Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides

hunterprice Preliminary Inventory of the Jody Jones Hunter Collection of Works by Reynolds Price, 1954-2001 Preliminary processing by: Library Staff; machine-readable finding aid created by: Lisa Stark

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from automated markup system. Date of source: October 27, 1999 Preliminary processing by Library Staff October 27, 1999; Finding Aid encoded by Lisa Stark, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, August 2, 2000 Description is in English. 12-31-2005 PUBLIC "-//David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library//TEXT (US::NDD::::Jody Jones Hunter Collection of Works by Reynolds Price)//EN" "hunterprice.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Also, the top level of the finding aid (above the dsc) changed to conform to current Rubenstein Library and NC EAD standards as laid out in the Inventory Style Guide and in the NCEAD Best Practice Guidelines. Within the dsc, dates for series were normalized. These changes were made by Michelle Belden. Also, container TYPE and LABEL attribute values were standardized according to the Rubenstein Library EAD 2002 manual and the NCEAD eadlocal.ent by Ruth E. Bryan.The tag list inside index was changed to indexentry by Ruth E. Bryan. June 10, 2003 Addition (2001-0057) made to electronic finding aid. Materials received as gift, March 19, 2001. Minimally processed by Elizabeth Arnold on June 10, 2003. Date span changed from 1954-1999 to 1954-2001. Linear feet changed from 20 to 21.7. Item count changed from 460 to 550. Preliminary Inventory of the Jody Jones Hunter Collection of Works by Reynolds Price, 1954-2001 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

Descriptive Summary Jody Jones Hunter Collection of Works by Reynolds Price, 1954-2001 Hunter, Jody Jones 21.7 Linear Feet 550 Items David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. English. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Jody Jones Hunter Collection of Works by Reynolds Price, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Provenance

Collection was received as a gift from Hunter in 1999, 2001, and 2008-2009.

Processing Information

Preliminary processing by Library Staff

Completed October 27, 1999

Additions minimally processed by Elizabeth Arnold

Last updated April 10, 2009

Encoded by Lisa Stark; Elizabeth Arnold; Meghan Lyon

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

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.

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 (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.

Addition (2008-0082) (3 items, 2 lin. ft.; dated 1998 and undated) comprises one poster and two black-and-white photographs of Price. One photograph features Price and William Styron.

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. Contents of Collection Accession #1999-0273

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1 Kate Vaiden Use of Fire Clear Pictures Love and Work 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 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 4 Books from the personal library of Reynolds Price Five Reynolds Price videos 5 Red Clay Reader, volumes 1-7 Magazines 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 7 Collected Stories Blue Calhoun Foreseeable Future New Music Full Moon Good Hearts Common Room New Music Tongues of Angels Good Hearts 8 Unlabeled books from same original box as those in box 9 9 Modern American Memoirs Afterwards Conv.-R.P. Higher Pl... Song of Solomon Chapel Hill Carousel Stories-Mod. So. Anthologies Literary Magazines 10 Promise of Rest Source of Light Vital Provisions Private Contentment Permanent Error 3 James Taylor CDs 2 Audiotapes 3 Plays: Horton Foote 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 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 13 Wings of Dove (Typescript?) Correspondence and miscellaneous papers Southern Nights Chapbook Series 14 Book Reviews and other articles 15 Book Reviews and other articles 16 Framed self-portrait Framed photograph (autographed by Price) Broadsides Self-portraits Oversized broadside Broadside- Poem Dead Man, Dying Girl- Poem 1 Full Moon broadside Program Newsletter Accession #2001-0057 1 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 2 Contents of Box 2:

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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 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 About Town magazine, February 1962

Contains an article about Price (Accession 2009-0071).

4 Contents of Box 4: Five self-portraits in various media, including 2 labelled "College days"