Inventory of the Charles Roberts Anderson Papers, 1806-1993 and undated

Correspondence with Henry Holt and Company, Inc. (later Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.) relating to the two-volume American Literary Masters anthology Anderson executive edited. Includes contracts, royalty statements, and other correspondence. Also includes drafts of essays by Anderson on Henry Adams, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Robert Frost, written for inclusion in the anthology.

Lectures on the intellectual life of Charleston as well as research files from the same period. Also includes undated drafts of Before It Became Historic Charleston, a memoir by Anderson eventually published as Charleston: A Golden Memory in 1993.

Primarily files related to the publication of Anderson's Emily Dickinson's Poetry: Stairway of Surprise, including rejection letters; correspondence with publisher Holt, Rinehart and Winston; and letters of criticism and encouragement from colleagues, particularly Thomas H. Johnson; and clippings of favorable reviews from newspapers. Additional files include a few photocopies of Dickinson mansuscripts and correspondence; transcripts and notes of Anderson's lectures on Dickinson; a file of suggested readings on Dickinson probably associated with American Literary Masters; and correspondence with Duke University regarding the donation of these papers.

Numerous photocopies of letters written to or by Paul Hamilton Hayne as well as correspondence related to Hayne between Anderson and colleagues or archives. Hayne's correspondents include Charles Gayarre and Henry Timrod. Unlike the other major research files in this series, there is no published work by Anderson in this group.

Drafts and lectures on the works of Henry James; most are likely related to Anderson's Henry James: A Tale of Two Civilizations.

Research files include reproductions of Lanier letters, publisher correspondence, clippings, and lectures. Most are dated around the publication of the Centennial Edition of the Works of Sidney Lanier (1945) and Sidney Lanier: Poems and Letters (1969), both edited by Anderson.

Correspondence with co-editors and correspondence related to Anderson's edited and annotated manuscript of Typee, which was to have been part of the aborted Greylock Edition of Melville series, as well as galley proofs of the manuscript. Additional material related to Anderson's Melville in the South Seas and other articles and lectures on Melville are also included. One article may be part of the American Literary Masters anthology.

Publisher correspondence, partial drafts, and articles on Henry David Thoreau. Most center on Anderson's The Magic Circle of Walden and Thoreau's World: Miniatures from his Journal, which he edited. Files of clippings of reviews of The Magic Circle of Walden, research files including a map of locations referenced in Thoreau's journals, and an article likely related to American Literary Masters may be found at the end of the group.

Copies of most of Anderson's additional publications as well as other drafts, lectures, and a short memoir entitled A Georgia Boy in a Walled Garden. Most are scholarly journal articles on the same subjects as his major works. Additional topics include Southern literature, black writers in the South, and Victorian literature.

Primarily composed of serials, scholarly articles, and index card files on topics of professional significance to Anderson. Earliest dates refer to photocopied archival material. Includes copies of correspondence between Southern literary historian James Wood Davidson and Sarah Helen Whitman; writings and some letters by Louisiana historian and playwright Charles Gayarre; and several pieces of correspondence from Flannery O'Connor sent to Anderson by a student (box 12). Some research material was either collected by Anderson while abroad in Japan or sent by colleagues there. Thus, a few items are in Japanese. Boxes 15-19 contain Anderson's index card files used to organize his research. Includes research notes on the intellectual life of Charleston, Paul Hamilton Hayne, and a large file on various major American authors. Two boxes of cards of more varied material including post cards and miscellaneous notes are also included.