Special Collections & Archives J. Edgar & Louise S....

Patrick Samway, S.J. Papers

49 linear feet, 95 boxes

Special Collections & Archives

J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library

Loyola University New Orleans

Collection 63

Patrick Samway, S.J. Papers

Reference Code

Collection 63

Name and Location of Repository

Special Collections and Archives, J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library, Loyola

University New Orleans

Title

Patrick Samway Collection

Date

1970-2005, bulk 1985-2005

Extent

49 linear feet, 95 boxes

Name of Creator

Samway, Patrick H.

Administrative/Biographical History

Patrick Samway, S.J., Professor Emeritus of English at Saint Joseph's University

in Philadelphia, received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He taught at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY (1973-84), where he chaired the English

Department (1977-81). In addition, he has twice been a Fulbright Lecturer in American

Literature: at the University of Nantes, France (1975-76) and the at University of Paris

VII, France (1979-80), as well as Bannan Scholar-in-Residence, University of Santa

Clara (l982-83); Visiting Associate Professor of English, Boston College (1983-84);

Adjunct Associate Professor of English, Fordham University (Lincoln Center: 1984-89);

Visiting Associate Professor of English, Loyola University, New Orleans (Spring 1988).

From 1984 to 1999, he served as Literary Editor of America, a weekly journal of opinion

published in New York City by the Jesuits of North America. For two years after that he

was the Will and Ariel Durant Professor of Humanities at Saint Peter’s College, Jersey

City, NJ. In addition he held the Donald MacLean, S.J., Jesuit Chair for two years at

Saint Joseph's University (2001-03).

Father Samway is the author of a two-volume, bilingual textbook in French and

Haitian Creole entitled Haïti aux Haïtiens: Un Livre d’Éducation Civique / Ayiti pou

Ayisyen: Yon Liv Edikasyon Sivik (2014, 2015), as well as Educating Darfur Refugees: A

Jesuit’s Efforts in Chad (2008); Walker Percy: A Life (1997), which was selected by The

New York Times Book Review as one of the notable books of 1997, and Faulkner's

“Intruder in the Dust”: A Critical Study of the Typescripts (1980). He has edited A Thief

of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy (1995) and a volume of

essays of Walker Percy entitled Signposts in a Strange Land (1991). With Ben Forkner

he has co-edited four anthologies of Southern literature: A New Reader of the Old South

(1990); Stories of the Old South (1989); A Modern Southern Reader (1986), and Stories

of the Modern South (1981). With Michel Gresset he co-edited Faulkner and Idealism:

Perspectives from Paris (1983) and A Gathering of Evidence: Essays on William

Faulkner’s “Intruder in the Dust” (2004).

Scope and Content

The Samway Papers include a range of material related to Samways’ interest in and

research on Southern literature with an acute focus on his biography of Walker Percy

published in 1997. Material regarding Samway’s humanitarian work in Haiti and Africa

can also be found. The types of material in this collection include correspondence,

monographs, essays, speeches, ephemera, photographic prints, negatives and

audiocassettes. Samway corresponded with a number of writers, scholars, and members

of the Percy family.

System of Arrangement

The arrangement scheme for the collection was imposed during processing in the absence

of a usable original order.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use except the contents of Box 26 and Folders 1-3 of

Box 27. These items are restricted until 2024.

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

Physical rights are retained by the J. Edgar and Louis S. Monroe Library, Loyola

University New Orleans. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. Copyright Laws.

Language and Scripts of the Material

Collection is in English.

Processing Information

Collection processed by James Clifford, 2013. Finding aid written by Jennifer Waxman

and James Clifford, 2013-14.

Series Description

Series I Correspondence Primarily correspondence between Samway and others. Includes a small

amount of correspondence unrelated to Samway, such as letters between

Percy family members.

Series II Monographs Drafts and page proofs of monographs written or edited by Samway.

Works by others are located in Series IV: Research and Subject Files.

Subseries II-A Walker Percy: A Life

Subseries II-B A Thief of Peirce

Subseries II-C Signposts in a Strange Land

Subseries II-D The Letters of John Berryman and

Robert Giroux

Subseries II-E A Gathering of Evidence

Subseries II-F Educating Darfur Refugees

Subseries II-G Memorial Tributes to Walker Percy

Series III Essays and Speeches Essays and speeches written by Samway. Works by others are located in

Series IV: Research and Subject Files.

Series IV Research and Subject Files Primarily ephemera, essays, monographs, and research material. Includes

original research by Samway and promotional material for authors and

books. Also includes items signed by Walker Percy, Eudora Welty, and

other authors.

Subseries IV-A Walker Percy

Subseries IV-B William Faulkner

Subseries IV-C Eudora Welty

Subseries IV-D Robert Giroux

Subseries IV-E Andre Dubus

Subseries IV-F Other Authors and Subjects

Subseries IV-G Oversized

Series V Photographs

Subseries VI-A Walker Percy

Subseries VI-B Patrick Samway

Subseries VI-C Nigeria, Chad, and Sudan

Subseries VI-D Haiti

Subseries VI-E William Faulkner

Subseries VI-F Other Authors and Subjects

Series VI Audiocassette Recordings Primarily recordings of interviews conducted by Patrick Samway with

Walker Percy’s family, friends, and acquaintances. Also includes a small

number of non-Percy recordings.

Series VII Other Audiovisual Material This series contains video and audio recordings and microfilm gathered by

Samway to support his research on Percy and other Southern writers. Also

included in this series are floppy disks with files related to Samway’s

work on his Percy biography.

Container List

Series I: Correspondence Box Folder Description

1 1 Unidentified Correspondence

2 A

3 A-Srinivasan, Seetha

4 Abadi-Nagy, Zoltan

5 Abbot, Louise

6 Acker, Genevieve Ramos

7 Air Force Academy

8 Allsop, Michael E.

9 Alusma, Janine

10 American Academy of Arts and Letters

11 Anastasyev, Nickolai

12 Anderson, Donald

13 Augustine Pierce, Gregory

14 Austin, Ronald

15 Authors Guild

16 B

17 Badde, Paul

18 Bagley, Clinton

19 Ball State University

Box Folder Description

2 1 Barranger, Garic and Nikki

2 Barber, Chuck

3 Barousse, Raphael

4 Behrens, James (Jeff)

5 Behrens, James (Jeff)

6 Bell

7 Belliveau, Gerard

8 Bennett, Art

9 Berkeley, Edmund

10 Berman, Jennifer

11 Berry, Jason

12 Berry, Jason

13 Betts, Doris

14 Blackford, Staige

15 Blansfield, Howard

16 Blasingame, W.J.

17 Bleikasten, Andre

18 Blotner, Joseph


3 1 Blotner, Joseph

2 Blotner, Joseph

3 Blotner, Joseph

4 Blotner, Joseph

5 Blotner, Joseph

6 Blotner, Joseph


4 1 Blotner, Joseph

2 Bonner, Thomas

3 Boozer, William

4 Borah, William

5 Botrel, Christiane



8 Boulware, James

9 Bozeman, Patricia

10 Bradley, Lee

11 Brennan, Dan

12 Brodsky, Louis

13 Brooks, Cleanth

14 Broome, Ashley

15 Broughton, Panthea

16 Brown, Ashley

17 Brown, Curtland

18 Brown, Dorothy

19 Bruckner, Monika


5 1 Bruckner, Monika

2 Bryant, Ruth

3 Buffington, Robert

4 Bunting

5 Burch, Robert

6 Burka, Julia

7 Butler, Rebecca

8 C

9 Calhoun, Doris

10 Caliri, Fortuna

11 Calvez, Jean-Yves

12 Campbell, Will

13 Canin, Ethan

14 Capps, Jack

15 Carey, Glenn

16 Carothers, James

17 Carpenter, Art

18 Carr, Rosalie

19 Carrier, Herve

20 Carson, L.M.

21 Carter, Hodding

22 Carter, James

23 Cass, Michael

24 Cay, John

25 Chandler, David

26 Chapin, Elise

27 Chappell, Fred

28 Cheney, Lynne

29 Chenoweth, Brock

30 Ciuba, Gary M.


6 1 Ciuba, Gary M.

2 Clancy, Thomas

3 Clark, Thomas

4 Clark, William

5 Clarke, Deborah

6 Cohn, Margie

7 Cole, Hunter

8 Cole, Hunter

9 Cole, Hunter

10 Coles, Robert

11 Collins, Carvel

12 Collins, James

13 Conrad, Glenn

14 Core, Jesse

15 Corrington, Joyce

16 Council for International Exchange of Scholars

17 Coupage, Didies

18 Cowan, Thomas

19 Coy, Javier

20 Cracroft, Richard


7 1 Crane, Joan

2 Crane, Joan

3 Crane, Joan

4 Crockett, Howard

5 Cross, Dennis

6 Cunniff, Lois

7 Current-Garcia, Eugene

8 Curtis, Lori

9 D

10 Daggy, Robert

11 Dalrymple, Margaret

12 David, Mark

13 Davis, Alan

14 Davis, Thelma

15 Deely, John

16 Deflandre-Moore, A.

17 DeSalvo, Joseph


8 1 Desmond, John

2 Desmond, John

3 Desmond, John

4 Desmond, John

5 Desmond, John

6 Desmond, John


9 1 Desmond, John

2 Desmond, John

3 Dever, Robert

4 Devine, Eric

5 Dohanos, Stevan

6 Doyle, Brian

7 Duckwall, Vernon

8 Dunlap, John

9 Dunne, Robert

10 Dunne, Robert


10 1 Dubus, Andre

2 Dubus, Andre

3 Dubus, Andre

4 Dubus, Andre

5 Dupuy, Edward

6 Dupuy, Edward


11 1 Dupuy, Edward

2 Dupuy, Edward

3 Duty, David

4 E

5 Eble, Connie

6 Eckert, Robert

7 Edwards, Bruce

8 Ellis, Haydee

9 Encyclopedia of Alabama

10 Estess, Sybil

11 Estess, Ted

12 Evans, Ernest

13 F

14 Farrell, Patrick

15 Faust, Rhoda

16 Ferris, Paul Whyte

17 Ferris, William

18 Fields, A.W.

19 Fisher, Robbie and Georgia


12 1 Fister, Charles

2 Fitzegerald, Sally

3 Flannery O’Connor Conference

4 Fleck, Agnes

5 Fleming, Thomas

6 Foote, Shelby

7 Forkner, Ben

8 Forkner, Ben

9 Forkner, Ben

10 Forkner, Ben


13 1 Forkner, Ben

2 Forkner, Ben

3 Forkner, Ben

4 Forkner, Ben

5 Forkner, Ben


14 1 Forkner, Ben

2 Forkner, Ben

3 Freemand, Sarah

4 Freudenberg, Anne

5 Fujihira, Ikuko

6 Fujihira, Ikuko

7 Fujihira, Ikuko

8 Fujihira, Ikuko

9 Fulbright-Faulkner Telegrams, American Embassy, Paris

10 Furuhashi, Masanao


15 1 G

2 Galey, Forrest

3 Gallagher, Michael Paul

4 Garrett, George

5 Gerald, Tom

6 Gibson, Margaret

7 Giroux, Robert

8 GM Hopkins Society

9 Grattan, Joan

10 Gretlund, Jan

11 Gretlund, Jan

12 Griffin, Emilie and William

13 Griffin, Emilie and William

14 Gresset, Michel


16 1 Gresset, Michel

2 Gresset, Michel

3 Gresset, Michel

4 Gresset, Michel

5 Gresset, Michel

6 Gresset, Michel

7 Gresset, Michel


17 1 Gresset, Michel

2 H

3 Hadd, John

4 Haitian Friends

5 Haitian Friends

6 Haitian Friends

7 Hall, Martha

8 Halpin, Edward

9 Hames, Martin

10 Hamp, Eric

11 Hannah, Barry


18 1 Hansen, Mary

2 Hansen, Ron

3 Hargraves, Michael

4 Hargrove, Nancy

5 Harmon, Tom

6 Harrington, Evans

7 Harris, Gentry

8 Hayes, Jim

9 Healy, Timothy

10 Henderson, Cathy

11 Himes, Gary

12 Hinkle, James

13 Hobson, Fred

14 Hobson, Linda

15 Hogan, Raymond

16 Holditch, Kenneth

17 Honnighausen, Lothar

18 Hoomer, Robert

19 Horgan, Paul

20 Horwith, Melvin

21 Howland, Mary

22 Humphries, Jeff

23 I – J

24 Idol, John

25 Isaacson, Walter


19 1 Jackson, Blyden

2 Jaklitsch, Raphael

3 Jensen, Susan

4 John Hopkins University

5 Johnson, Dale

6 Johnson, Gregory

7 Jones, Mittie

8 K

9 Kanaga, Stephen

10 Karl, Frederick R.

11 Kartiganer, Donald

12 Kato, Sadamichi

13 Kaufmann, Stanley

14 Kenah, Rosemary

15 Kendig, Edwin

16 Ketner, Kenneth

17 Key, Tom

18 Kisor, Henry

19 Knight, Danielle

20 Knox, Kathy

21 Konopka, Edward

22 Kramer, Victor

23 Krementz, Jill

24 Kvols, Larry


20 1 L

2 LaFarge, Albert

3 Lane, Denis

4 Lane, Mark

5 Laney, Ruth

6 LaRose, Joseph

7 Lauder, Robert E.

8 Lawler, Steven

9 Lawless, George

10 Lawson, Lewis

11 Leacock, Richard

12 Lemann, Nancy

13 Lemmon, Alfred

14 LeMoyne College

15 Levering, Frank

16 Lewis, Earl

17 Lind, Ilse

18 Lindberg, Stanley

19 Livingston, Margaret and Jim

20 Lobdell, Mary Pratt

21 Lokey, Robert

22 Lombardo, Augustino

23 Lorr, Donald

24 Lucas Beauchamp, Unpublished Story

25 Lucas Beauchamp, Unpublished Story

26 Luzbetak, Louis

27 Lyell, Louis


21 1 M

2 M

3 McCandless, William

4 McConkey, James

5 McCown, Jim/Hooty

6 McCurdy, Harold

7 McCurdy, William

8 McFadden, J.P.

9 McGown, James

10 MacGuire, James

11 McHaney, Tom

12 McKay, Mary

13 McNamee, Maurice

14 Madathiparampil, George

15 Madden, David

16 Maddow, Ben

17 Malin, Irving

18 Manier, Edward

19 Marcello, Leo Luke

20 Mariani, Paul

21 Marlette, Douglas

22 Martin, Mary

23 Martin, Valerie

24 Massey, Linton

25 Matthews, John

26 Mauzy, William

27 May, John

28 Melancon, Lolan

29 Meriwether, James

30 Miller, Moe

31 Millican, Arthenia


22 1 Milling, Bob

2 Millman, Michael

3 Mills, Henry

4 Mills, Henry

5 Mills, Henry

6 Mills, William

7 Miss, Stephen

8 Miss, Stephen


23 1 Miss, Stephen

2 Miss, Stephen

3 Miss, Stephen

4 Miss, Stephen

5 Moltke-Hansen, David

6 Monihan, William

7 Monroe, William

8 Montgomery, Marion

9 Montes, Catalina

10 Moore, Rayburn

11 Moores, Ann Percy

12 Mortimer, Gail

13 Moulinoux, Nicole

14 Moulinoux, Nicole

15 Mudge, Eleanor

16 Mulcahey, Patricia

17 Murphy, Patrick


24 1 N

2 Nan’un-do Co., Ltd.

3 Naughton, Susan

4 Naval Academy

5 NBC News

6 Nero, Joycelyn

7 Neylon, Martin

8 Norris, Lola

9 Nosowsky, Ethan

10 Notre Dame

11 Novak, Joseph

12 O

13 Ohashi, Kenzaburo

14 Olesky, Elizabeth

15 O’Liddy, Patrick

16 Olney, James

17 Ong, Walter

18 Ono, Kiyoyuki

19 P

20 Packiaraj

21 Palmer, James

22 Park, Jeong-Mi

23 Parkes, Joseph

24 Parmentel, Noel

25 Partisan Review

26 Patch, Gertrude

27 Pate, Gary

28 Pellegrino, Joseph

29 Percy Family

30 Percy, Walker


25 1 Percy, Walker

2 Pettit, Edward

3 Phillips, Frank

4 Phillips, Robert

5 Pitavy, Francoise

6 Polk, Noel

7 Pollack, Harriet

8 Poteat, Patricia

9 Potter, Jonathan

10 Powell, Lantz

11 Prenshaw, Peggy

12 Preston, Robert

13 Price, Reynolds and Fox, Jim

14 Prochaska, Bernadette

15 Pruvot, Monique

16 Q – R

17 Quigley, Paul


26 1 Rainey, Janet

2 Rathe, Irene

3 Reed, Jane

4 Reilly, Charles

5 Ridley, Joan

6 River, Louis

7 Roberts, Jon Sharp

8 Robotham, Rick

9 Rodeheffer, Richard and Family

10 Romagosa, Elmo

11 Romine, Dannye

12 Rountree, Elizabeth

13 Rubin, Louis

14 Rushing, Dave

15 S


27 1 Samway Family

2 Scafide, Kyle

3 Scalf, Sue

4 Schaffeld, Henry

5 Schaffer, Charles

6 Schricke, Gilbert

7 Schricke, Gilbert

8 Schroth, Ray

9 Schulze, Richard

10 Scott, Amy Rose

11 Scura, Dorothy

12 Seay, Stephanie

13 Sebeok, Thomas

14 Selleck, Kathryn

15 Sessions, Bill

16 Settle, Mary Lee

17 Shelnutt, Eve

18 Sherry, Margaret

19 Sherwin, Michael

20 Short, Brent

21 Shrader, Richard

22 Silverman, Arthur

23 Simpson, Lewis


28 1 Sipper, Ralph

2 Skipper, Anne

3 Sloves, Joseph

4 Smirfnoff, Marc

5 Smith, Carolyn

6 Smith, Dave

7 Smith, Jon

8 Smith, R.F.

9 Smith, Rebecca

10 Smith, William Jay

11 Spalding

12 Spalding

13 Spencer, Elizabeth

14 Sprague, John

15 SSSL Conference

16 Stascavage, Anne

17 Stirling, Ted

18 Stricherz, Mark

19 Stier, Kenneth

20 Straus, Roger

21 Stuart, Dabney

22 Sturdivant, Walter

23 Sullivan, Thomas

24 Summers, Paul

25 Sweat, Mary Lee


29 1 T

2 Tate, Helen

3 Taylor, L. Jerome

4 Thro, Linus

5 Tibbs, Ashley

6 Toledano, Ben C.

7 Tolson, Jay

8 Torrens, Jay

9 Trousdale, Ann

10 Turner, Decherd

11 Turner, Thelma

12 Tyson, Ruel

13 U – V

14 Underwood, Thomas

15 United States International Communication Agency

16 Usdin, Gene

17 Vauthier, Simone

18 Veasey, Don

19 Vincent, V.M.

20 Viscardi, Christopher

21 Vrocher, Ann

22 W


30 1 Waldron, Ann

2 Walker Percy Educational Project

3 Walsh, Patrick

4 Warren, David

5 Warren, Pat

6 Waters, J. Kevin

7 Waterston, Sam

8 Wather, Ambrose

9 Wells, Larry

10 Welty, Eudora

11 Westarp, Karl-Heinz

12 White, John

13 Widner, Tom

14 Wilkins, Glenn

15 Williams, Joan

16 Williams, Joan

17 Williams, Miller

18 Wilson, Jeffrey

19 Wilson, Mercedes Arzu

20 Winchell, Royden

21 Winick, Eugene

22 Wittenberg, Judy

23 Wolfe, Gregory

24 Wolfe, Marice

25 Wolff, Tobias

26 Wolinsky, E.

27 Words and Music, 2002

28 Yardley, Jonathan

29 Young, Stephen Flinn

Series II: Monographs

Subseries II-A: Walker Percy: A Life


31 1 Walker Percy: A Life – Dead Matter

2 Walker Percy: A Life – Dead Matter





32 1 Walker Percy: A Life – Dead Matter





6 Walker Percy: A Life – Sample Pages

7 Walker Percy: A Life – Pageproofs

33 1 Walker Percy: A Life – Pageproofs






7 Walker Percy: A Life – Drafts

34 1 Walker Percy: A Life – Drafts

















6 Walker Percy: A Life – Drafts, Chapters with Comments

7 Walker Percy: A Life – Typed Manuscript


37 1 Walker Percy: A Life – Typed Manuscript






7 Walker Percy: A Life – Proposal and Contract

Subseries II-B: A Thief of Peirce


38 1 A Thief of Peirce – Typescript

2 A Thief of Peirce – Typescript

3 A Thief of Peirce – Typescript

4 A Thief of Peirce – Pageproofs


39 1 A Thief of Peirce – Pageproofs


3 A Thief of Peirce – Bound Galleys



40 1 A Thief of Peirce – Index

2 A Thief of Peirce – Drafts





41 1 A Thief of Peirce – Drafts








42 1 A Thief of Peirce – Drafts




5 A Thief of Peirce – Contract

Subseries II-C: Signposts in a Strange Land


43 1 Signposts in a Strange Land – Foul Matter

2 Signposts in a Strange Land – Foul Matter





44 1 Signposts in a Strange Land – Foul Matter





6 Signposts in a Strange Land – Proofs

45 1 Signposts in a Strange Land – Proofs






Subseries II-D: The Letters of John Berryman and Robert Giroux


46 1 The Letters of John Berryman and Robert Giroux –

Drafts *Restricted until 2024

2 The Letters of John Berryman and Robert Giroux –











47 1 The Letters of John Berryman and Robert Giroux –

Drafts with holograph corrections by Giroux *Restricted

until 2024


Drafts with no letters from or to Robert Giroux

*Restricted until 2024


Drafts with no letters from or to Robert Giroux

*Restricted until 2024

Subseries II-E: A Gathering of Evidence


47 4 A Gathering of Evidence – Proofs

5 A Gathering of Evidence – Proofs


48 1 A Gathering of Evidence – Front Matter and Permissions

2 Walker Percy: 1916-1990

Subseries II-F: Educating Darfur Refugees


48 3 Educating Darfur Refugees – Notebooks

4 Educating Darfur Refugees – Notebooks

5 Educating Darfur Refugees – Proofs

Subseries II-G: Memorial Tributes to Walker Percy


48 6 Memorial Tributes to Walker Percy – Proofs

7 Memorial Tributes to Walker Percy – Proofs

Series III: Essays and Speeches


49 1 Addie’s Continued Presence in Faulkner’s “As I Lay

Dying”

2 Andre Dubus: Fictional Truth-Sayer

3 Another Case of the Purloined Letter

4 Dubus’s “Voices from the Moon”: More Mystery and

Manners

5 Eudora Welty as Novelist, Friend, Critic

6 Eudora Welty’s Eye for the Story

7 Facts and Fiction: Writing a Biography of Walker Percy

8 A Farewell to Walker Percy

9 Faulkner and Idealism: Perspectives from Paris

10 Faulkner, Encore une Fois

11 Finding Lucas Beauchamp

12 Flannery O’Connor’s Fictive World of Mystery and

Manners

13 Gavin Stevens as Uncle-Creator in Knight’s Gambit

14 Genocide in Sudan

15 Getting Started: Some Reflections on the Genesis of

“The Thanatos Syndrome”

16 Grappling with the Theology of Walker Percy

17 Haiti Project Statement

18 Homily for O’Connor Conference

19 An Ignatian Working Pilgrimage

20 In Darfur: Genocide Continues

21 The Initial Encounter Between Doctor Moore and Father

Smith in “The Thanatos Syndrome”

22 An Innocent Abroad: Walker Percy’s College Trip to

Germany

23 An Interview with Andre Dubus

24 It’s Like Deja Vu All Over Again

25 June 2, 1910: An Historic Day

26 Literary Biography: Privacy and Disclosure


50 1 Meditative Thoughts on the Life of Andre Dubus

2 Modeling and Remodeling Faulkner: The Biographer’s

Task

3 Names and Places in “The Optimist’s Daughter”

4 The Origins of The Moviegoer

5 The Priestly Nature of Two Works of Two Writers from

the South: Andre Dubus and Walker Percy

6 Faulkner: The Transfiguration of Biography

7 A Rahnerian Backdrop to Percy’s “The Second Coming”

8 Reader’s Responses to Elizabeth Spencer’s “The Finder”

9 Samway Talk in French and English

10 Talk on Sudanese Refugees and My Work in Chad

11 The Thanatos Syndrome

12 Toward a Reconstruction of Walker Percy’s “The

Charterhouse”


Charterhouse”


Charterhouse”


51 1 Toward a Reconstruction of Walker Percy’s “The

Charterhouse”


Charterhouse”

3 Toward Evaluating the Biographies of William Faulkner

4 Toward Evaluating the Biographies of William Faulkner

5 The Tug of Santa Fe: Percy’s City of Holy Faith

6 A Tribute to Maurice Edgar Coindreau

7 Two Conversations in Walker Percy’s “The Thanatos

Syndrome”

8 The Union of the DeBardelben and Percy Families

9 Walker Percy in Birmingham


52 1 Walker Percy: A Biographer’s Evaluation

2 Walker Percy: Difference and Differance

3 Walker Percy: Gift Giver

4 Walker Percy, M.D. (1916 – 1990)

5 Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer”, the Long and Short of

It

6 Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer”: a Retrospective

Reading

7 Welty’s Indirect Critique of “The Optimist’s Daughter”

Series IV: Research and Subject Files

Subseries IV-A: Walker Percy


53 1 Theses and Dissertations

2 Theses and Dissertations

3 Theses and Dissertations

4 Essays and Speeches




54 1 Annotations and Notes

2 Annotations and Notes

3 Annotations and Notes

4 Poetry

5 Promotional Material

6 Brochures and Programs

7 Brochures and Programs

8 FSG Catalog


55 1 Magazines and Periodicals

2 Magazines and Periodicals

3 Bibliography

4 Bibliography

5 Interviews

6 Memoirs and Tributes

7 Ash Wednesday

8 Campion Award

9 Comments Made by Percy on The Last Gentleman

10 1972 Panel on James Agee, Percy was a Participant

11 News Clippings


56 1 Lost in the Cosmos Play Scripts

2 Love in the Ruins Screenplay

3 The Moviegoer Film

4 The Moviegoer Film Script

5 The Second Coming Screenplay

6 The Thanatos Syndrome Screenplay

7 William Percy Essay and Screenplay

8 Letter Accepting Contract for the Motion Picture Rights

to the Last Gentleman

9 Contracts for the Motion Picture Rights to the

Moviegoer, Copy and Original

10 Option Agreements for the Moviegoer, Copies


57 1 Percy Genealogy – Individual Data

2 Percy Genealogy – Individual Data



5 Percy Genealogy – RIN Sorted List




58 1 Percy Genealogy – RIN Sorted List



4 Percy Genealogy – Cemetery Names and Dates

5 Percy Family Documents and Research

6 Mary Bernice T. Percy

7 Address Book for Attendees of Signposts in a Strange

Land Book Signing

8 The Walker Percy Project

9 Walker Percy Stamp

10 1995 Walker Percy Symposium


59 1 Percy Items, Signed by Walker Percy

2 Percy Items, Signed by Walker Percy



5 Percy Items, Signed by Other Authors

Subseries IV-B: William Faulkner


60 1 Awards, Conferences, and Festivals

2 Awards, Conferences, and Festivals






61 1 Essays

2 Essays

3 Essays

4 A William Faulkner Chronology

5 A William Faulkner Chronology

6 Theses


62 1 Theses

2 Pirate’s Alley

3 Publishers

4 Publishers

5 Universities

6 Le Moyne


63 1 Booklets

2 Foreign Language

3 Theater

4 Exhibits

5 Faulkner: A Life on Paper

6 News Clippings

7 Lucas Beauchamp

8 Intruder in the Dust Film

9 Postcards, Stamps, and Other Ephemera

Subseries IV-C: Eudora Welty


64 1 Photography and Literature (Publishers?)


3 Stage and Theater

4 Catalogs

5 Eudora Welty: A Critical Bibliography, Galley

6 Millsaps College


65 1 Bookplate Signed by Eudora Welty with place card

2 Eudora Welty: Photographs

3 Magazines

4 News Clippings and Photocopies

5 Friend Memorials

6 Memorials and Obituaries

Subseries IV-D: Robert Giroux


66 1 Essays, Signed by Robert Giroux


3 Promotional Material, Signed by Robert Giroux

4 Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Catalog, September 1996 to

February 1997

5 America Magazine, May 9, 1998

6 Thomas Merton

7 Memorial for Robert Giroux by Patrick Samway

Subseries IV-E: Andre Dubus


67 1 Essays, Two Signed by Andre Dubus, One Not Signed

2 Death and Funeral

3 2001 Andre Dubus Conference

4 Dubus Bibliography in French

5 Catalogs


Subseries IV-F: Other Authors and Subjects


68 1 Andrew Greeley

2 Ann Trousdale

3 Caroline Gordon

4 Clement McNaspy

5 Flannery O’Connor

6 Garic Barrenger

7 Garic Barrenger

8 Garic Barrenger

9 Gregory F. Augustine Pierce

10 Haiti

11 Jack Cay

12 John and Lafon Laurence

13 John F. Desmond

14 John Hadd


69 1 John Hadd

2 John Hadd

3 John Kennedy Toole

4 Lyn Hill Hayward

5 Mary Lee Settle

6 Michel Gresset

7 A Modern Southern Reader

8 Natchez Literary Festival

9 North Carolina

10 Reynolds Price

11 Robert Coles

12 Robert Coles


70 1 Robert Miss

2

3

Roy Fox

Samway, miscellaneous

4 Shelby Foote

5 SSSL Conference

6 Stories of the Modern South / Stories of the Old South

7 Sudan

8 Sudan

71 1 Tennessee Williams Festival

2 Thomas Merton

3 Thomas Moore

Subseries IV-G: Oversized


72 1 Dexter Morrill

2 Flannery O’Connor

3 Mary Lee Settle

4 Mississippi Writers

5 Reynolds Price

6 Walker Percy

7 William Faulkner


73 1 William Faulkner

2 William Faulkner

3 William Faulkner

4 William Faulkner

Series V: Photographs

Subseries V-A: Walker Percy


74 1 Album

2 Album

3 Negatives

4 Album

5 Album

6 Album


75 1 Album

2 Album

3 Walker Percy and Andre Dubus

4 Walker Percy and Andre Dubus

5 Funeral

Subseries V-B: Patrick Samway


76 1 Undated

2 Undated

3 Undated

4 Undated

5 Undated


77 1 Undated

2 March 1975

3 Christmas 1975 / August 1976

4 198X

5 198X

6 August 1981

7 August 1981

8 February 1983

9 July 1983

10 July 1983

11 1983 / 1984

12 March 1985

13 November 1985

14 1987

15 Thanksgiving and Christmas 1987

16 September 1987

17 February 1990

18 September 1997

19 Andre Dubus Conference March 30 – April 1, 2001

20 2005

Subseries V-C: Nigeria, Chad, and Sudan


78 1 Nigeria 1991, Negatives

2 Chad 2004 – 2005

3 Chad 2004 – 2005, Negatives

4 Sudan 2004 – 2005

5 Sudan 2004 – 2005

6 Sudan 2004 – 2005

Subseries V-D: Haiti


79 1 Carice 2001

2 Student Groups 1

3 Student Groups 2

4 College St. Ignace in Croix-des-Bouquets

5 Hospital Run by Mother Theresa’s Nuns

6 Miscellaneous

7 Haitian Jesuits

8 Port-au-Prince Before Earthquake

9 Pwoje Espwa

10 Undeveloped 35mm film

11 Undeveloped 35mm film

12 Negatives

Subseries V-E: William Faulkner


80 1 Miscellaneous

2 Miscellaneous

3 Gravestones

Subseries V-F: Other Authors and Subjects


81 1 Blotner, Joe

2 Carter, Jimmy

3 Dubus, Andre

4 Dubus, Andre

5 Dubus, Andre

6 Giroux, Robert

7 Gordon, Caroline

8 Knowles, John

9 Koch, Ed

10 Southern Historical Collection, UNC at Chapel Hill

11 Spencer, Elizabeth

12 Welty, Eudora

13 Williams, Joan

14 Film Stills (Bragan, John F.)

Series VI: Audiocassette Recordings


82 Walker Percy, 51 tapes


83 Percy Family, 51 tapes


84 Percy Friends and Acquaintances, 68 tapes





88 Lectures and Research Notes on Walker Percy, 68 tapes


89 Others Subjects, 18 tapes

Series VII: Other Audiovisual Material Box Description

90

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91

Box

92

Box

93

Box

94

Box

Interviews with authors or programs about authors such

as Shelby Foote, Eudora Welty, and James Agee,

Andre Dubus; 9 VHS, 1 DVD.

Video of Jefferson Lecture by Walker Percy, other

recordings about Percy or featuring Percy; 10

VHS.

Books on Tape from authors such as Andre Dubus,

Eudora Welty, John Kennedy Toole. Two copies

of In the Bedroom, a major motion picture based

on a story by Andre Dubus; 13 recorded books, 2

DVD.

Theses on Walker Percy (18 microfilm reels); one ¼ inch

audio reel of 1964 talk by Walker Percy

Four ¼ inch audio reels, contents unknown

95 Walker Percy biography (35 3.5 inch floppy disks)

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