A Guide to the Richmond Croom Beatty papers, 1927-1967 , M 2

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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.

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.

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.

Container List

Series 1: Personal Papers, 1925-1960

Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 1
College Term Papers, 1927-1930
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 2
Poetry, undated
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 3
Manuscript of William Byrd's Natural History of Virginia, circa 1940
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 4
General Correspondence, 1930 1960
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 5
Assorted short manuscripts and notes, undated
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 6
Photographs of Beatty and Bayard Taylor, undated
Mixed Materials box: 1 Mixed Materials box: 2
Works of other people, 1925, 1936-1937
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 2
Modern Poetry Notebook and Contents, 1942
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 3
Novel Draft Notebook, undated
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 4
Notebooks of Transcribed Nineteenth-Century Correspondence of James Russell Lowell, circa 1930s
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 5
Notebook of Transcribed Excerpts from Periodicals, undated
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 6
Notebook of Transcribed Excerpts from an Unidentified Mid-Twentieth-Century Journal, undated

Series 2: Periodicals, 1932-1967

Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 1
The Atlantic Monthly , 1932
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 2
Forum and Century , 1932
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 3
The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle , 1932
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 4
The Hopkins Review , 1951
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 5
The Observer , 1933-1934
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 6
The Paris Review , 1953
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 7
The New Republic , 1934
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 8
River , 1937
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 9
Shenandoah , 1952
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 10
Southern Observer , 1954
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 11
The Southwestern Journal , 1934-1935
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 12
Vanderbilt University Alumnus and Press Release, 1949, 1967
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 13
The Virginia Quarterly Review , 1958
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 14
Excerpt from South Atlantic Bulletin , 1937
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 15
Excerpt from Studies in Philology , 1940
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 16
Reprints from Philological Quarterly , 1934
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 17
Reprint from Publications of the Modern Language Association of America , 1934
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 18
Reprint from The Sewanee Review , 1941