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Elizabeth Spencer fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1957-1982.

Reference:

R11813-0-4-E, LMS-0103

Type of material:

Art, Photographs, Textual material, Moving images, Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3672863

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Elizabeth Spencer fonds
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Fonds includes:

1 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1957-1982.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

20 m of textual records and other material.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds includes correspondence; manuscripts and typescripts of novels and short stories, including: "The Light in the Piazza", "Knights and Dragons", "No Place for an Angel", "Ship Island and Other Stories", "The Snare", "The Stories of Elizabeth Spencer" and "The Salt Line"; posters, drawings, photographs, and memorabilia. The 1997 accession includes manuscripts, drafts, page proofs, and correspondence relating to "Landscapes of the Heart: A Memoir"; and documentation of literary activities, audio tapes, and videos.

Provenance:

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Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-

Biography/Administrative history:

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Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921- : Elizabeth Spencer was born in Carrollton, Mississippi in 1921 to a storytelling and book-loving family in a community steeped in the oral traditions of the South. Spencer attended Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi (1938) and then Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee (1942) where she studied English literature. Her first novel, "Fire in the Morning", published in 1948, was well-received. With the support of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1953 she moved to Italy to concentrate on her writing. There she met and later married John Rusher. After five years in Italy and the publication of Spencer's third novel, the couple moved to Montreal where they lived from 1958 to 1986. She taught creative writing for several years at Concordia University. In 1986, Spencer moved to North Carolina and took a position as Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina for five years. She received numerous literary prizes and honours, including the McGraw-Hill Fiction Prize for her most popular work of fiction, "The Light in the Piazza" (1960) which was later made into a film. Spencer received honorary doctorate degrees from Rhodes College (1968), Concordia University (1988), and the University of the South (1992). In 1985, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1992 was awarded the John Dos Passos Award for Literature.

Finding aid:

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Textual records; graphic material; sound recordings; videocassettes (Paper) Finding aids are only available for accessions 1984-03, 1987-17, and 1994-04. Available in LAC reference room. (90: Open)

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Arrangement note:

Accessions 1984-03 and 1987-17 are boxed together.

Restrictions on access note:

Access to all correspondence in this fonds is restricted to those who have received written permission from Elizabeth Spencer. This restriction shall remain in effect until twenty years after the death of the author.

Associated material note:

Researchers should be aware of the following associated materials:
(i) Elizabeth Spencer Papers, Special Collections and Archives, University of Kentucky Libraries. Spencer deposited some of her early manuscripts and letters at the University of Kentucky in 1974. A finding aid to this collection is available for consultation at Library and Archives Canada.
(ii) Elizabeth Spencer Papers #5145, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Spencer deposited this acquisition (accession 99840) in June 2004.

Related material:

In 1993, the National Library of Canada received 65 letters (1959-1993) written by Elizabeth Spencer to Morton King, a former colleague at the University of Mississippi. Refer to the Morton Brandon King fonds, LMS-0205 [1993-10].

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10 : 1984-03
11 : 1984-03
12 : 1984-03
13 : 1984-03
14 : 1984-03
15 : 1984-03
16 : 1984-03
17 : 1984-03
18 : 1984-03
19 : 1984-03
20 : 1984-03
21 : 1984-03
22 : 1984-03
23 : 1984-03
24 : 1984-03
25 : 1984-03
26 : 1984-03
27 : 1984-03
28 : 1984-03
29 : 1984-03
30 : 1984-03
31 : 1984-03
32 : 1984-03
33 : 1984-03
10 : 1987-17
11 : 1987-17
12 : 1987-17
13 : 1987-17
14 : 1987-17
15 : 1987-17
16 : 1987-17
17 : 1987-17
18 : 1987-17
19 : 1987-17
20 : 1987-17
21 : 1987-17
22 : 1987-17
23 : 1987-17
24 : 1987-17
25 : 1987-17
26 : 1987-17
27 : 1987-17
28 : 1987-17
29 : 1987-17
30 : 1987-17
31 : 1987-17
32 : 1987-17
33 : 1987-17
1 : 1994-04
2 : 1994-04
3 : 1994-04
4 : 1994-04
5 : 1994-04
6 : 1994-04
7 : 1994-04
8 : 1994-04
9 : 1994-04
10 : 1994-04
11 : 1994-04
12 : 1994-04
13 : 1994-04
14 : 1994-04
15 : 1994-04
1 : 1991-11
2 : 1991-11
3 : 1991-11
4 : 1991-11
5 : 1991-11
6 A : 1991-11
6 B : 1991-11
7 : 1991-11
8 : 1991-11
9 : 1991-11
10 : 1991-11
16 : 1994-04
17 : 1994-04
18 : 1994-04
19 : 1994-04
20 : 1994-04
21 : 1994-04
22 : 1994-04
1 : 1984-03
2 : 1984-03
3 : 1984-03
4 : 1984-03
5 : 1984-03
6 : 1984-03
7 : 1984-03
8 : 1984-03
9 : 1984-03
1 : 1987-17
2 : 1987-17
3 : 1987-17
4 : 1987-17
5 : 1987-17
6 : 1987-17
7 : 1987-17
8 : 1987-17
9 : 1987-17
1 : 1989-21
2 : 1989-21
3 : 1989-21
4 : 1989-21
5 : 1989-21
6 : 1989-21
7 : 1989-21
8 : 1989-21
9 : 1989-21
1 : 1992-16
2 : 1992-16
3 : 1992-16
4 : 1992-16
5 : 1992-16
6 : 1992-16
7 : 1992-16
8 : 1992-16
9 : 1992-16
1 A : 1997-03
1 B : 1997-03
1 C : 1997-03
1 D : 1997-03
1 E : 1997-03
2 A : 1997-03
2 B : 1997-03
3 A : 1997-03
3 B : 1997-03
3 C : 1997-03
3 D : 1997-03
3 E : 1997-03
3 F : 1997-03
3 G : 1997-03
3 H : 1997-03
3 I : 1997-03
4 A : 1997-03
4 B : 1997-03
4 C : 1997-03
5 A : 1997-03
5 B : 1997-03
5 C : 1997-03
6 A : 1997-03
6 B : 1997-03
6 C : 1997-03
7 A : 1997-03
7 B : 1997-03
7 C : 1997-03
8 A : 1997-03
8 B : 1997-03
8 C : 1997-03
8 D : 1997-03
8 E : 1997-03
8 F : 1997-03
9 : 1997-03
10 : 1997-03
11 : 1997-03
12 : 1997-03
13 : 1997-03
VC 3 : 1994-04
VC 4 : 1994-04
VC 5 : 1994-04
VC 6 : 1994-04
VC 60 : 1997-03
VC 61 : 1997-03
VC 62 : 1997-03
VC 63 : 1997-03
VC 82 : 1997-03
CASS 20 : 1984-03
CASS 21 : 1984-03
CASS 87 : 1994-04
CASS 88 : 1994-04
CASS 89 : 1994-04
CASS 90 : 1994-04
CASS 91 : 1994-04
CASS 92 : 1994-04
CASS 93 : 1994-04
CASS 94 : 1994-04
CASS 95 : 1994-04
CASS 96 : 1994-04
CASS 97 : 1994-04
CASS 98 : 1994-04
CASS 99 : 1994-04
CASS 100 : 1994-04
CASS 101 : 1994-04
CASS 102 : 1994-04
CASS 103 : 1994-04
T-7 44 : 1984-03
CASS 391 : 1997-03
CASS 392 : 1997-03
CASS 393 : 1997-03
CASS 394 : 1997-03
CASS 395 : 1997-03
CASS 396 : 1997-03
CASS 397 : 1997-03
CASS 398 : 1997-03
CASS 399 : 1997-03

Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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LMS-0103

Other accession no.:

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1984-03 LMS
1987-17 LMS
1989-21 LMS
1991-11 LMS
1992-16 LMS
1994-04 LMS
1997-03 LMS
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Conditions of access:

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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

LMS container [LMS-0103 1984-03] 10--33

[Consultation 90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0103 1987-17] 10--33

[Consultation 90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0103 1994-04] 1--15

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

LMS container [LMS-0103 1991-11]

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

1--5;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

7--10;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

6 A--6 B;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

LMS container [LMS-0103 1994-04] 16--22

[Consultation 90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0103 1984-03] 1--9

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

LMS container [LMS-0103 1987-17] 1--9

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

LMS container [LMS-0103 1989-21] 1--9

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

LMS container [LMS-0103 1992-16] 1--9

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

LMS container [LMS-0103 1997-03]

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

9--13;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

1 A--1 E;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

2 A--2 B;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

3 A--3 I;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

4 A--4 C;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

5 A--5 C;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

6 A--6 C;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

7 A--7 C;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

8 A--8 F;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

Moving images (video)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [LMS-0103]

[Consultation 90 Open]

VC 3--VC 6;

[Consultation 90 Open]

VC 60--VC 63;

[Consultation 90 Open]

VC 82;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

LMS container [LMS-0103]

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 100--CASS 103;

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 20--CASS 21;

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 87--CASS 99;

[Consultation 90 Open]

T-7 44;

[Consultation 90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0103] CASS 391--CASS 399

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

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