R. Cary Bynum papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: R. Cary Bynum papers
Creator: Bynum, R. Cary
Inclusive Dates: 1957-2014
Language(s): English
Extent: 8.5 Linear Feet 9 boxes
Collection Number: ms2131
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Richard Cary Bynum (b. 1937), Atlanta playwright, director, and advocate of Southern theater, graduated with a B.F.A. from the University of Georgia (1962) and M.A. from the City University of New York (1973). He served as the founding director of the Georgia State University Business Press (1973-1995) and was the co-director of the Southern Poets Theatre (1974-1987), which produced several notable oral history plays and other regional works until it became inactive in 1987. He is the author of Cabbagetown: 3 women (1984); Six Short Plays (1993); The Chinaberry Tree and other poems (2002); Sea Vigil: poems (2008); Reunion in Thera and other stories (2012); and Woodhall Stories (2014). In 1964 Cary Bynum married Brenda Sue Storey, a noted actress and director who toured both the United States and Europe.

Scope and Content

This collection contains typescripts, correspondence, clippings, photographs and printed materials regarding the writing career of R. Cary Bynum.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item, box, folder], R. Cary Bynum papers, ms2131, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Related Collections in this Repository

Related materials available in this repository are the Brenda and Cary Bynum theater collection, ms3258.

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Photographs - Personal

 

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Plays Cary acted in during college

 

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Undergraduate coursework

 

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Graduate work in New York City

 

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Georgia State University

 

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Who's Who material

 

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Obituaries

 

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Miscellaneous

 

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Script - Beckett's "End Game"

 

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Critique - "A Shattering of Glass"

 

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Critique - "Leaving Limbo"

 

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Correspondence, 1960-1979

 

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Correspondence, 1980-1989

 

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Correspondence, 1990-1999

 

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Correspondence, 2000-2009

 

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Correspondence - Leighton W. Ballew

 

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Correspondence - Chris Coleman

 

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Correspondence - Gene-Gabriel Moore

 

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Correspondence - Georgia State University business

 

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Clippings, 1980-1990

 

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Clippings, 1991-1992

 

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Clippings, 1993-2000

 

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Clippings, 2000-2008

 

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Acknowledgements, thanks, medals

 

2

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Typescript - Novel

 

2

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Writing notes - "Beach Vigil"

 

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Typescript - "Bonaventure Street"

 

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Typescript - "Cabbagetown: Three Women"

 

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Clippings, notes - "Cabbagetown: Three Women"

 

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Clippings, notes - "Children of Pride"

 

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Typescript - "Children of Pride"

 

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Typescript - "Chinaberry Goliath"

 

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Writing - "Chinaberry Tree"

 

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Typescript - "The Compassionate Emissary"

 

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Typescript - "Dat Beetle Bug"

 

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Typescript - "Escapee"

 

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Clippings, notes - "Escapee"

 

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Typescript - "Feisling"

 

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Clippings, notes - "The Festival"

 

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Typescript - "Fire Warden"

 

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Typescript draft - "Five Corpses"

 

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Typescript - "Frog Mountain Tail"

 

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Typescript, notes - "The Furnace Room"

 

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Typescript drafts - "The Furnace Room"

 

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Typescript - "Go for Home, Boy"

 

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Typescript - "Hermes 3000"

 

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Clippings, notes - "Holiday on Thin Ice"

 

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Photographs, notes - "Hornblend"

 

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Typescript - "The House", 1966

 

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Clippings, notes - "Interviewee"

 

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Typescript - "John Barnum"

 

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Typescript - "The Last Days of Hector"

 

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Typescript, drafts, clippings - "A Late Rain"

 

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Notes - "Live-In Witnesses"

 

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Program - "Look Back in Anger"

 

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Miscellaneous poetry

 

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Typescript - "Moulds"

 

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Typescript - "The Mysterious Father"

 

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Typescript - "Monkey Palace"

 

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Draft of poem "Night Streetcars", 1978

 

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Clippings, notes - "Philadelphia, Here I Come"

 

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Typescript, clippings - "Ponce de Leon: The Play"

 

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Typescript - "Private Buckley; Superman"

 

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Notes, book - "Quintet"

 

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Typescript - "Reunion in Thera and Other Stories"

 

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Typescript - "Sea Vigil"

 

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Typescript, photographs - "The Sharp Shooters"

 

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Writing - "Six Short Plays"

 

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Writing - "Sherwood"

 

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Typescript - "A Violence Softspoken: 3 Georgia Authors"

 

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Writing, clippings - "Voices of Pride"

 

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Typescript - "Wiregrass"

 

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Writing - drafts, 2003-2004

 

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Organizations and festivals - Alternate ROOTS

 

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Organizations and festivals - Atlanta New Play Project

 

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Organizations and festivals - Atlanta New Play Project

 

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Organizations and festivals - Atlanta Theatre Coalition

 

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Organizations and festivals - OOPS Inc.

 

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Organizations and festivals - Southeast Playwright Project

 

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Organizations and festivals - Southern Poets Theatre

 

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Clippings, programs, 1957-1963

 

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Clippings, other info, 1975-1999

 

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Clippings, other info, 2000-2005

 

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Clippings, other info, 2006-2008

 

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Clippings, other info, 2013

 

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Clippings, other info, 2014

 

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Prose fragments, play - pre 1965

 

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Miscellaneous

 

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Plays - pre-1964

 

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The Chinaberry Tree & other poems

 

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The Chinaberry Tree & other poems - business and technical #2

 

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Night Streetcars & poems

 

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Sea Vigil: Poems

 

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"Sea Vigil" - Production, accounts, info #2

 

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Drafts, notes, clippings - "A Late Rain"

 

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Drafts, notes, clippings - "Bonaventure Street"

 

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Clippings, notes - "Cabbagetown: Three Women"

 

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Typescript - "Early"

 

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Drafts, notes - "Escapee"

 

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Typescript, notes, clippings - "The Festival"

 

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Drafts - "The Fire Warden"

 

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Drafts, notes, clippings - "Frog Mountain Tall"

 

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Draft, notes - "The Furnace Room" - original

 

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Drafts, notes - "The Furnace Room"

 

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Draft, note - "The Giraffe's House"

 

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Typescript - "The Glass Cabinet"

 

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Drafts, notes - "Hornblend"

 

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Drafts, notes - "Interviewee"

 

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Typescript, clippings - "In Thayne"

 

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Typescript, clippings, notes - "Jingle & Jangle"

 

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Typescript, clippings, notes - "Live-In Witness"

 

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Typescript, clippings, notes - "The Money Palace"

 

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Typescript, clippings, notes - "The Moulds" & "U"

 

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Typescript, clippings, notes - "Reunion in Thera"

 

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Typescripts - "Reunion in Thera" (Backup)

 

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Typescript, clippings, notes - "The Sharpshooters"

 

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Typescript, clippings, notes - "Sherwood"

 

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Typescript - "Short Story Cutting"

 

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Correspondence, info - "Six Short Plays"

 

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Specs, costs, estimates, royalties, receipts - "Six Short Plays"

 

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Correspondence - "Woodhall Stories"

 

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Backup, info - "Woodhall Stories"

 

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Scholarly Books in America - Editor's Choice by Cary Bynum, 1968-1969

 

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Southern Theatre - Cary Bynum reviews

 

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A Southern View - Five New Plays For the 80s - includes "Sherwood"