CASSITY, TURNER.
Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009

Restrictions on Access

Access to born digital materials is available in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (the Rose Library) and online at the Turner Cassity Born-Digital Collection website. Use of the original digital media is restricted.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Letters written by Turner Cassity may not be quoted, excerpted or reproduced in full in any publication in any form.

Researchers are not permitted to copy or download any digital files from the computer workstation.

Additional Physical Form

Copies of processed born digital files are available online via the Turner Cassity Born-Digital Collection website.

Source

Gift of Turner Cassity, 1989. Additional materials donated by Turner Cassity, Robert Barth, and Richard Cruce in 1991. A final addition to the collection was purchased from Robert Barth in 1992.

Custodial History

Turner Cassity donated his original manuscript and finished work to the Rose Library. Later, materials were added to the collection by Turner Cassity, his friend Richard Cruce, and Emory professor, Robert Barth, who published a bibliography of Cassity's works.

Citation

[after identification of item(s)], Turner Cassity papers, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.

Appraisal Note

Linda Mathews and Ginger Cain, Directors of the Rose Library, acquired this collection and its additions for the Rose Library's holdings in Literature and Poetry.

Processing

Processed by Susan Potts McDonald, June 2005.

Born digital materials processed by Dorothy Waugh, March 2014. The born digital materials currently available to researchers are taken from Turner Cassity’s computer, a Compaq Presario SR1222NX. A logical image of Cassity’s files was created using FTK Imager imaging software. A master copy of this image was ingested into a Fedora instance at Emory University for long-term preservation. Individual files were extracted from the disk image using FTK Imager and were scanned for viruses using McAfee’s anti-virus software. Following this, the extracted files—which consisted primarily of Microsoft Works files—were migrated to PDF using File Conversion Wizard for Word and Excel and Adobe Acrobat Pro. Files are stored alphabetically by file name in a single directory.

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Biographical Note

Turner Cassity (1929-2009), poet and librarian at Emory University, was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and graduated from Millsaps College.

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of papers of Turner Cassity from 1948-2009. The papers include materials relating to his years at Millsaps College (1948-1951), including photocopies of poems and articles published by the student newspaper; correspondence mainly pertaining to the writing, publishing, and reading of his poetry (ca. 1972-1989); and typescripts of an unpublished autobiography (1988) and of several of his published works. The collection also includes collected poetry of others, photographs, clippings, and miscellaneous printed materials by and about Cassity. Born digital materials date from 2004 to 2009 and largely include drafts of poems and correspondence.

Arrangement Note

Arranged by record type.