Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4432
VERMONT CONNECTICUT ROYSTER PAPERS
Initial Description
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, addresses, and printed
material of Vermont Connecticut Royster (b. 1914),
editor of the Wall Street Journal, 1958-1971; author;
and winner of Pulitzer Prizes for editorial writing
(1953) and distinguished commentary (1984). Most of
the material relates to Royster's career as a
journalist.
Online Catalog Terms:
Journalism--United States--History--20th century.
Journalists--United States--History--20th century.
Royster, Vermont, 1914-.
Wall Street journal.
Size: About 2,300 items (4.0 linear feet)
Provenance: Received from Vermont C. Royster of Chapel Hill,
N.C., in January 1986, October 1987, and May 1989,
and transferred from the UNC School of Journalism
in April 1990.
Processing Note: Complete processing of this collection
deferred pending excepted additions.
Access: No restrictions
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copy-right law.
Table of Contents:
Accession of January 1986
Accession of October 1987
Accession of May 1989
Accession of April 1990
Shelf List
ACCESSION OF JANUARY 1986
Chiefly correspondence, writings and addresses, and printed
items relating to Royster's career. Files of particular interest
include "Special Letters" (folder 2), which includes
correspondence between Royster and public officials such as
Richard M. Nixon, Barry Goldwater, and Jesse Helms, and "Memos on
meetings with Presidents" (folder 15), documenting Royster's
meetings with Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, and John
F. Kennedy.
Folders have been listed and numbered, but are otherwise
unprocessed.
Folder
1 Syracuse University, Royster Papers
2 Special Letters
3 General Correspondence re Boating
4 Boat Yards
5 Manhassset Bay Yacht Club
6 The Covenant
7 Mystic Seaport
8 N. Y. Yacht Club
9 Royster "A Pride of Prejudices"
10 Morehead Central Selection Committee
11 Committees, Boards and Awards (accepted)
12 Committees, Boards and Awards (declined)
13 Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board
14 Press Releases re Royster
15 Memos on meetings with Presidents
16 Memoir Material
17 Royster Speeches
18 Miscellaneous Speeches
19 Miscellaneous Writings
20 Royster Articles
21 Miscellaneous Reprints
22 CBS Spectrum 1977
23 CBS Scripts
24 Poli Sci 95, 1974
25 Poli Sci 95, Spring 1976
26 School Lectures
27 Royster Biographical Material
28 Biographical Sketches (Royster)
29 Royster-News Stories re Resignation from WSJ,
Dow Jones
30 News Stories re Appointments to UNC-CH
31 Clips and VCR
32 Pulitzer #2
33 VCR Clips About
34 Clips and Readers
35-36 Reviews - "Pride of Prejudices"
37 The Essential Royster Reviews
38 Reviews - Memoirs
39 Navy Post War
40 Navy Papers
41 Miscellaneous Navy Papers
42-43 Photographs
ACCESSION OF OCTOBER 1987
Folder
44 A. D. Royster, Inc.
45 Royster News
46 Royster Family-Genealogy, History and Pictures
47 Beall Correspondence-"A Story of Plagiarism"
48 Warren Phillips
49 Correspondence re China
50 Correspondence re My Own, My Country's Time
51 National Historical Publications and Records
Commission
52 Pulitzer Prize
53 White House Correspondence
54 University of North Carolina Press
55-57 Royster Columns
58 United States Information Agency, 1976
59 Book Found in Nagasaki, 19 September 1945
60 Phi Bata Kappa
61-66 Letters from Readers
67 Letters Home during World War II
68 National Humanities Center
69 Hugh Morson High School Reunion, 1984
70 Lecture Program
71 50th Wedding Anniversary
72 Snapshots of Roysters in Europe
ACCESSION OF MAY 1989 (Acc. 89033)
Folder
73 Congressional Campaign, 1950 (Wall Street Journal
articles)
74 "Remarks at the 100th Anniversary of the News and
Observer" (16 May 1965)
75 "Thinking Things Over," (Wall Street Journal columns,
7 February 1975-21 May 1975)
76 Seventeenth Annual Communications Awards Dinner of
the Press Club of Dallas (25 November 1975)
77 Newspaper articles by and about VCR
78 Items re VCR-Dow Jones Fellowships and Assistantships
in the Journalism School
79 VCR Induction into the N. C. Journalism Hall of Fame
80 Miscellaneous items
81 Pictures of VCR
Museum item
MU-4432/1 Framed tearsheets (3 in one frame). Included are
Royster's first "Thinking Things Over" column (28
January 1964), his last (5 March 1986), and
letters to the editor (Wall Street Journal, 18
March 1986)) about Royster's giving up the column.
ACCESSION OF APRIL 1990 (Acc. 90040)
Folder
82-84 Photocopy of typed copy of Royter's memoirs.
SHELF LIST
Box 1. (folders 1-26)
Box 2. (folders 27-43)
Box 3. (folders 44-72)
Box 4. (folders 73-84)
Item separated:
MU-4432/1