Title: Peter De Vries Letter

Date/Date Range :    1958 December 4

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This 1958 letter is from novelist Peter De Vries to Eric Stockton, professor of English at the University of Tennessee, about a quote De Vries used in one of his books (possibly Mackerel Plaza, published that year) from De Quincey's essay "Savannah-La-Mar."

Call number: MS-2372

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

Aquisition Information:

Collection donated by G. Allan and Marjorie R. Yeomans in October 1997.

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], Peter De Vries Letter, MS-2372. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single folder.

Peter De Vries (1910--1993) was a former editor of Poetry , a staff member of The New Yorker , and a novelist about life in Connecticut. His works, including Mackerel Plaza, were influenced by sorrow as well as by wit.

Eric Stockton (1919-1983) was an English professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He was so devoted that in the last years of his life while invalid, he continued to teach with an arrangement with UT for Stockton to teach classes from his home.

This 1958 letter is from novelist Peter De Vries to Eric Stockton, professor of English at the University of Tennessee, about a quote De Vries used in one of his books (possibly Mackerel Plaza, published that year) from De Quincey's essay "Savannah-La-Mar."

• De Vries, Peter.
• Stockton, Eric, 1919-1983.
• Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
• University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus).