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Scope and Contents The Samway Papers include a range of material related to Samway’s interest in and research on Southern literature with an acute focus on his biography of Walker Percy published in 1997. In addition to French correspondence, material regarding Samway’s humanitarian work in Haiti and Africa can also be found. The types of material in this collection include correspondence, monographs, essays, speeches, ephemera, photographic prints, negatives and audiocassettes. Samway corresponded with a...