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Kohler Papers","Faculty and staff","University History","American Literature -- Virginia","Authors, American -- 20th century","Authors, English -- 20th century","The collection is open for research.","The collection is arranged in six series:","Series I. Correspondence, 1927-1972. This series contains letters to Kohler, the overwhelming majority being from various authors. Much of the correspondence is routine in nature, relating to literary essay-reviews. Among the letters, however, are a number from noted authors, including Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Earl Hamner Jr., MacKinlay Kantor, Archibald MacLeish, Joyce Carol Oates, Katherine Anne Porter, Reynolds Price, Conrad Richter, Carl Sandburg (and his daughter, Helga Sandburg Golby), James Still, and Eudora Welty. (Still and Stuart seem to have been among Kohler's more frequent correspondents, each represented by substantial letters.) While many of the letters in this series are brief and businesslike, a few are more personal in nature. The letter from Porter, for example, offers a lengthy assessment of critical reviews of her  Ship of Fools . Likewise, a pair of letters by Mildred Bennett, an authority on Willa Cather, provide personal insights on Cather and her family. Among the other correspondents in the series are artists Archer Lawrie and Dale Nichols. The series is arranged by correspondent name.\n \nSeries II. Essays, [1931]-1952. This brief series contains a selection Kohler's manuscript drafts of articles on various literary subjects. Many of the drafts include notes on where and when the piece was eventually published. Included in the series is a draft of Kohler's introduction to the 1965 Harper \u0026 Row edition of  Lord Jim . The series is arranged chronologically.","Series III, Essay-Review Drafts, 1967-1971. Included in this series are drafts (mostly typescripts) of essay-reviews submitted by various reviewers for literary publications edited by Kohler, mostly for the series  Masterplots . The drafts include manuscript revisions. The series is arranged by title and date of publication, then alphabetically by title of work reviewed. (The essays for the 1968-1970 editions of  Masterplots  had been split by Kohler into two separate sets per year, each arranged alphabetically within the set. The order in which Kohler separated and arranged the sets has been maintained.) ","Series IV. Galley Proofs, 1966-[1969]. This series contains galley proofs received from the publisher for two editions of  Masterplots . The proofs include manuscript revisions. The series is arranged by publication title.","Series V. Authors, 1889-1967. Found in this series is a collection of materials relating to various authors. The series includes such items as ephemera, printed material, autographs, and photographs. Many authors are represented by nothing more than notices that accompanied books sent to Kohler as review copies. Among the more significant items in the series, however, are such materials as an advance preview of Donald Barthelme's  Come Back, Doctor Caligari , radio-play scripts for \"Moses\" by Walter D. Edmonds and \"Rifles for Washington\" by Elsie Singmaster, printed and other publicity materials relating to Robert Frost, an envelope purportedly addressed by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a letter written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, photographs of Kohler with James Still at Morehead University Library, autographs of Archibald MacLeish and Thomas Nast, and printed material and autographed notes from Carl Sandburg. The largest set of materials in the series relates to Jesse Stuart and includes several pieces of printed material, many including personal notes from Stuart to Kohler. Also included is a photograph of Stuart by photographer Earl Palmer. The series is arranged alphabetically by name.","Series VI. Books and Publishing, 1955-1971. The materials in this small series relate to Kohler's general interest in literature and consist largely of printed materials. Included is a copy of Kohler's own booklet,  Books and Reading  and several issues of  The Hollins Critic , published by Hollins University. The series also contains working lists of books reviewed in some editions of  Masterplots . The series is arranged by item type.","Dayton McCue Kohler, son of Edwin and Bertha Kohler, was born in Pennsylvania on September 24, 1906. The 1910 and 1920 censuses list the family living in Wormleysburg (Cumberland County), Pennsylvania. The younger Kohler graduated from Gettysburg College with a bachelor's degree in 1928 and obtained his master's degree at the University of Virginia in 1929. That same year, Kohler was hired by Virginia Tech as an instructor of English. By 1932, Kohler had been promoted to assistant professor. The 1946 university academic catalog lists him as an associate professor beginning in 1946, and professor in 1957. Kohler retired in 1970 and was named professor emeritus of English. ","Kohler married Jean Stewart Ogden in 1937, and they had two children Peter and Stewart, before divorcing in 1956. At the time of his death, on February 1, 1972, he was a resident of Fredericksburg, Virginia.","External sources:","U.S. Federal Censuses, 1910-1950","\"Dayton McCue Kohler\" in the Virginia, U.S., Divorce Records, 1918-2014, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/77631:9280 , accessed Feb. 27, 2024.","\"Dayton Mccue Kohler\" in the Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/1362045:9278 , accessed Feb. 27, 2024.","\"Dayton M Kohler\", Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167613611/dayton-m-kohler , accessed Feb. 27, 2024.","The guide to the Dayton M. Kohler Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dayton M. Kohler Papers commenced and was completed in July 2011.","A keyword search on Dayton M. Kohler's name in the library's online catalog will provide the titles of works the library purchased from his personal book collection in 1971.","This collection contains the papers of Dayton M. Kohler, a professor of English at Virginia Tech (1929-1970) and an authority on modern American literature. The collection contains correspondence, drafts and galley proofs of literary essay-reviews for publications edited by Kohler, manuscript drafts for articles written by Kohler, and a collection of materials relating to various authors. Among the noted authors most prominently featured in the collection are Willa Cather, Conrad Richter, Carl Sandburg, James Still, and Jesse Stuart. Within the correspondence are single letters from a number of other noted authors, including Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Anne Porter.","The following books were removed from the collection and cataloged for the Rare Book Collection:","Strong, L. A. G.  A Letter to W. B. Yeats . Hogarth Letters 6. London: Leonard \u0026 Virginia Woolf, 1932. (Call number  PR5906 .A44 1932 Spec Small) Woodbridge, Hensley C.  Jesse Stuart: a Bibliography . Harrogate, TN: Lincoln Memorial University Press. (Call number PS3537.T92516 Z585 1960 Spec Large) Woodbridge, Hensley C.  Jesse Stuart: a Bibliography for May, 1960 - May, 1965 . Rpt. from  The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society  63.4 (October 1965). (Call number PS3537.T92516 Z96 Spec Large)","The  Henry D. 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The proofs include manuscript revisions. The series is arranged by publication title.","Series V. Authors, 1889-1967. Found in this series is a collection of materials relating to various authors. The series includes such items as ephemera, printed material, autographs, and photographs. Many authors are represented by nothing more than notices that accompanied books sent to Kohler as review copies. Among the more significant items in the series, however, are such materials as an advance preview of Donald Barthelme's  Come Back, Doctor Caligari , radio-play scripts for \"Moses\" by Walter D. Edmonds and \"Rifles for Washington\" by Elsie Singmaster, printed and other publicity materials relating to Robert Frost, an envelope purportedly addressed by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a letter written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, photographs of Kohler with James Still at Morehead University Library, autographs of Archibald MacLeish and Thomas Nast, and printed material and autographed notes from Carl Sandburg. The largest set of materials in the series relates to Jesse Stuart and includes several pieces of printed material, many including personal notes from Stuart to Kohler. Also included is a photograph of Stuart by photographer Earl Palmer. The series is arranged alphabetically by name.","Series VI. Books and Publishing, 1955-1971. The materials in this small series relate to Kohler's general interest in literature and consist largely of printed materials. 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The 1910 and 1920 censuses list the family living in Wormleysburg (Cumberland County), Pennsylvania. The younger Kohler graduated from Gettysburg College with a bachelor's degree in 1928 and obtained his master's degree at the University of Virginia in 1929. That same year, Kohler was hired by Virginia Tech as an instructor of English. By 1932, Kohler had been promoted to assistant professor. The 1946 university academic catalog lists him as an associate professor beginning in 1946, and professor in 1957. Kohler retired in 1970 and was named professor emeritus of English. ","Kohler married Jean Stewart Ogden in 1937, and they had two children Peter and Stewart, before divorcing in 1956. At the time of his death, on February 1, 1972, he was a resident of Fredericksburg, Virginia.","External sources:","U.S. Federal Censuses, 1910-1950","\"Dayton McCue Kohler\" in the Virginia, U.S., Divorce Records, 1918-2014, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/77631:9280 , accessed Feb. 27, 2024.","\"Dayton Mccue Kohler\" in the Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/1362045:9278 , accessed Feb. 27, 2024.","\"Dayton M Kohler\", Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167613611/dayton-m-kohler , accessed Feb. 27, 2024."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Dayton M. 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Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (\u003ca href=\"mailto:specref@vt.edu\"\u003especref@vt.edu\u003c/a\u003e or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. ","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . ","Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . 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Scott Fitzgerald, Earl Hamner Jr., MacKinlay Kantor, Archibald MacLeish, Joyce Carol Oates, Katherine Anne Porter, Reynolds Price, Conrad Richter, Carl Sandburg (and his daughter, Helga Sandburg Golby), James Still, and Eudora Welty. (Still and Stuart seem to have been among Kohler's more frequent correspondents, each represented by substantial letters.) While many of the letters in this series are brief and businesslike, a few are more personal in nature. The letter from Porter, for example, offers a lengthy assessment of critical reviews of her  Ship of Fools . Likewise, a pair of letters by Mildred Bennett, an authority on Willa Cather, provide personal insights on Cather and her family. Among the other correspondents in the series are artists Archer Lawrie and Dale Nichols. The series is arranged by correspondent name.\n \nSeries II. Essays, [1931]-1952. This brief series contains a selection Kohler's manuscript drafts of articles on various literary subjects. 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The proofs include manuscript revisions. The series is arranged by publication title.","Series V. Authors, 1889-1967. Found in this series is a collection of materials relating to various authors. The series includes such items as ephemera, printed material, autographs, and photographs. Many authors are represented by nothing more than notices that accompanied books sent to Kohler as review copies. Among the more significant items in the series, however, are such materials as an advance preview of Donald Barthelme's  Come Back, Doctor Caligari , radio-play scripts for \"Moses\" by Walter D. Edmonds and \"Rifles for Washington\" by Elsie Singmaster, printed and other publicity materials relating to Robert Frost, an envelope purportedly addressed by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a letter written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, photographs of Kohler with James Still at Morehead University Library, autographs of Archibald MacLeish and Thomas Nast, and printed material and autographed notes from Carl Sandburg. The largest set of materials in the series relates to Jesse Stuart and includes several pieces of printed material, many including personal notes from Stuart to Kohler. Also included is a photograph of Stuart by photographer Earl Palmer. The series is arranged alphabetically by name.","Series VI. Books and Publishing, 1955-1971. The materials in this small series relate to Kohler's general interest in literature and consist largely of printed materials. Included is a copy of Kohler's own booklet,  Books and Reading  and several issues of  The Hollins Critic , published by Hollins University. The series also contains working lists of books reviewed in some editions of  Masterplots . The series is arranged by item type.","Dayton McCue Kohler, son of Edwin and Bertha Kohler, was born in Pennsylvania on September 24, 1906. The 1910 and 1920 censuses list the family living in Wormleysburg (Cumberland County), Pennsylvania. The younger Kohler graduated from Gettysburg College with a bachelor's degree in 1928 and obtained his master's degree at the University of Virginia in 1929. That same year, Kohler was hired by Virginia Tech as an instructor of English. By 1932, Kohler had been promoted to assistant professor. The 1946 university academic catalog lists him as an associate professor beginning in 1946, and professor in 1957. Kohler retired in 1970 and was named professor emeritus of English. ","Kohler married Jean Stewart Ogden in 1937, and they had two children Peter and Stewart, before divorcing in 1956. At the time of his death, on February 1, 1972, he was a resident of Fredericksburg, Virginia.","External sources:","U.S. Federal Censuses, 1910-1950","\"Dayton McCue Kohler\" in the Virginia, U.S., Divorce Records, 1918-2014, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/77631:9280 , accessed Feb. 27, 2024.","\"Dayton Mccue Kohler\" in the Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/1362045:9278 , accessed Feb. 27, 2024.","\"Dayton M Kohler\", Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167613611/dayton-m-kohler , accessed Feb. 27, 2024.","The guide to the Dayton M. Kohler Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dayton M. Kohler Papers commenced and was completed in July 2011.","A keyword search on Dayton M. Kohler's name in the library's online catalog will provide the titles of works the library purchased from his personal book collection in 1971.","This collection contains the papers of Dayton M. Kohler, a professor of English at Virginia Tech (1929-1970) and an authority on modern American literature. The collection contains correspondence, drafts and galley proofs of literary essay-reviews for publications edited by Kohler, manuscript drafts for articles written by Kohler, and a collection of materials relating to various authors. Among the noted authors most prominently featured in the collection are Willa Cather, Conrad Richter, Carl Sandburg, James Still, and Jesse Stuart. Within the correspondence are single letters from a number of other noted authors, including Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Anne Porter.","The following books were removed from the collection and cataloged for the Rare Book Collection:","Strong, L. A. G.  A Letter to W. B. Yeats . Hogarth Letters 6. London: Leonard \u0026 Virginia Woolf, 1932. (Call number  PR5906 .A44 1932 Spec Small) Woodbridge, Hensley C.  Jesse Stuart: a Bibliography . Harrogate, TN: Lincoln Memorial University Press. (Call number PS3537.T92516 Z585 1960 Spec Large) Woodbridge, Hensley C.  Jesse Stuart: a Bibliography for May, 1960 - May, 1965 . Rpt. from  The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society  63.4 (October 1965). (Call number PS3537.T92516 Z96 Spec Large)","The  Henry D. 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The 1910 and 1920 censuses list the family living in Wormleysburg (Cumberland County), Pennsylvania. The younger Kohler graduated from Gettysburg College with a bachelor's degree in 1928 and obtained his master's degree at the University of Virginia in 1929. That same year, Kohler was hired by Virginia Tech as an instructor of English. By 1932, Kohler had been promoted to assistant professor. The 1946 university academic catalog lists him as an associate professor beginning in 1946, and professor in 1957. Kohler retired in 1970 and was named professor emeritus of English. ","Kohler married Jean Stewart Ogden in 1937, and they had two children Peter and Stewart, before divorcing in 1956. At the time of his death, on February 1, 1972, he was a resident of Fredericksburg, Virginia.","External sources:","U.S. Federal Censuses, 1910-1950","\"Dayton McCue Kohler\" in the Virginia, U.S., Divorce Records, 1918-2014, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/77631:9280 , accessed Feb. 27, 2024.","\"Dayton Mccue Kohler\" in the Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/1362045:9278 , accessed Feb. 27, 2024.","\"Dayton M Kohler\", Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167613611/dayton-m-kohler , accessed Feb. 27, 2024."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Dayton M. Kohler Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Dayton M. Kohler Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ )."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Dayton M. Kohler Papers, Ms1971-002, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Dayton M. Kohler Papers, Ms1971-002, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the Dayton M. Kohler Papers commenced and was completed in July 2011.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dayton M. Kohler Papers commenced and was completed in July 2011."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eA keyword search on Dayton M. Kohler's name in the library's online catalog will provide the titles of works the library purchased from his personal book collection in 1971.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Archival Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["A keyword search on Dayton M. Kohler's name in the library's online catalog will provide the titles of works the library purchased from his personal book collection in 1971."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains the papers of Dayton M. Kohler, a professor of English at Virginia Tech (1929-1970) and an authority on modern American literature. The collection contains correspondence, drafts and galley proofs of literary essay-reviews for publications edited by Kohler, manuscript drafts for articles written by Kohler, and a collection of materials relating to various authors. Among the noted authors most prominently featured in the collection are Willa Cather, Conrad Richter, Carl Sandburg, James Still, and Jesse Stuart. Within the correspondence are single letters from a number of other noted authors, including Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Anne Porter.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains the papers of Dayton M. Kohler, a professor of English at Virginia Tech (1929-1970) and an authority on modern American literature. The collection contains correspondence, drafts and galley proofs of literary essay-reviews for publications edited by Kohler, manuscript drafts for articles written by Kohler, and a collection of materials relating to various authors. Among the noted authors most prominently featured in the collection are Willa Cather, Conrad Richter, Carl Sandburg, James Still, and Jesse Stuart. Within the correspondence are single letters from a number of other noted authors, including Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Anne Porter."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe following books were removed from the collection and cataloged for the Rare Book Collection:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003clist\u003e\u003citem\u003eStrong, L. A. G. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eA Letter to W. B. Yeats\u003c/title\u003e. Hogarth Letters 6. London: Leonard \u0026amp; Virginia Woolf, 1932. (Call number  PR5906 .A44 1932 Spec Small)\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eWoodbridge, Hensley C. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eJesse Stuart: a Bibliography\u003c/title\u003e. Harrogate, TN: Lincoln Memorial University Press. (Call number PS3537.T92516 Z585 1960 Spec Large)\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eWoodbridge, Hensley C. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eJesse Stuart: a Bibliography for May, 1960 - May, 1965\u003c/title\u003e. Rpt. from \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Register of the Kentucky Historical Society\u003c/title\u003e 63.4 (October 1965). (Call number PS3537.T92516 Z96 Spec Large)\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_1191.xml\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHenry D. Thoreau Letter, Ms1955-003,\u003c/a\u003e was also removed and processed separately. See the finding aid at \u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["The following books were removed from the collection and cataloged for the Rare Book Collection:","Strong, L. A. G.  A Letter to W. B. Yeats . Hogarth Letters 6. London: Leonard \u0026 Virginia Woolf, 1932. (Call number  PR5906 .A44 1932 Spec Small) Woodbridge, Hensley C.  Jesse Stuart: a Bibliography . Harrogate, TN: Lincoln Memorial University Press. (Call number PS3537.T92516 Z585 1960 Spec Large) Woodbridge, Hensley C.  Jesse Stuart: a Bibliography for May, 1960 - May, 1965 . Rpt. from  The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society  63.4 (October 1965). (Call number PS3537.T92516 Z96 Spec Large)","The  Henry D. Thoreau Letter, Ms1955-003,  was also removed and processed separately. See the finding aid at "],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (\u003ca href=\"mailto:specref@vt.edu\"\u003especref@vt.edu\u003c/a\u003e or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. ","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . ","Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . 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","See also the \"Separated Materials\" note below for publications including writings by Neel which have been removed from the collection and cataloged for the Special Collections Rare Book Collection.","Marvin Harmon Neel was born in Bland County, Virginia, on June 25, 1908, to Charles Henry Neel and Annie E. (Umbarger) Neel. He was the oldest of nine children. By 1933, he married Mayme Brown (1906-2006) and they had a daughter, born around 1934. Neel served as the Ceres postmaster beginning in 1930 and also as a rural carrier until he retired from the Postal Service in the late 1950s. Neel began the acquiring presses and established the Backwoods Press in Ceres, Virginia, in 1933. The press would run consistently until the late 1950s and produced a few publications from 1958 until about 1967, when Neel retired from the printing business. He also took up writing in the early 1930s and continued that until the last few years before his death. 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Vol. 8, No. 6, Part 4, June 25. Nashville, TN: 1939. Includes \"The Pest\" by Marvin H. Neel. American Scribe . Vol. VI, No. 2, Summer 1978. \"This issue dedicated to Marvin H. Neel.\" Americana Magazine . 1946. Includes an essay by Neel.  Mountaineer: The Life and Times of Marvin Neel and the Backwoods Press . Nappanee, IN: Press of the Indiana Kid, 1969. Page, Elizabeth.  The Tree of Liberty . New York: The Literary Guild of America, 1939. The United Alumnus . June 1954. Includes article on Marvin H. Neel. 2 copies.","The following serial publications (with multiple issues) were removed from the collection and cataloged for the Special Collections Rare Book Collection:\n Chimera . Autumn 1947; Summer 1950; 1981. The Scribbler/The P-K Scribbler . Vol 1, No. 2, November 1944-Vol. 1, No. 6, July 1945; Vol. II, No. 1, Octboer 1945-Vol. II, No. 4, July 1946; Vol. III, No. 1, October 1946-Vol. III, No. 4, February 1948. The Virginian . 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Vol. VI, No. 2, Summer 1978. \"This issue dedicated to Marvin H. Neel.\" Americana Magazine . 1946. Includes an essay by Neel.  Mountaineer: The Life and Times of Marvin Neel and the Backwoods Press . Nappanee, IN: Press of the Indiana Kid, 1969. Page, Elizabeth.  The Tree of Liberty . New York: The Literary Guild of America, 1939. The United Alumnus . June 1954. Includes article on Marvin H. Neel. 2 copies.","The following serial publications (with multiple issues) were removed from the collection and cataloged for the Special Collections Rare Book Collection:\n Chimera . Autumn 1947; Summer 1950; 1981. The Scribbler/The P-K Scribbler . Vol 1, No. 2, November 1944-Vol. 1, No. 6, July 1945; Vol. II, No. 1, Octboer 1945-Vol. II, No. 4, July 1946; Vol. III, No. 1, October 1946-Vol. III, No. 4, February 1948. The Virginian . No. 1, Winter 1948; No. 2, Spring 1954; No. 3, Winter 1962-1963; No, 4, Spring 1963; No. 5, Autumn 1963. 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She helped to found the Poetry Society of Virginia, serving as both its president (1933) and co-president (1944-1945). She contined to service in editorial capacities, editing the  Lyric Virginia Today  (vol. 1), though writing became her larger focus. Between 1922 and 1952, she authored seven collections of poetry and short fiction:  The Wagon and the Star  (1922),  The Unrisen Morrow  (1926),  The Black Moon  (1929),  Spider Architect  (1937),  From Invisible Mountains  (1943),  Himself and I  (1950), and  Nightingales on the Moon  (1952). Leitch died in  August 1954 and is buried in Virginia Beach, Virginia. ","Many of her individual poems can be found online and a  complete digitized version  of  The Wagon and the Star  is available through the Internet Archive.","Source: Social Networks and Archival Context record for  Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954","Julius John (J. J.) Lankes was born in 1884 in Buffalo, NY. He began working as a draftsman in 1902, but spent the majority of his professional life known for his woodcuts. His career as an artist spanned decades, during which he created woodcuts and illustrations for authors, among others. In addition to Sherwood Anderson, he worked with Robert Frost and Beatrix Potter. Lankes wrote and illustrated  A Woodcut Manual , published by Henry Holt in 1932. In 2006, The University of Tampa published a new edition of this book with selected letters and other writings, edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor. (A copy of the 2006 edition is housed in Special Collections. A copy of the 1932 edition is available at the University Libraries' Art \u0026 Architecture Library.) In addition to his illustrations and work as an artist, Lankes taught at Wells College from 1933 to about 1940. From 1943 to 1950, Lankes worked for the reproduction section of the National Advisory Council for Aeronautics (NACA, later NASA). He retired in 1951 and died in April 1960.","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes commenced in November 2016 was completed in January 2017.","For additional materials relating to J. J. Lankes held by Special Collections, see:\n The Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson (Ms2015-020), includes correspondence between Anderson and Lankes, as well as between Anderson's widow, Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson and Lankes, and a variety of Anderson researchers and Lankes. The Marvin H. Neel Papers, (Ms2016-022) contains biographical resources, ephemera, correspondence, and writings and woodcut prints by and related to Marvin H. Neel (1908-1978), created between 1933 and 1988, including letters and postcards to J. J. Lankes (1951-1961).\n","Virginia Commonwealth University also includes papers of Mary Sinton Leitch. A  finding aid for this collection  is available online. 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Between 1922 and 1952, she authored seven collections of poetry and short fiction:  The Wagon and the Star  (1922),  The Unrisen Morrow  (1926),  The Black Moon  (1929),  Spider Architect  (1937),  From Invisible Mountains  (1943),  Himself and I  (1950), and  Nightingales on the Moon  (1952). Leitch died in  August 1954 and is buried in Virginia Beach, Virginia. ","Many of her individual poems can be found online and a  complete digitized version  of  The Wagon and the Star  is available through the Internet Archive.","Source: Social Networks and Archival Context record for  Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954","Julius John (J. J.) Lankes was born in 1884 in Buffalo, NY. He began working as a draftsman in 1902, but spent the majority of his professional life known for his woodcuts. His career as an artist spanned decades, during which he created woodcuts and illustrations for authors, among others. In addition to Sherwood Anderson, he worked with Robert Frost and Beatrix Potter. Lankes wrote and illustrated  A Woodcut Manual , published by Henry Holt in 1932. In 2006, The University of Tampa published a new edition of this book with selected letters and other writings, edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor. (A copy of the 2006 edition is housed in Special Collections. A copy of the 1932 edition is available at the University Libraries' Art \u0026 Architecture Library.) In addition to his illustrations and work as an artist, Lankes taught at Wells College from 1933 to about 1940. From 1943 to 1950, Lankes worked for the reproduction section of the National Advisory Council for Aeronautics (NACA, later NASA). He retired in 1951 and died in April 1960."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. 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Between 1922 and 1952, she authored seven collections of poetry and short fiction:  The Wagon and the Star  (1922),  The Unrisen Morrow  (1926),  The Black Moon  (1929),  Spider Architect  (1937),  From Invisible Mountains  (1943),  Himself and I  (1950), and  Nightingales on the Moon  (1952). Leitch died in  August 1954 and is buried in Virginia Beach, Virginia. ","Many of her individual poems can be found online and a  complete digitized version  of  The Wagon and the Star  is available through the Internet Archive.","Source: Social Networks and Archival Context record for  Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954","Julius John (J. J.) Lankes was born in 1884 in Buffalo, NY. He began working as a draftsman in 1902, but spent the majority of his professional life known for his woodcuts. His career as an artist spanned decades, during which he created woodcuts and illustrations for authors, among others. In addition to Sherwood Anderson, he worked with Robert Frost and Beatrix Potter. 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His career as an artist spanned decades, during which he created woodcuts and illustrations for authors, among others. In addition to Sherwood Anderson, he worked with Robert Frost and Beatrix Potter. Lankes wrote and illustrated \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eA Woodcut Manual\u003c/title\u003e, published by Henry Holt in 1932. In 2006, The University of Tampa published a new edition of this book with selected letters and other writings, edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor. (A copy of the 2006 edition is housed in Special Collections. A copy of the 1932 edition is available at the University Libraries' Art \u0026amp; Architecture Library.) In addition to his illustrations and work as an artist, Lankes taught at Wells College from 1933 to about 1940. From 1943 to 1950, Lankes worked for the reproduction section of the National Advisory Council for Aeronautics (NACA, later NASA). He retired in 1951 and died in April 1960.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note: Mary Sinton Leitch (1876-1954)","Biographical Note : J. J. Lankes (1884-1960)"],"bioghist_tesim":["Mary Sinton Lewis was born in New York City, New York, in 1876 to Carlton Thomas and Nancy Dunlap McKeen Lewis. After attending Smith College and Columbia University, as well as schools in Europe, she worked in New York City, first as a women's prison inspector, and later as a contributing editor to several magazines and newspapers. In 1907, after taking some time to travel, she married John David Leitch and the couple settled in eastern Virginia. She helped to found the Poetry Society of Virginia, serving as both its president (1933) and co-president (1944-1945). She contined to service in editorial capacities, editing the  Lyric Virginia Today  (vol. 1), though writing became her larger focus. Between 1922 and 1952, she authored seven collections of poetry and short fiction:  The Wagon and the Star  (1922),  The Unrisen Morrow  (1926),  The Black Moon  (1929),  Spider Architect  (1937),  From Invisible Mountains  (1943),  Himself and I  (1950), and  Nightingales on the Moon  (1952). Leitch died in  August 1954 and is buried in Virginia Beach, Virginia. ","Many of her individual poems can be found online and a  complete digitized version  of  The Wagon and the Star  is available through the Internet Archive.","Source: Social Networks and Archival Context record for  Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954","Julius John (J. J.) Lankes was born in 1884 in Buffalo, NY. He began working as a draftsman in 1902, but spent the majority of his professional life known for his woodcuts. His career as an artist spanned decades, during which he created woodcuts and illustrations for authors, among others. In addition to Sherwood Anderson, he worked with Robert Frost and Beatrix Potter. Lankes wrote and illustrated  A Woodcut Manual , published by Henry Holt in 1932. In 2006, The University of Tampa published a new edition of this book with selected letters and other writings, edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor. (A copy of the 2006 edition is housed in Special Collections. A copy of the 1932 edition is available at the University Libraries' Art \u0026 Architecture Library.) In addition to his illustrations and work as an artist, Lankes taught at Wells College from 1933 to about 1940. From 1943 to 1950, Lankes worked for the reproduction section of the National Advisory Council for Aeronautics (NACA, later NASA). He retired in 1951 and died in April 1960."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. 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Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson (Ms2015-020), includes correspondence between Anderson and Lankes, as well as between Anderson's widow, Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson and Lankes, and a variety of Anderson researchers and Lankes.\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eThe Marvin H. Neel Papers, (Ms2016-022) contains biographical resources, ephemera, correspondence, and writings and woodcut prints by and related to Marvin H. Neel (1908-1978), created between 1933 and 1988, including letters and postcards to J. J. Lankes (1951-1961).\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Commonwealth University also includes papers of Mary Sinton Leitch. A \u003cextref href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00093.xml\" show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\"\u003efinding aid for this collection\u003c/extref\u003e is available online. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Rauner Special Collections Library of Dartmouth University contains a collection of J. J. Lankes papers. A \u003cextref href=\"http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ms1115.html\" show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\"\u003efinding aid for the collection\u003c/extref\u003e is available online.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials (in Virginia Tech Special Collections)","Related Materials (at other institutions)"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["For additional materials relating to J. J. Lankes held by Special Collections, see:\n The Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson (Ms2015-020), includes correspondence between Anderson and Lankes, as well as between Anderson's widow, Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson and Lankes, and a variety of Anderson researchers and Lankes. The Marvin H. Neel Papers, (Ms2016-022) contains biographical resources, ephemera, correspondence, and writings and woodcut prints by and related to Marvin H. Neel (1908-1978), created between 1933 and 1988, including letters and postcards to J. J. Lankes (1951-1961).\n","Virginia Commonwealth University also includes papers of Mary Sinton Leitch. A  finding aid for this collection  is available online. ","The Rauner Special Collections Library of Dartmouth University contains a collection of J. J. Lankes papers. A  finding aid for the collection  is available online."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news \u0026amp; friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost). Leitch seemed to a center for social activity for writers and artists, hosting Lankes, Frost, Louis Jaffe, and others, and many of her letters include plans for events relating to the Poetry Society of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news \u0026 friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost). Leitch seemed to a center for social activity for writers and artists, hosting Lankes, Frost, Louis Jaffe, and others, and many of her letters include plans for events relating to the Poetry Society of Virginia."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish material from Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish material from Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. 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Byrd Thornton and Nancy Turner. ","After graduating from Hannah More Academy (Baltimore, Maryland) in 1898, Turner accepted employment as a teacher. She had begun writing poetry at an early age; by 1902, her poems were being published regularly in national magazines. By the time she left Virginia for Boston in 1917 to accept a position on the editorial staff of  Youth's Companion , Turner's work had appeared in such magazines as  Scribner's  and the  Saturday Evening Post . She served as editor of the children's page for  Youth's Companion  from 1918 to 1922, then served on the editorial staffs of the Boston  Independent ,  Atlantic Monthly , and Houghton Mifflin. ","In 1925, Turner was accepted to the MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, New Hampshire) and retained her membership in the arts colony until 1944. Her first book of poetry,  A Riband on My Rein , was published in 1929. She would eventually publish 15 books, largely composed of adult poetry and children's literature, and her writings continued to appear in magazines such as the  New Yorker ,  Good Housekeeping  and  Ladies' Home Journal . Among other awards, she was the recipient of the New England Poetry Club's Golden Rose Prize in 1930 and the Virginia Writers' Club's poetry prize in 1948. ","In her later years, Turner lived in Ashland (Hanover County), Virginia and wrote freelance while lecturing throughout the United States. She died on September 5, 1971. ","Beverly Carper Powley was born on October 5, 1916. Graduating from Virginia Tech with a degree in home economics, she worked for the Hanover County Extension Service from 1938 to 1940. She married George R. Powley, who served on the faculty of the Virginia Tech Electrical Engineering Department, and the couple had four children. In Blacksburg, Beverly Powley was actively involved in several organizations and clubs. She served as state president of Gideons International Auxiliary, and as president of both the Virginia Tech Faculty Women's Club and the Women's Chapter of the Virginia Tech Alumni Association. She died in Blacksburg on July 26, 1988.","The guide to the Nancy Byrd Turner Collection by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Nancy Byrd Turner Collection commenced and was completed in April 2005.","This collection contains materials assembled by Beverly Carper Powley in the course of writing a biographical article on Nancy Byrd Turner, a Virginia poet, editor, and lecturer. The collection contains pieces of Turner's correspondence--including a few letters written to Powley and photocopies of letters and postcards sent to others--as well as some newsclippings and samples of Turner's poetry. ","The collection also contains Powley's correspondence relating to the research project, as well as related correspondence of Mary Balazs, a VMI English professor who worked in tandem with Powley on gathering materials about Turner (included in Balazs' correspondence is a typescript draft of her paper, \"Miss Nancy Byrd Turner: a Reconsideration\"). Several drafts of Powley's article, \"To Honor Nancy Byrd Turner: a Poet Laureate of Virginia,\" together with the published version (which appeared in the Spring 1988 issue of the  Richmond Quarterly ), complete the collection. ","The following books were transferred to the Rare Book Collection: ","Balazs, Mary,  The Stones Refuse Their Peace  (New York: Seven Woods Press, 1979), call number  PS3552.A445 S863 1979 Spec Large.","Balazs, Mary,  The Voice of Thy Brother's Blood  (New Wilmington, PA: Dawn Valley Press, 1976), call number PS3552.A445 V6 1976 Spec Large.","Trout, William E. 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By the time she left Virginia for Boston in 1917 to accept a position on the editorial staff of  Youth's Companion , Turner's work had appeared in such magazines as  Scribner's  and the  Saturday Evening Post . She served as editor of the children's page for  Youth's Companion  from 1918 to 1922, then served on the editorial staffs of the Boston  Independent ,  Atlantic Monthly , and Houghton Mifflin. ","In 1925, Turner was accepted to the MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, New Hampshire) and retained her membership in the arts colony until 1944. Her first book of poetry,  A Riband on My Rein , was published in 1929. She would eventually publish 15 books, largely composed of adult poetry and children's literature, and her writings continued to appear in magazines such as the  New Yorker ,  Good Housekeeping  and  Ladies' Home Journal . Among other awards, she was the recipient of the New England Poetry Club's Golden Rose Prize in 1930 and the Virginia Writers' Club's poetry prize in 1948. ","In her later years, Turner lived in Ashland (Hanover County), Virginia and wrote freelance while lecturing throughout the United States. She died on September 5, 1971. ","Beverly Carper Powley was born on October 5, 1916. Graduating from Virginia Tech with a degree in home economics, she worked for the Hanover County Extension Service from 1938 to 1940. She married George R. Powley, who served on the faculty of the Virginia Tech Electrical Engineering Department, and the couple had four children. In Blacksburg, Beverly Powley was actively involved in several organizations and clubs. She served as state president of Gideons International Auxiliary, and as president of both the Virginia Tech Faculty Women's Club and the Women's Chapter of the Virginia Tech Alumni Association. 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In the \"Contents List\" below, items showing as \"c.\" are listed by the date from the postmark on the envelope. In these cases, the letters themselves did not have dates. Undated letters that cannot be clearly placed in the timeline are at the end, with a note about the possible year(s).","Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was born in the small town of Camden, Ohio to Irwin McClain Anderson (d.1919) and Emma Jane Smith (d.1895). While Anderson excelled as a student, he quit school at the age of 14 to help support his family, taking on a wide variety of jobs. After his mother's death, he relocated to Chicago for the first time, working and taking a few night classes. He served briefly in Cuba during he Spanish-American War, but was sent there after combat had ended. A few months later, he returned to Clyde, then moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1899, where he completed his senior year at Wittenburg Academy, a prep school. His graduation speech resulted in his being offered a job as an advertising solicitor and he moved to back to Chicago.","In 1903, work travels took him to Toledo, Ohio, where he met Cornelia Pratt Lane, his first wife. The couple married in 1904 and had three children: Robert Lane (1907-1951), John Sherwood (1908-1995) and Marion (Mimi) (1911-1996). In 1906, they relocated to Cleveland when Anderson became the president of the United Factories Company, a mail-order firm. The following year he departed the company, took his family to Elyria, Ohio, and started the Anderson Manufacturing Co., another mail order business. ","In 1912, Anderson suffered a nervous breakdown. He returned to Chicago yet again and began work writing advertising copy and becoming part of the writer and artist scene of the city. In 1916, he divorced Cornelia Pratt and married Tennessee Mitchell, a sculptor. He also published his first novel,  Windy McPherson's Son , the first of three books in a deal with publisher John Lane. It was beginning of his writing career. 1919 saw the publication of his short story collection,  Winesburg, Ohio , one of his most well-know works. In 1924, he divorced Tennessee Mitchell and marred Elizabeth Prall. They lived in New York and New Orleans, and traveled in Europe, too. With profits from his novel 1925 Dark Laughter, Anderson bought Ripshin Farm, later just Ripshin, as a summer home, in 1926. He also acquired both local newspapers, the  Smyth County News  and the  Marion Democrat . His son, Robert, helped with, and eventually took over management of the newspapers in 1929. Around the same time, Anderson began a tour of the south and its factory towns with Eleanor Copenhaver, which shaped several of his later non-fiction publications. ","In 1932, Anderson divorced Elizabeth Prall and the following year, married Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985). Southwest Virginia was a powerful influence on his later stories and novels. His life in around Marion and Troutdale, Virginia, was the focus of his writing for the newspapers, as well. At the same time, he was still writing novels and short stories for magazines. In 1941, Sherwood and Eleanor Anderson left for a trip to South America. During the trip, after ingesting a toothpick, Anderson developed peritonitis and was hospitalized in Panama, where he passed away on March 8, 1941. He is buried in Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. ","Over his lifetime, Anderson published 8 novels, 4 collections of short stories, 2 collections of poetry, 1 collection of plays, and 12 works of non-fiction. Following his death, publishers and scholars have produced memoirs, critical editions, and several volumes of his collected letters. During his life, he was influential on the careers of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, and maintained extensive correspondence and friendships with authors, artists, publishers, and critics (though he later wrote that he had given up reading reviews).","Llewellyn Jones (July 13, 1884-July 1, 1961) was an American editor and author. He served as the literary editor of the Chicago Evening Post from 1914-1932. He later worked for book publisher Willett, Clark, and Company. He authored three books on writing, criticism, and reading. His personal and professional papers are held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Mansuscript Library at Yale University. A  guide to the collection , including a brief biography, can be found online.","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones was completed in August 2015.","Books by and about Sherwood Anderson stored in Special Collections and the general collection of Newman Library are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .\nMicrofilmed and bound theses and dissertations about Sherwood Anderson and his work that were collected by researcher Ray White are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .","Special Collections houses multiple manuscripts relating to Anderson, including: ","Ms1971-002, Dayton M. Kohler Papers, 1889-1972.  Finding aid available online .","Ms1973-002, Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1912-1938.  Finding aid available online . Some items in this collection have been digitized and are  available online .","Ms2011-004, Sherwood Anderson Photograph and Postcard, 1929, 1939.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","Ms2015-020, Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, 1918-2006, n.d.  Finding aid available online . Some items from this collection have been digitized and are  available online . ","Ms2017-005, James T. Farrell Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1952.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","This collection consists of eight letters written by American author Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) to Llewellyn Jones (1884-1961) between 1916 and 1924 with three undated (but likely from the same period). Jones was the literary editor for the Chicago Evening Post. The correspondence primarily discusses the reviews of Anderson's earlier works by Jones and other critics. Anderson and Jones appear to have also been friends and a number of the letters include queries about Jones' wife and personal updates on Anderson and his second wife, Tennessee Claflin Mitchell (1874-1929). In the \"Contents List\" below, items showing as \"c.\" are the date from the postmark on the envelope. In these cases, the letters themselves did not have dates. ","Although Anderson never mentions specific titles, the 1916 letters refer to  Windy McPherson's Son . The note from April 1918 probably refers to Anderson's collection of poetry published that year,  Mid-American Chants . The letter dated only \"October 3\" was likely written in 1918, since records indicate that was the fall in which Anderson had Spanish influenza. He writes, \"Have made the draft of a new novel and writen some fifty thousand words of it,\" probably referring to early work on the novel  Poor White , which was published in 1920. This typed letter also describes a recent visit to Anderson by Carl Sandburg. The two letters from 1924 both include Anderson's comments on reviews of his 1923 novel,  Many Marriages .","The collection also includes two undated letters, both of which can be placed in an approximate timeline. One was written from New York City. Although short, it mentions he will be there until the end of the year. This likely places the letter in in either late 1922 or 1923, during which time he was living there (before he moved to New Orleans with his third wife in 1924). The other undated letter laments that the reactions \"I have seen, for the most part, [are] not intelligent criticism but long dissertations on someone's notion of labor, writing, or intellectuality.\" This could place the letter in 1917, after the publication of Marching Men, which dealt with themes of labor issues and the intellectual figure in society. ","Transcripts of the letters are available in print with collection and online with the digitized copies.","Permission to publish material from Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones must obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.","This collection consists of eight letters written by American author Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones between 1916 and 1924 with three undated (but likely from the same period). Jones was the literary editor for the Chicago Evening Post. The correspondence primarily discusses the reviews of Anderson's works by Jones and other critics.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941","Jones, Llewellyn, 1884-1961","English \n.    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While Anderson excelled as a student, he quit school at the age of 14 to help support his family, taking on a wide variety of jobs. After his mother's death, he relocated to Chicago for the first time, working and taking a few night classes. He served briefly in Cuba during he Spanish-American War, but was sent there after combat had ended. A few months later, he returned to Clyde, then moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1899, where he completed his senior year at Wittenburg Academy, a prep school. His graduation speech resulted in his being offered a job as an advertising solicitor and he moved to back to Chicago.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1903, work travels took him to Toledo, Ohio, where he met Cornelia Pratt Lane, his first wife. The couple married in 1904 and had three children: Robert Lane (1907-1951), John Sherwood (1908-1995) and Marion (Mimi) (1911-1996). 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His graduation speech resulted in his being offered a job as an advertising solicitor and he moved to back to Chicago.","In 1903, work travels took him to Toledo, Ohio, where he met Cornelia Pratt Lane, his first wife. The couple married in 1904 and had three children: Robert Lane (1907-1951), John Sherwood (1908-1995) and Marion (Mimi) (1911-1996). In 1906, they relocated to Cleveland when Anderson became the president of the United Factories Company, a mail-order firm. The following year he departed the company, took his family to Elyria, Ohio, and started the Anderson Manufacturing Co., another mail order business. ","In 1912, Anderson suffered a nervous breakdown. He returned to Chicago yet again and began work writing advertising copy and becoming part of the writer and artist scene of the city. In 1916, he divorced Cornelia Pratt and married Tennessee Mitchell, a sculptor. He also published his first novel,  Windy McPherson's Son , the first of three books in a deal with publisher John Lane. It was beginning of his writing career. 1919 saw the publication of his short story collection,  Winesburg, Ohio , one of his most well-know works. In 1924, he divorced Tennessee Mitchell and marred Elizabeth Prall. They lived in New York and New Orleans, and traveled in Europe, too. With profits from his novel 1925 Dark Laughter, Anderson bought Ripshin Farm, later just Ripshin, as a summer home, in 1926. He also acquired both local newspapers, the  Smyth County News  and the  Marion Democrat . His son, Robert, helped with, and eventually took over management of the newspapers in 1929. Around the same time, Anderson began a tour of the south and its factory towns with Eleanor Copenhaver, which shaped several of his later non-fiction publications. ","In 1932, Anderson divorced Elizabeth Prall and the following year, married Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985). Southwest Virginia was a powerful influence on his later stories and novels. His life in around Marion and Troutdale, Virginia, was the focus of his writing for the newspapers, as well. At the same time, he was still writing novels and short stories for magazines. In 1941, Sherwood and Eleanor Anderson left for a trip to South America. During the trip, after ingesting a toothpick, Anderson developed peritonitis and was hospitalized in Panama, where he passed away on March 8, 1941. He is buried in Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. ","Over his lifetime, Anderson published 8 novels, 4 collections of short stories, 2 collections of poetry, 1 collection of plays, and 12 works of non-fiction. Following his death, publishers and scholars have produced memoirs, critical editions, and several volumes of his collected letters. During his life, he was influential on the careers of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, and maintained extensive correspondence and friendships with authors, artists, publishers, and critics (though he later wrote that he had given up reading reviews).","Llewellyn Jones (July 13, 1884-July 1, 1961) was an American editor and author. He served as the literary editor of the Chicago Evening Post from 1914-1932. He later worked for book publisher Willett, Clark, and Company. He authored three books on writing, criticism, and reading. His personal and professional papers are held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Mansuscript Library at Yale University. 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This collection has been digitized and is \u003cextref href=\"http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms2017-005\" show=\"new\"\u003eavailable online\u003c/extref\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Books by and about Sherwood Anderson stored in Special Collections and the general collection of Newman Library are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .\nMicrofilmed and bound theses and dissertations about Sherwood Anderson and his work that were collected by researcher Ray White are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .","Special Collections houses multiple manuscripts relating to Anderson, including: ","Ms1971-002, Dayton M. Kohler Papers, 1889-1972.  Finding aid available online .","Ms1973-002, Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1912-1938.  Finding aid available online . Some items in this collection have been digitized and are  available online .","Ms2011-004, Sherwood Anderson Photograph and Postcard, 1929, 1939.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","Ms2015-020, Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, 1918-2006, n.d.  Finding aid available online . Some items from this collection have been digitized and are  available online . ","Ms2017-005, James T. Farrell Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1952.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . "],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of eight letters written by American author Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) to Llewellyn Jones (1884-1961) between 1916 and 1924 with three undated (but likely from the same period). Jones was the literary editor for the Chicago Evening Post. The correspondence primarily discusses the reviews of Anderson's earlier works by Jones and other critics. Anderson and Jones appear to have also been friends and a number of the letters include queries about Jones' wife and personal updates on Anderson and his second wife, Tennessee Claflin Mitchell (1874-1929). In the \"Contents List\" below, items showing as \"c.\" are the date from the postmark on the envelope. In these cases, the letters themselves did not have dates. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlthough Anderson never mentions specific titles, the 1916 letters refer to \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWindy McPherson's Son\u003c/title\u003e. The note from April 1918 probably refers to Anderson's collection of poetry published that year, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMid-American Chants\u003c/title\u003e. The letter dated only \"October 3\" was likely written in 1918, since records indicate that was the fall in which Anderson had Spanish influenza. He writes, \"Have made the draft of a new novel and writen some fifty thousand words of it,\" probably referring to early work on the novel \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003ePoor White\u003c/title\u003e, which was published in 1920. This typed letter also describes a recent visit to Anderson by Carl Sandburg. The two letters from 1924 both include Anderson's comments on reviews of his 1923 novel, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMany Marriages\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes two undated letters, both of which can be placed in an approximate timeline. One was written from New York City. Although short, it mentions he will be there until the end of the year. This likely places the letter in in either late 1922 or 1923, during which time he was living there (before he moved to New Orleans with his third wife in 1924). The other undated letter laments that the reactions \"I have seen, for the most part, [are] not intelligent criticism but long dissertations on someone's notion of labor, writing, or intellectuality.\" This could place the letter in 1917, after the publication of Marching Men, which dealt with themes of labor issues and the intellectual figure in society. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of the letters are available in print with collection and online with the digitized copies.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of eight letters written by American author Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) to Llewellyn Jones (1884-1961) between 1916 and 1924 with three undated (but likely from the same period). Jones was the literary editor for the Chicago Evening Post. The correspondence primarily discusses the reviews of Anderson's earlier works by Jones and other critics. Anderson and Jones appear to have also been friends and a number of the letters include queries about Jones' wife and personal updates on Anderson and his second wife, Tennessee Claflin Mitchell (1874-1929). In the \"Contents List\" below, items showing as \"c.\" are the date from the postmark on the envelope. In these cases, the letters themselves did not have dates. ","Although Anderson never mentions specific titles, the 1916 letters refer to  Windy McPherson's Son . The note from April 1918 probably refers to Anderson's collection of poetry published that year,  Mid-American Chants . The letter dated only \"October 3\" was likely written in 1918, since records indicate that was the fall in which Anderson had Spanish influenza. He writes, \"Have made the draft of a new novel and writen some fifty thousand words of it,\" probably referring to early work on the novel  Poor White , which was published in 1920. This typed letter also describes a recent visit to Anderson by Carl Sandburg. The two letters from 1924 both include Anderson's comments on reviews of his 1923 novel,  Many Marriages .","The collection also includes two undated letters, both of which can be placed in an approximate timeline. One was written from New York City. Although short, it mentions he will be there until the end of the year. This likely places the letter in in either late 1922 or 1923, during which time he was living there (before he moved to New Orleans with his third wife in 1924). The other undated letter laments that the reactions \"I have seen, for the most part, [are] not intelligent criticism but long dissertations on someone's notion of labor, writing, or intellectuality.\" This could place the letter in 1917, after the publication of Marching Men, which dealt with themes of labor issues and the intellectual figure in society. ","Transcripts of the letters are available in print with collection and online with the digitized copies."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish material from Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones must obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish material from Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones must obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_70ac71cc49a04b16285ae9e57d411bba\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThis collection consists of eight letters written by American author Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones between 1916 and 1924 with three undated (but likely from the same period). Jones was the literary editor for the Chicago Evening Post. 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In the \"Contents List\" below, items showing as \"c.\" are listed by the date from the postmark on the envelope. In these cases, the letters themselves did not have dates. Undated letters that cannot be clearly placed in the timeline are at the end, with a note about the possible year(s).","Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was born in the small town of Camden, Ohio to Irwin McClain Anderson (d.1919) and Emma Jane Smith (d.1895). While Anderson excelled as a student, he quit school at the age of 14 to help support his family, taking on a wide variety of jobs. After his mother's death, he relocated to Chicago for the first time, working and taking a few night classes. He served briefly in Cuba during he Spanish-American War, but was sent there after combat had ended. A few months later, he returned to Clyde, then moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1899, where he completed his senior year at Wittenburg Academy, a prep school. His graduation speech resulted in his being offered a job as an advertising solicitor and he moved to back to Chicago.","In 1903, work travels took him to Toledo, Ohio, where he met Cornelia Pratt Lane, his first wife. The couple married in 1904 and had three children: Robert Lane (1907-1951), John Sherwood (1908-1995) and Marion (Mimi) (1911-1996). In 1906, they relocated to Cleveland when Anderson became the president of the United Factories Company, a mail-order firm. The following year he departed the company, took his family to Elyria, Ohio, and started the Anderson Manufacturing Co., another mail order business. ","In 1912, Anderson suffered a nervous breakdown. He returned to Chicago yet again and began work writing advertising copy and becoming part of the writer and artist scene of the city. In 1916, he divorced Cornelia Pratt and married Tennessee Mitchell, a sculptor. He also published his first novel,  Windy McPherson's Son , the first of three books in a deal with publisher John Lane. It was beginning of his writing career. 1919 saw the publication of his short story collection,  Winesburg, Ohio , one of his most well-know works. In 1924, he divorced Tennessee Mitchell and marred Elizabeth Prall. They lived in New York and New Orleans, and traveled in Europe, too. With profits from his novel 1925 Dark Laughter, Anderson bought Ripshin Farm, later just Ripshin, as a summer home, in 1926. He also acquired both local newspapers, the  Smyth County News  and the  Marion Democrat . His son, Robert, helped with, and eventually took over management of the newspapers in 1929. Around the same time, Anderson began a tour of the south and its factory towns with Eleanor Copenhaver, which shaped several of his later non-fiction publications. ","In 1932, Anderson divorced Elizabeth Prall and the following year, married Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985). Southwest Virginia was a powerful influence on his later stories and novels. His life in around Marion and Troutdale, Virginia, was the focus of his writing for the newspapers, as well. At the same time, he was still writing novels and short stories for magazines. In 1941, Sherwood and Eleanor Anderson left for a trip to South America. During the trip, after ingesting a toothpick, Anderson developed peritonitis and was hospitalized in Panama, where he passed away on March 8, 1941. He is buried in Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. ","Over his lifetime, Anderson published 8 novels, 4 collections of short stories, 2 collections of poetry, 1 collection of plays, and 12 works of non-fiction. Following his death, publishers and scholars have produced memoirs, critical editions, and several volumes of his collected letters. During his life, he was influential on the careers of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, and maintained extensive correspondence and friendships with authors, artists, publishers, and critics (though he later wrote that he had given up reading reviews).","Llewellyn Jones (July 13, 1884-July 1, 1961) was an American editor and author. He served as the literary editor of the Chicago Evening Post from 1914-1932. He later worked for book publisher Willett, Clark, and Company. He authored three books on writing, criticism, and reading. His personal and professional papers are held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Mansuscript Library at Yale University. A  guide to the collection , including a brief biography, can be found online.","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones was completed in August 2015.","Books by and about Sherwood Anderson stored in Special Collections and the general collection of Newman Library are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .\nMicrofilmed and bound theses and dissertations about Sherwood Anderson and his work that were collected by researcher Ray White are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .","Special Collections houses multiple manuscripts relating to Anderson, including: ","Ms1971-002, Dayton M. Kohler Papers, 1889-1972.  Finding aid available online .","Ms1973-002, Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1912-1938.  Finding aid available online . Some items in this collection have been digitized and are  available online .","Ms2011-004, Sherwood Anderson Photograph and Postcard, 1929, 1939.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","Ms2015-020, Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, 1918-2006, n.d.  Finding aid available online . Some items from this collection have been digitized and are  available online . ","Ms2017-005, James T. Farrell Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1952.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","This collection consists of eight letters written by American author Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) to Llewellyn Jones (1884-1961) between 1916 and 1924 with three undated (but likely from the same period). Jones was the literary editor for the Chicago Evening Post. The correspondence primarily discusses the reviews of Anderson's earlier works by Jones and other critics. Anderson and Jones appear to have also been friends and a number of the letters include queries about Jones' wife and personal updates on Anderson and his second wife, Tennessee Claflin Mitchell (1874-1929). In the \"Contents List\" below, items showing as \"c.\" are the date from the postmark on the envelope. In these cases, the letters themselves did not have dates. ","Although Anderson never mentions specific titles, the 1916 letters refer to  Windy McPherson's Son . The note from April 1918 probably refers to Anderson's collection of poetry published that year,  Mid-American Chants . The letter dated only \"October 3\" was likely written in 1918, since records indicate that was the fall in which Anderson had Spanish influenza. He writes, \"Have made the draft of a new novel and writen some fifty thousand words of it,\" probably referring to early work on the novel  Poor White , which was published in 1920. This typed letter also describes a recent visit to Anderson by Carl Sandburg. The two letters from 1924 both include Anderson's comments on reviews of his 1923 novel,  Many Marriages .","The collection also includes two undated letters, both of which can be placed in an approximate timeline. One was written from New York City. Although short, it mentions he will be there until the end of the year. This likely places the letter in in either late 1922 or 1923, during which time he was living there (before he moved to New Orleans with his third wife in 1924). The other undated letter laments that the reactions \"I have seen, for the most part, [are] not intelligent criticism but long dissertations on someone's notion of labor, writing, or intellectuality.\" This could place the letter in 1917, after the publication of Marching Men, which dealt with themes of labor issues and the intellectual figure in society. 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While Anderson excelled as a student, he quit school at the age of 14 to help support his family, taking on a wide variety of jobs. After his mother's death, he relocated to Chicago for the first time, working and taking a few night classes. He served briefly in Cuba during he Spanish-American War, but was sent there after combat had ended. A few months later, he returned to Clyde, then moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1899, where he completed his senior year at Wittenburg Academy, a prep school. His graduation speech resulted in his being offered a job as an advertising solicitor and he moved to back to Chicago.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1903, work travels took him to Toledo, Ohio, where he met Cornelia Pratt Lane, his first wife. The couple married in 1904 and had three children: Robert Lane (1907-1951), John Sherwood (1908-1995) and Marion (Mimi) (1911-1996). 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His graduation speech resulted in his being offered a job as an advertising solicitor and he moved to back to Chicago.","In 1903, work travels took him to Toledo, Ohio, where he met Cornelia Pratt Lane, his first wife. The couple married in 1904 and had three children: Robert Lane (1907-1951), John Sherwood (1908-1995) and Marion (Mimi) (1911-1996). In 1906, they relocated to Cleveland when Anderson became the president of the United Factories Company, a mail-order firm. The following year he departed the company, took his family to Elyria, Ohio, and started the Anderson Manufacturing Co., another mail order business. ","In 1912, Anderson suffered a nervous breakdown. He returned to Chicago yet again and began work writing advertising copy and becoming part of the writer and artist scene of the city. In 1916, he divorced Cornelia Pratt and married Tennessee Mitchell, a sculptor. He also published his first novel,  Windy McPherson's Son , the first of three books in a deal with publisher John Lane. It was beginning of his writing career. 1919 saw the publication of his short story collection,  Winesburg, Ohio , one of his most well-know works. In 1924, he divorced Tennessee Mitchell and marred Elizabeth Prall. They lived in New York and New Orleans, and traveled in Europe, too. With profits from his novel 1925 Dark Laughter, Anderson bought Ripshin Farm, later just Ripshin, as a summer home, in 1926. He also acquired both local newspapers, the  Smyth County News  and the  Marion Democrat . His son, Robert, helped with, and eventually took over management of the newspapers in 1929. Around the same time, Anderson began a tour of the south and its factory towns with Eleanor Copenhaver, which shaped several of his later non-fiction publications. ","In 1932, Anderson divorced Elizabeth Prall and the following year, married Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985). Southwest Virginia was a powerful influence on his later stories and novels. His life in around Marion and Troutdale, Virginia, was the focus of his writing for the newspapers, as well. At the same time, he was still writing novels and short stories for magazines. In 1941, Sherwood and Eleanor Anderson left for a trip to South America. During the trip, after ingesting a toothpick, Anderson developed peritonitis and was hospitalized in Panama, where he passed away on March 8, 1941. He is buried in Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. ","Over his lifetime, Anderson published 8 novels, 4 collections of short stories, 2 collections of poetry, 1 collection of plays, and 12 works of non-fiction. Following his death, publishers and scholars have produced memoirs, critical editions, and several volumes of his collected letters. 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The correspondence primarily discusses the reviews of Anderson's earlier works by Jones and other critics. Anderson and Jones appear to have also been friends and a number of the letters include queries about Jones' wife and personal updates on Anderson and his second wife, Tennessee Claflin Mitchell (1874-1929). In the \"Contents List\" below, items showing as \"c.\" are the date from the postmark on the envelope. In these cases, the letters themselves did not have dates. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlthough Anderson never mentions specific titles, the 1916 letters refer to \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWindy McPherson's Son\u003c/title\u003e. The note from April 1918 probably refers to Anderson's collection of poetry published that year, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMid-American Chants\u003c/title\u003e. The letter dated only \"October 3\" was likely written in 1918, since records indicate that was the fall in which Anderson had Spanish influenza. He writes, \"Have made the draft of a new novel and writen some fifty thousand words of it,\" probably referring to early work on the novel \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003ePoor White\u003c/title\u003e, which was published in 1920. This typed letter also describes a recent visit to Anderson by Carl Sandburg. The two letters from 1924 both include Anderson's comments on reviews of his 1923 novel, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMany Marriages\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes two undated letters, both of which can be placed in an approximate timeline. One was written from New York City. Although short, it mentions he will be there until the end of the year. This likely places the letter in in either late 1922 or 1923, during which time he was living there (before he moved to New Orleans with his third wife in 1924). The other undated letter laments that the reactions \"I have seen, for the most part, [are] not intelligent criticism but long dissertations on someone's notion of labor, writing, or intellectuality.\" This could place the letter in 1917, after the publication of Marching Men, which dealt with themes of labor issues and the intellectual figure in society. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of the letters are available in print with collection and online with the digitized copies.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of eight letters written by American author Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) to Llewellyn Jones (1884-1961) between 1916 and 1924 with three undated (but likely from the same period). Jones was the literary editor for the Chicago Evening Post. The correspondence primarily discusses the reviews of Anderson's earlier works by Jones and other critics. Anderson and Jones appear to have also been friends and a number of the letters include queries about Jones' wife and personal updates on Anderson and his second wife, Tennessee Claflin Mitchell (1874-1929). In the \"Contents List\" below, items showing as \"c.\" are the date from the postmark on the envelope. In these cases, the letters themselves did not have dates. ","Although Anderson never mentions specific titles, the 1916 letters refer to  Windy McPherson's Son . The note from April 1918 probably refers to Anderson's collection of poetry published that year,  Mid-American Chants . The letter dated only \"October 3\" was likely written in 1918, since records indicate that was the fall in which Anderson had Spanish influenza. He writes, \"Have made the draft of a new novel and writen some fifty thousand words of it,\" probably referring to early work on the novel  Poor White , which was published in 1920. This typed letter also describes a recent visit to Anderson by Carl Sandburg. The two letters from 1924 both include Anderson's comments on reviews of his 1923 novel,  Many Marriages .","The collection also includes two undated letters, both of which can be placed in an approximate timeline. One was written from New York City. Although short, it mentions he will be there until the end of the year. This likely places the letter in in either late 1922 or 1923, during which time he was living there (before he moved to New Orleans with his third wife in 1924). The other undated letter laments that the reactions \"I have seen, for the most part, [are] not intelligent criticism but long dissertations on someone's notion of labor, writing, or intellectuality.\" This could place the letter in 1917, after the publication of Marching Men, which dealt with themes of labor issues and the intellectual figure in society. 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Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson","Art, American -- Virginia -- 20th century","Authors, American -- 20th century","American Literature -- Virginia","Ripshin (Grayson County, Va.)","Local/Regional History and Appalachian South","Photographs","Correspondence","The collection is open for research.","Some issues of the  Smyth County News  have been digitized by the Smyth-Bland Regional Library.","Some items from this collection have been digitized and are  available online .","Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was born in the small town of Camden, Ohio to Irwin McClain Anderson (d.1919) and Emma Jane Smith (d.1895). While Anderson excelled as a student, he quit school at the age of 14 to help support his family, taking on a wide variety of jobs. After his mother's death, he relocated to Chicago for the first time, working and taking a few night classes. He served briefly in Cuba during he Spanish-American War, but was sent there after combat had ended. A few months later, he returned to Clyde, then moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1899, where he completed his senior year at Wittenburg Academy, a prep school. His graduation speech resulted in his being offered a job as an advertising solicitor and he moved to back to Chicago.","In 1903, work travels took him to Toledo, Ohio, where he met Cornelia Pratt Lane, his first wife. The couple married in 1904 and had three children: Robert Lane (1907-1951), John Sherwood (1908-1995) and Marion (Mimi) (1911-1996). In 1906, they relocated to Cleveland when Anderson became the president of the United Factories Company, a mail-order firm. The following year he departed the company, took his family to Elyria, Ohio, and started the Anderson Manufacturing Co., another mail order business. ","In 1912, Anderson suffered a nervous breakdown. He returned to Chicago yet again and began work writing advertising copy and becoming part of the writer and artist scene of the city. In 1916, he divorced Cornelia Pratt and married Tennessee Mitchell, a sculptor. He also published his first novel,  Windy McPherson's Son , the first of three books in a deal with publisher John Lane. It was beginning of his writing career. 1919 saw the publication of his short story collection,  Winesburg, Ohio , one of his most well-know works. In 1924, he divorced Tennessee Mitchell and marred Elizabeth Prall. They lived in New York and New Orleans, and traveled in Europe, too. With profits from his novel 1925 Dark Laughter, Anderson bought Ripshin Farm, later just Ripshin, as a summer home, in 1926. He also acquired both local newspapers, the  Smyth County News  and the  Marion Democrat . His son, Robert, helped with, and eventually took over management of the newspapers in 1929. Around the same time, Anderson began a tour of the south and its factory towns with Eleanor Copenhaver, which shaped several of his later non-fiction publications. ","In 1932, Anderson divorced Elizabeth Prall and the following year, married Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985). Southwest Virginia was a powerful influence on his later stories and novels. His life in around Marion and Troutdale, Virginia, was the focus of his writing for the newspapers, as well. At the same time, he was still writing novels and short stories for magazines. In 1941, Sherwood and Eleanor Anderson left for a trip to South America. During the trip, after ingesting a toothpick, Anderson developed peritonitis and was hospitalized in Panama, where he passed away on March 8, 1941. He is buried in Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. ","Over his lifetime, Anderson published 8 novels, 4 collections of short stories, 2 collections of poetry, 1 collection of plays, and 12 works of non-fiction. Following his death, publishers and scholars have produced memoirs, critical editions, and several volumes of his collected letters. During his life, he was influential on the careers of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, and maintained extensive correspondence and friendships with authors, artists, publishers, and critics (though he later wrote that he had given up reading reviews).","Eleanor Gladys Copenhaver (1896-1985) was born on June 15, 1896 in Marion, Virginia, to Bascom Eugene and Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver. Laura Lu's father founded Marion Female College, which was located next door to the family home, \"Rosemont.\" Laura Lu attended Marion College and later taught English there. Her husband, B.E. Copenhaver, first taught at Marion and then became Smyth County superintendent of schools.\nEleanor Copenhaver attended Marion College, then Westhampton College in Richmond, completing a B. A. in English in 1917. After spending a year teaching and time as a camp director, she spent more than ten years working for the YWCA, specializing first in rural community organizing and later in industrial communities. During this time, she met and eventually married Sherwood Anderson in 1933. ","From 1937 to 1947 Copenhaver Anderson was head of the National YWCA's Industrial Program, later accepting a 2 year assignment abroad. In 1950, she spent a brief time apart from the YWCA, after it ended programs for employed women, but she was re-hired in 1951 for another ten years for the YWCA and United Community Defense Services, until she retired in 1961. ","She spent her later life in both New York City and at \"Rosemont\" and \"Ripshin\" in Virginia. As the collection suggests, she maintained an active role in scholarship surrounded Sherwood Anderson. She died on September 12, 1985, in Marion, Virginia. ","A lengthier biographical note can be found in finding aid for the  Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson Papers   in the Sophia Smith Collection. The UNC Chapel Hill \"Documenting the American South\" Collection also includes an oral history interview with  Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson from November 5, 1974 .","Julius John (J. J.) Lankes was born in 1884 in Buffalo, NY. He began working as a draftsman in 1902, but spent the majority of his professional life known for his woodcuts. His career as an artist spanned decades, during which he created woodcuts and illustrations for authors, among others. In addition to Sherwood Anderson, he worked with Robert Frost and Beatrix Potter. Lankes wrote and illustrated  A Woodcut Manual , published by Henry Holt in 1932. In 2006, The University of Tampa published a new edition of this book with selected letters and other writings, edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor. (A copy of the 2006 edition is housed in Special Collections. A copy of the 1932 edition is available at the University Libraries' Art \u0026 Architecture Library.) In addition to his illustrations and work as an artist, Lankes taught at Wells College from 1933 to about 1940. From 1943 to 1950, Lankes worked for the reproduction section of the National Advisory Council for Aeronautics (NACA, later NASA). He retired in 1951 and died in April 1960.","The Rauner Special Collections Library of Dartmouth University contains a collection of J. J. Lankes papers. A  finding aid for the collection  is available online. ","Welford D. Taylor is a retired English professor and scholar. Over the course of his career, he published edited volumes of Sherwood Anderson's work and his own research on Anderson, as well as on J. J. Lankes and other authors and topics. Highlights  of his books include:\n Julius J. Lankes: Survey of an American Artist , 2013 Sherwood Anderson Remembered , 2009 The Woodcut Art of J. J. Lankes , 1999 Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson , with Charles E. Modlin, 1997  The Newsprint Mask: The Tradition of the Fictional Journalist in America , 1991 Sherwood Anderson, J.J. Lankes and the illustration of _Perhaps Women_ , 1981 Sherwood Anderson , 1977","This collection represents his research and accumulated materials pirmarily relating to Sherwood Anderson, J. J. Lankes, and Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson.","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson began in October 2016 and was completed in November 2016.","Books by and about Sherwood Anderson stored in Special Collections and the general collection of Newman Library are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .\nMicrofilmed and bound theses and dissertations about Sherwood Anderson and his work that were collected by researcher Ray White are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .\nSpecial Collections houses multiple manuscripts relating to Anderson, including: \nMs1971-002, Dayton M. Kohler Papers, 1889-1972.  Finding aid available online .","Ms1973-002, Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1912-1938.  Finding aid available online . Some items in this collection have been digitized and are  available online .","Ms2011-004, Sherwood Anderson Photograph and Postcard, 1929, 1939.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","Ms2015-020, Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, 1918-2006, n.d.  Finding aid available online . Some items from this collection have been digitized and are  available online . ","Ms2015-044, Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones, 1916-1924, n.d.  Finding aid available online .  Digital images with transcripts  available online. ","Ms2017-001, Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","Ms2017-005, James T. Farrell Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1952.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006. ","Series I: Correspondence to/from Sherwood Anderson, 1927-1940 includes correspondence to and from Anderson with a variety of colleagues and friends. It contains three subseries. Materials in each subseries in Series I are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: Sherwood Anderson to J. J. Lankes, 1926-1940 consists of Anderson's letters to artist and friend, J. J. Lankes. The correspondence is a combination of personal conversations and professional.  There are also several folders of materials that relate to the correspondence and the Anderson-Lankes collaboration: manuscripts and copies of essays, woodcuts, articles, and reviews. Subseries B: From Sherwood Anderson to various, A-Z, 1925-1940, n.d. contains letters by Anderson to a variety of individuals. In most cases, there is a single letter to each correspondent, with the exception of William and Carrie Wright. Wright built Ripshin, Anderson's home in Marion, Va. Subseries C: To Sherwood Anderson from various, A-Z, 1931, 1935 consists of a letter to Anderson from his publisher and an invitation.","Series II: Correspondence about Sherwood Anderson, 1929-2006, n.d. contains letters about Sherwood Anderson, including personal correspondence to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, artist J. J. Lankes, Anderson scholar Welford D. Taylor, and others. It contains four subseries. Materials in each subseries in Series II are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: To/from Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1941-1977, n.d., includes letters written to and from Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, written after Anderson's death in 1941. It is primary correspondence between Eleanor and J. J. Lankes and W. D. Taylor. Subseries B: To/from J. J. Lankes, 1930-1957, n.d. consists of letters to and from Lankes from Anderson's son, Robert, from publishers working with Lankes and Anderson on Anderson's books, and other mutual acquaintances. Subseries C: To/from Welford D. Taylor from Various, A-Z, 1929-2006 includes correspondence from other Sherwood Anderson scholars and researchers. The last subseries, Subseries D: To/from various, A-Z, 1932, 1938, 1965, contains a few letters from individuals connected to Anderson (his children) or between individuals interested in Anderson. ","Series III: Subject Files, 1918-2006, n.d. includes collected research files, ephemera, and other items related to scholarship about Sherwood Anderson. Materials in each subseries in Series III are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: Writings by \u0026 about Sherwood Anderson, 1918-1953, n.d. contains a few drafts of writings by Anderson, along with photocopies of an article about Anderson and one of his newspaper columns from 1918. Subseries B: Sherwood Anderson \u0026 His Works, 1964-2006, n.d. includes files of research materials collected by W. D. Taylor on secondary sources or edited collections of Anderson's works. This includes  The Buck Fever Papers ,   Certain Things Last: The Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson ,   Sherwood Anderson ,   Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America , and   Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson . This subseries also has the transcript of an interview by Taylor with Joseph and Mary Cortina. Subseries C: Ephemera, 1924-2005, n.d. consist of pages from newspapers, programs from events related to Anderson scholarship, and materials from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation. Subseries D: Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1980, 1985 contains obituaries following the death of Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson and a pamphlet relating to her mother.","Series IV: Images, Video, Audio, and Microfilm, 1970s-1991, n.d. contains all the multimedia materials received as part of this collection. Formats include photographs, postcards, a VHS tape, cassette tape and audio reels, and microfilm. Materials in each subseries in Series IV are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: Photographs and Postcards, c.1970s, n.d. includes pictures of art works relating to Anderson, formal and candid images of Anderson, of Ripshin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripshin_Farm ), his home in Grayson County, Virginia, and of locations around Marion, Virginia, which were significant to Anderson's life and career. Subseries B: Video, 1991 includes the recording of a 1991 event on the Virginia Tech campus. Subseries C: Audio, 1976, 1982, n.d. includes a partial interview with an unknown friend of Sherwood Anderson and cassette tapes with interviews of Anderson scholars and Eleanor Anderson. Subseries D: Microfilm, 1925-1931, n.d. contains microfilm of Smyth County newspapers purchased and published by Anderson in the 1920s and 1930s. ","Series V: Graphic Arts Materials, n.d. includes a small group of art works, primarily woodcuts. This series contains prints and photocopies of J. J. Lankes woodcuts, some of which were used in Anderson publications. It also includes bookplates for the libraries of Sherwood Anderson and Welford D. Taylor. Materials in Series V are organized by material type. ","List of Major Correspondents · Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985) · Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941) · Anderson, Robert Lane (1907-1951) · Campbell, Hilbert · DeVries, Carrow · Hurd, Thaddeus B. · Lankes, J. J. (1884-1960) · Modlin, Charles E. · Rideout, Walter B. · Taylor, Welford Dunaway · Wright, William and Carrie","This audio reel contains no lead and starts in the middle of an interview with an unknown person about his memories and experiences with Sherwood Anderson. Following the interview, which is cut short, the audio is unplayable by equipment in Special Collections (it seems to have been recorded at a different speed) for many minutes. The middle of the reel includes recordings of someone playing piano. The end of the reel contains additional audio again apparently recorded at a different speed and unplayable.","Please note: Virginia Tech Special Collections does NOT house the original scrapbook from which these articles were filmed. It appears to be  part of the Sherwood Anderson Papers  held by the Newberry Library.","The following books were purchased along with the manuscript materials and are cataloged for Special Collections Rare Book Collection: \n The Complete Works of Sherwood Anderson , ed. Kichinosuke Ohashi (21 vols) Agricultural Advertising , vol. IX, nos. 1-12. (This includes Anderson's earliest published work, as well as four other pieces by him) Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson (Armed Services Edition) Labor Age: The Voice of Progressive Labor , XX, no. 2, 1931 Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America , Vols. 1-2 (2 vols) by Walter B. Rideout Sherwood Anderson: Dimensions of His Literary Art/A Collection of Essays , ed. David D. Anderson The Phenomenon of Sherwood Anderson  by N. Bryllion Fagin Wave Essays Number 1 (Spring 1980) , \"Sherwood Anderson, J. J. Lankes and the Illustration of  Perhaps Women \" by Welford Dunaway Taylor","Permission to publish material from the Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.","This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985","Anderson, Robert Lane, 1907-1951","Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941","Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960","Taylor, Welford Dunaway","English \n.    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While Anderson excelled as a student, he quit school at the age of 14 to help support his family, taking on a wide variety of jobs. After his mother's death, he relocated to Chicago for the first time, working and taking a few night classes. He served briefly in Cuba during he Spanish-American War, but was sent there after combat had ended. A few months later, he returned to Clyde, then moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1899, where he completed his senior year at Wittenburg Academy, a prep school. His graduation speech resulted in his being offered a job as an advertising solicitor and he moved to back to Chicago.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1903, work travels took him to Toledo, Ohio, where he met Cornelia Pratt Lane, his first wife. The couple married in 1904 and had three children: Robert Lane (1907-1951), John Sherwood (1908-1995) and Marion (Mimi) (1911-1996). In 1906, they relocated to Cleveland when Anderson became the president of the United Factories Company, a mail-order firm. The following year he departed the company, took his family to Elyria, Ohio, and started the Anderson Manufacturing Co., another mail order business. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1912, Anderson suffered a nervous breakdown. He returned to Chicago yet again and began work writing advertising copy and becoming part of the writer and artist scene of the city. In 1916, he divorced Cornelia Pratt and married Tennessee Mitchell, a sculptor. He also published his first novel, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWindy McPherson's Son\u003c/title\u003e, the first of three books in a deal with publisher John Lane. It was beginning of his writing career. 1919 saw the publication of his short story collection, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWinesburg, Ohio\u003c/title\u003e, one of his most well-know works. In 1924, he divorced Tennessee Mitchell and marred Elizabeth Prall. They lived in New York and New Orleans, and traveled in Europe, too. With profits from his novel 1925 Dark Laughter, Anderson bought Ripshin Farm, later just Ripshin, as a summer home, in 1926. He also acquired both local newspapers, the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSmyth County News\u003c/title\u003e and the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMarion Democrat\u003c/title\u003e. His son, Robert, helped with, and eventually took over management of the newspapers in 1929. Around the same time, Anderson began a tour of the south and its factory towns with Eleanor Copenhaver, which shaped several of his later non-fiction publications. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1932, Anderson divorced Elizabeth Prall and the following year, married Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985). Southwest Virginia was a powerful influence on his later stories and novels. His life in around Marion and Troutdale, Virginia, was the focus of his writing for the newspapers, as well. At the same time, he was still writing novels and short stories for magazines. In 1941, Sherwood and Eleanor Anderson left for a trip to South America. During the trip, after ingesting a toothpick, Anderson developed peritonitis and was hospitalized in Panama, where he passed away on March 8, 1941. He is buried in Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOver his lifetime, Anderson published 8 novels, 4 collections of short stories, 2 collections of poetry, 1 collection of plays, and 12 works of non-fiction. Following his death, publishers and scholars have produced memoirs, critical editions, and several volumes of his collected letters. During his life, he was influential on the careers of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, and maintained extensive correspondence and friendships with authors, artists, publishers, and critics (though he later wrote that he had given up reading reviews).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Gladys Copenhaver (1896-1985) was born on June 15, 1896 in Marion, Virginia, to Bascom Eugene and Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver. Laura Lu's father founded Marion Female College, which was located next door to the family home, \"Rosemont.\" Laura Lu attended Marion College and later taught English there. Her husband, B.E. Copenhaver, first taught at Marion and then became Smyth County superintendent of schools.\nEleanor Copenhaver attended Marion College, then Westhampton College in Richmond, completing a B. A. in English in 1917. After spending a year teaching and time as a camp director, she spent more than ten years working for the YWCA, specializing first in rural community organizing and later in industrial communities. During this time, she met and eventually married Sherwood Anderson in 1933. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1937 to 1947 Copenhaver Anderson was head of the National YWCA's Industrial Program, later accepting a 2 year assignment abroad. In 1950, she spent a brief time apart from the YWCA, after it ended programs for employed women, but she was re-hired in 1951 for another ten years for the YWCA and United Community Defense Services, until she retired in 1961. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eShe spent her later life in both New York City and at \"Rosemont\" and \"Ripshin\" in Virginia. As the collection suggests, she maintained an active role in scholarship surrounded Sherwood Anderson. She died on September 12, 1985, in Marion, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA lengthier biographical note can be found in finding aid for the \u003cextref href=\"https://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss477_bioghist.html\" show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\"\u003eEleanor Copenhaver Anderson Papers\u003c/extref\u003e  in the Sophia Smith Collection. The UNC Chapel Hill \"Documenting the American South\" Collection also includes an oral history interview with \u003cextref show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\" href=\"http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0005/menu.html\"\u003eEleanor Copenhaver Anderson from November 5, 1974\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJulius John (J. J.) Lankes was born in 1884 in Buffalo, NY. He began working as a draftsman in 1902, but spent the majority of his professional life known for his woodcuts. His career as an artist spanned decades, during which he created woodcuts and illustrations for authors, among others. In addition to Sherwood Anderson, he worked with Robert Frost and Beatrix Potter. Lankes wrote and illustrated \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eA Woodcut Manual\u003c/title\u003e, published by Henry Holt in 1932. In 2006, The University of Tampa published a new edition of this book with selected letters and other writings, edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor. (A copy of the 2006 edition is housed in Special Collections. A copy of the 1932 edition is available at the University Libraries' Art \u0026amp; Architecture Library.) In addition to his illustrations and work as an artist, Lankes taught at Wells College from 1933 to about 1940. From 1943 to 1950, Lankes worked for the reproduction section of the National Advisory Council for Aeronautics (NACA, later NASA). He retired in 1951 and died in April 1960.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Rauner Special Collections Library of Dartmouth University contains a collection of J. J. Lankes papers. A \u003cextref href=\"http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ms1115.html\" show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\"\u003efinding aid for the collection\u003c/extref\u003e is available online. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWelford D. Taylor is a retired English professor and scholar. Over the course of his career, he published edited volumes of Sherwood Anderson's work and his own research on Anderson, as well as on J. J. Lankes and other authors and topics. Highlights  of his books include:\n\u003clist\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eJulius J. Lankes: Survey of an American Artist\u003c/title\u003e, 2013\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson Remembered\u003c/title\u003e, 2009\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Woodcut Art of J. J. Lankes\u003c/title\u003e, 1999\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e, with Charles E. Modlin, 1997 \u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Newsprint Mask: The Tradition of the Fictional Journalist in America\u003c/title\u003e, 1991\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson, J.J. Lankes and the illustration of _Perhaps Women_\u003c/title\u003e, 1981\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e, 1977\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis collection represents his research and accumulated materials pirmarily relating to Sherwood Anderson, J. J. Lankes, and Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note: Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)","Biographical Note: Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson (1896-1985)","Biographical Note: J. J. Lankes (1884-1960)","Biographical Note: Welford D. Taylor"],"bioghist_tesim":["Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was born in the small town of Camden, Ohio to Irwin McClain Anderson (d.1919) and Emma Jane Smith (d.1895). While Anderson excelled as a student, he quit school at the age of 14 to help support his family, taking on a wide variety of jobs. After his mother's death, he relocated to Chicago for the first time, working and taking a few night classes. He served briefly in Cuba during he Spanish-American War, but was sent there after combat had ended. A few months later, he returned to Clyde, then moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1899, where he completed his senior year at Wittenburg Academy, a prep school. His graduation speech resulted in his being offered a job as an advertising solicitor and he moved to back to Chicago.","In 1903, work travels took him to Toledo, Ohio, where he met Cornelia Pratt Lane, his first wife. The couple married in 1904 and had three children: Robert Lane (1907-1951), John Sherwood (1908-1995) and Marion (Mimi) (1911-1996). In 1906, they relocated to Cleveland when Anderson became the president of the United Factories Company, a mail-order firm. The following year he departed the company, took his family to Elyria, Ohio, and started the Anderson Manufacturing Co., another mail order business. ","In 1912, Anderson suffered a nervous breakdown. He returned to Chicago yet again and began work writing advertising copy and becoming part of the writer and artist scene of the city. In 1916, he divorced Cornelia Pratt and married Tennessee Mitchell, a sculptor. He also published his first novel,  Windy McPherson's Son , the first of three books in a deal with publisher John Lane. It was beginning of his writing career. 1919 saw the publication of his short story collection,  Winesburg, Ohio , one of his most well-know works. In 1924, he divorced Tennessee Mitchell and marred Elizabeth Prall. They lived in New York and New Orleans, and traveled in Europe, too. With profits from his novel 1925 Dark Laughter, Anderson bought Ripshin Farm, later just Ripshin, as a summer home, in 1926. He also acquired both local newspapers, the  Smyth County News  and the  Marion Democrat . His son, Robert, helped with, and eventually took over management of the newspapers in 1929. Around the same time, Anderson began a tour of the south and its factory towns with Eleanor Copenhaver, which shaped several of his later non-fiction publications. ","In 1932, Anderson divorced Elizabeth Prall and the following year, married Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985). Southwest Virginia was a powerful influence on his later stories and novels. His life in around Marion and Troutdale, Virginia, was the focus of his writing for the newspapers, as well. At the same time, he was still writing novels and short stories for magazines. In 1941, Sherwood and Eleanor Anderson left for a trip to South America. During the trip, after ingesting a toothpick, Anderson developed peritonitis and was hospitalized in Panama, where he passed away on March 8, 1941. He is buried in Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. ","Over his lifetime, Anderson published 8 novels, 4 collections of short stories, 2 collections of poetry, 1 collection of plays, and 12 works of non-fiction. Following his death, publishers and scholars have produced memoirs, critical editions, and several volumes of his collected letters. During his life, he was influential on the careers of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, and maintained extensive correspondence and friendships with authors, artists, publishers, and critics (though he later wrote that he had given up reading reviews).","Eleanor Gladys Copenhaver (1896-1985) was born on June 15, 1896 in Marion, Virginia, to Bascom Eugene and Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver. Laura Lu's father founded Marion Female College, which was located next door to the family home, \"Rosemont.\" Laura Lu attended Marion College and later taught English there. Her husband, B.E. Copenhaver, first taught at Marion and then became Smyth County superintendent of schools.\nEleanor Copenhaver attended Marion College, then Westhampton College in Richmond, completing a B. A. in English in 1917. After spending a year teaching and time as a camp director, she spent more than ten years working for the YWCA, specializing first in rural community organizing and later in industrial communities. During this time, she met and eventually married Sherwood Anderson in 1933. ","From 1937 to 1947 Copenhaver Anderson was head of the National YWCA's Industrial Program, later accepting a 2 year assignment abroad. In 1950, she spent a brief time apart from the YWCA, after it ended programs for employed women, but she was re-hired in 1951 for another ten years for the YWCA and United Community Defense Services, until she retired in 1961. ","She spent her later life in both New York City and at \"Rosemont\" and \"Ripshin\" in Virginia. As the collection suggests, she maintained an active role in scholarship surrounded Sherwood Anderson. She died on September 12, 1985, in Marion, Virginia. ","A lengthier biographical note can be found in finding aid for the  Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson Papers   in the Sophia Smith Collection. The UNC Chapel Hill \"Documenting the American South\" Collection also includes an oral history interview with  Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson from November 5, 1974 .","Julius John (J. J.) Lankes was born in 1884 in Buffalo, NY. He began working as a draftsman in 1902, but spent the majority of his professional life known for his woodcuts. His career as an artist spanned decades, during which he created woodcuts and illustrations for authors, among others. In addition to Sherwood Anderson, he worked with Robert Frost and Beatrix Potter. Lankes wrote and illustrated  A Woodcut Manual , published by Henry Holt in 1932. In 2006, The University of Tampa published a new edition of this book with selected letters and other writings, edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor. (A copy of the 2006 edition is housed in Special Collections. A copy of the 1932 edition is available at the University Libraries' Art \u0026 Architecture Library.) In addition to his illustrations and work as an artist, Lankes taught at Wells College from 1933 to about 1940. From 1943 to 1950, Lankes worked for the reproduction section of the National Advisory Council for Aeronautics (NACA, later NASA). He retired in 1951 and died in April 1960.","The Rauner Special Collections Library of Dartmouth University contains a collection of J. J. Lankes papers. A  finding aid for the collection  is available online. ","Welford D. Taylor is a retired English professor and scholar. Over the course of his career, he published edited volumes of Sherwood Anderson's work and his own research on Anderson, as well as on J. J. Lankes and other authors and topics. Highlights  of his books include:\n Julius J. Lankes: Survey of an American Artist , 2013 Sherwood Anderson Remembered , 2009 The Woodcut Art of J. J. Lankes , 1999 Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson , with Charles E. Modlin, 1997  The Newsprint Mask: The Tradition of the Fictional Journalist in America , 1991 Sherwood Anderson, J.J. Lankes and the illustration of _Perhaps Women_ , 1981 Sherwood Anderson , 1977","This collection represents his research and accumulated materials pirmarily relating to Sherwood Anderson, J. J. Lankes, and Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of Sherwood Anderson's papers are housed at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. A \u003cextref show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\" href=\"http://mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/anderson.xml\"\u003efinding aid for this collection\u003c/extref\u003e is available online.\u003c/p\u003e"],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Other Finding Aids"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["The bulk of Sherwood Anderson's papers are housed at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. A  finding aid for this collection  is available online."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, Ms2015-020, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, Ms2015-020, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson began in October 2016 and was completed in November 2016.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson began in October 2016 and was completed in November 2016."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBooks by and about Sherwood Anderson stored in Special Collections and the general collection of Newman Library are cataloged and can be located using the library's \u003cextref href=\"https://catalog.lib.vt.edu/\" title=\"catalog\"\u003ecatalog\u003c/extref\u003e.\nMicrofilmed and bound theses and dissertations about Sherwood Anderson and his work that were collected by researcher Ray White are cataloged and can be located using the library's \u003cextref href=\"https://catalog.lib.vt.edu/\" title=\"catalog\"\u003ecatalog\u003c/extref\u003e.\nSpecial Collections houses multiple manuscripts relating to Anderson, including: \nMs1971-002, Dayton M. Kohler Papers, 1889-1972. \u003cextref href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00906.xml\" show=\"new\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMs1973-002, Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1912-1938. \u003cextref href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00247.xml\" show=\"new\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e. Some items in this collection have been digitized and are \u003cextref href=\"http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms1973_002_AndersonSherwood_\" show=\"new\"\u003eavailable online\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMs2011-004, Sherwood Anderson Photograph and Postcard, 1929, 1939. \u003cextref actuate=\"onRequest\" href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00773.xml\" show=\"new\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e. This collection has been digitized and is \u003cextref href=\"http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms2011_004_AndersonPostcard_\" show=\"new\"\u003eavailable online\u003c/extref\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMs2015-020, Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, 1918-2006, n.d. \u003cextref show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\" href=\"http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01837.xml\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e. Some items from this collection have been digitized and are \u003cextref href=\"http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms2015_020_TaylerWD_\" show=\"new\"\u003eavailable online\u003c/extref\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMs2015-044, Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones, 1916-1924, n.d. \u003cextref show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\" href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01807.xml\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e. \u003cextref show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\" href=\"https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/collections/show/84\"\u003eDigital images with transcripts \u003c/extref\u003eavailable online. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMs2017-001, Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950. \u003cextref href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml\" show=\"new\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e. This collection has been digitized and is \u003cextref href=\"http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_\" show=\"new\"\u003eavailable online\u003c/extref\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMs2017-005, James T. Farrell Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1952. \u003cextref href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01848.xml\" show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e. This collection has been digitized and is \u003cextref href=\"http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms2017-005\" show=\"new\"\u003eavailable online\u003c/extref\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Books by and about Sherwood Anderson stored in Special Collections and the general collection of Newman Library are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .\nMicrofilmed and bound theses and dissertations about Sherwood Anderson and his work that were collected by researcher Ray White are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .\nSpecial Collections houses multiple manuscripts relating to Anderson, including: \nMs1971-002, Dayton M. Kohler Papers, 1889-1972.  Finding aid available online .","Ms1973-002, Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1912-1938.  Finding aid available online . Some items in this collection have been digitized and are  available online .","Ms2011-004, Sherwood Anderson Photograph and Postcard, 1929, 1939.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","Ms2015-020, Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, 1918-2006, n.d.  Finding aid available online . Some items from this collection have been digitized and are  available online . ","Ms2015-044, Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones, 1916-1924, n.d.  Finding aid available online .  Digital images with transcripts  available online. ","Ms2017-001, Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","Ms2017-005, James T. Farrell Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1952.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . "],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: Correspondence to/from Sherwood Anderson, 1927-1940 includes correspondence to and from Anderson with a variety of colleagues and friends. It contains three subseries. Materials in each subseries in Series I are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubseries A: Sherwood Anderson to J. J. Lankes, 1926-1940 consists of Anderson's letters to artist and friend, J. J. Lankes. The correspondence is a combination of personal conversations and professional.  There are also several folders of materials that relate to the correspondence and the Anderson-Lankes collaboration: manuscripts and copies of essays, woodcuts, articles, and reviews. Subseries B: From Sherwood Anderson to various, A-Z, 1925-1940, n.d. contains letters by Anderson to a variety of individuals. In most cases, there is a single letter to each correspondent, with the exception of William and Carrie Wright. Wright built Ripshin, Anderson's home in Marion, Va. Subseries C: To Sherwood Anderson from various, A-Z, 1931, 1935 consists of a letter to Anderson from his publisher and an invitation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Correspondence about Sherwood Anderson, 1929-2006, n.d. contains letters about Sherwood Anderson, including personal correspondence to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, artist J. J. Lankes, Anderson scholar Welford D. Taylor, and others. It contains four subseries. Materials in each subseries in Series II are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubseries A: To/from Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1941-1977, n.d., includes letters written to and from Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, written after Anderson's death in 1941. It is primary correspondence between Eleanor and J. J. Lankes and W. D. Taylor. Subseries B: To/from J. J. Lankes, 1930-1957, n.d. consists of letters to and from Lankes from Anderson's son, Robert, from publishers working with Lankes and Anderson on Anderson's books, and other mutual acquaintances. Subseries C: To/from Welford D. Taylor from Various, A-Z, 1929-2006 includes correspondence from other Sherwood Anderson scholars and researchers. The last subseries, Subseries D: To/from various, A-Z, 1932, 1938, 1965, contains a few letters from individuals connected to Anderson (his children) or between individuals interested in Anderson. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries III: Subject Files, 1918-2006, n.d. includes collected research files, ephemera, and other items related to scholarship about Sherwood Anderson. Materials in each subseries in Series III are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubseries A: Writings by \u0026amp; about Sherwood Anderson, 1918-1953, n.d. contains a few drafts of writings by Anderson, along with photocopies of an article about Anderson and one of his newspaper columns from 1918. Subseries B: Sherwood Anderson \u0026amp; His Works, 1964-2006, n.d. includes files of research materials collected by W. D. Taylor on secondary sources or edited collections of Anderson's works. This includes \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Buck Fever Papers\u003c/title\u003e,  \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCertain Things Last: The Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e,  \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e,  \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson: A Writer in America\u003c/title\u003e, and  \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e. This subseries also has the transcript of an interview by Taylor with Joseph and Mary Cortina. Subseries C: Ephemera, 1924-2005, n.d. consist of pages from newspapers, programs from events related to Anderson scholarship, and materials from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation. Subseries D: Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1980, 1985 contains obituaries following the death of Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson and a pamphlet relating to her mother.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Images, Video, Audio, and Microfilm, 1970s-1991, n.d. contains all the multimedia materials received as part of this collection. Formats include photographs, postcards, a VHS tape, cassette tape and audio reels, and microfilm. Materials in each subseries in Series IV are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubseries A: Photographs and Postcards, c.1970s, n.d. includes pictures of art works relating to Anderson, formal and candid images of Anderson, of Ripshin (\u003cextref actuate=\"onRequest\" show=\"new\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripshin_Farm\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripshin_Farm\u003c/extref\u003e), his home in Grayson County, Virginia, and of locations around Marion, Virginia, which were significant to Anderson's life and career. Subseries B: Video, 1991 includes the recording of a 1991 event on the Virginia Tech campus. Subseries C: Audio, 1976, 1982, n.d. includes a partial interview with an unknown friend of Sherwood Anderson and cassette tapes with interviews of Anderson scholars and Eleanor Anderson. Subseries D: Microfilm, 1925-1931, n.d. contains microfilm of Smyth County newspapers purchased and published by Anderson in the 1920s and 1930s. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries V: Graphic Arts Materials, n.d. includes a small group of art works, primarily woodcuts. This series contains prints and photocopies of J. J. Lankes woodcuts, some of which were used in Anderson publications. It also includes bookplates for the libraries of Sherwood Anderson and Welford D. Taylor. Materials in Series V are organized by material type. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"deflist\"\u003e\n      \u003chead\u003eList of Major Correspondents\u003c/head\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eAnderson, Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eAnderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eAnderson, Robert Lane (1907-1951)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eCampbell, Hilbert\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDeVries, Carrow\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eHurd, Thaddeus B.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eLankes, J. J. (1884-1960)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eModlin, Charles E.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRideout, Walter B.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eTaylor, Welford Dunaway\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWright, William and Carrie\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n    \u003c/list\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis audio reel contains no lead and starts in the middle of an interview with an unknown person about his memories and experiences with Sherwood Anderson. Following the interview, which is cut short, the audio is unplayable by equipment in Special Collections (it seems to have been recorded at a different speed) for many minutes. The middle of the reel includes recordings of someone playing piano. The end of the reel contains additional audio again apparently recorded at a different speed and unplayable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlease note: Virginia Tech Special Collections does NOT house the original scrapbook from which these articles were filmed. It appears to be \u003cextref href=\"http://mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/anderson.xml#series10\" show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\"\u003epart of the Sherwood Anderson Papers\u003c/extref\u003e held by the Newberry Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Content","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006. ","Series I: Correspondence to/from Sherwood Anderson, 1927-1940 includes correspondence to and from Anderson with a variety of colleagues and friends. It contains three subseries. Materials in each subseries in Series I are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: Sherwood Anderson to J. J. Lankes, 1926-1940 consists of Anderson's letters to artist and friend, J. J. Lankes. The correspondence is a combination of personal conversations and professional.  There are also several folders of materials that relate to the correspondence and the Anderson-Lankes collaboration: manuscripts and copies of essays, woodcuts, articles, and reviews. Subseries B: From Sherwood Anderson to various, A-Z, 1925-1940, n.d. contains letters by Anderson to a variety of individuals. In most cases, there is a single letter to each correspondent, with the exception of William and Carrie Wright. Wright built Ripshin, Anderson's home in Marion, Va. Subseries C: To Sherwood Anderson from various, A-Z, 1931, 1935 consists of a letter to Anderson from his publisher and an invitation.","Series II: Correspondence about Sherwood Anderson, 1929-2006, n.d. contains letters about Sherwood Anderson, including personal correspondence to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, artist J. J. Lankes, Anderson scholar Welford D. Taylor, and others. It contains four subseries. Materials in each subseries in Series II are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: To/from Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1941-1977, n.d., includes letters written to and from Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, written after Anderson's death in 1941. It is primary correspondence between Eleanor and J. J. Lankes and W. D. Taylor. Subseries B: To/from J. J. Lankes, 1930-1957, n.d. consists of letters to and from Lankes from Anderson's son, Robert, from publishers working with Lankes and Anderson on Anderson's books, and other mutual acquaintances. Subseries C: To/from Welford D. Taylor from Various, A-Z, 1929-2006 includes correspondence from other Sherwood Anderson scholars and researchers. The last subseries, Subseries D: To/from various, A-Z, 1932, 1938, 1965, contains a few letters from individuals connected to Anderson (his children) or between individuals interested in Anderson. ","Series III: Subject Files, 1918-2006, n.d. includes collected research files, ephemera, and other items related to scholarship about Sherwood Anderson. Materials in each subseries in Series III are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: Writings by \u0026 about Sherwood Anderson, 1918-1953, n.d. contains a few drafts of writings by Anderson, along with photocopies of an article about Anderson and one of his newspaper columns from 1918. Subseries B: Sherwood Anderson \u0026 His Works, 1964-2006, n.d. includes files of research materials collected by W. D. Taylor on secondary sources or edited collections of Anderson's works. This includes  The Buck Fever Papers ,   Certain Things Last: The Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson ,   Sherwood Anderson ,   Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America , and   Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson . This subseries also has the transcript of an interview by Taylor with Joseph and Mary Cortina. Subseries C: Ephemera, 1924-2005, n.d. consist of pages from newspapers, programs from events related to Anderson scholarship, and materials from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation. Subseries D: Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1980, 1985 contains obituaries following the death of Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson and a pamphlet relating to her mother.","Series IV: Images, Video, Audio, and Microfilm, 1970s-1991, n.d. contains all the multimedia materials received as part of this collection. Formats include photographs, postcards, a VHS tape, cassette tape and audio reels, and microfilm. Materials in each subseries in Series IV are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: Photographs and Postcards, c.1970s, n.d. includes pictures of art works relating to Anderson, formal and candid images of Anderson, of Ripshin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripshin_Farm ), his home in Grayson County, Virginia, and of locations around Marion, Virginia, which were significant to Anderson's life and career. Subseries B: Video, 1991 includes the recording of a 1991 event on the Virginia Tech campus. Subseries C: Audio, 1976, 1982, n.d. includes a partial interview with an unknown friend of Sherwood Anderson and cassette tapes with interviews of Anderson scholars and Eleanor Anderson. Subseries D: Microfilm, 1925-1931, n.d. contains microfilm of Smyth County newspapers purchased and published by Anderson in the 1920s and 1930s. ","Series V: Graphic Arts Materials, n.d. includes a small group of art works, primarily woodcuts. This series contains prints and photocopies of J. J. Lankes woodcuts, some of which were used in Anderson publications. It also includes bookplates for the libraries of Sherwood Anderson and Welford D. Taylor. Materials in Series V are organized by material type. ","List of Major Correspondents · Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985) · Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941) · Anderson, Robert Lane (1907-1951) · Campbell, Hilbert · DeVries, Carrow · Hurd, Thaddeus B. · Lankes, J. J. (1884-1960) · Modlin, Charles E. · Rideout, Walter B. · Taylor, Welford Dunaway · Wright, William and Carrie","This audio reel contains no lead and starts in the middle of an interview with an unknown person about his memories and experiences with Sherwood Anderson. Following the interview, which is cut short, the audio is unplayable by equipment in Special Collections (it seems to have been recorded at a different speed) for many minutes. The middle of the reel includes recordings of someone playing piano. The end of the reel contains additional audio again apparently recorded at a different speed and unplayable.","Please note: Virginia Tech Special Collections does NOT house the original scrapbook from which these articles were filmed. It appears to be  part of the Sherwood Anderson Papers  held by the Newberry Library."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe following books were purchased along with the manuscript materials and are cataloged for Special Collections Rare Book Collection: \n\u003clist\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Complete Works of Sherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e, ed. Kichinosuke Ohashi (21 vols)\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAgricultural Advertising\u003c/title\u003e, vol. IX, nos. 1-12. (This includes Anderson's earliest published work, as well as four other pieces by him)\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eShort Stories of Sherwood Anderson (Armed Services Edition)\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLabor Age: The Voice of Progressive Labor\u003c/title\u003e, XX, no. 2, 1931\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson: A Writer in America\u003c/title\u003e, Vols. 1-2 (2 vols) by Walter B. Rideout\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson: Dimensions of His Literary Art/A Collection of Essays\u003c/title\u003e, ed. David D. Anderson\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Phenomenon of Sherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e by N. Bryllion Fagin\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWave Essays Number 1 (Spring 1980)\u003c/title\u003e, \"Sherwood Anderson, J. J. Lankes and the Illustration of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003ePerhaps Women\u003c/title\u003e\" by Welford Dunaway Taylor\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["The following books were purchased along with the manuscript materials and are cataloged for Special Collections Rare Book Collection: \n The Complete Works of Sherwood Anderson , ed. Kichinosuke Ohashi (21 vols) Agricultural Advertising , vol. IX, nos. 1-12. (This includes Anderson's earliest published work, as well as four other pieces by him) Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson (Armed Services Edition) Labor Age: The Voice of Progressive Labor , XX, no. 2, 1931 Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America , Vols. 1-2 (2 vols) by Walter B. Rideout Sherwood Anderson: Dimensions of His Literary Art/A Collection of Essays , ed. David D. Anderson The Phenomenon of Sherwood Anderson  by N. Bryllion Fagin Wave Essays Number 1 (Spring 1980) , \"Sherwood Anderson, J. J. Lankes and the Illustration of  Perhaps Women \" by Welford Dunaway Taylor"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish material from the Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish material from the Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_1203ef19346aae4336d73a158e7ecbcb\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThis collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985","Anderson, Robert Lane, 1907-1951","Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941","Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960","Taylor, Welford Dunaway"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech"],"names_coll_ssim":["Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985","Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941","Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960","Taylor, Welford Dunaway"],"persname_ssim":["Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985","Anderson, Robert Lane, 1907-1951","Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941","Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960","Taylor, Welford Dunaway"],"language_ssim":["English \n.    "],"total_component_count_is":123,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T02:30:56.100Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2970","ead_ssi":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2970","_root_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2970","_nest_parent_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2970","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_2970.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Taylor, Welford D. Collection on Sherwood Anderson","title_ssm":["Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson"],"title_tesim":["Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson"],"unitdate_ssm":["1918-2006, n.d."],"unitdate_other_ssim":["1918-2006, n.d."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Ms.2015.020"],"text":["Ms.2015.020","Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson","Art, American -- Virginia -- 20th century","Authors, American -- 20th century","American Literature -- Virginia","Ripshin (Grayson County, Va.)","Local/Regional History and Appalachian South","Photographs","Correspondence","The collection is open for research.","Some issues of the  Smyth County News  have been digitized by the Smyth-Bland Regional Library.","Some items from this collection have been digitized and are  available online .","Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was born in the small town of Camden, Ohio to Irwin McClain Anderson (d.1919) and Emma Jane Smith (d.1895). While Anderson excelled as a student, he quit school at the age of 14 to help support his family, taking on a wide variety of jobs. After his mother's death, he relocated to Chicago for the first time, working and taking a few night classes. He served briefly in Cuba during he Spanish-American War, but was sent there after combat had ended. A few months later, he returned to Clyde, then moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1899, where he completed his senior year at Wittenburg Academy, a prep school. His graduation speech resulted in his being offered a job as an advertising solicitor and he moved to back to Chicago.","In 1903, work travels took him to Toledo, Ohio, where he met Cornelia Pratt Lane, his first wife. The couple married in 1904 and had three children: Robert Lane (1907-1951), John Sherwood (1908-1995) and Marion (Mimi) (1911-1996). In 1906, they relocated to Cleveland when Anderson became the president of the United Factories Company, a mail-order firm. The following year he departed the company, took his family to Elyria, Ohio, and started the Anderson Manufacturing Co., another mail order business. ","In 1912, Anderson suffered a nervous breakdown. He returned to Chicago yet again and began work writing advertising copy and becoming part of the writer and artist scene of the city. In 1916, he divorced Cornelia Pratt and married Tennessee Mitchell, a sculptor. He also published his first novel,  Windy McPherson's Son , the first of three books in a deal with publisher John Lane. It was beginning of his writing career. 1919 saw the publication of his short story collection,  Winesburg, Ohio , one of his most well-know works. In 1924, he divorced Tennessee Mitchell and marred Elizabeth Prall. They lived in New York and New Orleans, and traveled in Europe, too. With profits from his novel 1925 Dark Laughter, Anderson bought Ripshin Farm, later just Ripshin, as a summer home, in 1926. He also acquired both local newspapers, the  Smyth County News  and the  Marion Democrat . His son, Robert, helped with, and eventually took over management of the newspapers in 1929. Around the same time, Anderson began a tour of the south and its factory towns with Eleanor Copenhaver, which shaped several of his later non-fiction publications. ","In 1932, Anderson divorced Elizabeth Prall and the following year, married Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985). Southwest Virginia was a powerful influence on his later stories and novels. His life in around Marion and Troutdale, Virginia, was the focus of his writing for the newspapers, as well. At the same time, he was still writing novels and short stories for magazines. In 1941, Sherwood and Eleanor Anderson left for a trip to South America. During the trip, after ingesting a toothpick, Anderson developed peritonitis and was hospitalized in Panama, where he passed away on March 8, 1941. He is buried in Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. ","Over his lifetime, Anderson published 8 novels, 4 collections of short stories, 2 collections of poetry, 1 collection of plays, and 12 works of non-fiction. Following his death, publishers and scholars have produced memoirs, critical editions, and several volumes of his collected letters. During his life, he was influential on the careers of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, and maintained extensive correspondence and friendships with authors, artists, publishers, and critics (though he later wrote that he had given up reading reviews).","Eleanor Gladys Copenhaver (1896-1985) was born on June 15, 1896 in Marion, Virginia, to Bascom Eugene and Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver. Laura Lu's father founded Marion Female College, which was located next door to the family home, \"Rosemont.\" Laura Lu attended Marion College and later taught English there. Her husband, B.E. Copenhaver, first taught at Marion and then became Smyth County superintendent of schools.\nEleanor Copenhaver attended Marion College, then Westhampton College in Richmond, completing a B. A. in English in 1917. After spending a year teaching and time as a camp director, she spent more than ten years working for the YWCA, specializing first in rural community organizing and later in industrial communities. During this time, she met and eventually married Sherwood Anderson in 1933. ","From 1937 to 1947 Copenhaver Anderson was head of the National YWCA's Industrial Program, later accepting a 2 year assignment abroad. In 1950, she spent a brief time apart from the YWCA, after it ended programs for employed women, but she was re-hired in 1951 for another ten years for the YWCA and United Community Defense Services, until she retired in 1961. ","She spent her later life in both New York City and at \"Rosemont\" and \"Ripshin\" in Virginia. As the collection suggests, she maintained an active role in scholarship surrounded Sherwood Anderson. She died on September 12, 1985, in Marion, Virginia. ","A lengthier biographical note can be found in finding aid for the  Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson Papers   in the Sophia Smith Collection. The UNC Chapel Hill \"Documenting the American South\" Collection also includes an oral history interview with  Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson from November 5, 1974 .","Julius John (J. J.) Lankes was born in 1884 in Buffalo, NY. He began working as a draftsman in 1902, but spent the majority of his professional life known for his woodcuts. His career as an artist spanned decades, during which he created woodcuts and illustrations for authors, among others. In addition to Sherwood Anderson, he worked with Robert Frost and Beatrix Potter. Lankes wrote and illustrated  A Woodcut Manual , published by Henry Holt in 1932. In 2006, The University of Tampa published a new edition of this book with selected letters and other writings, edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor. (A copy of the 2006 edition is housed in Special Collections. A copy of the 1932 edition is available at the University Libraries' Art \u0026 Architecture Library.) In addition to his illustrations and work as an artist, Lankes taught at Wells College from 1933 to about 1940. From 1943 to 1950, Lankes worked for the reproduction section of the National Advisory Council for Aeronautics (NACA, later NASA). He retired in 1951 and died in April 1960.","The Rauner Special Collections Library of Dartmouth University contains a collection of J. J. Lankes papers. A  finding aid for the collection  is available online. ","Welford D. Taylor is a retired English professor and scholar. Over the course of his career, he published edited volumes of Sherwood Anderson's work and his own research on Anderson, as well as on J. J. Lankes and other authors and topics. Highlights  of his books include:\n Julius J. Lankes: Survey of an American Artist , 2013 Sherwood Anderson Remembered , 2009 The Woodcut Art of J. J. Lankes , 1999 Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson , with Charles E. Modlin, 1997  The Newsprint Mask: The Tradition of the Fictional Journalist in America , 1991 Sherwood Anderson, J.J. Lankes and the illustration of _Perhaps Women_ , 1981 Sherwood Anderson , 1977","This collection represents his research and accumulated materials pirmarily relating to Sherwood Anderson, J. J. Lankes, and Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson.","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson began in October 2016 and was completed in November 2016.","Books by and about Sherwood Anderson stored in Special Collections and the general collection of Newman Library are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .\nMicrofilmed and bound theses and dissertations about Sherwood Anderson and his work that were collected by researcher Ray White are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .\nSpecial Collections houses multiple manuscripts relating to Anderson, including: \nMs1971-002, Dayton M. Kohler Papers, 1889-1972.  Finding aid available online .","Ms1973-002, Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1912-1938.  Finding aid available online . Some items in this collection have been digitized and are  available online .","Ms2011-004, Sherwood Anderson Photograph and Postcard, 1929, 1939.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","Ms2015-020, Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, 1918-2006, n.d.  Finding aid available online . Some items from this collection have been digitized and are  available online . ","Ms2015-044, Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones, 1916-1924, n.d.  Finding aid available online .  Digital images with transcripts  available online. ","Ms2017-001, Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","Ms2017-005, James T. Farrell Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1952.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006. ","Series I: Correspondence to/from Sherwood Anderson, 1927-1940 includes correspondence to and from Anderson with a variety of colleagues and friends. It contains three subseries. Materials in each subseries in Series I are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: Sherwood Anderson to J. J. Lankes, 1926-1940 consists of Anderson's letters to artist and friend, J. J. Lankes. The correspondence is a combination of personal conversations and professional.  There are also several folders of materials that relate to the correspondence and the Anderson-Lankes collaboration: manuscripts and copies of essays, woodcuts, articles, and reviews. Subseries B: From Sherwood Anderson to various, A-Z, 1925-1940, n.d. contains letters by Anderson to a variety of individuals. In most cases, there is a single letter to each correspondent, with the exception of William and Carrie Wright. Wright built Ripshin, Anderson's home in Marion, Va. Subseries C: To Sherwood Anderson from various, A-Z, 1931, 1935 consists of a letter to Anderson from his publisher and an invitation.","Series II: Correspondence about Sherwood Anderson, 1929-2006, n.d. contains letters about Sherwood Anderson, including personal correspondence to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, artist J. J. Lankes, Anderson scholar Welford D. Taylor, and others. It contains four subseries. Materials in each subseries in Series II are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: To/from Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1941-1977, n.d., includes letters written to and from Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, written after Anderson's death in 1941. It is primary correspondence between Eleanor and J. J. Lankes and W. D. Taylor. Subseries B: To/from J. J. Lankes, 1930-1957, n.d. consists of letters to and from Lankes from Anderson's son, Robert, from publishers working with Lankes and Anderson on Anderson's books, and other mutual acquaintances. Subseries C: To/from Welford D. Taylor from Various, A-Z, 1929-2006 includes correspondence from other Sherwood Anderson scholars and researchers. The last subseries, Subseries D: To/from various, A-Z, 1932, 1938, 1965, contains a few letters from individuals connected to Anderson (his children) or between individuals interested in Anderson. ","Series III: Subject Files, 1918-2006, n.d. includes collected research files, ephemera, and other items related to scholarship about Sherwood Anderson. Materials in each subseries in Series III are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: Writings by \u0026 about Sherwood Anderson, 1918-1953, n.d. contains a few drafts of writings by Anderson, along with photocopies of an article about Anderson and one of his newspaper columns from 1918. Subseries B: Sherwood Anderson \u0026 His Works, 1964-2006, n.d. includes files of research materials collected by W. D. Taylor on secondary sources or edited collections of Anderson's works. This includes  The Buck Fever Papers ,   Certain Things Last: The Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson ,   Sherwood Anderson ,   Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America , and   Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson . This subseries also has the transcript of an interview by Taylor with Joseph and Mary Cortina. Subseries C: Ephemera, 1924-2005, n.d. consist of pages from newspapers, programs from events related to Anderson scholarship, and materials from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation. Subseries D: Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1980, 1985 contains obituaries following the death of Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson and a pamphlet relating to her mother.","Series IV: Images, Video, Audio, and Microfilm, 1970s-1991, n.d. contains all the multimedia materials received as part of this collection. Formats include photographs, postcards, a VHS tape, cassette tape and audio reels, and microfilm. Materials in each subseries in Series IV are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: Photographs and Postcards, c.1970s, n.d. includes pictures of art works relating to Anderson, formal and candid images of Anderson, of Ripshin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripshin_Farm ), his home in Grayson County, Virginia, and of locations around Marion, Virginia, which were significant to Anderson's life and career. Subseries B: Video, 1991 includes the recording of a 1991 event on the Virginia Tech campus. Subseries C: Audio, 1976, 1982, n.d. includes a partial interview with an unknown friend of Sherwood Anderson and cassette tapes with interviews of Anderson scholars and Eleanor Anderson. Subseries D: Microfilm, 1925-1931, n.d. contains microfilm of Smyth County newspapers purchased and published by Anderson in the 1920s and 1930s. ","Series V: Graphic Arts Materials, n.d. includes a small group of art works, primarily woodcuts. This series contains prints and photocopies of J. J. Lankes woodcuts, some of which were used in Anderson publications. It also includes bookplates for the libraries of Sherwood Anderson and Welford D. Taylor. Materials in Series V are organized by material type. ","List of Major Correspondents · Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985) · Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941) · Anderson, Robert Lane (1907-1951) · Campbell, Hilbert · DeVries, Carrow · Hurd, Thaddeus B. · Lankes, J. J. (1884-1960) · Modlin, Charles E. · Rideout, Walter B. · Taylor, Welford Dunaway · Wright, William and Carrie","This audio reel contains no lead and starts in the middle of an interview with an unknown person about his memories and experiences with Sherwood Anderson. Following the interview, which is cut short, the audio is unplayable by equipment in Special Collections (it seems to have been recorded at a different speed) for many minutes. The middle of the reel includes recordings of someone playing piano. The end of the reel contains additional audio again apparently recorded at a different speed and unplayable.","Please note: Virginia Tech Special Collections does NOT house the original scrapbook from which these articles were filmed. It appears to be  part of the Sherwood Anderson Papers  held by the Newberry Library.","The following books were purchased along with the manuscript materials and are cataloged for Special Collections Rare Book Collection: \n The Complete Works of Sherwood Anderson , ed. Kichinosuke Ohashi (21 vols) Agricultural Advertising , vol. IX, nos. 1-12. (This includes Anderson's earliest published work, as well as four other pieces by him) Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson (Armed Services Edition) Labor Age: The Voice of Progressive Labor , XX, no. 2, 1931 Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America , Vols. 1-2 (2 vols) by Walter B. Rideout Sherwood Anderson: Dimensions of His Literary Art/A Collection of Essays , ed. David D. Anderson The Phenomenon of Sherwood Anderson  by N. Bryllion Fagin Wave Essays Number 1 (Spring 1980) , \"Sherwood Anderson, J. J. Lankes and the Illustration of  Perhaps Women \" by Welford Dunaway Taylor","Permission to publish material from the Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.","This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985","Anderson, Robert Lane, 1907-1951","Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941","Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960","Taylor, Welford Dunaway","English \n.    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Additional portions of the collection were donated to Special Collections in 2015 and in 2016."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Art, American -- Virginia -- 20th century","Authors, American -- 20th century","American Literature -- Virginia","Ripshin (Grayson County, Va.)","Local/Regional History and Appalachian South","Photographs","Correspondence"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Art, American -- Virginia -- 20th century","Authors, American -- 20th century","American Literature -- Virginia","Ripshin (Grayson County, Va.)","Local/Regional History and Appalachian South","Photographs","Correspondence"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["2.2 Cubic Feet 3 boxes"],"extent_tesim":["2.2 Cubic Feet 3 boxes"],"genreform_ssim":["Photographs","Correspondence"],"date_range_isim":[1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The collection is open for research."],"altformavail_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSome issues of the \u003ca show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\" href=\"http://www.sbrl.org/local-history/sherwood-anderson/newspapers\"\u003eSmyth County News\u003c/a\u003e have been digitized by the Smyth-Bland Regional Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome items from this collection have been digitized and are \u003ca href=\"http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms2015_020_TaylerWD_\" show=\"new\"\u003eavailable online\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"],"altformavail_heading_ssm":["Digital Collections","Alternate Form Available"],"altformavail_tesim":["Some issues of the  Smyth County News  have been digitized by the Smyth-Bland Regional Library.","Some items from this collection have been digitized and are  available online ."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was born in the small town of Camden, Ohio to Irwin McClain Anderson (d.1919) and Emma Jane Smith (d.1895). While Anderson excelled as a student, he quit school at the age of 14 to help support his family, taking on a wide variety of jobs. After his mother's death, he relocated to Chicago for the first time, working and taking a few night classes. He served briefly in Cuba during he Spanish-American War, but was sent there after combat had ended. A few months later, he returned to Clyde, then moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1899, where he completed his senior year at Wittenburg Academy, a prep school. His graduation speech resulted in his being offered a job as an advertising solicitor and he moved to back to Chicago.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1903, work travels took him to Toledo, Ohio, where he met Cornelia Pratt Lane, his first wife. The couple married in 1904 and had three children: Robert Lane (1907-1951), John Sherwood (1908-1995) and Marion (Mimi) (1911-1996). In 1906, they relocated to Cleveland when Anderson became the president of the United Factories Company, a mail-order firm. The following year he departed the company, took his family to Elyria, Ohio, and started the Anderson Manufacturing Co., another mail order business. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1912, Anderson suffered a nervous breakdown. He returned to Chicago yet again and began work writing advertising copy and becoming part of the writer and artist scene of the city. In 1916, he divorced Cornelia Pratt and married Tennessee Mitchell, a sculptor. He also published his first novel, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWindy McPherson's Son\u003c/title\u003e, the first of three books in a deal with publisher John Lane. It was beginning of his writing career. 1919 saw the publication of his short story collection, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWinesburg, Ohio\u003c/title\u003e, one of his most well-know works. In 1924, he divorced Tennessee Mitchell and marred Elizabeth Prall. They lived in New York and New Orleans, and traveled in Europe, too. With profits from his novel 1925 Dark Laughter, Anderson bought Ripshin Farm, later just Ripshin, as a summer home, in 1926. He also acquired both local newspapers, the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSmyth County News\u003c/title\u003e and the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMarion Democrat\u003c/title\u003e. His son, Robert, helped with, and eventually took over management of the newspapers in 1929. Around the same time, Anderson began a tour of the south and its factory towns with Eleanor Copenhaver, which shaped several of his later non-fiction publications. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1932, Anderson divorced Elizabeth Prall and the following year, married Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985). Southwest Virginia was a powerful influence on his later stories and novels. His life in around Marion and Troutdale, Virginia, was the focus of his writing for the newspapers, as well. At the same time, he was still writing novels and short stories for magazines. In 1941, Sherwood and Eleanor Anderson left for a trip to South America. During the trip, after ingesting a toothpick, Anderson developed peritonitis and was hospitalized in Panama, where he passed away on March 8, 1941. He is buried in Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOver his lifetime, Anderson published 8 novels, 4 collections of short stories, 2 collections of poetry, 1 collection of plays, and 12 works of non-fiction. Following his death, publishers and scholars have produced memoirs, critical editions, and several volumes of his collected letters. During his life, he was influential on the careers of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, and maintained extensive correspondence and friendships with authors, artists, publishers, and critics (though he later wrote that he had given up reading reviews).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Gladys Copenhaver (1896-1985) was born on June 15, 1896 in Marion, Virginia, to Bascom Eugene and Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver. Laura Lu's father founded Marion Female College, which was located next door to the family home, \"Rosemont.\" Laura Lu attended Marion College and later taught English there. Her husband, B.E. Copenhaver, first taught at Marion and then became Smyth County superintendent of schools.\nEleanor Copenhaver attended Marion College, then Westhampton College in Richmond, completing a B. A. in English in 1917. After spending a year teaching and time as a camp director, she spent more than ten years working for the YWCA, specializing first in rural community organizing and later in industrial communities. During this time, she met and eventually married Sherwood Anderson in 1933. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1937 to 1947 Copenhaver Anderson was head of the National YWCA's Industrial Program, later accepting a 2 year assignment abroad. In 1950, she spent a brief time apart from the YWCA, after it ended programs for employed women, but she was re-hired in 1951 for another ten years for the YWCA and United Community Defense Services, until she retired in 1961. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eShe spent her later life in both New York City and at \"Rosemont\" and \"Ripshin\" in Virginia. As the collection suggests, she maintained an active role in scholarship surrounded Sherwood Anderson. She died on September 12, 1985, in Marion, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA lengthier biographical note can be found in finding aid for the \u003cextref href=\"https://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss477_bioghist.html\" show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\"\u003eEleanor Copenhaver Anderson Papers\u003c/extref\u003e  in the Sophia Smith Collection. The UNC Chapel Hill \"Documenting the American South\" Collection also includes an oral history interview with \u003cextref show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\" href=\"http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0005/menu.html\"\u003eEleanor Copenhaver Anderson from November 5, 1974\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJulius John (J. J.) Lankes was born in 1884 in Buffalo, NY. He began working as a draftsman in 1902, but spent the majority of his professional life known for his woodcuts. His career as an artist spanned decades, during which he created woodcuts and illustrations for authors, among others. In addition to Sherwood Anderson, he worked with Robert Frost and Beatrix Potter. Lankes wrote and illustrated \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eA Woodcut Manual\u003c/title\u003e, published by Henry Holt in 1932. In 2006, The University of Tampa published a new edition of this book with selected letters and other writings, edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor. (A copy of the 2006 edition is housed in Special Collections. A copy of the 1932 edition is available at the University Libraries' Art \u0026amp; Architecture Library.) In addition to his illustrations and work as an artist, Lankes taught at Wells College from 1933 to about 1940. From 1943 to 1950, Lankes worked for the reproduction section of the National Advisory Council for Aeronautics (NACA, later NASA). He retired in 1951 and died in April 1960.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Rauner Special Collections Library of Dartmouth University contains a collection of J. J. Lankes papers. A \u003cextref href=\"http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ms1115.html\" show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\"\u003efinding aid for the collection\u003c/extref\u003e is available online. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWelford D. Taylor is a retired English professor and scholar. Over the course of his career, he published edited volumes of Sherwood Anderson's work and his own research on Anderson, as well as on J. J. Lankes and other authors and topics. Highlights  of his books include:\n\u003clist\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eJulius J. Lankes: Survey of an American Artist\u003c/title\u003e, 2013\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson Remembered\u003c/title\u003e, 2009\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Woodcut Art of J. J. Lankes\u003c/title\u003e, 1999\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e, with Charles E. Modlin, 1997 \u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Newsprint Mask: The Tradition of the Fictional Journalist in America\u003c/title\u003e, 1991\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson, J.J. Lankes and the illustration of _Perhaps Women_\u003c/title\u003e, 1981\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e, 1977\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis collection represents his research and accumulated materials pirmarily relating to Sherwood Anderson, J. J. Lankes, and Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note: Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)","Biographical Note: Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson (1896-1985)","Biographical Note: J. J. Lankes (1884-1960)","Biographical Note: Welford D. Taylor"],"bioghist_tesim":["Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was born in the small town of Camden, Ohio to Irwin McClain Anderson (d.1919) and Emma Jane Smith (d.1895). While Anderson excelled as a student, he quit school at the age of 14 to help support his family, taking on a wide variety of jobs. After his mother's death, he relocated to Chicago for the first time, working and taking a few night classes. He served briefly in Cuba during he Spanish-American War, but was sent there after combat had ended. A few months later, he returned to Clyde, then moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1899, where he completed his senior year at Wittenburg Academy, a prep school. His graduation speech resulted in his being offered a job as an advertising solicitor and he moved to back to Chicago.","In 1903, work travels took him to Toledo, Ohio, where he met Cornelia Pratt Lane, his first wife. The couple married in 1904 and had three children: Robert Lane (1907-1951), John Sherwood (1908-1995) and Marion (Mimi) (1911-1996). In 1906, they relocated to Cleveland when Anderson became the president of the United Factories Company, a mail-order firm. The following year he departed the company, took his family to Elyria, Ohio, and started the Anderson Manufacturing Co., another mail order business. ","In 1912, Anderson suffered a nervous breakdown. He returned to Chicago yet again and began work writing advertising copy and becoming part of the writer and artist scene of the city. In 1916, he divorced Cornelia Pratt and married Tennessee Mitchell, a sculptor. He also published his first novel,  Windy McPherson's Son , the first of three books in a deal with publisher John Lane. It was beginning of his writing career. 1919 saw the publication of his short story collection,  Winesburg, Ohio , one of his most well-know works. In 1924, he divorced Tennessee Mitchell and marred Elizabeth Prall. They lived in New York and New Orleans, and traveled in Europe, too. With profits from his novel 1925 Dark Laughter, Anderson bought Ripshin Farm, later just Ripshin, as a summer home, in 1926. He also acquired both local newspapers, the  Smyth County News  and the  Marion Democrat . His son, Robert, helped with, and eventually took over management of the newspapers in 1929. Around the same time, Anderson began a tour of the south and its factory towns with Eleanor Copenhaver, which shaped several of his later non-fiction publications. ","In 1932, Anderson divorced Elizabeth Prall and the following year, married Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985). Southwest Virginia was a powerful influence on his later stories and novels. His life in around Marion and Troutdale, Virginia, was the focus of his writing for the newspapers, as well. At the same time, he was still writing novels and short stories for magazines. In 1941, Sherwood and Eleanor Anderson left for a trip to South America. During the trip, after ingesting a toothpick, Anderson developed peritonitis and was hospitalized in Panama, where he passed away on March 8, 1941. He is buried in Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. ","Over his lifetime, Anderson published 8 novels, 4 collections of short stories, 2 collections of poetry, 1 collection of plays, and 12 works of non-fiction. Following his death, publishers and scholars have produced memoirs, critical editions, and several volumes of his collected letters. During his life, he was influential on the careers of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, and maintained extensive correspondence and friendships with authors, artists, publishers, and critics (though he later wrote that he had given up reading reviews).","Eleanor Gladys Copenhaver (1896-1985) was born on June 15, 1896 in Marion, Virginia, to Bascom Eugene and Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver. Laura Lu's father founded Marion Female College, which was located next door to the family home, \"Rosemont.\" Laura Lu attended Marion College and later taught English there. Her husband, B.E. Copenhaver, first taught at Marion and then became Smyth County superintendent of schools.\nEleanor Copenhaver attended Marion College, then Westhampton College in Richmond, completing a B. A. in English in 1917. After spending a year teaching and time as a camp director, she spent more than ten years working for the YWCA, specializing first in rural community organizing and later in industrial communities. During this time, she met and eventually married Sherwood Anderson in 1933. ","From 1937 to 1947 Copenhaver Anderson was head of the National YWCA's Industrial Program, later accepting a 2 year assignment abroad. In 1950, she spent a brief time apart from the YWCA, after it ended programs for employed women, but she was re-hired in 1951 for another ten years for the YWCA and United Community Defense Services, until she retired in 1961. ","She spent her later life in both New York City and at \"Rosemont\" and \"Ripshin\" in Virginia. As the collection suggests, she maintained an active role in scholarship surrounded Sherwood Anderson. She died on September 12, 1985, in Marion, Virginia. ","A lengthier biographical note can be found in finding aid for the  Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson Papers   in the Sophia Smith Collection. The UNC Chapel Hill \"Documenting the American South\" Collection also includes an oral history interview with  Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson from November 5, 1974 .","Julius John (J. J.) Lankes was born in 1884 in Buffalo, NY. He began working as a draftsman in 1902, but spent the majority of his professional life known for his woodcuts. His career as an artist spanned decades, during which he created woodcuts and illustrations for authors, among others. In addition to Sherwood Anderson, he worked with Robert Frost and Beatrix Potter. Lankes wrote and illustrated  A Woodcut Manual , published by Henry Holt in 1932. In 2006, The University of Tampa published a new edition of this book with selected letters and other writings, edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor. (A copy of the 2006 edition is housed in Special Collections. A copy of the 1932 edition is available at the University Libraries' Art \u0026 Architecture Library.) In addition to his illustrations and work as an artist, Lankes taught at Wells College from 1933 to about 1940. From 1943 to 1950, Lankes worked for the reproduction section of the National Advisory Council for Aeronautics (NACA, later NASA). He retired in 1951 and died in April 1960.","The Rauner Special Collections Library of Dartmouth University contains a collection of J. J. Lankes papers. A  finding aid for the collection  is available online. ","Welford D. Taylor is a retired English professor and scholar. Over the course of his career, he published edited volumes of Sherwood Anderson's work and his own research on Anderson, as well as on J. J. Lankes and other authors and topics. Highlights  of his books include:\n Julius J. Lankes: Survey of an American Artist , 2013 Sherwood Anderson Remembered , 2009 The Woodcut Art of J. J. Lankes , 1999 Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson , with Charles E. Modlin, 1997  The Newsprint Mask: The Tradition of the Fictional Journalist in America , 1991 Sherwood Anderson, J.J. Lankes and the illustration of _Perhaps Women_ , 1981 Sherwood Anderson , 1977","This collection represents his research and accumulated materials pirmarily relating to Sherwood Anderson, J. J. Lankes, and Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of Sherwood Anderson's papers are housed at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. A \u003cextref show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\" href=\"http://mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/anderson.xml\"\u003efinding aid for this collection\u003c/extref\u003e is available online.\u003c/p\u003e"],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Other Finding Aids"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["The bulk of Sherwood Anderson's papers are housed at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. A  finding aid for this collection  is available online."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, Ms2015-020, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, Ms2015-020, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson began in October 2016 and was completed in November 2016.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson began in October 2016 and was completed in November 2016."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBooks by and about Sherwood Anderson stored in Special Collections and the general collection of Newman Library are cataloged and can be located using the library's \u003cextref href=\"https://catalog.lib.vt.edu/\" title=\"catalog\"\u003ecatalog\u003c/extref\u003e.\nMicrofilmed and bound theses and dissertations about Sherwood Anderson and his work that were collected by researcher Ray White are cataloged and can be located using the library's \u003cextref href=\"https://catalog.lib.vt.edu/\" title=\"catalog\"\u003ecatalog\u003c/extref\u003e.\nSpecial Collections houses multiple manuscripts relating to Anderson, including: \nMs1971-002, Dayton M. Kohler Papers, 1889-1972. \u003cextref href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00906.xml\" show=\"new\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMs1973-002, Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1912-1938. \u003cextref href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00247.xml\" show=\"new\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e. Some items in this collection have been digitized and are \u003cextref href=\"http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms1973_002_AndersonSherwood_\" show=\"new\"\u003eavailable online\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMs2011-004, Sherwood Anderson Photograph and Postcard, 1929, 1939. \u003cextref actuate=\"onRequest\" href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00773.xml\" show=\"new\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e. This collection has been digitized and is \u003cextref href=\"http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms2011_004_AndersonPostcard_\" show=\"new\"\u003eavailable online\u003c/extref\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMs2015-020, Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, 1918-2006, n.d. \u003cextref show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\" href=\"http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01837.xml\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e. Some items from this collection have been digitized and are \u003cextref href=\"http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms2015_020_TaylerWD_\" show=\"new\"\u003eavailable online\u003c/extref\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMs2015-044, Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones, 1916-1924, n.d. \u003cextref show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\" href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01807.xml\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e. \u003cextref show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\" href=\"https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/collections/show/84\"\u003eDigital images with transcripts \u003c/extref\u003eavailable online. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMs2017-001, Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950. \u003cextref href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml\" show=\"new\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e. This collection has been digitized and is \u003cextref href=\"http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_\" show=\"new\"\u003eavailable online\u003c/extref\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMs2017-005, James T. Farrell Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1952. \u003cextref href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01848.xml\" show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\"\u003eFinding aid available online\u003c/extref\u003e. This collection has been digitized and is \u003cextref href=\"http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms2017-005\" show=\"new\"\u003eavailable online\u003c/extref\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Books by and about Sherwood Anderson stored in Special Collections and the general collection of Newman Library are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .\nMicrofilmed and bound theses and dissertations about Sherwood Anderson and his work that were collected by researcher Ray White are cataloged and can be located using the library's  catalog .\nSpecial Collections houses multiple manuscripts relating to Anderson, including: \nMs1971-002, Dayton M. Kohler Papers, 1889-1972.  Finding aid available online .","Ms1973-002, Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1912-1938.  Finding aid available online . Some items in this collection have been digitized and are  available online .","Ms2011-004, Sherwood Anderson Photograph and Postcard, 1929, 1939.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","Ms2015-020, Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, 1918-2006, n.d.  Finding aid available online . Some items from this collection have been digitized and are  available online . ","Ms2015-044, Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones, 1916-1924, n.d.  Finding aid available online .  Digital images with transcripts  available online. ","Ms2017-001, Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . ","Ms2017-005, James T. Farrell Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1952.  Finding aid available online . This collection has been digitized and is  available online . "],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: Correspondence to/from Sherwood Anderson, 1927-1940 includes correspondence to and from Anderson with a variety of colleagues and friends. It contains three subseries. Materials in each subseries in Series I are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubseries A: Sherwood Anderson to J. J. Lankes, 1926-1940 consists of Anderson's letters to artist and friend, J. J. Lankes. The correspondence is a combination of personal conversations and professional.  There are also several folders of materials that relate to the correspondence and the Anderson-Lankes collaboration: manuscripts and copies of essays, woodcuts, articles, and reviews. Subseries B: From Sherwood Anderson to various, A-Z, 1925-1940, n.d. contains letters by Anderson to a variety of individuals. In most cases, there is a single letter to each correspondent, with the exception of William and Carrie Wright. Wright built Ripshin, Anderson's home in Marion, Va. Subseries C: To Sherwood Anderson from various, A-Z, 1931, 1935 consists of a letter to Anderson from his publisher and an invitation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Correspondence about Sherwood Anderson, 1929-2006, n.d. contains letters about Sherwood Anderson, including personal correspondence to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, artist J. J. Lankes, Anderson scholar Welford D. Taylor, and others. It contains four subseries. Materials in each subseries in Series II are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubseries A: To/from Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1941-1977, n.d., includes letters written to and from Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, written after Anderson's death in 1941. It is primary correspondence between Eleanor and J. J. Lankes and W. D. Taylor. Subseries B: To/from J. J. Lankes, 1930-1957, n.d. consists of letters to and from Lankes from Anderson's son, Robert, from publishers working with Lankes and Anderson on Anderson's books, and other mutual acquaintances. Subseries C: To/from Welford D. Taylor from Various, A-Z, 1929-2006 includes correspondence from other Sherwood Anderson scholars and researchers. The last subseries, Subseries D: To/from various, A-Z, 1932, 1938, 1965, contains a few letters from individuals connected to Anderson (his children) or between individuals interested in Anderson. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries III: Subject Files, 1918-2006, n.d. includes collected research files, ephemera, and other items related to scholarship about Sherwood Anderson. Materials in each subseries in Series III are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubseries A: Writings by \u0026amp; about Sherwood Anderson, 1918-1953, n.d. contains a few drafts of writings by Anderson, along with photocopies of an article about Anderson and one of his newspaper columns from 1918. Subseries B: Sherwood Anderson \u0026amp; His Works, 1964-2006, n.d. includes files of research materials collected by W. D. Taylor on secondary sources or edited collections of Anderson's works. This includes \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Buck Fever Papers\u003c/title\u003e,  \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCertain Things Last: The Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e,  \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e,  \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson: A Writer in America\u003c/title\u003e, and  \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e. This subseries also has the transcript of an interview by Taylor with Joseph and Mary Cortina. Subseries C: Ephemera, 1924-2005, n.d. consist of pages from newspapers, programs from events related to Anderson scholarship, and materials from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation. Subseries D: Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1980, 1985 contains obituaries following the death of Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson and a pamphlet relating to her mother.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Images, Video, Audio, and Microfilm, 1970s-1991, n.d. contains all the multimedia materials received as part of this collection. Formats include photographs, postcards, a VHS tape, cassette tape and audio reels, and microfilm. Materials in each subseries in Series IV are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubseries A: Photographs and Postcards, c.1970s, n.d. includes pictures of art works relating to Anderson, formal and candid images of Anderson, of Ripshin (\u003cextref actuate=\"onRequest\" show=\"new\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripshin_Farm\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripshin_Farm\u003c/extref\u003e), his home in Grayson County, Virginia, and of locations around Marion, Virginia, which were significant to Anderson's life and career. Subseries B: Video, 1991 includes the recording of a 1991 event on the Virginia Tech campus. Subseries C: Audio, 1976, 1982, n.d. includes a partial interview with an unknown friend of Sherwood Anderson and cassette tapes with interviews of Anderson scholars and Eleanor Anderson. Subseries D: Microfilm, 1925-1931, n.d. contains microfilm of Smyth County newspapers purchased and published by Anderson in the 1920s and 1930s. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries V: Graphic Arts Materials, n.d. includes a small group of art works, primarily woodcuts. This series contains prints and photocopies of J. J. Lankes woodcuts, some of which were used in Anderson publications. It also includes bookplates for the libraries of Sherwood Anderson and Welford D. Taylor. Materials in Series V are organized by material type. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"deflist\"\u003e\n      \u003chead\u003eList of Major Correspondents\u003c/head\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eAnderson, Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eAnderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eAnderson, Robert Lane (1907-1951)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eCampbell, Hilbert\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDeVries, Carrow\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eHurd, Thaddeus B.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eLankes, J. J. (1884-1960)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eModlin, Charles E.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRideout, Walter B.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eTaylor, Welford Dunaway\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e·\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWright, William and Carrie\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n    \u003c/list\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis audio reel contains no lead and starts in the middle of an interview with an unknown person about his memories and experiences with Sherwood Anderson. Following the interview, which is cut short, the audio is unplayable by equipment in Special Collections (it seems to have been recorded at a different speed) for many minutes. The middle of the reel includes recordings of someone playing piano. The end of the reel contains additional audio again apparently recorded at a different speed and unplayable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlease note: Virginia Tech Special Collections does NOT house the original scrapbook from which these articles were filmed. It appears to be \u003cextref href=\"http://mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/anderson.xml#series10\" show=\"new\" actuate=\"onRequest\"\u003epart of the Sherwood Anderson Papers\u003c/extref\u003e held by the Newberry Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Content","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006. ","Series I: Correspondence to/from Sherwood Anderson, 1927-1940 includes correspondence to and from Anderson with a variety of colleagues and friends. It contains three subseries. Materials in each subseries in Series I are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: Sherwood Anderson to J. J. Lankes, 1926-1940 consists of Anderson's letters to artist and friend, J. J. Lankes. The correspondence is a combination of personal conversations and professional.  There are also several folders of materials that relate to the correspondence and the Anderson-Lankes collaboration: manuscripts and copies of essays, woodcuts, articles, and reviews. Subseries B: From Sherwood Anderson to various, A-Z, 1925-1940, n.d. contains letters by Anderson to a variety of individuals. In most cases, there is a single letter to each correspondent, with the exception of William and Carrie Wright. Wright built Ripshin, Anderson's home in Marion, Va. Subseries C: To Sherwood Anderson from various, A-Z, 1931, 1935 consists of a letter to Anderson from his publisher and an invitation.","Series II: Correspondence about Sherwood Anderson, 1929-2006, n.d. contains letters about Sherwood Anderson, including personal correspondence to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, artist J. J. Lankes, Anderson scholar Welford D. Taylor, and others. It contains four subseries. Materials in each subseries in Series II are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: To/from Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1941-1977, n.d., includes letters written to and from Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, written after Anderson's death in 1941. It is primary correspondence between Eleanor and J. J. Lankes and W. D. Taylor. Subseries B: To/from J. J. Lankes, 1930-1957, n.d. consists of letters to and from Lankes from Anderson's son, Robert, from publishers working with Lankes and Anderson on Anderson's books, and other mutual acquaintances. Subseries C: To/from Welford D. Taylor from Various, A-Z, 1929-2006 includes correspondence from other Sherwood Anderson scholars and researchers. The last subseries, Subseries D: To/from various, A-Z, 1932, 1938, 1965, contains a few letters from individuals connected to Anderson (his children) or between individuals interested in Anderson. ","Series III: Subject Files, 1918-2006, n.d. includes collected research files, ephemera, and other items related to scholarship about Sherwood Anderson. Materials in each subseries in Series III are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: Writings by \u0026 about Sherwood Anderson, 1918-1953, n.d. contains a few drafts of writings by Anderson, along with photocopies of an article about Anderson and one of his newspaper columns from 1918. Subseries B: Sherwood Anderson \u0026 His Works, 1964-2006, n.d. includes files of research materials collected by W. D. Taylor on secondary sources or edited collections of Anderson's works. This includes  The Buck Fever Papers ,   Certain Things Last: The Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson ,   Sherwood Anderson ,   Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America , and   Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson . This subseries also has the transcript of an interview by Taylor with Joseph and Mary Cortina. Subseries C: Ephemera, 1924-2005, n.d. consist of pages from newspapers, programs from events related to Anderson scholarship, and materials from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation. Subseries D: Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, 1980, 1985 contains obituaries following the death of Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson and a pamphlet relating to her mother.","Series IV: Images, Video, Audio, and Microfilm, 1970s-1991, n.d. contains all the multimedia materials received as part of this collection. Formats include photographs, postcards, a VHS tape, cassette tape and audio reels, and microfilm. Materials in each subseries in Series IV are in chronological order. Undated materials are located at the end of each subseries.","Subseries A: Photographs and Postcards, c.1970s, n.d. includes pictures of art works relating to Anderson, formal and candid images of Anderson, of Ripshin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripshin_Farm ), his home in Grayson County, Virginia, and of locations around Marion, Virginia, which were significant to Anderson's life and career. Subseries B: Video, 1991 includes the recording of a 1991 event on the Virginia Tech campus. Subseries C: Audio, 1976, 1982, n.d. includes a partial interview with an unknown friend of Sherwood Anderson and cassette tapes with interviews of Anderson scholars and Eleanor Anderson. Subseries D: Microfilm, 1925-1931, n.d. contains microfilm of Smyth County newspapers purchased and published by Anderson in the 1920s and 1930s. ","Series V: Graphic Arts Materials, n.d. includes a small group of art works, primarily woodcuts. This series contains prints and photocopies of J. J. Lankes woodcuts, some of which were used in Anderson publications. It also includes bookplates for the libraries of Sherwood Anderson and Welford D. Taylor. Materials in Series V are organized by material type. ","List of Major Correspondents · Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver (1896-1985) · Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941) · Anderson, Robert Lane (1907-1951) · Campbell, Hilbert · DeVries, Carrow · Hurd, Thaddeus B. · Lankes, J. J. (1884-1960) · Modlin, Charles E. · Rideout, Walter B. · Taylor, Welford Dunaway · Wright, William and Carrie","This audio reel contains no lead and starts in the middle of an interview with an unknown person about his memories and experiences with Sherwood Anderson. Following the interview, which is cut short, the audio is unplayable by equipment in Special Collections (it seems to have been recorded at a different speed) for many minutes. The middle of the reel includes recordings of someone playing piano. The end of the reel contains additional audio again apparently recorded at a different speed and unplayable.","Please note: Virginia Tech Special Collections does NOT house the original scrapbook from which these articles were filmed. It appears to be  part of the Sherwood Anderson Papers  held by the Newberry Library."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe following books were purchased along with the manuscript materials and are cataloged for Special Collections Rare Book Collection: \n\u003clist\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Complete Works of Sherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e, ed. Kichinosuke Ohashi (21 vols)\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAgricultural Advertising\u003c/title\u003e, vol. IX, nos. 1-12. (This includes Anderson's earliest published work, as well as four other pieces by him)\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eShort Stories of Sherwood Anderson (Armed Services Edition)\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLabor Age: The Voice of Progressive Labor\u003c/title\u003e, XX, no. 2, 1931\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson: A Writer in America\u003c/title\u003e, Vols. 1-2 (2 vols) by Walter B. Rideout\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSherwood Anderson: Dimensions of His Literary Art/A Collection of Essays\u003c/title\u003e, ed. David D. Anderson\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Phenomenon of Sherwood Anderson\u003c/title\u003e by N. Bryllion Fagin\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWave Essays Number 1 (Spring 1980)\u003c/title\u003e, \"Sherwood Anderson, J. J. Lankes and the Illustration of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003ePerhaps Women\u003c/title\u003e\" by Welford Dunaway Taylor\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["The following books were purchased along with the manuscript materials and are cataloged for Special Collections Rare Book Collection: \n The Complete Works of Sherwood Anderson , ed. Kichinosuke Ohashi (21 vols) Agricultural Advertising , vol. IX, nos. 1-12. (This includes Anderson's earliest published work, as well as four other pieces by him) Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson (Armed Services Edition) Labor Age: The Voice of Progressive Labor , XX, no. 2, 1931 Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America , Vols. 1-2 (2 vols) by Walter B. Rideout Sherwood Anderson: Dimensions of His Literary Art/A Collection of Essays , ed. David D. Anderson The Phenomenon of Sherwood Anderson  by N. Bryllion Fagin Wave Essays Number 1 (Spring 1980) , \"Sherwood Anderson, J. J. Lankes and the Illustration of  Perhaps Women \" by Welford Dunaway Taylor"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish material from the Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish material from the Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_1203ef19346aae4336d73a158e7ecbcb\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThis collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. 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