An Inventory of Its Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Contempo (Chapel Hill, N.C.), 1931-1934
Title:
Contempo Collection
Dates:
1925-1945, undated
Extent:
12 boxes (5.04 linear feet)
Abstract:
Includes letters to the Great Depression-era literary magazine Contempo (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), as well as works by its contributors, mostly addressed
to editors Milton Abernethy and Anthony Buttitta. Publishing a portion of Joyce's
Work in Progress, a special all-Faulkner issue, and two numbers on the Scottsboro
trials, they established themselves as both original and controversial. Letters and
works by Kay Boyle, William Faulkner, James T. Farrell, Ezra Pound, Nathanael West,
William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, and many others are present.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-0908
Language:
English, French, and Spanish
Access:
Open for research
Administrative Information
Processed by:
Joan Sibley and Dylan Davidson, 2015
Note:
This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in
a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for
information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations
commonly used in descriptions.
