Box 7
Container
Contains 33 Results:
“Allegiance” (titled “A Spell”) Typescript, p.1-7 with some holograph corrections, “Somewhere in England, January 1945” typed at end of story.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 1
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“The Captain’s Son” (title “A Fable of Nashville and Memphis” crossed out) Photocopy of typescript, p.1-36 with holograph and taped on corrections, signed by Peter Taylor. Appears to be setting copy used by the New Yorker . Date stamped Jan. 12, 1976.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 2
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“Cousin Aubrey” (titled “To The Lost State” 4 p. holograph manuscript (also titled “Journey To The Lost State”), typescript fragment -, 1, 1-2, 1, -, 1, 1, 1-2, 1-3, with holograph corrections.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 3
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“Cousin Aubrey” Typescript fragment, p. 1, 1-3, 11, with holograph corrections.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 4
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“Cousin Aubrey” Typescript fragment (also titled “The Senator’s Daughters”) p. 1, 1-2, 7-8, with holograph corrections.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“Cousin Aubrey” Typescript fragment, p. 1-10, 12-26, 32-33, 39-42, 27-28, with holograph corrections.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 6
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“Daphne’s Lover.” 3 page holograph fragment (titled “The Age of Annie Sue”), which appears to be an early version of the story that became “Daphne’s Lover.”
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 7
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“Daphne’s Lover.” Typescript fragment (titled “The Age of Annie Sue”), p. 1-4, with holograph corrections, also one unnumbered page with holograph notes, which appears to be an early version of the story that became “Daphne’s Lover.”
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 8
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“Daphne’s Lover.” Typescript fragment (untitled), p.1, 1, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5-11, with holograph corrections, also one unnumbered page with holograph notes, which appears to be an early version of the story that became “Daphne’s Lover.”
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 9
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“Daphne’s Lover.” Typescript (untitled), p. 1-27, with holograph corrections which appears to be an early version of the story that became “Daphne’s Lover.”
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 10
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“Daphne’s Lover.” Typescript fragment (untitled), p.7-9, with holograph corrections, which appears to be part of an early version of the story that became “Daphne’s Lover.” Also a scrap of paper with the holograph note “Frank’s Mother and Father” is in the file.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 11
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“The Gift of the Prodigal.” Typescript fragment, p. 4-31, 3, with holograph corrections in the early, broken line prose version. Signed by Peter Taylor.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 12
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“The Gift of the Prodigal.”Photocopy of typescript, p.1-33, with some holograph corrections, in broken line prose.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 13
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“The Gift of the Prodigal.”Typescript fragment, p. 1, 1, 1, 2-6, 1, with holograph corrections of an early draft.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 14
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“The Gift of the Prodigal.”Typescript, p. 1-22, with some holograph corrections, version marked “original ms.”
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 15
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“The Gift of the Prodigal.” Photocopy of typescript, p. 1-22, apparently a copy of the manuscript in File 11 above, but with a couple of additional corrections.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 16
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“The Gift of the Prodigal.” Photocopy of typescript, p. 1-22, with corrections and copy setting markings from the New Yorker .
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 17
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“The Gift of the Prodigal.” Galleys, p. 2-8, 10-18, 1, 9, 20, 19 with notes from New Yorker editors questioning words, suggesting alternatives, etc. Also questions from the Legal Department.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 18
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“The Hand of Emmagene.” Typescript, p.1, 2, 2-5, 5, 6-12, with holograph corrections, signed by Peter Taylor. Early broken line prose version.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 19
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
“The Hand of Emmagene.” Photocopy of typescript in broken line prose, p. 1-19.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 20
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Papers of Peter Taylor (1917-1994), writer, educator and former Vanderbilt student (1936-1937), were acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library during the summer of 1988 from Collector Stuart T. Wright of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Of the eighteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence and another 5.5 are filled with manuscripts of Taylor’s writings. The other 3.5 boxes contain items of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as author and...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1905-1988; Bulk: 1939-1980
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