Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                GENERAL AND LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS

                             #12013
         JACQUES BARZUN AND WENDELL HERTIG TAYLOR PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Correspondence, notes, and typed drafts concerning
           A Catalogue of Crime and Fifty Classics of Crime, both
           edited by Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Barzun, Jacques, 1907- .
   Detective and mystery stories.
   Taylor, Louis Hertig.
   Taylor, Wendell Hertig, 1905- .

Size:  About 60 items (1.0 linear ft.).

Provenance:    Transferred from the Rare Book Collection,
               University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in
               December 1983.

Access:  No restrictions.

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.

Table of Contents:
   Historical Note
   Description
   Shelf List

                         HISTORICAL NOTE

   Jacques Barzun, professor and critic, and Wendell Hertig
Taylor, a retired scientist, were life-long friends and
enthusiastic readers, critics, and collectors of detective
fiction. In the early 1970s, they began donating many of their
books to the Rare Book Room of the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.  In appreciation, the library renamed its mystery
collection "The Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor
Collection of Crime and Detection."

   Barzun and Taylor compiled and edited A Catalogue of Crime, a
reference guide to detective stories.  They sent typed drafts of
the book, along with related materials, to the Rare Book
Collection which transferred them to the Southern Historical
Collection in 1983.

                           DESCRIPTION

   Most of these items are letters, notes, and typed drafts of
Barzun and Taylor's A Catalogue of Crime, and the supplements to
it that appeared in Barzun's The Armchair Detective.  There are
also four detective stories and articles written by Wendell
Hertig Taylor and Louise Hertig Taylor in the 1920s, and typed
notes for Fifty Classics of Crime, a series of re-issued
noteworthy mysteries, which Barzun and Taylor edited.

Folder 1.     Stories and Articles (typescript and handwriten) by
                W. H. and L. H. Taylor
       2.     Notes for A Catalogue of Crime
       3.     Notes for Fifty Classics of Crime
       4-7.   Notes for supplements to A Catalogue of Crime
       8.     Correspondence About Fifty Classics of Crime
       9-11.  Typed drafts of portions of Fifty Classics of Crime

                           SHELF LIST

   Box 1 (only)