A Guide to the Edgar E. MacDonald Papers 1933-1993
Collection Number M 142
A Collection in
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library

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Box/folder, Edgar E. MacDonald Papers, M 142, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University

Acquisition Information

The collection was donated to the department by Dr. Edgar E. MacDonald in March 1990 and continuing.

Processing Information

Collection processed in March of 1992

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University
Collection number: M 142
Title: Edgar E. MacDonald Papers 1933-1993
Physical Characteristics: 10 linear feet and 4 items
Language: English
Creator/Collector: Edgar E. MacDonald

Scope and Content Information

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.

Biographical/Historical Information

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'Universit鮠A professor of English at Randolph-Macon College from 1953 until his retirement in 1984, Dr. MacDonald is currently the Senior Cabell Scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University. 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.

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

Contents List

• General Personal Papers n.d. 1953-1976
• Centennial Post 1976 Box: 1
  
• Personal materials Box: 1
  
• Poe Museum Material, n.d. 1976 Box: 1
  
• Richmond Box: 1
  
• St. Christopher's Newspapers; Annual Reports 1933-1938, 1977, 1994-1995 Box: 1
  
• Will of Emily Clark Balch 1953 Box: 1
  
• Professional Papers, n.d. 1933-1984
• Annuaire 1965 Box: 1-a
  
• Association Internationale Des Docteurs (Lettres) 1955-1984 Box: 1-a
  
• Bulletin of Randolph Macon College 1953-1983 Box: 1-a
  
• Centre Roland de Jouvenel Box: 1-a
  
• Fulbright Scholarship--Soviet Union 1984 Box: 1-a
  
• Reception 1966 Box: 1-a
  
• Southern Literature Symposium 1980 Box: 1-a
  
• Virginia Writer's Club, n.d. Box: 1-a
  
• James Branch Cabell 1977-1984
• After the James Branch Cabell Period Box: 2
  
• Book Sellers, n.d. 1977, 1980 Box: 2
  
• Cabell as Prospero, Wylie as Miranda in Richmond, Va Box: 2
  
• Cabell Poems to Gabriella Moncure Box: 2
  
• Cabell related Correspondence, n.d. 1979-1980, 1983 Box: 2
  
• Cabell research material Box: 2
  
• Cabell without Jurgen Box: 2
  
• "Cabell's Game of Hide and Seek" Box: 2
  
• Cabell's Hero: Cosmic Rebel Box: 2
  
• Cabell's Richmond Trial Box: 2
  
• Fragmented Cabell, The Box: 2
  
• James Branch Cabell: Centennial Essays Box: 2
  
• James Branch Cabell: Centennial Essays Correspondence 1981-1984 Box: 3
  
• James Branch Cabell: Centennial Essays Edited Draft Box: 3
  
• James Branch Cabell: Centennial Essays Edited Draft Box: 3
  
• James Branch Cabell: Centennial Essays Index Box: 3
  
• James Branch Cabell--The Women's Club Box: 4
  
• Richmond and The Reviewerby Elizabeth S. Scott Box: 4
  
• "Well-Paid Myths" Box: 4
  
• Education of the Heart
• "American Edgeworths, The" 1970, 1973 Box: 4
  
• Books for Fall and Spring 1977 Box: 4
  
• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography 1975-1976 Box: 4
  
• Edgeworth Bibliography Box: 4
  
• Edgeworth Family Box: 4
  
• Education of the Heart: Biographical Index 1976 Box: 4
  
• Education of the Heart: Correspondence 1968-1982 Box: 4
  
• Education of the Heart: Draft, edited 1 of 4 Box: 4
  
• Education of the Heart: Draft, edited 2 of 4 Box: 5
  
• Education of the Heart: Draft, edited 3 of 4 Box: 5
  
• Education of the Heart: Draft, edited 4 of 4 Box: 5
  
• Education of the Heart: Manuscript 1 of 3 Box: 5
  
• Education of the Heart: Manuscript 2 of 3 Box: 5
  
• Education of the Heart: Manuscript 3 of 3 Box: 5
  
• Education of the Heart: Original 1 of 4 Box: 5
  
• Education of the Heart: Original 3 of 4 Box: 6
  
• Education of the Heart: Original 4 of 4 Box: 6
  
• Education of the Heart: Proofs 1 of 2 Box: 6
  
• Education of the Heart: Proofs 2 of 2 Box: 6
  
• First American Jewish Families 1654-1977 Box: 6
  
• General Papers and Reviews Box: 6
  
• Graded Classics--The King of the Golden River Box: 6
  
• Index Box: 6
  
• Times Literary Supplement 1977 Box: 6
  
• Ellen Glasgow
• Ancient Law Box: 7
  
• Articles on Ellen Glasgow 1935, 1945, 1954 Box: 7
  
• Articles on Ellen Glasgow--Newspaper Box: 7
  
• Articles on Ellen Glasgow--Newspaper Box: 7
  
• Articles on Ellen Glasgow--New Dominion Life Style Box: 7
  
• Barren Ground Box: 7
  
• Battleground Box: 7
  
• Bennett, Anne Virginia Box: 7
  
• Deliverance, A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields Box: 7
  
• Descendant, The Box: 7
  
• Duke, Frank Box: 7
  
• Ellen Anderson Gohlson Glasgow 1874-1945 Box: 7
  
• Ellen Glasgow and the Art of the Novel Box: 7
  
• Ellen Glasgow: An Essay in Bibliography Box: 7
  
• Ellen Glasgow, James Branch Cabell and Richmond Box: 7
  
• Ellen Glasgow-James Branch Cabell Entente Box: 7
  
• Ellen Glasgow: A Reference Guide: Manuscript 1898-1941 Box: 7
  
• Ellen Glasgow: A Reference Guide: Manuscript 1942-1981 Box: 7
  
• Ellen Glasgow: A Reference Guide: Preface Box: 7
  
• Ellen Glasgow's "Flexible Style" Box: 7
  
• Ellen Glasgow's Novels: Time and Place Box: 7
  
• Ellen Glasgow's Territory Box: 7
  
• Ellen Glasgow's Virginia 1951-1954 Box: 7
  
• Ellen Glasgow's Virginia--Background of her Novels Box: 7
  
• Ellen Glasgow's Virginia--Background of her Novels Box: 9
  
• Ellen Glasgow's Virginia--Background of her Novels Box: 9
  
• Ellen Glasgow's Virginia Women Box: 9
  
• Finger on the Pulse of Life: Ellen Glasgow's Search for Style Box: 9
  
• Focus on Ellen Glasgow's Use of Virginia Territories in Her Novels Box: 9
  
• General File Box: 9
  
• Glasgow Map Material Box: 9
  
• Glasgow Research material Box: 9
  
• Guest Book-Glasgow House Box: 9
  
• Hall, G.K. Box: 9
  
• Happy Birthday, Miss Ellen! Box: 9
  
• Louisa County Box: 10
  
• Mill and Old Church Box: 10
  
• Notes Box: 10
  
• Phases of an Inferior Planet Box: 10
  
• Romance of a Plain Man Box: 10
  
• Romantic Comedians Box: 10
  
• Sheltered Image Box: 10
  
• Sheltered Life, The Box: 10
  
• Six Months with Ellen Glasgow in Virginia Box: 10
  
• Tutwiler, Mrs Box: 10
  
• Two Biographical Notes on Ellen Glasgow Box: 10
  
• Vein of Iron Box: 10
  
• Virginia Box: 10
  
• Voice of the People Box: 10
  
• Wilkins (Ruth Jones) Papers 1 of 2 Box: 10
  
• Wilkins (Ruth Jones) Papers 2 of 2 Box: 10
  
• American Literary Scholarship: A Review
• American Literary Scholarship: A Review Box: 10
  
• Another Opinion of Ingenue Among the Lions Box: 10
  
• "Barren Ground: A Classic Revisited" Box: 10
  
• Bond That Held Box: 10
  
• Child's Collection Miller Box: 10
  
• "Deep and Loving Heart" Box: 10
  
• Elinor Wylie and Richmond Box: 10
  
• Henry Sydnor Harrison: A Centennial Appreciation Box: 10
  
• Modern Poetry Box: 10
  
• Reception of Two Black Artists in Mid-1920s Richmond Box: 10
  
• Russian related Memorabilia Box: 10
  
• Scholarship and Teaching Box: 11
  
• Speeches Box: 11
  
• Symbolic Unity of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Box: 11
  
• Tennessee Williams and the Tragic Tradition Box: 11
  
• Van Vechten Pose: Mark Lutz and Gertrude Stein Box: 11
  
• Virginians: Lives and Literature Box: 11
  
• Williamsburg Public Library Speech Box: 11
  
• Correspondence
• Chronological
• Correspondence, n.d. 1956-1969 Box: 11
  
• Correspondence 1970-1973 Box: 11
  
• Correspondence 1974-1978 Box: 11
  
• Correspondence 1979-1981 Box: 12
  
• Correspondence 1982 Box: 12
  
• Correspondence 1983 Box: 12
  
• Correspondence 1984-1990 Box: 12
  
• Alphabetical
• Andrews, Edna 1985-1986 Box: 13
  
• Bickers, William 1979 Box: 13
  
• Cabell, Margaret Freeman and Ballard, n.d. 1956-1968 Box: 13
  
• Calisch, Edith 1974-1975 Box: 13
  
• Carroll, Roger Hunt, n.d. 1974-1980 Box: 13
  
• Carroll, Roger Hunt 1986-1988 Box: 13
  
• Cherry, Kenneth 1976-1977 Box: 13
  
• Childs, Rives 1966-1973 Box: 13
  
• Clark, Josephine Glasgow, n.d. 1973-1975 Box: 13
  
• Cook, Martha 1980-1982 Box: 13
  
• Davis Paxton 1989 Box: 13
  
• Davis, Richard Beale 1977-1980 Box: 13
  
• Diakonova, Nina 1984-1990 Box: 13
  
• Duke, Maurice 1968-1982 Box: 13
  
• Ekman, Barlero 1978-1980 Box: 13
  
• Flora, Joseph 1972-1984 Box: 13
  
• Free, Ann 1979-1981 Box: 14
  
• Freudenberg, Anne 1976-1986 Box: 14
  
• Gaskin, J.R. 1979 Box: 14
  
• Gatlin, Judith 1975-1979 Box: 14
  
• Giacomini, Lynwood 1972-1981 Box: 14
  
• Godshalk, William 1968-1974 Box: 14
  
• Hartman, Harry 1967 Box: 14
  
• Hibino, Michael 1980 Box: 14
  
• Holman, Hugh 1969-1974 Box: 14
  
• Hood, Thomas 1979 Box: 14
  
• Inge, Thomas 1969-1984 Box: 14
  
• Hook Andrew 1980 Box: 14
  
• Jones, Howard 1974-1979 Box: 14
  
• Kelly, William 1973-1975 Box: 14
  
• Kellner, Bruce, n.d. 1975-1983 Box: 14
  
• Kovalev, Yuri V 1985-1988 Box: 14
  
• Lewis, George, n.d. 1970-1971 Box: 14
  
• McDowell, Fred 1974-1976 Box: 14
  
• Karl, Moreland 1971-1975 Box: 14
  
• Morton, Tim 1974-1975 Box: 14
  
• Myer, Elizabeth 1980 Box: 14
  
• Norfleet, Fillmore 1919, 1977-1982 Box: 14
  
• Penninger, Elaine 1973-1975 Box: 14
  
• Peple, Edward 1969-1984 Box: 14
  
• Raper, J.R. 1974-1983 Box: 15
  
• Roberts, Marguerite 1919-1976 Box: 15
  
• Roberts, Marguerite 1919-1976 Box: 15
  
• Ronson, Ethel n.d. 1970-1978 Box: 15
  
• Rothman, Julius 1967-1971 Box: 15
  
• Rouse, Blaire 1965-1981 Box: 15
  
• Rubin, Louis 1959-1985 Box: 15
  
• Schlegel, Dorothy 1972 Box: 15
  
• Schmidt, Jan 1978-1982 Box: 15
  
• Sharogradskaya, Anna 1984-1990 Box: 15
  
• Sharokava, Eugenia 1984-1987 Box: 15
  
• Shield, Asa 1979-1981 Box: 15
  
• Simpson, Bill 1978-1980 Box: 15
  
• Slatten, Richard 1984 Box: 15
  
• Smylie, James 1975-1976 Box: 15
  
• Tolochin, Igor 1984-1990 Box: 16
  
• Tolochin, Nina 1984-1991 Box: 16
  
• Trigg, Emma, n.d. Box: 16
  
• Tutwiler, Colonel Carrington, n.d. 1974-1981 Box: 16
  
• Wang, Arthur 1978-1984 Box: 16
  
• White III, Luther 1972-1975 Box: 16
  
• Wilkins, Elliot 1974-1982 Box: 16
  
• Williams, Peyton 1974-1977 Box: 16
  
• Woodward, Harry 1975 Box: 16
  
• Woodbridge, Annie 1978-1981 Box: 16
  
• Various Correspondence Concerning Publishing 1977-1978 Box: 16
  
• Research Correspondence
• Bennett, Anne Virginia, n.d. 1933-1953 Box: 16a
  
• Edgeworth, Maria to Rachel Lazarus 1816-1838 Box: 16a
  
• Glasgow, Ellen, Marjorie K. Rawlings and James Branch Cabell, n.d. 1909-1945 Box: 16a
  
• Glasgow, Ellen to MKR 1939-1944 Box: 16a
  
• Glasgow, Ellen to Hunter Stagg 1944 Box: 17
  
• Lutz, Mark 1934-1936 Box: 17
  
• Lutz, Mark to Bruce Kellner, n.d. 1967 Box: 17
  
• Stagg, Hunter and Gertrude Stein 1923-1941 Box: 17
  
• Williams, Frances L. To Ellen Glasgow 1935 Box: 17
  
• Ellen Glasgow Society 1880-1983
• Articles, n.d. Box: 17
  
• Autograph, n.d. 1880 Box: 17
  
• By-Laws Box: 18
  
• Copy for Newsletter, n.d. 1953-1975 Box: 17
  
• Correspondence, n.d. 1975-1983 Box: 18
  
• General Organization 1974-1980 Box: 18
  
• Membership, n.d. 1978-1980 Box: 18
  
• Mary Baldwin College Symposium 1973-1980 Box: 18
  
• MLA Seminar 1975-1980 Box: 18
  
• Newsletter-Comment 1980 Box: 18
  
• Seminar, n.d. 1976-1978 Box: 18
  
• Published Materials 1961-1985
• Brochures and Pamphlets 1964-1985 Box: 19
  
• Down East 1974 Box: 19
  
• Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature Box: 19
  
• Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature Box: 19
  
• Poetry Box: 19
  
• Southern Literature Information Box: 19
  
• Southern Literature Information 1961 Box: 19
  
• Virginia Verse Box: 19
  
• Virginia State Library and Archives Board
• Notes and Memoranda 1990 Box: 19
  
• James Branch Cabell and Richmond-in-Virginia
• Oversize
• Ellen Glasgow's Virginia map by Ruth Jones Wilkins Box: 20
  
• News Leader article on map 12 December 1951 Box: 20
  
• Engraved Block of map Box: 20
  
• Four photographs of Josephine Glasgow Clark Box: 21
  Four 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 Atantlic City where Annie Glasgow Clark had a stroke and died.
• Obituaries for Josephine Glasgow Clark Box: 21
  Two obituaries, one written by Edgar MacDonald and the other from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 5, 1984.
• Ellen Glasgow Festival Posters 1983 Located in Map Drawer 25
  Drawer: 25
  
• Video-Tape Richmond: Historic Sights and Haunts (RG 70) Located in Map Drawer 25
  Drawer: 25