Starkey S. Flythe collection

Descriptive Summary
Title: Starkey S. Flythe collection
Creator: Flythe, Starkey, Jr. (Starkey Sharp), 1935-2013
Inclusive Dates: 1960-2013
Language(s): English
Extent: 7.5 Linear Feet 8 boxes
Collection Number: ms4568
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Starkey Flythe Jr. (1935-2013) was a short story, fiction, and poetry writer, editor, and teacher from Augusta, Georgia. He served in the U.S. Army and held a Master's Degree in English from the University of Georgia. He held editing positions at the Curtis Publishing Company, Holiday Magazine, Country Gentleman, and The Saturday Evening Post.

He also wrote under pseudonyms of Sam Walton, F.X. O'Conner Jr.

Scope and Content

This collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, notebooks, and biographic ephemera. It includes his ideas, articles, essays, collected poems, short stories, and novels in handwritten, typed, and printed forms.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item, box, folder], Starkey S. Flythe collection, ms4568, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

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Related Materials and Subjects

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Short story - The Weaver

 

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Short stories - Signing the Waiver; CV10; The Cross

 

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Short stories - Interwoven Pair; Floors; For a Good Time, Call Matthew

 

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Short story - Time and Practice

 

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Short stories - June; Information; The Ice Fisher

 

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Short stories - Point of Conversion; Lent; Learning Italian

 

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Short story - Just the Wrong Distance

 

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Short stories - Our Pledge to You; The Glass of Milk; The Growing Family

 

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Short stories - What Makes Jane Austin Great; Capital Gains; The Other Cell

 

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Short stories - A Rainy Day; Bowman; Back-Up Man

 

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Short story - Mr. Miller

 

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Short stories - Substitute for Love; Failure to Yield

 

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Short story - His Paintings Bring the Highest Prices Paid to a Living American Artist

 

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Short stories - The Indian Said to the Mermaid; Benefit of the Doubt; Picnic

 

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Short story - Fred and George, Open Chopin

 

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Short stories - Walking, Walking; There Was a Man; Aiken

 

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Short stories - His Place in the Scheme of Things; Companionable Trees

 

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Short stories - The Coalition; The Cut; Pan in the Woods

 

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Short stories - Dr. Thornton's Pages; That Summer; Pushups

 

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Short stories - But Not a Second Coat; The Radio

 

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Short stories - The Annunciation; The Wedding; Double Shift

 

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Short stories - My Life with Richard Nixon; Rossy's Garden; And Miles to Go

 

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Short stories - Tythes of Rue; The Way I Affect People

 

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Short stories - The Soul is the Feather of the Father's Cap; The Cry of the Yukon; Bug Catcher

 

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Short stories - The Boys School Lover; Checkpoint

 

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Short stories - The Winds Around Machu Pichu; What'll I Do; Charon

 

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Short stories - The Wit of Grey's Pasture; Canada; The Dog (Humor)

 

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Short stories - The Things They Didn't Want; The Fat Farm; Everybody Hates Them; Ellie

 

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Short stories - Doing a Lady a Favor; Superglue; Artemis; The Dinner

 

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Short stories - They Say Dancing; Church; Coral Sea Bra

 

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Short stories - Fidgets; The Child; Behind the Iron Curtain

 

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Short stories (in three column form) - Presid; Atlan; Agnes; Home; Custody; Pat; Atlanta; End; End II; Mother-In-Law

 

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Short stories - The Chains; I Thot I Saw a Puddy Cat; Counting

 

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Short stories - Any of These People; The Infinitesimal Season

 

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Short stories - Augusta's Archie; Was It Eliot in the Toilet; The Naked Human Body

 

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Short stories - What in the World Are You Doing?; Film; The Beach

 

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Short stories - Slow Boat to Murder; Faithful Steed; Solo

 

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Short stories - The Leash; Home for the Holidays; Highway 78

 

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Short stories - The Church Goer; Golden Hill

 

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Short story - Dog is God Spelled Backward

 

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Short stories - The Din of Antiquity; The Uniform

 

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Short story - Thursdays

 

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Short stories - Watch the Monitor; The Lampshade on Your Head

 

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Short story - The Present, A little Something in Silver

 

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Short stories - "Blessed are the poor in spirit..."; The Fourth Finger

 

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Short stories - Every Know Diversion; Gone With the Windsors

 

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Short stories - The Disposal of Water in an Academic Community; Her Hand in the Harp Strings

 

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Short stories - Always There; Plastic Christmases Are Better Than Real

 

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Short stories - Their Child; Pate; Cana

 

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Short stories - Let Them Eat Cake; Certain Streets

 

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Short stories - The Light That Comes With Death; Mouser

 

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Short stories - The Things They Didn't Want; Bear and Blizzard; Louise

 

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Short stories - Saturday Night Wedding; When I'm King (Not Larry); Spilled Martini

 

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Short stories - Passing the Ship Through the Neck of the Bottle; Horse Hair Sofa; Francine

 

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Short stories - Peace and Quiet; Fifteenth Street; The Meeting Place

 

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Short story - Mikimoto

 

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Short stories - Taking Arsenic, Or Going to a Poetry Reading: A Clear Choice; Miracle on 16th Street

 

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Short story - Thursdays, or the Suicide Dinner

 

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Short stories - Three Things to Do; Always There; Arnauld

 

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Short story - But Not a Second Coat (longer version)

 

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Short stories - The Alternative; The Fresco; The Dust

 

2

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Short stories - Paying the Single Supplement; Who Only Stand and Wait

 

2

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Short story - Seasons Greetings From Dick & Don, Mac & Ron

 

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Short stories - Those Elegant Georgian Houses; Fried Food

 

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Short stories - Yankee Memorial Day; After Lunch; Josephine; Four-F

 

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Short stories - What Marilyn Said to Me; Caecum; The River

 

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Short stories - Love the One and Hate the Other; The Blue Angels; The Son

 

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Short stories - Smile, I've Lost My Keys; New Deal; The Night Before

 

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Short story - The Eustachian Tube as Originally Constructed

 

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Short stories - Nauseus Me and Bobby P; The Bird House; Infantry

 

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Short story - Something a Little Wrong With the Mouth

 

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Short story - The Granite Outcropping

 

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Untitled short stories

 

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Collection of short stories (Missing pages 1-6) - Preferable to Polyester

 

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Novel - Before They Go Up

 

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Novel - Barney

 

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Novel - But Not a Second Coat

 

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Novel (Partial) - The Aspen Papers Unburned

 

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Novel - The Ice Storm

 

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Novel - The New Dark Age

 

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Novel - The Boys School Lover

 

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Novel - Through This Body

 

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Novel - And Draw the Blood of Morning

 

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Novel - The Byrd House

 

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Untitled novel

 

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Novel idea - The Fundraiser

 

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Novel idea and research about the U.S. Army rifle controversy

 

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Novel - The Urologist

 

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Novel outline

 

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Novel ideas - Hot Summer, Old Time Augusta; Blandenburg; George

 

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Novel ideas - Fig & the Angels; Frick; Air Show

 

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Novel ideas - Ornithologist; A Man Had Two Sons; The Art Stacks; Untitled

 

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Novel ideas - Guano; Two Things Feared; Powwow; Augusta; Sargent

 

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Novel ideas - The Woman Who Liked to Fill Out Forms; Horticulture; Yard Sale; High School Coach Assitant Principal Murder; Untitled

 

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Essay - David Fenstermacher

 

4

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Essay - Lamar Building, Augusta

 

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Essays - Happy 35th, Ralph; The Trunk Room

 

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Non fiction essays

 

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Article - Health Spas

 

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One act play - Your Cat Ate My Dog

 

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Play - Rachel

 

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Play - A Decision

 

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Play - Butter Side Up

 

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Poetry - Rubber Bullets, Water Canon, Tear Gas

 

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Poetry - Lizard in the Washing Machine

 

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Poetry - Tried As An Adult

 

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Poetry - View of Dieppe Harbor

 

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Poetry - Paul's Wholesale Florist

 

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Poetry - Thirsty Link

 

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Poetry - Behind Every Wall

 

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Poetry - There Was a Man

 

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Poetry - Cadmium

 

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Poetry - As If There Was

 

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Poetry - They Say Dancing

 

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Poetry - Sugaring the Blade

 

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Poetry - They Sign Their Letters 'Love' But Do They Really Mean It

 

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Poetry - Partial Penetration

 

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Poetry - Paying the Anesthesiologist

 

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Poetry - Staring Off Into Space Got Me Arrested

 

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Poetry - How Will I Know Them? You'll Know Them

 

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Poetry - Three Day Weekend

 

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Poetry - Driving With Hand Controls

 

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Poetry - Preferable to Polyester

 

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Poetry - Signing the Waiver

 

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Poetry - Raising a Vein

 

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Poetry - Cadmium

 

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Poetry - Staring Off Into Space Got Me Arrested

 

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Poetry - Staring Off Into Space Got Me Arrested - Chapbook

 

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Poetry - Getting Back

 

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Poetry - Too Long Poems

 

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Poetry - Only That is Red

 

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Poetry - I learn to Cross Myself

 

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Poetry - Coming Home From Work, 1910

 

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Poetry - Staying in Your Seat

 

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Poetry - Everything Was Live - Then

 

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Poetry - A Group in Spite of All We Do Alone

 

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Poetry - What Law Dictates Staring at Dafodils Illegal?

 

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Poetry - Walls at Work

 

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Poetry - The Flag: Stripes as Wounds, Bars as Prisons

 

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Poetry - The Futile Lesson of Glue

 

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Poetry - Rapture of the Deep

 

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Poetry - A-N

 

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Poetry - O-Z

 

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Correspondence - Published work and awards

 

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Correspondence - Curtis Publishing Company, 1975-1980

 

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Correspondence - Edward Kelly - Starkey Flythe - Curtis Publishing Co. dispute, 1981-1983

 

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Legal documents - Starkey S. Flythe Jr. v. Curtis Publishing Co., Saturday Evening Post

 

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Curtis Publishing Company Annual Report, 1972

 

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Correspondence, ephemera - Saturday Evening Post

 

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Biographic materials

 

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Biographic materials - U.S. Army

 

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Authors Club of Augusta

 

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Augusta Opera Association proposal

 

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South Carolina Arts Commission residency

 

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Correspondence

 

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Correspondence

 

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Correspondence - Rejections

 

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Writing notebooks

 

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Photographs - Starkey Flythe Jr.

 

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News photograph - Mrs. Bill Flythe with Seminoles

 

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Photographs - Travel - Middle East