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Virginia Taylor McCormick (1873-1957), of Norfolk, Virginia was a poet, literary critic, essayist, lecturer, and the editor of The Lyric, 1921-1929. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:
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Virginia Taylor McCormick Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Organization: This collection has been organized into 4 series. Series 1 contains manuscript and printed material, Series 2 contains correspondence, Series 3 contains travel diaries, and Series 4 contains clippings, writings, letters and memorabilia. Arrangement: This collection is arranged into series by material type.
Papers, 1887-1953, of Virginia Taylor McCormick, Norfolk, Va. poet, literary critic, essayist, lecturer, and editor of The Lyric magazine, 1921-1929. Includes manuscript and printed poems; essays; lectures; diaries, and correspondence with other poets and writers. Correspondents include Franklin Pierce Adams, Lady Astor, Lord Beaverbrook, Gamaliel Bradford, Van Wyck Brooks, Walter de la Mare, Ellen Glasgow, Rupert Hughes, Amy Lowell, H. L. Mencken and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Includes a number of poems pasted in a copy of Dramaland by Lin William Price (New York, 1927).
The letters are from Lord Beaverbrook, William Bowlin, Gamaliel Bradford, Maude McClare Brown, Van Wyck Brooks, Ralph Tyler Flewelling, R. Grieve, Richard Guggenheimer, Leigh Hanes, Margery Gordon, William C. Huber, Edwin Markham, Frances Mason, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Evelyn Norcross Sherrill, Beverley D. Tucker, Charles Leon Tumasel and others.
Kept while on trip to Cherbourg, Paris, Strasbourg, Baden-Baden, Neuhausen, Zurich, Lucerne, Interlachen, Luzana, Bellagio, Milan, Genoa, Mozbeaito, Nice, Rome, Naples, Florence, Venice, Innsbruck, Munich, A [?], Salzberg, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Amsterdam, Hague, Antwerp, Brussels, Ostend and London.
Kept while on a Mediterranean cruise which included stops in the Middle East (the Holy Land), Egypt, Basque Provinces, and Paris. She writes down overheard conversations.
Probably kept by Dr. James Jett McCormick, while on a trip to England and Scotland. Playing golf. Exhibition of Bobby Jones. Tea with Ellen Glasgow. Paul Robeson. Humorous toast to William III. Lord Astor. Stratford-on-Avon. World War I.
Issues of The Lyric, Volume 6, No. 4 and Volume 8, No. 2.
Letters from Mrs. Robert Baylor Tunstall, Ellen Glasgow, Leigh Hanes, Beverly Tucker, Archibald Rutledge, Mrs. John David Leitch, Julius S. Held, Julia S. Grandy, Colin MacRae, Mrs. Vincent Sheean.
About Virginia Taylor McCormick; letters by Lady Astor, Mrs. Hayward Wallis, Elkanah E. Taylor, Gamaliel Bradford, R. Torrance, May DeV F. Cobb, Alan Steinbach, Frances R. Williams, Florence Stearns, Mary Brent, Frances Carpenter Huntington, David Morton, and Florence Dickinson Sterns; reviews of the Virginia Taylor McCormick's Radio to Daedalusand Charcoal and Chalk.
Letters are by Edwin Markham, Armistead C. Gordon, Walter de la Mare, H. L. Mencken, Amy Lowell, T. W. Tally, Olive Dargan, Beatrice Ravenel, J. B. Yeats, Caroline Giltinan, Thomas Moult, Galmaliel Bradford, Winifred Russell, Josephine Hammand, Anna Cogswell Wood, Lizette Reese, Margaret V. Smith, Marshall McCormick.