Inventory of the Erskine Caldwell Letters, 1929-1973
Collection Number 4149-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987.
- Title
- Erskine Caldwell Letters, 1929-1973.
- Call Number
- 4149-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 62 items
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- 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.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- 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.
Collection Overview
Letters, 1929-1931, from Erskine Caldwell (1903- ), 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.