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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar Guides to Manuscript Collections Search Our Collections 1974 0113: Jesse Stuart Papers, 1929-1986 Marshall University Special Collections Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/sc_finding_aids Part of the Appalachian Studies Commons, Fiction Commons, Nonfiction Commons, and the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Jesse Stuart Papers, 1929-1986, Accession No. 1974/11.0113, Special Collections Department, Marshall University, Huntington, WV. This Finding Aid is brought to you for free and open access by the Search Our Collections at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Guides to Manuscript Collections by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. ii REGISTER OF THE Jesse Stuart Papers, 1929-1986 Accession Number: 1974/11.0113 Special Collections Department James E. Morrow Library Marshall University Huntington, West Virginia 1986 ii James E. Morrow Library Marshall University JESSE STUART PAPERS, 1929-1986 Accession Number: 113 Processed by: Cora P. Teel Date Completed: March 1977; revised, 1986 Location: Special Collections Department NOTE TO USERS OF THIS COLLECTION: This collection was processed in two parts: accession 113 and accession 113A, both of which are described in this document. Each part has a cover page noting which accession will be described in the following pages. Please be sure to note which accession (113 or 113A) you are calling materials from. The major portion of the collection was the gift of Mr. Stuart, received on various dates in 1975 and 1976. Part of the collection was purchased from International Bookfinders, Inc., in 1975. Linear feet of shelf space: 13 Literary rights: Not assigned to Marshall University iii CONTENTS of ACCESSION 113 Page Content and Scope of the Collection 1 Biography 2 Inventory of the Collection I. International Bookfinders, Inc. 3 II. Jesse Stuart Gift 4 III. Appendix 21 Explanatory Notes: “Bx” refers to box in which papers are filed. “Fbx” refers to folio box. “Fd” refers to folder. “Bk” refers to book. NOTE TO USERS OF THIS COLLECTION: This collection was processed in two parts: accession 113 and accession 113A, both of which are described in this document. Each part has a cover page noting which accession will be described in the following pages. Please be sure to note which accession (113 or 113A) you are calling materials from. CONTENT AND SCOPE OF THE COLLECTION The Jesse Stuart Collection consists primarily of magazines given by Mr. Stuart which contain articles, stories, or poems written by him or about him. Approximately half of these items are in the original publication; the others are photoreproductions of originals lent by Mr. Stuart. Another significant part of the collection was purchased from International Bookfinders, Inc., of Pacific Palisades, California, and includes first editions of Mr. Stuart’s works, galley proofs, and some manuscript material. A third group of material is comprised of articles, stories, or poems written by or concerning Mr. Stuart which have been located and added to the collection by the library staff, by interested persons, or by Mr. Stuart himself, since 1976. This added material is inventoried separately. 2 JESSE HILTON STUART, 1906-1984 Jesse Stuart was born on August 8, 1906, in W-Hollow, near Riverton, Kentucky, the son of Mitchell and Martha Hilton Stuart. After graduation from local schools, he attended Lincoln Memorial University, graduating in 1929, and went on to attend graduate school at Vanderbilt University and Peabody College. He taught school in Greenup County, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, Ohio, and served as superintendent of Greenup County schools from 1932 until 1934. In 1934, his first major book of verse, Man with a Bull-Tongued Plow, appeared, and he received the Jeannette Sewal Davis poetry prize. In 1937, the award of a Guggenheim fellowship allowed him to travel abroad. During World War II he served in the United States Naval Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant (junior grade). He resumed his travels abroad by accepting the position of visiting professor of English and education at the American University, Cairo, Egypt, during 1960 and 1961; in 1962 and 1963 he served as an American specialist abroad for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the State Department. He also traveled in the Middle and Far East as a lecturer for the United States Information Service. He was the recipient of many awards, among them the Academy of Arts and Sciences award, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial award, the Berea College Centennial award for literature, the Academy of American Poets award, several honorary degrees, and a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1939, he married Naomi Deane Norris; their daughter, Jessica Jane Stuart (Mrs. Julian Juergensmeyer), is also an accomplished author and poet. Prior to his death on February 17, 1984, Jesse Stuart had been seriously ill and bedfast for four years, following a long history of hear attacks and a massive stroke. He was buried in the Plum Grove cemetery near his home in W-Hollow. 3 JESSE STUART PAPERS, 1929-1986 I. International Bookfinders, Inc. The significant portion of this material is the collection of first editions, galley proofs, and other items by Jesse Stuart located in a special cabinet in the Special Collections Department of the James E. Morrow Library. A list of these items appears in the appendix. Bx 1 International Bookfinders Correspondence 8 Fd Fd 1 Jesse Stuart, letter sent to Henry Shattuck, 12 July 1942 1 item Fd 2 Jesse Stuart, letters sent to Richard Mohr, April-June 1973 8 items April 7, 1973 - expresses interest in Mohr’s attempt to collect first editions of his books and pledges his help in securing copies. “I don’t understand it. I really don’t — how and why my old book...are so sought after...I’m not interested in my old books. I’m interested in my new...” Fd 3 Virgil L. Sturgill, list, 1973 1 item List of Stuart books owned by Mr. Sturgill, annotated. Fd 4 Sturgill, Virgil Leon. The Genius of W-Hollow. 1 item Fd 5 Three Poems by Jesse Stuart. Louisville, Downe Publishing Company, 1970. Edition limited to 500. 4 items Fd 6 Press release, McGraw-Hill Book Company, undated. 1 item Fd 7 Newspaper clipping accompanying letter dated 26 May 1973 1 item (See Box 1, Fd 2) Fd 8 Photograph of Jesse Stuart and Virgil Sturgill 1 item 4 Bx 2 International Bookfinders Secondary Material 15 Fd Fd 1-2 AMERICAN BOOK COLLECTOR Bibliographic references to these issues are found in the Hensley Woodbridge bibliography (see box 2, fd 14-15) Fd 3-12 JACK LONDON NEWSLETTER (Volume 5, number 1 to Volume 8, number 1) Fd 13 TRACKS, vol. 40, no. 8 (August 1955) 1 item Fd 14 Woodbridge, Hensley. “Jesse and Jane Stuart: A Bibliography,” JACK LONDON NEWSLETTER 10 items Fd 15 Woodbridge, Hensley. Jesse and Jane Stuart: A Bibliography. Murray, Kentucky: Murray State University, 1969. These last two items serve as a guide to boxes 4 through 29 and Folio boxes 1 through 4, which contain material given to the James E. Morrow Library by Jesse Stuart. Each article, poem, or story is designated, as well as the box and folder location of each piece. II. Jesse Stuart Gift Bx 3 Miscellaneous Papers 12 fd Fd 1 Map of Greenup, Kentucky 1 item Fd 2 Program, Northern Kentucky Education Association, September, 1975. 1 item Fd 3 Program, “The Path of Poets,” Jefferson Community College, [1967?] 2 items Fd 4 Program, Tennessee Education Association, 1967 1 item Fd 5 Program, unveiling of the portrait of Jesse Stuart, 13 July 1969, Lowry Annex, Murray State University Library 1 item Fd 6 Speech, “Rebels With a Cause,” delivered at Murray State University, June 1967 1 item 5 Fd 7 Kentucky. Department of Highways. Historic Kentucky Highways, 1947. 1 item Fd 8 “Know Your Kentucky,” from the radio quiz show “Romance of Kentucky” (ca. 1951) 1 item Fd 9 The Life of Jesse Stuart. Ashland, Kentucky: Economy Printers, [1958] 1 item Fd 10 Western Kentucky University. 1967-1968 Student-Faculty Directory. 1 item Fd 11 Woodbridge, Hensley C., compiler. Jesse Stuart: A Bibliography. Harrogate, Tenn.: Lincoln Memorial University, 1960. 1 item Fd 12 WVIZ-TV. Cleveland, Ohio, television station. The Story Sampler, 1967, pages 19-21. 1 item Bx 4 AMERICAN FORESTS 1957: December 1958: February, March 1960: January, April 1962: January, March, October 1963: September, November, December 1964: February, April 1965: January, May, July, December 1966: January, April, November 1967: February, April 1968: March, August 1969: May 1970: March 1973: July 1974: November 1975: November 1976: January Bx 5 ARIZONA QUARTERLY 1958: Autumn 1959: Summer, Autumn 1960: Autumn 1961: Spring 6 1962: Summer, Winter 1964: Summer 1965: Spring, Autumn 1966: Spring, Summer 1967: Spring, Autumn 1968: Spring, Summer, Winter 1969: Autumn, Winter 1972: Spring, Autumn 1973: Spring 1974: Spring, Autumn Bx 6 BALL STATE UNIVERSITY FORUM 1960: Spring 1962/63: Winter 1964: Spring 1965: Winter 1966: Spring, Autumn 1968: Summer 1971: Winter 1972: Summer, Winter 1974: Winter 1975: Winter Bx 7 EDUCATIONAL FORUM 1944: March 1951: January 1954: November 1955: January, November 1956: November 1958: March, May, November 1959: January, March, May 1960: January, March 1961: May 1962: January 1963: January, March 1964: January 1965: March 1970: March Bx 8 ESQUIRE (photoreproductions) 1936: June, December 7 1937: March, April, July, August 1938: May 1939: January, March, May, September 1940: February, September, December 1941: April, May, September, December 1942: April, July, September, November, December 1943: February, December 1944: July 1946: September, December 1947: June 1954: December 1955: October, December (Original magazines are located in Fbx 1 and 2, q.