A Guide to the Richmond Croom Beatty papers, 1927-1967 M 2
A Collection in Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Collection number M 2
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Administrative Information
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
There are no restrictions.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mrs. Floyd Beatty in 1972.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Authors, American -- Manuscripts.
- Beatty, Richmond Croom, 1905-1961
- College teachers -- Manuscripts -- United States
Container List
- 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
- 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