Roger Mudd collection on Eudora Welty

Access and use

Location of collection:
Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library
Special Collections and Archives
James G. Leyburn Library
Washington and Lee University
204 W. Washington Street
Lexington, VA 24450
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Tom Camden
Phone: (540) 458-8649
Phone: (540) 463-8109
Fax: (540) 463-8964
Restrictions:

This collection is open for research use.

Terms of access:

The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Roger Mudd Collection on Eudora Welty (WLU Coll. 0565), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.75 Linear Feet 1 box
Creator:
Mudd, Roger
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Roger Mudd Collection on Eudora Welty (WLU Coll. 0565), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains items related to writer and novelist Eudora Welty collected by Roger Mudd. This includes the personal correspondence from Welty to Mudd, along with interviews and photographs of Welty. There are also several publications and articles written both during her life and posthumously.

Biographical / historical:

Roger Mudd graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1950 and had a long and distinguished journalism career. He had a particular interest in Southern writers, and in 2007, he donated his library to his alma mater.

Eudora Welty was a noted writer and novelist who wrote about the American South.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Southern writers