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A Guide to the Papers of William Faulkner and the Faulkner Family, Accession #9817-m, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
These papers were loaned to the University of Virginia Library by Jill Faulkner Summers on November 1, 2000.
This addition to the papers of William Faulkner, ca. 1926-1992, ca. 195 items (4 Hollinger boxes, ca. 2 linear feet), consists of business, personal and legal correspondence and documents of Faulkner and family members Jill Faulkner Summers and Malcolm Argyle Franklin. The papers consist of business, personal and legal correspondence and documents of Faulkner and family members Jill Faulkner Summers and Malcolm Franklin. The papers also contain several miscellaneous legal papers, including a deed for "Rowan Oak " to Jill Faulkner Summers.
Memorabilia from a scrapbook compiled by Jill Faulkner Summers includes a dress pattern, invitations, dance cards, clippings, receipts, horse show programs, sketches, a story, academic notes, exam answer sheets, and letters written as a child to relatives including one mentioning riding with Deanna Durbin.
Papers pertaining to Malcolm Franklin include a class notebook in parasitology, 1949, and various other medical pamphlets, together with World War II letters to his family from Camp Joseph T. Robinson and Germany and photographs of Franklin and Victoria Franklin.
A small group of papers concern W. F. Fielden and the Proctor and Gamble Defense Corporation, chiefly issues of the Wolf Creek Banner, 1944-1945.
There is also an unmarked phonodisk with unidentified content.
This addition to the papers of William Faulkner consists of four series: Series I: Harold Ober Associates Material; Subseries A: Work by William Faulkner; Subseries B: Work concerning William Faulkner; Series II: William Faulkner and Jill Faulkner Summers Material; Subseries A: Contracts and Agreements; Subseries B: Manuscripts by William Faulkner (alphabetical); Subseries C: Printed Material concerning William Faulkner (chronological); Subseries D: Personal Notebook, etc.; Series III: Malcolm Franklin Papers; Series IV: William F. Fielden and Proctor and Gamble Defense Corporation
22 pages.
5 pages.
20 pages.
6 pages.
14 pages.
16 pages.
28 pages.
7 pages.
26 pages.
38 pages.
17 pages (2 copies).
16 pages.
Script.
23 pages.
3 pages.
2 pages.
6 pages.
7 pages.
4 pages.
6 pages (2 copies).
7 pages (3 copies).
35 pages.
Includes:
a)Warranty deed to Jill Faulkner for Rowan Oak (June 20, 1954)
b) Quit claim deed from Jill Faulkner Summers to William Faulkner and Estelle Oldham Faulkner (March 21, 1955) correcting an inadvertent error in the June 20, 1954 deed
c) Deed of gift from William Faulkner and Estelle Oldham Faulkner to Jill Faulkner Summers conveying title to Rowan Oak (July 21, 1960)
d) Rider to Stock Try-Out Contract on As I Lay Dying between William Faulkner and Baylor University (January 8, 1960)
e) Lomax B. Lamb, Jr. Law Offices, Marks, Mississippi, to Paul Summers, Charlottesville, regarding a Museum in Oxford and its director (July 10, 1963)
f) Lomax B. Lamb, Jr. to Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Summers, carbon of letter sent to Mrs. William Faulkner, Charlottesville, with letter from Mrs. Herron Rowland, Director of the Mary Buie Museum, Oxford, Mississippi, and an acknowledgment and listing of materials on exhibit at the Museum in a display case designated "The William Faulkner Case, " loaned to the Museum by William Faulkner and family (August 9, 1963)
g) James W. Webb, Chairman, Department of English, University of Mississippi, to Mrs. Paul Summers, Charlottesville, August 5, 1964, with carbon letter, April 9, 1965, Webb to Lamb, concerning the retirement of Mrs. Herron Rowland and the understanding that the Faulkner awards would be moved to the Mississippi Room at the University following her retirement
h) Promissory note to the order of Random House, Inc. from Jill Faulkner Summers (March 9, 1971); cancelled by payment January 15, 1980
With autograph note at top and revisions by Faulkner, 2 pages.
Includes: July 17, 1964 cover of William Faulkner, and Books: Absalom, Absalom! review, "The Curse and the Hope, " 5 pages; and July 24, 1964 "Letters to the Editor, " including one from Bennett Cerf, concerning the previous Faulkner cover story, page 9.
Includes (original order and numbering retained):
JF 1: Hollywood dress pattern, size 8 years
JF 2: The American Girl subscription order blank, scribbled
JF 3: Envelope, return address 1410 N. Brenda St, Hollywood, addressed to Mrs. LE. Oldham, June 27,1944
JF 4: letter accompanying JF 3, to grandparents and D. Oldham
JF 5: Envelope, return address 1410 N. Brenda St., Hollywood, addressed to D. Oldham, July 7, 1944
JF 6: Letter accompanying JF 5, "Dear Aunt Dot, " details Hollywood experience
JF 7: Letter, "Dear Aunt Dot and Miss Mary, " n.d. apparently written after JF 6. Details riding, mentions riding with Deanna Durbin, and mentions other film stars
JF 8: newspaper clipping of Jean Sullivan selling poppies for war effort, 1945
JF 9: Homemade dance card, red stock, silver ink, "Tea Dance, honoring Miss Jill Faulkner, Tuesday afternoon, December 23, 1947 at Mrs. LE. Oldham's "
JF 10: Homemade dance card, white stock, pasted on magazine pink rose, "Dance for Miss Jill Faulkner. " Friday evening June 18th, 1948
JF 11: Duplicate of JF 10, no rose
JF 12: Duplicate of JF 10, clipped in half
JF 13: Card, "Jill Faulkner, A. A.U.W. award to a Junior High student writing best original poem, " (found in Untermeyer, This Singing World : possibly the book was the prize)
JF 14: Penmanship award, The National Board of Examiners, March 3, 1944 (fifth grade)
JF 15: "Guess I'd better ring for help " caption on horse clipping from magazine
JF 16: "My Spelling Book " fifth grade, 1944-45
JF 17: Arithmetic Workbook, third grade. Blue cover, red Binding, tablet style
JF 18: Birthday telegram to Estelle Faulkner from Wellesley, Massachusetts
JF 19: Gift card, "My precious Mama Many many happy returns of the day. I love you more than you can ever know. Jill."
JF 20: Railway Express Agency receipt for baggage shipped to Pine Manor College, November 28, 1951
JF 21: Railway Express Agency receipt for baggage shipped to Pine Manor college, April 29, 1953
JF 22: Small watercolor of Mexican peasant, seated with head down
JF 23: Postcard, Trier, "Just another one for your collection, love, Malcolm."
Includes:
JF 24: Mimeographed legal sized sheet of high school cheers
JF 25: Manuscript page, "Betty Cofield was sixteen. . . "
JF 26: Childhood triangle sketches
JF 27: Equestrian supply catalogue, "No. 135 English Super Saddlery, " The "Little Joe " Wiesenfeld Co., 112 W. North Avenue, Baltimore, 1947
JF 28: Souvenir program of Holly Springs, MS, horse show, July 22, 1946
JF 29: Souvenir program of Holly Springs, MS, horse show, June 13, 1947
JF 30: Letter from University of Mississippi Student Personnel Department regarding American council Psychological Examination, June 9, 1951
JF 31: Astronomy study sheet, legal size, folded, probably dated Summer 1951
JF 32: Physics exam sheet, June 18,1951
JF 33: History notes, "chapter 27 "
JF 34: Astronomy notes, steno pad sheet
JF 35: Letter from UM student personnel, announcement of meeting for all incoming freshmen, June 9, 1951
JF 36: Physics exam, July 3, 1951
JF 37: Long envelope, student personnel
JF 38: Short envelope, student personnel
JF 39: Wedding invitation, illustrated by Maud Falkner
JF 40: Wedding invitation
JF 41: Card for enclosure with invitation for reception at Rowan Oak
JF 42: Telegram to Paul Summers from Bill Marriott, Athens, Georgia, concerning wedding plans
JF 43: Full page clipping of Memphis Commercial Appeal coverage of Jill's wedding and reception
JF 44: Pamphlet, "The Man Who Owned the Stable, " inscribed, "For Paul and Jill, Christmas, 1956 "
JF 45: Letter on newsprint quality paper, legal size, to parents, written during first pregnancy, envelope, postmarked November 7, 1955
JF 46: Assembly instructions for Edison cribs
JF 47: Letter and envelope to Estelle Faulkner, postmarked Charlottesville, July 24, 1968
Contains pamphlets of anatomy, biology, morphology, physiology, and zoology; an English assignment notebook; a Valentine to Estelle Oldham Faulkner.
Contains letters to L.E. Oldham from camp during WWII, discussing learning army methods of laboratory techniques, manuevers, and camp life at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas; a sketch of himself.
Contains postcards from Germany to Jill Faulkner; a Webster Dictionary; "Neuroanatomy " report- Neuro-Anatomy Drawings by M.A. Franklin, 1950; Typescript, "Opsanus Tau with related forms reported from the Gulf of Mexico. "
Contains pamphlets on anatomy, biology, morphology, physiology, and zoology.
Contains pamphlets on anatomy, biology, morphology, physiology, and zoology.
Contains a Perpetual Date Book, with brief personal notes, many of which mention the Faulkners and the Oldhams.
Includes: Program for the Army-Navy "E " Fourth Annual Dinner (November 16, 1944); Certificate of Award to William F. Fielden, for his part in winning the "Army-Navy 'E' Award " for Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant, Milan, Tennessee (November 18, 1944); Report, "Planning and Operations of Finished Ammunition Stores, " W.F. Fielden (December 1944); Certificate of Memberhip, American Junior Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai by W.F. Fielden (May 21, 1948).