William Stanley Braithwaite Papers, 1904-1932

Summary

Creator:
Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.
Abstract:

William Stanley Braithwaite of Arlington Heights, Mass., was a poet and the editor of the annual "Anthology of Magazine Verse." He also taught at Atlanta University.

Letters, 1923-1932, to Braithwaite, chiefly from North Carolina poets concerning publication of their work. Poets represented are Ruth Vail, Florrie Jean Lightfoot, Kate Downing Ghent, Charlotte Young, and James Larkin Pearson. Also included is a notebook, circa 1904, containing three pages written by Braithwaite discussing the difficulty of getting a volume of poems published without a financial guarantee and requesting advance subscriptions of $1.00 per copy for his "Lyrics of Life and Love" (1904). These pages are followed by six pages with subscribers' names.

Extent:
25 items ((3 folders). linear feet)
Language:
Materials in English
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Background

Biographical / historical:

William Stanley Braithwaite of Arlington Heights, Mass., was a poet and the editor of the annual "Anthology of Magazine Verse." He also taught at Atlanta University.

Scope and content:

Letters, 1923-1932, to Braithwaite, chiefly from North Carolina poets concerning publication of their work. Poets represented are Ruth Vail, Florrie Jean Lightfoot, Kate Downing Ghent, Charlotte Young, and James Larkin Pearson. Also included is a notebook, circa 1904, containing three pages written by Braithwaite discussing the difficulty of getting a volume of poems published without a financial guarantee and requesting advance subscriptions of $1.00 per copy for his "Lyrics of Life and Love" (1904). These pages are followed by six pages with subscribers' names.

Acquisition information:

Purchased from M & S Rare Books of Weston, Mass., in 1971 and gift of M. H. Carpenter of Norfolk, Va., in April 1979.

Processing information:

Processed by: Brooke Allan, November 1971; Anne von Storch, April 1986; Roslyn Holdzkom, October 1993

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

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Access and use

Restrictions to access:

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to use:

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

No usage restrictions.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the William Stanley Braithwaite papers #4215-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
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Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
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