Byron Herbert Reece papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: Byron Herbert Reece papers
Creator: Reece, Byron Herbert, 1917-1958
Inclusive Dates: 1937-1958
Language(s): English
Extent: 9.4 Linear Feet (14 document boxes, 1 half box, 3 oversized boxes)
Collection Number: ms56
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Byron Herbert Reece (1917-1958) was an American poet, novelist, farmer, and teacher, and resided in Blairsville, Georgia.

For more information, see the article Byron Herbert Reece (1917-1958) in the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of the papers of Byron Herbert Reece from 1937-1958. The collection includes correspondence (1945-1958); lecture notes on composition, poetry, English and American literature relating to his work at Young Harris College; publications in which his works appear; published and unpublished manuscript poems and prose; and scrapbooks containing correspondence, newsclippings, reviews, and press releases.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Byron Herbert Reece papers, ms56, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2009 March 18.

General Notes

Donated by Eva Reece in 1959.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Related Collections in this Repository

Related materials located in other repositories: Byron Herbert Reece Collection, Young Harris College, Young Harris, Georgia.

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Correspondence, 1945-1953

 

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Correspondence, 1954-1959

 

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Contests

 

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Correspondence, Guggenheim Fellowships

 

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Correspondence, Huntington Hartford Fellowship

 

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Correspondence, William Tate Gift

 

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Christmas Cards

 

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Christmas Cards

 

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Christmas Cards

 

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Christmas Cards, "If I Had A Little Coat."

 

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Clippings

 

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Clippings

 

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Clippings, re. Georgia Writers' Conference

 

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Music, Printed

 

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Pictures

 

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Programs, Georgia Writers' Conference

 

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Programs, General

 

2

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Printed Material, Misc.

 

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Young Harris College

 

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Young Harris College, Memoranda to Faculty, 1956-1957

 

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Young Harris College, Printed Material

 

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Young Harris College, Programs, 1956-1957

 

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Young Harris College, Rules & Schedules, 1956-1957

 

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Young Harris College, Students, Writings, Rolls, etc.

 

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Young Harris College, Students

 

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Young Harris College, Misc.

 

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Periodicals, Aerend - California Quarterly

 

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Periodicals, Chestatee - Fawnlight

 

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Periodicals, Georgia Magazine

 

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Periodicals, Georgia Review

 

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Periodicals, Georgia Review

 

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Periodicals, Georgia Review

 

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Periodicals, Georgia Review

 

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Periodicals, Kaleidograph (G.S.C.W.)

 

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Periodicals, The Land

 

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Periodicals, The Lyric

 

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Periodicals, New Mexico Quarterly Review

 

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Periodicals, New Mexico Quarterly Review

 

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Periodicals, New Orleans Poetry Review

 

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Periodicals, Newsweek - Olivant Quarterly

 

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Periodicals, People - Quatrain Digest

 

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Periodicals, Saturday Review

 

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Periodicals, Saturday Review

 

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Periodicals, Scenic South - Voice

 

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Lecture Notes, English 101B- Composition

 

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Lecture Notes, English 101B

 

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Lecture Notes, English 101B

 

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Lecture Notes, English 201

 

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Lecture Notes, English 201

 

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Lecture Notes, English 3B-American Literature

 

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Lecture Notes, English 3B

 

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Lecture Notes, English 4B-English Literature

 

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Lecture Notes, Short Story

 

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Poetry Notes, General

 

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Notes, Miscellaneous

 

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Poetry, Notes: Vachel Lindsay

 

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Poetry, Notes: Poet Laureates

 

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Poetry, Notes: Imagist poetry

 

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Poetry, Notes: Lew Sarett

 

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Poetry, Notes: Edward Arlington Robinson

 

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Poetry, Notes: Women Poets

 

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Shakespeare, Notes: "Hamlet," "Lear"

 

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Mss. Poetry: Season of Flesh work sheets

 

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Mss. Poetry: Season of Flesh work sheets

 

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Mss. Poetry: Season of Flesh work sheets

 

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Mss. Poetry: Season of Flesh work carbon

 

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Mss. Poetry: The Hills Not Home (incomplete)

 

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Mss. Poetry: Not the Full Harvest

 

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Mss. Poetry: Remembrance of Moab

 

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Mss. Poetry: Bow Down in Jericho, work sheets

 

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Mss. Poetry: Bow Down in Jericho, work sheets

 

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Mss. Poetry: Bow Down in Jericho, work sheets

 

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Mss. Poetry: Bow Down in Jericho, work sheets

 

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Mss. Poetry: Bow Down in Jericho, work sheets

 

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Mss. Poetry: Ballad of the Bones

 

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Mss. Poetry: Song of Joy, work sheets

 

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Mss. Poetry: Song of Joy, work sheets

 

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Mss. Poetry: Song of Joy, work sheets

 

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Mss. Poetry: Song of Joy, work sheets

 

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Mss. Poetry: Song of Joy, work sheets

 

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Mss. Prose: The Hawk & The Sun, rough draft, Vol. 1

 

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Mss. Prose: The Hawk & The Sun, rough draft, Vol. 2

 

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Mss. Prose: The Hawk & The Sun, rough draft, Vol. 2

 

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Mss. Prose: The Hawk & The Sun, rough draft, Vol. 3

 

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Mss. Prose: The Hawk & The Sun, rough draft, Vol. 3

 

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Mss. Prose: The Hawk & The Sun - copy for press, 1955

 

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Mss. Prose: The Hawk & The Sun - rough draft, 1955

 

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Mss. Prose: Better a Dinner of Herbs, rough draft

 

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Mss. Prose: Better a Dinner of Herbs, rough draft

 

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Mss. Prose: Better a Dinner of Herbs, rough draft

 

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Mss. Prose: Better a Dinner of Herbs, rough draft

 

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Articles, published and unpublished, rough drafts

 

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Articles, published and unpublished, rough drafts

 

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Book reviews

 

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"A Logical Jew", short story, rough draft

 

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"The Barlow Knife", short story

 

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"The Face of Vengeance", short story

 

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"A Logical Jew", "The Barlow Knife" and "The Face of Vengeance", final drafts

 

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Talks

 

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"No Fences Make Good Neighbors", short story, rough draft

 

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Mss. Notes on Children's Literature

 

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Mss. Notes on Conservation

 

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Mss. Miscellaneous

 

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"Remembrance of Moab" - American Weave Publication Award, 1949

 

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Poem "Lilies", The Aerend, Summer 1940

 

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Story "The Return" The Aerend, Summer 1940

 

12	2	Poem "The Pearl", American Weave, Summer '48
	Not published elsewhere.

 

12	2	Poem "Conversation Concerning Kings", American Weave, Summer '48
	Not published elsewhere.

 

12	2	Poem "Contentment", American Weave, Spring 1953
	Not published elsewhere.

 

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Poem "The Farewell," American Weave, Winter 1949

 

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Poem "A Platitude of Plato," American Weave, Spring 1952

 

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Story "A Logical Jew," Chicago Review, Autumn 1949

 

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Poems "The Heart as a Bird," Destinies, Vol. 1, No. 4

 

12	3	Poem "The Snows Have Gone," Golden Oak Leaves, Vol . 1 No. 1
	Not published elsewhere.

 

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Poem "The Inward Eye," Living Poetry, Autumn 1945

 

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Poem "The Enormous Landscape," Living Poetry, Winter 1946

 

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Poem "Three Sonnets," The Lyric, Spring 1949

 

12	4	Poem "Preference," The Lyric, Winter '54
	Not published elsewhere.

 

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Poems "The Headland" and "In Absence," The Lyric, Fall 1974

 

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Poem "Whence Fares The Heart," New Mexico Quarterly Review, Autumn 1944

 

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Poems "Three Poems," New Mexico Quarterly Review, Summer 1945

 

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Poem "The Ghost," New Orleans Poetry Journal, January 1955

 

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Poem "The Tree, The Bird, The Leaf," New Orleans Poetry Journal, April 1955

 

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Note, New Orleans Poetry Journal, July 1955

 

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Poem "We Shall Not Eat," North Georgia Review, Fall & Winter 1938-39

 

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Note, People Today, 15 August 1951

 

12	6	Poems "Eleven Poems", Poetry World, April 1940 July 1940 August 1940
	Not published elsewhere.

 

12	6	Review "Poetry & the Pamphlet", Poetry World, April 1940 August 1940
	Not published elsewhere.

 

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Poem "Escape," Prairie Schooner, Fall 1939

 

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Poem "Ballad of Night," Prairie Schooner, Winter 1940

 

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Poem "Fox Hunters of Hell," Prairie Schooner, Summer 1941

 

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Poem "The Wet and the Cold," Prairie Schooner - No .2, 1954

 

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Poem "The Mask," Quatrain Digest, June 1953

 

12	7	Poem "The Wind of Life," Quatrain Digest, June 1953
	Not published elsewhere.

 

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Poem "Makes Perfect," Quatrain Digest, August 1953

 

12	7	Poem "Lenses," Quatrain Digest, August 1953
	Not published elsewhere.

 

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Poems "Nursery Rhymes"

 

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"Fiddler"

 

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"Intimation"

 

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"Hound and Hunter"

 

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"If Evil Were a Little Road"

 

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"Wisdom"

 

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"Intonation"

 

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"In Orchards Hung With Fruit"

 

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"Query"

 

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"The Beautiful Unuttered"

 

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"Portrait"

 

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"Question"

 

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"For a Group"

 

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"House in the Wind"

 

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"Windy Morning"

 

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"Sea Shells"

 

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"Prayer Against Hunters"

 

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All in Quill Club Anthology, Vol. Vol. 33

 

12	8	Poem "Lie Not So Lonely," The Sonneteer, Summer 1944
	Not published elsewhere.

 

12	8	Poem "The Snows Have Come," Stor-I- Verse - Vol. 1, No. 2
	Not published elsewhere.

 

12	9	Poem "The Earth In March," Think Tank, 4 April 1946
	Not published elsewhere.

 

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Poem "As I Came Out," Trails, Summer 1945

 

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Poem "By Other Eyes," Trails, Fall 1945

 

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Poem "I Could Wish Them a Longer Stay," Trails, Winter 1946

 

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Arizona Quarterly , Summer 1951

 

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Arizona Quarterly , Summer 1954

 

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Arizona Quarterly , Winter 1954

 

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American Weave Vol. XX, No. 3

 

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American Weave Vol. XX, No. 4

 

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American Weave, Vol. XXI, No. 1

 

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American Weave, Vol. XXI, No. 2

 

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American Weave, Vol. XXI, No. 3

 

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American Weave, Vol. XXII, No. 1

 

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Compass , Spring 1949

 

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Echoes , 1st Quarter 1954

 

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Emory University Quarterly, Vol. XII, No. 2, 1956

 

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Experiment , Winter 1945-46

 

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Gifts to Emory University Library , 1955-1956

 

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The Goal , Autumn 1955

 

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The Goal , Spring 1956

 

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The Goal , Autumn 1956

 

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A Houyhnhnm's Scrapbook, Vol. 1 No . 1, 1956-57

 

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A Houyhnhnm's Scrapbook, No. 2, 1957

 

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Inferno, No. 4

 

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Key Poets Sitwell, Barker, Swingler, Denwood, Snaith, Cooke, Lindsay, Carpenter, Beeching, Cameron. (10 v. in cover)

 

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Kaleidograph, Vol. XXIII, July 1951

 

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Kaleidograph, Vol. XXIV, March 1953

 

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Kaleidograph, Vol. XXV, September 1953

 

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Kaleidograph, Vol. XXV, October 1953

 

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Kaleidograph, Vol. XXV, November 1953

 

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Kaleidograph, Vol. XXV, March 1954

 

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The Lyric, Vol. 35, No. 2

 

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Manuscript Lab, Vol. 1 No. 1, February 1956

 

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The Monthly Scrapper , February 1945

 

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New Orleans Poetry Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2, April 1956

 

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Prayers, Opening of Congress , 1949

 

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Poetry, No. 20 (Australian), 1946

 

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Poetry Digest, Vol. 1 No. 5, December 1953

 

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Rocky Mountain Stories, Sage Books, '41

 

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Sonnets from the Portuguese

 

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Scenic South , October 1953

 

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Self-Realization , January-February 1949

 

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Survey Report of Six Georgia Colleges , September 1955

 

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To Comfort You

 

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Trails , Summer 1948

 

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Trails , Winter 1948

 

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Trails , Summer 1951

 

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Under the Big Beech, by Robert Kincaid

 

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Wings, A Quarterly, Winter 1954

 

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With Letters from Housman

 

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Scrapbook, 1941

Clippings from The Citizen, columns by Reece contain poem and brief essay

 

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Scrapbook, 1945-1946

Articles, Photos reviews, Press Releases re.Ballad of the Bones, reviews by Reece

 

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Scrapbook, 1945-1947

Reviews, Clips, Photos, Invitations, Letters re. The Monthly Scrapper

 

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Scrapbook, 1946

22nd Annual Breakfast of the Macon Writers' Club

 

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Scrapbook, undated

Clips of Atlanta Journal book reviews by Reece

 

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Scrapbook, 1950

Correspondence with U. of C.

 

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Scrapbook, 1950-1951

Clips, Photos, Reviews re. Bow Down in Jericho and Not the Full Harvest

 

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Scrapbook, 1950-1951

Sketches, Reviews, News Releases, re. Better a Dinner of Herbs, speeches

 

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Scrapbook, 1952

Clips, Programs, etc. re. General Material

 

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Scrapbook, 1955

Photos, Reviews, Press releases re. The Season of the Flesh, also speeches

 

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Scrapbook, 1955-1956

Clips, etc. re. The Hawk and The Sun, also re. professorship at Emory

 

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Briefcase

 

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Newspaper

 

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Bound manuscript: Better a Dinner of Herbs

 

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Young Harris college Students, re

 

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Young Harris College Students, Writings, Rolls, etc.

 

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Rules & Schedules, Young Harris College, 1956 - 1957