Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to Use

Citation, quotation, or copying of letters from Erskine Caldwell, 1929-1931, is prohibited without the written permission of the University of Delaware.

Citation, quotation, or copying of letters, 1970, from William A. Sutton is prohibited without the written permission of William A. Sutton.

Copyright Notice

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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Erskine Caldwell Letters, #4149-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from the North Carolina State University Archives, 1977 and December 1984 (Acc. 84190).

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• American periodicals.
• Authors, American--20th century.
• Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971.
• Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987--Marriage.
• Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987.
• Cushman, Helen Caldwell.
• Divorced people--United States--History--20th century.
• Family--United States--Social life and customs.
• Johns, Richard, 1904-1970.
• Pagany.

Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) was an American author. Among his published works are the novels Bastard (1929), Poor Fool (1930), Tobacco Road (1932), and God's Little Acre (1933).

The collection includes typescript copies of letters, 1929-1931, from Erskine Caldwell, to Richard Johns (1904-1970), editor of Pagany, about material submitted by Caldwell to the magazine, the craft of writing, other material in Pagany, other magazines and writers, and Caldwell's own work and publishing plans. There are a few family letters, 1943, to Margaret Bourke-White, from whom Caldwell had just been divorced; clippings about Caldwell; a typescript of a chapter from a biography of Caldwell dealing with his marriage to Helen Caldwell Cushman; and other items.