927-1930). II. Poetry (no date). III. William Byrd material (1940). IV. Correspondence (1930-1960). V. Manuscripts (no date). VI. Photographs (no date). VII. Miscellaneous (no date). Topical arrangement.

 Scope and Contents

Correspondence with publishers and friends, manuscripts of articles, poems, books, reviews, and other writing, notes, teaching notebooks, term papers, clippings, printed materials, and photographs. Includes translation from the German version of William Byrd's Natural history of Virginia, which Beatty edited and published. Correspondents include Stringfellow Barr, Louise Cowan, Wilbur Cross, Harold M. Jones, Merrill Moore, Jesse Stuart and R.M Weaver.

 Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

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 Acquisition Information

Gift of Mrs. Floyd Beatty in 1972.

 Biographical / Historical

Professor and writer, usually associated with Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Author of biographies of Bayard Taylor (1936), Lord Macaulay (1938), and James Russell Lowell (1942). Edited the American tradition in literature (1957). Also wrote poetry, articles, and reviews.

 Authors, American -- Manuscripts. College teachers -- Manuscripts -- United States Beatty, Richmond Croom, 1905-1961 Series 1: Personal Papers, 1925-1960/repositories/5/archival_objects/38615College Term Papers, 1927-1930/repositories/5/archival_objects/3861711Poetry, undated/repositories/5/archival_objects/3861812Manuscript of William Byrd's Natural History of Virginia, circa 1940/repositories/5/archival_objects/3861913General Correspondence, 1930 1960/repositories/5/archival_objects/3862014Assorted short manuscripts and notes, undated/repositories/5/archival_objects/3862115Photographs of Beatty and Bayard Taylor, undated/repositories/5/archival_objects/3862216Works of other people, 1925, 1936-1937/repositories/5/archival_objects/3862312Modern Poetry Notebook and Contents, 1942/repositories/5/archival_objects/3862422Novel Draft Notebook, undated/repositories/5/archival_objects/3862523Notebooks of Transcribed Nineteenth-Century Correspondence of James Russell Lowell, circa 1930s/repositories/5/archival_objects/3862624Notebook of Transcribed Excerpts from Periodicals, undated/repositories/5/archival_objects/3862725Notebook of Transcribed Excerpts from an Unidentified Mid-Twentieth-Century Journal, undated/repositories/5/archival_objects/3862826Series 2: Periodicals, 1932-1967/repositories/5/archival_objects/38616The Atlantic Monthly, 1932/repositories/5/archival_objects/3862931Forum and Century, 1932/repositories/5/archival_objects/3863032The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle, 1932/repositories/5/archival_objects/3863133The Hopkins Review, 1951/repositories/5/archival_objects/3863234The Observer, 1933-1934/repositories/5/archival_objects/3863335The Paris Review, 1953/repositories/5/archival_objects/3863436The New Republic, 1934/repositories/5/archival_objects/3863537River, 1937/repositories/5/archival_objects/3863638Shenandoah, 1952/repositories/5/archival_objects/3863739Southern Observer, 1954/repositories/5/archival_objects/38638310The Southwestern Journal, 1934-1935/repositories/5/archival_objects/38639311Vanderbilt University Alumnus and Press Release, 1949, 1967/repositories/5/archival_objects/38640312The Virginia Quarterly Review, 1958/repositories/5/archival_objects/38641313Excerpt from South Atlantic Bulletin, 1937/repositories/5/archival_objects/38642314Excerpt from Studies in Philology, 1940/repositories/5/archival_objects/38643315Reprints from Philological Quarterly, 1934/repositories/5/archival_objects/38644316Reprint from Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1934/repositories/5/archival_objects/38645317Reprint from The Sewanee Review, 1941/repositories/5/archival_objects/38646318