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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Travis Tuck Jordan Papers, #3503, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Wallace Tuck of Durham, N.C., September 1960.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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• American poetry--North Carolina--20th century.
• Authors, American--North Carolina--20th century.
• Jordan, Travis Tuck.
• Women poets, American--North Carolina--20th century.

Travis Tuck Jordan (fl. 1928-1941) was the author of poems, essays, and articles, and head of the Federal Writers Project in Durham County, N.C. She sometimes wrote under the psuedonymns Cherry Wilkins, Mary McLynch, and Ida Wilkins.

About one thousand poems, published and unpublished, by Travis Tuck Jordan, and correspondence concerning her writings. The poems are typed, usually of one to four stanzas, occasionally with notes as to whether or not they had been published. The correspondence concerns awards, memberships in creative writing societies, publication in magazines and anthologies, and professional criticism from Edith Mirick, of Manuscript Club and Star Dust, Washington, D.C.