Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 -- Correspondence

Scope and Contents The New Orleans Review Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and printed material relating to the history and publication of The New Orleans Review.The most valuable material is found in the Correspondence and the Copy series and in the Minutes subseries of Series V. Correspondence and minutes document the staff's functioning. Exchanges between staff and contributors is also found in the correspondence. The Copy series follows the...

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...

Scope and Contents This collection originated from Walker Percy’s office at his home in Covington and was donated by his daughter after the death of Mrs. Mary “Bunt” Percy. Handwritten notes, typescripts with marginalia, drafts of speeches and lectures, and correspondence and photocopies of correspondence make up majority of the collection. There are a number of collected articles and academic journals that contain pieces written about Percy as well as unpublished academic papers and theses about him and his...