Title: Corneille McCarn Correspondence

Date/Date Range :   1909-1958 (1920-1929)

Extent: 1.0 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection containing 15 folders of letters to poet Corneille McCarn covers approximately 30 years of correspondence with McCarn family and friends.

Call number: MS-2803

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

Aquisition Information:

Collection was purchased May 26, 2006

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], Corneille McCarn Correspondence, MS-2803. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Corneille McCarn was born in East Nashville and grew up there and in Hawaii where her father was attorney general. While attending Vanderbilt University, she was the first woman to publish in The Fugitive, the poetry journal published by the famed Fugitive poets. Throughout her lifetime she continued to write at her home near Charlottesville, Virginia. Every Christmas for more than 50 years she sent a Christmas poem to her friends. McCarn lived several of her last years in Franklin, TN.

This collection containing 15 folders of letters to poet Corneille McCarn covers approximately 30 years of correspondence with McCarn family and friends.

See MS-2707 Jefferson McCarn Collection.

• Authors, American -- Tennessee -- Nashville.