A Guide to the Papers of William Faulkner and the Faulkner Family 1926-1992

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A Guide to the Papers of William Faulkner and the Faulkner Family, Accession #9817-m, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

A Guide to the Papers of William Faulkner and the Faulkner Family, Accession #9817-m, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This addition to the papers of William Faulkner, ca. 1926-1992, ca. 195 items (4 Hollinger boxes, ca. 2 linear feet), consists of business, personal and legal correspondence and documents of Faulkner and family members Jill Faulkner Summers and Malcolm Argyle Franklin. The papers consist of business, personal and legal correspondence and documents of Faulkner and family members Jill Faulkner Summers and Malcolm Franklin. The papers also contain several miscellaneous legal papers, including a deed for "Rowan Oak" to Jill Faulkner Summers.

Memorabilia from a scrapbook compiled by Jill Faulkner Summers includes a dress pattern, invitations, dance cards, clippings, receipts, horse show programs, sketches, a story, academic notes, exam answer sheets, and letters written as a child to relatives including one mentioning riding with Deanna Durbin.

Papers pertaining to Malcolm Franklin include a class notebook in parasitology, 1949, and various other medical pamphlets, together with World War II letters to his family from Camp Joseph T. Robinson and Germany and photographs of Franklin and Victoria Franklin.

A small group of papers concern W. F. Fielden and the Proctor and Gamble Defense Corporation, chiefly issues of the Wolf Creek Banner, 1944-1945.

There is also an unmarked phonodisk with unidentified content.

22 pages.

5 pages.

20 pages.

6 pages.

14 pages.

16 pages.

28 pages.

7 pages.

26 pages.

38 pages.

17 pages (2 copies).

16 pages.

Script.

23 pages.

3 pages.

2 pages.

6 pages.

7 pages.

4 pages.

6 pages (2 copies).

7 pages (3 copies).

35 pages.

Includes:

a)Warranty deed to Jill Faulkner for Rowan Oak (June 20, 1954)

b) Quit claim deed from Jill Faulkner Summers to William Faulkner and Estelle Oldham Faulkner (March 21, 1955) correcting an inadvertent error in the June 20, 1954 deed

c) Deed of gift from William Faulkner and Estelle Oldham Faulkner to Jill Faulkner Summers conveying title to Rowan Oak (July 21, 1960)

d) Rider to Stock Try-Out Contract on As I Lay Dying between William Faulkner and Baylor University (January 8, 1960)

e) Lomax B. Lamb, Jr. Law Offices, Marks, Mississippi, to Paul Summers, Charlottesville, regarding a Museum in Oxford and its director (July 10, 1963)

f) Lomax B. Lamb, Jr. to Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Summers, carbon of letter sent to Mrs. William Faulkner, Charlottesville, with letter from Mrs. Herron Rowland, Director of the Mary Buie Museum, Oxford, Mississippi, and an acknowledgment and listing of materials on exhibit at the Museum in a display case designated "The William Faulkner Case," loaned to the Museum by William Faulkner and family (August 9, 1963)

g) James W. Webb, Chairman, Department of English, University of Mississippi, to Mrs. Paul Summers, Charlottesville, August 5, 1964, with carbon letter, April 9, 1965, Webb to Lamb, concerning the retirement of Mrs. Herron Rowland and the understanding that the Faulkner awards would be moved to the Mississippi Room at the University following her retirement

h) Promissory note to the order of Random House, Inc. from Jill Faulkner Summers (March 9, 1971); cancelled by payment January 15, 1980

With autograph note at top and revisions by Faulkner, 2 pages.

Includes: July 17, 1964 cover of William Faulkner, and Books: Absalom, Absalom! review, "The Curse and the Hope," 5 pages; and July 24, 1964 "Letters to the Editor," including one from Bennett Cerf, concerning the previous Faulkner cover story, page 9.

Includes (original order and numbering retained):

JF 1: Hollywood dress pattern, size 8 years

JF 2: The American Girl subscription order blank, scribbled

JF 3: Envelope, return address 1410 N. Brenda St, Hollywood, addressed to Mrs. LE. Oldham, June 27,1944

JF 4: letter accompanying JF 3, to grandparents and D. Oldham

JF 5: Envelope, return address 1410 N. Brenda St., Hollywood, addressed to D. Oldham, July 7, 1944

JF 6: Letter accompanying JF 5, "Dear Aunt Dot," details Hollywood experience

JF 7: Letter, "Dear Aunt Dot and Miss Mary," n.d. apparently written after JF 6. Details riding, mentions riding with Deanna Durbin, and mentions other film stars

JF 8: newspaper clipping of Jean Sullivan selling poppies for war effort, 1945

JF 9: Homemade dance card, red stock, silver ink, "Tea Dance, honoring Miss Jill Faulkner, Tuesday afternoon, December 23, 1947 at Mrs. LE. Oldham's"

JF 10: Homemade dance card, white stock, pasted on magazine pink rose, "Dance for Miss Jill Faulkner." Friday evening June 18th, 1948

JF 11: Duplicate of JF 10, no rose

JF 12: Duplicate of JF 10, clipped in half

JF 13: Card, "Jill Faulkner, A. A.U.W. award to a Junior High student writing best original poem," (found in Untermeyer, This Singing World: possibly the book was the prize)

JF 14: Penmanship award, The National Board of Examiners, March 3, 1944 (fifth grade)

JF 15: "Guess I'd better ring for help" caption on horse clipping from magazine

JF 16: "My Spelling Book" fifth grade, 1944-45

JF 17: Arithmetic Workbook, third grade. Blue cover, red Binding, tablet style

JF 18: Birthday telegram to Estelle Faulkner from Wellesley, Massachusetts

JF 19: Gift card, "My precious Mama Many many happy returns of the day. I love you more than you can ever know. Jill."

JF 20: Railway Express Agency receipt for baggage shipped to Pine Manor College, November 28, 1951

JF 21: Railway Express Agency receipt for baggage shipped to Pine Manor college, April 29, 1953

JF 22: Small watercolor of Mexican peasant, seated with head down

JF 23: Postcard, Trier, "Just another one for your collection, love, Malcolm."

Includes:

JF 24: Mimeographed legal sized sheet of high school cheers

JF 25: Manuscript page, "Betty Cofield was sixteen. . ."

JF 26: Childhood triangle sketches

JF 27: Equestrian supply catalogue, "No. 135 English Super Saddlery," The "Little Joe" Wiesenfeld Co., 112 W. North Avenue, Baltimore, 1947

JF 28: Souvenir program of Holly Springs, MS, horse show, July 22, 1946

JF 29: Souvenir program of Holly Springs, MS, horse show, June 13, 1947

JF 30: Letter from University of Mississippi Student Personnel Department regarding American council Psychological Examination, June 9, 1951

JF 31: Astronomy study sheet, legal size, folded, probably dated Summer 1951

JF 32: Physics exam sheet, June 18,1951

JF 33: History notes, "chapter 27"

JF 34: Astronomy notes, steno pad sheet

JF 35: Letter from UM student personnel, announcement of meeting for all incoming freshmen, June 9, 1951

JF 36: Physics exam, July 3, 1951

JF 37: Long envelope, student personnel

JF 38: Short envelope, student personnel

JF 39: Wedding invitation, illustrated by Maud Falkner

JF 40: Wedding invitation

JF 41: Card for enclosure with invitation for reception at Rowan Oak

JF 42: Telegram to Paul Summers from Bill Marriott, Athens, Georgia, concerning wedding plans

JF 43: Full page clipping of Memphis Commercial Appeal coverage of Jill's wedding and reception

JF 44: Pamphlet, "The Man Who Owned the Stable," inscribed, "For Paul and Jill, Christmas, 1956"

JF 45: Letter on newsprint quality paper, legal size, to parents, written during first pregnancy, envelope, postmarked November 7, 1955

JF 46: Assembly instructions for Edison cribs

JF 47: Letter and envelope to Estelle Faulkner, postmarked Charlottesville, July 24, 1968

Contains pamphlets of anatomy, biology, morphology, physiology, and zoology; an English assignment notebook; a Valentine to Estelle Oldham Faulkner.

Contains letters to L.E. Oldham from camp during WWII, discussing learning army methods of laboratory techniques, manuevers, and camp life at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas; a sketch of himself.

Contains postcards from Germany to Jill Faulkner; a Webster Dictionary; "Neuroanatomy" report- Neuro-Anatomy Drawings by M.A. Franklin, 1950; Typescript, "Opsanus Tau with related forms reported from the Gulf of Mexico."

Contains pamphlets on anatomy, biology, morphology, physiology, and zoology.

Contains pamphlets on anatomy, biology, morphology, physiology, and zoology.

Contains a Perpetual Date Book, with brief personal notes, many of which mention the Faulkners and the Oldhams.

Includes: Program for the Army-Navy "E" Fourth Annual Dinner (November 16, 1944); Certificate of Award to William F. Fielden, for his part in winning the "Army-Navy 'E' Award" for Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant, Milan, Tennessee (November 18, 1944); Report, "Planning and Operations of Finished Ammunition Stores," W.F. Fielden (December 1944); Certificate of Memberhip, American Junior Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai by W.F. Fielden (May 21, 1948).

Acquisition information:
These papers were loaned to the University of Virginia Library by Jill Faulkner Summers on November 1, 2000.
Arrangement:

This addition to the papers of William Faulkner consists of four series: Series I: Harold Ober Associates Material; Subseries A: Work by William Faulkner; Subseries B: Work concerning William Faulkner; Series II: William Faulkner and Jill Faulkner Summers Material; Subseries A: Contracts and Agreements; Subseries B: Manuscripts by William Faulkner (alphabetical); Subseries C: Printed Material concerning William Faulkner (chronological); Subseries D: Personal Notebook, etc.; Series III: Malcolm Franklin Papers; Series IV: William F. Fielden and Proctor and Gamble Defense Corporation