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MUM00206
Finding-Aid for the Edwin Granberry Collection (MUM00206)
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PURL:
http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00206/
Creator:
Granberry, Edwin
Title:
Edwin Granberry Collection.
Inclusive Dates:
1918-1990
Materials in:
English
Abstract:
Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and legal and financial documents related to the life of Edwin Granberry. Items were created from 1918-1990.
Quantity:
16 boxes.
Number:
MUM00206
Location:
D-14 (15 boxes) & G-11 (1 box).
Repository :
The University of Mississippi
J.D. Williams Library
Department of Archives and Special Collections
P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Phone: 662.915.7408
Fax: 662.915.5734
E-Mail: archive@olemiss.edu
URL: http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/files/archives/
J.D. Williams Library
Department of Archives and Special Collections
P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Phone: 662.915.7408
Fax: 662.915.5734
E-Mail: archive@olemiss.edu
URL: http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/files/archives/
Cite as:
Edwin Granberry Collection (MUM00206). The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi.
Edwin Phillips Granberry was born in Meridian, Mississippi on April 18, 1897. He entered the University of Florida at the age of nineteen, but his education was interrupted by service with the U.S. Marines in WWI. Initially intending to be a concert pianist, he eventually decided on writing as a career.
In 1920, he graduated from Columbia University to teach Romance languages for three years at Miami University in Ohio. His postgraduate work included attending George Pierce Baker's '47 workshop, from 1922 to 1924, where he produced the play Hitch your Wagon to a Star.
On March 22, 1924, he married Mabel Leflar, and they later had three sons.
From 1925 to 1933, he held the position of Latin and French Master at Stevens School in New Jersey. In 1933, he was persuaded to become writer in residence at Rollins College in Florida after the great success of his short story A Trip to Czardis, and he retained this position until his retirement in 1971. At Rollins, he earned the title Irving Bacheller Professor of Creative Writing in 1940, and was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature in 1945.
Granberry was to produce numerous short stories, the most famous of which was A Trip to Czardis. This was first published in The Forum in 1932, and won the O. Henry Memorial Award as that year's best story. In 1966, Granberry produced a novel with the same name, expanding on the events preceding those of his short story, and incorporating the original story as its final chapter.
Granberry's other novels were The Ancient Hunger (1927); Strangers and Lovers (1928) and The Erl King (1930). Other notable works include stage and (unfinished) novelized version of The Falcon, a screenplay of A Trip to Czardis and a long-term partnership with the artist Roy Crane (to be replaced by Henry Schlensker after Crane's death) to produce the comic strip Buz Sawyer.
Granberry and his wife became close personal friends of Margaret Mitchell when he was among the very first to favorably review Mitchell's newly-published novel Gone With the Wind, in 1936. Granberry immediately recognized the importance of Mitchell's work, proclaiming it a literary landmark. The Granberrys remained friends with Mitchell until her death in 1949.
Edwin Granberry died on Dec 5, 1988.
The Edwin Granberry Collection is mainly composed of correspondence, ranging from 1907 to 1990 and arranged chronologically under several subheadings; manuscripts of various versions of Granberry's fiction plus sundry other writings, arranged alphabetically by title; and clippings from newspapers and magazines, primarily regarding Granberry's fiction and the events surrounding the death of Margaret Mitchell, arranged chronologically under subheadings.
Access Restrictions
Open.
Use Restriction
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Donated by Julian Granberry
Box 1.
Biographical/personal information
Folder 1.
Correspondence
General correspondence
Folder 2-6
No date
Folder 7
1900's
Folder 8
Aug 29, 1918 - Oct 25, 1918
Folder 9
Nov 1, 1918 - Jan 23, 1919
Folder 10
July 15, 1919 - Nov 17, 1919
Folder 11
Sept 14, 1920 - May 27, 1928
Folder 12
Jan 2, 1930 - Sept 13, 1933
Folder 13
Jun 9, 1934 - Nov 15, 1939
Folder 14
Apr 17, 1940 - Apr 17, 1942
[Includes telegram to Granberry from Dorothy Parker, dated Feb 21,
1941]
Folder 15
Oct 24, 1942 - Apr 21, 1949
Folder 16
Jan 24, 1950 - Aug 1, 1953
Box 2.
Folder 1
Aug 9, 1953 - May 5, 1955
Folder 2
May 9, 1955 - Oct 29, 1955
Folder 3
Dec 16, 1955 - Jul 18, 1956
Folder 4
Jul 23, 1956 - Sept 7, 1956
Folder 5
Oct 8, 1956 - Feb 17, 1959
Folder 6
Nov 22, 1960 - June 7, 1962
Folder 7
June 12, 1962 - Jan 11, 1966
Folder 8
July 22, 1966 - Dec 16, 1966
Folder 9
Dec 21, 1966 - Jan 22, 1967
Folder 10
Jan 26, 1967 - Feb 18, 1967
Folder 11
Feb 19, 1967 - Mar 6, 1967
Folder 12
Mar 7, 1967 - Apr 24, 1967
Folder 13
Sept 17, 1967 - Dec 17, 1967
Folder 14
Dec 20, 1967 - May 24, 1968
Folder 15
Jul 22, 1968 - Sept 15, 1969
Folder 16
Sept 30, 1969 - Dec 18, 1969
Folder 17
Feb 21, 1970 - May 15, 1970
Folder 18
May 31, 1970 - July 15, 1970
Folder 19
Aug 3, 1970 - Sept 10, 1972
Box 3.
Folder 1
Oct 30, 1972 - Feb 21, 1973
Folder 2
Feb 25, 1973 - July 5, 1973
Folder 3
July 22, 1973 - Jan 15, 1974
Folder 4
Jan 31, 1974 - May 1, 1974
Folder 5
Jun 6, 1974 - Jan 28, 1975
Folder 6
Feb 4, 1975 - July 14, 1975
Folder 7
July 23, 1975 - Mar 15, 1976
Folder 8
Mar 19, 1976 - Sept 13, 1976
Folder 9
Dec 31, 1976 - July 19, 1977
Folder 10
July 27, 1977 - Apr 17, 1978
Folder 11
Apr 26, 1978 - Aug 25, 1978
Folder 12
Nov 3, 1978 - Mar 19, 1979
Folder 13
May 17, 1979 - Mar 18, 1980
Folder 14
June 7, 1980 - Mar 18, 1981
Folder 15
June 9, 1981 - Apr 27, 1983
Folder 16
May 17, 1983 - July 20, 1983
Folder 17
July 29, 1983 - Nov 14, 1983
Folder 18
Jan 17, 1984 - Sept 14, 1984
Folder 19
Oct 5, 1984 - Mar 21, 1987
Box 4.
Literary agents/publishers
Folder 1
Apr 3, 1928 - Dec 7, 1950
Folder 2
Feb 9, 1951 - Apr 10, 1953
Folder 3
Nov 4, 1954 - Oct 1, 1968
Folder 4
Jan 31, 1969 - Sept 20, 1970
Folder 5
Sept 26, 1970 - Oct 16, 1984
Folder 6
Nov 12, 1984 - Apr 17, 1985
Folder 7
May 13, 1985 - Nov 18, 1989
A Trip to Czardis screenplay
Folder 8
No date
Folder 9
Oct 7, 1931 - Oct 11, 1965
Folder 10
Feb 28, 1966 - Mar 23, 1967
Folder 11
Mar 31, 1967 - Mar 18, 1968
Folder 12
May 3, 1968 - Apr 8, 1970
Folder 13
June 4, 1970 - Feb 23, 1972
Folder 14
Oct 16, 1975 - Feb 2, 1976
Folder 15
Feb 16, 1976 - Aug 30, 1976
Folder 16
Oct 14, 1976 - Oct 28, 1978
Folder 17
Apr 3, 1979 - Jan 17, 1985
Folder 18
CBS Films synopses
Box 5.
Folder 1
What Do You Do For Love, Professor?
Dec 7, 1989 - Jan 31, 1990
Folder 2-6
Margaret Mitchell (correspondence from Margaret Mitchell and
family to Edwin and Mabel Granberry, July 1936-Aug 1949; all
photocopies - no originals).
[See also Exhibit Materials: Margaret Mitchell, Miscellaneous,
Clippings and Periodicals: Margaret Mitchell]
Manuscripts
Fiction
Folder 7-11
Unidentified excerpts from fictional narratives. TMs, no date.
Box 6.
Folder 1-10
Unidentified excerpts from fictional narratives. TMs, no date.
Folder 11
Unidentified excerpts from fictional narratives. TMs, dated
Aug 5, 1932 - Oct 19, 1984
Folder 12-14
Unidentified excerpts from fictional narratives. AMs, no date.
Box 7.
Folder 1
The Ancient Hunger [aka The Amazon]
Folder 2
The Ballad of the Pressed Red Rose
Folder 3
Call From the Dark
Folder 4
End of the Hunt
[See also: Manuscripts: Drama: Stage Plays - Other for stage
version, and Clippings:Edwin Granberry - 1930's]
Folder 5
The Erl King
Folder 6-8
The Falcon [aka The Hunters or Isla Morada]
[See also Manuscripts: Drama: Stage plays for stage versions of Isla
Morada]
Box 8.
Folder 1-2
The Falcon [aka The Hunters or Isla Morada]
Folder 3
My Heart Leaps Up
Folder 4
Last Night in Carolina
No folder
M'Sieu Bob
[No manuscript - see Clippings: Edwin Granberry- No date]
Folder 5
The Passionist, a Novel
Folder 6
Peter
Folder 7
She Sat A-Fishing
Folder 8
Spring
Folder 9
Strangers and Lovers
[See also Periodicals: Strangers and Lovers]
No folder
Tigers of the Sea
[No manuscript - see Periodicals: Tigers of the Sea]
Folder 10
A Trip to Czardis
[See also Manuscripts: Drama: Screenplays: 'A Trip to Czardis';
Notes re writing novelization; Promotional/Publicity re different
published versions and novelization; Clippings: Edwin Granberry, re
original short story version and novelization; Periodicals: 'A Trip to
Czardis', re publications of short story and abstract.]
Box 9.
Folder 1-4
A Trip to Czardis
Box 10.
Folder 1
The Wanderer, a Novel
Folder 2
What Do You Do for Love, Professor? a Novel
[See also Correspondence: 'What Do You Do for Love, Professor?']
Folder 3 (Unmarked - still in original green paper binding)
What Do You Do for Love, Professor? a Novel
Folder 4
Which
No folder
Will-o'-the-Wisps
[No manuscript - see Periodicals: Will-o'-the-Wisps]
Box 11.
Drama
Folder 1-9 Screenplays: A Trip to Czardis
[See also Correspondence: 'A Trip to Czardis' Screenplay]
Box 12.
Folder 1-2
Stage plays: The Falcon aka Isla Morada
[See also Promotional/Publicity]
Folder 3
Stage plays: Other
Folder 4-11 Comic Strip Scripts
[Mainly 'Buzz Sawyer'; See also Periodicals: Roy Crane]
Folder 12-15
Biography [of Frederick A. Hauck, by Edwin Granberry]
[See also Correspondence for TLS to Hauck, dated May 31, 1984]
Box 13.
Folder 1-2
Other authors
Folder 3
Notes
Folder 4
Contracts/Legal documents
[See also Correspondence: "A Trip to Czardis" screenplay]
Folder 5
Financial documents
Folder 6-9
Promotional/Publicity
Folder 10
Catalogs
Folder 11
Maps
Folder 12-13
Musical scores
[Includes unpublished scores by Granberry]
Box 14.
Folder 1
Exhibit materials: Margaret Mitchell
Folder 2-6
Miscellaneous
[Includes presentation folder of Margaret Mitchell postage stamps, with TLS (July 1, 1986) from U.S. Postmaster to Edwin Grandberry (sic); not in archival folder]
Box 15.
Clippings
Edwin Granberry
Folder 1
No date
[Includes short story M'sieu Bob by Edwin Phillips Granberry. In The
Lookout (source unknown), 8p.]
Folder 2
1900's
Folder 3
1920's
Folder 4
1930's
[Includes entire short story "A Trip to Czardis" or the Lurking Death
by Edwin Granberry. In The Orlando Sunday Sentinel and Reporter,
Nov 27, 1932. Star, Orlando, Fla., p.7.
Includes End of the Hunt, A Short Story by Edwin Granberry. In The
Forum, Feb 1933. pp. 88-90. Photocopy only.]
Folder 5
1940's
Folder 6
1950's
Folder 7
May 26, 1960 - Jan 22, 1967
Folder 8
Jan 26, 1967 - Nov, 1969
Folder 9
1970's
Folder 10
July 6, 1980 - Apr 4, 1985
Folder 11
Aug 17, 1985 - Fall 1989
Folder 12
1990's
Margaret Mitchell
Folder 13
No date
Folder 14
1930's
Folder 15
Dec 30, 1940 - Aug 14, 1949
Folder 16
Aug 15, 1949 - Aug 18, 1949
Folder 17
Aug 19, 1949 - Dec 18, 1949
Folder 18
1970's
Folder 19
1980's
Box 16.
Periodicals
Folder 1
A Trip to Czardis
Folder 2
Strangers and Lovers
Folder 3
Tigers of the Sea
Folder 4
Will-o'-the-Wisps
Folder 5
Learning French While You Play (non-fiction by Edwin Granberry)
Folder 6
Margaret Mitchell (written by Edwin Granberry)
Folder 7
Roy Crane
Folder 8
Irving Bacheller (written by Edwin Granberry)
Folder 9
Rollins College Alumni Record
Folder 10
(The Rollins) Sandspur
Folder 11
Yearbooks
Box 17.
Folder 1-6
Audiovisual
[Includes various photographs and:
LP record labelled 'The Granberry Colloquium, February 23, 1967 at
Rollins College". 33 1/3 rpm. Audio Techniques, Inc. 12 East 46 St.
N.Y.C., 10017. Severely damaged and unplayable. Not in folder.]