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MUM00145

Finding Aid for the Kenneth Godfrey Collection
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Finding Aid for the Kenneth Godfrey Collection


Descriptive Summary

PURL: http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00145/
Title: Kenneth Godfrey Collection
Dates: 1931-1932
Collector: Godfrey, Kenneth
Physical Extent: 1 box (.417 linear feet)
Repository: University of Mississippi. Department of Archives and Special Collections. University, MS 38677, USA
Identification: MUM00145
Language of Material: English
Abstract: Correspondence between Kenneth Godfrey
of Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith and Sydney S. Alberts, Faulkner
bibliographer.

Administrative Information

Processing Information

Collection processed by Archives and Special Collections staff. Finding aid encoded by Jason Kovari, 15 May 2009.

Additions

No further additions are expected to this collection.


Subject Terms

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 —
Authorship
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 —
Bibliography
Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith
(Firm)
Alberts, S. S. (Sydney Seymour)
Book collecting


Formats

correspondence


Scope and Content Note

Consists of Kenneth Godfrey’s correspondence as Sydney S. Alberts is building his
William Faulkner collection and compiling a Faulkner bibliography.


User Information

Prefered Citation

Kenneth Godfrey Collection, Archives and Special
Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi

Access Restrictions

Kenneth Godfrey Collection is open for research.

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Related Material

Resources at the University of Mississippi

For a description of the William Faulkner archival collections housed at the University of Mississippi, please view our William Faulkner Subject Guide


Container List

Folder 1

Pelican Book Shop, New Orleans, LA, 23 April-24 August 1931
Folder 2

Casanova (Booksellers), Milwaukee, WI, 25 May-30 December 1931
Note: All in folder labeled “Faulkner materials for sale”
Folder 3

Godfrey Carbons to Pelican Bookshops, 24 April-24 August 1931 (14 pieces)
Folder 4

Godfrey Carbons to Casanova Booksellers, 1 June-30 December 1931 (6 pieces)
Folder 5

Godfrey Carbons to Centaur Bookship and Chatto & Windus, 27 May-30 October 1931 (6 pieces)
Folder 6

Unidentified Pieces [Godfrey] unsigned, Undated
A.L. Photocopy
A.N. “Wm. Spratling. Taxco, Mex”
Folder 7

Sydeny S. Alberts (2 pieces)
Note: Correspondence from Alberts to Kenneth Godfrey concerning Faulkner
publications.
T.L.S. with attached T.L. carbon reply, 29 May 1931
T.L.S. with attached T.L. carbon reply, 7 November 1931
Folder 8

Correspondence to Sydney Alberts, 24 June 1931-10 October 1932 (8 pieces)
T.L.S. Evelyn Harter to S.S. Alberts. Light
in August
, 10 October 1932
T.L.S. G.L. to S.S. Alberts. Mosquitoes, 15 February 1932
T.L.S. “The Editors” (Harper’s) to “Miss Alberts”. “The Hounds”,
“Fox Hunt”, “Doctor Martino”, 26 January 1932
T.L.S. Contempo Bookshop to S.S. Alberts. “Contempo”, 20 January 1932
T.L.S. Scribner’s Magazine to S.S.
Alberts. “Dry September”, “Spotted Horses”, “Death-Drag”, 6 January 1932
T.L.S. K. Godfrey to S.S. Alberts. These Thirteen, Sanctuary, 11 November 1931
T.L.S. Casanova Booksellers to S. S. Alberts. Sherwood Anderson & Creoles, 24 June 1931
T.L.S. Pelican Bookshop to S.S. Alberts. Sherwood Anderson & Creoles, 2 July 1931




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