John Fletcher Gould Supplementary Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS F63s 298

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Scope and Contents

Correspondence, literary manuscripts, genealogical records, clippings, and other materials pertaining to the childhood, education, professional activities and relations, and other aspects of the life and work of the Arkansas Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, writer, and critic John Gould Fletcher, and to his interest in genealogy and family history.

Dates

circa 1902-1973

Creator

Fletcher, John Gould, 1886-1950 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Conditions Governing Use

Use Restrictions Apply: Materials in Series 1 may not be copied.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical / Historical

John Gould Fletcher, writer and critic, Pulitzer Prize winner, was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1886. After leaving Harvard, he traveled widely in the United States, Europe, and England, where he lived for some twenty years. He was acquainted with many writers in England, Europe, and the United States. In England he was associated with the Imagist writers and the development of Modernism, and in the United State with the Southern writers known as the "Fugitives." Fletcher returned to the United States in 1933, and with his wife, the writer Charlie May Simon, built "Johnswood," on the bluffs above the Arkansas River outside of Little Rock. He actively supported the arts and was deeply concerned with the cultural heritage and development of the South, particularly Arkansas. Fletcher received the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for his Selected Poems, drawn from his lifelong output. He published a history of his native state Arkansas in 1947. John Gould Fletcher died in Little Rock in 1950. (Biographical note copied from the finding aid for MS F63, the John Gould Fletcher Papers)

Extent

0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Materials are arranged in four series:

Series 1. Correspondence
Series 1, Subseries A. John Gould Fletcher letters to Grant Richards
Series 1, Subseries B. Other Correspondence
Series 2. Literary Manuscripts
Series 3. Genealogical Manuscripts
Series 4. Miscellaneous Items

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Series 1 of the John Gould Fletcher Supplementary Papers was purchased by Special Collections in July 1971 from the University of Texas. Series 2-4 were transferred in Feb.-Oct. 1974 and Mar.-Aug. 1976 from the John Gould Fletcher Library and from the John Gould Fletcher Notebooks (then MS F63N, now series 2 of MS F63).