Lonnie Coleman papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: Lonnie Coleman papers
Creator: Coleman, Lonnie, 1920-1982
Inclusive Dates: 1948-1979
Language(s): English
Extent: 4 Linear Feet 8 document boxes
Collection Number: ms2019
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

William Laurence (Lonnie) Coleman (1920-1982) was an American novelist and playwright, born in Bartow, Georgia, well known for writing the bestselling Beulah Land trilogy.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of business and personal correspondence, notebooks, and manuscripts of short stories, plays, and novels written by Coleman. The notebooks contain diary entries which reveal the author's feelings about events affecting his life and notes on his works in progress.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Lonnie Coleman papers, ms2019, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.

General Notes

Cataloged as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts Automated Access Project: A Special Collections Gateway Program of the University Center in Georgia.

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

Correspondence
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1	1	Business Correspondence with James Brown, 1975-1979
1	2	Business Correspondence with James Brown, 1975-1979
1	3	Business Correspondence-Doubleday- Mike Ossias, 1976-1978
1	4	Business Correspondence-Doubleday-other, 1974-1978
1	5	Business Correspondence with Murray Pollinger, 1974-1977
1	6	Personal Correspondene A-Bq
1	7	Personal Correspondence Br-Bz
1	8	Personal Correspondence C-M
1	9	Personal Correspondence N-R
1	10	Personal Correspondence S-Z

 

Notebooks and notes

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Notebooks, 1948-1959

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Notebooks, 1960-1974

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Notebooks

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Notebook and Notes

 

Manuscripts
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4	3	Brother Mars - play
4	4	The Carnival Woman - short story
4	5	Chill of Morning, Chill of Evening - short story
4	6	A Choice of Weapons - play
4	7	Dark Song on a Harp - short story
4	8	Friend of the Family - play for television
4	9	Frugal is the Chariot - short story
4	10	Hot Spell - in Spanish
4	11	Jolly's Progress - play
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5	1	---l Cat Hattie and Kingdom Come - burlesque melodrama in three acts
5	2-6	The Making Mark - novel
5	7	The Merry Wives of Massachusetts - musical comedy
5	8	Nail's Creek - novel
5	9	A Party for Strangers - short story
5	10	The Perfumes of Arabia - short story
5	11	A Place for Polly - play
5	12	Poems
5	13	The Red Slayer - short story
5	14	Roomates - script
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6	1-4	Savannah Man - novel
6	5-6	Savannah Man - Rough Draft
6	7	A Sketch of Murders - short story
6	8	The Smile on the Face of the Tiger - play about murder
6	9	Oh, Susannah - musical book
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7	1	A Warm Body - play
7	2	The Way to Fiddler's Green - short story
7	3-5	The Wings of an Angel - novel
7	6	The Woman Who Pays - musical comedy
7	7	Wreath Without Laurel - play
7	8	Miscellaneous

 

Galley proofs

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Beulah Land-Galley Proofs