James Boyd Papers, 1906-1953, 1964-1969 (original) (raw)

Collection Number: 03610

Collection Title: James Boyd Papers, 1906-1953, 1964-1969

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Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the James Boyd Papers #3610, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Mrs. James Boyd in 1963-1966 and 1970, and from Nancy Boyd Sokoloff in 1977.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Processed by: Jackie Dean, 1997

Encoded by: Jackie Dean, 1997

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, April 2011

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• American literature--20th century.
• Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.
• Authors, American--Correspondence.
• Authors, American--North Carolina.
• Authors, American--Political activity.
• Benet, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943.
• Boyd family.
• Boyd, James, 1888-1944.
• Boyd, Katharine Lamont, 1896-1974
• Bridges, Robert Seymour, 1844-1930.
• Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956.
• College students--England-Social life and customs--20th century.
• College students--United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
• De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955.
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
• Free Company (New York, N.Y.)
• Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933.
• Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972.
• Green, Paul, 1894-1981.
• Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.
• MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982.
• Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.
• New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
• Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947.
• Princeton University--Students--History--20th Century.
• Saroyan, William, 1908-1981.
• Stallings, Laurence, 1894-1968.
• Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
• United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
• University of Cambridge--Students--History--20th Century.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.
• World War, 1914-1918--France.

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The papers include more than 400 letters written by James Boyd to his parents in Harrisburg, Pa., and other places, beginning in 1906 and continuing through his years at Princeton University, 1907-1910, and Cambridge University, 1910-1912, and while he worked as a journalist and for the Red Cross in New York, N.Y. Also included are letters to his wife, Katharine Lamont Boyd, while he was overseas, 1917-1919, serving as an ambulance driver with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and correspondence with friends, readers, other writers, and publishers about his work, especially about the novels Drums and Bitter Creek and about the Free Company, a group of American writers, producers, and broadcasters who presented radio programs on the ideas of the free world, 1940-1941. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Vincent Benet, Robert Bridges, Louis Bromfield, Bernard De Voto, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Galsworthy, Frank Porter Graham, Paul Green, Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish, Thomas Mann, Maxwell Perkins, William Saroyan, Laurence Stallings, John Steinbeck, and Thomas Wolfe. Also included are drafts and copies of manuscripts of stories, articles, radio scripts, and poems; and clippings and pictures.

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Expand/collapse Series 1. Correspondence, 1906-1969 and undated.

About 700 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence includes more than 400 letters written by James Boyd to his parents in Harrisburg, Pa., and other places, beginning in 1906 and continuing through his years at Princeton University, 1907-1910, and Cambridge University, 1910-1912, and while he worked as a journalist and for the Red Cross in New York, N.Y. Also included are letters to his wife, Katharine Lamont Boyd, while he was overseas, 1917-1919, serving as an ambulance driver with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and correspondence with friends, readers, other writers, and publishers about his work, especially about the novels Drums and Bitter Creek and about the Free Company, a group of American writers, producers, and broadcasters who presented radio programs on the ideas of the free world, 1940-1941. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Vincent Benet, Robert Bridges, Louis Bromfield, Bernard De Voto, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Galsworthy, Frank Porter Graham, Paul Green, Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish, Thomas Mann, Maxwell Perkins, William Saroyan, Laurence Stallings, John Steinbeck, and Thomas Wolfe.

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About 200 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Writings include drafts of short stories, poems, radio and film scripts, and articles.

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