Box 9
Container
Contains 10 Results:
A Summons To Memphis . Typescript notes, 2 p. (1 a photocopy).
Item — Box: 9, 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
A Summons To Memphis . Typescript fragment (titled “Old Enemies”), p. 1-2, of broken line prose with holograph corrections.
Item — Box: 9, 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
A Summons To Memphis . Typescript fragment (untitled), p. 25-26, of broken line prose with holograph corrections.
Item — Box: 9, 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
A Summons To Memphis . Parts of various drafts (includes variant titles listed below), most in broken line prose and heavily annotated, detailed as follows: Typescript, p. -, 2-4, - (“Old Enemies”), 3-5, 5, 4a, 7, 6, 2-5, 9, 4-6, 8-11, 6, 6, - (“Old Enemies”), 2-3, 6, 2-3, 2-5, - (“The Dueling Ground”), 2, 5, 3, 2, - (“The One That Got Away”), 2, 6-8, - (“O, Blue-Eyed Banditti!”), 2-14, 3, 2, 2, 2, - (“The Garden District”), - (“The Blue-Eyed Banditti”), - (“A Modest House In Memphis Proper” crossed out and “The Fatality” written over it), 15, 2; Holograph notes (5 p.); Typescript, p. 1-2.
Item — Box: 9, 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
A Summons To Memphis . Typescript fragment (untitled), p. 78-103, in broken line prose with holograph corrections.
Item — Box: 9, 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
A Summons To Memphis . Typescript fragment (titled “The Notebooks” – also has “The Father Figure” and “The Father Image” written at head), p.1-12, holograph corrections.
Item — Box: 9, 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
A Summons To Memphis . Photocopy of typescript (titled “The Notebooks”), p. 1-3, with holograph corrections.
Item — Box: 9, 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
A Summons To Memphis . Photocopy of typescript (titled “The Notebooks”), p.1-30, 1-30.
Item — Box: 9, 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
A Summons To Memphis . Various typescript fragments (includes variant titles listed below), in part photocopies, in both broken line prose and traditional prose, with holograph corrections. p. 78-103, 15-19, 78-103, 36-37, 39-52, 54, 53a, 53, 55-57, 20-24, 1-14, 9-13, 29-48, 18, 23-24, 49, 74a, 74c, 1-180 (title “The Trail of Tears” has been crossed out and above it appears “A Summons Home” and “A Summons to Memphis.” Another title at the left is “The Removal.” There are also subtitles “Being the Notebooks of an Old Bachelor Son & Brother” and “Notebooks of an Unmarried Son.”)
Item — Box: 9, Folder: 9-20
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
A Summons To Memphis . Various typescript fragments, in part photocopies, in both broken line prose and traditional prose, with holograph corrections, detailed as follows: 1 p. holograph notes, p. 136, 171, 177, 178, 178, 25, 4-8, 39, 36-38, 26-27, 7-13, 9-20, 40-43, 2-4, 15, 2, 35, 55, 3 p. holograph notes (1 p. titled “Poetry of Character and Context,” 1p. titled “Reunion at Owl Mountain”), 22, 26-29, 21, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1-3, 1-10, 31, 30, 32-35, 44-49, 38, 19, 17-18, 14-16, 46, 8-9, 47, 45, 4, 48-58, 36, 2-5, 41-44, 29, 25, 25, 26-34, 20-24, 49-55, 1, 5-7, 10-14, 14, 5-13, 15-35, 1-3, 5, 54, 56-60, 19-31, 20-24, 61-64, 73, 1-18, 50-58, 62, 59, 60-72.
Item — Box: 9, Folder: 21-31
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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