Simpson (Lewis P.) Papers

Mss. 4412

Inventory

Compiled by

Neil Guilbeau

Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections

Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library

Louisiana State University Libraries

Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University

2007

CONTENTS OF INVENTORY

Summary	3
Biographical/Historical Note	4
Scope and Content Note	5
Index Terms	6
Container List	7-19

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SUMMARY

Size

24 linear feet

Geographic Locations

Baton Rouge, La.

Inclusive Dates

1923-2004

Bulk Dates

1980-2000

Languages

English

Summary

This collection documents the professional life of Lewis P. Simpson, LSU English professor and co-editor of the Southern Review. The collection consists of correspondence, contracts, flyers, printed matter, book reviews, reports, essays, conference materials, and bibliographies.

Access Restrictions

None

Physical rights and copyright are retained by the LSU Libraries

Citation

Lewis P. Simpson Papers, Mss. 4412, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La.

Stack Location(s)

95:83-106

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE

A native of Jacksboro, Tex., Lewis Simpson (1916-2005) received his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate degrees at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1948, Simpson and his wife Mary, called Mimi, moved to Baton Rouge, La. There he spent the remainder of his career at Louisiana State University as a professor of English (1948-1987), and Boyd Professor (1980). In 1965, he became co-editor of Southern Review, the literary journal founded by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren. In addition to serving on advisory and editorial boards of various literary journals between 1968 and 1990, he also served on the advisory board of the publishing firm, Library of America. Between 1970 and 1990, Simpson was part of several grant and award committees including the Brooks Award Committee, Harvard University Ad Hoc Committee, Christian Gauss Award Committee, J.B. Hubbell Award Committee, and the Richard Beale Davis Prize Committee. Among Simpson’s many achievements, he was named to the LSU Distinguished Faculty Fellowship (1971-1972), and honored by the National Endowment of the Humanities (1977-1978), the Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities (1987), and the Modern Language Association (1991). In 1987, Simpson was a founding member of The Fellowship of Southern Writers, and served as president of the St. George Tucker Society from 1991 to 1994. He also traveled as a lecturer to several universities around the country including the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Kent State University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Dartmouth College.

During his career, Simpson authored several books and essays including The Man of Letters in New England and the South: Essays on the History of the Literary Vocation in America (1973), The Possibilities of Order: Cleanth Brooks and His Work (1976), The Brazen Face of History: Studies in the Literary Consciousness in America (1980), The Dispossessed Garden: Pastoral and History in Southern Literature (1983), Mind and the American Civil War: A Meditation on Lost Causes (1989), Imagining Our Time: Recollections and Reflections on American Writing (2007), The Mark Twain Encyclopedia, Literary New Orleans, and Something in Common: Contemporary Louisiana Stories. He concluded one of his works, The Fable of the Southern Writer, with his own memoir in 1994. Simpson died in April 2005 at the age of 88.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

Papers have been organized into two groups: Correspondence, 1923-2003, and Topical Files, 1924-2004.

Correspondence consists primarily of Simpson’s professional correspondence with peers, employees, publishers, reviewers, and organizations. Some of the professional correspondence contains personal notes indicating that a number of Simpson’s professional contacts were also his friends. The correspondence pertains to discussions of literary works and projects, itineraries, publishing issues, organization and committee activities, his work as an English professor at LSU, an editor of Southern Review, and as an author. Folders are arranged alphabetically by author.

Topical Files include many essays, poems, and drafts by Simpson and his peers; writings accepted for publication by Southern Review; speeches by Simpson; clippings documenting his awards and honors; bibliographies filed on index cards; memorials of friends and peers; memos circulated within LSU’s Dept. of English involving schedules and search committee activities; applications to the National Endowment of the Humanities for literary projects; correspondence, announcements, meeting notes and minutes, reports, and memos between Simpson and professional organizations with which he was involved; undated black-and-white and color photographs; invitations to literary events, banquets, and ceremonies; telegrams; contracts between Simpson and universities hiring him to speak; publishing contracts; business and greeting cards; television scripts and projects in which Simpson participated; printed matter including fliers and announcements of literary events; assorted journal articles; and conference correspondence, proceedings, and miscellaneous materials. Topical Files also contain many folders for specific associates of Simpson that combine correspondence, printed matter, memos, essays, poems, and drafts relating to that particular colleague. Folders are arranged alphabetically by topic.

INDEX TERMS

Brodsky, Louis Daniel

Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994

Clark, William Bedford

Core, George

East, Charles

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-

Genovese, Eugene D., 1930-

Lane, Pinkie Gordon

Library of America

Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Dept. of English--Faculty.

Middleton, David, 1949-

O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990

Simpson, Lewis P.

Southern Review.

Trilling, Diana.

Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001

College teachers as authors--Louisiana--Baton Rouge

Authors, American- -Louisiana-Baton Rouge--Literary collections

Periodical editors--Louisiana--Baton Rouge

Genre terms

Annual reports	Interviews
Articles	Letters (correspondence)
Black-and-white photographs	Letters of recommendation
Business cards	Memorandums
Business letters	Minutes
Card indexes	Poems
Circular letters	Postcards
Clippings	Proceedings
Color photographs	Receipts
Conferences	Reports
Contracts	Research notes
Drafts (documents)	Reviews (document genre)
Essays	Speeches
Fliers	Telegrams
Greeting cards

CONTAINER LIST

Location	Box	Folder	Contents
Location	Box	Folder	Contents
			Correspondence
95:83	1	1-2	Misc: A, 1976-1986
		3	Adams, Percy, 1985
		4	Aiken, David, 1989
		5	Arbeit, Marcel, 1992
		6	Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, 1994
		7-8	Misc: B, 1923-2002
		9	Bass, Margaret, 1986-1989
		10	Beebe, Maurice, 1966-1967
		11	Berry, William, 1989-1991
		12	Blackford, Staige, 1980-1990
		13	Blanchard, Carver, 1992-1995
		14	Bovenizer, David, 1985
		15	Bradford, M.E., 1991, 1994
		16	Brigham, Roy, 1994-1995
		17	Brodsky, Louis Daniel, 1993-1995
		18	Butler, Rebecca, 1983-1993
		19-23	Misc: C, 1949-2003
		24	Cambridge University Press, 1989-1991
		25	Campbell, William C., 1992
		26	Cass, Michael, 1994-1999
		27	Castille, Philip, 1991
		28	Columbia University Press, 1988
		29	Cooke, Martha, 1994
		30	Cooper, William J., 1994
		31	Cowan, Louis S., 1988
		32	Misc: D, 1949-2002
		36	Davidson, Cathy, 1993
		37	Davis, Sandra C., Literary Criticism Series, 1991
		38	Davis, Thadious M., 1990
		39	D’Evelyn, Thomas, 1991
		40	Dobie, Ann, 1988-1991
		41	Donald, David Herbert, 1986
		42	Dorman, Susann and Wade, 1991-1992
		43	Drake, Robert, 1991-1992
		44	Duke University Press, 1976
		45	Duquesne, Maurice, 1988-1993
		46	Misc: E, 1954-1996
		47	Edgerton, Clyde, 1991
		48	Edmonton, Cathy, 1994-1995
		49	Elliott, Emory, 1990
		50	Emerson, Everett H., 1989-1993
		51	Misc: F, 1953-1996
95:84	2	1	Misc: F, 1997-2001
		2	Faukner, Donald W., 1989
		3	Ferris, William, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, 1990-1991
		4	Flora, Joseph, 1989
		5	Forkner, Ben, 1989-1993
		6	Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1989-1992
		7-8	Misc: G, 1954-2003
		9	Gabilando, Patricia, undated
		10	Garland Publishing Co., 1986
		11	Garrett, Charlotte, 1994
		12	Georgia Review, Stanley Lindberg, 1988-2002
		13	Gordon, Carolyn, 1994
		14	Grabo, Norman S., 1988-1991
		15	Greer, David, 1994
		16	Griest, Guinevere, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1994
		17	Grigsby, Nora E., 1994
		18	Guagliardo, Huey, 1991
		19	Guilds, John, 1991-1992
		20-22	Misc: H, 1945-2001
		23	Harned, David B., 1986
		24	Hayashi, Koji, 1987
		25	Heck, Robert, 1995
		26	Hedges, William L., 1989
		27	Heilman, Robert, 1970-2001
		28	Hindman, Ira, 1970-1972
		29	Hoffman, Dan, 1977-2002
		30	Holland, Robert B., The Mississippi Quarterly, 1967
		31	Hu, Eugene, undated
		32	Hudgins, Andrew, 1994-1995
		33	Humphries, Jeff, 1988; 1990; 1994
		34	Misc: I, 1969-2000
		35	Idol, John, 1989
		36	Misc: J, 1968-1997
		37	Jarab, Josef, 1992-1993
		38	Jones, Madison, 1988
		39	Misc: K, 1968-1995
		40	Kawai, Hisao, 1979-1980
		41	Kennedy, Gerald, 1989-2002
		42	Kennedy, Richard, 1989-1990
		43	Kersey, Pat, 1989-1991
		44	Koppelman, Robert, 1992
		45	Kreyling, Michael, 1992-2002
		46-51	Misc: L, 1950-2003
		52	Lemay, J.A. Leo, 1988-1993
		53	Lewis, Richard W.B., 1982-1994
		54	Library of Southern Civilization, 1990
95:85	3	1-4	Misc: M, 1945-2003
		5	Madden, David, 1988-1994
		6	Marcello, Leo, 1994-1995
		7	McHaney, Tom, 1973
		8	Martin, Terry, 1989
		9	Marx, Leo, 1974-1976
		10	Matthews, LeeAnn Goodrich, 1986
		11	Mathis, W. Bland, 1983
		12	McAlphin, Sara, 1982; 1989
		13	Mills, Vody, 1971-1994
		14	Mooneyham, Laura, 1992
		15	Muhammad, Abdallah, 1993
		16	Mulling, Bob, undated
		17-18	Misc: N, 1948-2002
		19	Niemeyer, Gerhart, 1988
		20	Norris, Lola, The Southern Quarterly, 1993
		21	Misc: O, 1954-1996
		22	Misc: P, 1955-2003
		23	Paine, Jeffery, The Wilson Quarterly, 1991
		24	Pass, Olivia M., Louisiana English Journal, 1995
		25	Percy, Walker, 1980; 1991; 1993
		26	Phillips, Robert, The Mississippi Quarterly, 1990
		27	Phillips, William, The Partisan Review, 1989-1995
		28	Plater, David, 1987
		29	Pousson, John D., 1991
		30	Prenshaw, Peggy, 1993
		31	Przybycien, Regina, 1990-1991
		32	Misc: Q, 1977
		33-34	Misc: R, 1951-2003
		35	Rankin, Richard, 1991
		36	Reeves, James T., 1977-1989
		37	Reid, Panthea, 1994
		38	Rock, Virginia, 1990
		39	Rodden, John, 1992
		40	Roundtree, Lynn, 1994
		41	Royster, Charles, 1989-2003
		42	Rygiel, Dennis, 1992
		43-47	Misc: S, 1946-2003
		48	Saxena, Mohanna, 1986
		49	Shields, Johanna, 1988
		50	Simpson, John Loftus, 1991
		51	Smith, Dave, 1990-1994
		52	South Central MLA, 1950-1955
		53	Strandberg, Victor, 1989
95:86	4	1-3	Misc: T, 1949-1999
		4	Tassin, Anthony, 1992-2004
		5	Tate, Allen, 1930-1931, 1974
		6	Taylor, Hellen, 1985
		7	Texas State Historical Association, 1988
		8	Tolson, Jay, 1990-1992, 1994
		9	Torsney, Cheryl B., 1990; 1993-1994
		10	Toulouse, Teresa, 1984
		11	Turner, Arlin, 1967-1976; 1980
		12-23	Misc: U, 1945-2003
		24-26	Unknown Correspondence, 1948-1999, undated
95:87	5	1	Unknown Correspondence, 2000-2004
		2	Misc: V, 1966-2001
		3	Vande Kieft, Ruth, 1971-1981
		4-5	Misc: W, 1951-2004
		6	Webster, Linda, 1993
		7	Wesleyan University Press, 1988
		8	White, Harold, 1989
		9	Williams, Mina, 1975; 1990-1991
		10	Williams, Peyton Jr., The Mississippi Quarterly, 1970-1977
		11	Winchell, Mark R., 1992-1994
		12	Witten, Morris, 1989
		13	Woodward, C. Vann, 1995
		14	Wright, Stuart, 1982
		15	Misc: X, 1972
		16	Misc: Y, 1967-1995
		17	Yamada, Shinya, 1988
		18	Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar, 1993
		19	Zietz, Jim, 1993-1994
		20	Zmirack, John, 1994
			Topical Files
		21	Aaron, Daniel, 1976-1997
		22	Abernathy, Jeff, 1992
		23	Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1948
		24	Alabama Public Library Service, 1977
		25	American Literature, 1950-1993
		26	American Philosophical Society, 1984
		27	The American Short Story Series, 1980
		28	Annual Reports, 1978-1987
		29	APSA Oral History Project (Charles S. Hyneman), 1976-1979
		30	ASA Meeting, 1962-1969
		31	Atkinson, Saye, 1991-2004
		32-33	Babin, James, undated, 1986-1993
		34	Bishop, John Peale, undated
		35	“Biography & the Southern Mind” 1986
		36	Black Periodical Fiction Project, 1982
		37	Blackford, Staige, 1999-2003
		38	Blotner, Joseph, 1979-1999
		39	Board of Regents, 1976-1984
		40	Book Reviews, 1977-1987
		41	Boyd Professorship, 1980
		42-45	The Brazen Face of History, undated
95:88	6	1-4	The Brazen Face of History, undated
		5	Brooks-Warren Award, 1995-1996
		6	Brooks, Cleanth-Essays, undated
		7-9	Brooks, Cleanth, 1932-1998
		10	Brumm, Ursula, 1993
		11	Burke, James Lee, 1992
		12	Calhoun, Dick, 1990
		13	Carlson, Eric W., 1988
		14	Carlson, Ralph, 1986
		15	Center for Southern Studies, 1976-1979
		16	Chesnutt, Allison, 1990-1995
		17	The Children of Pride, undated
		18	Chopin, Kate, undated
		19	Christian, American Poets, 1983
		20	Christian Gauss Award, 1975-1977
		21	“The City and the Symbolism of Literary Community in the United States,” undated
		22	Clark, Charles G., 1985-1987
		23-24	Clark, William Bedford, 1990-2004
		25	Cleanth Brooks and Hubbel Award, 1992-1995
		26	Cleanth Brooks Medal, 1995
		27	Chopin Film, undated
		28	Civil War Center, 1995-2000
		29	“The Civil War in Southern Literature,” 1984
		30	Clippings, undated
		31-32	Clippings, 1949-2000
		33	Columbia History of American Literature, 1985
		34	Columbia University Press, 1983-1985
		35	Companion to Southern Literature, undated
		36-38	Conferences and Meetings, 1966-1986
95:89	7	1	Conferences and Meetings, 1987-1995
		2	Conference on Southern Letters and Modern Literature, 1985
		3	Contracts, 1969-2003
		4	Cooper, Robert M. 1994
		5-14	Core, George, 1968-2004
		15	Core, George—“One View of the Castle,” undated
		16	Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 1984
		17-19	Cowley, Malcolm, 1971-1989, undated
		20	Cowley’s Odyssey: Literature & Faith in the Thirties, undated
		21	Cox, James, 1979-2003
		22	Crone, Moira, undated
		23	Crump, Becky, 1985
		24	Curriculum Vitae-Simpson, 1949-1979
		25	Curtis, Gregory, 1990
		26	Cutrer, Thomas, 1990-1994
		27	Cypress Films, 1982-1985
		28	Dalrymple, Margaret, 1980-2004
		29	Daniels, Kate, 1989
		30	Davis, Richard Beale, 1970-1985
		31	Deblanco, Andrew, 1990-1994
		32	Definitions of Southern Literature, 1985
95:90	8	1	Definitions of Southern Literature, 1985-1986
		2	Desmond, John, 1982-1995
		3	Dew, Robb Forman, 1994
		4-9	The Dispossessed Garden, 1974, undated
		10	Dupuy, Eddie, 1995
		11	EAL Division—MLA, 1980
		12	Early American Literature, 1979
		13-16	East, Charles, 1970-1999
		17	“The Economy of Leisure,” 1948
		18	“Elizabeth M. Roberts and The Legend of the Southern Writer,” undated
		19	“Emerson and The Myth of New England’s Intellectual Lapse,” undated
		20	Emerson, Ralph Waldo, undated
		21	Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, 1991
		22	The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, 1982
		23	“The End of the Literary World,” undated
		24	Ernest Gaines Documentary, 1990-1993
		25-28	Essays, undated
95:91	9	1-14	Essays, 1971-1988, undated
		15	Essays on American Literature, undated
		16	Essays on American Literature, 1998
95:92	10	1	Essays on the American University, 2000
		2	Essays on John Finlay, undated
		3	“Lost on Campus with Thomas Jefferson,” 1995
		4	“Huckleberry Finn and Absalom, Absalom!: Quentin Compson’s Civil War,” undated
		5	“The Shadow of the Eagle,” 1945
		6	Essays on Southern Literature, 1990-1998
		7	Eyster, Warren, 1992
		8-17	The Fable of the Southern Writer, 1992-1994, undated
		18	“The Fable of the Writer in Southern Fiction,” 1982
		19	“Faulkner and the Legend of the Artist,” undated
		20	“Faulkner and the South,” undated
		21	“Faulkner and the Southern Symbolism of Pastoral,” 1975
		22	Faust, Drew, 1987
		23	Finlay, John, 1990-1991
		24	“Federalism and the Crisis of Literary Order,” undated
		25	The Federalist Literary Mind, undated
95:93	11	1-6	The Federalist Literary Mind, undated
		7	Fellowships for Independent Study and Research, 1982-1984
		8-11	Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1989-2003
		12-13	Fellowship of Southern Writers Card Conference, 1994-1998
		14	Fellowship of Southern Writers and Conference on Southern Literature, 1981-1988
		15-16	Ferguson, Robert A., 1982-1988, undated
		17	The Film Company, 1985
		18	Finlay, John, undated
		19	Firing Line, 1973
		20-21	Frost Book, 1970-1972
95:94	12	1	Frost Book, undated
		2	“The Fugitives, Nashville,” undated
		3	Gaines, Ernest, 1979-1993
		4	Genovese, Eugene D., undated
		5-7	Genovese, Eugene and Betsy, 1985-1994, undated
		8	Gifts, 1984-1993
		9-10	Grimshaw, James, 1978-2004
		11	Guggeheim Fellowship, 1953-1985
		12	Halliburton, Lloyd, 1990-1994
		13	Harvard University, 1977-1989
		14	Harvard University Press, 1979-1990
		15-17	Harvard, William C., 1968-1982
		18-19	The History of Southern Literature, 1981-1985
		20-21	Hobson, Fred, 1977-2004
		22	“Home by Way of Southern California,” undated
		23	Honors, 1985-1994
		24	Hornberger, Theodore, undated
		25	Howells & the Literary Vocation in America, undated
95:95	13	1	“H.P. Lovecraft’s Immortalization of English Culture,” 1983
		2	The Hubbel Award, undated
		3	Humanist of the Year Award, 1987
		4	Indra, C.T., 1980-1990
		5	Inge, Thomas, 1981-1990
		6	Invitations, 1972-1992
		7	Jackson, Blyden, 1971-1989
		8	Jackson, Laura, undated
		9	James Agee Film Project, 1982-1999
		10	Jay B. Hubbell Award, 1980-1992
		11	Jay, Paul, 1924
		12	“Jefferson & the Mind of the South,” undated
		13	“John Adams and Hawthorne: The Fiction of the Real American Revolution,” undated
		14	Jones, Madison, 1976-1996
		15	“Joseph Stevens Buckminster and the New England Clerisy,” undated
		16	Ladd, Joseph Brown, 1952
		17	“Land, Slaves, and Mind: Jefferson and the High Culture of the South,” undated
		18	Lane, Pinkie Gordon, 1980-1999
		19	Lavin, Sandra, 1975-2001
		20	Lectures, 1970-1995
		21-25	Library of America, 1972-2003
95:96	14	1	Literary Classics of the United States, 1979-1980
		2-3	Literary Conference (LSU), 1984-1985
		4	“The Literary Ecumenicalism of the American Enlightenment,” undated
		5-7	Literary History of the Month, 1982-1983
		8	Literary New Orleans, 1989-1992
		9	“Robert Penn Warren: The Loneliness Artist,” undated
		10	“The Loneliness of William Faulkner,” 1975
		11-14	Louis D. Brodsky Collection, undated
		15	Louis Rubin Introduction at Fleming Lectures
		16	Louisiana Folklore Society, 1969
		17	Louisiana Literature (Parrill & Gautreaux), 1990-1992
		18	Louisiana—Official State Poem, 1982
		19	Lovecraft, H.P., undated
		20	Loving, Jerome, 1994
		21	Lowe, John, 1993
		22	LSU at Eunice, 1992-1994
		23-26	LSU Dept. of English, 1947-2000, undated
		27-28	LSU Press, 1979-1982
95:97	15	1-8	LSU Press, 1983-2003
		9	Lytle, Andrew, 1986
		10	MacArthur Fellows Program, 1990-1992
		11-12	The Man of Letters in New England and the South, 1955
		13	Mark Twain Encyclopedia, 1989
		14	Martin, Jay, 1985
		15	Memorials, 1974-1993
		16	Memos, 1958-1983
		17	The Middle Way, undated
		18-22	Middleton, David, 1984-1998
95:98	16	1-2	Middleton, David, 1999-2004, undated
		3	Middleton, David (The Circus by the Cemetery) 1995
		4	Middleton, David (The Habitual Peacefulness of Gruchy) 2002
		5-7	Mind and the American Civil War: A Meditation on Lost Causes, 1988-1998
		8	Misc. Writings & Materials, 1984, undated
		9	Misc. Editorial Work, 1971-2002
		10	Misc. Gifts & Donations, 1996-2003
		11	Misc. Reports & Itineraries, 1973-1982
		12	Misc. Work by Simpson, 1992-2002
		13	Mississippi Authority for Educational Television, 1975-1988
		14	Mississippi Library Commission, undated
		15	Mixon, Wayne, 1986
		16-17	Modern Language Assn., 1975-1984
		18	Montgomery, Marion, 1971-1980
		19	Moore, Don, undated
		20	Moran, Ron, 1968-1969
		21	“Myth, History, and Self: Yoknapatawpha and Faulkner’s Fable of Civilization”, undated
		22	“The Myth of the Republic of Letters in the Literary Theory of the New England Federalists”, undated
		23	The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, 1981
		24-31	National Endowment of the Humanities, 1970-1987
95:99	17	1	National Endowment of the Humanities, 1988, undated
		2	National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities, undated
		3	National Humanities Center, 1980-1986
		4-7	National Council of Teachers of English Meeting, 1970
		8	New Orleans Film Conference, 1984-1985
		9	“New World Man”, 1954-1971
		10	New York Center for Visual History, 1995
		11-12	Notes for “End of the Literary World,” undated
		13	O’Brien, Michael, 1973-1986
		14	O’Casey, Sean—Chapter IV, undated
		15	O’Casey, Sean, 1939
		16	O’Casey, Sean—Thesis, 1939
		17	O’Leary, Dylan & James Olney, 1996-2002
		18	Olesky, Elzbieta, 1985-1989
		19	Olney, James, 2001-2003
		20	Oxford University Press, 1988
		21	Parks, Ward, undated
		22	Parrill, William, undated
		23	PBK (Phi Beta Kappa ) Awards, 1975
		24	PBS Interview with Lewis Simpson, 1997
		25	Peachtree Press, 1985
		26	The Permanent Press, 1990-1991
		27	Phi Beta Kappa, 1975-1988
		28	Phi Kappa Phi, 1987
		29	Photographs, undated
		30	The Poetry of Community, undated
		31	The Poetry of Community—Correspondence, 1971
		32	“Poetry and the Practical,” 1982
		33	“The Politics of Hawthorne’s Literary Reputation,” undated
		34	The Possibilities of Order, undated
95:100	18	1-4	The Possibilities of Order, 1975, undated
		5-11	Printed Matter, 1838-2001, undated
		12	Prunty, Wyatt, 1981-1999
		13	Reck, Rima O., 1992
		14-15	Recommendations, 1979-1987
		16-19	Regalis, Martha, 1986-2002 undated
		20	“The ‘Regular’ Contributor,” undated
		21	“Remembering Walter Prescott Web,” 1987
		22	Report to PMLA: untitled article on Uncle Tom’s Cabin
		23	Report on Politics Panel, undated
		24	Report for UIC Press, undated
		25	Report for UNC Press on Mackethan’s Manuscript, 1977
		26	Retirement, 1984, 1987
		27	Review of The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Emerson, undated
		28	Reviews, undated
95:101	19	1-4	Reviews, 1973-1988
		5	Robert Penn Warren, undated
		6	Robert Penn Warren (essays by Simpson), undated
		7	Robert Penn Warren Center, 1991-1996
		8	Robert Penn Warren Circle, 1995-2001
		9-10	Rubin, Louis, 1968-1995
		11	Rudnicki, Rob, undated
		12	Russo, Addie, 1987, 1989
		13	Samway, S.J. Father Patrick, 1986, 1990
		14	Sandoz, Ellis, 1980-1993
		15	Sartisky, Michael, 1984-1994
		16	“The Satiric Mode: The Early National Wits,” undated
		17	Scotland and America: A Study of Cultural Relations, undated
		18	Simpson--Biographies, undated
		19-20	Simpson --Curriculum Vitae, 1990-2003
		21	Simpson—Invoices & Royalty Statement, 1952-1984
		22-25	Simpson—Misc Notes, 1980-1991, undated
		26	Simpson’s Poems, undated
		27	“Slavery and the Cultural Imperialism of New England,” undated
		28	Slavnick, Bill, undated
		29	Smith, Henry Nash, 1959-1975
		30-31	Society for the Study of Southern Literature, 1976-1988
		32	“Some Notes on Loneliness at the End of the World” (draft), undated
		33	“The South and the Lost Cause of New England,” undated
		34	“The South’s Reaction to Modernism: A Problem in the Study of Southern Letters,” undated
95:102	20	1	“The South’s Struggle for Representation,” 1983-1985
		2	Southern Festival of Books, 1989
		3-4	“Southern Fiction Since 1945,” undated
		5	“The Southern Instauration,” undated
		6	Southern Letters and Modern Literature Conference, 1979-1987
		7	Southern Literary Culture, 1955
		8	“The Southern Literary Imagination and the Pastoral Mode,” undated
		9	Southern Literature (essays not by Simpson), undated
		10-12	The Southern Review, 1966-1996, undated
		13-20	The Southern Review Stories, undated
95:103	21	1-3	The Southern Review Stories, undated
		4	“Southern Spiritual Nationalism and Southern Fiction”, undated
		5	Southern Texts Society, undated
		6	Southern Voices, 1996-1997
		7	Southern Writers Series, 1968
		8	The Southerners: A Narrative Anthology, 1785-1860, 1986-1987
		9	Southwest Writers Series, 1967
		10	Spears, Monroe K. undated
		11	Speech: “Contemporary Southern Criticism,” undated
		12	Speech: “The Southern Writer & the Literary Market Place,” undated
		13	Speech: “The State of Southern Literary Scholarship,” 1987
		14	Spivey, Ted, 1971-1995
		15	St. George Tucker Society, 1992-1999
		16	“The Stereopticon”, 1983
		17	“The Stereoscope,” 1983
		18	“Still at the Crossing: Some Reflections on Order and History in Twentieth Century Southern Fiction,” undated
		19	Strout, Cushing, 2003
		20	Studies in the Novel, 1972
		21	Studies in American Humor, 1980
		22	“The Symbolism of Literary Alienation in the Revolutionary Age,” 1976
		23	Symposium on Historical Fiction, 1979
		24	Tassin, Anthony, 1998
		25	Tate, Allen, 1986
Box Box Box	Folder Folder Folder	Contents Contents 24 Contents	Walter, Eric, 1990
		26-27	Teaching: LSU English, undated
		28	Telegrams, 1957-1986
		29	“The Telescope and the Transparent Eyeball: Alienation in Emerson’s Early Thought,” undated
		30-31	Television Script: William Faulkner of Mississippi (first draft), 1975, undated
		32	Thornquist, Inger, 1998-1999
		33	“Touching the Stylus,” undated
		34	“The Toy that Kills,” undated
		35	Tribute Notes to Simpson, undated
		36-37	Trilling, Diana, 1990-1993, undated
95:104	22	1-2	Trilling, Lionel, 1990, undated
		3	Trilling, Lionel (essays by Simpson), undated
		4	Tucker Society, 1991-1998
		5	Tuttleton, James W., 1986
		6	Underwood, Thomas A., 1987-1994
		7	University of Central Arkansas Press, 1994
		8	University of Florida (Program in Southern Studies), 1989
		9	University of Illinois Press, 1970-1998
		10	University of Missouri Press, 1990-1993
		11	University of Washington Press, 1995
		12-14	Unpublished Howells Collection, undated
		15	Vinh, Alphonse, 1993-1995
		16	Voegelin, Eric, 1993
		17-18	Walker Percy, 1968-1998
		19	Walker Percy and the Century of Self (clear copy), undated
		20	Walker Percy and the Century of Self (marked copy), undated
		21	Walker Percy File (Walker Percy Society), 2003
		22	“Walker Percy’s Vision of the Modern World” (draft, notes), undated
		23	Warren, Robert Penn, 1971-1995
		25-27	Welty, Eudora, 1972-1993
		28	Welty Film Proposal, 1985
		29	Wheeler, Otis B., 1961-1962, 1994
		30	Whittemore, Reed, undated
		31	“Why Quentin Compson Went to Harvard,” undated
		32	“William Faulkner: A Life on Paper,” 1979
		33	Williamson, Samuel, 1992
		34	Wilson, Jim & Mary Ann, 1994-2003
		35	Woodward, Vann, 1986-1991
		36	Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, undated
		37	Zwick, Peter, 1984
95:105	23		Notes on New Orleans and Theodore Clapp, undated
	24		Notes on Boston Literature, undated
	25		Notes and bibliography on American Oratory, undated
95:106	26		Index Cards—“General Repository, Chenerus,” undated
	27		Index Cards—Bibliographies 1, undated
	28		Index Cards—WM Tudor, J.T. Kirkland, undated
	29		Index Cards—General Bibliography, undated
	30		Index Cards—Bibliographies 2, undated
	31		Name Cards, undated
	32		Notes on John Quincy Adams, undated
	33		Index Cards—New England, undated
	34		Index Cards—Boston, undated
	35		Index Cards—Boston, part II, undated

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