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Preferred Citation:
Virginia Taylor McCormick Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Gift: 206 items.
Biographical Information:
Virginia Taylor McCormick (1873-1957), of Norfolk, Virginia was a poet, literary critic, essayist, lecturer, and the editor of The Lyric, 1921-1929. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1887-1953, of Virginia Taylor McCormick, Norfolk, Va. poet, literary critic, essayist, lecturer, and editor of The Lyric magazine, 1921-1929. Includes manuscript and printed poems; essays; lectures; diaries, and correspondence with other poets and writers. Correspondents include Franklin Pierce Adams, Lady Astor, Lord Beaverbrook, Gamaliel Bradford, Van Wyck Brooks, Walter de la Mare, Ellen Glasgow, Rupert Hughes, Amy Lowell, H. L. Mencken and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Arrangement of Materials:
Organization: This collection has been organized into 4 series. Series 1 contains manuscript and printed material, Series 2 contains correspondence, Series 3 contains travel diaries, and Series 4 contains clippings, writings, letters and memorabilia. Arrangement: This collection is arranged into series by material type.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- American diaries--Women authors
- Authors, American--Women
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Manuscripts (document genre)
- Poems
- Poets, American--20th century
- Publications
- Speeches, addresses, etc.
- Women authors, American--20th century
General
Other Information:
Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00086.frame
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- McCormick, Virginia Taylor, 1873-1957
Container List
- Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id1645
Biographical material.
- Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id1646
Virginia Taylor McCormick poetry manuscripts: clippings, typescripts, and manuscript poems. Approximately 75 Mss.Scope and Contents
Includes a number of poems pasted in a copy of Dramaland by Lin William Price (New York, 1927).
- Mixed Materials Folder: 3 id1647
Virginia Taylor McCormick's lecture notes about literary figures and literature. 19 Mss.
- Mixed Materials Folder: 4 id1648
Virginia Taylor McCormick's manuscripts and typed drafts of essays, fiction, and lectures.
- Mixed Materials Folder: 5 id1649
Virginia Taylor McCormick's manuscripts and typed drafts of essays, fiction, and lectures, continued.
- Mixed Materials Folder: 6 id1650
Virginia Taylor McCormick's manuscripts and typed drafts of essays, fiction, and lectures, continued.
- Mixed Materials Folder: 7 id1651
Virginia Taylor McCormick's manuscripts and typed drafts of essays, fiction, and lectures, continued.
- Mixed Materials Folder: 8 id1652
Printed writings of Virginia Taylor McCormick from The Archive, The Personalist, The Catholic World, The Magnificat, The Westminster Magazine, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Magazine, 1922-1939. 21 items.
- Mixed Materials Folder: 9 id1653
Letters to Virginia Taylor McCormick, 1922-1953. 24 items.Scope and Contents
The letters are from Lord Beaverbrook, William Bowlin, Gamaliel Bradford, Maude McClare Brown, Van Wyck Brooks, Ralph Tyler Flewelling, R. Grieve, Richard Guggenheimer, Leigh Hanes, Margery Gordon, William C. Huber, Edwin Markham, Frances Mason, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Evelyn Norcross Sherrill, Beverley D. Tucker, Charles Leon Tumasel and others.
- Mixed Materials Folder: 10 id1654
Letters to Virginia Taylor McCormick from publishers, 1922-1944. 5 items.
- id1655
Volume 1. Travel diary, 1 August-30 September 1910.Scope and Contents
Kept while on trip to Cherbourg, Paris, Strasbourg, Baden-Baden, Neuhausen, Zurich, Lucerne, Interlachen, Luzana, Bellagio, Milan, Genoa, Mozbeaito, Nice, Rome, Naples, Florence, Venice, Innsbruck, Munich, A [?], Salzberg, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Amsterdam, Hague, Antwerp, Brussels, Ostend and London.
- id1656
Volume 2. Travel diary, 14 February-30 April 1929.Scope and Contents
Kept while on a Mediterranean cruise which included stops in the Middle East (the Holy Land), Egypt, Basque Provinces, and Paris. She writes down overheard conversations.
- id1657
Volume 3. Travel diary, 31 May-29 August 1930.Scope and Contents
Probably kept by Dr. James Jett McCormick, while on a trip to England and Scotland. Playing golf. Exhibition of Bobby Jones. Tea with Ellen Glasgow. Paul Robeson. Humorous toast to William III. Lord Astor. Stratford-on-Avon. World War I.
- id1658
Volume 4. Virginia Taylor McCormick's clippings, notices of lectures, and book review, ca. 1921 - 1923.
- id1662
Volume 8. Virginia Taylor McCormick's poetry clippings and poetry of others.Scope and Contents
Issues of The Lyric, Volume 6, No. 4 and Volume 8, No. 2.
- id1665
Volume 11. Miscellaneous clippings collected by Virginia Taylor McCormick (poetry by others); family photographs, clippings by and concerning Virginia Taylor McCormick, (first page dated 1895).
- id1659
Volume 5. Virginia Taylor McCormick's book reviews, columns in Ledger-Dispatch (called Book Talks), and articles about Virginia Taylor McCormick and The Lyric, 1921-1924.
- id1660
Volume 6. Virginia Taylor McCormick's poetry clippings, book reviews, articles, fiction and announcements of Virginia Taylor McCormick Voices of the Windand reviews, 1924 - 1926.
- id1664
Volume 10. Reviews, clippings and letters concerning Virginia Taylor McCormick's Winter Apple, 1942.Scope and Contents
Letters from Mrs. Robert Baylor Tunstall, Ellen Glasgow, Leigh Hanes, Beverly Tucker, Archibald Rutledge, Mrs. John David Leitch, Julius S. Held, Julia S. Grandy, Colin MacRae, Mrs. Vincent Sheean.
- id1661
Volume 7. Virginia Taylor McCormick's fiction, essays, reviews of Virginia Taylor McCormick's work, poetry clippings, letter to Virginia Taylor McCormick from Will A. Percy, 1926 - 1929.
- id1663
Volume 9. Virginia Taylor McCormick's poetry clippings; essays; news clippings, 1930-1938.Scope and Contents
About Virginia Taylor McCormick; letters by Lady Astor, Mrs. Hayward Wallis, Elkanah E. Taylor, Gamaliel Bradford, R. Torrance, May DeV F. Cobb, Alan Steinbach, Frances R. Williams, Florence Stearns, Mary Brent, Frances Carpenter Huntington, David Morton, and Florence Dickinson Sterns; reviews of the Virginia Taylor McCormick's Radio to Daedalusand Charcoal and Chalk.
- id1666
Volume 12. Letters, 1887 - 1928.Scope and Contents
Letters are by Edwin Markham, Armistead C. Gordon, Walter de la Mare, H. L. Mencken, Amy Lowell, T. W. Tally, Olive Dargan, Beatrice Ravenel, J. B. Yeats, Caroline Giltinan, Thomas Moult, Galmaliel Bradford, Winifred Russell, Josephine Hammand, Anna Cogswell Wood, Lizette Reese, Margaret V. Smith, Marshall McCormick.