A Guide to the Papers of Fillmore Norfleet, 1931-1979
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 8809-h
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Preferred Citation
Papers of Fillmore Norfleet, Accession #8809-h, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was a gift from Elizabeth Norfleet of Charlottesville, Virginia, to the Library on October 7, 1987.
Biographical/Historical Information
French teacher, biographer, genealogist.
Scope and Content Information
The papers of Fillmore Norfleet (1903-1987), a French teacher at Woodberry Forest School, biographer, and genealogist, consist of typescripts of his translations of French novels, correspondence, and research material.
The novels translated by Norfleet include Jesus-the-Quail and Montmartre by Francis Carco, and The Other Sleep by Julien Green. Also present is a transcription of Jean Cocteau's Le Livre Blanc and Robert H. Fisher's Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies (see # 3863).
Correspondents of the Norfleets include: Bernard Fay, Anne Green, Julien Green, Claude Swanson, the Marquis De Juigne, Yvonne Bezard, Francis Carco, Douglas Southall Freeman, and Jules Tramet.
Items of interest include: a Carter Glass autograph enclosed in a 1926 Claude Swanson letter; Anne Green writing about the effects of World War II upon her life (March 9, 1940); Julien Green concerning the translation of his novel The Other Sleep (March 29 & May 7, 1934; and May 26, 1944), and his University days (February 1 & July 6, 1960); and a letter from Francis Carco concerning his novel Jesus-the- Quail (May 3, 1934).
Norfleet's research material contains notes concerning the local history and genealogy of the Suffolk and Nansemond County, Virginia area; the Jamaica Ice Company Venture; and Dr. Robert Henning Fisher (1766-1815).
A miscellaneous folder contains newsclippings about Anne and Julien Green, Fillmore Norfleet, and "Midmont," home of Bernard Chamberlain; a copy of The University of Virginia Magazine May-June, 1934, with a "Reminiscence of Julian Green," by James Southall Wilson, and a reprinting of Green's first published short story, "The Apprentice Psychiatrist;" and two photographs, an undated photograph of Anne and Julien Green, and a view of Washington Square, Suffolk, Virginia (post 1888).