Stuart Wright Collection: John Crowe Ransom Papers

1904-2000, undated
Manuscript Collection #1169-010
Creator(s)
Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974
Physical description
2.59 Cubic Feet, 5 archival boxes, 6 oversized folders, 255 items, 713 p. , Stuart Wright Collection: John Crowe Ransom Papers (#1169-010) consists of correspondence, manuscripts, photographic prints, proofs of published materials, printed material, audio recordings, loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection and oversized materials, by or about W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, T. S. Eliot, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Ghormley Eberhart, Randall Jarrell, Katherine Anne Porter, William Styron, Allen Tate, Peter Hillsman Taylor, and others, in English and French language.
Preferred Citation
Stuart Wright Collection: John Crowe Ransom Papers (#1169-010) East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Repository
ECU Manuscript Collection
Access
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Papers of John Crowe Ransom (1904-2000, undated) documenting the life and literary career of the noted Pulaski, Tennessee-born American editor, poet, literary critic, and educator, including correspondence, manuscripts, photographic prints, proofs of published materials, printed material, audio recordings, loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection and oversized materials, by or about W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, T. S. Eliot, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Ghormley Eberhart, Randall Jarrell, Katherine Anne Porter, William Styron, Allen Tate, Peter Hillsman Taylor, and others, in English and French language.


Biographical/historical information

John Crowe Ransom was born on 30 April 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee. He was home schooled until the age of ten. At age 15, in 1904, he entered Vanderbilt University and graduated first in his class in 1909 having interrupted his studies for two years to teach sixth and seventh grade students at schools in Mississippi and Tennessee. In 1910, Ransom was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. He attended Oxford University's Christ Church, 1910–13, where he read "Greats", meaning he studied Greek and Latin classics. After one year teaching Latin in the Hotchkiss School, in Lakeville, Connecticut, Ransom was appointed to the English Department at Vanderbilt University in 1914.

During the First World War, Ransom again interrupted his career to enter the U. S. Army. He served as an artillery officer in France. While in France, he attended the University of Nancy. After the war, he returned to Vanderbilt to teach English literature. In 1920, he married Robb Reavill; they raised three children. Ransom remained at Vanderbilt University until 1937, when he left for a similar position at Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio. At Kenyon, from 1937-1959, Ransom continued to teach Enlish literature and became the founding editor of the Kenyon Review.

During his career, at Vanderbilt and Kenyon, Ransom taught or influenced many of the most significant American authors of the twentieth century. Among Ransom's many distinguished students are Donald Davidson, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Andrew Lytle, Allen Tate, Peter Taylor, Robie Macauley, Robert Penn Warren, E.L. Doctorow, Cleanth Brooks, Richard M. Weaver, and Constantinos Patrides, who was himself a Rhodes Scholar and who dedicated his book on John Milton's Lycidas to Ransom's memory.

Among Ransom's most notable works are: Poems about God (1919), Chills and Fever (1924), and Selected Poems (1945, 1963, 1969). The collection includes significant materials relating to all these works. The collection contains material from 1904 to 1990. While at Vanderbilt, Ransom became a leading figure among the Fugitive and Agrarian groups of writers and contributed to their various publications, including The Fugitive (1922-1925) and I'll Take My Stand (1930). Ransom retired in 1959, but continued to write and to publish. He died in 1974, aged 86, in Gambier, Ohio.

Sources: "John Crowe Ransom." [Briographical Sketch] Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crowe_Ransom

Author: 11/3/2011, revised 4/11/2012, 5/17/2013, 11/21/2013, 11/1/2016

Stuart Wright. The John Crowe Ransom Papers were collected and compiled by Stuart T. Wright. Wright was born on 30 March 1948 in Roxboro, North Carolina. He was the son of Frances Critcher Wright (1919-2010) and Wallace Lyndon Wright (1921-1965). An avid reader as a boy, Wright developed a strong interest in the American Civil War and with his father toured many of the war's battlefields searching for artifacts and studying the history of the era. At the age of 12, he won a statewide "Johnny Reb" essay contest and by the age of 15 had visited every major battlefield of the Civil War. Wright attended Roxboro High School, from which he graduated in 1966. It was during these years that he developed an interest in collecting historical books and manuscripts and began relationships with a number of local collectors and dealers.

In the fall of 1966, Wright enrolled at Wake Forest University as a pre-med, history, German and music student. Wright earned a B.A. in German and music in 1970. As a graduate student at Wake Forest University, Wright focused his studies on Southern history and literature, his ambition being to build an authoritative Southern Studies collection for the university. He received a master's degree in Southern Studies in 1973 and a second master's degree in U.S. History in 1980. Additionally Wright holds a professional degree from England in a medically related field. It was while studying there that he became interested in Thomas Wolfe, the noted North Carolina native and novelist.

Following his graduation from Wake Forest, Wright began to develop his collections more systematically, acquiring many first editions of Southern writers. In 1976 he began teaching at Reynolda House, a Wake Forest University affiliate dedicated to the arts and arts education. Wright taught classes in American music as well as human anatomy for art students. In 1978 Wright became Lecturer in Education at Wake Forest University. During his 10 years teaching at Wake Forest University, Wright authored numerous works of Civil War and North Carolina history, and dozens of articles, bibliographies, essays and reviews on Southern literature and the writers whose papers he collected. In addition, he developed a strong interest in the writings of the English poet Donald Davie and the Minnesota-born poet Richard Eberhart, whose works he also collected.

At the same time, Wright also began a career as a publisher by starting Palaemon Press in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. By 1984, Palaemon Press had produced 316 titles, consisting mainly of broadsides and limited editions, of the poetry and essays of such Southern writers as A. R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, James Dickey, William Goyen, George Garrett, and Eudora Welty. He also built comprehensive collections and compiled book-length descriptive bibliographies of A.R. Ammons, Andrew Lytle, Reynolds Price, James Dickey, William Goyen, Walker Percy, Randall Jarrell, Peter Taylor, George Garrett, Richard Eberhart, and Donald Davie. As well as serving as editor of the contemporary literature section of the Bulletin of Bibliography throughout the 1980s, Wright also contributed pioneering checklists of the writings of Southern poets Henry Taylor, Charles Wright, and Robert Morgan. For Meckler Publishing he served as series editor for a number of book-length bibliographies and checklists. In recognition of these accomplishments, when he was just 32, Wright was elected to membership in New York's prestigious Grolier Club.

All of these works are represented in the Stuart Wright Collection. In his dealings with these various authors Wright made consistent efforts to acquire personal papers, letters and documents, photographs, manuscripts, drafts, proofs, and published materials to supplement his continuing activities as a purchaser of their works. In this way, Wright acquired perhaps a majority of his overall collection. Over the years a number of biographers used Wright's collection to aid their research. For example, James A. Grimshaw, Jr. used the collection extensively for his Robert Penn Warren: A Descriptive Bibliography, 1922-1979 published by the University Press of Virginia, in 1981 and Craig S. Abbott did so as well for John Crowe Ransom: A Descriptive Bibliography, published by Whitston Publishing Company, Inc. in 1999. Joseph Blotner also used the Wright collection in researching Robert Penn Warren: A Biography, published by Random House in 1997.

Nevertheless, from the mid- to late 1980s, Wright began to look for a permanent home for his collection, which he felt had grown too large and yet had been too little used. Unable to find a repository willing to accept the entire collection under suitable conditions, he sold a number of individual author collections to Vanderbilt University, Duke University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Emory University. It was not until 2010 that he reached agreement to house the remaining, and largest part of his collection at East Carolina University. The Stuart Wright Collection in the East Carolina Manuscript Collection of J.Y. Joyner Library includes 22 sub-collections of the papers of Southern American writers. The related Stuart Wright Book Collection holds several thousand volumes by or about many of the same writers. Many of these volumes contain annotations, inscriptions, and insertions that reveal much about the authors in the collection and their relationships with one another. In 1998 Wright moved to England, and since 2001 he has resided in the medieval market town of Ludlow, in Shropshire.


Scope and arrangement

Stuart Wright Collection: John Crowe Ransom Papers (#1169-010) documents the life and literary career of John Crowe Ransom, 1904-2000, undated. The Ransom Papers are arranged in original order (except as indicated below) in 15 series. The collection consists of an original acquisition of 13 series and the Cary Addition #1 & Ludlow Addition #2. The collection includes correspondence, literary essays, poetry manuscripts, manuscript volumes, clippings, original art, photographic materials, audio recordings, loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection, printed materials and oversized materials.

Series 1: Letters Received consists of letters received by John Crowe Ransom, 1918-1965, primarily relating to his publications but also including personal letters to family and friends. It includes two notable groups of letters relating to writers Delmore Schwartz, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. Series 1 is held in Box 1.a – 1.k

Series 2: Letters Sent consists of letter sent by John Crowe Ransom, 1917-1961, to writers John Ciardi, Marc Jaffe, Richard Ghormley Eberhart, Allen Tate, Louis Untermeyer, and Edward L. Anderson. Perhaps the most interesting letter in the series, however, is a letter Ransom sent during World War I, when he was in France, serving as a lieutenant in the Field Artillery. He wrote to a fellow officer named "George", in December 1917, when he was anticipating being court martialed for violating military police rules. The letter requests that George write a testimonial on his behalf. Series 2 is held in Box 1.l - 1.o.

Series 3: Literary Essays consists of three typescripts of literary essays by John Crowe Ransom, ca. 1953-1958, undated, and an undated essay by Caroline Gordon, including manuscripts of American Poetry at Mid-Century, On Shakespeare's Language, and Responsible Criticism. Gordon's untitled essay relates to Isak Dinesen, Katherine Anne Porter, and Gertrude Duby-Blom. Series 3 is held in Box 1.p – 1.s

Series 4: Poetry Manuscripts consists of manuscript versions of poems by John Crowe Ransom, including the 1945 edition of Selected Poems. It also includes a one page poem by Robert Lowell entitled On Hearing of Richard Eberhart's Gain in Weight. Series 4 is held in Box 1.t – 1.v

Series 5: Manuscript Volumes consists of the Guest Book of John, Rob, Revell, and Helen Ransom, containing entries dated 27 December 1933 – 9 September 1934. Series 5 is held in Box 1.w

Series 6: Clippings consists of a incomplete clipping of an interview with William DeWitt Snodgrass by "E. S." published in The American Poetry Review of July/August 1990 in which Snodgrass discusses his literary influences including Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrell. The beginning and end of the interview is missing. Series 6 is held in Box 1.x

Series 7: Original Art consists of two copies of John Crowe Ransom's Phi Beta Kappa membership certificate, 15 June 1909, done in multi-colored calligraphy; also a pen and ink sketch or caricature of Robert Penn Warren, by Taylor Jones of the Sunday Gazette-Mail, 1976. Series 7 is held in Box 1.y – 1.z

Series 8: Photographic Prints (Arranged Chronologically) consists of photographs of John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and Gilbert Chesterton, and their friends, families, and associates, ca. 1904-1980. It includes photographic prints of Ransom's college career at Vanderbilt University, camping trips and other family activities, publicity and dust jacket photographs of both Ransom and Warren; it also includes photographs of Ransom and Warren lecturing to college students, writing, and reading; it includes a notable photograph of President Jimmy Carter awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Robert Penn Warren autographed by the President. Series 8 is held in Box 2.a – 2.ze

Series 9: Audio Recordings consists of a single reel-to-reel audio tape recording John Crowe Ransom speaking at "U of A" in 1967. Series 9 is held in Box 2.zf

Series 10: Loose Manuscripts Transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection consists of loose manuscript and other materials found between the leaves of volumes in the Stuart Wright Book Collection. The material consists of notes, letters, clippings, photographs, printed material and ephemera, 1936-1980, relating to John Crowe Ransom, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Eberhart, and their publications. Many of the items consist of notes by Stuart Wright identifying people mentioned in the items. The loose manuscripts are linked to the book of origin by their Stuart Wright Book Collection Number (e.g. Stuart Wright Book Collection #38.04). Series 10 is held in Box 2.zg – 2.zza

Series 11: Contracts, Posters, and Printed Forms consists of John Crowe Ransom's contracts with publishers, the poster from the Lotos Club State Dinner honoring Robert Penn Warren, Randal Jarrell's Phi Beta Kappa certificate from Vanderbilt University, the certificate for Ransom's burial plot, Ransom's World War I military identification card and his diploma from University de Nancy. Series 11 is held in Box 3.a – 3.p

Series 12: Printed Materials consists of flyers, brochures, pamphlets and other printed materials by John Crowe Ransom, Reynolds Price, and Anthony Harwood, 1936-1970 undated. It includes a printed letter by Ransom announcing the discontinuance of The Southern Review during World War II and its replacement by Kenyon Review; it also includes a printed brochure, for the Committee for the Alliance of Agrarian and Distributist Groups, Nashville, Tennessee, signed by Ransom among others; also Ten Poems, a pamphlet by Anthony Harwood; and a pamphlet entitled Wanted: An Ontological Critic, by John Crowe Ransom, reprinted in 1970. Series 12 is held in Box 3.q – 3.v

Series 13: Oversized Materials consists of five oversized proofs of John Crowe Ransom's published works: The Planetary Poet (1964), Selected Poems (1963), Selected Poems (1944), and Gerontion (1968). Series 13 is held in Folder 1.l.os.1 – 3.v.os.1

Series 14: Cary Addition #1 to the Stuart Wright Collection contains an audio recording created by Lee Anderson for John Crowe Ransom, 1958. Series 14 is held in Box 4.a Series 15: Ludlow Addition #2 to the Stuart Wright Collection contains loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection along with oversized materials, 1964-2000. Series 15 is held in Box 15.a - 5.c, os.6

Note to Researchers: Series 10 & 15 contains Loose Manuscripts Transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection. These consists of items found laid in works in the Stuart Wright Book Collection by, about, associated with, or owned by John Crowe Ransom. They include notes and bookmarks inserted by Ransom, Stuart Wright, and others; also notes, cards, correspondence, clippings, advertising, reviews, ephemera, etc. relating to his published works. The loose manuscripts are linked to the books from which they came by their Stuart Wright Book Collection Number (e.g. Stuart Wright Book Collection #40.15).


Administrative information
Custodial History

21 June 2010, 1.75 cubic feet; 3 archival boxes & 5 oversized folders; 237 items; 688 p. Papers (1904-1990, undated) documenting the life and literary career of John Crowe Ransom, the noted American editor, poet, literary critic, and educator, including correspondence; manuscripts, photographic prints, proofs of published materials, printed material, an audio recording, loose manuscripts from the Stuart Wright Book Collection and oversized materials, by or about Robert Penn Warren, Richard Ghormley Eberhart, Randall Jarrell, Katherine Anne Porter, William Styron, Allen Tate, Peter Hillsman Taylor, and others, in English & French language. Vendor: Stuart Wright

7 October 2011, (Cary Addition #1), 0.49 cubic feet; 1 archival box; 1 item; 1 p. Papers (1958) documenting the life and literary career of John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974), the noted American editor, poet, literary critic, and educator, consisting of an audio recording entitled Nags Head (1958), recorded by Lee Anderson. Vendor: Stuart Wright.

20 July 2012, (Ludlow Addition #2), 0.35 cubic feet; 1 archival box & 1 oversized folder; 17 items; 24 p. Papers (1964-2000) documenting the life and literary career of John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974), the noted American editor, poet, literary critic, and educator, consisting of loose manuscripts transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection & oversized printed material. Vendor: Stuart Wright.

Source of acquisition

Purchased from Stuart Wright, 6/21/2010, 10/7/2011, 7/20/2012

Processing information

Processing, Preliminary inventory & Container List, by Jonathan Dembo, with the assistance of Nathaniel King, John Leche, Krystal Cook, Saundra Pinkham & Shelby Sapp, revised 11/19/2010, 11/1/2016; final inventory by Douglas Tuers, revised 1/24/2011; Finding aid by Jonathan Dembo, 11/3/2011, revised 4/11/2012, 5/17/2013, 11/21/2013. 11/1/2016; Archivists' Toolkit updated by Jonathan Dembo, 7/9/2012, revised, 10/14/2013, 11/21/2013, 11/1/2016

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.


Language of material

English; French

Related material

John Crowe Ransom Papers (Mss 006) Special Collections Department, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA

Reid and Susan Overcash Literary Collection - A. R. Ammons Papers (#1096-001) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA

Stuart Wright Collection – Richard Ghormley Eberhart Papers (#1169-004) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA

Stuart Wright Collection – Randall Jarrell Papers (#1169-005) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA

Stuart Wright Collection – Katherine Anne Porter Papers (#1169-009) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA

Stuart Wright Collection – William Styron Papers (#1169-011) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA

Stuart Wright Collection – Allen Tate Papers (#1169-012) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA

Stuart Wright Collection – Peter Hillsman Taylor Papers (#1169-013) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA

Stuart Wright Collection – Robert Penn Warren Papers (#1169-014) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA


Key terms
Personal Names
Ciardi, John, 1916-1986--Correspondence
Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005--Correspondence
Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974
Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966--Correspondence
Tate, Allen, 1899-1979--Correspondence
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
Topical
Critics--United States
Poets, American--20th century
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American

Container list
Box 1 Folder a Duncan, Harry. Letters sent to John Crowe Ransom; and proof of The Poets Go Along by Ransom about Alfred A. Knopf [Correspondence] (12 February & 29 June 1965) TLS, ALS, Proof. 3 items. 3 p. Note: Duncan was the printer of The Poets Go Along
Box 1 Folder b Ham, Joseph letter to John Crowe Ransom with poem about getting old from Cleveland, OH. [Correspondence] (29 March 1964) ALS. 1 item. 2 p
Box 1 Folder c Harcourt, Alfred. Letter sent to Christopher Morley [Correspondence] (9 August 1918) TL. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright annotated: "Original in Stuart Wright Collection; re: Poems About God; needs conservation
Box 1 Folder d Harcourt, Alfred, Henry Holt and Company Publishers. Letter sent to Christopher Morley about which poems they will publish in John Crowe Ransom's Poems about God [Correspondence] (9 August 1918) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Christopher Morley (5 May 1890 – 28 March 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist, poet and theatrical producer
Box 1 Folder e Letters received by John Crowe Ransom from Naval Training School; checks written by Ransom to Finley M. Dorris Co., Annie P. Ransom, and Eilene Ransom [Correspondence] (1944,1947-1949) Typescripts, Holograph. 14 items. 14 p
Box 1 Folder f Envelopes addressed to Miss Robb Reavill and Mrs. John C. Ransom in Denver, CO. [Correspondence] (1920, 1922) Holograph. 4 items. 4 p
Box 1 Folder g Savage, Stephen, Pomegranate Press. Letters sent to John Crowe Ransom along with copy of poem Cloak Model by Crowe and photocopy of art published with the poem [Correspondence, Poems] (1972) TLS, Typescripts, photocopy. 5 items. 5 p
Box 1 Folder h Schwartz, Delmore. Letters sent to John Crowe Ransom [Correspondence] (1958) TLS and ALS. 6 items. 9 p. Note: Includes heavily revised typescript version of "The Truth and Falsehood of May's Exaltation", including various titles: "Truth and May's Falsehood"; "May's Exaltation"; "May's Truth and May's Falsehood", etc
Box 1 Folder i Stewart, John L., Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Letter to John Crowe Ransom [Correspondence] (26 Nov. 1961) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Requesting permission to quote letters Ransom wrote to Allen Tate (1926 & 1936)
Box 1 Folder j Tate, Allen. Letters sent to John Crowe Ransom and Bob (Robert N. Linscott); Peter [Peter Hillsman Taylor] letter sent to John [John Crowe Ransom] [Correspondence] (19 September 1949, 8 August 1950, undated) TLS. 3 items. 3 p
Box 1 Folder k Red (nickname for Robert Penn Warren) Letter sent to John Crowe Ransom and then forwarded by Ransom to Andy [Andrew Nelson Lytle] [Correspondence] (1 December 1942). ALS. 1 item. 1 p
Box 1 Folder l Ransom, John Crowe. Letters sent to John Ciardi; Poems by John Ciardi; Jaffe, Marc letter sent to Ciardi [Correspondence, Poems] (1953, 1961, undated) TLS and ALS, Typescripts. 11 items. 11 p
Box 1 Folder m Ransom, John Crowe. Letters sent to Richard Eberhart & agreement to publish "Q's Revisions" in The Kenyon Critics [Correspondence & Contract] (1941, 1950) TLS & Printed form. 3 items. 3 p
Box 1 Folder n Ransom, John Crowe. Correspondence with Allen Tate, Louis Untermeyer and Edward L. Anderson [Correspondence] (1929, 1944, undated) TLS and ALS. 4 items. 5p
Box 1 Folder o Ransom, John Crowe, 1st Lieutenant, 5th Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Force. Letter sent to George while on Active Service with the American Expeditionary Force [Correspondence] (16 December 1917) ALS. 1 item. 2 p. Note: Regarding his court martial for violating Military Police regulations
Box 1 Folder p American Poetry at Mid-Century by John Crowe Ransom, Delmore Schwartz, and John Hall Wheelock [Literary Essays] (1958) Typescripts. 1 item. 30 p
Box 1 Folder q On Shakespeare's Language by John Crowe Ransom [Literary Essays] (undated) Edited Typescripts. 1 item. 21 p. Note: Annotated by Stuart Wright: "Early version of Ransom essay published in Spring 1947 Sewanee Review."
Box 1 Folder r Responsible Criticism by John Crowe Ransom [Literary Essays] (ca. 1953) Edited Typescripts. 1 item. 6 p. Note: Annotated by Stuart Wright: "Revised version of essay published in SR."
Box 1 Folder s Story about Isak Dinesen, Katherine Anne Porter, and Gertrude Duby-Blom by Caroline Gordon [Literary Essays] (undated) Edited Typescripts. 1 item. 6 p
Box 1 Folder t On Hearing of Richard Eberhart's Gain in Weight, by Robert T. S. Lowell [Poems] (October 1937) Edited Carbon typescripts. 1 item. 1 p
Box 1 Folder u Selected Poems by John Crowe Ransom [Poems] (21 February 1944) Edited Typescripts. 36 items. 79 p. Note: Typescript for Selected Poems published by The Plimpton Press, 1945; See also Oversized Materials Folder for Author's Proofs
Box 1 Folder v Selected Poems from Selected Poems, by John Crowe Ransom [Poems] (1969) Mimeographed typescripts. 1 item. 10 p
Box 1 Folder w Guest Book of John, Rob, Revell and Helen Ransom [Notebooks] (27 December 1933 - 9 Sept. 1934) Manuscript Volume. Leather bound 1 vol. 2 p. used out of 85. Note: Front cover & spine needs conservation; separated; leather deteriorated
Box 1 Folder x Snodgrass, William DeWitt. Interviewed by "E. S." in The American Poetry Review [Transcripts] (July/August 1990) Clipping. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Partial; pp. 39-40 only
Box 1 Folder y Phi Beta Kappa Society Membership Certificate for John Crowe Ransom at Vanderbilt University [Holographs] (15 June 1909) Typescripts, Holograph. 2 items. 2 p. Note: Multi-colored calligraphy; copy #1 signed by President H. C. Tolman; & Secretary J. T. McGill; copy #2 not signed by Secretary J. T. McGill
Box 1 Folder z Robert Penn Warren Portrait by Taylor Jones of the Sunday Gazette-Mail [Pen & Ink sketches] (1976) Holograph. 1 item. 1 p
Box 2 Folder a Robert Penn Warren portraits including photographic prints of Warren as High School Graduate, Vanderbilt freshman, Adult Dressed in a Suit, and as an Elderly Man in a Sweater (ca. 1904, 1904, 1930s, 1970s) Photographic prints. Black & White. Various sizes. 4 items. 4 p. Note: Photographic prints cataloged as: High School Graduation (#P-1169.010.002.a.1); Vanderbilt University Freshman (#P-1169.010.002.a.2); Adult Dressed in a Suit (#P-1169.010.002.a.3); and as an Elderly Man in a Sweater (#P-1169.010.002.a.4) taken by Bill Ferris, Center for Southern Folklore. Photographic print #P-1169.010.002.a.1 is a duplicate of #P-1169-010.002.h.18
Box 2 Folder b Little Girl with a Chair Portrait (ca. 1910) Photographic print. Black & White. 3.5" x 5". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.b.5
Box 2 Folder c John Crowe Ransom with Rev. Edward H. Eckel and others, Tulsa, Oklahoma Portrait with Note by unidentified author (ca. 1909) Photographic print & Holograph. Sepia. 4.75 x 3.5". 2 items. 2 p. Note: Photograph shows Ransom & Edward H. Eckel & three others; note is on stationery of E. H. Eckel, Rector, Trinity Church Rectory, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.c.6
Box 2 Folder d Portrait of John Crowe Ransom with 2 Vanderbilt University students -- Hingle, Bryan, & 1 unidentified students -- 2 males, 1 female (ca. 1909) Photographic print. Sepia. 5.75" x 3.5" 1 item. 1 p. Note: Annotated by an unknown hand on verso: "You [in college mortar board]- Hingle - Bryan - ?"; Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.d.7
Box 2 Folder e Riding Party of 3 Men & 3 Women on Horseback in front of a Log Cabin (ca. 1917) Photographic print. Black & White. 3-1/4 x 5-1/2". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.e.8
Box 2 Folder f John Crowe Ransom photographs, including: Ransom Feeding a Black Bear, Shaking Hands with a Collie, Fishing Party of 5 Men Displaying their Catch; Ransom in Shirt Sleeves Outdoors Portrait; Ransom Sitting on a Park Bench; Ransom Sitting on Park Bench with 4 Men (ca. 1920s-1950s) Photographic prints. Black & White. 3.5" x 5", 5 x 7". 7 items. 7 p. Note: Photographic prints cataloged: Ransom Feeding a Black Bear #P-1169-010.002.f.10; Ransom Shaking Hands with a Collie #P-1169-010.002.f.11 (annotated on verso: "Belongs to Elizabeth Forman"); Ransom Sitting on a Park Bench #P-1169-010.002.f.12; Fishing Party of 5 Men Displaying their Catch #P-1169-010.002.f.13; Ransom in Shirt Sleeves Outdoors Portrait #P-1169-010.002.f.14 (annotated on verso: "Belongs to Elizabeth Forman"); Ransom Sitting on a Park Bench #P-1169-010.002.f.15; Ransom Sitting on Park Bench with 4 Men #P-1169-010.002.f.16
Box 2 Folder g Gilbert [G. K.] Chesterton and John Crowe Ransom Portrait (22 March 1921) Photographic print. Black & White. 8 x 10". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Torn, fragile; needs conservation; Annotated on verso: "Photo by Wiles - 3 -22-21; Gilbert Chesterton & John Ransom"; Photographic print cataloged as: #P-1169-010.002.g.17
Box 2 Folder h Robert Penn Warren in a suit Publicity Photographs (ca. 1930s) Photographic print. Black & White. 8 x 10". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged as: #P-1169-010.002.h.18; Duplicate of #P-1169-010.002.a.1
Box 2 Folder i Robert Penn Warren Profile View Portrait (ca. 1930s) Photographic print. Black & White. 4 x 6". 1 item. 1 p. ; Photographic print cataloged as: #P-1169-010.002.h.18
Box 2 Folder j John Crowe Ransom with Pipe Portrait (ca. 1940s) Black & White. 8 x 10". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stained & Mottled; needs conservation; Photographic print cataloged as: #P-1169-010.002.j.20
Box 2 Folder k John Crowe Ransom in Academic Robes Portrait (18 December 1944) Photographic print. Black & White. 5 x 7". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Inscribed on verso: "rec'd - 12/18/44 c.n.s"; "16 picas wide"; "Andrew Stofan, West College Street, Oberlin Ohio [Photographer]"; "Please Return to J. C. Ransom, Gambier, Ohio"; Photographic print cataloged as: #P-1169-010.002.k.21
Box 2 Folder l Robert Penn Warren Posed Suit with Cigarette Portrait (ca. 1946-1947) Photographic print. Black & White. 8 x 10". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged as: #P-1169-010.002.l.22
Box 2 Folder m Robert Penn Warren Working at a Typewriter Portrait (ca. 1950s) Photographic print. Black & White. 8 x 10". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged as: #P-1169-010.002.m.23
Box 2 Folder n Robert Penn Warren Profile View Portrait (1950s) Photographic print. Black & White. 8 x 10". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged as: #P-1169-010.002.n.24
Box 2 Folder o John Crowe Ransom Teaching A Class [as Visiting Professor at Indiana University] Portrait by Life Magazine Photographer, Eliot Elisofon [Version 1] (26 September 1950) Photographic print. Black & White. 13-1/4 x 9". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Creased; needs conservation; taken at nearly the same time as Version 2; Inscribed on verso: "Life Photo by Eliot Elisofon Sept. 26 1950"; Stamped "Reproduction Forbidden" by Life Magazine; Photographic print cataloged as: #P-1169-010.002.o.25
Box 2 Folder p John Crowe Ransom Teaching A Class [as Visiting Professor at Indiana University] Portrait by Life Magazine Photographer, Eliot Elisofon [Version 2] (26 September 1950) Photographic print. Black & White. 13-1/4 x 9". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Torn, creased; needs conservation; Taken at nearly the same time as Version 1; Inscribed on verso: "Life Photo by Eliot Elisofon Sept. 26 1950"; Stamped "Reproduction Forbidden" by Life Magazine; Photographic print cataloged as: #P-1169-010.002.p.26
Box 2 Folder q John Crowe Ransom [as Visiting Professor at Indiana University] Meeting with Students in a Living Room Portrait by Life Magazine Photographer, Eliot Elisofon (27 September 1950) Digital print. Black & White. 8.5" x 11". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Digital copy only; original fragile, needs conservation; original moved to oversized folder #1169-010.002.q.os1
Box 2 Folder r John Crowe Ransom Teaching A Class [as Visiting Professor at Indiana University] Portrait by Life Magazine Photographer, Eliot Elisofon [Version 3] (26 September 1950) Photographic print. Black & White. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Taken at nearly the same time as Version 1 & 2; Inscribed on verso: "Life Photo by Eliot Elisofon Sept. 26 1950"; Stamped "Reproduction Forbidden" by Life Magazine; Photographic print cataloged as: #P-1169-010.002.r.27
Box 2 Folder s Merrill Moore Delivering a Radio Address Portrait (5 May 1956) Photographic print. Black & White. 8 x 10". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Inscribed in margin: "5 May 1956 Merrill Moore"; Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.s.28
Box 2 Folder t Robert Penn Warren Seated, Petting His Cat, and Reading Promises: Poems 1951-1956 Portrait (ca. 1956) Photographic print. Black & White. 8 x 10". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.t.29
Box 2 Folder u Peter Hillsman Taylor Portraits by Roland von Essen, Hollins College, VA (ca. 1970) Photographic prints. Black & White. 7.5" x 10". 3 items. 3 p. Note: Photographic prints cataloged as: #P-1169-010.002.u.30 - #P-1169-010.002.u.32
Box 2 Folder v John Crowe Ransom Seated in a Library Portrait (ca. 1960s) Photographic print. Black & White. 8 x 10". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.v.33
Box 2 Folder w Robert Penn Warren with Japanese interviewer Portrait (ca. 1960s) Photographic print. Black & White. 4.75" x 6.75". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photo credit: "K. Sakakibara"; Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.w.34
Box 2 Folder x Robert Penn Warren in Old Age Portrait (ca. 1960s) Photographic print. Black & White. 8 x 10". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.x.35
Box 2 Folder y Robert Penn Warren in a Library or Bookstore, Portrait by Nancy Crampton (ca. 1960s) Photographic print. Black & White. 8 x 9-3/4". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.y.36
Box 2 Folder z Randall Jarrell Portrait (1964-1965) Photographic print. Black & White. 5 x7". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.z.37
Box 2 Folder za Howard McKinley Corning Talking with John Crowe Ransom, Portland State College, Portland, OR, Portrait by William Stafford. [Photographic prints] (7 October 1966) Photographic print. Black & White. 5 x 4". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.za.38
Box 2 Folder zb John Crowe Ransom Standing in Rront of a Building Entrance Portrait (ca. Sept. 1966) Photographic print. Color. 5 x 7". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.zb.39
Box 2 Folder zc John Crowe Ransom Reading The American Oxonian; John Crowe Ransom Gazing Out of a Window, Portraits by Kenyon College Publicity Department (February 1968) Photographic print. Black & White. 8 x 10". 2 items. 2 p. Note: Photographic print cataloged: JCR Reading the American Oxonian #P-1169.010.002.zc.40 - JCR Gazing Out of a Window: #P-1169-010.002.zc.41
Box 2 Folder zd [George] Garrett Seated with Drink in Hotel Room, at MLA, Portrait by Lon Holmberg; George Garrett Head and Shoulders Outdoors, Portrait by Alice Garrett (1974, undated) Photographic prints. Black & White. 8 x 10". 2 items. 2 p. Note: Photos captioned on verso: "Garrett at MLA [Modern Language Association] (Chicago) Photo by Lon Holmberg . . . [Signed] Lon Holmberg '74"; "Alice Garrett photo;" Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.zd.42 - #P-1169-010.002.zd.43
Box 2 Folder ze John Crowe Ransom Poetry Reading, Liberal Arts Auditorium, U. of A., Reel No. 4. [Reel to Reel Tapes] (15 March 1967) Audio Recording. Reel to Reel tape. Speed: 1-7/8. 1 item. 1 p
Box 2 Folder zf Selected Poems, by John Crowe Ransom [Book] (1945) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Cleanth Brooks' agreement [contract] to sell books from his personal library to Stuart Wright (9 April 1986) Edited Printed Form; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #21.2
Box 2 Folder zg Wandering Jew, The, by Robert Mezey [Books] (1960) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Program of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC [Brochure] (29-30 November 1940) Printed; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #21.6
Box 2 Folder zh God Without Thunder, by John Crowe Ransom [Books] (1930) Printed. 2 items. 2 p. Note: John Crowe Ransom, Gambier, OH, Letter to Andrew Lytle, saying his "Eliot piece" will not be ready by due date (28 September 1965) TLS; Stuart Wright note: "Published 16.10.30" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #21.8
Box 2 Folder zi Two Gentlemen in Bonds, by John Crowe Ransom [Books] (1927) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: "See RPW Letters, v. 4, pp. 257-58. JCR also read from this copy – " (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #21.13
Box 2 Folder zj Selected Poems, by John Crowe Ransom [Books] (1947) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: "Not in Abbot, who indicates unprinted spine. Aquired [sic] Hay-on-Wye, 2002- (2002)" Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #21.16
Box 2 Folder zk Kenyon Critics, The, by John Crowe Ransom [Books] (1951) Printed. 2 items. 3 p. Note: John Crowe Ransom, Editor, The Kenyon Review, Gambier, OH, Letters to Robert W. Daniel, New Haven, CT (1 April 1939 & 24 August 1950) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #21.20
Box 2 Folder zl Topics for Freshman Writing, by John Crowe Ransom [Books] (1935) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: "Ransom's own copy. See pp. 514-15" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #21.23
Box 2 Folder zm Selected Poems, by John Crowe Ransom [Books] (1969) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: "See p. 127" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #21.29
Box 2 Folder zn Chills and Fever, by John Crowe Ransom [Books] (1924) Printed. 6 items. 6 p. Note: Stuart Wright comment: "RPW's review copy. This was his first review in print and is listed as Grimshaw G1. NB: Published 29 August 1924 (See RPW's ownership inscription)" (undated) Typescript & Holograph; Portrait of John Crowe Ransom (ca. 1930) Black & white; 4" x 6"; 2 copies; Photographic prints cataloged: #P-1169-010.002.zn.44; "Mrs. John Crowe Ransom" calling cards (undated) Printed; 2.75" x 1.25"; 2 copies; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #21.31
Box 2 Folder zo Selected Poems, by John Crowe Ransom [Books] (1963) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: "JCR's Holograph revisions in this presentation copy to Robert Penn Warren" (undated) Typescript; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #21.32
Box 2 Folder zp Beating the Bushes, by John Crowe Ransom [Books] (1972) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: James Laughlin, New Directions, New York, NY, Letter to John Crowe Ransom acknowledging receipt of Chapter XI of the book and praising Ransom's writing style (23 February 1970) TLS; James Laughlin (1914 - 1997) a poet and literary publisher, was the founder and editor of New Dimensions Publishers, 1936-; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #21.33
Box 2 Folder zq Selected Poems, by John Crowe Ransom [Books] (1963) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: "Inscribed by JCR to his daughter and son-in-law, parents of novelist Robb Forman Dew. Pub. 21 June 63 (See Abbott)" (undated) Edited typescript; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #21.41
Box 2 Folder zr World's Body, The, by John Crowe Ransom [Books] (1938) Printed. 2 items. 2 p. Note: Stuart Wright Post-it notes: "The Worlds Body" and "Publ: 5 Nov. 37 One printing of 2,500 copies. The dedication copy - To Ransom" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #21.45
Box 2 Folder zs John Crowe Ransom: A Tribute from the Community of Letters [Books] (1964) Printed. 2 items. 2 p. Note: "The Tenth Muse" by Robert Lowell [Poems] (undated) Edited typescript; Stuart Wright note card: "Specially bound presentation copy to Ransom – signed by [Robert Penn] Warren, [Richard G.] Eberhart TS poem (setting copy) by Lowell laid in" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #26.14
Box 2 Folder zt Dog Beneath the Skin, The, by W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden and Christopher Isherwood [Books] (1935) Printed. 2 items. 2 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: "2017687712" & post-it note: "06051675" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #26.25
Box 2 Folder zu I'll Take My Stand, by Twelve Southerners [Books] (1930) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright post-it note: "JCR's Copy" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #26.40
Box 2 Folder zv Fugitive Poets, The, by William Pratt [Books] (1965) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: John Crowe Ransom, Note to Allen Tate recommending Pratt of University of Miami to be chair of English Department at Kenyon College (16 February 1965) Typescript; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #26.42
Box 2 Folder zw Parts of a World, by Wallace Stevens [Books] (1951) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: "List of authorized students -- K542. Poetry of Our Own Country. Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom" (undated) Edited typescript; Stuart Wright Book Collection 37.57
Box 2 Folder zx Harmonium, by Wallace Stevens [Books] (1953) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" by Wallace Stevens copied by John Crowe Ransom [Poems] (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection # 37.58
Box 2 Folder zy Collected Poems, by James Wright [Books] (1971) Typescripts. 8 items. 9 p. Note: Poems by James Wright: "A Blessing" (undated); "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" annotated by John Crowe Ransom & Stuart Wright (undated) Annotated typescript; Poems by D.N.: "On Leaving Baltimore" (Baltimore, Maryland, April 1972) Typescript; "Where the Dead Endure, The Living Sing" (Baltimore, Maryland, November 1971) Typescript; "If You Opened Your Eyes" (Baltimore, Maryland, February 1972) Typescript; "Elegy for Jack McKean" (undated) Typescript; "Friends at the Lake" (Seattle, January 1972) Typescript; "Homage to Chagall" (Port Angeles, Washington, March 1969) Typescripts; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #49.28
Box 2 Folder zz Les Desenchantes: Roman Des Harems Turcs Contemporains, by Perre Loti [Books] (1906) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Lt. J. C. [John Crowe] Ransom, Tuition receipt to University of Nancy, France (3/19/1919) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p.; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #26.44
Box 3 Folder a Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Contract with John Crowe Ransom for rights to Chills and Fever [Contracts] (16 November 1923) Edited printed form. 1 item. 3 p
Box 3 Folder b Lotos Club State Dinner in Honor of Robert Penn Warren menu [Posters] (10 April 1975) Edited printed form. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Poster includes dinner menu and is autographed by various club members and guests, including Edward J. Scheider, president, Lotos Club; John Hollander, Lionel Trilling, John Palmer, William Styron, Robert Penn Warren, Albert Zecker & others
Box 3 Folder c Phi Beta Kappa Society Membership certificate for Randall Jarrell at Vanderbilt University [Certificates] (June 11, 1935) Edited printed form. 1 item. 1 p
Box 3 Folder d Charles Scribner's Sons Memorandum of Agreement with John Crowe Ransom for A Work of Criticism-Title Later [Contracts] 28 (May 28 1937) Edited printed form. 1 item. 1 p
Box 3 Folder e Cromwell-Collier Publishing Company agreement with John Crowe Ransom for Selected Poems of Tennyson [Contracts] (April 11, 1962) Edited printed form. 1 item. 4 p
Box 3 Folder f Laughlin, James, New Directions, memorandum of agreement with John Crowe Ransom for "A Group of Literary Studies" (title still to be chosen) and "Emily Dickinson (The Makers of Modern Literature)" [Contracts] (June 1940) Carbon printed form. 2 items. 6 p
Box 3 Folder g John Crowe Ransom and Memorial Park Development Company Agreement & Certificate of Registration with John Crowe Ransom to purchase burial lot at Woodlawn Memorial Park Nashville, TN [Certificates & Contracts] (1928, 1932) Printed forms. 2 items. 13 p
Box 3 Folder h Ostroff, Anthony Agreement to use John Crowe Ransom's essay on Theodore Roethke's "In A Dark Time"; also his poem "Master's in the Garden Again"; Agreement with Crowell-Collier Publishing Company [Correspondence & Contracts] (1961, 1963, undated) TLS and Printed form. 4 items. 6 p
Box 3 Folder i University of Minnesota. Memorandum of Agreement with John Crowe Ransom for manuscript entitled Emily Dickinson [Contracts] (2 November 1960) Edited Printed form. 1 item. 3 p
Box 3 Folder j Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Agreement with John Crowe Ransom for Progressive Writing [Contracts] (6 June 1934) Printed form. 1 item. 2 p
Box 3 Folder k Serendipity Books Invoice to Stuart Wright for Poems About God [Correspondence] (ca. 1960s) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Postscript by Peter B. Howard: "I may have more books, but I'll never get a better one. Thanks Stu. P."
Box 3 Folder l John Crowe Ransom, 1st Lt., Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Forces. Officer's Identity Card [Identification Cards] (1917-1918) Printed form & Photographic print. 1 item. 2 p
Box 3 Folder m University de Nancy, France. Certificate to John Crowe Ransom for attendance, March-June 1919 [Certificates] (28 June 1919) Printed form. French language. 1 item. 2 p. Note: torn, fragile, pressure-sensitive tape; needs conservation; signed by faculty
Box 3 Folder n Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Agreement with John Crowe Ransom for Two Gentlemen In Bonds [Contracts] (25 May 1926) Edited Printed form. 1 item. 3 p
Box 3 Folder o Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Agreement with John Crowe Ransom for A Handbook in Brief [Contracts] (9 December 1942) Edited Typescripts, Holograph. 1 item. 2 p
Box 3 Folder p University of Minnesota. Amendment to Memorandum of Agreement with John Crowe Ransom for Emily Dickinson [Contracts] (6 April 1962) Edited typescript. 1 item. 1 p
Box 3 Folder q Advertisement for Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe [Advertisements] (undated) Flyer. 1 item. 1 p
Box 3 Folder r John Crowe Ransom, Editor, The Kenyon Review. War letter announcing discontinuance of the Southern Review during WWII & its replacement by Kenyon Review [Flyers] (5 June 1942) Printed. 1 item. 1 p
Box 3 Folder s Committee for the Alliance of Agrarian and Distributist Groups, Nashville, TN. Announcement to Persons Interested in Agrarian, Distributist, and Homestead Principles [Brochures] (1 November 1936) Printed. 1 item. 2 p. Note: Signed by Lyle H. Lanier, John Crowe Ransom, Rev. John C. Rawe, Chard Powers Smith, & James M. Waller, Secretary
Box 3 Folder t Ascension, by Reynolds Price [Poems] (ca. 1960s) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Annotated by Stuart Wright: "Price / Lines of Life"; fragment, p. 31 only; water damage; needs conservation
Box 3 Folder u Ten Poems by Anthony Harwood, Venice, Italy: Klootz, Ltd. [Pamphlets, Etc.] (1950) Pamphlet, ALS, Broadside. 3 items. 18 p. Note: Pamphlet No. 44 of 66 printed; Cover letter from James Merrill to John Crowe Ransom (24 November 1950) distributing copies of Ten Poems at the author's request; Broadside [partial] of Socrates' conversation with Simmias
Box 3 Folder v Wanted: An Ontological Critic by John Crowe Ransom, Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft [Literary Essays] (1970) Pamphlets. 4 items. 60 p. Note: Reprinted from John Crowe Ransom, The New Criticism, Norfolk, CT, © 1941 by New Directions, pp. 294-336; 4 copies of the pamphlet
Folder os1 Planetary Poet,The, by John Crowe Ransom in the Kenyon Review about the poetry of Wallace Stevens [Literary Essays] (1964) Edited Proof. 1 item. 12 p. Transferred from 1169-010.1.l
Folder os2 Selected poems by John Crowe Ransom [Poems] New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (1963) Edited proof. 1 item. 39 p. Transferred from 1160-010.1.o
Folder os3 Selected Poems Author's Proofs for Plimpton Press, the printer; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., is the publisher [Proofs] (21 February 1944) Edited Author's Proofs. 1 item. 75 p. Transferred from 1169-010.2.a
Folder os4 John Crowe Ransom [as Visiting Professor at Indiana University] Meeting with Students in a Living Room, Portrait by Life Magazine Photographer, Eliot Elisofon (27 September 1950) Photographic print. Black & White. 13-1/4 x 9". 1 item. 1 p. Note: Fragile, needs conservation; transferred from folder #1169-010.002.q
Folder os5 Gerontion, by John Crowe Ransom in the American Literary Anthology, New York: Random House [Literary Essays] (1968) Edited Proof. 1 item. 8 p. Transferred from 1169-010.3.v
Box 4 Folder a Nags Head : Side 1 Recorded Especially for John Crowe Ransom, by Lee Anderson (24 Nov. 1958) Audio Recording. LP. 33-1/3 RPM. 1 item. 1 p. ; Note : Dirty, moldy ; needs conservation ; Source : Cary Addition Box #146
Box 5 Folder a John Crowe Ransom, by Thomas Daniel Young (© 1982) Note : 1) Thomas Daniel Young "Dan", Department of English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Note to Helen Ransom [Forman], Ransom's daughter, wishing "Mrs. Ransom [Robb Reavill] could have lived to see this book" (17 Dec. 1982) ALS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #166.021
Box 5 Folder b John Crowe Ransom Descriptive Bibliography, by Craig S. Abbott (© 1999) Note : 1) Abbott, Dept of English, Northern Illinois Univ, DeKalb, IL. Letter to Stuart agreeing to read draft of his Ransom bibliography (17 July 1996) TLS. 1 item. 2 p. ; 2) Abbott. Letter to Stuart enclosing copy of his bibliography to compare "against your collection" (26 July 1996) ALS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 3) Abbott. Letter to Stuart discussing revisions to bibliography (4 Aug. 1996) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 4) Craig S. Abbott. Letter to Stuart discussing Wright's work on the bibliography (6 Aug. 1996) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 5) Abbott. Letter to Stuart returning borrowed items ; requesting copies of contracts ; requesting re-check of several items (12 Aug. 1996) TLS. 1 item. 3 p. ; 6) Abbott. Letter to Stuart thanking him for contracts (21 Aug. 1996) TLS & Envelope. 1 item. 2 p. ; 7) Abbott. Letter to Stuart on response from publishers ; will send index (13 Sept. 1996) TLS & Envelope. 1 item. 2 p. ; 8) Abbott. Letter to Stuart regarding news about publishers ; descriptive bibliographies "face hard time" (12 Nov. 1996) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 9) Abbott. Letter to Stuart enclosing published bibliography (19 March 1999) ALS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 10) Abbott. Letter to Stuart that Whitston has published the bibliography (14 April 1999) ALS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 11) Abbott. Letter to Stuart saying he is delighted Wright will be reviewing the bibliography (20 May 1999) ALS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 12) George Core, Editor, Sewanee Review, Sewanee, TN. Letter to Stuart Wright on Henry Turlington ; alternate dealers ; news of George Garrett (20 May 1999) TLS & Envelope. 1 item. 2 p. ; 13) George Core, Editor, Sewanee Review, Sewanee, TN. Letter to Stuart Wright on Aiken Taylor poetry celebration ; George [Garrett] seemed pleased ; but it was more work than it was worth ; your review of the bibliography has gone for typesetting ; work made him "miss the kickoff of the Super Bowl" (2 Feb. 2000) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 14) George Core, Editor, Sewanee Review, Sewanee, TN. Contract to publish his essay entitled "Ransom's Publishing History" (18 May 2000) Photocopy printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #181.033
Box 5 Folder c Poetry of John Crowe Ransom, The, by Miller Williams (© 1972) Note : 1) Rutgers University Press. With the compliments of card (ca. 1972) Ephemera. 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) Miller Williams, Director, University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, AR. Letter to Stuart Wright including items from his vita (p. 50) ; holograph addendum on p. 2 (18 Jan. 1983) TLS. 1 item. 2 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #177.007
Folder os6 National Book Award for Poetry Received by John Crowe Ransom (10 March 1964) Printed form. 16.25" x 16" 1 item. 1 p. ; Note : Filed Oversized ; Brittle, fragile, abrasions ; needs conservation ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #200.041