John Crowe Ransom and Joseph Edgar Simmons Correspondence Collection
Scope and Content Note
Dates
- multiple
Language of Materials
Biographical Note
Joseph Edgar Simmons taught English at DePauw College, William and Mary College in Virginia, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. Over the period of the almost seven years of this correspondence, Simmons wrote to Mr. Ransom regularly, often requesting comments on his poetry and philosophic writings and asking for recommendations as he tried to find new teaching positions. This collection is a record of John Crowe Ransom’s response to the letters sent by Simmons.
Extent
.02 Linear Feet
Overview
Physical Location
- Title
- Finding Aid for the John Crowe Ransom and Joseph Edgar Simmons Correspondence Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Vanderbilt University Special Collections Repository
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
419 21st Avenue South
Nashville TN 37203 United States
specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu