MUM00257
Finding Aid for the Charles Sawyer Collection
(MUM00257)
Finding Aid for the Charles Sawyer Collection
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Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
This typescript was donated to the Blues Archive by B. B. King’s manager Sidney A. Seidenberg, 3 May 1985.
Processing Information
Collection received by Suzanne Flandreau Steel. Processing by Greg Johnson, Blues Curator and Assistant Professor.
Additions
No further additions are expected to this collection.
Subject Terms
Formats
Biographical Note
Charles Sawyer teaches blues history at the Harvard Extension School.
Scope and Content Note
This one-box collection contains a photocopy of the typescript to Charles Sawyer’s The Arrival of B. B. King from 1978. Sections are divided into separate folders. This work was later published as a book of the same title by Doubleday
in 1980 [Cataloged: ML420.K473 S3] and released in paperback by Da Capo in 1982 [Cataloged: ML420.K473 S3 1982].
User Information
Prefered Citation
Charles Sawyer Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The
University of Mississippi
Access Restrictions
The Charles Sawyer Collection is open for research.
Copyright Restrictions
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the
making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under
certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized
to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions
is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other
than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for, or
later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use”,
that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Related Material
Resources at the University of Mississippi
The arrival of B. B. King : the authorized biography / Charles Sawyer. Cataloged: ML420.K473 S3
Container List
1 | Preface and table of contents |
2 | Part One: A View through the Microscope |
3 | Part Two: Black Horatio Alger |
4 | Part Three: A View through the Kaleidescope [sic] |
5 | Postscript: An Ode to Jim Crow: The Author’s Odyssey in Search of the Blues Boy |