A Guide to the Virginius Dabney Papers , 1929-1960 #7690-b

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Virginius Dabney Papers, Accession # 7690-b, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This holding was acquired as a gift on July 14, 1966.

Scope and Content Information

The papers of Virginius Dabney contain extensive correspondence carried on by Dabney as editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch , in his personal life, and as a Pulitzer Prize- winning author. Other materials deal with his books such as Below the Potomac , The Dry Messiah , and Liberalism in the South , and much useful material collected as research material for these books is present. There is extensive material on the American Society of Newspaper Editors which Dabney served in various capacities including president. A great deal of useful material on race relations, African Americans, the N.A.A.C.P., etc., is present. Recent political history of Virginia is strongly represented in Dabney's correspondence as editor of Virginia's leading newspaper, and in his personal correspondence with figures such as Senator A. Willis Robinson, Francis Pickens Miller, and Senator Carter Glass.

Contents List

Bishop James Cannon Biography Materials

Box 1
Corrected galley proofs (1948); 12 folders of notes, correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, and reports. Includes an early synopsis of the book (1929), and letters from attorneys, Carter Glass, Bishop Cannon, James Cannon III, and others.
Box 2
Two complete typed manuscripts of the biography, both heavily corrected in holograph, with some portions which were later discarded.
Box 3
Fourteen folders of notes, correspondence, clippings, cartoons, and mimeographed material on aspects of Cannon's career. The letters include correspondence with Carter Glass, Dumas Malone, and Josephus Daniels.
Box 4
Four pamphlets, four typed articles by Virginius Dabney on topics connected with Cannon, correspondence with publishers, photostats of important documents in Cannon's career, three copies of typed partial manuscript of the book and outline of concluding chapters, setting copy of the finished manuscript (470 typed pages) of the book published by Knopf.
Box 5, 6
Two boxes of correspondence and related materials (carbon copies of letters sent, xerox copy of other letters, clippings, mimeographed releases, and pamphlets), all relating to the "Freedom of Information" question, and the fight against bureaucratic censorship. The material centers in 1957 with the relationship of The American Society of Newspaper Editors (of which Mr. Dabney was then president) to the Moss Committee; but the file continues into 1957, and there are items as late as 1960. One folder is devoted to material on the Marie Torre case ( Herald-Tribune columnist sued by "Judy" Garland). In all, approximately 450 items.