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By Abigail Morris
Collection Overview
Title: Virginia Authors Collection, circa 1950s-1970s
ID: 001/01/MSS 0000-158
Primary Creator: Norfolk Public Library (Va.) (1894-)
Extent: 9.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order by last name of author.
Date Acquired: 00/00/1970
Subjects: American literature--Virginia, Authors, American Virginia
Forms of Material: Book jackets, Clippings (information artifacts), Correspondence, Fliers (printed matter), Manuscripts, Pamphlets, Plays (performed works), Poems, Résumés (personnel records), Short stories, Speeches (documents)
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Original manuscripts for previously published materials, copies of newspaper clippings, and letters.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Access Restrictions:
This collection is open to all researchers.
Acquisition Source:
Various
Preferred Citation:
Virginia Authors Collection, MSS 0000-158, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
Processing Information:
Processed May to October 2015.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Box 4
- Folder 1: Haislip, Harvey, circa 1957
- Item 1: Manuscript, "Lodestar", circa 1957
- Manuscript of Haislip's first novel, published by Doubleday & Company in 1957, with a letter accompanying the gift written by Haislip on September 6, 1970.
- Folder 2: Hardy, William M., undated
- Item 1: Manuscript, "The Ship They Called the Fat Lady", undated
- From the beginning to page 143 of the manuscript of the book, The Ship They Called the Fat Lady.
- Folder 3: Hardy, William M., undated
- Item 1: Manuscript, "The Ship They Called the Fat Lady", undated
- Pages 144 to 256, or the completion, of the manuscript of the book, The Ship They Called the Fat Lady.
- Folder 4: Harris, Kenneth, 1966, undated
- Item 1: Speech, "How to Run a Supermarket-Monastery-Bombshelter in Grand Central Station", 1966
- Speech given by Harris at the VLA in Williamsburg.
- Item 2: Speech, "The Necessity for NonConformity", undated
- Speech given to school principals.
- Folder 5: Horner, Dave, undated
- Item 1: Flier, "Shipwrecks, Skin Divers and Sunken Gold", undated
- Flier advertising Horner's book Shipwrecks, Skin Divers and Sunken Gold, with an order form attached.
- Item 2: Book Jacket, "The Blockade-Runners: True Tales of Running the Yankee Blockade of the Confederate Coast", undated
- Book jacket includes a summary and an About the Author feature.
- Folder 6: Hume, Ivor Noel, 1966
- Item 1: Manuscript, "1775: Another Part of the Field", 1966 October
- From the beginning to page 237 of the original manuscript for 1775: Another Part of the Field, with pencil corrections, drafted prior to Hume's submission to Knopf publishers. The book was published November 14, 1966.
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