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Z 0018.000
STREET (JAMES H.) PAPERS

1939 - 1945

Manuscripts of 19 short stories, five novels, and one volume of short stories of James Howell Street, a Mississippian who now lives at Chapel Hill, N. C. The copies (typewritten) of the short stories are as follows:

  1. "All out with Sherman," pp. 21, published in Collier's, CX (Dec. 19, 1942), 72–, and in James Street, Short Stories (New York: Dial Press, 1945), pp. 195–211
  2. "Buck and Fo'-Bits," pp. 26, published in Saturday Evening Post, CCXII (Jan. 6, 1940), 14–15-, and in Short Stories, pp. 103–123
  3. "Hold to the Channel," pp. 117
  4. "In Full Glory Reflected," pp. 24, published in Good Housekeeping, CXIII (Aug., 1941), 18–19-, and in \"Short Stories\", pp. 22–40
  5. "Lay Your Bibles Down," pp. 20, published in Collier's, CXII (Oct. 9, 1943), 28–
  6. "Mr. Poovey Takes Over," pp. 19
  7. "Please Come Home, My Lady," pp. 20, published in Saturday Evening Post, CCXIV (Apr. 11, 1942),12–13, 49, 52–53, and in Short Stories, pp. 87–102
  8. "Proud Possessor," pp. 27, published in American Magazine, CXXIX (May, 1940), 50–52, 62, 64, 66, 68
  9. "Pud'n and Tayme," pp. 25, published in Saturday Evening Post, CCXII (Feb. 3, 1940),14–15, 52–53, 55–57, and in Short Stories, pp. 144–164
  10. "The Crusaders," pp. 26, published in Saturday Evening Post, CCXII (Nov. 11, 1939), 12–13-, and in "Short Stories", pp. 124–143
  11. "The Golden Key," pp. 22, published in Good Housekeeping, CXIX (Nov., 1944), 34–35-, and in "Short Stories", pp. 1–21
  12. "The House," pp. 48, published in Good Housekeeping, CXVIII (Apr., 1944), 32–33-, and in "Short Stories", pp. 271–314
  13. "The Lady Wore Linen," pp. 36
  14. "The Old Gordon Place," two copies, pp. 26 and 30, published in Saturday Evening Post, CCXVI (Oct. 16, 1943), 9–11, and in Short Stories, pp. 41–65
  15. "The Road to Gettysburg," pp. 18, published in Collier's, CIX (Feb. 21, 1942), 28–, and in Short Stories, pp. 180–194
  16. "They Know How," pp. 18, published in Collier's, CVII (Mar. 1, 1941), 15-, and in Short Stories, pp. 165–179
  17. "Three Hundred Miles of Christmas," pp. 19, published in Saturday Evening Post, CCXVI (Dec. 25, 1943), 15-
  18. "Set the Wild Echoes Flying," pp. 22, published in Saturday Evening Post, CCXVI (Nov. 13, 1943), 14–15-, in Short Stories, pp. 212–231, and in Post Yarns, Vol. II, No. 4 (1944), pp. 1–24
  19. "Weep No More, My Lady," pp. 25, published in Saturday Evening Post, CCXIV (Dec. 6, 1941),12–13, 110, 112, 114–115, in Short Stories, pp. 66–86, and in Whit Burnett (ed.), Time to Be Young (New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1945), pp. 231–244.
The volumes are as follows:
  1. Manuscript (typewritten, printer's copy) of Oh, Promised Land (New York: The Dial Press, 1940, pp. 816), pp. 1000
  2. Manuscript (typewritten, agent's copy) of In My Father's House (New York: The Dial Press, 1941, pp. 348), pp. 255
  3. Manuscript (typewritten, printer's copy) of In My Father's House, pp. 248
  4. Manuscript (typewritten, agent's copy) of Tap Roots (New York: The Dial Press, 1942, pp. 593), pp. 793
  5. Manuscript (typewritten, printer's copy) of Tap Roots, pp. 793
  6. Manuscript (typewritten, agent's copy) of By Valour and Arms (New York: Dial Press, Inc., 1944, pp. 538), pp. 744
  7. Manuscript (typewritten, printer's copy) of By Valour and Arms, pp. 765
  8. Manuscript (typewritten, agent's copy) of The Gauntlet (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945, pp. 311), pp. 460
  9. Manuscript (typewritten, printer's copy) of The Gauntlet, pp. 357
  10. Galley Proof of "The Gauntlet," pp. 319
  11. Manuscript (typewritten, printer's copy) of Short Stories (New York: Dial Press, 1945, pp. xi, 314), pp. 432