Inventory of the Arlin Turner Papers, 1927-1980
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleArlin Turner Papers,
1927-1980
Creator
Turner, Arlin
Extent
15.6 Linear
Feet
ca. 9750 Items
Repository
ca. 9750 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
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However, collection contains sensitive
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Arlin Turner Papers,
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library,
Duke University.
Provenance
The Arlin Turner Papers were received by the
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as
gifts in 1980, 1986, 1987, and 1996. Portions of this
collection were transferred from Duke University Archives
in 2002.
Processing Information
Processed by Cat Saleeby
Finding aid edited by Ruth E. Bryan
Completed August 2002
Encoded by Cat Saleeby
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
General Career Biography
| 1909 | Born November 25 in Abilene, Tex. |
| 1927 | Received B.A. from West Texas State University |
| 1930 | Received M.A. from the University of Texas |
| 1934 | Received Ph.D. from the University of Texas |
| 1934-1936 | Instructor at the University of Texas |
| 1936-1953 | Professor of English at Louisiana State University |
| 1941 | Published Hawthorne as Editor |
| 1942-1946 | Served in U.S. Naval Reserve |
| 1947-1948 | Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1951 | Visiting Professor, University of Montreal. Visiting Professor, University of Colorado |
| 1952 | Awarded Fulbright appointment to University of Western Australia |
| 1953-1979 | Professor of English, Duke University |
| 1956 | Published George W. Cable: A Biography |
| 1957 | Visiting Professor, University of Texas |
| 1958 | Visiting Professor, University of Virginia |
| 1958-1964 | Chairman, Duke University Department of English |
| 1959-1960 | Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1960 | Published Mark Twain and George W. Cable: The Record of a Literary Friendship |
| 1961 | Visiting Professor, University of Illinois |
| 1961 | Published Nathaniel Hawthorne: An Introduction and Interpretation |
| 1962 | Visiting Professor, University of Iowa |
| 1963 | Visiting Professor, New York University |
| 1964 | Visiting Professor, University of Bombay |
| 1966-1967 | Awarded Fulbright appointment to University of Hull, Hull, England |
| 1968 | Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1969 | Huntington Library Research Award |
| 1973-1974 | Awarded Senior Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities |
| 1974 | Awarded James B. Duke Professorship |
| 1976 | Received Doctor of Humane Letters from Berea College, Ky. |
| 1978 | Visiting Professor, State University of New York |
| 1979 | Appointed Therese Kayser Lindsey Professor of Literature, Southwest Texas State University |
| 1980 | Published Nathaniel Hawthorne, a biography. |
| 1980 | Died, April 24 in Austin, Tex. |
Organizational Service Biography
The following lists selected offices and leadership roles held by Turner in professional organizations as documented in this collection. Turner was active in other professional groups that are not represented in his papers. The dates reflect the years of the highest positions he held and do not represent the total period of his membership or leadership. The organizations are listed alphabetically.
| 1956-1967 |
American Council of Learned
Societies (ACLS)
Regional Associate,
1956-1967
Fellowship Selection Committee,
1961-1963, 1965-1966
|
| 1954-1979 |
American
Literature
Managing Editor,
1954-1963
Editor,
1969-1979
|
| 1955-1972 |
American Studies
Association (ASA)
Advisory Council,
1955-1957, 1967-1972
Executive Committee,
1958-1959
Vice President,
1969-1970
|
| 1956-1968 |
Committee for International
Exchange of Persons, (CIEP),
Conference Board of Associated
Research Councils (CBC)
Member, Committee for American Studies
1956-1960, 1962-1963,
1967-1968
Chairman, Committee for American
Studies,
1957-1960
|
| 1949-1967 |
Modern Language
Association (MLA)
Secretary, American Literature Section,
1949-1967
Chairman, American Literature Section,
1966-1967
|
| 1961-1966 |
National Council of Teachers of
English (NCTE)
Director,
1961-1964
Director, Commission on Literature,
1964-1966
|
| 1968-1976 |
National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH)
Chairman, Fellowship Selection
Committee,
1968-1972
Member, Advisory Panel on Media
Programs, 1976
|
| 1956-1957 |
South Atlantic Modern Language
Association (SAMLA)
Chairman, American Literature Section,
1956-1957
|
| 1956-1979 |
South Atlantic
Quarterly
Member, Editorial Board
1956-1979
|
| 1955-1972 |
Southeastern American Studies
Association (SEASA)
Vice-President,
1955-1956, 1968-1970
President,
1956-1957, 1970-1972
|
Henry Arlin Turner, a professor of English and Literature, is best known for his scholarship on Nathaniel Hawthorne and George Washington Cable. His interests also included Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Southern Literature, and American Humor writings. Turner authored, edited, or reviewed an extensive list of publications on these subjects, in addition to the monographs listed above.
[top]Collection Overview
The Arlin Turner Papers, 1927-1980, span Turner's
entire career as a scholar of American literature, from his
undergraduate education at West Texas State University in
1927 to his death in 1980, when he was an instructor at
Southwest Texas State University. The Turner Papers are
comprised primarily of personal and professional
correspondence with scholars and publishers of American
literature. The correspondence includes
letters, printed matter,
reports, and
minutes that Turner
collected as a member or officer of organizations to which
many of these literary scholars belonged. These materials,
in addition to the clippings, printed materials and other
writings Turner collected, provide insight into the
development of the profession of American literary
scholarship in the 1920s and 1930s; demonstrate the major
concerns, issues, conflicts, and interests of its
practitioners over the following four decades; and record
research advancements and contributions to scholarship on
the literary figures of most interest to Turner. The Turner
Papers also document the development of high school,
collegiate, and graduate level instruction in American
literature through the organizational records and course
materials, the latter of which include Turner's personal
writings and
research notes,
subject files he collected,
clippings,
lecture notes, and other
printed materials on various authors or genres of American
literature. Finally, this collection provides glimpses into
Turner's personal career and scholarly thought through the
writings which are included,
both those he presented orally as
speeches or
lectures, or those he
published as
articles or
books. The Turner Papers are
organized into five series: Correspondence, Course
Materials, Organizations, Printed Material, and Writings
and Speeches.
A student of the first generation of American
literature scholars in the 1920s, Turner played an
important role in the network of scholarly exchange that
was vital to the emergence of the discipline in the decades
following. Turner kept in contact with numerous colleagues
in colleges and universities across the United States and
throughout the world, including many former graduate
students who later became influential literary scholars and
critics themselves. The Correspondence
Series, 1930-1980, documents Turner's role in this
network of scholarly exchange. The Individuals Subseries, 1930-1980,
includes Turner's most voluminous correspondents: American
literature specialists and authors
Gay Wilson Allen,
John Q. Anderson,
Louis Budd,
Robert Cantwell,
James B. Colvert,
Eddie Gay Cone,
Benjamin Franklin Fisher,
Albert Mordell,
Norman Holmes Pearson,
William Stafford, and
Edmund Wilson. The
Publications Subseries,
1934-1979, contains portions of Turner's
communications with editors, publishers, and presses
primarily regarding article reviews or manuscript
evaluations of others' work. This subseries also contains
some information concerning Turner's own articles,
manuscripts, and various published works. Correspondence,
brochures, press releases, reports, and contractual
information concerning Turner's speaking engagements or
attendance at professional meetings is collected in the
Conferences, Speeches, and Lectures
Subseries, 1961-1978 (bulk 1961-1964). Miscellaneous
materials comprised primarily of letters arranged by
subject are assembled in the Other
Correspondence Subseries, 1948-1979 and undated This
subseries also contains research notes, memos, and printed
material. These papers document Turner's visiting professor
appointments and awards, as well as his interest in topics
such as the Duke University Library, the Huntington
Library, George W. Cable primary sources, and international
scholars of American Literature.
The Course Materials Series,
undated, is comprised of information Turner collected
to aid in composing classroom lectures, and other teaching
materials. He maintained an extensive set of files on
American authors, which can be found in the
Lecture Notes, By Author Subseries,
undated Most files contain a brief biography of the
author and list of his major compositions, but may also
include copies of their works, a typescript of Turner's
lecture on the author, and related materials such as
clippings or Turner's handwritten research notes. Turner
also collected files on genres of literature, delineated
both by region, such as Louisiana or British literature, or
by style, such as Short Stories or Recent Fiction. These
can be found in the Lecture Notes, By
Subject Subseries, undated The Class Files Subseries, undated, contains
Turner's teaching materials including syllabi, quizes, and
exams. These files pertain to courses Turner taught (or in
a few early instances, took) in subjects including American
Literature before the Civil War, Post-Civil War Literature,
Hawthorne and Melville, American Humor, and Southern
Literature. Specific course numbers and titles have been
provided wherever possible.
Arlin Turner was an active leader and participant
in many of the organizations associated with his profession
and interests, which are chronicled in the
Organizations Series, 1929-1979 (bulk
1936-1979). These scholarly groups developed
policies, conducted studies, and otherwise governed the
profession. Thus, Turner's influential positions in most of
these associations render his thorough collection of
organizational records both valuable and useful. Folders in
this series primarily contain correspondence, minutes,
memoranda, reports, and printed matter such as newsletters,
brochures, and clippings. Most notable is Turner's work
with the
Modern Language Association
(MLA), whose
American Literature Section
members are primarily responsible for the spread of
American Studies programs across the globe. Turner's
records also document his work with the
South Atlantic Modern Language
Association (SAMLA), the
American Studies Association
(ASA), and the
Southeastern American Studies
Association (SEASA). This series likewise
chronicles Turner's leadership roles in the
National Council of Teachers of
English (NCTE), the
American Council of Learned
Societies (ACLS) and the
National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH).
Turner was also a member of the Committee for
American Studies, the advisory group for the
Conference Board of Associated Research
Councils' (CBC) Committee for International Exchange of
Persons (CIEP). The Organizations Series also includes
files on the selection of Fulbright Scholars that he
collected as a member of that committee. In addition,
Turner served as chairman of this committee during the
period in which the
"Loewenberg
controversy"
consumed the CIEP's affairs. When Prof.
Bert J. Loewenberg was denied a Fulbright Award in 1959
despite the committee's recommendation, its members
threatened to resign in protest against allegations that
Loewenberg's past political activity was to blame. Thus,
significant amounts of correspondence from fellow committee
members
Ray Billington,
John Hope Franklin,
Harvey Wish, and
Charles Barker regarding the
controversy is found in this series.
Arlin Turner accumulated a significant number of
clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, reprints, and
publications related to American Literature. These are
collected in the Printed Material
Series, undated Included in this series are materials
from the
Educational Testing Service
(ETS), memorabilia from Turner's time at the University of
Hull in England, literary magazines, and miscellaneous
clippings primarily regarding Southern writers (especially
North Carolina authors), William Faulkner, and the New
Critics (a.k.a. The Fugitives).
The Writings and Speeches
Series, 1938-1980 and undated (bulk 1964-1977),
contains copies of Turner's significant oral presentations
and other written work, both published and unpublished, in
addition to some writings of other authors he accumulated.
Files from Turner's speaking engagements include both
correspondence and typed copies of his presentations. This
series also contains unidentified speech notes and
writings, in addition to a bound typescript with
handwritten edits of Turner's
Nathaniel Hawthorne: A
biography . Writings about Turner, including
obituaries, tributes, his curriculum vita and the like, are
also found in the Writings and Speeches Series.
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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.
- Turner, Arlin.
- Allen, Gay Wilson, 1903- .
- Anderson, John Q.
- Billington, Ray Allen, 1903- .
- Barker, Charles A. (Charles Albro), 1904- .
- Budd, Louis J.
- Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925.
- Cantwell, Robert, 1908- .
- Colvert, James Brumley.
- Cone, Eddie Gay, 1938- .
- Fisher, Benjamin Franklin.
- Franklin, John Hope, 1915- .
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
- Mordell, Albert, 1885- .
- Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975.
- Stafford, William, 1914- .
- Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.
- Wish, Harvey, 1909- .
- American Council of Learned Societies.
- American Studies Association.
- Conference Board of the Associated Research Councils. Committee on International Exchange of Persons. Committee on American Studies.
- Duke University. Dept. of English--Curricula.
- Duke University. Dept. of English--Faculty.
- George Washington Flowers Collection of Southern Americana.
- Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- Jay B. Hubbell Center for American Literary Historiography.
- Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Dept of English.
- Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.)--Faculty.
- Modern Language Association. American Literature Section.
- National Council of Teachers of English.
- National Endowment for the Humanities.
- South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
- Southeastern American Studies Association.
- Authors, American.
- American Literature--Southern States.
- American Literature--19th Century-- History and criticism.
- American Literature--20th Century--History and criticism.
- American Literature--Louisiana.
- American Literature--North Carolina.
- American Literature--Study and teaching.
- American wit and humor.
- College teachers Correspondence.
- Fulbright scholarships.
- American literature.
- South Atlantic quarterly.
Detailed Description of Collection
Correspondence Series, 1930-1980
The Correspondence
Series has been organized into four subseries:
Individuals; Publications; Conferences, Speeches, Lectures; and
Other Correspondence. Only the
first of these retains Turner's arrangement.
Individuals Subseries, [ca. 1930-1980]
The Individuals
Subseries is comprised of correspondence between
Turner and other scholars in American literature, students
and former students, and editors and publishers. Chief
topics in the letters include recent research, manuscript
evaluations, speaking engagements and conference
attendance, personal updates, and occasional
recommendations and peer reviews (SENSITIVE). To preserve
original order, this subseries has been maintained as a
discrete unit--arranged alphabetically by the
correspondent's last name in the same way Turner kept the
files. Consequently, there may be significant overlap with
other correspondence subseries. For example, correspondence
with a publisher may be filed by an editor or publisher's
last name in this subseries or by the publication title or
the press that produced it in the Publications Subseries.
This subseries contains sensitive
information (recommendations and peer reviews). Before
using these materials, patrons must sign a waiver
concerning privacy rights. Contact Research Services staff
for assistance.
Box 1
Aaron, Dan
Adams,
Hazard
Adams, Percy
Adams, Richard P.
Aderman, Ralph
Alexander, Margaret W.
Allen, Gay
Wilson
Allen, Thomas J.
Altenbernd, Lynn
Anderson, Carl
Anderson, John Q.
Angyal, Andrew J.
Ano, Fumio
Appel, Benjamin
Applewhite,
James
Arms, George
Arndt, Karl J.R.
Arvin, Newton
Asquith,
Cynthia
Asselineau, Roger
Auchincloss,
Louis
Axelsson, Arne
A Misc.
Baker,
Carlos
Bandy, W. T.
Baym, Nina
Barber, Edwin
Barker, Charles
Barnes, Warner
Beach, Leonard B.
Bearden, Ethel
Beebe, Maurice
Belflower, Robert
Bell, Vereen
Benson, Carl
Bennett, Raymond
Bevington,
Helen
Bickley, Bruce
Bier, Jesse
Billington, Ray
Blair, Walter
Blodget, Harold
Blotner,
Joseph
Boatright, Mody
Bode, Carl
Boewe, Charles
Boorstin,
Daniel
Bond, Richmond P.
Bowers, Fredson
Bowling, Lawrence
Boyce, Benjamin
Brack, O. M.
Braddy, Haldeen
Bradley, Phil
Bradley, Scully
Brice,
Ashbel
Broderick, John C.
Brown, Herbert
Browne, Ray B.
Bruccoli,
Matthew
Bryant, Joe
Budd,
Louis
Butcher, Philip
Byers, John
B Misc.
Box 2
Cady, Edwin
Harrison
Cameron, Kenneth
Cantwell, Robert
Cardwell, Guy
Carson, Patricia
Carroll, Martin
Cherry, Kenneth
Cline, Clarence L.
Clogan, Paul
Cohen, Bernard
Cohen,
Hennig
Cole, R. Taylor
Collins, Carvel
Colvert, James
Cone, Eddie G. and Roberta
L.
Corbett, Joan
Core, George
Covici, Pascal
Crawley, T. Edward
Crowley, J. Donald
Curlee, Roy
Current-Garcia, Gene
C Misc.
Dainow, Joseph
Dalton, Harry
L.
Davidson, Edward
Davis, Charles T.
Davis, Curtis Carroll
Davison, Kenneth E.
Dedmond, Francis B.
Demanuelli, Jean
Dembo, L. S.
Denbo, Bruce F.
Dickey,
James
Donaldson, Scott
Dorris, George
Dos Passos,
John
Downey, Harris
Duban, James
Dykeman (Stokely),
Wilma
D Misc.
Engle, Paul
Erdman, Loula Grace
Ervine, Roberta
Estes,
David
Fisher, Benjamin
Franklin
Freeman, Gordon
Foerster, Norman
Box 3
Hartle, Anthony E.
Hersey,
John
Hoffman,
Daniel
Hoffman, Frederick
Hornberger, Theodore
Howarth, R. Guy
Hubbell, Jay
B.
Hughes, Rupert
H Misc.
Jones, Howard
Mumford
Jones, Joseph
Jones, Tandy
King, Alec
Knickerbocker, William
S.
K Misc.
Leary,
Lewis
Liljegren, Sten Bodvar
Ljungquist,
Kent
Lovelace, Joseph
L Misc.
Mabbott, Thomas
Ollive
Matthiessen, F.
O.
Mays, James O.
McDavid, Raven I.
Michener, James
A.
Mordell, Albert
M Misc.
O'Brien, Claudine
Osborn, Scott
Owen, Guy
O Misc.
Parkinson, Thomas
Pearson, Norman H.
Poirier,
Richard
Pond, James B.
Porter, Katherine
Anne
Price,
Reynolds
P. Misc.
Rak, Mary Kidder
Ransom, Harry Huntt
Ransom, John
Crowe
Reeves, Paschal
Reid, Alfred S.
Rosenthal, Mack K.
R Misc.
Schorer,
Mark
Simpson, Claude M.
Stafford,
William
Stephenson, Wendell H.
Stevens, George
Stewart, Randall
Stovall,
Floyd
Stuart,
Jesse
S Misc.
Thompson,
Lawrence
Tinker, Edward
Larocque
T Misc.
Waite, Mary Abbott
Ward, Charles E.
Warren, Robert
Penn
Weaver, Richard M.
Wecter, Dixon
Welland, Dennis
Wilson,
Edmund
Woll, Harvey
W Misc.
Yeatman, Joan
Unidentified
Publications Subseries, 1934-1979
The Publications
Subseries is comprised of Turner's correspondence to
publishers, editors, and presses regarding publications.
Included are reviews of books for multiple journals,
multiple reviews written for single journals, manuscript
evaluations for various university presses, and
correspondence regarding some of Turner's own publications.
Arranged alphabetically by publication title or press name.
Box 4
American Literature:
An Anthology
American
Quarterly
Australian Literary
Studies
Clio
Dictionary of
Literary Biography
Duke University Press
Editors'
News
Faulkner: A
Biography by Blotner
Harvard University
Press
(Washington) Irving
Edition
Hawthorne: A
Biography
Literary Classics - Library of
America
Louisiana State University
Press
Modern Fiction
Studies
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Journal
New England
Quarterly
Nineteenth-Century
Fiction
Penn State University
Press
Princeton University
Press
Resources for
American Literary Study
(William Gilmore) Simms
Edition
Stark Young
by Pilkington
University of Massachusetts
Press
University of North Carolina
Press
University of Tennessee
Press
University Press of
Kansas
Miscellaneous publications
correspondence
Conferences, Speeches, Lectures Subseries, 1961-1978 (bulk 1961-1964)
Correspondence regarding Turner's speaking
engagements and attendance at professional gatherings is
collected in the Conferences, Speeches,
and Lectures Subseries. This subseries is arranged
chronologically.
Box 5
1961: University of Michigan -
Civil War Lecture Series
1961: Kent State University -
Lecture
1962: Duke University - N.C.
Junior Science Symposium
1962: Duke University - Seminar,
"The Two Cultures"
1963: Atlanta University - Forum
Series
1963: University of Michigan -
Seminar on English in Contemporary Education
1963-1964: Conference on the
Integrated Bibliography
1964: Bowdoin College Institute -
"Hawthorne and the American
Novel"
1964: Duke University - Seminar,
Humanities and the Arts
1964: Project on [High School]
Literature Conference
1972: Conference on Southern
Literary Study
1975: Duke Alumni Summer Institute
- Lecture
1978: West Virginia University -
Symposium on Regional Research in the Humanities
Other Correspondence Subseries, 1948-1979 and undated
Miscellaneous files that contain primarily
correspondence can be found in the Other Correspondence Subseries. Many
of these files relate either to Duke University or to
universities at which Turner served as a visiting
professor. These are organized by the subject or addressee
of the correspondence and arranged alphabetically, with
correspondence from international scholars in American
literature filed at the end.
Box 5 (cont)
Cable, (George Washington)
Research, undated
(2
folders)
Duke University. Gross-Edens
Affair, 1960
Duke University Library, Misc.,
1950, 1975, 1978
Duke University Library - Harold
Jantz Collection, 1975
Duke University Research Council
Grants, 1954-1977
Duke Summer Grants-in-aid,
Visiting Scholars, 1965, 1969-1970
Box 6
Fulbright Applications and
Correspondence, 1955-1965
Fulbright Award - University of
Hull, Hull, England, 1965-1966
Huntington Fellowship,
1973-1978
Huntington Library,
1968-1977
Huntington Research,
undated
Louisiana State University
Library, 1950-1952
National Book Awards, 1969
National Defense Education Act
(NDEA) Institutes, 1965-1967
National Humanities Center,
1978-1979
New York University,
1964
New York Library, 1948-1956,
1964-1976
N.C. State University, Dept. of
English, 1966
Quality Education Bill (HR11888),
1962
Southern American Writers Cassette
Curriculum, 1975
University Centers for Rational
Alternatives (UCRA), 1969-1978
University of Hull, Hull, England,
1966-1968
University of Illinois, 1961
University of Iowa, 1963
University of Montreal,
1951
[contains
photographs of
Turner, Thomas Greenwood]
University of Pennsylvania,
1968
Indian Specialists in American
Literature, 1966-1970
Asian Specialists in American
Literature, 1962-1963
South African Specialists in
American Literature, 1958-1963
Course Materials Series, undated
The Course Materials
Series is divided into three subseries. The first
two subseries are comprised of Lecture
Notes, arranged by Author
and Subject. The last contains
Class Files. Only the first of
these subseries preserves Turner's original
arrangement.
Lecture Notes, By Author Subseries, undated
Each folder in the Lecture Notes, By Author Subseries
contains the materials on various literary figures that
Turner appears to have collected for classroom use. Almost
all of these include a brief typed page containing the
author's birth and death dates and significant writings.
Most are also accompanied by a brief typed biography and
summary of the author's contribution to literature. Some
folders may also contain copies of an author's works,
especially poetry, or newspaper clippings about them, in
addition to Turner's personal research. These are arranged
alphabetically in the same order that Turner filed
them.
Box 7
Adams, Henry
Albee, Edward
Allen, James Lane
Anderson, Sherwood
Applewhite, James
Audubon, John James
Bagby, George William
Baldwin, James
Baldwin, Joseph G.
Barlow, Joel
Bellamy, Edward
Benét, Stephen Vincent
Beverley, Robert
Bevington, Helen
Bonner, Sherwood
Brackenridge, Hugh
Henry
Bradford, Roark
Bradford, William
Bradstreet, Anne
Brooks, Van Wyck
Brown, Charles
Brockden
Brown, Charles Farrar (a.k.a.
Artemus Ward)
Bryant, William Cullen
Byrd, William
Cabell, James Branch
Cable, George
Washington
Capote, Truman
Caldwell, Erskine
Cather, Willa
Cawein, Madison
Chappell, Fred
Chivers, Thomas Holley
Chopin, Kate
Clemens, Samuel L. (a.k.a. Mark
Twain)
Cooke, John Esten
Cooper, James Fenimore
Crane, Hart
Crane, Stephen
Crevecoeur, Michel-Guillarme Jean
de
Crockett, Davy
Cummings, E.E.
Davidson, Donald
Dickey, James
Dickenson, Emily
Dixon, Thomas
Dobie, J. Frank
Dos Passos, John R.
Dreiser, Theodore
Dunne, Finley Peter
Dykeman (Stokley),
Wilma
Eberhart, Richard
Edwards, Harry
Stillwell
Box 8
Faulkner, William
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flint, Timothy
Franklin, Benjamin
Frederic, Harold
Freeman, Mary E.
Wilkins
Freneau, Philip
Farrell, James T.
Frost, Robert
Garland, Hamlin
George, Henry
Grady, Henry W.
Grayson, William John
Green, Paul
Harris, George
Washington
Harris, Joel Chandler
Harte, F. Bret
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
(13
folders)
Hayne, P. H.
Hearn, Lafcadio
Hemingway, Ernest
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Hooper, Johnson Jones
Hope, James Barron
Howells, William Dean
Hughes, Langston
Irving, Washington
Box 9
Jacobsen, Josephine
James, Henry
Jarrell, Randall
Jeffers, Robinson
Jefferson, Thomas
Jewett, Sarah Orne
Johnston, Richard
Malcolm
Kennedy, John
Pendleton
King, Grace E.
Kizer, Carolyn
Lanier, Sidney
Legare, James M.
Levertov, Denise
Lewis, Sinclair
Lewis, Henry Clay (a.k.a. Madison
Tensas)
Lincoln, Abraham
Lindsay, Vachel
London, Jack
Longfellow, Henry
Wadsworth
Longstreet, Augustus
Baldwin
Lowell, Amy
Lowell, James Russell
Lowell, Robert
McCullers, Carson
McKenna, Richard
MacLeish, Archibald
Melville, Herman
(2
folders)
Mencken, H.L.
Merton, Thomas
Millay, Edna St.
Vincent
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Joaquin
Momaday, N. Scott
Moody, William Vaughn
Murfree, Mary Noailles (a.k.a.
Charles Egbert Craddock)
Norris, Frank
O'Connor, Flannery
O'Hara, Theodore
O'Neill, Eugene G.
Owen, Guy
Box 10
Page, T.N.
Paine, Thomas
Parkman, Francis
Patton, Francis Gray
Paulding, J.K.
Payne, John Howard
Peck, Samuel M.
Peterkin, Julia
Pike, Albert
Pinkney, Edward Coote
Poe, Edgar Allan
(4
folders)
Porter, Katherine Anne
Porter, William Sydney (a.k.a. O.
Henry)
Pound, Ezra
Preston, Margaret
Junkin
Price, Reynolds
Randall, James Ryder
Randolph, Innes
Ransom, John Crowe
Rawlings, Marjorie
Kinnan
Roberts, Elizabeth
Madox
Robinson, Edwin
Arlington
Roethke, Theodore
Rogers, Will
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Russell, Irwin
Ryan, Father Abram
Salinger, J. D.
Sandburg, Carl
Sewall, Samuel
Shapiro, Karl
Simms, William Gilmore
Sinclair, Upton
Box 11
Smith, Betty
Smith, Charles Henry (a.k.a. Bill
Arp)
Smith, F. Hopkinson
Smith, John
Smith, Lillian
Smith, Seba
Spencer, Elizabeth
Steinbeck, John
Stem, Thad
Stevens, Wallace
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Stuart, Jesse
Stuart, Ruth McHenry
Styron, William
Tabb, John Barrister
Tate, J.O. Allen
Taylor, Edward
Taylor, John
Taylor, Peter H.
Thompson, John Reuben
Thompson, William T.
Thompson, Maurice
Thoreau, Henry David
Thorpe, Thomas Bangs
Thurber, James
Ticknor, Francis Orray
Timrod, Henry
Toklas, Alice
Tourgée, Albion
Tuckerman, Frederick
Goddard
Tyler, Anne
Tyler, Royall
Vonnegut, Kurt
Warren, Robert Penn
Washington, Booker T.
Welty, Eudora
Wharton, Edith
White, E.B.
Whitman, Walt
(2
folders)
Whittier, John
Greenleaf
Wilber, Richard
Wilde, Richard Henry
Wilder, Thornton
Williams, Tennessee
Williams, William
Carlos
Wilson, Augusta Evans
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Robert Burns
Winters, Yvor
Wolfe, Thomas
Woolman, John
Wright, James
Miscellaneous Authors
Lecture Notes, By Subject Subseries, undated
The Lecture Notes, By
Subject Subseries contain Turner's collected notes
or clippings on general subjects in literature, delineated
either by geographic region or genre. This subseries also
includes files on a few non-American writers (specifically
William Shakespeare, John Milton, and Edmund Spenser). The
Minor Southern Authors folder, although it contains
unfinished notes pages for individual authors, was not
originally filed in the Lecture Notes By Author subseries
and therefore is filed by subject in this subseries. The
miscellaneous materials in Box 13 pertain to the English
curriculum at Duke and LSU, especially degree requirements,
preliminary exam questions, and stylesheets for term papers
and theses at the two universities.
Box 12
American Literature
(12
folders)
Box 13
British and Commonwealth
Literature
(11
folders)
Miscellaneous
(3
folders)
Class Files Subseries, undated
The Class Files
Subseries contains Turner's teaching materials for
specific classes that he taught, both at Duke and as a
visiting professor elsewhere. Also included in this
subseries is at least one syllabus on West Texas State
letterhead that appears to be from a class in which Turner
was enrolled as an undergraduate in 1927. When possible,
the course numbers for these classes have been identified;
it should be noted that Turner often taught the same course
subject under a different number at a different
institution. These files primarily contain syllabi, exams,
quizes, reading lists, and lecture materials developed for
a specific course.
Box 14
Class Files
(17
folders)
Organizations Series, 1929-1979 (bulk 1936-1979)
The Organizations
Series contains Turner's files on professional and
scholarly associations, committees, councils and societies
to which he belonged, and, in many cases, led in some
capacity. (For a list of Turner's most significant posts,
please see the Organizational Service Biography in the
Biographical Note above.) Folders in this series primarily
contain correspondence, minutes, memoranda, reports, and
printed matter such as newsletters, brochures, and
clippings. These are arranged alphabetically.
Box 15
American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU), 1957-1958 and undated
American Council of Learned
Societies (ACLS) - Misc., 1960-1968 and
undated
Fellowship Selection Committee,
1962-1968
Meeting on Scholarly
Communication,
1973-1975
Regional Associate reports,
1957-1966
International Fellows, at Duke,
1962-1965, 1977
American Humor Studies
Association (AHSA), 1975-1977, undated
American Literature
Board of Editors,
1949-1956, 1962, 1967-1970, 1975-1978
(3
folders)
American Literature
Promotional Materials,
1929
American Studies Research Centre
(ASRC), Hyderabad, India, 1965-1969
American Studies Association
(ASA) - General,
1951-1979
(4
folders)
Bibliography Committee,
1954-1959
Convention,
Oct., 1971
Executive Committee,
1955-1957
Box 16
Executive Committee,
1958-1961
Executive Council,
1955-1962
(2
folders)
Nominating Committee,
1955, 1961
Lower Mississippi Conference,
1960
Radical Caucus,
1969-1971
Development of American Studies at
Duke,
1960, 1965
Association for Canadian Studies in
the U.S. (ACSUS),
1971
Association of Chairmen of
Departments of English in Colleges and
Universities (CDE)/
Association of Departments of
English (ADE),
1962-1965
CDE/MLA/NCTE Allerton Park
Conference,
1962
Center for Southern Studies,
1964-1970
(3
folders)
College English Association
(CEA),
1963-1971, 1974, 1979
(2
folders)
College Language Association
(CLA),
1965
Box 17
Conference Board of Associated
Research Councils (CBC). Committee on International Exchange
of Persons (CIEP) - Misc., 1976-1977
[changed to Council for International
Exchange of Scholars (CIES) in 1975.]
Committee on American Studies,
1956-1963, 1968-1969
(8
folders)
Conference on Federal Funding of
Programs in International Education,
1968
Correspondence -
Russell, Trusten W., 1968-1969
American Studies: An
International Newsletter,
1972-1973
Faculty Fulbright Advisors/Alumni
Workshop,
1975
Box 18
Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) -
Consulting,
1969-1975
Duke University, Dept. of
English
(2
folders)
Duke University Library, G.W.
Flowers Memorial Collection Committee,
1955-1977
(4
folders)
Duke University Library, Jay B.
Hubbell Center Organizing and Directing Committee,
1975-1977
Educational Testing Service
(ETS)
GRE Advanced Literature Test
Committee,
1965-1966
(2
folders)
Scarlet
Letter Test,
1964
Ellen Glasgow Society,
1973-1974
Essex Institute,
1972-1978
Fédération Internationale des
Langues et Littératures Modernes (FILLM),
1963-1969
International Association of
University Professors of English (IAUPE),
1961-1977
Institute of American Studies (West
Virginia Wesleyan College),
1959
Louisiana State University, Dept. of
English, 1937-1952
(2
folders)
Marquis Library Society,
1969-1974
Melville Society of America, 1973,
1979
Modern Humanities Research
Association (MHRA),
1966-1969, 1978
Box 19
Modern Language Association
(MLA) - Misc., 1965-1971, undated
(2
folders)
American Literature Group (ALG) -
General,
1936-1954, 1961-1963
(9
folders)
Committee on Curricula,
1950-1951
Committee on Definitive
Editions, 1950-1951
Committee on Library Manuscript
Holdings, 1950-1951
Committee on a Monographic
Series, 1950-1951
Committee on Resources for
Research, 1950-1951
Committee on Trends in Research,
1949-1952
American Literature Section (ALS)
- General,
1967-1979
(3
folders)
Box 20
Program Planning,
1966-1967
British Commonwealth Literature
Conference, 1958
Center for Editions of American
Authors (CEAA),
1968-1973
(2
folders)
Conference on Scholarly Editions
of American Authors,
1962
Conference on Southern Literature,
1958-1959
New University Conference,
1968-1969
PMLA
Scholar's Library Selection
Committee,
1968-1971
Nathaniel Hawthorne Society,
1980
(2
folders)
National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) - Misc., 1969-1976
Establishment, 1965 (National
Foundation for the Arts and Sciences Act)
Senior Fellowship Award,
1972-1974
Division of Fellowships,
1967-1979
Summer Seminars for College
Teachers, 1976-1977
Division of Public Programs,
1971-1977
Media Program Panel,
1976
Box 21
Division of Research Grants,
1975-1978
National Council of Teachers of
English (NCTE),
1947, 1958, 1960-1970
(10
folders)
Box 22
Advisory Council,
1965
Commission on Literature,
1964-1968
(5
folders)
Committee on the Education of
College Teachers of English,
1963-1964
Conference on English Education,
1964, 1966
Copyright Law (HR4347),
1965
English Teacher Preparation Study,
1965
Box 23
North Carolina Literary and
Historical Association (NCLHA),
1959-1960, 1963, 1971-1978
(2
folders)
North Carolina English Teachers
Association (NCETA),
1954-1957, 1964-1970
(3
folders)
Phi Beta Kappa,
1965
Poe Studies Association
(PSA),
1977-1978
Popular Culture
Association (PCA),
1971
Society of American
Historians,
1950-1958, 1960-1967, 1970-1978
(3
folders)
Society for the Study of Southern
Literature (SSSL),
1974-1975, 1978-1979
South Atlantic Modern Language
Association (SAMLA)
American Literature Section,
1954-1957
(2
folders)
Panel on Publishing,
1973-1975
Miscellaneous,
1960, 1977
South Atlantic
Quarterly Board of Editors,
1955-1972
(6
folders)
Box 24
South-Central Modern Language
Association (SCMLA),
1953-1971, 1977-1978
Southeastern American Studies
Association (SEASA),
1955-1966, 1972-1978
(8
folders)
Southern Historical Association
(Journal of Southern
History),
1948-1955, 1975
Southern Humanities
Conference,
1955-1957, 1965
Sut Society,
1962, 1965
Printed Material Series, undated
The Printed Material
Series is comprised of clippings, newsletters,
pamphlets, reprints, and publications related to American
Literature. This series includes materials from the
Educational Testing Service (ETS), memorabilia from
Turner's time at the University of Hull in England,
literary magazines, and miscellaneous clippings primarily
regarding Southern writers (specifically North Carolina
authors), William Faulkner, and the New Critics (aka The
Fugitives).
Box 25
Printed Materials
(15
folders)
Writings and Speeches Series, 1938-1980 and undated (bulk 1964-1977)
The Writings and Speeches
Series is comprised primarily of copies of Turner's
speeches, articles, and abstracts, as well as
correspondence and contractual information regarding them.
This series also includes a complete typed manuscript of
Turner's Hawthorne biography with handwritten edits. The
Writings and Speeches Series also contains two folders of
writings about Turner: one folder of materials which Turner
himself authored or compiled, including several versions of
his curriculum vita and a brief autobiography with
transcripts attached, and one folder of materials written
by others, including tributes and obituaries. Turner's
writings are arranged chronologically at the front of the
box, followed by writings by others.
Turner's Writings
Box 26
1938,
"Fiction of the Bayou Country,"
The Saturday
Review
1952-1954, 1969 and undated, Speech
Notes - Misc.
1964,
"Problems of Literary Authorship in the
South Since the Civil War,"
Simpson College Lecture
1965,
"William Faulkner and the Revolution in
Southern Literature,"
Mars Hill College
Symposium
1965-1973, American Bibliographic
Center Abstracts
1970,
"Local
Color Writing in the South, 1865-1900,"
Indiana
University Lecture
1973,
"Comedy
and Reality in Local Color Fiction, 1865-1900,"
Voice
of America Forum Series
(Comic Imagination
in American Literature)
1980,
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
A biography (typescript)
undated, Writings - Misc.
1980 and undated, Arlin Turner,
Writings about, by Turner
Writings By Others
1977, 1980, Arlin Turner, Writings
about, by others
[contains
transparency of
Turner, 1977]
1975, Hampden-Sydney Literary
Symposium Manuscript
1976,
"Doonesbury,The Art
of Garry Trudeau"
(Student Paper)
undated, Misc.
