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James Ellroy archive
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-1999-1
Scope and Contents
The James Ellroy Archive at the University of South Carolina contains manuscripts, typescripts, drafts, notes, and research material for most of Ellroy's works. These items show the steps, from initial story outline to publication, that were taken to bring his writing to life: the author uses extensive longhand in writing out his ideas. Many of the manuscripts contain handwritten corrections made during the revision process. The largest sections of material are for his novels ...
Dates:
1915 -
James W. Jackson, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2000-4
Scope and Contents
The materials here come from the personal files of James W. Jackson, Jr., (1924-1990) and span the course of his working life from 1947 to 1990. Bright, charming, ambitious, entrepreneurial, and well-organized, he worked mainly in or around colleges and universities. Many of his earlier positions were in the development or alumni offices. He was also, briefly, a sportswriter and broadcaster. More importantly, Jackson was a producer of two television series aired by the Public...
Dates:
1947-1990
Jean Redpath archive
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2017-4
Scope and Contents
Jean Redpath (1937-2014) was considered by many to be the preeminent interpreter and performer of Scottish folk music. Born to musical parents in Edinburgh in 1937, Redpath was exposed to traditional Scottish music from an early age. While attending the University of Edinburgh, she met Hamish Henderson, whose recordings of traditional Scots music helped provide inspiration for Redpath to pursue a musical career.
She arrived in San Francisco in 1961 and quickly earned a reputation as a...
Dates:
1906-2015
Jesse Stuart papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2018-4
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of manuscripts, journal articles both about and written by Stuart, some Christmas cards sent by the Stuarts, correspondence with a Lucille Palmer, photos of Jesse Stuart and contemporary Eve Blair, and a great deal of newspaper clippings about Stuart, his family, and his farm. The newspaper clippings are somewhat fragile, being aged and roughly handled. There are also pamphlets from some events his foundation put on, and order forms with lists of his books that...
Dates:
1936-1989
Jim Blanton AIDS collection
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2007-7
Scope and Contents
James Blanton was a co-founder (1990) of the South Carolina Gay and Lesbian Pride Movement (SCGLPM) and a longstanding member of its steering committee. In the late 1990s and 2000s, he was a Producer of Rainbow Radio, South Carolina’s first GLBT radio show, and occasional co-host.This group of materials collected by Blanton is part of the Department’s “AIDS and its Impact” Collection. It is organized into three main parts: clippings, ephemera, and offprints about HIV/AIDS...
Dates:
1985 - 1994
Joel Myerson collection of nineteenth century American manuscripts and iconography
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2016-2
Scope and Contents
Professor Joel Myerson, former chair of the English Department at the University of South Carolina, is one of the leading scholars in the area of nineteenth-century American literature, particularly in the area of Transcendentalism. He has spent the past 30 years building this collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists, along with its accompanying Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), was a significant figure...
Dates:
1787-1931; Majority of material found within 1820-1890
John Jakes papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2001-4
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of Notes and correspondence for the American Bicentennial Series (Kent Family Chronicles), California Gold, Homeland, On Secret Service, Savannah, Charleston ; pre-publication states of Homeland, In the Big Country, American Dreams, and On Secret Service, Charleston, Savannah, The gods of Newport ; screenplays and audio abridgements ; General Correspondence ; and Miscellaneous materials.
Dates:
1963 -
John Manners Iggulden papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2001-6
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of manuscripts of fiction, non-fiction, including autobiographical writings, poetry, and essays, correspondence, and transcripts of speeches.
Dates:
1983 - 2001
Joseph Heller papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-1997-2
Scope and Contents
The Joseph Heller Papers at the University of South Carolina is a comprehensive collection of notes, manuscripts and working drafts made by Heller for all of his books, beginning with his second novel, Something Happened. Also included in this collection are earlier materials relating to the dramatization of Catch-22, his play We Bombed in New Haven, and several unproduced screenplays co-written with his childhood friend, novelist George Mandel. Background biographical material for Heller’s...
Dates:
1947 - 2017
Joyce Morrow Pair collection of James Dickey
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2008-3
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises the files of the founding editor of the James Dickey Newsletter. It contains editorial files for each issue from Volume 1 (1984) through Volume 17 (2001). These records contain article submissions and revisions, editorial correspondence, and printing, advertising, indexing and subscription records. There is an extensive correspondence series divided into two parts: named correspondent files, many of whom are members of the newsletter’s editorial board, and a general...
Dates:
1984 - 2007
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