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Box 1

 Container

Contains 10 Results:

Katherine Anne Porter to Dr. Roger L. Brooks, 1972-1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: 1972-1977

Various writers to Dr. Roger L. Brooks regarding Katherine Anne Porter, 1975-1976, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Contents Amis, Kingsley (December 3, 1975)Anderson, Robert (December 2, 1975)Auchincloss, Louis S. (December 9, 1975)Baldwin, Faith (June 26, 1976, and undated)Barth, John (December 2, 1975)Beckett, Samuel (November 4, 1975)Boyle, Kay (November 24, 1975)Bradbury, Ray (December 3, 1975)Bristow, Gwen (January 27, 1976)Brooks, Cleanth (December 27, 1975)Brooks, Gwendolyn (November 22,...
Dates: 1975-1976, undated

Various writers to Dr. Roger L. Brooks regarding Katherine Anne Porter, 1975-1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Contents Daiches, David (December 9, 1975)DeVries, Peter (December 10, 1975)Eberhart, Richard (December 12, 1975)Edmonds, Walter D. (November 16, 1975)Fadiman, Clifton (December 8, 1975)Fast, Howard (January 19, 1976)Gardner, Isabella (April 2, 1976)Garfield, Brian (December 12, 1975)Givner, Joan (August 29, 1977 and September 20, 1977)Gold, Herbert (December 10, 1975)Grau, Shirley...
Dates: 1975-1977

Various writers to Dr. Roger L. Brooks regarding Katherine Anne Porter, 1975-1976, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Contents

Ignatow, David (December 12, 1975)

Jacobsen, Josephine (December 15, 1975)

Knebel, Fletcher (December 11, 1975)

LeCarre, John (February 18, 1976 and March 5, 1976)

Lawrence, Josephine (December 26, 1975)

Lea, Tom (December 19, 1975)

Lessing, Doris (November 3, 1975)

Levertov, Denise (March 21, 1976)

Lincoln, Victorian (undated)

Lord, Walter (August 19, 1976)

Dates: 1975-1976, undated

Various writers to Dr. Roger L. Brooks regarding Katherine Anne Porter, 1975-1976, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Contents McCarthy, Mary (January 14, 1976)MacInnes, Helen ((January 1, 1976)McKuen, Rod (December 31, 1975)MacLeish, Archibald (November 3, 1975)McPherson, Jessamyn West (February 6, 1976)Mailer, Norman (September 23, 1976)Malamud, Bernard (November 30, 1975)Michener, James (January 23, 1976)Miles, Josephine (November 25, 1975)Miller, Kenneth (March 23, 1976)Morris, Willie (January...
Dates: 1975-1976, undated

Various writers to Dr. Roger L. Brooks regarding Katherine Anne Porter, 1975-1977, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Contents Stewart, Mary (November 11, 1975 and September 29, 1976)Talese, Gay (January 8, 1976)Tate, Allen (January 15, 1976)Taylor, Peter (August 1, 1977)Untermeyer, Louis (November 14, 1975)Viereck, Peter (January 12, 1976)Vining, Elizabeth Gray (January 25, 1976)Wakoski, Diane (May 1, 1976)Wheelock, John Hall (January 21, 1976)Wilson, Sloan (undated)Wright, James (January 30,...
Dates: 1975-1977, undated

Lists of items to be transfered to Howard Payne University, initialed by Porter, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: undated

Interview with Katherine Anne Porter, by a Howard Payne University professor (audio cassette tape and transcript), 1976

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: 1976

Phone interview with Katherine Anne Porter and Dr. Roger L. Brooks (audio cassette tape and transcript), September 22, 1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,  documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on  Ms. Porter's relationship to...
Dates: September 22, 1977

Photographs , 1898-1975

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents 8x10 color photograph at 85th birthday party, undated8x10 color photograph of Katherine Anne Porter, head and shoulders, undated8x10 black and white, Katherine Anne Porter signing books with Dr. Roger L. Brooks and an HPU professor, 19766x8 black and white, Katherine Anne Porter visiting with Sally Willison at Indian Creek Cemetery, 19766x8 black and white, Katherine Anne Porter at her mother's gravestone, Indian Creek Cemetery, 1976....
Dates: 1898-1975