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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.

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.

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. Contents 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.

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. 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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 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 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.

12 American Literature (12 folders) 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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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) 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 21 Division of Research Grants, 1975-1978 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 1947, 1958, 1960-1970 (10 folders) 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 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) 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).

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 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.