COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes personal and professional correspondence, course schedules, rosters, student letters, and other material related to Swearingen's career as professor of history. Also, pamphlets, books, articles, research materials, essays, book reviews, photographs, cartoons, tapes, radio broadcasts, speeches, material concerning Vietnam and Turkey, journals, and other records. Also, genealogical material, and draft of Swearingen's unpublished book about Turkey, text with black and white photographs. Correspondents include Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty.
Dates
- 1920-1969.
Creator
- Swearingen, Mack Buckley, 1902-1969. (Person)
- O\'Connor, Flannery. (Person)
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Mack Buckley Swearingen was a native of Mississippi and received his B.A. there from Millsaps College. He studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He taught history at Elmira College for 24 years until 1966, then at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio for two years. From 1955 to 1957 he taught in Turkey on a Rockefeller Foundation grant.
Extent
22.3 cubic feet. (22.3 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Includes personal and professional correspondence, material related to Swearingen's career as professor of history. Pamphlets, books, articles, research materials, essays, book reviews, photographs, cartoons, tapes, radio broadcasts, speeches, material concerning Vietnam and Turkey, journals, and other records. Also, genealogical material, and draft of Swearingen's unpublished book about Turkey. Correspondents include Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty.
SERIES LIST
- Series I. General Files
- Boxes 1 - 22
- Series II. Flannery O'Connor Correspondence
- Box 23
- Series III. Eudora Welty Correspondence
- Box 23
- Series IV. Audiotapes
- Box 24
Physical Description
Manuscripts, typescripts, clippings, correspondence, journals, photographs, audiotapes.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Melissa Kuypers
- Date completed:
- Dec. 2000
- EAD encoding:
- Julia Guarneri, Aug. 2002
- Date modified:
- Jude Corina, July 2017
General
- List of Correspondents:
- Anreassen, John Christian Ludwig
- Arthur, Stanley Clisby
- Ashby, Warren
- Atwater, Elton
- Aydelotte, Frank
- Ballard, Marshall
- Beale, Howard Kennedy
- Beard, Mary Ritter (Mrs. Charles A.)
- Beasley, A. Joe
- Bechtel, Edward Ambrose
- Beck, Charlton T.
- Bell, Tartt
- Bernt, Hans H., and Mary
- Binkley, William
- Blair, John Malcolm
- Brown, C. Victor
- Bowers, Claude Gernade
- Bratton, Theodore Du Bose, Bishop
- Brown, Elwin R.
- Bryan, Harry M.
- Burrell, Sidney Alexander
- Carman, Harry James
- Carroll, Joseph W.
- Chalmers, Allan Knight
- Carter, Hodding
- Chambers, Moreau
- Clausen, Joyce Anne (Mrs. William Sterling Roby III)
- Coffin, Foster
- Coghill, Nevill
- Cole, Fred Carrington
- Coleman, Roy V.
- Collins, Henry Bascom Jr.
- Conwell, Walter Lichtenhaeler
- Cooper, Tim E.
- Craven, Avery Odelle
- Crawford, Edward Aiken
- Crittendon, William Clark
- Cross, Whitney Rogers
- Destler, Chester McArthur, and Katherine
- Dewey, Malcolm Howard
- Dodd, Martha Eccles (Mrs. Alfred Kaufman Stern)
- Dodd, William Edward
- Drake, William Edward
- Dreyfous, George Abel
- Drinkwater, Geneva
- Duffy, Joseph Alexander Jr.
- Dunbar, Charles Edward Jr.
- Eldred, Lewis
- Fichman, David
- Fletcher, John Madison
- Fletcher, Louise
- Fulbright, James William
- Furry, Edward B.
- Gates, Paul Wallace
- Girelius, Charles G.
- Gottschalk, Louis
- Graham, Frank Porter
- Green, Fletcher Melvin
- Greene, Helen (Helen Finch)
- Grieder, Elmer
- Guild, Eugene
- Hamer, Philip May
- Hamilton, Charles Granville
- Hamilton, Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac
- Hamilton, William Baskerville
- Hansen, Ann M.
- Harcourt, Guy Nichols
- Harris, Rufus Carrolton
- Hayes, Helen
- Hays, Brooks
- Hewitt, Thomas M.
- Hicks, Frederick Cyril Nugent
- Himstead, Ralph Ebner
- Hizlilar, Julide S.
- Holloway, Vernon Howard
- Holton, Holland
- Hooper, Frances
- Hoover, Herbert
- Horton, Myles
- Humphreys, Rena Lloyd
- Jack, Theodore Henley
- Jacklin, Kathleen
- Jamesson, James Reynold Paul von Reinhold III (Asia House)
- Jerry, Harold A.
- Jiggitts, Louis Meredith
- Jones, George Hilton
- Junker, Louis J.
- Kalif, George Todd
- Kellar, Herbert Anthony
- Kercher, Leonard Clayton
- Kern, Alfred Allan
- Key, David Martin
- Knappen, Marshall Mason
- Knopf, Alfred A.
- Korman, Gerd
- Kreeger, M. M.
- Lach, Donald Frederick
- Laney, Frank Miller Jr.
- Lang, Sam
- Langley, Billie Lee (in Saudi Arabia)
- Largent, Robert J., and Virginia Rider
- Ledet, Wilton Paul
- Lee, Harold Newton
- Levy, Benjamin Franklin
- Light, Nancy
- Lin, James Reese
- Longino, Andrew Houston
- Longino, James Marion
- Longstreet, Helen Dortch
- Lord, Clifford Lee
- Lyon, Elijah Wilson
- McCain, William David
- McCutcheon, Roger Philip
- Macdonald of the Isles, Celia [ck. Burke's Peerage]
- McKnight, Martha L. Kemp, and Theodore P.
- McLean, Ross Hanlin
- MacMurtrie, Douglas Crawford
- Marshall, John
- Mayo, Bernard
- Meadows, John Cassius
- Merrill, Horace Samuel
- Miller, John D.
- Mills, Ethel M.
- Mills, Floy Gilmore (Mrs. Walter)
- Milton, George Fort
- Mitch, Frank
- Mitchell, Williams M.
- Moore, Albert Burton
- Moore, Edith Wyatt
- Murrah, William Belton, Bishop
- Murray, John Ralph
- Newman, Linda
- Nixon, Nicholas Clarence
- Northrup, Barbara Winifred
- Odum, Howard Washington
- Oswald, Lowell
- Parmly, George
- Patton, James Welch
- Pilcher, Dudley
- Pipkin, Charles Wooten
- Pott, William Sumner Appleton
- Prichard, Walter
- Queen, Merritt, B.
- Raines, Merle
- Ramsdell, Charles William
- Reed, John
- Ries, Maurice
- Ritchie, Kathryn Anne
- Robbe, Charles W.
- Roberts, J. L.
- Roche, Sybil O'Grady
- Rowell, L. S.
- Rowland, Dunbar
- Ryder, (Lady) Frances
- Sallee, Mary Owens
- Sanborn, Frederic R.
- Sanders, Albert Godfrey
- Schevill, Ferdinand
- Shugg, Roger Wallace
- Sidel, James E.
- Silin, Charles Intervale
- Slesinger, Donald
- Smith, Howard Kingsbury
- Snow, Royall Henderson
- Speight, Harold Edwin Balme
- Stark, Alice L. Lehmann (Mrs. Alexander T. Stark)
- Stephenson, Wendell Holmes
- Sticker, William Hugh
- Strom, Carl Walther
- Swartwood, Howard Albright
- Snydor, Charles Sackett
- Taylor, Horace "Hoy"
- Ten Hoor, Marten
- Thompson, Merle Dow, and Louise H.
- Thompson, Robert H.
- Tolbert, Jack
- Turnbull, William Watson
- Utley, Clifton Maxwell
- Valentine, Alan
- Van Graafeiland, Ruth M.
- Von der Lancken, Carl
- Walden, Earl
- Walley, Willis
- Walmsley, T. Semmes
- Walsh, Warren Bartlett
- Warren, Robert Penn
- Warner, W. Lloyd
- Weaver, William N.
- Webb, Helmer Lewis
- Webb, Walter Prescott
- Wells, Guy Herbert
- Weltner, Philip
- White, Ann Woodhouse (Mrs. David Platt White)
- White, Hugh Lawson
- Wilkins, Josephine
- Wilson, Arthur McCandless
- Wilson, Charles
- Wisner, Elizabeth
- Woellner, Robert Carlton
- Woody, Robert Hilliard
- Wylie, (Sir) Francis James
- Elmira College -- : Faculty.
- History -- Study and teaching.
- Lake Erie College
- Turkey.
- University of Oxford -- : Students.
- Vietnam.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Melissa Kuypers
- Date
- Aug. 2002
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu