Richmond Croom Beatty papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library
James Branch Cabell Library
Virginia Commonwealth University
P.O. Box 842003
901 Park Avenue
Richmond, VA 23284-2003
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POC: SCA Staff
Phone: (804) 828-1108
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Summary

Extent:
1.5 Linear Feet
Creator:
Beatty, Richmond Croom, 1905-1961
Language:
English .

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence with publishers and friends, manuscripts of articles, poems, books, reviews, and other writing, notes, teaching notebooks, term papers, clippings, printed materials, and photographs. Includes translation from the German version of William Byrd's Natural history of Virginia, which Beatty edited and published. Correspondents include Stringfellow Barr, Louise Cowan, Wilbur Cross, Harold M. Jones, Merrill Moore, Jesse Stuart and R.M Weaver.

Biographical / historical:

Professor and writer, usually associated with Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Author of biographies of Bayard Taylor (1936), Lord Macaulay (1938), and James Russell Lowell (1942). Edited the American tradition in literature (1957). Also wrote poetry, articles, and reviews.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Mrs. Floyd Beatty in 1972.
Arrangement:

Arranged in seven series: I. College term papers (1927-1930). II. Poetry (no date). III. William Byrd material (1940). IV. Correspondence (1930-1960). V. Manuscripts (no date). VI. Photographs (no date). VII. Miscellaneous (no date). Topical arrangement.

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