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This collection consists chiefly of 75 letters and telegrams, 1931, to Mr. James Southall Wilson, who invited several Southern authors to attend the Southern Writers Convention, sponsored by the Virginia Quarterly Review, at the University of Virginiaon October 23-24, 1931. The authors include the following: Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Katharine Anthony, Emily Clark Balch, John Peale Bishop, James Boyd, Roark Bradford, Herschel Brickell, Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Henry Seidel Canby, Willa Cather, Maristan Chapman, Irvin S. Cobb, Donald Davidson, William E. Dodd, William Faulkner, John Gould Fletcher, Ellen Glasgow, Isa Glenn, Paul Green, Sara Haardt, Archibald Henderson, DuBose Heyward, Gerald W. Johnson, Mary Johnston, H. L. Mencken, Margaret Prescott Montague, Julia Peterkin, Ulrich B. Phillips, Josephine Pinckney, Burton Rascoe, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, Cale Young Rice, Elizabeth Maddox Roberts, Herbert Ravenel Sass, Helen Purefoy Poteat Stallings, T. S. Stribling, Allen Tate, Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy, Irita Van Doren, Thomas Wolfe, and Stark Young.

This collection of 19 items, 1921-1952, compiled by James Southall Wilson, pertains to Edgar Allan Poe. Included are three letters, ten reprints, notes, and three copies of portraits of Poe. The correspondents, C. Alphonso Smith, [Ellis?] Campbell, and Dudley Hutcherson, discuss articles by Wilson and by themselves about Poe. The reprints, 1933-1952, are of articles by Dudley Hutcherson, F. DeWolfe Miller, James Southall Wilson, Fredson Bowers, and Esmond L. Marilla. Also included are copies of a Rembrandt Peale portrait, 1833, and of two daguerrotypes, ca. 1845 and November 14, 1848, of Edgar Allan Poe.

This collection of 24 items, 1903-1939, contains papers of James Southall Wilson pertaining to Edgar Allan Poe. There is a letter, November 5, 1903, from James A. Harrison (in his wife's hand), Academic Department, University of Virginia, to Harry Rogers Pratt, Cambridge, Massachusetts, concerning the former's The Life and Letters of Edgar Allan Poeand the kindness with which it has been received. Other items include an annotated broadside advertising John H. Ingram's The Works of Edgar Allen Poe;a letter to the editor, January 7, 1924, from C. Alphonso Smith re Poe's essay on "Barnaby Rudge"; and, many notes on Poe bibliography.