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Subseries 2.2
Robert Penn Warren research and
writings
Boxes 13 - 28, 93
Scope and Content Note
The subseries contains material relating to Robert Penn Warren Talking, Then and Now, and other writings by Floyd Watkins on Robert Penn Warren. Included here are edited versions of the interviews that went to make up Robert Penn Warren Talking, and typescripts from Then and Now (some of these typescripts include annotations in Warren's hand). Page proofs for Then and Now and a manuscript copy of You, Wanderer, Back: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren are also located in this subseries. Some of these folders contain letters by Warren to Floyd Watkins commenting on these books.
The correspondence contains a large number of letters between Floyd Watkins and Robert Penn Warren. Most of these letters date from 1976 to 1988. In addition there are letters here to and from other individuals regarding Floyd Watkins' research on Warren. Correspondents include: Brainard Cheney, John Hiers, Hiromi Itofugi, Andrew Lytle, Caroline Gordon, and others. Floyd Watkins' own correspondence with Random House is also located in this subseries. Also present here are a large number of Warren's letters that Floyd Watkins photocopied from the collections of other libraries around the country. This correspondence is much earlier, some dating from the twenties and thirties.
The subseries contains a variety of printed material about Robert Penn Warren that Floyd Watkins collected over the years. Also included here are several articles and poems by Robert Penn Warren. An assortment of clippings about Warren are found at the end of the subseries.
The subject files include a large number of Floyd Watkins' working notes (including notes from interviews he conducted and notes from his reading of Warren materials at other libraries). Also present here are a variety of different types of source material for Floyd Watkins' writings on Warren. Most of this material dates from the late 1970's.
The audiovisual material includes one photograph of Warren and John Crowe Ransom, one videocassette on Warren, and a number of sound recordings (reel to reel and cassette). The sound recordings include interviews with Warren and with Richard Bourne and Brainard Cheney.
Arrangement Note
Organized into (1) Writings by Floyd Watkins, (2) Correspondence, (3) Printed material, (4) Subject files, and (5) Audiovisual material.
| Robert Penn Warren Talking | ||
| Box | Folder | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1 | Introduction: notes and drafts |
| 13 | 2 | Chapter headings: notes and drafts |
| Interviews for Book | ||
| 13 | 3 | Self-interview: transcript from New York Herald Tribune Book Review, October 11, 1953 |
| 13 | 4 | Fugitive's Reunion |
| 13 | 5 | Paris Review |
| 13 | 6 | Vanderbilt Literary Symposium |
| 13 | 7 | Union College |
| 13 | 8 | Union College, "How a Poet Works" |
| 13 | 9 | Southern Historical Association Panel Discussion |
| 13 | 10 | Sale, Robert |
| 13 | 11 | Fisher, Ruth |
| 13 | 12 | Newman, Edwin |
| 13 | 13 | Walker, Marshall |
| 13 | 14 | Moyers, Bill |
| 13 | 15 | DeMott, Benjamin |
| 13 | 16 | Stitt, Peter |
| 13 | 17 | Baker, John: transcript with Warren's holograph annotations |
| 13 | 18 | Baker, John: transcript with Warren's holograph annotations and TNS from Warren |
| 13 | 19 | Cavett, Dick |
| Manuscripts | ||
| 14 | 1 | Title Page, A Note on the Text, Contents, and Chapters 1 and 2: typescript |
| 14 | 2 | Chapter 3: typescript |
| 14 | 3 | Chapter 4: typescript |
| 14 | 4 | Chapter 5: typescript |
| 14 | 5 | Chapter 6: typescript |
| 14 | 6 | Chapter 7: typescript |
| 14 | 7 | Chapter 8: typescript |
| 14 | 8 | Chapter 9: typescript |
| 14 | 9 | Chapter 10: typescript |
| 14 | 10 | Chapter 11: typescript |
| 14 | 11 | Chapter 11: typescript |
| 14 | 12 | Chapter 12: typescript |
| 14 | 13 | Chapter 13: typescript |
| 14 | 14 | Chapter 14: typescript |
| 14 | 15 | Chapter 16: typescript |
| 14 | 16 | Chapter 18: typescript |
| 14 | 17 | Notes: typescript |
| 14 | 18 | Introduction and Chapter 1 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 19 | Chapter 3 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 20 | Chapter 4 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 21 | Chapter 5 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 22 | Chapter 6 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 23 | Chapter 7 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 24 | Chapter 8 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 25 | Chapter 9 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 26 | Chapter 10 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 27 | Chapter 11 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 28 | Chapter 12 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 29 | Chapter 13 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 30 | Chapter 14 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 31 | Chapter 17 (photocopy) |
| 14 | 32 | Notes (photocopy) |
| 15 | 1 | Typescript (photocopy) |
| 16 | 1 | Page proofs with annotations |
| 16 | 2 | Uncorrected page proofs |
| 16 | 3 | Uncorrected page proofs |
| 17 | 1 | Corrected typescript (photocopy) |
| 17 | 2 | Setting copy |
| 17 | 3 | Index: page proofs |
| 18 | 1 | Corrected page proofs |
| 18 | 2 | Corrected page proofs |
| 82 | 1 | Final page proofs |
| 82 | 2 | Blue line unbound folded signatures |
| 93 | 1 | You, Wanderer, Back: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren, undated [1 of 2] |
| 93 | 2 | You, Wanderer, Back: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren, undated [2 of 2] |
| Talking with Robert Penn Warren | ||
| 19 | 1 | Original edited manuscript, set copy |
| 19 | 2 | Original edited manuscript, copy for chapter openings: Titles and headnotes |
| 19 | 3 | Original edited manuscript, pages 1-54 |
| 19 | 4 | Original edited manuscript, pages 55-104 |
| 19 | 5 | Original edited manuscript, pages 105-134 |
| 19 | 6 | Original edited manuscript, index |
| 19 | 7 | Newsletter [1989, February?] |
| 19 | 8 | Notes |
| Then and Now | ||
| 19 | 9 | Front Matter (includes a carbon of RPW's "Evening Hour" with annotations in Warren's hand) |
| 19 | 10 | Typescript with corrections and additions, pp. 1-50 |
| 19 | 11 | Typescript with corrections and additions, pp. 51-100 |
| 19 | 12 | Typescript with corrections and additions, pp. 101-150 |
| 19 | 13 | Typescript with corrections and additions, pp. 151-200 |
| 19 | 14 | Typescript with corrections and additions, pp. 201-250 |
| 19 | 15 | Typescript with corrections and additions, pp. 251-281 |
| 19 | 16 | Notes and miscellaneous pages: typescript with corrections |
| 19 | 17 | Notes re changes to text |
| 20 | 1 | Chap. 1, "Poetry: Background, Creation, Criticism": typescript with holograph comments by Warren. Also TLS from Warren to Watkins, 14 September 1979 |
| 20 | 2 | Chap. 2, "The Penns, the Warrens, and the Boy": typescript with holograph comments by Warren |
| 20 | 3 | Chap. 3, "Poems about Childhood -- Guthrie and Cerulean Springs": typescript with holograph comments by Warren. Also TLS from FCW to Warren 1 February 1980 and ALS from Warren to FCW 6 February 1980 |
| 20 | 4 | Chap. 4, "Now and Then: Father, Mother, Friend, Self": typescript with holograph comments by Warren. Also TLS from Warren to FCW 1 August 1980 |
| 20 | 5 | Transcript of Watkins' interview with Warren, 29 January 1979 (photocopy) |
| 20 | 6 | Transcript of Watkins' interview with Warren, 29 January 1979 |
| 20 | 7 | Transcript of Watkins' interview with Warren, 29 January 1979, with Warren's holograph comments. Also ALS from Warren to Watkins, 10 April [1979] |
| 20 | 8 | Transcript of Watkins' interview with Warren, with Warren's holograph comments |
| 20 | 9 | Transcript of Watkins' interview with Warren, with corrections. Also ALS from Warren to FCW, 10 April n.d. (photocopy) |
| 20 | 10 | "Robert Penn Warren on Brother to Dragons: An Interview: typescript with Warren's holograph comments |
| 20 | 11 | "A Dialogue with Robert Penn Warren on Brother to Dragons," early typescript with Watkins' corrections |
| 20 | 12 | "A Dialogue with Robert Penn Warren on Brother to Dragons," second draft (incorporating Warren's suggestions) |
| 20 | 13 | "A Dialogue with Robert Penn Warren on Brother to Dragons," typescript |
| 20 | 14 | "The Body of This Death' in Robert Penn Warren's Late Poems," (published in Kenyon Review) corrected typescript and related correspondence |
| 20 | 15 | "Kent Greenfield, Luke Goodwood, " corrected typescript |
| 20 | 16 | "Robert Penn Warren: No Place Like Home, " corrected typescript, reading copy, and related correspondence (delivered at Austin Peay, 1987) |
| 20 | 17 | "Robert Penn Warren: Writer and Historian," lecture, Georgia Southern College (includes correspondence, drafts, and invitation) |
| 20 | 18 | "Recollections of Robert Penn Warren," typescript, 9 p. (photocopy), South Atlanta Modern Language Association, November 1990 (includes photocopy of program cover and of session description) |
| 20 | 19 | A National Poet," The Mississippi Quarterly, 37:2 (Spring 1984; offprint) |
| Correspondence | ||
| 21 | 1 | Cheney, Brainard, 1977 |
| 21 | 2 | Erskine, Albert, TL (photocopy), 1982 |
| 21 | 3 | Hiers, John, 1976, 1978, 1986-1989 (see also Weaks, Mary) |
| 21 | 4 | Itofugi, Hiromi, 1982-1984. Also photocopies of Itofugi/Warren correspondence |
| 21 | 5 | Lytle, Andrew, 1977 |
| 21 | 6 | Random House, 1978 |
| 21 | 7 | Random House, 1979-1980 [includes letters of permission to publish and/or reprint interviews] |
| 21 | 8 | Random House, 1986 |
| 21 | 9 | Srinivason, Seetha (University Press of Mississippi), 1986-1988 |
| 21 | 10 | Taylor, Hugh, 1979 |
| 21 | 11 | University of Georgia Press, 1988-1990 |
| 21 | 12 | University Press of Kentucky, 1976-1980 |
| 21 | 13 | University Press of Kentucky, 1981 |
| 21 | 14 | University Press of Kentucky, 1982 |
| 21 | 15 | Warren, Robert Penn, 1954, 1976-1977 |
| 21 | 16 | Warren, Robert Penn, 1978 |
| 21 | 17 | Warren, Robert Penn, 1979 |
| 21 | 18 | Warren, Robert Penn, 1980-1981 |
| 83 | 1 | Warren, Robert Penn, 1982 |
| 83 | 2 | Warren, Robert Penn, 1983 |
| 83 | 3 | Warren, Robert Penn, 1984 |
| 83 | 4 | Warren, Robert Penn, 1985 |
| 83 | 5 | Warren, Robert Penn, 1986 |
| 83 | 6 | Warren, Robert Penn, 1987-1988 |
| 83 | 7 | Weaks, Mary, 1984-1990 |
| 83 | 8 | Weaks, Mary and John Hiers, 1987-1989 |
| 83 | 9 | Young, T.D., 1976, 1982 |
| 22 | 1 | Watkins, Floyd, permission to publish and fees listing, 1990 |
| 22 | 2 | Watkins, Floyd, proposed Emory visit by Warren |
| 22 | 3 | Watkins, Floyd, re article on Brother to Dragons, 1979 |
| 22 | 4 | Watkins, Floyd, re Then and Now, miscellaneous correspondence, 1978, 1981, 1982 |
| 22 | 5 | Warren, Robert Penn, autographs, 1984-1986. Also ALS by Warren to [?] Williams, autographed poems |
| 22 | 6 | Warren, Robert Penn, publications, 1982-1984 |
| 22 | 7 | Warren, Robert Penn, research, 1976-1978, 1980-1982, 1987 |
| Correspondence photocopied from other libraries' collections: Identified sources | ||
| 22 | 8 | Kenyon College: miscellaneous Warren correspondence |
| 22 | 9 | Vanderbilt University: Robert Penn Warren to Allen Tate and Andrew Lytle |
| 22 | 10 | Vanderbilt University: unidentified Warren correspondence |
| Correspondence photocopied from other libraries' collections: Unidentified sources | ||
| 22 | 11 | [Brainard Cheney] to Andrew Lytle, Warren, others |
| 22 | 12 | [Brainard Cheney] to Warren, 1951-1970 |
| 22 | 13 | Donald Davidson to Andrew Lytle, Arthur Mizener, 1926, 1955 |
| 22 | 14 | Andrew Lytle to Don [?], 1930 [photocopy] |
| 22 | 15 | Allen Tate to Andrew Lytle, Warren, and others, 1920's and 1930's [see also Box 28, Item 6 for correspondence between Tate and Warren from papers at Princeton University] |
| 23 | 1 | Robert Penn Warren to [Richard Beatty], 1943 |
| 23 | 2 | Robert Penn Warren to [Brainard Cheney] |
| 23 | 3 | Robert Penn Warren to [Brainard Cheney], 1942-1970 |
| 23 | 4 | Robert Penn Warren to Donald Davidson, 1923-1962 |
| 23 | 5 | Robert Penn Warren to Andrew Lytle, Allen Tate, and others, 1920's, 1940's, and 1950's |
| 23 | 6 | Miscellaneous correspondence |
| Printed material | ||
| 24 | 1 | Apple, R. W., "Robert Penn Warren Named Nation's First Poet Laureate," New York Times, 27 February 1986 |
| 24 | 2 | DeVries, Hilary, "Robert Penn Warren: Still a Yearner, Still a Wanderer," Christian Science Monitor, 4 March 1982 |
| 24 | 3 | Fugitive Reunion Poetry Readings, 1956: invitation and program |
| 24 | 4 | Kentucky Poetry Review, Fall 1978 (includes a quotation from Warren) |
| 24 | 5 | Little, Geraldine C. "Is Celebrity Good for Poets?" AWP Newsletter, October 1984 (response by Warren) |
| 24 | 6 | Longley, John L., Robert Penn Warren, Southern Writers Series, no. 2, Steck-Vaughn Co., 1969 |
| 24 | 7 | Oney, Steve, "A Southern Voice," Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine, 16 September 1979 |
| 24 | 8 | O'Sheel, Patrick, "Companion to Owls," Humanities, February 1974 |
| 24 | 9 | Robert Penn Warren Oral History Project, University of Kentucky, and related correspondence |
| 24 | 10 | Rosenbloom, Joseph, "Robert Penn Warren at 72," Boston Globe, 17 April 1977 |
| 24 | 11 | Southern Review, A Commemoration, 1980 (contribution by Warren) |
| 24 | 12 | Swan, Annalyn, "America's Dean of Letters," Newsweek, 25 August 1980 |
| 24 | 13 | Warren, Robert Penn, "American Portrait: Old Style," New Yorker, n.d. (photocopy with notes by FCW) |
| 24 | 14 | Warren, Robert Penn, "Mightier than the Sword," Yale Political, Autumn 1963 |
| 24 | 15 | Warren, Robert Penn, "Portrait of a Father," Southern Review, Winter 1987 |
| 24 | 16 | Warren, Robert Penn, "Prophecy": broadside |
| 24 | 17 | Yost, Barbara, "Robert Penn Warren: Linking Past and Future," Phoenix Gazette, 17 April 1980 (photocopy) |
| 24 | 18 | Clippings re Robert Penn Warren, 1941, 1985 |
| 24 | 19 | Clippings re Robert Penn Warren (from LSU) (photocopies) |
| 24 | 20 | Clippings re Robert Penn Warren at Vanderbilt, 1984 (photocopies) |
| 24 | 21 | Clippings re Robert Penn Warren birthplace and related correspondence |
| 24 | 22 | Clipping: photograph of RPW's Segregation with hat of late M.L. King, Sr. |
| Subject files | ||
| 25 | 1 | Austin Peay State University, Robert Penn Warren Conference, 1987 |
| 25 | 2 | "Ballad of Mister Dutcher," lynching |
| 25 | 3 | Beinecke Library: notes from visit |
| 25 | 4 | Bourne, Richard: interview notes |
| 25 | 5 | Brooks, Cleanth: interview notes |
| 25 | 6 | Carneal, Sarah: interview notes |
| 25 | 7 | Cerulean |
| 25 | 8 | Cerulean Springs |
| 25 | 9 | Cheney, Brainard: interview notes |
| 25 | 10 | Cheney, Brainard: notes |
| 25 | 11 | Clarksville, Tennessee: Robert Penn Warren Symposium, 1987 |
| 25 | 12 | Claypool, J. R.: notes |
| 25 | 13 | "Comment on 'The Return: An Elegy'": typescript with holograph revisions by Warren, 3 p. |
| 25 | 14 | "The Day Dr. Knox Did It": source material |
| 25 | 15 | Dun and Bradstreet Report on Guthrie and Cerulean, Kentucky |
| 25 | 16 | Genealogy, Warren Family |
| 25 | 17 | Genealogy, Warren Family |
| 25 | 18 | Genealogy, Warren Family |
| 25 | 19 | Genealogy, Warren Family |
| 25 | 20 | Greenfield, Kent: notes |
| 25 | 21 | Guthrie, Kentucky |
| 25 | 22 | Guthrie, Kentucky |
| 25 | 23 | Guthrie, Kentucky |
| 25 | 24 | Guthrie, Kentucky: interviews |
| 25 | 25 | Guthrie, Kentucky: interviews |
| 25 | 26 | Guthrie, Kentucky: notes |
| 25 | 27 | Guthrie Grade School: list of students, grades 1 and 2, 1912-1913 |
| 25 | 28 | Hooser, Evelyn: notes |
| 25 | 29 | Jay B. Hubbell Award (includes Warren's acceptance statement) |
| 25 | 30 | Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back: FCW's reader report for the University of Kentucky Press |
| 25 | 31 | Kentucky, Warren's use of |
| 26 | 1 | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| 26 | 2 | Newman Interview (photocopy) |
| 26 | 3 | Penn, Gabriel Thomas: death certificate (photocopy) |
| 26 | 4 | Permissions (granting FCW access to papers) |
| 26 | 5 | Porter, Katherine Anne and William Styron: notes |
| 26 | 6 | Puzzles (FCW's research problems) |
| 26 | 7 | Quisenberry Suicide |
| 26 | 8 | Ring, Charlene: interview notes and related correspondence |
| 26 | 9 | Robert Penn Warren Talking, notes |
| 26 | 10 | Robert Penn Warren Talking reviews and promotional material |
| 26 | 11 | Robert Penn Warren Talking, reader's report on proposed new edition |
| 26 | 12 | Robert Penn Warren Talking, royalty statements |
| 26 | 13 | So Clear, of Victory: notes |
| 26 | 14 | Tate, Allen, notes |
| 26 | 15 | Tate, Allen, notes on letters at Yale |
| 26 | 16 | Then and Now: reviews |
| 26 | 17 | Then and Now: source material |
| 26 | 18 | Todd County, Kentucky |
| 26 | 19 | University of Kentucky, description of Warren material |
| 26 | 20 | University of Kentucky, notes on Warren material |
| 26 | 21 | University of Kentucky, notes on Warren material |
| 26 | 22 | Warren Birthplace, Guthrie, Kentucky |
| 26 | 23 | Warren, Robert F. |
| 26 | 24 | Warren, Robert F.: source material |
| 26 | 25 | Warren, Robert Penn: MCA International Bibliography 1967-1985 by Dialog Information Services, Inc. |
| 26 | 26 | Warren, Robert Penn: notes |
| 26 | 27 | Warren, Thomas: notes |
| 26 | 28 | Warren, Thomas: notes |
| 26 | 29 | Watkins, Floyd: outline for book on Warren |
| 26 | 30 | Weakes, Mary Louise |
| Audiocassette sound recording of Robert Penn Warren question and answer session at Austin Peay State University, 1984 | ||
| 26 | 31 | Transcription of Robert Penn Warren question and answer session at Austin Peay State University, 1984 |
| Audiovisual material-Photograph | ||
| 27 | 1 | Robert Penn Warren and John Crowe Ransom |
| Audiovisual material-Sound recordings | ||
| 27 | 1 | Dick Cavett interviewing Warren |
| 27 | 2 | FCW interviewing Brainard Cheney |
| 27 | 3 | FCW interviewing Brainard Cheney (3 cassette tapes) |
| 27 | 4 | FCW interviewing Richard Bourne |
| 27 | 5 | FCW interviewing Richard Bourne (2 cassette tapes) |
| 28 | 1 | Brother to Dragons and short poems (2 cassette tapes) |
| 28 | 2 | Brother to Dragons and short poems, parts 1, 2, 3, and part of 4 |
| 28 | 3 | Brother to Dragons and short poems, short poems (3 cassette tapes) |
| 28 | 4 | Brother to Dragons and short poems, short poems (remainder of 4 and 5) |
| Audiovisual material-Video recording | ||
| AV1 | - | The Dick Cavett Show: Robert Penn Warren, parts 1 and 2, WNET, 1978 [original: Umatic] |
| Microfilm | ||
| 28 | 6 | Robert Penn Warren/Allen Tate correspondence [from Allen Tate papers in the Princeton University Library] |
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