Preliminary Inventory of the Jody Jones Hunter Collection of Works by Reynolds Price, 1954-2001
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleJody Jones Hunter Collection
of Works by Reynolds Price,
1954-2001
Creator
Hunter, Jody Jones
Extent
21.7 Linear Feet
550 Items
Repository
550 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
Access RestrictionsCollection is open for research.
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collection.
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Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have
not been transferred to Duke University. For more
information, consult the copyright section of the
Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript,
and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Jody Jones Hunter
Collection of Works by Reynolds Price, Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
University.
Provenance
Collection was received as a gift from Hunter in
1999 and 2001.
Processing Information
Preliminary processing by Library Staff
Completed October 27, 1999
Additions minimally processed by Elizabeth
Arnold
Last updated June 10, 2003
Encoded by Lisa Stark; Elizabeth Arnold
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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Biographical Note
Hunter is a collector of works by certain southern authors taught by William Blackburn. Reynolds Price is creator of fiction, poetry, essays, plays, memoirs, Biblical translations, and drawings among other things. He is the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, Durham, NC, where he has taught since 1958.
[top]Collection Overview
This collection documents Price's career as a
prolific and versatile author. Items include his works of
fiction, books containing his contributions, books
containing printed encomia, books entirely about Price,
books and periodicals containing interviews with and/or
articles about Price, books and periodicals formerly owned
by Price, audio and video recordings, typescripts, letters,
postcards, self-portraits, and photographs.
The addition (acc# 2001-0057)(90 items, 1.7 linear
feet; dated 1955-2001) consists largely of books and
printed material either written by or containing reference
to or contributions from Price. Also includes his
professional and personal correspondence, 1962-1990; a
printer's proof, with editing marks, of
Clear Pictures: First Loves,
First Guides (1989); the original typescript of his
senior honors thesis on John Milton (1955); and five
self-portraits in various media.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Price, Reynolds, 1933-
- Price, Reynolds, 1933-. Biography.
- Price, Reynolds, 1933-. Correspondence.
- Price, Reynolds, 1933-. Clear pictures.
- Hunter, Jody Jones.
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- American literature-20th century.
- American literature-Southern States.
- Authors, American-Southern States.
- Authors, American-20th century.
- Literature-History and criticism.
- Self-portraits.
 | List of Series in Collection | |||||||
 |  | Accession #1999-0273 | ||||||
 | | Accession #2001-0057 | ||||||
Detailed Description of Collection
Accession #1999-0273
[Unwrap
books and copy
newsprint before patron
use.]
Box 1
Kate
Vaiden
Use of
Fire
Clear
Pictures
Love and
Work
Box 2
Mustian
Pylon
Wings of the
Dove
Christ Haunted
Landscape
First Person
Singular
In
Praise.....Essays
Discovering North
Carolina
Understanding North
Carolina
My Silk
Purse
You Can't Eat
Magnolias
Winter's
Tale
Writer's
Dreams
Best American Short
Stories1964,
1975,
1992
(HB and PB)
O Henry Prize
1961
Selected Stories: So.
Rev.,
To
Be.....
Separate
Country
Box 3
Writer's
Harvest
For the Love of
Books
1967
Chanticleer
Images of Southern
Writers (?)
Songs in the Rough
Limited Editions:
E. Welty,
Form of
Thanks
Back Before
Day
Real
Copies
Presence and
Absence
Home
M....
Nine
Mysteries
A
Start
House
Snake
Final
Letter
Mark as
Story
Good News:
Mark
Palpable
God
Letter to a Man in
the Fire
Honest Act: Mem.
Life
Incarnation
Three
Gospels
Lord John
Signatures
Box 4
Books from the
personal library of
Reynolds
Price
Five
Reynolds Price videos
Box 5
Red Clay Reader, volumes
1-7
Magazines
Box 6
Two
Price bibliographies
One and
Twenty
2 on William
Blackburn
Understanding Reynolds
Price
A Long and Happy
Life
Learning a
Trade
Roxanna
Slade
Laws of
Ice
Eudora
Welty
Untouchable
Clouds (Preface by
Price)
Early
Christmas
A Whole New
Life
Borrowed
Time
Box 7
Collected
Stories
Blue
Calhoun
Foreseeable
Future
New
Music
Full
Moon
Good
Hearts
Common
Room
New
Music
Tongues of
Angels
Good
Hearts
Box 8
Unlabeled
books from same
original box as those in box 9
Box 9
Modern American
Memoirs
Afterwards
Conv.-R.P.
Higher
Pl...
Song of
Solomon
Chapel Hill
Carousel
Stories-Mod.
So.
Anthologies
Literary
Magazines
Box 10
Promise of
Rest
Source of
Light
Vital
Provisions
Private
Contentment
Permanent
Error
3 James Taylor
CDs
2
Audiotapes
3
Plays: Horton
Foote
Box 11
For Aaron
Copland
Robert Penn
Warren
Early Dark (
Photocopy of
printer's
typescript)
A Palpable God
(Typescript)
Bear
Pond
Esquire (3
issues)
Correspondence and
miscellaneous papers
Nine Mysteries
For Reynolds Price
(2)
The Lines of
Life
Country Mouse, City
Mouse
Other small vol.
limited
editions
Southern
Writers
Articles by and about
Price
RANAM
Box 12
The Surface of
Earth (
Uncorrected
Proof)
Good Hearts (
Typescript)
Names and Faces of
Heroes
Articles by and about
Price
Les Noms et Visages de
Héros
A Chain of
Love
The Young Writer at
Chapel Hill
Lesson
Learned
Torso of an Archaic
Apollo
Other small vol.
limited
editions
Box 13
Wings of Dove
(Typescript?)
Correspondence and
miscellaneous papers
Southern Nights
Chapbook Series
Box 14
Book Reviews and other
articles
Box 15
Book Reviews and other
articles
Box 16
Framed
self-portrait
Framed
photograph
(autographed by
Price)
Broadsides
Self-portraits
Oversized
broadside
Broadside-
Poem
Dead Man, Dying Girl-
Poem
Oversize Folder 1
"Full Moon"
broadside
Program
Newsletter
Accession #2001-0057
Contents of Box 1:
A Perfect
Friend
Three Minutes or
Less: Life Lessons from America's Greatest Writers,
PEN/Faulkner Foundation
Eudora Welty:
Writers' Reflections upon First Reading Welty, ed.
Pearl McHaney
Feasting the
Heart
The Calling,
Sterling Watson, uncorrected proofs [includes note about
book by Price]
Letters to a Fiction
Writer, ed. Frederick Busch
Mean Time,
Christopher T. Leland
Chestnut Mare,
Beware, Jody Jaffe
The Scribner
Sampler, 1995
Cathedrals of Kudzu:
A Personal Landscape of the South, ed. Hal
Crowther
A Singular Family:
Rosacoke and Her Kin
The Best Spiritual
Writing, 1998, ed. Philip Zaleski
But Now I See: The
White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative, Fred
Hobson
The Calling,
Sterling Watson, signed by the author
Southern Dogs and
Their People, P. S. Davis and Roberta
Gamble
Box 2
Contents of Box 2:
[Technical Services needs to reformat
newsprint before use.]
The Southern
Review, Spring 2000
Academic Eye:
Reynolds Price Collects Danny Robinette, program
for exhibit at Duke University Museum of Art
The Best American
Poetry 1998, ed. John Hollander
A Single but Huge
Distinction
A Gracious Plenty:
Recipes and Recollections from the American South,
John T. Edge
Feasting the
Heart, advanced uncorrected proofs
The Georgia
Review, Fall 1993 and Spring 1999
issues
Crux: The Letters of
James Dickey, ed. Matthew Bruccoli and Judith S.
Baughman
A Portrait of
Southern Writers: Photographs by Curt Richter,
signed by the photographer
Loose material, including
periodicals, programs, clippings, and poems by
Price
Clear Pictures:
First Loves, First Guides, typescript (first
printer's proof), with editing marks
Box 3
Contents of Box 3:
Reynolds Price Letters,
1969-1990
Includes correspondence from Price to
various recipients.
John Milton: The
First Forty Years; A Study in Motivation,
13 April 1955, [original copy of Price's senior honors
thesis for Duke University]
Untitled binder containing
business correspondence,
1962-1968
Letters to Stuart Wright,
1977-1987
Box 4
Contents of Box 4:
Five self-portraits in various
media, including 2 labelled "College days"
