Berry Morgan Galley Proofs

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Berry Morgan Galley Proofs, Ms1969-002, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Creator:
Morgan, Berry, 1919-2002
Abstract:
This collection contains the author's proof of Berry Morgan's novel, Pursuit (1966).
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Berry Morgan Galley Proofs, Ms1969-002, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains the author's proof of Berry Morgan's novel Pursuit. The proof is dated April 27, 1966 and May 3, 1966 by H. Wolff Book MFG. Co. The book was published by Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston.

Biographical / historical:

Berry Morgan was born in Port Gibson, Mississippi in 1919. Her first book was Pursuit, published in 1966. Pursuit was followed by The Mystic Adventures of Roxie Stoner in 1974. These two novels were together know as the Certain Shadows series and won her the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. Morgan also worked for The New Yorker from 1966 to 1988 and was involved in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.

Source:

"Mississippi Writers: Berry Morgan", https://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/mississippi-writers/berry-morgan

Acquisition information:
This collection was acquired by Newman Library prior to 1969.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Berry Morgan Galley Proofs was completed prior to February 2011. Additional description was completed in February 2011.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Authors, American -- 20th century