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Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: {Identification of item], Thomas H. Carter Correspondence, WLU Coll. 0004, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

A second installment was the gift of Dr. James Boatwright.

Biographical / Historical

Thomas Carter was editor of Spearhead and Shenandoah.

Scope and Contents

Contains the correspondence of Thomas H. Carter and the editors of Shenandoah, 1950-53, and of Mr. Carter, 1950-1962, including numerous letters from leading contemporary literary figures; typescripts from v.III, no.3, 1952, v.IV, nos. 2-3, 1953, of Shenandoah. Also contains letters written to Thomas Carter regarding Spearhead. Authors of the letters vary from editors and publishers to personal friends and prospective contributors to the aforementioned publications. Also includes manuscripts by George Fox and Joe Kennedy. Includes letters of condolence sent to Mrs. Carter upon the death of her son in 1963.

Related Material

WLU Coll. 0104 Shenandoah Papers and Record Group 29

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Authors
• Berryman, John
• Boatwright, James, III
• Brown, Ashley
• Cabell, James Branch
• Campbell, Roy
• Cheney, Brainard
• Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)
• Davidson, Donald
• Derleth, August William
• Editors
• Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
• Faulkner, William
• Fishwick, Marshall William
• Gordon, Caroline
• Jarrell, Randall
• Kenner, Hugh
• Kirk, Russell
• Lewis, Wyndham
• Leyburn, James Graham
• Literature
• Lytle, Andrew Nelson
• Macauley, Robie
• McCullers, Carson
• McLuhan, Marshall
• Moore, Marianne
• Moore, Merrill
• Mudrick, Marvin
• Nixon, H. C. (Herman Clarence)
• O'Connor, Flannery
• Odum, Howard Washington
• Porter, Katherine Anne
• Pound, Ezra
• Pound, Omar
• Ransom, John Crowe
• Russell, Peter
• Shenandoah (Washington and Lee University)
• Spearhead (Washington and Lee University)
• Stevens, Wallace
• Stewart, Randall
• Tate, Allen
• Taylor, Peter
• Williams, William Carlos