Joan Titus collection

Descriptive Summary
Title: Joan Titus collection
Creator: Titus, Joan
Inclusive Dates: 1890-2016
Bulk Dates: 1930-1970
Language(s): English
Extent: 13 Linear Feet 13 boxes, 2 oversized folders, and 181 audiovisual items
Collection Number: ms3757
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Lillian Smith (1897-1966), author, lecturer, and human rights advocate, was born in Jasper, Florida, and resided in Rabun County, Georgia. She wrote the novel Strange Fruit, to much acclaim, as well as Killers of the Dream.

For more information see the article Lillian Smith in the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Joan Titus served as a researcher at Time Magazine from 1956 to 1960; researcher and associate producer of radio news broadcasts and television documentaries for Time-Life Broadcast Inc. from 1961 to 1966. In 1967 and 1970, she received research grants for a Lillian Smith biography from the Field Foundation.

Scope and Content

This collection includes clippings, correspondence, genealogical files, articles, notes, interviews, transcripts, photographs, and writings, gathered by Joan Titus, relating to Lillian Smith's life and legacy. The correspondence relates to Laural Falls Camp, South Today, Lillian Smith's publications and events, and letters received by Joan Titus regarding Smith. There are several folders of audience reaction cards from screenings of Miss Smith of Georgia from 1964 and 1966.

Also included in this collection are interviews conducted by Joan Titus in March 1962 with Atlanta civic and political leaders, including Ivan Allan, William Hartsfield, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lorimer Douglas Milton, and Reverend Williams Holmes Borders, regarding African American business leaders. Also in March 1962, Titus interviewed Dr. Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist, about the effect of school desegregation on children. Excerpts of the Coles interview were used in Time-Life's radio program "The Children Should be Heard".

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Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Though the collection is open for research, the audiovisual recordings do not have reference copies; however, reference copies are available upon request. Audiovisual research requests are dependent upon the format and condition of the recordings.

Preferred Citation

Joan Titus collection, ms3757, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2013.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Related Collections in this Repository

Related Collections in the Hargrett Library: Lillian Smith, letters to and from Paula Snelling, ms2337; Lillian Eugenia Smith papers, ms1283a; Lillian Eugenia Smith papers, ms1283; Laurel Falls Camp and Lillian Smith collection, ms2143.

Related audiovisual materials, including interviews related to Atlanta in 1962 and Lillian Smith, from this collection are housed in the Walter J. Brown Media Archive: http://purl.libs.uga.edu/brown/har-ms3757/bmac-coll

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

1. Lillian Smith Research
	1.1 Research Files
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1	1		Vol. 1, Camp I Laurel Leaves, 1941-1947
1	2		Vol. 2, Camp II Catalogues and brochures, 1935-1939
1	3		Vol. 3, Camp III plays and correspondence , 1935-1966
1	4		Vol. 3, Camp III plays and correspondence , 1935-1966
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7	1		Vol. 4, South Today I; Spring - Fall-Winter, 1936-1939
7	2		Vol. 5, South Today II; Spring - Winter, 1939-1941
7	3		Vol. 6, South Today III; Winter - Autumn-Winter, 1941-1943
7	4		Vol. 7, South Today IV; Spring - Winter, 1943-1945
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1	5		Vol. 8, South Today and P.O. [Post Office]; Rosenwald Foundation; 1943 Houseparty; Pseudonym, 1935-1943
1	6		Vol. 9, Miscellaneous Correspondence; South Today, 1936-1965
1	7		Vol. 9, Miscellaneous Correspondence; South Today , 1936-1965
1	8		Vol. 10, Correspondence I A-Br, 1935-1965
1	9		Vol. 11, Correspondence II Bu-Co, 1936-1961
1	10		Vol. 12, Correspondence III Co-F, 1937-1965
1	11		Vol. 13, Correspondence IV G, 1936-1966
1	12		Vol. 14, Correspondence V H-Ku, 1941-1970
1	13		Vol. 15, Correspondence VI Ku-Lo, 1955-1966
1	14		Vol. 16, Correspondence VII Lo-Ma, 1938-1968
1	15		Vol. 17, Correspondence VIII Me-Mu, 1936-1966
1	16		Vol. 18, Correspondence IX N-P, 1936-1966
1	17		Vol. 19, Correspondence X Q-Sm, 1939-1966
1	18		Vol. 20, Correspondence XI So-St, 1942-1966
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2	1		Vol. 21, Correspondence XII Su-Z, 1944-1966
2	2		Vol. 22, Publisher's Correspondence; Reynal and Hitchcock, 1943-1945 April
2	3		Vol. 23, Publisher's Correspondence; Reynal and Hitchcock, 1945 May-1957 May
2	4		Vol. 24, Publisher's Correspondence; Harcourt and Brace, 1957 June-1966 July
2	5		Vol. 25, Publisher's Correspondence; Norton I, 1949 April-1949 November 9
2	6		Vol. 26, Publisher's Correspondence; Norton II, 1949 November 14-1960 December 20
2	7		Vol. 27, Publisher's Correspondence; Norton III, 1961 September-1962 November
2	8		Vol. 28, Publisher's Correspondence; Norton IV, 1962 November 6-1964 May 28
2	9		Vol. 29, Publisher's Correspondence; Norton V, 1964 May 28-1966 August 22
2	10		Vol. 30, Documents and Miscellaneous I , 1917-2002
			Volume 30 includes: photostat of births from Smith family bible; drawing of Smith home in Jasper; M. White's drawing of Blackwell/White house and Smith house; obituary of DeWitt Smith; Jasper High School commencement program (1915); history of the Crescent, Valdosta mansion; Lillian Smith letter (1917); Lillian Smith's Peabody Conservatory record (1917-1921); Evergreen Theater; "China in 1923" pamphlet; student work YMCA, China '22 pamphlet; index of Mary Blackford's China photos; and excerpts of China log by Eloise Bradshaw.
2	11		Vol. 30, Documents and Miscellaneous I , 1917-2002
2	12		Vol. 31, Documents and Miscellaneous II , 1917-1936
			Volume 31 includes: Eugene Barnett's letters (1921); Virginia School catalogue; essays by Virginia School students; report of Shanghi events (1925); Manget's sister's memoirs; and Eugene Barnett's memoirs.
2	13		Vol. 31, Documents and Miscellaneous II , 1917-1936
2	14		Vol. 31, Documents and Miscellaneous II , 1917-1936
2	15		Vol. 32, Documents and Miscellaneous III, 1917-1969
			Volume 32 includes: C. W. Smith' prayer at opening of Rabun Superior Court; Lillian Smith's Columbia Teacher College records and letter to her father (1928); report Commission on Interracial Cooperation; interview with Lillian Smith about Rabun County; India famine mission; and Mass. Supreme Court brief on Strange Fruit.
2	16		Vol. 33, Documents and Miscellaneous IV, 1939-2011
			Volume 33 includes: playbill for Strange Fruit; "We challenged Jim Crow" pamphlet (1947); Ebony article on Ruby McCollum's killing of Adam; Ainisfield Wolf Awards; Lillian Smith's notes for Fisk award; Smith's resignation from CORE; Marjorie White's obituary; and Reed's paper on women and anti-lynching.
2	17		Vol. 34, Chronological I, 1936-1944 September
2	18		Vol. 35, Chronological II, 1944 September-1951 April 6
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3	1		Vol. 36, Chronological III, 1951 June-1954 November
3	2		Vol. 37, Chronological IV, 1954 November-1959
3	3		Vol. 38, Chronological V, 1960-1962
3	4		Vol. 39, Chronological VI, 1963-1965 June
3	5		Vol. 40, Chronological VII, 1965 August-1971 December
3	6		Vol. 40A, Chronological VIII, 1970-2009
3	7		Vol. 41, Radio and TV, 1944-1966
3	7		Vol. 42, Obituaries, 1966
3	8		Vol. 43, Notes to Lillian Smith in hospital, 1966
3	9		Vol. 44, Reviews of Lillian Smith's books I, 1944-1953
3	10		Vol. 45, Reviews of Lillian Smith's books II, 1954-1966
3	11		Vol. 46, Play Strange Fruit, 1945
3	12		Vol. 47, Reviews of Play Strange Fruit, 1945-1946
3	13		Vol. 48, Awards, 1943-1966
3	14		Vol. 49, Bestseller lists, 1944-1954
3	15		Vol. 50, Unpublished: My Bargain with Cancer, 1966
3	16		Vol. 51, Chicago Defender Columns by Lillian Smith, 1948-1965
3	17		Vol. 52, Book Reviews by Lillian Smith, 1950-1966
3	18		Vol. 53, Evelyn Scott Correspondence, 1937-1938
3	19		Vol. 54, Transcript Miss Smith of Georgia
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7	5		Vol. 54A, CD Transcript Miss Smith of Georgia
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3	20		Vol. 54B Transcript Lillian Smith: Killers, on China and career, Strange Kind of Love
3	21		Vol. 54B Transcript Lillian Smith: Killers, on China and career, Strange Kind of Love
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7	6		Vol. 55, 1966 Quotes for film, 1966
7	7		Vol. 55A, Original manuscript for Killers reading
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3	22		Vol. 56, Deeds to Smith property in and near Jasper, Florida , 1886-1915
3	23		Vol. 56, Deeds to Smith property in and near Jasper, Florida , 1886-1915
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7	8-9		Memoir material by Lillian Smith
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4	1		Vol. 58, Morehouse Thesis on Lillian Smith, 1956
4	2		Vol. 59, Captain Spencer SCHW [Southern Conference on Human Welfare] Correspondence, 1947-1949
4	3		Vol. 60, Douty: Southern Conference on Human Welfare , 1955
4	4		Vol. 60, Douty: Southern Conference on Human Welfare, 1955
4	5		Vol. 61, Miscellaneous Speaking engagements and invitations, 1954-1963
4	6		Vol. 62, Lillian Smith's letters, speeches, 1960-1961 sit-in movement, 1960-1961, undated
4	7		Vol. 63, Black Power I, 1966-1967
4	8		Vol. 64, Black Power II, 1967
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7	9		Vol. 65, Notes I
7	10		Vol. 66, Notes II
7	11		Vol. 67, Notes III
7	12		Vol. 68, Notes IV
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8	1		Vol. 69, Notes V
8	2		Vol. 70, Notes on interviews with Smith family et al
8	3-4		Vol. 71, Jasper News and family chronology
8	5		Vol. 71A, Jasper background
8	6		Vol. 72, Lost Mss
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4	9		Vol. 73A, Genealogy: Peeples/Simpson, 1967-1996
4	10		Vol. 73B, Genealogy: Miller/Smith, 1967
4	11		Vol. 73C, Genealogy, 1996-1997
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8	7		Vol. 74, Julia
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4	12		Vol. 75, The Child, 1933-1967
			Notes and transcript: background and identity of the black/white child in Killers of the Dream.
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8	8		Vol. 75A, The Child
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4	13		Vol. 76, Quotes for Lillian Smith's reading
4	14		Vol. 77, Letters to Joan Titus regarding Lillian Smith I, 1967
4	15		Vol. 78, Letters to Joan Titus regarding Lillian Smith II, 1966-1992
4	16		Vol. 79, Letters to Joan Titus regarding Lillian Smith III , 1966-1985
4	17		Vol. 79, Letters to Joan Titus regarding Lillian Smith III , 1966-1985
4	18		Vol. 80, Letters to Joan Titus regarding Lillian Smith IV, 1967-1970
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8	9-10		Vol. 81, Strange Fruit
8	11		Vol. 82, Killers I and II
8	12		Vol. 82A, Killers I and II
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5	1		Sons of Temperance (photocopy) Jasper, Florida, 1880-1889
5	2		South Today Correspondence , 1936-1945
5	3		South Today Correspondence , 1936-1945
5	4		Constance McMillan (1924-2006) memorial, compiled by Joan Titus, 2009
5	5-8		Research file, correspondence and clippings (photocopies), 1933-1967
5	9		Macon Writer's Club
5	10		Time Cables to Howland, 1948, 1950
5	11		Edward P. Morgan, American Broadcasting Network, 1960
5	12-26		Human Relations Council - audience reactions to Miss Smith of Georgia, 1964-1966
5	27		Lillian Smith letters, 1964-1965
5	28		Acceptance Speech, Charles S. Johnson Award, 1966
5	29		Lillian Smith letter to George Leonard, 1966
5	30		Index-University of Florida material on Lillian Smith
5	31		Lucinda Ebersole correspondence, 1992-1995
5	31		Judith Giblin James/Jacqueline Clark correspondence, 1994-1995
5	32		Andrew Heiskell correspondence, 1994-1996
5	33		Blanche Wiesen Cook correspondence, 1994-1996
5	34		Conference on Lillian Smith, Georgetown, 1994
5	35		"Lillian Smith: Looking Back to the Future," paper presented by Joan Titus presented at "Listening to Sounds Larger than Our Own Heartbeat", a Conference on Lillian Smith, 1994
5	36		Clifford Kuhn correspondence and "Multiple Narratives of Arthur Raper", 2005-2006
5	37		"Humans in Bondage," "The Right Way is Not a Moderate Way," "The Winner Names the Age" - Lillian Smith
5	38		"The Family of Man", 1955
5	39		New South , 1964-1965
5	39		Harper's Magazine, "The South Today", 1965
5	40		Time, 1967
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1			LOOK article , 1965
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8	13		Notes - Miscellaneous
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10	1		Time Life - personal release, 1962
10	2		Virginia Quarterly Review copyright, 1982
10	3		Jasper maps and miscellaneous
10	4		SRC
10	5		Joan Titus introduction letter
10	6		Notes from folder
10	7		Notes and notebooks
10	8		Race and GA
10	9		Gen. Misc.
10	10		Crisis and FLC's letter
10	11		LS - Miscellaneous
10	12		Mrs. Tilly - Fellowship of the Concerned
10	13		Packet 1 - Lynching
10	14		Anti-lynching material
10	15		LS - Misc.
10	16		Datebook, 1966
10	17		Stephen Foster park photos and correspondence
10	18		Speaking - invitations
10	19		LS - speeches
10	20		Re - speeches by LS
10	21		Re - Magazine articles by and about LS
10	22		Our Faces - letters about
10	23		Journey - letters about
10	24		One Hour - letters about
10	25		Killers - corresp. about
10	26		Miscellaneous letters
10	27		Letters to LS's executors
10	28		Audience reactions -Smith - Georgia, Tenn, Va
10	29		Duplicate file on GA desegregation
10	30		Personal notes to Esther Smith re LS's books
10	31		Biz correspondence; to
10	32		Luanne Gilbert correspondence
10	33		Notes on LS's autobiographical material, etc.
10	34		Spoken Arts
10	35		Copyright Ofc.
10	36		Foundations re LS's film
10	37		One Hour worksheets
10	38		Bibliography
10	39		Bob Coles
10	40		Bob and kids
10	41		Transcript - The Journey - Digital tape in safe dep. box
10	42		Trembling Earth - transcripts, original and revised
10	43		Trembling Earth - correspondence
10	44		News stories
10	45		Virginia Foster Durr
10	46		Dorothy Baker
10	47		Notes re film LS - T-L release form
10	48		Anniston Mss, 1987
10	49		Books re LS
10	50		LS - Misc. background
10	51		VQR
10	52		Notes and correspondence
10	53		Correspondence - Bethune
10	54		Correspondence - Frances Allee
10	55		Titus correspondence - Field Foundation, SRC
10	56		Correspondence - Suzanne Neidland
10	57		Correspondence - SUNY
10	58-59		Misc. Notes
10	60		LIFE article - He Had a Dream, 1969
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11	1		Correspondence
11	2		Correspondence - Eloise Thomson
11	3		Glenn Rainey Papers (Emory Special Collections) - LS correspondence
11	4		JT's letters to LS
11	5		Correspondence JT-LS
11	6		JT's letters re LS - replies in corres.
11	7		Letter carbons
11	8		University of Florida
11	9		John Inscoe
11	10		Miscellaneous correspondence
11	11		Corrrespondence - Mary Fichter
11	12		Piedmont
11	13		Two letters from Robert Coles
11	14		Santee River - Peeples notes
11	15		Correspondence - Heiskell
11	16		Steve Suitts
11	17		Correspondence - Kubie
11	18		T - Kubie
11	19		T - E. Brown
11	20		LS notes and correspondence
11	21		Correspondence from LS
11	22		Address book
11	23-25		Notebooks
11	26		Julia notes
11	27-28		Notes
11	29		Transcription
11	30		Women
11	31		Killers
11	32		Outlines
11	33		Notes
11	34		LS's quotes on equality
11	35		SF
11	36		End or re K
11	37		Memory
11	38-41		LS notes - notecards
11	42		LS bio notes
11	43-44		Notebook
11	45		LS - Looking Back at the Future
11	46		LS autobiography
11	47		LS' MSS
11	48		LS Misc. and background
11	49-50		Notes
11	51		Clippings - LS
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12	1-4		Notes from binders
12	5-7		Notes from binders [copies]
12	8		Correspondence - LS to JT
12	9		Notes from binders - replies to JT's NYT ad, 1981
12	10		Notes from binders - China
12	11		Joan Titus correspondence, 1995-2013
12	12		Notes on Mirror
12	13		Correspondence to Marion Worley
12	14		LS biographical data, 1962
12	15		Interview transcription - George Ashley
12	16		Correspondence copies
12	17		Jasper, FL
12	18		Notes and correspondence
12	19		Correspondence copies
12	20		Memoir material by LS, 1965
12	21		Autobiographical material written by Lillian Smith, 1956, 1963
12	22		Miscellaneous notes
12	23		JHG
12	24		Steno notebook
12	25		Art as Symbolic Speech - LS notes
12	26		Notes and correspondence with copies
12	27-34		Notes and correspondence
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13			Notes and addresses on index cards
	1.2 Photographs
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6	1-2		Lillian Smith photo album #1
6	3		Lillian Smith photo album #2
6	4-6		Photo album #1 and #2, negatives
6	7		Mary Darsey
6	8		Edith Tompkins (Worley), Jessie Wickwire, Jessie Blackwell, 1893 April
6	9		Lillian Smith and Majorie White negatives (photos in photo album #1), 1893 April
6	10		Group photo with Lillian Smith and Majorie White, 1893 April
6	11		Piedmont College Yearbook, negatives, 1915-1916
6	12		Virginia School, Huchow, China, 1922-1925
6	13		Blanche Warren, Annie Smith, [?], Thelma Cassin, Marion Worley
6	14		Miss Stanford, Lillian Smith, [?], Sallie Lou MacKinnon, Dr. Nelson, Bishop Braz [?]
6	15		Lillian Smith
6	17		British Emergency Committee trip to India, 1946
6	18		Joan Titus, Clayton, Georgia, 1st visit, 1959
6	19		Lillian Smith, Clayton, Georgia taken by Constance McMillan Carpenter, 1959 September
6	20		Constance McMillan Carpenter letter regarding: Newsweek - review of One Hour, includes photographs of Lillian Smith, 1959
6	21		Frank McCallister and Lillian Smith, 1961
6	22		Miss Smith of Georgia filming, 1962
6	23		Miss Smith of Georgia, on location, Clayton, Georgia, 1962
6	24		Lillian Smith, Clayton, Georgia by Joan Titus, 1962
6	25		Lillian Smith, Clayton, Georgia by Joan Titus, 1963 August
6	26		Marion Worley, Joan Titus, Majorie White, 1967
6	27		Screamer Mountain
6	28		M. E. Church, Jasper, Florida (postcard)
6	29		Constance McMillan drawings for Lillian Smith's Memory of a Large Christmas
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1			Photographs of Austin Brigg's portrait of Lillian Smith
1			Lillian Smith in Boston at time of Strange Fruit (LIFE photographs), 1944
1			Lillian Smith at home, at the printers for South Today, and at a Clayton Drug Store (LIFE photographs), 1940-1949
1			Portraits of Lillian Smith (2), 1960-1966
1			Long format photographs of campers and staff
1			Photograph of woman at lake draining
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6	39		Photographs - gravestones - Peeples
6	40		Photographs - lake draining
6	41		Color transparencies - Lillian Smith
6	42		Color Photographs of Jasper, FL
6	43		Appraisal for watercolor portrait, 2009
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9			Slides - including Jasper, Clayton, Okefenokee
		1.3 Maps
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2			Comprehensive zoning map - Jasper, Florida [with notes], 1963
2			Map of Jasper, Florida [with notes]
2			General highway map of Hamilton County, Florida [with notes]
2			Map of Jasper, Florida [copy]
2			Comprehensive zoning map of Jasper, Florida [copy]
2			General highway map of Camden County, Georgia [with notes]
2			General highway map of Ware County, Georgia [with notes]

 

2. 1962 Interviews
	2.1 Interview Files
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6	30		Notebook, Titus interviews Atlanta, 1962
6	31		Joan Titus interview with Dr. Robert Coles, 1962
6	32		Field Foundation annual reports, 1966-1969
6	33		"Child's Fifth Freedom," Lawrence Kubie, 1952

 

3. Joan Titus Files
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6	34	Joan Titus resume and professional correspondence, 1952-1971
6	35	Time, "The Curse and the Hope" review of William Faulkner [includes drafts, tear sheet, correspondence] (folder 1 of 2), 1964
			Titus was not involved with this cover story.
6	36	Time, "The Curse and the Hope" review of William Faulkner [includes drafts, tear sheet, correspondence] (folder 2 of 2), 1964
6	37	Memorial service for Whitney Moore Young, 1971
6	38	Obituaries
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12	36	UGA correspondence - Katherine Stein
12	37	University of Georgia
12	38	UGA
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13		Framed photograph of Lillian Smith with lock of hair