Lord Alfred's Lover, by Eric Bentley [Books] (1981) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Glenn Edward Witmer, Publisher, Personal Library, Letter to Robert Penn Warren, enclosing copy of Lord Alfred's Lover and requesting comments (9 June 1981) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #7.11
Tobacco Planter's Yearbook, The [Periodicals] (1908) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: "Price for 1906 Tobacco . . These prices for 1906 R. F. Warren, Guthrie, Ky" (1906) Annotated clipping pasted on paper; fragile, torn, needs conservation; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #7.13
Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, The [Periodicals] (1982) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Victoria and Barrett Prettyman, Christmas card with photograph (1984) Photographic print; Color; Photographic print cataloged: #P-1169-014.017.c.8; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #7.17
Stories of Writers and Artists, by Henry James [Books] (undated) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Henry James and All The King's Men, by Edward J. Piacentino, review in Mississippi Quarterly (ca. 1985) Clipping; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #7.24
McTeague, by Frank Norris [Books] (1900) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: "Loaner to RPW?" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #7.30
Blue Highways, by William Least Heat Moon [Books] (1983) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Peter Davidson, Senior Editor, The Atlantic Monthly Press, Letter to Robert Penn Warren requesting comments on Blue Highways (5 August 1982) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #7.33
Jennifer Lorn: A Sedate Extravaganza, by Elinor Wylie [Books] (1923) Printed. 2 items. 2 p. Note: Mimi's Bohemian Café card; annotated on verso "CT Ray" (undated) Ephemera; Woman standing by fence with young boy (undated) Photographic negative, 1.75" x 2.75"; Photographic negative cataloged: #N-1169-014.017.g.9; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #7.36
Shad Treatment, by Garrett Epps, The [Books] (1976) Printed. 1 item. 2 p. Note: Clyde C. Taylor, Publisher at G.P. Putnam's Sons, Letter & envelope to Robert Penn Warren, enclosing galleys of The Shad Treatment, requesting comments (11 November 1976) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #7.40
Albums of Early Life, by Stanley Kauffman [Books] (1980) Printed. 2 items. 2 p. Note: Ticknor and Fields, Compliments card for Albums of Early Life (9 October 1980) Printed form; James Raimes, Senior Editor, Ticknor & Fields, Letter to Robert Penn Warren enclosing proofs of Albums of Early Life and requesting comments (17 July 1980) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #7.41
Do Lord Remember Me, by Julius Lester [Books] (1984) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Judy Karasik, Editor, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Letter to Robert Penn Warren enclosing bound page proof and requesting comments (14 September 1984) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #7.47
Clock Without Hands, by Carson McCullers [Books] (1961) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Anne Ford, Houghton Mifflin Company, Letter to Robert Penn Warren, requesting comments Clock Without Hands (6 June 1961) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #7.48
Our Eyes, Like Walls, by Lucky Jacobs [Books] (1981) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Lucky Jacobs, Richmond, Virginia, Letter to Robert Penn Warren" "I am an admirer of your poetry. I hope you enjoy mine" (23 June 1982) ALS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #7.53
Long Day's Dying, A, by Frederick Buechner [Books] (1950) Printed. 1 item. 3 p. Note: Alfred Knopf, Jr., Letter to Professor [Robert Penn] Warren (16 September 1949) requesting his comments on A Long Day's Dying (16 September 1949) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #9.6
Sincerity and Authenticity, by Lionel Trilling [Books] (1972) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts compliments of the author card (undated); Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #9.12
Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South, by Shirley Abbott [Books] (1983) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Chester Kerr, President, Ticknor & Fields, Letter to "Dear Red" [Robert Penn Warren] requesting his opinion of Womenfolks (26 October 1982) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #9.13
My Heart and My Flesh, by Elizabeth Madox Roberts [Books] (1927) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: DAEDALUS Subscription offer envelope (undated) Printed; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #9.18
In a U - Haul North of Damascus, by David Bottoms [Books] (1983) Printed. 1 item. 2 p. Note: Mana Guarnaschelli, Senior Editor, William Morrow & Company, Inc., Publishers, Letter to Robert Penn Warren enclosing bound galley of U - Haul North of Damascus and requesting reaction and comments (27 December 1982) TLS & Envelope; Robert Penn Warren's comments on verso in red ink (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #9.19
Little Treasury of American Poetry, A, edited by Oscar Williams [Books] (1948) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: "sgd [signed] by others at their contributions: Robert Penn Warren, Eberhart, Shapiro, Wilbur" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #9.20
Soul of Viktor Tronko, The, by David Quammen [Books] (1988) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: David Quammen, Letter to "Eleanor and Red" [Eleanor & Robert Penn Warren] enclosing copies of the essays for which he won the National Magazine Award (6 May 1987) ALS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #9.25
Almost Innocent, by Sheila Bosworth [Books] (1984) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Morgan Entrekin, Senior Editor, Simon & Schuster, Letter to Robert Penn Warren enclosing copy of advance galleys of Almost Innocent, requesting his opinion of the book (24 August 1984) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #9.39
Racial Crisis in America, by Lewis Killian & Charles Grigg [Books] (1964) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Pearl Street A. M. E. Church, Jackson, Mississippi, Interior View Postcard [Blank] (undated) Printed; Postcard cataloged: #PC-1169-014.017.u.11; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #10.27
Album of Destiny, by Jesse Stuart [Books] (1944) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright quote from Robert Penn Warren: "But long before that we had become friends. It was to be, unhappily, a friendship largely of recollection, for I saw him [Jesse Stuart] only a few times after the Vanderbilt period, once in Washington [sic], where on leave, he was wearing the blue of a naval officer, and once or twice on his rare trips to Nashville"; "RPW's introduction to Jesse Stuart . Head O' W - Hollow (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1979), p. x" (undated) Typescript; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #11.2
Ships and Other Figures, by William Meredith [Books] (1948) Printed. 2 items. 2 p. Note: An Account of A Visit to Hawaii [Poem] by William Meredith autographed "For Peter from Bill" (ca. 1948) Mimeographed typescript; Stuart Wright note: "Peter Taylor's copy" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #11.6
Bullet Park, by John Cheever [Books] (1969) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: John Cheever, Chairman, Committee on Grants for Literature, National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, Letter to the members of the Department of Literature, regarding grants for writers (31 March 1967) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #11.13
Mississippi Quarterly, Edited by Peyton Williams [Periodicals] (1970) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Mel Bradford, Department of English Language & Literature, University of Dallas Station, Irving, Texas, Letter to Robert Penn Warren, enclosing copy of Mississippi Quarterly & discussing literary issues (7 April 1971) ALS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #11.18
Housebreaker of Shady Hill, The, by John Cheever [Books] (1958) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: John Cheever, Advertisement to appear in the New York Times Book Review recognizing his receipt of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' William Dean Howells gold medal for The Wapshot Scandal (16 May [1965]) Proof; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #11.45
Relation of the Alabama - Georgia Dialect to the Provincial Dialects of Great Britain, The, by Cleanth Brooks [Books] (1935) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Emma "Cinina" Brescia Warren's list of things to pay for including gas and lights, telephone, and water and a tally adding up to $569.00; Stuart Wright note on verso: "Mrs. RPW (CININA)" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #11.50
Literary Criticism: A Short History, William K. Wimsatt, Jr. & Cleanth Brooks [Books] (1957) Printed. 1 item. 6 p. Note: Literary Criticism: A Short History, by William K. Wimsatt, Jr. and Cleanth Brooks, Reviewed by Harry Levin [Reprinted from Modern Language Notes, Vol. 73, No. 2; Autographed on cover: "Regards, HL" (February 1958)] Reprinted article; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #11.51
Letters of Archibald MacLeish, edited by R. H. Winnick [Books] (1983) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Robie Macauley, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts, Letter to Robert Penn Warren enclosing galleys of The letters of Archibald Macleish, requesting comments (26 August 1982) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #11.53
Selected Poems, by Mark Strand [Books] (1980) Printed. 1 item. 2 p. Note: Inside the Story, by Mark Strand, Solotaroff - American Review; inscribed copy (undated) Proof; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #12.4
Testing - Tree, The, by Stanley Kunitz [Books] (1971) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Publicity portrait Stanley Kunitz, author of The Testing - Tree Poems; note on verso: "Please return to R. Eberhart 202 Sanborn" (22 March 1971) Photographic print with caption & Holograph; Photographic prints cataloged: #P-1169-014.017.ze.12; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #12.7
Devil's Elbow, by Brainard Cheney [Books] (1969) Printed. 5 items. 5 p. Note: Robert Penn Warren, Fairfield, Connecticut, Letter to "Lon" [Brainerd Cheney] concerning their health problems & children - - Gabe [Warren] and Rosanna [Warren] (10 March 1980) TLS; Letter to "Lon" [Brainerd Cheney] concerning missing copy of River Rogue (29 April 1982) TLS; Stuart Wright note slips: "See RPW Letters, v. 4, pp. 284 - 285" & "See RPW, Letters v. 4, pp. 303 - 4, et passim." (undated) Holograph; Robert Penn Warren, Fairfield, Connecticut, Check paid to Brainerd Cheney on Irving Trust Company account for "re: Indian Stokes [?]" & "re: research new book" (12 December 1970) Edited printed form; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #12.13
Teaching a Stone to Talk, by Annie Dillard [Books] (1982) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: "151" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #13.13
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare [Books] (undated) Holograph. 2 items. 2 p. Note: "Evidence of Reporting . . . Evidence of Revisions" with lists of errors and corrections in the text, by unknown author (undated) Holograph; Pink blotting paper (undated) Ephemera; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #13.19
Randall Jarrell's Letters, edited by Mary Jarrell [Books] (1985) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Houghton Mifflin Company Press Release advertising Randall Jarrell's Letters, including statements by William H. Pritchard, Helen Vendler, and Robert Penn Warren; also includes biographical sketch of Randall Jarrell (22 April 1985) Mimeographed typescript; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #13.23
County Woman, by Joan Williams [Books] (1982) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: C. Michael Curtis, Senior Editor, The Atlantic Monthly, Letter to Robert Penn Warren, enclosing bound galleys of County Woman, requesting "a kind word or two" (2 November 1981) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #13.26
Personae, by Ezra Pound [Books] (1926) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Robert Penn Warren's graduate and undergraduate transcript, 1925 - 1927, from the University of California, Berkeley, Department of English, signed Grace F. Billings, Secretary (17 October 1927) Typescript; Fragile, needs conservation; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #13.29
Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters [Books] (1923) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: "Reference to Masters in Fugitive's Reunion" (1959) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #13.30
Randall Jarrell's Letters, edited by Mary Jarrell [Books] (1985) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: "Their Name Liveth Forever More (from them that bothered to be there) FC HM DS HC" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #13.32
Another Future of Poetry, by Robert Graves [Books] (1926) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright’s: “RPW’s marked copy” (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #14.5
Caesar's Commentaries, by Francis Willey Kelsey [Books] (1910) Printed. 2 items. 4 p. Note: Robert Penn Warren’s Latin notes and English translations from Caesar’s Commentaries (undated) Holograph; Beginning Latin, pp. 337 - 338 (undated) Clipping; English and Latin language; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #14.6
Life and Work of Ford Madox Ford, The, by Frank MacShane [Books] (1965) Printed. 1 item. 2 p. Note: Frank MacShane, Letter to Robert Penn Warren, enclosing copy of The Life and Work of Ford Madox Ford (ca. 1965) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #14.9
Theodore Dreiser: His Autobiography 2; Newspaper Days, by Theodore Dreiser [Books] (1965) Printed. 2 items. 9 p. Note: Robert Penn Warren’s comments on Theodore Dreiser (undated) Holograph in red ink; The Free - Lance Living on Advances 1912 (undated) Clipping; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #14.13
Our Lady Peace, by Mark Van Doren [Books] (1942) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Robert Penn Warren's note slip on "Three views of literature. . . ." etc. (ca. 1942) Holograph; Transferred form Stuart Wright Book Collection #14.15
Moral Philosophy, by Walter H. Hill [Books] (1895) Printed. 1 item. 2 p. Note: W. H. Paxner, Wheeler, Mills & Co., Tobacco Commission Merchants, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Letter to Miss Ruth Penn, re: the child, Ruth, is born (15 June 1895) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #14.18
Amazing Grace, by Robert Drake [Books] (1980) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: John Pott, Associate Editor, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Letter to Robert Penn Warren, saying they are taking his suggestion to republish Amazing Grace, enclosing proofs, & requesting comments (5 June 1980) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #14.22
Man's Place in Nature, by Thomas H. Huxley [Books] (undated) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Robert Penn Warren, Sketches on Morton Salt comment paper of skulls captioned “Man’s place in the nature Huxley . . . Crannog” (undated) Holograph & Original art; skull sketches also on verso (undated) pencil; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #14.24
Yale Alumni Magazine, by Wm. Hamilton Jones [Periodicals] (1967) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: “Lillian Hellman’s Friends Note Her Anger, Integrity” describing her funeral service, in The Sentinel, Winston - Salem, NC, p. 3 (4 July 1984) Clipping ; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #14.48
Issa Valley, The, by Czeslaw Milosz [Books] (1981) Printed. 2 items. 3 p. Note: Pat Strachan, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., Book Publishers, New York, NY, Letter to Robert Penn Warren, enclosing uncorrected proof of The Issa Valley (11 March 1981) TLS; Review of flyleaf review of The Issa Valley (undated) Photocopy typescript; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #14.51
Odyssey: Journey Through Black America, by Earl and Miriam Selby [Books] (1971) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Arthur C. Fields, Vice President, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, N.Y., Letter to Robert Penn Warren, enclosing proofs of Odyssey, requesting comments (15 March 1971) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #14.52
Delusions, Etc., by John Berryman [Books] (1972) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. review copy note (29 April 1972) Edited printed form; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #15.2
Symbolism and American Literature, by Charles Feidelson [Books] (1953) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Malcolm X Silenced for Remarks on Assassination of Kennedy, by R. W. Apple, Jr., New York Times, p. 22 (5 December 1963) Clipping; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #15.8
Radical Conservatism: The Southern Review 1935 - 1942, by Albert J. Montesi [Books] (1984) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Albert Montesi, St. Louis, MO, Letter to Robert Penn Warren, enclosing copy of limited edition of "the SR book" (ca. 1984) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #15.25
Farewell to Arms, A, by Ernest Hemingway [Books] (1949) Printed. 2 items. 2 p. Note: Robert Penn Warren comments (ca. 1949) Holograph in red and black ink; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #15.36
Billy Budd, Sailor, by Herman Melville [Books] (1962) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: From Moby Dick Jonah’s Song and From Billy Budd Billy in the Darbies from Selected Melville (13 November 1923) Edited proof; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #15.37
Achievement of Robert Penn Warren, The, by James H. Justus [Books] (1981) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: “Contains RPW’s annotations" (undated) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #15.39
On a Chinese Screen, by W. Somerset Maugham [Books] (1977) Printed. 1 item. 2 p. Note: Martha B., Franklin, KY, Letter and envelope to Thomas Warren, Guthrie, Kentucky, regarding personal relationships (ca. 1928) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #15.40
Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston, by William Preston Johnston [Books] (1885) Printed. 2 items. 5 p. Note: Fort Donelson National Military Park, Dover, Tennessee [Brochure] (May 1940) Printed; Fort Donelson National Military Park, Dover, Tennessee [Brochure] (April 1942) Printed; Stained, dirty, needs conservation; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #15.43
Art and Society, by Herbert Read [Books] (1970) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Stuart Wright note: "RPW poem mss" [unpublished poem in Warren's holograph] (undated) Holograph; Loose Manuscripts Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #18.3
Washington Square Ensemble, The, by Madison Smartt Bell [Books] (1983) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Corlies M. Smith, Senior Editor, The Viking Press, Letter to Robert Penn Warren enclosing bound galleys of The Washington Square Ensemble, requesting comments (20 October 1982) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #20.15
Notes from the Editors: The 25th Anniversary Edition of the Great Books of the Western World: Plotinus, The Enneads, by Unknown Editors [Books] (Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library © 1983) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. Note: Robert Penn Warren's personal notes (ca. 1983) Holograph; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #20.20
Unidentified Volume. [Books] (undated) 2 items. 2 p. Note: Henri Peyre, Prof., Department of Germanic Languages, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, Letter to Robert Penn Warren, forwarding a memo from Gudrun Schiller, Secretary, Department of Germanics, the names of graduate students who would do translations for him (15 March 1966) TLS & ALS; Unidentified Author, Rochester, Minnesota, Letter to Robert Penn Warren (8 February 1987) TLS; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #Unidentified Volume
Unidentified Volume. [Books] 1 item. 1 p.; Note: Minute Read by Dean Donald M. Taylor at a Meeting of the Yale University Graduate School Faculty Expressing Appreciation for Robert Penn Warren's Eighteen Years of Contributions on the Occasion of His Retirement (25 May 1973) Photocopy typescript signed; Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection #Unidentified Volume