Finding Aid for the Greensboro Reader Collection, 1967-1968
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The Greensboro Reader is an anthology of stories and poems by writers who either received a degree from or were full-time teachers in the English Department of UNCG between 1938 and 1968. The Greensboro Reader Collection dates from 1967 to 1968 and contains correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and biographical material.
MSS 031
2 boxes
Collection is open for research.
Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
[Identification of item], Greensboro Reader Collection (MSS 031), University Archives and Manuscripts, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Gifts of Robert Watson and Gibbons Ruark, September 1968.
The Greensboro Reader is an anthology of stories and poems by writers who either received a degree from or were full-time teachers in the English Department of UNCG between 1938 and 1968. It was published by the University of North Carolina Press at Chapel Hill in 1968.
Twelve pieces of fiction and eleven poems are included. Each writer had been previously published. The Greensboro Reader thus drew together in its pages a flourishing community of writers from the South.
The Reader was compiled and edited by Robert Watson and Gibbons Ruark, members of the English faculty at UNCG. One of the editors' aims in compiling this book was to point up the special place given to the creative writing program at UNCG.
The Greensboro Reader Collection dates from 1967 to 1968 and contains correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and biographical material.
ARRANGEMENT
Box 1 Correspondence and manuscript materials
The correspondence dates from May 1967 to May 1968 and is divided into two parts. The first part is mainly between the editors and the poets and novelists whose work they requested for inclusion in the proposed anthology. There are also letters of permission and assignments of copyright from various editors and publishers. Some of the letters from contributors such as William Pitt Root, Fred Chappell, and Jean Farley contain remarks about their jobs, their own literary works, and literature in general.
The second part of the correspondence is between the editors and the Director, Editor-in-Chief, and Sales Manager at the University of North Carolina Press in Chapel Hill. These letters concern the details of publication, including copy preparation and release date.
The manuscript of The Greensboro Reader consists of original and photocopied typescript material; 290 numbered leaves.
Box 2 Galley and plate proofs; miscellaneous biographical items
The galley proofs have handwritten corrections by the individual contributors; they are divided into the following groups, as received from the editors:
Galley proof I: James Appl ewhite, Caroline Gordon, Jessie Rosenberg , Gibbons Ruark, Allen Tate, and Robert Watson.
Galley proof II: Fred Chappel1, Jean Farley, Bertha Harris, Hiram Haydn, Tom Molyneux, Lawrence Judson Reynolds, and Peter Taylor.
Galley proof III: Kelly Cherry, Randall Jarrell (with manuscript note by Mary Jarrell ), XJ Kennedy, Robie Macauley, HR Miller, Diane Oliver, Patricia Peters, William PH Root, and ER Taylor.
The plate-proof is complete, with some manuscript corrections; various pagings.
One folder of miscellaneous typescript items includes a list of contributors and biographical information.
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