Doris Betts Papers, 1932-2012

Collection Number: 04695

Collection Title: Doris Betts Papers, 1932-2012

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Size	39.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 13000 items)
Abstract	Doris Betts (1932-2012) was a white North Carolina author and Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, speeches, audio recordings, video recordings, photographs, and other materials. The bulk of Betts's correspondence is with editors, publishers, other college English professors, and literary organizations, although there are also some personal letters. Among these are personal letters from Doris Betts to Louise Abbot, friend and writer from Louisville, Ga., with reflections on the births of her three children, her writing career, books read, day-to-day life, and the illness and death of her husband. Manuscript materials by Betts are extensive, and typically include drafts; galleys; various publishing states, chiefly the printed literary journals and anthologies in which her writings appeared; reviews; and publicity. Betts is best known for her novels and short stories, but her archive also includes a significant collection of reviews and articles published in newspapers, newsletters, scholarly journals, popular magazines, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publications, and other periodicals. Besides Betts's writing, there are also reviews, literary criticism, and bibliographies of her work; interviews and other articles about her; materials relating to awards she received; and publicity for speaking engagements and other literary programs in which she participated. In some cases, the text and/or audio and/or video recordings of the speeches she gave at these events are included. Other audio and video recordings include radio programs featuring Betts, such as the Storylines Southeast series. Betts's participation in various programs and committees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is also documented. Other materials include photographs of Betts; letters from Anne Beatty to her parents about her Peace Corps experiences in Nepal; and family history materials and writings. The additions consist of speeches and programs, correspondence with Joseph Flora, printed materials, and annotated drafts and books.
Creator	Betts, Doris.
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language	English

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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 Doris Betts Papers #4695, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information: Purchased from H.E. Turlington in March 1994 (Acc. 940049); received as gift from Louise H. Abbot in June 2008 (Acc. 100952), March 2009 (Acc. 101074), September 2011 (Acc. 101488), October 2016 (Acc. 102658); purchased from the Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University in February 2012 (Acc. 101562); received from Connie Eble in August 2012 (Acc. 101855); received from Joseph Flora in May 2013 (Acc. 101854); received from Doris Betts in July 2014 (Acc. 102062); received from Sara Sowa in August 2019 (Acc. 103670).

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Doris June Waugh Betts was a white North Carolina author and Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was born 4 June 1932 in Statesville, N.C., and graduated from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, N.C. Betts married Lowry Matthews Betts (1930-2007) in 1952 and with him had three children: Doris LewEllyn, David Lowry, and Erskine Moore.

Betts began her writing career as a newspaper reporter. She first gained notice as a fiction writer for her short stories and novels, including The Gentle Insurrection: And Other Stories (1954), Tall Houses in Winter (1957), and The Scarlet Thread (1964). In 1966, she joined the English Department faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Over the next 30 years, she taught English literature and creative writing and continued her steady production of novels, short stories, and articles, including "The Ugliest Pilgrim" (1969), which was turned into Violet, an award-winning movie and Broadway play; Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories (1973); and Souls Raised from the Dead (1994). Among many honors, Betts received the G.P. Putnam Booklength Fiction Prize (1954); the Sir Walter Raleigh Best Fiction by a North Carolinian award (1957, 1965, and 1974); a Guggenheim fellowship (1958); the North Carolina Medal (1975); the American Academy of Arts and Letters Medal of Merit (1989); and the Southern Book Award (1995).

Doris Betts died 21 April 2012.

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The Doris Betts Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, speeches, audio recordings, video recordings, photographs, and other materials. Correspondence is generally professional in nature, though personal correspondence is scattered throughout the series. The bulk of Betts's correspondence is with editors, publishers, other college English professors, and literary organizations. The additions of 2008, 2009, and 2011 are primarily letters from Doris Betts to Louise Abbot, a friend and writer from Louisville, Ga. In these letters, Betts reflected on the births of her three children, her writing career, books read, her day-to-day life, and the illness and death of her husband Lowry Matthews Betts in 2007.

Manuscript materials by Betts are extensive, and typically include drafts, various publishing states (sometimes galleys, but chiefly the printed literary journals and anthologies in which her writings appeared), reviews, and publicity. Betts is best known for her novels, short stories, and anthologies, but her archive also includes a significant collection of reviews and articles published in newspapers, newsletters, scholarly journals, popular magazines, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publications, and other periodicals.

Besides Betts's writing, there are also reviews, literary criticism, and bibliographies of her work; interviews and other articles about her; materials relating to awards she received; and publicity for speaking engagements and other literary programs she participated in for a variety of scholarly and popular audiences. In some cases, the text and/or audio and/or video recordings of the speeches she gave at these events are included. Other audio and video recordings include radio programs featuring Betts, such as the Storylines Southeast series. Betts's contributions to the Department of English and Creative Writing, the Program in the Humanities and Human Values, the Morehead Scholars Selection Committee, the Association of Women Faculty, Second Sunday Readings, and the Carolina Publishing Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are also documented.

Other materials include formal and informal portraits of Betts, as well as snapshots with students, colleagues, and other writers; appointment books from the 1980s; writings by other authors; letters from Anne Beatty to her parents about her Peace Corps experiences in Nepal; and family history materials and writings.

The additions of 2012 and 2013 consist of speeches and programs, 2010-2012, and correspondence with Joseph Flora and other printed materials, 1973-1994.

The addition of 2014 consists of an annotated draft of "The Most Unpleasant Book I Ever Read."

The addition 0f 2019 consists of As I See Religion (1932) by Harry Emerson Fosdick, annotated by Doris Betts, together with one tipped in letter from Fosdick to Doris Waugh Betts, which was a response to a letter from Betts to Fosdick. The letter was sent 21 May 1951.

Contents list

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1. Correspondence, 1952-2011.
2. Writings, 1950-2010.
2.1. Novels, 1957-1997.
2.2. Short Stories, 1952-2004.
2.3. Poetry, 1951-1974.
2.4. Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters, 1950-2007.
2.5. Newspaper Articles, 1950-2000.
2.6. Reviews by Doris Betts, 1952-2003.
2.7. Speeches, 1956-2010.
2.8. Other Writing and Editorial Projects, 1956-2006.
2.9. Literary Criticism of Doris Betts, 1970s-2000s.
3. Biographical Materials, 1954-2010.
4. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968-2010.
5. Other Projects and Activities, 1952-2010.
6. Photographs, 1947-2000s.
7. Other Materials, 1954-2012.
8A. Additions
8.1A. Speeches and Programs, 2010-2012 (Addition of August 2012).
8.2A. Joseph Flora Correspondence and Miscellaneous Materials, 1973-1994 and undated (Addition of May 2013).
8.3A. Annotated Draft of The Most Unpleasant Book I Ever Read, undated (Addition of July 2014).
8.4A. Annotated Copy of As I See Religion and Enclosed Letter, 1932 and 1951 (Addition of August 2019).

Expand/collapse Series 1. Correspondence, 1952-2011.

About 3600 items.

Correspondence is generally professional in nature, though personal correspondence is scattered throughout the series. The bulk of Doris Betts's correspondence is with publishers, other college English professors, and literary organizations.

Folder 1	1952-1959
Folder 2	1961-1969
Folder 3	1971-1972
Folder 4	1973
Folder 5	1974
Folder 6	1975
Folder 7	1976
Folder 8	1977
Folder 9	1978-1979
Folder 10	1980
Folder 11	1981
Folder 12	1982
Folder 13	1983
Folder 14	1984
Folder 15	1985
Folder 16	1986
Folder 17	1987
Folder 18	1988
Folder 19	1989
Folder 20	1990
Folder 21	1991
Folder 22	1992
Folder 23	1993
Folder 24-29 Folder 24 Folder 25 Folder 26 Folder 27 Folder 28 Folder 29	1994
Folder 30-34 Folder 30 Folder 31 Folder 32 Folder 33 Folder 34	1995
Folder 35-39 Folder 35 Folder 36 Folder 37 Folder 38 Folder 39	1996
Folder 40-47 Folder 40 Folder 41 Folder 42 Folder 43 Folder 44 Folder 45 Folder 46 Folder 47	1997
Folder 48-55 Folder 48 Folder 49 Folder 50 Folder 51 Folder 52 Folder 53 Folder 54 Folder 55	1998
Folder 56-59 Folder 56 Folder 57 Folder 58 Folder 59	1999
Folder 60	2000
Folder 61	2001
Folder 62	2002-2004
Folder 63	2005-2010
Folder 64-68 Folder 64 Folder 65 Folder 66 Folder 67 Folder 68	Undated
Folder 625-629 Folder 625 Folder 626 Folder 627 Folder 628 Folder 629	Letters to Louise Abbot, 1954-2011 (Additions of 2008, 2009, 2011, 2016) Primarily letters from Doris Betts to Louise Abbot reflecting on the births of Betts's three children, her writing career, books read, her day to day life, and the illness and death of her husband. Also contains email printouts between Doris Betts and Louisa Abbot about career events, personal matters, books read, day to day life, and the death of Betts's daughter, LewEllyn. Acquisition information: Received as gift from Louise H. Abbot in June 2008 (Acc. 100952), March 2009 (Acc. 101074), September 2011 (Acc. 101488), and October 2016 (Acc. 102658).

Expand/collapse Series 2. Writings, 1950-2010.

About 1200 items.

Manuscript materials by Doris Betts are extensive, and typically include drafts, various publishing states (sometimes galleys, but chiefly the published issue of the literary journals and magazines, anthologies, newsletters, newspapers, and other periodicals in which her writings appeared), reviews, and publicity. Some short stories and articles were published in multiple venues; efforts have been made to bring them together.

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.1. Novels, 1957-1997.

About 300 items.

Folder 72	Tall Houses in Winter, 1957: Correspondence Includes editorial suggestions and publishing process.
Folder 73-78 Folder 73 Folder 74 Folder 75 Folder 76 Folder 77 Folder 78	Tall Houses in Winter, 1957: Draft
Folder 79	Tall Houses in Winter, 1957: Review
Folder 80	The Scarlet Thread, 1964: Draft
Folder 81-84 Folder 81 Folder 82 Folder 83 Folder 84	The Scarlet Thread, 1964: Setting copy
Folder 85-87 Folder 85 Folder 86 Folder 87	The Scarlet Thread, 1964: Printer's proof
Folder 88-89 Folder 88 Folder 89	The Scarlet Thread, 1964: "I, Thomas Allen" Earlier version.
Folder 90	The Scarlet Thread, 1964: Review, comments by Doris Betts, editorial
Folder 91-92 Folder 91 Folder 92	The River to Pickle Beach, 1972: First draft
Folder 93-94 Folder 93 Folder 94	The River to Pickle Beach, 1972: Second draft
Folder 95-98 Folder 95 Folder 96 Folder 97 Folder 98	The River to Pickle Beach, 1972: Proofs
Folder 99	The River to Pickle Beach, 1972: Publicity
Folder 100	The River to Pickle Beach, 1972: Reviews
Folder 101	The River to Pickle Beach, 1972: "The Pinheads" First page of draft and related notes.
Folder 102-106 Folder 102 Folder 103 Folder 104 Folder 105 Folder 106	Heading West, 1981: Galley proofs With handwritten corrections.
Folder 107-110 Folder 107 Folder 108 Folder 109 Folder 110	Heading West, 1981: Reviews and publicity
Folder 111-113 Folder 111 Folder 112 Folder 113	Heading West, 1981: "Stepping Westward"
Folder 114-120 Folder 114 Folder 115 Folder 116 Folder 117 Folder 118 Folder 119 Folder 120	Souls Raised from the Dead, 1994: Manuscripts In various states.
Folder 121	Souls Raised from the Dead, 1994: Research material Handwritten notes, character profiles, newspaper clippings, kidney disease and dialysis information.
Folder 122-131 Folder 122 Folder 123 Folder 124 Folder 125 Folder 126 Folder 127 Folder 128 Folder 129 Folder 130 Folder 131	Souls Raised from the Dead, 1994: Reviews and publicity Also includes Betts's conversational notes on publicity and public appearances for Simon and Schuster Fireside, chiefly relating to this novel, but other titles, including The Gentle Insurrection, The Astronomer and Other Tales, and Beasts of the Southern Wild, are also mentioned.
Folder 132-146 Folder 132 Folder 133 Folder 134 Folder 135 Folder 136 Folder 137 Folder 138 Folder 139 Folder 140 Folder 141 Folder 142 Folder 143 Folder 144 Folder 145 Folder 146	The Sharp Teeth of Love, 1997: Manuscripts In various states.
Folder 147	The Sharp Teeth of Love, 1997: Excerpt in Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion In various states.
Folder 148	The Sharp Teeth of Love, 1997: Notebook Background research, notes on characters, plot.
Folder 149-150 Folder 149 Folder 150	The Sharp Teeth of Love, 1997: Reviews and publicity
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4695/2	The Sharp Teeth of Love, 1997: Reviews (oversize)

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2. Short Stories, 1952-2004.

About 300 items.

Folder 151	"Yesterday Was the Last Time," Coraddi, Volume LVI, Number 4 (Summer 1952)
Folder 152	"Birds of a Feather," The Carolina Quarterly, Volume VI, Number 2 (Winter 1953)
Folder 153	"Mr. Shawn and Father Scott," 1953 This story won the Mademoiselle college fiction award.
Folder 154	"I Can Understand Pilate," 1954
Folder 155	The Gentle Insurrection: And Other Stories, 1954: Drafts Includes explanatory notes by Betts.
Folder 156	The Gentle Insurrection: And Other Stories, 1954: Publicity For 1997 reprinting.
Folder 157	"The August Tree," The Carolina Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 1 (Fall 1955)
Folder 158	"Clarissa and the Depths," New Campus Writing (New York: Bantam Books, 1955)
Folder 159	"The Sword," A New Southern Harvest: An Anthology Edited by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine (New York: Bantam Books, 1957) Does not include text.
Folder 160	"The End of Summer," The Carolina Quarterly, Volume 10, Number 2, (Spring 1958)
Folder 161	"I, Thomas Allen" (chapter 5), The Student, May 1959
	"The Silver Houses," The Student, May 1959
	"The Man Who Measured Money," The Student, May 1959
Folder 162	"What Do They See in Each Other," Woman's Day, Volume 24, Number 11 (August 1961)
Folder 163	"Careful, Sharp Eggs Underfoot," The Rebel, Volume 7, Number 3 (Spring 1964)
Folder 164	"Spies in the Herb House," 1965: Bound reprint, 1994
Folder 165-169 Folder 165 Folder 166 Folder 167 Folder 168 Folder 169	The Astronomer and Other Stories, 1966: Draft
Folder 170-171 Folder 170 Folder 171	The Astronomer and Other Stories, 1966: Reader's proof
Folder 172	The Astronomer and Other Stories, 1966: Reviews, publicity, comments by Doris Betts Some publicity and reviews are for the 1995 reprinting.
Folder 173	"Put Them All Together," The Greensboro Review, Volume 4, Number 1 (Winter 1968)
Folder 174	"The Bald Pigeon," The Carolina Quarterly, Volume 21, Number 1 (Winter 1969)
Folder 175	"Burning the Bed," The South Carolina Review, Volume 1, Number 2 (May 1969)
Folder 176	"The Ugliest Pilgrim," Red Clay Reader, 6 (1969)
Folder 177	"The Ugliest Pilgrim" Notebook with draft, correspondence with Charleen Whisnant, stage adaptation and related performance flyer and program, and permission to reprint. Also included are explanatory notes by Betts.
Folder 178	"The Ugliest Pilgrim," Reading Writing Relationships (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1986)
Music Compact Disc CD-4695/1	"The Ugliest Pilgrim,""Listening for God: Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith," Volumes 3 and 4 (2003).
Folder 179-180 Folder 179 Folder 180	"The Ugliest Pilgrim": Violet, 1982, 1999 Publicity and reviews of film and musical versions of Betts's short story.
Audiocassette C-4695/1	"The Ugliest Pilgrim": Violet, 2 May 1999 Recording of an episode of The State of Things, entitled "From Page to Stage," featuring Doris Betts discussing Playmakers Repertory Company's adaptation of her short story "The Ugliest Pilgrim"; recorded at WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Audiocassette C-4695/14	"The Ugliest Pilgrim": Violet, undated Excerpts from the musical, which is based on "The Ugliest Pilgrim."
Videotape VT-4695/9	"The Ugliest Pilgrim": Violet, undated
Folder 181	"Necromancer," The Long View Journal, Volume 1, Number 3 (Winter 1970) Includes explanatory notes by Betts.
Folder 182	"The Wrong Day for the Race," Cairn, Volume 6 (Fall 1970) Includes explanatory notes by Betts.
Folder 183-184 Folder 183 Folder 184	"Still Life With Fruit," Red Clay Reader, 7 (1970) Includes reader comments.
Folder 185	"The Glory of His Nostrils," Appalachian Harvest, Issue 1 (1970) Includes explanatory notes by Betts.
Folder 186	"The Glory of His Nostrils": Screenplay, 1979
Folder 187	"Benson Watts Is Dead and in Virginia," The Massachusetts Review, Volume 14, Number 2 (Spring 1973)
Folder 188-190 Folder 188 Folder 189 Folder 190	Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories, 1973: Manuscript draft
Folder 191-193 Folder 191 Folder 192 Folder 193	Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories, 1973: Proofs
Folder 194	Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories, 1973: Publicity
Folder 195	Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories, 1973: Reviews
Folder 196	"Beasts of the Southern Wild," The Carolina Quarterly, Volume 25, Number 2 (Spring 1973)
Folder 197	"Beasts of the Southern Wild" In The Ethnic American Woman: Problems, Protests, Lifestyle, 1978.
Folder 198	"Beasts of the Southern Wild" In 3 by 3: Masterworks of the Southern Gothic, 1985.
Folder 199	"A Love Story," Cosmopolitan, Volume 175, Number 3 (September 1973)
Folder 200	"My Grandfather Haunts This Farm," Saturday Evening Post, February 1977
Folder 201	"Prefatory to a Story," Man in Seven Modes, Southern Humanities Conference, 1977
Folder 202	"Stepping Westward," Mississippi Review, Volume 7, Number 2 (Spring 1978)
Folder 203	"The Story of E," The Carolina Quarterly, Volume 31, Number 3 (Fall 1979)
Folder 204	"The Story of E," The Carolina Quarterly, 45th Anniversary, 1993
Folder 205	"The Lost or Stolen Dog," The Oconee Review, Volume 1, Number 1 (Fall 1979)
Folder 206	"Bringing Down the House," Redbook, Volume 153, Number 4 (August 1979)
Folder 207	"Il Miracolo di Essere Amata," Grazia, Number 2177 (November 1982)
Folder 208-209 Folder 208 Folder 209	"This Is the Only Time I'll Tell It," in The Rough Road Home (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992) Includes materials relating to reprinting in The South Carolina Review, Volume 42, Number 2 (Spring 2010) and The Christ Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction (University Press of Mississippi, 1994).
Audiocassette C-4695/12	"This Is the Only Time I'll Tell It": "Writers and Religion," Susan Ketchin and Margaret Lacey, 1994 Audiocassette from the National Humanities Center's Soundings weekly radio show.
Videotape VT-4695/7	"This Is the Only Time I'll Tell It": Birthmark, undated Birthmark, from Isaiah Films and produced by Nancy Norton, was based on Doris Betts's short story "This Is the Only Time I'll Tell It."
Folder 210	"Who is Sylvia? (novel in progress)," Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Literature and Art, Volume 21, Number 1 (1999)
Folder 211-212 Folder 211 Folder 212	"Three Ghosts," The Cry of an Occasion: Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001) Includes draft and excerpted versions.
Folder 213	"Aboveground," Epoch, Volume 50, Number 3 (2001) Includes draft version.
Folder 214	"In the Last House," The Idaho Review, Volume IV (2002) Includes draft version.
Folder 215	"The Lawn Ornament," Epoch, Volume 51, Number 2 (2002)
Folder 216	"Minding the Graves," The Southern Review, Volume 38, Number 3 (Summer 2002) Includes draft version.
Folder 217	"Whose Child Is This?" in Christmas in the South: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers (New York: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004)
Folder 218	"The House by the River: Ovid Williams Pierce," undated
Folder 219	"The Nicest House on Cedar Drive," in The News and Observer, undated

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.3. Poetry, 1951-1974.

About 25 items.

Chiefly the published issues of the literary journals, magazines, and anthologies in which Doris Betts's writings appeared.

Folder 220	"Hannah, Mother of Samuel," circa 1951
Folder 221	"Hecuba, Enroute from Troy," New Mexico Quarterly, Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 1956)
Folder 222	"Dead Enemy," Southern Poetry Review, Volume 11, Number 2 (Spring 1971)
Folder 223	"Peripheral Vision," Descant, Volume 15, Number 2 (Winter 1971)
	"Peripheral Vision," Descant, Volume 25 (1980-1981)
Folder 224	"Next Kharma," Voices International, Volume 6, Number 1 (Spring 1971)
Folder 225	"A Classic Case," United Poets, January-March 1971
	"Ocracoke, Recently," The American Poet, January-March 1971
	"Arlington Program," Prairie Poet, January-March 1971
Folder 226	"Mrs. Longfellow's Death," The Beloit Poetry Journal, Volume 21, Number 3 (Spring 1971)
Folder 227	"The Marrying Woman," Southern Poetry Review, Volume 13, Number 2 (Spring 1973)
	"The Marrying Woman" in New Southern Poets: Selected Poems from Southern Poetry Review (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974)

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.4. Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters, 1950-2007.

About 300 items.

Chiefly the published issues of the literary journals and magazines, anthologies, newsletters, newspapers, and other periodicals in which Doris Betts's writings appeared.

Folder 228	"Grandfather and the Pines," 1950 First freshman English paper, Jim Painter's class at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina.
Folder 229	"Writers Record the South," Southern Observer, June 1956
Folder 230	"A Tangent and Some Agitated Evaluations," North Carolina English Teacher, December 1956
Folder 231	"Your Student Writer and Mine," 1972
Folder 232	"Short Story Math: Multiply by Two," The Writer, September 1972
Folder 233	"The Literature of Laputa," The South Carolina Review, Volume 5, Number 2 (June 1973)
Folder 234	"Brief Prose, Long Subjects," The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 72, Number 1 (Winter 1973)
Folder 235	"Values," The Alumni News (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Fall 1973
Folder 236	"Boiling the Wolf," North Carolina Education, April 1974
Folder 237	"Writers in Glass Houses," The Writer, February 1975
Folder 238	"Making Your Characters Live and Move," The Writer, January 1976
Folder 239	"Confessions of a Literature Panelist," The Cultural Post Volume 6, Number 6 (March/April 1981)
Folder 240-241 Folder 240 Folder 241	"The First Good Ole Girl," Life, March 1980 Also includes drafts and newspaper articles about Betts's experience interviewing First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
Folder 242-243 Folder 242 Folder 243	"Atlanta Weeps for Its Children," Life, April 1981 Includes correspondence, background newspaper articles about Betts's experience working on this project about serial murders of African American children in Atlanta, Ga.
Folder 244	"Seven Years of Service," Listen, April 1983
Folder 245	"The Fiction of Anne Tyler," The Southern Quarterly, Volume 21, Number 4 (Summer 1983)
Folder 246	"The Fingerprint of Style," Black Warrior Review, Volume 10, Number 1 (Fall 1983)
Folder 247	"Slow Change Artist," His, April 1983
Folder 248	"Liberal Arts: A Living as Well as a Life," Carolina Family, Winter/Spring 1984
Folder 249	"Undergraduate Creative Writing Courses," ADE Bulletin, No. 79 (Winter 1984)
Folder 250	"Computer Technology: It's All in the Family," Carolina Alumni Review, Winter 1984
Folder 251	"An Intellectual's Spiritual Pilgrimage," The Student, Volume 63, Number 11 (May 1984)
Folder 252	"Southern Writers and the Bible," The Bookmark, Number 53, 1985
Folder 253	"The Christ-Haunted Psyche of the Southern Writer," Books & Religion, Volume 13, Number 2 (March 1985)
Folder 254	Halfway Home and a Long Way to Go: The Report of the Commission on the Future of the South , Southern Growth Policies Board, 1986
Folder 255	The Presbyterian Outlook, 1988 Includes several articles.
Folder 256	"The Words that Tell Our Stories," The Tryon Daily Bulletin, Volume 63, Number 155 (10 September 1990)
Folder 257	Literacy is Everybody's Business: The Power of the Word, Southern Growth Policies Board, circa 1990
Folder 258-259 Folder 258 Folder 259	"Many Souths and Broadening Scale: A Changing Southern Literature," The Future South: A Historical Perspective for the Twenty-first Century (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991)
Folder 260	"Testifying to the Best in Teaching and Learning, " 1991
Folder 261	University of North Carolina Bicentennial, 1992 Reflections on teaching and learning for bicentennial publications. Oversized calendar with essay by Betts is filed in OPF-4695/1
Folder 262	"Daughters, Southerners and Daisy," in The Female Tradition in Southern Literature (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993)
Folder 263	"Whispering Hope," Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion, Number 7 (Fall 1994)
Folder 264	"Doing Lunch," The New Harmony Journal, 1995 Two essays.
Folder 265	"Talking to Flannery," The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin, Volume 24, (1995-1996)
Folder 266	"In Memory of Charles Kuralt," The Writers' Network News, Volume 13, Number 5 (March/April 1998)
Folder 267	"God Between the Lines," U.S. Catholic, Volume 63, Number 6 (June 1998)
Folder 268-270 Folder 268 Folder 269 Folder 270	"The Goal of a Realist," Southern Cultures, Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer 1997) Also reprinted in Store of Joys, 1997.
Folder 271	"Everything I Know About Writing I Learned in Sunday School," The Christian Century, Volume 115, Number 28 (21 October 1998)
Folder 272	"My Love Affair with Carolina," 1998 "Together with tributes to Doris Betts by Elizabeth Evans, Lewellyn Betts, and Max Steele on the occasion of her acceptance of the North Caroliniana Society Award for 1998."
Folder 273	"Memento Mori," in Things in Heaven and Earth: Exploring the Supernatural (Paraclete Press, 1998)
Folder 274	"Putting Death in Your Daytimer," Christianity Today, Volume 42, Number 11 (5 October 1998)
Folder 275	"Fall Beginnings," Southern Living, October 1999
Folder 276	"We Were the Snopeses: A Writer and Her Piedmont," Southern Cultures, Summer 1999
Folder 277	"Enduring South," U.S. Airways Attache, May 1999
Folder 278	"Just As We Are," Brightleaf, Summer 1999 Draft; see also oversized published version filed in OPF-4695/1.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4695/1	"Just As We Are," Brightleaf, Summer 1999 (oversize)
Folder 279	Image, Issue 24 (Fall 1999) Betts contributed the editor's note and guest-edited this issue; drafts of articles by other contributors are included.
Folder 280	"Killers Real and Imagined," Southern Cultures, Winter 1999
Folder 281	"Yankee Immigrants Convert," Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion, Number 24 (Fall 1999)
Folder 282	"Tough As Fire," The Georgia Review, Spring 1999
Folder 283	"The View from the Pew," 2000 Essays for the Pittsboro Presbyterian Church newsletter
Folder 284	"1001 More Things Everyone Should Know About the South," Southern Cultures, Spring 2001
Folder 285	"The Mighty Pens of Writers," Pen World, May/June 2001
Folder 286	"On Conjunctions and Other Meaningful Words," Christianity and Literature, Volume 50, Number 2 (Winter 2001)
Folder 287	"Through the Cumberland Gap," Southern Cultures, Spring 2002
Folder 288	"Creativity and the Word," Muse & Spirit, Volume 6, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 2003)
Folder 289	"The Writer's Desk," Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion, Number 38, Spring 2003
Folder 290	"The Renewable Vow," Image: Art, Faith, Mystery, Issue 55 (2007)
Folder 291	"Fiction, Induction and Deduction," Arts in Society: The Arts in Education
Folder 292	Untitled, The World & I, undated Draft.
Folder 293	Untitled, Carolina Alumni Review, undated Draft of an essay about former student Randall Kenan.
Folder 294	"A teacher of beginning writers...," undated Draft.
Folder 295	"The Mental Greenhouse," undated Draft.

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.5. Newspaper Articles, 1950-2000.

About 100 items.

Folder 296	1950-1963
Folder 297	1965-1970
Folder 298	1980-1985
Folder 299	1990-2004, and undated Includes an essay on literacy commissioned by North Carolina Governor Jim Martin.
Folder 300	"Village Voices," 1994, 2000 Regular column and a guest column written by Doris Betts for the Chapel Hill News.
Folder 301	"Whose Child Is This," 1997, 2000 Essay written for the inauguration of North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt.

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.6. Reviews by Doris Betts, 1952-2003.

About 25 items.

Drafts and published reviews of books, written by Doris Betts for a variety of newspapers and literary journals and magazines. Also included are unpublished "reader reports."

Folder 302-307

Folder 302

Folder 303

Folder 304

Folder 305

Folder 306

Folder 307

Reviews by Betts, 1952-2003

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4695/2

Reviews (oversize)

Folder 308

Reader reports, 2000s

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.7. Speeches, 1956-2010.

About 100 items.

Speeches chiefly given at graduations, literary conferences, and similar events for scholarly and popular audiences. Note that other Doris Bett talks and speeches are included with other materials in Series 3. Biographical Materials, 4. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and 5. Other Projects and Activities.

Folder 309-316

Folder 309

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Folder 311

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Folder 315

Folder 316

Speeches, 1956-2010 and undated

Audiocassette C-4695/4

Graduation speech, Mitchell College, 4 June 1981

Text filed with speeches.

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.8. Other Writing and Editorial Projects, 1956-2006.

About 100 items.

Includes correspondence course textbook, a proposed textbook on rhetoric written with Robert Bains, journal editing, introductions, forewards, and briefer essays contributed to anthologies and encyclopedia.

Folder 317	"A Tangent and Some Agitated Evaluations," 1956
Folder 318	"Comments," The Young Writer at Chapel Hill, 1967-1968
Folder 319-321 Folder 319 Folder 320 Folder 321	"Creative Writing: The Short Story," 1969 A correspondence course prepared by Betts for the Bureau of Correspondence Instruction, University Extension Division.
Folder 322	"A Letter," Voices from Earth, 1971
Folder 323-325 Folder 323 Folder 324 Folder 325	Rhetoric textbook, 1973 Proposal prepared for textbook publisher, sample text, background research materials.
Folder 326	"Foreward," Numen: New Southern Writing, 1980
Folder 327	Carolina Quarterly, Volume 37, Number 3 (Spring 1985) Betts was guest editor for fiction.
Folder 328	"Foreward," Southern Women Writers 1922-1984 (Chapel Hill: H.E. Turlington, 1986)
Folder 329	Turning Over a New Leaf: People and Trees Together, circa 1987
Folder 330	"The Arts in Red and Gold," Nine from North Carolina: An Exhibition of Women Artists, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1989
Folder 331	"Where Is the Voice Coming From," University of Alabama Press, circa 1996
Folder 332	"Randall Garrett Kenan: Myth and Reality in Tims Creek," The Fourth Quarter: Essays on Contemporary Southern Narrative (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1996)
Folder 333	Untitled in Books of Passage (Down Home Press, 1996)
Folder 334	"The South," A William Faulkner Encyclopedia (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997)
Folder 335	On Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty: Writers' Reflections Upon First Reading Welty, Hill Street Press, 1999
Folder 336	"Circumstances and Winners Change," North Carolina Women Making History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999)
Folder 337	"The Mothers, Yes; The Feminists, Maybe Not," in Rediscovering Vardis Fisher, Joseph M. Flora, editor, (University of Idaho Press, 2000)
Folder 338	"Human and Holy Loving," in Andre Dubus Tributes (New Orleans: Xavier Review Press, 2001)
Folder 339	On John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck: Centennial Reflections by American Writers, 2002
Folder 340	"Foreward" in Michael McFee, Napkin Manuscripts (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005)
Folder 341	On the history of the North Carolina literary scene, Encyclopedia of North Carolina (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006) Draft.
Folder 342	"Fellowship of Southern Writers," The Companion to Southern Literature
Folder 343	"Light--and Dark?--in the Piazza," undated
Folder 344	Book ideas, undated
Folder 345-346 Folder 345 Folder 346	Miscellaneous, 1980s-1990s Letters, contracts, reviews, publicity relating to Betts's contributions to various projects. Also included are stage adaptations of "The Mandarin" and "Spies in the Herb House" by Lee R. Yopp.

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.9. Literary Criticism of Doris Betts, 1970s-2000s.

About 50 items.

Published and unpublished essays and longer works of literary criticism relating to Doris Betts's work.

Folder 347	Published: The Carolina Quarterly: A Tribute to Doris Betts, Volume 54, Number 1 (2002)
Folder 348-349 Folder 348 Folder 349	Published: Dantzler, Kathryn Lee Neal
Folder 350	Published: Eads, Martha Greene
Folder 351	Published: Evans, Elizabeth
Folder 352	Published: Fussell, Ellen
Folder 353	Published: Holman, David Marion
Folder 354	Published: Jackson, Joyce Keenum
Folder 355	Published: Lang, John
Folder 356	Published: McFee, Michael
Folder 357	Published: Ragan, Sam
Folder 358	Published: Worthington, Pepper
Folder 359-360 Folder 359 Folder 360	Published: Miscellaneous
Folder 361	Unpublished: "The Astronomer"
Folder 362	Unpublished: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Folder 363-364 Folder 363 Folder 364	Unpublished: Heading West
Folder 365	Unpublished: "Mandarin"
Folder 366	Unpublished: "The Scarlet Thread"
Folder 367	Unpublished: The Sharp Teeth of Love
Folder 368	Unpublished: Souls Raised from the Dead
Folder 369	Unpublished: "The Ugliest Pilgrim"
Folder 370-372 Folder 370 Folder 371 Folder 372	Unpublished: Miscellaneous

Expand/collapse Series 3. Biographical Materials, 1954-2010.

About 5200 items.

Includes bibliography, awards, clippings, interviews with and articles about Doris Betts, photographs, appointment calendar books, and miscellaneous personal materials.

Folder 373-381 Folder 373 Folder 374 Folder 375 Folder 376 Folder 377 Folder 378 Folder 379 Folder 380 Folder 381	Appointment calendar books, 1979-1996
Folder 382-386 Folder 382 Folder 383 Folder 384 Folder 385 Folder 386	Articles Includes articles and masters theses that profile Betts, quote her, or otherwise mention her. Oversize materials are filed in OPF-4695/2-3. See also Series 2.9. Literary Criticism.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4695/2-3 OPF-4695/2 OPF-4695/3	Articles (oversize)
Folder 387	Awards: Sir Walter Raleigh Award, 1957, 1964, 1974
Image Folder PF-4695/6	Awards: Sir Walter Raleigh Award, 1965
Folder 388	Awards: National Book Award (Nominee), 1974
Folder 389	Awards: North Carolina Award, 1975 For materials relating to Betts's involvement with the North Carolina Awards as a judge, etc., see Series 5. Other Projects and Activities.
Folder 390	Awards: John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, 1983
Folder 391	Awards: Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit Medal for the Short Story, 1989
Folder 392	Awards: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate Alumni Association Faculty Service Award, 1992
Folder 393-394 Folder 393 Folder 394	Awards: John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, 1992
Image Folder PF-4695/7	Awards: John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, 1992
Folder 395	Awards: Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award, 1994
Folder 396	Awards: Outstanding Southeastern Author Award, 1996
Folder 397	Awards: Ethel Fortner Award, 1997
Videotape VT-4695/11	Awards: Ethel Fortner Award, 1997 Videotape recording of the 12th Annual Ethel Fortner Awards at Saint Andrews Presbyterian College, 10 December 1997.
Folder 398	Awards: North Caroliniana Society Award, 1998 For Betts's involvement with the North Caroliniana Society, see Series 5. Other Projects and Activities.
Folder 399	Awards: Doris Betts Distinguished Professorship in Creative Writing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, established 1998
Folder 400	Awards: Conference on Christianity and Literature Lifetime Achievement Award, 2000
Folder 401	Awards: North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, inducted 2008 For Betts's other involvement with the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, see Series 5. Other Projects and Activities.
Videotape VT-4695/10	Awards: North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, inducted 2008 Nine-minute videotape relating to the 2004 inductees: Doris Betts, James E. McGirt, and Tom Wicker.
Folder 402	Awards: Roberts Award for Literary Inspiration, 2008
Folder 403	Awards: Honorary degrees, 1987-1995 Also includes speeches.
Image Folder PF-4695/8	Awards: Honorary degrees, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 1987
Folder 404	Awards: Honorary degrees, Sewanee, 1998
Folder 405	Awards: Honorary degrees, University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2006
Videotape VT-4695/8	Awards: Honorary degrees, 2006 Videotape labeled "Conversations with Bill" featuring Doris Betts and James Ferguson, the 2006 recipients of honorary doctoral degrees from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Folder 406-407 Folder 406 Folder 407	Awards: Other awards, 1954-2008
Folder 408-409 Folder 408 Folder 409	Bibliographies and vitae
Folder 410-413 Folder 410 Folder 411 Folder 412 Folder 413	Bibliographies and vitae: Graduate newsletter, 1969-1977, 1979-1982, 1984-1999
Folder 414-415 Folder 414 Folder 415	Bibliographies and vitae: Annual reports, 2000-2010
Folder 416-438 Folder 416 Folder 417 Folder 418 Folder 419 Folder 420 Folder 421 Folder 422 Folder 423 Folder 424 Folder 425 Folder 426 Folder 427 Folder 428 Folder 429 Folder 430 Folder 431 Folder 432 Folder 433 Folder 434 Folder 435 Folder 436 Folder 437 Folder 438	Clippings About Betts.
Folder 439	Interview: The Rebel Song, 22 May 1969
Folder 440	Interview: Greensboro Daily News, 18 November 1973
Folder 441	Interview: She, Volume 1, Number 4, 19 November 1973
Folder 442	Interview: Story Quarterly, Volume 1, 28 May 1975
Folder 443	Interview: Carolina Quarterly, Volume 32, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 1980)
Folder 444	Interview: High Plains Literary Review, Volume 4, Number 3 (Winter 1989/1990)
Folder 445	Interview: Poets & Writers , Volume 20, Number 1 (January/February 1992)
Folder 446	Interview: The Sanford Herald, 13 April 1994
Folder 447	Interview: Publishers Weekly, 25 April 1994
Folder 448	Interview: Focus, Special Annual Issue, 18 June 1996
Folder 449	Interview: The South Carolina Review, Volume 28, Number 2 (Spring 1996)
Folder 450	Interview: The Christian Century, 8 October 1997
Folder 451	Interview: Unpublished interview for Kalliope, 3 May 1998
Videotape VT-4695/4	Interview: North Carolina People, circa June 1998
Folder 452	Interview: Unpublished: "A Conversation with Doris Betts," 10 November 1999
Videotape VT-4695/13	Interview: Live at Nine with Wayne Staton (WBF TV-46 in Sanford, N.C.), 7 December 1999
Folder 453	Interview: Carolina Quarterly, Volume 52, Number 2 (Spring 2000)
Folder 454	Interview: UNCG Magazine, Fall 2004
Music Compact Disc CD-4695/2	Interview: Jennifer Donnally Interview with Doris Betts, 24 June 2008
Folder 455	Interview: Jennifer Donnally Interview with Doris Betts, 24 June 2008 Transcript
Folder 456	Interview: Legacy, undated
Folder 457	Interview: Red Clay Reader, undated
Folder 458	Interview: Unpublished, undated
Folder 459	Interview: WPSU-TV Interview Flyer, undated

Expand/collapse Series 4. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968-2010.

About 1000 items.

Correspondence, photographs, video and audio recordings, printed and other materials relating to Doris Betts's contributions to the Department of English and Creative Writing Program, the Program in the Humanities and Human Values, the Morehead Scholars Selection Committee, the Association of Women Faculty, Second Sunday Readings, the Carolina Publishing Institute, and other groups at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Folder 460-461 Folder 460 Folder 461	Department of English and Creative Writing Program, 1968, 1986, 1992-2005
Image Folder PF-4695/9	Department of English and Creative Writing Program, circa 1970, 2000-2001
Folder 462	Yackety Yack yearbook, 1974
Folder 463	Friends of the Library, 1974-2010
Folder 464-467 Folder 464 Folder 465 Folder 466 Folder 467	Carolina Alumni Review, 1976-2007
Videotape VT-4695/6	"Tar Heel Voices," 24 November 1998
Folder 468	General Alumni Association, 1981-1997 and undated
Folder 469	Commencement programs, 1980-1988
Folder 470-472 Folder 470 Folder 471 Folder 472	Program in the Humanities and Human Values, 1980-2010
Videotape VT-4695/5	Program in the Humanities and Human Values: "Talk about Writing: Doris Betts,", undated
Folder 473	Morehead Scholars program, 1981-1997
Folder 474	Association of Women Faculty, 1983-1984 Includes a handwritten draft of a speech given by Betts.
Folder 475	Faculty Council, 1983-1995
Folder 476	North Caroliniana Society, 1983-2010
Folder 477	Office of Undergraduate Admissions, 1984-2000
Folder 478	Phi Beta Kappa, 1984-2001 Includes text of a speech given by Betts in 2001.
Folder 479	Board of Governors, 1985-2000
Folder 480	"Carolina Today," 1986
Folder 481	Katherine Kennedy Carmichael Residence Hall Dedication Celebration, 5-7 November 1987 Includes text of a speech delivered by Betts at the dedication ceremony.
Folder 482	Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, 1988 and undated
Folder 483	Bicentennial programs, 1991-1995
Folder 484	Carolina Teaching Fellows, 1991-1992
Audiocassette C-4695/21	Carolina Teaching Fellows, 6 April 1991
Folder 485	Bull's Head Bookshop, 1992 and undated
Folder 486	Second Sunday Readings, 1992-2002
Image Folder PF-4695/10	Second Sunday Readings, undated
Folder 487	Carolina Publishing Institute, 1993-1996
Image Folder PF-4695/11	Carolina Publishing Institute, undated
Audiocassette C-4695/10	Carolina Publishing Institute, September 1993 National Humanities Center's "Soundings" weekly radio show: "Publish or Perish," #680, with Doris Betts and Rachel Davies.
Folder 488	Center for the Study of the American South, 1994-2001
Folder 489	Chancellor's Advisory Committee, 1994
Folder 490	Carolina Speakers, 1995-1997
Folder 491	Department of Women's Studies, 1995 and undated
Folder 492	University Day Convocation speech, 12 October 1996
Image Folder PF-4695/12	University Day Convocation speech, 12 October 1996
Audiocassette C-4695/52	University Day Convocation speech, 12 October 1996
Folder 493	North Carolina Fellows Program, 1996 and undated
Folder 494	Telling Bodies conference, 22 February 1997
Folder 495	Preserving and Strengthening Rural Communities conference, 16-19 July 1998
Folder 496	Chancellor Michael Hooker memorial program, 2 July 1999
Image Folder PF-4695/13	Ben Jones 70th Birthday Celebration, 20 October 2000
Folder 497	A Barbeque in the Barn: Doris Betts retirement party, 5 October 2001
Image Folder PF-4695/14	Doris Betts retirement party, 5 October 2001
Folder 498	Order of the Golden Fleece Annual Tapping Banquet, 22 March 2002 Includes text of a speech given by Betts.
Image Folder PF-4695/15	Order of the Golden Fleece Annual Tapping Banquet, 22 March 2002
Folder 499	Miscellaneous activities, 1976-2008 and undated

Expand/collapse Series 5. Other Projects and Activities, 1952-2010.

About 2000 items.

Materials relating to Doris Betts's participation in and contributions to readings and festivals, some of which were affiliated with the Presbyterian Church; radio and television programs, such as StoryLines Southeast; and conferences and symposia. Betts also was active in a number of writers' groups and organizations, including the North Carolina Writers' Conference, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Historical Book Club of North Carolina Inc., North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, North Carolina Writers' Network, and the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.

Folder 500	Arts Forum, Woman's College, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 13-15 March 1952
Folder 501	Historical Book Club of North Carolina Inc., 1962-2003 Correspondence, clippings, annual Town Meetings on Books programs and speeches, and materials relating to the selection of annual Sir Walter Raleigh Award recipients. For materials relating to Betts receiving the Sir Walter Raleigh Award, see Series 3. Biographical Materials.
Folder 502	North Carolina Writers' Forum Panel, 8 December 1967
Image Folder PF-4695/16	North Carolina Writers' Forum Panel, 8 December 1967
Folder 503	Indiana University Writers' Conference, 1972-1973
Folder 504	Ireane Leache Memorial Association Literary Contest, 1973-1999
Folder 505-507 Folder 505 Folder 506 Folder 507	Associated Writing Programs (AWP), 1975-1996 Includes a speech by Betts at the 1996 annual meeting.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4695/3	Sand Hills Writers' Workshop and Writing Conference, 24-26 April 1976
Folder 508	Workshop on the Teaching of Creative Writing, University of Denver, 27 June-8 July 1977
Folder 509	South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), 1977-1998 Includes speeches.
Audiocassette C-4695/23	South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), 1982 Betts's talk on Anne Tyler, delivered at the preliminary for the SAMLA annual conference, 12 November 1982.
Folder 510	Friends of the Library organizations, 1979-2007 Materials relating to Betts's involvement with many different Friends of the Library groups.
Folder 511	National Humanities Faculty, 1979-1990
Folder 512	North Carolina Awards, 1979-2001 Award ceremony programs and materials relating to Betts's work as a judge for the North Carolina Awards. For materials relating to Betts receiving North Carolina Awards, see Series 3. Biographical Materials.
Folder 513	Pittsboro Presbyterian Church, 1979-2001 Schedules, sermons, and programs. For Betts's writings in the Pittsboro Presbyterian Church newsletter, see Series 2.4 Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters.
Audiocassette C-4695/26	Banquet Speech at James Madison University, 2 December 1980
Folder 514	Symposium on the Works and Legacy of C.S. Lewis, Carolina Study Center, 27-28 February 1981
Audiocassette C-4695/18	Symposium on the Works and Legacy of C.S. Lewis, Carolina Study Center, 28 February 1981 Thomas T. Howard with Doris Betts, "The Christian as Creative Writer."
Folder 515	American Writers Congress, New York, N.Y., 9-12 October 1981
Folder 516	North Carolina Writers: Exploring Human Values in Literature Lecture Series, Central Piedmont Community College, 30 October 1981 Includes text of a speech by Betts.
Folder 517	National Endowment for the Arts Literature Advisory Panel, 1981
Folder 518	North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, 1982-1994 Materials relating to Bett's involvement with the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, including a term as president of the organization, 1991-1992. Also included are two speeches by Betts honoring Frances Gray Patton and Reynolds Price as recipients of the R. Hunt Parker Memorial Award, and a speech delivered by Betts as the outgoing president at the 1992 annual meeting.
Folder 519	North Carolina Writers Conference, 1982-1989 Includes speeches given by William C. Friday and Robert Mason at a 1985 banquet honoring Doris Betts.
Audiocassette C-4695/17	North Carolina Writers Conference Banquet: Recording, undated
Folder 520	Tenth Annual English and American Literature Symposium, University of Alabama, 13-14 October 1983
Audiocassette C-4695/20	Tenth Annual English and American Literature Symposium, University of Alabama, 13-14 October 1983 Speech by Betts on literary style.
Folder 521	Wesleyan Writers Conference, 1983-1985
Folder 522	Duke University Writers Conference, 10-17 June 1984
Folder 523	Conference on Christianity and Literature, 1984-2002 Includes speech
Folder 524	PEN Awards, 1984-1989
Audiocassette C-4695/16	Southeastern Planetarium Association Conference on Perceptions, 26 June 1986 Speech on "Perceptions and the Modest Giant."
Folder 525-526 Folder 525 Folder 526	North Carolina Writers Network, 1986-2003 Includes drafts of a keynote speech delivered at the 13th annual meeting, 14 November 1997.
Image Folder PF-4695/17	Visiting Writers Series, Georgia Tech, 10 March 1987
Folder 527	Southern Accents Fine Arts Festival, 19 March-4 April 1987
Folder 528	Phoenix XVIII Literary Festival, High Point College, 17-18 November 1988
Folder 529	"The Future South," Converse College, 1988-1991
Videotape VT-4695/3	"The Future South," Converse College, 1988-1991, undated Future South Scholars Reunion.
Folder 530	Union Theological Seminary: Board of Trustees, 1988-1997
Folder 531	The Home Truths of Doris Betts Conference, Methodist College, 17-18 March 1989 Conference focusing on the work of Doris Betts.
Folder 532	Anne Tyler Symposium, 21-22 April 1989 Includes text of a talk on Anne Tyler delivered by Betts at the symposium.
Audiocassette C-4695/6	Anne Tyler Symposium, 21-22 April 1989
Folder 533	Public Art Dialogue=Southeast Conference, 8-11 June 1989 Includes text of a speech.
Folder 534-535 Folder 534 Folder 535	The Arts and American Values Symposium, Angelo State University, 23-24 October 1989 Includes text of a speech and conference proceedings.
Audiocassette C-4695/19	The Arts and American Values Symposium, Angelo State University, 23-24 October 1989
Videotape VT-4695/12	The Arts and American Values Symposium, Angelo State University, 23-24 October 1989
Folder 536	Pembroke Forum, Pembroke State University, 1989-1995
Videotape VT-4695/1-2 VT-4695/1 VT-4695/2	Pembroke Forum, Pembroke State University, 30 August 1995 and undated
Folder 537	Salem College Center for Women Writers, 1989-2000 Includes speech.
Audiocassette C-4695/3	Salem College Center for Women Writers, 13 October 1989
Image Folder PF-4695/18	Salem College Center for Women Writers, 15 October 1996
Audiocassette C-4695/8	Chapel Hill Writers, 20 April 1990
Folder 538	"Their Native Earth: A Celebration of North Carolina Literature" documentary, North Carolina Public Television, aired 26 January 1990
Folder 539	An Evening of Literary Entertainment and Occasional Tunes, Carrboro ArtsCenter, 26 April 1990 Fundraising event to honor Katie and Tim McLaurin.
Folder 540	Building Bridges of Communication in the 1990s, 23rd Annual North Carolina Public Library Trustee Conference, 18-19 May 1990 Includes text of a speech given by Betts.
Audiocassette C-4695/22	Building Bridges of Communication in the 1990s 23rd Annual North Carolina Public Library Trustee Conference, 18-19 May 1990
Folder 541	Statesville High School Class of 1950 40th Reunion, 29-30 June 1990
Folder 542	9th Annual International Academy of Nursing Editors Conference, 9-10 August 1990
Folder 543	The Spell of the Land Symposium, North Carolina State University, 16 November 1990
Audiocassette C-4695/13	The Spell of the Land Symposium, North Carolina State University, 16 November 1990
Folder 544	National Humanities Center, 1991-1994
Folder 545	Federal Writers' Project/North Carolina Writers' Project, 1991-1997 and undated
Folder 546	Watauga Club, 1991-2001
Folder 547-549 Folder 547 Folder 548 Folder 549	North Carolina Women Writers Conference, 13-15 March 1992 Planning materials, drafts of speeches given by Betts opening and closing the conference, correspondence, research materials.
Folder 550	Western Literature Association (WLA) 17th Annual Meeting, 7-10 October 1992 Includes speech.
Audiocassette C-4695/24	Western Literature Association (WLA) 17th Annual Meeting, 7-10 October 1992
Folder 551	Author's Day Celebration, Center for the Book, 14 November 1992
Folder 552-553 Folder 552 Folder 553	Fellowship of Southern Writers/Conference on Southern Literature, 1992-2009
Folder 554	North Carolina Humanities Council/John Taylor Caldwell Award for the Humanities, 1992-2007 For materials relating to Betts receiving the Caldwell Award, see Series 3. Biographical Materials.
Folder 555	National Conference on Desegregation, 5-6 March 1993 Includes text of a speech.
Folder 556	North Carolina Medical Society Auxiliary 70th Annual Convention, 3-5 May 1993
Audiocassette C-4695/53	North Carolina Medical Society Auxiliary 70th Annual Convention, 3-5 May 1993
Folder 557	McIntyre's Books events, 1993-1995 Readings and signings at McIntyre's Books in Fearrington Village, N.C.
Folder 558	Christian Writers and their Communities Conference, Calvin College, 21-23 April 1994 Includes text of a speech.
Folder 559	North Carolina Museum of History Grand Opening, April 1994
Folder 560	Bookstore readings, 1994-1998 and undated
Folder 561	The Women's Center, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1994-1999 Includes speech.
Folder 562	Barton College, 29 March 1995
Folder 563	Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Eta State Convention, 28-30 April 1995
Folder 564	Tillandsia Festival, 11 May 1995 Includes text of a speech.
Folder 565	American Library Association Conference, 22-25 June 1995
Folder 566	Hillsdale College, 11-14 September 1995
Folder 567	"Home Values in the Fiction of Doris Betts," North Carolina-Virginia College English Association Annual Meeting, 7 October 1995
Folder 568	Southern Festival of Books, 13-15 October 1995
Folder 569	Harvest Arts and Crafts Auction, Family Violence and Rape Crisis Services of Chatham County, 19 November 1995 Includes an article written by Betts for the organization's newsletter, November 1995.
Folder 570	Glen Workshops, Milton Center, 1995-2002
Audiocassette C-4695/11	Glen Workshops, Milton Center, 1996 Paul Mariani: "God and the Imagination," Kansas Newman College.
Audiocassette C-4695/28	Glen Workshops, Milton Center, 1996 Clayton Carlson: "When is a Horse Really a Unicorn? The Promise and Limits of Ambiguity in Contemporary Christian Fiction," Kansas Newman College.
Audiocassette C-4695/27	Glen Workshops, Milton Center, 1996 Doris Betts: "Everything I Know About Writing I Learned in Sunday School," Kansas Newman College.
Folder 571	Literary journals, 1995-1998 and undated Miscellaneous flyers, subscription advertisements, and other promotional materials
Folder 572-576 Folder 572 Folder 573 Folder 574 Folder 575 Folder 576	North Carolina Literary Festival, 1995-2009 Planning materials, correspondence, clippings, publicity, programs.
Folder 577	Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, 1995-1997
Audiocassette C-4695/15	Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, 1996 "Southern Gothic."
Folder 578	Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church sermon, 10 March 1996
Audiocassette C-4695/25	Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church sermon, 10 March 1996
Folder 579	Association of Clinical Scientists 111th Meeting Banquet, 3 May 1996
Folder 580	Durham-Orange Medical Society Mini-Internship Program, 22-23 October 1996
Folder 581-582 Folder 581 Folder 582	North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, 1996-2008 For materials relating to induction of Betts into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, see Series 3. Biographical Materials.
Folder 583	Governor James B. Hunt Inauguration, 10-11 January 1997 Includes speech given by Betts at the inauguration.
Folder 584	"Community Conversation on Education," Lee County School System, 19 February 1997
Folder 585	North Carolina Women Writers Festival, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 19-20 September 1997
Folder 586	"The Writer's Voice," Wheaton College, 25-27 September 1997
Folder 587	"Crossing the Lines: A Conference on Contemporary Southern Women's Literature," University of Arkansas, 9-12 October 1997 Includes speech.
Folder 588	Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture, 1998-1999
Folder 589	Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing, 1998-2000
Folder 590	Faith and the Arts Festival, Davidson College Presbyterian Church, 4-5 October 1998
Audiocassette C-4695/50	Faith and the Arts Festival, Davidson College Presbyterian Church, 4-5 October 1998 "Sermon Brinkley Baptist--revised version Davidson Presbyterian Church, October 1998."
Folder 591	North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys Annual Conference, 9-10 October 1998 Notes and text of a speech.
Audiocassette C-4695/7	North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys Annual Conference, Winston-Salem, N.C., 9-10 October 1998
Audiocassette C-4695/37	StoryLines Southeast: #1 "Living Stories of the Cherokee," Barbara Duncan, editor, recorded 3 October 1999 Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association in 2000.
Folder 592	StoryLines Southeast: #1 "Living Stories of the Cherokee," Barbara Duncan, editor, recorded 3 October 1999 Outline and script draft.
Audiocassette C-4695/38	StoryLines Southeast: #2 "Tales of the South," William Gilmore Simms, recorded 10 October 1999 Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association in 2000.
Audiocassette C-4695/29	StoryLines Southeast: #2 "Tales of the South," recorded 10 October 1999 "With Darrell Stover, Doris Betts, Mary Ann Wimsatt, and Lucinda McKethan."
Audiocassette C-4695/34	StoryLines Southeast: #2 "Tales of the South," recorded 10 October 1999
Folder 593	StoryLines Southeast: #2 "Tales of the South," William Gilmore Simms, recorded 10 October 1999 Research materials, correspondence, and script drafts.
Audiocassette C-4695/39	StoryLines Southeast: #3 "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association in 2000.
Audiocassette C-4695/36	StoryLines Southeast: #3 "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"
Folder 594	StoryLines Southeast: #3 "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," recorded 17 October 1999 Research materials and script drafts.
Audiocassette C-4695/40	StoryLines Southeast: #4 "Slaves in the Family," Edward Ball Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association in 2000.
Audiocassette C-4695/30	StoryLines Southeast: #4 "Slaves in the Family," recorded 24 October 1999 With Doris Betts, Darrell Stover, Barnetta White, and Edward Ball; recorded at WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Folder 595	StoryLines Southeast: #4 "Slaves in the Family," Edward Ball, recorded 24 October 1999 Research materials, correspondence, and script drafts.
Audiocassette C-4695/41	StoryLines Southeast: #5 "Look Homeward, Angel," Thomas Wolfe Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association in 2000.
Folder 596	StoryLines Southeast: #5 "Look Homeward, Angel," Thomas Wolfe, recorded 31 October 1999 Research materials and script drafts.
Audiocassette C-4695/42	StoryLines Southeast: #6 "Cold Mountain," Charles Frazier Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association in 2000.
Audiocassette C-4695/31	StoryLines Southeast: #6 "Cold Mountain," Charles Frazier, recorded 7 November 1999 With Darrell Stover, Doris Betts, Charles Frazier, Anne Mitchell Whisnant; recorded at WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Folder 597	StoryLines Southeast: #6 "Cold Mountain," Charles Frazier, recorded 7 November 1999 Research materials, correspondence, and script drafts.
Audiocassette C-4695/43	StoryLines Southeast: #7 "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Flannery O'Connor Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association in 2000.
Audiocassette C-4695/33	StoryLines Southeast: #7 "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Folder 598	StoryLines Southeast: #7 "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Flannery O'Connor, recorded 14 November 1999 Research materials, correspondence, and script drafts.
Audiocassette C-4695/44	StoryLines Southeast: #8 "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Zora Neale Hurston Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association in 2000.
Audiocassette C-4695/32	StoryLines Southeast: #8 "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Zora Neale Hurston, recorded 21 November 1999 Produced by Julie Shapiro, with Doris Betts, Darrell Stover, Lorraine Johnson-Coleman; recorded at WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Folder 599	StoryLines Southeast: #8 "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Zora Neale Hurston, recorded 21 November 1999 Script draft.
Audiocassette C-4695/45	StoryLines Southeast: #9 "Rich in Love," Josephine Humphreys Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association in 2000.
Folder 600	StoryLines Southeast: #9 "Rich in Love," Josephine Humphreys Script draft.
Audiocassette C-4695/46	StoryLines Southeast: #10 "The Color Purple," Alice Walker Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association in 2000.
Folder 601	StoryLines Southeast: #10 "The Color Purple," Alice Walker Script draft.
Audiocassette C-4695/47	StoryLines Southeast: #11 "The Floatplane Notebooks," Clyde Edgerton Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association in 2000.
Audiocassette C-4695/35	StoryLines Southeast: #11 "The Floatplane Notebooks," Clyde Edgerton
Folder 602	StoryLines Southeast: #11 "The Floatplane Notebooks," Clyde Edgerton Research materials, correspondence, and script drafts.
Audiocassette C-4695/48	StoryLines Southeast: #12 "Clear Pictures," Reynolds Price, recorded 19 December 1999 Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association in 2000.
Folder 603	StoryLines Southeast: #12 "Clear Pictures," Reynolds Price, recorded 19 December 1999 Script draft.
Audiocassette C-4695/49	StoryLines Southeast: #13 "Fair and Tender Ladies," Lee Smith Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association in 2000.
Folder 604	StoryLines Southeast: Clippings, 1999-2001
Folder 605	North Carolina Folk Heritage Awards, 12 September 2000
Folder 606	George Moses Horton Jubilee, 18 November 2000
Audiocassette C-4695/51	Speech, Wilson, N.C., April 2004
Folder 607	Chatham County Literary Council, 2009-2010 Includes speech.
Folder 608-609 Folder 608 Folder 609	Miscellaneous activities, 1954-2009 and undated

Expand/collapse Series 6. Photographs, 1947-2000s.

About 100 items.

Informal and formal portraits of Doris Betts, as well as snapshots with students, colleagues, and other writers. Also included are snapshots of Betts family members.

Image Folder PF-4695/1-2 PF-4695/1 PF-4695/2	Betts, Doris: Portraits
Oversize Image OP-P-4695/1	Betts, Doris: Portraits (oversize)
Image Folder PF-4695/3	Betts, Doris: Miscellaneous Includes groups, teaching in class, with students at graduation, on publishing day for Tall Houses in Winter and The Scarlet Thread.
Image Folder PF-4695/4	Family Mary Ellen Freeze Waugh, Elisha Betts, Spencer Betts, LewEllyn Betts, David Betts, Lowry Betts, William Elmore Waugh.
Image Folder PF-4695/5	Other people Pat Conroy, Jill McCorkle, William Styron, Jessie Rehder, and others.

Expand/collapse Series 7. Other Materials, 1954-2012.

About 100 items.

Address lists, royalties checks and reports, papers concerning literary interests of Betts, letters from Anne Beatty to her parents about her Peace Corps experiences in Nepal, family history materials and writings, and a recording of an unidentified preacher. Published materials include recordings of Michael McFee and John Hope Franklin for Soundings and three volumes: a literary take on porches; a study of Psalm 23; and a study of words for high school students.

Folder 610	Addresses
Folder 611	Beatty, Anne, 2002 Letters from Beatty to her parents about her Peace Corps experiences in Nepal. Beatty was a former student of Betts.
Folder 612	Financial materials Royalties checks and reports.
Folder 613	High School Word Book (1911)
Folder 614-616 Folder 614 Folder 615 Folder 616	Miscellaneous papers Announcements, press releases, newsletters, catalogs, curriculum vitae of various authors, course syllabi, articles by other authors, articles about other authors, sermons by other authors.
Folder 617	The Lord Is My Shepherd (1963)
Folder 618	Out on the Porch Includes a quotation about a porch from The River to Pickle Beach.
Folder 619	Personal Includes writings by Jack Betts and Katharine M. Betts, family history materials, wedding announcements and invitations, program from Betts's funeral.
Audiocassette C-4695/2	John Hope Franklin, "Envisioning the Future," Soundings, 1995
Audiocassette C-4695/5	Michael McFee, "The Language They Speak," Soundings, 1995
Audiocassette C-4695/9	Unidentified preacher

Expand/collapse Series 8A. Additions

Expand/collapse Subseries 8.1A. Speeches and Programs, 2010-2012 (Addition of August 2012).

About 10 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 101855

Copies of two speeches given by Doris Betts in 2010: one for the Fearrington Woman's Club, and one at the Pittsboro Public Library. Papers also include copies of the program from a 2012 memorial event for Betts sponsored by Creative Writing at Carolina and the Department of English and Comparative Literature.

Folder 620

Speeches and programs, 2010-2012

Expand/collapse Subseries 8.2A. Joseph Flora Correspondence and Miscellaneous Materials, 1973-1994 and undated (Addition of May 2013).

About 100 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 101854

Correspondence consists chiefly of letters, notes, and a few cards from Doris Betts to Joseph Flora, primarily discussing English department meetings, events, classes, curriculum, schedules, and teaching; creative writing; graduation ceremonies; new department members; University administration and leadership; money and expenses; health of family members; faculty policy; and Flora's appointment as chair of the English department. The addition also includes many copies of letters and documents received by Betts that she forwarded to Flora, often annotated with her comments, such as offers of visiting professor positions from other universities; correspondence with faculty from other universities about creative writing; search committee communications; and photocopies of newspaper articles. There is also the text of an interview given by Flora on Doris Betts, dated 1 December 1994. Other materials include newspaper clippings, event programs, copies of remarks and speeches, invitations, some biographical material, and a book review.

Folder 621	Correspondence, 1981-1994
Folder 622	Correspondence, undated
Folder 623	Miscellaneous printed materials, 1973-1994 and undated

Expand/collapse Subseries 8.3A. Annotated Draft of The Most Unpleasant Book I Ever Read, undated (Addition of July 2014).

1 item.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 102062

Folder 624

"The Most Unpleasant Book I Ever Read"

Draft of a piece written by Doris Betts, with handwritten annotations.

Expand/collapse Subseries 8.4A. Annotated Copy of As I See Religion and Enclosed Letter, 1932 and 1951 (Addition of August 2019).

1 item.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 103670

The book and letter were given to the Mitchell Community College library by a member of the English faculty, who had come into possession of them. The professor received them from a woman who went to church with Betts.

The addition consists of As I See Religion (1932) by Harry Emerson Fosdick, annotated by Doris Betts, together with one tipped in letter from Fosdick to Doris Waugh Betts, which was a response to a letter from Betts to Fosdick. The letter was sent 21 May 1951.

Folder 630

As I See Religion by Harry Emerson Fosdick and letter, 1932 and 1951

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Audio recordings (C-4695/1-53, CD-4695/1-2)
Video recordings (VT-4695/1-13)

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Collection Number: 04695

Collection Title: Doris Betts Papers, 1932-2012