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Finding Aid for the Dr. Kenneth Curry Collection, 1787-1930


MS-2052

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, November 21, 2006.

Summary Information
Title: Dr. Kenneth Curry Collection

Date/Date Range :   1787-1930

Extent: 1.0 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection houses correspondence, clippings, published works, and photographs documenting Curry's work with James Agee and Robert Southey as well as Curry's impressive collection of British autographs.

Call number: MS-2052

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
This collection is property of the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Dr. Kenneth Curry Collection, MS-2052. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of one box.


Biography / History

Kenneth Curry was born on October 24, 1910 in Orlando, Florida. He earned his A.B. degree at Rollins College in 1932 and his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1935. Immediately after graduation, Curry came to work for the University of Tennessee as an Assistant Professor of English. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1946 and to Professor in 1960. Curry retired in 1979 and died in Knoxville, Tennessee on October 13, 1999.

Curry wrote a number of books during his career, including A Register of Papers: The University of Tennessee Philological Club (1958), New Letters of Robert Southey (1965), Southey (1975), Sir Walter Scott's Edinburgh Annual Register (1977), Robert Southey: A Reference Guide (1977), The Contributions of Robert Southey to the Morning Post (1984), and English at Tennessee, 1794-1988 (1989).


Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection houses correspondence, clippings, published works, and photographs documenting Curry's work with James Agee and Robert Southey as well as Curry's impressive collection of British autographs.

Subject Terms

  • Curry, Kenneth.
  • Agee, James, 1909-1955.
  • Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
  • Autographs -- Great Britain.
  • University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus).
Contents List
Box   1     Folder   1    
Correspondence concerning James Agee
Box   1     Folder   2    
A Death in the Family excerpt from Harper's Bazaar

Box   1     Folder   3    
Copies of James Agee's father's obituary
Box   1     Folder   4    
New Yorker article on James Agee
Box   1     Folder   5    
Materials on the James Agee Film Project
Box   1     Folder   6    
James Agee postcard
Box   1     Folder   7    
Miscellaneous James Agee materials
Box   1     Folder   8    
Letter from Parke Godwin, American journalist and son-in-law and biographer to William Cullen Bryant, 1875 September 18
Box   1     Folder   9    
Letter from Laurence Hutton, American theater critic, September 14
Box   1     Folder   10    
Letter from Thomas W. Kemp
Box   1     Folder   11    
Letter from Coates Kinney, American poet, 1886 October 8
Box   1     Folder   12    
Letter from Joaquin Miller, American poet
Box   1     Folder   13    
Letter from Louise Chandler Moulton, American poet, 1892 December 23
Box   1     Folder   14    
Letter from Charles Eliot Norton, Harvard professor of history, 1889 April 17
Box   1     Folder   15    
Albert Bigelow Paine's handwritten draft of his introduction to the 1912 edition of Mark Twain's biography
Box   1     Folder   16    
Signed photograph of Kate Seredy, 1937 Newberry Prize winner for The White Stag

Box   1     Folder   17    
Correspondence of Robert Underwood Johnson, editor of Century Magazine

Scope Note:
  1. R.R. Bonser, American educator
  2. Francis Browne, editor of The Dial , November 30, 1909
  3. C.C. Buel, assistant editor for Century Magazine , August 25, 1909
  4. William Fayal Clarke, editor of St. Nicholas Magazine , June 17, 1913
  5. Florence Earle Coates, American poet, November 11, 1922
  6. Mary Mapes Dodge, children's author, March 25, 1893
  7. Francis G. Egglishent
  8. Annie Fields, American poet, January 5, 1906
  9. Robert Hichens, American fantasy writer, February 18, 1908
  10. Grace D. Litchfield, American fiction writer, June 10, 1886
  11. George Kennan, travel writer, May 31, 1899
  12. Mary Catherine Markam, July 15, 1904
  13. Brander Matthews, American dramatist and teacher, Dec. 21, 1911
  14. Paul More, American critic, educator and philosopher, January 29, 1923
  15. Harrison S Morris, American critic and biographer, January 5, 1923
  16. Elizabeth Pennell, American poet, January 20, 1924
  17. Charles Stedman, editor at Century Magazine , April 5, 1905
  18. Edith Thomas, American poet, March 30, 1905
  19. Charles Hanson Towns, American poet and songwriter, September 17, 1910
  20. Henry Van Dyke, American poet, November 1, 1930
  21. Grace Vancesee, representative of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, January 8, 1923
  22. Owen Wister, American writer of westerns
Box   1     Folder   18    
"Poems on English Topics" by Robert Underwood Johnson
Box   1     Folder   19    
Materials concerning Robert Underwood Johnson's tribute dinner
Box   1     Folder   20    
Curry correspondence with British poet Kenneth Hopkins
Box   1     Folder   21    
"A Checklist of Kenneth Hopkins" by Anthony Newnham
Box   1     Folder   22    
"Silvers of Syntax" by Kenneth Hopkins
Box   1     Folder   23    
"Reflections on Satan Montgomery" by Kenneth Hopkins
Box   1     Folder   24    
Autograph of William Harrison Ainsworth, Victorian novelist
Box   1     Folder   25    
Letter from William Allingham, Irish poet
Box   1     Folder   26    
Letter from Duke of Ancaster, 1787 May 13
Box   1     Folder   27    
Letter from Anita Letitia Barbauld, Romantic poet, 1800 May 19
Box   1     Folder   28    
Letter from Thomas Haynes Bayly, Romantic poet
Box   1     Folder   29    
Letter from J. Bentwick
Box   1     Folder   30    
Letter from William Lisle Bowles
Box   1     Folder   31    
Autograph of George Brooke, 6th Lord Cobham
Box   1     Folder   32    
Letter from Francis T. Buckland, British natural historian
Box   1     Folder   33    
Correspondence from J.T. Coleridge, British jurist
Box   1     Folder   34    
Letter from Charles Eastlake, gothic interior designer and museologist
Box   1     Folder   35    
Note from King Edward VIII, 1919 November 26
Box   1     Folder   36    
Letter from Earl of Exeter
Box   1     Folder   37    
Letter to Isabel Frere from her brother, 1837 June 25
Box   1     Folder   38    
Photograph and letter from James Anthony Fronde, British historian
Box   1     Folder   39    
Letter from James Gairdner, British historian
Box   1     Folder   40    
Letter from Sir Herbert J.C. Grierson, literary scholar, 1929 May 21
Box   1     Folder   41    
Letter from Henry Melville Gwatkin, professor of ecclesiastical history at Cambridge
Box   1     Folder   42    
Photograph and letter from Henry Hallan, British historian
Box   1     Folder   43    
Letter from Robinson Harren
Box   1     Folder   44    
Correspondence from Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton
Box   1     Folder   45    
Letter from Sir John Gilbert Kotze, British jurist
Box   1     Folder   46    
Letter to Bishop of Aberdeen from E. Lincoln, 1885 April 30
Box   1     Folder   47    
Letter from George Clement Martin, British composer of hymns, 1893 March 21
Box   1     Folder   48    
Photo and letter from James Montgomery, British poet
Box   1     Folder   49    
Calling card for Sir Edmund Monson, British ambassador to France
Box   1     Folder   50    
Letter from Earl of Peterborough, 1872 January 8
Box   1     Folder   51    
Letter from Lord Richmond, painter, 1869 September 6
Box   1     Folder   52    
Letter from Rev. J. Armitage Robinson, dean of Christ's College, Cambridge
Box   1     Folder   53    
Letter from Samuel Rodgers, British poet
Box   1     Folder   54    
Letter from Earl of Shaftesbury, social reformer, 1881 January 13
Box   1     Folder   55    
Autograph of Sydney Smith, British clergyman and notable wit
Box   1     Folder   56    
Letter from W.H. Smith, British historian, 1849 December 31
Box   1     Folder   57    
Letter to Robert Southey from William Hone, 1830 November 24
Box   1     Folder   58    
Two brief notes by Robert Southey
Box   1     Folder   59    
Letter to William B. Reed from Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl of Stanhope, 1852 November 5
Box   1     Folder   60    
Autograph of Duke of Sussex, 1829 July 17
Box   1     Folder   61    
Declaration of marriage and faith from Joseph Vernon, British opera singer, and wife
Box   1     Folder   62    
Letter from Winston Churchill's mother, Jenny Cornwallis West, 1908 May 27
Box   1     Folder   63    
Letter from General Williams, governor of Gibraltar, 1875 April 9
Box   1     Folder   64    
Letter from William Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson
Box   1     Folder   65    
Letter from Charlotte M. Yonge, Victorian novelist
Box   1     Folder   66    
Miscellaneous unidentified autographs and letters
Box   1     Folder   67    
"Beyond Recall" poem by Mary Bradley
Box   1     Folder   68    
"To John Coventry, on Reading his Charming Novel After His Kind" a poem by Elrod Burke
Box   1     Folder   69    
In Memory of Phoebe Hessell
Box   1     Folder   70    
Handwritten drafts of Robert Southey's poems "The Holly" and "Serenade"

Box   1     Folder   71    
Reproduction of letter to Alaric Watts from Car. A. Bowles
Box   1     Folder   72    
Reproduction of letter from Jane Townley, 1822 February 11
Box   1     Folder   73    
19th century British recipes
Box   1     Folder   74    
19th century Bookseller bills
Box   1     Folder   75    
John Heise autograph papers
Box   1     Folder   76    
Curry correspondence concerning autographs